The Greensboro patriot [March 23, 1898]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT7.
77 GREENSBORO. N. CL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1898. NO. 12.
ON AL CARDS. LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
Drj. J. RICHARDSON.
; KA1Z BUILDING.
W. GASTON ST.
jr. W. H. BROOKS^
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B-aildioig,
'i» BOCSB.
];o, - - - X. C.
% P. BEALL, I. D,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
url Square.
iCE: MM Asheboro St.
, . 11:80 to 1;8 to 4:30.
-ONE NO. 17-
Dr J. E. WYCHE,
I>I :PTTIST,
Bank Building,
i street. Greensboro, N. C.
| Dr. J. H. WHEELER,
DENTIST.
Ward's Drug Store.
Dr. W. H. Wakefield,
I otto, will be in Greens-
McAdoo House on Thurs-
■ -Hi.
i'BACTICE LIMITED TO
tjc Ear, \ow«* and Throat.
P. D. SATCHWELL,
iiiouwy at Law.
u D IVKKI.KV BUILDING,
osboro, N. C.
CHAS. M. STEDMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Mendenhall Bnildlog,
ISBORO, - - - N.C.
STONE . .
— President Peacock was at Thom-asviile
yesterday.
—The big trees on court square were
trimmed last week.
—Go to the Academy tonight and
see ''His Excellency."
—Mr. II. E. l'eele is again connected
j with the Keeley Institute.
-The improvements in the Pickard
grocery house are nearing completion.
—Important new mauui'acturii'g in-terest
are in course of development
; here.
—Mr. and Mrs. Oscar'league are in
| Washington and Baltimore on a pleas-ure
trip.
—Contractor Bain is at work on Mrs.
I. I'. .Scott's two new houses on North
Elm street.
—The date of Dr. W. II. Wakefield's
next visit to Greensboro is Wednesday,
April 88th.
—Judge John Gray Bynum is at
Morganton winding up the affairs of
a defunct bank.
—Both the tobacco warehouses report
heavy sales the past week. Prices are
steady at the top.
—About thirty of the $50 shares of
stock of the new public library have
been subscribed for.
—Col. John A. Barringer and Col.
Jas. T. Morehead are attending court
at Asheboro this week.
—Mr. K. P. Wharton has just recov-ered
from a sick spell that kept him
indoors for several days.
—Mrs. Dr. Scales, of New York, is
visitiog her father, R. M. Sloan, Esq.,
and ether relatives and friends.
—Mrs. A. M. Scales, of Danville, Va.,
came over Monday to visit Mrs. E. H.
Scales, on East Washington street.
—Wanted—A cook—wages $1 00 per
week. Apply at WHARTON BROS.,
Booksellers and Stationers. tf.
—Editor Sapp, of the Telegram, is
confined to his room by sickness. We
are glad to learn that he is improving.
—Druggist Howard Gardner has en-larged
his store by moving his pre-scription
department into a room ad-joining.
—Flower thieves have started on
their noctural tours of depredation.
Most of the complaints come from the
South Side.
—Mr J. N. Longest has purchased
one of the Gray lots, out near the Kee-ley
Institute, and will soon build a nice
residence thereon.
—The Dailv Kacord solicited '$24 in
cash that was forwarded to Consul
General Lee Monday for relief work
among the starving Cubans.
—Readymade new tailored suits for
ladies are advertised by Dobbin & Fer-rall,
"Tucker's Store," Raleigh. See
! what they have to say about them.
—Frank Gossett, of Sumuer town-ship,
was bound over to court Saturday
, by 'Squire Eckel for an assault with a
deadly weapon upon S. E. Anthony.
—Judge Dick returned from Balti-more
this morning in company with
his daughter, Mrs. Douglas. His
i friends are glad to see him looking so
well
— Yesterday was the eighty-sixth
birthday of our vigorous old friend,
Hon. R. M. Sloan. Here's hoping he
mav see many more of these anniver-saries.
—G. H. Mebane, State Superinten-dent
of Pubdc Instruction, is with his
venerable father, W. M. Mebane, who
is critically ill at his home in this
county.
— Mrs. R. <i. Callum, of'Washington,
D. C,passed through the c'ty Saturday
night on her way to Florida. She will
stop here for a visit with friends on
her return.
—Engineer Atkinson, of the South-ern
Railway, is one of the proudest
men on the South Side, all because of
a ten-pound daughter which arrived at
his home the other day.
—Fifteen prisoners bound for the
new Federal prison at Raleigh have
passed through this city within the
past week. Eight were from Tennessee
and seven from Virginia.
The Supreme court yesterday filed
the following judgments in cases ap-pealed
from Guilford Superior court:
Worth, treasurer, vs. Wright, reversed:
, Mitchell vs. Mitchell, reversed.
—Mr. P. V. Carter, the well known
clothing salesman, and Miss Rosa Ham-ner,
of this city, sprung a pleasant
surprise on their friends last week by
getting married in Baltimore. They
returned home Sunday morning.
—Senator Butler is endeavoring to
secure an appropriation of #50,000 for
the enlargement and improvement of
the hublic building at Greensboro.
The Senate committee on appropria-ble*.
Greensboro. Lions has approved the appropriation.
—The first oi a series of interesting
Old World sketches, written for the
PATRIOT by Prof. Chas. Raper, appears
in this issue under the heading, "A
Midnight Entrance IntoVenice." They
, will appear from time .to tirae,'at the
author's convenience.
—Officers Weatherly and Whitting-ton
have located the negro who snatch-ed
a pocketbook from a college student
out on Walker avenue last fall. He is
in jail at Winston, and as soon as the
authorities there are through with
him he will be brought here for trial.
—Among the many friends of the
PATRIOT who came to thecity Saturday
to attend the insurance meeting was
Mr. John W. EImore,of Danemora,one
of the county's prosperous contented
citizens. It is always a pleasure to
meet such men, and they will find our
latchstring out the year round.
—Greensboro is not the only town
building modern dwellings. The oth-er
day Mr. W. B. Beacham showed us
the plans for an admirably arranged
Colonial cottage that he had just fin-ished
for a gentleman in Reidsville.
It compares favorably with any of the
new residences that adorn our beauti-ful
city.
—Mr. S. S. Brown, buyer for the
Brown Mercantile Co., has returned
from New York, where he spent ten
days selecting a spring stock. In their
new ad. the company lays claim to the
handsomest lines of dry goods and
shoes ever shown in the city of Greens-boro.
They want to unload some of
their shoes at actual cost. Read their
ad.
—Your especial attention is called
to the large display ad. of farming
tools by the Greensboro Hardware Co.
Osborne cutaway harrows, Osborne
Columbia (light draft) roller bearing
mowers and steel wheel roller bearing
self-dump hay rakes are implements
that stand the test. You will do well
to call and see these gentlemen and
their line of goods when in need of
anything in their line.
BIG INSURANCE MEETING. th°usand ™»'<i ^llmake the cost of the purpose of this associ
; insurance about one-third of the cost every member familiar not i .
The Farmers' Mutual and Carolina Benevo- iD»hL°!d J?^!ST^ ">• condition of his
lent Associations
Hold a Joint Meeting at Which the
Plans of the Latter Were Ably
Discussed by Its Officers.
The Farmers' Mutual Fire Associa-tion's
Excellent Record for the
Past Four Years—A Notable Gath-ering
of Guilford's Best Citizens-
Men Prominent in Public Affairs
Deliver Excellent Addresses.
At the call of Jesse R. Wharton, sec-retary
and treasurer of the Guilford
branch of the Farmers' Mutual Fire
; Insurance Association, there assembled
j quite a representative crowd of Guil-ford's
best citizens in the court house
at noon Saturday, the 19th iust.
The meeting was called to order by
President Berry Davidson.
The secretary and treasurer, J. R.
Wharton, then read the following re-ports
which, on motion, were received,
approved and adopted:
GRKK.NSBORO, N. C, Mar.lS,189S.
To the President and Members of the Far-mers'
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. of
(juilford County, X. C:
We, the committee appointed to ex- [
amine the books of J. R. Wharton,
treasurer, beg leave to report that after j
examining the books we find as follows :
Cash on liaml last re|K>rt f 9X 00 ,
Cash received from members 357 «2 |
Cash from J. K. V. Iloskms ou ■.. lireniiums 4:1 60 I
money paid out stays In the this, much valuable information t
county and is not used largely in the this aubject of insurance and other m
payment of high salaried officers doing erary topics as will tend to the elevt
businese in costly buildings in some tion of the moral and intellectual tone
northern city. of the membershi
tone
For every $2 paid out by old life and This publication will cost the mem-fire
insurance companies, only about bership two dollars
., • • —- per annum, and
,1 stays with us. that together with the emergency fund
. of of $1.00 (which is credited solely to the
If
A. M. 8CALKS.
SH1W& SCALES,
Attorneys at; JLia~w
1NSBOBO, N. C.
. n in all business Office
So it?Conn Square.
—Our spring trade on buggies and
harness has been immense. We have
gotten in and nearly sold our second
car load. The third car will arrive in
ten days. We are selling the best bug-gy
on the market for the money and
our trade has found it out. We are
still spiling Crescent bicycles for $35
and $37.50. Call in and'see us.
Respectfully,
M. G. NEWELL,
Total $199 :;i
Paid <!. H. Hamock, adj. 3 losses..* 3 00
M. Byers. Janitor court bouse.... so
K. Ilattini, balance due 8t> 45
if. G. Moore, loss by tire 225 00
Mrs. S. Morris, loss by lire 3«C0
.1. K. M. Baxter, loss by fire £0 oo
■'. C. 8. Carpenter, blanks 1 25
Patriot, publishing statement... 1 50
I'ostaee and stationery 2 00
Postage on notice of meeting 6 M
C. II. Hancock, adjusting loss '. 00
1. &..Wharton, amount allowed.. 75 00
Cash on baud ut 21
ll> MM..Hi., /. \ . I Ml.OK.
IBVNUM. BYNUM & TAYLOR.
•-.•.•.::::-. and Csunsellors at LaT.
)URT SQUAEE.
f. IS. BEACHAM, ~
I Architect and Builder.
Id Fellows Building,
IORO, - - - N. C.
J. T. JOHNSON,
i KN8BORO
|EYE SPECIALIST,
*OI Til ELM ST.
Examination Five.
10 p.m., 2 to6p. in.
—The Charlotte Observer did it again
Monday, much to the satisfaction of its
many readers here. That is, it put out
another of its acceptable Monday is-sues
containing all the late reliable
news of interest at this critical period.
No paper published in the state is
more heavily drawn upon for news by
its exchanges, and an Observer every
day in the week would leave nothing
to be desired by the average country
editor who is handy with the shears.
—Before another issue of this paper
is out we will have received one of the
newest and most up-to-date stocks of
all kinds of dry goods ever siio .■. u iu
Greensboro, and at prices within reach
of all. We already have the best stock
of shoes in the city, and are selling
them at rock bottom prices. When
you eome to town to buy your spring
dress, or new shoes, you can save
money if you trade with us.
J. M. HENDRIX & Co.
THE PRINTER.)
HES:
: ■ Prices.
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—This issue of the PATRIOT will
reach a number of people in Guilford
county who are not subscribers to the
paper, and we hope that many of them
will look on it with favor and add their
names to our increasing list. Just now
valuable premiums are offered new and
old subscribers who pay a year in ad-vance.
The PATRIOT does not assume
to be more than a clean, reliable local
paper, true to its firmly established
principles, and alive to the best inter-ests
of the city and county wherein it
exists. Come in and subscribe for
three, six or twelve months and judge
for yourself the papers merits.
RSISHED, ♦
, STONE, t
• .. . -■:>'. N. C. ♦ liiiiT
i ee» on my yard
Tl e» consul
e Pear
• Mammoth Ilia, k
- Pearmain,
ling Apples:
it . Baton's
oth< i desirable
enl of i rali-.
Grapes, Cur-ei
ie».
-i I i: i ■ - i..: ..■--
wiling price. These
I tl and Will
propel ly p'aiitcd
but order at once.
—Miss Jennie Hardin, who has been
with the Original Racket Store for sev-eral
seasons, is now at Thacker &
Brockniann'.*, who have been obliged
to increase their force to handle their
rapidly growing business. The sales
force now consists of J. L. Brockmann.
John I.. Thacker, Will L.Guthrie.Troy
Peters and Misses Callie Rankin and
Jennie Hardin, any of whom will take
pleasure in showing you through a
a first class stock of new; spring goods
and not insist on your buying till you
get ready. This firm is making a spe-cialty
of nice dress goods, and carries
a very large line of up-to-date reliable
shoes of all grades and kinds.
J0HN A. YOUNG.
F.dwin Travers, in "A Private Sec-retary,"
on March 31st, will be the next
attracteon at the Academy.
Total $199 81
WM. P. MCLEAN, f
JKO. W. COOK, [-Committee.
Jxo. J. NELSON, )
SECRETARY AND TREASURER'S REPORT |
TO TUB FARMERS' MUTUAL FIRE AS-SOCIATION
OK GUILFORD COUNTY
MARCH 19, 1S98.
As your Secretary and Treasurer, I
beg leave to submit foryour considera-;
tion the following report of the trans-actions
of the Guilford branch of the [
Farmers'Mutual Fire Association since
last annual meeting, April 3rd, 1S97 :
.Number of members now on the roll
$30. Of these 27 have not paid the last !
two assessments on property insured
for (16,898, or about 2 per cent, of total
amount insured.
Forty members have not paid the
last assessment on property insured for
$30,145, or about 5 per cent, of total in-surance
carried.
The reason for keeping these names
on the roll is that some of them will
, pay up back dues and be reinstated.
I All members know their property is
not insured till the assessments are
paid.
Since last meeting eighteen policies
have been cancelled for various rea-sons,
some having sold their property
or died without transferring policies,
and others having ordered policies can-celled
without giving reason.
The total amount of insurance now '
on our boons is $040,419, a net gain of,
$51,000 since last meeting.
Deducting from this the amount on
which last two assessments have not
been paid, we have considerably over
! $600,000 on which an assessment of one-tenth
of 1 per cent, would easily raise
$600 or over.
After deducting names cancelled the
net gain is 51.
Since last meeting these losses have
been paid :
Balance due on Battini lire S 88 45 1 H. G. Moore's home and furniture 225 00
J. B. M. Baxter, tenant house 3o 00
I Mrs. Sarah Morris, small loss by tire 3 00
Total 'tuTv,
These losses and all the incidental
expenses have been paid out of thesur-plus
remaining from the last assess-ment
for the Battini tire, which was in
process of collection at the time of our
meeting last April.
Mr. Moore's loss occurring just be-fore
our last meeting last year, not
having been adjusted, was not reported
• at that time.
The report of your financial commit-tee
appended to this report will show
■ that the Association, without having
made an assessment, is out of debt and
has a balance to its credit of $b4.21.
The handsome gift of Mr. J. F. Hos-kins
of one-half his premiums, amount-ing
to $43.t>9, has been more than suffi-cient
to pay two of the above losses.
The total amount of assessments paid
by the charter members of your Asso-ciation
oo $1,000 for the last four years
is $3.00, or an average of only 90 cents
per thousand dollars. It is doubtful if
any other branch in the State can show
a better record. An average of $2 per
he who
grass grow where one grew before" is division) will constitute" the"entire ex-esteemed
a benefactor, surely our or- pense element of the association ex-gamz.
tion richly deserves this dis- cent necessary amounts to meet death
tinction. J.R. WHARTON, old age and total disability claims-in
Secretary and Treasurer. other words, if there are no deaths, the
On motion the same old officers were total expense element is $2 00: total
re-elected, except that A. L. Rankin emergency fund, $1.00: total assess-was
elected supervisor in place of W. ment without any death, old age or
D. Wharton, who resigned. : total disability claims,$3 GO. Nobene-
After the foregoing routine business flt assessment will be issued until the
had been disposed of the president an- proof of claim has been furnished or
nounced the Carolina Benevolent As- j passed upon by the chief medical ex-sociation
would ask the attention of' aminer; hence, the total amount of cost
the meeting in a discussion of Its plan of this plan of insurance is the actual
of business. j mortality, plus $3.00.
Capt. A. S. Ashe,secretary and treas- ' Now, if The Carolina Benevolent As-urer
of the organization, in his well j sociation has no greater mortality rate
known versatile style said that while ! than the average of the companies, then
he was not an expert on the subject of for the next fourteen years a policy of
insurance, that he was nevertheless a insurance would only cost $6 for mor-strong
beliver in insurance. He had tallty, plus $2 for Expense, plus $1
given this subject careful consideration Emergency Fund, making $9 total cost
before accepting the position of secre- ', at the average age of 35 years per $1,000
retary and treasurer. That the secre- | insurance.
tary and treasurer's report of the busi- i It is a well known fact that Life In-ness
of the Guilford branch of the i surance Companies never fail by reason
Farmers' Mutual under the efficient of tbe death-rate experienced, but when
management of the local agent, Jesse I failure has occurred it has been caused
F. Hoskins, showed what a saving had D7 speculation, fraud or extravagance,
been made to the county in the way of The safeguards introduced into this
Are insurance. And the Carolina Be- ' Association makes such abuse of funds
nevolent Association would follow on i or confidence impossible. For the
similar lines, improving upon with a ' safety of the policy-holder the Secre-life
plan, and together a great work tary and Treasuerr gives a security
will have been done. I bond.
Capt. S. B. Alexander, president of tt must be considered, also, that none
the association, in a few well timed 'ot the Co-operative companies have
remarks explained that after due con- incorporated an old-age surrender
siderationof the plans and purposes of value- which naturally changes the
this proposed insurance association oeath ra.e.
that be had accepted the office of pres-1 Th'8 -Association provides a cash-ident
because he regarded the plan as | surrender value of one-fourth of the
a step in the right direction. The ques- face certificate ($250,) payable when
tion, Capt. Alexander said, had been !the insured arrives at the age of sixty-asked
him why there had not been in-, nve Jear8- S«w, had the assessment
surance companies started in the South ' societies incorporated such a cash-sur-and
he had never been able to answer . render value as that, having been in
the question satisfactorily to himself, business twenty years, a very large
This, he said, was a home enterprise, i Per cent- of its old members would
based upon safe and solvent plans and have retired from the company, taking
provided indemnity to the people in a "nlv one-fourth of the value of their
local way, and incorporated some need- Pollcies in cash, whereas the old mem-ed
and attractive features which will bers havinS no C>"1> surrender hold on
enable the people to insure themselves
at a nominal cost, and thereby keep
the money at home.
Mr. J. S. Carpenter spoke at length
of the plan of the Association. The
plan is as follows:
The cost of Life Insurance is made
up of three items, viz.: the expense of
to their policies, and new and young
members will not stand the increase of
assessments which must necessarily
follow and pay for the excessive death
rate of these old members. There is no
reason why the assessment to meet the
expense for death, old age or total
disability should be increased as this
Association grows older, which is cer-obtaining
new business, th9 manage- tainly the case with the benefit orders
ment of the company, and the amount I WD0 <jo not provide an old-age sur-requited
to pay claims. Under The i render value.
Carolina Benevolent Association theae , Judge James Shepherd stated that
items are provided for beyond the he was not here for the purpose of
reachofdoubt. We proposeby econom- | making a speech: that he knew very
ical business management to furnish , little about insurance except in a legal
undoubted indemnity at the least cost
consistent with perfect safety.
This association is operated and con-fined
solely to territorial divisions, said
way. But that he was here to endorse
the proposed plan. Judge Shepherd
became quite eloquent in his remarks
upon old Guilford and the patriotism
divisions consisting of not less than of her people, dwelling at length upon
two hundred bona fide applicants, and the battle of Guilford Court House,
insurance can only be obtained through The meeting was large, entbusiestic,
some of its divisions. The territory or ! and the audience was remarkably at-division
shall be determined at the
discretion of the board of directors,
but no division shall embrace less than
one nor more than ten counties.
When two hundred or more applica-tentive
to all that was said.
—Capt. H. L. Hoover, aged about 83
years, who moved from Staunton, Va.,
to this city a few months ago.diedSat-tions
have been filed in the home office urday morniDg from the effects of a
of the secretary and treasurer, certifl- stroke of paralysis which he suffered
cates shall be issued to the division the Monday night previous, remaining
named in the application. critically ill in the intervening time.
The application or certificate fee is With his wife he made his home at
($7.50) seven dollars and fifty cents, Mrs. Payne's, on Church street, devot-payable
but once, and must accompany ing his time to the insurance business,
the medical application for member- He was a man of culture, ability and
ship. piety, and made many friends here in
Should the application be rejected, the brief time that he was permitted
the fee will be returned. The certifl- to sojourn among us. A brief funeral
cates are issued for $1,000 ouly. A service conducted by Rev. Dr. Smith
member can hold but one certificate in was held at his room just before
each division. Each member is pro- noon Saturday and his remains were
tected by an Emergency Fund of $1.00 taken to Staunton on the noon train
for each membership, and an additional for interment, accompanied by his wife
tax of $1.00 per capita, per annum,
which is for the purpose of providing
for the contingencies of members who
have failed to respond for assessments
occasioned by death, old age or total
disability, aud to insure stability and
perpetuity.
The association will issue to its
members on the first of each calendar
month an itemized statement of each
and every division of the organization.
and Mr. G. W. Koiner.
STATE r on:o. i ITT HI TOLEDO
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PBANK J. CUEVEV make- ■ ■•tti that ■ ■
senior partner of the Ann oi r.J. Chei ey A Co.,
doing bnsmess inthentj ol Tptedo.Coo
-tale afi.re-aid. and that -ml Ann jrll p
sumofOKE HI KDBED DOLLARS '■ i
and every case of catarrh that cam
1,>theu-e..,HA,,.-1^.u^M.,i:i(|Kshn
Sworn to before me i : , ,
pte-^tin-^dayofl^ber^A^Wi
SEAL Notary Public.
Hall -Catarrh cure i- taken internally and
art* directly on the blood and macou I
which will be a complete report of the „# the system, send fur testimonial*, free.
w i "' K J CHKNEYI* C'».. TO
secretary and treasurers books, as *■«££!,«5c.
audited by the board of auditors. It is Halftnmily Pills are the ur-t.