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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
5
A church conference emphasizes three education models, defends church control, and urges Christian aims in colleges. The bishop condemns state centralization, praises revival work, and argues for character building through Christ. Speakers at Emory and Henry and other colleges outline the role of denominations in Negro education and missionary training.
May 21 in Savannah a dispute over a rules technicality halted a prize drill by uniform rank Knights of Pythias. Over 2,000 spectators watched as Teutonia Colonial Oglethorpe and Brunswick companies withdrew after a meeting of their officers. Georgia company No. 1 won first prize. A meeting was called to investigate the affair. Columbus chosen as the convention site for $909.
A discussion on public control of transportation and canalization of inland waterways as vital for national development. Emphasizes public rail oversight, state rights, and industrial education for rural districts, linking southern recovery and education to broader national progress. Rev Eugene Blake of Hawansee College adds emphasis on mountain rural conditions.
Baltimore May 2 Dr William Anderson of New York and Rev Dr John L Nuelsen of Ohio were elected bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church on the second ballot at the general conference. Six bishops remain to be chosen as five ballots were taken today with four yielding no result. A hook committee resolution urged union wages and cooperation with union labor, reflecting tensions with printing houses and labor unions. The temperance committee was asked to define a Methodist lawyer's duty in defending a liquor seller.
The First Baptist Church of Rome Georgia topped the Southern Baptist convention last year in foreign mission contributions. Georgia led the nation with total gifts of 68,200 dollars, with Rome's church contributing more than one eleventh of the state’s total and surpassing all other southern churches.
The city yesterday awarded the contract to Atlanta Supply Company to install eighty extinguishers in thirty one city buildings and place a one inch fire gong in each. Charles C. A. Peak of the supply company calls it the largest order for extinguishers ever made. In other news the Carroll County Club met at 26% Alabama Street with fifty applicants. Judge Cobb spoke on his platform for representative and the club planned an early picnic. An electrical worker sued the Masonic Temple Company for $8000 after slipping on a window opening during wiring at Peachtree and Cain streets. The Senior B P A of the Capital Avenue Baptist church continued talks on Being a Christian, with Mr. W. W. Gaines delivering the ballot box address. A small fire at 384 Decatur Street caused minor damage to adjacent shops, controlled by firemen after minutes.
In Kansas City Rev. Baxter P. Fullerton was unanimously chosen moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, the first from the southern branch after mergers. Dr. Roberts delivered his farewell sermon to a large assembly as the vote finalized the unification-era leadership transition.
Gainesville native Sidney Smith, senior at the University of Georgia, has accepted a position as Professor of French at the University School for Boys in Stone Mountain. He graduates from Stone Mountain School in 1908 and will begin duties at the opening of the next session in September. Smith is noted as a scholarly leader among students and the first alumnus of the Stone Mountain School to hold a regular professorship.
Final session in Norfolk assigns bishops for the coming quadrannium and retires two prelates. District bishops include Gaines Coppin Derrick Shaffer Grant Smith Lee Lampton Tyree Salter Parks Heard Johnson Flipper Tyree and others for Cape Colony and South Africa. Conference also names a general conference commission to plan the 1942 gathering.
At the American Booksellers Association dinner in New York Mark Twain, in a panel white flannel suit, lauded publishers and booksellers for selling his works. He noted contracts to account for 50,000 volumes yearly for five years and credited dealers with selling 250,000 volumes in four years plus 240,000 more, plans a long vacation on proceeds, and continues work on five forthcoming books.
Colonel Robert J. Lowry of the prominent South Republican bank network wired Secretary Taft in Nashville inviting him to Atlanta. Taft replied from Nashville on May 1 that he cannot accept due to prior engagements in Cleveland, scheduling a wart conference and remaining with his campaign for the Republican nomination.
Meridian Miss May 21 Policeman E L White was fatally wounded by a suspect believed to be Lewis Watson after a 3 30 am shooting on Front street near the old northeastern depot. A Winchester firearm was used and officers with bloodhounds pursued the suspect on a special train toward Macon as armed citizens aided the effort.
New York assay office exhausts its gold bars for export to Europe. A proposal to tax sold bars to curb European flow was reviewed by the secretary of the treasury and rejected. The 4 cent per $100 charge remains to cover making and handling costs.
Albany New York May 21 Gov Hughes signed into law a bill making bucket shops a felony in this state. The action targets illegal betting operations and aims to curb speculative activities.
Chicago May 21 One man is dead and nine to twelve hurt as a fire ravages the Wintermeyer box factory at twenty seventh and Throop streets. The blaze spread to Suess Ornamental Glass Company injuring several workers. The adjacent T Wilee Lumber Company yard also burned, with property losses totaling about 106000 and 40000 in the two sites.
In Paris on May 2 the International Congress to Promote Decency opened with Senator Rene Berenger calling for urgent international action against obscenity. Nine European nations attend. the United States is absent due to stricter domestic laws. The aim is to harmonize laws against indecent literature and secure prosecution and extradition of offenders.
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