Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-14
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After serving as manager of the en-
! p!oynent department of the local branch
or the Remington Typewriter Company
TOT years, Miss Regina Lynch has re-
signed to accept similar position with
| the l.. G. Smith & Bros. Typewriter
! Company, 121 North Pryor street.
That the threatened strike on q
Eastern railroads will be averted is the
| opinion of H 0. 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 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, ID. w. Morgan, Frederick Kauff-
man, @. Il. 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 tines 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 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 j. Berry of Rome, who is an ap-
plicant for the misunderstanding OF his
| home town, is In Atlanta today. Mr.
| Berry has just returned from a short
visit to Washington and saws the woods
| are so full Of office seekers there that
one has difficulty in locating a resident
! or non-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
| uldate 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 % applicants who came
before Chairman McCleIland 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, Confederate veteran from
Texas, has filed suit against the South
/, ern railway and the Terminal compa-
ny, asking $4,000 damages. He claims
tnat, 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 a
result.
The state court Of appeals has de-
clded that AN automobile is not to be
classed with dangerous instrumentali-
ties such as gunpowder, ferocious ami
mails and the like" The opinion has
Just been handed down in the case of
FeIoer against Dawson, appealed from
the city court of Atlanta ]. w. Eel
der brought suit against Beaumont Da-
Vison for injury incurred by the lat
ters auto 1t appeared that Davi-
sons chauffeur had slipped the machine
from a garage without the owners con-
sent. The lower court gave q verdict
Tor the defendant. The higher court af-
firmed the Judgment.
The executive department today issued
regtlsltlon on the governor of Florida
lot Harmon Giyens, wanted in Calhoun
county for murder
M. Il. Deason, grocer Of Gainesville.
Ga; today filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy In the bankruptcy division ~
the United States district court. His lie 81
plIlties are scheduled as s5,27S14 with as
sets of $7025.
Governor Brown had decided to pay the
various state isstitutions their respective
monthly stipends 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 month s
blllS with another months allowance
which is contrary to the Legislative pur-
! pose. 1t also takes out Of the state treas
, ury money in advance of the time con-
tempated by the law-making body. and
the governor thinks both abuses should
! be ended.
Immigrants are pouring into the un-
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
Z upper Florida as 1t 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