Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-05

ton Construction Co, GaStonia, for
construction of $1,000,000 plant of
Southern Worsted company.
Rocky Mount - General Frank
Hires, director of Veterans Bureau,
accepts invitation to address meeting
of North Carolina department. Amer
lean Legion, here September 13.
HickOry.-Mrs. Coy Walker, %, is
probably fatally burned when build
ing fire with kerosene. Husband is
badly burned attempting to eXtin-
guish flames.
CharlOtte.-Doubt of practicability
and wisdom of Charlotte and Neck
lenburg county officials carrying out
proposal to build joint city-county
building is expressed by city COM
miSsiOners in formal statement. An
nouncement is made city has obtain
ed option on site for new city hall.
Joint building proposal will be voted
on July IS.
CharIotte-Col. j. J. Hornsbrook,
u. S. army, chief of staff of Sixty
third cavalry division. e. S. reserves,
of New Orleans, confers with Major
|
battalion, Sixty-third division, rela-
tive to expansion.
AshevilIe.-OFdinance for issue of
| $925,000 in municipal bonds for
street, sewer and water improve
ments passes first reading before
city commissioners.
Fayetteville. - Robert r. Harley,
IaIA - ,s,,+o 3
| schools, is elected to succeed John
: NJ. Shields, who resigned superin-
tendency local schools to accept SINH
lar position at New Bern.
StatesvilIe.-Horse racing, base.
ball, water events and other athletic
| features are on StatesVille's July
| Fourth celebration program, F. H.
Scattergood being chairman of ar
| rangements committee.
Greensboro.-Col. Joseph Hyde
| Pratt, Raleigh, state geologist, ac-
ceDts invitation to address mass
meeting of Mems Bible classes mem
bers, replacing DR.. Hastings Hart,
noted penologist, who cancels en-
gagement.
Shelby.-W. r. Putnam, we'll
known Cleveland county Confederate
veteran of 60 years, is convicted in
recorders court OF making scupper-
nong wine and selling it for So per
gallon. He is fined $50. Putnam |
said grapes were going to waste.
Shelby. c. Newton, Cleveland |
county superintendent of schools, |
announces budget for 1924 will be |
$780, 900.
Rocky Mount.-Mrs. Calena Newell |
Brothers, society editor of Evening
Telegram, is seriously injured when |
caught under falling tree in Yellow |
stone Park, according to telegram |
received by parents, Mr.. and Mrs
w. H. Newell. /
Mount Airy.-Mrs. John SCOTS |
screams scare away negro after |
brief struggle in yard of home. She |
is under physicians care.
GreensbOrO-Percy D. Kerner, 40,
for many years one of citys leading |
business men, dies after illness of six
months. Wife and two young chill
dren survive.
Observation-Disclosures of Cooperative |
Tobacco Growers association fore
cast 100000 pounds of tobacco will |
be sold at local warehouses this fall, |
which would represent so per cent |
increase over 1922. Season will open
about September l. !
FayetteviIle-After defying many
forms of death as member of ia
+mous Princess Pat regiment of Cana /
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headquarters battery, Fifth Field ar
tillery, U. S. A, Fort Bragg, dies of |
hemorrhage of brain while repairing !
piano in battery headquarters. No t
relative being known, body is sent to I
Raleigh for burial in national ceme- /
terry.
observation-disclosures Cox, ten, son
of ~. and Mrs. E. r. Cox, is seri- !
ously injured when motor truck he
was riding turned over after meet !
ing in collision another driven by |
Sam futile.
GreensbOrO.-Mrs. Pauline Jane !
Stanley, seventy-five, dies after long !
illness at home near Pleasant Gar |
den.
Rocky MOnnt.-Mrs. Sarah Mar
y
pital as result of broken hip, sus-
tanned when falling at home of her
daughter, Mrs. w. E. Tucker.
TrOutman.- July celebration par
takes of nature of homecoming for |
friends and relatives of Troutman |
people, interesting program of events
being arranged.
RaIeigh.-Seven sons and daugh- !
tiers were given for World war serv-
ice by Mrs. j. D. Cooper, Henderson, |
n. c., according to letter from Jes- |
sica r. Smith, Washington, D. c., to |
Adjutant General Nets, Mrs. Cooper |
to date being leader in states compe- |
tition for state war mother.
RaIeigh.-Judge Cranmer for first +
time gives liquor law violator SEN
tence of fine instead of road term |
when Frank King, public chauffeur, |
is assessed 81, 800 and costs and is re- |
quired to post $500 bond for good |
behaviour for two years,
Raleigh.-Ed Dill, negro, convicted
in Beaufort county of assault on |
white woman, is electocuted at state |
prison. After protesting innocence,
doomed man goes to chair singing.
CharlOtte.-Special school taxes
are voted by Arlington, Allen, Flow,
Alexandria, Sharon, Woodlawn and |
Pineville school districts Of Mecklen-
burg county.
GastOnia.-City budget of $401,O0 |
is adopted by council.
Asheville.-Delegate numbering |
22O from ten southern states are at
tending Y. w. C. A. southern indus
trial conference at Lake Junaluska,
Southern Methodist assembly !
grounds. Mrs Walter Sprung, Will
mington, n. c., is hostess. Confer