Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-10

trial board, both of Georgia, spend
several days in this state studying
industry preparatory to campaign
to develop Georgia industrially.
NewtOn-Inquiries of farmers in
this section discloses that they, be.
lieving this year will be the last
in which full crop of cotton can
be grown, on account of the boil
weevil, are intensifying cultivation
and are using very heavy applica-
tons of nitrate of soda to hasten
maturity.
Durham-Forty contestants and
their ehaperones arrive here for the
annual state high school typewrit.
ing contests. The seven schools rep
resented are Greensboro. Winston.
Salem, Charlotte, Burlington, Mt.
Airy, Raleigh and Durham.
RaIeigh-The department of state,
license bureau, will have available
by June l plates to license 10000
motor cars and trucks, it is announc
ed, for those who may care to OBJ
tain the 1924 license early.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jasper Cannon is ia.
tally injured when their home in
the Shelmerdine section is wrecked
by cyclone. The mother, herself
badly injured, succeeds in removing
the child from the ruins.
Bessemer City.-An issue of $685..
900 in bonds for paving work is au-
thorized.
Observation-Disclosures, Incorporat.
ed, capitalized at $250,000 and au-
thorized to operate an ice-manu-
featuring and cold-storage business
here is chartered.
Charlotte. Reynolds. vice
president Of Postal Telegraph and
Gable company, inspects company's
facilities here with. it is understood,
a view of ordering important de-
velopment.
acknowledgement of the Cliffside
High school commencement includes
an address by DIR. Henry Snyder.
president of Wofford college, at
Spartanburg. Exercises began Thurs
day night and were concluded Mon
day evening.
WiImington.-Miss Anita VALID
horst, county welfare officer, resigns
to go to New York, where she will
spend several months studying So
cial service. County authorities are
endeayoring to fill her place by
July 1.
Asheville.-With every head of
cattle in Buncombe county given
the tuberculin test, less than one
half of one per cent reacted un-
favorably, which DR.. w. B. Hobson,
county veterinarian, says gives the
county a rank only few counties in
the United States have obtained.
RaIeigh.-Yadkin River Power Coz,
subsidiary of Carolina Power and
Light company, with home offices at
Raleigh, establishes service at Dill
lon, S. c.. and takes over municipal
lighting plant bought several weeks
ago.
Dunn.-SeveraI hundred farmers
gather here in response to the call
of "boll weevil day" by the cham
Der of commerce, when methods of
combating the cotton pest are dis.
cussed.
Raleigh.--The state supreme court
decides the National Life Insurance
company of Vermont must pay the
estate Of A. B. Grady $4,000 on a
policy for which it accepted pre-
MUM on day of insured's death.
Winston-S Decentralization Harrison
Miller, born in Davie county in 1848,
dies here. He was well known in To-
cal business circles.
AshevilIe.-The docket of federal
court includes 500 cases. The spring
term is opened by Judge Webb, of
Shelby.
Observation-Disclosures for April
through this port amounted to 81
OF TONS of which 21,000 was Chilean
nitrates. Exports for the month in
cluded 21,Oo0 bales of cotton to
Bremen and Genoa.
Raleigh.-R. S. Busbee, of the At
lantic Fire Insurance company, de-
MES he has bee rendered the presi-
dency of the Dixie Fire Insurance
of Greensboro, now inVoIv-
ed in legal controversy between
,wo factions of stockholders.
Wilmington. Senator Simmons,
in interview here, says he is in
n accord with President Harding in
favoring conditional American ad-
1esion to world court. believing it
will porbably eventually lead to
League of Nations.
CharlOtte.-S. H. Slime, who rep
resented himself to be a Jewish rabbi
md meat market man, is taxed with
costs by the recorder when given @
neari~g on charge of selling meat
not inspected by the city inspectors.
Durham.-The Southern CONNER
sal company of Durham, G.. F.
Mayes, president, is chartered with
IN authorized capital of 100000 to
10 an importing and exporting bust
mes, the commodity in which the
will deal principally being
hair nets for women.
Durham. r. Davis and W., T.
Davis, brothers, arrested with their
father, Tom Davis, and brother, JACK
Davis on a charge of printing and
counterfeit money, are
released, while the father and third
brother are held on bonds reduced
to $500 and $1,000, respectively for
hearing May Is.
Raleigh.-Thirty thousand cotton
growers are called to meet in their
respective communities May IL to-
elect delegates to county conventions
Of the North Carolina Cotton Grow
ers' association, which will be held
in each county seat May IA, when
delegates to the district conventions
May % will be named.
HAMR0NE'S MEDITATIONS