Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23


purchase 275 acres of land in Muscle
Shoals district from Birmingham
parties for s15o,O00.
PIEDMONT.-Whe Will Roe,
negro, goes to bed late at night he
is frightened by finding something
in TED. Investigation reveals big
'possum hiding under bed clothing.
'Possum dinner with sweet potatoes
follows.
YORK.-City council votes to con-
crete Main street anad part of Dixie
highway, at cost of $4,000.
MONTGOMERY.-Heavy general
rains over state fill reservoirs of
Alabama Power company, and en-
able operating conditions to come
back to normal.
EUFAULA.-John NJ. Kendall, Ga
one of best known insurance men in
Alabama, dies after two days illness.
MOBILE. - Federal, state and
county officers will cooperate in en-
forcement of prohibition laws in Mo-
bile county, according to announce
ment of Walter *. McAdory, chief of
state law enforcement department.
MOBILE.-Henry Piser, 70, we'll
known business man, dies at his
htme here.
MONTGOMERY.-Jefferson coun-
ty pays more hunting and trapping
permits than any county in Alabama
during November, amount being So
1868.
SELMA. Miss Addie Farley,
popular young woman, dies at her
home.
ATHENs.-state highway com
mission awards contract for building
state highway between Athens and
Florence, about so miles.
ANNISTON.-Fune services for
Wiley c. Tunstall, state senator,
who died suddenly at Greensboro
while visiting relatives there, is held
here.
MOBILE.-Board of revenue elects
James E. Shelton county engineer.
BIRMINGHAM.-At meeting of
Jefferson County Medical society
rating equal to that Of any southern
city.
MOBILE.-Majo T. H. Emerson.
United States district engineer, will
investigate recent death of Jesse
Kirkland on dredge Blackwater, in
plunge over dam near Demopolis.
BIRMINGHAM M. Collins, 81,
employed by Age-Herald in circula-
ton department, is shot and instant
ly killed at Parkyiew Inn. Police
arrest Franklin Eugene Childress,
Il, charging him with murder.
GADSDEN.-Rev. E. C. Seaman.
Tor three years rector of Episcopal
church here, is confirmed as Episco-
pal bishop of northern Texas, at
Amarillo, Tex.
MONTGOMERY. Fred John.
son, assistant attorney general, gives
opinion that state board of admins
tration may clear state lands for
agricultural purposes.
SELMA.-All county convicts are
leased to Pratt Consolidated Coal
company, of Birmingham.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS assess.
ments in Alabama amount to 81.
020,330, 223. This is increase of S63.-
100000 over 1922.
GOODWATER.-Mary Lou Mar
bury, colored, is in Jail, charged with
shooting and killing her husband.
MoNTGoMERY.-Net earnings of
Sa20,8S7.S9 are reported by state con-
Wet department for year.
FLORENCE.-Rem of Orville
snyder, former citizen of this place,
VINO died at Coachella, Cal, are in
TERED here.
NEW CASTLE.-Fifteen persons.
including two women, escape serious
INJURY when three tons of rock col.
idpsed IN front of string of tipple
cars !,oOO feet under ground in coal
iIIne mere. People are members of
famous Players-Lasky corporation
making moving picture here.
CONGRATULATIONS w. Salter.
prominent citizen and business man
dies, following attack of pneumonia
JASPER.-Six Walker county cit
lzens complete Pasteur treatment
for mad-dog bites.
MARION.-County board of edu.
cation divides Perry county into
seven school districts, with high,
school in each. This will give everv
boy and girl opportunity to attend.
MISUNDERSTANDING negro
man is killed near here by Central
of Georgia work train.
ANDALUSIA.-Fe govern.
ment submit plans for postoffice
building here, one story high and IS
by "A feet.
NEW MARkET.-Mrs. John w
Cochran, wife of prominent local
merchant, dies at home here.
MOBILE.-Mrs. Cora Laprade
Cawthon, widely known throughout
Alabama, wife of James Lee Cav.
thon, is dead
BESSEMER.-Smallp is more
prevalent here now than ever be-
fore, although there is no cause for
alarm, authorities say.
BESSEMER.- Emily Shaw
IS, dies at home of daughter, Mrs
Emory Lee.
TROY.-Robert Thrasher. negro
Is given life sentence on charge OF
numbering mother-in-law.
John Allen, Piedmont policeman. Is
under $500 bond charged with
shooting.
MONTGOMERY Major e +,
Winters, registrar United States lane
office here, holds that island in Ala
bama river near here is government
property. Island has been claimed
by several parties.
Observation-Disclosures to in
vestigators street beggers in Bir
n1insham are reaping rich harvest
One blind" beggar makes from 81;
to SIS per day. it is claimed.
GADSDEN.- Harweu G
Davis, attorney general of Alabama
will be candidate for governor al
next election.
MOBILE.-Judge r. T. Erwin, O
federal district court. overruleS mo
lions to quash federal liquor indict
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