Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-17
NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville.-One of greatest blasts
ever fired in state skaters solid hill
of limestone weighing 10000 tons, at
quarry of the ClinchGeld Lime COM
pany, in Burke county.
GastOnia.-L. n. Scruggs, seventy,
is convicted Of selling whisky and is
given sentence of six months. He
is released on $500 bond on appeal.
New Bern. - Edward Martin.
formerly clerk of court for Pamlico
county, is convicted on charge of
embezzling $4,000 to $4,000 of county
funds and is given two years in state
prison. . *
AsheviIIe.-Dr. ]. NJ. Fresh, physi-
clan of Weaverville. is indicted here
by grand jury on charge by woman
patient.
Kinston. - Leslie Worthington,
president Of the tobacco board of
trade, returns here after spending
several months in Europe on bust
ness.
Durham.-Oficials here are in
clined to regard as a hoax 2, note
found by H. r. Goodall in a hat on
the bank of Flat river in which the
writer said: "Good-by old world.
I'm going to drown myself.
observation-disclosures by owners of
the property and heads of the ests1p-
lishments discloses a loss of about
100000 with about SIS, 900 insurance
in the fire which destroyed a bot
Ting plant, battery shop. paint
store and a paper-hanging consern's
stocks.
Gastonia.-S. NJ. Branch. sixty
five, dies here of blood poisoning, de-
veloping from an injury sustained
several weeks ago when he lost a
finger
Raleigh.-NTrs. T. w. Beckett. wife
of the former governor, speaks to
the high school students here on
THE Way to Spend a Vacation"
kinston-Arthur House, Is whose
neck is broken. continues to live
and has partial use of his body. Re
ports from the hospital here, where
he is patient, are to the effect his
injury may not prove fatal.
Spring Hope.-Mr and Mrs. S. H.
Brantly. celebrate fiftieth anniver-
Of their wedding at home near
here, a dinner being~served to sew
eral hundred.
Shelby.-Dr. Della Dixon Carroll
of Raleigh, sister of Thomas Dixon,
playwright. and Rev. A. C. Dixon,
D. D., will address the Woman's
club here May -. William Jennings
Bryan is also invited to speak to the
club when in state to attend the
Montreal assembly of Presbyterian
church.
Burlington. A.fBaynes is NAM
ed executor of a million-dollar oil
estate in Texas, according to infor-
nation received here.
Durham.-In order that Mrs. n.
A. Reynolds, of Charlotte, daughter
of Mrs. Sallie E. Morgan, may at
tend the Bennett commission to
p erect memorial on the spot at the
Morgan-Bennett- farm, where Cen
eral Johnston surrendered to Cen
eral Sherman in the Civil war is
postponed until May Is.
Winston Salem. Henry
T. Allen, L. S. A, lately commander
of American forces on Rhine, ac-
cepts invitation to speak here May
20 at Decoration day exercises un.
der auspices of American Legion
post.
SanfOrd.-J. w. Bowman, wealthy
Lemon Springs resident. is sentenc-
ed to two years imprisonment and
fine Of $500 after conviction in Lee
county court of violating the proht
bition laws. He is released on 81 900
bond pending appeal.
New Bern.-Angus w. Mclean, of
Lumberton, delivers an address here
ate Memorial day exercises, which
included decorating graves of sew
enty North and South Carolina sol
diers of the Confeledarcy who fell
in the Civil war fighting here.
CharlOtte.-Josephu Daniels, edi-
tor, of Raleigh, lauds ability of Gen
eral Daniel H. Hill, who lived most
of his life here, in the course of his
Memorial day address.
Durham-Mrs. Matte BroadweIl
Horton sues for divorce, alleging her
husband is worth $4,000 vet re-
fuses to pay her hospital bills, and
that her i'll health is due to his i'll
treatment.
Fayetteville.-T. E. Graham, farm
er near here, claims boil weevils
have ruined his peach orchard.
Durham.-C. A. Peple, deputygov-
ernor of the Federal Reserve Bank
at Richmond, tells students of Trim
tty college the Inauguration of the
reserve system lat the right mo-
ment made it possible for the allies
TO win over Germany"
CharlOtte.-Rev. L. r. Pruette,
pastor of a Baptist church here, is
elected president of the Southern
Baptist Hospital company at a meet
ing of directors. The company, cap
italized at 100000, recently pur.
chased Tranquil park sanitarium
here and will operate it as a Bap.
fist institution.
WilsOn.-Private Leslie Driver is
wounded by the accidental discharge
OF Private Etheredge's pistol. Both
are members of machine gun com.
pany NJ, state guard.
SaliSbury.-Prohibiti agents seiz-
ed 1877 stills, Is automobiles, 725
gallons of whisky and 104, 800 gallons