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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1908
Page
8
A fire yesterday afternoon at Dan W Green's 873 Woodward Avenue started when intense sunlight focused through a window on a shade. Green extinguished the flames before the room was fully charred, but the shade was burned and the house narrowly avoided total destruction with the family away at the time.
The new Masonic Temple at Cain and Peachtree will open to Georgia Masons on Thanksgiving day with stained glass windows costing about 5000. The design features a history from the order's founding and notable figures, with artists praising its artistry. Grand Lodge of Georgia leaders and several lodges are expected to attend a gala celebration and elaborate receptions.
A Dutch couple arrives in New York aboard the Rotterdam with thirteen children hoping to lease housing. They cite Roosevelt era opportunity and plan to raise their family in America, with the oldest daughter about nineteen and the younger children ranging to months old.
In Vadosta on September 8 a Russian Jew living near its try for eight or nine months died by his own hand after drinking carboleamine. He had despaired over finances and threatened suicide. A letter from his destitute New York father prompted the act. he had no funds to aid him and owed local bills. He lived with his brother and was a photographer who came here with the Van Amberg shows last winter.
At the Stone Mountain Baptist Association meeting held at Ponca de Leon church and chaired by John M Green the question of dividing the association was raised again. A committee will survey church sentiment with a view to possible split into two associations similar to the Atlanta division.
Guilt and Chicago and New Orleans Mobile and Chicago Combine. At a shareholders meeting in this city the consolidation agreement among Mobile Jackson and Kansas City, Gull Gap Chicago, and New Orleans Mobile and Chicago railroads was unanimously adopted. The new company will be named the Mobile and Chicago Railroad. Officers include LS Berg president, W Owen general manager, HY Hood auditor, and George W Crary secretary and treasurer.
General Gound leads a council session deferring a yard cleanup ordinance while proposing pay per head for stock to aid city yard cleanliness. A boulevard gate dispute over opening hours ends with the gate kept open for funerals. A sige of ordinances covers Carnegie Library terms, Sunday near beer closures, and wage wagon signage. The body also tackles sexton abolition and tax committee referral.
A Strawn Texas dispatch reports temperatures hitting 112 degrees yesterday and 109 today with hot southern winds. Strawn business operations are suspended as heat expands walls and wallpaper peels. Waco notes temperatures around 110 over the past three days, highlighting extreme heat effects.
Advertisement from No 100 distillery in Collection District Tennessee praises its whiskies as Simon pure healthful and palatable. Located on a farm in a valley with pristine air and water the distillery uses Northwestern rye malt and Tennessee Valley corn. Six quart shipments are offered at low wholesale prices directly to buyers, with consistent quality emphasized.
A vintage ad lists EXPRESS PREPAID shipments in wooden boxes with Grass Valley Grassy Valley Corn Whiskies marked unadulterated and very old, priced by size. white 100 proof and Tennessee Freestone whiskies also offered. Bottled in Bond ryes and blends like Concord Pure Rye and Clarke’s Pure Rye priced per quart and by the case, with stated quality claims and no adulterants.
The Augusta chamber of commerce adopted a resolution to create a special commission for formulating definitive flood protection plans. The panel will include members from the Merchants Association, cotton exchange, and relief committees to coordinate with local groups and landowners along canal banks over dirt prices for canal work as a second conference is set.
Atlanta theaters report bustling demand for the Land of Nod at the Grand with matinée and evening showings. Bijou touts the Greater New York Stars musical vaudeville, while Orpheum presents a lively eight-dancer act and electric tricks. All venues show strong advance sales and local excitement.
A three year old boy Carl Roberts died after alleged whiskey poisoning in Augusta. A jury, adjourned due to Robert Taylor’s absence, heard witnesses including a drunken father Jim Buxis. The child died at 9 this morning and the inquiry resumes Wednesday at 10.
At a Minnesota independence party meeting last night the ticket was chosen for November voters. Governor William W Allen of St Paul and Lieutenant Governor Roscoe B Higpee of St Paul head the slate with Secretary of State JG Waterson Scanlon of Minn listed among the nominees. The group plans to present the ticket to the electorate in the coming election.
The Independent Party committee chose Casino Theater in Pensacola’s Poncede Leon park for the event to notify Colonel Graves as the party’s free vice presidential candidate. Speakers include Hearst Hisgen Howard, with Hearst and Hisgen expected to engage early. A reception and nonpartisan welcome are planned for Graves and guests.
Lawrence Bertrand Davis a native of Georgia and bookkeeper for Cerro de Pasco Mining Company shot himself at Lima last evening. Motives for the tragedy are not known.
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