The Greensboro patriot [February 3, 1904]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 83. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1904. NO. 5
Or. W. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
RESIDENCE: 318 WEST GASTON ST.
W*. P. HEAI.I., TIIOS. R. LITTLE,
MO Aslicboro St. 408 S. L. & T. Bidg.
BEALL & LITTLE
PHYSICIANS one SURGEONS
Office: No. US So. Loan A Trust Itldvr.
Hours: S to » A. H.; 11:30 to 1. 2 to 5 P. M.
Will practice in Greensboro and surround-tnif
country.
E. L. STAMEY, M. D.
RESIDENCE:
200 Norlu DaviC Street.
OFFICE:
At Fordham A: Grissom's Drug Store.
Or. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
OFFICE IN SAVINGS BANK BLDG.
SOUTH ELM ST.. GREENSBORO. N. C.
Or. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.
Or. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG..
SOUTH ELM ST.
A. M. SCALES. Z. V. TAYLOR. J. I. SCALES.
Scales, Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
a£ COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREENSBORO. H. C.
■ ,i. iii jg as. Stephen A. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Mflei In Greensboro Loan an4 Trust Bide-
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
W SIGHT BUILDING, OPP. COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO. N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
IIS Court Square, GREEHSBORO, H. C.
Srx cia attention given to collections. Loans
Beg ■. I ited.
Robert C. Strudwick
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
li5 Court Square. GREEKSB0R0, R. C.
F. P. HOBGOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
in Wright Building, Opposite
Court House, Greensboro* N. C.
MICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
102 Court Square, Greensboro, N. C.
HARRY G. BROWNE
PIANO TUNER
Greensboro, * V * N. C.
IIKFKIIKNCI s:
Normal. lluilford Col cge.
'. rcenslioro Female »'ollcge.
L. FRANCIS HANES
PHOTOGRAPHER
HIGH CLASS WORK ONLY.
>•: Opposite tin.- McAdoo House.
Comldned
i jpital,
$325,000
Combined
A^si'is over
$500,000
'The
Greensboro
Fire Insurance Companies
Have, in the last <'ii*tit years,
\\ to 1 e [tcople <u' (i tt t'hs-
.n. not I«— thiift • i' .ft»i in 'ho
; ■■! iheir Insurance w hen
.' II i isure rail for your home
,'inn >. ;: :: :: .: :: :: ;:
J. Simpson Schenck, Agent
'■' \.;:i> TRUSTWORTHY LADY OR
in in manage bus'nessIn iliiscounty
\u territory for house of solid
tundl L': 9-O.Otl stralirhtcash salary
and ex lenses paid each Monday direct from
headquarters. Expense money adtanccd;
]ii-ili n permanent. A/ldicsa Manager. B05
Mouou l;lilg., Chicago. 4"-12t
Mr. F. 8. Eldridge has returned to
the city.
Mr. J. S. Hunter has heeu on the
sick list the past week.
Dr. J. E. Brooks has recovered from
a brief spell of sickness.
Mr. V. C. McAdoo has returned from
a business trip to New York.
Dr. J. E. ("artland was able to get to
his store yesterday for the first time in
three weeks.
We will pay 66 cents a bushel for all
the corn we can jret in the next two
weeks. TUCKER & KIIWIN.
Mrs.'I'. K. Little was taken to a sani-tarium
at Salisbury last week for treat-ment.
She is Buffering with appendi-citis.
Dr. Button who has been laid up for
several weeks with kidney trouble, is
improving slowly and will be out
again in a few days.
Mr. II. E. Pearce is here from Wil-son
on a short visit, the cold weather
there having caused a suspension of I
building operations.
Dr. E. I.. Blarney goes to Chester. S. !
;(.'., today for a short visit. His mother
and sister, residents of Pilot Mountain,
are also there visiting friends.
J. Thomas Osborn, one of Guilford'a i
most valiant soldiers in the war be- '
tween the states, has cone to Rich-mond
to enter the soldiers' home.
A big shipment of T. W. Wood &
Sons' garden and field seeds, in pack-age
and in bulk, expected in a day or
two. TllKKII A KlSWIN.
Mr.C.F.Thomas, the printer, whose
office was Hooded in last week's lire,
.has not found a location as yet. His
outfit is stored temporarily in Bogart
hall.
All outside work on the extensive
building operations under way here
has been suspended the past week, but
may be resumed in a day or so if the
weather continues to moderate.
The Greensboro lire insurance com-panies
were the first to settle with the
state for their share of the losses Hits'
tained in the recent Normal lire. The
Greensboro checks aggregHed *l"i,-',Jl,-
50.
Messrs. J. 1". .Ionian and J. M. Milli-kail
have purchased the N. L. Manner
place, on Spring Garden street, oppo-site
the fair grounds, and will subdi-vide
the property, ol which there are
several acres.
Numerous robberies of freight cars
on the Southern's new shifting yards
West of the city are reported. The
yards arc so extensive that one watch-man
can not protect all the valuable
property there.
All the wood and coal dealers were
in a happy frame of mind yesterday.
They reali/ed that every well regulat-ed
groundhog in the state had seen its
shadow and turned in for another
snooze of six weeks.
Messrs. Clark Porter and A. S. John-son,
two well known young pharma-cists
of this city, have formed a part-nership
and will engage in the manu-facture
«n :"i extensive scaleof "Porto,"
a popular soda fountain drink.
fifty pairs men's $2.50 and $:!.25
winter shoes reduced to$1.75atThacker
& Brnckmann's. These are good IH>X
calf anil kangaroo calf shoes, laced and
gaiters. Not a thing the matter with
them except too many on hand.
Mr. \V. S. Kivett, proprietor of a
bakery here, has good reason to believe
that he is one of the heirs to a thirty-million-
dollar estate in Holland which
was considerately acquired by one of
his ancestors and is now about to be
divided.
A. I>. Ilaxter A: Co., New York cot-ton
brokers operating over a bundled
branch offices in as many cities, went
to the wall Saturday morning. Mr. R.
M. Albright had charge of the Greens-boro
branch. The losses here are In-consequential.
The stock of King Brothers tobac-conists,
damaged in the Katz building
lire last Wednesday morning was
moved to one of the (iroome buildings
on the South side for appraisement.
The appraisers will complete their
work this morning.
Almost every conceivable style of
sleigh imaginable, and some of them
creations fearful and wonderful to be-hold,
have been pressed into service
here the past week. Sleighing is a
rare diversion in Greensboro, owing to
the scarcity of snow in average winters.
A number of depositions were taken
; Monday before U. S. Court Clerk Trog-don
in a case involving thirty barrels
of whiskey shipped to Oklahoma last
year by A. I). Cooper and afterward
seized by the government. At the close
of the day the hearing was postponed
to February 10.
Mr. A. Gordon Jones, of this city,
assistant general superintendent of
this division of the Southern Railway
under both Mr. Collins and his suc-cessor,
Mr. McManus, has been made
superintendent of the Norfolk division
to succeed Mr. H. A. Williams, who
goes to the Savannah division.
Rev. H. W. Battle, I). D., has gone
to Wake Forest to deliver a series of
lectures to the theological class on "The
Making aud Delivery of Sermons."
He has recently accepted an invitation
to preach the annual sermon for the
missionary society of the Baptist Fe-male
University at Raleigh the third
Sunday in May.
The Merchants' and Manufacturers'
Club has fitted up temporary ipiarters
in the room just at the rear of the
Hotel Guilford office once used for a j
billiard parlor, etc. A committee is at
work trying to secure a permanent
home for the club in keeping with its
requirements. Two or three desirable]
locations are being considered.
The present winter is a record-breaker
in many respects. Since the I
middle of November the cold weather
has given a continuous performance i
enjoyable only from a fuel dealer's I
standpoint. The first heavy snow fell
last week and lingers with a tenacity i
that is discomforting, while most of the
professional weather forecasters pre-diet
rougher weather yet to come.
Colonel.1. Bryan Grimes has offered a
prize worth twenty-live dollars to the
child under eighteen years of age in t lie
public sellouts of the state who makes
the clearest, simplestdiagram, showing
in chart form the formation (withdate)
of counties of the state: size of chart
to be about 10x12 or 12x15 inches. Fur-ther
information concerning this prize
will be furnished by the State Superin-tendent
upon application.
Mr. R. I,. Barker, traveling sales-man
for an Atlanta drug house and a
brother of Mr. W. B. Barker, head
pharmacist at Helms'drug store here,
died Sunday in a hospital at Savan-nab,
Ga. The remains were sent to
F.lkin, the former home of tiie de-ceased,
for Interment. Xlr. W*. P.. "Bar-ker
accompanying from ibis point.
The family knew nothing of the young
man's illness, which was of short dura-tion.
Judge Boyd, who went to Richmond
the first of the week to sit with the I*.
S Circuit Court of Appeals, was one of
the invited guests at a bauquet given
there last night in honor of Judge Bev-erly
R. Wellford, Jr. Among other
guests invited for the occasion were
Chief Justice Puller, of the Supreme
Court of the I'nited States, Hou. Na-than
Golf, Hon. ('has. 11. Simonton, of
the I". S. Circuit court, and Judge Ed-mond
VVaddill, Jr.
George McAdoo, a colored driver for
Matthews & Cranford.attempted to fill
a few orders for the company last week
on his own hook and as a result of his
inexperience in business matters land-ed
in jail. He stalled after dark one
night to deliver six hundred pounds of
coal on an older that the company
knew nothing about, and had his wag-on
not broken down he would have
been just that much ahead. II he
shovels dirt on the county roads as well
as he handles coal he will make a good
hand.
There was a meeting here Friday
night of the directors of the Security
and Annuity Life Insurance Company
of Greensboro to receive the report of
the actuary of the company, Mr. R. K.
roister, who is also actuary of the in-surance
department of the state of
Pennsylvania. His report was that
lie had thoroughly examined the books
anil uflairs of the institution and found
them m excellent shape and condition.
The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the company will be held at the of-fices
here tonight.
Governor Penny-packer, of Pennsyl-vania,
is standing by Will Hill, the
self-confessed negro murderer who is
in jail at Harnsburg. Will Ingram is
the man's right name, he having as-sumed
the name of Hill after leaving
this state. The Governor again finds
some techical imperfection in the re-ipiisjtion
papers, which are made out
similar to all others issued In recent
years, and it would seem that he was
making a studied effort to shield the
negro, although his promised letter of
explanation to Governor Aycockmay
contain some information that lias not
suggested itself to the state. What-ever
may develop at the hearing of the
case there is certainly little or no cause
for refusing to deliver the prisoner, after
formal request has been made, even
though failure has been made to cross
a t or dot au i.
COLLEGE TO REOPEN IN TWO WEEKS.
Satisfactory Progress Being Made at the
Normal—Correct Valuation of Losses.
The following statement covering
matters of interest in connection with
the recent lire at the State Normal and
Industrial College have been given to
the press this week:
Work is progressing satisfactorily on
the preparations for the reopening
about the middle of February.
The temporary kitchen and dining
room will be as large as the dining
GREENSBORO TOBACCO MARKET.
The receipts for the past week have
been the largest for any week of this
crop. On the first threedays of the week
wagons rolled in from every direction
heavily loaded with the weed aud the
warehouses were filled to overflowing,
but the buyers seemed to be lively and
prices were fully as good as they have
been at any time during the preseut
crop. We had had some fears that to-bacco
would decline on a big sale, but
we have no further fears along this
rooui and kitchen destroyed and will jll,le. a8 the market was maintained
be built on the framework already j8tifI throughout the biggest sales we
erected for two tennis courts north of Qad ,a8t week. The quality of the of-the
Curry building and near the en-trance
into the woods of Pea body park.
A temporary shed has been com-pleted
over the boilers, which were left
entirely exposed to the weather.
The bad weather has not hindered
the work on the Students' Building, as
all this is indoor work.
The statements in regard to the value
of the property destroyed are some-what
misleading, as the invoice cost of
what was destroyed is more than $80,-
000. It was valued at more than $60,-
000 before the improvements just com-pleted
were Installed. The cost of
these additional Improvements was
about (20,000. It must be remember-ed,
too, that the main building de-stroyed
was erected in 1.S02, when
ferings was fair with a lot of good
smokers and tillers and some good to
line wrappers, all of wliich went off at
very satisfactory prices, fillers ranging
in price from $5 to $1:2, smokeis from
$5 to $14, wrappery fillers §12 to $20
aud wrappers from $15 to $50 per hund-red.
Nondescript and undesirable to-bacco
went off at what looks to be low
prices to farmers yet wheii you pin
them down to it and ask them to take
some of it for chewing tobacco they re-fuse,
and if farmers would always bear
in mind that buyers are selecting chew-ing
and smoking tobacco of high qual-ity
they could see how this class of to-bacco
looks cheap. We regard this the
best time to sell tobacco that farmers
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
aud careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized in 1890, but has been
doing a Banking business only about
three years. During this time its
growth has been rapid but healthful,
and today it is in the front of Banking
institutions in Guilford county.
Statement below shows growth since
February 1st, 1899, to April 9th, 1903:
will get out of this crop. Prices are
prices of labor and material were from|S°od ail(l tl,e market is active, and
one-fourth to one-third less than at everybody seems to feel good on big j
present. Some of the Improvements ■»•"• We «•«">* least tobacco taken j ^l!^""?.^™- $ 44,372.95
like heating apparatus and cold stor- » last week we have ever seen on the capital and surplus Feb.
same size scales. Greensboro will take
careof your tobacco, so bring it right
along.
uge plant had just been completed.
The people of Greensboro raised in
their general fund $1,300 to aid the
heaviest losers by the lire, and about The Southern Loan and Trust Company's
$100 besides was sent in by Greensboro I Annual Meeting,
people for special purposes. Small I T|le mmi mwllui, of' the 8toek.
gifts came from various parts of the h)>|(|erH am| direi;t<)rs ofthe Southern
state. 1 he city of Winston was the
most generous North Carolina con-tributor
except Greensboro, former
Normal College students of Winston
having sent two large trunks of valua-ble
clothing and a purse, in addition to
several cash contributions sent in by ,n '..„....
citizens of that kind neighbor. Four1
f. _' -Is in New-York, V-r. George Pos-rt
('. Ogden, Mr.
V. Kverit Macy and Mrs. Macy, when
1st, 1900
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st, 11101
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st, 1WK
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st, l'.WI
Capital and surplus April
9th, IMU
Total
1MB
assets April !lth.
66,227.55
103,789.13
129,543.47
155,236.42
166,696.66
Loan and Trust Company was held ,570,689.76
yesterday at 11 o'clock. The year's
work was gone over and the results
found very gratifying to the stockhold-ers
and directors. This progressive
company increased its deposits during
over 15 per cent., and after ; R. G. VAUGHN,
I paying dividends of 0 per cent, in-! Treasurer.
I creased iis capital to $200,009.00 and | — :—.—■.
• ! showed in addition to this capital, sur-' Tlie fu|, p^ofcount; commission-plus
and undivided profits of ¥17,007.11 | er8 waB iu session Monday and Tues-
E. P. WHABTON,
President.
A. W. M('ALISTER,
Vice Pres.
DAVID WHITE,
Secretary.
thev -aw the telegraphic reports iu the '
New York naners sent SKH each The » BP«*i«J reserve of $25,268.20. day transacting the usual large volume
ftew \ork papers sent $100 eacn. 1 he , The Southern Loan and Trust Com-',f i„lsU1es- AH the road petitions
tota amount received „, cash is $L96, „ „„„. <(„e <)f ,„, m^ ^.^ JJJJ^ ,' „J» ji.CS
Nearlj >"**«*. and the ladiesol „„„„,,„, |nBt|tutIODB ln Nortn Caro-' .eHterdaj..s session, no objection being
tlu. acilywhodidnotlose.eircloh- lin!l, aI|(| i[s frjenda an(! well-wishers ;iled in ethtl. Architect Milbum, who
ln8 by the lire *i ided w ,th those w ho „„, be^ (() km)W thj|t tne „, for a conference with
made such substantial additions to the , ,llc i„,ar(j regarding the steel furniture
company's net resources.
The following officers and directors
had lost. Nearly everybody in the
college lost some clothing in the laun-dry,
the total individual losses of stu-dents
having been not less than $25,000.
The members of the faculty on the
various halls of the dormitory lost from
$200 to $400 each, their entire attention
having been needed to direct students
from the building.
The two lessons thai had been im-pressed
by the practice lire drills dur-|
ing the past few months were silence | J. W. Scott & Co. Branching- Out.
iu moving and implicit obedience to j By authority of the state the mer-orders.
It was because of this silence eantile establishment of J. W. Scott &
that people in the homes nearby, when i Co. is authorized to increase its capital
they saw the building wrapped in (stock to $100,000. and provision has'
for the vaults in the county court house,
failed to reach the city, anil the matter
were elected for the current year: Pres-; js tnuB left open for an indefinite period,
ident, E. P. Wharton; vice president, J it appears that the furniture for the
A. W. McAlister; treasurer, R. (i. j register's vault has been erected iu the
Vaughn; secretary, David White; di-. c|erk's vault, and it was readily seen
rectors, A. M. Scales, J. M. Hendrix, | wnen worK bel?an j„ the register's vault
I /. V. Taylor, II. T. Ham, E. E. Main,
I J. Van Lindley and W. C. Boreu.
that the cabinets and book shelves
would not fit. The architect said the
fault was with the contractor, and vice
versa, the company's representative
sent here to put up the furniture final-ity
throwing up the Job in disgust and
leaving town. Great boxes filled with
the steel furniture obstruct the hall-ways
of the court house aud the books
and papers from the old vaults are yet
piled iu confused masses in the various
ollices of the building. The commis-llanies,
feared that the students had I been made for at once doubling the
not escaped. : present capital of$80,000. The increas-
Nearly all the students are applying; i„g business of this solid old house
to return at the reopening, aud not i makes it necessary that a greater
enough room has yet been provided to j alu„Uut of capital be employed in the sjouer8 , ake tlie view tlmt the
admit all applicants. ! business, and it is to meet this condi-
The senoir class with characteristic ] tiou that the firm decided to double its
self-denial and public spirit have ofler- present capital at once. Last year's
ed to take rooms out of the dormitory \ business was double that of any pre-if
necessary.
Death of an Aged Woman.
Mrs. Mary II. Hall, aged 9] years,
died of pneumonia Monday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. H. W.
vious year, and an eflort will be made
to maintain a proportionate increase
this year. For more than a third of a
century this well known establishment
has catered to a class of trade that has
appreciated its straightforward meth-trouble
is not in any way chargable to
•them and they have given notice that
the parties directly interested must
straighten the matter out at once. In
the meantime Register Kirkman and
Clerk Nelson continue to suffer much
inconvenience.
We have just received another big
i shipment of crockery, i aensware,
Veins, at 119 Smith street, and will | ^"^A^ JuccessfuTca'reerto the best \ J^Jf. «£. We sell these goods right
be buried this afternoon from the fam- ... , ,. ......_.,... «.. .._. ! That's the reason we have such a nice
ily
j New York, but had lived in Greens-boro
the jiast seven years. She was a
devout Christian all the days of her life,
guarantee of '
annually.
per cent, in dividends
niitro loin iinciiHi>ni ii, mi me laui- ., *-. ■» ., fi,, . ina, □ mi. i v.* .-«•». ■» w ...»• — .J...." —
. .. , i i -.i ■ evidence of its integrity. I lie present i trt : ,h .:.„„
residence at - o'c ock, with inter- . . , , . iraae in tnebe iiues.
,,.„ ' ,, , issue of stock is preferred, carrying a TuCKF.R & EEWIN.
t at Greene E ill cemetery. Mrs. _ t. __. „„„, ... .„..,,,„.,,,„ | _^____
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
It affords us pleasure to state that
Dr. M. F. Fox, ofGuilford College, who
affiliating here with the First Piesby- I was painfully hurt in a runaway acci-terian
church. Her pastor, Rev. Dr.
Smith, will conduct the funeral service
I this afternoon. Few people of Mrs.
dent here last Wednesday, continues
to improve rapidly and will be all
right again iu a few days, unless corn-
Hall's age retain their faculties ,i ud : plications not anticipated by the hos-
Btrength in a more marked degree, pital stall should develop. The details
Her Interest in her family and friends of Dr. Fox's accident are concisely
continued almost to the last and many given by our Guilford College cones-there
are wiio mourn with the family pondent and need not be repeated.
Townsend & Co. have a car load of
tapered-spoke Nisseu wagons, both one
aud two horse. Nobody makes one as
good. -1-^t
the death of this devoted mother.
Robins are again roosting in certain
sections of Randolph county this
winter after a lapse of over twenty
years. Millions of the birds are to be
seen in tlie pine foiests there at night
and great numbers are being killed by
ruthless hunters. A gentleman who
was here last week says he has seen
over a hundred hunters in one small
piece of woods in one night, every oue
carrying a basket or bag that w as filled
With little difficulty. When the birds
are aroused and sweepoutof the woods
the sound resembles that of a tornado.
He was on iiis way to Pleasant Garden
to see John Sw aim, who was suffering
with pneumonia when the accident
occurred, and much concern as to his
condition has since been exhibited by
his friends all over the county. This
was the third accident of this nature to
befall our highly esteemed friend and
we hope that it may be counted the
last.
Ni w store house for sale at a bargain.
The rent will pay a good per cent, on
the price and rise in value every year.
Would trade for residence if well lo-cated.
Call at 537 South Eh street. 2t
CAPITAL, - $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
United States Depository.
OFFICERS.
W. S. Thomson, J. Van I.indlcv.
President. Vie* President.
Lee H. llattle. Cashier.
DlllECTlUtS.
W. S. Thomson,
C. H. Tlorsctt,
w. c. Bain.
J. A. Hoskins,
J. Allon Holt,
E. .1. Stafford.
Win. Cummirjgs,
.1. Van Lindley,
.1. C. Bishop,
J. A Davidson.
We extend to depositors every facility con-sistent
with prudent banking.
Interest paid on time certilleates of deposit.
WRITE OR CALL TO SEE US.
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