Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-15

WILMINGTON. - Atlantic Coast
! Line railway headquarters here an
InOuuces contracts will be awarded
without delay and work of complet-
| ing double tracking Of main line be-
tween Richmond, Va, and Jackson
vile, Fla, will be expedited.
ASHEVILLE. - Karl L. Teubner,
Jr., II, is fatally injured when his
motorcycle and automobile driven by
j. Furman Branyon meet in head-on
collision. Branyon claims accident,
to which there was no eyewitness,
was unavoidable.
| RALEIGH. - October's total of
$201, $50 in SO building permits in
cludes 81 residences to cost S132, 600
and $4,000 for science hall at Shaw
university.
RALEIGH. - Winfield Seaburn,
found guilty in Buncombe county SUI
perior court on two counts of bur
glary and sentenced to life imprison-
, ment in each case, asks Governor
Morrison to grant him pardon in one
case that he may begin serving sec
ond term.
| ELON COLLEGE.-E. w. McCau-
| ley, of Alamance county, is chosen
president of Elon college, class of
1928.
MOUNT AIRY.-Dr. w. s. Taylor,
prominent retired physician, when
blinded by glaring headlight, falls
over embankment and breaks leg.
RALEIGH. - Shipments Of cotton
to Spain, Japan and Italy are re-
ported by North Carolina Co-opera.
tive Cotton Growers association,
CHARLOTTE of Charlotte
sells consolidated $1,10O, 900 bond is
sue to provide funds for various i'm
provements and commissioners an
nounce no further bonds will be is
sued before March /. City's debt is
increased to $7,S12 800, which is Off
set by 1864, 900 in long term obliga-
lions of property owners.
SALISBURY.-Ple r. Cross,
rs, well-known farmer, dies at home
near here after short illness.
FAYETTEVILLE. - Cumberland
Plush mills is organized with author
lied capital of $500 900. Material for
automobile upholstering and draper
les will be manufactured. Manufac-
turers Of South Carolina, Georgia and
this state are interested in company.
RALEIGH.-S. B. Underwood, for
mer uperintendent of Raleigh
schools, dies at sanatorium at Will
son, where he went for treatment
several weeks ago from Greenville
where he had been instructor in East
Carolina Teachers college. He for
merly was chairman Of state text
book commission. Group of. state Of
ficials and prominent figures in edu-
cational circles of state attend funer-
al at Greenville.
CHAPEL HILL.-''Woodro Will
son blazed trail over which La Fol
lette Travelled in lis presidential cam
paign," University of North Carolina,
student body is told by B. w. Cause,
of Los Angeles, lecturer, who adds
that La Toilette lis going further
along that trail"
KINSTON.-Without having made
one error, Robert Cox, money order
clerk at postoftice, rounds out eight
cen years of service during which he
wrote 100000 money orders, largest
single item of which he says were
for silk stockings"
KINSTON. = John G. Dawson,
chairman of state Democratic execu-
tive committee, in statement, says
ut has been charged that Republic
ans spent as much as $150,000 in
campaign in this state.''
KINSTON.-Onslow county's high
way development program, for which
100000 in bond issue proceeds is
available, includes 1875 miles of sand
clay roads, requiring eighteen
months to build, principal links Of
which will connect Jacksonville,
county seat, with state system S
trunks, says County Engineer Lewis.