Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-13
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After serving as manager OF the en-
ployment department of the local branch
of the Remington Typewriter Company
for years, Miss Regina Lynch has re-
| signed to accept similar position with
the l.. c. Smith & Bros Typewriter
Company, 121 North Pryor street.
That the threatened strike on 81
Eastern railroads will be averted is the
opinion Of H o. Teat, Of Atlanta, who
| is in Washington looking after the in
terests of the men on several of the
railroads involved. MI Teat who is
| vice president of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen,
| said today that If the railroads had not
agreed to accept mediation, the strike
would have been called by 9 o'clock
| tonight.
Central Cotton Oil Company, by F.
w. Mckee, president; Dairy and Farm
| Supply Company, by f. S. McNish,
president DR.. Theodore Toepel, Charles
Heer, d. w. Morgan, Frederick Kauff-
man, G. e. Watts, John D. Babbage,
/ Jr., John A. Boykin and John A. Nc
| Donald are today members of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce, having
| been elected to membership at the reg
ular meeting of the chamber held yes
terday afternoon.
Married at thirteen, separated "sev-
eral times" and now seeking divorce
is the story brought before the courts
In petition just filed by Mrs. Audrey
Stephens, aged Is, against her husband,
Luther Stephens. The plaintiff ayers
| that she discovered her husband hold
ing another girl on his knee in board
! ing house where the pair resided She
also states that meeting the husband
and the girl later she was rudely JOS
tied by the lady in question and slap
ped by her spouse.
Ike ]. Berry, of Rome who is an APP
! pllcant for the poStmastership of his
home town, is in Atlanta today. Mr..
Berry has just returned from q short
| visit to Washington and says the woods
| are so full of Office seekers there that
one has difficulty in locating a resident
or non combatant. This Roman is
former tax receiver of Floyd county
and has many friends who are backing
him for the postmastership
William H Burwell, Of Sparta can
didate for speaker Of the next Georgia
house OF representatives and generally
| looked upon as sure winner, is an At
lanta visitor. Burwell has been a mem
Der of the legislature continuously for
sixteen years, his next term being his
ninth
The number Of permits issued to the
INDECENT OF Atlanta in the future will
be very few, according to a rule laid
down by the tax committee. Chairman
McClelland Of the tax committee, has
announced that in the future free IL
censes will be granted only to those
who are exempt under the law. Out
of more than rs applicants who came
before Chairman McClelland and Coun-
Gilman W. @. Humphrey sitting yester-
day as the committee only three were
granted free licenses
For injuries received in an ALLEGED
fall from the Spencer monument at the
Terminal station last August. William
johnson, a Confederate veteran from
Texas, has filed suit against the South
ern railway and the Terminal compa-
ny, asking $780, damages He claims
that, While on the way to the reunion
at Macon, he stepped up the curb sur
rounding the monument and was
thrown eight feet to the street below
He claims that proper guards were not
furnished and that he broke his hin
and sprained his knee and ankle as
result.
The state court Of appeals has de-
c1ded that AN automobile Is not to be
classed with dangerous instrumentaIi-
ties such as gunpowder, ferocious ami
mails and the like" The opinion has
Just been handed down in the case of
| Fielder against Dawson, appealed from
the city court OF Atlanta. J. w. FeI
der brought suit against Beaumont Da
Vlson for injury incurred by the lat
| ter's auto. 1t appeared that Dayi-
sons chauffeur had slipped the machine
from garage without the owners con-
sent. The lower court gave q verdict
for the defendant. The higher court az
| f1rmed the judgment.
The executive department today ,ssre6
| a requisition on the governor of Florida
Tor Harmon Givens, wanted In Calhoun
county for murder.
NJ. F. Deason, a grocer Of Gainesville
Ca, today filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy in the bankruptcy division OF
the United States district court His ia
bilities are scheduled as $5,27s.I4 with as
sets Of $7,o25.
Governor Brown had decided to pay the
various state institutions their resnective
monthly stipends hereafter on the 18TH
| instead OF the LIST of each month. This
course Is to be taken because the prac-
| uce OF advancing the appropriations
heretofore in vogue. has resulted in some
Of the institutions paying one months
bills with another months allowance,
which is contrary to the legislative pnr,
pose. It also takes out Of the state treas
ury money in advance of the time con-
templated by the making body and
the governor thinks both abuses should
be ended.
Immigrants are pouring into the I'M
tenanted lands Of Florida literally by the
from New York carried three coaches of
newly landed foreigners to points in
upper Florida as II passed through the
| Terminal station today. Depot officials
declared that immigrant travel South has
been very heavy so far this year All
records are expected to be broken before
February is completed