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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1916
Page
14
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Last night the board of police commissioners named Sergeant Burnett head of the traffic squad and elected Detective Waggoner as detective sergeant. Burnett will drill twenty five patrolmen as trafficmen, but ten extra officers await May funding. Patrolman Payne faces conduct charges not unbecoming conduct. the board dismissed that charge. An Alderman's resolution to seize unclaimed property from Readquarters passed to council. Maye’s manning of Reeves in the detective depart ment was sustained. May be absent. Styron attends first meeting.
Four carloads of whisky left Macon under an agreement between the city attorney and whisky men ending prosecution for liquor law violations. The liquor was taken from Traight houses, loaded into cars, and sealed with a Law Enforcement league committee present to verify departure. Much bottled liquor was destroyed by police, poured into a sewer feeding the Ocmulgee river toward the barge Ockmulzee operating between Macon and Savannah.
J F Statham faced a 1000 peace bond after an alleged Tuesday morning altercation. Judge D D Thomas imposed the bond, while Statham swore devotion to his wife on the stand and denied striking her despite her testimony of a severe beating amid accusations of infidelity.
Calhoun Ga February 29 Special Gordon superior court opens with heavy docket Judge Fita schedules a Tuesday trial for WW W Putman a Baptist minister aged about 55 living near Ranger He is charged with killing Homer Taylor last summer by shooting him in the back as they rode in a buggy with a cousin Defense will invoke unwritten law Civil cases also set for the term
In Waycross Georgia on February 29 Oscar Shine a negro wanted on Bacon county charges was shot and badly wounded while resisting arrest. Sheriff Googe of Bacon county and several deputies were slightly wounded by a shot from Shine. The Negro was taken to jail by auto for medical care.
We have several properties that by just a little good luck should produce more oil than all the stock when is sued will total at the price offered you. We are just completing a good well near the center of a 1400-acre lease in the Ranch Creek district of Pawnee County, and will drill at once three to five new wells in that distance. A ten million gas well was drilled a few days ago right In between 3 food block of our leases in Rogers County -we promptly closed a contract to sell the gas at 3% per thousand-made seven locations and have already started drilling. In another ninety days out of] and ges sales should be nearly three thousand dollars per day-while half that sum will pay good dividends on all the stock, when issued. The Uncle Sam Oil Company is doing things and if you want a good block of real stock in company before the price boomed times, not quickly by writing for full particulars. Send four cents in stamps write your name and address plainly and we will be glad to send you by return mail complete information. Kindly remember that our drills go deeper every hour, and that while you can secure the stock now at the old price conditions may occur any day that will piurge an advance of from 6 to 80 times. You should write for taik particulars forthwith Respectfully
Gordon Noel Hurtel, city hall reporter for The Atlanta Constitution, is named private secretary to Mayor James G Woodward, succeeding the late Sidney Ormond. The mayor announced the appointment Tuesday amid strong interest from applicants. Hurtel brings long municipal reporting experience and past service on the city council and park commission.
Hopewell, in a rapid rush to secure amusement equipment, plans a transfer from Atlanta as Charlie Chasewood of White City sells to U L Bond Construction of Petersburg for Lakewood Park installation. White City faces demolition while the moving equipment departs for Virginia.
Eva Jackson, 14, bound over to superior court on $200 bond after writing a threatening Black Hand note and posting it on Phoebe Roswell’s door in Rome’s fifth ward. Her father J. M. Jackson and Kim Morris were released as no linking evidence showed involvement.
Sister Mary Berekmann Young of the Sisters of Mercy died at St Josephs hospital at 2 a m in the thirty second year of age after a brief illness. She is survived by two sisters Mrs Irene Young and Mrs Frank McGuire of Atlanta, a brother Alfred Young of Atlanta, two aunts and an uncle J R Holliday advertising manager of The Constitution. Short funeral services were held at the hospital and the body taken to Savannah for interment.
Rome Ga February 29 Special The company E Lindale Rifles of the Georgia National Guard underwent a formal inspection by Captain J M Kimbrough and Major F L Palmer. Although no official mark was issued, the unit reportedly set records for efficiency. The guardsmen were later hosted at a banquet at the Hotel General Forest.
A 15 year old girl Lily Parker of West Home attempted suicide after disillusion with love. She swallowed morphine, was saved by physicians who were summoned immediately and treated, with her life preserved.
In police court Tuesday morning two black men arrested by Mounted Patrolman Dorsett while attempting to burglarize the residence of A. D. Adair at 24 East Sixth street were bound over to the grand jury under bonds of 500 dollars each. The pair admitted guilt and accepted the court’s sentence meekly as Officer Dorsett was complimented by Recorder Johnson.
Augusta Ga February 29 Special E J Date filed suit against Globe Cotton Mill for 12000 damages to recover for the loss of three fingers of Wisett h and February 7 1915. He alleges that the machinery was defective.
The Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad petitions the state railroad commission to reclassify from class C to class D to raise rates on certain commodities. It cites a revenue drop due to rising automobile use and notes no dividend for eighteen months on its 13 mile line from Tennille to Wastman and Hawkinsville.
Mrs Annie Griffin seeks divorce from George Griffin charging cruel treatment and a confession of loving another woman while she lay ill in Johns Hopkins Hospital. She says the strain led to a separate living arrangement and that he later left for Baltimore to join the other woman. The Griffins, married since 1888 in Talladega Alabama, have five children.
Jitney bus owners and operators will meet at 10 o'clock in T. B. Felder's offices to discuss a united stand in the pending case and to plan an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The meeting follows a conference between J. Coy Pearce, president of the old Jitney Bus club, and Leonard J. Grossman, head of the current association. A committee of H. Banders, G. W. Holden, and W. D. Stubblebine was formed to mobilize support, with an estimated fifty to sixty operators likely to attend.
Mrs Richardson of Philpot Kentucky reports using Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin for a year. She says her son William Jr loves the pleasant taste and remains a bright healthy child. The remedy is described as a standard laxative free of narcotics sold in bottles for fifty cents with free trial by writing to Dr. W B Caldwell, 454 Washington St Benton? cello UL.
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