Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-11
court is postponed until January %,
owing to illness of Judge Boyd.

! court is postponed until January %
owing to illness of Judge Boyd.
CHARLOTTE.-Past year ''has
been a hectic period" for cotton mills
of state, says Hunter Marshall, sec
rotary, on return from meeting o.
| North Carolina Cotton Manufacture
ers' association at Pinehurst. doubt
and uncertainty at end are no less
than at beginning of year, durins
which mills have hardly made ex
penses." he says.
DUNN.-Copper still of 125 gallons
capacity, $50 gallons of whisky, 1000
gallons of beer and 2,100 pounds Of
sugar, two mules, wagon and one
blockeader seized near here, repre-
sent richest haul of prohibition forces
in this part of state.
| RALEIGH.-Mis Katherine Clark
of Bladen county, champion club girl
of state, to attend national conven'
ton Of club boys and girls at Chicago.
WIMINGTON.-Present tax pol.
icy of state SIS intolerably unjust and
unwise in it's tendency to place the
burden upon land" declares j. w.
Bailey, of Raleigh, in ADDRESS at con-
vention of public school teachers of
southeastern counties.
ASHEVILLE. - Buncombe coun-
ty tax collector brings in $20S,00O
in three days, including $4,000 paid
by Mrs. Edith Vanderbilt.
DUNN.-George Darden, IA, is
seriously injured when 22-calibre
q diSnh0 rood hi l.
let grazing skull above left eye.
GREENSBORO. - Members of
special legislative committee inves-
tigating advisability of state spend
ing $10,000,000 or more in constrGc-
ton of railroad into lost counties"
in northwestern part Of state, meets
December 10 with Governor Morri-
son and Attorney General Man
ming, when legal phases of proposal
will be discussed, perhaps as pre-
liminary to friendly action in courts,
RALEIGH.-state Baptist head
quarters announce deficit for year
in churches payments on $75,000,00G
campaign pledges is 100000. con-
tributions for year being $4,000.
Total deficit is $500, 0C0. Pledges
for five-year period amounted to
1854 900.
GREENSBORO. = Walter y
Myers. aged ga, dies after illness OF
four years.
DURHAM.-Duke Fund commits.
sion, in charge of distribution of
$25 ,000 annual contribution by J. E.
Duke, tobacco and power magnate.
of New York and Charlotte, N. c.,
for betterment of rural Methodist
churches, holds annual meeting at
Trinity college.
MOUNT AIRY.-W. A. Hill, OF
Carroll county, Va, suffers severe
injuries when motor truck, on which
he and son, Roy, slightly injured,
were bringing 20 pigs to Pilot Noun
tain, is demolished in peculiar acct
dent following collapse Of wheel.
Elder Hill is brought to local hos
pital.
CHARLOTTE. - Mecklenburg
county highway commission enacts
ordinance requiring railways operat-
ing through county to employ watch
men at all grade crossings or to
establish electric alarms instead, eff
fective March 1, 1924.
RALEIGH.-Hea is begun in
state supreme court on appeal of
The Asheville Citizen and The Ashe.
Vile Times from ruling Of Judge
McElroy, in Buncombe county SUI
perior court, dissolving temporary
order restraining striking printers.
Question Of. right of labor union
members on strike to picket estah-
!ishments is being argued in broad
aspects.
Observation-Disclosures negro at
tempts oassault white girl, aged
sixteen, drawing revolver on her
when he accosted her in field. Girls
screams attracted James Williams.
before whose advance negro fled.
Posse takes UP chase.
GOLDSBORO.-Robert E. Hood,
young white farmer, is acquitted in
five minutes by jury after trial on
charge Of murder growing out of
killing Of negro tenant.
GUILFORD COLLEGE. - Mrs
E. M. Davis, seventy-three, wife of
Prof. J. F. Davis, dies after long ill.,
ness. She was member Of Guilford
colleges first faculty.
WASHINGTON.-King Edwards,
white, sixty-five. who worried over
his health, is found dead by road
side, body resting across shotgun,
from one barrel of which
had blown off head.
CHARLOTTE.-Dr. Thomas Ruff
fin, of Washington, D. c., grandson
Of late Chief Justice Ruffin, of state
supreme court, legal adviser to Gen
eral Pershing in World war, is nom
mated by certain members of Char
otte bar as candidate for deanship
Of law school Of University OF North
Carolina.
CHARLOTTE.-Ser by DR..
James l. Vance, of Nashville, out,
standing figure in Presbyterian
church. brings to, close semi-centen-
NAL celebration at Second Presbyte-
rian church.
PINEHURST. = Cotton manufac-
turers' association of state is told by
Horace Williams, head of depart
ment of philosophy, University of
North Carolina, that present prob
lem of capital and labor is result of
industrial life in terms of
limitations nav