Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-28
SOUTH CAROLINA


BY noted preachers and educators.
Spartanburg-City of Spartanbudg
is without street car service. Fol
lowing order of railroad commission,
South Carolina Gas and Electric
company, operators of local system
suspend schedules On all lines iD
city limits.
-. CoIumbia.-Although South Caro-.
lima Cooperative Cotton Growers
association announces it soon will
distribute 50 100000 TO members. not
al! members want settlements in
cash, treasurer says.
i, observation-disclosures dollar today
IS worth SO cents, on basis of values
as given by department of agricul
ture. Congressman James F. Byrnes
declares at meeting of farmers here
He says reduced freight rates are
Sorely needed.
Rock HilI.-Jesse Johnson. negro
is in Jail suffering from buckshot
wounds received when he made mo
ton as it to draw gun as officers
approached him a t whisky still.
j. Clinton-Catching and shipping
1--we frogs in natural state is occu-
patton which Ogden Ramsey a nd Eli
gene Varnadoe. students of Pres
bsterian college of South Carolina
are finding profitable this summer.
aY0rk.-People here will meet soon
sfsocn to vote on question of issuing
fo, dc
Fiorence.-Topacco Growers Co
Operative association is expecting
very little contract breaking by
members in South Carolina belt this
year. Two early offenders are al
ready under indictment. Rumor of
~aehts is called false, malicious lie"
= Greenwood. - Greenwood county
negro, David S. Klugh, spoke re-
gently at Baptist World Alliance
meeting in Stockholm as representa-
tive of negro Baptists of America.
Laurens.-O. G. Thompson. at one
time county auditor and seven times
Judge of probate, is now in S5th
ear of continuous service as county
office holder.
Columbia.-Tomato weighing two
and one-half pounds is raised here
.ey. Fred S. Campbell.
;;;'5CoIumbia. = Life-size statue of
tohn C. Calhoun, great South Caro-
-tfnian, is to be placed in niche at
state capitol
Chester. - Seven University Of
Georgia baseball players will play
.swith the Chester club of the Pal
metto league. They are: Powers,
catcher: Moore. first base; Watson,
abort: I4imebrook. third base Ram
sey, outfeld; Fred Sale, pitcher, and
Nelson, pitcher.
GreenviIIe.-George S. Blackburn,
ormer Furman student, has return
d from adventurous thousand nile
rip in canoe which carried him from
lake Summit, n. c.. to Great Lakes
81 Grecnwood-High school boys
solved labor situation on municipal
projects here this summer and are
oeing employed exclusively on de-
.selopment work of 100-acre munich:
sal park
Observation-Disclosures in South
'arolina seek injunction against
roposed reduction OF passenger
.ates to 8 cents per mile.
GreenvilIe Survey shows local
BAPTIST church membership of 7,514.
sGaffney.-Recent rains prove ben
fetal to crops in county and farm
rs are more optimistic han since
planting time.
GreenyilIe. Collins, of
Salisbury. n. c.. and student at
United States vocational training
school at Chick Springs, charged
with murder in connection with
stealth several weeks ago of Gus
Adams, of Atlanta, student at same
school, is released on $4,000 bond
Greenwood. F. Davis, farmer
near here, is seeking for bottom Of
his well, which fell out Sunday and
ahas has not yet been found.
Standardization Ellen Wofford.
IA, is suffering from conclusion OF
brain; Frank Buddin, 4, and John
William Murph, 7, are also brought
10 hospital here. following runaway
IN which six little members Of
family of W. w. Murph and their
Citations, are thrown from a cart
when pony runs away.
sroIumbia.-South Carolina appar-
antly is better observing prohibition
law. Few stills are being found.
. knights of the road"
migration from south to north is in
f3lll swing. AS result several of the
knights are helping to make
Greenville county roads.
Clemson CoIlege.-Summer school
here proves largest and most profit
, able in history of college. About
son students from all narts IF state
attend.
Clemson College.-College is head
quarters for one of largest. assem-
,i2Iages of farm club boys ever gather
ed in south.
partanbufg.-HXgh Turner. son
of Coroner Turner, who has miracu-
lous escape from death when wheel
pf1 truck weighing 5000 pounds
BASES over his body, is reported to
be better.
GreenwOOd.-Is a dead preacher
Still a preacher? That is question
propounded to Ticket Agent J. e.
.Crymes at Southern passenger sta
s4ion a few days ago, when friend of
REX. George Quick. negro and de.
seeased, sought to buy a ticket to
.Latta for dead minister at reduced
rate allowed clergymen. Agent
ruled Quick was dead, not an active
minister and not entitled to reduced
rates.
80 COlumbia.-"Crops in South Caro-
lima look as good as L have ever
seen at this time of year" saws w
H. Tayloe, passenger traffic man
ager of Southern railway, following
tour of state.