Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

MOnrOeVille.-Farm are testins
out number of different kinds o.
fertilizers to see which proves best
Selma-City National bank is sue
cessful bidder for $4,000 city
school bonds, to build Junior high
school. Bonds sell at par.
MOnrOeVille-Pros for a goo6
cotton crop in Monroe county are
bright, according to c. J. Brock
way, county farm agent. Good stand
in spite of unfavorable weather.
Birmingham-Coun health de
partment is asking annual increas Sc
of $3,390 for county health work ex
tension.
Birmingham. Thomas Heflin
United States senator, is visiting
brothers here.
FairfieId-Citizens vote $50 900 to
purchase grounds for public parks,
and $4,000 for site for city hall.
Fayette Fayette and Lamar
counties purchase two big dredge
machines to dig bitches in low.
lands in each county.
Observation-Disclosures day is OBJ
served here. Graves of Confederate
dead are decorated and services held
in church.
Residents of Fourth
avenue and Seventeenth street
neighborhood are objecting to incin-
orator located there.
Ensley-Ensley merchants give
dinner Tuesday to ESQ members of
faculty and graduates of Minor and
Hueytown High schools.
HancevilIe-This place is enjoying
building boom. Many new residences
are going UP and old ones being re-
paired.
observation-disclosures with shop
lifting, D. c. Brownley, of Brew
ton, is fined $40 and 10 days in Jail.
Wetumpka. - Vocational agricul-
tural classes in schools here make
net return of $S.657 for home prof.
ect work.
PeIham.-Frank Jones, of this
place, is killed on Montgomery high
way, when his automobile crashes
over embankment.
Observation-Disclosures and Profes-
sional Women's club have King
Tut night" featuring Egyptian
stunts.
Sheffield.-City officials say more
more than 100 blocks of sidewalk
and street paving work is to be
done here, costing approximately
$150,O0O, as soon as bonds are sold.
GreenvilIe. - Greenville Chorus
club, assisted by several non-member
musicians, makes great hit in con-
cert.
Ensley.-For lack Of evidence Jack
Smith is acquitted of charge of
w. c. Watkins, aged plum
Der, of 81, at his home.
AnnistOn.-Americ Legion, Post
No. 26, is planning banquet at an.
nual election of officers in June.
Parrish.-Charged with prohibi
ton law violations, Thomas San
ford, recent candidate for sheriff OF
Walker county, is given six months
in federal prison at Atlanta and
fined $500, in federal court at Jas.
per.
Gadsden. Members IT the Odd
Fellows of Gadsden are :contemplat-
ing building third story on their
temple; at Sixth and Walnut streets.
AnnistOn-Arthur Davis, negro, Is
fined 500 and 80 days for borrow
ing $25. saying his wife is dead. His
wife appears in court very much
alive.
Wetumpka-Month meeting of
Gilmore County Farm bureau is held
here. Many farmers attend.
AnnistOn-Regular term of feder.
al court opens here Monday with
Judge w. I. Grub presiding. Dock
ct is heavy.
MOntg Omery-Receipts Of insur-
ance department of state of Alabama
for fiscal year ending May 1, are
$40, 240, with expenditures $3,44S.
Gadsden-Rotary club members
are guests of Etowah County High
school at luncheon. DR.. 4. w.
Rails is installed as president.
MOntgomery-Unle Governor W.
w. Brandon intervenes one woman
and three men will hang in Alabama
June 8! They are: Nellie Bester,
negro, numbering husband in Bibb
county; Tom Williams, killing Kir-
by Cole at Athens; Winston Jackson.
killing John Donaldson in Wilcox
county; Ben Moore, killing J. T. Tay-
lor in Chambers county.
Gadsden-Dr. Frank Willis Bar
nett, of Birmingham, delivers COM
mencement address at DisQue High
School, May Il.
Montgomery-Governor W. w.
Brandon announces he is opposed to
adjustment of convict lease system
in Alabama.
Sylacauga-Sylacauga infirmary
is building annex of ten rooms and
sun parlor.
Sylacauga--Stores here are clos
ing every Thursday afternoon, dur
ing summer months.
Sylacauga.-James A. Cruise, aged
rs, dies at his home here after short
illness. He was one of flrSt settlers
and his plantation, Cruise HILL" is
widely known.
AIbany.-Mrs Margaret Gray, of
dies in Birmingham. Re-
mains will be inferred here. She
leaves two sons and two daughters.
Alabama City.-City officials ask
bids on over one mile of asphaltic
concrete paving On Kyle ave. Bonds
to $4,000 are sold.
Gadsden.-"The Crucible," 1928
class annual of Disque High school,
is out. 1t carries many photograph
Of faculty and students,
BOyles.--May day festivities. with
Principal William J. Baird in charge,
are held at Jefferson County High
school here. Miss Mona Horsley IS
crowned queen.
Birmingham.-Conr;td w. Aus
tin, after creating sensation in
United States prohibition enforce
ment circles here, resigns and opens
private detective agency