The Greensboro patriot [April 20, 1898]

              PATRIOT.
VOL. 77 GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APEIL 20, 1898. NO. 1G.
EOFESSIONAL CARDS.
rW.J. RICHARDSON.
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
E KATZ BUILDING.
—Rev. Joseph Potts is visiting friends
at Archdale.
—Capt. E. S. Parker, of Graham, was
here Saturday.
-Mr. V7. C. Russell.of Franklinville,
is in the city today.
—The infant daughter of Mr. and
Mr«. J. B. Hoekett, of Bellevue street,
died Sunday after a hrief illness and
was buried Monday at Providence
cemetery.
—Dr. R. D. Patterson, of Liberty,
was here Saturday in company with a
patient, Mrs. Wm. Xirkman, who was
—The PATRIOT continues to find fa-vor
in the sight of Guilford'sgood peo-ple.
Almost a score of new names
AN IMPORTANT PROJECT.
5 W. GASTON ST. ^ f ^^^ ^ Na9Dville, | on her way to a Baltimore hospital for
,l„enn., t.,hi.s morning. treatment, Or. W. H. BROOKS,
ED IN
23-UL±±<3L±^CLg,
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P. BEALL, M. D.,
*i AMD SURGEON.
■• Square.
! : mi Asheboro St.
I toll 3 to 4:30.
rONE NO. 17.
STAMEY, M. 1).
. ; I KISTCHi :
xth. Blm St.
DOBi
ft Srlssom'l Erag Store.
Dr. J. E. WYCHE,
UFNTISTi
■ .. It mi. Rallding,
et, Greensboro, N. C.
J. H. WHEELER,
DENTIST.
p. Ward's Drug Store.
Dr. W. H. Wakefield,
. will be in Greens-
Vdoo House on Thurs-
, I.IMITKD TO
H. Bar, KOM ami Throat.
licit Dick Douglas,
- and Couuellor at Law,
B INK BCILDINO,
i . • Ba\ uga Bank
P. D. SATCHWELL,
Mtornej at Law.
KKEl IV BUILDING,
• boro, N. <'.
ICHAS. H. STEDMAN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
i ball Building,
IRO, - - - X. C.
—Mr. and Mrs. H. I.. Lee returned
to New York yesterday.
— Mr. and Mrs. E.L. Clarke returned
i from Hillsboro Monday.
—Judge Bynuni went to Morganton
this morning on business.
—Mr. W. E. Worth, of Wilmington,
was here the first of the week.
—Mrs. W. F. Alderman and children
have gone to Virginia on a visit.
—The Southern Railway is handling
immense quantities of war material.
-The "Wbitset t Student" for April
is an unusually interesting number.
—U. S. Marshal Milliken is attend-iug
Federal court at Statesville this
week.
—The Greensboro and Whitsett In-stitute
ball
afternoon.
—Mr. XI. Royal Farrar will carry on
the jewelry business of the late firua of
W. B Farrar A Son.
—Someone entered the Guilford rol-ler
mills last Thursday iiight and stole
several sacks of llour.
—Wanted—20U pounds fresh walnut
kernels, at l'hler'8 Candy Manufacto-ry,
next to Benbow House.
—Rev. S. I). Stanley and wife and
Mr*. S. P. McNairy, of Guilford Col-lege,
were in the city yesterday.
—The meetings at West Market
church continue with increasing inter-est.
The attendance is gratifying.
—Mrs. W. S. Jessup, now of Omaha,
1
tensions beyond the province of a good
clean reliable local paper, but we are
prepared to supply all demands for
such.
-Mr. W. c. Weaver and Mr. Mal-
—Mr. B. S. Phillips left Sunday even-;
ing for Bristol, Tenn., where he will
be married today to Miss Estelle Kidd,
of that city. He was accompanied by
Mr. A. B. High and Mr. R. W.Finlator.
—Our premium offer will not appear
again although it holds good until the
first of May. There will be no exten-sion
of time, and those wishing to take
a (vantage of it must do so before that
date.
—Or. W. P. Beall and wife celebrated '
their crystal weddingMondayevening.
With a few exeeptions the guests of
the evening were those who witnessed
their marriage ceremony fifteen years ;
before.
—A correspondent writing us this
week U'.-d one of the old fashioned
tttUM play here Saturday ! three-cent stamped envelopes, out of j
date mauy years. It is the first we
have seep In a long time. There are I
not many in existence now.
—Miss Harriet E. Hall, of this city, j
was married this morning at the resi- |
dence of Mr. W. H. Wetmore to Mr.;
Oisosway, of Old Fort, Rev. J.I).Miller j
; officiating. They left on the vestibule
for the home of the groom.
—The thoroughbred Jersey bull,
"Romola's Chief," purchased by Mr. J.
W. Lindau at the recent Occoueeohee
stock farm sale, may be seen at Mr,
I.indau's stables, near the Finishing
mill. See ad. in another column.
The Ferguson-Clark Wedding.
Many people, regardless of thej
threatening weather, gathered togeth- The City Considering a ProDositirm
were added to our list of subsenbers , er Thursday morning atvSt. AndreW8 to Build a Street Ratlwa/and
last week. We don't make any pre- Epi9Copa, Church to witness the mar- Electric Plant
nage of Miss Mam-e Ferguson to Mr.! One of the most important nronosi-
E. Lacy Clark. The Rector, Rev. J. | tions ever submitted to the city of
D. Miller, performed the ceremony. ! Greensbore was formallv considered at
Promptly at eleven-thirty o'clock a called meeting of the board of alder-
Miss Lizzie Crocker played "The ; men last Fridav night. Owmsr to th.
come carpenters employed on Mrs. ■ Sweetest StorF Ever Tol(1)„ aQd the | character of the^ran.action no dednUe
Coble's new dwelhng, on Walker ave-1U9hers,Mr.EuKene McXalry and Mr. | conclusion could be reached atDit
Due, narrowly escaped death last Sat- Thoma9 G]ftsoocki followed by Mr. ^ meeting, but the mattJw^ncomeuD a
urday. I hey were a work on the ; Clarence Boj?art and Mr. BartleU the regular meeting^ the board nex
roof, some tweny feet from the ground ; Webster, entered from the rear and Friday evening, with everv indica
■A-hr.n tho •■■■i;r,.l.li n.r rtatta wow Pnfli ___ , , .. ,. . * •> ••"" every lUUIta-passed
down to the altar, arranging tion that final action will be taken,
themselves on either side. Then came Last week Mr. W. H. Houghton of
the bride leaning on the arm of the New York, came to Greensboro and
bridesmaid, Miss Bessie Howard, a looked over the city with a view to es-charming
young lady of Florence, tablisbing a street railway system and
8. C. Mr. Clark entered the church I electric plant. Finding conditions
from the vestry room accompanied by I most favorable he drew up aud sub-
Greensboro the best shoe store in the j the best man, Mr. R. G. Beall, of : mitted to the city, through Attornev
State, and to do that he finds it neces- | Greensboro. J. N. Wilson, a proposition that so far
The bride was handsomely attired in has met with general approval,
a dark brown traveling dress and Mr. Houghton proposes to build an
carried a beautiful bunch of bride electric plant, supplying the city with
1,200 candle power arc lights at a cost
of *6S.50 each up to ninety in number;
beyond that number the price will be
when the scaffolding gave way. Both
received right severe injuries, but for-tunately
uot fatal.
—The great sacrifice sale at the Car-olina
Shoe Co.'s store, in the K. of P.
building, continues this week. Mr.
Norris, the manager, proposes to give
sary to unload all the old Brown Mer-cantile
Co. stock. Many lines are go-ing
at less than half price. See new ad.
—The county convict force is doing
some excellent work southeast of the
roses tied with long streamers of white
satin ribbon. The bridesmaid wore a
city, if reports are true. When their very pretty gray dress and carried a
present work as planned is completed
—The Cape Fear Manufacturing Co.,
of this city, has the contract for lur-they
will move to the northeast part of
the county, where they have as yet
done no work whatever. When the
great day comes that macadam can be
spread there will be general rejoicing.
—We are under obligations to Mr. C.
M. Zimmermann, of Elon College, Rev.
W. K. Forsyth, of Corbin, Ky. and
Mr. J. H. Kinght, of Lenape, Kans.,
for supplying us with the issues of the
PATRIOT that were necessary to com-plete
our tile for 1896. We must admit
the papers came from unexpected
sources, but they are none the less ap-preciated.
—Mr. J. R. Pearce, panitor at the
large bunch of lovely La France roses. **>0 each for the first five lights, *55
Immediately after the ceremony the each for the next five, $50 each for the
newly married couple took a carriage next five, and all beyond that number
for the depot where they left on the at a minimum cost of *4S.50 each per
east bound train for Hillsboro, the
home of Mr. Clark's people. A large
light. In consideration of a live-vear
contract on the above basis he will
party of friends gathered at the sta- construct a street railway from live to
tion to congratulate them and wish six miles in length with ample accom-them
a safe and happy trip. | modations for the public, besides es-
__ tablisbing an incandescent system of
Shot While Resisting an Officer.
Constable James M. Coble, of Green
2.000 lights each of sixteen candlepower,
! and furnishing one hundred horse-township,
came to Greensboro this ipower for manufacturing purposes
upon demand.
.Neb, is here visiting her many friends.! nisninK tne lumber Ma «boP«ork for
She is the guest of Mrs. R. I. Katz. an addition to the deaf, dumb and
—'•Old Ladies' Comfort" shoes, all
sizez up to number 8. J1.00 $1.25 $1.341
and $1.50 at Thacker «& Brockmann's.
—Mrs. L. W. Crawford is at Raleigh
attending the marriage of her niece,
Miss Kate Uelvin, to Mr. John Hartin.
—The excursion from Jonesboro to
Greensboro will be run April uOth un-der
the management of Mr. C. 11. Rus-sell.
—Three train loads of Uncle SHUI"S
soldiers will pass through here today j
over the L-outueru euroute to points
south.
—Mr. John A. Hodgin is preparing
to build two dwellings on his lots at
the corner of South E!ra and Bain
streets.
blind asclum at Raleigh. I' is a large
ordsr, but will be tilled promptly.
—Postotfice Inspector Dexter, on his
return from Elkin Saturday, said Un-cle
Sam lost about $120 in money by
the recent lire at Elkin. A number of
stamps were damaged, but they were '
returned to the department at Wash-ington.
—The Junior Order United Ameri-:
can Mechanics, of this city, is perfect-ing
arrangements for a big demonstra-j
tion here in May, when flags are to he ;
raised over the public school buildings.
A numberof neighboring councils have
beeu invited to participate.
—It will not be mauy days until hos-tilities
open between Spain and the
A. M. 8CAI.ES.
SHAW & SCALES,
wo t.. nil business. Office
; i ouri square.
I'M I.I .;.. /.. v T LYLOR.
UM, BYNUM & TAYLOR,
;-: zii Isuasellors at Law.
OORT SQUABE.
W. 1$. BEACHAM,
rchitect and Builder.
Saturday will give you an opportunity
to "take to the mountains" before the
Spanish fleet gets up South Buffalo.
—Mr. L. E. Darden has from five to
six thousand pairs of shoes he will
close out at what they will bring. He
—Miss Lily Stroud, formerly of this , United States, according to the way
city, is to be married at her home in \ things look now. Bogart's excursion |
Sanford on the 2Sth inst. to Mr. R. E.
Carrington.
—Greensboro merchantsare reaching
out for trade. Last week J. M. Hen-ilrix
& Co. filled a fifty dollar order
from Brazil.
-Judge Robinson at Roxboro yes-1 wm^aell'sLem"tawiy quaBttty ^ 0fd^
3 at JLa^AT terday set aside the order aPPO'nt'"K a to get rid of them quick. Read his
[SBOEO, N. C. receiver for J.B.Flagg'a drug store at n„w<adt He ie located just east of the
High Point. postoffice, opposite W. S.Moore's stand.
—Read what Mr. Phoenix has to say j
in his new ad. regarding coffee. It's | —The many new buildings going up
going up soon, and it would be well to over the city are materially changing
lay in a supply. tne appearance ofthe streets. Greens-
—Anyone contemplating the pur- \boro'8 growth the past few years is
chase of a mower or binder should read ! simply amazing. Our schools, colleges,
the testimonial iu M. G. Newell's new
ad. in this issue.
—Mr..I. ¥.. De Lorme was married
in Baltimore yesterday. He will re-turn
with his bride, formerly a Miss
Newcomer, today.
—Messrs. S. S, Coxe, the proprietor.
morning to give himself intothe custo-dvof
Sheriff Hogkius having shot al ^""der the present contract the city
negro, James Brean, who resisted; pays *s7-50 eacu for its arc liSMs<
,. arrest when served with a warrant for °Perated on a »><>°nlight schedule, the
Federal building under the last admin- (forgery. Brean was at his father's 'ame " Pro"°«ed b* "Jr. Houghton,
istration, found himself out of a job house in the extreme southeastern part: and h» Propoe.tion readily finds much
last week, receiving notification that of the county when Constable Coble ^vor regardless of its other and really
and three deputies went there be- more important features,
tween :{ and 4 o'clock yesterday morn- A 8treet car system wou,d be of ln"
ing to arrest him. Old man Brean est,mable vaiue t0 our growing city,
said the son was not at home, but Mr. i The out'y'ng residence sections would
Coble searched the house and found be luore raP'd'y built UP- tbe colleges
his man in the loft. Brean drew a big I and factories would be more accessible
knife and chased the officer down the t0 resident or v'^^r- and it might be
ladder, following him with threats, j 8a,d a metropolitan air would be given
As soon as Mr. Coble reached the floor ! the place tnat would exert a wbole-
Ump exploded in tbe residence of Mr. I he drew hjs and ^ Brean some influence upon the thousands of
N.H. Slack on Main street and had lh h the headf the latter dving in I "rangers passing through the city
it n.ot b,e,en, for p,r,o,mpt a. ssistan. ce .the ab. out an_ ih_ our. «B, rean was k, nown as a'I from weeet"k ltuo n"-tie>Kpk Railonnnigr tiuhes lniuneesinofi
entire block would have burned.owmg;^^^ Re former, worke(, railroads reaching here.
to the lack of facilities to combat fires. |n ft lumber m|„ here> and >hot Jane ; The construction of the street car
' Coble, a colored woman, here two or |8y8tem dePend9 entirely upon the ac-three
years ago as she was cooking cePta"ce of the lighting contract, for
breakfast for a family on the South Ilt ,s not anticipated that it will pay ex-
Side. Last January he forged_ some
orders on Liberty merchants and has
since eluded arrest. Mr. Coble as-public
library. Uufortunately the I 8Ure8 ,ue Patriot he will prove without ■ *in of prolit wou,d be assured. The
audience was not large, but those for- difficulty that the shooting was done WW** valuation along the route of
the ollice had beeu abolished. Of
course that is only «ne way of provid-ing
for some of the faithful in harmony
with tbe powers that be, because the
building must be "janitored"so long as
it is occupied.
—Asheboro came near having a de-structive
tire Monday evening. AI
Our enterprising neighbors out to put
in a waterworks system before it is
nacessary to rebuild the town.
— Prof. R. L. Garner delivered an in-teresting
lecture last night at the
Academv for the benefit of the new
penses the first few years and could
only be operated iu connection with
some other enterprise on which a mar-tunate
enough to be present were in self defense.
amply repaid for their consideration of
a most worthy enterprise. Prof. Gar- Another Factory.
ner's scientific researches have made rR>e.g_a. rdnless of, wars andj rumors of
his name famous throug*hout the world. I w__a_r„s Kbu,.s,i-n„ess. —mo»v_e.s ri•ghvt. aliong in
—The fourth car of provisions and Greensboro. The latest piece of good
clothing solicited by the Atlanta Jour- news concerning the industrial inter-nal
for the starving Cubans passed ests of the city is that a factory for the
through here Thursday enroute to manufactuce of pants and overalls will
New York, from whence all shipments
to Havana are made. The Journal has
been very active in efforts in behalf of
the helpless sufferers of Spain's tyran-ny
and eppression, while the people of
soon be in operation here. Messrs. R.
G. Glenn, C.H.I reland and J. B. Sneed
the railway would be materially in-creased.
Mr. Houghton proposes, in the event
he comes to terms with the city, to
begin the erection of his plant within
sixty days from the date of such agree-ment
and will agree to have the light-ing
plant aud three miles of the rail-way
in operation by January 1st, IS!!'.,'.
There is no doubt of his ability to ful-fill
his part of the contract.
While in the city he secured an op-have
organized a com pan v for that .. ., 0, . . , .. _ .„_
.- i «c ™'n , , ., tion on the Steel and Iron Company
purpose, capitalized at $5,000,and a full
equipment of machinery has been or-property,
conditioned also on the
1 - I Foil
factories and railroad facilities are the
magnets which draw people hither.
—Col. N. M. Taylor, for many years
prominent as a lawyer and citizen of
Bristol,Tenn.,died Sunday night. He
was a near relative of Mrs. G. W.
Ward, of this city. At the time of his
Georgia have responded nobly to every dered and will arrive about the middle . •"*£«!! °f .*! ^^'T'Z,
appeal for contributions. of Mav ' P'oP^'on, and it a presumed wou Id
locate his new plant on the Steel
re Building, and E. P. McKissick, manager of the death he was general counsel for tbe
N. C.
F. JOHNSON,
SSBORO
pE SPECIALIST,
il ELM ST.
Examination Five.
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Battery Park hotel, Asheville, were
here Friday night.
— The Greensboro Rustic and Artis-tic
Manufacturing Co. now lias an
ollice on Market street, the first door
east of the postotfice.
— Luther Fry, employed by tbe
East Tennessee it Virginia Midland
railroad.
—The new store of D. Bendheim &
Sons, at i'.iO South Elm street, will be
opened to the public Saturday, April
23rd. They will carry a full stock of
dry goods, fancy goods and notions.
—If there is anyone in town inter-ested
in the weather it is our friend j
Dick Bogart, who will run his first ex-cursion
to Mt. Airy, and Pilot Moun-tain
next Saturday, the 23rd. The
trip would be an interest
kindofv.e.therbutMr
it will bt fir and warm that day be- to one dollar per day, according to awaited with interest. The city has
The location of the plant will be de- Company property, which is admirably
termined within the next few davs. adapted to such purposes, having an
The foreman will be here the first of ^ffZ£F&*mi the matter
May and will at once employ thirty was flMUy referred to a committee of
good steady seamstresses and instruct five, composed of Alderman Shaw,
sting oneinany them in the work they will be expected Merrimon, Elam, Frazier ana McKiu-
, Bogart hopes, to do. They wil, earn from sixty cent. »l^-JrWSr*^5 *
cause be is anxious that his patrons their skill,
shall get the best there is going for
their money. The fare was never
cheaper. See ad.
—A week ago last Sunday Rev. A. J.
McKelway,the superintendent of Syn-
We are indeed glad to see these local
enterprises springing up around us.
They not only help to build up thecity
but they will soon become its main de-pendence.
There is no reason why
uever entertained a more desirable
proposition and it Is to be hoped that
after the fullest consideration it can be
acted upon favorably.
Brooks Manufacturing Co., had one of Tueir opening display will be worth
p.m.
STONE..
his hands badly lacerated by a circular
taw 'lie day last week.
—The weather the past few days has
been as favorable to farm work as could
be asked. The judicious farmer is
planting plenty of grain.
—The next attraction at the Acad-emv
of Music will be Mr. James Young
seeing. See their announcement in
another column.
—The York Manufacturing Co. has
begun the manufacture of dry paints
and expects to turn out about eight
thousand pounds a day. The raw ma-terials
come from the company's mines
in Moore and Stokes counties. The
odical Home Missions, presented that Greensboro should not be turning out
cause to the congregation of Westmin- 8COres of articles which she is com-
—A man named Patterson, hailing
from Chatham, was here Thursday
looking for a recruiting office. 'He
was under the impression «.ne was li-ster
church. In response the sum of pelled to seek in other markets, and cated here, as in days gone by, and was
every move in home manufacturing doubly disappointed when he learned
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and company, general favorites here, product will be marketed In New York
Their dates are May o aud 1. and Philadelphia.
—The offices of the register of deeds.
|77.50 was contributed. On last Sunday
afternoon Rev. E. E. Gillespie made an
address before the Ladies' Aid and
Missionary Society of that church, and
an additional sum of :?76.50 was pledged
by those present for Presbyterial and
Svnodical Home Missions.
should be encouraged. such was not the case, as lie hud DOl
enough money to get to Charlotte,
much less satisfy the demand* of a
good healthy appetite. lie was in the
—The criminal docket occupied the
entire session of the Federal court,
which adjourned last Saturday. A few Southern freight yard when last
cases were carried over on continuance.
court clerk and sheriff were closed Sat-urday
afternoon on account of the
death of Mrs. Mary Moskins.
—If it is infants'or children's shoes
and slippers you want to buy, go to
'Thacker & Brockmann's; they can
t suit you in size, style and price.
li RSISHED. ♦
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A number of (Jreensboro people were
at Guilford College Saturday afternoon
to witness the ball game between the
college team and Oak Ridge, in which
the former were victorious by a score
of 9 to 7. The weather was tine, the
playing good and the best of feeling
—If your wife asks you where she Judge Purnell spent Sunday at his
shall go to buy her new dress, send her home in Raleigh and went to Elizabeth
to Thacker A Brockmann's. They City that night to hold court. There
have a veryvfull line of new spring were only two cases on that docket, and
and summer goods, to select from and as soon as they were disposed of it was
either Miss Callie Rankin or Miss Jen- his intention to go to Statesville, where
and the chances are he reached his des-tination.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh
that contain Mercury.
A eurywil - ire
:
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.,.• .,- -I,, aid :■ .el be <•-■ ' e
JOS. J, STONE, t of
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prevailed. A second game will be
—A bicyele drill,a popular new form played on the 30th at Oak Ridge. The
entertainment, will be given at the , rubber, if any, will be played here-
Banner warehouse tomorrow night for : Prof. Blair's lecture in the evening
the benefit of S\ Andrew's church. i was well attended.
.u iuc uc.-u. T, ,;,.,i,,. i, . , ,,iita;n- l rc»rji , ' , it
house also does a large business in Judge Simonton is still sick and will j^JJ^^^* ^rte'^jSem. HUbuytag
shoes and has just opened a verv com- not be able to preside over the cir.c..uit Hin«allVICt kaita1'riWrhfiiCiunrtei-riuial-invr..-ayn.dmi-u't"i.lt"- |.- -ji""1'- ID KOK-plete
stock of new shoes and slippers, court this week, and has so notified ao.'ohio, by r. J. Cheney * Co. waWswlan
both tan and black, for spring and , those having matters at issue in that tog^ hvD (,,it.,I,r,ce:v per boitie.
summer seasons. ! court. I HallVr'amify I'ilU are Hie belt.