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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1902
Page
5
Georgia Industrial association meets at Lithia Springs with most state mill owners expected. Key items include forming a mutual cotton mill insurance company and likely debate on the child labor bill. President B S Walker of Monroe and secretary C D Tuller of Atlanta listed.
In a suit brought by Jasper N. Smith as guardian for George W. Thomason the court is asked to void two deeds from Thomason to W S Pharr trustees for Sylvania Wade Thomason and to Pharr individually. Thomason allegedly non compos mentis and misled. injunction sought to halt disposition of the property. Temporary restraining order issued. hearing set for the 5th. Attorneys Napier Cox and Hulsey and Field represent the plaintiff. Also suit for damages filed against Southern Railway by Walter P Andrews and T I Bishop for loss of left foot and partial leg on February 7. Criminal court in session. bond cases to be heard today. sheriff to sell land on first Tuesday of the month from the courthouse door before noon.
About 3,500 to 4,000 African Americans filled the tabernacle beside Bishop Turner’s home on Yonge Street for a historic first service. Prominent Atlanta figures spoke on education with wide acclaim, highlighted by R. D. Stinson, Georgia AME commissioner of education, advocating Morris Brown College.
A long composite piece sketches a Georgian man’s legal path to manhood, a streetcar dust debate in Atlanta, counterfeit butter schemes, and politics with WCTU ties. It weaves anecdotes of a guardian emancipation bill, a northern visitor’s critique, Savannah’s nightlife, New Orleans banking ties, and assorted regional figures visiting the Kimball house.
Bowden Lithia Spring grounds in Lithia Springs Georgia welcome picnickers with permission through E W Marsh executors. Sweetwater Park Hotel, under new management, opens to the public for visitors and guests.
In RETS or Se WANTHD Tyio salesmen In each state, $50 and expenses, permanent position. Penicks Telediceo Works Company, Pen icks, Va. WANTHED-umxperienced fertilizer sales men for southern territory. Reply, with full particulars, FC, care Atlanta, Constitution.
Georgia Fulton County executor of the will of Mrs Amanda A Tanner announces a courthouse sale in Atlanta within legal hours for cash. Items include jewelry, court judgments, shares in Atlanta Investment and Land Improvement Co, various land parcels in Tallahassee and Lumpkin Cobb and Cherokee counties, mineral interests, and multiple Atlanta city lots with houses.
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