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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1909
Page
10
A collage of 1910s chatter touches on Peary and Cook’s Arctic feats, Taft sermons, Roosevelt era politics, and satirical notes about wealth, gas, and headlines. Musings on prosperity, gestures from Crane Knox, and the era’s hunger for novelty mix with jokes about polar bears, Halley’s Comet, and a celebrity divorce, all sketched in a restless parade of names and places.
A discussion of Atlanta as a rapidly expanding city driven by $300,000 in six months of public and publicity investments. Highlights include plans to bring the Metropolitan Grand Opera Company, a $40,000 guarantee fund, rapid fundraising for the National Automobile Show and Auto Week, a $200,000 Automobile Speedway project, and the Great White Way initiative. Praises Atlanta residents for bold investment and the resulting civic prestige.
The piece argues Georgia must fix a broken financial system impacting public school teachers’ pay. It praises Governor Brown for proposing a constitutional amendment to issue bonds creating a permanent loan fund to pay teachers promptly, urging nonpartisan, practical action and modern tax collection practices.
The governor proposes accumulating annual payments for the sinking fund until the required amount is secured to properly fund teachers. He calls for a plan that settles the issue once and for all, urging Georgians and legislators to act regardless of party. Bond funding through constitutional amendment is discussed as a path to lasting solution.
The West Indian hurricane spared Florida’s coast due to timely warnings from the weather bureau. Vice President Parrott credits forecasting and early alerts for protecting equipment and thousands of workers on the Florida East Coast railway extension. The bureau’s cautions saved lives and mitigated damage along the gulf, truly a 20th century life saver.
A collage of rural verse and humorous notes from a Georgia scene. Humble brag about Jemima’s hat and a logger’s large beaver crown the Hoss Show, with bits on weather, money’s lure, and a mule tossed editor mishap. Seasonal jollity and political musings close the page.
A rustic verse fragment evokes winter in Dixie with the possum and potato harvest, a parson’s request for a pleasing program, and a folksy cadence. The snippet captures regional dialect and seasonal flavor without a clear narrative, offering a glimpse into homey, rural life.
Hearings set by the railroad commission have been postponed due to a family death for Chairman Hill of Mr. Mattie Tigner. Henry R Harris, Hill’s father in law, is dangerously ill. Postponed cases include Willingham Co demurrage rule change, Sylvester telephone system sale, and Blue Springs depot application.
The Society of the Army of the Cumberland opened its annual reunion in Chattanooga Tennessee with the largest attendance in years. General Gates P Thruston of Nashville presided at a morning business session. Veterans were guests at a special review of the Eleventh Cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe Georgia. Tonight Congressman Washington Gardner of Michigan delivered the principal oration at the Auditorium.
The Capital City Club of Atlanta will host visiting autoists for Auto Week events in November. Participants travel from Savannah, Augusta, Albany, Fitzgerald, and Birmingham, and join the Atlanta Journal New York Herald tour. The club becomes headquarters for the visitors, elevating its prestige and hospitality.
Georgia Supreme Court upholds a street railway rule allowing conductors to refuse larger than permitted payments. Burge v Georgia Railway and Electric Co. Burge denied fare for himself and two companions. ruling deems the rule reasonable. Also notes Mrs George M Hiley suit against Wrightsville and Tennille Railroad regarding depot denial and exposure illness. verdict reversed on petition specifics. Court of Appeals holds illicit whisky sale evidence admissible as prima facie violation despite later ginger ale claim.
Marietta officials report Special President Ernest Woodruff of the Trust Company of Georgia offered $100,000 for the waterworks plant and the paper mills, but the Water board rejected the price as excessive. An arbitration board may be named to discuss terms, while a $110,000 waterworks bond issue has just been approved. Judge Newman has not yet reviewed the papers or stated expected action.
Coroner’s jury rules Fred Akridge died from a plate loaded pistol shot by Ed Couch in Ak Ridge. The two youths were handling pistols on Simpson Street when Couch fired accidentally. Akridge died of a heart wound. Couch released. Funeral held at family burial ground on Chapel Road. W T Akridge attended the service under deputy sheriff escort.
Colby Jones, described as an elderly Black man near 80, filed a superior court suit seeking 2000 damages after Police Officer Swords struck him on Whitehall Street during a parade. He was hospitalized with a head wound after the incident. the police board exonerated the officer.
Wood Wall, involved in trouble with his father in law, was placed on probation by Recorder Broylea after arraignment for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. He pledged to support his wife and child and stay away from her home. Mrs Walls asserts that reports of separation are erroneous.
Elberton Ga October 14 Special nearly eight hundred bales were sold from the wagon cottn with each bringing at least 3 cents The cotton brought about fifty thousand dollars Part of this season's cotton brought 3 1/2 cents on the local market The price has drawn more staple from surrounding points Elberton upholds its reputation as the best cotton market in northeast Georgia
Mercer law class in Macon elects officers for the coming year. Dwight L. Rogers of Reidsville is named president after a Georgia career including intercollegiate debate and Sphinx Club membership. Daniel C Betjeman of Albany serves as vice president, a clerk for the U S district attorney in Macon, planning to practice law. TRR Gresp acts as secretary and treasurer, Macon beltway agent from Savannah.
Americus Ga October 15 Special Fight thousand bales of cotton approximately sold in the Americus territory during June and July at prices around 10 cents for October delivery are being demanded by several purchasers Farmers believing a bumper crop certain thus fortified themselves against possible low prices to selling portions of their crop several here selling 106 to 200 bales at 19 cents for October delivery They thereby sustain a loss of $15 a bale but are coming up gamely notwithstanding In several markets here such deliveries are now being made
William H Mercer aged 81 died at his daughter's home in Dawson. Survived by four daughters Mrs A E Morris Mrs L M Dixon Mrs H G Powell and Mrs Colley and two sons Hon Jon J Mercer and Hon Jesse E Mercer. Interment set for tomorrow at 10 o'clock.
Revival services at Second Baptist Church led by Dr John F White will run Thursday and Friday nights with sermons on conversion and salvation. Dr Henrys M Wharton of Baltimore arrives Saturday to begin services with announcements Sunday morning at 11 and 7 30 pm. The public is invited to attend all meetings.
The Seventh District Medical Society convened in Rome for a semi annual gathering with about 20 members, half from out of town. Papers were read and the program featured a long discussion on the work, followed by a dinner at the Third Avenue hotel. The group planned to meet in Dalton on the second Wednesday in March.
New York October 13 Major General Alfred E Bates former paymaster general of the army died this afternoon after a Sunday apoplexy. He was taken to a private hospital where his condition worsened before death.
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