Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-17


Montgomery.-New revenue bill
and Adjustment of convict lease sys-
tenn are big issues in state legls-
hGture.
FIorence.-Terrific wind storm
blows down electric wires, leaving
; City in darkness, and many trees
are blown into streets.
mouse is being painted and over
hauled.
j., SurIey.-Gurley's burned district
Ia being rebuilt with substantial
brick structures. -
Huntsville. - Practically every
store signs agreement to close at
p. m. Thursday, during July and
August.
8 AIbany.-Tooney Buttery, son of
]. A. Buttery, prominent merchant,
is accepted in United States naval
academy.
Troy.-Capt.. C. C. Cox. "a, has hip
broken when auto plunges over en-
bankment. Others also are injured
slightly.
SheffieId.-Over zoo lots are sold
in new subdivision near Wilson
Dam.
GreenvilIe.-Home grown water
melons and canteloupes are on local
market, and many are being
shipped.
OpeIika. - Several Lee county
farmers and fruit growers visit
peach sections of Georgia to study
fruit, growing and shipping.
; Greensboro. - Herbert Childress
S claims successful in fight on boil
weevil by use of sweetened poisons
TalIadega. - Gordon Fincher.
charged with numbering Miss May
belle Mccullough is on trial before
Judge A. P. Agee.
CulIman-C. s. Keller. of Gull
man, is chosen principal of Pike
Road Consolidated school for COM
ing year.
Northumberland Blair, of
Montgomery, get contract f 10000
addition to government building.
= Decatur.-Senator Melvin Hutson
and Representative Patterson and
Foreman will introduce bills in leg
islature for extending jurisdiction of
Morgan county courts.
Montgomery.-Gov w. w.
Brandon advocates passage of mil
lage tax amendment for educational
purposes.
Gadsden.-Rev. C. o. Thompson
: advocates compulsory education for
children from to Is years.
'27 TuscaIoosa.-City school board will
improve negro schools. Over 100
negroes leave here in two weeks for
northern cities.
Montgomery. - Frank Gilmore,
/. Montgomery negro, escapes from
prison farm No. 3.
GuntersvilIe.-B Diamond. tug
boat, is destroyed by fire on Ten
nessee river here.
- Alabama City.-Dwight Cotton
mills resume operation after week S
shutdown.
Gadsden.-Francis, 5-year-old son
. of G. H. Myrick, is seriously injured,
and several slightly injured in au-
to collision.
Tuscaloosa.-Mrs. Luther A. Max
well secures many names to petition
in opposition to leasing convicts.
Sipsey VaIIey.-Summer school for
adults is organized here by B. K.
Holstun.
r scplncanvhIe.-S@m Friedman Sc
cures options on 10000 acres land to
bore for oil and prospect for coal
and other minerals.
Gadsden.-Canoe creek bridge on
l., HI oh
structed by state highway commits
sion. is condemned. New bridge is
to replace it, costing $4,000.
OpeIika.-Officers capture 800gal-
lon still and 1000 gallons of beer
on island in Chattahoochee river.
Tuscaloosa.-Miss Marie F'raker
= will do missionary work in noun
tains of Kentucky, through First
Presbyterian church.
TaIIadega.-Boll weevils are re-
$, ported plentiful in this county, with
no effort. to get rid of them.
Decatur.-Rev. E. H. Hubbard,
travelling preacher, is arrested on
charge of bgamy and placed in
aencounty Jail.
- Observation-Disclosures are win
ners in contest between Methodists
ssAnd Baptists for largest Sunday
ss4school.
OpeIika.-Curtis Harrison, 10. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Harrison, is
dead.
Talladega-Schoolb board sells high
school bonds, and work on new
school commences soon.
Troy.-Brown & Walters are
erecting new building to be occu-
pied by Rayner Motor company.
Heflin.-Cleburne county farm bu-
reau holds we'll attended and inter
esting meeting.
Birnnngham.-Bapti pay in
debtedness on hospital and destroy
$4,000 bonds with ceremony.
Clear Creek FaIIs.-Dr. w. r.
Snow is completing $4,000 hospital,
near famous falls here.
COMMUNICATIONS Hines, Camden
boy, corporal in L. S. army, is
drowned in Lake Michigan. Re
q mains will be inferred here.
WiIsonvilIe.-SheIby County Farm
90 Bureau federation charges Smith
Lever farm funds are misused in
Shelby county.
lamp McClelIan.-Camp popula
ton is increased by arrival Of 1.27O
men of Mississippi national guards
j, for training.
Greensboro. War on mosquitoes
has almost exterminated pest in this
section.
Gadsden.-Over $50 telephones are
put out of commission by heavy
storm which sweeps Etowah county.
MOntgOmery.-Stat senate ap-
proves placing statue of General Joe
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