Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-24

educational meeting in birmingham.
University.-Dr. George H. Denny,
president of state university, tells
board of trustees $3,500,000 for new
buildings is needed
University.-There are 1874 grad
yates of State university of Alabama
this commencement, and 1900 stu
dents are enrolled.
University-State university of
Alabama will have class in coal
mining this summer, commencing
June 4.
Auburn.-Mexican bean beetle is
discovered on experimental grounds
! here by DR.. F. l.. Thomas, depart
ment of state entomology.
Montgomery.--State authorities are
after bad egg dealers. Five per cent
! bad eggs constitutes violation of
pure food laws.
| TuSkegee. - Government hospital
for disabled negro soldiers, four
! miles from here, is opened.
Union Springs.-County school
boards of Union Springs and of Bull
| lock county indorse three mill school
tax, to be voted on June 16.
|
Troy.-state Normal school here
has enrolment of 1855, being larg.
est in its history.
JacksOn.-Mrs. J.. A. Savage has
wild dewberry vine, which produces
an abundance of snow-white berries.
Mont gomery.-Chester f. Johnson.
state fire marshal, says he will in
troduce bill in state legislature this
summer requiring all schools, hotels
and office buildings to have fire es-
capes.
MOntgOmery.-State department of
archives and history is presented
with papers of late John D. Terrill,
ST., which give much Alabama his
! tory of past century.
Tuskegee Institute.-There are L.
500 negro boys enrolled here for sum-
! mer work in agriculture.
/ Tr0y-Joel D. Jinright files suit
against Gulf Refining company for
| $4,000, claiming defective coal oil
caused lamp to explode, burning his
wife to death.
| MOntgOmery.-Many New England
cotton mills are looking to Alabama,
owing to great water power of state.
Albany Many dogs, thought to
| have rabies, were poisoned by eat
ing carcass of dead cow which was
poisoned, it is learned.
AtmOre. Local Red Cross and
chamber Of commerce raise $3.50 for
drive against mosquitoes.
Fayette.-Cullen> Caraway, thirty
nine-year- old farmer, shoots himself
in temple with % caliber rifle and
may die as result. No cause is as
signed.
Oxford.-Lightning fires barn of
w. T. Catlett, near here, destroying
building and burning to death three
mules and one horse.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. here are plan
ming biggest Fourth of July celsbra-
ton Huntsville has ever had.
Huntsville. - Lincoln Mills an
nounce they will build new cotton
mill here costing over $2,OoO,OOO.
HaIeyviIIe.-This place now has
twenty-four-ho electric service in.
stead of only night service.
Alabama City.-First grade teach
ers here for next year will be paid
1872 per month, and second grade
teachers $S5 per month.
WedOwee.-Bell Lumber company
adds planer and dry kiln to saw mill
plant.
Opp.-It is announced work will
. commence at once on -Florala
highway. Contract is let and 200
men will be employed.
Grove HilI.-State highway COM
mission will soon commence first
road building in Clarke county.
Birmingham.-Alab League of
Women Voters is planning fight
against convict lease system in Ala
bama.
Birmingham.-Desp over
death Of mother causes Mrs. Nola
p. Joseph. aged thirty-seven, to take
her own life with revolver.
Selma.-Three yeggmen carry off
safe containing money and valuable
papers from Woco Pep filling sta
ton, escaping with safe in big
truck.
Samson.-Lightning strikes resi-
dence and kills Roy Smith, aged II,
and Roy McDougle, aged s. and in
jures three other children.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Spartanburg.-Jack Avent, fifteen
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. P. AVent.
of this city, is instantly killed when
he falls from running board of auto
mobile on way with party of boys to
baseball game.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, develops,
to permanent lease of Carolina,
Clinchfield and Ohio railroad by
Louisville and Nashville.
Chesnee.-Arthur Robinson, negro,
who was saved from lynching, is
given seventeen years sentence for
murder of Robert Hall, white farmer.
Anderson.-George Allen, fifty
eight-year-old negro, is sentenced to
die in the electric chair for the muir
der of Cecil Hall, white farmer.
COIumbia.-Open- warfare on labor
agents, who are partly blamed for
present shortage of farm hands in
South Carolina, is launched by Gov
eraor Mcleod.
Spartanburg. - Delegation repre-
SeHLlnS new England cotton mills
is touring cotton min centers in this
section, gathering information of
every kind pertaining to textile in
dustry.
COlumbia.-Miss Annie Wittvogel.
Fin leaving large estate, requests
$50, 900 to provide a home here for
aged and dependent white women of
this citV and suburbs
SpringfieId.-Buist Jumper, %,
who had been married less than a
year, dies from self-inf1icted wound.
Chester. - With death of BeE
Lumpkin, number killed in explosion
Of DIR, roaita l.