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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 11
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TERM OF COUKi
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WANT
TO GET RID OF CONGESTED
CRIMINAL DOCKET.
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. county commissioners, at their
,lar meeting Tuesday, adopted a
,„ requesting Governor Craig
he second week of the Feb-clvil
term of Superior court.
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"OURT 8ENDS
BACK FOR TRIAL.
Ch is IO convene Monday, a crlmi-term,
and it is understood that
ion will he granted. The re-was
made on account of the
i condition of the criminal
the resolution adopted by the
a being as follows:
there are a number of
- on the Superior Court
have had to be continued
, to term on account of the
. docket and lack of time to
. cases, it is resolved that
. m the best interest of the county
Dnd week of the regular
term for civil cases be ad
n,! a special term for crirai-
. - , held during that week,
man of the board of corn-
's is authorized to request
rnor to commission the Hon.
p Lane to hold a special term
Iminal cases."
for three civil terms of court
■awn as follows:
•- rm beginning March 9—
...... H oi i s, J. R. Pettigrew, John
son, W. A. Coble. R. Y. Bond.
.1. Holder. W. A. Brower, A. H.
d, 11. C. Kiown. T. B. Hinton,
Gardner, J. A. Anthony. J. M.
A T Sampson, W. It. Jones,
Cray. s:.. J. E. Teague. H. M.
rist
• the term beginning March 10—
It. Clapp, W. T. Humble, I. D.
is om, A. R. Smith, J. T. Chihutt.
Vdams, J. J. Hobbs. S. H.
c. Bernau, R. D. Tow, C.
' Marsh. W. N. Parrish.
nil, \v. v.. Bowman,
A. M. Idol, F. I. Wal-beginning
March 23—
John Shepherd, D. L.
:. ckett, A. W. Troxler,
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF FORM
The Supre.- . court of the United
States has handed down an important
decision in a case instituted in the
Superior court of Guilford county by
James A. Zackary, administrator of
Herbert H. Burgess, against the North
Carolina Railroad Company, which re-verses
the decision of the Supreme
court of this state. It is stated by
the Washington correspondents that
the case is regarded in Washington of
very great interest and importance.
particularly to North Carolina.
The case was instituted about five
years ago by Mr. G. S. liradshaw and
Col. John A. Barringer and was very
hot!) contested here in the Superior
court by Col. Rodman, then division
counsel of the Southern; Mr. Graves,
solicitor for the Southern, and by
Messrs. Wilson and Ferguson, of coun-sel
for the Southern.
Following a verdict for the plaintiff
the railroad appealed to tlie Supreme
court Of North Carolina, which affirm-ed
the decision of the Superior court
of this county, in which Justice Brown
delivered an able and interesting opin-ion.
While pending in the State Su-preme
court. Mr. T. H. Calvert. the'
assistant attorney-general of this
State, was associated with Messrs.
Bradshaw and Barringer. From the
Supreme court the railroad company
appealed to the Supreme court of the
United States, where the case has
been pending for about two years. It
was reached for argument on the 17th
day of December, when Messrs. Cal-vert
and Bradshaw represented the
plaintiff, and Mr. Graves, general so-licitor
for the Southern, represented |
the defendant.
The opinion of the Supreme court
of the I'nited States, which was hand-ed
down Monday, sends the case back
for a new trial.
This suit is for damages fJr the
killing of Herbert H. Burgess, former-
, ly of Randolph county, a .voting man
|ol 26 years, who was employed as
fireman by the railroad at the time
Of his death in Selma on the 29th of
April. 1909. It seems the case involv-ed
MI important point under the fed-eral
employees' liability act which the
railroad was anxious for the highest
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE
READERS OF THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
Capt. Thomas Bernard is in New-
York on a business trip.
Mr. T. C. Hoyle spent Tuesday in
Burlington on legal business.
Mr. S. M. Bumpass, of the Town-send
Buggy Company, has gone on a
business trip to several points in Ohio
and Illinois.
Ex-Sheriff R. R. Ross, of Asheboro,
SON ARRE8TED FOR THEFT
OF HIS FATHER.
A case tried in Municipal Court
Tuesday developed the unusual fact
that a man had permitted his son to
be arrested for a theft that he him-self
had committed. After the facts
had been brought out. John Whitting-ton,
the father, was held for Superior
court under a bond of $300 and the
son, Thomas Whittington, was re-leased.
It appeared that Monday morning
the father had gone to police head-quarters
and sworn out a warrant
charging his son and Frank Lewi3
GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS
SUMMARY OF EVENTS THAT GO
TO MAKE UP THE WORLD'S ,
NEWS OF THE DAY.
with the larceny of $CS.70. The monev
one of Randolph county's leading citi- ; WJUJ Rtolen ^^ njght from j L
zens and business men. was in | Allen, a farmer and brother-in-law of
Greensboro Tuesday. j.Iohn Whittington. Mr. Allen spending
Encouraging r« parts continue to i '"* night at the Whittington home.
... ... , . „ ! After discovering his loss he reported
eonie from the bedside of Mrs. John
, Joseph II. Donnell, II. (.<)Un deterIntoe
Sherrill. C. W.
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F. Litcher, W. B Gai
Stafford, Jo'■'" Leonard.
R. L. Pickett,
\ !'. Mendenhall.
Sunday Services at Masonic Home.
N. Wilson, who ha? been sieriously
ill at her hom* in Fisher i>ark since
Die night of January L'5.
An advertisement elsewhere in this
Issue of The Patriot directs attention
to an auction sale of the Dave H. and
I). W. Jones farms, near Guilford Col-lege,
to be conducted by Fenny Broth-ers,
the twin auctioneers, next Mon-day.
The colored ministers of the citj
are planning to organize an inter-church
association among the mem-bers
of their race. An organization
meeting is to be held at St. James
Presbyterian church next Monday
night.
Mr. R. T. Scott and -Miss Minnie
Dicks, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
N. IS. Dicks, were married last night
at 7 o'c'.ock at the home of Rev. R.
G. Kendrick, who perfo med the cer-eomny
in the presence of a few
friends.
Figures compiled by the Greensboro
Inter-Church Association show that
the whiskey shipped into the city dur-ing
the month of January amounted
to 3,494 gallons, an average of 130.8
gallons a day. Toe Shipments of beer
'amounted to 6.:ifi0 bottles.
Airs, .loana Mead Shepard died
: Tties .lay opening at the home of her.
daughter, Mrs. o. W. Bright, of <Hb-
Bonville. She was 71 years old and
! death resulted from a stroke of ao-oplexy.
The body was cannd to
I'lainfi.ld. N. '.. for the funeial
and interim nt, which will take l lace
tomorrow.
it to the elder Whittington. who is
said to have declared hi*-- son and
Lewis had gone from the house early
■ that morning, and they were later
charged with the crime and arrested.
When the case came to trial the evi-i
dei;ce showed that on Monday morn-ing
the elder Whittington went to
Campbell's cafe, on South Klin street,
and left a sum nearly the amount of
that stolen to be kept until he should
call for it The evidence was such
that not pros was entered in the cases
against the younger Whittington and'
Lewis, and they were freed, while thl
eliler Whittington was served with a
warrant. Rein - unable to furnish
'iond, he was placed in Jail.
William H. York Dead.
Mr. William li. York died Morday
morning at the home ol his son, Mr.
C. F. York, on Arlington Street, at
the advan<ed age of 87 years. He
had been in feeble health for quite
a while. He is survived by two sons
At a negro festival near Wilming-ton
Bob Hines was killed and Andrew
Spicer is in Jail. Spicer denies his
guilt.
Captain Lorenz. the first officer and
17 of the crew of the German hark
Hera lost their lives Sunday when the
vessel struck a rock and sank off Fa!-
mouth, England.
Political unrest, centering in the re-public
of Salvador, threatens to pre-cipitate
revolutionary outbreaks in
that country, Nicaragua and Hondu-ras,
according to reports received in
Washington.
Gen. James Grant Wilson, soldier,
author and editor, died Sunday in
New York, aged 81. He wrote a life
of General Grant and other books,
his most notable work being on Apple-ton's
Cyclopedia of American Biogra-phy.
Rev. Braxton Craig, who is a broth-er
of the governor, has resigned as
pastor ot the First Baptist Church of
Monroe to accept the position of field
secretary for the Judson centennial
fund, offered him by the mission board
of the Southern Baptist convention.
Reports from Indiana and Illinois
tnat the White House was backing
the Senatorial candidacy of Thomas
Taggarl and Roger Sullivan met with
a declaration from President Wilson
thai he had not interfered in any pri-mary
contests and did not intend io
do so.
Prospects of long agitated legisla-tion
to change the dates for begin-ning
of Congressional sessions, the
presidential term and the inaugura-tion
were checked Monday when the
PRESIDENT REMOVES
THE EMBARGO ON ARMS.
Washington, Feb. a.—Fnsident
Wilson, by an executive order dated
today and made public at the White
House tonight, removed all restric-tions
against the exportation of mu-nitions
of war into Mexico from the
United State?, placing the contend-ing
Mexican elements on a basis of
equality with iespx't to th? lurch se
of arms and supplies In this country.
The executive oriler emphasized that
it was the desire of the Unitea
States to Le in thf sime position of
neutrality towird thj . onter.diaS fac-tions
in Mexico as were the other
powers.
"The executive order under which
the exportation cf arms and tniinu-nition
into Mexico is forbidden was
a dijpirtjre f.oni the accepted prac-tices
of netitraLy—a deMbeiate de-parture
from thos.2 prctice; uniier
a we-1 consjd.rtd joint re solution of
Congress—detirmired uion in cir-cunist
nces whi.h i.avo now <e>s u
to exiit. It was intended to dis-cc.
irage incipient revolts rgajn t the
regularly constituted author.ties of
Mexico. Since ill t order was is-sued,
the circumstaocee of the case*
have undergone a r die U change.
There is now no constitutional gov-ernment
in Mexico; and the ex;--:
ence of this order hinders and, ' "-
lays the very thing the go.ernm.nt
of the United states is now insisting
upon: Namely, that Mexiio shill be
left fne to Sitte her own MfUlt
and as soon as possible put th^'iit
up. n a con; ItOttOo*! fjotiug by her
own force and <ouns>l. The order
is. then fore, res laded/
and six daughters— W. il. and C. F.
York, both of this city, and Mrs. A I Senate judiciary committee voted ad-
I). Jordan. Misses Cora and l.aveni;.
York all of whom live in Greensboro:
Mrs Fannie Jones, of Danville. Va.:
Mrs. J. F. Teague. of Hitlsboro, and
Mrs. James T. Silver, of Ramsenr.
The body was carried to Moon's
versely on a constitutional amend-ment
resolution proposed by Senator
Shafroth.
A snow storm over northern Illi-nois.
Indiana and Ohio Saturday
caused much delay to railroad traffic
chapel, near Slier City, for the funeral , alul telegraph and telephone service
was badly hampered. In Chicago all
street railways brought out snow
sweepers early, but much difficulty
Was experienced in keeping lines open
iii the outlying districts.
In reply to a question about possi-and
interment.
HOBSON'S SALARY MAY
BE CUT WHILE ABSENT.
Mr. Charles W. Edwards and Miss Washington, Feb. -.—A mild fuiry
p (. Rev. J. Clyde Turner, pastor of the Lillian Langston were married at tiie!a"iong luembeis of the house fol- : hie prosecutions for the Johnston
First Baptist church, preached to a pirst Baptist church yesterday morn-! lowed the filing of a formal demand county lynching, Governor Craig says
.ern.iclc l;"'-e congregation at the Masonic and L^, the ceremony being performed by j today by W. II. Parker, of Binning- j he gave urgent directions to the John-ard
asking Eastern star home Sunday afternoon. I the pastor, Rev. J. Clyde Turner. |ham. Ala., that Re**<e>en«ative Rich- leton county authorities the day the
''His text was from II Corinthians, ith j IT|)0I1 their return from their hi idal I mond I'eaison Hobson he denied Ms J lynching occurred to get the names of
chapter, and the eloquent pastor drew trip Mr. and Mrs. Edwards will be at
a most practical lesson from the well
fo e the boa
I from Tabernacle to
: county line be worked
and i ffered to contribute
■
tion from Kimesville asked]
Is on the road ieadingi8enr,ceBandwa8UBderth« leadership
G ■ nsboro be cut down «*[*«*■ Robeson. assisted by a select-ed
quartet from the West Market
Rebels See End of War.
Juarez. He ico, Feb. 3.—"The
Mexican war wl.l not last much
longer.''
General Francisco Villa and other
rebel leaders Bade this comment on
the announcement i'r-ni Washin-t'n
tod«y that J:resi;l<-nt Wi son bad lif:-
ed the embargo against the .shipment
of arms anil ammunition into Mexi-co.
General Villa was confident th t
his aUllty to iro'ure unlimited arn.«
soon would nml'ip y rebel vi'tori'.s.
and equally confident that the news
from Washington would di courage
and demoralize the- Fodrra's so tint
a speedy termination of the war
would result.
WOMEN TEACHERS YIELD
A BAD INFLUENCE,
I known passage.
Tile singing was a feature of the
church choir.
Next Sunday Rev. R. Murphy Wil-liams,
pastor of the Church of the
Covenant, will preach. These serv-ices
are conducted for the benefit of
the old guests of the home.
convicts arc removed,
lion tor a public road in
■ iship was presented and,
ed. The road would
Rt dolpb line near N. E.
. i • and run north to Pleas-
■ ! near the negro school-distance
of three miles.
, tor B public road In Sum- Welborn-Highfill Wedding.
ihip was ordered advertised. Mr. J. Elmer Welborn. of High
would begin on the Greens-j Point, and Miss Lillian Hlshfi'l, of
some -I"! yards north of R. : this city, were quietly married yes-
- place and run north one terday afternoon at 4 o'clock at
alf miles to the road near the home of Mr. V. L. Atkins. Rev.
home on Schenck street. The young
couple have the congratulations and
best wishes of a wide circle of friends.
nd Ryan's place.
. W. C. Jones, of High Point,
- appointed by Clerk of the
' Ganl a member of the board of
oners to succeed Dr. W. G.
recently appointed post-er
High Point, took the oath
Tuesday morning.
G. F. Milloway, pastor of St. Paul's
Methodist Protestant church, per-formed
the ceremony. Mr. Welborn
is a well known young man of High
Point. His bride is a daughter of
Rev. and Mrs D. A. Highflll, of Lib-erty,
and is a young woman of many
accomplishments. She has resided
"Father and Son" Banquet.
The "father and son" banquet held
at the Y. M. ('. A. building Tuesday
night was featured by an address by
Prof. M. A. Honllne, of New York,
who is in the city conducting a re-ligious
education campaign.
Mr. R. C. Hood presided and aftct
a short speech introduced Capt.
Frank L. Page, who spoke interest-ingly
ot what he would do if he werw
a boy again. Fathers and sons gather-ed
in separate meetings and talks
wc re made bcfo"e exch body. The ban
quet was the first of its kind ever
held In Greensboro.
£GRO KILLED IN QUARREL
OVER FIVE CENTS.
lard adopted resolutions of Jn Greensboro for the past year and
elation of the services of the | has many friemtls in this city.
ring member, Dr. W. G. Brad-
Died in Missouri.
Mr. Julia. Ti.oin, ,a native cf Guil-ford
county died Saturday at his
home in Coiumbus, Mo. He is stir
vived by his widow and two children.
Mrs. Mary Asbury and John Thorn, of
Columbus: a sister, Mrs. Thacker.
two nieces, Mrs. Carrie L. Gorrell and
Mrs. Annie T. Irvin, of Greensboro,
and three nephews. John L. Thacker,
of this city; Lacy R. Thacker. of Dur
ham. and Rev. J. Ernest Thacker, of
Norfolk.
i Harris, colored, died at his
• on Macon street shortly before
i -;terday from the result of a
'ot wound inflicted by Will
'■ «red, in the Cascade pool
'■!'■ T. -sdiiy afternoon.
I was lodged in Jail shortly af-
' a -hooting occurred and is now
s held to answer the charge of
The dispute which resulted
the killing of Harris Is said to
followed a heated argument
a five-cent piece. The bullet
' killed Harris was fired from a
• calibre pistol, and entered the left
" of the deceased Just between the
"t and shoulder. The two negroes
had been playing pool together Just
^fore the tragedy occurred.
Big Masonic Meeting.
A big Masonic meeting 4s in pro-gress
ui Greensboro, having opened
Tuesday ndght and » continue
through tonight. A degree team
from Charlotte, composed of thirty-second
degree Masons, is conferring
degrees upon a large number of can-didates]
from Geeeasbora and other
place*.
Surveying New Railroad Line.
A party of surveyors left Greens-boro
Tuesday morning for Saxapahaw,
Alamance county, to begin surveying
a route for the Greensboro, Northern
and Atlantic railroad. Mr. W. Wash-abaugh,
who was in charge of the
force, stated that he and his survey-ors
had already surveyed a number of
other routes leading from Greensboro
through Guilford and Alamance coun-ties
for the proposed new railroad,
for which $200,000 in bonds were vo-ted
by Gilraer and Morehead town-ships
about eighteen months ago.
Fire in Winston-Salem.
Fire in Winston-Salem early Tues-day
morning gutted E. W. O'Hanlon's
drug store, on the corner of Liberty
and Fourth streets, and practically
demolished the jewelry store of Fred
N. Day and the gents' furnishings es-tablishment
ot Frank C. Brown &
Son. Furniture and fixtures In the
Odd Fellows' hen and the offices of
several physicians in the drug store
building were destroyed. The Meyers-
Westbrook Dry Goods Company's
store sustained heavy loss and several
adjoining buildings were damaged.
The total loss is over $100,000, with
perhaps $75,000 Insurance.
salary as a con,iessman tor the days every participant in the disgraceful
he has been absent from his sat. affair they possibly could and report
campaigning for the senate against them to the solicitor of the district.
Majority Leader Underwood. Winthrop Moore Daniels, of Prince-
Parker, in an alfi.'.av it, alleged that j to:-, N. .).. chairman of the New Jer-
Representative Hobson w. s abs-ntisey Public Utilities Commission, and
from January 19 to .lanuaiy 81,and j Henry Clay Hull, of Colorado Springs,
protested against the payment ot CoL, president or the Colorado Bar
salary due him for that time. The Association, have been appointed
protest was fi'ed with Sergeant-at- members of the interstate commerce
Arms Gordon, and all of the legal commission to fill the vacancies
talent about the office is at work to
find out the law on the subject.
They have discoveieed a long for-gotten
law, passed in 1858 and still
on the statute books, providing:
"The secretary of the senate and
the sergeant-at-arms of the house,
respecti\ ely, shall deduct from the
monthly payments o* each member
or delegate the amount of salary for
each day that lie lias been absent
from the senate or house, respective-ly,
unless such member or delegate
assign as reason for such absence
the sickness of himself or some
member of his family.''
Cloak rooms and corridors about
the house chamber resounded with
arguments among metnbeis who
would be disturbed by a general ap-plication
of the law. The sergeant-at-
arms declined to discuss the prob-lem
which conf.onted him.
Governor Taunts Senator.
Replying to a statement of Senator
Neils Christensen criticizing Gover-nor
Cole Blease's hostile attitude to-ward
negro schools, the governor of
South Carolina sent a special message
to the senate taunting Christensen
with being the son of a captain in the
Union army during the civil war.
The governor declared the elder
Christensen commanded a company
of negroes. Christensen's friends in
the senate have taken the governor's
message as an insult and have intro-duced
a resolution to expunge it from
the permanent record of the legisla-ture.
Senator Christensen's aged
mother sat in the senate gallery when
the governor's fling at her dead hus-band
was read.
caused by the death of John D. Mar-able
and the resignation of Chai L s
A. Prouty.
Plans for placing a rural credits bill
On the administration legislative pro-gram
have been agreed on tentatively
by the house Democratic leaders. It
was decided that the measure should
be framed by the subcommittee of the
banking and currency committee, now
investigating the subject, foi introduc-tion
In the iiouse April 1. The meas-ure
then will take its place with the
administration anti-trust bills to be
pushed at every opportunity.
Chairman Webb, of the subcommit-tee
ot the House judiciary committee,
conducting the investigation of
charges of official misconduct against
Federal Judge Emory Speer, of
Georgia, has announced that activity
In the case had been suspended to
await the filing of a brief on behalf
of Judge Speer. The brief will be re-ceived
within three weeks. It is prob-able
that no report on the case will
be made to the House for six weeks
or two months.
Doubt is expressed by some Demo-cratic
leaders that President Wilson
will approve the pending immigration
bill if it reaches him in its present
form. This bill, now before the
House, contains many restrictive fea-tures,
notably the illiteracy test to
which it proposes to subject incoming
aliens. With the exception of the pro-visions
excluding militant suffragettes
and other persons belonging to organ-izations
that countenance violence the
bill is substantially the same as the
one that was vetoed by President Taft
In the closing days of bis administra-tion.
New Ycrk. Feb. 8.—Much dis-us-sion
has Leen aiou^ed in educatiJn-al
circles ly an a ti le in the Edu-cational
Review written by Rear Ad-miral
Fren.h E. ChadWlck, U. S. N„
in vhi h the firmer p-<si'.'nt of the
Naval War Co'.leg; de la ts that wo-men
teachers in the public schools
Of America has resulted in "feminiz
ed, e.uotional, ilog'ca! nr nhood. '
"No woman, whatever her ability
may be," said Rear Atimial Chad
wick, "is able to bring up properly
a man chi'd, because unconscious y
she exerts a destructive influence on
the masculine c ha a: ter of the boy."
' We have in this result," he con-tinue
s, "the cause in the greatest
degree of our sti|.|ii< ncss in munic-ipal
affairs, in our inability to strug-gle
against the. capture of fran
chlses, in the sitting down of our
people and wanting everything done
for them, in the general want of
stand-upness. It Is not that women
are not in th' ir way. active in pub-lic
matters, but the man, in the
man's real way. is not."
The rear admiral points out th'it
this "subjecting of oar young males
to the psychics of the woman'' with
its "evil effect" Is a "great and vi-tal
question which should be conoid
ered seriously at once.'
He quotas statist! s showing that
of the 533,606 teacheis employed in
our common schoo's, 423,278 are wo-men.
In 1911 be says there were 6,000.
000 boye trom ten to seventeen
years of age. "the most impression
able period in a boy's life,'' under
instruction by these teachers.
"If we are to maintain the mas-culinity
of the nation." he says, "we
must employ an e^ual number of
men teachers for boys and of wo-m--
n teachers for girls.'
The IteJdsvlUe postofflce building,
which has for the past nine months
been in the hands of the remodel-era.
to finished a»» la now occupied
by the force. It le a modern build-
In* and cost nearly 8100,000.