Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-11
NORTH CAROLINA

and AsheVille, n. c., business me-
e purchase Mecklenburg Iron Work
!. property for 100000 and announc
intention to construct warehouse
and other buildings to cost severa
hundred thousand dollars.
WAKE FOREST. of trus
tees of Wake Forest college, institu
ton maintained in part by State Bar
fist convention, is called to meet a
Gastonia, December II, when con
vention will be in session.
ASHEVILLE. Department o
Justice agents investigate conflict o
= religious views among patients a
Oteen veterans hospital eliminating
in bitter verbal clash between Virgil
Tibbitts, of Dallas, Ga, and F'rit
Tiedtke, of Philadelphia, who repre-
scented themselves to be members o.
Ku Klux Khan, and E. T. Vensal, o.
Wheeling, W. Va, and A. j. Scullan
of Philadelphia.
AsHEvILLE. l. With probably
1 900 cases of measles in Buncombe
county, Health Officer Wilson says
epidemic is spreading rapidly.
-. CHAPEL HILL-Wiley B. San
r sity, in address declares survey dis
closed two-thirds of prisoners in state
Z are illiterate.
- NEWTON. = r. r. Moose, AZ
wealthy attorney and land owner
dies after lingering illness.
CONCORD. = Mrs. R. A. Gourley
q, dies after long illness.
ASHEVILLE. - Miss Ella " Mar
sstin, ", member of prominent family,
dies suddenly.
GREENSBORO.-W 1000 birds
on exhibition annual joint show of
Central Carolina Poultry association
and North Carolina Poultry associa-
ton opens.
So GREENSBORO. - City council
opens eight bids for $780, 900 of con-
solidated bond issue, 100000 for
street improvements, 100000 for
zmunicipal building and 100000 for
--Waterworks improvements, and adj
Ajeurns to announce award later.
!" ASHEVILLE.-Tha Mrs. w. L.
Pickett, of Asheville, formerly was
wife of Charlie Gibbs, of Alfalfa,
Ala, who killed Policemen Jenkins
..and Blankenship in saloon brawl
twenty years ago in Alfalfa, is es-
tablished by detectives who find evil
dence in Mrs. Puckett's home. Wheth-
ger or not Will Clark, good Asheville
g.'tcitizen for eighteen years, is Gibbs,
las is charged, remains for Alabama
courts to determine. Alabama Of
ficers arrive to take Clark to Alfalfa,
81 but Clark begins fight against re-
turns
ASHEVILLE.-V. E. Corn is
found on sidewalk unconscious and
thought to be in dying condition.
Day later he regains consciousness,
but ia unable to tell how he was
hurt.
=. ASHEVILLE.-L Young, aged
thirty-two, former Buncombe coun-
tsy legislator and wealthy farmer,
-alies of pneumonia at home near
here.
3 RALEIGH-Jim Holder, con-
sstruction foreman on graded school
building, falls from roof to ground,
three stories, and hospital report
s-says he will recover.
GREENSBORO Of 1T
graduate nurses, largest ever to ap-
pear before state board for certifi.
Gates, takes examinations.
CHARLOTTE. - Southern Public
s Utilities company announces nego-
.,tiations are nearly completed in New
: York for sale of $4,0O0,O 900 in bonds,
~ proceeds to be used to pay another
= company for" the Mountain Island
hydro electric development near
here, which soon will be placed in
operation, and which Southern Pub
lie Utilities company expects to lease
to Southern Power company.
GREENSBORO. = Jesse smith,
young white man, and Miss Marie
Wlthers drive up to garage after
ride and become involved in argu-
ment. Girl is eighteen. and strik
ingly pretty. is knocked down. They
are hailed into police court. Smith
Is given six months on roads: girl Is
ggiven sixty days at county home.
-ssEvidence indicated both were intoxi-
Gated.
RALEIGH.-Seven prisoners are
paroled by governor: Bart Hull, Lin
@@coln county; Quincy Sullivan, Rock
: ingham; Luther knapp, Asheville;
/ James Laws, Wilkes county; N. A.
7 Ingram, Northampton county; San
..ssders Moose, Iredell county; M. S.
/. Groom, Lenoir.
! MONROE. = Butler Funderbunk,
country merchant, is found slain at
: store near here. Skull had been
crushed, pockets rifled and store
plundeHed. Big wrench evidently
was slayer's weapon. Two negroes
are arrested on suspicion as coroner
continues inquiry.
,-8 EDENTON.-C. Lyman, of Tar
.boro, is held under 5000 bond for
.sTspreliminary hearing on charge of
ennbezzling funds of United Klans-
men of America Amount alleged is
not disclosed.
WILSON.-Charles Randolph, of
Kinston, is seriously injured when
-,nlotor car is demolished in collision
with car driven by Jack Daniels.
~ GREENSBORO.-Term of federal
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