Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-11-02

chanics will be employed. and these,
with their families, will add several
| hundred to the rapidly growing popula-
| ion of the remarkable little Industrial
| enter of Meriwether county.
| Manchester has grown in the short
Jace of one year from a bare field TO a
= .ity of over 1,5OO inhabitants with over
, 200 new buildings, and the addition of
/ the force for the new shops will be
gratifying increase in population for the
| census enumerators to report to the
world at large. BY January /. when the
J mill employees arrive to occupy the rows
| Of beautiful new cottages built for them
| by the mill owners. the population of
! Manchester will be fully 1000
The growth of Manchester is due to
| the fact that it is the junction point for
the three main lines of the Atlanta, Bir-
| mingham and Atlantic road, from At
/ lanta, Brunswick and Birmingham. The
number os trains operated through here
daily now average 90 and a large force
| is necessary to conduct the division head
! quarters at this point.
CORDELE, Ca, Oct Authorization
/ has just been received here that syndi-
cate has been organized for the purpose
of building a railroad from Cordele to
| the Gulf of Mexico, reaching the gulf at
| ST. Andrews bay.
| The Albany and Northern railroad OPP
Grating between Cordele and Albany will
form an important link.
1t is understood that sufficient funds
to build and equip the road for about
one-third of the distance are already in
: hand and ii is presumed that work will
begin at an early date.
The distance to be covered is about
/ 1SS miles and the route will pass through
some of the. best undeveloped sections
. of Georgia and Florida.
The headquarters of the system will
! be Cordele.
When this road is completed it will
I be the shortest and quickest route to the
gulf and will make Cordele the great
! railroad center Of southwest Georgia.
! ARLINGTON, Ca, Oct 3O-A. A. Cal
houn, city marshal, shot and killed ]. w.
Crawford, an empioye of the G., F. & A.
railroad, here today. Crawford was al
legged to be drinking, when Officers Tim
mons and Calhoun attempted to make tee
arrest. Crawford pulled his knife and
cut Timmons in the back and Calhoun on
the arm Calhoun fired twice. one bullet
J going through the brain.
/ Crawford lived only few minutes.
!
| MARSHALLVILLE, Ca, Oct. 3O.-Pro-
] lessor F. F. Verdery, who was two weeks
ago elected by the school board here as
assistant teacher, was arrested by Officer
w. f. McGehee last night on a warrant
sent him from Beaumont, Tex, for forg-
| cry. While under arrest here, the young
! man tainted several times. He claims
that he and friend were stranded in
Texas and they did forge check on his
: friends father, with the under
: standing that this friend would
hurry home and take up the
I check, which his friend neglected to do,
so Verdery claims. He says that he has
a letter from his father, in Beaumont,
stating that he has paid the amount of
4 the check and had settled the matter.
Scenes of volcanic enthusiasm over
swept the Baptist Tabernacle Friday
evening when Dr. Len G. Broughton
announced to his congregation that he
would remain in Atlanta and not con-
slider any further an offer from the
Baptist Temple of Brooklyn, N. Y
For a week or more this matter had
been in doubt. 1t was known that the.
deacons of the big Brooklyn CHURCH
, had made the Atlanta minister prop
osition which. if he had chosen to ac-
| cept IL. would have amounted to,
positive call. 1t was also understood
that on Monday. November l. DR..
conference with the deacons there.
There was a strong balance of opinion
that he would accept the offer. though
vigorous efforts were being made TO
retain MIN.
When. therefore, he broke the sus-
pense Friday evening the big crowd
that had gathered to hear his final de-
cision was electrified. There were
shouts and handclapping and uproarious
amens. The pastor stated that he
would not go to Brooklyn eveP for the
proposed conference. -'a
MRAE, Ca, Oct. Observation-Disclosures
Elizabeth Miller told on the stand yester-
day in the trial Of her father w. A.
Miller charged with the murder of her
Sweetheart, w. Thomas Poole, the story
Of the killing, and admitted as she wept
bitterly, that her relations with the
young man were improper.
She was the only witness to the trag-
edy. She withheld nothing in her pitiful
story, but made, as she declared, a clean
breast of all of it, She stated that she
had carried on a secret correspondence
with young Poole and on several occa-
Ito !, y IL