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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 85. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1906. NO. 14
Cc W. J. RICHARDSON
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Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE. N. C.
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-YSICIAN AND SURGEON
GREENSBORO. N. C.
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Practice Limited to Diseases mid Sur-
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ATTORNEYS
«2 COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREESSBORO. It. C.
Robert 11. Douirlas.
3UGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
a la Greensboro Loan and Truat BIdt.
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
JU'LDING. OPP COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO. N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
. Square, GREENSBORO. It. C.
.1 on to collection*. Loans
tobert C. Strudwick
ORNtYonZ COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
t Square. GREENSBORO. It. C.
P. HOBGOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Wright Building*, Opposite
House, Greensboro, N. C.
8. Glenn Brown,
uykendall & Brown
ATT0BNE7S AT LAW
. 01, City Nafl Hank Bldgr.
ARLES E. McLEAN
TTORNEY AT LAW
i • Square,Greensboro, N. C.
URGE M. PATTON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
enabofo Loan and Trust 1 ornpany Building.
Spike harrows, double-shovel aud
four shovel plows at Towusend A
Uo.'s. ii.6t.
Dr. W. VV. Howe was able to resume
his dental practice Saturday after au
enforced vacation on accouut of illness.
Mr. John A. Weatherly is laid up
with a severe attack of kidney trouble
that threatens to develop into Bright*!
disease.
All -rrades of fertilizers on hand at
Towusend ds Co.'s, and prices as low
as you can buy good goods any where
on earth. 11-41.
Head Koyster's big fertilizer ad. iu
Ibis paper. You will lind the goods at
V C. Towusend A Co.'s, and theie are
uinie better. not.
Mr. C. I). Higgius has sold his Hill-top
farm to Mr. J. F. Thompson. It is
1 a Dice little place of 21 acres aud will
make a desirable home.
Will McAdoo and Wreim I'earee, of
thisciiy, who are operating a skating
rink at Hurlington, announce a big
carnival for tomorrow night.
Mr. and Mrs. John Yow, who live
near l-'airlield church, in southwestern
Guilford, lost an infant last Saturday.
It was buried at Faiitield Sunday.
Rhode Island Red and Buff Leghorn
eggs for sale. $1 for 15
N. K. WHITE,
1 lot R, I). 7, Greensboro, N. C.
Less llian one month remains for the
payment of poll tax. All those liable
for this (ax must pay on or before
May 1st <ir be deprived of the privilege
of voting at tiie fall election.
FOB BALE—Three plantations ad-joining
each other three mile-' north-east
o. Greensboro and one mi e from
White Oak Mills. GEORGE DUNXH.I,
B-tf. Greensboro N. C
Mrs. 8. 8. Eiaithcock, who came here
from Wilkeaboro last week to attend
the funeral of her daughter, Miss
Lou's; Haithcock, is quite sick at the
home of another daughter, Mrs. J. R,
Donnell.
The Piedmont Cottou Company, of
i which Mr. L. J Rrnudt is secretary.
has moved its office from the McAdoo
buildjng to No. 118 East Sycamore
stieet. Mr. E. W. Stewart is now with
the company.
See me before buying your fertilizers,
seeii oats aud garden seeds. Freeh
stock ami prices right. Try a package
of International Stock Food.
9-t.f. J. FRANK ROSS,
Pleasant Garden, N. (J.
Gen. John GUI, of Baltimore, and a
few associates, have purchased a huge
hunting preserve near Manchester and
will build a line lodge there. Sheiill
Jordan went down last week to help
(ten. Gill select a site for the lodge.
Thieves visited the premises of Mrs. I
W. L. afcClamrocb, on North Cedar
street, last Friday night and made a
very creditable raid, taking away three
nice hams, two middlings, each weigh-lug
about twelve pounds, and six fat
hens.
The Daniel hiiildmir, on the comerof I
Fayetteviile and South Elm streets, is ,
being converted into a barber shop
which will be managed by Mr. ('. W.
Edwards, formerly of Hiier City, who
has had a stand of the opposite side of
the street for some time.
Greensboro Tent, No. 8, Knights ofj
the Maccabees, had an enthusiastic
meeting Friday night, conferring the
initiatory degree on a large class of de-sirable
candidates and winding up the
evening with a social session that was
enjoyable from start to finish
A woman with two small children
and a hungry looking dog enjoyed the
hospitality of the city for a couple of
days last week. She came here look-ing
for work but found none, and was
later given transportation to Fayette-viile,
which claimed was her home.
On hundred evergreen trees, the gift
of the Startown Nurseries, Newton,
through Hon. A. C Hhuford, now
adorn College Avenue at the State Nor-mal
and Industrial College. They are
Norway Spruce pines and will develop
into tilings of beauty within a few
years.
Rev. I). A. Highlill. of Liberty, stop-ped
over here Monday on his return
from his regular appointments at Fair-field
and Mitchell's Grove and weut
out just north of the city to visit a
brother, Mr. C. L. L. Highfill, who is
just getting up after a serious attack or
measles.
Leaksville ('alette: Dr. A. M. Whit-sett,
one of Keidsville's best known cit-izens,
died last Saturday from paraly-sis.
He was stricken about noon of
the day of his death. Dr. Whitsett had
been iu declining health for several
months, but his sudden death came as
a surprise.
THE HARTFORD OF THE SOUTH.
Amazing Development of Greensboro's
Insurance Interesis, Bath in Fire and
Life tompanles—A Record Unsurpassed
Anywhere.
During ihe pan few years Greeusboro
has made giaut stndes in all lints, and
the story of the city's progressive enter-prise
is familial history to all people
who keep posted as to thedevelopment
of Southern communities aud enter-prises.
In the short period of time
covered by a decade Greensboro has
grejwn from a steady-going county-seat
to a hustling, prosperous city, with a
future that is bright with promise.
This development lias come as the re-sult
of the establishment of new enter-prises
anil the strengthening of estab-lished
institutions, aud all classes of
, citizens have enjoyed and ate enjoying
a measure of the common prosperity
| that is apparent on every haud.
it is the purpose of the PATRIOT, in
| this article, briefly to call attention to
(one line of business that has grown
i more rapidly than any other. We re-fer
to the insurance companies having
their headquarters in this city, which,
collectively, have advertised Greeus-boro
more and brought a gieater
ann;.ini of money into this community
than any oilier one Industry. Only a
few years ago everybody in this section
who Insured then lues or property
sent their premiums to companies in
the North and elsewhere; today a ma-jority
of this money is kept at home.
Our people have tqual Of better protec-tion
lor their lives and property, and
at the same time the community is
richer because tne greater pa it of the
money our citizens pay in premiums
remains at home.
There are iu operation in Greensboro
at the present time three life companies
and live tile companies, all of which
are doing u thriving business. The
combined a-sets of these companies
amount to $2,000,000 oi mine, while
then annual busJueee represents many
millions. We suppose a conservative
estimate would place the premium re-ceipts
of these companies during the
present year at*l,500,000 The turning
loose in (ireenslioio of ibis amount of
money in one year means a great deal
for this entire section, for thereby it
will bemi.de possible to establish and
| foster other enterprises that will bear
their share of the burden iu the indus-trial
aud commercial development of
Greenaboro and Gullfoid county.
THE FIRE COMPANIES.
The home lire companies were lii-t
to establish themselves in Giaensboto,
and their success has been all that their
promoters could have desired. The
movement had its inception ten or
twelve years ago, when Messrs. A. \V.
McAlister, E. I*. U barton and their as-sociates
conceived the idea of stem-ming
the tide that was taking from
this stale a vast sum of money every
year In the payment of premiums to
foreign lire insurancecompanies. They
organized the Southern Block Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, the growth
of which was rapid. The people here-abouts
were quick to perceive the many
beuelils to be derived from patronizing
the home company, and despite bitter
and relentless warfare from the lire in- i
surance trust, Mr. McAlister and his'
associates soon saw their way clear to '
organize and put in operation another
company. I u the development of the
business the pioneer company lost its
Identity In a larger corporation, ami
today the geutlemen who organized
Greensboro's liist home lire insurance
company have the management of four
strong companies that protect property
and draw premium receipts from all
sections of the South.
The North State Fire insurance
Company, backed by leading North
Carolina business meu. is in its second
year and enjoying its full measure of
prosperity. Its success lias been so'
pronounced that several enterprising
gentlemen interested in the company,
together with other capitalists and bus-iness
men, have orgauized the Dixie
Fire Insurance Company, with a capi-tal
of $500,000 and a surplus of$2S0,000. '
The new couipany will operate through-out
the South aud will begin operations
in ahout ninety days.
In all probability, the end of the
present year will lind still auotber lire
company operating in Greeusboro. It
will he hacked by ample capital and
handled by men of wide experience iu
the insurance business. It is thought
that the orgauizatiou of this company
will be perfected in the near future.
TIIItKi: LIFE (O.MI'A.MKS.
The development of Greensboro's life
Insurance interests began about live i
years ago aud lias beeu so successful as j
to attract the atteution and command
tin- respect of life iusurauce people;
throughout the nation. The three
home com | ■nines carry insurance to the |
amount ,,f about $12,000,000. aud by
the end of 190G the amount will reach
at least $20,000,000. This is by no
means a majority of the life insurance
carried by North Carolina people, but
if the present ratio of growth is kept
up, it will uot be a great many years
, until the bulk of life iusurauce in force
| in this state will be carried in home
companies. Already the three Greens-boro
companies are writing more busi-ness
than any three foreigu companies
•TO Witting in North Carolina.
The first home company—the Secur-ity
Life and Annuity Company—began
business neatly live years ago. The
prime mover iu its organization was
Mr. K. Colwell, Jr., at present the sec-retary
of the Greensboro Life Insurance
I Company. Mr. J. Van Liudley, fore-most
in so many undertakings for the
upbuilding 0f his section, has been
president of the Security Life aud An-liuity
Company since its organization.
He is assisted m its management by
Mr. George A. Griuisley, for a number
of years superintendent of Greensboro's
public schools. The company occupies
its own building on South E m street
and lias a business amounting to about
$11,000,01X1, u hicii shows an average
growth of over $1,000,000 a year duriug
its exlsteuce.
The Southern Life and Trust Com-pany
added a life insurance depart-ment
in 1808, under the management
of Mr. A. W. McAlister. who had
proved his ability in the lire insurance
tield. The couipany has built up a
good business in this state and South
Carolina and daring the two and a half
years of its existence lias increased its
surplus to policy-holders by over *110,-
000. The insurance in force at the end
of unto amounted to $1,072,500.
The youngest of the three home life
companies i.> the Greenaboro Life In-surance
Company, the success of which
has been phenomenal. Tins company
begafl business on July 22, 1!«).~>, with a
paid iu capital of $100,000 and asurplus
of $25(000 Its business has grown by
leuiMHial bounds, its insurance in force
at the end of 1005 amounting to about
$2,000,1100. The First of April found
anottpi million dollars added to the
am, ,.I. and we understand that the
management expects to have$6,000,1 on
in force by the close of the present year.
The assets of the company aie being
strengthened in equal proportion.
Every indication points to the fact that
the Greensboro Life is to be one of the
big insurance companies of the country
—and there is no reason why it should
uot be. The South is an inviting held
and the men In charge of the Greens-boro
Life have demonstrated that they
know how lo bring things to pass. The
secretary of the company is Mr. K. Col-well,
Jr., one of the hrlgbesl aud brain-iest
iusurauce men in the country, ami
lie is assisted iu the maiia'reiiieiit by
gentlemen of high standing anil signal
ability in the auatness world. Mr. J.
W. Fry is president oi the company,
and the directors are among North
Carolina's best known and most suc-cessful
citizens.
This brief > and necessarily imperfect i
sketch of the insurance interests of
Greensboro is printed for the purpose
Of directing the attention of our people
to a line of business that is advertising
Greensboro far aud wide and causing
this former sleepy tonn to a recognized
as one of the lives! and mosl progres-sive
cities iu the South. What High
Point is to the furniture industry of the
South, Greenaboro Is to the insurance
interests. For several years our neigh-boring
city in the southwestern corner
of the county has been referred lo as
the "Grand Rapids" of the South, and
today! Ireeusboro is recognized through-out
the country as the "Hartford" of
the South. Guilford county is indeed
fortunate in having within her borders
two cities that stand supreme in two
distinct lines of business.
Bast Side to Have a Hose Company Com-posed
of colored Men.
It will be remembered that Greens-boro
iu days gone by had a very eftic-ieut
hose company composed ofcolored 1
men. For some reason the organiza-tion
weut to pieces, but it has been re- j
vived aud will ask for official recogui-
Son from the city government. At a
meeting last week promoters of the
company met aud elected the follow-ing
officers: President, NochoGilmer;
secretary, Walter Hiatt: treasurer, G.
B. W. Walker; chaplain, Robert Gray;
foreman, Alex. Gilmer; assistant fore-meu,
Anderson Wade aud A. S. Fos-ter.
A committee was appointed to
confer with the city officials in regard
to quarters aud apparatus. The com-pany
will furnish fire protection for a
populous section of the city.
Oak posts aud all kinds of rough |
lumber, cut to order. Can deliver same
anywhere iu Greeusboro. Call on or
address GEOROE L. MORRIS,
Guilford College, N. C.
GREENSBORO THE I LACE.
Papers Urge Reasons for Selection of this
CHy as Ihe Piac: for Holding the
Democrailc Slale Convention.
Mr. Andrew Joyner, Ihe hustling
newspaper correspondent that keeps a
Greensboro date line in all the princi-pal
papers of the country, made good
use of a endow admission appearing in
a Washington special to the Haleigb
News aud Observer last week turning
it to Greensboro's advantage in a neat
manner. In the special referred to it
was slated thai many among the con-gressional
delegation were objecting to
holding the next state convention iu
Greeusboro because the convention
hall was entirely too large and per-mitted
so many delegates comfortable
seals it was hard ou the orators to be
heard, rather surprised people here,
who had thought, as Ur. Joyoerstates,
it was a good thing for the p frty and
the delegates that all who could iiud
not only hotel accommodations, hut
could have the poor privilege of being
admitted into the convention hall, and
! the old excuse "there is not room for
[all" could no longer i,e urged, a- had
been the case so often at former con-ventions.
Everybody knows however, thai the
convention held two yeirs before, had
plenty of mom in the opera house,
which tould be used again Ibis year
i without subjecting Greensboro to the
Raleigh criticism of furnishing too
large a ball last year.
While Greenaboro is intent on secur-
I lag the convention this year, it has
I becomingly little to say about any ef-fort
it mute two and lour years ago,
after getting the convention, to make
the delegates feel a hearty welcome.
| Many papers from oilier- towns, how-ever,
have remembered it, and erenow
placing Greenaboro under grateful
Iobligations by generously recalling the
successful results of those efforts.
Of all these recent editorial! on this
Isubject, one in the Wilmington Mes-senger
and the following from the
Charlotte < hronicle were peculiarly ap-propos,
and highly appreciated here:
"The Democratic patriots who at-
; tended the last stale convention at
Greensboro cannot but help contrast
I conditions there as they have been in
iialeitth for years past. In Greeusboro
there was a warehouse covering about
half a block. Il was beautifully deco-rated
and the seating arrangement was
as good as any architect could have
made it. It was a warm June day slid
the great hall was packed, but there
j were electric fans, there were pyramids
', of ice in the aisles and outside the lire-men
kept streams of water playing on
the roof. Never was a more cooiforta-
Ible state convention held. How was
it in Haleigb'.' All who have attended
a state convention there kuow. A
! crowded hall, ill ventilated, packed to
!suffocation, few windows, foul air and
no lee or electric fans. The first state
convention held in Greensboro, while
one of the most hotly contested in the
history of the Democratic party iu this
slate, was at the same liiue the most
harmonious on record -and the result
; was uuanimou-ly endorsed. Every-body
went home whooping for the
ticket In its entirety. Even the autl-
| Winston fellows laughed annul it. No
such unanimity as that ever followed a
Raleigh convention.
"The Democratic committee is to
; meet in Kaleigh next week to lix the
i time and place for holding the next
state convention. The time is imma-terial,
but the place is important. As
we view the matter. Greensboro has I
come forward with claims that can not
for a moment he questioned. One vote
ought to settle the matter as to the
place for holding the convention, for,
from all view points, there is but one
practical place, and that is Greeus-boro.''
TTumiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiinimi mm
Banking
by Mail
Our plan of receiving
deposits by mail appeals
especially to those who
have never had a bank
account, but who would
: like to lay aside for the
inevitable "rainy day,"
j thereby providing for
those who are near and
| dear to them. We pay
4% on savings.
Send for our bookht,
I "Banking by Mail."
i
southern
8 Life and Trust I •e
Company
Capital, $230,000. Surplus, $85,000.
a GREENSBORO, N. C.
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BLACKBURN PREPARES FOR TRIAL.
Randolph Horse Thief, Captured In
Greensboro, Gets Ten Years.
After evading puuisbment lor two
years, John Lynn, a Randolph county
negro who stole a iiorse from his uncle
aud then set lire to the barn, was ar-rested
here last week and turned over
to Randolph county officer who fully
identified him. Lyuu protested earn-estly
against being carried back for
trial, and finding that would do no
good, concluded to escape from the of-ficer,
if ]>ossible. While waiting at
the depot for a train Wednesday eveu-i:
ig he slipped away from the deputy
and would have escaped had not Of-ficer
Glenn beeu nearby to aid iu his
recapture. It required quite a struggle
to overcome him ami in order to be
prepared for any further trouble along •
that line Officer Stedmau was detailed
to accompany the deputy and his pris-oner
home. In the Superior court at
Asheboro ou Thursday Lynn plead
guilty on a charge of horse stealing
and was immeiiiately sentenced to ten
years in the peutentiary. That after-noon
he passed through Greeusboro on i
his way to Raleigh. It is not likely he
« hi serve his time, as in all probability
he will escape or get killed iu the at-tempt.
Car load of disc harrows just received
at Towusend & Co.'s. Prices from $17
up. 11-4L
The Young Congressman Here tor Con-sultation
Witb His Attorneys.
Congressman E. Spencer Rlackburu,
who is either representing or misrepre-senting,
as will be determined shortly,
the Eightli district in the lower branch
of the national legislature, arrived in
Greensboro Friday morning and spent
a portion of the day consulting with
his attorneys, Messrs. liyiium and
Hrooks, and mapping out a line of de-fense
to be followed in the proceedings
that are Net for April 17. It is not
probable that he will return to Wash-ington
before the termination of his
trial, as there will be plenty to do here
in shaping things to bring about the
vindication that he not only hopes for
but seems confident of seeming. He
appears to take a philosophic view of
the situation, which lie characterizes
as persecution Instead of prosecution,
and wants a speedy hearing. The talk
of postponing the trial did not gain
currency by any word or deed of his,
and he will insist ou a bearing at the
time appointed. Were the case post-poned
lo tlie fall term of Federal court
a renomination would be out of the
question.
Talking with a reporter Friday Mr.
Rlackburu said that Frazier would
eventually be confirmed as |- -tmu-tei
at Greensboro.
Towusend A Co. have unloaded 400
com planters this spring and have a
great variety to select from. See them
early. 11-iit.
'The
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
DOIM'T WAIT
till you get a hundred dollars
to start a bank account, if
you do, you may never have
the hundred, and therefore
ne\ er experience the pleasure
of doing business with a re-liable
bank. Open an account
in the Savings Department of
The City National Bank with
that you have; you will get
the hundred much sooner.
T. B. OGBURN, Mgr. Sav. Dept.
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