Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-09-01

bama will face annual deficit of
more than $1,5OO,oo0.
LYNN.-George StoCkman acct
dentally runs large motor truck over
his three-vear.o son, killing him
almost instantly.
:. ALEXANDER CITY.-Dr. Nirgial
= Dark SAYS boil weevil and army
, worm does not worry him. He Is
!. preparing to- set out this fall 10000
: beach and 1900 pecan trees
HAIEYVIILE.-W seated at
table laughing. and conversing with
his family, W. d. Douthit, 65, falls
dead.
DECATUR and Albany
are consolidated. and are now. De
catur, with Is 900 population, with
lanes A. Nelson head of city com
mission. w. A Britton and c. e.
Citizen associates.
CLANTON.-UnionJ Farmers can
ming factory is completed at cost OF
over $4,000. and is canning hun
dreds of bushels of tomatoes.
- AUBURN.-Prof. NJ. J. Punches,
head of department of agrOnomy at
Auburn, says that farmers of mid
l., die and southern Alabama will plant
. big crops of winter legumes.
VINCENT-It will take from
TO acres of cotton to make one
hale in Coosa River Valley section,
due to rains, army worms and boil
.SweeVil.
AKRON.-Cotton picking COM
mences and crop in this section will
be 40 per cent normal.
~ ATHENS.-Estimat place Lime
stone county cotton crop at from
$4,000 to 10000 bales this year,
which is larger than last year.
49,. sYLACAUGA.-Bon weevils are
doing more damage in this section
Xthan army worms
MONTGOMERY law re
+. ouires agents soliciting labor to be
sent out of Alabama to pay license
of $4,000 and make bond of $4,000
in each county where they operate.
PRATTNILLE. - Campaign for
more and better poultry in Autagua
county is producing satisfactory re-
suits.
'14 OPELIKA.-Lakes Princes realizes
1870 net off two acres of beans.
HUNTSVILLE.-We Huntsville
Cotton mills purchase fifty-one bales
If new cotton from south Alabama
at 251a cents per pound.
LIVINGSTON. - Sumter county
boys and girls" of 1860 hold reunion
with w. J. Hendley.
OZARK. - Farmers of Dale coun-
ty decide to cooperate in marketing
their crops.
FLOMATON.-Wn Jennings
Bryan is met here by large delega-
ton from Montgomery. while on his
way from Florida TO California.
UNION SPRINGS. - Bullock
scounty's first bale of cotton is rails
ed by J. II. Sims and sold to South
ern Cotton Oil company for thirty
six cents a pound.
-. ARMSTRONG. Bledsone and
Vail, prominent farmers and dairy
men, install modern milking ma
Chimes.
81 ICHATOM-Old negro kills rattle
Shake near Jordan's school, meas
kfIFing six feet long and with twelve
Iattles and button.
A4S-FLORENCsl Ex-senator Oscar w.
Underwood assures people here he
s heartily in~ favor of Henry Ford's
bid for Muscle Shoals.
= MOBILE.-British schooner Ara
nv is seized off coast of Biloxi with
800 cases of liquor and brought to
Mobile.
-. MUSCLE SHOALS. - This new
city is spending 100000 on improve
!ment of streets and sidewalks and
will build $4,000 city hall.
ii COLLINSVILLE. Merchants
here are anticipating good fall trade
as cotton crop is good.
TUSKEGEE.-T are $50 pa
hents in government negro soldier
hospital and seventy more are soon
Expected.
= HUNTSVILLE. BY turning
f1ocks of turkeys into cotton fields
many army worms are destroyed.
WEDOWEE. = Scare over de-
>struction of cotton by army worms
here is over. Cotton is injured but
little.
. BIRMINGHAM-State Legion is
cons. dering raising 50 900 900 to
lend ex-service men to buy homes
and farms.
BIRMINGHAM.-EleVen months
old child of Mr. and Mrs. +. F.. Ell
lis falls into tub of water and is
almost drowned
MOBILE. = Motorcade Of Sunday
school workers go to Pensacola. Fla,
and attend Alabama-F Florida Sunday
school convention.
s., CRESVILLE. - s. &. Bloodworth
turned flock Of so turkeys into cot.
ton field and says they destroyed
all boil weevils and army worms.
ADMISSION. - With adequate ap-
preparations illiteracy can be re-
duced to minimum in Alabama in
few years, according to DR.. John
w. Abercrombie, state superinten-
dent of education.
.JASPER.-AIlen Poe and Larkin
Waldrop find nineteen moccasin
snakes in one nest on Policy creek.
MOBILE.-Much Alabama long
leaf pine lumber is being shipped to
Italy.
SELMA.-Two new bales OF cot
ton are sold here, bring forty and
forty-two cents per pound.
wARD.-Heavy rains and boil
weeyil cause great damage to cotton
crop.
ATTALLA. - Beautiful marble
shaft to memory of Commodore Far
rand, Confederate naval commander
IS being erected here.
MONTGOMERY.-Governor w.
w. Brandon urges increase of state
gasoline tax from two to three cents.