Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-06-17
ALABAMA

ALABAMA
ONERY.-Michael Cody,
local banker, denies any Montgom-
cry bank is paying more than per
cent interest on saving accounts, in
violation of state laws, as charged
by A. E. Jackson, state superintend-
ent of banks.
HAMILToN.-Mrs. Ethel Bot
toms. wife of Prof. Q. c. Bottoms,
dies at home of brother, w. r. Car
penter.
DECATUR. = Mass meeting of
Tennessee Valley citizens, presided
over by c. E. Frost, of Athens, is
held here and committee appointed
to solicit funds to build wagon bridge
across Tennessee river at Decatur.
JASPER. Sheriff Guy O'Rear.
under grand jury indictment and
with impeachment proceedings filed
against him, issues statement saying
charges are untrue and brought by
enemies.
EUTAW.-Quarrel over whisky
still results in Collier Powell and
William Price, negroes, being shot
to death.
TUSKEGEE.-A. M. Watson,
Democrat, is appointed postmaster
here by President Coolidge. This
office becomes second-class Office
July 1.
TUSCALOOSA. - Mrs. Margaret
Mal1ette is held on charge of aiding
son, Jack, to escape Jail. Jack Nal.
lette and Hubert Williams flee, leav-
Ing Mrs. Mallette, who was visiting
son, locked in corridor.
ANNISTON.-Lon dream of An
niston citizens for highway extend
ing across Calhoun county will soon
be realized, according to John A.
Rogers, president of state highway
commission.
Observation-Disclosures Pow
err company purchases municipal
lighting plant and will spend $36 900
on improvements. Twenty four-h hour
service will be given.
SELMA.-Thonas P Littlejohn.
of Troy, visits Selma and arranges
for Dallas county fair, to be held
October 141S. Over $4,000 in prizes
will be given.
GADsDEN. Coal and
Clay Products company discovers
fine seam of fire clay underlying
working seam of coal. Clay will
be mined.
FLORENCE.-M L. e. Lloyd is
seriously injured when her automo-
bile runs into ditch and turns over.
FAYETTE.-Farm work of this
ic al l,U hna it1c M
prospects are far from satisfactory.
TALLADEGA.-Lee P. Hancock,
IS, prominent citizen, dies suddenly.
SELMA. Several calls are al
ready made on farm bureau for
poison to kill boil weevil
HUNTSVILLE. Chitum wood,
from which Ark of Covenant was
made, is found growing on mountain
side near here. Botanists say only
other place this wood is found is
in Holy Land.
SCOTTSBORO.-O D. Kennemer,
manager of Tennessee Valley bank
here, Is elected president of Tennes-
see Valley Bankers association. Miss
Flora Gardner, of Decatur, is elect
ed secretary
DECATUR.-Capacity of Alaba ma
Brick and Tile company's plant will
be doubled. Present capacity is AGO.
600 brick monthly.
BIRMINGHAM commission
prohibits showing of motion picture
"Three Weeks declaring it i'm
moral.
BIRMINGHAM than 1000
automobiles, containing over 5000
local members of ku Klux Khan,
parade streets.
MONTGOMERY. - Alabama is
building highways equal to those
in North Carolina, according to w.
S. Keller, state highway engineer,
home from meeting of American
Road Builders association at Green's
boro. n. c.
BIRMINGHAM.-Y man call
ing himself Reuben Johnson, about
%, asks police to assist him in locat-
ing his unknown parents. Accord
! ing to dying confession of young
mans foster mother at Los Angeles.
Cal, he was kidnapped in Birmingham
twenty years ago, his parents name
being unknown.
MOBILE.-Mobile quarantine sta
ton appropriation bill, sidetracked
Just before adjournment of congress,
will be taken UP again when con
gress meets in December, according
to Senator Underwood.
BIRMINGHAM Victor, IS. re-
tired business man of BirminS nam,
is killed in auto accident near Tisha-
niingo, Miss.
AENISTON.-Alma Langley, 10,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. III. A,
Langley, is lost in mountains near
here and found by Boy Scouts after
twelve hours.
MONTGOMERY.-Fire starting in
closet on second floor causes $4,000
damage to Elks' club.
observation-disclosures of A. Lamar
Poindexter, proprietor of hotel at Ty
bee Beach, Ca, who was shot by
one of his clerks, are buried here.
this being former home of his wife
who was Miss Frank.
GREENSBORO. Hale county
board re-elects Prof. E. L. Coleheck
superintendent of education.
ANNISTON.-Crac blow
safe in store of s. H. Kress & Co.
escaping with $3.50 in cash.