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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1906
Page
11
Disjointed notes drift through a Chronicle style page touching spring prep in Atlanta and Chicago fumes from factories. References span U S politics Taft Roosevelt and court cases, with mentions of Beale Street, Zion City, and a traveling surgeon Mikhael Sena.
Denver judge Lindsey, famed for pioneering juvenile courts, argues urban life harms youth. He cites Washington arrests for 1904 showing 1654 total with 776 under 21, and 676 boys to 101 girls, urging stronger home training over sole school or church influence to curb juvenile crime and moral decline.
The Rev Anna Shaw pays tribute to Susan B Anthony at her deathbed praising her courage, self sacrifice, and reasoning. Anthony and allies like Elizabeth Cady Stanton faced ridicule and proscription while advancing women’s equality. Their steadfast beliefs elevated the status of women and spurred reforms for gender equality.
A faded Georgia voice collection opens with rustic verse and a characterful exchange about life and dreamers. It includes a farmers’ note on farming life, mockinbird melodies, and a reflective Georgia farmer line about spring. The piece shifts to a missionary institute in Griffin Ga, March 13, with plans for services, speakers, and a Methodist gathering at First Methodist Church led by Bishop W A Candis and Rev John S Jenkins.
Samuel B. Adams defends social card parties in Savannah arguing prizes do not make players gamblers. He rebuts governor and McCorkle, states prizes are small and absence of gambling in Savannah card games, and warns ministers against overreach while defending lawful gaming under penal code.
The obituary honors Mrs Ligse Hillyer Coker wife of Frank M. Coker Jr and eldest daughter of Judge George Hillyer. It recalls her faithful church service from age 14 at Seegna Baptist, her marriage in 1893 to Frank M. Coker Jr and their two daughters. Funeral held March 8 at 3 50 PM from P M Coker home and burial at Gallang Cemetery.
Waycross Georgia March 13 Spectator George H Youmans will erect a four story brick hotel on his block at Plant avenue Jane and Tebeag streets He recently purchased the interests of the city of Waycross and the Atlantic east Line railroad on this property A deed from the city was secured and the hotel building will cost at least 60000 though the total outlay may exceed that amount The project aims for completion by the end of the year and promises to be among the largest structures in the area
The village of Cave Spring mourns the death of Fletcher Simmons born June 18 1859 at age 46. He lived there until moving to Atlanta where he worked in store and concrete contracts with Childs & Simmons. Survived by wife son two brothers Rev OG Simmons and sister Mrs W O Gonnar. Funeral at Cave Spring Methodist Church conducted by Rev T S Edwards and Rev H Ledbetter with Masons in charge. He was cherished as a loving husband father brother and friend and his loss is deeply felt by Atlanta Rome and Cave Spring communities.
Unclear fragmentary notice reports a death in a cafe in Vuca NT on March 8. The incomplete text mentions a person named Oru(r)ke He Buchman son of Rev Dr Robert B Pastor of the Preshyt Henawe with limited context.
President Harvie Jordan announces a 25 percent cut in cotton acreage for the coming season and calls on Southern farmers to boost food crops to balance supply. The move aims to keep cotton prices profitable and maintain farmer independence. A companion letter from William V. King cautions that 25 to 30 cents cotton could tempt overplanting, urging planters to unite to protect their interests and resist prodigious cotton expansion.
Chicago Unitarian leader Jenkins Lloyd Jones speaks tonight at the Woman's Club rooms on The Cost of a Fool. Jones, former secretary of the World’s Congress of Religions, is noted as a brilliant West Coast lecturer and Chicago preacher. Admission is free due to Unity Club sponsorship.
The remains of Miss Fannie Strickland formerly of Atlanta, who died in Texas, will be brought to Columbus for final burial at game time. She was nearly eighty and had lived in Stephenville Texas with her niece Mrs Benjamin Palmer. She was a longtime member of the Baptist church and known for her Christian character.
In Waycross Georgia on March 19 a special Democratic executive committee meeting was held at the courthouse in response to a call by Chairman A A Knight. The committee selected Weldon members from Wareboro Glenmere and Bickley districts for the executive panel, naming J. Wayeroas Warren Fatt Knlyn Bo M. Lanter J. T. Walker, H. East Thigpen, A. Walder Bickley W. Bentan N. Te, and others to serve as the executive committee for the current year. The report lists several names across multiple districts as the newly chosen panel.
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