Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-01-26


Callahan, e., dies after extended i'll
ness.
CHARLOTTE Re
pubicans are called to meet January
% in Charlotte to elect delegates
to state convention. G. M. Setter
is county chairman. County exec
utive committee declares in favor OF
Cooldge's candidacy.
ALABAMA
MOBILE.-Aubrey Boyles, United
States DISTRICT attorney, and Harry
French, federal officer, are indicted
on charge of attempting to influence
or corrupt officers, in connection
with liquor traffic here.
CENTRE. - After slashing his
wife's throat with knife, w. r, Pill
grim. 81, jumps to death in 9O-foot
well. Mrs. Pilgrim will recover. TEN
porary insanity is cause stated.
~ BERRY. - Mrs. Sarah Simpson
celebrates ninety-seventh birthday
with her 20 grandchildren, II great
grand children and two living
daughters, present. She is hale, and
raised crop of cotton last year.
BIRMINGHAM.-B. S. Howard, SO,
travelling inspector for life insurance
company of Virginia, is almost in
stantly killed when his head is
caught in elevator door in Age
Herald building.
JASPER.-Walter Strickland, Of
Jasper, is given 25 years on charge
of numbering Sam Erwin, at Okla
homa City, Okla, according to adj
vices received from there.
GORGAS.-Escaping gas, in build
ing where they slept at Gorgas
steam power plant, causes death of
Jim Gay, negro, and renders I'M
conscious three other negroes and
one white man.
Notwithstanding to Sheriff
Paul Cazalas, Mobile county moon
sinners are using stills mounted on
Ford trucks to escape officers.
TUSCALOOSA.-Alf Winchester
Is indicted for murder of unidenti-
fed young white woman, whose
charred remains were found in
burned negro church.
UNION SPRINGS. - Eight car
loads Of machinery are placed in
Conner Cotton Mills being built here.
AS much more is coming.
MERCURY.-Roy Woody, young
Madison county farmer, and John
Daniel, negro tenant, lose lives in
attempt to beat N. c. & st. l.. Ry.
train across grade crossing. Auto
is thrown 100 feet.
FAYETTE.-Fay and Lamar
counties are working on ditch AZ
miles in length, which will drain
several thousand acres Of valuable
farm lands.
AUBURN. - Heavy boil weevil
casualties accompany cold weather
in Alabama, according to DR.. w. E.
Kinds, entomologist for Alabama.
ALABAMA CITY.-Joe j. Woo
ten, yard foreman for L. & N. Ry.,
is ground to death under wheels of
switch engine here.
MONTGOMERY.-Camp Lomax,
United Confederate Veterans, lost
almost one-fourth Of it's members by
death in past year.
Employees of Selma
Street Railway company are mott
fed Of salary reduction, effective
February 1.
MISUNDERSTANDING 100000
acres of oats in Alabama are either
entirely killed or seriously damaged
by cold, Prof. M. j. lunches, of
state agricultural department, says.
ERSITY-William Jennings
Bryan will address University of
Alabama students on Worlds
Need, ~" February 6.
OPELIKA.-W. e. Mooreman,
member of signal division of West
ern Railroad Of Alabama, escapes
death, but is seriously injured, when
his motor car leaves railroad tracks
and plunges down embankment.
BLACK CREEK.-As Mr.. and
Mrs. Elbert Bishop are going to
depot they are halted by unidenti-
fled negro, who shoots and seriously
wounds Mr.. Bishop, and fees.
MOBILE-Mobile Chamber of
Commerce adopts resolutions op-
posing state tax on growing satsuma
trees, saying this tax will iniure
SatSuma raising.
SHEFFIELD.-Ov 500 fine birds
are exhibited here at mid-winter
poultry show.
TALLADEGA,-Talladega Oil &
Chemical company is shipping
weekly over $4,000 pounds of mop
yarn.
ANDALUSIA.-Tug Watson and
Albert Dunson, of Andalusa, are
being held in Jail, on charge Of steal
ing automobile from Quinton Stone.
DECATUR.-Mrs. Walter Hen
dirk. mother of President CLYDE
Hendrix, Of tennessee Valley bank,
dies at home at Cloverdale. Inter.
ment here.
UNION sPRINGs.-About Is
miles Of state highway between here
and Montgomery is completed.
VINA,-w. H. Conner finds In
woods near here bullet riddled suit.
case full of papers, most of which
are badly damaged by fire. Some
papers contain name Of Bissell Mo-
tor company, of Birmingham, Ala.
TUsKEGEE.-For first time
three banks here show combined de-
posts of over one million dollars.
TROY-Mrs. Louise Perry Brown,
81 widow Of late DR.. Pugh H.
Brown, dies at home here
FORT PAYNE.-City council au-
thorizes sale of $4,000 municipal
bonds, and work will commence on
new school house by March l.
MONTGOMERY.-A. C. Patter-
son, chairman Alabama public serv-
ice commission, calls on Washing.
ton, y. c. federal officials to pre-
pare for steps protecting Alabama
IN its right to own or control water
powers within state.
GADSDEN.-Ellis Baker Is fined