Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29
SOUTH CAROLINA

SOUTH CAROLINA
BAMBERG.- Bambevg lays claim
to oldest bride and groom of season
Marriage license is issued to Daniel
Wright, 80, to wed Silvie Counts, so,
both colored.
BAMBERG. = Timothy Nimmons,
epileptic negro, crawls into fire in his
home and is burned to crisp.
GREENVILLE. = Coroner's jury
holds l.. c. Tinsley and j. B. Stokely,
garage employees, for death of Rev.
M. F. Daniels, who was run down by
car and killed, as he crossed street
following preaching service.
SPARTANBURG. Pr liminary
work begins on $2,500,OO0 repair
shops to be erected by Southern rail
way here.
SPARTANBURG. - Odeu Henson,
%, Wexford, part-time pupilfarmer,
raised 1900 pounds of seed cotton on
one acre, and cleared $3.50.
SPARTA NBURG. Two bobbed-
haired girls, in their teens, escape
from Salvation Army home by slid
ing down rope made from two sheets
and start on foot for Greenville, but
rural officer arrests them.
GREENVILLE.-Fi d a m a 3
warehouse of American Spinning
company here to extent Of $3.50, 900
to $500 900.
CHARLESTON.-State port devel-
opment commission. in report to leg
icI of
ing Charleston and Port Royal ports,
among best on Atlantic seaboard.
COLUMBIA. - Courtmartial tries
case against Capt. John F'awcette,
quartermaster at Camp Jackson,
charged with irregularity n handling
army funds. Testimony was to eff
feet that when inspection of camp
was made, he negotiated loan of $4,
900 in Columbia and made up short
age in accounts.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Doyle de-
clares warfare on drunken auto driV-
ers and promises to give limit fine
or imprisonment to all persons con-
victed of driving motor vehicles
while under influence of intoxicants.
COLUMBTA.-Nati Loan and
Exchange bank takes over deposits
of Merchants bank on March IS, no
loss falling on depositors.
FLORENCE. - Edmund Bighams
appeal for new trial will be heard
April 3, according to order of Judge
Wilson. when case is called on March
"a. Bigham is under feath sentence
for murder Of brother. and is charged
also with killing mother, sister and
sisters two children
AIKEN. J. F. Harley, of
Barnwell, presides over term Of court
here, Judge Thomas s. Sease. who
was scheduled to preside, being III at
home in Spartanburg.
COLUMBIA.-Seve hundred men
attend state convention of Baptist
men, here, with DR.. w. o. Carver, of
Louisville, KY, and prominent lay
men and ministers of all parts of
state on program.
CAMDEN.-Ben Brannon, promi
nent planter, attends church services
Sunday, but is stricken Monday and
dies that night.
CHARLESTON.-D Roy s. Mac
Elwee, commissioner of foreign trade
and port development, announces he
has secured exhibit space at fo 'eign
trade convention n Boston, June 40
Only port TO have exhibit there. DR..
MacElween and his assistant, H. +.
Church, will attend.
SUMTER.-R. D. Epps, attorney
and former senator, announces can
didacy for mayor. to succeed l.. d.
Jennings, who VIII retire next year.
SUMTER.-J. d. Jennings, former
merchant, promin mt citizen, dies
after three years illness.
CHESTER. Rev. w. D. Garvin
goes to WAGNER to preach funeral
of his only uncle, Carson Abel
age "a.
ROCK HILL.-After wild ride
through town. officers arrest Ben
Hunter. Douglas Hunter and Ernest
Givens, char ged with transporting
whisky, and seize their auto.
TRENTON.-B. r. Tillman. son of
late L. s. Senator Tillman, announces
candidacy Cor congress, to fill seat &C.
cupied by James F. Byrnes, an
nounced as opponent to Senator Dial.
Heater explodes in bath
room and home OF S NJ Grist is de
stroyed by fire.
CLINTON-Dr. James H Cope
land, 81, for ten years mayor and
one of most prominent men Of town,
dies after long illness with heart
trouble, his condit on having been
serious for pest week.