Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-11
NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS

for state roads, and for necessary
enabling legislation for needs of Mo-
bile.
ALTON. - l.. S. Russell, IS. presi-
dent of Russell City Manufacturing
company, of this place is seriously
injured ii Birmingham when heavy
truck runs over him.
RALEIGH. - Though facing gun
in hand OF unidentified mould-be
holdup man, who was demanding all
casn on hand, William Stronach,
grocer, jokes with intruder, who
flees when Stronach finally calls
loudly for police.
RALEIGH. - Highest average of
those taking state pharmacist board
examination IS made by Charles j.
Sisk, of High Point.
HIGH POINT. = Edward Gurley,
16, radio fan, picks up IIB2 station at
Lausanne, Switzerland. using three
tube set. He hears piano concert.
Later he picks up London station
2LO.
RALEIGH. - office Of state high
way commission is advised by tele-
gram of election of Frank Page,
North Carolina highway commission
err, as vice president of American
Highway Officials association, in
convention at San Francisco.
RALEIGH. - Judgment in super
ior court directs r. l.. Travis, form
err chairman Of state corporation com
mission, to pay within six months
q iaio
Mrs. Fannie w. Smith, alleged to
have been fraudlently obtained from
them.
GRAHAM. - Alamance county's
new $250,000 courthouse is dedicated
at ceremonies presided over by Judge
w. A. Devin, OF Granville. Several
addresses are delivered.
RALEIGH - Senator Varser and
representative Murphy confer on
possibilities of tapping new source
of state revenue to meet expected
increase of about $3,000000 annually
in state institutions needs. Other
members of budget commissions art
absent and decisions are deferred.
WILMINGTON. - After making
$4,000 bond, Thomas E. Cooper,
president of defunct Liberty Savings
bank, sentenced to eight years on
New Hanover county roads or repay
depositors $165,000, goes to Mullins,
S. c., to visit relatives, Cooper
has entered appeal.
ELDRIDGE. - Girls dormitory at
Eldridge academy burns. Loss, $25,-
900. Girls rooming in building lose
most of belongings.
ALBANY. - George w. Russell,
local merchant and farmer, butchers
hog which nets j92 pounds.
CULLMAN. - w. F. Bozley, for
number of years we'll known brick
manufacturer at Birmingham, dies
at home here.
TONEY. - Jefferson Bates, six
ty-six, merchant, we'll saa1Snown
throughout Madison county, dies aft
er several years illness.
MONTGOMERY. - Mrs. NJ. J.
Bray is instantly killed and hus-
band seriously injured, when train
strikes auto near here.
BESSEMER. = Drive to raise
$125 900 for Y. NJ. C. A. launched at
banquet attended by over 400.
. ALBANY. = State highway be-
tween here and Moulton, paved with
Morgan county asphalt, is completed
RY.-Training school
for negroes in Autauga county is
destroyed by fire at loss of $4,000.
MOBILE. - Three Sunday school
classes adopt resolutions commend
ing Attorney General Harwel Davis
for his efforts to enforce law and
urge him to continue efforts to re-
move any and all state officials who
fail to diligently perform their duty
to enforce all laws
HUNTSVILLE. = r. L. E,slick,
So, dies at his home here after an
Illness of several months.
ANNISTON. - DIR. J. f. Love, of
Valdosta, Ga, is conducting a series
of reviVals at Christian church here.
MONTGOMERY. = Mai. w. C.
Heath, of Monroe, n. c., member of
North Carolina legislature, with 9th
er members, visit Kilby prison to
study Alabama penal methods.
TUSCALOOSA. - Cold weather
forces Tuscaloosa's curb market to
basement of county court house.