The Greensboro patriot [March 2, 1904]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 83. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1904. NO. 9
Or. W. J. RICHARDSON
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PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
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■ Never Fails to Restore Gray
I Hair to ita Youthful Color.
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Get it at Tinker & Erwin's.
Wood's seeds just received. Gardner.
Gen. J. 1). GleiUI was a Kaleigh vis-itor
Monday.
A civet cat was killed on South Ashe
street yesterday by Mr. John Thomas.
Dr. and Mrs. \V. A. Lash have re-turned
from a (ileasant trip to Florida.
Mrs. John (i. ISrodnax, Jr., has none
to Alabama for an extended visit with
relatives.
Mr. Walter Greene has gone'to Bal-eigb
to take a position in the state agri-cultural
department.
Mr. ('. 1'. I.inn, of Lake City, Flu.,
is here to become foreman of the Co-lumbia
steam laundry.
Dr. \V. S. Raiusford, of New York,
accompanied by a son, is here again
for his last bird hunt of the season.
The Vanstory Clothing Company
has added a wholesale hat and trunk
department to its increasing business.
Prof. George 11. Crowell notifies us
that the date of the Sam Jones lecture
in High Point is Friday evening,March
nth.
Miss Selma Lamb has iet.lined from
New York, where she bought Mrs.
Rosa Hamner Carter's spring millinery
stock.
We regret to learn that Prof. .1. It.
Wharton is critically ih again, his con-dition
having changed materially the
past few days.
The Hell telephone company, which
enjoys a monopoly here, gives out the
coiufoitiug word that rates will lie
raised April i-l.
Mi. John Y. Smith. Jr.. a young
lawyer of t hi.-city who has been located
in Lumbertoii llie past year, will lo-cate
in Atlanta in a few days.
Don't forget that we sell you all
kinds of garden seed by the ounce or
pound -not short weight papers.
<'. Si o| I & Co.
Mr. J. C. Small, one of the popular
main-line engineers on the Southern.
has moved his family here from Kpen-cer.
lie has a in other here, Mr. I •. W.
Small.
Mi, It. K.Crawford, who has been
\\ lib 11 if 1 lotel i Suilford for some time,
has given up hi- position here to take
the management of a new hotel at
Wilson.
Kast Market street is to be improved
this summer by the construction of
two handsome dwellings, one for Mr.
J. It. A. I'ower and one for Mr. Krvin
i lounell.
Miss Lillian Kstelle Allen, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. It. .1. Allen, and Mr.
Samuel W. Pickler, of Salisbury, will
be married at the home of the bride on
Kast liragg street this eveiiing at 5
o'clock.
The full amount of insurance on
Greensboro Female College, >:;■>.nun.
will be paid over in a few days, the ad-justers
sent here from Atlanta last
week making a recommendation to
that effect.
Mr. John N. Cunimings, of Colum-bia,
s. ('., has been appointed by the
Southern Railway as assistant law
agent at Greensboro, succeeding Mr. J.
L. Parker, who has been transferred to
Norfolk, Va.
Mr. Julian Price has given up his
|M>sitipn with the American Tobacco
Company to take the management of
Larabee & Company's brokerage office
here, succeeding Mr. It. M. Albright,
who now hold- a position in Raleigh.
Several distinguished educators who
bad been at the Atlanta meeting last
week stopped over here on their return
and visited President Mclver, of the
State Normal, and members of the'
faculty they had met on their Southern
trip.
Notice has been given that plans for
the rebuilding of Greensboro Female
College must be in the hands of the
committee by March Kith. Several
architects have been here in con-ference
with the committee and will
submit plans.
In Superior court last week Dr. J. G.
Brodnax was awarded damages in the
sum of 1800 for injuries sustained in a
street car accident some months ago.
The Greensboro Electric Company, de-1
fcndaiit in the case, gave prompt no-tice
of an appeal.
A modern filtering and oaibonatiug '
system has been installed at Gardner's '■
dun' store this week by a representa-tive
of the manufacturers in Phildel-I
phia. It is a desirable adjunct to the
store from a hygienic as well as an j
economic standpoint.
Alter March 16 no game birds can be
lawfully killed in North Carolina until
November. The game wardens will
linil plenty to do dating "vacation,"
however, rounding up violators of the
law who have been notorious in their
disregard for it in recent years.
Mr. Bert Speucer, a yard couductor
for the Southern here, is recovering
slowly from painful injuries received
last week while at work near the coal
chute. A passing engine bumped him
so hard that it was feared that he was
injured internally, but such does not
seem to he the case. No bones were
broken.
Rev. 11. M. Blair, editor of the N. C.
Christian Advoeate, and Dr. James
Atkins are at Washington attending
the National Congress of Religious Ed-ucation
which met there yesterday.
Brother Blair is one of the speakers
named on the program. The sessions
are presided over by Justice Harlan, of
the Supreme court.
Suits aggregating thirty or forty
: thousand dollars have been filed against
Geo.T. Penny, a High Point man, who
I is charged lirst with alienating the af-fections
of Cue wife of A. K. l'raley, of
High Point, anil later with forcing an
entrance to the home of Blanche Alex-ander
here while she was sick. The
mother and brother of the frail Blanche
claim $10,000each, and of course they
will get it.
At a meeting of the board of trustees
I Of the State Normal and Industrial
College, held yesterday at Raleigh, the
dormitory plans submitted by Hook &
Sawyer weie adopted and the board
; w ill ask the Council of State foi author-ity
to borrow the money to erect the
building. The structure will be shaped
like the letter |£. with a frontage of 370
I feet, the wiugs having a depth of 270
feet. The middle wing will be used for
a dining room.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society of West Market church, which
is the banner society of the Western
North Carolina M. IS. conference, held
a silver jubilee Sunday night in cele-braiiou
of the tweSity-iifth anniversary
of that organization. The interesting
program rendered included addresses
by Mis. Lucy A. Cuuniuggim and
Mrs. Lucy II. Robertson, recitations
and several musical numbers. A large
audience enjoyed the service. The so-ciety
supports one missionary in China
at a salary of $75(1 per year in addition
to contributing liberally to the general
missionary work.
The bu-iues- associations of the city
are back of a movement to have a com-petent
building and ele--tiic wiring in-spector
appointed by the city authori-ties
as a measure of protection against
lire-. At a meeting held last week a
committee was appointed to go befoie
the board of aldermen and recommend
tne appointment of such an officer who
will devote all his lime lo the work.
An inspector could earn sufficient fees,
assessed on a reasonable basis, to reim-burse
the cily for the added expense.
And even if he doesn't the appoint-ment
should be made because the best
interests of the city demand It.
I'be borne of Mr. and Mr.-. W. A.
Klliott, at L'L'I South Kiigeue street,
was Hie scene of a very pretty wedding
last Thursday afternoon, their daugh-ter,
Miss Celesta Olena* becoming the
: wife of Mr. Clifford McLean a worthy
young man living a few miles east of
the city. The marriage ceremony was
impressively performed by Lev. Ira
Irwin. pastor of Centenary M. K.
church, in the presence of a few inti-mate
friends of the contracting parties.
Miss F.mma Klliott, sister of the bride,
was maid of honor, and Mr. P. <;. Mc-
Lean, brother of the gtoom, was best
man. Soon after the ceremony the
happy couple drove to the McLean
homestead, where they will reside.
We fear that some of oiu correspon-dents
attach b o much importance to
the calls of young gentlemen on y« g
ladies in spme of the rural communities
of this and neighboring counties. The
calls are all right, but it is unnecessary
to report the same in the columns of a
newspaper, as they are not of sufficient
note to interest readers in more than a '
limited number of states. We want
our correspondents lo report the visits
of those who come and go from neigh-boring
towns, counties and states, but
the calls or visits of neighbors can
hardly interest readers in other sec-tions.
We suppose it is unnecessary
to repeat that we wantcommunications
written only on one side of the paper.
Prizes Awarded.
The names of the prize-winners in
the contest which closed February loth
will be announced next week and the
terms of a second contest proposed. In
a later issue we will print the lirst-pri/.
e article on -The Value of Birds lo
the Farmer."
Seed Time and Harvest.
Seed time is here, and il you expect
to leap a rich harvest you must plant
good seed. Just want to say we've got
'em, and at the right prices.
C. SCOTT & Co., Seedsmen.
Wood's seeds just received. Gardner.
Spring: Housecleaning Ordered.
The chaotic condition of the court
house in recent months, pending the
completion of the improvements there,
caused Judge Cooke to utter a deliver-ance
from the bench Friday which will
stimulate the cleaning op of the big
| building. The county officials were
'called up to answer for the tilth that
was in evidence in the halls and else-
! where and they satisfied His Honor, iu
ia measure, that the repairs to the
building were the source of much of
the trouble complained of. The Judge
finally remarked that he would not
: hold court in the building again in its
present condition and if he found it
unimproved he would adjourn the term
; from day to day until the lilth was re-moved.
To Sheriff Jordan was dele-gated
the task of supervising the clean-ing
of the building, the bill to he pre-sented
to the county commissioners.
If not paid by them the Judge will as-sume
the indebtedness. Since the ad-journment
of court Mitch Byers, the
colored janitor, has been the busiest
man in town, as the idea has dawned
on him that his job is in jeopardy.
Five divorces were granted at the
February term of Guilford Superior
court, the plaintiffs being Mamie B.
Welton vs. Morine M. Welton, Caddy
Hardy vs. Harry H. Hardy, Josephine
Wilson vs. Fletcher Wilson, Mary
Kmnia Vanstory vs. Charles Biifus
Yaustory, and Cornelia Thomas vs.
Robert Thomas, the last two plaintiffs
being colored. In the case of Barker
vs. Barker Mrs. Barker was allowed
$50 a month alimony pending a hear-ing
of the case on its merits, which
will occur possibly in June, and her
attorneys were allowed fees of $30 each.
. Notice of appeal from the order was
liied. ()ne of the plaintiff's in a divorce
case pending at the term wrote here
from his home in Davidson that bis
wife, from whom he wished to be freed,
bad died since the term opened and
asked his attorney to refund any of the
money lie had not "yearned."
'"--..r-ttecord calls attention to the fact
Hi il the plans for the enlarged govern-ment
building here provide for only
live hundred lock boxes in the postof-tice
when at least a thousand should
be provided. Larger and better boxes
are demanded also, as some firms find
it necessary to rent two boxes to ac-commodate
their mail, it woufdseem
that inasmuch as applications for boxes
ha\ c to be kept on file for some lime
now before the demand can be sup-plied
the department would do more
to avoid a repetition of this state of af-fairs
in the near future than to provide
about a hundred additional boxes. We
venture that inside a year a box can
not be secured in the office until some
one gives one up. The best time to
alter the plans is right now, ami we
hope the government will give the
mailer some consideration.
Messrs. P. V. Carter, of this city, and
('. N. Bray, of Siler City, have qualified
in the Superior court of Chatham
county as administrators of Hie estate
of N. S. Bridges, of Simmon Grove,
who was killed in this county recently.
They w ill bring suit against the South-ern
for damages in behalf of the man's
heirs, claiming that the company was
negligent m not preventing Ids in-juries.
Bridges, it will be remembered,
took the wrong train here and went
east instead of south. (idling oil the
train at Mci.eansville he attempted,
while under the influence of liquor, to
walk back to the city. He sat down
on a crosstie and went to sleep, and it
was tiiere the Main struck him.
A Hint to the Wise.
We would like to remind the far-mers
thai when they place their to-bacco
at the Banner warehouse we
handle it in a manner calculated to
bring the best prices every lime. To-bacco
is never crowded on our lloor be-yond
a reasonable limit, and it is worth
as much after a sale as before. The
buyers should bear this in mind also,
and not hesitate to pay full price for
every pile shown here, as we guaran-tee
to deliver it in as good shape as
w hen it came oil the wagons.
S.MI in & STOXK,
Proprietors Banner Warehouse.
The Close of Frieden School.
Miss Bessie Zimmerman's school at I
Frieden's church, near Gibsonville,
will close Saturday, March 5th, with
an all-day entertainment consisting of
recitations, declamations,orations, dia-logues
and songs. Exercises begin at,
in o'clock. Music by the Whit.-ett or-chestra.
The public is cordially in- |
vited.
LOST—A young w liite pointer bitch,
with brown ears and brown spot on
left side of neck running back to shoul-der.
Reward. J. C. NOBMAS,
8-2t At Southside Hardware Co.
Go to Garduer's for garden seeds.
GREENSBORO TOBACCO MARKET.
MARKET REPORT.
The receipts on our market for the
past week have been quite heavy, yet
they were not fully as heavy as they
were for some previous weeks of this
season, but the tobacco men had about
all they could do to handle the sales
and were kept busy throughout the
entire week. The quality of the offer-ings
was rather poorer than it lias been
for any previous week this year yet
there was a good sprinkling of desira-ble
tobacco in all grades which was
eagerly sought for whenever it was
found, of course, the people who had
undesirable tobacco for sale were not
very well pleased with their prices,
but everybody who had desirable tobac-co
of any kind was highly pleased
with their prices. We regard prices
about the same us they were last week
and as good as they have been at any-time
this year, and fully as good as we
expect to see them in this crop, hence
we regard this about the best time to
sell tobacco that there will he during
this season. Good to line wrappers are
in active demand and bring from $25
to $50 per hundred whenever they
show up. In fact, all grades of tobacco
are in active demand and bring their
full value whenever they are ollered
for sale on this market. One thing
that we have to contend with is the
fact that people compare juices with
last year's prices, but do not compare
the quality of the tobacco. If they
would stop to think a moment they
would remember that last year's crop
Of tobacco was the best crop that has
been for many years, and this year's
crop i> about as poor a one as has been
for many years, yet present prices com-pare
favorably with prices a year ago.
There is more demand on this market
for tobacco than has been at any time
for live years. Every order that is
worth placing anywhere is represented
in Greensboro, and our buyers are very
anxious for tobacco and are paying out-side
prices for il whenever it shows up.
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
and careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized In 1880, 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, 1S99, to April 9th, 1908:
*&*«£?.!^l.™*?!>: $ 44,372.95
66,227.55
103,789.13
129,543.47
155,236.42
166,696.66
570,689.76
Capital anil surplus Feb.
1st. CHU.
Capital ami surplus Fob.
1st. ism
Capital ami surplus Feb.
1st, I90E
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st, lint)
Capital and surplus April
8th, 1MB
Total assets April Bth,
l'.l«
E. P. WllAltTll.V, A. W. Ml Al.lSIKB,
President Vice Pres.
H. R. Cannon, a prominent farmer
I of eastern Guilford, sold here last week
and was very well pleased.
It. A. Sockwell, of this county, sold
here last week for a 111 cent average,
his prices ranging from £ii to ;L' i.
M. T. Wagoner, of Brown Summit,
sold a load of tobacco here last week
for$108.95, making an average of lo
cents.
J. A. Dixon and Miss Lizzie Sock-well,
of Guilford, were highly pleased
with a 9 cent average on this market
last week.
M. C. and B. H. Osborn, two of our
southside farmers, were here with to-bacco
last week and were highly
pleased. •
A. R. Thomas, one of Guilford's best
farmers, was here with tobacco and
his prices ranged from $5 to $24.50,
averaging about 11 cents. t
J.J. Lambeth, one of our good far-mers
in eastern Guilford, wus here
with tobacco and left fairly well pleased.
We hope to sec him back soon.
D. J. Cunimings, one of Bucking-ham's
good farmers, was here with a
good load of tillers last week. His
I prices ranged from £7.7-3 to $17.50.
King iS: Vaughn, of Alamance, were
here last week. Their prices ranged
from So to si 1. They made a good
average for a medium load of tobacco.
I
Rippey >•>- Walker, of Alamance
county, were here with a good load of
tobacco this week and expressed them-selves
as having gotten more than they
expected.
C. T. Weatherly, one of Guilford's
good farmers, sold a load of tobacco
here during the past week at $7.25 to
$25 per hundred and was very highly
pleased with his sales.
Peter Coble, of Alamance county,
was here during the past week and
sold a load of tobacco at from £ti to $21
per hundred. He made a good aver-age
and was highly pleased.
A. J. Busick, of northern Guilford,
father of our policeman, was here with
a good load of fillers during the past
week. His prices ranged from $6 to
$12.75. He made a good average.
Jerry Terry has been here with to-bacco
twice during the past week.
The proof of the pudding is in chewing
the sack, so Jerry must be pleased with
his prices. We are always glad to have
him.
J. C. Wbitesell, one Of Alamance
county's gootl farmers, was here lust ;
week and sold front $5 to $17.50 per
hundred. He was pleased with his
prices and will be back befoie many
days.
The following farmers were here with
tobacco from Rockiugham county dur-ing
the past week, and expressed them-selves
as being very well pleased with
R. G. VAUGHN,
Treasurer.
DAVID WHITE,
Secretary.
prices: FarrarA Boon. Walker&Boon,
V.. A. Price and G. M. Boss.
J. R. Paisley, one of Guilford's good
farmers, was here with tobacco during
the past week and was very well
pleased with his prices. Mr. Paisley is
one Of Guilford's most substantial citi-zens
and) we are always glad to have
him with us.
Mrs. Lnuuie Flack, of northeastern
Guilford, sent a load of tobacco here
during the past week and died sudden-ly
while her son was here with the
tobacco. We extend our sympathies
to the grief-stricken home and trust
that they may see the wisdom of tie
Divine will iu this bereavement.
K. L. Lindley, one of south Ala-mance's
best farmers, was here with
tobacco during the past week. His
prices ranged from $5.20 to$80per hun-dred,
and he received $145.75 for 9B0
pounds. Mr. Lindley is one of the
best tobacco growers in south Alamance
and we are always glad to have him
with US.
Public Sale.
I will oiler for sale on Saturday,
March 5th, at the Hanner place, one
mile west of the city, unless told pri-vately
in the meantime, two maie-,
one one-horse wagon, double set wagon
harness, one cookstove, two heaters,
carpets, household and kitchin furni-ture
and many other article- uot men-tioned.
Sale to commence at 1 P.M.
sharp. C. II. HAM oi K.
Don't buy seeds until you get prices
from Gardner.
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, - - - $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
rniic'i States Depository.
OFFICEUS.
W. s. Thomson, .1. Van Llll'l'o.1
President. Vice Pre-ldem.
Lee II. Battli . Cashier.
DIHECTORS.
w. s. Thomson,
C. II. Dorsett,
w. c. Bain,
.1. A. Hoskins.
.1. Alien Hon.
I-:. J. Stafford.
Win. CuMiininirs.
.1. Van Lindley.
,i. C. Bishop.
.1. A. Davidson.
We extend t" depositors every facility con-sistent
with prudent bankinir.
Interest paid on lime certificates »>t deposit.
WRITE OR CALL TO SEE US.
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