Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-03-15
NORTH CAROLINA

! NORIH CAROLINA
DURHAM. - Granville Plummer
negro bad man." wanted in Farm
Vile, n. c., for homicide committed
in 1917 and for various other offenses
IN this state and Virginia, is captur-
ed here.
RALEIGH.-Mrs. Josephus Dan
| ies heads delegation of club women
| appearing before city commissioners
| to demand remedy of conditions COM
! planned of at city Jail and commits
sioners promise to Immediately take
action looking to separation of wcm-
! EN- and men prisoners, with the View
of assuring privacy for women.
CHARLOTTE. - Carolina Motor
club has grown from nothing TO mem
| 5ership, of 1900 since September 10,
1922, according to annual report of
| Vice President C. w. Roberts, read
before annual convention.
DURHAM. - North Carolina
! League Of Women Voters in annual
session elect as officers: Miss Ger
trude We'll, of Goldsboro, president,
! Mrs II. f. Seawell, of Carthage, Mrs.
| Frank NJ. Weaver, of Asheville. vice
! presidents; Mrs. c.. w. Tillett, Jr., of
| Charlotte; Mrs. c. F. Gold, of Ellen
boro, secretaries; Mrs. Julius Cone.
of Greensboro, treasurer.
| LENOIR.-Kiwanis club calls on
! federal government to erect postof-
! flee building on site purchased for
that purpose twelve years ago. Cald-
we'll county commissioners proposal
! IN icC11n SO0n IN Ii ohv Jc
| is indorsed.
OXFORD. = Three tobacco ware.
| houses are destroyed by fire, loss
Ebeing about $4,000. with $4,000 in
! surance. Cooperative Tobacco
| Growers association warehouse only
| recently had been emptied Of thou.
sands of pounds of tobacco. Spon.
taneous combustion in painters sup.
| plies valued at $4,000 is believed
cause of fire.
| RALEIGH. = John o. Miller, of
Lehoir county, wins 49, 900 verdict
from international Harvester com.
pany when jury awards him non-lia-
| bility attaching to signature on notes
held by company.
RALEIGH. - Miss Nora Bunch,
IS, dies after long illness at hospital.
Observation-Disclosures Bank
and Trust Co. of Winston Salem.
buys $150,000 issue of Improvement
bonds.
BROWNSVILLE. = Mrs. Dolly
Clinard Stone, thirty-flve, wife Of
Wade Stone, invalid for many
months, dies of pneumonia.
THOMASVILLE.-Mr. and Mrs.
j. D. Atkinson lose second child
within week, each dying of measles.
THOMASVILLE.- More than 100
cases of measles are reported by
Baptist Orphanage.
THOMAsVILLE-Chief Justice
Curtis d. Wilbur, of California, after
spending somo time at home OF DR..
Z. A. Julian, is called to Washing.
ton, where he expects to be guest
at White House. He came here
from Norfolk, Va, where he visited
friends. Call from President Cool.
idge cut short his visit here.
ASTIEVILLE.-Cla Capps
wanted in Tennessee to finish fiji
teen-year term for robbery ana
wanted in Charlotte to answer
charge Of store-breaking, is cap
tured by Buncombe county Off,
Gals.
WILSON.-Tom Hagan is acouit-
ted at preliminary hearing before
Magistrate Hardy On charge Of muir.
der growing out Of killing of Otto
| King at stag dinner near Saratoga
, in row said to have developed from
crap game. Hagan claimed self-de-
Tense.
CHARLOTTE Clark, edi-
| tor Of textile publications, returns
from Washington, where he ap.
peared before house judiciary COM
m1ttee to oppose proposed child la
Dor amendment to constitution
! clark told committee federal law is
superfluous, as each state has such
law. He said more children now are
IN penal institutions than in manu-.
featuring establishments.
GREENSBORO.-El & Co
contractors, of Hickory, forfeit
$4,000 when city council refuses to
cancel contract for laying of fifty
one miles of piping for water and
sewer system. Council awards con.
tract to Paul Howard, engineer,
whose bid was 1852 900.
WILsON.-World's record sale of
| tobacco on one market is broken by
wilson, at which sales totaling H.
III $50 pounds were made in course
or recently closed season. Leaf
brought average of $22.17 per 100
pounds. Seasons sales showed in.
crease OF 29,000,000 pounds over
| 1uDp-DC Nj
over previous record in 1922.
MORGANTON. - L. M. Morris,
shoe salesman, is killed, and Marvin
Miller, of Bristol, Tenn, Is serious.
~ injured when Norris car goes
over embankment in fog, Norris be.
ing pinned under overturned car.
Both men resided near Boone, N. c.
RALEIGH club Of
Waynesville is granted charter by
secretary Of state
WINSTON-sALEM. - Frank II
| Vogler, head of undertaking. firm,
one of city's leading business men,
! dies after several years illness. aged
| GO years.
LENOIR.-George Cox, 81, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Cox, is accident.
any Killed In Chicago. according to
telegram. He was electrician en-
pIoyed by big printing firm and
came in contact with live wire.
WAYNESVILLE. Announce
ment of proposed enlargement Of
United States Veterans bureau vo.
catlonaI training school is made on
Official authority at joint meeting of
clVlc clubs. Provision will be made
Tor 100 more trainers at cost of
about $4,000, and work will be un-
dertaken within short time.