Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-06-16
says this amount is record for south


Raleigh.-State supreme court up
holds right of Mrs. Orla Roberts to
sue S. B. Roberts, of Madison, for
damages as a result of automobile
accident, due to husbands negli-
gence Amount of damages asked is
not stated.
Raleigh-In what is declared the
first action of it's kind instituted in
the south, Judge Conner, in federal
court, penalties Norfolk & Southern
railway $4,000 for violating regula-
tions of interstate commerce COM
mission by unlawfully diverting 25
cars of coal to Durham manufacture
ing concerns in 1922.
OxfOrd.-Mrs. Jane Dudley Blalocl
widow Of M. Blalock, dies suddenly
at home of daughter, Mrs. Jack Bla-
lock, at age of 81 years.
WeavervilIe.-Te conference
OF young members of Methodist
Protestant churches in state will
adjourn June %.
RaIeigh.-State and federal for
estry experts confer on program in
tended to develop North Carolina
waste land and to conserve forest
now standing, two million acres in
state being in waste and ten mil
lion of culled farm woodland being
available for reforestation. Nina
million acres of commercial forest
stands in state, it is reported.
Elizabeth City. - Great Council.
Improved Order of Red Men, in
North Carolina, of which J. B. Gee,
venes and program for two-day
meeting includes address by John F..
Sedwick, of Martinsville, Ind, great
incohonee, and another by Past
Great Incohonee John w. Cherry,
of Norfolk, Va.
Observation-Disclosures services are
held at Rosewood school for E. T..
Atkins, for many years superin-
tendent OF Wayne county schools,
who died several months ago.
WiImington.-R. c. Pridgen, of
Tabor, drops dead in boat here
while riding with young woman
friend, Miss Lille Dickson. Heart
failure is declared the cause of
death.
GastOnia. of churches
OF several denominations in Gas
ton county, North Carolina, and
York county, South Carolina, gather
at Crowder's Creek A. r. P. church,
near here, for the annual home
coming day" Principal address is
made by DR.. r. M. Stevenson, of
nnn "nSt on11ooo
CharlOtte.-G. P. Williams, state
department of agriculture, sheep ex.
tension bureau, and Kope Elias,
Mecklenburg county farm demon
stration agent, begin arranging for
sale of wool here late in summer.
Charlotte.-With $50 or more del
egates in attendance, western
North Carolina Epworth League
conference convenes in Trinity
ethodist church.
CharIOtte.-W. T.. Austin, so, for
Is years Mecklenburg county con.
stable, drops dead here of heart
failure after running half a block
in response to report man for whom
he had warrant had been sighted.
MOrgantOn. North Carolina
grand lodge, knights of Pythias, If
which r. G. Cherry, Gastonia, is
grand chancellor, meets here in
three-day annual convention.
New Bern.-New Bern bar at
special meeting adopts resolutions
defending official conduct and per.
sonal record of Judge Henry A.
DIV Of II
in recent litigation involving Ku
Klux Khan.
Townsville. of Baptist
State orphanage meet here in annual
session and hear report of Chairman
F, P. Hopgood, of Oxford.
observation-disclosures of Green's
boro at memorial exercises pay trib
ute to more than so members who
have died since department was or
ganized in 1S49.
GreensborO.-R. L. Avery, super
intendent, Danville division, South
ern railway, announces investigation
discloses Engineer George c. Critz
was responsible for recent collision
in which j, II. Medearis and Sam
uel Laughan, railway employees,
were, killed.
KinstOn.-Dr. c. B. McNary, head
of state school for feeble minded,
here, and president of American As
ISOLATION for Study of Feeble Mind
edness, says he will tell association
in convention at Detroit that modern
intelligence tests are good enough as
far as they go, but they don't go
far enough"
SaIisbury.-Mrs.M Minnie Bonshang,
county nurse, dies at Rowan county
home after stroke of paralysis.
Lenoir.-Parks Underdown jumps
to safety when he sees Chicago and
Northwestern yard engine jump
track and fall toward his motionless
car, which was only partially
wrecked under weight of locomotive.
Raleigh.-Clyde Montgomery, ne
gro, sentenced to die for murder,
receives communication of sentence
to life Imprisonment after hearing
before Governor Morrison.
Raleigh.-Thirty hours after re-
ceiving the case, jury in superior
court here returns verdict of man
slaughter against Jeff Powell, 60,
Garner farmer, charged with Staying
brother, Philo Powell, 70, following
family feud of 80 years duration.
Judge Cranmer defers sentence.
Asheville.-More than $52,000,000
has been loaned in more than 10000
loans to farmers of two Carolinas,
Georgia and Florida by farm loan
organizations since establishment of
federal farm loan bank at Columbia,
S. c., according to w. T. Wray, re-
Gently elected director Of that bank.
High POint.-Rev. w. Fl. Steele,
Raleigh, delivers commencement SER
mon to graduating class of high
school here.
Winston Salem.-Program of North
Carolina cotton manufacturers as
L.