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 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 II. 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 r.
w. Mckee, president; Dairy and Farm
Supply Company, by E. 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
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 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 ]. Berry, OF Rome, who is an ap-
pllcant for the postmaster5hip of his
home town, Is in Atlanta today. MT.
Berry has just returned from short
visit to Washington and says the woods
| are so full of office-s seekers there that
| one has difficulty in locating resident
or non-combatant. This Roman Is a
former tax receiver of Floyd county,
and has many friends who are backing
| him for the postmasterEfip.
| William II, Burweli, 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 20 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
vino JIndur ha O,,t
of more than 25 applicants who came
before Chairman McClelland 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 compa-
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
He claims that proper guards were not
furnished and that he broke his hip
and sprained his knee and ankle as
result.
The state court of appeals has de-
cided that IAN automobile is not to be
classed with dangerous Instrumental
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 Eel
der brought suit against Beaumont Ila-
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-
f1rmed the judgment
The executive department today issued
requisition on the governor of Florida
Tor Harmon Givens, wanted In Calhoun
county for murder.
NJ. 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
bilities are scheduled as $5,27S.14 with as
sets of $7026.
Governor Brown had decided to pay tho
various state institutions their Respective
monthly Stpends hereafter on the 18th
instead of the 1st of each month This
tice 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 pur-
pose. IT also takes out OF the state treas
ury money in advance of the time con-
templated by the law-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 1t passed through the
Il 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
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