Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-07
lettings About Town

The campaign for Cuban missions will
be opened in the Methodist churches of
Atlanta Sunday, with the object of rails
ing $4,000 toward Methodist church
In Havana, Cuba. Bishop j. H. Mccoy,
prominent laymen and leaders in the
Womans 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-
CALCULATIONS on his appointment as trav-
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 a
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. M. 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 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.
dent Joseph jefferson was grand pres
ident for twenty years, and no Southern
man has ever had the honor.
Mayor Charles II. Evans and Council
man B. NJ Corrithers, Of Clearwater, Fla.
are in Atlanta inspecting street. paving.
Clearwater has fund of SIS 900 to be
Immediately expended on street paving
Mayor Evans is visiting his father, L.
NJ. Evans. of Sal 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 I'M
der special permits from the mayor some
OF them have been allowed to have per-
moving to be allowed to sell their goods
in the streets.
Atlanta friends of Robert b. Troutman,
a graduate of the University of Georgia,
and now a student in the Columbia Uni
| versity Law school, New York city, will
| be interested to learn that he has grown
full fedged mustache, OF long and lus-
| trous growth. Whether this is the George
! AIDE influence, brought from abroad, or
the influence of Broadway. is not known,
but 1t is a fact that Robin Adair has a
picture showing the. aforesaid hirsute ap-
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 Mr.. 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 anG
concert singing
\ large class of cubs" will be initiated
into the Royal order of Lions. Den No. 81
tonight. The initiation exercises will take
place in the A. Q. H. hall. 53ia South
Pryor street. and the various lions ans
lionesses are arranging for a hot old
time" The Il. Q. of L. is a new organi.
] cation, with the supreme den located il