Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-08

| river. found that it was merely
! boat.
GreenvilIe. - Arrangements are
perfected for the erection by the
| chamber of commerce here of a ten,
story building.
GreenvilIe.-A site is sought here
for a large shirt manufacturing en-
terprise to be established by w. M.
Fair, J. c.. Fair and M. B. Wilson.
AndersOn.-George Caldwell, 70,
last survivor of the reconstruction
days negro policeman here, is dead.
, BarnWell.-Thisc county ships first
carload of Strawberries that has ever
rolled from this section. 1t brings
| $1,000 Strawberries and asparagus
are defeating the boil weevil.
WalhalIa.-O. c. Hawkins, negro,
has been arrested in Westminster
and lodged in Jail on the charge of
inducing laborers to leave West.
minister. Hawkins is alleged to
have had railway tickets in his pos
session to Elkins, N. c.
WalhaIIa.-Sam Hunnicut and D.
Kay have been appointed rural po-
licemen for Oconee county.
WalhalIa.-The Highlands bank
has been opened at Highlands.
James r. Sullivan, of Westminster,
is president.
Spartanburg.-Henr Littlejohn,
negro serving seven, days in Jail
here, has gone on a hunger strike.
No effort is made to force him to
eat.
Spartanburg.-The May day pag-
cant, Battling the Boil Weevil,"
presented by the students of Con-
verse college here, was a brilliant
success. The pageant began with
the struggle of the farmers against
the weevil and eliminated with the
browning of science as Queen"
Spartanburg.-E. Erskine Daniel
local attorney, has been appointed
as a member of the state board of
law examiners, succeeding Albert c.
Todd, of Laurens.
GreenwOOd.-Capt. Arthur Lee has
been elected general agent, sec
rotary treasurer of the Abbeville.
Greenwood Mutual Life Insurance
association, succeeding the late j. r.
Blake.
GreenwOOd.-Dr. C. H. Blake was
elected president of the local Rotary
club, succeeding r. B. Curry. Other
officers are: J. S. Bailey, vice presi-
dent; C. "a. Mays, secretary; c. G.
Wharton, treasurer; W. A. Barnett,
sergeant-at-arms.
GreenwOOd.-A Greenwood man
has received bill for fifty cents for
a message to est. Peter" The gen
tleman says he has no desire to
communicate with est. Peter" and
cannot understand why he got the
bill.
Greenville-The Duncan cotton
mills here increase capital stock
$1,5O0,000 to double capacity of plant
and erect several hundred new
houses, and also to retire a former
issue Of preferred stock.
COlumbia--Lorenzo Gregory, T.
year-old Swansea boy, given up to
die from burns. will now live after
remarkable case of skin grating:
An uncle, world war hero, and his
/ grandmother together give up 400
| patches of skin.
Spartanburg-A site for the relo
cation of Spartan academy, prepare
tory school for Furman university,
will be decided May "a from the Of
fers made by Spartanburg, Union,
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COIumbia-"What brings disre-
spect from the public is that the
plumbers do not charge enough for
their work" declares Colonel w. G.
Archer before the annual conVen-
ton of Master Plumbers association,
of South Carolina, here.
GreenvilIe-Three hundred new
| homes are to be erected here at once
financed byb five building and loan
associations and paid for by the
owners on the monthly installment
basis.
UniOn-$14O, 900 is paid stockhold-
ers of the Union-Buffalo Cotton
mills here on the regular dividend
of three and a half per cent.
e-Confederate Memorial
day will be observed in all cities and
towns of the state with special eX-
ercises and parades, May 10.
Anderson.-M. L. Bonham, of this
city, and Wade c. Hughes, Of Wal
halla, are spoken Of as probable can
didates for the judgeship Of the
Tenth judicial circuit, to succeed the
late Judge George E. Prince.
Kershaw.-The First Baptist
church extends a call to the Rev.
George E. Smith, of Westminster.
WestvilIe.-William Peach. eighty,
Confederate veteran, is dead.
Edgefield.-County, city and cham
Der of commerce officials oppose the
proposal to change the route of the
Dixie highway that would leave
Edgefield off.
Chester.-The twenty-frst annual
session of the synod of the Associate
Reformed Presbyterian church is in
session here. DR.. Oliver Johnson, of
Winnsboro, retires as moderator.
Spartanburg.-The street railway
company appeals for permission to
suspend operation of the trolley cars
here, on the ground that they are
being run at loss.
Inman.-George Ashmore is SEN
fenced to three years on the chain
gang for reckless automobile driv- |
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