Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-04-28

pend operation If not relieved of
some of the burdens of taxation, Of
ficials announce. Establishment OF
bus and trunk lines have hurt the
traffic business.
Spartanburg-The South Carolina
Press association meets here in June
and will be followed by a three-day
trip over the c. c. & o. railroad to
the coal fields around Dante, Va.
Cover-Lee Gettys has received
his commission, and expects to as
sumo the office of postmaster here
May l.. He succeeds Dan NJ. Bar
rett, acting postmaster.
CIover-starr n. stacy is not wor
ried about the boil weevil. He is
getting rich with tomato plants,
having sold 10000 plants this spring.
Gaffney-A half million dollar adj
dition will be made at once to the
Alma mills, a contract for the work
having been awarded to C. L.
Rounds, of Clinton.
Sharon-If one-third 4 of the
amount is raised by local interests,
company with 100000 capital will
erect a large cotton mill here, steps
having been taken at a mass meet
ing.
YOrk-Fifty' or more negro labor
ers have left this vicinity for north
ern points during the past few
weeks, and another party Of 25 is
making up to leave next week. The
negroes say they are seeking bet
ter wages.
WinnsbOro-Preston Rice, former
postmaster, for II years a citizen
here, is dead. The end came in a
Columbia hospital.
AbbevilIe-A clock, beautifully
carved with claw feet, and oak leaf
! design, with gold filigreed decora-
lions, which has been in the family
200 years, is owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Harris.
Observation-Disclosures Belle and
Esther Lane, IA and IL, missing
were found by Red Cross workers
at Cashville.
Walhalla-Former State Senator
J. c. Alexander dies at the home of
his son, Sheriff Alexander, of
Oconee county. He represented
Oconee in the constitutional conven-
ton in 1885.
Orangeburg-W. G. Weeks is
suing a life insurance company for
$4,000 which he alleges is due him
as administrator on two policies
taken out for Harvey Whaley, a
negro, who was electrocuted as an
accessory before the fact in the
connection with the murder of Earl
Watford, white, January IL, 1920.
1t is the first suit of the kind in
South Carolina and the sixth in the
United States.
YOrk-This town was in darkness
for two hours after a "tin lizzie"
butted into a power line pole and
the transmission line was knocked
down.
Inman-Dock C. Jackson, confed-
crate veterans, and one of the first
citizens" is dead at the age of 70.
st. George. P. Smith who, in
the days before the war between the
states, purchased the two negro
"Siamese' twins known as mil
lie Christine, is dead. The twins
had two separate bodies in every
way except that they were joined
together by their backbone.
Westminster-Willi Thrasher,
twenty-one months of age, was run
over and killed by Southern rail-
way train when he attempted to
cross the tracks.
Westminister-Eigh girls and
seven boys graduate from the Long
Creek Baptist academy. DR.. w. H.
Province, Furman university,
preached the baccalaureate sermon.
Clemson CoIIege-Dr. E. j. Stew
art, director of athletics, will leave
Clemson June l to accept the posi-
ton of head coach at the University
of Texas. His successor has not
been announced.
Walhalla-Oconee county is face
to face with a serious situation on
the farms for lack of labor. Labor
solicitors who are inducing negroes
and others to leave will be prose
cuted to the fullest extent of the
law, officers announce.
Clemson COllege-Farmers are
again cautioned to be very careful
in purchasing calcium arsenate I'M
less they buy from well-known peo-
pie who handle the brands of reli-
able manufacturers, says A. r. Con-
radi, entomologist, in calling atten.
ton to the fact that calcium ar
senate for poisoning the boil weevil
must meet the requirements of the
state and federal laws.
.GreenviIIe-Mayo H. G. HARVEY
has no patience with the 'long-
haired, simpering, half-baked young
jack-a-napes tea-hounds," he said in
police court, and issued instructions
to the. police to clear them off the
sidewalk in front of drug stores. He
declared that ladies must be pro-
tected from the ogling and crude
remarks of the young loafers who
haunt the soda founts.
GreenviIIe-The seventeen-story
Woodside National bank and office |
building is complete and tenants are
moving in.