Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-23
TVS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS

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| says fair in 81 years had visitors
| exceeding one million in number;
| 100000 has been given in prizes;
| $4,000 has been spent on free enter.
J tainment; SIS, 900 has been spent for
| additional buildings
GREENSBORO.-M Mary Eliz-
abeth Morgan, ei2hty-four. dies after
four years of declining health.
NEWTON.-ClemS Simmons, young
man OF Startown, is fatally injured
| in automobile accident, and Compan-
ion, Bowman, fiance of Simmons sis
ter, is injured
CHARLOTTE.-With face buried
in cloth formerly saturated with chic
reform, Mrs. Isabelle Montgomery,
thirty-five, of High Point, is found
dead in office of knights of Mystic
| Circle, Inc, probably SO or more
hours after death had occurred. Cor
orner declares death due to suicide.
RALEIGH.-North Carolina still
has excellent opportunity to obtain
proposed national park which may
be established in Appalachian noun
tains though riNginia site has won
announced approval of federal park
commission. says State Senator Giles
on return from Washington This is
| due he says, to fact that govern
ment expects contribution of site,
which Virginia may not care to
make.
ASHEVILLE.-'I have no apol-
ogy whatever to make for what |
said and am not responsible for what
was reported" says DR.. r. J. Bate
man, pastor of First Baptist church,
| regarding his reported statement be-
fore State Baptist convention at Raj
eigh, in which he said there is not
a word of Jesus Christ in J. B.
Dukes 100000 trust for educa-
tional and religious purposes. In
| latest statement, DR.. Bateman com
mends offer and Dukes purpose.
GOLDSBORO-Will Tyner, regro,
who insisted he knew nothing about
murder of J. H. Huneycutt, Fork
township farmer, several months
ago, while men at Jail doors shouted
demands for him, is acquitted when
tried in superior court for crime.
GOLDSBORO. - Miss Alice Rose,
aged II. local girl, relates in superior
court sordid details of kidnapping by
several young men, who imprisoned
her several days in tobacco barn.
George Bass is acquitted, Park Cade
pleads guilty. Luther Sullivan and
Fitzhugh Lane, recently tried, are
serving 1S-month and 24-month
| terms, respectively. Sentence of
Cade is deferred.
REIDSVILLE.-T. B. kellam, of
advanced age, euknoWn farmer of
| New Bethel township recently in
poor health, commits suicide by blow
ing off head with shotgun.
REIDSVILLE-Jame Collins, who
disappeared in September, 1917, is
heard from for first time since dis
appearance when telegram is re-
ceived by family telling brothers and
sisters not to think him dead and
advising them to write him at Rus
sell, Ky.
CHARLOTTE.-Abo 230 gallons
Of whisky is seized by raidinG off
GERS who arrest Worth Rogers and
E. e. Phfer for possessing and
transporting liquor found on farm OIL
j. w. Pharr, near Charlotte.
STATESVILLE. = Miss Ella How
ard, Al, is attacked by unidentified
negro in woods near home in Turner
Vile township, Jredell county. Posses
begin hunt for fleeing assailant.
RALEIGH-Total of 1885 AIS was
spent by Baptist denomination of
North Carolina in fiscal year ended
December l, 1924. says DIR. Charles
Maddry, secretary of Baptist mis-.
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riod greatest year Of achievements
in all our "a years of history"
ROCKVILLE. - Frederick A. Nc
Clellan, %, is found guilty by jury
. of second degree murder when tried
for Staying of Thomas A. Simms
contractor, November 8. in quarrel
over Mrs. Simms. Sentence is de-
ferred.
RALEIGH. - A mass meeting
launches campaign for issue of ST.
100000 in bonds for development of
Raleigh schools.
LUMBERTON.-Hen Hammond
shoots and gravely wounds Emory
" Hammond. Indian, his cousin brings
Emory to hospital for treatment and
surrenderS to await outcome of in
juries, which prove fatal Coroner's
jury exonerates Henry Hammond Of
legal blame.
RALEIGH-Sta literary and
historical society. in annual session,
hears address by George Gordon
Battle of New York. famous lawyer,
who is guest of Josephus Daniels.
RALEIGH-Dr. H. A. Register
well-known local surgeon, defend
ant in $4,000 malpractice suit
brought by Mary White Nash. of
Louisburg, denies on stand in Wake
county superior court that crippled
condition of girl is result of his
neglect
CHARLOTTE.-C. o. Shaw, Char.
lOtte travelling salesman, whose hunt
for wife has proven fruitless since
her disappearance September 9, says
he is convinced she is dead or in
mate of some asylum. No reason
for disappearance of this woman,
aged fifty-one, is known.
WILMINGTON.-While Dr. Colin
Shaw and Julian Keith are hunting
for ducks. boat padded by negro
overturns, Helpless negro is brought
ashore by heroic efforts of DR.. Shaw
after being swept far down river.
When found negro is dead and DIR.
Shaw is unconscious from eXhaus-
ton.
RALEIGH.-B. r. Lacy, who will
be sworn in early in January for
seventh consecutive term as state
treasurer, is only man now living
elected in 1900 and is oldest state of
ficer in point of service.
REIDSVILLE.-F'irs shipment of
gold, siXty-four ounces. from re-
Gently reopened Rich Cog mine is
shipped to federal mint at Philadel-