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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1909
Page
6
Continued from Page One the article notes the Atlanta union of musicians selecting the best artate in the city for parade numbers. It lists five divisions including Fleet Division with carriages and invited guests and Second Division with visiting organizations farmers city salesmen and Granite.
The text lists various unionized trades and divisions including Lithonia Conyers Corgia and Stone Mountain Leather Workers Buford Fairburn Fourth Division Carpenters Granite Cutters Painters and more. It also notes floats and parade bands led by Professor Wedemeyers and others with twenty five to fourteen players, plus the Red Mens drum corps Knights of Khorasan drum corps and a colored band. The carriage division will carry cosington governor Joseph NM Brown and William Van Houten among others.
Rome Ga September 5 Special Everything in readiness for the observance of Labor day tomorrow and indications are that the celebration will feature a large turnout with parades and community events across the city highlighting labor achievements and local participation from civic leaders and workers.
The celebration features a grand parade at 10 a.m. with a basket dinner at DeSoto Park and park speeches, followed by races in the afternoon, promising a scale unseen before in Rome. The occasion highlights union farmers and union laborers in a major community gathering.
Laverne Alabama September 5 Emma Stevenson died today after being shot Friday at her Grady area home by her divorced husband William Stevenson. Daughter Misa Gertrude Vann also killed. Stevenson in Luverne jail. community anger rising, no violence reported.
The first race for the motor boat speed championship of South Atlantic ports will be known as the southern handicap. It will be run over the 20 mile Thunderbolt course tomorrow afternoon four miles from Savannah with three boats entered, Jacksonville noted among entrants.
Labor Day 909 marks show the clash and cooperation between capital and labor in modern industry. It notes court cases and injunctions shaping labor rights, progress in health and safety, and the rise of wage-earner unity across trades, employers, and churches toward industrial democracy.
Macon Ga September 5 Special work in the criminal branch of the city court will be taken up tomorrow morning before Judge Robert Hodges. The September session of the court will be opened and arrangements made to dispose of the dockets for the week, but adjournment for Labor Day exercises will follow, and not much will be done before Tuesday.
Lieutenant L W Hazlehurst and Private Grover Elan of the Seventeenth Infantry at Fort McPherson face morning court martial at 9 o clock over the shooting incident involving Private Elan and Private Howard Coulter. Captain Herbert A White of the Eleventh Cavalry will preside. Details mention Coulter was shot after failing to halt when ordered by a guard amid drunken disturbance near a beer saloon. Elan claims he intended to fire but was running. Hazlehurst says he ordered Blen to fire. The reliability of late courts is questioned.
Bristol September 5 Judge Joseph S Kelly of the corporation court will start hearings Monday on the local option election contest case. The record spans over six hundred pages with testimonies of two witnesses plus more to be called. Virginia's half of the city voted net by 32, while the July election had a contested result alleging 170 illegal votes. The court paused license issuance pending the contest and may grant licenses to those entitled under the law if the contestants lose. A decision is awaited by Saturday with many saloons ready to open if license is granted.
Macon Georgia September reports arrestee Bob Harris arraigned before Commissioner WE Martin on a federal distilling charge. Bond set at 200 pending grand jury action. Deputy Marshal Frank Riley W F Heckle and Deputy Collector C L Vigal captured Harris and seized his outfit near his home.
W H Waldren a longtime Central railway engineer died at midnight at his Hydrola street residence East Macon after a long illness He was 64 and survived by his wife five sons and three daughters The funeral is set for Fost Hill cemetery tomorrow morning conducted by Rev B E Whittington East Macon Methodist pastor
A government report from the Bureau of Navigation shows eighty four sail and steam vessels completed in August within the United States with a total gross tonnage of 17,361. The August figures come from the Department of Commerce and Labor.
State Chemist Dr Stallings may travel to Washington September 7 to attend a meeting with state chemists food commissioners and feed manufacturers to draft a uniform pure food law. Dr Wiley calls the session September 9 and 10 to unify feed laws nationwide. Georgia’s pure food and feed law has drawn interest from Alabama and other southern states and could become Georgia text for a national law. The Georgia law has improved seed quality. cotton seed meal now lines many southern feeds and may spread nationwide if adopted. The Washington meeting will shape future feeding standards and southern farming benefits depend on the outcome.
W W Tharpe former head of the Macon post office money order department died at his country home on September 6 after attempting to regain health. He had married Aldine Bragg in Macon, lived there until illness forced him to leave his job. Born near Fitzpatrick Twiggs County, he spent his last day at his boyhood home. The funeral is planned for tomorrow with burial in the family cemetery.
Curtis King Heath aged y years, son of Mr and Mrs George M Heath, died yesterday after a brief illness at his Swampbery home. Funeral services will be held this morning at 9 30 at the family residence.
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