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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
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LOCAL NEWSJK
MATTERS OF INTERES.
cEAD£RS OF THE PATRiv
FA" AND NEAR.
•.-rkin>. of Charlotte.
Saturday on a busi-
.1 of Brown Sum-
Patricl a call while
Long, of Graham, a
ol th>' Alamanee
,i Saturday.
P. Coble, of High
ii I'IP Masonic and
ome yesterday after-wired
is reported as
rom the effects of
underwent at St.
irday.
\. J. Klutz and lit-
: Robert Kankin
Atlanta, making
oblle.
and children
charlotte and
summer ai tlieir
, reet.
N" • ■ i 1 Ellington
laud. Ga., Friday
('apt. Ellington's
Ellington.
"ill deliver the
at a reunion of
rans ol Person
■it Roxboro.
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 44
">. M. Scales has purchased
',. . A. Kirkpatrick and
f. Kirkpatrick 1J4 acres
iK northwest of the city
:.!. an average of a little
an acre. The land is near
othei . jperty owned by Mr. Scales.
Richard I.ee Whittington. the
eighteen-montlis-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. 1". B. W'hittington. died Friday
of stomach trouble, following an
ii'.noss of three days. The funeral
and interment took place Saturday
afternoon at Mt. Pleasant Mthodist
church.
Mr. A. H. Nowell. manager of!
the local office of the Western
Onion Telegraph Company, has pur-chased
from Mrs. M. 11. Alford the
residence on Summit avenue for- |
merly occupied by her son. Dr. A.
E. B. Alford, who has moved out of
the state.
They don't know whether i! i- a
sign of returning youth or because
I the primaries have been held and
; his job is cinched for two years
more, but the boys over ai the
court house saj that County Treas-
1 urer McKinney is threating to buy
j an automobile.
it is announced thai Hon. Wil-liam
H. Murray, a member of Con-gress
from Oklahoma. known
throughout the country as Alfalfa
Bill," will make an address at the
Fourth of July celebration at Guil-ford
Battle Ground. Congressman
Stt man v ill also speak.
of his father. .Mr.
I.. Hooper, who had
ii Spring Gar-
• past week. was
- hospital yester-
• !lt.
. rt of Hi.- Greens-
Rev. G. T. Rove, presiding elder
ho is engaged 10f tn0 Greensboro district, occupied
tsiness at Sche- the pulpit of Centenary Mthodist
V on a'cHur,.], yesterday morning and of
Spring Garden Street church la I
evening. Children's day eserci es
wire held at Spring Garden ;..-;.:•-
day morning at 1 1 o'clock.
Mrs. Lucy II. Robertson left Sat-urday
afternoon for Richmond. Va.,
to spend some time on a visit to her
sister. Later in the summer she will
i hristian Associa- chaperon- a party of young women
just been compiled, I on an extended European tour. She
tbership for the j d„,.s not expect to return to Greens-
■ boro until early next summer.
Foreman of The! Mis>es Annie Reillv. Beulah Ta-t
yesterday in j tUra. flaudie Dameron and Hattie
Maj and Master : pepper, graduates of the nurses'
visiting rel- training school at St. Leo's hospital,
were among the ~rl trained nurses
licensed by the board of examiners
at the state convention of profes-sional
nurses in Durham Thursday.
Exercises by the children were
held at Westminster Presbyterian
church last veiling at S oclock In
I ity.
esl marker. of
topped over in the
i visit to relatives
u General As-ern
Presbyterian
- City.
of i'nited States I behalf of tl
ed this morning
Judge James E.
There are
ases of iniport-
• this term.
'Everybody in my section is jub-ilant
over the rain." said ex-Sheriff
Hoskins. of Summerfield. Saturday
afternoon in response to a report-er's
request for the news. "Things
were looking pretty bilious with us.
but we are feeling good now and
everybody who has tobacco to plant
is planting it." added the ex-sheriff.
A new farmers' telephone line
has been installed connecting the
homes of the following persons
south and southeast of the city: A.
E. Sharp. I. K. Hines. Henry Sharp.
John \V. Moor.-. M. <;. Newell. S. J.
Scott. J. S. Ingold and Paul Coble.
The line is about four miles in
Ingih and connects with the South-on-
Hell in Greensboro.
Mrs. Catherine Koust. who had
many relatives in Guilford and Ala-manee
counties, died recently at
the home of her niece. Mrs. I!. W.
Johnson. near Graham, in the
eighty-third year of her age. She
is survived by two sisters—Mrs. Re-becca
Foust, of Graham, and Mrs.
C.-org.- Clapp, of southeastern Guil-ford.
Mr. Ernest C. McLean, who holds
a position with the American To-bacco
Company in .sew York, visit-ed
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. ll.
McLean, of Whitsett. tiie latter part
of lasi week and left yesterday for
Lafayette, Ala., to attend the mar-riage
of his brother, Mr. \V. I). Mc-
Lean, of Anderson. S. C. and HI .,
Mari.- llrock, of Lafayette.
Mr. George V. Peyton, who was
formerly located in Greensboro as
'rain dispatcher and later as master
of trains far the Southern Railway,
but who has been superintendent of
tii.- Washington division for several
years, with headquarters in Wash-ington.
I), c, has been transferred
to Columbia. S. C, as superintend-ent
or the Columbia division.
The congregation of the First
Presbyterian church had the pleas-ure
y.-sterday morning of bearing a
splendid sermon by Kev. Egbert W.
Smith. II. H., for years the beloved
pastor of the church, who was in
the city visiting relatives and to at-tend
the memorial service held yes-terdaj
afternoon in honor of the de-ceased
elders of the First church.
A large number of women heard
an interesting address at the Elks
Club Saturday afternoon by Dr.
Anna Steese Richardson. of New-
York, chairman of the National
Mothers' Congress. She spoke of
the better babies contests being con-
Mrs. Alfred Brown died Saturday
afternoon at her home on Summit
avenue extended or cancer of the
face, following a long and painful j The graduating exercises of the ! STEAMER BOUND FOR
lnness. She was 77 years old and senior class of the Greensboro high
is survived by her husband and one | school were held Fridav night in the
daughter. The funeral was held ] Smith Memorial building. Diplomas
from the home yesterday afternoon i were presented to the following 27
and interment made in the Proxim- ; members of the class: Misses Lola
27 OR««N.%VRS°HM,OTHH:C„OOL.:OYER 900 PERSONS DROWNED
EUROPE
RAMMED AND SINKS IN ST.
LAWRENCE RIVER.
ity cemetery, the services being con-
The Canadian Pacific liner Empress
ol Ireland, bound Irom Quebec for Ltv-ducted
by Rev. Mr. Barrs.
Kindly disposed people of the city
are subscribing to a fund for the re-
Mae Holland. Annie Fred Fousliee, |«rpool, sank early Friday morning
near the* mouth of the St. Lawrence
river and 934 of the Lg«1 aniaoM on
board were drowned. The steamer,
Which was lying to waiting for the *og
to lift or day to hre.ik. was rammed
the Danish collier Storsdad The
Ethel Cox. -Margaret Justfce. Mary
Josephine Griinsley, Jennie Vanstory,
Ida Mae Marrs. Nellie Ruth RickmonU.
lief of the family of Mr. R. C. Vow. j Leone Lliza Blanchard. Esther Stew-who
died last week as the result of art Kirkpatirck. Jennie Elizabeth Brit-a
boiler explosion. It is desird U> ton, Flora Lima Rawlins. Katie
raise 11,000 or J1.200 to pay off a Brooks. Flossie Hurdle Denny. Mar- collier crashed into the side of the bl -
mortgage on the home and repair Igaret Alma Rightsell. Esther Clapp, I Canadian liner, striking her about
the residence, winch was damaged Pauline DeBrutz Justice, and William Imidway of her length and ripping he.-
and rendered uninhabitable by the Watson. Gurney B. Reece. Frank »«de open clear to the stern
explosion and nearly $500 of this Prftchett, William Van Simpson. Ben, The accident occurred about ISO
amount has been subscribed. Bryan Stockard. William Marshall ">«•" 'rom Quebec and not far from
Despite the impediment caused by Boyat. James Woodrow Clark, Elbe,-. I the shore, and although the liner wa-ins
ankles being bound together by ,,n,n..js ,,„wis IloIalll| I>Hn(.„ M( ,„,,„-„. ,or (h(1 sea ;md (h), ^^
a chain. Will Williams, colored, who Clamroch and William Svlvester Jol
was serving time on the city streets ston.
Scholarships offered by four North
Carolina colleges were won by the fol-lowing:
University of North Carolina,
Woodrow Clark;" Trinity College, Ro-pnsoners
to give chase, and by the I land McClamrach; Eh,,. College Pau
time another guard answered an line Justice; Catawba College. Jennie
alarm Williams was out of sigh;. Brltton.
The young white woman arrested ,„ addition to winning a schohrarflp
here last week on the charge of em- Woodrow Clark won three of the four *»■ tli* hurt of the Empress, howev. -
bessing $10 from a young man and |medals offered to the
later indicted under the Guiliord
public morals act. as mentioned
Thursdays Patriot, was convicted in
for stealing chickens. Friday after-noon
walked away from the con-vict
force under the eyes of a guard.
The guard dared not leave the other
[coming in from it. the disaster was
not one of the ocean but of the river.
Unlike the litanies rictima, the Em-press
Of Ireland's lost tlieir lives With-in
sight of shot-.- in .and locked wa-ters.
A wireless "S. O. S." call was sound-ed
and the hurried appeal was picked
up by two Canadian government ves-sels
that went to the rescue So dm
aSS. H( made
a general average during the year of
> I9<\ which is the highest average male
by a senior in the high school in many
.Municipal court and sentenced to Iyears.
the work house for four months. , " Tl..- address to the graduating class
She gave notice of an appeal to the was made by President Harper
Superior court, but was unable to i.;|(m College
give the bond of $1100 required of |
her.
Ol
The home of Mr. C. A. Hinton. at
Pciu^na, situated directly across the
railroad tracks from the residence
Ernest R. Wharton Dead.
Mr Ernest R. Wharton. a son of the
16 cause of the foreign (|,.(.te(, lnroilgilout „,e ,„„„,„. an(,
mission. An attractive program
suitable to the occasion was render-ield,
of this city.
enting the j. i.
■lachine Company
la, has been
Dkla oma and will
in Muskogee.
leputy state fire
terday at his
■ and tins morning
• to Investigate
town that is
"i Incendiary
led tin- me-terday
at Frh-near
Gib-
Rev. B. S. Iiash-arli
- A. Ilin.-s.
delivered an
noon.
preached at
hurch yester-
O'clock. The
Midway church
■ tit of 111.- nie-
Flrsl Presby-editor
of the
Raleigh, was in
He was return-in,
where Fri-
' d the address
g 'hiss of the
-it city,
it Miss Maude
■>■'■ has been engaged
'on and physical
" College for
She comes to
commended as
i al t.-acher.
■-. a prominent
! Ol 'his city, is re-i-
ration for ap-
1 lerwent at St. Leo's
I'*'* ago. He was
with a very vio-few
hours after he
' Physician in
n for appendicitis, and
condition was des-
;"'"■"'! to be in his
»'«•>"» and the sud-
*>»ch the attack came
larded, as remarkable.
ed and a collection was taken for
the equipment of a Chinese mission
station.
Congressman Stednian arrived
Friday morning from Washington
to spend a few .lays at his home
here and to be present for the con- the illalli|,lv of „" or" UV() ^'"tl
gressional convention, which will
meet tomorrow night and renoiui-nate
liini. He will attend the state
convention in Raleigh before re-turning
to Washington.
Mr. R. G. Glenn, who has been
as spry as a young colt since he has
been driving an automobile. Is brag-ging
over having been convicted Fri-day
in tiie Municipal court in two
cases charging hiiji with exceeding
the speed limit. He paid a fine of
si and the costs in one case and $;!
anil the costs in the other.
Southern Railway trains No. 21
and No. Z-. bet,, ecu Goldsboro and
Asheville, which arrive in this city
from Goldsboro at 12.30 P. M. and
from Asheville at 4.20 P. M., now
carry mail on the entire trip. Un-til
a few days ago the mail service
was confined to the territory be-tween
Greensboro and Goldsboro.
The funeral of Mr. R. C. Yow.
who died Thursday morning from
injuries received in a boiler explo-sion
the previous Monday afternoon,
was held from the First Christian
church Friday afternoon at 4.30
o'clock, followed by interment in
Greene Hill cemetery. The services
were conducted by the pastor, Rev.
H. E. Rountree, and were attended
by a large crowd of friends.
The Southern Railway excursion
train that left Greensboro Friday
night for Washington was well pat-ronized
and was run in two sections.
The local ticket office sold 124 tick-ets,
while large numbers of people
from surrounding towns took ad-vantage
of the low round-trip rate
of J5. The excursionists spent Sat-urday
in Washington and reached
(Jreensboro on the return yesterday
morning. It is understood that the
Southern will run a similar excur-sion
to Washington June 12 that
will permit of a stay of two days in
the national capital.
told something of the good work
accomplished by the movement.
The trial of the case charging
several parties with an affray at the
Mclver school house last Tuesday
night, which was postponed from
Thursday until Friday, was con-tinued
a second time on account of
le
defendants to be present. The hear-ing
will be held in the Municipal
court when the wounded recover
sufficietly to appear.
Mrs. James W. Forbls, who re-cently
sold her home on North
Edgeworth street to Mr. T. 1!. Og-burn,
has moved into the residence
on West Washington street former-ly
occupied by the family of Mr. A.
G. Moore. Mr. Moore has purchas-ed
the residence of Mr. Philip Nel-son,
who recently moved to Rich-mond.
Va., where he is employed by
the Southern Railway.
Mr. James McN'ees Rawlins died
Saturday evening at the home of
his son. Mr. W. II. Rawlins, on
McAdoo avenue. He was in the
eighty-eighth year of his age and a
native of Virginia. He moved to
Greensboro from Reidsville about
two years ago. The body was car-ried
to Danville yesterday and the
funeral and interment took place at
Gatewood. near that city.
Mrs. Fannie Ferree. of Kandle-man.
died at a sanitarium in. this
city Friday night at the age of 77
years. The body was carried to
Rtindieic.au Saturday morning and
the funeral and interment took
place there yesterday. For a num-ber
of years Mrs. Ferree had resid-ed
In Morganton. but more rcent-ly
she had made her home in Ran-dleman
with the family of her
brother. Mr. S. G. Newltn.
Mr. H. S. Patterson received a
message Saturday morning inform-ing
him of the death of his brother,
Mr. R. P. Patterson, who passed
away Friday night at his home in
Statesville, following a brief illness.
He had resided in Statesville for a
number of years and is survived by
his widow and four children. The
funeral and interment took place in
Statesville yesterday and was at-tended
by the Greensboro brother.
late Jesse R. Wharton. Esq., died Fri-day
afternoon in Morganton, whore he
ot Mr. J. Van Lindley. was destroy- had spent the past four years. The
ed by fire early Friday morning. ' ,)ody was brought to Greensboro Fri-llie
family had just finished break- |dav nl?hl llml ,.arr,ed t0 t|,e o](, whaf
last when the flames were discov- j ton home, on Church street, from
ed. The building was of two I which place the funeral was held Sat-stones
and contained eight rooms Urday aft,moon at AMt) o'clock Rev
and was valued at about $2,500. it ; r>r. Melton Clark, pastor of the Firs,
was insured for $1,500. The furni- . Presbyterian church, of which Mr
nUr!..„a"d..0.,'.'''r ,;"eC!.,..°'_the ""n",Wli:ir,on *»* *< member, condu. ted "'"<" was little chance for systematic
the services and interment was made I marshalling of the passengers. In-in
Greene Hill cemetery. Mr. Whar-l,lecd. everything indicates that bun-and
so fast the inrush of waters, that
long l>efore either of the rescue boa
could reach the scene the liner had
gone down. Only floating wreckage
and a few lifeboats and rafts from fi-steamer.
buoying up less than a third
of those who had set sail on her. wer*-
to be found. The rest had sunk with
the liner, had been crushed to death
in the Storstads impact with her, or
had been forced from exposure in t'-e
ice-chilled waters to loose their held
on bits of wreckage and had drowneu
Only a few persons were picked up
by the Storstad. which was badly crip-pled
herself. Twenty two of the re-cued
died from injury or exposure
Accounts agree that in the brief
space of time—not more than 14 min-utes—
between the shock of the col
listen and the sinking of the liner
of the late A. A. Hinton and is en-gaged
in the mercantile business at
Pomona.
COLORED COLLEGE HAD
MOST SUCCESSFUL YEAR.
ton is survived by bis mother, Mrs
Mar] J Wharton, and two brothers,
Messrs. H-nry W. and Robert H.
Wharton
Sheriff's Tax Sale.
The commencement of the A. .* M. Sheriff Stafford is getting ready for
College for the colored race, in this his annual tax sale end The Patriot is
city, which was held last week, mark-[ printing today the list of delinquents
ed the most successful year since the ' whose property is advertised for sale
founding of the institution nearly a for taxe* the first Monday in July,
quarter of a century ago. From June | There are about 775 delinquents in
1. 1913, to May 31, 1!>14. there were 261! this list, embracing all the county ex-regular
students and 174 summer
school students. The college has one
of the best faculties among similar in-stitutions
lor negroes.
A number of improvements were
cept High Point township. The High
Point delinquents will be advertised in
the High Point Enterprise. The work
of preparing the delinquent list and
making out the required notices was ,,
made dining the past year and others I big task, and Deputy Sheriff "Bud"
are planned for the coming year. Shaw, who did the work, is mighty
There is in course of construction a |glad it is over.
greenhouse at the cost of $1,000 and t.
poultry plant which will have as iu
head an expert on poultry. The erec-tion
of an agricultural building is pro-posed.
'Ih.; college is making progress along
all lines More productive work in the
mechanical department was done la-t
Long Drought Broken.
The long drought has been broken
dreds of those on the steamer prob-ably
never reached the decks, Few
women were among the saved, not
more than a dozen, the lists make ic
appear.
"It all happened so quickly we dl
n.n really know, what was going on
and nnhady had time to cry 'Women
fir.;t."" one of the passengers told Cap-tain
Bellinger, of the rescue boat Eu-reka.
The horror ol the Interval during
the time the Empress was tilling and
the frightened throngs on board her
w-re hurrying .-wry effort to es.-ap-before
she sank was added to by .,-
explosion which quickly Mowed the
ripping given the liner by the si. •
stad's bow. According to oi r i
rescued, the explosion probably « -
cause., by tiie water reaching tl .- hoi,
era, bulged the liner's Bides end ca-tapulted
persons from her d.-. k- .,■;•
Into the sea. The ship- heavy Ii..
western sections of Gulltord Friday
afternoon and light showers ovei the
year than ever before, and it was done remainder of the county, id-ports
with student labor. The college is do- from Suinmerlield and Stokesdale tell
Ing a splendid work among negro farm- ot a tood rain •Saturday afternoon and
and everybody in this part of the I wa»er pouring in weighted heron I •
countrV is feeling much better. There !si,|e -|i'' Wils struck made tl... wor
was .. good rain in the northern tin.I "' launching boats Increasingly .ti"
ers in this state through the exten-sion
department of the agricultural de-partment.
It has inspired negro farm-cult,
ami when she finally took I
plunge to th- bottom -core.- -till |,. ■
on her decks were carried down,
a few being able to c»ear I ••,- ,,-.. .,„,",
liini support on wreckage,
last night there was a rain that ap-pears
to have been general, in Greens-boro
'ind vicinity there was a consider-ers
to greater activities along modern able rainfall, accompanied by much
lines and the result is a formation on I thunder and lightning.
the part of negro farmers of a farm-ers"
union, it has caused a remarka-ble
appreciation on the part of negro
farmers throughout the state for the
conservation ol everything making for
It was a little over two year- ago
"it April 15, 1912, that th- Titanic, i !
the White Star line. Btruok an I. ,.|„.-:
and was sunk, 1,617 live- being lost
Portraits of Guilford's Governors.
Unveiling exercises will i..- held at
the Carnegie library in this city Wed-nesday
evening in connection with the
the betterment of agriculuiral endeav-' presentation of portraits ol the gover-ors.
This is done through its farmers' nors of North Carolina who came from
institutes which it holds annually. Guilford county. The governors whose
The college sends out lecturers from memories will be thus honored, togeth-its
faculty to give to the farmers prac-tical
talks at various times.
To Bring Back Fugitive.
Governor C'raig has issued a requisi-tion
on Governor Colquitt. of Texas,
er with their terms of office, were:
Alexander Martin, 1787-17S9; John M.
Morehead, 1S41-1N44: Jonathan Worth.
Defaulter Hayes Arrested.
H A Hay.-., formerly stiperiir
eat of the Methodist children s home,
in Uiiiston-Salem, who is wanted for
embeullng funds from the institution,
was arrested in Chicago a few day-!
ago and will be brought hack to Win
ston-Salem this week Hayes embez-zled
several thousand dollars from the
children's hon e, but escaped prosecu-tion
at the time on the plea of Insan-for
Archie at. Bunting, a young whitelcises, which will be made an event of
man, who is wanted in this county for great interest.
the crime of seduction. Bunting, who j
resided at White Oak, left the state j W. Lester Davis, a prominent and
early in February before a warrant I wealthy citizen of Davidson county
that had been issued by Squire J. B. ' and a brother-in-law of the late H.
Minor could be served on him. He en-' Clay Grubb. was eonvictedy in David-listed
iu the United States army, the son Superior court Friday of selling
company to which he was assigned be- ■ liquor and sentenced by Judge Lane
ing stationed ou the border line he-[to 18 months on the roads. The judge
1865-1867; Alfred M. Scales, 1885-1888. itv He was placed in a private sani
Many descendants of the Guilford gov- i tarium in Morganton, but soon .--
ernors will attend the unveiling exer- 'aped and nothing more was heard of
him until a few weeks ago, when it
tween Texas and Mexico. The war
department has agreed to deliver
Bunting to the local authorities and
Sheriff Stafford expects to leave In a
few days for Texts to bring him back.
refused to listen to appeals for a fine.
Counsel for Davis gave notice of an
appeal to the Supreme court and the
defendant Is at liberty under a bond
of $5,000.
was learned that be was traveling In
the West for a school book publishing
house.
Charles G.'Rosemond, postmaster of
Hillsboro. is one North Carolina Re-publican
office-holder who didn't wait
for his term of office to expire to be
succeeded by a Democrat. He resign
ed some time ago to engage in busi-ness
and Is today succeeded as post-master
by George Lynch, recently
recommended by Congressman Sted-man.