Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-14
NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS

derson, Laurens and Greenwood |
opens to run until Labor day. Each |
team plays four games a week.
Gaffney.-Will Michaels, negro, is
held here charged with attempted |
attack upon 13.year-old white girl
near here. Michaels surrendered to |
sheriff, who headed a posse.
Anderson.-Farmer Of Georgia |
were busy cutting and threshing |
grain crops on Sunday. according to
information brought here by auto
mobile tourists.
CoIumbia.-Edmund D. Bigham,
now in state penitentiary under SEN !
tence Of death, charged with having |
killed mother, sister and sisters two !
adopted children, will make effort to
have case appealed to United States |
supreme court.
GreenvilIe. baseball in !
South Carolina is seriously threat !
ened if a recommendation, as now
proposed, is adopted to prohibit col !
lege players from participating in
amateur leagues, declares Coach La
val of Furnan university.
Clemson COIlege.-Annual confer
enco of state gricultural
teachers of South Carolina is in ses-
SON here with about one hundred
attending.
CoIumbia.--South Carolina tax
commission announces total collec-
ton of $4,000 from new revenue
law passed by last general assembly.
CoIumbia.-State tax levy for 1923
will be six mills, it is announced by
comptroller general. Levy last year
was seven and one-half mills.
CoIumbia.-Land Settlement COM
mission leaves July for western
trip to investigate settlements in
several states.
Charleston. Reports from the to-
bacco belt Of the state are that one
of largest crops in history Of the
state has been planted.
GreenviIIe.-Nine children, be-
longing to C. Y. Robertson, are
decided to his sister, Miss Elizabeth
Robertson,
EHSlty s-AllCS MltiS' WIN 49,
&c 900 spindles, are sold to y. Fos-
ter McKissick and his son, Capt. Ell
Iison S. McKissiclz, by Allen j. Ora
ham, representing c. L. Graham es-
tate. Fine print cloth is manufac-
tured. Capt McKissick will BIZ made
president.
Spartanburg.-Seveli diplomas are
awarded to deaf and blind graduates
at Cedar Springs school.
Edgefield.--R. D. Riser is elected
superintendent of Edgefield schools.
Newberry.-Group of South
Carolina Bankers association at au'
nual convention elect F. E. Harri'
son, of Abbeville, as chairman, E. p.
Vandiver, of Anderson, vice-chair'
man.
CarIisIe.-Seven occupants have
narrow escape from death when au-
tomobile plunges Is feet over en-
bankment. Three of the passengers,
Mrs. Pearce Thomas, Miss Sadie
Jeter and l.. T. Strother are in
Union hospital.
CoMmbia.-John A. Griffith, Sc,
prominent Lexington county citizen
succumbs to heart disease at home
near here.
CoIumbia.-Five hundred persons
crowded Church of Good Shepherd
and urge Rev. H. F. Shroeter, rec
tor. not to accept call to Greensboro,
Ala.
DISQUALIFICATION mills of South
Carolina are now enjoying greatest
era of prosperity of decade and are
making extensive additions to
/ plants.
Florence Thousands attend cele-
bration here at openig of bridge over
the Pee Dee river. Addresses are
made by Governor Mcleod, United
States Senator e. d. Smith and
! Monroe Johnson Of Marion. Cor
geous pageant is one of features.
GreenyiIIe. - Woodside building,
| Greenville's history skyscraper,
tallest building in Carolinas, will be
/; formally opened with appropriate
! exercises June Is.
GreenviIIe.-In lire with curtail-
ment in some of larger textile CEN
tiers of north and in certain south
/ ern sections, mill stocks are in little
+ demand on local markets.
SUMTER Elaborate preparations
made for annual meeting of South
: Carolina Dairymeh's association,
which is to be held at dairy farm
of L. d. Jennings, June IA.
CharIeston.-S. Jackson Rumph
! 5S, enc of largest and most pros
! porous market gardeners in coastal
! section, dies.
observation-disclosures il rapidly 60
! ing way of all silly fads," and to
ali intents and purposes, has gone
! declares Miss Ethlyn Wisegarver, OF
Riverton, Wyo., national president
] of Sigma Iota Chi, here for national
convention Of sorority.
! GreenvilIe.-Use of cigarettes by
women in Greenville has been in
creasing rapidly for past three
! wears, according to tobacco deal
ers. -
spartanburg.-Cotton mill en-
ployes in South Carolina number
| $3.50 as compared with 57O01 Iast
wear, labor inspectors report.
FLORIDA
Tampa.-With 100000 boxes of
grapefruit yet to be shipped and
with prices at lowest of season,
growers of Florida face trying mar
ket conditions, says George A. Scott,
general sales manager Of Florida
Citrus exchange. He attributes
slump in demand in part to fact
that much inferior fruit has been
shipped this year, causing public to
turn to berries and cantaloupes.>
Administrations Hardee Fe.,
appoints Jerry w. Garter hotel
commissioner for four-year term.
Leesburg.-John A. Hanson, 70,
one of best known citizens here,
dies after short illness. He served