Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-01

II0tllOII Will SldIG MS SCIlOOI llClN
meets March 2S.
GASTONIA. = City school boarc
proposes referendum on proposal tC
vote bonds to build $25, 900 concrete
stadium for high school. Board re
Gently accepted building, which cos
$500 900.
LENOIR. = Concord Presbyterian
auxiliary holds eighteenth annua
session, April 2-3, program includ
ing address by Rev. Homer McMil
Ian, of Atlanta, Ga, secretary o.
Southern Presbyterian Assembly
home missions board.
WILMINGTON. = Sixth district
Republicans elect J. c. Snoddy, o.
Red Springs and S. e. Taylor, OF
Southport, as delegates to Cleve
land convention.
HICKORY. = Earl Whitener, 10
high school student, is instantly
killed when motor truck he is driv
ing leaves road and overturns.
NEW BERN. Three vigorous
boy babies, whose total weight is 2(
pounds, are born to Mr.. and Mrs
E. H. Williams of near Pollocks
vile.
GREENSBORO. - Federal Judge
J. f. Boyd, who has been critically
i'll, has recovered sufficiently tC
walk along corridors Of hospital
He may return to home here in few
days.
GREENSBORO.-Memorial table,
marking site of birthplace of VIII
Porter is unveiled, principal address
being made by DR.. w. P. Beall
head Of memorial committee of citi
zens and boyhood friend of drug
clerk who became famous as O.
Henry, author.
CHARLOTTE. = After defending
present state prison administra
tons policies, Governor Morrison
addressing luncheon meeting OF
delegates to North Carolina confer
ences for social service convention
assails practice 'of indiscriminate
commitment of men to Jail without
giving them opportunity to make
bond"
CHARLOTTE.-D. Hidden Ram
sey, of Asheville, is elected president
and Asheville is chosen for 1925
meeting at final business session OF
convention of North Carolina con
ference for social service. Ramsey
succeeds DIR. Joseph Hyde Pratt, OF
Asheville. Raleighs bid for conven
ton was rejected.
RALEIGH.-State highway com
mission opens bids preparatory to
awarding contracts for thirteen
projects representing 1873 miles OF
highways, expected to cost about ST.,
S95, 900
CHARLOTTE.-Use of churches
advocated by w. M Tippy, secre
tary of federal council of churches
commission on social service, in ad
dress to North Carolina conference
for social service convention.
CHARLOTTE. - Thomas iona
than Jackson Christian. IS, major
U. S. army, is dangerously i'll Of
pneumonia at Washington hospital
according to telegram to Mrs. JIlia
Jackson Preston, sister, who leaves
for capital.
GREENSBORO. Atlantic
Yadlin railroad becomes competi
at request of Southern railway, be
road owes it $40, 900 advanced fol-
operating expenses, while public
owns $1,700,000 bonds.
ASHEVII,L4E. = Physicians an
nounce arranging with unnamed
man to give pint of blood in trans
fusion operation in nope of saving
life of Mrs. Elizabeth Barton, high
school teacher.
OXFORD.-F'rank P. Hobgood
Jr., Greensboro attorney, acting fol-
heirs Of father, F. p. Hobgood
founder, leases Oxford college fol
two years to r. H. Holiday, edu
Gator, of FIlkton, Ky. This woman's
college has student body Of 10(
and faculty Of Is persons.
WAKE FORREST.-Joh Hare is
sought by officers on charges grow
ing out of assault on John Up
church, who is in grave condition
from blow on temple with blum
instrument Nine other negroes are
arrested in roundup following as
Sault.
CLINTON.-Charles Pope, well
known farmer, dies of heart failure
GREENSBORO.-J Milton Gun
ningham, state deputy collector o
revenue and widely known citizen
dies suddenly at home Of heart at
tack thought to have been brought
on by heavy work in connection
with March tax payments.
GREENSBORO. = Mrs. Mary J
Holden, II, wife of r. J. Holden
dies at hospital after illness o
short duration
LIBERTY. - Samuel Mcpherson
Influential citizen, dies at home
near here.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. o
S45, 900 for churches at Greenwood
S. c., and Lexington, Va, are made
at meeting of board of home mis-
sions and church extension of Asso
ciate Reformed Church, $4,000 be
ing given to Greenwood project.
CHARLOTTE.-A. w. Mclean
Lumberton banker, cancels engage
ment to address mass meeting and
his opponent in race for governor
J. w. Bailey, Of Raleigh, assails
shifting of excessive burden OF
taxes onto owners. OF farm lands.
RALEIGH.-Sen Woodbridge
Ferris, of Michigan, will deliver com
mencement address at State College
May 81. DR.. w. A. Brown, rector
of Portsmouth, Va, church will
preach baccalaureate sermon May %
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Nixon, IS
for 80 years clerk of Lincoln county
superior court, dies after illness con
tinuiug three months.
RALEIGH.-With merits of origi
nal controversy lost in technicalities
case growing out OF reductions OF
about $14,000,000 in taxable valua
ton of leaf tobacco owned by Amer
lean Tobacco company and Liggett
& Myers Tobacco Co, of Durham
n. c., is argued in state supreme
court.
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