Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-09


is drowned.
MONTGOMERY. = According to
r. Z. Ledbetter, supervisor of con-
struction of rural schools, 147 new
schools houses were built in past
year in rural and small town com,
munities.
BRIDGEPORT. = William Wealth
erford, alleged moonshiner, is captur-
ed after being seriously wounded in
gun battle with officers near here.
Two stills and 5000 gallons of beer
are captured.
OPELIkA. - Descendants Of late
Simon Whatley hold family reunion
at home of w. NJ. WEatley, near
here, and IT'S direct descendants are
present.
MONTGOMERY. = D. F. Green,
secretary of state board of Alabama
Baptist convention. declines offer as
superintendent of Baptist hospital at
Selma.
BAY MINETTE. - Baldwin coun-
ty board of education lets contract
for $4,000 school house at Eleanor.
REELTOWN.-J. Buck Johnston,
SIS, one of oldest merchants in south
ern part of Tallapoosa county is
found dead in bed.
MONTGOMERY Of vari-
Gus brands of bottled beverages
manufactured and sold in Alabama,
is being conducted by division of
chemistry of state department of ag-
riculture.
HELENA.-New high school build
s,roy i,1 SC hnjyo
erected here.
EUTAW.-Dave Cockrell, well
known young man Of this place, COM
mits suicide by shooting. Ill health
is cause given.
OMERY.-According to I.
L. Quinn, state game and fish com
missioner, there are still approx
mately 5000 wild deer in Alabama.
Protection of wild life has been rec
ognized as necessity in Alabama for
seventy years, he SAYS.
TALLADEGA.-C grown
here from seed received from Greece
is on display, and is attracting con-
siderable attention. 1t is unlike
American variety.
JAsPER.-Walker county will eel
citrate Tooth anniversary this fall.
TUSCALOOSA.-F'ifth annual con-
vention of young pople's branch of
Woman's Christian Temperance I'm
lon of Alabama will be held at Camp
Horne, near here, August 11-17.
AUBURN.-Enrollm in Farm
ers' Summer school is 100 per cent
more than last year, according to Of
ficialS figures
JASPER politics here is be-
coming interesting, with Mrs. E. r.
Mattingly and J. H. Crawford an
nounced for mayor and several an
nounced for aldermen.
MONTGOMERY. - Alabama ma
tional guard aerial units are arriving
for fifteen days training at Maxwell
field.
TALLADEGA.-T cotton
warehouses handled nearly 10000
bales of cotton last season.
MOULTON. - Mrs. Matte C.
Young, IS, dies at home here. She
had resided in Moulton for past for
ty-f1ve years.
BEsSEMER.-F. W. Huffmeyer,
60, dies at home here and remains
are sent to Cullnan for interment.
TALLADEGA-Cham of Com
merce here will send committee to
MorristoWn, Tenn, to study dairy,
poultry and hog interests there, for
benefit of farmers of this county.
DIxONS MILLS-Annual Maren-
go county camp meeting opens here
with record crowds. Services are
conducted by Rev. A. A. Walker of
Little Rock, Ark, and Rev. D. M.
Walker.
SELMA--Mrs. Josephine Cade
Stewart, 80, wife of late H. H. Stew
art, dies at home here.
TROY-Miss Lorraine Hamil.
teacher in state normal school, is
employed by Parkins & McMurray
company to write up special fea
lures on Alabama for supplement
in their biographies.
TALLADEGA-Ta sports.
men claim new Dream fishing rec
ord. r. M. Jemmison, j. H. Owens,
Dan Howell and Monte Lane caught
100 fine Dream in hour and a half,
in mill pond near here.
MOBILE-After completing inspec.
tior. of crops along lines of Alabama,
Tennessee and Northern Railroad
corporation, President Cochrane says
outlook is best for many years.
MONTGOMERY-Alabama is due
maximum allotment of federal funds
for fighting forest fires, according
to information from United States
Forest Service.
AUBURN-High praise of work of
Alabama extension service is given
by o. b. Martin and w. H. Con-
way, federal examiners, following
completion of annual examination
of service.
FITZPATRICK - Joe Schurlock,
negro. is in Jail charged with killing
Clarence Fields with hoe, while both
were at work on farm near here.
Observation-Disclosures Maddox
cashier for Cudahy Packing com
pany, is missing and police suspec.
foul play.
MONTGOMERY.-F'loyd V. Adams,
of Maiden, Mass. believed to
have been riding rods on L.
& n. train, is found dead near rail
road track here. His skull is broken
arc body crushed.
MONTGOMERY carloads
of bees will be moved this fall from
Ohio to Alabama by DR.. Ernest
kohn, apiarist, of Grove Hill, Ohio,
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