Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-22
SOUTH CAROLINA

SOUTH CAROLINA
SIMULTANEOUSLY. T. Cham
pion, of Gaffney, is arrested here
on charge of operating car while
under influence of whisky. He
struck car of &. w. Montgomery.
SPARTANBURG-A. NJ Law &
Co, local brokers, buy $1S5, 900
school bonds, issued by town of
Laurens, and SIS, 1000 funding bonds
of town Of Union.
ANDERSON-Little Anna Tribble,
twelve-year-old daughter of Mrs
F'easter Tribble falls from tree to
| ground, forty feet, and is uncon-
scious for half hour. She suffers
severe cash on head and other
bruises, and narrowly escaped DEATH
physicians say.
AIKEN-U. S. department of ag-
riculture establishes office here for
! inspection of carlot shipments of
peaches. d. d. Whitcomb is in
| charge.
ANDERSON-Corine White, ne
gress, is nabbed by officers in sell
ing whisky right over the bar"
She had boosted of her bar-room, op-
Grated for several weeks, officers
said.
DERSON-Ernest Browning.
of Piedmont, is in county Jail here.
held pending outcome of condition
of Styles Finley, whom he is alleged
| to have struck in head with rock.
| following argument.
I n
of a serious accident that befelI
family of DR.. D. NJ. Douglas, presi-
| dent Of Presbyterian College of
! South Carolina, located here. They
were travelling in east and north,
visiting relatives. Automobile turn.
ed over, being practically demolish-
ed, and then was burned up. Family
escaped without injury.
ROCK HILL. = Mrs Emma 4
Fox, for years teacher in Winthrop
college, here, and for twenty years
director of Parliamentary Law club
Of Detroit, speaks at summer school
here.
CHESTERFIELn.- B. Graves,
rural policeman, dies of injuries re-
ceived when he is attacked and
struck in head by alleged bootleg
gers, whose car he was attempting
to raid. Tom Phillips, white, and
two negroes, are held for crime.
SUMTER.-Dr. j. M. Wells, for
mer president of Columbia Theolog-
ical seminary, is installed as pastor
of First Presbyterian church here.
ROCK HILL. - County superin.
tendents of education meet here in
viii TIL,
er PoWys as chief speaker.
GAFFNEY. = Municipal census
taken here shows town to have in
creased in population from 5,065 to
6082 since government census of
1920.
GAFFNEY. - Clarence Littleiohn,
negro, bitten by mad-dog, dies of by
drophobia.
CHESTER. - John Thompson. ne
gro, of Georgetown, is arrested and
held for series of Sunday night rob-
berries which have stirred town.
SPARTANBURG. = First Presby-
terrain church has offered to sell old
plant in business district for $780,
900, and will consider this at next
service. Congregation is now build
LIS ASW PAM ctI totob u PIVV,ONV'
COLUMBIA-Major John +. Jones,
collector of internal revenue for
South Carolina, mails out checks
covering first refunds on 25 per cent
reduction in 1924 income taxes.
UNION.-American Legion auXil-
larry here gives ten scholarships to
opportunity schools being conduct
ed at Erskine and Lander colleges,
this state, for adult illiterates.
COLUMBIA. = Miss WiIhelmina
Patterson, of Lykesland, is in hos
pital here suffering with injuries,
including fractures of eight ribs, as
result Of collision of her car and
that driven by Hubert Odum, who
is in Jail pending outcome of Miss
Patterson's injuries
COLUMBIA, Bryan Entzminger,
former prisoner on changing here,
is captured in Baltimore and brought
back to local Jail.
DARLINGTON E. J. c. Byrd,
70, prominent citizen, passes away
after illness of several months
WINNSBORO.-W William E. Aiken,
prominent planter of Fairfiel coun-
ty, dies at hospital in Columbia.
DARLINGTON. = Egan Richard
son, 1S-year- old-negro, is shot and
killed by brother, Curley Richardson,
shooting being declared accidental.
COLUMBIA. = Walter Huffman,
president of Congaree Cooperage
company, loses finger IN barrel stave
factory operated near pierre by his
company.
HARNIN.-Captain James d. Nc
F'addin loses warehouse and twenty
three bales of cotton by fire, not in
sured,
ANDERSON. - George Brown is
standing near curb repairing bicycle
when auto dashes by, strikes and
drags him thirty feet, and leaves
him with broken leg.
CONWAY.-Leland Macklin and
Ralph Watts were hunting dear,
driven from swamps by heavy rains.
They had stands 60 feet apart. Mack
lin saw deer leap across road nd
fired. Wits was in line of fire ard
received entire load of shot in stOm-
ach. Despite this, he fired and
killed deer. He died on operating
table shortly afterwards.
TIRZAH-Rev. +. Gettys an.
nounces here that he will sail in fad
for India to do missionary work IN
der Associated Reformed Presbyter.-
an church,
GREENNILLE.-B w. Harri-
son. Kenneth s. Gilmore and a. B.
Rivers, former officers of Anderson
Cotton company, recently indicted on
chrge of forging cotton warehouse
receipts, are arrested under federal
charge of using mails to defraud.
Bond for each is fixed at $4,000, Har-
rison already being out on $4,000 Of
| bonds, following sentence to four
and half years on states charge of
! forgery.