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

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and wife vouch for accuracy of claim
of daughter, Odoredo, that her pet
pullet, Miss Twitty," laid 70 eggs
in % days and in first seven days of
Apcil laid II eggs. Many of eggs
were laid in house on pillows, Mrs.
Pentuff says.
ASHEVILLE. = City commission
ers announce that bond issues
amounting to $1,933, 600 will be is
sued during present administration
to finance extensive improvements,
of which $500, 900 will be issued this
year.
CuARLOTTE.-samuel S. Corn
we'll, who lost leg in automobile ac-
cident, enters Democratic primary
for nomination for Mecl3Ienburg
county treasurer against j. ". Stin-
son, incumbent, also one-legged.
NEW BERN.-Dillard Goodman,
negro, is sentenced in superior court
10 20 years in prison for Staying sew
eral weeks ago of William Case,
young white man of Fort Barnwell,
and is taken to Raleigh by detach-
ment of troops.
GOLDSBORO-W. 7. Hollowell,
grand keeper of records and seals of
grand lodge of knights of Pythias
in this state, dies after year of de-
Ginning health.
LENOTR.- demonstration of great
| hydrO-electric project at RhQdhiss by
! Southern Power company will ne
cessitate raising Of bridge over Ca
tawba river between LenOir and Con
nelly Springs.
CHARLOTTE Plastcrer 1T work
on Johnston building, IS stories, de
mand increase in pay from $12 to
St4 per day. Employers say plas
/ terers in many cases are being paid
about 500 per weell,( including over
time. in addition to board being pro
vided.
CHARLOTTE. - City commission
ers authorize laying of IA miles of
paving, work to be paid for from
proceeds of bond issue.
RALEIGH-Daily cash income of
! thousands of landless farmers in
state is SCARCELY more than ten cents,
according to report of tenantcy com
mission named by state board of g
! riCulture to make investigation eX-
tending over period of eighteen
months.
MOUNT .AIRY.-Seven Republic
ans and three Democrats are seek
ing appointment to postmastership.
SPEN G z R.--Bu1glars ransacIi
homes OF C. w. McCarn and e. p.
Deal and in Deal home boldly par
take of hearty meal at dining table.
DURHAM-Leroy Williams and
Cecil Poe, Of Durham, who ran AWAY
from home with intention of going to
Cincinnati, are returned home after
arriving at Creedmoor, N. C.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of East
Durham Baptist church is laid.
! BURG AW.-Mayor J. D. Davis ex-
! presses opinion that fire which de
| stroyed block of buildings did town
a lot of good as it removed insight
! " buildings and made room for new
! structures.
WELDON,-Pistol duel follows en-
TRANCE of unidentified man into store
of Walter COler, in Northampton
county which also is postoficc. and
would-be robber flees without press
/ ing demand for money order blanks
and cash
BOONE.-Riley Greer , celebrates
103rd birthday, crowd Of 769 persons
attending celebration. Greer tells
guests he has chewed tobacco 80
years
SALES.--FUTURE of severe
damage in this section to peach crop
by recent frosts and cold waves are
received.
ASFGEVILLE.-F l.. Whit
man announces decision to resign as
secretary of chamber of commerce.
GASTONIA.-Ceci Mooney, Hay
wood county boy at State OrthOpoe-
! die hospital, invites President Cool-
! idge and Congressman BIlWinl&le, of
Gastonia, to hunting trip in western
/ part of state, offering to lend presi-
dent his gun.
Observation-Disclosures coun-
! ty changing proves too expensive
and county commissioners sell 20
mules and equipment used by gangs.
ASHEVILLE-Th Roberts,
nephew of Mrs. Villa mdu Pont
and granddaughter of late Jacob ROS-
ers, millionaire manufacturer of loco
! motives, returns to face charges in
superior court of abandoning his
wife.
/ J. LIN M J. )4N.--Iit!u On cha SO
of bgamy preferred by DanVille,
Va, woman who claimed marriage
eight years ago, l.. G. ThaCker, Of
/ Erlanger, y. c., obtains release on
/ 81 600 bond when girl he recently
married comes to bis aid,
WILMINGTON. = Inspection trip
/ of w. d. Faucette, of Norfolk, Va,
! chief engineer of Seaboard Air Line
] CpnprtPI n
plan of company to make extensive
| improvements on local terminals.
/ Faucette confers with Major O. O.
! Kuentz, United States army dis
! trict engineer.
LENINGTON-Plans are being
made for erection of 81 0O00 school
buildinS.
RALEIGH-Mem of North
Carolina Cotton Growers associa-
! ton. numbering $4,000, meet in local
! headquarters April 16 and elect dele
gates to county conventions to be
/ held April %.
gHOMASVILLE.-E. T. Kearns,
of Thomas Vile, is named chief of
police to succeed l.. c. Jenkins, held
in Lexington jail charged with muir
der here OF Mrs. Elizabeth Jones.
ROCKY ACCOMPLISHMENTS over
% cents while engaged in crap game
costs Will Young, negro, his life,
Josh Cooper, another gamester,
shooting him.
RALEIGH.-YeSgmen obtain $500
when they blow safes at offices OF
Standard Oil company and Texas Oil
company.
RALEIGH.-Lign Hood convert
at Ham-Ramsey revival, walks into
superior court, pleads guilty to three
liquor charges, turns states witness
and shortly afterwards one code
PENDANT receives two-year sentence
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