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NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS
ALABAMA
MONTGOMERY. “The Bloody
Seventh’’ i s again to be center of
Republican efforts in Alabama, it
became known when Beamon S.
Cooley, of Gadsden, qualifies as
candidate for congress on G. O. P.
ticket.
BIRMINGHAM—Mrs. W. C. Stin
son is found by neighbors lying un
’ conscious in door of her bedroom,
where she was knocked down by
unidentified negro burglar who es
caped. _
MUSCLE SHOALS. City coun
cil of this new Tennessee river city
' grants franchise for construction of
waterworks system.
SHEFFIELD.—After final shot
with 140 quarts of nitro-glycerine,
with no indications of oil, well be
ing drilled here is abandoned.
VERBENA. —A. J. Gulledge,
World war veteran and son of A. J.
Gulledge, prominent merchant, is
’"dead.
■ JASPER.—Jasper is first town in
- Alabama to organize Davis-Bryan
..Victory club. W. S. Childers, presi
dent of Jasper Trust company, is
president.
; MONTGOMERY.— Declaring that
is: would be folly for America to
'“blindly wait for arrival of next
emergency before we begin to get
ready for it,’’ J. Fred Johnson, Ala
<bama department commander of
. American Legion, calls on all legion
members to contribute best efforts
towards making national defense
..test success.
' HUNTSVILLE. County court
“house officials say that because
Huntsville woman bobbed her hair
• divorce case will result. No names
- are given out.
' GADSDEN. —Owing to better busi
ness conditions, Dwight cotton mills
’here cancels notice to 1,200 opera
tives of two weeks’ closedown.
CAMDEN. —Mrs. Maurie Hoffman
Lambrecht, seventy-three, dies at
home near Coy.
. OPELIKA. —Opelika overall fac
tory, after being closed during sum
mer, is operating again and is turn
ing out 600 dozen overalls per week.
SELMA. —Mrs. Josiah Smith,
eighty, dies here.
Montgomery. Consumption of
gasoline in Alabama is increasing
■greatly, according to figures of state
tax commission on receipt of two
cents per gallon tax. For July re
ceipts are $163,860.20, which are
‘much higher than any preceding
month.
\ TUSCALOOSA.—John F. Morton
■'is appointed postmaster, succeeding
E. A. Townsend.
ANNISTON. —City employes boast
)f unusually intelligent mare mule.
They say that on three occasions re
■ently when mule’s shoes became
loose, she went without direction to
jlacksmith shop.
BIRMINGHAM.—D. B. Blythe,
Mt. Pinson truck farmer, is knocked
n head and robbed of $36 by two
inidentified negroes in subway at
Terminal station.
MOBILE. —W. W. Graves, of Bir
mingham, member of fishing party
it Dauphin Island, lands twenty
foot devilfish.
BIRMINGHAM—Mrs. R. A. Mitch
-11, sixty-four, wife of Colonel R. A.
Mitchell, vice president of Alabama
.’ower company, died suddenly at
aome here.
MONTGOMERY—Voters who sup
'orted others than Democratic can
lidateg for presidential electors in
November election will be barred
■ rom voting in, or being candidate
n any Democratic primary ‘until
(ter such voters have supported
Democratic ticket in subsequent gen
eral election, under resolution adopt
ed by state Democratic executive
committee at meeting here.
BIRMINGHAM? - Two indict
ments, charging him with accepting
bribes from liquor dealers, are re
lumed by federal grand jury against
Hardie C. Harris, ex-prohibition
agent for federal government.
MONTGOMERY. Mrs. 11. B.
Clayton, of Montgomery, wife of
United States Judge Henry D. Clay
ton, is one of number injured in
storm-tossed White Star liner Arabic,
near New York.
BIRMINGHAM.—Attorney M. A.
Dinsmore fights D. E. McLendon,
chairman of city commission, when
commission head disputes attorney’s
word.
.TUSCALOOS?. Drought here
causes many grass fires which do
considerable property damage.
SELMA.—C. ’O? Thrash, f orty
ihree, well-known lumberman of
Myrtlewood, and M. E. Barr, of Lin
l°n. are dead, and E. O. Thrash, son
of dead man, is seriously wounded
is result of fusillade of shots ex
changed on road near Myrtlewood.
Rarr shoots elder Thrash dead as
he sits in his automobile, and young
er Thrash returns shots, killing
Rarr with four shots. Business dif
ferences is alleged cause.
DECATUR. Morgan county’s
$400,000 bond issue will soon be ex
hausted, but county officials are
planning to taka care of roads with
in county.
ALBANY.—Robert Blackwell. Al
bany switchman, has planted ten
acres in cotton near here, one acre
of which he calls “God's Acre,’’ pro
ceeds from which he. will give to re
ligious work. On this acre there
are no boll weevils.
PHOENIX ClTY.—With entry list
closed there are candidates for city
office. Dr. Ashby Floyd and Z. T.
Spear offer for mayor.
TUSCUMBlA.—Tuscumbia's popu•
lation has increased IS per cent in
two years, according to school cen
sus, which shows 6,000 population.
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GADSDEN. —Company F and serv
ice company, local unit of Alabama
national guard, will give demonstra
tion on Defense day, September 12,
which is expected to draw large
crowd.
ALABAMA CITY. —Alabama City
refused to sell $50,000 boVfls to re
tire floating debt, as highest bid is
only $41,055.
ATTALLA. —B. W. Erwin is being
opposed for third term as mayor of
Attalla by T. S. Williams.
SELMA. —Trackless cars are now
bein goperated in Selma, taking
place of electric street cars, which
had been losing money for some
time.
11U NTSV ILL E.—Mad ison count y
commissioners set aside $175,000 for
road construction work.
GADSDEN.—Carlisle Mill and Gin
company files papers of incorpora
tion here, for operation of mill and
gin at Carlisle.
GUNTERSVILLE.—Third district
convention. Knights of Pythias, is
held here with big attendance.
MOBILE—Mrs. Lizzie Johnson,
49, is found dead under her bed here.
Heart trouble is supposed cause.
ALEXANDER ClTY.—Officials of
East Alabama Fair association are
making preparations for fourteenth
annual fair ncre, October 2125.
ALBANY. —Alabama Power com
pany commences placing poles for
transmission line from Hopgood,
near Muscle Shoals, to Albany and
Decatur.
PIEDMONT. —Chamber of Com
merce is organized here with. A. S.
Edwards as president and George
Kass, secretary.
GORDO. Telephone company
here, owned by M- Brotherington, of
Fayette, is now building new line to
Reform.
TUSCUMBlA.—Residence of J. E.
Crosswhite, “which was showplace of
Tuscumbia, is destroyed by fire at
loss of $30,000.
MOULTON. —Citizens of Lawrence
county plan community fair to be
held October 10-11.
BIRMINGHAM.—Over 50 indict
ments are returned by federal grand
jury, and nine plead guilty. Most
cases are whisky violations.
BI RMING HAM.—Owing to gen
et al drouth over this section, Ala
bama Water company is forced to
use reserve water to supply demand.
dry
weather is doing considerable dam
age to cotton and ccrn and other
farm products in some sections of
Alabama, according to farm experts.
TUSCUMBIA. —Tax valuations of
Colbert coujtv show increase of sl,-
202,289 over 1923.
SOUTH CAROLINA
SPARTANBURG.—Fred Smith, of
Pauline,-this county, eliminates S. S.
Hallman, of Spartanburg, and E. E.
Stiles, of Greenville, former title
holders, in annual state checker
tournament here. J. M. Layton, of
Georgetown, is re-elected president
of state checker association.
MARlON.—William T. Bernard,
formerly of Rowland, N. C., is re
leased under SI,OOO bond, after pre
liminary hearing on charges of kill
ing Duncan Perritt, whom he shot
as result of domestic troubles. Both
were employes of A. C. L. railroad.
COLUMBIA. Governor McLeod
endorses national defense test day
program and appoints committees in
all counties to arrange observation
of occasion, in accordance with plans
of war department.
ALLENDALE. —Lee Bowers, 23:
J. L. Box, Jr., two, and Annie Gray,
4, are killed, and Mrs. J. L. Box
and her mother, Mrs. A. L. Gray,
are probably fatally injured, in col
lision of train and automobile at
Savannah, Ga. All are residents of
this community.
COLUMBIA.—OnIy twenty-three
members of last year’s house of rep
resentatives are re-elected, accord
ing to tabulation made here by J.
Wilson Gibbes, clerk of lower leg
islative branch.
CHESTER. —Robert A. Latimer,
well known citizen, dies.
Rex G. Ful
ler, Mrs. Manning Simons and Man
ning Simons, Jr., all of Charleston,
are seriously, though not fatally in
jured when auto runs into roadside
ditch and turns over near here.
BARNWELL. —Edgar A. Brown,
of Barnwell, renominated member of
house of representatives, announces
candidacy for speakership. J. K.
Hamblin, of Union, and Dr. Olin
Sawyer, of Georgetown, are also can
didates.
COLUMBIA.—E. K. DeLoach,
prominent real estate man, makes
spectacular race for legislature, first
attempt at politics, and is nominated
in first primary over twenty op
ponents, six places to be filled.
NEWB ER R Y—Bu ny a n Whitmire.
Arthur Griffin, Harry Shealy, and
Martin Beach are lodged in New
berry jail, arrested attempting to
load whisky into auto.
GAFFNEY.—George Hallman, 7,
son of Mr. and Mrs, Otto Hallman,
has thigh broken when empty wagon
runs over ihm, after he removed
lock from under wheel.
NEWBERRY.—Fred Gilbert, bank
cashier, is severely injured, when
his coupe collides with that of Pro
fessor J. C. Poole.
NEWBERRY?—Mr?. A. J. S. Lang
ford, 70, prominent woman, dies.
PICKENS.—Jas. P Cary, Jr., oi
Pickens, is appointed by governor
special judge for term of court at
Lexington, starting September 8.
COLUMBIA. Following state
campaign, in which he defeated John
T. Duncan for governor, Governor
Thomas G. McLeod goes to Mon
treat, N- C., for period of rest.
PROSPERITY.—Eight survivors,
A. A. Nates, J. M. Merts, John F.
Taylor, D. M. Ward, J. S. Nobles,
B. L. Miller, Washington Lever, and
Sampson Legrone, of Co. “G,” 13th
South Carolina regiment, Confeder
ate army, holds 59th annual reunion
here.
COLUMBIA. —Sells Brothers and
Floto circus announces for Colum
bia for fall date, this being first large
circus to visit state since enactment
of state admission tax three years
ago.
CAMDEN. —Former Judge and
Former Speaker of the House Men
dal L. Smith, prominent attorney
here, is nominated in first primary
for house of representatives.
SUMTER. —"Sweetening” Grant,
negro convict, serving five-year term
on gang, is shot by Guard Clarence
Cox, and dies of wounds.
COLUMBIA. Former Governor
Blease, spectacular figure in many
warm political campaigns, issues
statement thanking public for vote
which put him at head of ticket for
U. S. senate, and declares that in
run-over with Congressman James F.
Byrnes he will not indulge in per
sonalities.
AlKEN.—Congressman James F.
Byrnes, candidate for U. S. senate,
accepts invitation to deliver speeches
for Davis-Bryan national presiden
tial campaign, and will probably be
sent into northern states.
WINNSBORO? - —With Sheriff
James F. Macfie in hospital in Co
lumbia, suffering from wound re
ceived in still raid, five opponents
for office refrain from campaign
speeches, and when first primary
puts Macfie and Austin Scott in race,
Scott magnanimously withdraws,
leaving Macfice alone in seeking of
fice.
COLU Jtfßl A.—Former Congress
man A. F. Lever, now banker here,
accepts position as manager of cam
paign for Congressman James F.
Byrnes, candidate for U. S. senate,
in second race with former' Gover
nor Cole L. Blease.
PENDLETON.—As Leland Alex
ander, negro employe on farm of De-
Witt Boggs, draws cold bucket of
water from well and reaches out to
drink from vessel, snake, coiled
about chain at top of bucket, makes
pass at him and inflicts severe cut
on hand with fangs. Medical aid is
quickly given and negro is recuper
ating.
LAURENS.—“I bow to will of
people, which is supreme,” declares
Senator N. B. Dial, in statement is
sued to public, thanking them for
vote in first primary, which elimi
nated him from race for senate.
RIDGEWAY. —Tri-County Guern
sey Breeders’ association meets here
with addresses by cattle experts.
WAGENER.—The farmer has been
assisted by government in solving
his problem of production and prob
lem of financing, and it is now up
to farmer to solve for himself prob
lem of marketing, declares' former
Congressman A. F. Lever, of Co
lumbia, in address to farmers here
on subject of co-operative ♦market
ing.
CHARLESTON.—Schooner Charles
H. Hyde, loaded with liquor, is
seized by coast guard cutter Yama
craw.
AIKEN.—Mrs. LoTi E. McCarter,
one of oldest women of state, aged
87, casts vote in recent primary,
going to polls unassisted.
ST. MATTHEW?-St. Matthews
Bar association indorses M. M.. Mann,
this city, for circuit judgeship, to
succeed late Judge I. W. Bowman,
recently deceased.
ORANGEBURG. —Orangeburg bar
recommends election by legislature
for circuit judgeship, to succeed late
Judge I. W. Bowman, of Solicitor
Andrew J. Hydride, of Orangeburg.
EDGEFIELD.—Town is excited
over chase through Main street at
speed of forty or fifty miles of rum
runners by State Prohibition Officers
J. P. Hart and L. H. Harling. When
bootleggers’ car is ditched on ,out
skirts of town, Claude Gambrell and
Mack Ravenpbrt, of Greenwood, are
arrested and liquor seized. Both
young men had served prohibition
sentences before.
ABBEY! LI.E?—IL _ M. Hadden, 77,
Confederate veteran and prominent
banker and churchman, dies here
after illness of several months.
FAIRMONT. —Sales of tobacco on
local market continue heavy, and
prices are strong, with slight ad
vances on export types. Offerings
bring from $25 to $65 per 100 pounds,
according to quality.
NORTH CAROLINA
RALEIGH. Expressing confi
dence that voters of state will ap
prove port commission bill at Novem
ber election, Governor Morrison
says plans are rapidly being per
fected by General Albert Cox, of
Raleigh, for vigorous campaign,
which will include state wide tour by
governor. Morrison says port com
mission bill will not be political is
sue, so far as he can determine.
ROCKY MOUNT.—Trees are up
rooted. wires are torn down and win
dows are smashed over large area
when electrical and wind storm, ac
companied by heavy hail fall, hits
this section.
HICKORY.—T. L. Sigmon, of Mor
ganton, former superintendent of
public instruction and county wel
fare officer of Burke county, is ar
rested on warrant sworn out by
i Solicitor Huffman, which charges
Sigmon with immoral conduct with
his stenographer. Miss Myrtle God
frey. Burke county commissioners
recently demanded Sigmon’s resigna
tion from office, which he held 12
years.
ASIIEX I LLE.—George Washing
ton Head, 62, formerly prosperous
Montgomery county resident, who
spent entire fortune 20 years ago
seeking cure for severe nervous
trouble, and who passed last years
of life selling newspapers dies
after short illness.
ASHI-A ILLE. Western North
i Carolina. Jive stock and agricultural
l exposition here November 10-14 will
be featured by sales of pure bred
I live stock under auspices of federa
j tion of farmers. State Live Stock as
, sociation will hold annual meeting at
i exposition.
RALEIGH.—Co-operative crop re-
I porting service of department of
I agriculture reports state this year
i will produce 6.1 pop cent of nation's
yield, indicated as of August 1 of
I 13.000,000 bales, compared with 10
i pet cent last year, when the state
■ produced 1.020,000 bales.
ASHEVILLE.—That northern and
' eastern cities which have been bid-
I ding for services of negroes no long
e- have field of activity for them,
is declaration of H. L. Whitfield,
governor of Mississippi, here to visit
wife, who is spending summer in
North Carolina mountains Negroes
who return from the north are of
| limited in the south, he says.
GASTONIA.- —William 1,. Smith,
69, missing for several days from
East Gastonia home, is Ideated near
Charlotte, while wandering along
road. Family fears he is suffering
from mental disorder.
WHITEVILLE. —J. E. Fickline.
25, of Sumter, S. C-, employe of
Florence, S. C., company construct
ing road near here, is killed when
bucket of steam shovel falls upon
him.
FORT BRAGG.—Private Carl C-
King, of Battery B, 118th field ar
tillery, Georgia national guard, whose
home is at Savannah, loses right arm
and is badly burned about face when
75-millimeter shell explodes as he is
ramming it into gun. His death oc
curs few hours later. General Trav
is, of Savannah, standing nearby,
escapes unhurt.
RALEIGH. —Dr. T. F. Jones, local
physician, is found guilty in city
court of illegally selling narcotics,
and is.sentenced to 60 days in jail.
He pleaded guilty last fall in federal
court here to violating Harrison act.
DURHAM. —Port commission bill,
passed by extra session of legislature
called for that purpose by Governor
Morrison, will not be made campaign
issue by Republicans of state, says
William S. Bramham, chairman of
state Republican executive commit
tee, who adds that public should
study bill closely before casting vote
or. proposal in November election.
HIGH POINT. —Rev. Nereus M
Barker, Quaker minister, dies of
paralysis, aged 74 years.
RUTHERFORDTON.— Congress
man Weaver, of Asheville, and Mrs.
T. W. Bickett, of Raleigh, wife of
former governor, are heard by 1,500
■ persons attending Rutherford county
farmers’ picnic, near Henrietta.
RUTHERFORDTON.—LesIie and
Worth Mitchem go down into 53-
foot well at father’s home after dyna
mite blasts had been exploded. In
few minutes they call to be raised
to surface. Worth is rescued in pros
trate condition- Leslie loses grip on
rope as he nears surface, and, de
spite efforts of others to catch him,
he falls from bucket and lifeless
body is brought to surface few min
utes later.
SHELBY. —Kings Mountain Bap
tist association, composed of 40
churches, meets October 1 at Double
Springs church, near here, where
association was formed 75 years ago.
CHARLOTTE.—Suit for SIOO,OOO
damages is filed in Mecklenburg
cjunty superior court against Mer
cantile Development company and
Southern Power company by Fred
L Christenbury, formerly civil en
gineer, who suffered injuries when
e fell through elevator shaft in
Mercantile building in December,
1923.
ASHEVILLE.— Cutting bars with
saws smuggled into county jail, five
women, three white, escape. Lucille
Hart, white, is slightly injured and
later surrenders. Other white fugi
tives are Mary Powers and Callie
Hensley.
RALEIGH. Tobacco Growers
Co-operative association sold 23,-
000,000 pounds of leaf during first
20 days of Avgust and made new
record for resale of redried tobacco,
.says A. R. Breedlove, association’s
leaf department manager.
ELIZABETH CITY—O. A. Me
Pherson, farmer, is brought here for
treatment of pistol shot wounds in
head and neck, and flatly refuses
to discuss shooting affray with offi
cers. Hiram Eason, farmer, is sus
pected of having fired shots. Officers
say argument over whisky probably
was cause.
RALEIGH. —Records of officers of
North Carolina Co-operative Cotton
Growers’ association indicate first
bale of cotton of this year’s
crop was delivered August 23 to
association by Thomas C. Adams, of
Morven, Anson county.
RALEIGH. —Only 17,000.000 pounds
of' bright tobacco of 1923 crop de
livered to co-operative tobacco
growers’ association remained un
sold August 20, compared with 50,-
000,000 poynds of 1922 crop on that
date, says association's leaf depart
ment manager.
RALElGH.—Payment of $2,300,000
September 15 to members of tobacco
growers’ co-operative association in
Virginia and Carolinas will bring
total paid producers of this belt to
$14,000,000 for 1923 crop.
LEXINGTON. After hearing
grand jury report in which home for
aged and infirm continues, in bad
condition. Judge Bryson, presiding
at Davidson county superior court,
says in open court indictments will
be asked of officers responsible un
less conditions complained of are
remedied before next superior court
term.
DUNN.- —Four-County fair, repre
senting counties of Harnett, Samp
son, Johnston and Cumberland, will
be held October 7-10. inclusive.
SOUTHPORT —Brunswick county’s
tobacco crop this summer seems be
low average in weight, though yield
has been fair. Many growers are
showing disposition to join co-opera
tives. Whiteville market is drawing
much of Brunswick’s crop.
MOUNT OLIVE. Elizabeth
Knowles, aged two. daughter of Dr.
and Mrs. D. L. Knowles, of Rocky
Mount, suffers fractured skull and
may die as result of wreck of auto
mobile driven by Rodney Knowles,
youthful son of Mr. and Mrs. Rod
ney Knowles, of Mount Olive.
GREENSBORO. —Deputy sheriffs
hunting whisky runners find 200
gallons of corn liquor buried in corn
field near Colfax.
GREENSBO I?O.—Rev. R. Murphy
Williams. Charles Mclver and Rob
ert W. Glenn are named by Mayor
Kiser as members of city’s boxing
commission, recently authorized by
legislature. Act legalizes 15-round
no-decision bout.
RALEIGH.—Dr? B? F. Kaupp,
head of poultry department of North
Carolina State college, is elected
president of American Association of
Instructors and Investigators in
Poultry Husbandry at closing session
of sixteenth annual convention.
SALISBURYT-WMliam M. Taylor,
one of the best known men of city,
prominent in Masonic circles, dies
after illness of sevreal weeks.
CONCORD. Under leadership of
Major W. A Foil. Democratic chair
man. and 11. S. Williams. Republican
chairman, political parties in Cabar
rus county are preparing for launch
ing of what probably will be hottest
fought campaign in county's history.
Democrats hold county convention
and Repuohcans hold primary Sep
tembei 6.
PIM P L E S
CAN EE CURED. If you suffer from pimples,
aene. blackheads, brown spots or eruptions I
want to send you my simple home treament un
der plain wrai per. It pave me a soft, velvety,
smooth and radiant complexion, and cured thou
sands of seen and wojnen after everything else
failed. S ninly send name for generous 10 day
fyrte nffp. nf inv hntne i
W H WARREN, 535 Gateway Station, Kansas
City, Mo,
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ASHE VlLLE.—Furore is created
by appearance of Scott Dillingham,
well-known Asheville young man,
who recently has been indicted in
Tennessee courts for alleged automo
bile theft, at supreme court bar ex
aminations at Raleigh. Dillingham
is third man out of class of 131.
Court, after vigorous protests are
filed, agrees to hold hearing to de
termine Dillingham's moral fitness
to practice law.
WlLMlNGTON.—(laptain Thomas
D. Meares, city clerk and treasurer,
Is re-elected master of exchequer of
supreme lodge, Knights of Pythias,
at thirty-third annual convention of
supreme lodge at Toronto, Canada.
CHARLOTTE. Miss Vivian
Spratt, most seriously injured of five
young persons hurt in automobile
accident near Gastonia, is confined
to hospital. Injuries about her head
li MILLION WOS
OF TLIBfiCCO SOLD
00IIIN6 MSI WEEK
In the weekly reports Monday of
Peter V. Rice, statistian of the state
department of agriculture, of the
sales of bright leaf tobacco in the
nineteen tobacco warehouses for the
week ending last Saturday, it was
shown that 6,001,445 pounds were
sold.
The largest consignment sold was
reported from the Farmers’ ware
house, Blackshear, Ga., where 674,-
694 pounds were sold during the
week. The highest average price
per pound was 27.11 cents at the
Growers’ warehouse, Douglas, Ga.
Following is Mr. Rice’s report
showing, in the order named, the
name of the warehouse, pounds sold
first hand, the average price per
pound and the quality of the to
bacco.
Farmers’ warehouse, Blackshear,
674,694; 23.53; good, 30 per cent; me
dium, 40 per cent; common, 30 per
cent.
Morgan’s warehouse, Blackshear,
446,034; 24.28; good 35 per cent; me
dium 35 per cent common, 30 per
cent.
Planters’ warehouse, Blackshear,
527,022; 24.34; good, 20 per cent; me
dium, 60 per cent; common, 20 per
cent.
Planters’ warehouse, Camilla,
215,544; 16.47; common, 100 per cent.
The Big Tobacco warehouse, Doug
las, 477,746; 25.52; good 20 per cent;
medium, 55 per cent; common 23
per cent.
Growers’ warehouse, Douglas.
472,164; 27.11; good 20 per cent; me
dium, 20 per cent; common 60 per
cent.
Fitzgerald tobacco warehouse,
Fitzgerald, no report.
Fenner’s warehouse. Hahira, 334,-
392; 21.61; medium, 100 per cent.
Gold Leaf .Tobacco warehouse,
Hahira, 250,802; 20.05; good, 50 per
cent; medium, 25 per cent common,
25 per cent.
Planters’ warehouse, Hazlehurst,
Ga.. 287,476; 21.37; good, 25 per cent;
medium, 35 per cent; common, 40
per cent.
Farmers’ warehouse, Nashville,
Ga., 294,7-18; 25.40;; good, 20 per cent;
medium, 60 per cent; common, 20
per cent.
Planters’ warehouse, Nashville,
Ga., 297,984; 24.42; good, 30 per cent;
medium, 30 per cent; common, 40
per cent.
Union warehouse, Nashville, Ga.,
401,805; 24.58; good, medium, com
mon.
Banner warehouse, Tifton, Ga.,
520,830; 21.02; good, 20 per cent; me
dium, 40 per cent; common, 40 per
cent. g
Dixie warehouse, Tifton, Ga., 11 4|
084; 20.37; good, 25 per cent; me’dium,
50 per cent; common, 25 per cent.
Alliance warehouse, Valdosta, Ga.,
81.596; 15.63; good, medium, common.
Farmers' warehouse, Valdosta, Ga.,
210.509; 18.22; good, 20 per cent;
medium, 40 per cent; common, 40
per cent.
B. B. Sanders’ warehouse, Val
dosta, Ga., 267,248; 17.55; good, 20
per cent; medium, 40 per cent; com
mon, 40 per cent.
Bowland & Meadows’ warehouse,
Vidalia, Ga., no report.
Total number of pounds reported
sold on floors of Georgia tobacco
warehouses for week ending August
20, 1924, 6,001,445. Tootal number
of pounds previously reported for
the season of 192 1. 17,458.749.
Watchman Is Found
With Crushed Skull;
Ax Slayer Suspected
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept. I.
W. H Seale, 77, night watchman at
the Hill Grocery company’s ware
house here, was found dead this
morning, the 26th victim of Birming
ham's long series of ax crimes.
His head had been beanten in with
a blunt instrument—either the blunt
side of an ax or some similar
weapon.
A time clock which he carried had
not been punched. He went to work
at 6:30 and should have started
punching the clock half an hour
later.
The murder was very similar to
that of J. R. Smith, watchman for
the Adamson Motor company, who
was killed on the night of May 27.
As in the Smith case, robbery ap
parently was the motive for last
night’s crime. The aged man's
pockets had been ransacked and his
pistol stolen.
Seale's death brought the total of
the ax crimes to 26 dead and 21 se
riously wounded.
Bank Cashier Pardoned
After Serving Three Years
STATESBORO, Ga., Sept. I.
M ord was received here Friday that
Governor Walker had pardoned
Hoyt Brannen, former bank cashier
of a country bank near Gainesville,
Ga. Brannan had served three of
his seven-year sentence on the Bul
loch county gang.
Brannen was given seven years
on the state farm for alleged forgery,
but was transferred to Bulloch coun
ty as yard man. County officials
say that Brannen has been an ideal
prisoner, has helped the county, and
that they are glad to see him go
ftee.
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John T. Boifeuillet, Professional Office Holder for 35 Years,
Severely Criticized for Devoting His Time to Personal
Business at the Expense of the State
For more than nine weeks Mr. Boifeuil
let has been called upon to name a
single instance where he has initiated,
sdnee he has been on the Public Service
Commission, a single movement for the
benefit of the agricultural industry. Five
years ago his salary was increased
SLIOO per year •with the expres? pro
v'= (pa* ho give h’? entire time tn his
office. Still, he u rites four lengthy
TH l Kftß AY, SEPTEMBEK 4, 1924
include shattered jaws. Other four
leave hospital.
OXFORD. Charlie Reams, 30, is
in critical condition at local hospital,
where he. 'was brought from Clarks
ville after gun battle in which he is
alleged to have killed Bowman New
ton, 31.
WILMINGTON.—b’rank P. Spruill
of Nash county, president, address
ing annual convention of North Caro
lini Association of County Commis
sioners, says state cut percentage
of illiteracy from 39.4 in 1900 to 13.1
in 1920; state spent less than $1,000,-
000 for schools in 1900, and spent
$23,000,000 last year.
XVINSTON-SALEM. Plant of
bankrupt Bailey Brothers, Inc., to
bacco manufacturers, recently bid in
by George Penny, of Greensboro, for
$300,000, is sold to R. J. Reynolds
Tobacco company, of
ROCKINGHAM. —September 1 is
BLOODY WILLIAMSON COUNTY
AGAIN IN OLD FAMILIAR ROLE,
TORN BY HATE AND SUSPICION
Killings Over, Troops Keep
Seething Factions From
Open War—Glenn Young’s
Klan Raids Blamed.
BY L. C. OWENS
(Copyright, 1924, by the Consolidated Press
Association —Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.)
HERRIN, 111., Sept. I.—Bloody
Williamson county today is again in
its old familiar role —the killings
over, but factions torn by bitter ha
-1 tred kept peaceful only through the
intervention of hardened troops,
here on their third invasion of the
year.
This worst of Williamson county
feuds—and Williamson county has
had feuds since before the Civil war.
when Kentucky mountaineers took
■ up their abode here—is the out
growth of the yast winter’s free-for
all liquor raiding parties conducted
by the Ku Klux Klan. The specter
’ of S. Glenn Young, free lance law
enforcer and his army of raiders still
haunts the district.
These klanstnen, followers of
> Young, have the bitterest hatred for
their county's law enforcement offi
cer, Sheriff George Galligan, the
other personality in this incipient
. civil war. Young has gone, taken
from the payroll of the klan, where
■ he drew SI,OOO per raid a few months
1 ago, but Galligan remains to rankle
i the klansmen, now without a fight
ing leader.
Peace Came, But Went
Peace presumably had come to
the district six months ago when,
after the killing of Constable Cae
sar Cagle, klan leader, troops occu
pied the district for a month while
business and professional men of
, the county worked out a plan for
law and order. It was then that
Young left the klan’s employ and
Sheriff Galligan took on three 'new
, deputy sheriffs, efficient men, nei
: ther members of the klan nor of
i the Flaming Circle, the counter-or
ganization.
But the hatred smouldered. The
■ sheriff tried to get rid of his non
, partisan deputies. The Shelton boys,
who the klan was convinced killed
Constable Cagle, were freed last Sat
urday, while at the same time
, charges were pressed against Young,
andXbonds of $42,000, held by klans
men, ordered forfeited.
. The sheriff attempted to tamper
with this tinder box of trouble and
killing resulted. it was the old.
old Williamson county story—armed
men looking for trouble and find
ing it.
| Sheriff Galligan, now safely en
trenched in the county jail at Mari
on, leaving law enforcement to the
troops, has seen a great .deal of his
county’s troubles. His official career
started after the Herrin massacre,
June 22, 1922, when twenty-one non
union miners were slaughtered when
they surrendered after attempting
to break the strike at the Southern
Illinois Coal Mining company’s slip
mine near here. He was elected by
the labor vole sot his activities at
that time.
Slaying Now the Code
Then moonshining prospered in
the county and the ground work
was laid for the present trouble—
trouble that no one here thinks can
be settled so long as law enforce
ment is in the hands of either klans
men or their opponents. Raiding re
sulted, with hundreds of moonshin
ers taken in by spectacular scouting
parties, conducted by Glenn Young
on warrants issued by Caesar Cagle.
This klan activity brought into be
ing the Knights of the Flaming Cir
cle, organized®by Ora Thomas, now
a Galligan-appointed deputy sheriff,
and one of those wounded in this
latest killing affair.
Slaying since then has come to be
the code here. Suspicion and hatred
rule men. Moving of the troops was
a signal for the attempted killing
of Glenn Young and his wife, both
i of whom were wounded. Then came
the killing of the supposed would
be assassins of the klan leader.
The writer, during the disturbance
last January, was a dinner guest of
Sheriff Galligan at the county jail,
the most pretentious building in the
county. Ora Thomas was there as a
deputy sheriff and head of the
' Knights of the Flaming Circle. Both
I were loaded down with guns, the
j sheriff, though, was wilted after his
kidnaping by klansmen. He said
! that only a mistake in signals had
saved him from being murdered dur
ing his midnight ride through south
ern Illinois to the Springfield /jail.
I He told of being tortured. His fight
; was Against the klan.
The same bitterness prevails on
. both sides. Killing is talked of free-
Iv by members of both factions, j
There seems little prospect of peace |
; until there is a general change in
i county officials, with control taken
from both hands of partisans and
given into the hands of the business
i element.
Berlin Stock Exchange
Is Menaced by Bombers
LONDON, Sept. I.—A bomb was
found outside the Berlin stock ex
change today, says a Central News i
d spatch. Police believe the explosive
was planted as a protest of the
reictstag’s acceptance of the Lon-
I don agreement.
(AIH EKTIM-’.MENT.j i
• articles each week for The Atlanta
Journal for which he is paid a large
salary, contrary to law and his oath of
office. He has voted to pay an engi-
neer $25 per day to do work that he
should have done hi-nsf-lf as a Commis
sioner. H» 'las not, and he will not.
deny the truth of a single one of th
above s’atemeTV.’ Vnto for
1 O. R. BENNET, Eastman, Ga.
set as date for formal dedication
of Richmond county’s $225,000 court
house.
ASHEBORO.—TotaI of bond issue
for school purposes is increased to
SIIO,OOO when $50,000 issue of S 1-4
per cent bonds are sold by city to
bond brokers of St. Paul, Minn.
YADKINVILLE. Mollie Wag
goner and Glenn Jarvis, charged with
infanticide, enter plea of guilty to
second degree murder and are sen
tenced in superior court to 25 years
in state prison.
MOUNT AIRY. Extension of
waterworks system is begun, work
to include new 475,000-gallon con
crete basin, 200,000-gallon standpipe,
laying of another pipe line from wa
tershed to pumping station, which
will be increased, with filtering facili
ties, to 1,000,000 gallons daily ca
pacity.
Six Sailors Rescued
After 4 Days at Sea
On Ship’s Wreckage
EAST HAMPTON, N. Y„ Sept. 1.
Six survivors of the four-masted
auxiliary schooner Samuel W. Hath
away, wrecked at sea last Tuesday
in a hurricane that swept the At
lantic seaboard, were picked up ear
ly today by the steamship Southern
Cross, bound from Bueno* Aires for
New York.
The rescued sailor men were found
floating atop the schooner’s sky
light, where they had existed for
four days, eating such flying fish
that they snared and drinking wa
ter that they caught in their hats.
The rescued men were suffering
severely from their experiences and
were taken to the hospital of the
Southern Cross, which reported the
rescue to the Independent Wireless
company station here. The Southern
Cross is due in New York today.
The Hathaway’s sailors reported
that the schooner’s engineer and
one sailor were drowned in the bow
and Captain Eliott, of the Hatha
way, was last seen Tuesday night,
clinging to a raft. The rescue was
made at 4:30 o'clock this morning.
The Hathaway was bound from
Charleston, S. C., loaded with ferti
lizer, for San Juan, P. R., and foun
dered in the hurricane at 10 o’clock
Tuesday morning. The schooner
was owned by Crowell & Thurlow,
of Boston. Among the rescued was
a steward named Melvin and a
boatswain. Ollnsnn.
Hardwick Will Speak
To Citizens of Maine
During Campaign
Former Governor Thomas W.
Hardwick has been asked to make
several speeches in Maine in behalf
of the Democratic presidential tick
et, and will hold himself in readiness
for service after the state-wide pri
mary September 10, it was an
nounced Monday at Hardwick head
quarters. He was compelled to de
cline a request to speak in Port
land on September 6, because of
his own campaign for the United
States senate, it was said.
Hardwick headquarters also an-
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The selling was spirited and
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Reports from Hahira stated that
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