Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-12-08

GAsTONIA.-Mrs.B B. L. Kendrick,
eighty-seven, dies after illness Of
three days.
PINEHURST. - North Carolina
Cotton Manufacturers association
meets In special session, with Ber-
nard Cone, of Greensboro, president,
presiding. Association votes to hold
next annual meeting in June at
Blowing Rock, and extends to South
Carolina association invitation to
meet in joint session. Taxation was
principal subject for discussion.
CHARLOTTE.-Rev. J. V. Will
lians. well.known Methodist min
lister, dies after extended illness,
aged seventy-one years. For number
of years, prior to entering ministry
seventeen years ago, he was en-
gagged in manufacturing in New
York City.
CHARLOTTE.-M Anna Lid
dell, one of city's well-known women
and member of prominent family,
dies of infirmities due to age with
in few weeks Of ninety-eighth birth
day.
GREENSBORO. - Matthew Ed
nlOHOSOHs dSSu llldllS IL IOhlIu ny LII
he built on creek bank because he
was too weak to seek assistance. He
declares horse stepped on his neck.
cutting deep gashes, which physi-
clans at hospital, where he was TAX
EN-, say evidently were cut by razor.
He will recover.
LEXINGTON. - Welfare Officer
Dickens, of Davidson county, reports
recent survey in industrial plants of
county shows no plant is employing
children in violation of child labor
law.
GREENSBORO.-Older boys con-
ference, held under auspices of Y.
M. c. A., elects E. B. Witherspoon,
Durham, president; Joe Schraeder,
Wilmington; Joe Bobbitt, High Point,
and Nimrod Glascock, Raleigh, vice
presidents; Brooks Mcintosh, Green's
boro, secretary and treasurer.
Observation-Disclosures w. Muir
day, forty-five, carpenter, dies at hos
pital of injuries sustained when auto
collided with street car.
,GREENSBORO.-Demand was so
great riot almost developed when
lumber dealer gave away 1000 rose
plants to inaugurate movement to
make Greensboro City Of Flowers.
FAYETTEVILLE. - Police Chief
Julius A. Mcleod drops dead while
standing in front of headquarters,
physicians attributing death to heart
failure.
SALISBURY.-Olin Silliman, ten,
Of Mill Bridge section, is found dead
in pile of cotton, it appearing he had
jumped into soft lint and smothered
when unable to extricate himself.
ASHEVILLE.-Har w. Plum
mer is engaged by state ship and
water transportation commission to
compile reports to be made to Gov
ernor Morrison of commissions ex.
tended Investigations.
PINEHURST.-A of Secre-
tary Melons tax reduction program
is voiced by state textile operators
here for meeting of North Carolina
Cotton Manufacturers association.
WILMINGTON. - After hearing
number OF prominent persons in
addresses, more than one thousand
teachers from fifteen southeastern
attending district conference of State
Education association.
HEVILLE.-DeXter Baldwin hid
in chimney in effort to dodge federal
prohibition agents and later disclosed
ms presence by struggle to extricate
himself from painful position into
which he had fallen.
ASHEVILLE.-Pu of nearly
b0O acres of land by Representatives
Of John Bancroft & Sons Co, of Will
minston. Del, from property owners
at Old Fort is announced by G. w.
Sandlin, real estate dealer, who said
price was about $4,000. Company
IS planning to build bleachery. ex.
tent OF which, dispatches from Will.
mington indicate, Bancroft has not
yet determined