Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-26

CharIOtte.-C. G. Hook, architect,
announces plans for joint Charlotte
! Mecklenburg county administration
building will necessitate expenditure
of about $S30.000 and provide for
needs of city and county SO years.
CnarIOtte.-With III cases dis
posed of, 100 by trial, Judge Brown,
of Washington, N. c., imposes SEN
fences aggregating 1928 years and
| fines amounting to 81, 400 in a one
| week term of superior court here.
Raleigh.-M. l.. Shipman, commits
! sioner of labor, orders agents in
charge of state-federal employment
offices to diligently attempt to
/ bring about conviction of agents
| seeking to entice labor from state
without first paying 5000 license
fee.
Raleigh.-Officials declare that
| revolutionary revision Of State prison
policies mas, at least for present,
"stifled politics in cry for modern
prison system.
Charlotte-Appeal is issued by
Chamber of Commerce for contrlbu-
lions to meet the obligation of $4,000
represented in doughboy status to
be unveiled here May so.
Observation-Disclosures of the local
Merchants association meet to plan
entertainment features of the annual
meeting here June 19, 20, FL of the
State Merchants association. Mayor
l.. B. Bristol will deliver the address
Of welcome.
Announcement that
war department is planning to short
en- artillery range at Camp Bragg,
near here, results in Senator Sim.
mons, Democrat, filing protest on
ground such action might be initial
move toward abandoning fort, which
| is listed as long range training
ground for artillery .l.|
COncOrd.-Joint commencement
exercises are held here by Mp. c.
I. and Mount Amoena seminary, two
! Lutheran schools at Mount Pleas
ant, Rev. G. j. Congaware, D. D.,
of Charleston, S. c., delivering bac-
calaurate sermon. Trustees meet to
frame building program.
Rockingham.-Ever other night
| workmen leaves Hamlet for Pennsyl-
vania, where they are promised
work in steel mills, it is disclosed
! here at a trial when an alleged labor
agent is acquitted of enticing work
men. The negroes assemble at Ham
| let from Wilmington, Columbia and
Charlotte divisions.
SaIisbury.-Gilbert Swink, young
white man continues unconscious at
! hospital here, where he was taken
after he was injured when motor
bicycle" and motorcycle collided.
Asheville.-Monum to Colonel
| Edward Buncombe, Revolutionary
soldier, is unveiled at court house
here by Daughters of American Rev.
olution chapter named for him.
CharIOtte.-Mrs. Lou Ellen Hamil-
ton, wife of C. w. Hamilton, of Shell
by, dies at hospital here.
| Raleigh.-Captain Robert r. Rey-
nolds, Asheville attorney, announces
| intention to enter campaign for lieu
| tenant governor next year. Other
| probable candidates are Senator
Walter Woodson. of Salisbury, and
Representative Will w. Neal, of
| Marion.
| Observation-Disclosures Robinson,
negro, convicted of Staying Robert
Hall, white farmer, five miles from
| Chesnee, S. c., is sentenced by Judge
| McEroy to from II to % years.
Oak Ridge.-Seventy- first com
mencement of Oak Ridge institute
! Of
mas to Al graduates.
SheIby.-Six towns, Forest City,
Caroleen, Spindale, Marion. Lenoir
and Shelby, have representatives at
a meeting here when the six-club
| Blue Ridge baseball league is or
ganized. DR.. Charles Gold, of Ellen
boro, being elected president. Salary
| limit is $500 per month; season
opens June II and includes 60 games.
York, S. c., is invited to enter in
move to make eight-club circuit.
observation-disclosures say trustees of
| Lenoir-Rhyne College, at Hickory,
and considering moving college owing
to Hickory's failure to raise quota
OF $500 900 endowment fund now be-
] ling subscribed, and Gastonia is rep
resented as having support of strong
interests in move to bring college
| here.
Raleigh. of c. C. Zim-
norman, of State Tobacco Growers
| Cooperative association, submitted
! to legislative tenancy commission,
disclose North Carolina farmers had
| in 1921 average income of $500;
| land-owning farmers, $3.50; landless
farmers, $3.50; landed and tenant
white farmers averaged $647,
negroes, $53S.
WiIsOn.-Slight improvement in
| the condition of Representative
Claude &itchin, Democrat, former
house minority, is reported by ply
sicians treating him for stomach
trouble at hospital here.
Beaufort The 75-foot yacht, Ale
da, owned by A. w. Brown, of Chi
cago, and valued at $4,000, is de.
stroyed by fire in the harbor here.
HillsbOrO. - Several thousand
school children of Orange county
gather here for the annual joint
| commencement exercises, program
| IuCluuIHS pIClIlC uIHueE anu ADDRESS
By Judge J. W. Bond
Dunn.-Orders for more than 100,-
900 strawberry plants are placed
here with one grower by farmers of
this section. who will plant several
hundred acres this fall. Probably
an equal area will be planted this
fall in peach trees.
Dunn.-Funeral services are held
here for Neill Avery Butler, 40,
Well-known business man.
Rockingham. Five hundred
school children here participate in
a May pageant, Miss May Sullivan
being the queen. More than 1000
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