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Newspaper

Atlanta Constitution

Location

Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1923

Page

20

Enwanians Invited to Program At De Metdin Led CC Tree

The CC tree led by De Metdin invites several visiting Enwanians to attend the program.

de. Metdin Enwanians Tend

Former Memphis Policeman Held As Hold-Up Man

Ernest Johnson a 27 year old former Memphis police officer was arrested and brought before detective inspector W H Griffin leading the investigation into the slaying of W O Spencer chain store manager. Griffin announced Johnson confessed to 12 highway holdups on Memphis outskirts and would be questioned further. Johnson served several years in the police department and was assigned to a motorcycle squad on duty in outlying city areas.

Memphis Tenn Ernest Johnson Memphis Police Department W. H. Griffin W. O. Spencer Griffin Johnson

Fate of Rome and Northern Railroad to be decided in Atlanta

Rome Ga May 31 Special The fate of the Rome and Northern Railroad will be decided at a hearing in Atlanta Monday before Judge Samuel H Sibley. The hearing seeks confirmation of a 32000 sale bid by a local syndicate. The road has lost money, rolling stock is depleted and the track is nearly impassable. Creditors contest the sale while scrap iron value and receiver certificates shape the case. Papers move to Atlanta tomorrow for the proceeding.

Rome Rome & Northern Railroad Atlanta Samuel H. Sibley Northwestern Division Georgia H. O. Shackleton Rome & Northern Gore Chattooga County Peters Salt and Lumber Company Michigan Crystal Springs Armachee Shackleton Walker Chattooga Counties Tome Misa Alvie H. Richardson College Department of Expression Southeast States D. J. Blocher Henry Alford Porter First Baptist Church of City Auditorium

May Rain Runs High in Floyd County This Month

Rome Georgia May rainfall so far this month tops the ten year average. Through sixteen days of rain the total is .86 inches, nearly matching May 1922, which logged 8.57 inches on seventeen days, while the ten year May average stands at 4.63 inches.

Rome Floyd County

Grantham, World War Veteran, Dies in North Carolina

Arlington Ga May 31 Funeral services for C. C. Grantham world war veteran were held at his brother B. A. Grantham Jr home with Rev A Hearn officiating. Interment was in Arlington cemetery pallbearers were local American Legion post members. He was in the mercantile business when ill and taken to a government hospital

Arlington C. C. Grantham B. A. Grantham A. Hearn Arlington Cemetery American Legion Grantham

Obituary Notice for Grantham Family in North Carolina

In North Carolina after a long illness. He is survived by his widow an 8 year old daughter one brother B A Grantham Jr and father B A Grantham Sr ret.

North Carolina B. A. Grantham, Jr B. A. Grantham, Sr

Atlantan Elected Vice President of Lehigh French Club

H t R Greer of Atlanta Ga a member of Lehigh University junior class has been chosen vice president of Le Club des Quinze the French club at Lehigh according to Bethlehem Pa news dispatches.

H. Ross Greer Atlanta Lehigh University le Club Des Quinze Lehigh Bethlehem

Mobile Commission Asked to Take Action Against Labor Agents

A Mobile delegation urged the city commission to curb labor brokers amid a severe labor shortage. The commission voted to raise the license for employment agents from 50 to 2000 dollars as hundreds of Black migrants move weekly from Mobile to northern cities.

Mobile Commission Mobile Ala Employers’ Protective Association

Floyd doctors urge state tuberculous hospital and inoculation plan

Tome Ga May 31 Special Floyd county medical society urged a state hospital large enough to treat all tuberculosis patients and advocated malarial control and compulsory diphtheria inoculation for public school children. Dr Abercrombie said Georgia had 2600 TB deaths last year and pressed lawmakers to back a new institution. He warned untreated TB spreads to about ten people.

Tome Floyd County Medical Society Ir. Abercrombie Board of Health Georgia Abercromme

Ford Offered Site for Factory Near Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald Ga May 31 Special Witton R Bowen owner of Bowen Mul land on the Dixie highway tendered Henry Ford 500 acres with a flowing well water rights in fee simple for location of a proposed 25 million cotton factory to be erected in the south Mil men call the site ideal and other citizens offer to purchase donate and expand land nearby if Ford chooses to locate here

Ford

Savannah to Get New Steamship Accommodations

Savannah Ga May 31 Special Savannah 13 to have another steam ship line 1 is reported today the Coast Steamship company having applied for accommodations here Home offices of the company are in New York Representative A I Watterson is here making arrangements for the line to operate between Savannah and a northern port not yet named The line proposes to put on regular schedules of saving with three first class vessels in its fleet.

Savannah Coast Steamship Company New York A. I. Watterson

RINKLESS TO MANAGE BRUNSWICK AFFAIRS

Brunswick Ga May 31 D L Minkless of Hampton Va has been appointed city manager of Brunswick to take effect July 1 He will succeed W N Bramling whose resignation takes effect tomorrow The appointment follows a Brunswick official tour of Hampton where Rinkless work as city manager impressed officials He is expected to reach Brunswick next month

Brunswick L. Minkless Hampton Rinkless W. N. Bramling Virginia Afr

Mail Carriers Elect in Seventh District Meeting Rome Ga

The Seventh District Rural Mail Carriers Association elected W. A. Keown of Rome as president and M. E B. Dodd of Rome as vice president. O L Floyd of Plainville was chosen secretary. Delegates include W A Keown, O L Floyd, Frank Harris Kingston, J W Davis Rome, J A Selman Armuchee, W D Briggs Cosa, J R McCurdy LaFayette, W D Burk Artmuchee, and H E Dodd Rome for the state convention.

Rome Rural Mail Carriers’ Association W. A. Keown M. E B. Dodd O. L. Floyd Plainville Frank Harris Kingston J. W. Davis J. A. Selman Armuchee W. D. Briggs Cosa J. R. McCurdy LaFayette W. D. Burk Artmuchee H. E. Dodd Han" Shinke "Saa

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