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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1914
Page
10
A church event listing sermons and services. Sunday morning at eleven the topic What We Believe About Man. Music before at nine forty five for Sunday school. Rev Liné preaches at two o'clock with a second Masonic sermon at Bolton. The notice invites all to attend.
Brigadier A W Crawford of the Incal Salvation Army appeals for old linen and cotton cloth to make bandages for wounded abroad. Several Atlanta shipments already, with weekly consignments planned if possible. Cloth will be sterilized under medical supervision in New York and sent to England by steamship free of charge.
The Bunougas Nature Club of Atlanta announces Arbor Day on December 4 with a planting drive to attract birds and safeguard fruit. Secretary Prentisa K. Junipe will provide native trees and shrubs, and a celebration will occur at Wrens' West Pud, a southern bird sanctuary.
The Phagan family mourns as Mary Phagan and her infant daughter die following the National Pencil factory murder case. Grandfather William Jackson Phagan died yesterday morning in Marietta and will be buried beside Mary and her wife. Funeral is at Second Baptist Church in Marietta at 11 o clock.
Mrs Martha H began divorce proceedings yesterday before Judge WOH Eilts alleging cruelty. She said her 80s husband, a war veteran, smashed her straw bonnet during an argument after a month of marriage, and that the romance ended abruptly. The case remains before the court.
A public lecture titled Immigrants and the immigrant Gateway will be held at the West Ind Christian church at 30 pm Sunday. The program aims to picture conditions and invite attendees to the service with warning costumes and attire.
Georgia Supreme Court ruled Judge A W Fite disqualified for affinity to an interested party and sent the State Mutual Life case back to Floyd County Superior Court. It upheld Judge Moses Wright and denied the State Insurance Commission’s bid to take over affairs, noting prior receivery actions by Judge Fite. The decision aligns with 1914 act requirements for domestic insurers and receivership eligibility.
Dridas sworn affidavit states that T D Price, elected commissioner of agriculture, incurred no election expenses in the general election held on November 9 191d November 914, 1924, for office. The affidavit was sworn before Notary Geary T J R Johnson in Fulton County.
An unconscious elderly man found under the Washington Street viaduct by a Black rescuer near daybreak on Friday. Revived by doctors, he, once John Hippolyte a noted Detroit lawyer, said he had failed in life and wandered to the viaduct to die.
Captain W R Joyner announced that 53 arson-suspected cases were reviewed this year with 20 indictments secured. Two convictions last year. three previously. About 70 fires linked to arson caused $20,000 in damage, mostly south of Nucon. Seven white men, one white woman, and twelve Black individuals indicted.
Charles Ho Rice, imperial prince of the Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, arrived in Atlanta and was hosted at the Hotel Ansley by the local Khorassans. This marks his second visit to the city with Atlanta’s 100 Khorassans giving him a warm reception. the order holds its next convention in 1915, with Minneapolis hosting 1914.
Lyons will deliver the address at a special praise service held in the Central Prehvit e lan church at Sadlock Surda. The Womens Society of the Central church organizes the meeting with offerings for home missions. Ogden will preach at the morning service on a Wonder ful Dave the Worlds Histor.
A planned automobile trip to Griffins by twenty eight leading Atlanta merchants, with Mayor James G Woodward to lead, was postponed Friday due to severe cold weather. All arrangements had been completed, and disappointment followed the postponement as seven autos were prepared for the procession.
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad changes take effect Sunday November 2. Train 81 will arrive Atlanta at 1 19 pm instead of 1 90 pm. Train 24 departs Atlanta at 4 49 pm instead of 9 10 pm. Train 4 and 38 between Etowah and Cartersville are discontinued. Trains 2 and 34 will stop locally between Etowah and Cartersville.
Dr Pierce defends his role on the Fifth Ward club by denying resignation and reporting demands. He accuses Councilman Johnson of injecting partisan aims, while Maddox Lee and Sisson pledge to work with the club on school matters. Pierce cites English Avenue overcrowding and Ashby Street transfer disputes as central to the controversy.
A conference was held involving Dorsey Sellestor Wish Dorsey and John Weeling on the Nelms case. Prosecution against Victorian and his wife is discussed with possible new indictments. War shall Nelms stays in Texas until the Supreme Court ends the fight. An aged mother begins a nationwide search for evidence into the disappearance of her daughters Beatrice and Hlois.
The Young Men’s Christian Association completed a week long canvass to boost membership by 1400, reporting 1049 new members. Of these 874 were general members from Atlanta businesses, 175 of 406 targeted business men joined, and 400 business men total are needed for self support. Leaders Harrison Jones Franklin Chalmers George Winship Jr L O Grice and Henry Grady Bell led efforts. Bell added 67 new members.
The Georgian Board of Accountant Examiners hosted an elegant dinner Thursday night to honor the November 1914 CPA degree applicants. Joel Hunter presided over the gathering, with plans noted for twenty two guests and a cordial meeting to follow.
As toastmaster, Joseph A McCord presided and delivered a certified balance sheet. Other talks featured Captain RW Jemison, Hudson Moore, Latimer Claude Smith Tugéene, Callaway George A Simms, WS Kell, and Charles J Vets, showing community interests and civic engagement at the gathering.
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