Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-02-16
Augusta Evans Wilson, noted novel

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FALKvILLE.-B. E. Davis. of
Falkville, announces for member Of
Morgan county board of revenue
HARTsELLE.-s. L. Sheriff. takes
charge Of post office, succeeding
Miss Elizabeth Simpson, incumbent,
10 years.
GADsDEN.- U. H,
Johnson is badly bitten on face and
arms by George Williams, negro,
whom he had arrested.
ANNISTON.-W. A. Farrar,
county jailer, dies of appendicitis.
SHEFFIELD.--Sheffield hotel
largest structure in Tri-Cities, built
at cost of $4,000 some years ago,
will be sold under hammer by or
der Of referee in bankruptcy, Feb
ruary %.
PETERMAN-Dr. n. r. Nettle is
building sawmill and tram road.
TROY.-Will Campbell and Eddie
Coleman, negroes. dig out of city
jail and escape, but are captured
later near Pine Level.
SELMA-Mrs. Della Augusta
Ballard, 20, is dead here after 25
years of illness.
HEFLIN.-In fight on smallpox
in Cleburne county, more than 500
are vaecinqted.
CLANTON. = Newly organized
chamber of commerce corSmences
movement to drain swamps which al
most surround this place.
DECATUR. = Guy King, well
known farmer of Limstone county,
is attacked on ferryboat on Tennes-
see river by unknown parties ana
severely injured.
FLORENCE. = More cotton per
plow is slogan Of farmers Of county
production through fertilizer and poi
soning.
MONTGOMERY.-Tria1 of Homer
Billingsley, charged with embezzling
SO, 600 state funds, is continued un-
til May.
GROCE HILL.-Hill Baptists here
to build new house of worship.
ATMORE. - Citizens and chamber
Of commerce ask Louisville and
Nashville ~ailrad to erect new pas
senger station here.
SELMA.-In semi-conscious cordi
ton, white man, giving name as Cor
don Foster, of Princeton, Ky, is
picked up on country road near here
by +. p. Vann and taken to hospital.
Foster states he had had no food for
several days.
f., BREWTON. = Large pipe organ
given to Methodist church by Mrs.
w. w. Downing is being installed.
MOBILE. - Referendum vote,
conducted by local newspapers, on
disposal of Muscle Shoals project,
gives Henry Ford II, 1856 votes, Ala
bama Power company II votes, ard
III votes are thrown out because Of
being improperly marked.
BIRMINGHAM. = Home of A. T..
Ellison, 3406 Twelfth street, north,
is robbed during absence of family,
and then set on fire by robbers. Fire
men save building with little dam
age.
ALBANY.-Insanity, caused from
alcoholism, Is increasing rapidly,
according to DIR. C. Floyd Haviland,
Of state hospital committee,
MONTGOMERY. -Rainsford Can
telon, SO, well-known planter, is
dead as result of falling through
trestle here.
FARMERSVILLE.-D. G. Moorer,
70, well-known farmer of this sec
ton, dies suddenly.
ORRVILLE.-Mrs Minnie Kinds
johnson, II, one of best known wom-
en- of this section, is dead.
DECATUR. -Additiona piping ar
rives for oil well. which is sunk over
5000 feet and with good prospects
for finding oil in paying quantities.
GADSDEN.-M Ara Elizabeth
Morrison, So, dies at home here.
JASPER.--Joel Chaffem, %, prom
inent young man, dies at his par
ents' home here.
BIRMINGHAM.- F. John
ston. So, well-known newspaper man
Of Birmingham, is dead.
BAY MINETTE.-Tent and all
equipment of NIilt Tolbert shows is
destroyed by fire, which originated
from heating stove in tent.
Notwithstanding Fontaine, IS,
commits suicide by jumping into Mo-
bile river.
ANNISTON.-Char Shivers, ne
gro driver for Calhoun Grocery com
pany, quietly returns to work after
killing Joe Keith, negro, with knife,
when he finds Keith in company
with his wife.
OXFORD.-Fire of unknown orr.
gin destroys barn of w. r. Dodd,
near here.
HUNTSVILLE. - J. r. Layne
leases Dixie hotel property and will
manage hotel in future,