Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-24

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revival of Industry here.
HEFLIN.-Councu enacts ordi.
nance fixing maximum speed of au
tomobiles at u miles per hour. Sew
eral arrests result.
MOBILE.-Numbe of property
owners agree to valuations Of prop
erty as fixed by appraisers, for site
for $4,000 600 docks. Some prop.
erty owners contend for higher price
CULLMAN.-All efforts fail to 10
cate thieves who looted express Of
fee, Gulf Refining Company's Of
flee and John Allgood's blacksmith
shop.
CASTLEBERRX.- of straw
berry season here shows 175 cars
of $50 crates each, with total value
of $4,000, were shipped.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. hold coun
ty convention here and place coun
ty ticket in field.
DECATUR.-ConS Ed. b
Almon is again Democratic nominee
for congress, without opposition.
JAsPER.-Ed. Aaron, "a, is in.
SLdlllly hlllCo NY lVdNl Il &c AcliIAii .
on him while he is cutting another.
ATHENS. = Through efforts OF
Postmaster Culvel Hills, Athens now
has parcel post delivery.
ATTALLA.-City will appeal water
rate case to supreme court. Case
was decided against city here.
DECATUR. = J. w. Lothram
charged with shooting dead P. j.
Faulkner on house boat here, is
held in county Jail Lothram was
nightwatchman.
Observation-Disclosures Power
company completes power line from
Tallassee to Montgomery.
Observation-Disclosures Gray, g.
saves brother, 10. from drowning in
big water reservoir near Wylam,
but himself dies of strangulatiop.
WETUMPKA.-F of Ell.
more county report that much cot
ton was killed throughout county by
extremely cool nights.
CULLMAN.-Largest class in his
tory of Cullman County High school
is graduated. there being so boys and
girls in class.
BIRMINGHAM.-Plant of bank.
rupt Preston Motor company is
bought by Frank Nelson, Jr. and
others, but no announcement is made
as to future use.
MOBILE-Cargo of bauxite, first
in eighteen months, arrives from
Paramaribo, on American schooner
Isabella Parmenter.
BESSEMER.-C., NJ Taylor, 46,
dies at hospital in Birmingham fol
lowing long illness.
FAIRFIELD.-M Louise Hag
gard is chosen queen of Fairfield, at
county fair held here.
MONTGOMERY. G. Greene, OF
Columbus, Ga, is in local hospital
suffering with injuries received in
auto accident.
ENsLEY. = Fairfield Utilities
company will extend street car line
to Rutledge Springs during sum
mer.
BIRMINGHAM.-W. S. Davis
rs, contractor, dies after long i'll
ness.
ANNISTON.--Judge r. B. Carr is
elected circuit judge of this iudicia
circuit, defeating Judge S. w. Tate
by $50 votes.
ALEXANDER CITY. Farmers
newspaper editors and officials OF
agricultural department of Auburn
from seven counties hold agricul
tural meeting here.
T.
of killing Jack Collins, negro barber
and given one year in state peni
tertiary.
FLORENCE.-F'ra M Mooney
of Philadelphia, purchases SWORD
plowed up near Gravelly Springs, re
Gently. Sword was used in civil
war and bears initials, ~. S." anc
u, M. 1856"
HEFLIN.-Entire town is rocked
Steam Laundry, in which nearby
buildings are wrecked. No one is
injured.
GADSDEN.-Gadsden and Ala
bama City agree to allow border
merchants to solicit business anC
sell goods in either town, by pay
ing license in only one.
MOBILE.-Bertram Griffith, who
played outfield for Nashville Vols ir
Southern associa ton, and who was
with Brooklyn Dodgers past season
leaves Mobile for Rochester, Mimi.
to undergo operation on his leg.
CULLMAN.-W. n. House. pio
neer settler of Cullman county, dies
at hospital in Birmingham.
MONTGOMERY.-N. c. VanNata
engineer, of Chicago, is employed by
state highway department. to take
charge of survey of Fort Payne
Valley Head road
NORTH CAROLINA
HIGH POINT.-Charge with
criminal assault on white girl, ageC
10. Jim Trevette, white, is arrested
and taken back to Wilkesboro by
Sheriff Elledee, who commits hin
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