Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-14
NORTH CAROLINA

establishment services are
held here for Thomas A. Gibbs, Of
Norfolk, Va, Seaboard freight claim
agent, who died at Asheville, N. c..
New neutrality-suspicious. Of di-
rect descendants of three North Car
DINA colonial governors attend cere-
mony here directed by Daughters Of
American Revolution when Richard
Dobbs Spaight chapter unveils boul.
der as memorial to Governor Abner
Cash, Richard Dobbs Spaight and
Richard Dobbs Spaisht, Jr.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Baxter Durham,
Raleigh, state auditor, here to re-
tuperate from influenza, denies re-
ports that he intends to resign as
result Of criticisms Of bookkeep-
ing system.
Raleigh Auditors employed by
legislatures special committee tell
State Treasurer Lacy at completion
of work report will please" him.
Audit is the result of Corporation
Commissioner MaXwell's charge
state faces defcite of 100000.
Fayetteville.-Alton Jackson, Is,
cripple, .penned in pony cart few
feet from ground, is found dead in
marsh, having fallen from a bridge
near here.
Charl0tte.-American Seating Co.
gets contract to install 1900 steel
desks and 1900 opera chairs in three
6chool buildings at Lancaster, s. c..
Reidsville.-Mrs. Martha Kinks. So,
wife Of j. e. Kinks, dies after i'll
ness of two years.
Greensboro.-State Bank Exami-
ner Latham advises Solicitor Spruill
evidence fails to show a. 3. Huff
was involved in Irregularities con-
nected with defunct Home Savings
bank, of High Point, and solicitor
mol presses case in which Huff and
b. II. Hedgecock, former cashier.
were defendants.
Greensboro claim Rev.
Elijah Allison, eighty-three, Baptist
minister dying recently near Bre-
ward, apparently holds world record
for baptisms, having taptised 5,523
persons.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Labor
Sh1pman reports a state employment
service found employment for 1853
persons in. May, as compared with
1881 for April, indicating larger de-
mand for employees.
Raleigh North Caro-
lima mills report they cut 217 1913, 900
feet of timber in 1922, as compared
with 1880, 900 feet in 1921.
O.-Congressman Stead
man expressed belief William G. Nc
Adoo or John w. Davis, Of West Vir-
ginia, will be Democratic nominee
for presidency, and that Democrats
will sweep the country.
Hickory.-Engineers begin survey
ing proposed gravity pipe line from
Jacobs Fork river, tWenty-one miles
southwest of here, stream afforG:ng
daily supply of 100000 gallons
without impounding reservoir.
Dunn.-Swannie Jones, Hicks
Jones and Paul Griffin, young white
men, are held on bonds Of $4,000 on
charge of attempting to burn barn
owned by w. II. Goodwin, farmer,
| near here.
CharIotte.-Mrs. Juanita Erwin
Smith thirty -one, of Fort Mill, S. c.,
dies at hospital here after a years
illness. She was a native Of Pine
vile.
| tesville.-Coroner's jury de-
| clares fall from Southern train
caused death of DR.. r. S. McElwee,
of Yancey county, whose body was
found beside tracks near here. He
was a Shriner, en- route to conyen-
ton at Washington.
Observation-Disclosures Burrus, SUI.
perintendent of Guilford county
convict camp, announces intention
to resign as result Of criticisms o.
policies in report of welfare board
He says pleas for persuasive treat