The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-22
FIRST WOMAN BANKER.
Los Angeles Has Distinction in Per
son of Mrs. Shelton,

son of Mrs. Shelton.
Los Angeles ushers into office its
first woman banker, with the opening
to the public Of the first postal saw
ings bank. She is Mrs. Bird G.. Shell
ton, assistant superintendent of the
money order department of the Los
Angeles postoffice.
Mrs. Shelton is we'll qualified fol
the position, having assisted her latt
husband in a banking business Al
Tyre, Mo. In addition she has beeI
nine years in the postal service.
The home of Reuben R. Arnold, OF
Atlanta, Ga, was burglarized some
time Friday night and jewelry valued
at $4,000 by Mr.. Arnold was stolen
Two other houses in the same block,
the homes of Milton Dargan, and Ed,
ward c. Peters, also received atten'
ton from thieves, thought to be the
same parties in each case, but nothing
of value was obtained by them.
Nine persons were injured, two
probably fatal, in the fire which fol.
lowed an explosion of a carboy OF
ether at Philadelphia in the storage
house of the chemical works of Pow.
ers, Weightman & Rosengarten, at
Ninth and Paris streets. The dam
age to the building and contents is es'
timated at $4,000.
Stricken with remorse when re
preached by his wife for having drunk
whisky, George McMullen, manager
of Armour & Co.'S lard department,
shot and killed himself in his home
1922 Langley avenue, Chicago The
act was a sequel to a house warming
at which McMullen and his wife and
a party of friends had made merry.
Gen. William r. Boggs, one of few
remaining Confederate generals, ma.
tive of Augusta, Ga, died at Winston.
Salem, N. c., suddenly. He was SO
years old, graduate of West Point
and served through the civil war, at.
tanning the rank of brigadier gener.
al. His death was great surprise.
Miss Love Jerrette, aged 1S, shot
and killed Irving Johnson at Milvid,
Texas. Johnson was seated in
wagon with Ben Logan when the
young woman fired. Logan was
wounded He probably will recover.
Johnscn's body was shipped to Salt
Lick, KY, for burial.
R. B. Selvinge, a real estate dealer,
shot and instantly killed Alex Steener,
a restaurant keeper on the streets OF
Hanna, Okla, in a quarrel.
Selvinge was taken to Dustin, Okla,
for a preliminary trial an was &C.
Quilted on plea of self-defense.
In a three-cornered fight between
John Allen, Tom Warren and w. R.
Jones, at Zebulon, Ga, Jones was
stabbed to death by Allen. The trag.
edy created a sensation owing to the
prominence Of the parties concerned.
Miss Laura Russell, the 17-year-old
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. c. S. Rus.
sell of Metcalf, Ga, died from in.
juries received when she was struck
by a fragment of an old oak tree in
the yard of her home.
- Edward Whymper, artist, author and
traveller, died at Chaumoni, France,
He was a noted mountain climber and
was medalist of the Royal Geo.
graphical society. He was born in
1910.
The oldest person in Christian
county, probably in Kentucky, Mrs.
Abbie Fuller, is dead. She was al
least 40 and relatives claim she was
III.
Freight rates on manufactured
tobacco intended for export through
the port of New Orleans to Dublin
and Belfast, ireland, and other Euro.
pean ports, were attacked in a peti.
ton filed with the Interstate Com.
merce Commission by the New Or.
leans board of trade.
An active campaign is being made
among the negroes Of Atlanta in an
effort to secure the sum of $4,000 to I
be used in the erection of an insti
.ution for the reformation of colOred |
BOYS and girls.