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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 28
«fc 4»;Q IN BRIEF FORM
TERS c '•*
HEADERS Or
FAR AND
OR. STILES LECTURES ON JAMESTOWN FEOFLE WANT
THE MOTHER AND CHILD. I JO VOTE SCHOOL BONDS.
'**7 TO THB
W«TRIOT
R.
■iiid Mrs. "ChThW A. I lines re-last
night from a visit to
0 and Mi.'.w >- Pr< sbytensn
are building a manse on
itreet to ccst 12,600.
i V. I ick, of Mclieans-
- iespetately ill of tubercu-nd
his death is exp.cted at
/ mid Mrs. H. A. Garves. for-
.■ ol Pomona, are here f om ox-
' . i it to th ir daughter.
Joli ii L. Hooper.
\ ; <• yadkin i reabytery of the coi-
• V l-resbyteilm church was in
Y in this city the last three
: the week and yesterday.
James E. 1'o.vd went to
last night to preside over
g term of United St it s
ourt at that p'ace this
I.. Capps, who has been
eputy sherj f at the
' mills, has resigned the po-sh
riff Stafford will appoint
i ssor soon.
of members of the
boro Woman's Club will go to
loir.t U't'dmsday to attend a
:- to be given by the Wo-tb
of that place.
. W. S. Rai:kin, of Ra'.eig-h. see-the
state board of health,
• address list night to the
s of the State Normal and
! CoVege, uu.er the aus-
: the <ollege V. W. C. A.,
subject of "Social Responsi-ing
the month of March .Mr.
Royies. the city building in-issued
permits for 19 new
ngs to be erected at an esti-
I cost of $10,000. During the
ttOntb. last year 15 permits
ued for buildings costing
obsei ved 1 s Sunday
at the First Baptist
B portion of the 11 o'clock
■' to a aped <l
~ hoo! progiam. Diplomas
to 17 members of
training class who had
■ .in-■•«•.
Kmily Joyner h s returned
■ 'it three months iu
o, where her father,
loyner, holds an impor-pos.
tion. Mr. Joy-
• ne home on a fur-spring
or early
1 colored boy about
was arrested last
»ith breaking into
E. Cartland & Co.'a
inn. at Saturday
The stolen goods
Baled at the liome
•■otored. and the
ested ES an ae-es-
I and Mr. W. P. llutton,
ity, hav,. purchased the
Guilford College,
ation of $14,500. This
ttractive p'.ace. The
about 240 acres and
ilence and other
It is understood that the
luttoii purchased the prop-
•stment.
Lee S. Overman h s fi'ed
rk 01 the court notice
*1U be a candidate for re-in
Gui'ford's legalized pri-
May 16. Senator Overman
ition, but under the
1 primary law, it is neces-him
to give notice of his
in order to get his name
- iitjc ticket in this
diaance w. s passed recent-ing
all te'ephone, telegraph
" light poles within the
s to bo painted. Represen-of
the telephone and tale-iniea
and the city com-
: have held a conference
reed that all the poles shall
I reen, the idea being
vould be better to adopt a,
color.
IvaJ meeting that had been
at West Market Street
' church for the past two
d last night. Much in-
1 mifested in the meet-there
were a number of
s of re'Won. Rev. A. L.
who assisted the pastor,
". C. \v. Byrd, and did most
preaching, returns to his
Hickory today.
Dr. C. W. Stiles, of the United
States marine hospital service, who
was detailed by the navy department
to attend the eighth district medi-cal
convention in this ct'.y last
weak, na.e a very interesting pub-
It'- address in the court house
Thursiay ni:ht on "The Mother and
(the thild from a I ublic Health Point
of View." He said that the public
health problems of the South are
intimat-ly inte. woven with the race
problem, and he viewed segregation
I of the races as one of the most
important public hea'.th steps to be
taken.
In reply to the argument th t the
idea of race segregation is based
upon race prejudice against the
negro. Dr. Stii s said that if it is
thought unjust to rejregate the ne-gro,
then, as a health met sure, pro-tect
the uegroes against the dis-eases
of the white race by 3 gre-gating
the whites.
Dr. Stiles made a comparison be-tween
Ame ican and Kuropean w.-
men and reiterated a statement
formerly made by Mm that American
women do not receive so great a
protec ion. in reference to their life,
health and happiness : s do the wo-men
iu cert in Counties in Kurope.
"It is true,'' he said, "that in cer-tain
respects the average American
husband is much nior.' considerate
of tali wife than is the average Ger-man.
French or English husband;
but it is equally true that when it
comes to actual safeguards that are
thrown around the life and health
of the children, the United states
must take a back seat when com-pared
w ith England. France. Ger-many
and Switzerland: and since it
is chief y the mother who suffers in
cas." h r chid is sick or dies. I can-not
escape the conclvsion that our
country does not prote-t its women
from unnecessary suffeijng and
death as well as do eerfin conn- !
tries of Europe."
He turned to a comp rative illus- !
tration of protective conditions ioJ
the two countries. He < ri jcis d the!
avenge American father for his lack |
of Inter* st In h's family In not pro-viding
sanitation and full health to |
the mother who bcais chi'dtvn to
him and .0 the chi'dren. chOCSlag to
pay hundreds of dollars in doctor
bills instead.
Dr. Sties gave hi-ih praise to the
advanced posi ion Gu| ford h' s taken
in public ti- '1th matters and said
tb" county is far above the aver-age.
Guilford was one of the first
counties In the entire South to em-ploy
a physician as a whole time
health officer.
The people of the Jamxestown pub-j
lie school district, who now have
what is considered by miny to be
the test rural high shod in the
state, dsire to extend their educa-tional
fa iliitiis still further, and
with this end in view, contemplate
holding an election (Or a bond is-sue
of $7,500. A nuin rously Signed
petition asking lemiissjon to hold
the election was present d to the
county board of education at the
monthly meeting of th.t body Satur-day
af;e no:-n. The board approved
the pet tion and re ferred th? ma tl r
to the county commissioners, who
are expected today to au'horize the
election.
Ano her matter of interest that
came before the board of education
Saturday was a imposition to have
the county take over th ■ 1 aimer Me-morial
institute, a colored school lo-cated
t!°ar Sedalia, and conduct it
as a training s hoo! for negro boys
and girls. The bond t ok the mat-ter
under advisement and probably
wiil run. h a conel'sion by the date
of the next meeting. Sliould the
county take over the. s h'O]. special
stress wj'l be laid on teaching agri-cultural.
iumu'1 trailing, domestic
science, etc.
*Ir. John C. Kennett. who has
been a member of the board of ed-ucation
for several yeas. fnderc-rl
his resUnation, which will be acted
on at the next meeting of the board.
Mr. Kennett resigns on account of
having been appoint) d a deputy
United State* marshal.
The board approved a petition 1
an appropri' tion f0r the enlarge-ment
of the Shady Grove schOO', in
•Jefferson townshi-1.
WILLIAM P. WHARTON
DEAD AT ADVANCED AGE. REBELS CAPTURE TORREON
THE INVASION OF MONTEREY
AND SALTILLO HAS
ALREADY BEGUN.
Mr. Wi :>am P. Whirton. one of
Guilford county's oldest and best
ciiisdns, died Saturday afternoon at
li - I-...H... near Mclje^asvtlle. He w s I
87 years old and a member of one j Press dispat h s Friday tod cf the
of Guilfords oldest an.: most prom- (capture of Torreon, Mexico, by the
ineitt famii s. He is survival ty a ! rebel forces under Gen. Villa and
»?*";. Mr' C" A' Wharton' of announ.ed that the invasion of Mon-daughter.
Mrs. Wa'ter
terey and Sajtillo had begun.
The tight for the poss^ssicn of
Whitsett; a
I.. L ndsay, 0f McLeins-vi 1 p, and two
sons, Mr. Walter I.. Wharton. who I
resides at the fam ly homestead, and TorrB°n itseif w s the moSt d^sper-
Rev. R. L. Wharton, a missionary of j ate of the seri s of fierce battles
the Southern Presbyterian church in which marked the Tone n campaign.
( U'VV Ten tines nd r.bels fought all Sst-
The funeral was held vesterday af-: ,,„,„,. ... . „ .
, ,„„_ , , ' . , urdaj ni ;ht sad Sunday, ye'ing ike
ternooii at :; o. lock ct Bethel Pres- '
byterian ehmxh, of which Mr. Wear- «■■•■ "^ em-o irsged to advance
ton h d le-n an offtdM member f0r IC
in ' ny years. The service* were con-din
ted by the pastor, Rev. R. E.
Redding, assisted by Rev. s. M. Ran-a
Withering fire 1 y the presence on
tho firing line of General Vi la him-self.
Armed with a rifle and carry-
I ing no Insignia of his hi^h office,
Kin. of this city. Interment wlsLv. j
. ,„ . tne commander
mane in the church burying ground.
One of the lirgest crowds that ever
ja-sembled at Bethel was present to
pay the last tribute of respect to
the aged and be'oved man who had
answered the fin'1' sunmoi.s.
i';>u-ht like a com-mon
soldier.
Gen. Ve asco. the f deral comm n-der.
escaped from hs ent en h-mtmts
Thursday night with a small
bodyguard. On the folbwjng day
every soldier of his army of 10,000
was either ki led, wounded, captur d
or put to flight.
The fi st rebel advance on General
VeUs o's federal garrison in To: reon
the Port of Guaymas) most of Coa-huila,
Durango and Sinaloa.
COMMENCEMENT AT THE
STATE NORMAL COLLEGE.
Ccunty Sunday School Convention
The Guilford county Sunday school
convention will be h-d at .lames-town
Thursday, April 16. The f.l- land Gomez Palac.o resulted in a Pit-lowtng
program h s Leen preoand: iable slaughter of the robe's, in
Morning s'ssion.—Theme, evang 1- I which about 2.000 of them, partly
ism- jthrou.'h a series of blunders, were
10, devotional ex rcjs»'S, Rev. J. kille-d or wounded within a few
V. Glegg. I hours.
10.30. "Th.'* Greatist Essentials 0f \ A" ttustwo thy aec.uns agree
Sunday School Work.' Rev. W. O. ilhat the rebe's' fiist attack was un-
Dead Men and Horns in St'eets.
When vii:a won bis way in o Tor-reon
he took on y ::o prison*: s alive
and unwoiinded. the remainder of the
abtobodied. whose exact numb r 13
unknown. e> aping with the crip-pled
but va'iint federal .ouimander
Valssco n his final dash. Velas-.o
made the first few mi', s of his «s-cape
on troop-tr ins. which he aban-doned
when lie came to the first
place where the rails had been re-moved.
An Italian officer who directed a
section of the rebel artillery in the
persistent attack on the city, tell-ing
of the fiist entry of the victor-"
ious rebels, says th't While iu the
confusion of dead men and horses
piled high in the streets and plaza
ard reins cf the < ity spatter, d
with blood, it was impossible to es-timate
the number of federal dad.
superiieial inspe ticn of public places
would indicate that not less than
2.000 holies are scattered about. It
wi 1 be a ta^k to get Md of th- dead
but a gigantic funeral pyre has been
built and the bodies of men and an-imals
are being tucineraf d.
TWELVE CITIES NAMED
FOR RESERVE BANKS.
ROBBERS MAKE HAUL AT
SILER CITY FOSTOFFICE.
Robbers entered the postoffjee at
Siler City between 2 and :; o'clock
Friday morning, cracked the "bur-glar-
proof' safe an! made away
with the contents—about $800 in
cash, stamps and stamped envel-opes.
The burglars made three or
four attempts before they succeed-ed
in blowing open the safe, and
while the noise of the explosion was
heard in the town, they made good
their escape.
The news of the robbery was tel-ephoned
to Greensboro shortly after
.'! o'clock, and night clerks on duty
at the local postoffiee notified
Postoffice inspector Robert W. Hod-gin,
who went to work on the case
at once.
It is e-onsidered altogether prob-able
that the Siler City robbery-was
committed by the same per-sons
who entered the postoffice at
Kandleman Tuesday morning and got
away with about $1,000 in cash and
stamps.
The commencement of the State
Nona*] and Industrial College will
open Saturday evening. May ;;::, wjti,
the class reunions and close the fol-lowing
Tuesday with the' graduating
exercises. The program follows:
Saturday evening, May 28, class
reunion..
Sunday. 11 .\. y\ _ May ..,. bacca-laureate
Sermon by Rev. William
Wilkinson. D. D., rector of Old Trin-ity
church, Xew York.
Sunday. 8 p. M. Mav "4. aermon
to v. w. C. A. ly Rev. w. T. Thomp-son,
of Lexington—Peabody park.
Monday, in.::o \. \i.. May 35, alnm-nue
associati 11 btsln -s meeting.
Monday. 1 p. M.. May 25, alumnae
luncheon.
Monday. 5 i> yp jjay 25, senior
class day exercises.
.Monday. 8.30 P. af., May 25, an-nual
musical concert in auditorium
of Students' building.
Tuesday. 10.30 A. M., .May 26, grad-uating
exercises, with address by
Or. Stephen Wise, of New York,
and presentation of diplomas, copies
of the constitution, alui the Bible.
Goods.
11, •Evangelism in Elementary De-partment."
Mrs. R. I. wr'iams.
H.2 '. 'Evangelism in. Secomlary
Deprrtment.' Rev. C. E. White.
11.10. "Evangelism in Adult De- ;
pertinent." Rev. Fred K. Smith.
Afternoon session.—Th me. Train- ,
ing for effu P n.y.
1 "0. business, reotts of town- j
shii»s. r ports of committees on n m- '
inations.
2.30, "Tr ining County »nd Town- i
ship Off] ers lor Efficiency,-' Rev.
C. Brown Cox
2.50, Discussion and recommends,
tions for a tive work in township
successful, and th t th ir combined
forces, although better equipped
with field nuns than they ever had
been previously, and fully confident
they would frighten the federals
into a retre t, were forced to re-tire
in the beginning of the fight.
First the rebe s were reported to
have blundered in opening fire on
their own m*n. Two a counts weie :
given for this mistake. One was
that a column of rebel i rti le y tr, in- |
ed over their mark and poured shel s
Into the lan'is of General Agui re
Benafides' forces on the opposite
side of Gomez PslUiC Another ac-count
was that a body of rebels at
j ..... Guuomumez lI..IlHnIiUo wwaaxs w..|i.ltlhto,.u.vt owr.i«l«e S-and
county organisations throng-ut ;an(| o! „1H *uk»q
the„ .T..our.._ . , they we're federa's, op ned, f..ire and
3.10, -Tr ■ining Officers of Local I
Sunday Schoo'S." Rev. A. O. Dixon.
3.30, "Training Teacher's.'" K. .1
•'ol ti'anw.
The C. F. & Y. V. Invost'roation.
Although but little has been said
of the matter recently, there has
been no letup in the investigation
of the sale and dismemberment of
the old C F. & Y. V. Railway, ac-cording
to a statement by Mr. A.
h. Brooks, who has been engaged in
the work since the investigation was
ordered by the legislature. The cor-poration
commission, which has been
conducting the investigation, is ex-pected
to make a report soon, and
then Attorney General Bickett and'
Mr. Brooks will take the matter be-fore
the department of Justice at
Washington.
PHYSICIANS HOLD COOD
MEETING IN GREENSBORO.
The eighth district medical con-vention,
which was held in Greens-boro
Thursday and Friday, was at-tended
by 7.". or more physicians.
There were a number of lectures
and discussions 011 technical sub-jects
and several clinics were held.
The public felt no direct interest in
all this, e'though it was for the
good of the public that the doctors
met and compared notes.
It is worthy of note that the
program was carried out according
to previous announcement, with the
omission of two papers by physi-cians
who were unavoidably detain-ed
at home.
The convention organized by elect-ing
Dr. H. T. Bahnson, of Winston-
Salem, president, and Dr. W. M.
Joness. of Greensboro, secretary. It
was decided to hold two meetings
annually in the future, the next con-vention
to meet in Winston-Salem
next fall.
Freight Cars Derailed.
The engine and 14 cars of a north-bound
frei.'ht train were derailed at
a point about three miles north Of
Rudd yesterday morning at 1 o'clock,
the accident blocking traffic until
about noon yesterday, it was late
in the afternoon before the wreck-age
was cleared away. Fortunately
no one was injured in the accident.
killed many of their own number
before the mistake was discovered.
i A quantity of hand bomb-. mfde I
out ef two in: h ri^e. were provid d
with such poor fuses th't the feil-jerala
were able to extinguish with1
water such of them as they did not
throw back at the rebels.
To add to the misfortunes of the
rebels' first attack, ace 01 ding to d;-
tails gleaned from the wounded, they
R. K. Hanner Died Last Night.
Mr. Robert K. Manner died last
nlshl at 11.30 o'clock ct bis home on
Church street, following an illness
of several weeks' duration of heart
trouble.. Mr Hanner was born in
the southern part of the county R] were turned into a part of Torreon
years ago and had resided in Greens- under the impression that the fed-horo
for the past 30 yeare. He. was enla ha<l fl'Hl- Then suddenly they
a" upright citizen and held the con- d,BCoVered th,'y wpn' '" ll'rert fir<"
fidenee and esteem of the public, He,of we" sheltered fedeial guns, which
entered the Confederate army at the Proceed*d <° "low Jhem down ly the
outbreak of the Civil war. but was 8Core- Ma"y reDea were wound d
discharged before the end of bos- M they ilU,-m',tel1 to withdraw,
tilities on account of physical disa-bility.
Mr. Haimcr is survived by his ag(d
widow, three sons and three daugh-ters.
The children are: Samuel Han-ner,
of Oklahoma; Claude Hanner, of
Ashevllle; Floyd Hanrer, of San-ford;
Mrs. W. ft King, Mrs. R. T.
Bridges and Mrs. Charles K. Crews,
of this city.
Three More Entries.
Mr. J. A. Rankin, a member of the
board 0f county commissioners, has
filed with the clerk of the court the
requied notice that he will be a can-didate
for renom-nation at the hands
of the Democratic voters in the pri-mary
ejection to be he'd May 16.
Messrs. Wilson and Tucker, the two
other members of the board whose
terms expire this year, are expect-ed
to file-their notices this week.
Mr. George L. Stansbury, who was
appointed coroner upon the resig-nation
of Maj\ W. W. wood, has fil-ed
notice of has candidacy for the
nomination for this office.
Mr. W. J. Sherrod, who wants to
represent Guilford in the house of
representatives, is the on'y legisla-tive
candidate who has filed a no-tice
so lar.
The attorney general of Ohio will
institute proceedings to oust the
Standard Oil Company and its sub-sidiaries,
including the Imperial Oil
Company, of Canada, from doing bis-
Iness in Ohio.
Theses were among the ewnts that
happened during the two or three
da>s when ihe censor at the front
refused to permit any messages to
be transmitted north.
Federal Loss Placed at 12,000.
Jnuarez, Mexico, Apii' "■—Aftr the
hysterical outbursts that greet: d
news of the fall of Torreon last
night this city was calm today.
General Vila added nothing to his
brief bulletin of last night except
that he promised that, if conveni-ent,
he would report all available
details fully tonight.
Grea'est interest centeis in defi-nite
information as to the numb- r
of prisoners taken by the rebels.
Villa last night said the federal
losses were 12,000 dead, wounded and
prisoners and it was assumed he
meant that most of these were pris-oners.
The report indicated a rout
of the federals so complete as to
be almost unbelievable.
Villa's early estamate of his losses
was uOO killed and 1,500 wounded.
With the capture of Torreon the
constitutionalists now control an
immense wedge-shaped portion of
Mexico, with the point resting on
Torreon, 500 miles south of Juarez,
and the top extending along the
American border from Nogales, Ari-zona,
to a point Just west of EagPa
Pass. Texas. At Pedras N'egr. 3
across from Eagle Pass, there is a
federal garrison, but it is not men-acing.
The states subject to rebel
arms are Chihcahua, Sonora, (except
The fed ral reserve bank organiza-tion
committee has divided the
I'nited states iuto 12 dWUiCtS under
the new currency law. Richmond.
Va„ is given the federal reserve
bank in the territory eompriajrg the
Distri.-t of Columbi >, Maryland, Vir-gin,
a, Xorth C'arolini. South Carolina
and nearly all of West Virginia. This
diat.ict, known ES "district N0. -.
contains 47.". national banks, which
have accepted the provisions of the
federal reserve act.
The capital sto< k of the Peder*r>
Reserve Hank of Hi:hiucn;l. on the
basis of « per 1 ent of the total cap
ital &.U>ck ami surplus of the assent-ing
national hanks, will amount I
|o.308,M8, and if there be added 6
per cent of the capital stock :ind *ur.
plus of the state banks anil trust
comp uies tilt have applied for
iifmbeiship up (o Airil 1 the total
capital stock WIN be 88,34^,281.
The 11 othe.- res rve banks will be
lo<-:-te«i m the (clowing cltl s: Boa-ton,
New York. Phi adelphia. Cleve-land,
o.. Atlanta, Ga.. Chicago, St.
Louis. Minneapolis. Minn., Kansas
City, Mo.. Da las. Tex.. a„d Suu
Francisco.
Tlw new federal reserve banking
system will start bnslne&s w|in a
total authorized capital of about
8100,000.000 for all reserve banks, no
matter how many inatftuUdne the or-ganization
committee i!e«ic'es to set
up. This fact became apparent when
figures were made' public from all
national banks responding to the
last call of the comptroller of the
curren y. ma.e .vawh 4.
64 Pe'ish in Storm.
A dispatch from St. John's. N.
P., gives th? Hollowing meager ac-count
of a disaster at sea:
Sometime on Tuesday, whl'e the
crew of the sealer Xew Foundland
were out on the Ice f!e>es hunting
seals, a tenifi' bizznd overtook
them. They were cut off from the
Steamer and the fury of the storm
drove them further out onto the jce.
So far as can I.«• ascertained from
the bri: f wire'es dlapStthtS that
have come from vessels in the vi-cinity
of the New Foundland. sixty-four
of the sealers are dead, their
bodies having been recovered from
the i,e by rescuing crews, and thir-ty-
sev>-n have been recovered alive.
Couldn't Frolorvg Their Lives.
Dr. West, of Orange, N. J., who
was about to lecture on "Seientific
Methods for the Prolongation of
LJfe," is dead at 49. Surgeon Gen-eral
Hamilton, of the marine hospi-tal
service, many years ago was the
author of a litt'e book, entitled -'How
to Uve to Be a Hundred," and he
was littje. if any. past ."0 when he
died.
Judgment has been entered for
the plaintiff in the suit irought in
the United Sta.t---» District court by
Mr. John A. Hodgin against the
Southern Railway for alleged dam-ages
to his land and crops on South
Buffalo. Mr. Hodgin was given $200
for damage to crops and 8600 for
damage to land. The injunction ask-ed
for against the railroad was de-nied
and the plaintiff was taxed
with the costs.