Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-08
NORTH CAROLINA

RALEIGH. Sensational and
bitter fight developing just before
election over Governor Morrisons
| ports commission proposal, for
| which governor made unprecedented
! personal statewide tour, is featured
by statement of Fred n. Tate, fur
niture manufactures and capitalist
| of High Point, who charges COVER
nor is liar"
CHARLOTTE. - Governor Nor.
rison,. here to vote in general cleo
ton, declines to issue last word"
| on ports commission proposal but
| defends General Albert Cox, field
marshal Of ports campaign, as pure
| patriot, denies Cox is paid for
service and brands r. N. Page and
others assaiing Cox as "disgrunt-
| led politicians"
| AHOSKIE. - Prices on auction to-
bacco warehouses floors continue
| high, average-ranging around $3215
per hundred wei ghts which is de-
clared by board of trade to be well
above general average Of belt for
October. In September this market
was three cents under average of
| Wilson, high market.
DURHAM, - Julian G. Harvard,
| twenty-five, member of promineE*
Durham family, is killed in acct
dent on construction job at Harrods
burg, KY, according to telegram.
ROCKINGHAM. = Largely at
| tended cooperative cotton and to-
| bacco growers rally is held, pro-
gram including addresses by w. N.
Everett, j. P. Gibbons, A. E. Bing
and Misses Susan Landon and Eliza
beth Kelly.
CONCORD. - More than 10000
persons attend Mecklenburg- Union
day at Cabarrus county fair, which,
at close, is declared most success
| full ever held.
HENDERSON. = After long con-
troversy, school officials decide that
| high school students Striking" in
| protest against disciplinary measures
| imposed by Principal w. S. Nichol-
! son, will be permitted to return up
on written agreement that they will
| conform to Nicholson's rules. Trus-
tees hold six-hour hearing.
MOUNT AIRY. = Audit of Surry
county's books shows surplus of
$2O,S2S for 1921-1922 two-year period.
KINSTON. - Bell cast in 1892 is
placed in new school at Snow Hill.
| 1t was removed several years ago
! from demolished school building.
GUILFORD COLLEGE. - Stu
dents of Guilford college participate
! ing in straw vote stand as follows
Coolidge, H. Davis. 105; La Fol
lette. IA. All students did not vote.
|
ASHEVILLE. = w. H. Joyner,
prominent Buncombe county farm
err, born in 1855 at Jonesboro, Tenn,
dies at home of daughter, Mrs. Wade
Wilson, of Gambler.
HILLSBORO. = Body of George
| II. Murphy, late consul general to
| Switzerland, will be brought here
from Zurich, where he died. and in
tered in cemetery of Episcopal
church beside bodies of parents.
Father formerly was rector of
church.
RALEIGH. - Mrs. Lille Virgins,
of Cherokee county, who escaped
from prison after serving ten months
of 1S-month sentence for shooting
man. alleged to have slandered
daughter and who has never been
re-arrested, is paroled by Governor
Morrison.
SALISBURY = Plan for estab-
lishment of cooperative creamery
is receiving support of farmers and
business men of Rowan county.
RALEIGH. = Commissioner Ship.
man. of department of labor, re-
ports SO furniture factories in state
at close of fiscal year 1924 which
had total capital of So 1856, 900, COM
pared with 107 plants with total of
S6,525.000 in 1922. Existing plants
had output valued at Sal $40 600 in
1924, compared with $50 $50 600 in
1924, for which year payroll amount
ed to $7.799 ,00o for ISL employees.
CHARLOTTE. = Lester A. Puck
EFT, we'll known young man, shoots
himself in left shoulder and is pain
fully wounded. Members of family
refuse to discuss affair but deny he
attempted to commit suicide.
RALEIGH. - Stockholders ratify
action Of directors of Carolina Mu-
; tual Life Insurance Co. of Raleigh,
in transferring comGsnys affairs
to jefferson Standard Life Insur-
! ance Co, of Greensboro. G.. H.
: Dortch, general manager. says trans
fer was necessitated on account of
his physical disabilities.
JEFFERSON. Ashe county
board Of public welfare is created
by state welfare commission. Mem
+ hers of county's board are Ira p
0 | Johnson, Rev. Il. II. Stone and Mrs