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


RaIeigh.-Oficials of North Caro-
lima Cooperative Cotton Growers
association say state supreme court
probably will be called upon to de-
eide how taxes shall be paid on cot
ton of members, which state revenue
officials rule is taxable.
Chapel HilI.-Rev. Plato Durham,
former member of the faculty. OF
Trinity college, Methodist of Dur
ham, now residing at Atlanta, will
deliver the baccalaureate sermon at
North Carolina university COM
mencement.
ImingtOn.-The yacht Tiamiami,
putting in here for repairs, has on
BOARD a sea monster called rhlno-
don-typius, weighing 10000 pounds
when caught off the Florida keys,
which is being taken to the Smith
sonian institution at Washington,
where the mounted 45-foot specimen
will be displayed.
GastOn.-Committee announces
First Baptist church's new building,
costing $4,000, will be completed
probably by July l.
Durham nationwide
mania for jazz music. DR.. Hubert
Poteat, of Wake Forest College and
grand master of North Carolina
Masonry, delivers commencement
address at the Southerns Conserva-
tory of Music.
New Bern.-Robert Fitzpatrick,
Robert Lane. Miss Mary Davenport,
William Biddle, John Laurence,
Clyde Whitford and Miss Eula Lin
coin are injured, former sustaining
a fractured skull, when large au-
tomobiIe crashes into a tree near
here and is completely wrecked.
= Spray.-R. NJ. Soft, principal of
Stoneville high school. Is convicted
on charge of numerically whipping
Millard Rhodenhizer, age IL, and is
fined s25. He appeals and is released
on 5000 bond.
Graham.-Judge w. NJ. Bond, Of
Edenton, in address here, declares
greatest problem that has at any
time confronted people is its form
of government, land adds that this
now demands attention of American
people.
Thomasville.-T. S. Vanadore, of
Anderson, S. c., is painfully injured
when his automobile crashes into a
pile of builders materials here. His
companion, Reese Sebastian, Of same
city, is unhurt.
High Point.-Two negroes, James
Powell and Walter Williams, are
held under bond on charge of blow
ing safe of Cut Rate Furniture store
here. from which about $500 was
taken.
Charlotte men of this
city, called by w. S. Creighton, traf-
fic manager of the Charlotte Ship
spers and Manufacturers association,
Endorse the proposal to build rail-
road through lost provinces" but
refrain from favoring any one of
the five proposed routes.
GreensbOrO.-Al. M. Lane is elected
chief cracker of the Georgia Crack
ers' club recently organized here, at
a meeting featured by reading to 90
members telegram expressing good
wishes of Governor Hardwick, of
Georgia.
StatesviIle. - The Sheriff. Green
Furniture. company, capitalized at
$100, 900, recently purchasing the
plant of the Statesville Wood Prod
ucts company, announces the manu-
facture of dining room furniture will
be started early in July, after
changes in the plant are completed.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Claude
Knchin, Democratic leader In the
house of representatives, taking a
rest cure at hospital here, is show
ing some Improvement, but con-
tinues to have some fever and does
not yet rest well at night.
!. Oxford.-Mrs. J. NJ. Parker, of
Burlington, and Mr.. and Mrs. L. B.
1oache and their two children are
painfully hurt when the car driven
by Mr.. Loache turns over in a ditch
while going at a fast pace.
Greensboro-1ndu leaders of
the north and west are looking to-
the south for new factories \and
branch plants, Greensboro business
men are told at meeting here ad-
dressed by Col z. P. Smith, general
industrial agent of the Southern
railway. He urges cooperation with
those interests.
Franklin.-First cooperative poul-
Try sale ever held here results in
1913 farmers disposing of 2,377 fowls,
weighing 1857 pounds, for $2,0S5, or
an amount equivalent to cents per
pound above the market. Another
sale will be held May %.
Asheville-Arrangem are. be
ing made for twenty members OF
Cherokee Indian tribe in Swain
county to play native game of ball
as feature of the Shrine convention
at Washington in June.
Mari0n.-The North Carolina ten
ancy commission, meeting here in
Joint session with a similar South
Carolina commission, accepts the in
Vitation of former Governor Man
ming to meet with the body of which
he is chairman at it's next meeting
at Charleston, S. c.
AshevilIe. - Mrs. S. PrioIeau
Ravenel, author of writings largely
dealing with French life and Gus
toms, daughter of late Rev. J. T.
Leftwich, Presbyterian minister of
Atlanta and Baltimore, dies here
after extended illness. Mrs. Samuel