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

Lynch river on the F1orence-Lake
City highway.
Sumter.-Jesse Wilson, negro, is
held for trial, charged with inducing
negroes to migrate north. He had
a blank block ticket for so passen-
gers sent by a firm at Kinston,
N. Y.
CharIeston.-The Rev. Charles du
Bois Wood, pastor of the Florence
Missions, is appointed rector of ST
Mary's church here, succeeding the
late Father G. A. Kraft.
Sumter.-R. L. Mcleod is elected
president, C. C. Probst, vice ,presi-
dent, and J. c.. Pate, secretary
treasurer, respectively, of the Sum
ter Shrine club.
York - This, he White Rose
town, will be the mecca of South
Carolina Episcopalians from all
the occasion being the annual pill
orphanaee. Bishop Kirkman G..
F'inlay will speak.
Sumter-A mule supposed to have
hydrophobia bit a negro boy but
examination of the head revealed
that the animal was suffering from
hemorrhagic septicemia, and not
rabies. Many animals are reported
to be affected.
Greenwood - The Index-Journal
receives letter signed *. X. K.
Committee" in which the editor is
threatened that a bomb will be
dropped if certain editorial COM
ments are not stopped.
Chester-S. c. Carter is elected
mayor, with opposition, and sue
ceeds George w. Byars. Four alder
men are unopposed.
Georgetown Capt. William A..
Black, citizen here thirty-tWo yeaTs,
dies of the infirmities of age. He
was born at Newberry in 1887. He
served through the war and was
one Of Gen. Wade Hampton's most
trusted, scouts.
DEMONSTRATING operations are
being delayed by the continued in
termittent rains. Less than one
half Of the cotton crop is planted.
Laurens-The crate and box fac.
tory here resumes operations after
being idle several months.
Allendale-This county, which
cree grew only cotton to sell, is
showing what can be done in diver
sified farming, her farmers. having
shipped out in three months sixty
cars of hogs, fifteen cars of cattle,
nd -
while making preparations for grow
ing various truck and special crops.
CharIeston-"I haven't a penny,
but [ must do something for those
little starving children in the Near
East" said a sweet-faced woman.
She gave her wedding ring and a
gold brooch to the cause.
Greenwood the hope of escap-
ing the curse of an evil eye cast
| upon him by a cross-eyed crone
two years ago. Tom JaverS, a tJxl
driver, has fled to Detroit after a
series of disasters which, he claims
are the result of a "hoodoo" of the
Cross-eyed woman.
AndersOn-A replica of the famous
Spanish Heir" fraud being oper-
inconvenience of the interior depart
ment, says "a Washington dispatch.
| Persons, as yet unidentified, have
been busy in Georgia and South Car
oline, seeking descendants of Elias
Sanders and relating to these the
rosy tale of a $3,000,0O0 fund held
by the government for distribution
to them.
Spartanburg Tom Couch OF
| Saxon Mills is held in Jail, charged
with the murder Of Clyde Bates.
Couch says Mrs. Bates was in the
room with Bates at the time of the
shooting.
Gaffney-The Rev. Robert Colley
Cranberry, D. D., acting president
IS elected to succeed the late DIR.
Lee Davis Lodge as president of
Limestone college here.
Bath-Augusta. Ca, has become
the Reno for South Carolinious seek
ing divorces.
/ Gaffney-$ 100000 school bonds