Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-23

/ tension service, and number OF other
well-known men.
GOLDSBORO. = Two dwellings,
and barn are destroyed by fire at
/ Greenleaf, loss being $4,000. Colds
boro fire trucks succeeded in saving
adjoining buildings.
GUILFORD, COLLEGE. - High
tribute to policy of Josephus Dan
iels, as secretary of navy, in regard
TO Teapot Dome oil reserves, is paid
| by DR.. E.. G. Perisho in address to
Guilford college student body. He
referred to former Interior Secretary
Fall as des2oiler of public trust.
CHARLOTTE.-Average citizen,
stunned by Teapot Dome scandal
disclosures is wondering if all pub
| lie officials are not for sale and faith
in American government is at low
ebb, declares O. Max Gardner, of
| She. by, former lieutenant governor
and COlitical leader, in address in
whit2 he declares this "rottenness
and intrigue must be laid bare in all
| its ramifications and guilty must be
pilloried with public scorn that the
| bars may not be lowered to invasion
!
WAKE FOREST.-Wake Forest
! (BaptisD college announces receipt
of $4,000 from general education
! board, supplementing recent contri-
| button of $4,000, under agreement
to contribute 100000 if college sue
ceeded in raising 100000 of pro-
posed 100000 additional endowment.
ToI1,
81, acting deputy sheriff, son of
Deputy Sheriff Victor Fesperman,
is shot in head and instantly killed
when party of officers raid group of
negro bootleggers in night time near
Myers Park suburb. One negro is
arrested; bloodhounds trail others.
MOCKSVILLE-Mrs. Julia Leach.
wife of Percy LEACH, dies suddenly
at home Of daughter, Mrs. Sam
Allen.
CHARLOTTE. - North Carolina
maintained in 1923 leading position
among southern states in textile
manufactures and also led those
states in development of textile in
dustry, according to compilations Of
local publication. South installed
900 spindles in 1923, of which
| 421, 900 were installed in this state;
South Carolina came second, with
| $1,000; Alabama, third; Georgia,
! fourth.
RICH SQUARE.-Mrs. ]. H. Car
ter, widow of former Northampton
county sheriff, is married third time,
when she becomes wife, at age of
81, of Hector E. Eyth, of South
Dakota, soldier aged SO, soldier
quartered at Baltimore, Md, whom
she became acquainted with through
correspondence school. Eyth came
| here Christmas eve to claim his
! bride and was invited to leave by
band Of perhaps 200 persons after
! son and daughter of Mrs. Eyth had
| raised strenuous objections. Cere-
mony occurred at Baltimore.
Observation-Disclosures fac
ulty of Agricultural and Technical
college for negro young men COM
pletes plans for anti-boll weevil
campaign among negro farmers of
state, February 1929, under direc-
ton Of Charles S. Parker.
RALEIGH. - Young Mercantile
company, Of Wilson, is chartered
with authorized capital of $25O,OO0,
of which 100000 has been paid.
BROWNSVILLE. - Mrs Hattie
Clodfelter, widow of Policeman D.
H. Clodfelter, brings suit against
North Carolina Railroad company
for $50 600 damages as result of
death Of husband near station here
last year
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES COM
mittee Of Greensboro Community
Chest decides to offer secretaryship
to Victor S. Woodward, welfare
worker of Atlanta, Ga.
OXFORD.-Mrs. Alice NJ. Bragg,
70, widow of John Bragg, formerly
Of Granville, dies of pneumonia.
Observation-Disclosures. Fran
ces Young. rs, widow Of A. P.
Young, resident of this county dies
at local hospital after brief illness
Observation-Disclosures. Sarah
Jane Cash. 95, dies at home of
daughter, Mrs. F. A. Naylor.
WINSTON-S ALEM.-Mrs. Emma
Miller Crute, 80, widow of late S.
Miller, formerly prominent contrac-
tor, and late H. 7. Crute, dies after
long period of poor health.
WINSTON SALEM Secretary F.
E. Griffith of North Carolina Retail
Merchants association, announces
Sol Schloss, of Indianapolis, Ind,
president of national association, will
! attend annual meeting of state as
ISOLATION here March and 6.
DURHAM Mays, middle
/ aged white man Of Orange county, is
| brought to jail here to await trial at
next term Of superior court for Or
ange county on charges of seduction
based on statements Of Hillsboro
girl, aged thirteen.
RALEIGH. - Lawrence Calling,
accused of murder Of his wife and
her companion, Owen Stevens
| brought back from Florida and held
in Jail, refuses to talk of crime.
ELKIN.-Four men, Luther and
! Worth Royal and two named Harris,
saw way out of town jail
HIGH POINT.-Mrs. S. c. Raw
ley, so, mother Of j. P. Rawley, pub.
Usher of High Point Enterprise, dies
at Washington, d. c., hospital. Flu
neral services at Mount Airy. N. c.
w A1 messy LILLE. - Mrs, Jane
| Powe and Miss Ethel Inman, tried
in Haywood county superior court
on charge of Staying w. A. Powe,
| aged resident of Hardwood, are
found not guilty.
DURHAM.-Both legs Of Jerry
Tatum IA, are broken when youth
! is run down by auto driven by Les
| ter Overmau.
RHAM.-Prohibition raid on
! outskirts of city results in arrest of
80 persons, Police Chief Body and
Federal Prohibition Agent C. F.
/ Alexander report.
! GREENSBORO.-Post A, Travel
/ ers' Protective association, endorses