Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-21

! ment, says George A Scott, sales
manager of Florida Citrus exchange.
st. Petersburg. - Absence of
dongue fever this summer is at
tributed to success on war on mos
quito during recent months. Nearly
everybody had the fever last sum-
mer. ~.
Tampa.-Four men who held up
F.. l.. Wilson, superintendent Of
GUNNER Cypress company and es-
capped with $11 900 payroll at Lacoo-
chez Saturday are believed to be
members OF Mobley gang OF bank
robbers. Fifty persons Witnessed
robbery which occurred s Wilson
and Paymaster Chace were getting
into Ford coupe at railroad station.
Bandits fled into woods In Ford car
and disappeared,
TallahasSee.-Under law passed by
recent legislature a young man and
young woman from each county
will be given a scholarship valued
at 5000 a year. in teachers college
! Of university or State College for
Women if they intend TO become
teachers. Competitive examinations
will be arranged by state superln-
tendent Of education.
Misunderstanding depoits of rotted
wood, two to four feet thick, are
found thirty feet under surface
where piles are being driven for new
hotel on beach here. Wool Is be-
Iieved to be of trees swept there by
vast tidal wave several hundred
thousand years ago. 1t is deposited
on hard shell rock
Tallahassee. r. Harvell, for
mer legislator from Milton, is APP
pointed assistant superintendent Of
state hospital for insane at Chat
tahoochee. .'.
Tampa.-Reports to office of Flcr-
ida Grape Growers association in
dictate vineyards will yield we'll this
year Backward spring delayed de
velopment, but crop has recently
made great progress.
Miami.-Two thousand attend flu
neral of Charles r. Bryant, Home
stead marshal, who was slain Fri
day while attempting to arrest ne
gro for theft and for whose death
two negroes were lynched. Two
hundred members of the Ku kluX
Khan and several members of the
new order of kamelia attend and
khan takes charge CT services.
OcaIa.-Between 300 and 400 dele.
gates are expected at Florida r,p-
worth League convention which
! opens here Monday and continues
through week.
Observation-Disclosures rains re.
duced tupelo honey flow, good crop
Of other grades is gathered by
apiarymen in this section, and crop
will amount to 10000 barrels.
New Smyrna.-City charter
amendments are adopted by vote of
"a to 81, and w. E. Swoope is elect
ed city commissioner. .
Quincy.-Harvesting OF Gadsden
county shades grown tobacco is
progressing under ideal conditions.
Crop is declared best ever grown
here. Many growers will average
1,200 pounds to acre.
st. Augustine.-Miss Inez Faux
ner, eighteen, is drowned, and Miss
Mary and Pearl Earles are rescued
from similar fate while bathing in
surf. Caught by undertow they ne
come frightened.
JacksOnville.--T Shanghai Low
restaurant, operated by Charlie You
Gee, is raided by government agents,
opium valued at several thousand
dollars is found and the Chinaman
arrested for violation of narcotic act.
Enthusiastically mourns death
Of j. w. McCord, born in Walton
county. Ga. but for thirty years
resident here.
st. Petersburg of Com
merce pays $S5 for gold tarpon,
weighing 1856 pounds, which will be
mounted and used for display pur-
poses.
Jacksonville. - Arthur Johnson,
negro sentenced 10 hang for murder
of f. L. Cross, is removed from
Gainesville to jail here for safe
keeping. Party bringing him eludes
two lynching mobs.
Fernaudina.-After lingering i'll
ness, Mrs. Helen n. Heidi dies at
home of daughter here.
MadisOn.--Barn No. 2 of Goldberg
Tobacco Co. is burned with 5000
pounds of tobacco. Loss about 49,
900 with $4,000 insurance.
Quincy Miss lone Lyons Hough
and John Edward Peacock, of De-
Land, are married al home of brides
parents, near Gretna.
st. Petersburg.-J. w. Hassett and
son, Arthur, of Chattanooga, fishing
for tarpon off Fort Dade narrowly
escape injury when 12O-pound tarpon
Jumps into boat, denlolishes engine
box and crowds them to edge of
boat. After. hard fight Ash is killed
with large monkey wrench.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. court sus.