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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1909
Page
9
A scanned passage lists subscription rates for daily weekly and tri weekly editions, plus carrier delivery details outside Atlanta. It notes advertising managers and circulation offices, then shares a miscellany of humorous parliamentary quips about Taft Roosevelt and Peary, with a closing jab about Republican wings and Bryan.
A Georgia delay on an inheritance tax deprives the state of revenue, citing Colorado Springs figures on $75 410 89 paid to Colorado for General William J Palmer's estate. By contrast thirty six states already collect such taxes, providing funds for public schools and state needs. Georgia lags as other states profit, with a history of gradual adoption and broad support for modernizing taxation systems.
The Stone Mountain Baptist Association temperance committee urges citizens to train temperance at home, school, and church arguing law alone cannot instill lasting temperance. They caution against weakening the state law and emphasize gospel-based character formation over prohibitory measures.
President Charles S. Barrett of Georgia is chosen for a fourth term by more than two million American farmers, despite his initial plan to retire from head duties. The Birmingham convention reinforced his role as chief organizer and harmonizer, highlighting his enduring influence and burdens of travel on family life.
The Farmers' Union, led by President Charlee S. Barrett, has grown into a powerful force in the southern farming economy. Its education and cooperative work have improved agricultural outcomes, while its policy remains nonpartisan and free of political alignments. Barrett's steadfast adherence to these principles sustains the Union's progress.
Thoughtful men ask what comes after the discovery of the North Pole and the triumphs in aerial travel. Mars may host life, and a wireless or heliograph message to the planet could be feasible during the Hudson Fulton celebration. The era of exploration and invention moves from sea and air toward deeper secrets of nature.
A compilation of verse fragments from Georgia tunes and northern sketches. It pairs a dizzying array of poems and quips about trouble in dance, polar bragging, deacon prayers, and a poet’s Lethe Wharf reflection, with light satire on fate, weather, and life’s fiddles.
Jackson Ga September 10 special Two negroes Carlos Talmade and Cliff Campbell received life imprisonment sentences in the superior court this week. Talmade was charged with the murder of Jerry Sparks on August 8 1908 while Campbell shot and killed A C Crawford on July 24 of this year.
Governor Brown appoints General A. J. West and Railroad Commissioner C. M. Candler as state arbitrators to join Madison Bell for the Western Union franchise tax dispute. Comptroller reports the Georgia franchise at 950000, board previously set 500000. Also pardons for Jarvis and Gadsden, and funds for district agricultural schools.
Superior court judges across the state express strong approval of Governor Brown’s refusals of clemency in the Mitchell and Pharr cases. Judge C H Brand endorses the governor’s actions in a Gwinnett grand jury charge, and Judge T A Parker, soon to join the Waycross circuit, writes he hears widespread public support for the governor’s stance.
Police Chief Henry Jennings urges strict enforcement of new automobile rules to prevent accidents. Officers issued multiple orders to arrest drivers who fail to yield when streetcars load or unload passengers. The ordinance covers tail light positions and license plates and has been emphasized to all patrols.
Eatonton Georgia September 19. Mrs Benjamin J Hole shows a very rare Bible printed in 1740 on heavy board covers with hinges and copper plate lithographs. It is in German with many cuts. Offered large sums but kept as an inherited family heirloom.
Drought in Thomson Georgia hits the region with severe stream low flows forcing the John Smith cotton mill to close. Farmers warn cotton yields may fall to about half last year. In Carnesville and Banks counties three to four weeks of dry hot weather cut top crops, with corn also reduced and an overall bleak outlook for farmers.
Judge Robert T. Daniel, grand representative of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of Gold Fellows, left Griffin Georgia to deliver the address at the Seattle exposition on Fraternal Day September 23.
Warrenton September 10. Spe y et al announce a new commercial hotel opening for business on the 16th. Located on the business square, the hotel is owned by proprietor D. L. Wicker.
The Griffin mayor and council awarded the contract for paying the main business streets to the Georgia Engineering Company of Augusta at an estimated cost of seventy thousand dollars.
In Shreveport Louisiana on September 1 M M White a leading veterinarian and vice president of the state board of veterinary examiners was shot five times in the back and killed by Henry Sibley a railroad man. The shooting happened on Teas street a busy business thoroughfare at noon. Sibley a recent husband of White s alleged attentions to Sibley s wife are cited as the motive.
The opening of the University Law School in Athens is expected to be bright with enrollment possibly reaching seventy. Prof. Green, the new law faculty member, will join on opening day, while Professors Posey Soule Fain Reade and others return to begin the term. A separate note from Washington reports the Venezuelan bubonic plague epidemic has ended.
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