Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-16

from Mrs. p. Parish, of Charlotte
that her son, Max, IS, high school
senior, has perfect Sunday schOo
attendance record extending ovel
period of thirteen years, of 693 con
secutive Sundays.
CHARLOTTE. = Lloyd Presley
Falls, 10, son OF Mr.. and Mrs. A. X
Falls, of Kings Mountain, dies al
local hospital two hours after un
dergoing operation for appendicitis
CHARLOTTE. - North Carolina
Republican convention will be urgeo
at session to be held within few
weeks to choose John M. Parker as
national committeeman, to succeed
late John NJ. Morehead, Mecklen.
burg county convention adopting
resolution to this effect; another en-.
dorses Coolidge's policies as presi
dent Supporters of Hiram johnson S
campaign for Republican nomina.
ton ignored call for county/conven
ton.
CHAPEL HILL. Fire Of unde-
termined origin destroys Pickwick
Motion Picture treater and adjoining
buildings, loss being placed at $35,
000, with no insurance.
CHARLOTTE. = Rev. w. A
Billy) Sunday, in tribute spoken be
fore gathering OF 5000 persons, de-
clares "Woodrow Wilson gave his
life for that sentiment of the song
which fell fro mthe lips of the
angels nineteen hundred years ago
above the moonlit hills of Judea
might find an echo in the world
Peace on earth, good will toward
men,. I thought | heard the voices of
angels singing about IL o'clock the
morning of Wilson's death-they
were shouting their welcome to this
great man as he burst through the
gates of glory"
RALEIGH Morrison,
in stating objections to inclusion in
states list of school books those
teaching theory of evolution of man
kind, states his view that evolution
lis progress-I believe in the devel-
opment of man from a lower form of
human life to a higher but I don
believe there are any missing links. >
ELKIN.-Jess Morrison, "A, dies
suddenly at home of brother, c.. S,
Morrison, at Crutcbfield.
RALEIGH.-President Chase, OF
North Carolina university, Chapel
Hill, estimates 5000 students will
be graduated this spring by state s
Ugh schools, compared with 1,50O
three years ago, and declares uni
versity's $500, 900 expansion pro.
gram, which still has three years to
run, will do no more than meet its
growing needs.
RALEIGH-Pools for 1923 crop of
cotton will be closed March l by
North Carolina Cooperative Cotton
Growers association.
NEW BERN-Group Of school
children passengers in motor bus en-
route to Jones county school have
narrow escape near PollocksVille
when passenger locomotive strikes
rear end of truck, hurting it into
ditch All children are shocked but
none is seriously injured.
WAKE FOREST. Walter F. Tay-
Tor, professor Of bacteriology at
Wake Forest college, isolates ba-
cillus Columbense castellant, organ
ism thought never before to have
been isolated in America. which first
was discovered by Waldo Castellanl
while working in clinic at Ceylon,
India. Disease it causes has markl
pathological similarity to typhoid
ELIZABETH CITY.-Milton fa-
son. so, is choked to death near
here when his car slips over en-
a :
ing across his throat and burying
head in mud. Horse evidently broke
loose when cart overturned.
MONROE. Sheriff Crit
fifth, 81. formerly man of tremendous
physical strength, dies after extended
illness aggravated by heart trouble.
GREENSBORO. = Trustees of
North Carolina Methodist Protestant
college, meeting here, open bids for
two dormitories to be constructed at
college, near High Point, but award
of contract is deferred.
HICKORY.-Jam Innes, 81, dies
suddenly of heart failure at home OF
son, ], r. lines.
PINNACLE Teachers of Stokes
county in conference make plans for
group and county school commence
ments to be held in March and April,
program including athletics, spelling
defamation, recitation contests and
various other contests.
RALEIGH. j. C. harrington,
prosperous Wake county farmer,
tells jury trying him and son, Cecil,
y
with flogging of Hayes Henry, negro
tenant of Darlington that negro,
cowed by blows of leather strap,
kneeled before Darlington at COM
mand of mob members and prayed to
Darlington for forgiveness of mask
ed men who had brutally beaten
Hayes, whom harrington admits he
made no effort 10 protect.
WILMINGTON. Atlantic oas
Line railroad announces net income
for nine months ending September
so. 1928, was $11 ,001 ,744, about $500
900 more than total for same period
in 1922.
GASTONIA. - Robert w. Stowe
and Harry Jenkins, Gastonia textile
manufacturers, return from trip to
Ormond Beach, Fla, where he had
extended conversation with John D.
Rockefeller, who Stowe and Jenkins
report, evidenced keen interest IN
labor situation in south, also asking
many questions regarding cotton
manufacturing industry and its pres
ent problems.
BURLINGTON Tom Pitts. aged
two, son of Mrs. Aileen Pitts, drinks
contents OF bottle containing wood
alcohol used to generate steam in his
toy engine: soon thereafter tells aun&
and physician successfully uses
stomach pump in effort TO save
child's life.