Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-07-15

! BOAZ.-Mrs. Maggie Smith, 81, Of
this place, dies at Alabama City.
Observation-Disclosures makes
application for one of fifty play
grounds to be established over Unit
ed States by Harmon Foundation. of
New York. Work of making final
selection will begin August 1.
| MONTGOMERY Lieutenant Gov
ernor c. S. Mcdowell serves as gov
ernor Of Alabama during absence Of
Governor w. w. Brandon at national
Democratic convention in New York.
| CENTERVILLE.-B weevil are
| plentiful in Bibb county, and but
very few farmers are using poison
to exterminate them.
i, CENTERVILLE.-Bool weevils are
out of Methodist church they find
thieves have stolen all keys left in
| their automobiles
MONTGOMERY J. F. Var
| brough, prominent member of Meth
odist Episcopal church, south, issues
appeal to Methodists to hold confer
| ences for purpose of obtaining ex-
pressions of members on subject Of
| uniting with northern Methodist
| church.
| BIRMINGHAM. = w 600 a wn
youths, Ralph Smith, fourteen, and
Keith Harbour, fifteen, leave on un-
| known trim Of adventure, and their
mothers are worried sick.
| SELMA.-Dallas county, which
furnished 1,107 men in World war,
will receive her share of war tro-
phies to be distributed, Colonel
Hartley Moon says.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. equipment
and modernized methods that pro-
vide rapid inspection of incoming
vessels, put United States quaran
tine station here on equal Of eff
cheney with any other port.
TUSKEGEE.-Dr. Paul Bonner,
one-time president of Judson col
lege, at Marion, accepts call to pas
torate of Tuskegee Baptist church.
CAMP MCCLELLAN. = Brigadier
General E. l.. King, Of Fort Riley,
Kan, spends two days inspecting
| camp.
TUSCALOOSA. - Eighteen Boy
Scouts are engaged taking Tusca-
loosa's school census.
CENTRI John Weems, one of
| the 1lost prominent men of Chero
kee county, dies at his farm near
here.
HEFLIN.-Rev./ John J. Milford,
of Tabernacle Baptist church, at
Carrollton, Ga, conducts successful
revival meeting at Baptist church
here.
DECATUR.-Sam Austin, for Al
years engineer for. Louisville and
| Nashville railroad, takes his first
vacation during all these years. He
| will tour western states.
FLORENCE-R. A. Stricklin
prominent lumber manufacturers
injured in automobile accident here,
is taken to Nashville, Tenn, for
| treatment.
TUSKEGEE. = When match is
stuck to some paper in heating stove,
one year old child of Mrs. May, OF
Birmingham, is seriously burned.
GUNTERSVILLE.- crank
ing his motor car, James Brown is
thrown against tree and his hip
broken. He dies later in hospital
at Birmingham.
HEFLIN.-E. p. Dodson, former
publisher of The Cleburne News,
goes to Troy Messenger, at Troy,
to take charge of job department.
DECATUR.-Mayo James A. Mel
son receives request from Mayor
George Hoffman, at Lorain, Ohio, for
assistance for storm sufferers.
ANNISTON.-7Prof. D. r. Muir
ply, superintendent of Admission
city schools, resigns and accepts
presidency of Daphne Normal
school.
MONTGOMERY. - Robert M.
Chambless, %, charged with muir
dering Alonzo p. Graves, popular
young man Of Spiegner, Is denied
BAIL
ANNISTON.-S Southern intercol-
legiate conference boxing and wrest
ling tournament between institu-
tions represented among personnel
of reserve officers training corps,
takes place at Camp Mcclellan.
ALABAMA CITY.-Election will
be held to vote on $780, 900 bonds to
retire floating debt.
ONEONTA.-Stor and stock of
general goods, belonging to L. L.
Wood, at Hendrix, is total loss from
fire. Loss $4,000. Insurance, $1,000.
BESSEMER. officials are
arranging for hearing on water and
gas rates, by Alabama public serV-
ice commission, at early date.
UNIVERSITY of Ala
bama students will commence pub
LEGATION OF humorous magazine, to
be called Rammer-Jammer, this fall
BESSEMER.-Geor Bains, of
Bessemer, midshipman at United
States naval academy, is on trip to
number of European cities.
GADSDEN.-S. j. Workman, SUI
perintendent of Agricola Pipe
Works, falls from ladder and breaks
his leg.
ONEONTA.-Farmers throughout
Blount county are holding diversi-
addressed by prominent agriculture
alists.
MONTGOMERY. - All Alabama
railroads are asking Alabama pub
lie service commission for permits
sion to revise present weighing and
| reweighing charges on all freight.
DEMOPOLIS.-R w. D. Brat
ton, rector of Trinity Episcopal
church. resigns and will assume 'du-
ties OF new parish at Houston,
| Texas.
4WETUMPKA. - After shooting