Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-12
NORTH CAROLINA

menCeIn6UI ny D. mem oNehSNNA oOON
prominent Philadelphia Quaker.
Newton.-Seventeen girls, winners
in recent better bread contest. leave
) by auto for Raleigh to attend glrIs
! short course. held at Peace institute
] .hy state home demonstration DEPART
l ment.
New Bern-Judge Henry A. Grady.
lin charge to Craven county Srahu
: jury. denounces immortality, declar--
ing when the state loses it's respect
for womanhood it might as well 60
into bankruptcy and quit
New Bern. Guy Watson, white
youth. is indicted for manslaughter
for death of Glen Lovett several
!. weeks ago. which coroner's jury held
due to WatsOns careless drlVlhS.
Watson is released on $500 bond.
Observation-Disclosures here an
uounce CASTOR county's cotton yarn
mills have adopted a schedule of
4, aurtailed operations which is now
!. taking about one million pounds or
warn weekly from the market, the
suspensions being limited to one
/, week at a time and divided among
% so as to minimize unemployment.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of education
announces % of 100 counties have
adopted plans for sale of school
books which will save patrons 20 per
cent.
+. Raleigh. - Two hundred young
.swomen, members Of home demon
stration clubs of the state, attend Il
short home economics course under
direction of Miss Maude Wallace, as
sistant to Mrs. Jane McKimmon. of
state home demonstration depart
ment.
AshevilIe-Governor Morrison an
-hounces he will call special session
of legislature if state shipping COM
mission, now holding hearings, re-
ports favorably ON plan to develop
state-owned shipping line.
AsheviIle-Asheville Merchants as
ISOLATION launches movement for
railroad through Mitchell, Nancey,
Buncombe. Henderson and Ruther-
"sford counties, and calls upon legis-
lature to authorize bonds to finance
~'project.
~ kinston-Arthur Clark drives auto
to Jail and asks to see friend i'm
prisoned there. Argument follows,
officers find whisky in car and Jail
him.
Charlotte. j. S. Correll, CONNER
ciaI agent for Norfolk and Southern
railway, gets instructions to report
Immediately to county or city officers
any unusual movement of negro
labor declaring present migration
menaces and may destroy prosper.
ity Of certain sections OF south.
WiIIiamstOn.-Reub en Speller re-
ports negroes fleece him of $3.50 in
connection with reported finding of
pocRetbook containing $1,000
Raleigh-Newspaper here declares
inquiry discloses c. l.. Kelley, al
legged victim of assault and robbery
is supposed to be serving 12-year
sentence in state prison for killing
brother and has been employed by
state highway commission two years
at salary of. $50 a month, in addi
ton to $3.50 per day paid to state
prison, and he is living with his fan.
lily. /-.
LumbertOn.-IIubpar Iowery, In
diam chief of police shot, it is
charged, by either w. F. Locklear
or Dockery Brooks, both Indians
is in a serious condition and may
die, while LockIear and Brooks
sclaiming self-defense, are held in
Jail.
7o1 RaIeigh.-Second strike of negro
nesanitary department workers in
three weeks occurs here when de
mands are made for increase Of 81
cents per day, which is refused, as
was previous request. Wages range
from $3.50 to $500 per day.,
WilmingtOn-For first time, Gus
toms receipts for district of North
Carolina mount past $1,000 ,00(
mark, total for fiscal year being So,
100000, Assistant Collector High
smith announces.
CharlOtte.-H Y Kirkpatrick re
turns to birthplace here after living
40 years in west, and is Immediately
recognized at office of his brother
Col. T. L. Kirkpatrick, by Warren
Kirkpatrick, 81, former slave Of
brothers father, who was not in
formed of return.
, Charlotte. Lions club adopts res
0lution calling on all patriotic so
'e.eties to petition congress for ap
preparation to preserve Kings Noun
ain battle-ground, near here.
Raleigh. - superintendent Pou.
North Carolina prison, here, after
inspection trip to various parts of
state, says he finds new prison sys-
lem, which abolished lash and dark
cell, IS working well" and physical
condition OF camps inspected lis up
10 usual high standard"
Winston-Salem.-Forsyth county
school board adopts plan whereby
sschool children may obtain books at
cost through office. of Superintend-
ent of Education Cash.
WinstCai-SaIem-M asso-
cation decides to issue invitation to
Billy Sunday to conduct meetings
here at date to be fixed by him.
CharIotte.-T. 3. Washburn, tried
for violating city ordinance requir.
ing $500 license to solicit labor for
work outside of Mecklenburg county
is acquitted after recorder ponders
zen days over claim that law is I'M
constitutional.
GoIdsboro. - After celebrating
twenty-one hours, jury here finds
Dewey Smith guilty of manslaugh
ter when tried on charge Of murder
ing his father, John +. Smith, April
Is, with ak, and is given three-year
sentence by Judge Horton.
= AsheviIle.-Adminis costs ir
North Carolina are three cents OF
each dollar of taxes Governor Nor
rison says. in an address here tC
Biitmore hospital nurses, adding this
state leads all others in this respect
Gastonia. Members of MAR
Street Methodist church in five
hours raise cash and bankabie con
t1ibutions of S76, 900 for liquidation
Of part o. the churchs $4,000 debt
with prospects that sum sufficient C
paw all indebtedness will be raised