Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-05

Vi. l.
tonia, is elected president; vice presi-
dents are II. B. Easom, Asheville;
Miss Fair Alexander, Charlotte;
Marvin Shields, High Point; Miss
! Nellie Hastings, Elizabeth City;
| Charles D. Dean, Rockingham.
HICKORY.-Mo Lutz, charg
ed with murder of Walter White,
II, of Highland, June l, is given
preliminary hearing in city court
and held in default of $4,000 bond
in Jail at Newton for trial in SUI
perior court. Lutz, of advanced
age, had trouble with youth IA
months previously
HICKORY Construction of $780,
600 hotel is begun. City announces
1000 square yards of sidewalk pay
ing will be laid at once.
JEFFERSON.-P prohibition Agent
| Grant M. Hairless declares his ar
rest near North Wilkesboro on
charge Of violating prohibition laws
is result Of frame up"
CHAPEL HILL. Thirty-three
candidates are licensed by the state
board of examiners as pharmacists.
M. B. Melvin, of Roseboro, wins Beal
prize for making highest grade.
WINSTON SALEM. = D. w. L.
Poteat, president Of Wake Forest
college, addressing conference, de-
clares man may be Christian and be-
lever in evolution Dr. Collier Cobb,
Of University Of North Carolina says
evolution is law; not theory. DR..
L, S. Kuyser, of HANNA Divinity
school, Springfield, Ohio, defends ac-
count of creation as stated in Gene
sis, adding man can not reconcile
teachings of Bible and evolution the
DRY.
RALEIGH.-Over insurance is de-
clared by Insurance Commissioner
Stacy Wade to have been principal
single cause of states commercial
fire losses in 1923. He addresses
North Carolina association of insur-
ance agents in annual convention.
ASHEVILLE.-Aft writing note
giving directions for disposition of
body and settling of personal ar
fairs, Charlie Nichols, aged AZ, presi-
dent Of Nichols Manufac curing Co.,
sends revolver bullet through brain,
death resulting instantly, at his Of
flee. Note indicated he worried over
possible impending serious business
reverses.
H.-FiftyIeight candidates
for licenses take examinations be-
fore state board Of dental examiners.
| Subjects of practical examinations
are prisoners at state pentitentiary.
GREENSBORO of $1,000
600 in bonds is sold by city to pay
property owners for damages Incl
! dent to carrying out of street widen.
ing program, which necessitated re-
moval of several large buildings.
CHARLOTTE. Worth Rogers,
aged eight, is electrocuted when he
comes in contact with high voltag sc
wire which broke and fell to street
and number of others have narrow
escapes when other power wires fall
| to streets during terrific rain, wind
and electrical storm. A. M. Rogers,
father, removes sons body body from
wire. City's lights and many tele-
phones are temporarily cut off
ROXBORO.-One negro woman is
killed and another is gravely in
jured by lightning during severe
wind and rainstorm, causing rather
severe damage to crops.
r A L E I G II. = North Carolina
Building and Loan league elects L.
| w. Moore, of Wilmington, presi-
dent; j. f. Stevens, Of Greensboro,
vice president; A. G.. Craig, of Char
iotee, secretary-treasurer and Moore
and George r. Wooten, of Hickory,
delegates to national convention,
meeting at Cleveland, July 1924.
RALEIGH.-North Carolina Co.
operative Cotton Growers associa-
ton concentrates at Norfolk, Va,
and Wilmington, n. c., $50 carloads
| 10000 bales of cotton for shipment
% German textile interests. Solid
trainload of cotton is shipped to
Wilmington from Charlotte.
SHELBY.-Austin Sparks, %, city
electrician, son of William Sparks,
is instantly killed when he comes in
contact with high voltage wire
Louis Lipscomb, another electri-
clan, by daring climb, brings body to
ground.
RALEIGH.-Holding there is no
evidence to support allegations of
fraud against w. B. Drake, Judge
Grady, in Wake county superior
court. dismisses suit of Mrs. Lillian
c. Ellington and d. D. Ellington,
her husband, against three banks of
which Drake is president, to secure
cancellation of $4,000 mortgage
given by Mrs. Ellington on her
home. Plaintiffs appeal.
HILLSBORO.-Body of J. II Muir,
~, of Efland, for whom 24-hour
search had been made after disap-
pearance from home, is found in Emo
river. He was 60 years of age.
Death is being investigated
Observation-Disclosures Susan
nah Harmon, g., dies at home near
here, after long illness.
CHARLOTTE-R. Grady Rankin,
of Gastonia, is elected vice president
of Southern Yarn Spinners' associa-
ton at special meeting of executive
committee. He succeeds Stewart
Plummer. of Charlotte, resigned.
LEXTNGTON.-Madison R. Shoaf
so, Confederate veteran, dies after
long period of poor ealth.
GREENSBORO.-F of $50, 900
and So, 900 by B. n. Duke and w. W.
| Flowers, respectively, both of New
| York, to Greensboro colleges build
| lllS lullu al dlluOuuCSu Wy l SS4OSIiI
S. B. Turrentine Gifts are con-
ditioned on raising 100000 endow-
ment fund for college, which is
Methodists' state institution for
young women.
CHARLOTTE.-Jo b. Oates and
sister, Mrs. Lucy Oates Moriarity,
both Of Charlotte, share with an
! other niece, of Norfolk, Va. in resi-
due of estate of Kate b. Blacllwood,
of New York. according to will filed
in New York disposing of estate.
/ Residue is estimated at 100000.
GREENSBORO. - c. S. Mowery.
pleading guilty to bigamy in superior
court, while both wives appear as
witnesses against him, is sentenced