Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04
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The Town
Little Facts and Fancies About
Well-known Atiantans.

Ed McCandiess, Just back from a
prolonged stay al Carlsbad. is mighty
glad TO get home.
Atlanta" said Mr. McCandless.
looks good to Atlantans every dav
in the year, of course, even il 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 a look
in on it That plaza Just outside the
terminal Station, or that old KIM
ball House just outside the Union
Station-they certainly are friendly
ana appealing things TO cast your
| peppers on,
Carlsbad is all right in it's way
and 1t did me much good. physically.
TO stay there few months know 49,
but IT isn't Atlanta any more than
anywhere else other than Atlanta is
Atlanta. It's good to be home%
There is negro out at the stock
! YARDS said Albert Trueheart, who
has had most remarkable career He
/ mas broken almost every bone i'm his
| body, and he is little the worse for
| ceeded in breaking his collarbone, his
| big 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 ii will be
most interesting and exciting to see
| a man break his neck, and there isn't
| anything left for this ambitious bone
breaker to break"
1t is 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, how ever Clerk
Of thee State Senate, and as such is
| prohibited by law from holding an
| other official position. The clprkship
| of the Senate. besides paving fairly
| well. is a most pleasant iob-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 iifff If it
| might be had for the mere grabbing.
Friends of d. B. Gilbert. a we'll
| known insurance man, VINO lives ut
| the Aragop Hotel, had him running
around in little circles last Seturti Y
night Gilbert is the man who fur
| nisned the tip that caught the three
| pickpockets who tried to operate at
! the opening of the Wineron and his
! friends heard Of it, Saturday they
| began throwing out hints bout there
| being $500 reward offered for the ar
rest of one of the men, anu 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 lie realized that he was being
"kidded.'
| 1t was with the fond hope that he
would be free from moonsniners for
at least a week that Hooper Alexah-
| 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 it, No one has tried to gi}ces his
feelings when only a few hours be-
fore he left for Athens, he found that
there are 1T5 moonshine cases on
! the docket there this week