Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-31
ALABAMA

MONTGOMERY. = Miss Lettla
Christian Tyler, 50, granddaughter
of John Tyler, tenth president of
United States, dies here. She was
born in White House in 1912.
DECATUR.-MorGan county board
OF revenue orders work to commence
at once on repairing Moulton and
CORTLAND highways.
oPELIKA.-Plans for new pas
senger station here will be ready
soon, and contract will be let in
September.
UNIVERSITY.-Ove 700 students
are enrolled in final six weeks sum-
mer school at State university.
GooDWATER.-Local merchants
plan another bank.
CoLUMBIANA.-Sheriff Falkner
and state officers raid island in
Coosa river near Mardis Ferry and
destroy two large stills. Two men
working at stills escape by swim
ming river.
VERNON.-Lamar county high
school opens here August IS, with
Prof. j. B. Gibbons as principal.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Con
federate veterans in Montgomery are
being reduced rapidly. Only five
Confederate sio went from Mont
slaaery curing war now reside here.
They are: Judge w. C. Fuller, John
B. Fuller, Milton Riley, John NJ
Cheney and George w. Halls.
oPELIkA.-Tvo hoboes, white
man and his wife, who say they are
Inn Ii Pn1o1n,. SJ1Sio Pn11lpr n ri
arrested here for stealing ride on Cen
trail of Georgia freight train.
GADsDEN.-Work will commence
here on Alabama School of Trades
buildings as soon as site is selected.
REFORM.-Store of r. M. Lang
don & Sons is entered by burglars
and 500 cash and several hundred
dollars worth of goods stolen.
SELMA. = Reports of excellent
crops of cotton and corn are being
received from all sections of Dallas
county by farm bureau officials.
BROOKWOOD.-T r1er-
chants hold big gto-together here
and several thousand country people
attend.
MOBILE.-Hottest weather in six
years is felt in Mobile when Their
mometer registers 100 degrees.
PELL CITY.-Whitson starnes
catches catfish weighing forty
pounds in Coosa river, near here.
ELECTIC.-Charlto Holley dives
into creek breaking collar bone and
deranged vertabrae. He is taken to
hospital in Montgomery, where he is
In serious condition.
FLORENCE. : Columbus Butler,
twenty, negro, is jailed here charged
with attempted assault on young
white girl, but later escapes Jail.
BIRMINGHAM While washing
windows at Age-Herald building, l..
E. Pearson, negro, falls fifty feet to
sidewalk and dies later. Thousands
Of people on streets witness accident.
MONTGOMERY than lay
off any Of their employees, Western
of Alabama railroad shops here
closes down for four days.
BIRMINGHAM. - With elimina-
tion Of Pittsburg plus rate on steel
products, many manufacturers of
Birmingham express opinions that
Birmingham will soon become great
est steel and iron manufacturing
city in America.
HARTSELLE.-Joe B. McCutch-
con, one of best-known citizens of
Morgan county, dies here.
HEFLIN.-Jim Ivey, local railroad
man, defeats Sheriff Fl. A. Jackson
in fish eating contest before large
crowd near Evans bridge, on ITALIA
poosa river.
Observation-Disclosures on his way
to Pride Station, large automobile be-
longing to Harry Robinson catches
fire and is completely destroyed.
GOODWATER-Th Fl. Gran.
dali, of New York, purchases Good
water Enterprise.
TUSCALOOSA Scouts of
Sumter, Pickens, Fayette and Lamar
counties will camp for one week, be-
ginning August II, at Camp Horn,
near here.
SELMA.-Rev. William B. Glenn
mons resigns as pastor of Presby
terian church here and accepts
superintendency of home missions at
Augusta. Ga.
ANNISTON.-Offic of Calhoun
County Fair association are plan
ming biggest fair ever held here. 1t
will be under direction of Thomas
P. Littlejohn, of Troy.
GUNTERSVILLE-Water supply
of this place is 100 per cent pure,
according to tests made by state
laboratory.
GADSDEN.-Charles Cochran. IS,
school boy, is in county Jail here
charged with attempted criminal as
sault in Cherokee county.
MONTGOMERY. - New code OF
laws which becomes effective August
II, provides that circuit courts shall
not engage in criminal trials after
o'clock at night, except by agree
ment of counsel,
ALABAMA CITY.-Alabama City
council appropriates $4,000 for Junior
high school.
DECATUR.-Alab Brick and
Tile company enlarges plan here by
addition of another kiln.
ALBANY.-New state law. requir-
ing all dealers in eggs to pay annual
license of 81, arouses much local in.
terest.
CLANTON.-Grady Reynolds, of
Clanton, is appointed by President
Coolidge to succeed Thomas d. Sam
ford, of Opelika, as United States
district attorney for middle district
of Alabama.
SN1LLE,-Bruised arm sus-
tanned while playing with other chill
dren develops into blood poisoning
and causes death OF Thomas Robert
Morton, 4, son of J. r. Morten.
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