Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-11-24

lectures on religious education of
children, by DR. e. w. Raffety, of
Philadelphia, editor-in-chief of Sun
day school publications of American
Baptist Publication society.
RALEIGH-State highway COM
mission announces construction rec
ord for month was set in October,
when $40 miles of hard surfaced
road were completed. Commission
expects to complete 500 miles in this
calendar year.
/. RALEIGH headquarters
announce ninety-third annual con-
vention will be held at Gastonia, De-
cember lila, with about 700 dele
gates expected.
RALEIGH-How +. Jones, of
Warrenton, formerly state senator,
is named private secretary to Repre-
sentative John H. Kerr, recently
elected to fill seat vacated by death
of Claud Kitchin.
GASTONIA.-Hero n u T S
braved peril of death when assisting
in removal of patients from Castor
sanatorium, destroyed in spectacular
fire in heart of city, with loss placed
at $4,000. Some of the nurses were
removed by firemen on ladders as
roof collapsed. Low water pressure
handicapped firemen. Physicians
say all patients were removed with
out injury.
RALEIGH-S against wife, to
whom he has been married thirty
wears, is instituted in Wake supe-
rior court by George NJ. Jones. rail
way engineer, who seeks to recover
from wife valuable property alleged
to have been decided her through
mistake. He alleges wife has since
deserted him.
RALEIGH. L. Hawley, of
Rockingham, N. c" must stand trial
for alleged perjury. state supreme
court decides, reversing action OF
Supreme Court Judge Stack, who
quashed indictment based on Haw-
leys denial, on taking up grand jury
service, when khan membership was
questioned, that he was not mem
Der, which was soon followed by ad-
mission of membership when intro
ducing khan speaker.
ASHEVILLE.-Los estimated
at $4,000 result from forest fires on
Busbee mountain, which, famed by
high winds, burn over 800 acres, &C
cording to Forest Warden Glenn,
twenty-five being forced to work
twenty-five consecutive hours to ex-
tinguish fire.
ASHEVILLE. - Southern Appa-
lachian Power company, recently in
corporated by Asheville men with
$5000,000 capital, proposes to build
170-foot dam on Hiwassee river near
Murphy, n. c., regulating flow of
river over five dams, giving 375-foot
fall and developing $4,000 horsepow-
er. Few miles of transmission lines
will give connections with lines of
Alabama Power company, Georgia
Railway and Power company and
Tennessee Electric Power company.
SALIsBURY.-American entrance
into League of Nations is inevitable
and what Wilson said in Armistice
day speeches" will hasten entrance,
says United States Senator Joe A.
OVerman. who adds his belief Secre-
tary Mellon is playing politics with
tax laws, which Overman says SEN
ate must Immediately revise.
CHAPEL HILL.-Universi Of
North Carolina announces plans for
elaborate celebration in December of
one hundredth anniversary of dec
laration of Monroe doctrine, DR.. Will
liam r. Shepherd, professor of his
tory, Columbia university, native of
South Carolina, having accepted in
Vltation to deliver principal address.
CHARLOTTE States road build
ing program has resulted in expendi-
ture of $S,500,000 in Sixth district.
including Charlotte, says w. G. Will
kinson, district highway commits
sioner, who says 3S.4-mile Davidson
College highway cost $1.21S,00O, in
Guiding bridge. Amount spent in.
cludes $800,000 Of federal funds and
S2,5OO,OO of county funds, balance
being proceeds of state bond issues.
SALISBURY.-H. c. Moore, white
prisoner, held on larceny charge,
goes on hunger strike after prison
attendants and physicians prevent
ed him from bleeding to death sew
eral days ago, when he slashed his
legs with razor blade.
CHARLOTTE.-In effort to in.
crease CHURCH attendance, churches
promote home visitation and survey
movement. calling 1000 volunteers
from memberships to visit all homes
IN city in our hour, November. 90.
RALEIGH. = Governor Cameron
Morrison writes Chairman Long. of
board of trustees of state tuberculo-
SIS hospital, instructing him to call
immediate meeting of board and
summarily discharge DR.. L. B. Nc
Brayer, superintendent, who COVER
nor says must no longer serve state,
IN view of McBrayer's pleading
guilty to violating state law regard
ing trading with himself.
CHARLOTTE. - Miss Sarah A.
Daugherty, aged ninety-one, oldest
native-born resident of Mecklenburg
county, dies. Only four log houses
were standing on site of present city
when she grew old enough to re.
member, she told friends.
STATESVILLE.-Dr. J. f. Carl
ton institutes action to annuI mar
riage of Fis daughter, Elizabeth, to
A. d. Prindell, of Concord which
took place six weeks ago. He bases
action on affidavit which is said to
disclose claim Mrs. Helen Dawn, of
Frankfort, KY, married Allan
Dawn in 1919 in Oklahoma City,
Okla, that they separated last
March, and that he believes Prindell
and Dawn to be same person.
HIGH POINT.-Mrs. E. Y. Webb,
wife of federal district judge, of Shell
by, dies at local hospital. Body is
taken to Shelby for interment.
BROWNSVILLE. - Program for
annual meeting of Davidson County
Sunday School convention includes
address by Tom V. Ellzey, of Mont
gomery, Ala, general secretary Of
Alabama Sunday School association.
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