Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-09
SOUTH CAROLINA

| STATE are reported IOf SCnOIdSIlc year
ending June 80 by Power w.
Bethea, statistician of state board o.
| education.
Rapid fluctuations
in prices of gasoline and coal will
be investigated early in new year,
with beginning of new administra-
| ton of Attorney General Daniel. Fol
| lowing recent meeting of gasoline
dealersr Of state, price of auto fuel
Jumped two cents per gallon over
night
ROCK HILL.-Rev. w. r. Alex
ender, pastor OF First Baptist
church of Rock Hill, receives call TO
Baptist church, of Stanford, Texas.
ANDERSON. = Grady Evans is
held on charge of shooting Thomas
| Eagwell, whom he wounded with
pistol when under influence of
whisky, not having seen Bagweu be-
fore. Bagwell will recover.
COLUMBIA-State railroad com
mission announces hearing in Co.
lumbia for December 16 on fertilizer
| freight rates.
LIBERTY.-Home of J. P. Odeu,
prominent farmer Of Flat Rock com
munlty, IS destroyed by fire, with
three outbuildings
Chester county board
Of directors abolish rural police sys-
tenn.
GREENVILLE.-E. A. Thomas.
Q! Mountain City, Ga, makes efforts
to reclaim body of daughter, known
mere as Dorothy Dodson, who was
mysteriously shot at home of friend
at Greer II October
VILLE.-SamueI D. PAT.
rick, well-known farmer of Dacus.
VILE, Pickens county, dies in city
hospital here after two years OF
falling health
ROCK HILL.-Merchants of Rock
Hill discuss plan to establish "black-
hst of poor-pay customers.
ANDERSON.-Rev. f. c. White
breaks his record in marriages for
one month, uniting sixteen couples
during November, he reports. Four
marriages were performed one Sun.
! day.
NORTH.-J. n. Sistrunk dies in
hospital in Columbia, after lone, III
ness.
ROCK HILL.-Dr. d. b. Johnson.
president of Winthrop college. here
IS elected president of state Sunday
school association, to succeed Rev.
Watson b. Duncan, Methodist min
lister OF Cheraw, who resigns be-
cause of friction between his de-
nomination and nterdenominational
Sunday school organization.
GREENWOOD.-Che Ha Comba.
nee company, composed of Green
WOOD business men, sells pine timber
rights on 5000 acres of land in Collie
ton county, 100000 feet of timber
being estimate of possible produc.
ton.
ROCK HILL.-Emory A. Holler,
90 OF ROCK Hill, dies at hospital in
Columbia.
NEW BROOKLAND.-Four young
men, Charlie Driggers, M. ID. Spie.
ner, Henry Martin and Forrest
Walker. white, are held here on
charge of stealing 200 quarts of
scotch and Canadian whisky and
twenty-four gallons of corn whisky
from Jail here.
COLU Wade Bellew, who
escaped from state penitentiary here
early in 1928, when serving long
term for killing chief of police of
Iasiey, after having made two un-
Isuccessfl1 at1empts-to escape, is cap
tured at EaIftraI and brought back
'to state prison lfere.
CcLUMBIA.--Louis Well. S., re.
tired merchant dies at home here.
GREENWOOD.-Fire of unknown
origin destroys mess hall at Bailey
Military Institute here. with loss Of
much government property, includ-
ing rifles, ammunition, tents and
cooking utensils.
DILLON.-South Carolina Confer.
ence of Methodist Episcopal church.
south, meets here. with Bishop Col
Inns Denny, of Richmond, presiding.
WARE SHOALS-T. p. Rock.
Confederate veteran, dies at home of
niece, Mrs. w. w. Gaines, here.
YORk.-Judge M. l.. Bonham. of
Anderson, presides over Civil court
here
ABBENlLLE.-Lar feed and liv.
cry barn here, owned by Mckenzie
" johnson, is destroyed by fire,
entailing loss Of $4,000, including two
mules. several head of hogs and
quantity of feed.
COLI MBIA.-Slash pine is good
prospective crop for South Carolina.
according to Henry II. Tryon. extern
sion forestry specialist of state, who
delivers address here.
GABLE.-United States Senator.
elect Cole l.. Blease and State Super.
intendent of Education J. IT. Hone
speak at opening of new high school
here.
GREENNILLE.-More than 10000
gallons of whiskeys were seized bv
federal prohibition agents in state
uurlhS November, according to re-
port issued here by Lloyd II. Grandv.
federal prohibition director for state.
EASLEY.-P. p. McDaniels. chief
OF police of Easley, loses barn near
town by fire, with loss of two cows.
several hundred bales of hay and
quantity OF corn and fodder
DILLON. = New federal buildings
mere to cost $4,000 and in Lancaster
| TO cost $122, 900, are provided in bill
before congress, according to advices
! here.
BlSHOPNILLE. - Mrs Martha X.
+. Brown. of this county. dies at
nome near here from apoplexy.
| CORONACA. = Benjamin Franklin
! Nixon, 40, dies suddenly at home
here.
| Al-LENDALE. = First National
Bank of AllendaIe closes doors here.
ny order of comptroller of currency.
1t Is understood liabilities exceed as
sets by $4,000.
| ANBURG.-PlanS are com.
pleted here for 104th annual session
of Baptist state convention here De.
] cemher Oil. with Dr. A Il In,,,isnn