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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1914
Page
8
Mrs M Whorme and Misses Mal and Laurence DeGive Horme request permission to leave today for Athens to attend the university dance tonight and the football game.
A bustling scene at Southern Business College on West Mitchell Street shows over 200 pupils typing and shorthand students preparing for commercial careers. The ad touts Graham and Pitman systems, Spanish classes, and strong job prospects, urging inquiry at the Atlanta school with prospective students and local business endorsements.
Miss Laurence Horine leaves Athens for Washington to attend school tomorrow. Mr and Mrs Carey Amétt depart for Halcyon to spend winter. Willis B Parks has recovered from illness. James Haynes Reeves and Captain Reeves, in Brownsville since June, will visit Atlanta in late October. Mrs Bon Me W J Griffiin of Odgenhørpe Ga returns home from private sanatorium. Mrs G J Peregere visits city with family. Mrs Charles W West and children return home after weeks with LoD Watson and Mrs W H Campbell. Mrs Wade Davis remains in Inman Park. Mrs HS Courtney returns from the Biltmore. Miss Lillian Carter and mother back from New York. Mr Henry 8 Courtney in Indian
Mr Alexander C Field is in Chicago on business. Mr and Mrs E C Pignatel of New York stay at the Georgian Terrace. Mrs Pinatel was Miss Cornelia Green of Washington Ga. Mr Samuel Palmer has returned to Millen after visiting Mr and Mrs James Palmer. The text also references travels to Birmingham and Atlanta and a dog show aboard a bugineas route.
A New York firm Alfred Benjamin Washington company ordered five bales via Carl ton Shoe and Clothing in Atlanta, with a $250 check. Multiple automakers and firms, including Oakland Motor Car Cadillac Premier and others, agreed to buy hundreds of bales in the southern states under the Atlanta Automobile and Accessories association.
Judge Bell set aside most police court verdicts handed down by Recorder Broyles in Atlanta Thursday. The cases, appealed by certiorari to Judge Bell’s division of the superior court, involved fines for clubs and related offenses. Defendants include A R Smith and K Smith of Metropolitan and Theatrical clubs, each fined $200, with others such as JH Smith $100, AL Wiring $5, Lampkin $60, Metann $50, Stubbs $5, and Shields sentenced to twenty-nine days in stockade. Cosby fined $25. Bell overruled the recorder’s verdicts and reduced fines where noted.
Federal grand jury charges John J Simpson of Simpson & Harper Atlanta with devising a scheme to defraud several banks by misrepresenting liabilities and assets to Dun & Co. The indictment alleges loans obtained from Atlanta National Bank, Lowry National Bank, Fourth National Bank, First National Bank of Barnesville, Bank of North America, and others on a false financial statement dated January 6.
The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce industrial and statistical bureau reports inquiries from firms regarding Atlanta as a favorable site for business. Secretary W H Leahy notes negotiations with several large concerns likely to relocate here. A new Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis railroad folder highlights Atlanta’s progress and advantages. The Central of Georgia will soon issue a similar folder with Atlanta data, and the Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis effort is expected to reach 50 000 copies.
Moultrie October 1. The regular all term of the superior court will convene next Monday facing the largest civil and criminal docket in years. Petty crimes plus five or six murders and several felony cases are on the slate. The court will likely continue sessions for two or three weeks or longer if needed, with Judge Hammond of Augusta presiding to handle cases where Judge Thomas is disqualified.
Attorney General Warren Grice addressed students at Atlanta Law School and a large lay audience of Atlanta lawyers, outlining five major opportunities in the legal field. He highlighted financial reward, political ascent potential, community prominence, service to humanity, and a noble life purpose as key reasons to pursue law.
Ma Hargrove Mrs W G Alarige and Mrs W H Freeman were tried in the records court under section 1779 and sentenced to twenty nine days in the stockade without a fine certioraried their cases and have been admitted to bond Miss Jillian Pierson received a life sentence and did not make bond being held over Miss Alice Welsh of the Empire hotel was not present at the trial due to a doctor’s certificate and was not sentenced to the stockade as reported earlier.
A special delegation led by Ivan E Allen and W T Winn of the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce will travel to Washington next week to extend a personal invitation to the President to attend the convention. The visit aims to secure presidential participation and support for the event.
Woodrow Wilson will attend and speak at the fourth annual meeting of the American Roads congress in Atlanta this November. An audience with the president is scheduled for October 12 at 2:00 PM for the delegation.
The executive committee of the Atlanta Convention Bureau will be guests of James Dhickey at the Piedmont hotel tonight. They will discuss the fourth American Road congress meeting in Atlanta in November and plans to attract winter tourists. Committee members include Ivan Allen chairman J Lee Barnes JE Hickes FRA Hobson Will Leahy D Knight Frederic J Paxon Shelby Smith and WO Stamps.
The Trust Company of Georgia has paid its regular quarterly dividend of 212 percent amounting to $20,000. The payment reflects the firm’s ongoing earnings and stable dividend policy with the latest rate applied to its capital base.
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