Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-07-21

Fort Deposit.-Farm Bureau Cot
| ton association increases member
ship over 80 per cent
HaIeyviIIe. - Annual Children's
day at Methods tchurch proves rec
rd-breaker for attendance.
Uunion Springs. Congressman
Henry r. Steaga visits here and
meets friends informally
Alexander City.-Teachers' exami-
nations for Tallapoosa county are
held here with good attendance.
Anniston.-Omcers are attracted
to Crude Bush, negro, who is beat
ing his mule. Seeing officers, Bush
throws number of bottles of whisky
from buggy and is arrested.
JacIlsonviEIe.-Civ league serves
ice cream and cake for benefit Of
Big Spring park fund.
Gadsden.- Of commerce
and civic clubs will assist in pro
noting county fair this fall.
Scottshoro.-Many are injured In
wreck on Southern railroad near
here.
Jasper.-T. L. Sharpe. charged
with killing William M. Cook, bust
ness partner, is released on $4,000
bond.
Mount Vernon.-Mobile county
officers capture % slot machines
here and at Bayou La Bartre.
MObiIe.-Lewis Smith, railroad
man, is given so days on county
roads for petit larceny.
CarrOlItOn.-Southern part of
Pickens county is fast becoming one
of finest cattle sections in south.
Many fine Jerseys are being bred.
MiIbourne.-Lewis Wilson, 81,
son of Steve Wilson, merchant and
postmaster, takes own life with
shotgun.
Moulton.-W. Fletcher McKelvy,
SO, dies at home near Moulton.
Town Creek.-Annual school pic
mic takes place August 2.
CarrolIton.-New telephone line
Stansel.
HuntsvilIe.-Corps of trained
nurses from county board of health
are holding baby clinics all over
| Madison county.
MOntevaIlO. Sixty-seven girls
complete course for Girl Scouts I'M
der Miss Elsa G. Becker.
Montgomery. Representative
county introduces bill in legislature
! increasing Confederate veterans
pensions to $25 per, month.
Camp McCIelIan.-sixth cavalry
will stage horse show during latter
part Of August.
Huntsville .-J. s. Kernachan.
president Alabama Farm Bureau
Cotton association, speaks to farm
ers here, and urges them to CO.
operate in disposal of all farm prod
ucts.
Camp McClelIan.-Colone Frank
Roswell, veteran OF Spanish Ameri-
can war and World war, is visiting
Camp Mcclellan.
Greenvilie.- people from
many towns near here greet Presi-
dent Thomas w. Martin, of Ala
! bama Power company, in rousing
| meeting at courthouse, requesting
him to extend power lines here.
Mont gOmery.-We review of
state highway department says all
highways in Alabama are passable.
Birmingham.-Jame B! Smiley,
siXty-four, city inspector of weights
and measures, is dead.
Bessemer-Poultry division Of
Chamber of Commerce hold succe-
full meeting.
neutrality-suspicious. M. Law
renee, retired railroad conductor
and prominent Mason, is dead.
EnsIey.-William c. Maxwell as
sistant cashier of Bank Of Ensley,
wins prize for securing greatest
number new accounts for his bank.
SeIma.-Mrs. Katherine Venerable
Holt, widow of former prominent
wholesale merchant, is dead.
MOntgOmery.-F. w. Gist, federal
agricultural statistician. says next
thirty days will be critical period
for Alabama crops. cit will be time
when cotton and corn will make or
not make" he says.
AnnistOn.-Sacred Harp singers
will attend convention in Birming
ham, July 20-22.
RivertOn. Ornamental arch
| and balcony of stone will be butt
to public school building.
Athens.-Officers here arrest John
Lamar, Of Huntsville, taking from
him automobile and IS gallons of
| whisky.
ntsviIle.-Walter NJ. Wellman
is installed as president of junior
chamber of commerce.
Fort Deposit. gins are be-
| ing improved and new machinery
added to handle this years crop.
envilIe.-Kiwanis club dele
! gates to Alaba ma Florida meeting.
/ at Huntsville, August 1928, are in.
| structed to. vote for DothanS for
1928 meeting place.
Huntsville. Walter L.
! Jones, of Officers Reserve Training
corps, goes to Camp Bragg, N. c.,
to take two weeks training.
Mobile. - Longshoremen from st.
! Andrews bay to Galveston, Tex :,
meet here and discuss wages f0r
year commencing October 1.
Jasper.-Old harp singers hold
annual convention here. which is
| well attended.
Albany.-Mrs. Charles Lehman ~
! seriously injured when knocked
/ down by auto.
Fruithurst.-Mrs.E z. J. Hizar is
appointed postmaster here, succeed,
ing f. D. Case, resigned.
Heflin.-Albert Brown property
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