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2 NEWS OF THE SOUTHLAND TOLD IN SNAPPY PARAGRAPHS ALABAMA GADSDEN.—Mrs. Will Sims, wife of well known farmer living- near here, is burned to death when her clothing catches on fire. DECATUR.—E. M. Odom, well known merchant and prominent citi zen, is dead. PATTON’S CHAPEL.—Mrs. J. F. ' Bailey. 36, bride of a week, Is fatally injured and her husband, 75, is se verely injured when their team of mules runs away. MONTGOMERY. —Officials from 35 Alabama counties meet here and indorse issuance of $75,000,000 good road bonds for Alabama. BIRMINGHAM. —Frisco railroad will spend $1,500,000 on erection of freight terminals and allied develop ments here, according to announce ment of James M. Kurn, president. SHEFFIELD.—H. R. Richeson, cashier of Tennessee Valley bank, is dangerously injured in auto accident. FLORENCE. —While Patrolman Romaine is attempting to arrest Charles Starnes, officer's pistol is accidentally discharged and Romaine is probably fatally shot. BUTLER. —Jim Raines and six other defendants are placed on trial here charged with killing Will Drew Connor, ex-service man of Gilber town. COLUMBIANA.—Ed Duggar, ne gro, alleged ringleader in convict mutiny at Aldrich mines near here, is killed by falling coal. DADEVILLE. Virgil Roberts, farm club boy, produces over 2,000 pounds of seed cotton on acre. -MONTGOMERY.—For first time • since World war supply of school “ teachers in Alabama is sufficent, according to state officials. ATTALLA. —Etowah county grand jury investigates mysterious murder Ot Policeman Henry Ingram. ’ ' MOULTON. —Nine young men of - Chalybeate school district pledge themselves to raise one acre each of cotton for benefit of school. ANDALSIA.—Governor W. W. Brandon is one of principal speakers at state conclave of Woodmen of World here. ANDALUSIA. —Governor W. W. mills will double capacity as soon as addidtional labor can be secured. GADSDEN— Large" flocks of wild geese are seen nightly flying over Gadsden. MONTGOMERY/—Effort will be made' to commute death sentence of Clarence Bailey to life imprison ment. Bailey, a convict at Kilby prison, given death sentence for murder of James Culpepper, fellow prisoner. MONTGOMERY.—lnvestigation is started by federal authorities to as certain authorized insurance cover age on cotton outstanding in Ala bama in case of warehouses operat ing under federal warehouse act. . MOBILE.—NobIe A. Patterson and Gardiner B. Hathaway, of Mobile, are' drowned in Tombigbee river near Mclntosh, when their launch is cut in two by subchaser SC-154. BlßMlNGHAM.—Birmingham and Jefferson county vote $1,500,000 bonds to build new county court house. Work will commence soon. Site has been purchased. DECATUR. —Holland-Blow stave factory is completely destroyed by fire of unknown origin, at estimated loss of $50,006. MONTGOMERY.—Three buildings are damaged by fire and twenty two mules are burned to death in blaze, which causes $7,500 loss. TUSCUMBIA.—Beach hotel here is scene of two fires same day. Sev eral hundred dollars damage results. DEMOPOLIS?—BIack Belt Lum ber company announce they will rebuild plant recently destroyed by fire at loss of $50,000. GERARD—Fire of unknown ori gin destroys fifty-seven yards of Central of Georgia bridge over Chat tahoochee river here. OPELIKA. Fletcher S. Whit man, farmer of near here, is killed by falling tree while cutting tim ber. MONTGOMERY. —Violet Young, young Montgomery woman, is held under first degree murder charge in connection with killing of William Weaver, forty, in her room at ho tel. She declares Weaver fired bul let through his brain. There were no witnesses. MONTGOMERY.—TotaI paid ad missions to Alabama state fair here pass 160,000 mark, according to of ficial figures. - BIRMINGHAM.—AIabama is ex periencing longest and worst drouth in her history. In practically every section of state no rain has fallen in over forty days. GREENSBORO.—Mrs. George El- - Its, ninety-one. wife of late Rev. Ellis, dies at hospital in Bir * mingham. Her remains are interred ■ ~ Here. -^■-^IONTGOMERY. —Grand chapter - -aiFEastern Star of Alabama conclude Two days’ annual sessio nhere. ~ GADSDEN.—Watt T. Brown, of Ragland, chairman of board of trus- • tees of Alabama school of trades and industry, formally takes over 112- acre site for this institution hero and Aspirin SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN’’ and INSIST! Unless you see the ‘‘Bayer Cross” on tablets you are not getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians 24 years for Colds Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism Accept only “Bayer*’ package which contains proven directions. C Handy 'Bayer'’ boxes of 12 tablets * Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. Abplrln la the trade, mark of Beyer Manufacturt o£ Monoacetkacidester o£ Salkylkacid TUB ATLANTA TRI-WEEKLY JOURNAL closes all details. State has appro priated $60,000 for buildings. MONTGOM ERY\ Frank 1 larri son, of Butler Springs, is named state forest ranger for portions of Butler, Ixnvndes and Wilcox coun ties. State highway ! commission lets contract for high | way between Hurtsboro and Seals to j J. R. and J. B. Miller, of Baconton, Ga., so rover $106,000. BIRMINGHAM. Commencing with 1925 Birmingham will have an nual state fair, after being discon tinued for past two years. Robert A. Brown is elected president; Jo seph If. Loveman, first vice presi dent; B. B. Buston, second vice pres ident; W. J. Adams, treasurer, and J. L. Dent, secretary. DECATUR. Decatur - Albany Chamber of Commerce is working on plan to open Tennessee river to nav igation from Chattanooga, Tenn., to its mouth. GOODWATER. Twenty - six farm boys of this county raise twen ty-six bales of cotton on twenty-six I acres of land and win free trip to I Chicago, to national meeting of boys and girls. ALBANY. —“Uncle Joe” Robert son, Confederate veteran and Alba ny’s oldest citizen, suffers stroke of ! paralysis and is in critical condition. LEIGHTON.—PIans are already under way to rebuild Leighton’s business district, recently wiped out by fire at loss of over $166,660. SULLIGENT. Unidentified rob bers break into postoffice and store of G. A. Fine and get away with SSO postoffice money and S3OO worth of goods from Mr. Fine’s store. GADSDEN. Practically every window in Cumberland Presbyterian church here is smashed. Small boys are said to be guilty. SOUTH CAROLINA COLUMBIA. lndependent oil dealers of state meet here and launch warfare on Gulf Refining company, for alleged price cuts on gasoline, in price war in two Caro linas. INMAN.—Miss A. Belle Cannnon, I twelve years teacher in schools of I Inman, dies here after illness of few hours, from, paralysis. AIKEN. —J. W, Moseley, former mayor, defeats D. W. Gaston, Jr., in cumbent, by majority of seven votes, in second primary in mayor’s race. Gaston was leader in recent U. S. senate campaign for former Gov ernor P,lease, against Congressman James F. Byrnes, of Aiken, and his defeat was sequel. GREAT FALLS—Republic Mills department store here is robbed at night of goods valued at S4OO, and when detective investigates suspect ed negro shoots at him and escapes. SPARTANBURG. Decrease o f more than eight thousand bales in Spartanburg county cotton crop this year under last year’s crop, as re ported November 1, is shown by government’s ginning report. Up to November I this year ginning to taled 37,487; last year, 45,745. UNION. —Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Crosby celebrate 59th wedding anni versary. ANDERSON?~GeneraI C. A. Reed, former commander of United Confederate Veterans of South Car olina, dies at home here at age of 79. COLUMBIA.—Right of wife to contract partnership with husband is issue involved in case of Ernest Burwell and Faith C. Burwell, in suit against state tax commission, by supreme court, allegation being that before marriage Burwell agreed to give fiancee half his prop erty, and now state wants to tax both incomes as one. COLUMBIA. Lutherans unveil tablet at Lutheran Theological Sem inary to Dr. Ernest Louis Hazelius, who for 19 years was head of sem inary. COLUMBIA.—PIans for state of fice building are approved by state sinking fund commission, according to Governor McLeod, chairman, and bids will be received at early date. COLUMBIA. —Men of Washington Street Methodist church, large Methodist congregation here, have special farewell service for Dr. Mark L. Carlisle, transferred to Spartan bu rg. CHARLESTON. Tablet to Dr. F. L. Parker, former dean, is un veiled at centennial celebration oi medical college here. MARION. sTt. Lanhan, of Spartanburg, sits as special judge at. sessions court here, with murder case against W. T. Berbard, charged with slaying Duncan Perritt, one of chief items on docket. IRMO. —Centennial of founding of Lutheran Synod, of South Carolina, is observed at St. Michael’s church here, with Dr. J. L. Morgan, presi dent of North Carolina synod, Dr. George B. Cromer, Newberry; Col. J. F. Ficken, of Charleston, and Dr. A. G. Voigt, Columbia, among speak ers. NEWBERRY. Daughters of American Revolution hold annual convention here, with Mrs. W. B. Burney, Columbia, presiding, and Mrs. Charles W. Nash, state regent of New York; Mrs. William L. Pat terson. patriotic education chairman of Illinois, and Mrs. Theodore Strawn, state regent of Florida, de livering addresses. COLUMBIA. Presbyterian sy nod of Mississippi agrees to aid in support of Columbia Theological seminary, here, on removal to At lanta, which has been voted by synods of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, now control ling institution, according to advices received here. NEW BERRY. Davis Kin g, white, arrested here on charge of stealing auto at Jackson, N. 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G REEN WOO D.— Deputy U. S. Marshal Joel D. Townsend is ac quitted in city court of charge of fighting outside federal court room here. YORK.—Five persons are shot and one cut, none mortally injured, in free-for-all-fight at fish fry given at home of William Brown, negro, at Clover, near here. COLUMBIA.—State railroad com mission makes annual inspection of railroad property of state, according to Frank Shealey, chairman. COLUMBIA. —Cleveland Rhodes, tex tile worker, arrested here on charge of stealing wire at Camp Jackson, is sntenced in federal court here to serve year and day at U. S. peniten tiary in Atlanta. Seven other young men are already serving sentences In Atlanta for same offense. Rhodes escaped hand of law until recently. COLUMBIA. Automobiles and motor trucks in South Carolina now number 160,000. according to com pilations of L. H. Thomas, secretary of state highway department. COLUMBIA. —State Treasurer S. T. Carter distributes $184,155 of gasoline tax money, collected in month. COLUMBIA. B. A. Morgan. Greenville lawyer, sits with state supreme court, in vacancy caused by absence of Chief Justice Gary, due to illness. COLUMBIA.—Ctate, supreme court hears appeal of Mrs. Alice Young and Miss Emma Stroud, of Clinton, both over 60. who are under sen tence of one year each on conviction of assault and battery with intent to kill, upon persons of Katherine Young, daughter-in-law of Mrs. Alice Young. Two old women on February 7, 1924, attacked with blunt instrument, young women, leaving - her apparently dead. Jeal ousy of daughter-in-law was said to have been motive. COLUMBIA. Col. William C. i Harllee and Capt. James T. Moore, | son of late Adjutant General Moore, i of South Carolina, fly from Wash ington to Columbia in airplane to attend Armistice day ; rogram of Focus club here, as representatives of Marine corps. SENECA.—Daughters of Ameri can Revolution from South Carolina, New York. Illinois and Michigan join in dedicating handsome new administration of Tamassee school, supported by daughters, near here. ROCK HILL. Baldwin, Glen ; Lowry and Aragon Mills, here and , in Chester county, are consolidated. ; with Alex Long, of Rock Hill, as | president. . COLUMBIA.—Howard A. Clarke. 1 Florence county man. convicted in ■ 1914 of murdering wife, and sen • fenced to life imprisonment, who I appealed this year on ground ~f aft - er-discovered evidence, is refused ■ new trial by state r upreme court. NORTH CAROLINA s RALEIGH.—North Carolina cot- ton growers’ co-operative association sets records when 4,000 bales are re i ceived and $250,000 paid out in one day, advances being S7O per bale. Deliveries for week ended November 8, are reported 2,000 bales above same week last year, totals not being given, and receipts for year to November 1 are reported 25 per cent above last year’s corresponding total. WILMINGTON. Thomas E. Cooper, president, and J. C. Rourk, ' cashier, of defunct Liberty Savings bank of Wilmington, go on trial in superior court on charges of violat ing state banking laws. Bank failed following collapse of Commercial National bank, in December, 1922, of which Lieutenant-Governor W. B. Cooper, brother of Thomas E. Cooper, was president. BURLINGTON. Rev. G. O. Lankford, pastor of Burlington’s First Christian church, is elected president of western North Carolina Christian conference, in session at Randelman. Rev. T. E. White, of Graham, is named vice president. CHARLOTTE.—AnnuaI report of Williamson memorial infirmary is dedicated at impressive ceremony at Thompson (Episcopalian) orphan age. CHARLOTTE.—Annua Jreport ot Joe' Fatton, executive secretary, I, shows Made-in-Carolina exposition | here lost only $2,000- this year, de- I spite 10 days of bad weather during three-week $60,000 exposition. SHELBY.—Joe Smith, wealthy | owner textile mills, farmers’ ware , houses and hotels, one of state's in i dustrial leaders and business men, dies at advanced age at home after several weeks of illness. He and his wife, formerly Miss Ella Love, of Charlotte, are related to several prominent families of state. RALEIGH.—North Carolina, with 1924 fiscal year valuation of $251,- 555,165, leads states of union in value of tobacco products, stated 16 plants representing value of $50,198.- ■ 170, whose 17,174 employes received I <14,172.446 in wages, says report of I Labor Commissioner Shipman. RALEIGH. —Dr. B. F. Kaupp, head of state college poultry de partment, urges formation of com munity poultry clubs holding annual . local programs, these to be amalga- ■ mated into county bodies merging I into state association, as best means | of developing state’s poultry indus- I try and of obtaining voice in na- J tional poultry council affairs. ASHEVlLLE.—Officials declare all indications point to success of western North Carolina agricultural and live stock exposition, November 11-14, which has attracted tremen dous interest in this part of state. ASHEVILLE.—CoI. Joseph Hyde Pratt, former director of state geo logical and economic survey, predicts expenditure of $100,000.900* within 16 years in development of waterpowers of western North Carolina, which he says would bring industrial develop ment of tremendous importance. He says 1.000,000 horsepower of water power is being wasted in this sec -1 tion, which could be developed at average of $l5O ner horsepower. RALEIGH. —C. E. Maddry, secre- ■ tary, announces acceptances of in- ■ vitations extended Dr. George W. McDaniel, of Richmond, president of ’ Southern Baptist convention, and ; Dr. Arch Cre, of Atlanta, to address state Baptist convention meeting here December 9-12. MARS HlLL.—Sixty-five boys, ■ students at Mars Hill college, volun- * teer to give their glood for trans fusion to Mrs. J. R. Owen, seriously ■ ill at French Broad hospital, after Mr. Owen makes appeal at chapel • exercises. Groun of boys in two au i tomobiles go to Asheville for tests . preliminary to transfusion operation. CHAPEL HlLT..—Alumni loyalty fund council of North Carolina uni versity accepts proposal of 1923 1 class and will administer JLOOO.OOO A ■ endowment insurance fund to be > raised by sale of 5,000 individual S2OO ' policies, maturing October, 1943, on 1 institution’s 150th birthday. RALEIGH. Proposed constitu tional amendment raising salaries . of members of legislature is appar • ently defeated when belated returns overcome favorable lead week after . | elction, 88 of stat’s 100 counties’ re turns showing: Yes, 95,157; no, 100,- 457. ALBEMARLE.—U. F. Hatchcock, 84, Confederate veteran, dies after i several days’ illness. SALISBURY. J. Albert Miller, i 70, influential Davie county citizen, j dies suddenly at home near Cherry I Hill church. SALISBURY. Edwin G. R. Hollowell, 55, falls on street when stricken with attack of acute indi gestion and is removed to home. Second attack few hours later causes sudden death. MORVEN. Rescue of Lucy Smith, negro, and attempt to .:avc her child, Esther, from drowning in Pee Dee river near Ansonville, January 13, 1923, when he was en route to Troy to be. married to Miss Nora Nicholson, of Graham, has won for Edward Ashby Pifkin bronze medal ot Carnegie hero fund commission and SI,OOO. ALBEMARLE. J. M. Harward, well known Albemarle man, aged 66, dies few hours after suffering stroke of paralysis. CLINTON. Annual Sampson county fair is featured by two ac cidents to horses in harness events, i In one pile-up, one horse is killed; ! in other, five sulkies are smashed. | drivers slightly injured. GREENSBORO? - Mrs. W. C. Steed, 57, is taken to hospital sui sering from perhaps fatal injuries after being struck by Atlantic and Yadkin passenger train at grade crossing when she was en route t< church. HICKORY. Colonel Marcellus E. Thornton, 78. lawyer, former edi tor, author, prominent business man and typical southern gentleman, dies after few days of illness. RAI.EIGH.—-Council of state au thorizes State Treasurer Lacy to : ask bids on $20,900,000 bond issue I at not more than 4 3-4 per cent in j terest, proceeds of which will pay ; $5,000,000 school notes due Decem ' ber 31 and $15,000,000 highway notes due February 20, 1925. ' GOLDSBORO. Two- year -old ’ adopted child of William Wells, liv j ing near Shine, Green county, is i drowned, while playing, when it j falls into barrel filled with rain i water. RALEIGH.—In statement empha i sizing inefficiency ami extravagance j of one-teacher schools, A. T. Allen, i state superintendent of public in struction, says there are only 1,595 ! such schools in state, compared with 2.131 in 1920-21 school year; 3.908 lin 1910-11, 5,411 in 1900-01. Edge i comb and Washington counties have j no one-teacher schools. ! COLUMBIA.—State supreme court awards to Mis. Amanda C. Smith. ■ widow of late J. W. Smith, $11,500 ; in her suit against J. F. Wiley and IJ. W. Pollard, Smith’s executors, . for SIO,OOO, which she claimed she loaned her husband soon after their i marriage. RALEIGH. —Campaign in hehalf 'of Governor Morrison’s port ter minals proposal, defeated in behalf of Governor Morrison’s port ter minals proposal, defeated in Novem ber 4 referendum, cost $13,406. ami contributions amounted to $13,495. according to statement by General Albert Cox, campaign manager. GREENSBORO.—John W. Davis. Democratic candidate for presidency, writes Mrs. Maria Pope, 92, for nine years invalid at St. Leo's hospital, expressing his thanks for her inter est in his candidacy. She voted straight Democratic ticket, accom panied by physician's indorsement of invalidism. RED SPRlNGS—Rebecca South erland. negress, whose age of 112 years seems to be well authenticat ed, dies after several years of de clining health. Will Davis, negro, living here. « her great-great-gre;:’ grandson. She was native of Marion county. South Carolina. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1624 RALEIGH.—W. F. Sessoms, ven- i erable former clerk of court for i Sampson county, begins two to four- < year term in state prison after con- ; viction on charge of forging names I of Confederate veterans to pension cheeks totaling about $14,000, part of which amount has hen replaced. 1 SHELBY.—,I. R. Dover, president ■ of East Side and Dover mills, and associates announce plans to build $400,000 textile mill of 6,000 spindles two miles west of Shelby. ROCKY MOUNT.—Charles W. ' Cockrell, well-known farmer, is fa tally injured when tree falls upon him. Brother, J. H. Cockrell, cut ; down tree up which ’possum had taken refuge from dogs. CHARLOTTE.—Lester A. Puckett, ! Jr., who recently fired bullet into head, causing minor injury, disap pears and father, L. A. Puckett, Sr., attributes these acts to financial dif ficulties. RALElGH.—November 18 is an nounced as opening date for markets in North Carolina and Virginia dark and sun-cured belts for receipt of 1 , MCTMKGBIEI; ICCEPTIffi 'SHIH'S MOW IS CHKD SAVANNAH, Ga., Nov. 14.—The United States grand jury, which ad journed last night, produced a sensa tion in indicting Clark Grier, of Au gusta and Atlanta, on three counts of accepting money from a moon shiner while in the employment of the government. Mr. Grier this morning made bond in the sum of $3,666, the sum of $1,066 being required on each of the three indictments. Dan C. New ton, of Claxton, is his bondsman. He will be represented at the trial, which will not be until the next term of court, by Albert Anderson, of Statesboro. He is charged with accepting money from a moonshiner while be was connected with the department of justice. Mr. Grier, who was in Savannah awaiting indictment, stated this morning, “I have no fear for the outcome. There is no truth in the charges and I have no apprehension that I will be convicted.” Mr. Grier explained the ground for the charges by stating he rep resented the moonshiner in question after he had severed his connection with the government. Further than this, he would make no statement. He said he had not consulted his at torney, who is not in the city. There are two separate charges against Mr. Grier. In one indictment he is charged with accepting $5,666 from W. H. 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