Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-13

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 a similar position with |
the L. c. Smith & Bros Typewriter
Company, 121 North Pryor street.
That the threatened strike on Fl |
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, Mr.. 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 E. s. McNish, |
president; DIR. 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 sew
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 a board
ing house where the pair resided She
also statea 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 j. Berry, of Rome, who is an APP
plicant for the postmastership of his
home town. is In Atlanta today. Mr.
Berry has just returned from a short
visit to Washington and says the woods
are so full of Office seekers there that
one has difficulty in locating a resident
or on-combatant. This Roman is a
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 q 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 McCIelland and Coun-
Gilman w. G. 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 coflpa-
ny, asking $4,000 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
| lie claims that proper guards were not
furnished and that he broke his hin
and sprained his knee and ankle az a
| result
The state court Of appeals has de-
| clded that IAN automobile is not to be
/ classed with dangerous ingtrI1mentali-
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 Fell
der brought suit against Beaumont Da-
Vison for injury incurred by the lat
| ter's auto. 1t appeared that Davi-
sons chauffeur had slipped the machine
| from garage without the owners con-
sent. The lower court gave a verdict
for the defendant. The higher court af
| firmed the Judgment.
| The executive department today issued
a requlsitlon on the governor OF Florida
| for Harmon Givens, wanted in Calhoun
| county for murder.
M. F. Deason, a grocer Of Gainesville
Ga, today filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy in the bankruptcy division of
the United States district court. His liza
pllltles are scheduled as $5,27S.14 with as
sets of STOPS.
Governor Brown had decided to paw the
various state institutions their respective
monthly stpends hereafter on the 18th
| instead of the LIST of each month This
course Is TO be taken because the prac-
tee OF advancing the appropriations,
| heretofore in vogue, has resulted in some
Of the institutions paying one months
| btls with another months allowance
which is contrary to the legislative pur-
| B''O'
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
train load. An Atlantic Coast Line train
| from New York carried three coaches of
newly landed foreigners to points in
! upper Florida as it passed through the
Terminal station today. Depot officials
| m n fTGy al hao
| been very heavy so far this year All
| records are expected to be broken before
| February is completed.
COUPLE TO CRUISE IN
LAUNCH FROM TAMPA
| tn ATT-HIy 0nW axrC y