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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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ESTABLISHED 1821 '< GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 7
i rrtUMII TIIDE IM QPHftfil Q Ithe boys to feel that a prize is the GREENSBORO LOAN AND TRUST
AGIUIIULIUKEI 1W OUHUULO only thing. The training that he gets
is invaluable to him.
IAN ADDRESS BY T. E. BROWN TO "I will not have time to talk to you
GUILFORD TEACHERS
SATURDAY.
COMPANY'S GOOD YEAR.
The annual ine-ting of the stock-
.ibout the totmato club work. Mrs. holders of the Grernsboro Loan and
.Jane S. McKimmon. of Raleigh, will I Trust Company was held yesterday,
; give you all the information about | Prof. George W. White, of Guilford
this work that you may want to know, j College, acting as chairman.
BRIEF ITEMS OF GENERAL NEW8
A Week's Events of Mora or Lost
Interest to the Public
It is announced that John Lind. ex-
Kovernor of Minnesota, the personal
representative of President Wilson in
Mexico, expects to remain in Mexico
at least until April.
Secretary of War Garrison has to-interesting
feature in eonnec- (ghe u making a reputati„n for North I A report rendered to the stock-
, MI!I the meeting of the Guilford CaroUn., in tne tomato ciui, work.: holders by the president and direc-was
j She has orders for every cau of goods j tors showed a prosperous year's j sued a statement which military offl-
. put up by the iddress by T. B. Brown, of the North Carolina girls : work, with a large increase in the I cers say makes it plain that the war
Carolina agricultural depart-who
has charge of the boys'
r. club work in this state.
Mr Brown dwelt on the necessity
having agriculture and domestic
once taught In the rural schools.
• ves that in every rural school
- about the elementary prin-with
her guarantee. Last year two volume of business transai t d.
girls at Charlotte made a clear profit In addition to the eight per cent.
of $110. dividend declared during the year, a
"I am interested in the educational | substantial amount was eirn-d and
development of North Carolina, aad, put to the undivided profits. Ksp -
particularly of Guilford county. The' dally gratifying, In the opinion of
knowledge of the efficiency of the j the president and the directors, was
school system has gone abroad. I ami the. public confidence shown ty the
. of agriculture can be taught. Iable to recognize today how this thing j large number of new accounts open-
Brown told of a school he had has been done. It has been accom-'ed during the year, the net gam
in North Carolina where the • pushed through the fine teaching being 6:!:, an average of more than land 396,934 bales of linters obtained
oi the school d:d not want, force that 1 have before me. I con-j two for ca-h working day. | to December 31 from the crop of 1913.
... ■. taught agriculture, as they I gratulate you ami the county and Mr. I The foregoing 11 ,ures do not in- compared with 2,728,897 tons and 352,-
thelr boys to leave the fannjFoust on the Bne showing thai you dude the Christmas savings club, 1972 bales in 1912.
department is not committed to the
principle of paying the militia.
Another million dollars saving to
the navy was effected when Secretary
Daniels placed contracts for $1,917,340
worth of projectiles. At last year's
prices, the projectiles would have
cost $3,025,200.
A census bureau report showed 3,-
009.759 tons of cottonseed crushed
possible. The teacher had have made."
minutes each day In .1 little
agriculture and had aroused THE BASEBALL SEASON
ich enthusiasm among her pu-i
.',• most of whom happened to
;irls, thai they organized them- Representatives of the several clubs
The army appropriation bill will
contain a provision to require the
government to manufacture instead of
purchase, the bulk of its munitions
1,299, while the club op. nej on De- of war. A similar provision will be
Icember 29, 1913, and continuing this In the fortifications appropriation
| which proved so popular with the
; public last year that it is being con-tinued
this year. The club ending
WILL OPEON ON APRIL 23. '*"* Christmas h d a membership of
two competing teams. In- ^' compriae ,,„. North Carolina year already ha-s a membership of MR
ed their parents to dean the baseoa„ teague „.,., nere Monday at-'over -■'i(">- and in the opinion of the Seven persons were killed and one
Mrs. Hennie Yates. charged with
drowning her two small stepchildren,
pleaded guilty at Union City, Tenn..
to second degree murder and was giv-en
an indeterminate prison sentence
of from 10 to 20 years. While berry
hunting last summer Mrs. Yates was
alleged to have induced her three
stepchildren to go bathing in a creek,
then to have seized two and held their
heads under water until they drowned.
The third stepchild, a small boy. es-caped
and gave the alarm.
In deciding that Blair I-ee. Demo-crat,
of Maryland, should be seated as
United States senator to succeed Sen-ator
Jackson, Republican, and that
Frank P. Glas.s. of Alabama, is not to
be seated to succeed the late Senator
Johnston, the senate committee on
elections determined that the seven-teenth
amendment is now in full ef-fect:
that no sup; lrnuntal legis'ation
by stale legislatures is necessary and
that the governor of a state has au-thority
to call special election where
machinery for such an election exists.
CLEARING HOUSE FOR
FARMERS IS ADVOCATED
off the school grounds and ternoon and adopted the 19H sched-
""'v were ule. The opening games will be play
ed on April 23. with the Wlnston-Sa-termination.
These children ](.|u Wam a( Green8bor0i charlotte at.and directors, ts well as
for when the eastern A8heville and
le was in the thn es ol
at Durban!.
"Co-operation among farmers in-stead
of competi ion, that the farm-er
may receive the whole of the ion-sumer's
dollar for his iTodttct In-rm
j stead cf 35 to 45 per cent, as now
in tue ed with pistols. One of those killed!"5 tb® "**• is the aim c, a bill in.
. .._ . . .. Itroduced in Congress by Senator
officers will reach 3,000 within th< wounded in a pistol Bghl at the pent-next
few days, itenti.uy of Oklahoma when three con-
In the report of tiu
I Greensboro wil lhave the morning
■ed 10 sprout, the seeds in the chil-j^.^ (!;1V ,;,,.,,„„,„,,.„ wH, have the
garden were germinating beau- afwrn0
They had been taught that
opinion of several stockholders who W*S formerly a congressman from 11-
expressed themselves at the meet- iHnois and recently judge in Oklahoma.
j were com- ,,.|nlf |u]y l|h wKb wiMton ,„,,.,. .„„, tag, the coming year shows .every1 Government ownership of the great
they could not get theirL^ .,„,.,.'„„„„ _ame .„ Winston On tadicaUon of a tow increase in the'<<>"> '"'"es of the country, as a rent-
(he j volume of business, not only in bank-M' f"> strike disturbances, is recom-the
ing but In a'l financial and commer- mended by Senator Uartine, of New
' cial lines. Jersey, in a report submitted to Chair-
The following .lire tors were unan- ",!in Swanson. of the senate commit-imously
re-elecf d: R. M. Kees, J. ,ee wnich investigated the West Vir-
S. Cox. .1. W. Fry, J. W. Scott. A. ■*•*■ coal mine strike troubles.
B. Kim ball, s. L. Trogdon, G. S. Ser-1 Mi,nv cilies °r France are lacing
Seant, K. M. Douglas, W. K. Allen. fumine owing to the cutting off of
J. A. Odell. R. R. King. R. D. Doug-|,rafflc bv lne heavv snow fal1- At
las, J. A. i.'adley, of Mt. Airy; J. El- Perpignan supplies of bread and fuel
are about exhausted, while the pinch
is fel' also at Ximes. Pan, Toulouse
game
morning game. The season will close
must have deep soil, well nulver- September ,, with 0reensboro .^ Win-bed
that would hold mols- ston.
... As this teaches the theory, they I Th( Sl. who attei,ded the meeting
!s "'" on were very sanguine over the seasons
farm and see the operation of outlook and freely predicted that this
Principles. would be the best year the league has
We should teach rural children,' ha(, T|.,g ,, ^ ^^ ^.^ f(,r
Brown, "the things that rural tne Sn_.,h Ca,.oiina ,,,.,„„„ bul „ ,. wood Cox. of High Point, and W. F.
eed to Know. We all admii ,,,;,,_ a rontin,1Hti0n of the Carolina! WiIlia":s- of R«» Springs.
rural education in th» Vssoclation which mtil , V(„ir ., ..„' PoUowing the me. ting .f the stock- ■'""' Toulon, where butter, eggs, pout
would Included Greensboro Charlotte Win- ttold*r8- ""' riire:torS he'd a meet- «ry and flom are running short
e South Carolina ln« :uul r.-.b.td the old officers Tll( matter of admitting Harry K.
' as follow.-: .1. w. Fry, president; Thaw ,0 1,ai' wUI oot ]'° deeded tor
■I. S. cox. vice president; w. E. Al- •"'•ll weeks- '" B fescript filed at
through the elementary
• rountrj and then let
n irk in tht i Ity high
Bton-Salera and thre
towns.
The schedule tor the season was
Borah t:> create an "agricultural cap-ital'-
cr clearing hoi se to be run by
farmers under government < harter or
subsidy. The Lill would furnish ma-chinery
for scientific marketing and
standardization cf fa-m produc rs ir-respective
cf government control.
It created quite a stir in the sen-ate.
Senator Bor.ih explaining lati r
that he had nr.t wijtten the meas-ure,
but had int oduced it at the
request of K. 11. Kettig, I farm, r oi
Opport'init » W ish.
In a m mori.il a i o'iipanymg 'he
bill, Hstti • submitted thit farm«.a
were r,egle"t'd by the covermnent,
and he made the declaration that
the "big trusts" had. done more gjod
for the public than the government.
Asserting that "competltl n is the
mother of waste," Mr. Rettig said,
•o
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF FORM.
^"" vou take : o, from ,,„,"■",„",'",;" "T U». secretary and treasurer: w. M. Concord. N. I... last week Federal " ^ <>■ «- -r. Kettig sa,
' ' "^h Brandt, who has retired from the «»«*nho0r, assistant treasurer; W. **» Edgar AldrIch said thmwmdd '_ » .«' »«««"
ed not expect him 'to' i 'i"M. "nu yth°<" .m . ..,.0.(,t.h.e Gre,e,n,sboro club „af- tMn"enCt.°n*'' "»»**** **na*° '^^ until'!"the Tfina^l hearing o'n"t'h"eTqu'"estSio«n "I'h™in*k'oMf '."he sStUuiI.II'.MHt.v cCfI oouurr n
ter several years ardent service, lo invoiv.-d in ,he ex.n,„i,io„ and habeas '""' ^vernment.' he cotttinu,
him is due the credit for the main-tenance
of the Greensboro club
tl ough the trying years, and he has
been a huge factor in the building up
of the North Carolina league. He will
still be active in the work.
The new corporation organized to
ATHLETIC CONTESTS AT
COUNTY COMMENCEMENT.
■ ognize thai we must
e school districts In the
«cl ools as will i i ru-ns
Why it is that so [re-
. d en leave the schools
or tilth grade? It is be-ot
getting the kind tftke ovii]. g^^noro* franchtee'has >■ ""' athletic con
a temjiorary organization
la-
Fd,
"encouraging its citizens to produce
Congressman A. Mitchell Palmer.of w :i"! and afttr jt lia-s l"^n ■■"■
corpus proceedings.
Pennsylvania, who w. s exp ct'd to duced, i'i-i-tin^ on tiijs.- same cit-
Th„ ,.„„,. 77~7 _ . . , [oppose Claude Kltchin. of North Car-1ize''s -ontestitu against ewh other
The Guilford ( ountv Teachers As- ... for ins e-sion of the iliin ■ th v
olina, for election to the chairman-11
sliiji of I lie ways and means commit- i have rroduced.'
that satisfies them, and effected
. re else to seek it. w..i,t.h D...r.. 1). A. Wallers, president;
agriculture In the .R, ev. ,F. a.t,her \mceni Taylor, vlce-pres-with
demonstration of .. ,, ,. ,. ., .
ident; k. E. Ham, secretary-treasurer.
ill Interest luese clul- D. r. W... a.llers, known far and wide as
o . great v\ays in keep- ..T~o, n„y... W... a,l,ler.s, f,or several, years
the farm, In; •; mating G_„reen_sb,„oro. s crack. pi• tch, er, will make
ural lite, helping them to an.i.deal, president, lie ,knows the
de of it. Some of game and. k. nows pl. ayers. He and a
uch piotit iii the kind comm.i.t.tee wi.l,l, soon sel,ect a manager
fathers did and we and. a team.
. on I he farm. We
sociation. at the meeting held here
Saturday, adopted the following regu- j
'tee. says he will not be a candidate
and that he will support Kitchin. in
the event, of course, that Mr. Under-held
in connection with the county
commencement on Saturday. April is:
"That a preliminary contest be held
in the townships at the same time the
recitation and declamation prelimi-nary
contest is held, each township
to be allowed to send as many as
GOVERNMENT AID IN
GOOD ROADS WORK.
wood leaves the house.
Confident that with the aid of wo-men's
votes they will have sweeping
victories at the spring primaries, tem-perance
forces of Illinois are circula-three
contestants for each, event pro ting" 'petitions calling for wet and
vlded no two are from the
school. 1, 100 yard dash; 2. relay|
race of hall a mile; ". 200 yard dash;
i. potato race for the girls; 5. relay
race for the girls; 6. running broad
Jump; 7. running high Jump."
The following committees were ap-pointed:
l'rizes—.1. A. Highsmith. Pomona
I school; Miss Ida Millis. of the Me-
"dry" elections in more than '■'•"" cities
lo show the boys that there is1
: else In agriculture besides child Burned to Death.
ling to kill crabgrass. They News of a most distressing acci-be
Bhown that they can do dent conns from the neighborhood of
nan their parents, who are i Monticello, some ten miles north of
onlj 18 bushels of <om the city. Monday morning a co'ond
| woman at the home of Oscar ^. lr,.;nl]rii,
orn club work we strive to Kudd started a fire in the yard near
■ alue of labor intelligently the well to do tho week's washing.
Our people have not yet Her litt'e child, a girl of four years
.. to apply their labor to : of age, was playing around the place.
i results. How many farm- The mother went to the house for
North Carolina keep ,m accur- something and the next tiling she
lint of their business? The
the merchant usually tells
he is behind. The boys in
orn clubs are taught to keep ac-counts,
and they can tell
m much a bushel of their corn
"st them. We do not encourage
Of a great amount of commer-ilizers.
In South Carolina I
hat one of the prize winners
0 pounds of commercial fer-another
one used nearly $30
Our boy last year who made
yield, 190 4-10 bushels, used
■ orth. With the intelligent
, of science to the soil they
make a big yield of corn without
commercial fertilizer. A
; need in North Carolina is a
■••m of crop rotation that will
is in the soil, and we need to
the water capacity. Next
we want 5,000 boys enrolled in
" corn club in the state, and you
"hers must help us enroll them.
ili stud them literature, write
cm personal letters and send them
the bulletins on the things they
»re interested is. We do not want
knew the child's clothing was envel-oped
in flames, and before anything
could Le done it was so badly burn-ed
that it died i i a few hours. A
physician hastil - s m: noned was un-able
to do anvthln?, but it was said
the child .- ff red very little, due
to the fL.-t that it was so badly
burned the . erves were all paralyz-ed,
destroying all feeling.
New Cotton Mjll Company.
The Central Falls Mills. Inc., of
Central Falls, has been organized to
take over the Worth Manufacturing
Company, which recently passed
through bankruptcy. The authorized
capital is J10O.O00. with $25,000 sub-scribed
by J. B. Stroud, of this city,
and H. U and J. M. Cavenees. A
charter was issued to the company
by the secretary of state y ster-day.
Mrs. .1. A. Hoskins, of Summer-field,
entered St. Leo's hospital y^-
terday and is expected to undergo
an operauoa. Her many friends will
wish fsr her a speedy recovery.
chauk, of the White Oak school.
Rules and regulations—E. J. Cole-trane,
Jamestown school; George
Short. Brightwood school; hucile Ken-nett.
Glendale school.
Arrangements—Prof. E. E. Bal-comb,
of the Normal College, and
Superintendent Thos. R. Foust.
|and villages of Illinois. Nearly a
score of towns were voted into the
"dry" column with the aid ol the suf-frage
vote last fall.
A project for making part of the
Panama canal zone a free trade ter-ritory,
with a view to establishing B
sort of clearing house for North. Cen-tral
and South American commerce,
is being worked out by Representa-tive
Copley, of Illinois, who will pre-sent
it to congress in the form of a
bill. The plan is along the general
lines of a free zone arrangement tried
out in Hamburg. Hong Kong and Sing-apore
Governor Glenn Will Accept Appoint-ment.
A press dispatch from W'inston-Sa-lem
says: "Former Govern Robert B.
Glenn today announces that he will
under no circumstances contest for
the seat in the senate now filled by
Lee b. "verman. He states that he
is well satisfied with the place tender-ed
him by President Wilson on the
boundary commission, and that he
will accept this.
"This action of Mr. Glenn causes
no surprise here, where it has been
felt for some time that the ex-gover-nor
would land a good job without
having to scuffle for it. The place on
the boundary commission |sexpected
to be ready for him between now and
March 1, the date until which the
incumbent desires to hold."
Senator F. P. Hobgood has return-ed
from, a visit to Columbia and
Charleston, s. C-. on legal business.
A supplemental report on the bill
to appropriate $25,000,000 a year for
federal aid to road construction in
the various states was filed in th
house of representatives Monday by
Representative Shackltford, chair-man
of the house roads committef.
The bill proposes to divide the ap-propriation
among the states in 'ro-portion
to the rural delivery routes
and post roads in each State. Tables
s-tUiig forth the mileage of these
roads ir each state were included in
the report filed today.
Another table gave the amount of
federal aid each state might re-ceive
under the provisions of the bill.
The amounts for th • Southern states
were fixed as follows:
Alabama, $578,750; Florida, $183.-
750; Georgia. $771,250: Kentucky,
1683,760; Louisiana, $302,600; Mis-
Matters of Inte-est to Readers of
The Patriot Far and Near.
Prof. George W. McAdoo. who for
many years was a teacher in the
colored prated schools of Greens-boro,
died Monday night, following
a long illness of Brtfhfa disease.
His funeral will be held from St.
Matthews church today at noon.
James Coab, a Coldsb^ro ne«ro,
was arrested here Monday by his
bondsman, who had come here from
Glldsboro looking lor him. Cofcb was
carried tack to Goldsboro to stand
trial on several charges. When the
bondsman came aad found his man.
he took the negro bodily in charge
ani> held on to him until officers
could be summoned.
There was a called Session of
Orange Presbytery here Tu idsy to
aseept the resignation of Rev. Carl
Barth as pastor of Ed ,-eniont church,
in Durham. Rev. Mr. Larth was dis-missed
to the Pres'jytery of Atlan-ta.
Ga. Thcsj here from out cf town
for the meeting were: Rev. C. W.
Robinson, of North Wil'.tesboro; Rev.
Charles Co! le. of High Point; Re\.
C. H. f'hipps. of Thi iirisvjlle; K,.\.
B, R. l.eyburn and Rev. Carl Barth,
of Durham.
The Woman's Christian Temper-ance
t'nion will observe "Mother's
day" with a program at the Car-negie
library this afternoon at 3
O'clock. An interesting program is
arranged. Mrs. Van Noppen will ad-dress
the union on the subject. "The
Tactful Mother," and Mrs. Stamey
will speak on "The True Sj-iilt of
Mothers' Day. It is beli'*ved that
the meeting will be helpful and in-spiring,
and all mothers are invited
to be present.
•I. A. Brew.-r. a lineman for the
Nor h Can.Una I u' IK Service t'oaii-pany,
uas lainflly injured Toss-day
when 5J0 volts of electric cur-rent
paassfl through his boiy. He
was at work on the m w car barn
pcutting in some wires at the top
of the building, when he touched a
pole, was shocked and rendered un-conscious.
He was canrl d to his
b me near Ijndley | ark and given
medical treatment. He will be out
in a few days.
.Mr. K. J. Jostles, who was re-cently
appointed a special assistant
to Attorney General McHeyno'ds,
has been In Washington this week
making a report of bis findings in
the cases of the government against
the bu Western railrouls. in which
fraudulent laud grabbing is diarg.d.
The government has already insti-tuted
actions, and the attitude of
the government toward the cases
wil be governed in a large meas-ure
by Mr. Justice- re<-jiumenda-t
ion.
NEWS OF THE OLD NORTH STATE
The fight over the proposed exemp-!8ls 'Wi. $473,750; North Carolina,
tion of 2.400 assistant postmasters j $660,000; South Carolina, $415,000;
from civil service, proposed In the
postofflce appropriation bill, took a
new turn in Congress when Chairman
Moon, of the house postofflce commit-tee,
introduced a special rule to In-clude
an annual $25,000,000 good
roads appropriation in the measure
and provide for the passage of the
whole bill, carrying $330,000,000, un-der
a suspension of the rules.
Testimony as to the mental condi-tion
of Judge Emory Speer. of the
United States court, southern district
of Georgia, was given before the sub-committee
of the house committee on
judiciary, which is conducting an in-quiry
into charges of official miscon-duct
on the part of the jurist. The
investigation is being conducted at
Macon. Ga. John R. L. Smith, a lead-ing
member of the Macon bar, de-clared
that Judge Speer's mental fac-ulties
were, in his opinion, "bad. im-paired,
variant." Congressman Webb,
of the ninth North Carolina district,
is chairman of the Investigating com-mittee.
Tennessee. $706,250: Texas, $1,126.-
250; Virginia, $591,250.
Deatr. of Aged Citizen.
Mr. H. E. Claytor died yesterday
afternoon at St. Leo's hospital, fol-lowing
a short illness. He was 78
years old and a Confederate vete-ran.
The funeral will be held from
the home of a son, Capt. F. V. Clay-tor,
this afternoon and will be con-ducted
by Rev. W. O. Goode. pastor
of Spring Garden Street Methodist
church, of which Mr. Claytor was a
member.
Mr. Claytor leaves two sons and
one daughter, Capt. F. V. Claytor,
E. R. Claytor and Miss Mary Clay-tor,
of this city. There are three
brothers surviving, Robert Claytor, of
Goldsboro; Henry Claytor, of Or-ange
county, and Samuel Claytor, of
South Texas.
A Survey of What is Transpiring in
the Commonwealth.
Senator .Simmons has introduced a
bill to appropriate 15,000 tor the erec-tion
of a monument to Nathaniel Ma-con
at Warrenton, Warren county.
By authority of the administrator,
the Grubb skyscraper In Salisbury
was sold at auction Monday, bringing
$122,600. It was bid off by Joseph
Felz, of 1 hiladelphia. The building
cost over $200,000. Several valuable
farms, aggregating 1.30$ acres, were
purchased by l). H. Miller, of Salis-bury,
for $51,000. This was the sec-ond
sale of the Grubb property.
Whitehead Kluttz. Esq.. of Balls-bury,
has been notified that he OSS
been appointed secretary of the I
nadian boundary commission at a sal
ary of four housand dollars a real
The appointment came to Mr. Kluttz
unsolicited. He has announced Ml
acceptance and will go to Washington
next week to begin work. Mr. Kluttz
is well known in political circles, hav-ing
served North Carolina in the state
senate four years ago. The notice Of
his appointment came from Secretary
W. J. Bryan.
The United States senate has pass
ed a bill providing for a term of Fed-eral
court in Wilson, the borne tow I
of Judge H. G. Connor. Judge of the
eastern districc of North Carolina
The bill has not passed the house, but
It Is not believed objection to it will
develop there. Tha tact that Wilson
is close to Raleigh will be tre only
drawback to the probability of the
bill's passing the house.
Mr. John W. Petty, who has been
at Hot Springs for some time, has
returned greatly improved la health.
Mr. J. T. Cook, of Concord, secre
tary aad treaeurer of the North Car-olina
Railroad Company, was a visi-tor
la the city Tuesday. . . ,
L