Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-01

phanage; Rev. A. T. Jamison, Green.
wood, S. c.; Rev. W. D. Roberts, Co
lumbia, S. c.; Rev. J. B. Johnson,
Barium Springs; Mr.. Noe is lected
president.
Greensb0r0.-D. B. Atkins is seri-
ously injured and his companion,
James Robbins, is bruised when their
light truck is in collision with a.
street ear here. Both live at High
Point.
High POint.-Miss Levina Hilton,
eighty, dies after a. long illness at
her home here.
GreenSbOr0.-Mrs. Annie Street Ca.
tor, seventy, dies at her home here.
Montreat.-Teh sixty-third general
assembly of the Presbyterian Church
of the United States~ will convene
here May II. Rev. r. c. Reed, DID,
moderator, will preach the opening
sermon. He is a professor of church
history at Columbia seminary.
-Goldsboro wins over
Greenville, New Bern and Whining
ton the next annual state conference
of the Woman's Missionary confer
ence of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
Raleigh.-William Jennings Bryan.
here to deliver an address at the city
auditorium, calls at the executive Of
fees for an informal chat with Gov
renor Morrison, of this state. He is
accompanied by Josephus Daniels,
former secretary of the navy.
WilsOn.-The North Carolina Chap
ter of American War Mothers, in
session here, elects Mrs. Hugh Mont
gomery, of Charlotte, state War
Mother. Other officers are: Mrs. A.
A. Morgan, Gastonia; Mrs. e, q.
Rawli1s, Wilson; Mr.. J. M. Parker,
Asheyille; Mrs. J. K. Phillips, Con.
cord; Mrs. L. c. Phillips, Ashboro.
The next meeting will be held at
Washington, N. G..
StatesvilIe.-Secretary +. Paul
Leonard announces the annual meet
ing of the State Merchants associa-
ton will be held here June 1921. S.
P. Burton,> Of Asheville, is president.
MOnroe.-Officer elected by the
Woman's Missionary societies Of the
Western North Carolina Conference
of the Methodist church include Mrs.
Lucy H. Robertson, Greensboro, pres
ident; Mrs. w. w. Hagood, Char
lote,. vice president.
Raleigh.-Mayor T. B. Eldridge
announces he will not oppose E. E.
Culbreth for mayor in the election
May Z. Culbreth led the mayor by
l.4OO votes in the recent primary.
Rocky MOunt.-EGdie Brown, ne.
gro, is instantly killed by a guard
when he attempts to escape from
the Rocky Mount road force. Coro-
ner's jury exonerates guard.
Lumberton.-Wit so witnesses
summoned to appear for the defense,
the city recorder finds probable
cause against B. M. Lawson, julie
Brogden and John Hedgepeth, given
a hearing on charges growing out of
the f1ogging of Mrs. Hattie Purvis
and Mrs. Mary Watson and holds
them under joint bond of SIS 1000.
WiImingtOn.-W. B. Chavis, In,
dian medicine man." is given a
sault preferred by Mrs. Godfrey
reserves his decision
Charlotte.-Miss Pauline Pearce,
of Winston-Salem, dies here from
the third attack of sleeping sickness,
a few days before her graduation as
nurse at Presbyterian hospital
here. Funeral is held at Winston
Salem, where her mother, Mrs.
Frank Pearce, resides.
Winston-Salem.-A telegram an
nounces the death at Baltimore of
F. G. Dunklee, local business man,
who was there for treatment for
heart trobule. He was prominent
as a Knights Templar, Elk, Rotarian
and Shriner.
Raleigh.-The first boil weevil of
the spring received by Frank Sher-
man, state entomologist, comes from
a Mr., Primrose, of Dunn, who picked
it up in the railway telegraph office
there.
Observation-Disclosures of real
property in Lenoir county will be
started within a few days. Officials
forecast a nominal reduction.
New Bern.-With liquor cases
crowding the docket, Judge Conner
imposes. sentences amounting to As
months and -'res totalling $1,000 in
one day of Federal court here.
Lexington.-C. M. Wall & Son,
ownrs of large lumber plants at
Statesville, Thomasville and Dur.
ham, announce plans to build a
plant here on. the 60-acre site they
own to eplace the one burned re-
Gently at Southmont.
Mount Airy.-Edgar burlington,
of Washington, son Of Prof. l. T.
burlington, former superintendent
of schools here, is appointed legal
advisor to the American representa-
tiVes at the Lausanne pc ace con-
ference.
Rocky MOunt.-The first Luther
an church in the eastern part of
the state will be constructed here,
work to begin within a short time,
it is announced by Rev. S. White
Rhyme, in charge of Lutheran mis-
siOnary work for eastern Norh Car
DINA.
AsheviIle.-Miss Eleanor Parker,
Of he Reems' Creek secion, here Wis
iting Mrs. A. H. Mccormick, is
struck by an automobile said to
have been driven by o. L. Fitz-
Gerald and is taken to a hospital,
where it is feared she is seriously
hurt, FITZGERALD is released on
bond.
Raleigh.-The city school board
grants the request of Superintend-
ent S. 3. Underwood for a leave
of absence of one year on account
of ill health. S. r. Shriger tempo