Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-24


Erison a member of. the state board
of health to succeed Charles E. Wad-
dell.
Observation-Disclosures Bethune. state
Ecollege student, valves preliminary
hearing in city court on a charge
! of manslaughter growing out of an
| automobile collision, when Robert
Chappell was killed, and is released
on $1,000 bond.
LenOir-OfficiaI confirmation lack
| ing of reports that the Southern
Power company intends to develop
a hydro-electric project near Rhod
hiss. Engineers are said to be
making surveys.
Raleigh.-Sheriff Lewis is 'out of
luck" all because he sent :. check
for $52.25 to the wrong department
at Raleigh in payment of Brunswick
county taxes, and a Southport bank
failed before the check was cashed
Greensboro.-Police officers find
Frank Falconer, IS, on the side
walk, where he had been placed by
passers-by. after being run over by
an automobile. His injuries are
| serious.
Charlotte.-Officials of Oasis tenn
pie OF the Shrine announce the
spring ceremonial, May "a, at Gas
! tonia.
| StatesvilIe.-Edgar NJ. \Hallybur-
| ton, first American soldier to be
captured by the Germans in the
World war, is fined $3.50 in fed
eral court here on charges grow
ing out of his arrest with a com
panion while they were in posses
sion Of forty gallons of whisky.
Raleigh.-Dr. E. C. Brooks, SUI
perintendent of public instruction
has available for one qualified 1928
high school graduate a four-year
| scholarship to the Colorado School
of Mines.
Greensboro. - Students, faculty,
trustees. and friends of Greensboro
| college participate in Founders day
exercises, hearing address of Rev,
w. A. Lambetb of Gastonia.
Wilmington.ZThe italian steam
ship Ansaldo VII sails for Genoa
with cargo of $4,000 bales of cot
! ton valued at $2,500,000, consigned
| by Alexander Sprunt & Sons,
Inc.
HiclkOry-Dr. Rufus B. Perry,
professor of philosophy at Lenoir
! college, will deliver the baccalau,
reate sermon May 81 at State col
lege, at Raleigh.
Wake FOrest-H. u. Holmes mem
Der of the 1921 law class at Wake
Forest college, leaves for England
and Ireland to investigate certain
claims of heirs in this country to
New York property Valued at $780,
| 000, 900.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Der
ries from the .Chadbourn section
this season will be about 400 car
loads and about 1900 carloads from
points on the Weldon Wilmington
branch of the A. C. L. Ry., ac-
cording to railway officials.
jackson Springs-Failure of the
peach crop results in large increases
in cotton and tobacco acreage in
this section.
WiIson-Police Chief Lewis, of
MiddleseX, is wounded by a negro
whom the officer slightly wounds in
attempt to arrest the negro, dis
covered rif1ing a mail pouch.
jackson Springs-Mrs. j. G. Cole
will recover but lose use of an arm
AS a result of blood poisoning.
Raleigh-Reuben Gunter, negro
| preacher, vindicated in city court
Of bootlegging while members of
his congregation applaud, starts
from the court with his liquor but
it is retained by officials pending
a study of the law.
CroooeI,o.o Do.,,o,,4 - a. -.
| sale of the Carolina and Yadkin
er, to o. A. Kirkman and associates
for $125,OOO, is filed in superior
court.
CharlOtte-William F. Buchanan,
former leader in local politics, dies
after an illness of a year.
Misunderstanding 1OO-pound bags
of sugar reported stolen from Clyde
Line terminals here are recovered
by the police and seven white men
are charged with aiding in larceny.
EIon College.-Miss Alice Weber,
of Morganton, is elected president OF
the college student body.
Raleigh.-Legal action is held by
state officials to be necessary if the
SLdIe RECEIVERS SZ0,UOU deposited by
the state treasurer in nthe Com
mercial National bank, at Whining
ton, which recently was closed.
GreensbOrO-A. L. Brooks, repre-
senting city council n the litigation
over the Southern railway passen-
ger station bond ISSUE leaves for
Washington to confer with the rail
ways counsel relative to the effort
Of local attorneys to restrain the
city from issuing the bonds in the
amount of $1,300,000, authorized in
1922 for loan TO the railway.
WiImington-S. F. Highsmith is
advised by the treasury department
of the abolition of the office of chief
deputy collector of customs here,
and of his promotion to assistant
collector for the district which in
cludes the state.
MISUNDERSTANDING of State Ever
EFT is to send Chief Clerk Sawyer to
Michigan TO study that states auto
mobile license law operation prepare
tory to the enforcement, beginning
October 1, of the similar newly en-
acted law of this state.
WiIningtOn-Fruit Growers ex
press representatives here estimate
the lettuce movement from this Sec
ton will approximate 500 cars.
! GreensbOrO-Orange Presbytery,