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Newspaper
Atlanta Georgian
Location
Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1906
Page
6
The social center of Atlanta and the most valuable in the area, Ansley Park remains a prime site for homes or investment as remaining lots are offered. Market interest and location highlight the prospect of development and resale potential.
Postponed sale notification lists prominent Atlantans who own Ansley Park lots and have built homes. It notes a barbecue at 1:90 pm for attendees and outlines terms: one third cash with the balance due in one or two years at 6 percent.
J M Thompson was killed in a Be rean avenue boarding house after a quarrel with J W Shurley. Shurley went on trial in the superior court with forty four jurors examined and R L Foreman among those chosen for state and defense. The case likely will not finish before Friday morning.
Loulaville, Ky. June 14. Clarence Sturgeon age 21 claims three intruders boisterous and armed tried to enter Daisey Jackson's room at 431 Eleventh street. He fired from inside, killing W. H. McMichael 45, W. J. Bruner 26, and a third man about 40. Sturgeon says two men attempted to draw revolvers before he shot, and all bullets hit.
The discussion centers on alleged adulteration of liquor and coercive tactics by Bluthenthal & Bickert. Dr McCandless is cited on impure samples, while Mr Johnson and Mr Winn debate the firms role and defense. The committee shifts to licensing wholesale firms, requiring owner consent for new openings, with existing businesses unaffected.
Empire Clothing Company of 51 and 63 Whitehall Street announces a removal sale beginning Friday at 9 am. About 40 000 dollars worth of spring and summer goods for men and boys will be sold to the public over ten days. The store closed all day Thursday to prepare for a crowd expected to attend. The firm denies any malicious motives for the sale and expects a large turnout.
The Georgia railroad commission wins a mandamus against the Southern, Georgia, Western and Atlantic, Seaboard Air Line, and Atlanta and West Point Railroads. The court sustains the commission’s authority to set just and reasonable rates including stove shipments. If upheld by the supreme court, this affirms the commission’s power to enforce commodity rates between competitive state points.
Early Thursday near 3 o clock a fire gutted James Carter s grocery store and residence at Cooper street and Dodd avenue. The blaze origin is unknown, suspected incendiary act. Oil fumes were noted, but their role is unconfirmed. Carter and family escaped unharmed as flames spread quickly before discovery.
Special to The Georgian reports Congressman John Sharp Williams denied a Telegraphic offer of a professorship at the University of Virginia and stated no such offer was made by that or any university. The notice also mentions fragmented local items and railroad business notes in the same column.
Chat Tenn June 14 Reports Troop B will elect a first lieutenant to fill a vacancy on Chattanooga night. Troops head for the annual encampment to be held at Columbia July 15. On return they likely march overland from Columbia to Decatur then take a boat home.
Auditors and heirs allege J. G. St. Amand squandered estate funds of E. W. Maresh, with grossly inaccurate accounts. They seek recommittal of accounting to Auditor S. N. Evins, claim $350,000 cash receipts, unpaid $150 monthly from the Maresh estate, and mismanaged hotel and water business, with debts at receivership unchanged. Hearing set for June 16 to decide if the estate goes to Auditor Evins.
Georgia items report L. A. Scar has been elected county commissioner to replace the late W. Tillman. Offerman sees Max Gilmore starting a wholesale business and J. M. Daniele erecting a sixteen room hotel. Cattle are killed near Pyte’s Marsh stirring local fear while steamers near Brunswick test river feasibility. A naphtha launch burns at Cumberland pier and Sunday schools hold picnics on St Elmo’s Island. A new track opens around Brunswick, engines collide at Inswick, and Rev. N Keff Smith receives a call to a Presbyterian post in Atlanta.
Deaths reported include Mary Walton an infant of cholera at 17 Corleymere. Miles Ashton Nash eight months old of gastritis at 445 eas a Hakhas Boaz. and a living death of Boaz whingy aged years at 268 Crumley Street. Building permits show many projects: Mrs L W Johnson to recover two one story frame dwellings. Beck Company to erect two frame cottages. J H Macaslin to repair a dwelling. James W English to build a block of stores on Forsyth between Alabama and Hunter. Pure Milk to install a cooling tower at 66 and 53,000. Peters Land Company to erect houses on Piedmont Avenue. and additional permits for furnaces, sheds, and lots on Linden, West Boulevard, and Piedmont. Also mentions warranties and deeds and a note on a Portland golf gathering opening the Oregon state championship at the Wa: Club links.
Newark reports a brilliant ceremony at Trinity Church with Milas Eleanor Parker daughter of Lt Col James Parker and Lt Guy Cushman of the Eleventh Cavalry. The June 14 event drew attendees from multiple posts as Parker hails from Fort Riley Kansas and Cushman from Fort Des Moines Iowa.
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