Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-08

me campaign for Cuban missions VIII
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
Woman's 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 a supper given to lay lead
ers and ministers tonight.
j. S McKinnon Is today receiving con-
gratulations on his appointment as tray
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 a 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 to elect Charles w.
Schweitzlit, of Cincinnati, grand pres
ident. Joseph jefferson was grand pres
ident for twenty years, and no Southern
man has ever had the honor.
Mayor Charles H. Evans and Council
man r. NJ. Corrithers. of Clearwater, Fla,
are in Atlanta inspecting street. paving.
| Clearwater has fund of $4,000 to be
! Immediately expended on street paving.
Mayor Evans is visiting his father, L.
| NJ Evans, of 541 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, but un-
der special permits from the mayor some
of them have been allowed to have per
manent stands Now they must keep
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| in the streets.
Atlanta friends of Robert & Troutman,
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
! Ade influence brought from abroad, or
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but it is a fact that Robin Adair has n
picture showing the aforesaid hirsute 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
today 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 will give
a sacred concert Sunday night in Turner
chapel. corner Of Julian and Corn streets.
| Addresses on appropriate subjects will be
given by ministers and members of the
faculty. and there will be both solo and
concert singing
\ large class of cubs" win be initiated
into the Royal order of Lions, Den Ne, 81,
tonight. The initiation exercises will take
place in the a Q. n. hall. 55ia South
Pryor street. and the various lions and
lionesses are arranging for a hot old
time" The r. O. Of l., IS a new organi-
| cation. with the supreme den located in