Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-08

first figure being as of August s.
second as of July IL: Asheville
! $22, $50, $19,S22; Charlotte, s31,270
$40,945; Greensboro. $19,91S. $2O,O62
Winston.Salem, $29.S19, $30,S57.
HIGH POINT.-B. c. Sharpe,
transferred from Greensboro, sue
! ceeds A. 3. Strbup as chief of fifth
division prohibition enforcement of.
ficers.
GREENSBORO.-John H. Whit,
| 81, retired tobacconist, widely known
| through this part of state, dies after
illness beginning in 1920, when he
was stricken by paralysis.
HENDERSON.-E. T. Hicks, mo-
tor car and 90 pints of corn whisky
are captured by police, Hicks plead
ing guilty in city court to charge
| of transporting, and is given year
! on roads.
ELIZABETH CITY.-Cotton pick
ing is started in Currituck county,
which has completed harvesting of
most profitable sweet potato crop
in recent years. Large fall crop of
English peas is being planted. price
last year being $12 per basket.
ASHEVILLE. - Chestnut timber
of southern Appalachian mountain
region is doomed, blight making
steadily greater inroads, hundreds of
acres having been found to be 100
per cent infected, according to re-
port of G. +. GraVatt, pathologist,
bureau of plant industry, after sur
Vey.
ASHEVILLE.-Hil Wilson, 10,
causes suit to be enteredl in federal
court against Suncfest Lumber COM
pany for $20,213 in DANA ges, alleging
accident causing loss of foot on
company's railroad was due to en-
gineer's negligence.
FAYETTEVILLE.-Chief honors
in competitions of citizens military
training corps, of Camp Bragg, are
won by Mississippi boys, Brigadier
General Bowley, commanding. pin
ming six medals on l.. w. Noble, of
Learned, Miss, and four on c. 3.
Cameron, of Meriden, both being
Battery A members. n. r. Forrest,
of Atlanta, Ga, member of Company
X, won rifle competition.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Carolina
legislative commission making study
of colonization methods in various
parts of the county visit colonies at
Castle Hayne and Wrightsville. For
mer Governor Richard I. Manning
is head of commission.
WILMINGTON.-C counties
of state are greatest sufferers this
year from ravages of boil weevil ac-
cording to E. w. Gather, of federal
agricultural department.
WILMINGTON. - Steamer Hut
tero, Norwegian, from Hamburg, ar
rives with 6,000-ton cargo of potash,
being third ship within fortnight to
bring equal cargo Of potash to this
port.
CHARLOTTE manu-
facturers Of this territory, accord
ing to information assembled here,
expect high prices for truck, fruit,
tobacco and other crops to result in
unusually satisfactory collections
this fall for fertilizers sold last
spring. Fall demand has not yet de-
Veloped and manufacturers are
somewhat in doubt as to it's probable
proportions.
SALISBURY.-Br General
Bowley, commanding Camp Bragg,
comes to arrange for establishment
OF model arm camp here October s,
when detachment of artillery troops
will demonstrate operation of large
callbre artillery and other fighting
equipment.
KINGS MOUNTAIN-William O.
Ruddock, 40, prominent in business
AFFAIRS dies of heart failure.
CHARLOTTE.-H. w. Hubbard,
OF Paw Creek community, is arrest.
ed on complaint of F. H. Fairchild,
VINO charges attempted assault with
deadly weapon, alleging Hubbard &C.
costed Mrs. Fairohild, seated in mo.
Tor car awaiting return of husba nd
from inspection nearby of hiphwa v
work, and later covered Fairchild
ana wife with gun, threatening
them
WINSTON-SALEM. Information
received here influences relatives of
missing men to fear almost nude and
llteless body of unidentified man
touno hanging by undergarment
rom tree near New Freedom, Pa,
may nave been that of Paul Roby,
rna!lWay engineer, or John w. Mo
Ghee, son or w. E. McGhee, of nea
nural Hail, both of whom recently
disappeared under unexplained cir.
cuinstances. Descriptions telegra ph-
ed here fit either man.
WILMINGTON. - CAPTAIN Renov
OF Belgian freighter, Nerviery ia as,
sessed fine of $500 by federal inn1i.
grant agent, for alleged irreguIaritv
IN bringing Mesdames Lemons and
van Deutans. Belgian women. in.
tehoed immigrants, into this port
lie is ordered to return their mas.
sage charges and provide first.ciass
passage on return.
REIDSVILLE.-Feliz M. Coonohs
II, widely known farmer. dies NJ
heart trouble.
FAYETTE. = Superior Court
Judge n. A. Sinclair, addressing
grand jury, declares members of
secret organizations seeking To on.
force laws are as great menace To
institutions of country as German.
american traitors of World war
days wa
CHARLOTTE.-Co Com
missioner A. J. Maxwell says his
controversy with Governor ,Morri.
son over alleged $4,000, 900 state def.
CIT is dead. as auditors report iusti
tled claim which governor sought to
disprove.
RElDSVILLE. Dewey Martin.
young married man, is held in iail
without bond on charge of criminal
~ assaulting young Reidsvlle un.
married woman. Preliminary hearing
will be held. it is announced, when
girl Is able to appear.
MOCKSVILLE. - Western North
Carolina Field Trials association an.
nounces trials will be held near
Mocksville, beginning November IA.
MOCKSVTTT IF, - North C.ouo1;.o