Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-11-15
NORTH CAROLINA

lNON III ~FAANSLAANES
AHOSkIE. - DR.. C. G. Powell, OF
Ghosl1ie, is named moderator of
West Chowan Baptist association at
And annual meeting.
AHOSKIE. - Issue Of $4,000 iii
bonds for street Improvements is au-
tLorizGd. Contracts will be awarded
December 4. Work is expected to
be started February l.
4 E.-Mecklenburg coun-
ty superior court jury awards $4,000
damages to Mrs. Mamie Sheriff. Hol-
ton, who sued stepsons, William and
Iilner Holton, for 1000 damages
for injuries sustained in family fight
in courtroom IS months ago over set
Element of husbands estate.
PITTSBORO. = Elizabeth Horna-
day, 1G, and Charlotte Wright, l.,
are injured when Pittsboro school
truck is wrecked after driver loses
control.
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH. -
George Z. Kidder, prominent bust
ness man, is named mayor, filing
vacancy created by recent resigna-
ton of Thomas E. Wright, mayor
for IA years.
WILMINGTON. - Thomas Jeffer-
son Capps, IS, one of Confederate
soldiers who helped carry wounded
Stonewall Jacksonville from field At
charlottesville, dies after several
years of declining health. Capps
was prominent Onslow county farm
err and operated mercantile establish
ment at Sneed's Ferry.
IJNPERTON. - Mrs. Gilbert Nc
Kinnon, of Maxton, is elected pres1
dent of Twelfth district, state fedora,
ton of woman's clubs at annual
meeting. She succeeds Mrs. e. IL
Williamson, of Fayetteville. Meet.
ing is advised that federation Will
ask enactment by January session OF
legislature of law requiring publca
ton of marriage intentions two
weeks before ceremony, with view OF
curbing divorce evil.
MAXTON. - Captain J. c. Ever
EFT, prominent citizen, dies at VII
nlington, where he had gone for med
ical treatment, death occurring AT
home of daughter, Mrs. Higgins.
WILMINGTON. - Civil actions
against Thomas E. Cooper, former
Of defunct Liberty Savings Bank OF
Wilmington, ION grounds of frauo
and mismana cement" to be brought
by J. w. Little, receiver, are direct
ed by Judge Grady in order record
ed at superior court.
KANNAPOLIS. - Several store
rooms are damaged by fire, starting
in pressing club, loss being abou;
$4,000. One fireman is painfully
injured.
KINGS MOUNTAIN. - Captain
Freno billing, IS, pioneer cotton
mill man, Confederate veteran, for
ri1er state legislator, dies after short
illness.
Observation-Disclosures Evans
negro, is sentenced to be electrocut-
ed at Raleigh state prison, Decem-
Der 20, after conviction in superior
court of numbering Arthur Joyner,
white taxi-driver, July rs.
wAYNESVILLE.-Robert D. Gil
mer, 65, prominent lawyer, former
state attorney general, dies Of pneu-
monia after short illness.
RLOTTE.-France Mclean,
10, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. O. P.
Mclean, is shot in head by uniden-
titled young man and is gravely
wounded during revelry on street.
Father offers reward for arrest of
assailant.
RALEIGH.-Gilb T. Stephen
son, vice president, announces plans
of Wachovia Bank & Trust Co.,
trustee, to build 100000 eight-story
professional mems office building on
site of home of late Governor Hol-
den.
WINSTON SALEM. Mrs. Shrah
Louise Motsinger, IS, widow of ia
cob Motsinger, died at Morganton,
where she had been under medical
treatment
ROCKY MOUNT.-Mistrial is or
dered by Judge Lyon in case of D.
A. Rideout, charged with fatal
shooting of neighbor, Alex Hedge
peth, Nash county farmer,
REIDSVILLE.-J. Samuel Pirtle,
60, died after short illness following
stroke of paralysis.
RALEIGH.-Escape from obliga-
tons of contract with Cooperative
Tobacco Growers association, is not
legally possible by means Of mort
gage or claim and delivery papers,
Judge Long holds in special Person
county court at Roxboro, which is
last of II cases started by tobacco
association heard at that term, all
of which were won by plaintiff as
ISOLATION, says headquarters an
nouncement.
SALISBURY.-J. Rufus Fisher,
IS, dies at home of daughter, Mrs.
Robert e. Patterson, of Crescent.
WILSON.-Total sales OF tobacco
on Wilson market to October 30
amounted to 32,194666 pounds, for
which $780, 1916 was paid accord
ing to official figures. Average
price for 2,909544 pounds sold in
weke ending October 80 is given as
$S3,41 per hundredweight.
! CHARLOTTE. = DIR. +. r. Craven,
presiding elder Of the Charlotte dis.
riot, Western North Carolina Meth
odist Episcopal church conference, in
address, expresses opposition to pro
posed unification of northern and
southern branches of church, rea
sons given including race problem in
volved
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