Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-01

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exodus of negro labor from this Sec
ton is assuming alarming proper.
tons, employers report.
WhitevilIe.-"I knew that nv hus-
band had not met death long before
[ heard from him." says Mrs. D. M.
Mobiles, whose husband is respited so
days Ex-Governor Morrison, pending
investigation Of the crime for which
he is condemned to die. God told
me in my prayer that he would be
spared" the wife explained.
Fayetteville.-The city is visited
by $500 school children attending
the annual county school commence
ment exercises, the parade incIud.
ing pupils of sixteen schools.
..Greensb Oro.-William Walker,
white. is painfully but not seriously
shot by a guard when he attempts
t oescape from a convict camp near
| here. Walker is a patient at a local
hospital.
Elizabeth City.-A new boat line
! operating between this city and Nor
| folk is proposed by. r. A. Zoeller, of
Washington, who is here making
plans to use two Of his boats in this
service.
GOldsbOrO.-The mystery surround
ing the disappearance of r. H. Ed
wards, %, formerly a teacher in the
| Saulson High school, is cleared up
| by announcement by naval officials
that he has enlisted in the navy.
Foul play was feared.
RaIeigh.-Suits for $4,25o for re.
| oil
been defective are filed in Wake
county superior court against Rich.
mond Guano Co., by o. C. Tally and
L. N. Rouse, who ask $1,000 and
| $2,25O in damages, respectively.
CharlOtte.-F. Mf Redd, attorney
for the plaintiffs, goes to Raleigh to
appear supreme court in
arguments of the case of Math Arm
strong, and others, against 20 Gas
ton county board of commissioners,
who are restrained from the issue
! of $4,000 in bonds for construction
of a tuberculosis hospital.
Raleigh.-The supreme court
! grants a new trial to R. M. Dixon,
| convicted at Greensboro and SEN
| fenced to two years in prison on
charges OF issuing two forged
| checks.
CharIOtte.-Epworth Leagues here
are preparing to entertain 500 dele
gates to the western North Carolina
conference of the league here June
12-15th.
| WilmingtOn.-Annual meeting of
the Wilmington Presbyterial auxil-
larry, opens at Mt. Olive Presbyterian
! church at Mt Olive
WilmingtOn.-The steamer Katch-
! din clears with a cargo including
1900 tons of cross-ties for New
| York.
acknowledgements Morrison is
| host at a formal dinner in honor of
Senator F. M. Simmons.
LumbertOn.-Two thousand per.
sons are present when Mrs. H. F..
Purvis goes on the stand in city
court to testify against B. M. Law
son, Fairmont chief of police, John
| Hedgepeth and julie Brogden, charg
I ed with being members of a masked
| band which flogged Mrs. Purvis and
Mrs. Mary Watson.
RaIeigh.-Half million plows are
working on the 100000 acres Of
| titled lands in this state, it is esti-
mated by Frank Parker, agriculture
a. statistician of the federal depart.
mnet of agriculture. ~
WiIsOn.-The second day of the
annua meeting of the North Caro-.
! lima chapter of War Mothers is fea.
tured by a memorial service for
sons of members.
LaIeigh.-Governor Morrison tells
! the Raleigh Lions club to beware of
of "the bears" explaining the po-
litical issues of the state are not as
between Democrats and Republicans
| but rather between the bulls and
the BEARS on development of the
state.
Charlottesville North Carolina
Jersey Breeders club will meet here
May Is with the Mecklenburg Coun-
ty Jersey Breeders, it is announced
by r. E. Mcdowell, president of the
| local association.
High Point. A Ruth, conven-
ton chairman, announces 1900 del
egates are expected to attend the an
nual convention here June 1921 Of
| the North Carolina Baptist Young
Peoples union.
GOldsbOrO.-Red Cross chapters of
eastern North Carolina will hold
here May 20 their annual confer
ence, which will be addressed by
Miss Jane Van de Verde, director Of
nursing in the Sothern division, and
Miss Kathleen Myers, state director
OF public health nursing. Carter
Taylor, field director of disaster re-
lief, will preside.
Winston SaIem.-Suit for $4,000
damages against Efird's department
store is filed here by Mrs. Tia 3.
Church, who alleges she was injur-
ed when a crowd before the store
forced her against a plate glass
window, which was broken.
Observation-Disclosures c.. Campbell,
FS2, formerly professor of geology at
Vanderbilt university dies here.
Asheville.-James J. Britt, legal
advisor at Washington of the pro-
hibition unit, expects to spend
week here giving attention to pri-
vate affairs.
Wilmington Governor. Morrison
sets June IA as the date for the exc
cution of Clyde P. Montgomery, sem
fenced to death for a criminal as
sault upon a young woman here.
KinstOn.-Rev. Lee Mcbride! pas
tor of First Baptist church, goes to
Cameron, Texas, to conduct revival
| services.
WinstOn-Salem. John L. Powell
| of Washington, former director Of
the United States Chamber of Com
merce, addresses the directorate of
the local chamber at luncheon.
AsheviIIe. - Women and girls
dressed in overalls turn out with the
men to an 8,000-acre forst fire on
Carriers mountain in Wilkes county,
according to a report from George
E. Blevins, county fire warden.