Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-01-09
WOrM NezVS
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ment demonstrations throughout
England.
G0IdsbOrO, n. ca negro high
wayman held up the store of B. G.
Howell, near here, and obtained be
tween $500 and $1,000.
StatesbOr0, Gal. A. Brannen,
first mayor of Statesboro and one
of the leading lawyers of the state
died here Saturday OF pneumonia.
LOuisville.-OllieG Gibbons, charged
with the murder of Gus Noffsinger,
manager of the Southland Coal Com
pany, has confessed, officials an
nounce.
GreenviIIe, S. C.-George Hunter,
sixty -five-year- old farmer, of Liberty.
was instantly killed when struck by
Southern train No. 81, while walk
ing along the track.
CObIenz.-French troops under
command of Maj Gen. Allen in the
American area have been ordered
confined to quarters to prevent
clashes with the Germans.
Boston, Mass.-Appointmen of w.
P. G. Harding, former governor OF
the federal reserve board, AS COVER
nor of the reserve bank of Boston,
was announced Saturday.
Marietta, Ga.-Citizens of Marietta
and Cobb county at a mass meeting
Sunday condemned the recent bomb
ing of houses owned and occupied
by Syrian families in Marietta.
WasfingtOn-Estab of a
bureau of civic aeronautics in the
department of commerce, will be
proposed i'll a bill to be introduced by
Chairman Winslow, of the house
cOmmittee.
Havana.-More than 800 passen-
gers aboard the German liner Hol-
satia stranded on a sand key in the
Florida channel near Carysport have
been removed by the French liner |
de la Sale
Raleigh, \. C.-Three persons were
burned to death, two seriously in
turcd and many automobiles destroy
ed in fire which consumed Isaac |
SimpEins' garage. The dead are;
Mrs. Simpkins, her small son and d
negro nurse.
Washington, d. C.-President Har
ding has sent to the senate nomina-
tons Of Jesse L. Damn as postmaster
at Albany to succeed Mrs. Brimerry.
who has held the office for many
years. and Edgar Bergeson, at
WayneshorG..
Raleigh, \. C.-The Tobacco Grow
ers' Cooperative association an
nounces it has increased it's member
ship by 10000 during the past ten
months, and now has $1,000 mem
zers. Up to December % it had re-
ceiVed III 800, 900 pounds of tobacco.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS one
third of the $625,O0O 900 in war saw
ings certificates, maturing January
/, were turned into the treasury for
InNo FNtr
treasury certificates during the first
week after their maturity, according
| to the treasury.
New YOrk.-The American Cotton
Oil company will Immediately close
eight mills in the south because of
the shortage of cotton seed. Six
mills will shut down in Georgia,
| leaving only that at Macon in opera
| ton. and two will close in South
Carolina. division headquarters will
| be transferred from Atlanta to Mem
phis.
Augusta, Ga.-Judge Alexander r.
| Walton, ordinary of Richmond coun
ty. died here Saturday. Judge Wal
| ton was direct descendant of
George Walton, who signed the Dec D..
laration of independence, and who
represented the colony of Georgia
at Philadelphia before the RevOlu
ton He had been ordinary of Rich
mond county twenty-five years.
Athens, Ga.-Ralelgh Boys Flora,
a Jersey COW owned by Robert L.
Biggs a senior student at the State
| College of Agriculture, at Athens,
is acclaimed champion Jersey of
Georgia. The COW produced II, 472
pounds of milk and 65S.58 pounds IF
butter fat beginning the test at the
age of four years and eleven months.
She bettered the state record by
1856 pounds of butter fat.
BaXley, Ga,-Mrs. Elvira O'Berry
and her sons, William and Aunley,
were sentenced to serve ten years
each for Staying Lee 'O'Berry, hus-
band and father, after a verdict Of
guilty of manslaughter, with recon-
mendation of mercy. Mrs. O'Berry
admitted Thursday that she and her
two sons did the killing when O'Ber-
ry tried to kiln her. At the previous
trial they were convicted and sen
fenced to life imprisonment, but were
granted a new trial.