Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-07
Jottings About Town

The campaign for Cuban missions will
be opened in the Methodist churches OF
Atlanta Sunday, with the object of rails
ing $4,000 toward a Methodist church
in Havana, Cuba. Bishop J. II, Mccoy,
prominent laymen and leaders in the
Womans Missionary society will speak at
| the various churches in the city, both
morning and evening, in behalf of this
] fund. Preparations for the campaign will
be made at supper given to lay lead
ers and ministers tonight.
j. S. McKinnon is today receiving con-
gratulations on his appointment as trav
cling freight agent for the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad in the South. Mr.. McKin-
non, who was formerly in the commercial
| office of the Southern, left there about
year ago to take position in the office
Of w N. Mitchell, Southern representa-
tive of the Baltimore and Ohio. Mr..
Mitchell has appointed w. NJ. Baumgart
ner as his new secretary.
Edward White, Jr., who has been en-
ployed as one of the office men in the
chief of constructions department. has
been appointed city street improvement
collector. succeeding Moses Holland re
signed, by Chief Of Construction Clay
ton.
Frank Hammond, executive secretary to
Mayor Woodward, has been elected a del
egate to the national convention of the
Theatrical Mechanical Association, which
will be held in Spokane, Wash, next July,
The Southern delegates have already
started a movement 20 elect Charles w.
! - nj ,f md
! ident. Joseph jefferson was grand pres
| ident for twenty years. and no Southern
man has ever had the honor
Mayor Charles H. Evans ana Council
man h. NJ. COrrithers, of Clearwater. Fla,
are in Atlanta inspecting street. paving
| Clearwater has Il fund of $4,000 to be
Immediately expended on street paving
| Mayor Evans is visiting his father, T.
NJ. Evans, Of Sal Highland avenue.
The peanut vendors and street peddlers
have been given the move on order by
| Police Chief Beavers. and Mayor Wood
ward is backing up the chief. 1t Is
against the law for these street mer
chants to remain in one place hut UNI
der special permits from the mayor some
OF them have been allowed to have per-
manent stands Now they must keep
moving to he allowed to sell their goods
! in the streets.
Atlanta friends of Robert b. 1routman.
| a graduate of the University of Georgia,
and now student in the Columbia Uni
versity Law school, New York city. will
| be interested to learn that he has grown
a full hedged mustache. of long and lus-
| trous growth. Whether this is the George
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| the influence of Broadway is not known,
| but it is a fact that Robin. Adair has a
| picture showing the aforesaid hirsuto APP
/ pendage. Young smith, also of Atlanta,
/ is in the picture. but he has been using a
| safety razor
! A. NJ Beatty. manager of the Atlanta
| office Of the Postal Telegraph Company.
! to-day possesses a letter delivered under
peculiar circumstances. \ small picture
! of MIR. Beatty. cut from a Sunday school
! magazine and pasted on the letter proved
sufficient address TO place the missive in
! his hands
! Students and faculty of the Atlanta
| Normal and Industrial institute viii give
"a sacred concert Sunday night i'm Turner
chapel, corner OF Julian and Corr streets.
| Addresses ON appropriate SUE ieCtS will be
given by ministers and members of the
faculty, and there will he both solo and
| concert singing.
\ large class of cubs" viii be initiated
into the Royal order OF Lions, Den no. 81,
tonight The initiation exercises will take
place in the \. O. H. hall 53t South
| Pryor street. and the various lions and
| lionesscs are arranging FOR a hot old
time m, L. o. of /. is new organi-
! .ati"u. with the supreme den located ju