Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-18
NORTH CAROLINA

! OIL state election returns burau.
NORTH CAROLINA
ROCKINGHAM -Coming back to
native county, scene of his hot polit.
ical battles 80 years ago, Governor
Morrison launches what he plans to
make his greatest fight, campaign
to obtain state Endorsement at Dolls
of port commission act. After ex-
| planning why he regards develop
ment of water transportation essen
tial to states welfore, he says motor
bus competition with railways is LA
BILE to be destroyed leaving state
helpess in strip of railways.
RALEIGH-Sena Pat Harri-
son, of Mississippi, accepts invita-
ton to deliver address here Septem-
der 18ln interest of Democratic state
ard national campaigns, John G..
Dawson, chairman Of state Demo-
craic executive committee sap-
nounces.
RALEIGH of re-
ports indicates curtailment by North
Carolina cotton mills is now about
two-thirds what it was few months
ago, and load of power companies
lines has increased about nine per
cent for 500 mills operating about
100000 spindles, says statement bv
information bureau of North Caro-
lima Cooperative Cotton Growers
association.
HENDERSON, Employe of Har-
riet mill, No. 1, at South Henderson,
walk out in protest against - IL
per cent cut in wages effective at
two mills of chain in North Hender-
son and three mills in South Hen
derson. These mills recently re-
sumed full-time operation.
WILMING T o N.-Thomas e.
Cooper, president of defunct Liberty
Savings Bank of Wilmington, which
failed when Commercial National
Bank of Wilmington was closed
more than year ago, and Joseph c..
Rourk, cashier, plead guilty to mis-
demeanor charge in connection with
violation Of state banking laws and
to forcible trespass. Action is Sur
prise to court. Lieutenant-Gove
w. B. Cooper, under various charg-
es, was chairman of directorate of
Commercial National bank here.
MARSHVILLE..-F Tarlton, IS,
falls from wagon loaded with sand
and head is crushed under wheels.
He was son of elijah Tarlton.
GREENSBORO. j. Mckenzie,
OF Richmond, Va, representative of
Tri-State Tobacco Growers associa-
ton, delivers series of addresses to
gatherings of farmers in several sec
tons of Guilford county.
GREENSBORO.-J. w. King,
manager of local receiving station,
announces that tobacco receiving
stations in old belt of North Caro-
lima and Virginia will be orened Oc'
tCber /.
WINSTON SALEM. - Forsy il
county commissioners authorize IL
sue Of $4,000 in notes to obtain
funds with which TO complete schopl
building program.
RALEIGH.-LittI damage has
been caused in North Carolina this
summer by boil weevil says depart
ment of agriculture statement. APP
proximatelv 500 tons of calcium ar
sente were used in busting cotton
crop of state, an amount much be-
allv curtailed weevils' raVages.
WILMINGTON.-Mayor j. FL.
Cowan, for three years citys chief
executive, dies of pneumonia after
short illness few days after return
inc from philadelphia, where he UNI
dcrwent treatment for another dis
ease. He formerly was editor of
Wilmington Dispatch and for one
year president of state Press assocl-
alton.
ASHEVILLE.-J. w. III. Futch,
proprietor of department store at
Wilmington, is brought to AsheVllle
hospital, where one foot is ampu-
t2ted after he had accidentally shot
himself while hunting near Hender-
sonville.
MOREHEAD CITY. II. Stone,
of Wilmington, is named assistant
fisheries commissioner, succeeding
w. c. Dixon, of Oriental, resigned
ACME.-Dr. j. d. Devane dies at
home few days after suffering stroke
of paralysis.
LITTLETON-W. f. Mitchner
Jumps with his little daughter from
autOm ODllP winch ndu SLdllcu WI a u
way tracks just as train strikes 1t,
wreckage of machine being carried
500 feet down track.
ROCKY MOUNT. F. Wick stops
automobile near here to assist man
and two negroes seize him, rob him
of $61 and drive away in car, ac-
companied by man, apparently in
jured, who was lying beside read.
LEXINGTON-Mystery surrounds
whereabouts Of A. Grouse Jones, %,
prominent farmer and dairyman,
WHO disappeared after leaving on
business trip to road construction
icamp in Gulford county near Green's
boro. Search fails to disclose clue.
He is son of ]. II. Jones, Winston
Salem merchant.
Observation-Disclosures charE-
ing S. F. Huf1ine, city detective, with
murder in connection with death of
James Osborne, y, delivery boy,
killed in automobile bicycle collision.
KINSTON. = julie X. Warren,
prominent Trenton attorney, is
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