Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-25
ALABAMA

AtaDana COTTON, out Doll WeeNH
doing much damage.
UNION SPRINGS-Bullock coun
ty claims biggest watermelon OF
season, one grown by Jason Car
Isle weighing seventy-two pounds.
.-'+s@F AYETTE-Hun of acres OF
land are being drained in this coun
gy. by large dredge bitches.
TROY - Mrs. Sarah Eugenis
Crawford, seventy-five, is among
i graduates of State Normal schoo
here.
OPP-Gold Star Post. American
I1egion, will pay expenses of dele
gates to state convention at Mobile
August S0-S1. Delegates will make
/. round trip in auto.
/. SLOCOMB-Public school is con
verted into high school with Prof
N: L. Black principal.
g CLANTON-Mr. and Mrs. H. l.
Ftoshee find rattlesnake in yard with
! their children two and four Chill
s.dren are uniniured. Snake measures
-four feet long and has eleven rat
tiles.
ssssS@ ELBA-W. Albert Prescott an,
E5f0unCeS lOr county iitdSuItI. anu
-. Edmond Hudson for superintetnd
aert of education.
+, - AUBURN - DIR. J. H. Drake
y physician for Alabama Polytechnic
\ institute for fifty years, has unus-
aual record Of never being sick or
s. absent during his years of service
@here.
E# FOLEY - Frank Hoz is raising
f, .s.chickens on big scale. He sets 10000
EAncona eggs in one electric incuba'
tor.
HEFLIN-Rev. w. w. Levie re-
turns from Oxanna. where he closed
abig revival for Methodists.
= LIVINGSTON After successful
summer term with 400 students en-
rolled. Alabama Normal school dis
bands.
TALLADEGA. - Despite boil Wee
vii and army worms, indications are
there will be good cotton crop here.
ees FORT DEPOSIT. - lire of I'M
SsI<nown origin destroys large two
story dormitory of Alabama Chris
tan Institute for Negroes, and nine
negro girls barely escape.
DOTHAN. - Miss Evelyn Rivers,
community service director. is plan
ming party for pioneer citizens of
Dothan.
= PADEVILLE. - Citizens of Dade-
syille complete fourteen miles of high
way to Cherokee Bluffs, where Ala
bama Power company is erecting big
power dam.
ALEXENDER CITY. - This town
iss experiencing big building boom.
8 Among improvements under way are
hospital, school, waterworks system.
-e75 new cottages and big additions
ito cotton mills.
TUSCUMBIA--Mrs. Ed B. Almon,
wife of Congressman Almon, breaks
leg when she falls at her home.
IS FLORENCE-Sta normal school
s.llpses successful summer term.
: SWEST BLOCTON. = High school
here opens September 4 with Pro
fessor A. J. Brown principal.
VOCATION-Coley Blackshear vo-
Irrational school opens September 4.
Over rs boarding students are ex-
pectsd.
se9rCAMP MISCELLANEOUS 1000
members of Alabama national guard,
IN training here, pass in review be-
fore governor.
ANNISTON.-Feder agents cap
ture Is stills. $500 gallons of beer,
i so. gallons whisky and arrest James
sA. lWaddell IN. one days work in Gle
eburne county.
ABBEVILLE.-Pro Claire
sf7tfford resigns as principal OF agrI-
Cultural school and is succeeded by
Professor w. H. Ramsey.
80 observation-disclosures of Ten
'nessee Valley win first offensive"
against army worm and believe they
can hold situation rest of season.
NOULTON.-Heavy rains do much
damage to cotton and corn through
out Lawrence county.
>MARION.-Civitan club is wag-
ing War against mosquitoes by drain
Ing low places and using coal Oil.
SYI.ACAUGA. - Masons will Law
cornerstone of Fourth District Asri.
cultural school August 30.
.ALBANY.-Local members of the
american Legion will invite state
body to hold annual session here
next year.
DECATUR.-New school building
In course of construction is struck
by lightning and small damage done
BIRMINGHAM-Quarrel between
bofs results in shooting and kill
Ing of w. T. Childers and George
Gould. r. w. Thompson is in jail
charged with murder.
VERNON.--nrs Lucille Mcdaniel
teachers in public schools and are
succeeded by Mr.. and Mrs. f. T.
: Hill.
r CENTRE. - ARRANGEMENTS arc
mace for holding Cherokee count,-
fair October 2S3-2S.
UNION S.-Comr1unitv
Life institute, under auspices of Ala.
bama Sunday school council, is held
at Bethel.
FLOEY-Judge John Stelk. of
z Oak, Ala, conducts citizenship class
shere.
HALEYVILLE - Northwest Ala.
barha high school opens with large
attendance.
CLANTON - Christian church
Meosting $4,000 is being built here.
COOPERS'-Isaac L. Bice kills
snake having two perfect heads and
two small tails with one body
s. JACKSONVILLE Kathleen
st)augette goes to Commerce. Texas
ITO become director of orchestra and
chorus work in State. Teachers col
Iege.
WILSON DAM-There is labor
sorthage here. More than 100 rock
quarry man are needed now.
SVILLE-Huntsville wants
city limits extended 20 take in mill
villages, giving population Of $4,000
people.