Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-05-15

Verdlct. Allegations concerning the
reporting of still were included in
the testimony.
New Bern.-F'rances Smallwood,
! four, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Luke
/ Smallwood, is seriously injured
when timbers from a pile of lumber
on which she and several compan.
| ions were playing fall on her.
Raleigh.-Memoria day services
at Charlotte and Greensboro will be
| featured by addresses respectively
by Josephus Daniels, Raleigh editor,
and General Albert Cox, of Raleigh.
Danbury.-An issue of 100000 in
bonds for road improvements will be
sold here June 5 by commissioners
| of Stokes county.
GreensbOrO.-The county board of
education announces its plans to
build three eight-room school build
ings at ColfaX, Jonesboro and Sum
ner. Call is issued for bids.
Raleigh.-The annual meeting of
the Tobacco Growers Cooperative
association is called by President G..
A. Norwood and Secretary M o.
Wilson to be held May Is at Raleigh.
Principal business will be electing a
board of directors and officers.
LumbertOn.-The committee in
charge of arrangements for the
Memorial Day events here announce
preparations complete and place at
10000 the probable attendance.
reensborO-Sheriff Stafford saws
tax collections in Guilford county
now amount to $1,012,0O0 for year,
exceeding for period any previous
years total.
MOnrOe-Union county farmer1
within a few days will receive
checks for the third installment on
1896 bales of cotton sold through
the North Carolina Cooperative
Cotton Growers association. APP
proximately $3,000,0O0 Will be paid
the 10000 growers Of the state in
this installment.
WiIson.-The board of county
commissioners appropriates $4,000
to pay cost of making tuberculin
tests of all cattle in county.
Pittsboro-A coroner's jury re
turns verdict that Patrick Cotton,
u6SIO, fatally SIlOI NY OlllSCI OOtii'
Burns, was killed to save lives of
Sheriff Blair and that of himself.
They were conducting a raid on al
legged liquor dealers.
acknowledgements L. Wells is re-
elected superintendent Of education
of Buncombe county, with increase
of $1,600 in salary to $4,000 per year.
AsheviIIe-Judge James E. Webb
tells a jury in superior court here
the prohibition laws are enforced
more rigidly in this state than any
other laws, adding that popular opin-
ion ultimately will stamp out the il
licit whisky traffic.
AsheviIIe-Mrs. w. H. Overall, for
merly of Liberty, Tenn, dies at her
home here.
Raleigh-The average per capita
wealth of Durham county is 81 ,4SO,
comparing with 1852 for the state as
a whole, and Macon, the lowest of
the 100 counties in the state, has an
average of 1913, according to compila-
tons by university authorities.
GreensbOrO-Basil H. Hedgecock,
former cashier Of the defunct Home
Banking company, of Hight Point,
sentenced to three years in prison
and denied new trial by the su
preme court, surrenders to Guilford
county officials to begin serving his
sentence.
Greensbor0-Loss estimated at
$50, 900 is sustained by several prop
erty owners when a battery shop,
bottling works and other enterprises
quarters on Summit avenue are
burned, the fire, near the railway
tracks, delaying one Southern fast
passenger train more than a hour.
BurIingtOn-J. T. GwiIl, salesman
for an extract manufacturing COM
pany of Norristewn, Pa, is bound
over to superior court under $500
bond on a charge of selling Jamaica
ginger to II Alamance county mer-
chants.
Lenoir-The Caldwell Cotton mill
here announces plans to build imme-
diately a spinning mill with 5000
spindles and 5000 twister spindles,
homes for employees and warehouses.
COncOrd-Chairman Dayvault, of
IlAC S1boIb COUl1Ly OOclL u VI GULL
missioners, announces the board has
obeyed Judge Webb's order to inves-
tigate county convict camps and din
short time" a statement on what
we think of the convict camps" will
be issued.
Acknowledgement Fort, IA, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. H. p. Fort, dies here
of lockjaw, declared by physicians to
have developed from a fractured
arm.
Asheville-A. P. Haddion is under
$500 bond and Miss May Fox is Il
patient at the Mission hospital with
a bullet wound in a hip, the result
of which Haddion says was the ac-
cidental discharge of revolver.
GreensbOrO.-Mrs. Ella. C. Taylor
who died here last Friday, bequeath.
ed each of her four children $500
willing remainder of estate to fund
to provide home for aged women.
She was regarded as wealthy.
RaIeigh.-Wiley Perry, Granville
county negro, convicted of murder
ing John Aiken, Creedmore deputy
sheriff, is electrocuted at the state
prison here.
Charlottesville North Carolina
Jersey Cattle club meets here May
IS. The Mecklenburg County Jersey
Breeders. r. E. Mcdowell, president
are preparing for the convention.
FayetteviIle.-Alva S. Phillips, of
Rock Hill, S. c., is convicted in city
court here of transporting at least
one of two young women here from