Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-29

widow of prominent banker, dies
after long illness.
SALISBURY.-Mis Anne Neave,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs, f. b.
! Neave, dies of heart attack follow
ing operation.
ASHEBORO.-Car owned by r. l..
! Davis, Jr., representative of Anti
Saloon league, is stolen here and re-
| covered at High Point after being
used to transport cargo of blockade
whisky, some bottles Of which were
/ broken in car.
ASHEBORO.- Town votes $4,000
to complete school program.
DURHAM.-Mis Iona Gates, we'll
/ known, of Chapel Hill, refuses to
kiss Bible after taking oath in court,
where she appeared as witness,
claiming backs of book were dirty.
! Irritated Judge Graham Gompro-
missed by permitting her to kiss in
side page.
CHARLOTTE Mary Ray
! Plyler, rs, widow, well known, dies
! few hours after suffering stroke Of
paralysis.
HIGH POINT.-Rev. Nathaniel
! M. Harrison, Jr., pastor of West
! End Methodist Protestant church,
of Greensboro, is named by trustees
as dean of Methodist Protestant col
lege to be opened this fall.
KINsTON.-senator Pat Harri-
son, of Mississippi. probably will de-
| liver two addresses when he comes
April 10 to attend Eastern Carolina
exposition, speaking at exposition
/ and at annual dinner of chamber of
commerce membership.
RALEIGH what is
| believed to be new ruling on Tur-
I lington act authorizing seizure Of
| motor cars transporting whisky,
| Judge Harris, in city court, refuses
to confiscate car owned by Erwin
| Davis, negro preacher, in which
quart of whisky was seizde. Judge
| Harris declares seizure clause was
enacted as curb to bootleggers them
selves primarily, not their patrons.
WILMINGTON.-Old boat recent
| ly dug up by eXca Vators on water
front is identified by Captain H. r.
| Kuhl, aged 90, as that once owned
by j. Malarkey. who used it to haul
supplies for B. Barry, builder of Con.
federate war vessels
| LEXINGTON.-Ch of Police L.
c. Jenkins, of Thomasville, held
here for murder, a declares Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Jones came to death by
own hand "or was shot by unknown
person who fired through window of
Jenkins home at Thomasville,
where Mrs. Jones had lived, posing
as jenkins wife. He says Thomas
Jones, of Appalachia, Va, her hus-
band, had threatened to kill her, ac-
cordins to her statements to him.
Il was madly in love with her"
says Jenkins
REIDSVILLE.-H. n. Simpson,
rs, formerly prominent in Republi.
can state politics, dies at home Of
son, II. n. Simpson, Jr., at Green's
boro, following stroke of paralysis
REIDSVILLE.-L Stradler,
aged four, daughter Of Robert Strad-
Ter, OF Caswell county, dies of burns.
ASHLAND.--Mr Dora Mills
Rice, 81, dies after long illness.
SILER CITY.-William c. Patti
shall, prosperous farmer, kills self
with rifle, suicide being attributed
to ill health following influenza.
NSTON.-Hundred of farmer
boys will be enlisted in anti-boll
| WeeVil campaign to be conducted
throughout state by eastern Carolina
| chamber of commerce and co-operat-
! ing agencies.
WINSTON SALEM. = George Fl.
| Willard, Sd, automobile dealer and
! farmer, shoots and kills self at home
! hprn bnad Ioi I,
! discharge from shotgun found at
his side by wife.
GOLDSBORO.-Message announc-
es death of James Spruill at Orien-
/ tai. He was injured in automobile
accident near Greenvile, N. c., sew
eral weeks previously, pneumonia
developing.
/ ELIZABETH CITY.-True bill is
returned by grand jury against
Evans Forbes, 43, machinist. charg-
| ing him with leading mob which on
I night Of March 2 assembled with
| apparent intention to taking two
negroes from local jail He is ar
| rested and released on 81 900 bail
| by Judge Deyore.
GREENSBOnO.-Rev. r. M. An
| dreWs, of Greensboro, formerly
president of North Carolina Method,
| ist Protestant conference, is elected
! president of Methodist Protestant
! college, at High Point according to
/ report from meeting of trustees at
college.
BURLINGTON.-Mrs. Cora Fran
ces Walker widow of late B. +.
Walker, dies suddenly.
CONCORD.-W. r. Howell one of
| best known residents of China Grove.
dies after short illness of pneumonia,
death following four days after that
of wife.
S H e l. B Y.-Mrs. Ann Osborne,
mother of DR.. j. r. Osborne, of Shell
by, dies, aged So, at home of daugh-
ter, Mrs. Mary Baber, near Hickory.
HIGH POINT.-L. s. jenkins. UNI
! til recently chief of police a Thomas
vile, held in Jail on charges of MUIR
der growing out of fatal shooting at
/ Thomasville of Mrs. Thomas S. Jones,
continues in highly nervous and mo-
rose state of mind. talking very little.
| CHARLOTTE business interests
announce plans to Immediately con-
struct seven one-story store buildings
on recently purchased property on
South Tryon street.
THOMASNILLE.-Body of Mrs
Elizabeth b. Jones, for whose death
| l.. c. Jenkins, chief of police, is held
on charge of murder at Lexington, is
/ sent TO mother at Memphis, Tenn.
Her husband. Thorlas s. Jones, OF
Appalachia, Va. takes charge of their
daughter aged five.
! ASHENILLE-Ass is given
/ by A, A. Brown, of Washington, D.
! G., superintendent of training unit of
veterans bureau that vocational
! school at Waynesville will be one of
1 last TO close, about June 1925.