Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-24
ALABAMA

Fairfield. Land com
;. pany will build $50 bungalows to re-
leve housing situation here.
:. = Albany. reports say
Louisville and Nashville railroad will
enlarge shops.
Gadsden.-Dr. George Freeman,
former Cherokee county boy, is APP
: pointed chief of agriculture OF Haiti
by President WarrenfG. Harding.
Birmingham.-Phil Douglas, for
nner pitcher of New York Giants, is
arrested on charge of reckless drlV-
ing while drunk and violating pro
hibition laws.
SeIma.-Two automobiles, driven
by negroes, are wrecked when they
collide and plunge 40 feet from
bridge Occupants are only slightly
+ injured.
MobiIe.-Before 1000 people Rev.
Gardner c. Tucker, pastor of st.
Johns Episcopal church. denounees
Alabama's convict lease system as
, slavery in its worst form.
Cirard.-parrots are used as
"lookouts" by some bootlegsers
here. Officers say when strangers
approach Polly will cry Look out.
.oo.I cut"
s.~- Gadsden.-First Baptist church
! members plan 100000 building IN
4 near future.
Birmingham.-Fifty whites and
$50 negroes take state school exami-
nations in Jefferson county.
Opelika. Miller Reese Hutchi-
sson, graduate of Auburn college,
now famous inventor, is here work
ding on invention for determination
of boil weevil.
q. M0nroevilIe.-Crop outlook in
county, both cotton and corn, is
most flattering.
. MonrOeville. -Monroe County Boys
Pig club receives from Kilby farm
twenty-sveen purebred registered
aDuroc Jersey pigs.
2 Bessemer.-Obie Oswald, eight, is
seriously injured when his clothing
catches in. fathers sawmill.
Tuscumbia.-Levert Bean and
badly injured when passenger train
strikes auto near here.
= Camp McClellan.-Iwo thousand
= five hundred members national guard
arrive from Georgia, Tennessee and
North and South Carolina.
=. Georgiana. - Weather conditions
s-improve both cotton and corn, but
9 boil weevil is active.
80 EpsIey.-Ensley Baptist church
EMPLOYS educational director and also
{ Young woman fer work among chill
oren.
s. EnsIey-Employes in steel mills
here disapprove of adjustment of L.
hour day shift.
MobiIe.-Mrs. Esther Gray fails to
make $4,000 bond and remains in
iail. charged with shooting Douglas
Brandon.
Fort Deposit.-Beef industry is
growing, many cattle being shipped
10 northern markets.
- Gadsden. of first battle
Manassas celebrate sixty-second an
-riversary of event.
~ Selma. = C. L. Orth. secretary
Young Mems Christian association
gives his blood in TRANSMISSION to save
life of negro infant
Birmingham. General John J.
Pershing speaks at Masonic Temple
auditorium night of July rs,
MontgOmery.-Judg Walter B.
Jones tells grand jury federal gov
! ernment is interfering too much
4 with business. He says one firm in
Montgomery is forced to employ
extra bookkeeper to collect infor-
nation for government.
Observation-Disclosures commences
on BirmiL CHAINS S400, 900 city audi
atorium.
GreenviIIe.-City officials ask pub
lie service commission for authority
% sell municipal lighting plant, to
Alabama Power company.
Jackson.-Pecan crop in this sec
ton is very light, due to cool wealth
er during spring.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS w. w.
. Brandon urges law requiring fire.
quent reports as to how states
money is being spent and amounts
received.
SheffieId.-Negro high school, cost
ing $4,000, is being built by city of
Sheffield.
MontgOInery.-Sen Oscar W.
Underwood will address joint ses-
sion of legislature August 81.
AnnistOn.-Twenty- annual
convention of United Confederate
syeterans of county will be held Au-
gust SO, at Schenk's Springs.
Tuskegee.-Several days OF hot
sunshine are hostile to boil weevil in,
!. Macon county, and as result cotton
is looking fine.
per NORTH CAROLINA
BeImOnt.-Seven cotton mills here,