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

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without bail after hearing in police
court on charge of criminal attack
on white girl, aged 10. Police Of
| ficers say several other white girls
of about same age will appear in
superior court as state witnesses.
In recent years he has been huck
| ster.
CHARLOTTE.-Before shovelful
of dirt is moved from Rhodhiss site
| of newest water power development
Of Southern Power company, with
! headquarters here, contract for con-
| struction of which was awarded few
| days ago, every horse power of
/ available $4,000 horse power of cleo
| trio energy from that development
! has been applied for, power com
| pany announces.
GREENSBORO Transfer of six
tracts in High Point for $15O,O0O in
'valuables" and $150,000 in notes,
by Henry Harris, Lewis Harris and
their wives to Mutual Investment
company, is recorded at court house.
GASTONIA.-Rev. w. A. Lam
beth, pastor of Main Street Meth
odist church, is transferred from
western North Carolina conference
to Baltimore conference and is APP
pointed pastor of Mount Vernon
church, Washington, d. c., to sue
coed DR.. Clovis Chappell, who, on
February /, became pastor Of First
Methodist church, Memphis, Tenn.
GASTONIA.-Dr. J. Fl. Hinder
lite, pastor of First Presbyterian
church, receives call to pastorate Of
First Presbyterian church, Column
bus, Ca, which pastorate has been
vacant more than year, since res
ignation of DR.. l. S. McElroy, now
preaching at Kings Mountain, N. c.
E.-Resignations of
eight women teachers at veterans
vocational school at Waynesville,
near here, have been asked for, ac-
cording to statement Of one of teach
ers. A. 3. Thomas, head Of school,
refuses to discuss situation there,
other than to explain surplus teach
ers will be eliminated. Report from
Atlanta headquarters Of veterans
bureau tends to contradict statement
attributed to teacher.
CHARLOTTE.-Pe 1000 per-
sons hear Billy Sunday preach on
"Amusements," in which sermon he
declared movies have become petting-
party parlors; "the auto has taken
the redlight districts into the coun-
tryside;" passion is the basis of
popular Dances" that hottest place
in hell, if there is any variation in
temperature, is reserved for those
who refuse to help back to morality
and Christianity those girls who fall
because Of temptations afforded by
dances.
REIDSVILLE.-B. r. Franklin, of
Leaksville, will serve six months in
prison for killing Sadie Saunders,
aged six, Franklin submitting in SUI
perior court to manslaughter charge.
Child was killed under wheels of au-
tomobile.
REIDSVILLE.-W. A. Carroll, g.,
farmer, widely known, dies after a
short illness at home here.
SALISBURY.-Wil (BilD Pitts,
Southern railway engineer, of Ashe-
vile, who suffered stroke of apoplexy
just after completing his run from
Asheville. N. c., dies at local hospital.
Body is taken to Glenn Apline for in.
terment. General Manager Simpson,
Of Southern railway lines east, sent
private car from Charlotte head
quarters for use of funeral party.
Observation-Disclosures Clyae
Armstrong, Of Gastonia, issues
through headquarters here call for
annual meeting of Carolina Motor
club at Charlotte, March 6, in con-
nection with automobile show, which
will be held March 38 Club will
discuss motor laws, speed limits.
mail-order arrest and taxation.
CHARLOTTE.-Ten fires in one
day established record fer 24-hour
activity for city's firemen, total loss
being placed at $55,0OO.
WILLIAM.-Aft more than wear
OF continuous work, United States
coast and geodetic survey steamer
Lydonla completes re-survey of ocean
bed off Frying Pan shoals and re-
moves her base to Charleston, S. C.
WILMINGTON.-With $4,000 feet
OF lumber removed, divers continue
salvaging operations on sunken dere-
let schooner Josephine.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Polv-
bus arrives from South Atlantic
ports to take on 1000 bales to com.
plete cargo Of $4,000 bales of cotton
destined for France.
CHAPEL HILL.-Averag individ-
ual loss by sickness each year is
nine days, making 100000 years Of
illness for population of United
States each year, according to
Charles w. Brown, for twenty-five
years head of educational depart
ment of Fl. *. milford company, in
address to University of North Caro-
lima branch American Pharmaceuti-
cal association.
ASHEVILLE.-Ei negro
convicts escape from recently estab-
lished camp near Marshall. All Of,
ficers of Madison county engage in
search and within two days rearrest
seven. Negroes sawed way out by
using smuggled saw.
sALIsBURY.-Thomas L. Hanes,