Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-28
AND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS

| ed by the city to Hedrick Con
struction Co., of Lexington. Work
is expected to be completed by No.
vember.
GreensbOrO-Greensb led all
cities in the fifth federal reserve
district in increase of building, oper.
atoms for the month of February,
with an increase of 665.S percent,
according to official figures receiV-
ed here from Richmond. Charlotte
is given third place.
Observation-Disclosures for develop
ment of the city public school
system to amount to 100000 will
be awarded within a few days, it
is announced. The city has 100000
available for extensions.
Raleigh - Wake county COM
missioners in session here are ad-
vised that the report of the investi-
cation of charge of cruelty at the
| Garner convict camp will not be
ready before the first of next week,
owing to unexpected delays in COM
pleting the inquiry.
Greensboro-Colonel Albert Cox,
Of Raleigh is expected to deliver the
memorial day address at exercises TO
be held here May 10 under auspices
of the Daughters of the Confeder-
acy.
Wilmington-North Carolina, with
it's excellent transportation out
lets to all sections by land and sea,
should be the Pennsylvania of the
South, but realization of this
dream Is impossible so long as de.
| pendance is placed on outside as
sistance, Samuel Vauclain, presi-
dent of Baldwin Locomotive Works,
tells a gathering of business men
here.
Chapel Hili-State authorities are
planning development of a state
park at the gorge Of Linyille
river. in Burke county, it is an
| nounced here.
Observation-Disclosures is ordered
! in all cases in the federal court
here which require the appearance
of H. H. Cheatham, revenue agent
acquitted here l, st week when tried
on charge Of Staying Doug. Dun
ham.
HendersOn-The Woman's Mis-
sionary Society of the North Caro-
lima conference, Methodist Episco-
pal church, south, convenes here
for a fourday session.
Raleigh-F'Fank Hoggard, Will
miEgton school boy, is awarded the
prize offered by the state insurance
department for the best essay on
Safety"
Acknowledgements M. Bard. son of
Captain and Mrs. Charles I. Bard,
is instantly killed near here when
the automobile in which he and
William o. Briley, of Baltimore, are
riding is wrecked.
Pinehurst = The twenty-seventh
annual meeting of the North Caro-
lima Bankers association here, May
S-5, will be featured by addresses
by Clarence Ousley, of FIT. Worth,
Texas; General l.. D. Tyson, of
Knoxville, Tenn, and G. E. Brooks,
of Hendersonville, president of the
association.
Raleigh-The farm tenancy COM
mission named by the recent legis-
| lature leaves here for a tour of the
eastern part of this state, where
farm settlements developed by
private capital will be inspected.
WinstOn-SaIem-S soon will be
filed by attorneys for the western
North Carolina conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south,
to establish the provisions of the
will of j. w. Higgins, of Burns
vile, which, it is said, gives $780,
600 to the church, it is announced
| by E. e. Gray, local attorney.
Acknowledgements Carolina is first
in both the 1920 and 1921 federal
census reports of the number of
mills engaged IN lumber production.
The state in 1920 had 1,215 out of
| 1918 for the nation, and in 1921
the state had 1,214 out of 1871.
GreensbOrO-Dr. H. D. Stem
bridge, dentist, is sentenced to 80
days on-the roads by the recorder,
who also sentences him to work out
a suspended sentence of 80 days.
| Conviction in each case was on a
charge of drunkenness.
Burlington-Henry Buckner, 70,
farmer, dies at his home near here
after a brief illness.
High Point-The usual primary
election here is deferred because
incumbent officials have no oppo-
sition.
WinstOn-Salem The Western
| North Carolina Field Trial associa-
ton is organized here by sportsmen
and dog fanciers from all sections
| Of the state. M. l.. Mott, of this
! city, is president.
YanceyviIIe-The Caswell Demo
! crat, local newspaper, says another
election to settle the controversy
+ growing out of the Casweu county
school boards naming Edwin
Hatchett superintendent of educa-
ton will bring "bloodshed" Four
hundred people protested Hatchett's
election, and favored the election of
r. A. Pope. State authorities may
be asked to compromise the fight.
Greensboro-W. A. Scott, deputy
insurance commissioner, reports
| four arrests on arson charges in
this state, Cleo Johnson, at Wades-
boro, bond, $1,000; H. II. Young,
Salisbury, bond, $1,000; j. w. Poe
and Charles Adkins of Winston
Salem, bond, $1,000, and $500, res
| pectlVefy.
! AsheVille-C. H. Burrage, district
forest warden, resigns to go to De-
morest, Ga. where he says he later
will assume charge of a large or
chard.
WinstOn-Salem-A. B. Crutchfield,
former deputy sheriff, is held in
| prison here without bail on a charge
| Of murder growing out of the death
of James Leight, aged six, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Leight, of Wal
kertown, who was killed when run
down by an automobile while play
ing in front of his home.
LenOir-Dewey Story, Is, is seri-
ously injured when he falls down