Paving Awards Recommended for Six Streets in City
City streets committee approves contracts totaling 386 464 58 for six streets including Ponce de Leon avenue from Peachtree to the Southern railroad. The Ponce de Leon project for 748 square feet costs 359 472 4 and will use an eight inch concrete foundation with three and a half inch asphalt. The work will be funded under a baby bond plan with ten-year payments by property owners. Councilman John A White spearheaded the effort.
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Ponce de Leon Avenue
Peachtree Street
Southern Railroad
Ald
Streets Committee
City Council
Ponce de Leon
McDougald Construction Company
John A. White
Fourth Ward
City council to award paving contracts after streets committee vote
Errata show the city council will award multiple paving contracts following the streets committee recommendation at next Monday's meeting. Awards include vibrolithic concrete paving on Ashinid Avenue Hale to Lake for 7397.58 dollars Jamieson and Hal Jowell. Broomhead Avenue 1576 square yards extra concrete to Case and Corbran for 3461.44 dollars. Hale Street 2556 square yards for 5540.52 dollars to Jamison and Hallowell. Lee Street 2881 square yards for 6749.89 dollars to Case and Cothran. North Avenue 1700 square yards for 3836.80 dollars to Meadow Construction Company. Sixteenth Street paving award held up by committee.
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Ashinid Avenue
Hale
Lake Streets
Jamieson
Hal Jowell
Broomhead Avenue
Lee and
Culver Streets
Case and Corbran
Hale Street
Lake and
Ashland Avenues
Jamison and
Hallowell
Lee Street
West End
Greensferry Avenues
Case and
Cothran
North Avenue
Boulevard Street
Kennesaw Avenue
Meadow Construction Company
Sixteenth Street
Peachtree Street
Peachtree Circle
Open Bids Today on Sewer Eductor and 2 Sweepers
Bids will be opened for two street sweepers and a sewer eductor at a finance committee meeting. Bids from Elgin and Austin Western Brad Machinery were received after a prior leasing deal. The council previously approved the contract, but aldermen balked over no bid opportunity for Austin Western.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin Company
Elgin
Austin-Western Brad Machinery Company
Atlanta
Austin-Western Company
Recorder’s Court
Atlanta Federation of Women's Clubs
State
Water Department
Park Committee Likely to Refuse County Beall Park Offer
Fulton county offers 345 000 for Beall Park, but city park committee plans a Monday vote to refuse or accept. The Beall Park site between Washington Street Woodward Avenue and Brown Place would be used for a playground, the only such site in the neighborhood. If the county offer is refused, county high school plans may be dropped and a 200 000 building could be pursued on the site with remaining land for playground use.
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Fulton County
Beall Park
City Council
Park Committee
James E. J . Wells
Eighth Ward
Beallpark
Washington Street
Woodward Avenue
Amd Brown Place
Ieland
The
Ark Committee
Board of
Faltor County ‘Commissioners
County High School
Trinity and
Whitehall Streets
Payroll delays as Atlanta schools await mayor’s return
With the board of education treasury nearly empty and an 850 000 loan not yet received, the $187 055.49 payroll due today will be held until funds arrive after Mayor Walter A Sims returns next week. Atlanta Clearing House banks offer $350 000 for the school department, but the note requires the mayor’s signature.
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Board of Education
Walter A. Sims
Atlanta
Sims
J. L. Carpenter
Sims’ Alsence
City council votes on school funding from current revenues
The finance committee votes to fund the schools 26 percent of current revenues actually collected rather than the city’s allotted share of anticipated receipts. The note signing by the mayor determines access to the funds, with vouchers for 150000 drawn regardless of mayoral signoff, while remaining funds are to be released as taxes are collected.
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Menseh
Ordinance Seeks to Halt Gas Stations in Atlanta
A proposed city council ordinance would revoke all curb gas station permits in Atlanta and require operators to restore sidewalks. It allows six months for operators to wind down sales and dispose of property, with no new permits to be issued if enacted. The streets committee deferred action to November 14. The meeting also authorized purchase or rental of a steam shovel for grading the new Girls High School grounds.
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Atlanta
Streets Committee
City Council
General Council
Ordiance
W. A. Hansell
Flansell
32 Men Stricken By Looney Gas Recovering
Elizabeth New Jersey October 81 Thirty two patients at Recon struction hospital here who were stricken with tetraethyl lead poisoning at the experimental plant of the Standard Oil company at Baywar are convalescent and will be able to leave the hospital soon Physicians at the hospital appeased today to have the baffling disease under full control The United States bureau of mines which has been carrying exhaustive tests of ethylized gasoline backs up the claim of the Standard Oil company that the plight of the man who contracted lead poisoning indicates no danger to the public in the sale of the fluid The Korean points out that tetraethyl lead and ethyl Ransaline are quite different products although the latter contains a small proportion of tetraethyl lead This preparation is commonly less than the part of lead to 1900 parts of gasoline
Republican Gill Queers Alabama School Aspirant
Jefferson county Democratic Executive Committee calls for J W Minor to withdraw from the county school board ticket after it emerges he contributed 350 to the Republican campaign. A letter showed he planned to vote Democratic at the election. No reply yet on compliance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson County
Democratic Executive Committee
J. W. Minor
Minor
Republican National Committee
Democratic Committee
Oklahoma City Holds First Aerial Wedding Card
In Oklahoma City the first aerial wedding was performed as a plane wedding above the business district. Bride Winifred Henderson and groom Jerry Cavanaugh exchanged vows with Rev. J L Duling presiding, wedding party tossing rice before the planes landed.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
J. L. Duling
Tulsa
Jerry Cavanaugh
Detroit
Winifred Henderson
Cherokee
Oklahoma
Jerry
Daling
Cavantugh
Peachtree Church Marks Fifth Anniversary
The Peachtree Road Presbyterian church celebrates its fifth anniversary this Sunday with regular morning services led by Rev. D. Stephenson and a nighttime evangelistic sermon. The church annual banquet is set for Thursday in the church building.
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Peachtree Road
Wall Street Sets First Odds On Woman Governor Candidate
New York October 31 Wall Street betting brokers quoted odds on a woman candidate for governor for the first time. A $10,000 bet to $5,000 was placed with J S Fried & Co on Ma Ferguson's election prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Womin
J. S. Fried & Co
Ma Ferguson
Grand jury blasts Atlanta police laxity and seeks reforms
Fulton county grand jury issues a special report criticizing Atlanta police for failing to arrest or report criminals on their beats while praising the detective squad led by Captain A Holcombe. It condemns gambling dens, bootlegging fines, and urges harsher penalties, jail sentences, and a new police station and county jail. The report highlights jail conditions, calls for youth rehabilitation and notes rising violent crime. The Constitution will publish the full report as advertising matter.
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Atlanta Police Department
Fulton County Grand Jury
Grand Jury
A. Holcombe
Atlanta
Court House
Allantr
Falton
Fulton County Police Department
Bers
Slugging and Robberies Hit Larea Grocers
The city faces a wave of burglaries and assaults as two grocers, Max Lichenstein of 290 Woolward Avenue and D. Siegel of Beatur Street, were attacked. Lichenstein, struck with a cleaver, remains hospitalized after a skull X-ray while Siegel was robbed of $13 in change and released from Grady Hospital. Nearby, S. Meyerson’s shop at 72 Foundery Street reported $0.25 taken as locks were forced and a cash register later found in a vacant Elliott Street lot. Officers Ev tor and Barker investigated.
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Igolice
Max Lichenstein
Woolward Avenue
D. Siegel
Kelly Street
Lichenstein
Jel
Steph’s Hospital
Hl Street
Deentur
Siegel
Grady Hospital
Yoce
Meyerson
Foungery Street
Elliott Street
Evtor
Barker
Burglars Steal Clothes From Pressing Club in City
State police report two suits of clothes were taken from a pressing club at 495 North Ashby Street after burglars climbed a side window and entered through a transom. Mrs. Sarah Albert found $200 worth of household furnishings missing upon returning home Thursday night. a police complaint was filed at headquarters.
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Ste
North Ashby Street
Effie Neal
Sarah Albert
New Diamond Field Reported Near Diamantina Brazil
Buenos Aires dispatches report a new diamond field found near Diamantina in Minas Gerais. Within two months 2352 carats have been recovered by handscreens and sold for 70000 dollars on the Incal market. Diamantina lies at the heart of the diamond producing district.
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Buenos Aires
Diamantina
Brazil
Minas Gernes
Boy Given Life Term For Killing Teacher
Ellsworth Maine October 31 Roland McDonald 15 year old Amherst youth convicted yesterday in the supreme court of the murder of his school teacher Miss Louise Gerriah last spring was sentenced today to life imprisonment at hard labor at the state prison at Thomaston.
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Ellsworth
Maine
Roland McDonald
Amherst
Supreme Court
Louise Gerriah
Thomaston
Mortuary notices and infant burial in local area
The report lists multiple death notices. A. Winn of 217 Central Ave will be buried in Kennesaw after a 7 o'clock service. Survived by widow, son Eugene, two brothers, and several relatives. A Burton infant of 52 Stanwood Ave died Thursday. funeral arrangements pending. Fannie Lou Poarch, 36, of 374 Crew St died Friday. survived by husband, son Don, two daughters, two brothers, her mother. Body to Calhoun, funeral to follow. Further arrangements to be announced.
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Winn
Central Avenue
Kennesaw
Mr. Winnig
Eugene Winns
W. 1
Ch. Winn
Fone Asiuters
GA. Denny
Mra
A. TH Terry
Mire
Clark
Burton
TW. Burton
Stanwood Avenue
Fannie Lou Poarch
FannIe Lou Doareh
Crew Street
Pan
Don Poatch
Oly Unt Kestelle Mowrch
Tt. G. Pittman
Stella Pittman
Calhoun
Awtry & Lowndes Co
Tucker
Jessie Tucker
Z. J. Woodward
J. B. Tatham
Harry JG. Powe
Ee Moore
Walter Dillard Moore
Walter V. Moore
J. L. Moore
Stella Mae Moore
Mary Louise Moore
Jane Evelyn Moore
I. G. Moore
Walters
Dillard Moore
Harry G. Peale
Greenwood
Ed A. Crawford
Houston
Texas
Trammel
Atlinta
A. Cutler
New York
A. & Cordon
J. H. Bullock
Tlinta
George ‘Stephens
Lewiides Co
Martha Hiizagheth
Griffin Street
Miles Sutton
Big Creek
Samuel Mallonie
Fountain Inn
Bunk Beavers
Ingamor
Wevick
Western Heights Baptist Church
Sharon
Hunter & Blanchard
Moore
Robert Frederic Moore
All Saints’ Church
W. W. Memminger
View Cemetery
East Kidith Street
Wilmer L. Moore
Chariton B. Bridwell
Charles D. Atkinson
Ernest V .Moore
James Navin
Cyril B. Smith
H. M. Batterson & Son
Perrott
Stobert A. Perrott
Robert A. Perrott
FL M. Miller
Atlanta
W.W. Perrott
Columbus
Fil Budden
Fast Point
Rebeka Henson
Chapel of
Greenberg & Road Co
E. G. Johnson
Sandy Springs
Robert McCain
Moarria Flatau
Frank Howards
Carl Retseh
H.H. Hepson
C. P. Henann
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Sam Cohen
Andy Gump
Mountain Valley
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Mountain Valley Water Company
Ivy
North Boulevard
Par
Finace
Linwood
Ponce
Benjamin D. Watkins CO
Poplar Street
WaAlnut
K.d.burgess Coal Co
K. D. Burgess Coal Co
Grant St
Main
Ipay
Pine Crest
Georgia
Mt. Perian
Powers
Logan Realty & Trust Corporation
Atlanta Trust Co
Walnut 1840
Gill
Alabama
Peachtree Church
Wall Street
Business and
America
Auburn Ave
Pryor Street
Chain TireStore
Edgewood Avenue
Yancey Bros
N. Jackson St
Walnut
J. E. Haley
Peachtree
Australia
Monavaly
New Zealand
Nen
Laree
Peachtree Rd
Peachtree St
Brookwood Station
Brookwood
Adair Realty & Trust CO
Wal
Macon
Augusta
Eastern
W. Carroll Latimer
Fourth National Bank
Peachtree Arcade
Alonzo RicharDson & Company
Certified Public Accountants
Atlanta Trust Company
T. B. Gay Company
Walnot
Lodge
Seal
Tay
Bankhead Avenue
Renusux
A C. Winn
Kennesa’s
Ha! Ponte
Harry G. Poole
Lae US Funeral Directors Ambulance Service
Iere
Natice
Polk & Kitchemy
Forsyth Street
Aaid
G. W. Polk
City OF Cornelia
N. Sargent
Hamilton
Corenelia
Croga W
City of
Travis Street
Elm Street
Be & A
City Coal Company
M. Bartlett
Atlanta Title & Trust CO
East Alabama St
Albert Howell
Brewster
Dorsey Arthur Hegsnan Dorney
Brewster, Howell & Sterna
Congally
Allcats
Shreve
Jon
Crowe
Crowe & coEnd
Washington
Randal Ride
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