Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-24


notes is seized. They are held in
Jail in default of bonds of $4,000
each. The arrest terminated a search
continuing more than a year!
Acknowledgement with the kill
ing of his father, John e. Smith,
seventy -five. Dewey Smith, twenty
three, is arrested here upon instruc-
tons of a. coroners jury and is held
in Jail without bail. The prisoner
says he struck when his father re-
ferred to Mrs. Smith, wife and moth
er, as IAN old fool" Anu ak is the
weapon he used.
Charlotte. State Commander
James A. Lockhart, of the American
Legion, is officially advised Direc-
tor Hines has ordered an inVes-
tigatoin of the Veterans Bureau Vo-
cational school at Waynesville, N. c..
Greensboro. - Business manage.
ment is the greatest need of the
school system of North Carolina, DR..
e. G. Brooks, state superintendent of
public instruction, tells conference
here of school officials Of the cen.
trail part of the state.
Lenoir.-Contract for the Lenoir-
Wilkesbarre highway will be award
ed at the next meeting of the state
highway association, in May or
June, it is stated by Commissioner
Hayes, of Winston-Salem, according
to information received here. /
MocksVilIe.- town commits
Sioners close a contract for electric
power with the Southern Power COM
pany, and work on the Sub-station,
assuring street and home electric
lights will be ndertaken without
delay.
RaIeigh.-Plans for the expendi-
ture of $1,000,000 of the 81, 100000 APP
propriated by the general assembly
for permanent improvements at
state college on six new buildings to
be erected during the summer are
approved by the building committee
of the board of trustees in session
here.
GOldsborO.-Board of trustees of
lights will be undertaken without
hold session at which regular reports
are received.
Observation-Disclosures of the
south are probably eighteen months
ahead of orders, w. E. Dunn, of At
lanta, tells the convention here of
the North and South Carolina di-
visions of the Southern Association
of Sheet Metal Trades, of which he
is secretary.
WinstOn-Salem.- of a steer.
weighing 1850 pounds and selling for
$1S7, are on exhibition here. They
measure three feet, eleven inches
from tip to tip.
AsheviIle.-C. P. CASTOR, former
tax, collector of Buncombe county,
sentenced to four years in the state
penitentiary at Raleigh, for en-
bezzling $4,000 of county funds, is
paroled by Governor Morrison, ac-
cording to information received here.
Belmont.-R. j. Rice, 70, native
of DAVE county, dies here.
Northumberland has meant
the reclamation of 100000 acres of
old swamp lands in eastern North
Carolina, raising the value from 81
to $50 to 5000 per acre, John H.
Small, former member of Congress,
tells the North Carolina Drainage
congress in session here.
Fayetteville. - Carolina Power
company, of Raleigh, announces
purchase Of 5O-acre site and plans
to build a $75O,OOO electric power
sub-station here.
MISUNDERSTANDING of evidence
in the case of H. M. Cheatham. fed.
eral prohibition agent, charged with
second degree murder as a, result of
the killing of Douglass Durham at
Salisbury last October, is completed
in federal court here, the defense at
tempting to show the fatal shot was
fired accidentally.
On-Salem.-Colonel w. A
Blair, chairman of the state welfare
board, says he is uniformed of the
intention disclosed in reports re
ceiVed here, that E. E. budding. of
Washington, intends to visit RAJ
leigh in an endeavor to force a probe
OF the state prison, regarding al
legged cruelties in which he is re-
ported to possess data that will
amaze the state"
GreemsbOrO.-Dr. RAYMOND Bin.
ford, president of GUilford college.
returns from Philadelphia, where he
conferred with prospective new
members of the faculty.
brownsville. - Carlton Newbv.
aged nine, son, of Major and Mrs,
C. H. Newly, is seriously injured
when thrown from his bicycle and
run over by a motor truck said to
have been driven by Charles Leon
ard, Of Lexington.
Observation-Disclosures Protestant
women of this state, members of the
church's missionary societies, elect
Officers while in session here as
follows: Mrs. w. G. Hammer. Ash |
boro, president; Mrs. r. NJ. Andrews, |
Greensboro, vice president; Mrs. |
suffered loss Of about $4,000.