Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-05-01
ALABAMA

ALABAMA
BIRMINGHAM Power
company pays $4,000 for lot lao by
100 feet. at corner of Sixth avenue
and Eighteenth street, on which II
will erect 20-story building at cost OF
$1,250,000.
/ FLORENCE. - Large gasoline
freighter Margaret, owned by w. D.
Cox, of Florence, and operated on
Tennessee river between here ana
Clifton, Tenn, is destroyed by lire
MoNTGoMERY.-Over so pub
fishers submit bids to state textbook
commission. Commission Will renaer
decision May 8.
Observation-Disclosures of Camp
Summer A. Cunningham and Chllale!l
of Confederacy unveu marble sIdo
which marks place where Emma san,
som, Alabama girl heroine, plloteo
s General n. B. Forrest across Black
creek during his pursuit OF Genera
w. D. Straight, federal raider.
y' HuNTSyILLE.-Q uintis Watson,
~. son Of Deputy Sheriff r. S. Wat
son. dies of fractured skull from be
Ing struck by oil truck.
BIRMINGHAM.-Nat Beasley. 49,
driver is killed. and Pat Carroll, 80,
and ]. A. Moncrief, 66, are seriously
Injured when truck on which they
are riding is struck by southern
train.
if ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS young men
and women from Daphne State NOR
NAL school, have narrow escape on
{ launch ride on Mobile bay when boat
strikes snag and turns over
- GOODWATER.- Shurett,
taxicab driver, and passenger, jump
from swiftly moving car when II
catches on fire and escape without
being injured.
HTJNTSVILLE.-M than lou
KNIGHTS. representing 95 command
cries. attend sixty-fourth annual con
yention of grand comnahuelS'
knights Templar Of Alabama ne mere
Next years convention goes TO troy
NroNTGO MERY.-Following will
represent Alabama at ninth Worla
convention of Sunday schools, at
Clasgow Scotland, June 1925: Df.
r n Chapman, Rev V. w. Hammer,
Miss A. l.. Williams, Mrs. T. o.
Bush, Allen G. Locher, all OF pr
mingham; Miss Mamie Baker, MO.
bile: Rev. M. l.. Turner, ShehleIu'
Miss Annie Williams. Ensiey; Ml.
and Mrs John D. Wyker' Decatur;
r y. schultz, Stevenson; Rev. ana
Mrs II. G. Brascomb, Admission; Mrs.
Jeff Terry and Mrs. #. B. Murphy,
TII,ntsville. Mrs. George Can't ana
Mr., and Mrs. J. w. Johnson, rus
f-,-,,bia DIR. and Mrs. Charles Pratt,
Montgomery.
ROCK sPRINGS.-M. V. Maley,
e;ghfv.three. Confederate veteran
formerly tax collector OF Chdiiipel'
county, is dead.
acknowledgements Heading MI.
i is destroyed by fire OF undeteriflliieu
origin, at loss of 100000, partly IN
sured.
WFfITESBURG.-B waters OF
Tennessee river wash away iarSe
bridge on Florida Short Route nigh
way between here and New Hope.
TUSCALOOSA. = Many notices
tackled 10 trees in rural sections near
here signed "The Great Black
cross ), warn negroes TO leave when
crops are laid by" We are worse
than XII Klux, so look out, 2otlces
say.
MONTGOMERY. - All officers OF
Alabama Council Religious Educa'
ton are reelected at annual meet
ing here. DIR. J. E. billiard, OF BIZ"
mingham, is president.
BIRMINGHAM.-R. w. Hughes
az Tennessee Lumber and Manurac-
turing company, while confined IN
local hospital ends life. by slashlns
throat from ear to ear with razor.
Dependency over i'll health IS coro-
nes's verdict.
BIRMINGHAM. - Dependency
over I'll health causes Mrs. Cara
Pullman. thrity.four. of Fairfield. TO
fra bullet into her temple, causing
instant death.
MONTGOMERY. - Commencing
Naav "a Alabama Farm Bureau Fed
arafion will make thorough study Oh
tax situation in Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM.--J G. Whitfield,
SPRINGFIELD, Tenn, will erect $35o,ooO
department store building, at Fourth
avenue and Eighteenth street.
GADSDEN. - Tom Worthington,
convicted of distilling, goes to state
rnitentiary for three years with pa
role petition in his pocket. rms pc
fition was secured some time ago IN
Expectancy of conviction.
CoLUMBIANA-- Judge r. S. Ly-
man ~postpones spring term OF CIR
cult court until September as farm-
ers are behind with work.
MONTGOMERY. - BY arrest OF
eight persons. officers say local mar
cotic drug smuggling ring is broken
,ap. About $500 worth OF cocaine
and morphine is seized.
PIEDMONT. - Ice factory build
ing here Is completed and machinery
is being placed.
TUSCALOOSA. - Speaking before
Chamber of Commerce, G. B. Werner,
member Of state legislature. declares
Alabama needs new constitution
S ADMISSION. Odd Fellows. of
Admission, celebrate one hundred ana
4 fifth anniversary of founding OF or
der with open meeting.
BUTLER. Twelve whites and 10
negroes take state school examlna-
tons here.
ANNISTON.-Mrs. Sarah Eliza
beth Shirley, IS, is dead at home
near here.
GADSDEN.- Mary Gilliland,
rs, is dead after brief illness.
wINDHAM SPRINGS. - George
Harrison, 90, dies at home here
after protracted illness.
HURTSBORO. - DR.. George d.
Paschal, until recently prominent
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