Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-03

violating dry law, is granted parole
by governor after serving seven
months.
Acknowledgment circulated here
that headquarters Of ku hluX
Klan's removal of headquarters to
Asheville will be discussed at inn
few days is denied in information
received from Atlanta.
Wilson-Kiwanis club goes on
record as favoring hard surface
highway from Wilson to Rocky
Mount and decides to interview
Frank Page. highway commission
er regarding project.
n.-Raleigh and CASTOR
railway time table. issued in 1878,
found in old building. shows no
trains were operated on Sunday and
only one passenger train was oper-
ated on week days. Road now is
part of Seaboard system.
AshevilIe.-EIvin Thompson, Is, is
painfully hurt in machinery at
Jones Planning mill and is brought
to Mission hospital.
AsheyiIIe.-Assistan Secretary of
War Dwight Davis, in address pre-
pared for delivery to Southern APP
palachian Water Power conference
(co), declares potential power re-.
sources of southern Appalachian
region makes it important. bulwark
of national defense in time of war,
and forecasts tremendous industrial
development within decade.
StatesvilIe.-Progra of twenty
81 II
Carolina Veterinary association in
Bristol and w. l.. Morrison, States
vile; DR.. NJ. Jacobs, Knoxville,
Tenn; DR.. J. c. Finn, Kansas City,
Mo-; DR.. c. A. Cary, Auburn, Ala.
StatesviIIe.-Dr. E. C. Brooks.
president Of State college, Raleigh,
will be principal speaker at Ire
dell county farmers annual picnic
at Piedmont experiment station,
July 10.
Henderson.-Physici from ten
counties hear several famous doctors
and surgeons deliver addresses at
annual meeting of Sixth District
Medical society.
Wilmington.-Walt Clark, con-
tractor, returns from Greensboro,
where he was awarded contract to
build two brick buildings, to cost
$150,000, to be used as negro insane
asylum of state.
Wilmington. Swarms Of mos
quitoes arrive here and newspaper
census of drug stores sales indi-
Gates approximately $3.50 is being
spent weekly for anti-mosquito prep
arations.
Raleigh. H. Hightower and H.
H. Massey, former president and
cashier, respectively, of defunct Cen
trail Bank and Trust company, on
trial on charges of accepting de-
posts knowing bank to be insolv-
ent, decline to take stand in own
defense. Trial is hard-fought until
going to jury.
Greensboro.-Dr. Hastings Hart,
noted penologist, and Mrs. Kate
Burr Johnson, state commissioner
of public welfare, are on program
for principal addresses at joint
meeting of Mems Bible classes of
Greensboro, July 1.
Greensboro.-Sheriff Stafford. of
Guilford county. says Virginia block
ade whisky at from 81 to 81 per
gallon at still, has almost driven
blockader out of business in this
county. Virginia liquor, he said, sells !
here at retail at $12 per gallon.
Oxford.-Fifty young persons ere
baptized in Shriners' pool at Ma
sonic orphanage, by Rev. J. d.
Harte,
Germanton.-State board of health
announces tonsil and adenoid clinic
will be held here July S-5.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. decide to
and Farmers bank from $4,000 to
100000. Surplus and undivided prof
its amount to $4,000.
RaIeigh.-That Corporation Com
missioner Maxwell, about ten years
ago, advocated state-owned ship
line such as is now advocated. by
Governor Morrison, is developed at
hearing here of legislatures ship
line inquiry committee.
Raleigh.-Dan Mobiles, convicted
in Columbus county of killing a
cousin, goes to his death in electric
chair at state prison with protesta-
ton of innocence on lips. Seventy
persons, including two young won-
en-, witness execution.
halelgh.-SlXty-S Pitt county
members of Tobacco Growers Co
operative association, file suits seek
ing to have their contracts with as
ISOLATION rendered invalid by SUI
perior court. Suits are regarded as
possibly retaliation against associa-
tons suits recently filed against
Pitt county growers and others.
New Bern.-Deputy Marshal Man
ming SEXES 300-pound iron safe be-
neved to contain whisky when Neal
Poole, negro, livery stable owner, re-
fuses to open it. Whisky began to
leak out when safe was stored in,
hotel sample room, after rough han
ding. Poole disappeared.
RocIingham.-Carl Garrett, Rock
ingham, and Cornelius Shaw, Ham
let, are in hospital as result of auto
mobile accident near Hamlet, when
their car thrice turned over after
striking car driven by negroes. They
will recover. =
WiImington.-Bank Examiner La
than announces citizens of Cerro
Gordo plan to organize bank to take
over stock and deposits of Bank of
Cerro Gordo, recently closed.
Salisbury.-Mrs. Mary It. Bar
ringer. eighty-seven, widow, dies at
home of nephew, Rev. B. A. Culp,
Winston-Salem.
Salisbury.-Bishop Collins Denny,
Richmond, Va, dedicates Epworth
Methodist church, at Concord, comes
here for conference with presiding
elders and lay leaders of western
North Carolina Methodist conference
relative to educational fund, and
leaves for Nashville meeting of
bishops.
GreensborO.-John D. Heidtman,
forty-one, postmaster at Sumter, S.
c., dies at hospital here. Acute
oedema Of brain caused death. Wife
and daughter survive. Body is sent