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

| the VICTOR monaghan group OIL eISHl
large cotton mills and also as presi
dent of Piedmont Manufacturing
company, which his father founded
and will retire. His son, S. M. Beat
tie, is elected president of the Pied
mont Mfg. Co., and T. M. Merchant
former vice president, heads Vic
tor Monaghan group.
Union - Citizens by public sub
scription insure erection of 100000
hotel here.
Orangeburg-Euge Adams, ne
| gro, is sentenced to death for MUIR
der of J. Attaway Brown, promi
nent citizen. Self-defens pleas is
entered after he is alleged to have
| confessed.
Dillon. Statistics show thirteen per
cent Of negroes of state have migrat'
ed north.
Sumter.-Sumter cannery ships
I 800 cases OF canned Florida grape
fruit to California.
aMariOn.-People here go in for
poultry raising and will ship chick
ems by the carloads to northern
cities.
! st. Matthews.-Farm hands in
many parts OF the United States are
| being offered $50 a month with au-
| tomobile in which to run to town at
intervals, according to reports re-
ceived at headquarters of American
Cotton association.
| Cn.rtanh,,rC An estate of 6. 500
| is left by blind negro beggar, inVes-
| tigation after his death discloses.
GreenviIIe.-Rev. G.. B. Lee, pas
tor of Baptist church here, enters
business to help pay church debt,
and tells congregation he will not
accept salary further as preacher.
=. Aiken.-Corrie Caldwell is ac-
quilted of murder of James F. Da'
Wis, August 16. 1922, near Hamburg
COlumbia.-Freshm at Univer-
| sity of South Carolina will wear
green ribbons for the rest of season.
They burned their garnet and black
| caps at public Ger emony..
y.-Three-year-old daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. George Cf Blair,
! is burned to death. She was play
ing with matches and her dress
| caught fire.
Chester.-Grayson Dixon is at
Chester hospital with skull crushed.
resulting from a mule becoming
frightened and falling or dashing
against him.
BishopvilIe.-Terrific hail and
wind storm damages cotton, tobacco
and corn in path about two miles
wide across Lee county.
Bishopville.-Henry Hart, young
negro, is arrested charged with in
ducing members of his race to mi
! CRATE.
Charleston.-Rev Henry D. Bull
resigns as rector of Christ Episcopal
church to go to Tennessee.
Laurens.-Poultry raising is over
shadowing cotton. For first time ir
| history of county farmers shiI
chickens in carload lots.
Clemson COlIege.-Daily market
reports on potatoes will be issue
by government during shipping sea
son in coastal region of state.
observation-disclosures night riders
supposed to be members Of Ku Klu1
Khan, create excitement by paraG
ing through business section.
Columbia. - Practically no cotto:
is being moved from the state ware
| houses at this time, this being I
decided contrast of the past month
when large quantities were with
drawn and sold.
Ware Shoals-John M. Collins
postmaster here, is placed undeI
$4,000 bond to answer charges o
/ embezzlement He is alleged to hav
been short $4,000.
Walhalla-A 100000 fire in tn
business district has not discour
aged business men who are planning
to rebuild in the burned area.
Rock HilI-Winthrop college, stat
school for women, will erect new
dormitory at q cost of 100000. tt
take care of reservations next fall
The student body will number 1000
Aiken-After several months in
vestigation seven white men and Z
negro are indicted on a charge o
killing Eugene M. Foster and Ready
Booth, railway guards, at a lionel!
spot near Hamburg, S. c., during
strike at Southern shops last Au
gust.
GreenwOOd.-Crop conditions are
! good despite unfavorable season, anC
.outlook for a large grain harvest is
unusually good.
AbbevilIe.-Farmers are forced tc
replant cotton on account of high
winds and cold weather.
Abbeville-Henry Erwin is through
with movies. A fire picture excited
him so that he dreaBed of it that
night. and in his sumber he got ur
and jumped out of a seconE-story
window. He landed against a wire
fence and was seriously hurt.
Gaffney.-R. M. Taylor, aged 81
was married for the fifth time here
when he claimed Miss Levy Gibbes
II, as his bride. His other wives are
dead
COlumbia.-This month has been
the coolest May in South Carolina
since 1906, records show.
Camp Sevier.-Six hundred ex
service men who are patients at Vet
Grams hospital here are showered OH
National Hospital day with flowers
sent from all parts of south.
Greenville. - Federal prohibition
enforcement officers who fired into
an automobile containing two WON
en- Y. w. c. A. workers, of Ashe
vile, n. c., will be arraigned for trial
at the May term of sessions court
here.
YOrk.-This town is in the throes
of a measles epidemic. Graded school
pupils have been stricken down by
the score.
Rock Hiil.-Set of chimes has
been installed in a tower of main
building at Winthrop college. Chimes
consist of Is notes. operated by a
keyboard. Sunday concerts Will be
given. Chimes can be heard -four
miles.