Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-02
NORTH CAROLINA

ELIZABETH CITY.-Mrs. Pene-
lepe Lyon, young widow, files suit
lin superior court against Fidelity
ana Deposit company, of Baltimore,
for $1,000 with interest from July,
1929. for her betrayal of John ID.
sykes. Jr., now serving three-year
term in Atlanta federal prison for
eA.xaezzlement of more than $4,000
from the First National bank, OF
This city. Mrs. Lyon spent eight
months in Montana hills with Sykes.
She claims $1,000 reward and 10 per
cent of amount recovered.
FAYETTEVILLE. = Remarkable
train of deaths which has carried
off all members of her immediate
family eliminates in death of Miss
Anna Mcmillan, beloved and we'll
known woman, dies at hospital thir-
teen months after first series of
deaths. that of Charles S. Mcmillan.
nephew, dies at Savannah, Ga.
as CHARLOTTE.-Damage estimated
at $40, 900 is caused by fire of unde-
ternnined origin in warehouse OF d.
A. Hargett, Inc, manufacturers of
feedstuffs.
CHARLOTTE. = Charlotte Mer-
chants association membership holds
annual banquet. DR.. Paul w. Ivey,
professor of marketing at University
of Nebraska, being on program as
principal speaker.
CHARLOTTE.-La and best
equipped textile school in world will
be built at Lubbock, Tex, says John
w. Carpenter, member of Texas
state commission, here after trip to
State college, Raleigh, where he in
spected North Carolina states tex
tile school. Ultimate cost is ex-
pected to be $20OO0,000, he says.
GREENSBORO inter-de
nominational committee, represent
ing eight Protestant churches, is
called to meet February 5 at Chapel
Hill for discussion with University
of North Carolina authorities of
Bible courses of institution. Later
meetings will be held with faculty
members of state college, Raleigh,
ard College for Women, Greensboro.
GOLDSBORO. - Shotgun, sup
posedly unloaded, is accidentally dis
charged by six-year-old son Of Mrs.
Anderson Gurley, widow, living near
here, while lad was playing with
group of children, small daughter of
Tom Radford, neighbor, being IA
tally wounded. and Herman Gurley,
brother, suffering loss Of. three fin
gers on one hand.
/. ASHEVILLE.-She John A.
Lyerly dies of self-inflicted pistol
wounds. He was found in dying
condition at county garage building.
Dependency over death of wife is
thought to have caused suicide Of
this fearless officer.
CHARLOTTE.-Su by Garlic
ton Collins, newspaper man, dis
closes retail business generally has
shown marked improvements since
Billy Sunday began six-week evan
gelistic campaign.
CHARLOTTE. Meeklehburg
County Bar association, at annual
dinner, holds mock court, Judge
w. +. Harding, of superior court,
presiding; John j. Carpenter, acting
solicitor. Francis Clarkson, promi-
,nent attorney, faced charges, is con-
victed; appeals to supreme court,
and case is thrown out of court by
opinion written by his father, AS
sociate Justice Heriot Clarkson, OF
Chief Justice Clark dissented.
CHARLOTTE.-City government
enacts ordinance under which it's
court may impose $50 fine on any
engineer who goes to sleep while
pulling whistle cord as curb for rail.
waynen who blow whistles longer
than 10 seconds.
LExINGTON.-Jo Gosneu, IL,
son of J.. r. Gosnell, employee of Err
LANCER mill, returns home from West
Durham, N. c., after weeks absence
and tells strange story of having
been kidnapped by stranger in motor
car when he went on errand for
parents. Says he was taken through
numerous towns of state, forced to
sleep in car at night and was poorly
fed.
CHARLOTTE.-Ivey's department
store suffers loss estimated at
$4,000 from fire on third floor and
water damage to stocks on lower
floors.
CHARLOTTE men
should be asked to quit ministry
If they fail in soul-winning. endeavor,
Rev. Oliver Montgomery, president
OF North American conference. i'm.
presses on delegates at quadrennial
convention of Southeastern Union
Conference Of Seventh-Day Adven.
lists that time has come when in.
competent ministers should cease
to be burden to treasury of church.
CHARLOTTE- Religion of enei.
neers is Ito coordinate all agencies
that mankind has devised for his
comfort and pleasure and to find
others undreamed of" says Fred r.
Low. president of American Society
for Advancement of Science, editor
of Power" In address to Charlotte
chapter Of Carolina section, Amer.
lean Society OF Mechanical Engi.
neers.
WILMINGTON Melton,
"a, white, chief Of police here when
race riots occurred in 1898, In course
of which he was escorted from city