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

highway is being graded and sur
faced.
HuntsvilIe.-Civitan club an
nounCes 100 acres of land will be
donated for city parks.
MObile.-Truck growers here real
ize more than $1,000,000 from cab
bage crop.
SOUTH CAROLINA
HOrk.-An unknown negro, who
had been on a wild rampage for
a week, shooting five times at Dan.
iel Huffman, his employer. and
others, died, according to verdict of
a coroner's jury, lat his own hand
or at hands of parties unknown. y
His body was found riddled with
bullets after an all-day hunt. The
desperate was brought down onlv
after he fired murderous shot into
face of Sheriff Bob Rhyme, of Gas
ton county.
AOrk.-The world is taking more
account of its spiritual welfare than
ever before, declares Bishop Brat
tom of Mississippi, at concludine
services of mission meeting
SharOn.-COrn planting machines
and other mechanical farming i'm.
PIGMENTS are taking the place OF
negro farm hands who have mi
grated north.
Gaffney.-A jersey cow, owned by
c. ID. Kirby, goes mad and is shot
People who drank milk are alarmed
Observation-Disclosures threats
made against his life by a certain
element in Girard, Ala, Rev. A. A
Haggard, evangelist, arrives safe
and sound.
Chester.-Five hundred thousand
dollars is being expended here on
the construction of permanent
roads.
Rock HiII-Two hundred and
seventeen young women will receive
diplomas from Winstrop college at
commencement exercises, beginning
June 5. Bishop Collins Dendy will
preach bacealaureate sermon.
Camp Sewer. - "The American
negro of today is just as loyal and
friendly to the white Anglo Saxon
people, just as honest, just as true
as he was sixty years ago." &c.
clares Seymour Carroll, recrea
tional director of the American Red
Cross here. He attributed negro
success to Christian friendliness of
far-seeing white people.
vilIe.-Federal government
opposes trial by state court of fed.
eral prohibition enforcement officers
on the charge of assault and bat.
terry, the charge growing out of an
indictment on April 7, when the of
t1cers fired on car containing
two young women Y. w. c. A.
workers of Asheville, N. c., near
this city. The United States dis
trict attorney seeks to have case
transferred to federal court.
Greenville. - Responsibility for
law enforcement rests upon every
good citizen, declares Circuit Judge
7. j. Mauldin, addressing county
grand jury. He says parents should
re-establish family prayer of by
gone days.
Greer.-Local textile executives
refuse to get excited over reports
from New England centers Of clos
ing of several mills there on account
of southern competition.
Columbia. Labor situation in
South Carolina is the most serious
in many years, if not in history OF
state, according to w. T. Willing
ham, in charge of the United States
employment bureau here. Labor is
short for all work, he said. Agents
from north have been working
through state inducing negroes to
leave.
FlOrence.-Federal officers work
ing out of here destroy five stills
prosecute IA men, destroy l ,480 gal
Ions of mash and AZ gallons of whis
ky and seize three. automobiles all
in one week.
Charleston. Lizards. four feet
long, the widest" birds without
signs of fear. fur seals and sea
lions and other varmints form part
of floating menagerie which puts in
here with steam yacht after long
trip from Galapagos islands,
GreenwOOd.-B. r. Cowherd, coun.
ty. engineer here since June, 1919,
resigns to go with Virginia state
highway department.
BarnwelI-B. B. fostering, pio-
neer truck grower and wealthy saw
mill owner, is pinned under wreck
age an0 browns when automobile
runs down embankment into stream
COlumbia.-Commen exer-
cises of Chicora college for women
are in full swing. The Rev. Alex
ander Sprunt and the Rev. T. Clag-
EFT Skinner deliver addresses.
lCemson College. - Ammonia
should be used early on cotton land
advise government agents here
They say cotton bolIs should be fan
advanced in time of weevils' APP
Clemson COllege.-A great many
bee keepers wait until late in the
season to put on supers, but it is
ming of the honey flow, and they
SllOlId NC hllNd uP Win Lufl SHSSlS
of foun tatior say specialists.
AbbevilIe.-At Confederate reun-
ion here John T. Baskin meets M
M. Ellis, whom he had not seer
since 1863. He asked Mr.. Ellis if he
were not a deserter from the grave.
yard.
Newberry.-Negroes throughout
state who served their masters ir
the war between the sections are fol-
first time drawing pensions of 81;
per year provided by state.
Charleston.-College of Charleston
ends 135th wear this month. Judge
Mendel L. Smith, of Camden, vii
make anniversary address.
AbbeVllle.-Bees are a new fad OF
| local youngsters who have discarded
their marbles and are carrying live
bees in their pockets and the biseCl