Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
CITY BREVITIES.

ClIY bkENlTlES.
A meeting of the men of the Second
Baptist Church will be held in the
Sunday school building Friday at 1880
p. m. to complete plans for the COM
ing year.
Floyd w. McRae Jr., of Atlanta, |
was elected vice president of the |
Georgia Association at Johns Hopkins
University at its annual banquet and
election in Baltimore recently.
Lindsey Hopkins, an automobile
dealer, has reported the theft of his
car to the police. Mr. Hopkins said
that the machine, which is a 1914
Overland, was taken from in front of
the Gambler Building. Its number is
1870.
Virgil o. Stricken, member of the
board of lectureship of the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, of Bos
ton, Mass, will give a lecture on
Christian Science at the Lyric The
alter Sunday afternoon at g.: 80 o'clock.
The lecture is to be under the aus
pieces of the Atlanta Christian Science
Church No admission will be
charged.
An indication of the unparalleled
prosperity and Importance of Georgia
is seen by State Treasurer w. J.
Speer in the fact that Indiana, one
of the richest and most populous
States in the Union, has been forced
to pay for temporary loan nearly
double the rate of interest exacted
from this State. Indiana recently
borrowed s46O,000 from bankers in
Indianapolis, and is paying IL per
cent, while Georgia borrowed $475,
600 last summer and is paying only
per cent.
The corn show committee of the
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has
under consideration q, plan to offer a
prize to the Georgia county that
shows the greatest yield of corn this
year, provided the yield is sufficient
for the needs of the county and there
is no necessity for sending out of the
county for more grain. The prize
will be the result of information given
to the committee Thursday by Chair
man H. G. Hastings, who has just re-
turned from a trip to Fayette County.
The local offices of the Southern
Express Company received notice
Friday morning of the reelection of
G. w. Leary, of New York, as pres
ident of the company, at the annual
meeting in Savannah Thursday. c.
l.. Loop, of Chattanooga, was elected
vice president; j. H. Tilley, of New
York, secretary trea surer; j. b.
Hockaday, of Atlanta, general man
ager. G. w. Leary, c. L. Loop, Nj. F.
Plant j. H. Tilley, o. M. Sadler, F.
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were elected directors.
Judson C. Clements of Georgia will
not be reappointed as a member of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
by President Wilson, according to in
formation received in Atlanta Fri
day morning. 1t is understood that
the President refused to consider the
Georgian as a member of the Com
mission because of his age, and the
Presidents desire to have no one
more than 70 years of age in the ex-
eCutiVe departments. 1t is understood
that Judge Clements place win be
filled by Governor r. B. Glenn, of
North Carolina.
Plans to form telephone and tel
egraph society in Atlanta are being
formulated by a committee appoint
ed at a together meeting" held
at the Hotel Ansley Thursday night
by 300 employees of the Southern Bell
Telephone Company the Cumberland
Telephone Company the Western
Union Telegraph Company, the West
ern Electric Company and the Ameri-
can Electric and Telegraph Company.
Another meeting is planned for the
near future, when officers will be
elected and the society formally or
ganlzed. A Dutch supper was served
to the telephone men Thursday night. |
and a vaudeville performance enliv-
ened the affair