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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1913
Page
21
Perry Georgia March 1 Special V. F Hand a farmer is jailed on a murder charge after a Thursday quarrel over crib keys led him to shoot B Z New as he came from his house. An inquest returned a murder verdict and Hand faces commitment trial next week. Deputy Sheriff Watson arrested him.
In Atlanta a gifted young manager Harold S Holmes plans to bring unusual high quality musical offerings to excite the city and the south. He appeals for public support as he launches first efforts to expand taste and audience for opera locally. Savannah reports William Jennings Bryan, seen as the next secretary of state, passing through en route to Washington with stay in Columbia and a trip to the capital.
Thomas H. Biggs, manager of the Velie Motor Car Co. Atlanta branch, says merchants and manufacturers in Atlanta increasingly favor motor delivery trucks. He argues this trend marks business growth, efficiency, and a move away from antiquated methods, with delivery vans proving faster, cheaper, and more reliable.
Dr Alfred W Martin associates with Felix Adler of the New York Ethical Society will deliver the next ethical lecture in Atlanta on the topic Symphony of Religions He will speak before Girls High School teachers and pupils by special request A fifty member Atlanta committee backs the project and two more lectures by Edward Howard Griggs and John Lovejoy Harmon Hawtt are planned
In Athens Ga on March 1 the University of Georgia held the sophomore debater contest for this year. Ten candidates vied for Phi Kappa positions. E. J. Hardin of Gainesville, Louis Pinkussohn of Atlanta, and Henry H. Weat of Athens were chosen as the debaters with C. W. Jacobson of Tennille as alternate. Judges were Max Michael W. F. Darney and W. D. Hooper.
New York reports a federal inquiry into a national arson ring tied to insurance fraud. Confessions and a Chicago figure named John Davies are central, with investigations expanding as authorities pursue extradition papers and local crews tied to a Tombs prisoner.
Will be among the band that will go to Washington for the inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson. Sufficient funds have been raised to cover trip expenses and transportation is provided. About sixty men will depart Sunday at 1 o clock led by Captain I W Bondurant. The company will join Walton Guards of Monroe and be joined at Athens by companies from Macon Milledgeville Athens and Biberton. They will stay in Washington about four days then return to Georgia next Thursday.
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