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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1913
Page
13
At Princeton University the graduating class answered playful questions on smoking dating and correspondence. Of 300 members, 184 smoke with 76 starting in college and 51 stopping after entry. About 206 said they correspond with 579 women in total, averaging per person.
Georgia brief items report Thomasville scouts leaving for summer encampment at Cumby's Ferry on the Ocklocknee river. Canteloupes shipped from Valdosta and Pelham. Mitchell County school census lists 7,471 children ages six to eighteen, with 3,826 white and 4,145 negroes. Five jurors excused to work crops in Macon. Columbus painter Will Brown died at the city stockade. Savannah police veteran Richard F. Davis reportedly died by suicide at the hospital. Summerville census notes 4,107 school age children.
Additional prizes loom for contestants in the Georgian and American pony outfits contest. The American will announce more prizes next Sunday. A special offer grants 50,000 votes for the first 30 in subscriptions, with current subscribers of 36 receiving the bonus. New standings rule publishes weekly Wednesday and Sunday, boosting participation as extra prizes entice entrants.
Columbus voters may see a hospital bonds election rescheduled to July after City Attorney Miller ruled the council can set a new date with one week notice and 30 days of publication no longer required, allowing proceed as if no delay occurred.
Washington report shows boots and shoes exports growing from one million dollars in 1890 to more than twenty million in 1912. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce notes steady annual gain, signaling expanding industry.
Jere Knode Cooke former Hempstead rector and his former ward Floretta Whaley, who eloped six years ago, married at Stamford House by Justice Francis Tipper. Witnesses were two New York newspaper men. Cooke, 43, Whaley 23, had come for a divorce decree prior and plans to begin newspaper work.
Mobile auctioneer Richard A. Bettner is jailed on embezzlement charges. He was arrested with Dora Myers, a Mobile woman who will testify in a white slavery case. Saloonkeeper W. E. Flinn accuses Bettner of embezzling $565. Bettner was a former Mobile political figure.
Inclement weather forces postponement of the union picnic for Second Baptist and First Christian Churches. Superintendents Spalding and LeCraw announce the event is postponed indefinitely with a new date to be set and announced next Sunday in the schools.
A U S District Court decree in Chandler Land Corporation vs Georgia Land and Timber Company affirms the plaintiff alleging a 3000 acre seizure in Ware County. Judge Pardee orders surrender of deeds, removes J M Parks as court commissioner, and names C C Fuller as successor. The case, long in dispute, is part of the celebrated matter.
The Baker versus McKee case, filed fifteen years ago over lands valued at 1.5 million dollars, remains pending in the courts.
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