Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-17

! OF beer IN North CafOnnd IN April,
! Prohibition Director Coltrane an
nounces. Forty-three arrests were
made.
! Observation-Disclosures of Tri-State
Tobacco Growers Cooperative as.
/ ISOLATION will receive third and final
payment on 1922 crop probably by
July l, it is announced by District
Supervisor Bowling. More than &c..
600 900 will be paid outs
Raleigh.-William Bethune, state
college student, goes on trial here
OH two counts of manslaughter
growing out of the killing of William
Naylor and Robert Chappell in an
| automobile accident here April /.
CharIotte.-The Meclllenburg coun.
! ty board of highway commissioners
announces new bridges to cost $780,
| 600 will be built over streams in this
county.
CharIotte.-E. d. Latta, Char.
| lotte capitalist and real estate pro
moter, sells his home here for STE
900 and announces his intention to
! move to Asheville. Mr.. Latta re-
Gently lost lawsuit here involving
a $4,000 subscription to stock in a
community hotel company.
High Point. -Stockholders of the
new company recently buying at re-
Ceivers sale the Carolina and Yad
kin River railroad request authority
of the secretary Of state at Raleigh
to name the reorganiZed road High
Point, Thomasville and Denton rail.
way.
Salisbury.-Lee McHargue, sub,
hitting a plea of guilty Of man
slaughter, is sentenced by Judge
years in the state prison at Raleigh
He killed Deputy Sheriff Propst, of
Cabarrus county, at Kannapolis, in
November, 1922.
ASheville.-A proposal by Ashe-
vile Chamber of Commerce to Unit
ed States Veterans bureau regard
ing contemplated relocation here
of the Voca tional training school at
Waynesville has been withdrawn it
is announced.
Wilmington. Gas-hghted buoys
soon will be installed by the govern
ment to replace those now marking
the channel across Cape Fear shoals
at the mouth of the Cape Fear riv-
err. according to information receiv,
ed here.
Kingst0n.-Rev. Charles Leonard,
North Carolina Baptist minister,
and brother of John B. Leonard, of
Kinston, is engaged in missionary
work in China a few miles from the
point where the Shantung bandits
kidnapped American and other for
eign railway passengers.
GreensbOro.-City health officials
report more than 200 cases of
measles in Greensboro and number
is increasing rapidly. Steps to con.
troll epidemic are being taken.
Granite Falls.-New cordage mill
here, declared by superintendent
Cloer to be largest in world, will be-
gin operation probably June i. Ma
chinery is being installed, Construc-
ton has been in progress several
months.
MOcksville.-Officers of the newly
organized Liberty Shirt company
here, capitalized at $125,000, to man
ufacture shirts and overalls are
elected. with J. w. Hartsfield. of
Hickory, as president. Operations
will begin about June Is.
Southport - Brunswick county
commissioners issue $751; 900 in bonds
to meet obligations which board was
unable to pay as a result of $780, 900
in losses sustained when banks fail
ed here and at Wilmington. The
bonds are serial and bear IL per
cents interest, maturing in 1943.
Asheville.-C. 7. Dunlap, Jackson
county election registrar, is indicted
at Webster by Jackson county grand
jury on charge of violating state alec-
ton laws by refusing to register
Cherokee Indians.
Charlottesville grand comman-
derry of North Carolina elects w. G,
Mudgett, of Southern Pines, grand
commander; selects Raleigh as next
meeting place, and adjourns three
day annual session here.
FayettevilIe.-One negro is in Jail,
two others under bond and police
ar seeking IlLteen others on charges
growing out of what is believed to
be a plot to Systematically rob whole
sale grocery houses here.
WendelI.-Voters of this school
district authorize issue of $4,000
in bonds for construction of another
school building to cost $4,000, state
to pay $4,000 of cost.
Raleigh. TWenty-seven charters
or amendments issued by the secre-
| tary of state for the week ending
May 9, authorized increases in CAPT
tai or the operation of new corpora
| tons, representing an authorized
total of $3,172 ,00G.
ALABAMA
Auburn.-An oil painting Of ex
Governor B. B. Conner is unveiled
in Conner hall.
MOntgOmery.-Chalk soil, valua-
bic for raising alfalfa and other hay
is foupd in Marengo county, and is
said TO equal England's famous
| chalk soils.
MObile.-Mobile' rush of summer
| tourists has commenced.
Alexander City.-The citizens OF
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