Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04
All Around
The Town
Little Facts and Fancies About
Weil-knoWn AtIantans.

Ed McCandless, just back from a
prolonged stay at Carlsbad is mighty
glad to get home.
Atlanta said Mr. McCandless.
looks good to Atlantans every dav
in the year, of course, even if they
never get out of town. But if YOU
want Atlanta to look genuinely and
generously good to you, go away for
a few months. and then have lool,
in on it That plaza just outside the
terminal Station, or that old Kim
bah House Just outside the Union
Statioh-they certainly are friendly
and appealing things to cast your
peppers on, ~ 7..
Carlsbad is all right in it's way
and 1t did me much good, physically,
10 stay there a few months. | know
out At isn't Atlanta any more than
anywhere else other than Atlanta is
Atlanta. It's good to he home"
There is a negro out at the stock
yards said Albert Trueheart, who
has had most remarkable career. He
has broken almost every bone in his
body, and he is little the worse for
wear, He has, from time to time, sue
Ceeded in breaking his collarbone, his
biS toe, his forearm, two of his ribs
his ankle, his wrist and his skull. The
only thing he hasn't broken yet is his
neck. | am watching him closely.
for sooner or later feel sure he will
break his neck. | think it Will be
most interesting and exciting to see
man break his neck and there isn't
anything left for this ambitious bone
breaker to break"
1t is a well-known fact in Atlanta
that Charlie" Northen could be an
Alderman from his ward any time he
would take the job, and without Oppo-
sition, if only he would agree to ac-
cept the place. He is, however, Clerk
of the State Senate, and as such is
prohibited by law from holding an
other official position. The clerIship
of the Senate besides paying fairly
we'll is a most pleasant ioh-and no.
body ever thinks of running against
stump Northen for the place-and
what would be the use, anyway Still
most folks in Atlanta would grab off
an AldermaniC plum in a jiffy. if it
might be had for the mere grabbing.
Friends of d. B. Gilbert. a we'll
known insurance man. who lives Mt
the Aragon Hotel had him running
around in little circles last SATURDAY
night. Gilbert is the man who fur
nisned the tip that caught the three
pickpockets who tried to operate at
the opening of the Winecoff, and his
friends heard of it. Saturday they
began throwing out hints about there
being $500 reward offered for the ar
rest of one Of the men, and later in
the evening one of his friends hurried
up to Gilbert and told him he had
just learned that policemen were
looking for him to give him the re
ward Gilbert hustled around and
spent the money half a dozen times
before he realized that he was being
"kidded" rs
1t was with the fond hope that he
would be free from moonshiners for
at least a week that Hooper AleXan-
der. the new Federal District Attor-
ney, went to Athens last Sunday to
take care of the courts business
there He has tried hardly anything
but moonshiners since he succeeded
Colonel Tate, and he was getting tired
Of iis " No. one has tried TO guess his
fPeifrgs when only a few hours be-
fore ttezfeft-for Athens, he found thu;
there are It's moonshine cases on
the docket there this week