Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
All Around
The Town
Little Facts and Fancies About
WelI-Known Atlantans.

1t is one thing for man to have
pair of shoes, and quite another to have
a pair of regular shoes"
W. w. Fitzpatrick and Henry Robin
son, secretaries to w. H. Leahy and
W. C. Cooper, Of the Chamber of Com
merce, blossomed out in new shoes at
the same time last week, and for sew
eral days il is stated on good author
ity that there was much scraplng
around and elevating of feet to desks
and other maneuVerS that tended TO
show the regular shoes. Not that
there is any great news in two men
buying a new pair of shoes at the same
| time, but-well. Kirkpatrick and Rob
inson have EN-, anyway.
As a hotel clerk, c. ]. Blanchard at
the Piedmont sees lot Of things ordi-
nary mortals never even hear Of, and
ii takes a whole lot to startle him.
However, he was a trife shaken re-
Gently when he learned that one night
he gave man key and allowed him
to occupy a room at the Piedmont,
| when in reality the man was a guest
at the Ansley. 1t CHANGED this way: A
young man came here from Jackson
vile and got a room at the Ansley.
After an evening of strenuous adVen-
ture among the clubs and the cabarets
he ambled INTO the Piedmont in the wee
small hours and asked calmly for
key, the number of which corresponded
to the number of mis- room at the Ans
ley Blanchard thought nothing of ii
and gave him the key. Luckily the
room was unoccupied, and the bibulous
young man slept all night on the floor.
Fhe next morning he had to pay for
the room and also for the one at the
Ansley.
Either some folks are prevaricating
to beat the band in this State, or we
are growing the most monstrous sweet
potatoes this year that ever were
grown at any time, anywhere!"
The speaker was Lee Worsham, and
he was very emphatic about it,
Recently there was one sweet po-
tato rounded up at the Ansley that
weighed Z IL pounds-some potato.
Then came a fellow from Bulloch Coun-
ty with one weighing 8 "a pounds
even some more potato. Now comes
third person with one from Ware Coun
ty weighing IA IA pounds-some most
potato!
I'm just wondering how big the
| biggest sweet potato reported this year
is going to be-thats all!'
Admitting friends of Frank A. Hoop
er, the Atlanta attorney, were plan
ming one time to run him for office
down in the wire grass" section of
most enthusiastic supporter was chosen
to nominate him before the convention
| This man was more than IN orator
| Demosthenes had nothing on him. Saw
| ing the mention of Hooper's name for a
dramatic climax, he spellbound his
hearers for three-quarters of an hour
| in the description of a paragon of
| craftsmanship
| peroration, Il am going to nominate a
| man with clean hands and a pure heart.
| | am going to nominate"
| Hooper. sitting by the side of the
| orator, could stand it no longer. He
! yanked the speaker by the coattail and
| in a grieved stage whisper exclaimed:
| Say, Bill, | thought 1t was ME- you
were going to nominate.
Claude N Bennett, of Washington,
D. c., a former Albanian who has
made mighty good in the National
Capital, is spending a few days here
Mr.. Bennett is full of enthusiasm oven
the opening of the Panama Canal
and thinks it will mean great things
for Dixie.
"The South viii blossom and wax
fat as it never before has blossomed
and waXed," said Mr.. Bennett, at the
Ansley day. THE opening of the
big waterway means more to Dixie
than 1t means to all the rest of the
world combined | really believe it.
1t will bring millions into the South
| in manufacturing investments. In
| Washington, where the purposes OF
the canal are understood better than
elsewhere, the prediction is freely
made in official and nom official cir
cles that the Panama Canal is to
be pre- eminently the South's big OPP
portunity!