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Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Annual Meeting of Famed BattaI-
ion Brilliant Affair-Capt. Ma
pier Made Commander.

At the annual meeting OF the Old
Guard Battalion OF the Gate City
Guard at Hotel Ansiey Wednesday
night Major r. F. Burke, who re-
Gently resigned from the active com
mand of the battalion, was elected
colonel OF an honorary staff created
at the meeting. Major Burke will
select the other members of the hon
orary staff.
Two interesting features of the an
nual gathering were the presentation
OF a beautiful loving cup to Major
Burke, who was in command of the
battalion for nearly half a century
and the delightfully."- entertaining por-
trayals of old time negro characters
by Miss Louise A. Williams, whose
talent as an impersonator is well
known.
Joseph A. McCord, who long has
been an officer of the Old Guard. pre-
scented the loving cup TO Major Burke.
He spoke eloquently OF the patriotic
service the major had rendered the
South, frst as a soldier of the Con-
federacy and after the war at the
head of the Old Guard in its mission
of peace to the North.
Historic Deeds Recalled.
Mr. McCord told of the Old Guard S
two historic journeys into the coun-
try north of the Mason and Dixon
line and their splendid results. The
unwilling of the peace monument at
Piedmont Park; the unwilling of the
peace tablet to Alexander II. Steph-
ems at Charlottesville, and many 9TH
er plishments of the Old Guard
under the leadership of Major Burke
were recalled.
Major Burke briefly but feelingly
responded to Mr.. McCord's address.
Captain George NJ. Napier former
ly senior captain of the battalion.
was selected to succeed Major Burke
as major and commandant.
First Lieutenant John w. Murrell
was elected senior captain and bat
talon adJutant
Adjutant f. j. Spratling was cho-
sen battalion sergeant with the rank
of captain.
Hold Closing Reception.
w. O. Wilson was elected quarter
master TO succeed Boiling Fl. Jones,
who has been selected for a place on
the honorary staff.
Captain A. Med. Wilson was re-
elected commissary, and Captain Pc
ter +. Clark, OF the Second Company,
WIS HiulSu captain Oh the FliSl COiil-
pany Colonel Il. l.. Wright sue
ceeds Captain Wilson in the Second
Company.
After the business meeting the
members of the Old Guard in full
uniform. accompanied by their la
dies, gathered in The ballroom, where
an informal reception was held The
reception was followed by dance
Major Burke and the STAFF officers
with their wives. made up the re-
Ception committee
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Plan Indictment of
Beef and Rail Chiefs

CHICAGO. Jan. ga Grand Jury
inquiry planning wholesale indict-
ments OF high officials OF Swift a.
Co, meat packers; heads Of half a
dozen railroad organizations, and n
number Of big corporations and their
officers under the criminal statutes
OF the anti-rebating laws. was begun
here by the Government to-day.
The inquiry was started with the
examination of c. o. Fourche, spe-
cial agent for the Interstate Com
merce Commission, who has been in
vestigating alleged criminal violations
OF the law.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
A HAPPY CHILD
IN A FEW HOURS
When Cross, Constipated, Fever
ish, Give "CaIifornia Syrup
Of Figs"

Mothers can rest easy after giving
California syrup Of Figs" because IN
few hours all the ciogged-up waste.
sour bile and fermentng food gently
moves out OF the bowels and you have
a well, playful child again. Children
simply Will not take the time from play
70 empty their bowels, and they become
lightly packed, liver gets sluggish and
stomach disordered
When cross, feyerish. restless, see II
'ongue is coated. then give this deli
cious fruit laxative Children love H.
and II can not cause injury No differ
ence what ails your little one--if fun OF
cold, or a sore throat, diarrhoea, stom-
achache. bad breath, remember a gen
tie inside cleansing should always be
the first treatment given Fun direC-
lions for babies children OF all ages and
grown ups are printed on each bottle
Beware OF counterfeit fig syrups ASK
your druggist for 50-ceut bottle OF
California Syrup OF Figs then look
carefully and see that 1t is made by the
California Fig Syrup Company We
make no smaller size, Hand back with
contempt any other fig syrup.-AdvL
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Trunk Factory Put
In Receivers Hands

An involuntary petition in bank
ruptcy was filed Thursday morning
against the Atlanta Trunk Factory,
signed by NJ Maids and Company,
OF Newark. y. j., and a number of
Atlanta concerns. The petition al
leges Indebtedness of $4,000, of which
the petitioners hold S527S7.
Herbert Haas represented the pc
titiorers, and on the admission by
the firm of a Willingness 10 be de-
clared bankrupt, Judge Newman APP
pointed Leonard Haas receiver
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
U. S. Orders Rebels to
Protect Ranch Man

WASHINGTON, Jan. Brgadier
General Tasker II Bliss. command
ing the American troops along the
Mexican border. to-day was expected
by Secretary OF War Garrison to noti-
~ the rebel commanders near Neuvo
Laredo that they must protect the
person of Otto Winter an American
ranch owner, who has been threat =
ened with death by the rebels.
Consul Garrett at Neuvo Laredo,
has informed the state Department
that Winter is in danger Of being
shot.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Evelyn Thaw Says
She Will Join Church

KANSAS CITY, MO. Jan. ga
Stung by criticism by a Catholic
priest from his pulpit, Evelyn NesDlt
Thaw declared to day she had al
ready taken steps to enter the Catho-
lie Church. and that her son Russell
would be baptized in that faith.
The Rev. Alexander W. Chapotan
had said: "A notorious woman is
coming to theater In Kansas civ.
and ] hope no church members viii
so 70 see her, thereby giving their
approval of her life"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Seek to Place School
For Hayward Girls

At a meeting in the Piedmont Hotel
Saturday the trustees of the Georgia
Training School for Maynard Girls Will
consider several propositions from cit.
les and counties of the State desiring
TO locate the home.
The Fulton County Commissioners
have offered the choice 81 80 acres near
Hapeville or so acres near the Bakers
Ferry road as site for the school
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
YOUR EYES HURT?

Bright. irritating lights--close work,
long hours-of course. your eyes will
give out and hurt. A pair of rest
glasses are 4 wonderful help to such
workers. We will test your eyes and
fit the correct lenses at very rea-
Sonahle charge. A. h Hawkes. Co..
Opticians, II whitehall
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Reward offered for
Missing Carolinian

A liberal reward has been offered for
Information of the where abouts of C. f..
orion, who mysteriously disappeared
from his home in Mount Olive, n. c.,
december 80, He was last seen aboard
train bound for Florence, S. C.
He is described as being As years old
and weighing about $50 pounds with
black hair and a black mustache.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Half Million Will
Aid Billy Sunday

P1TTsBURG, Jan. 22.-On a date
10 be announced soon, over 500.0
church people OF Western Pennsyl-
vania interested in the BILLY" Sun
day revival here will fast and pray
continuously for "a hours
The day will be in the nature of
supplication for better success OF
the revival
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
PANAMA CRUISE

Seventeen days. all-expenses- paid
cruise OF Florida, Cuba Jamaica and
the Panama Canal February 10, for
only sl69.T5 Select limited party.
Exclusive palace ship, Get the Won
derful tonic effects of a m.dwinter
cruise on summer seas Write NOW
! r. Mcfarland Ageu- Atlanta
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Gill, Recalled, Runs
For Seattle's Mayor

SEATTLE, Jan. 22.-Hiram C. Gill;
elected Mayor of Seattle in 1910, re-
called for misconduct In office in less
than year, and defeated by Mayor
Cotterir in 1912. announced that he
would be a candidate for Mayor in the
next campaign.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Decatur Boosting
New Highway Plan

Citizens OF Decatur are pledging their
hearty support 10 the project of open
ing a highway from Atlanta to Stone
Mountain. The Decatur Board OF Trade
passed a resolution at dinner We'd
nesday indorsing the proposal.
The board also decided TO send a del
egation OF twenty-five members to the
meeting of the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce at Macon next month.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Interest Collectible
On Bankrupt's Debts

WASHINGTON. Jan 2l.-Interest
on the debts OF voluntary bankrupts
where there Is a surplus after al
claims were paid, was held collectible
by the United States supreme Court,
The court holds that such interest
should accrue from the time the pet.-
ton Of bankruptcy is filed until final
settlement is made.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Haitian Rebels Take
Seaport and Warship
Special Cable 70 The Atlanta GeoraIa

Special Gable TO The Atlanta Georgian.
PORT Az PRINCE, HAITI. Jan. %.
Cape Haitien the principal city on
the northern coast. has been cap
tured by revolutionists, according TO
a private dispatch received here to-
day. The rebels also captured the
Federal gunboat in Ike harbor at
Cape Haitien.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Sulzer to Entertain
In Large Mansion

ALBANY. Jan. 22.-Assembiyman
and Mrs, William Sulzer expect to
entertain much this winter. They
have leased the w. s Roberts man
sion on Dove street at $500 per month.
The Roberts family's chef butler
and retinue of other servants have
been retained.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-22
Committee Approves
Pindell Appointment

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The Sem
ate committee on foreign relations to-
day ordered favorable report on the
nomination of Henry Nj. Pinden, of
Peoria, ILL.,, to be Ambassador to
Russia.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-06-06
WASHINGTON.

Brigadier General Bliss reported to
Che War Department the arrest of
Quevedo and his followers at Ell Paso.
President Wilson and Speaker Clark
delivered addresses at the Memorial
Day services under the auspices of the
G. A. r. in Arlington National Gene
terry.
William Simms, an American, was
executed by Mexicans at Salina Cruz
April 16, according to apparently au-
thentic reports to the state depart
ment
The President nominated Boaz w.
Long of New Mexico, now chief of the
division of Latin-American affairs, de-
partment of state, to be minister to
Salvador.
Antitrust legislation to be enacted
at this session of Congress will carry
no exemption from prosecution for
labor organizations which may violate
laws against restraint of trade
Creation of an intereste trade com
mission has been approved by the
membership of the Chamber of Com
merce of the United States by vote
of 522 to 1874, according to results of
referendum vote
President Wilson assured delega-
tion of Baltimore and Washington
business men that for sentimental rea-
sons he thought the proposed Lincoln
Memorial highway should pass
through Washington.
Secretary Bryan announced that if
public business permitted he would
spend part of his vacation this year
lecturing on the Chautauqua circuit,
as he did last. Bryan's first lecture
will be delivered in North Carolina,
July 4.
delegation of labor representa-
tives. headed by Representatives Cor
man and SABBATH of Illinois. presented
to President Wilson a petition signed
by 100000 laboring men, asking ex-
ecutive clemency for Thomas NJ Ryan,
former president of the Structural
Iron Workers, and twenty-nine others
convicted in the dynamite conspiracy.
Twenty persons were killed in
clash between contending forces near
Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo, Cap
tain Eberle of the cruiser Washington
reported to the Navy Department.
Officers of the steamer Iroquois re-
ported that Sanchez and Samana were
quiet but that rebellious forces were
operating in that vicinity
Trades unions ant farmers unions
would be legalized and declared not to
be combinations in restraint of trade
by paragraph which the House in
corporated in the Clayton bill to sup
plement the antitrust laws.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-06-06
NEWS To DATE
IN PARAGRAPHS
CAUGHT FROM THE NETWORK OF
WIRES ROUND ABOUT
THE WORLD.
DURING The PAST WEEK
RECORD OF IMPORTANT EvENTs
CONDENSED FOR BUSY
PEOPLE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.

The Chicago Municipal Courts certi-
fled babies hereafter will be awarded
for adoption only to certified foster
parents
Expectation of livestock or food
stuffs from Mexico has been pro
hibited by Constitutionalist officers at
Piedras Negras
A death march" of boys, organized
by Upton Sinclair, marched up and
down past the Standard Oil Company's
offices in Chicago.
At Kansas City, DIR. w. T. Elan was
found not guilty of killing w. Put
nam Cramer last November because
the latter had broken up his home.
A strike vote of $4,000 engineers
and firemen, on ninety eight railways
west of Chicago. was ordered whd all
negotiations for increased wages ere
broken off.
The body of Mrs. Frank H Dunlevy
was positively identified at Quebec by
her brother, according to telegram
received by her sister-in-law, Mrs. E.
S. Dunlevy, of Denver.
En- route to Quebec to claim the
bodies of their fiancees, who lost their
lives in the Empress of Ireland dis
aster, Thomas Ellington and Robert
McChord of Hillsboro, ILL.,, left Chica-
go.
A strike of brickmakers in Chicago
has cost the construction, real estate
and labor interests approximately ST.
100000 a day for the thirty-three days
1t has been in progress, according to
the estimate of building experts.
Mrs. Goldie Flanagan was killed
and Gus Base dangerously injured by
an automobile filled with joyriders
and running at a high rate of speed,
which crashed into their conveyance
upon the Arkansas river bridge at
Tulsa, Okla.
DR.. and Mrs. w. A. Winters and w.
H. Cooper were rearrested at New
castle, Ind, on affidavits filed in Cir
cult Court charging them with Con
spiracy to murder Catherine Winters
and burn her body. Affidavits filed
before Mayor Watkins charging con-
spiracy to commit a felony were dis,
missed. The effect is to transfer the
cases from city court to Circuit Court.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-06-06
GEN ERAL.

District Attorney Charles S. Whit
man of New York announced his can
didacy for the Republican nomination
for governor.
Fire at Corinth, KY, swept the
main part of the town and destroyed
twenty buildings with a loss of $780,
900. The origin is unknown.
Miss Jessie L. McClennan, a tele-
phone operator, lost her voice at
Pattsville, Pa, ten minutes after
seating herself at the switchboard.
Her case puzzles the attending ply
sician.
A special from Tuper Lake, in the
Adirondacks, says a forest fire is
threatening the state forestry planta-
tions in the vicinity of Cross Clearing,
n. Y The fire already has swept over
300 acres.
An automobile driven by Ballard
Haines went over a seventy-five-foot
embankment near Redwood, N. Y.
Mrs. Reid Long will die, her baby
was crushed to death and Mrs. Susan
Fox was badly injured. Haines es-
capped injury.
Anonymous letters, written Miss
Georgia w. Jay, in which the writer's
begged Miss Jay to drop her $4,000
breach-of-promise suit against Billy
Sundays choir leader, Homer Rode
HEAVIER, figured in the trial of the
suit at Chicago.
At Kittenanning. Pa, in the pres
ence of Elizabeth Belle Scoops, eleven
years DID, a mother of Apollo and her
six-weeks-old baby boy, w. T. Phillips,
pleaded guilty to charge made by
the girl. Phillips was sentenced to
three to five years in the workhouse.
The final production of the pageant
and masque of st. Louis-the spec
tacle-drama that illustrates and in
terprets the history of that city-was
given before another great throng.
For the four nights on which the spec
tacle was given the total attendance
is estimated at more than 100000.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-06-06
SPORT.
Standing of

G. H. Rogers, catcher, who was with
the University of Michigan team this
spring, joined the Pittsburg Nationals
at Chicago.
Alfred Agostinelli, student aviator.
fell from his machine into the Mediter-
ranean sea near Antilles, France, and
was drowned.
Harry Brewer of Kansas City and
frankie Fowser of Ell Paso, Tex, have
been signed for a fifteen-round go at
Leadville, June IL.
Ted johnson of Salt Lake won the
News marathon race from Littleton to
Denver on Decoration day. Clyde
Owens was second
Al Reich, former national heavy
weight champion, knocked out Soldier
Kearns of Brooklyn in the sixth round
of ten-round match in New York.
Swedish athletes will go to Buda-
pest next month to accept the chal-
lenge of the Hungarians for a track
and field meet, including all the
events of the Olympic program. The
date set is June 81 to 2S.
Twelve running horses, all the way
from Vancouver, B. c., arrived at
Overland Park in Denver. They are
the property of T. A. Davis and Tom
Crestler. In the party is one Derby
candidate, Custom House, by Joe
Carey and Ellen Atkin.
The Colorado statesman., 1914-06-06
FOREIGN.

Premier Doumergue and his cabinet
resigned at Paris
The Empress of Ireland was valued
at $2,000.000 and with her cargo, val
ued at s250.000, was fully insured
Peter Paul Won Mauser, inventor of
the rifle bearing his name, died at
Stuttgart, Germany, aged seventy-six.
Piero Rossi, an art student who was
arrested on suspicion of being the
man who shot and robbed Mrs. Mary
F1avelle of Chicago on a train between
Florence and Assist, has confessed
the crime.
Nine southern states of the United
States now owe British bondholders
a total of more than $4,000, 900, not
including interest, on account of debts
which have been in default from forty
to seventy years, according to re-
port of the Council of the Corporation
of Foreign Bondholders.
President Huerta, with regard to
the settlement to which the Niagara
Falls peace conference is directing it's
efforts, according to persons close to
uiih, hdo plOpOSeu ludJ lHe elGCIlOuS
for President. vice president, sena-
tors, deputies and state governors
should be held on July next, as de-
creed by Congress.
The French government decided to
treat Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in
the same way it does former rulers
and furnish him with a special per-
init authorizing him to pass through
the police lines at all times ON his
journey through France on the way
to Madrid to attend the wedding of his
son Kermit and Miss Wyatt Willard.
The collier Storstad which rammed
the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of
Ireland in the st. Lawrence, causing
the loss of more than 900 lives, COM
pleted unloading her cargo of coal at
Montreal, and it was possible to make
thorough inspection of her bow,
shattered by the shock of the COLI
sion. Her stem was twisted SO much
to starboard that it almost formed a
half circle. Some of the lowermost
plates in her bow were also twisted
and torn away. There is large in
dentation on each side of the stem
and the rivets are torn clear.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08
4 Factory on the Farm

\ silo is factory on the farm and
therefore lends itself to cooperation
of the commercial and agricultural in
tcrcsts. The farmer gets the profit of
both producer and consumer.
We need more of these twin agen-
cics Of prosperity on the farms of Col
orado and business men cannot render
a better service to their communities
than in encouraging the building of 81
los The silo is a great business cdu-
Gator. 1t arouses the spirit OF enter
prise. develops business ingenuity and
awakcns the joy of ownership.
A farmer can build silO for two or
three hundred dollars, and it will. un-
der ordinary conditions, pay divi-
dcni of 40 per cent where 1t Is run to
capacity.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08
Clipping From McrinO Breeze

o. l.. Mitten the republican candidate
for state senator from this district,
was in Merino Thursday. Mr.. Mitten
is Il successful business man of Wray
Colorado. and the way he has handled
his own business affairs is ample
proof that he will be a good man to
look after the people, interest ard
handle them in an intelligent and busi-
ness like way.
He stands well with the voters Of
the district and in some precincts re-
ceived as many votes in the primary
election as both the democrat and pro-
gressive candidates. The manner in
which he is conducting his campaign
is business like one and to those
of you who have not decided who to
support for the scnatorship he gives
AS references several Merino business
men.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08
An Interesting Letter

We are publishing herewith part of
a letter received by Judge John r.
Adams written by his daughter in
Germany on Sept. 9Th. This gives us
some inside Information in regard to
the great conflict going on in Europe:
No, neither Hans nor his brother
have had to go to war, that is up un-
til the present time although Hans
may still be called for. The Germans
now have 6l2 million soldiers in action
they have a million volunteers of
young fellows about IS to 10. who are
otherwise not compelled to go to war,
and besides they can call for million
more at any time, so they are not lack
ing for soldiers. 1t certainly is terrible
so many countries against one, and
still they are surely showing what
they can do, as they have won nearly
every battle. The hatred against Eng
land over here is something fierce.
No one blamcs France for going into
war and trying to get back from Ger
many that which she had once lost ::
but that England went into League
with Russia and Japan. Well We
Americans never had any love to lose
for the Japanese. so we can think how
the feeling is. We read the papers cv-
cry day. but our Hill is the first one
to get hold of it when it comes. and
he neither sees nor hears anything un-
til he has read the war news A time
ago when We were in the street car
and were talking English. he said
why Mama don't talk English, every
body looks at us" I told him that was
i my language and l liked to speak il
/ most, and then he said well that can
| be your language. but | am a thous-
| and times a German" And even for
all that they called him English in the
| school. and the boys were going to
I give him a licking. But that inst re-
| minds me, that people from other
Countries here are treated we'll. | ask
| ed Mr.. Crcwdson, an EnSlishman, if he
Was ever molested, and he said indeed
| he was not. They took their little
| girl out OF the school. because they
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08
METHODIST CHURCH NOTES

The official Board at its meeting on
September "A decided on monthly meet
inss regularly setting apart tn" Sec
ond Monday evening of the month
and close promptly at 9:i5 if there is
enough business to continu" that long.
No corporation can succeed wilhon,
its stated meetings. neither can the
Church. Anyone is at liberty to at
tend these meetings though not men
her Of the Official Board.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08

\ force of men have. been At work
the past 10 days making IT,, nnc"S-
sary connections so that the pumping
station at the Union Pacific yards can
use electric power from the town ios
use in the yards. The work is expected
to be completed this week. After the
same is completed the Superintendent
OF the Power Company informs us
that Julesburg is to have a "a hour
electric service This is service we
have been waiting for and service
tha; has been badly needed and many
in Julesburg will he delighted when
i: is positively assured.
The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08

The Protective Tariit cyClopedia'
in abridged form has just been issued
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