The Greensboro patriot [November 21, 1912]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 91.
GREENSBORO. N. C. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 21. 1912 NO. 47.
PEOPLE'S IHLW; OOLDMN
Advertisements inserted under 25
betiding at the rate of one cent a word
tor eacb Insertion. Persons and Anna
who do not have advertising contracts
with the paper will be required to pay
:ash In advance.
THE CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE.
Pair warning to our friends and
■ ■:.- /nucrs. Shoes are going to be
higher, especially home-made shoes
and heavy work shoes. Better get
tvbat you want as soon as possible.
Thicker & Brockmann.
ii. I.. Osborne & Co., general re-pair
shop. Pleasant Garden, N. C.
. .aiilng and shoeing promptly and
neatly done. 44-4t.
: -OST—white pointer dog with
.-:: -ill yellow spots about head. $10
H his return or information leading
i i nis recovery. YV. M. King, 6S6
t'«r?y street.
TOR RENT—Several good farms.
W F. Holmes. 1U North Mclver
street, Greensboro, N. C. 47-2t.
: lack .Mammoth and Poland China
boar for sale. Address A. L. Plunk-
.u.. Route 6. Phone 6320.
Carolina King, registered Hanip-
.uro boat, now ready for service.
M. Fair, Guilford College, R. F.
I>. 2. 46-3t.
FOR SALE—Six-room cottage, $1."
I'OO, in the town of Stokesdale. Easy
terms. Address S. B. Denny, Wilson.
N. i". 40-at.
TOBACCO MARKET BOOSTING.
The Reidsville Rev ew Submits ■
Few Pertinent Remark*.
The Reidsville Review has the
following timely and sensible article
on a subject of interest to all news-papers
in the tobacco belt, and we
might add to all people interested
in the success of their local market:
"The Reidsville warehousemen
have not lived up to their oppor-tunities
this fall in advertising and
roll call. Lay delegates were pres- i exploiting the local tobacco market,
ent from all but two or three of jAU erades of tobacco have been and
the 31 churches of the conference. are selUn5 at the highest, averages
The opening session was called to ' probably ever known in *"* Re-order
by Rev. J. W. Holt of Bur- iand wareh0U8emen have had many
1'ngton, president of the last confer- >BOOd arS"ments ,0 use "> an exten-
Annual Session is Naw i«i Session in
This City.
The righty-seventh annual meeting
of the North Carolina and Virginia
Christian Conference assembled in
the First Christian church of this
city Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
and will continue in session until to-night.
The attendance of ministers
and laymen is fine, every ordained
minister save one answering the first
e.ice, after which a devotional ser- | sive advertising campaign, yet they
vice was conducted by Rev. J. W.
Wellons, cf Elon College. Following .
the enrollment of ministers and lay | 'S , „.
delegates, Rev. J. W. Holt, the pres- I "°\?^*L *
Went, and Prof. W. P. Lawrence, of
Elon College, secretary of the con''
ference, Wore re-elected to their re-spective
offices.
have used less printers' ink this sea-son
than ever before. The result
Re'dsville market is
its share of the tobac-co
that has been marketed so far.
When solicited for advertising the
warehousemen S3y that the high
prices prevailing on the market is
PRIZES ARE AWARDED.
Merchants Give Premums to Pa'rons
of Local Tcbacco Market.
The first lot of prizes offered by
merchants of Greensbcro to farmers
selling tobacco on the local market
have been awarded and are ready
for distribution. The awards were
as follows:
For the mest tobacco during the
month the lirst rr'ze, a $20 overcoat
given by Crawford & Roes, was won
by Martin & Boone. The second
Pilze was won ly Mr. J. B. Clapp;
the third by Mr. John W. King, and
the fourth by Fa'sley & Bradshaw.
The second prize was a $l.ri suit of
clothes, given by Prown-Eelk Com-pany;
the third, $10 worth of gro-ceiies
by Smiiherman Company; and
the fourth wag a $4 pair of shoes,
given by J. M. Hendilx & Co-
BIG PYTHIAN MEETING.
Founders' Eible Class Initiated in
Greens1 oro Tuesday Night.
A bis dis'rlct meeting of the
Knights of Pythias, was held in
Greensboro Tuesday night, the roll
can shoeing an attendance of 350
members cf the order. The occasion
was made memorable by »he pres-ence
of a number of officers of the
supreme lodge and the North Car-olina
Grand Lodge. Thirty-six men
were initiated into lha order in what
is known as the "founders' Bible
class, ' the Bible used being the one
upon which the members of the orig-inal
lodge cf the order took the ob-ligation
of Pyihian'sra.
Mayor Murihy warmly welcomed
the Pythians and talked about the
extraordinary occrsicn which brought
i thsni tojether. the founders' Eible
The prizes for the best average | class, in which wes used the same
■fleet secured by ihe farmers for j R'D,D US-J bv Josfcs H. Rathbane
l«eir tobacco here were to be con- ,'" the founding of the great order,
tested for only l.y those whose to- The response, ly Gracd Chancellor
to
Py
responded
ner by President Harper, of Elon Reidsville U-h'nd in amount of re-
(ollege. ccipts this year. The Union war.-
At the evening session President house is the only Re'dsville wan
ten-room house an.! lot for sale Holt delivered his annual addre
at Whitsnt institute. Near a good
school and a good location. • Price »•** was "»•*«» «»h S^eat lntere
reasonable. Mrs. A. I. Lamb, Giiii- by the large congregation present. > to anything, if our warehousemen
lord College, N. C. 46-4t. The president's address was follow-, want Reidsville to expend its terri-
. :st as we expected a large mini- «i by the first of a series of three j loi'>' from which trade is drawing
ber of people were waiting' for our | lectures on "The Principles and Gov- they will have to shake off their
ih
rugs, stoves, s«w :-.;• machines, win- night and the third will be deliver- newspapers ought not to be expect-
'low shades, e- .. :'.i<'. value money, j e,i tonight. [•*» to puff and blow the market i"
let nothing kee'i you away. The __ ....
cans* of this l • re.'acUon sale is' Tlle > iiu?« oi wus i. . u..ui.iuii am*, la | report of >.ID aux i some oncnurur*»ment
to make room for holiday goods OUS Organisation committee, which ou,c enco<ir.i„emem
now coming in. McDuffie's furniture | was confined largely to the work *
store, opposite Kress' .". and 10 cent i of t|J0 Sundav scnools and Christian' What the Review says of the
s '•'•re.
j was won liy Mr. I. R. F"lp.
sales averaged $15.70.
H's
-IK" ial annual November sale that ernment of the Christian Church," bv ' R'P Van Winkle drowsiness and en-started
yestei..'-; morntns, an<1 aU ' Prof. W. P. Lawrence. The second : "st the help of the newspapers to,
" demand if • OM" nee7tm«. »«*«" of the series was given last exploit this tobacco market. The,
R*W :.: i Following arc the prizes to be
lliary religi- Eeaso" aml out of asason without '. awarded for November:
,. „.u;„u i some encouragement." To .Ue farmer selling the greatest
number of pounds of tcbacco on the
Greensboro market during 'he
The second prize. ?10 worth of others.
slices, given by Coble & Mebane. Officers of tha Supreme lodge aid
»;.s wan by Mr. ,i. H. Mashburn. [the North Carolina Grand lodge prcs-ellor
Walker
Supreme
|J. M. Hemlrix & Co., was won by Keeper of Records and Seal Fred
Mr. T. F. Vaughn. Mis sales aver- | L. Whsa.on, Supreme? Representative
aged $27.20. The fourth prize-, J5|J. L. Scott, Jr., of Graham; Grard
worth cf dru-s and toilet articles, Vice Chancellor Joe Pridgcn, of Dur-given
by the Still Drug Company. I ham; Gran.l Outer Guard G. W.
. ..- ,...,,.>.. ls iiitr uiu* nf ua wilt- ttrti.* ...
ess, house that has carried any news./a- ™" sa,es foraged 427.90. The third cut were: Grand Chancel
•eat per advertising th g fall to amount **} * *"' Pa r of sho«8- S'ven by .Taylor, of Wilmington;
.'Endeavor societies, was presented at Reidsville marke- applies with double menth-
Prittain, of Re dsvil'.e; Past Grand
Chancellor George L. Hackney, cf
Lexington; Past. Grand Chancellor W.
C. Crisp, of Winston; State Deputy
Grand Chancellor J. D. Nuit. of wil-minBtou;
Chairmen of Judiciary Com-mittee
A. A. Whiletier, of Hlckoiy;
Credential Commit 'earn an McBride
Holt, of Graham, and oihers-
SUES HUSBAND AND BROTHER.
Mrs. T. J. McAdoo Asks Court tor
Allow Her Alimony.
Considerable local interest has
been aroused by two civil suits oC
a more or less sensational character
that have been instituted in the
Superior court of Guilford county
by Mrs. Louise Killian McAdoo, the
wife of Mr. Thomas J. McAdoo. One
of the suits seeks alimony from her
husband without divorce and asks
that the court require her husband
to set aside so much of his estate
as may be reasonable for the sup-port
of the plain'iff and her child.
The other suit is brought jointly
against Mr. Thomas J. McAdoo and
his brother, Mr. Victor C. McAdoo.
The complaint alleges that Mr.
Thomas J. McAdoo has sold and
conveyed the bulk, if not all, of his
real estate, holdings to Mr. Victor C.
McAdoo, and it is presumed that this.
suit is for the purpose of setting
aside these alleged conveyances.
The papers filed in the cases give
an intimation of sensational disclos-ures
yet to come. Mrs. McAdoo al-leges
that about three years ago, af-ter
having been at the home of her
father in South Carolina, she return-ed
to Greensboro, and going to her
home here, was refused admittance.'
Victor McAdoo, it is alleged, eject-ed
her from the premises and placed
her upon a train which carried her
back to the South Carolina home
of her father. Since that time she
has been in Greensboro several
times, but t is said she has at not
one of these times been admitted
to the McAdoo home.
•ood farm near Liberty. N. C. for the morning session yesterday by fo»'ce to the Greensboro market.
sale. Farm in high state of cuUiva- ;L(. w v Harper Tne re|>0rt rec- ''vhUh is making a fight to get on
bM£s nffSb<Sfl£5**rSnd ommeoded the co-operation of both •*• feet and regain lest prestige. Due
-:• k ior sale al-o^sflnV to A. F. j these organizations in the locaLl. °.l||e .active interest of Greensboro
Ward, K. F. D. 1. Liberty) N. ('. -it jehurehes with the conference of business men and business institu-
T~~ ~~ Z , ,. TTT! 7 the Young Peoples Convention and ,ions '" boosting the local market.
.-ARM FOR SALE—Eighty-five .,, „ . . *
acres 8J4 miles cast of Greensboro. I*1*" th«" luterdenom
on macadam road, two miles from satlona of the state
McLeansville, one-half mile from these lines oi religious work.
. ethel Presbyterian church, 2 miles
EIGHT TRAINMEN KILLED.
..;•:■■« -h°f Close torchon, tn^S'al was commonded, but worldly-minded- j** P^kes to build one of the
tax district, six months'school. Good Iness in such classes was discour- '"-'st warehouses in the state, but
Firs', pr'zc, ore Kingman cutaway
harrow, value $20, given by the
Towns.n-l Buggy Company.
Second i rize. one overcoat, value
$16, ; ivci I y I. !sa:ic"on.
Thi-: r/r.*se. one crex driuget,
inational orsani- "lore tobacco is being sold in Greens- v: llu" *10> Sivtn by BPaustel
and nation for ^oro than has been sold here in -<''selli:,,- D-plrlmcn- Store. ■ j.'.rod at 4 o clock ih:s morning, when
l-o.r.h :,ize. one five-dollar safety . u'« Seaboard passenger trains, run-rrzor,
given by the S.ill Drug Von- ,''iin" -t high speed, crashed head-
[. ..v. cn s".?'i miles nnrih of here. No
To the farmer making the best Passengers were injured. The dead
Bad Wreck cn Seatoard Air Line,
Ne«r Norlina.
N.rlii:.- Nov. 19.—Eight trainmen
value $10, given by BPaustein's Uu- |ver* IP* :,ra thrre severely iu--
The "llln>' years. The business men of
organized adult Sunday school class tllls city no', only wont down into
Superior court for Guilford county
for the trial of criminal cases begin-er-
training course was recommended
for the use of such classes. Special
stress was laid on training in Chris-ung
Monday. December 16, l!il2. for j. , .j
omnee wweeeekk.. BByy authority of Gov.
W, w. K'tchin.
W. C. BOREN, Chm. B. C. C.
Y. M. C. A. Charged Wrth Being
Gambling institution.
An incident not on the program oc-curred
at the Christian Conference
yesterday, during the discussion of
'he report of the committee on moral
reform. It appears that Rev. S. B.
Klapp. of this city, made a statement
tD the effect that the Young Men's
( hristian Association of Greensboro
had become a gambling Institution.
Prof. W. P. Lawrence, secretary of
the conference, was on his feet at
once and demanded the proof of the
r reacher's grave accusation. Mr.
Klapp explained that his statement
was based on a rumor to the effect
that pool and billiard games in the
Y. M. C. A. permitted betting on the
part of participants. He then with-drew
his charge of gambling against
the Greensboro Y. M. C. A., which
was tantamount to admitting that he
had made a public statement which
he could not sustain.
One of the inexplicable things of
life is that so many good men are
willing »o make derogatory state-ments
against men or institutions
which they are unable to substan-tiate
when called upon for the proof.
Four arres'-s were made after the
finding cf the charred body of a.
man identified as John King, a farm-er,
in the ashes of the burned out-lioiises
at his home near Jonesboro;
Ga. The theory advanced by the po-lice
is that King was killed in an
iltercalicn over a poker game and
his body burned to conceal the
crime. When last seen by friends
Saturday night King is said to have
borrowed money with which, to *ake
part in a poker game.
oUBSQRIBE TO THE PATRIOT.
The report of the committee on
moral reform, which was presented
by Rev. C. C. Peele, rejoiced in the
moral progress of the Christian
world, but felt that the necessity for
aggressive opposition on the part of
the church was necessary to rid the
world of many evils. Hazing in col-leges
were condemned, the divorce
evil was deplored, immodesty in dress
was censured, cigarettes, slot ma-chines,
social gambling and kindred
moral delinquencies were placed un-der
the ban. The report aiso recom-mended
that only Christian teachers
be permitted to teach in the public
schools. Blind tigers in the state
and the shipment of liquor into pro-hibition
territory were severely scor-ed.
The disappearance of the family
altar was regretted and its reinstate-ment
strongly urged.
Mr. W. H. Swift, of this city, field
agent of the North Carolina child
labor committee, was extended the
courtesy of the floor and presented
the plan of his organization against
allowing children to work contrary
tr the law, and the conference gave
its endorsement to the work of the
organization. The report was ably
discussed by several ministers and
was endorsed by the conference.
Three sessions of the conference
will be held today—morning, after-noon
and evening.
Friends of Mrs. George G. Thomp-son
here have learned with sorrow
of her serious illness at the home of
her parents, in Atlanta, Ga. Mrs.
Thompson went to her parents' home
there a few days ago and since
then has become very ill. Her friends
hope for her a speedy recovery. Mrs.
Thompson is the widow of George
G. Thompson, division freight agent
of the Southern Railway, who was
shot and killed by his chief clerk,'
W. F. Blair, recently.
an effective manner.
When it was determined to re- ; Kll'lz I)r''S Conn any.
j habilitate the Greensboro tobacco Third prize, one ro-. king char,
market the local newspapers cheer- ! vM"e *•'•• given by N. J. McDuffie.
I fully joined in the work and printed ——^—
I many columns of matter in an ef- OAK RIDGE ALUMNI,
fort to boost the enterprise. The
deadheading, Eoykln, Va.; Henry
King, deadheading.
The injured are Baggagemaster
Bryant, badly 1 urned about body and
face; Express Messenger Brown,
bruise 1 and shocked; Express Mes-warehousemen
appeared to appreciate! Hold Meeting Here in Interest of linger Coate.s, leg and arm broken;
this free boosting, and in the case
of The Patriot advertising space
was to be contracted for as soon as
the season opened- Well, the sea-son
opened and the warehouses did
a meager amount of advertising in
The Patriot, spending with this pub-lication
the munificent sum of $31.30
in advertising the Greensboro tobac-co
market! And this in face of the
fact that the merchants of this city
are giving away hundreds of dollars
worth of premiums as an inducement
for the tobacco growers of this sec-tion
to patronize the local market!
Just how long the business men will
be content to bear the heavy end of
the burden in an effort to help the
warehousemen help themselves re-mains
to be seen.
Were it not for the business men
of Greensboro, there would be no
Greensboro tobacco market.
Death of Emsley M. Stratford.
Mr. Emsley M. Stratford, who had
teen suffering from a serious form
of heart trouble for two years or
more, died yesterday morning about
10.30 o'clock at his home on the Bat-tle
Ground road, northwest of the
city. Mr. Stratford was one of Guil-fcrd's
best citizens and is survived
by his widow and the following five
children: Messrs. C. L. Stratford,
cf Spencer; T. B. Stratford and F.
W. Stratford, of Greensboro, and
Misses Mary and Annie Stratford,
who remain at the family home. The
deceased was a brother of Mr. W. O.
Stratford, of Greensboro, and the
late Mr. Robert Stratford, of Mon-tana.
The Patriot was pleased to receive
a call yesterday from Mr. C. R.
Bevill, of Brown Summit, R- F. D. 2.
Proposed New Building.
A meeting of the alumni of Oak
Ridvse Institute was held in Greens-boro
Tuesday night to consider a
proposition lcoking to the erection
of an alumni building at Oak Ridge.
It is the purpese cf the alumni to
erect a building to cost $2.r.,000 and
to be"'utilized by the Y. M. C. A.
and the gymnasium. The meeting
was marked by a number of enthu-siastic
addresses, among the speak-ers
beins Dr. J. A. Crowell, of Char-lotte;
C. O. McMlchael, of Went-worth;
John T. EritUUn, of Asheboro;
A. B. Kimball, of Greensboro; Rev.
A. G. Dlxon, of High Point, and
others.
The following were named as
members of ~a j central executive
committee: Prof. T. E. Whitaker,
of Oak Ridge; A. B. Kimball, Greens-boro;
D.- B. Stafford. Oak Ridge;
C. O. Mcriichael. Wentworth; Dr. A.
J. Crowell, Charlo'.te; T. A. Hunter,
Greensboro; Rev. W. R. Lowder-milk,
Kernersville; J. V. Price, Mad-ison;
W. E. Allen, Greensboro; Rev.
G. P. Milloway, Greensboro; Prof. E.
P. Holt, Oak Ridge; D. B. McCrary,
Asheboro; George Stephens, Char-lotte;
M. H. Holt, Oak Ridge; M.
u. Nelson, uanviiir; J. M. UarKer,
Jr., Axton, Va.; U. L. Spence, Carth-age;
Rev. G. C. Huntington, Char-lotte.
The committee has elected Mr.
W. E. Allen, of Greensboro, as chair-man,
and Prof. T. E. Whitaker, of
Oak Ridge, as secretary, they being
authorized to subdivide the commit-tee
as a whole into such subcommit-tees
as may be deemed advisable in
prosec iting the campaign.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Reynolds, of
ML Airy, spent Tuesday In the city.
William Pc;:c, negro, porter, scalded
about in-' head and neck.
The trains me- as the southbound
No. 81 was 'comin.; out of a long
curve in a deep fill, and both were
running full speed. The crash was
terrific, both locomotives being to-tally
demolished. The fact that only
three coaches were demolished and
there were no passengers in these
is considsied remarkable.
Engineer Eeckham, of the north-bound
trrin, is thought to have mis-read
orders to meet No. 81 at Gran-ite,
less than a milo from the scene
of the wreck. It was impossible for
el* her engineer to have seen the
light from the other train for more
than a minute before the crash.
The collision w.'s cn the main line
of the Seal-card from north to
south, and both were through trains.
To Improve Macadam Roads.
Mr. J. A. Davidson, county auditor
and superintendent cf county roads,
is contemplating & general campaign
of repair work for the macadam
roads of the county. In many places
the macadam is in bad shape and
practically everywhere that it has
been down five years or longer it is
in need of repair. Superintendent
Davidson now proposes to put *he
entire convict force on repair work,
going over all the macadam.
He has found that a coat of fine
gravel, spiked up with the macadam
roadbed and rolled makes a splendid
road and cne which in the few in-stances
tried has siood up well. The
more recent road work in the coun-ty
has liecn sand-clay and the re-sults
have been highly gratifying.
The county now 1ms about 35 miles
of sand-clay road, 15 or which lies
between here and Winston-Salem.
Handsome Fruit Plate Free.
There is only one more week of
the free fruit plates r.t the Home
Savings Bank, is th's offer on
these plates absolutely closes No-vemer
30. This bank bought a large
quantity of thess handsome fruit
plates, which they are giving away
for each new accourt of $5 or more,
and for each additioral deposit" of
$3 or more, and these plates have
given such general satisfaction tbxti
their depositors and hew depositors
have taken up very rapidly. Th>»
supply will be fully exhausted by
November 30, when this offer closes,
so if you want one of these plates
you had better get busy and make
a deposit of $5 or more before tho
end of the month.
Don't forget this, but do it right
away, if ycu miss one of these
plates, don't llame anybody but
yourself, as everybedy has had am-ple
time to get one of them if they
wanted it. adv.
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In Case of FIRE
Your money will be se-cure
if deposited with this
strong bank.
And there are many
other ways in which we
can serve you to advan-tage.
For instance: Pay-ing
your bills by check
enables you to keep ac-count
of all expenses,
avoids the trouble of ma-king
change, and when
cancelled, is the best re-ceipt
to be had. And then,
having an account here,
will enable you to secure
financial aid of this bank
whenever your balances
and responsibility war-rant
it. You'll find this
a great help when the
time comes to buy your
farm supplies.
Come in and
talk with us.
have a
American Exchange
National Bank
N. e. ;
■.O.TAVOH.rrts.
J. W. SCOTT, V.-Pre..
F. C. BOTLI1, Culler
r. ■. iicaouoi ,»Mt. csiaui
Branch: South Greensboro
W. r. IDTTOS, casklsr
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