Americus Times Recorder

EUBANKS TRAGEDY STIRS MACON FOLKS
MACON, Ga. Feb. 19.-Two thousand, five hundred citizens of Macon last night attended a mass meeting at the auditorium, called to protest against alleged open and flagrant violation of the liquor laws in this city.
The tragedy which cost Miss Rosa Lea Eubanks her life actuated the big mass meeting, and this Macon girl bids fair today to go down in history as a martyr, in that her death will be the means of stopping to a large extent at least, the sale of whiskey here.
Dr. W. L. Pickard, of Mercer university; Thomas S. Felder, former attorney-general of Georgia, and Dr. W. N. Ainsworth, pastor of Mulberry Street Methodist church, were speakers who addressed the meeting. Each of these referred to Miss Eubanks and her fate as a sacrifice to the unlawful liquor traffic. At the conclusion of the meeting resolutions were unanimously adopted calling for the immediate closing of all beer saloons now located in Wall street alley, in the center of the city's business district, and demanding of the mayor and council that every saloon in the city which is the possessor of a federal internal revenue liquor dealer's license be closed.