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Newspaper
Charlotte News
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1911
Page
8
The report notes renovations at Ossipee Mills and Roberdell Mills, new capacity at Flint Company and Deep River operations, closures like Gaffney Manufacturing and Jonesville Mill, plus plans for expansion at Maryville and City projects to supply power for Atlanta area. Key figures include EF Broadway of New York and J. W. Hawke vacancy, with assessments of water supply at Cannon Mill and rebuilding after fires at Ajax Waste.
Barnesville Georgia directors of Aldora Mills approved a building addition to be 240 feet long and 100 feet wide, two stories high, with enough looms for the output of 10,000 spindles. Electric power will come from Central Georgia Power Company's Waterpower grid in Macon. Estimated cost about 150000 dollars.
The Mollohon Manufacturing Company annual meeting in Newberry elected directors Geo W. Summer Z F Wright J M Kinard W H Hunt C E Summer Dr J S Wheeler Dr James McIntosh G Leland Summer A L Coleman. Officers chosen Geo W. Summer president treasurer James McIntosh vice president G Leland Summer secretary assistant treasurer Hunt Hunt & Hunter attorneys. A semi annual dividend of three percent was declared payable July 1.
Spartanburg and surrounding counties reduce cotton mill output after a regional agreement. Several mills, including a large plant near the city and Gaffney Manufacturing, have closed, with hundreds idle while machinery is overhauled.
Mayodan mills to employ workers with minimal disruption as unrest continues. Globe Mill in Gaffney suffers minor storm damage. its electric switch burned. Parker Cotton Mill Company stockholders set July 22 meeting at Moraghasy Mills to discuss capital stock increase to 15 million dollars. Darlington Manufacturing Company reports profits and regular dividends resume, with expectations many state mills will follow July payout.
Atlanta June 24 Miss Louise Manning of Amarillo Texas alumna of Wesleyan College Macon will be reelected national president of the Phi Mu Sorority this morning as the convention in session here for the week adjourns. Most other national officers are expected to be reelected. The gathering featured a series of social events including a large banquet at the Piedmont hotel last night.
Eleven year old Marion J C McKee sues grocer A C Hill in Atlanta for a whipping in a grocery store after he refused to leave without a book his mother entrusted him to buy. Parents seek ten thousand dollars in damages in Judge George L Bell's court.
Atlanta residents have endured extreme heat and humidity for a week with oppressive sultriness in the air. Thunder showers are brief and offer little relief, leaving the city heavy and uncomfortable.
A visitor to a New England city jail finds the inmates unusually gentle and courteous. The jailer quips that he would prefer less manners, recalling a past escape by a polite inmate who left a note asking for pardon.
A reader recounts a tale from Metropolitan Magazine about a man with a free ticket who refuses to hiss at a bad play until he buys a paid ticket, then returns to join the crowd in booing. The story satirizes sentiment and self-interest in spectatorship.
Mrs. E G Whiting of 360 Willow St Akron Ohio reports a serious kidney trouble with backaches and dizziness. After using Foley Kidney Pills as directed her pain and headaches subsided, eyesight cleared, and she feels well again. Bowen Drug Store North Square sold the product.
Mint Hill North Carolina notes Misses Alien and Lucy Fields of Athens Georgia visiting Rev and Mrs Campbell. Sylvester Estridge travels to New York and northern points for Surface Hill Mining Co. Local social events include a Mahl home gathering with Lipe family friends and a large list of young people attending. The 22nd annual Adelphian Literary Society reunion is set for Bain Academy on Friday July 28 with a good program to be announced.
Mrs. Charles W. Morse and her lawyers Reuben R. Arnold and Lamar Hill pursue habeas corpus for Morse before Judge Newman in U S District Court. Morse’s 20 year old Princeton graduate son may attend. Writ argues illegal detention and overlong sentence given the revised penal statute.
The Georgia Supreme Court allows sale of Phinizy estate property to divide several hundred thousand dollars among four nieces Annie Martin Phinizy Eliza Pickens Phinizy Susan Wellborn Calhoun and Annie Barrett Phinizy. Money caches must be reinvested and kept intact with heir contingencies set for death or loss.
Atlanta June 24 The elect ric wires saved Tom Jackson from hanging in Valdosta with a message from Governor Brown granting a twenty day reprieve for the imprisoned Negro.
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