Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-04-12
NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA

ALABAMA
H. TUSCUMBIA.-Sher Cobb and
I. deputies find fifty-gallon barrel of
whisky buried near family cemetery,
= eight miles from Tuscumbia, on
Leighton road. Pump used to draw
liquor from barrel is found near
home of Colbert Cards. who is ar
& rested. Still five miles away is found
! and destroyed.
L BUTTON. - State-owned school
: house here, valued at $500, is total
loss from fire of undetermined ORR
gin.
AUBURN.-Party of eighty en-
!, gineering students of Auburn col
) ieee visit Muscle Shoals and study
( obstruction work of Wilson DAM
SEALE.-Motion for new trial is
Fl filed in case of Oscar Ratliff. under
; sentence for killing Roy Smith at
Gmard.
MONTGOMERY H. J. Will
.ingham. president Florence State
Normal school, tells Alabama Edu-
: cational association that Alabama
ranks forty-tifth in 1lliteracy among
native-born population ten years of
age and over, and that average
snent by forty-four states for main.
. tenance of normal schools is S4S4,-
! 600, while Alabama spends only
: $4,000.
DECATUR Sheriff Ben
!, Pool and Rev. L. S. Goodwin go to
Gastonia, n. c., as witnesses in trial
{ of Arthur Crowder, charged with
: killing John Ford in North Carolina.
While prisoner in Morgan county
7 Jail here Crowder confessed to this
= murder and also implicated others.
BIRMINGHAM, o. Moore, 3D.
u Westover, special agent for Louis
willie and Nashville railroad, Is struck
= BY string of cars on siding here ana
dies hour later.
= E.-Thirty-fourth annual
convention of Alabama State Chris
tan Endeavor convenes here, Win
325 delegates in attendance.
3 MONTGOMERY of $50 ar
: rests were made in March by state
prohibition enforcement squad, ac-
= cording to report of Walter II. NC
80 Adory, chief. Cash fines were Slo,'
q $3.50, and expenses were SS,S7l'lz'
. r RESsEMER.-Ben Perry, circuit
.s.rourt solicitor, and w. d. Taylor,
Jr.. wholesale druggist, are seriously
: injured when their auto collides with
: .9ar operated by negro on Warrior
ss,Foad.
i = NsLEY.-Production records of
- and Railway
= ronpany. some of them established
.s-as far back as 1917, were surpassed
Eg~fn March, according to George G.
) Crawford, president.
BIRMINGHAM.- Another victim
4 Is added to Birmingham long list
X Of ak murders when body of Lucy
/. Ferguson, negro woman, is found at
81 home with head battered and body
cut to pieces Her ten-year-old
.:seiaughter is found in same room I'M
q conscious from three kife wounds.
:. Robbery is apparent motive.
" MoNTGOMERY-E. M. Shackel-
!. ford, president of State Normal
+ school at Troy, is elected president
: Of Alabama Educational association.
! before adjournment. Of annual meet
Ing here.
@fss EDWARDSVILLE. - c 0 10 n |
v home. of Mrs. Lille Swope is total
loss from fire, catching from weed
patch near house which was set on
fire by some boys at play.
EUFAULA. - Edward Courtney
. Bullock, forty well-known travelling
: man of Eufaula, dies while at Gulf
port, Miss.
s TUsCUMBIA.-Col George r.
saulding, commanding officer at Will
!. son Dam, refused to tsop Sunday
Z baseball on government reservations
/. at request o fseveral preachers and
church people. He says men need
this recreation, and that Sunday is
only free day.
REMLAP-Mrs. Hester Hughes,
Al, wife of Charles Hughes, dies here
from double pneumonia.
I, BIRMINGHAM-Dr w. NJ. Mel
/. son, Fifth avenue druggist will
4 have to serve Is months in Atlanta
federal penitentiary, according to de-
cision of United States circuit court
OF appeals. He was convicted on
charge of unlawfully selling pare
Z goric.
ATTALLA.-Mrs. w. r. Evans,
= AZ, well-known Alfalfa woman, dies.
!. EIRMINGHAM.-C Ratliff,
4 convicted of numbering his wife, is
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
= NOULTON.-Dent F. Green, ex-
ecutive secretary of Alabama Bap-
SItist convention, attends all-day SEES
sion of Lawrence county Baptists
here.
ONEONTA-Elmer Murphee and
4 Perry Hullett are acquitted of kill
. ing Ed Rogers, near Tait's Gap.
ONEONTA.-Federal prohibition
agents claim to find still in yard of
Jeff Smith at Village Springs. Jeff
4 Smith and Willie Smith are arrested.
IN TUSCALOOSA.-W. B. Davis &
Sons new hosiery mill here is near
\, inf completion. and expects to be in
cooperation by May T.
! EALE.-Jerry Mullins. OF Phoenix
~ City, is acquitted of murder of VIII
liam McSwain, after father of dead
: man testifies that Mullins was
! ''obliged to do it."
!, : MARIoN.-Judson college, found
i ed in 1888, holds Founders day cele-
bration. attended by large crowds
from several states.
; HUNTSVILLE.-D. W. Allison, ga
former chief of police, and twice
\ sheriff of Madison county, dies of
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