Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15
ALABAMA

ALABAMA
Tuscumbia.-More than $500 men
are now employed on construction
work at Muscle Shoals on Wilson
dam. Every two weeks pay roll
amounts to $150,OOO,
AnnistOn.-CouncH decides to hold
election on 100000 school bonds and
two-mi1 tax.
Sheffield.-J. F. WATSON, night
ticket agent here. is waylaid and
fatally shot by unknown assailants'
y Observation-Disclosures cucumbers of
season are shipped to northern mar
kets. During busy season five and
ak carloads are shipped daily.
AshIand.-Miss Beatrice Wilson
and E. W. Hodge, of this place, are
quietly married at Charleston,
West Virginia.
Birmingham.-E. T. eech, editor;
Jack Bethea. managing editor;
Lewey Robinson, reporter, of Biz
mingham Post, spend "A hours IN
Jefferson county Jail, for contempt
of court under Judge H. p. Helm.
HuntsvilIe.-Cold wave does but
little damage to fruit and crops in
north Alabama, according to re-
ports.
Acknowledgement exer-
cises of Auburn begin Sunday. Over
200 will receive degrees Tuesday.
Eufaula.-Labor shortage here.
due to hundreds of negroes leaving
for northern and western states.
Mont gOmery.-Departmen of agri-
culturA notified> boil weevil has al
ready appeared in Hunston county.
Sipsey.-Negroes here hold big
May day celebration.
Talladega.-Disbarm proceed
ings are brought againt D. H. Riddle,
now serving term in federal prison
at Atlanta on conspiracy charge,
growing out of cotton frauds here.
Hartselle. -Various mills making
wood products are operating full
time Much lumber is received from
country mills.
Lafayette.-Cotton is uninjured
by recent cold wave.
Hartsville-An epidemic of measles
is raging here, though of very mild
character.
NewtOn-Dr. J. A. Lowry resigns
as president of Newton college after
three years. He is succeeded by
Professor C. A. Anderson, of Kramer.
Montgomery - Various normal
schools are asking legislature for
more money for maintenance in
summer months.
Troy-Lister Hill, candidate for
congress, to succeed Judge Tyson,
deceased, speaks to large crowd
here.
Misunderstanding of iron mines
of Alabama company are completely
destroyed by fire, with loss of
100000 Many miners barely es-
cape.
tgomery-Attorney General
Davis rules that counties must use
2-cent a gallon gasoline tax for
good roads and bridges only.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. work Of
building bridge over Chattahoochee
river commences.
Auburn-Miss Harriet B. Layton,
assistant farm demonstration agent
of Florida, is making study of farm
demonstration work here.
Andalusia-J. L. Knox, merchant,
is killed; Chief of Police ]. n. Jerni-
gan is seriously wounded, and Burle
S, Fitzpatrick. employe in Mr.. Knox's
store, is taken to Jail at Montgon-
cry for safe keeping, charged with
the crime 1t is charged Fitzpatrick
was drinking.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Of typhoid
fever is raging here. Orders are is
sued by health department to in
oculate all persons.
acknowledgement J. B. Pow.
ell announces he is bitterly opposed
to convict system.
HuntsviIIe.-slight frost here. Lit
tie damage.
Gadsdep.-I. B. Berry, sixteen
year-old boy, is sent to prison for
life, charged with numbering Claude
Sisson, fourteen-year-old white boy.
Montgomery.-Because a school
book contained picture of a still,
state school book committees refuses
to adopt it.
MobiIe.-Twenty-f four members Of
I. W. W. are being held in Jail here.
Four of them refuse to take nourish-
ment of any kind.
Sheffield.-Mrs. Blanche r. Fisher,
chiropractor, is arrested for practic-
ing here after being unmolested for
twelve months.
Girard.-Girard and Phoenix City
will ask for consolidation when
state legislature convenes. New city
wants to be named Brandon in honor
of governor, who suggested consoli
dation.
Athens.-Sewell Haggard, editor
Of Everybody's magazine, is visit
ing his father here, he and his
wife motoring from New York.
Recommendations plan to raise
$4,000 for anti-tuberculosis sana-
forum.
Montgomery. Tyrus Lawson,
serving II years sentence for sec-
ond degree murder, is paroled by
Governor w. w. Brandon.
DanvilIe.-Former pupils Of noted
teachers here are honoring memory
of teachers with public meeting at
Hartselle
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