Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-26
NORTH CAROLINA
NEWS IN BRIEF

been reduced by the receivership of
April Z, which was dissolved April
II. Judge Horton reappoints e. F.
c. Metts, OF Charleston, S. G., as re-
reiver. Liabilities are liked at
$4,000. Stock issued by the COM
pany has par value of $1,200,000.
Neutrality-suspicious. women
Of the state contributed $219,419 to
all church causes during the past
year, an increase of $4,000, fifty
delegates attending sessions of the
women's auxiliary of Concord Pres
bytery are told in reports of Off
GERS.
RaIeigh.--Governo7 Morrison re-
fuses the wife's plae to commute the
sentence OF death imposed on M. D.
Mobiles. of Columbus county, who
WA sentenced to die April "a for
the Staying of a kinsman last Sep
TENDER.
Asheville ~ rattle handled
through Asheville since last October
by the Southern railway has been
the heaviest for q similar period in
IuS ulSlOIY VI III Runway OL1A-
Gals here declare, one of the re
suits of which is the promotion of
% firemen to be engineers of new
locomotives.
CharIotte.-Paroled after having
served five years of q twelve-year
sentence, Elley Matthews, white, is
arrested here after his parole is re-
Izn fn fhn EnnF-
gia state prison by officers from
Athens to complet his trim.
Raleigh. --Franklin ShrmAn, chief
of the state division OF entomology,
appeals to cotton planters to send
him tn efirst boil weevils they find
adding that he has received almost
every other kind of bug in recent
weeks.
GoldsborO.-Some concern is felt
over the condition of Dewey Smith.
in Jail here for the killing of his
father, John E. Smith, with an axe
The boy has wept necessarily since
the killing,
New Bern.-F. P. Latham, of Bel.
haven, is elected president of the
North Carolina drainage congress
in session here. His home town is
chosen as the next meeting place.
Addresses by Senator F. NJ Sim.
mons features the meeting.
Chapel HiIl.-Felix Harvey is
elected a member of the executive
and building committees of the board
Of trustees of North Carolina uni
versity, succeeding the late J.. Bryan
Grimes.
Observation-Disclosures Lee s. Over.
man tells a meeting Of civic club
members here the nation is menaced
by an apparent disposition to dele
gate excessive power to the fed.
eral government, and added tina;
the voters should exercise greater
caution in ratifying any amend.
ments to federal or state constitu.
tons.
New Bern.-LoCal observance of
state potato week is featured here
by the shipment of boxes of pota;,
toes to Governor Morrison and
President Harding.
Rockingham.-J. L. Latham, man
ager of the Evans orchards, with
1900 bearing trees. estimates the
yield of Georgia Bellies this year
will be so per cent of normal as a
result of frost damage. He expects
to ship 40 cars.
High Point.-Contract for .con-
construction of a new school build
ing to cost $4,000 is awarded to E.
T. Herrick & Son, local con-
tractors.
n-fo.5 rror,y;lIo county, hoard NJ
commissioners, complying with the
issue 100000 in bonds for school
purposes.
Burlington-Effort to sell stock
in the newly organized local hotel
company, capitalized at $4,000 is
started here.
GreensborO.-Miss Sarah Glenn,
Gastonia, wins first place, and Miss
Mildred Perkins, LinColnton, second
place, in the piano-playing contests
opening the state high school music
contests here, in which % young
women compete.
Observation-Disclosures stocks have
cost citizens Of this state more than
one hundred million dollars during
the past four years, says Stacy W.
Wade, insurance commissioner, in
an address here.
Asheville. Warrant is issued for
Rev. w. T. Hawkins, of Jackson
county, charging him with setting
fire, March 81, to woods owned by
S. P. Ravenel, of Asheville, accord
ing to information received here
from c. G. Rogers, Jackson county
forest warden, whose official report
alleges Hawkins admits the offense.
statesville.-L. c. householder, of
Lexington, seriously wounded, is in
a hospital here, and his companion,
Hiram Weaver, is in jail at Licking
ton, as g. result Of an alleged effort
to run the prohibition blockade. Of
ficers Mills and Gilbert claim Hus-
seickler was accidentally shot. He
will recover.
WinstOn-Salem.-The North Caro-
lima Physical Education association
meets here April 27-2S.
Charlotte. - Possibility that a
stranger, 60, suffering from amnesia
in hospital here, is one Norris,
who disappeared from Baltimore,
several weeks ago, diminish when
detectives compareedescriptins. DR..
J. p. Monroe's questioning of the
man regarding Norris and Balti-
more fails to develop favorable re-
actions. The stranger was picked
up while walking toward Charlotte
from Columbia, S. c.
n-Salem-Facing charge
Of murder growing out of the killing
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