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Newspaper
Atlanta Constitution
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1909
Page
8
Macon Georgia September 12 special report says President J H Heard of the Macon Chamber of Commerce and W B Fitch will present a petition to the city council on Tuesday night urging admission of large sections of the city suburbs. The effort led by A J Long and an executive committee seeks quick action and a vote to annex before January next.
Macon Ga September 12 according to County Physician William C Pumpelly there are five well developed pellagra cases in the city all patients are white three of them are prominent residents in a fashionable suburb and are in serious condition the physician was called two days ago and has attended the sufferers since then noting the disease developed rapidly after exposure earlier in the week
Travel notice states Seaboard leaves for Birmingham on September 14 at 8 a.m. with a 12:15 noon arrival and a round trip fare of 192.50. Details emphasize a single itinerary and price.
At Fort McPherson the Seventeenth Regiment prepares a 250 mile march starting Tuesday the 21st. Colonel J T Orsdale leads all officers on a new route through Merletta Canton Jasper and into the north Georgia mountains for a three week exercise with realistic warlike maneuvers. An Eleventh Cavalry march through Tennessee is planned concurrently with wireless field tests.
Rev Dr Ogden preached on the perils of the home to a large congregation at the Central Presbyterian Church Capitol Square The sermon stressed loyalty to home and warned against divorce courts, hotel living substitutes for home life and liquor power It urged character guidance for youth and true love leading to marriage The pastor announced a follow up sermon on Marriage next Sunday morning
The Grand presents a slate of shows with strong casting including Florence Sinnott and Claude Lightner from The Land of Nod. A discussion of The Soul Kiss reveals risqué stage imagery, while Little Miss McNebb and Miss Henrietta Lee are noted for past roles and future plans with The Girl From Rector's.
President Taft prepares for a two month western tour from September to November covering New England, the Northwest, California, Texas, the Mississippi, Georgia and Virginia. The itinerary includes numerous parades and speeches with a private train, starting in Boston and reaching Chicago by September 16, then a strenuous schedule of events and public addresses. Topics eyed include tariffs, natural resources conservation, and statehood discussions, with the speech inevitably reflecting his acceptance theme.
A detailed account outlines Taft and a large delegation traveling through thirty states. It names aides and officers, reporters and guests, with a route from Texas to Washington, detailing each stop from Houston on October 23 to Washington on November 10.
The article notes Miss Mabel Talisferro will be known henceforth as Nell Moran, a simplification of her name chosen to avoid mispronunciation and confusion in public use. The piece discusses stage naming conventions and the rarity of changing a recognized name.
Commissioner of Agriculture T. G. Hudson and Farmers Union of Georgia president J. L. Lee, with State Entomologist B L. Worsham, plan meetings across Georgia to combat the black root destroying cotton. An appropriation of 10 000 was approved, and Georgia faces about 1 000 000 in losses this year from the disease impacting cotton fiber and seed. Conferences will be announced soon, independent of Farmers Institutes, to aid planters and local industry including cotton oil mills.
Brown House in Macon Ga becomes scene of a midnight gambling raid led by Chief Sam Wescott with sixteen officers. Five places raided twelve men charged with operating gambling houses, traps door escapes noted, witnesses summoned for court, including Ed Mundson Tutt Eugene Grace and J N Yeager.
Washington D C September 1 Special An important reorganiza tion in the field force of the United States bureau of soils, made necessary by resignations, has taken place with Dr Jay A Honsteel in general charge of the soil survey work. The new divisions cover a wide swath of states and regions.
United States Army Engineers have begun surveys and borings for a storage reservoir on the Etowah River near Cartersville. The dam, funded by the federal government at about 2.5 million dollars, will back water to Canton and form part of the Atlantic and Western Canal project to ease transportation costs for Georgia and Alabama. The structure aims to regulate floods and smooth river flow by storing excess water in the rainy season.
In Macon Georgia a meeting of the newly elected city executive committee will be held in The Macon News offices tomorrow at 4 pm to purge registration, fix the primary date, and agree on rules and assessments for candidates. Election managers to be named later as the primary approaches and W D Nottingham of the aid committee remains chairman with keen interest in developments.
A negro named Frank Newsome was shot three times at the corner of Ash and Fourth streets in Macon. A coroner's jury charges murder against an unknown assailant. Witness Danny Jemison, a black woman, is held. police expect to seize the killer soon. A week earlier another negro was slain at the same spot in a similar manner, with the killer still at large.
Memphis report says cotton opening rapidly but overall outturn small. Weather moderates bloom and rainfall helps in some areas while drought and boll weevil damage depresses quality. Texas expected to near full harvest by October. Louisiana notes continuing deterioration with 20 to 60 percent of normal yield.
A vintage ad-style notice markets Eclipse Catarrh Cure amid dire warnings that catarrh weakens mind and body. It touts instant relief and cures, promises a 25 cent sample by mail, and includes testimonials from ET Moon of Lawrenceville, Georgia, urging trial and subsequent full purchase.
Bertram Brooks of near Americus died of typhoid fever in the afternoon, the third family member to die within thirty days. The stricken household lies in a rural area with the fever widespread this summer, leaving another relative at death's door.
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