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

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BARIUM SPRINGS. = Twenty
nine children are admitted 10 Bari
UNI Springs Presbyterian orphanage
in first half Of June, bringing total
Of inmates to $40. Provision to care
for 20 more children will be avail
able September /, and that number
Of applications now is on file. I'M
provements costing $4,000 are now
about completed.
RALEIGH. - Potato shipments
from state continue heavy, daily
shipments ranging from 125 to us
cars.
ASHEBORO. = Firemen's festival
will be held here June SO-July 5.
GASTONIA. = Many hailstones as
large as partridge eggs fall during
severe wind and hailstorm, which
causes damage to crops.
RALEIGH. - DR.. T. f. Jones, Of
Raleigh, who pleaded guilty in fed
eral court of violating anti-narcotic
laws, is fined $3.50, debarred from
distribution of narcotics and placed
under $500 good behavior bond.
RALEIGH. - DR.. E. H Bowling,
of Durham, is convicted in federal
district court OF violating anti-nar-
cote laws and is fined $500.
RALEIGH. - Campaign is under
taken in city to raise $15, 900 to
build at Peace institute, here, chapel
and library as memorial to former
Presidents Burwell and Dinwiddie.
GREENSBORO. - Ike Mcmillan,
negro, is convicted of second degree
murder for killing Robert Hinton,
white, stabbed in quarrel, and is SEN
fenced in superior court to 20 to 80
years in state prison.
STATESVILLE.-M Belle Carl,
ton, rs, dies at home Of niece, Mrs,
r. L. Poston.
GREENSBORO. = Miss Minnie
Lovings, of Norfolk, Va, bobbed-
haired ''flapper bandit is convict
ed in superior court Of housebreak-
ing and is sentenced by Judge Lane
| to years Imprisonment at county
| home.
RALEIGH. - Hell will be crowd
ed with persons who undertook to
| misrepresent our great system OF
| taxation" says Governor Morrison,
| in address before North Carolina
| league of building and loan associa-
| tons.
RALEIGH. - Governor Morrison
will ask special session OF leglsla-
ture, which he soon will formally
call to meet August Z, to submit
his proposal for state-owned ship
| line and port terminals to vote or
people in November, that it may be
made issue in campaign between
| Democrats and Republicans, though
| he says he wants voters to approve
| it not primarily as party issue but
as means of obtaining lower freight
! rates for state.
HICKORY.-Rev II. r. Freeman
of Hickory, widely known Baptist
minister, is killed and three com
panions are seriously injured when
| car in which they are returning
from Baptist Young Peoples union
meeting at Wilmington goes over
embankment near Badin. Injured
are Boyce Dellinger, %; Miss Leafy
Abernethy, %, and Mrs. Jessie JUS
tice. 25, all of Hickory.
HICKORY.-W. IT. Little, official
of building and loan association, is
seriously injured when his car is
struck at crossing by Southern rail
way switching engine.
ASHEVILLE.-Oil wells in Mexico
worth several million dollars, for
merly owned by Cities Fuel and
| Power company, Of Richmond Va.
must be resold as result of decision
in United States circuit court of ap
peals denying application for stay Of
courts mandate ordering resale.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of fine
new building for Trinity Methodist
church is begun.
HIGH POINT.-Breaking of steer
ing wheel of car driven by Edgar
Cacutt results in automobile acci
dent in which five persons are in
jured.
Burton, SO, of Randolph county, dies
at local hospital.
GOLDSBORO.-OI Kennon hote
is sold at auction for 81, 500 and will
be demolished Immediately. Mod
ern hotel building will be erected on
site.
MOREHEAD CITY.--Semiannu
meeting of North Carolina CONNER
cial secretaries association convenes
June 81.
DURHAM. - Sherwood Scott is
fined $3.50 in city court for reckless
driving and is required also to pay
$40 for damage done street car
ELIZABETH CITY.-Joe Swim
dell, auto race driver of Elizabeth
! City, is arrested on charge of attack
ing white girl, aged 13 years. He
denies guilt. Young woman OF
prominent family is said to be in
volved.
WINSTON-SALEM.-Six men, one
of whom is negro, are killed, bodies
being horribly mangled, when light
ming eXpiodes $50 pounds of dynamite
in quarry shed where they had taken
refuge during storm. Dead are
Charlie Miller, so; Sam Miller, =:
Julius Miller, As; Clark Spaugh. 81;
Isaac Clemens, %, and Bog Wag.
goner so. negro.
ALABAMA
SHEFFIELD.-Wi lliam X. Smith
! World war sergeant. who received
| eleven personal citations and five
distinguished service medals, is en-
| ployed as carpenter at Wilson dam.
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