Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-01


tinue operations.
HICKORQ.-Guy Rudisill and Lee
Huffman go to home of Henry
Seagle, near here, and ask to see
Miss Lou Lyon, star witness in re-
cent Glenn Lippard trial involving a
killing, and answer is load of shot
which penetrated Rudisill's back.
Rudisill is brought to hospital here
and Seagle is held in Newton jail.
CHARLOTTE.-Cha Supply
company announces plan to build
$3.50, 900 home; J. A. Henderson buys
business house site for $4,000; Elks
club announces intention to build
$500, 900 home; announcement says
Pyramid Motor company will build
100000 sales and service building;
J. H. Cutter begins negotiations for
lease of 100000 theater he proposes
to build on $4,000 site.
CHARLOTTE.-Mr Evelyn Nc.
Lead, SO, one of city's beloved won.
en-, dies of ailments incident to adj
vanced age.
DAVIDSON.-Gran and bronze
memorial is unveiled at cabin stand
ing on banks Of Catawba river near
Belmont, where Nancy Hanks. moth.
er Of Abraham Lincoln, lived.
RALEIGH.-Inquest by two cor
oner's juries fail to disclose clue to
identity of mysterious slayer whose
murders and attempted murders has
caused continuing reign of terror
among Raleigh negroes.
CONCORD.-Voters defeat propos-
al for special tax to carry out school
development program Of county.
Observation-Disclosures seek.
ing to influence federal government
TO convert Fort Fisher, scene Of
fierce Civil war conflict into nation.
al park, is given impetus by plan
of Captain Edgar Williams to so to
Washington. for conference on sub
ject with Senators Simmons and
Overman, of North Carolina.
BEAUFORT.-Capt. A. C. Skel-
ton, of Nova Scotian rum runner
inlet, is released when state and
are made after being in Jail ten
in Jail.
ALBEMARLE.- Miss Mary Mel
ton, IS, pretty daughter of L. D.
Melton, tried on charge of killing
Allen Carpenter, Confederate vet
eran, last July, in auto accident, is
declared not guilty.
RALEIGH of state in
dIIet1,ia1 traiIoi1o school fov 6o1iI1.
quent negro boys buys 400-acre site
in Richmond county, near Hamlet,
for $4,000, leaving $40, 900 appro.
priation available for construction
and equipment.
HIGH POINT. ~ billiard Smith, 9.
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. r. l.. Smith, is
taken to hospital in serious condi.
ton after being run down by motor
car driven by young son of j. M.
SouthWell.
RALEGGH.-E F. Netherly,
white, employed by builders Of Odd
Fellows building, falls five stories
to his death.
RALETGH.-State ship and water
commission indicates its report OH
proposal for state to engage in con-
struction of terminals and opera.
ton of ship line will be made in
January to Governor Morrison.
WILSON.-Edward Lane and
James Thomas are dead and five
others are suffering from serious in.
juries as result of explosion Of boil
er operating steam shovel of Norfolk
Southern railway near Stantonburg,
II miles from here. Fifteen others
near boiler escaped. Lane lived at
Edenton; Thomas at Jackson
Springs.
DURHAM.-Body of George Man.
gum, former soldier, who died re.
Gently ir Baltimore. and who was
saved from burial in potter's field
by publication of letter indicating his
identity to Walter E. Harris, Of Dur.
ham, brother-in-law, is returned
here for interment.
EURLINGTON.-Fund Of $500.
900 is raised by local interests as in
duce:lent to Gastonia textile men 20
remove cotton mill here. and an
nouncement is made Burlington
Cotton Mills plant to cost $75O.OOO
will be in operation before next fall.
DuKE.-Erwin Cotton Mills COM
pany will build $2,5000CO mill here.
it is announced.
NORTH WILKESBORO.-Al
Adams, 80, one Of few surviving
veterans Of Confederacy residing in
county, dies of old age.
oXFORD.-Sandy Bradsher, of
Person county. is sentenced to 80
days in Jail for contempt of court
when Judge Devin, in superior
court. is convinced he violated in.
junction restraining him from sell
ing tobacco outside Of cooperative
growers associations markets.
RALEIGH.-Reports from princi.
pal marketing centers of state place
Thanksgiving turkey prices at 80 to
40 cents per pound.
NEWTON.-City's $4,000 public
improvement program, including
paving, water, sewer and school
projects, is completed.
SALEM OF al
dermen's school committee opens
bids for construction of West End
High school, lowest bid being $780,
900. Full board will act on award
Of contract.
Observation-Disclosures n.
Hackett, Of North Wilkesboro, for.
mer congressman from Eighth dis.
trict, North Carolina, and former
grand master of Masonic grand
lodge of state, dies in Statesville hos.
pital after brief Illness, aged fifty
seven, according to dispatch received
here.
RALEIGH.-State supreme court
denies appeal and holds Gus Mat
thews, young High Point white man,
must serve five-year term in state
prison for his part in robbery of
Bank Of Summerfield, May %, 1922.
Romer Mckee is serving seVen-year
term for same robbery.