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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
* NORTH CAROLINA
GOLDSBORO.—Jim Bryant, 22,
? negro farmer, is held in jail in de
fault of 55.000 bond on charge of at
i>,. tempting pG-ack white girl, 14
years. Girl, at preliminary hearing,
identified Bryant as her assailant.
Bryant denies guilt.
' ASHEVILLE.—PIans for enlarge
*~ " merit of Mars Hill college, Baptist
• junior school near here, at cost of
■ $125,000. are on program for action
at meeting at Gastonia. December
'>**“ll, of alumni and officials of insti
<><>"-tution. M. C. Treat, of California,
•-'■offers $50,000 for boys’ dormitory if
■* rrtcol'lege raises by April 1, SSO-.000 for
girls’ dormitory.
, GASTONIA. —Coleman Parker and
t ' 7. Rebecca West, members of motoring
party, are arrested on charges grow
\".ing out of death of Madden Ander
. . son of Bessemer City, also member
"' of partv, while three other members
are each held under SI,OOO bond on
charge of violating prohibition law.
Anderson’s body was found by road
. ..side, head being crushed, evidently
’““*by blow with hammer.
.£-■ GREENSBORO. Hilton Sears,
white youth charged with murder a-
■ result of shooting of Mrs. D. L. Pur
cell wife of prominent Rockingham
- .county mandat Purcell home near
Reidsville, is arrested at home ot sis
ter near White Oak and is held for
’ • trial. He’denies guilt.
HIGH POINT-Wilfred Sechrest,
son of Mr- and Mrs. Hunter be
.chrest, loses foot when he is run
down by motor car as he Jui L
from car in which he and other P 3
.Scouts were riding.
■ rwxRLOTTE. Walter Leitch,
c a-cd 68, of Laurinburg, bachelor
*,t farmer, dies at hospital here after
- brief illness.
RALEIGH— ‘‘California Bill” and
•*• “Michigan Shorty,” charged with
- robbery of Oxford, N. C, postoffice
“ .several years ago, have empioyed
*'■ imposing array of counsel for har.
fight they expect to put up w th,
.. ease called December 17 in fedeial
h. court.
GREENSBORO— W. H. Brown is
£ sentenced’ to ten days in jail by City
Judge Collins, who continues send- ,
ing all speeders to prison. j
HICKORY— Large number of Odd;
Fellows attend two-day session o
Thirteenth district, teams of Old |
... Fort, Hickory and Lenoir puttin o .
on degree work.
WINSTON-SALEM.— Col. J. C_
Bessent, magistrate for number of
' rears, marries his 999th couple am
sends out call for another couple to
.hurry his I,oooth opportunity to tie
nuptial knot. ,
REIDSVILLE.— County boards of
commissioners and education in
joint session at Wentworth elect
Miss Elizabeth Simpson county wel
fare officer over 20 candidates, to
"fill vacancy created by appointment
of J. H. Allen, superintendent of
; county schools.
?NEW BERN.—Captain A. C.
master of wrecked British
•;:seooner Pilot, and five members of
< crew are held under probable cause
ion charges of violating Volstead law
i and will be tried at Raleigh in fed-
Z oral court. Pilot wont ashore near
X Swansboro while loaded with, liquor*.
X-Skelton and First. Mate Moran each
make $1,500 bond.
DURHAM.— Wayland Barpee, 15,
*ds committed to' reformatory on in
definite sentence after being tried in
" ilvenile con Ft on charge of tw ice
shooting at father and stoning
"" '■ RALEIGH.— Women’s Missionary
union ~of Baptist church in state,
which assumed $1,000,000 of state s
$6,000,000 quota in $75,000,000 cam
? pgign, has raised $1,217,000, though
..state payments to fund shows de
..licit of about $1,500,000.
<?■ GASTONIA.—Sarah Goulay, 7, is
fatally injured and sister, Louie
.. May, 10, is dangerously injured
; .when hit by Southern railway pas
••-senger train while standing on track
' -'waiting for freight train to pass.
They were returning home from
school.
Sn* ALBEMARLE.—Oakboro Cotton
y.?f<ill, of Oakboro, begins operations,
* - Employing about ,200 operatives in
\ the spinning of yarns.
GOLDSBORO. Thieves enter
SX-ffome of A. Oettinger and steal jew-
Lk&lry value of which is placed at
*1*210,000. Police fail to find clue to
identity of robbers.
WINSTON-SALEM. 'Ministers
j**’jnd 'lay representatives of new pres- ;
T _bytery including nine counties meet,
’ ".organize and adopt budget of S6O,- .
000 for benevolences. Pastors vot
ed against increase in salaries but ;
increases amounting to $4,500 were
voted by elders to certain pastors. ;
$ BARIUM SPRINGS. Barium
.Springs orphanage reports having
deceived SIO,OOO from Thanksgiving I
Sufferings from churches, with one- j
•third of churches heard from. Ap
peal was for $32,000 to meet deficit
in operating expense which is about
SIOO,OOO annually.
GREENSBORO—Executive com I
~mittee of board of trustees of North |
YQarolina College for Women awards >
“to J. A. Jones Construction company. |
A Imitations may
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ATLiNTd tri weekly .iwuhnau
of Charlotte, contract for construc
tion of new buildings to cost $453,-
000. When completed buildings will
have cost $538,000.
SHELBY. Graham Early, well
known young man; member of fox
hunting party, leaves companions to
run swiftly up hill to obtain better
view of hounds. Companions hasten
to his side after he cried out, and
find him dead. Death thought to
have resulted from overtaxing heart.
RALEIGH. Portraits of Walter
Hines Page, late ambassador to court
of St. James, and Colonel J. Bryan
Grimes, for 22 years secretary of
state for North Carolina, both native
of state, are presented to state his
torical society for hanging in hall of
fame at capitol.
MOUNT AlßY—Brady Harrell, 21,
dies at hospital of wound in abdomen
accidentally inflicted while he was
"fooling” with pistol/he thought not
loaded.
WADESBORO?— F. C. Allen, 78,
Confederate veteran, and for many
years one of leading business men
of Anson county, dies from conse
quences of paralysis suffered several
weeks previous.
‘ WINSTON-SALEM. — J. R. Cum
mings, 60, one of city’s well-known
merchants, suffers second stroke of
paralysis. ?
SALISBURY. —Executive commit
tee of United Lutheran church synod
of North Carolina meet in special
session, with Rev. J. L. Morgan, of
Salisbury, president of synod, pre
siding, to discuss plans for campaign
to raise $125,000 building fund for
Collegiate institute, at Mount Pleas
ant, Cabarrus county, and proposal
for joining of Virginia and North
Carolina synods in campaign to raise
$250,000 building and endowment
fund for orphans’ home at- Salem,
Virginia.
RAVlDSON.—Davidson college an
nounces receipt of bequest of $50,000
by Robert K. Smith, former vice
; president of P. Lorillard Tobacco
! company, native of Milton, N. C.,
I who died several years ago at
Orange, Va., without ever having
I seen institution.
SALISBURY.—Robbers smash the
i plate glass window of Starnes &
I Parker jewelry store in heart of
j shopping district and escape with
i jewelry, valued at several hundred
: dollars, without being identified.
GREENSBORO. City council
i awards $950,000 consolidated bond
! issue to Atlantic Bank and Trust
| company, of Greensboro, and other
bidders present vigorous protest, re
sulting in council reconsidering, re
jecting all bids and ordering resub
mission of bids.
CHARLOTTE.—Dr. A. M. Redfern,
sixty-two, for twenty years resident
physician 'of Clemson college,
wealthy farmer, resident here for
number of years, dies after ten-clay
illness.
SALISBURY. C. R. Otterburg,
fifty-five, of Spencer, is instantly
killed, and John Rarnhardt, thirty
two, also of Spencer, is fatally in
jured when their truck, loaded with
soft drinks goes over embankment,
crushing occupants.
WHITEVILLE.—-Members of fam
ily discovered when they called him
Lhat .E; J. Mcßacken, - seventy-three,
had died some time in night.
NEW BERN. —Albert Sparrow,
negro, is arrested-on- charge of com
plicity* in attack on Sam Moore, Nor
folk and Southern railway conductor,
who was thrown from train near
here by drunken negroes ana badly
injured. Sparrow is shot in abdo
men when resisting arrest.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Sequel to sen
tencing of la?e Waahtnglaarv- negro,
to electric chair af'Ee^raffomcharge
of having attacked white woman oc
curs when home of Mrs. H. J. Har
ding is fired upon by unidentified ne
groes, whose fire is returned with
out effect by Harding. Armed posse
quickly organized in community al
ready stirred by recent trial of
Washington, fails to find fleeing ne
groes.
HIGH POlNT?—Misses Lima Cro
mer and Juanita Johnson, both
jyoung and pretty, and C. B. Beaver,
Thomas Shouse and C. W. McDaniel,
arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., are
brought here and lodged in jail in
default .of bond to await trial on
charges growing out of robbery sev
eral months ago of H. Silver & Co.
store. They plead not guilty but
make no statement at .preliminary
hearing.
ASHEVILLE.—Body of Bishop
James Atkins, of Lake Junaluska, N.
jC., one of leading prelates in south
ern Methodist church, who died in
;Little Rock, Ark., after brief illness
j following stroke of paralysis, is
: brought to Waynesville, where fu
neral and interment services are
I held. .
ASHEVILLE?=LifeIesB body of
i Dr. W. A. Calloway, physician and
specialist, is found in basement of his
Ihome, death being due to self-inflict
ed rifle shot. 11l health is suggested
as cause of suicide. Body is sent to
former home at Hamilton, Ohio.
RALEIGH.—Mrs. Kate Burr John
son, commissioner, announces state
board of public welfare plans as next
step , organization of negro welfare
bureau, with trained negro worker
in charge.
HICKORY. City sells $340,000
bond issue, $250,000 school bonds be
ing sold at 51-2 per cent and $90,000
waterworks bonds are sold at 5 3-4
per cent. Catawba county sells $200,-
000 of courthouse bonds at 4 1-2 per
cent.
HICKORY. —Hickory business men
announce practical completion ol!
sale of $165,000 stock in new hotel to
cost $250,000, bonds to be issued ‘for
$85,000.
ASHEVILLE.—Hezekiah Baker,
charged with murder of W. T. Hen
derson, in Madison county, several
weeks ago, is convicted in Buncombe
county superior court of second de
gree murder and is sentenced by
Judge McElroy to five years in
prison.
CHAPEL HILL.—Dr. William R.
Shepherd, professor of history at Co
lumbia university, in address in con
nection with celebration at Universi
ty of North Carolina of centennial of
Monroe doctrine, declares in effect
that ideaof League of Nations among
nations of New \Vorw is "too nebulous
for discussion,” holding Monroe doc
trine and America’s relations with
other New World countries ar e only
seldom identical.
CHARLOTTE. Miss Evelyne
Houck, 23, blond and attractive, is
summoned to appear for federal gov
ernment as witness before grand
jury at Fairbanks, Alaska, January
.16, to testify regarding theft of $12,-
000 in bonds from Fairbanks post
office four years ago while she was
serving as clerk for her uncle, T. H.
Deal, native of Lenoir, N. C., post
master.
ALABAMA
SEALE.—By order of comptroller
of currency, First National bank
here closes its doors. Clyde J. Evans,
national bank examiner, is in
charge. Bank officers refuse to make
statement.
MOBILE.—Body of George White
hurst, 60, Louisville and Nashville
railroad bridge tender, who mys
teriously disappeared November 25,
is found floating in Mobile river. His
death is unsolved.
JACKSONVILLE.— Litigation be
tween majority and minority stock
holders ot Profile Cotton mill, in
volving $3,900,000, is settled by pur
chase of ah stock of company by W.
I. Greenleaf, one of majority stock
holders.
TALLADEGA.— Judge Pelham Al
gee rules conviction of lawyer in
federal court does not disbar him
from practice in state courts, in dis
barment proceedings against Attor
ney D. Henry Riddle, convicted in
fedreal court of using mails to de
fraud.
CORDOVA. —Monroe Aaron is
chosen president of new Citizens
Bank and Trust, company.
ANNISTON. —Dr. J. L. Watson is
elected president of Calhouji County
Medical association.
GROVE HILI/.--Clark county
farmers are enthusiastic over win
ter legumes, having profited largely
bi r planting them.
AUBURN.—State-wide meetings of
farmers will be. held December 20-22,
to prepare and adopt permanent
program for development and safety
of agriculture.
LATHROP. —While rolMng logs at
Lathrop Lumber company’s mill,
Dave Hutchins’ leg is broken by log
falling on it.
HEFLIN. —E. D. Case is elected
county treasurer, succeeding Dock
S. Johnson.
MONTGOMERY—TotaI member
ship of Masonic order in Alabama
is 50,000, as shown by report of
grand lodge in session here.
from
Moorsville, in Limestone Democrat,
published twenty-five years ago,
says “cotton is selling for four cents
per pound, with pickers scarce.”
TUSCALOOSA.—PIans for white
way are ready, and it is expected
work of installing system will com
mence soon.
PHOENIX ClTY.—City commis
sioners have new court room; and
all new furnitures installed. '
FLORENCE. —Every farm com
munity in county is represented at
meeting of Lauderdale county farm
bureau. 801 l weevil and fertilizer
questions are discussed.
CENTERVILLE. L. C. Sims,
state law enforcement officer, is
tendered office of sheriff of Bibb
county, to succeed Sheriff J. S.
Ward, but declines. Sheriff Ward
consents to serve until successor is
selected.
MADISON. —Charles L. Toney,
seventy, prominent farmer and poli
tician, dies after long illness.
ARLEY.—Business men from De
catur and other places in-north Ala
bama are buying much farm land in
this community at average of $lO
per acre.
MONTGOMERY.—Luther Harris,
young negro, is paroled from state
prison and starts for hi;s home in
Walker county, with $lO given him
by state and another $lO given him
by friends. At Union station un
known negro steals all his money.
HUNTSVILLE?—Miss Neida Hum
phrey, grand opera singer, returns
from extensive European tour and
is visiting father, Dr. J. D. Hum
phrey.
DECATUR. —State securities com
mission is asked to cancel permit of
Albany-Decatur Oil and Gas com
pany to sell stock. Company has
been boring for oil here for some
time.
ANDALUSIA.—J. J. Moate leases
Victoria hotel from E. R. Merrill,
owner, succeeding J. L. Folmar, for
mer manager, who goes to Opp to
take management of Donaldson ho
tel.
TUSCUM BI A .—Sixteen officials of
Louisville & Nashville railroad, from
Nashville and other points, visit
Muscle' Shoals.
ALABAMA CITY. —As inducement
toj manufacturing plants city council
exempts new factories from paying
privilege license for five years..
OPELIKA. —Get-together meeting
ot chamber of commerce is held,
and history of achievements of Ope
lika is given.
GADSDEN. —Charlie McFee, 29,
negro, is killed by Southern passen
ger train near here.
j’JVA.-—Cleo Childress, of near
here, is champion corn grower of
Boys’ club members. He grew 115
bushels of corn on one acre, at cost
of 40 cents a bushel.
DECATUR. — Royal Arch Masons
hold banquet in honor of Dr. J. L.
Gunter, of Decatur, who was elected
grand high priest for Alabama.
TROY.—Mr. ’ and Mrs. H. A.
Quarles are called to Wiggins, Miss.,
on account Mrs. Quarles’ father, C.
A. Herrington, 68, being killed by
train there.
SPRING HILL.—J. B. Stinson. 69,
rominent fartner, dies after long
'ncss. . ■
MONTGOMERY.—State law en
oicrment department of Alabama
reports 190 arrests and destruction
of 123 .stills in November,
GADSDEN.—Deficit of city of
Gadsden, extending back several
years, is $76,653.65,
TUSCUMBIA.—Mrs. Wylie In
man, sixty-six, dies at home here
after short illness.
TUSCUMBIA.—A. C. Davis, sev
enty-two, prominent manufacturer,
dies after several years illness.
HARTFORD.—Lum Childs, one of
oldest citizens of this place, dies.
GADSDEN.—Mrs. M. A. Crocher
on, ninety-four, dies of pneumonia.
LIVINGSTON.—J. O. Scruggs,
seventy-four, prominent druggist
here for almost half a century', dies.
H. Whatley
and R. C. Small are convicted and
given years each for killing
Bessie Koonce, fifteen, negro girl.
ANNISTON.—Bulldogs and pad
locks did not prevent burglars from
robbing J. F. Barry’s garage and
stealing tires, tools and other ar
ticles of value.
GADSDEN.—On January 15 Gads
den citizens will vote on change of
form of government from eight aider
men to five aidermen, and abolish
ing office of president of council.
SCOTTSBORO. —John Mashon and
Red Matthews, latter negro, are ar
rested charged with killing Joe
Stephens and placing body on rail
road track.
REFORM.—Road work in Pickens
county is held up, owing to heavy
rains, where grading is done rains
make roads impassable.
HUNTSVILLE.—First winter poul
try show of North Alabama Poultry
association opens with 500 birds on
exhibition from Alabama and Ten
nessee.
HUNTSVILLE. Mrs. Tommie i
Dickey, seventy-four, dies at home
of sister, Mrs. Thomas Sullivan.
GREENVILLE. American Le
gion post here will be reorganized
within short time.
BIRMINGHAM.— Automobiles are
required to park parallel with curb
now. Commissioner of Public Safe
ty W. B. Cloe predicts no parking
in retail section within two years.
HUNTSVILLE. Properties of
American Oil company here are sold
to John T. Stevens, of Kershaw, S.
C., -who also buys plants of same
company at Montgomery, Ala., At
lanta, Ga., Augusta, Ga., and Co
lumbia, S. C.
FLORENCE. "The people of
Muscle Shoals district are looking
forward to great future, and they
are going to get it,” says Governor
elect Whitefield, of Mississippi, in
speech here.
SUNLIGHT.—I. o. Drewry Coal
corporation installs largest steam
shovel in south, in coal mines here.
GREENVILLE.—-Charles Mcßee,
of Samson, is manager of The Oaks,
Greenville's new hotel.
PHOENIX CITY— Otis McFar
land, 21, charged with statutory of
fense, is rushed to Opelika jail to
avoid mob. McFarland’s victim, an
8-year-old girl, is in serious condi
tion.
SHEFFIELD —Rev. R. L. Thomp
son, 55, pastor Three Mill Baptist
church, 1 is dead.
GADSDEN.—Tennessee, Alabama
& Georgia railroad is acquiring right
of-way to build line to Margaret,
where it will connect with other
roads leading to Birmingham.
ALABAMA ClTY.—Jess Banister
is acquitted of shooting C. 4 C.
O’Bryant, chief of police. Evidence
shows Banister was enjoying friend
ly game of cards at home when po
lice chief stuck head i n window Ban
ister fired believing officer was
burglar.
TROY—Farmers sell carload of
hogs, bringing 6 L 4 cents a pound
BRUNDRIDGE.— B. H. Lightfoot
is elected president of Pik e county
fa rm bureau.
SELMA.—Louis Gerstman, 73, pio
neel- citizen, dies at home here.
MOULTON.—A. L. Long is elected
president of Lawrence county school
board.
OPELIKA.—StiII of 3,000-gallon
capacity, largest ever captured in
Lee county, is destroyed near here
by officers.
BIRMINGHAM. Birmingham’s
poultry show becomes permanent in
stitution, being incorporated for $lO,-
000 with John W. Wood, president.
HUNTS VlLLE7—Wilfred Van Val
kenburg, 15, student, i a accidentally
shot in hip by Lester Fannis, 17.
Fannis is held under bond.
MONTGOMERY.— Permit is asked
from Alabama highway commission,
by Muscle Shoals, Birmingham and
Pensacola railroad, to build railroad
from Kimbrough, in Wilcox county,
to Jasper, Ala.
BIRMINGHAM.—Fred Huffaker,
Anderson, Ind., writes Chief of Po
lice Fred McDuff he will catch Bir
mingham's ax murderer in ninety
days, if given position on police
force. Chief McDuff replies there
is $2,000 reward, and this would be
good pay for ninety days’ work.
MOULTON.—Judge John O. Kyle
adjourns circuit court when heavy
rains make roads impassable, and
country people can not get to town.
DECATUR.—Thomas P. Little
john, owner of Littlejohn’s United
Shows, who was born and reared in
Decatur, visits here after many*
years’ absence.
MONTGOMERY??Woodmen of
the Wprld lose suit in supreme court
in action brought on policy held by
L. H. Alfred. Judgent for $3,575.10
is given.
SOUTH CAROLINA
GREENVILLE.—A baby hoy„
tucked away among fine raiment in
a soap box, is left on front door-step
of home of Mr. and Mrs. T. C. De-
Brant. Sheriff is investigating.
CHARLESTON.—At Lqjjson, about
eighteen miles north of Charleston,
John Madison Heape, former magis
trate, is killed in son’s store. Son,
John, is seriously wounded in right
arm and daughter, Elizabeth, 5, prob
ably fatally* wounded in lungs. Har
old All, man employed about the
place, is accused of deed and hurried
to Charleston county jail.
EASLEY.—Ed. P. McCravy, prom
inent resident of Easley, will be can
didate for congress in primary elec
tion next summer, opposing incum
bent, Fred A. Dominick.
GREENVILLE.—Andrew David
son, well known middled-aged farm
er of Paris Mountain township, dies
of injuries sustained while digging
well at home. Head was fractured
by* falling rocks.
GREENVILLE.—PIans for cen
tennial jubilee celebration next year
at which $20,000 library fund is to
be concluded, and plans for $500,000
endowment campaign jn next few
years, are being proposed for Fur
man. Endowment would give col
lege Al rating and rank it with
leading institutions of country.
by police
and citizens is begun for Alonzo
Harrisoa. twelve, son of Mr. and
' Mrs. Steve Harrison, who disappear
ed from home recently.
CENTRAL.—Pickens County Poul
try association is organized, and
hatchery will begin operation about
January 1. A SIO,OOO incubator has
been ordered that -will hatch 10,600
eggs at one time.
CHARLESTON.—Pete Gross, ot
Detroit, one of defendants in liquor
conspiracy case in United States dis
trict court here, pleads guilty. Cases
; against five defendants grew out of
i seizure of two cargoes of whisky,
one cargo camouflaged as white po
tatoes and other as lumber.
SPARTANBURG. Fiske-Carter
Construction company gets contract
for building seventy-five cottagps to
be used for employes of Balfour
mills near Hendersonville. Cost will
be $150,000.
COLUMBIA. Announcement Is
made that Leßoy Springs and John
T. Stevens, of Lancaster, have pur
chased plant here of American Cot
ton Oil company.
» NEWBERRY.—C. T. Paysinger,
1 fifty-one, one of the most prominent
citizens of this section, dies at home
here.
YORK.—Unless soon occupied,
spiders will be spinning webs in
steel cells of York county jail. Empty
it has been a solid week, which con
stitutes record in recent history.
ANDERSON. William Thomas
Whitner Harrison dies at a local
hospital.
COLUMBlA.—Columbia may* adopt
community chest plan for charitable
organizations for 1924. Success of
plan in Greenville, Atlanta and other
places has encouraged idea here.
COLUMBIA.—RemovaI of state
penitentiary five miles from Colum
| bia is sought by Soufh Carolina Bap- i
tists.
GREENVILLE. Resolution in
dorsing establishment in Greenville
of state-aided textile school for mill
boys and girls is passed at meeting
of Greenville Textile club.
EASLEY.—Body* of Alex Greer is
found floating in reservoir at Easley
cotton mill. Mr. Greer had been in
ill health.
TRAVELERS REST.—George Wil-1
lis Wells, 10, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
E. Wells, of Bellevue station, dies
of injuries sustained when struck by
falling tree. Right thigh waws shat
tered.
COLUMBIA.—TotaI of $54,935.97,
representing one-tjiird of gasoline
license tax collected in November, is
distributed among counties, accord
ing to report by Sta<.e treasurer, S.
T. Carter.
YORK.—Tuesday, December 18, is
fixed by York county Democratic ex
ecutive committee as date for pri
mary to elect successor to Hugh G.
Brown, resigned, as county super
vvisor.
GREENWOOD. New industries
bureau of Greenwood Chamber of
Commerce reports it is in touch with
large New England cotton manufac
turing company which proposes to
take interest in new cotton mill plant ,
in the south to extent of furnish
ing machinery. Proposition calls for
company to be formed in this sec- i ■
tion taking machinery as so much !
stock and erecting building as its
share.
GREENVILLE—GreenviIIe Cham
ber of Commerce announces plans
for early erection "of ten-story home
and office building. South Carolina
supreme court holds that parcel of
land deeded to county may be used
for this purpose.
GRAY COURT.—D.' D. Peden de- :
feats J. A. Curry in second race for ,
mayor.
YORK. Final decision to build :
road from Y*ork to Buster Boyd
bridge along route as originally
adopted in spring and not shift it ,
along middle half of its length, as
proposed a month ago, is reached by* i :
York county road authorities.
BEAUFORT.—Beaufort has one of .
most remarkable chiefs of police of
any city in South Carolina. He rides *
bicycle all day, keeps town in perfect
order, except for occasional outbreak
of a confirmed dipsomaniac who has ]
been tried for murder, plays set-back J
at night and above all uses discre
tion.
WESTMINSTER. Shocking acci
dent occurs in Hopewell section, four
miles of Westminster, when Russell
Cobb, 15, is instantly killed by,dis
charge of shotgun. Cobb and two
- boys were cutting wood, pre- j
paring for rabbit hunt, when dog ,
jumped o. rabbit. Cobb caught hold
of muzzle of gun, trigger caught
against limb and gun discharged. *
SPARTANBURG?—United States
district court convenes here for one I *
week.
FLORIDA ' ;
TALLAHASSEE.—J. L. Cresap,
connected with state highway depart- ,
ment since 1917, and oldest employe ,
in point of service, is appointed state
highway engineer, position made va- ,
cant by recent resignation of W. F. J
Cocke.
JACKSONVILLE?"— Manager of i
municipal docks announces 2,500 i
bales of cotton from Alabama and <
Georgia have been booked for ship- r
ment to Germany.
MADlSON.—Clifford Wadsworth.;
son of Mrs. A. O. Blanton, dies of j 1
gunshot wound inflicted accidentally 1
when be stumbled whwile hunting.
BARTOW’.—Joe McLeod, negro
confesses that he participated with
Henry Platt, negro, in gruesome kill- j
ing of Joe Thomas, aged negro, Mc-
Leod says Platt learned that old ne- c
gro kept considerable money on his -
person and that they followed him 5
on night of November 22 and that j *
Platt struck him from behind with I
ax just before victim reached his?
cabin. After money, nearly -$300,1 <
was found, McLeod says, Platt cut <
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Thomas’ throat to make sure he was
dead, then threw body into water
filled phosphate pit. and refused to
give him share of loot.
JACKSONVILLE. —Savings depos
its in city total $18,890,000, according
to reserve bank,- putting Jacksonville
behind only Atlanta and Birmingham
and ahead of New Orleans and Nash
ville in reserve district.
JACKSONVILLE.—CharIes Gran
dy, American seaman, testifies before
U. S. Commissioner Noble that O.
Johansen, chief mate of oil tanker,
Samuel L. Fuller, while intoxicated
brutally beat him and threw him into
shark infested waters and refused to
send boat for him, and that he was
saved only by mercy of Mexican sea
man of another boat. Officer is held
for grand jury action.
JACKSONVILLE?"— Over three
quarters of million dollars will be
spent,on state road No. 4, the Way
cross road, as result of contracts
let by state road department total
ing $1,891,559.04. Upon completion of
work in Nassau, Brevard and Volu
sia counties on road No. 4, there will
be established for first time a splen
did hard-surfaced highway from
Georgia state line to Miami. State
road department awarded contracts
apportioned as follows:
State road No. 15563,000.00
State road No. 1 85,900.21
State road No. 2 48,510.10
State road No. 4 277,846.33
State road No. 4 286,562.08
State road No. 4 191,432.07
State road No. 5 270,054.19
State road No. 5. 118,254.06
State road No. 8 50,000.00
Total $1,891,599.04
OCALA.—Board of county com
missioners of Marion county took im
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HELD IH BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 11.—
With the arrest of Fred Glover and
the finding of a blood-stained hatchet
and a pistol in his personal effects
in his room, county officers believe
that the long hunt for Birmingham’s
ax-man has come to an end.
Following the arrest, Glover was
taken to the Birmingham general
hospital, where he was positive'y
identified by Mrs. Edwin Sparks as
the negro who perpetrated an at
tack on Mrs. Sparks and her hus
band late Sunday evening.
To further clinch the evidence
against Glover, officers state that
he was suffering from a severely
bruised Wrist, which was dressed a
short time after the attack took
place last Sunday evening. Officers
say they have the case practically
closed against him for this affair and
developments toward the solution of
other similar crimes are expected
as the result of this arrest.
The identification was strength
ened by the identification of a pistol
found in a locker at the home of
the negro as the gun used by him
in the attempted holdup. During the
search of the negro’s room the of
ficers found a blood-stained hatchet
in the locker with the pistol. The
hatchet had a short handle making
it handy for carrying in the large
pocket of overalls.
Glover is known to the officers,
both county and city, as a bad actor,
and ha«i only recently returned from ,
serving a sentence on a charge of ;
burglary and grand larceny.
J. E. Heywood, who was struck
on the head with an iron pipe No
vember 29, a’t Third alley and 24th
street, died last Sunday, being the
twenty-fourth victim of Birming
ham's ax assaults. Heywood, whose j
home was in Tifton, Ga., was robbed j
after being struck down on the street ■
by an unidentified negro.
Mrs. R. W. Bussey,
Legislator’s Mother,
Dies in Sycamore
SYCAMORE. Ga.. Dec. 11.—Mrs.
Rebecca Wilcox Bussey died early I
Monday at the Sycamore hospital '
after an illness of three weeks of pa- j
ralysis. Mrs. Bussey was the widow i
of Mr. H. W. Bussey, prominent tur-1
pentine man of south Georgia, and a ■
daughter of John T. Wilcox, late of J
Telfair county.
She is survived by ten children. !
Rev. Stanley Bussey, of Crisp coun- i
ty, now ill in an Atlanta hospital,
Jack Bussey, of Charlotte, N. C.; H.
W. Bussey, Bainbridge; Paul, Ed and
Frank Bussey, of Mcßae; Mrs. K.
W. Brooks, Mcßae; Mrs. Ruth Coler,
Sycamore; Mrs. Rip Wiley and Mrs.
Grady Zorn, of Amboy.
Mrs. Bussey was a member of Syc
amore Methodist church and the fu
neral was conducted from this
church Tuesday morning. The inter
ment was in Rose Hill cemetery, at
Ashburn.
Blizzard Grips Texas;
Snow Falls 12 Hours
EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 11.—El
Paso today was in the grip of one
of the worst blizzards in twenty
years, according to statistics in the
weather bureau. At 9 a. m., snow
had fallen steadily for more than 12
hours, while a steady gale had
caused damage to homes, farms and
other properties throughout the Rio
Grande Valley.
portant step when it authorized
County Engineer J. E. Walker to be.
gin surveys at once on proposed sl,-
250,000 system of modern highways in
county. Surveys and estimates of
cost will be made on system as origi
nally proposed by Engineer Walker
and will include also survey on road
from Fellowship to connect with state
road No. 2, near Zuber or Kendrick,
as possible alternate for proposed
road from Mdrtell to Fellowship.
TALLAHASSEE.—B. T. Rhoden is
appointed game warden of Baker
county.
PALATKA. —By vote ot 428 to
272, Howell A. Davis was elected
mayor of Palatka over Dr. A. M.
Steen, in new commission form of
government, which becomes effective
in January. Dr. Steen carried one
ward, where population is predomi
nantly negro. Vote eliminates ne
gro from Palatka’s politics and ad
ministration for first time in decade.
TALLAHASSEE.'”— More than
$12,-000,000 worth of two of Flori
da’s principal clays was mined dur
ing ten-year period, 1913-1922. Ful
ler’s earth produced reached volume
amounting to ’90,957 short tons, val
ued at $9,197,793, while kaolin valued
at $2,850,000 -was mined. The com
bined value of the two products
reached a total of $12,048,025. Eighty
per cent of Fuller’s earth produced
in United States is mined in JGorida.
TAVARES.—In last week in No
vember tax collector’s office of Lake
county handled $61,000 of bounty
and state -tax payments, and for the
entire month $107,000. During No
vember last year $70,000 col
lected, which was 40 pej* cent great
er than any previous November.
Four years ago November receipts
were about $20,000.
$lO-a-Minute “Cussing”
CHICAGO. —“This man cussed me
for five minutes straight without
stopping.” Miss Eliza Foster testi
fied against John H. Zimmermann.
He was fined SSO.
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ANNISTON. Ala., Dec. 11—Private
Mitchell D. Ostadellis, Company E,
Eighth infantry, died at the station
hospital at Camp McClellan this aft
ernoon—the victim of a mysterieus
shot received early Tuesday while
he was on guard duty at the en
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the day when "he made his regular
round about 5:30 o’clock in the morn
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siderable sum of money at all times.
His pockets had beert rifled, it waa
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