Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-02
SOUTH CAROLINA

mere, states tlat Wltnln rev mOnlnS
war department will have completed
plans for transferring camp area to
III. S. bureau oG forestry and to Co
| lumbia Chamber Of Commerce. Lat
ter organization Will use portion for
industrial purposes.
i COLUMBTA.-Many industries, in
Guiding textile plants Of New Eng
land. seek locations in this state, ac-
cording to w. S Barstow, of w. S.
Barstow c Co., owners of many utlli-
ties in state.
HARTSVILLE. - Willie Hopkins,
life-timer, who escaped two years
ago when being transferred from
state penitentiary to Richland coun-
ty gang, is held here and will be
taken back to state prison.
O.,-BIondell Hopkins loses
little finger Of right hand, shot off
when hunting.
ANDERSON.-Only hope for coun-
try in crusade against demon rum
lies in healthy public sentiment, de-
clares L. S. Judge II. II. Watkins, IN
charge to grand jury here.
MANNING. = Clarendon farmers
are optimistic, declares +. NJ. Rast,
county farm agent.
ROCK HILL.-Four-yea child
Of r. p. Wallicl1 is burned to death
here when clothes catch from open
CRATE.
! CHESTER. w. F. Marion, agri-
cultural statistician for u. S. govern
ment, declares prospects are brighter
for cotton crop in this county than
! had been thought. He forecasts crop
of 500 bales, whereas early in sea-
son he expected $4,000 bales.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ag-
ricultural census of county is being
taken by federal department of ag-
riculture.
SPARTANBURG. - Mystery SIR
rounds fires which on successive
nights destroyed barn of Will Foster
and also barnr of John Massey, neigh
boring farmers.
ANDERSON. = Lieutenant J. D.
Mangum, aide to Admiral A o.
Wright, ,off Richmond, is here seek
ing information regarding men who
fought in the Confederate navy in
'61-'65.
COLUMBIA. = South Cardinals
tax system. whereby the state is
supporting its government largely by
! indirect taxes, is attracting nation
wide interest, Governor Mcleod says
on return from governors confer
ence at Jacksonville.
MARION. bank here is
closed by State Bank Examiner
Bradley, first bank failure in his
tory Of Marion county, and state
ment is made that more than $780,
900 is tied up in shutdown.
COLUMBIA.-Mrs. M. M. Rice,
wife of city health officer, dies in
hospital here.
+ SUMTER.-Mrs. John r. Sumter
dies here. She was leader in social,
club and church activities.
COLUMBIA.-Impo meeting
of Baptist ministers of state is
called for December 2, in First Bap-
fist church here, to make plans for
annual Baptist state convention to
be held in Spartanburg December
Oil, when 1925 UNCONVENTIONAL pro-
! gram will be launched.
COLUMBIA. - Southern shops
here will be enlarged and improved,
Fairfax Harrison, president of road
states here.
[ COLUMBIA.-Fletc Brockman,
associate general secretary of inter
national Y. M. G. A, visits Column
bia, home of his wife, and is ten
dered large reception by local y.
NJ. C. A.
HAMPTON.-Mrs. Matte Porcher
insolvency. widow Of late Governor
Miles B. Insolvency., is burned to
death at. her room in BinniclIer ho-
tel here. Clothes became ignited
from open fireplace. She was 61.
James Porcher, of Atlanta, is
brother.
ST. MATTHEW'S F. Nc
Lauchlin, city mail carrier, suffers
severe cuts about hands, when car
he is driving collides with car driven
by Joe Hiott. McLauchlin's car
| turns oyer.
Observation-Disclosures of city eX-
tend welcome to new pastor of Beth
ell Methodist church, Rev. A. Il. IIol-
Ter.
MARION-Brown Stevenson, win
ner for Marion county in junior
live stock judging contest at recent
state fair, is given trip to Chicago,
where he attends national club con-
dress.
y CHART ESTON.-Local chapter Of
Daughters of ,Confederacy make
plans for state L. d. c.. convention
to be held here December 1912.
Miss Martha B. Washington is chair
man of general committee.
RLESTON.-Louis Behrens.
chief of Charleston fire department,
has been in service of local depart
ment since establishment in 1851, He
has spent practically all his life in
fire fighting.
CHARLESTON. - First trip of
George Washington, new ship of the
Clyde Line, plying between New York,
Charleston and Jacksonville, is cele
brated with reception and entertain
ment for ships officers. on arrival
here, Mayor Thomas p. Stoney lead
ing in festivities.
GREENVILLE.-H Henry Galloway,
SO, employee of state highway de.
partment, is instantly killed when
truck goes over fill in road. about
bwenty-seven miles north OF here.
falling about thirty feet. Calloway'S
| skull is fractured.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Perrin
Quarles, prominent retired cotton
merchant Of Abbeville, dies at home
of daughter here, Mrs. Fl. Frank Nc
Gee. lie was Confederate veteran.
ST. MATTHEWS.-W. IT. GaslIin
loses barn with entire grain crop for
year stored IN 1t, and with no, in
SuranCe.
CAMDEN.-W. Fl. Halle is elected
city clerk TO succeed II. C. Single
ton, who died recently.