The Greensboro patriot [June 1, 1911]

              VOL. 90.
GREENSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY. JUNE 1, 1 d11
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NO. 22.
PEOPLE'S BARGAIN COLUMN! PROMOTERS IN TROUPE.
Advertisements inserted under ON
heading at the rate of one cent a word
for each Insertion. .Persona and Ann.
E0 do not have advertising cootracta
Jltl, the paper will be required to pay
casii In advance.
Cut price cash sale of vehicles
Juno 3rd. See them before you
bay The Townsend Buggy Company.
Do you want a good paying busi-ng
turned over to you at once at
a sacrifice price? If so, see C. C.
Townsend, whose failing health com-uels
him to close out one of the
best stocks in town. 21-2t
Mrs. X. A. Ballinger, administra-trix
Guilford College, has for sale
at a bargain a threshing machine
vidi wind stacker. Good as new.
Call on Mrs. Ballinger at her home
or P. X. Taylor in Greensboro. ,
.A bargain in one second-hand BeJ>7
cock top buggy at $25, one Anchor
top buggy at $20, one Anchor open
buggy at $1".. All in good condition.
jr. G. Newell Company.
Registered imported Percheron s'al-lion
five years old, color black,
weight about 1600 pounds. The best
stallion ever brought to this sec-lion
is now ready for service, and
will stand the season, at Lee S.
Smiths place, Guilford College. For
terms and particulars, write or phone
Guilford College Hoise Company,
Lee S. Smith, Mgr. 12-tf.
I bare a lady's %atch that was
pawned to me on May 2, 1911. For
further information apply S. A. Wall,
Guilford College Route 1.
Ladies, buy your millinery where
you can save money. We have a
full line of new and up-to-date skirts,
ladies' waists and children's dresses.
We give trading stamps. Mrs. G. F.
Blackmon, 522 South Elm street.
We have a fine lot of field peas
to offer. Call at once and get
pr • before they are sold. Coe-t'obb
Company, 329 South Davie.
Th" Winfrey property to be sold
at SummerfMd Saturday, June 3, is
in spli ndid condition, both as regards
the real estate and the buildings.
More desirable property has not been
offerd for sale in the county in a
ioug while. 21-2L
PEAS—Get them now while you
can select the variety you want at
reasonable prices. Clays, whippor-willa
and mixed. The Patterson Com-
Darle street. 21-3t
M
'"; a ball of our standard binder
Same price as other grades.
<•. Newell Company.
GOOD FARM FOR SALE—188
■I:- miles east of Greensboro;
' .1 dwelling houses; good out
■- s; partly fenced with wire; in
'ate of cultivation; 50 or 60
; of oak timber; place situated
• adam road. Apply to William
'!'• en the dace.
J' ■■ IS cents a pound for
-' 'nickens and 9 cents a
tor hens. Can use butter
2S at market prices. Coe-
' orapany, 32ft South Davie.
op.
Fi ■■
Co
■ Uvu.D.—One black and white v Bitch, one lemon and white
dog and one liver and white
POii i bitch. Information leading to
.' . recovery will be rewarded. J.
Oman. 22-tf.
of u
Prln
skins
from
'••-■ we have just opened a line
' and up-to-date voile skirts.
from $5.50 to $7.50. Panama
■m $2 to $7. Wash skirts
' rents to $2. Trading stamps
_ *• "'ackmon. 522 S. Elm street.
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Ogling. With CoM Company.
de«Hni.r?8Ult 0f „aUe««« crooked
*!+Z** 1? a raUr°*<i Promotion
scheme, the two ring leaders In
»e enterprise are behind the bars
awaiting further proceedings The
men under arrest are "Dr." J. W.
Sykes, of this city, and "Dr" H P
MacKnight, of Southern Pines, who
!**•!■■ officials and promoters of
the North Carolina Traction Com-pany.
* Sykes was arrested here by
Deputy Sheriff Weatherly Saturday
afternoon, since which time he has
been a groat at the conty boarding
house. MacKnight was arrested by
Sheriff Jones in Raleigh! Tuesday af-ternoon
and committed to the Wake
county Jail.
The action resulting in the arrest
of these two men charged with fraud-ulent
dealings was brought by Now-
«n * Co., of Lynchburg, Va., coal
dealers, and the specific charge al-leged
Is the obtaining of coal under
false pretenses and selling It in
Greensboro and Winston at a lower
rate than the purchase price and
then failing to pay the original deale/
for it.
According to the letter heads of
the "North Carolina Traction Com-pany,
• the company has an author-ized
capital of $2,000,000, of which
$1,022,000 has been paid in; its main
offices are In Greensboro; and in
purchasing the coal from, tho Lynch-burg
company an officer of the
traction company is said to have
written the promise that work would
be begun at once in the vicinity of
Rural Hall in laying an interurban
traction line between Danbury and
Wiston. The coal is said to have
been shipped to this city and Wins-ton,
and the promoters of the inter-urban
line are accused of disposing
of coal to retail dealers for 90 cents
per ton when they had agreed to
pay $1.60 for it.
When Sykes, who is a man of
about 50 years of age and has been
living in this city for some time,
was arrested Saturday In connec-tion
with the action, he is said to
have claimed that all he did In the
matter was In perfect good faith and
that he turned all the money col-lected
for the coal over to Mac-
Knight. When he was asked where
the offices of the company are lo-cated
in Greensboro, he said that
the offices of the "North Carolina
Traction Company are at whatever
spot MacKnight happens to be."
As far as is known there is no
such company as the "North Caro-lina
Traction Company," incorporat-ed
under North Carolina law for the
transaction of business, and if so
there seems to be no record of the
incorporation in the office of the
clerk of the court of Guilford, as
there should be if Greensboro is
headquarters of the company.
The company's stationery bears the
names of the following officers: Dr.
H. P. MacKnight, director general
and chief engineer; A. M. Clarke,
president general; Dr. J. W. Sykes,
vice president; J. W. Krafft, sec-retary;
E. K. Krafft, general man-ager;
Thomas E. Walker, master
mechanic; R. L. Walker, purchasing
agent.
MacKnight is not unknown to the
courts of Guilford county. Ten or
twelve years ago he located in High
Point for the practice of osteopathy
and for a While seemed to do a
thriving business. Inter there were
' rumors regarding h's conduct and
(eventually he was arrested for al-leged
Improper relations with a fe-male
patient.
Vf. White Leghorn eges for
• for setting of 15. "Eight
• red for December shojw
Premiums. J. A. Groome,
ro It. F. P. 3, Phone 6811.
SALE—Nice bay horse, six
-'""id and gentle and will
'wnere. A. L. Plunkett,
,:'>>ite 6. Phone 495.
Mrs. N. A. Ballinger, administra-trix,
Guilford College, has for imme-diate
sale a threshing machine in
first-class condition. Either she or
F. N. Taylor, Greensboro, will give
any information desired.
t'vator that a lfj-year-old
i" rate is at the Townsend
"pany's. i8-4t
June 3rd. Nobody's busl-
"\" big ad. The ToWn-ompany.
r chickens and eggs to
""ipany, 329 s. Davie
' r net wait like you
'son, but get them now
'•s. Tho Patterson Com-
■ street 21-3t
Ladies, remember we still have a
full line of milinery. We sell you
hats cheaper than others and give
you trading stamps. Mrs. G. F.
Blackmon, 522 South Elm street.
Don't forget the sale of the Win-frey
estate in Summerfield Saturday,
June 3, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
These lands are valuable, and but for
the fact that they are to be sold
for a division among the heirs, they
would not be on the market. The
sale will be conducted by R. O. Gam-ble
as agent, and an advertisement
elsewhere describes the property in
detail. 21-2t.
Big roan mare and two-weesk-old
colt for sale. The mare is perfect-ly
sound and will work anywhere.
Apply to J. R. Donnell, Greensboro.
Telephone 165. 21-2t.
Merchants buying goods in Greens-boro
would do well to take a look
White Prolific' at the stock of Townsend's Variety
yielded Store. If you buy in quantity, you
$2 can save money over current whole-
':' For Sale
"/''ally for seed;
''. bushels per acre. .-
■ •• A. Groome, Greensboro sale prices on many articles, such as
■'I'one 6811. 16-tf. ! shoes, clothing, dry goods, notions,
1 crockery, soda, starch, soap, etc.
wll] ,,-r. 1:U;E~°? June 3, 1911, I
bv 7',r:'le t0 ^e highest
Jepo, auttful corner lot near the
«**»iu 1':,""'!'fi<'ld- on the ma-rs-
. ■ This lot has a front-roa'l
.: ih i,6 . on the Greensboro
Guilford i-nil e"1 dePth ■x f •' 'eg© ,oad and haosn onthIet
aay ,.. . u'" "Hiding. The same
a, .,., 'liable property known
lot., , " •'-/'State and Hoskins
W. Ga ' - '' w>W. Terms cash. C.
——J 20-2t.
Sod
LE—Threshing machine
■acker; used one season
6 km '* r?fWi CaI1 on Mrs- N.
"■Taj . lrr
,ll:|f
u
or(i College, er F.
Men's pants at 40, 50 and 75 cents
and $1 a pair; worth double. Men's
overalls 50 and 75 cents while they
last. Great stock of shoes to be
closed out at once. All fresh new
stock, just out of the factory. The
prices we are making are moving
them. Call at Townsend's Variety
Store. 21-2t.
The Patterson Company have a
large lot of peas of various varieties
which they offer at a reasonable
rice. 21"3t-jreensboro
FOR 8AU5—Good grain
and drill, cheap. Apply to
Wilson, McLeansTille. N. C.
binder
R. G.
20-3t
LOCAL NEW IN WHS FORM.
"•**•* •* I"***** «• RM*in o»
The Patriot Par and Near.
Mr. A. Wayland Cooke) has return-on
from a visit to Washington.
Mir. and Mrs. J. w. Hopkins, of
Brown Summit, were visitors in
the city Tuesday.
Mr. J. B. Wyrick, of McLeansvUle,
was a caller at The Patriot office
yesterday afternoon.
Mr. J. I. Medearis is building a
comfortable home on Chestnut street,
near Summit avenue.
A two-weeks civil trem of Gull-ford
Superior court will convene
Monday, it will be foUowed by a
criminal term.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. McAUster and
Mr. McAllster's mother, Mrs. A. C.
McAUster, of Asheboro, are visiting
in Philadelphia.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Thacker are
attending the Davidson College com-mencement.
They made the trip
In their automobile.
Mr. M. C. Workman has gone to
Marlon to spend some time.
Col. James T. Morehead and Mr.
O. L., Sapp are In Graham attend-ing
Alamance Superior court.
Mrs. S. J. Perry, a sister of the
late Judge John A. Gilmer, died
Monday at her home in Atlanta.
She is survived by her husband and
a son. She had been an invalid for
a number of years.
Miss Grace Brockmann, who has
charge of the music department of
the graded schools at Murphy, has
returned home to spend the vaca-tion
period with her parents. Prof,
and Mrs. C. J. Brockmann.
A note from Mr. C. A. Bray, pres-ident
of the Home Savings Bank,
brings the news that Mrs., Bray's
health has been greatly improved by
her trip to Hot Springs, N. C, and
that she will probably be able to re-turn
home soon restored to health*
Mr. E. P. Wharton and family
left Monday for New York, from
which city they are to sail today
for an extended trip to Europe. They
will first visit Germany, after which
they will spend some time In other
European countries. They expect to
be absent about six months.
Mr. R. J. Hohl, chief engineer of
the North Carolina Public Service
Company, Is here from New York to
superintend the surveys of extensions
planned for the street railway. The
first extension is to be made out
North Elm street and to the site
selactesVfor the country club.
While engaged in painting the
building of the Southern Power Com-pany's
sub-station in this city Mon-day
afternoon, A. P. Roberts and Ted
Stanley fell from a swinging scaf-fold,
the latter sustainiing serious in-juries.
Mr. Stanley escaped with a
few bruises. The fall was caused
by the breaking of one of the ropes
that held the scaffold.
Mr. W. S. Moore, who has been
secretary of the Sunday school of
the First Presbyterian church for the
past 57 years, was presented with a
handsome silver-handled umbrella
Sunday morning as an appreciation
of his long and faithful service. The
presentation was made by Rev. Mel-ton
Clark in behalf of the school.
Sunday was Mr. Moore's seventy-seventh
birthday.
Mr. L. A. Andrew lost a wagon
and a load of hay in a rather pecu-liar
manner Tuesday. Two wagons
were sent down on the McConnell
road for hay, and on the return
trip one of the colored drivers light-ed
a cigarette. Through his care-lessness
in handling the cigarette
or the match, the load was soon in
a blaze. The hay and the wagon
were totally destroyed. The horses
were slightly burned.
Many business houses in the city
have been decorated In gay colors
for the annual meeting of the United
Commercial Travelers of North and
South CaroUna, which will convene
In this city tomorrow morning and
remain in session two days. Nearly
1,000 traveling men are expected
to be in attendance, and a most en-joyable
meeting is expected. The
visitors will be shown many social
attentions while in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. George P. Crutch-field
went to Alamance county yes-*
terda'y to attend the marriage today
of Miss Josephine Scott and Mr. C.
R. Hudson. Miss Scott is a daugh-ter
of Mr. Robert W. Scott, one of
the leading citizers of Alamance.
She formerly taught in the Buffalo
graded school and has many friends
in Greensboro and vicinity. Mr. Hud-son
is connected with the farm dem-onstration
Work of the state agricul-tural
department.
The Greensboro baseball team re-mains
at the head of the percentage
column in the Carolina league, and
the local fans are beginning to see
visions of another pennant. The
Greensboro players are spending the
week at home and won three straight
games from Spartanburg Monday,
Tuesday and yesterday, the scores
being 2 to 1, 4 to 0 and 10 to 0.
Winston, which holds second place
in the percentage column, comes to
Greensboro today for the remainder
of the week.
Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Wolf, who
are walking from Kansas City to
New York, passed through the city
Monday and spent several hours of
the heat of the day here. They
left Kansas City last October for a
'jaunt of 8,000 miles to New York,
coming by way of San Antonio,
Tex., New Orleans and Atlanta.
This is the third walking trip they
have made to New York. They are
accompanied by a pet dog and a
horse that draws a cart loaded with
a tent and cooking utensils.
A HIGHWAYMAN CAPTURED.
Noo.ro Attacked and Robbed Young
•on of J. e. Dtviney.
Charlie Johnson, a young negro,
is in Guilford jail awaiting trial at
the next criminal term of Superior
court ou .the charge of carrying con-cealed
Weapons and highway rob-bery.
He waa captured near Taber-nacle
chvn ch last Friday afternoon
a "^ol? ,,,ne after be had robbed-th,?
eight-year-old son of Mr. J. E.
Leviney, of Julian, of a dollar.
Young Deviney, Who is a very
bright and active lad for one of his
afe, had hauled a load of trunks
from Julian to Climax for a travel-ing
man and was paid a dollar for
bl» services. It Is presumed that
the negro saw the money change
band*; for shortly after the boy
started on his return home he was
accosted by the highwayman with a
request for & ride. The obliging and
unsuspecting youngster granted the
request, and after driving some dis-tance
he was attacked.' and overpow-ered
by the negro, who forcibly took
the dollar from the boy and decamp-ed,
"
The boy quickly drove home and
reported the occurrence to his father
and others, and Immediately the rural
telephone was brought Into requisi-tion.
Master Deviney was not too
badly frightened by hfs experience to
give a good description of his assail-ant,
and In a short^While the coun-tryside
was being scoured for the
ruffian. The sheriff's office was no-tified
by telephone, and In a few
minutes Sheriff Jones, Deputy Sher-iff
Weatherly and County Commis-sioner
Boren were speeding to Clay
township in Mr. Boren's automobile.
In the meantime the negro had
been overtaken r«*ar Tabernacle
church by Mr. Ed. T. Coble and sev-eral
other gentlemen, who detain-ed
him until the arrival of the offi-cers.
The negro had a razor on
his person when arrested, this re-sulting
in the warrant for carrying
concealed weapons. Johnson was
brought to Greensboro and lodged
in Jail. Saturday he was given a
preliminary hearing before Squire
Collins and held for Superior court
under both warrants, bonds of $100
being required In the concealed
weapon case and $500 in the case
charging highway robbery. He wlU
linger in jail until the next crimi-nal
term of court, when he will
doubtless get a long term on the
county roads.
u Johnson is a wandering negro,
with no place of permanent abode,
and it is understood that he recent-y
finished serving a term "on' Gull*
ford's roads.
THE FINANCIAL PROBLEM. I {
Sa*ina;t Baak Invubneato—flea*
*od lugaatlaoa.
Oont •aoculata With
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Your Savings.
The Benefits of a
Savings Account
GUILFORO'S COMMENCEMENT.
Interesting Exercise* Marked Close
of a Successful Year.
The friends of Guilford College
will be pleased to know that the
commencement at that old and hon-ored
institution this year was one
of the most enjoyable and successful
ever experienced at that seat of
learning. The attendance was laoge
and all the exercises were of a high
order. Twenty-two graduates were
sent out into the world with diplo-mas
certifying that they had com-pleted
their respective courses of
study.
The exercises of commencement
were ushered in Saturday evening
with a music recital that reflected
much credit on Guilford's music de-partment.
Sunday morning at 11
o'clock Rev. E. K. McLarty, of
Greensboro, preached the baccalau-reate
sermon, which was both elo-quent
and inspiring. Sunday even-ing
Rev. E. S. Crosland deUvered a
helpful address to the Young Men's
and Young Women's Christian Asso-ciations.
The oratorical contest of
the Henry Clay literary society Was
held Monday evening, and Tuesday
evening the alumni address was de-livered
by Mr. James Hoge Ricks, a
member of the graduating class of
1905.
Yesterday was commencement day
proper, and a large crowd assem-bled
in Memorial hall to hear the
graduating orations and the baccalau-reate
address by Hon. Jeter C.
Prltchard, judge of the United States
Circuit court. Following Judge
Pritchard's address, degrees were
conferred upon the graduates by
President Hobbs, and the commence-ment
of 1911 came to a close.
Human nature loves the attract;
tlveness of chance. Risk in finance ' *
appeals to many men and Women,
and It is this element which Is
hardest to combat when savings
amount to several hundred dollars
and the desire is strong to increase
the amount rapidly.
Nearly everyone knows of instances
where people have Invested In some
promoter's scheme and lost their
money. Now and then we learn of
some man's failure which can be
traced directly to the Investment of
every cent he could secure in has-ardous
stocks which, sold at a few
cents a share, but which promlesd
remarkable profits for the future.
The unfortunate victim of specula-tion
has probably started a savings
account in his youth, adding regularly
to his savings in the bank until he
has a comfortable sum to bis credit;
then he comes under the influence
of some promoter. Who by a careful-ly-
thought-out plan and smooth talk
catches the victim for a few hundred
dollars. The investor waits patient-ly
for a year or so without any ma-terial
returns from the Investment;
in the meantime he may receive
glowing reports from the company
concerning developments. Perhaps
this information leads him to Influ-ence
a few of his friends to Invest.
At the end of the second year he
grows anxious; reports become few-er,
but he still hopes. He looks
over his certificate of stock. There
are the names of prominent men as
officers, and in the prospectus or
advertisement appear the names of
prominent men as directors. The in-vestor's
faith is firm until he writes
to the company and can get no re-ply.
He tries again and again with
the same result. Then it begins to
dawn upon him that he has risked
his all in a scheme unworthy of his
consideration. He makes an effort,
perhaps, to dispose of the certifi-cate
at whatever it will bring, only
to find that there is no market for
it. Then he tries to obtain informa-tion
from some banker friend as to
the standing of the company, only
to find that it has been wound up
through failure, or is not known at
all by his friend. The beautifully
lithographed certificate of stock is
then.put away among the investor's
valuable papers to serve as a me-mento
that he was not as wise or
Too benefits accruing from a
saviuis account are manifold.
The interest received la tho
smallest benefit produced; To
lay aside a "snug little sum
for a rainy day- la a com-mendable
undertaking, and
certainly worth all the effort
&ny savings account ever re-
♦ quired, when the "rainy day-cornea.
But satisfying as
these benef.u are, they have
not the merit that comes of
the training acquired in suc-cessfully
conducting a savings
account. To have learned the
principles of economy is to
nave your independence and
happiness assured. Such are
some of the great values of a
savings account This bank en-courages
such accounts by pay-ing
4 per cent, interest on
them, compounded four times
a year.
Checking aecounto in
amount cordially invited.
any ,
Please oall at tho bank when
you ar* in town.
American
|Exchange Bank!
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*. 6. VAUGHH. Pres.
J. W. SCOTT, Y.-Fra*.
T. H. HICHOLSOH, Atit. Cafhler
Banking Hours—9 A.
P. M.
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their own peace of mind against a
rew dollars. Even were the chances
.^nfuMnjhe ■■« to whlch^he ^sSgTCSI
Methodist Laymen Subscribe $10,000.
An enthusiastic meeting of Greens-boro
Methodists Who have identified
themselves with the laymen's mis-sionary
movement was held in the
dining room of the McAdoo hotel
Tuesday night in the interest of
the Methodist chatauqua projected
near Waynesville. During the pro-gress
of an appetizing meal Rev.
Dr. George R. Stuart, of Cleveland,
Tenn., a well known evangelist; Mr.
John R. Pepper, of Nashville, Tenn.,
and Dr. James Cannon, of Blackstone
Va., explained the movement. The
Greensboro laymen subscribed $10,-
000 to the enterprise, this being the
limit of stock allotted to any one
city.
The work of improving the assem-bly
grounds has been started and a
large hotel is to- be built. A large
number of building lots will be sold
upon Which summer cottages will be
erected. The enterprise is capital-ized
at $250,000, and of this amount
$200,000 has been subscribed by
Methodist layment throughout the
Southern states.
During the month of May permits
were issued for the erection of 14
new buildings in the city at an ag-gregate
cost of $27,«50.
put his money as he should have
been or is now, and a distrust of
a'.' classes of investments is engen-dered
in his mind.
There are many such cases in al-most
every town and city; a large
number we never hear about. The
few successes that are made are
lauded to the skies by the promot-ers.
At the present time people are
reasonably prosperous and the de-sire
to get rich quick is prevalent.
Prosperity among the people leads to
carelessness in many matters.
Greater risks are taken, greater re-turns
are wanted. The people are
not satisfied with the four per cent,
paid on savings by the banks. The
safety of the savings bank invest-ment
is overlooked and the news-papers
and other mediums are watch-ed
for opportunities to increase the
income or largely increase! the orig-inal
amount owned.
To all such people warnings against
withdrawing comfortable savings ac-counts
for investment in such en-terprises
cannot be made too fre-quently
or too insistently. When
stock in any of these schemes is
bought from a concern which Is pri-marily
started for the enrichment
of its promoters, the buyer must pay
the price fixed by them; that price
Is determined by them in advance
and is put at a figure which will in-sure
a profit to the seller. Few
persons outside of those directly
connected with the concern know
what is the real value of the stock.
If it has any real value. Good prop-ositions,
as a rule, never go bag-ging,
and legitimate enterprises
rarely find difficulty in obtaining
needed capital from friends of those
who are primarily interested. There
is no good reason why a stranger
should offer an exceptional bargain
in stock of some concern not gener-ally
known, or where there Is small
opportunity to investigate the real
worth of the stock.
A safe rule to follow, whenever
any of these schemes may tempt
one to invest money in them, is not
to go into an investment until one
finds out by direct and first-hand in-vestigation
What the "references"
named in the literature or advertis-ing
matter of the company have to
say about it, and also how much the
"references" themselves may amount
to, and what, If any, pecuniary in-terest
they have in the proposition.
If small Investors were more skepti-cal
of the statements made to them,
either personally or In the adver-tising
matter furnished to them by
promoters, and used even a small de-gree
of caution in determining to
what extent the schemes were en-titled
to their consideration, hundreds
of thousands of dollars would be
saved to them in the course of a
year.
AU men or women who work for
wages or on salaries have only the
one hope for a peaceful old age and
for a life free from racking money
cares; that is, to provjde before-hand
for the future. They should
take no risk. When they speculate,
they stake their family'* future and
him, the risk which he takes i;
vastly disproportionate to any possi-ble
gain.
To Avoid Crop Failures.
Take a portion of the money you
make in good years and deposit it
in the savings bank against the
lean' years. The money will in-crease
of its own volition, and
whether you have good or bad
crops, it will continue to draw inter-est
without regard to the seasons.
The Home Savings Bank, which
does a savings bank business exclu-sively,
pays 4 per cent, compound
interest on deposits and make3
loans on improved farm property and
other high-class real estate.
Mr. Will P. Fields, a native of Guil-ford,
who has been residing In Rich-mond,
Va., for several years, holding
a clerical position with the Atlantic
Coast Line Railway, has been promot
e<l to the position of cashier of the
company's Richmond office. He suc-ceeds
a man who recently absconded
with a shortage of $21,000 In his ac-counts.
The position is a very re-sponsible
one and carries with It a
good salary. Mr. Fields received the
appointment on merit alone, and that
he will fill it acceptably goes without
saying.
The oest clubbing offer we have
ever been able to make Is The Pa-triot
and the Progressive Farmer
one year for $1.25. The offer is
rr.ide only for a limited time and ap-plies
only to those who are not now
taking the Progressive Farmer.
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Your Money
What are you doing with It?
It is not safe if you are car-rying
it around in your pocket
or keeping It in your home. If
you wiU deposit it in our bank,
it will be absolutely safe, and
you can pay your bills by
check, which is more business-like
than handling the cash. If
your money Is deposited in
our Savings Department, wo
wlU pay you 4 per cent inter-est,
compounded quarterly.
Commercial National
Bank
P. B. RICKS, President.
^ P. C. BOYLES, Caahlsr.
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