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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
•SHED 1821
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 78
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NEYC> Ta" CONDENSED FORM 1
(loses- The revival meet- Conservatory of Music.—The trus-tees
of Greensboro College for Wo-men
have authorized the president
and secretary of the college to pro-ceed
to raise funds to build a con-servatory
of music. Such a building
is needed to meet a two-fold demand
—to provide better facilities for the
school of music, and, by removing
the music department from the main
building, provide more room for dor-mitories.
The college is crowded to
its capacity and more room is an ur-gent
necessity.
Kuvolutn.ii Addition.—Work on
the addition to the Revolution cot-ton
mills goes forward. It will be
nearly 12 months before the build-ing
is completed and the. machinery
ready for operation. When complet-ed
the main buijding of this mill will
be larger than the largest building
of the White Oak mill. The com-pany
is also breaking ground for the
construction of 10 new warehouses,
which will have a capacity of 10.000
bales of cotton and will cost $40,000
or more. More than 300 new houses
for operatives will be constructed.
A Great Fair Promised.—Mr. Gar-land
Daniel, secretary of the Central
Carolina Fair Association, has boast-ed
all the while that the Greensboro
\iiM-linu
. ,|,;n had been in progress at the
• • Ueformed church for two weeks
I,I .i close last night. The ser-t
iriinghoiit the meeting were
' .(i(.iukHl and much Interest was
•;,.ui.il Merlins;.— A revival meet-i
tl ,• r'irst Christian church will
, ... Wednesday night. The pastor,
. |,r r II. Fleming, will be as-
'" . ; |., Ui'v. Victor Lightbourne,
., |,r, -ctii is conducting a meet-
, I;I„II College.
Raihva:! I'icnic.—The annual pic-
,, i • trackmen of the Danville
_:,,:. ,>:' tin" Southern Railway was
ai l.indley park yesterday and
• ,.,;,.i by :!00 or 400 people.
ulins railroad employes and
. -.,;„ rs of their families.
\i,|ir,..irliini; Marriage.—Mr. and
!. xi. Clymer have issued invi-
.,-•,.:•- to the marriage of their
, •, enter. Miss Hronna May, and Mr.
i.—.st Zollicoffer Bills, tlfc cere-
. iii lake place at the home of
parents in this city Thursday.
,, • ix-r S. ai 12.30 o'clock.
I ngageroent is Announced.—An-
. UK rr.eiu has been made of the en-
.....nii'iii of Miss Fannie Sloan Bar-r-.-.
r. iho attractive daughter of
i and Mrs. John A. Barringer, and
CONCERT BY ORPHANS
NEXT WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
The concert to be given by the
singing class from the Oxford or-phanage
at the Grand opera house
Wednesday night will afford the peo-ple
of Greensboro and vicinity an
opportunity to spend a pleasant hour
and at the same time aid a worthy
cause. The opera house will seat
comfortably 1,400 people and the
committee of local Masons having In
charge the sale of tickets hopes that
every seat will be occupied. The
committee reports splendid results in
the sale of tickets so far, nearly half
the seats having been sold.
Mr. John J. Phoenix, a member of
the committee, has the following to
say concerning the concert:
"The response to our efforts to in-terest
the people of Greensboro and
the mill villages in the orphanage
class has been far beyond our most
sanguine expectations. I have per-sonally
disposed of 300 tickets and
have determined to sell a total of
500 before the concert comes off next
Wednesday night. I consider this
class the best ever sent out. and the
evening's entertainment will be well
worth the price of the tickets. 25
cents each.
"In addition to the talent display-ed,
which makes the concert worth
the price of admission, the fact that
this class Is such a large factor In
the orphanage organization makes It
more reason why they should be pa-tronized.
In 1913 this class of 17
boys and girls realized from concerts
given throughout North Carolina
enough money to support 100 or-fair
this year would be the best in
M- la'r.s nouglas Waldrop. a prom-j the state, and all indications now
M voting business man of Nor- | point to the fact that the boast will
i , Va. The wedding will take | be made good. A great many im-
(.... eon the evening of November 11.! provsments have been made out at
> merence at Bethel.—The church the fair grounds, including the in- j phans for the year.
, ■rnue that was to have been stallation of many conveniences for. "Greensboro and our mill villages
■ ': :ii Bethel Presbyterian church visitors, the enlargement of exhxiiiit | have always been known as gener-
'':;...> was called off on account of I halls, etc. In addition to the in- ous patrons of the orphans' con-
• am and will be held Wednesday ' creased exhibits that will be shown (certs, and this year I have good rea-
••;> week. This is to be an impor- in all departments, the management son to think we will give them the
... • meeting and all Presbyterians; has contracted for more and better
.tlilford county are cordialy in- j free attractions than were ever pro-to
attend. A welcome will be vided before.
led to any others who may be !>r_ Gordon Here.—Dr. J. R. Gor-don,
formerly of Jamestown, who is
in charge of the: vital statistics de-partment
of the state board of
health, was in Greensboro Saturday,
-. u speech by Mr. J. XV. Bailey, of and ln the C0ur8e of a conversation
Ka.-igh. A general invitation is ex- with a Patriot reporter, stated that
tended to the public to be^ present, jthe work of his department is pro-gressing
very satisfactorily. He
thinks the end of the present year
- • nt.
Mr. 1'..Hlev to Speak.—The Derao-
\.:i- campaign in Gnilford will be
•: • <1 Thursday night. October 8.
Mr. Bailey is collector of internal
• •iiie for the eastern district of
Xi -'.'I Carolina and one of the most
;:,"-•••stinK and forceful public
-;•■ ,..,ers in the state.
K.lled by Train—Charles Rlehard-
"Olored, who was employed as a
- "ion hand en the Southern Rail-was
struck bj a passenger train
-•<• Davie street crossing Friday
will show about 90 per cent of the saIe of tickets is composed of the fol-largest
audience they have appear-ed
before in North Carolina.
"The patrons are not confined
alone to Masons, but number many
citizens who are not members of the
order. In fact, every person who
has sympathy for the orphan Is will-ing
to buy a ticket when they know-that
every cent realized goes to the
orphanage. The work of our commit-tee
is voluntary and without compen-sation."
The committee in charge of the
births and deaths in North Carolina
reported, and this is considered 'a
splendid showing, especially in view
of the fact that the vital statistics de-partment
has been in existence for
so short a time. Dr. Gordon says the
■ 90 per cent showing will be above
■f--noon and received injuries iromlthe average for the states having a
lowing gentlemen: W. E. Coffin,
William H. Fisher, Capt. Charles
Fowler, C. F. Sutherland. J. W. Pet-ty.
C. M. Vanstory and John J. Phoe-nix.
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he died in a shcrt while. Both
were severed just above the
- and he received other injuries,
.ant son was working at the cross-
'••! .it the accident occurred.
"« Polling Places.—The county
' .lections announces the fol-pol
line,places for the No-ction:
Greene township,
'..re; Suniner township, It.
residence; Oak Ridge pre*
flak Itidge Mercantile Com-
'or. ; Stokesdale precinct,
>"-'lal«' Warehouse Company;
'• "ak precinct, White Oak store
- I'roximity precinct, Proximity
-.ten \i,- Brake.—Mr. John B.
• i inventor of the Wright safe-
Make, will soon leave for a
•'. Western cities, to instruct me-in
placing his brake upon
"I ;i number of Western rail-il.
at have adopted the attach-
Tlie Southern Railway some
• -'i purchased a number of the
stud they are being placed on
!.er of trains that travel the
i ■ 11-.
• Nelson Promoted.—Mr. John
■on. who has held a position in
' '"•■ of Revenue Agent Vander-
'ti this city, for the past six
•-. has been'appointed to a po-i
is income tax inspector in the
'"r' a I revenue department and will
•'■ 'l> his new work Thursday. He
• ''".n assigned to work in North
■iouth Carolina, but is subject to
"II of the commissioner of in-revenue
and may be sent to
1 Hart of the United States.
' -etiaii Meeting.—A meeting of
1'rectors of the North Carolina
' hall League was held in High
Thursday afternoon to organ-
•iid arrange for the season next
Directors of the clubs in the
towns comprising the league were
•nt and it was decided that all
liihs should put out teams again
'■' ' >ear. Mr. Arthur Lyon. of High
'-at, was re-elected president and
" 1^. J. Brandt, of Greensboro, was
elected secretary of the league.
registration law.
Alleged Murderer Discharged.—
Tom Coates. colored, and Frank
Hemway and William Glenn, both
white, were given a hearing ln Munici-pal
court Thursday on a warrant
charging them with first degree mur-der
for the killing of Mr. Tillett Slier
in the course of a riot at a merry-go-round
at the corner of South
Elm and East McCulloch streets on
the night of September 18. After
hearing the evidence, Judge Brown
dismissed Hemway and Olenn and
held Coates for the grand jury on a
charge of manslaughter. His bond
was fixed at ¥500, in default of
which he was remanded to jail. The
grand jury took up the case Friday,
and after examining 22 witnesses,
returned the indictment against
Coates marked "not a true bill" and
the defendant was released from cus-tody.
A Quaker Wedding.—A marriage
in which many readers of The Pa-triot
are interested took place Friday-morning
at 11.30 o'clock, at the
home of Dr. and Mrs. L. L. Hobbs, at
Guilford College, when Dr. Raymond
Taylor, of Haverford, Pa., took for
his bride Miss Rachel E. Farlow, for-merly
teacher of domestic science in
Uuilford College. The wedding was
according to the approved Quaker
custom abd was witnessed by a num-ber
of relatives and friends of the
popular young couple. Rev. Joseph
H. Peele was the officiating minister
and the certificate from the New
Garden monthly meeting was read by
Prof. J. F. Davis. The ceremony was
followed by a beautifully appointed
reception tendered by Dr. and Mrs.
Hobbs. Dr. and Mrs. Taylor will
make their home in High Point,
where the groom will engage in the
practice of medicine.
Austria Bans Crape.—The Aus-trlas
government has issued an order
prohibiting the wearing of mourning
by persons who have lost relatives in
battle.
Held on Serious Charge.
John N. Barnett. a young white
man apparently about 25 years old,
who has been in the employ of the
Southern Railway in this city for
several months, was arrested in
Reidsville Saturday on the charge of
using the mails for fraudulent pur-poses.
He is alleged to have ordered
merchandise from a Chicago firm on
several occasions, always having the
goods shipped to towns other than
Greensboro. He had shipments made
to High Point, Winston-Salem, Reids-ville
and perhaps other places and
would dispose of them without re-mitting
the purchase price.
Barnett was given a hearing Sat-urday
afternoon before United States
Commissioner Collins and held for
the December term of l.'nited States
District court under a bond of $1,-
000, in default of which he was com-mitted
to jail.
After his trial Barnett admlttel
that he was a fugitive from justice
in New Jersey, but did not say for
what crime he is wanted in thatstate.
Xey Korliis Killed in Arkansas.
Mr. W. Ney Forbis, who was born
and reared in Greensboro, was killed
last Wednesday night in Little Rock,
Ark., where he had resided for some
time. No particulars of the manner
of his death have been received here.
The body reached Greensboro yester-day
afternoon and was carried to the
residence of Mr. George S. Sergeant,
an uncle- of the deceased, where the
funeral was held. Rev. C. E. Hod-gin
conducted the services and inter-ment
was made in Greene Hill ceme-tery.
Mr. Forbis was about 35 years old
and a son of Mr. W. R. Forbis, for
many years a citizen of Greensboro,
but now residing in Princeton, W.
Va. In addition to his father, he is
survived by three sisters—Mrs. E. C.
Penn, Mrs. Travis Davis and Miss
Helen Forbis, of Princeon, W. Va..
and a brother, Mr. John Forbis, of
this city.
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MUCH BUSINESS TRANSACTED ZZZZS^SSlfJZ
LARGE NUMBER OF CASES TRIED
AT CRIMINAL TERM OF
, COURT LAST WEEK.
The criminal term of Superior
court adjourned Saturday afternoon,
having tried about 140 cases during
the week. The term was a record-breaker
in the amount of work ac-complished,
nearly all the cases that
were ready, for trial being disposed
of.
James Faison, colored, charged
with the murder of his wife at their
home in the southern part of the city
about two months ago, was convict-ed
of first degree murder and sen-tenced
by Judge Devin to be electro-cuted
in the state penitentiary No-vember
20.
Will Hill, colored, who shot and
killed Sam Harris, colored, in a pool
room in this city last February, was
convicted of manslaughter and sen-tenced
to the penitentiary for five
years.
Shepherd Settle, colored, who shot
and killed Wilbur Laughlin, colored,
while returning from a church festi-val
in this city a few months ago, was
found guilty of manslaughter and
sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years.
John Wade, white,' convicted of
having in his possession "more whis-key
than the law allows, was fined
$300 and costs and required to give
bond to appear at ecch successive
term of criminal court for the next
two years and show that he has not
been dealing in liquor.
Prince Farrington, white, indicted
on five charges of making, selling
and possessing whiskey, was found
not guilty.
Grand Jury's Report.
The grand jury finished its work
and was discharged Saturday. The
jury passed on 47 bills, finding 38
true bills and six not true bills.
Three bills were not acted upon for
the lack of witnesses.
In its report on the county institu-tions
and the convict camps, the jury-said:
"County Home.—We find 35 in-mates,
seven white males, 11 white
females, eight colored males and
nine colored females. The sanitary-conditions
appeared to be good and
the inmates well ca,red for. We
found about 75 bushels of old corn,
25 acres of growing corn, 125 bush-els
of wheat. 100 bushels of oats and
a good supply of rought feed. We
found two mules, nine head of cat-tle
and 11 hogs, averaging about 100
pounds each.
"House of Correction.—Here we
found one white woman, two white
men, 13 colored women and 11 col-ored
boys, a good supply of bedding,
blankets, etc., three mules, a good
supply of rough feed, about 15 acres
in corn, about 15 acres in peas and
beans, three acres in turnips and a
good supply of firewood. The place
is in good condition. We recommend
for this place that a night watchman
be kept in the building where the
prisoners sleep, especially at all times
when fire is used.
"Jail.—Here we find eight white
men. four colored men and one col-ored
woman. A sufficient quantity
of bedding for this time of year and
a quantity of disinfectants and ger-micide.
The surroundings appear to
be clean and comfortable. There
are a few broken window lights
which should be removed and good
ones put in their place. We recom-mend
that a high, tight or close
fence, or better still, a solid brick
wall be built around the jail to re-place
the old picket fence now in use
and falling to pieces.
"Court House and Annex—We vis-ited
the offices of the sheriff, clerk
of the court, register of deeds, treas-urer,
county auditor and board of
education, and so far as we could
ascertain, we found them to be ln
good condition, well and carefully
looked after. There are several
broken window lights in the court
house that should be removed and re-placed
with new ones.
"Health Department.—We inter-viewed
the county superintendent of
health and was Informed as to health
conditions over the county, and other
matters pertaining to his office, and
we believe the public is greatly ben-efited
under the "whole time" sys-tem
of this department of the county.
"Tabernacle Camp.—Here we
found 20 white men, 19 colored men;
health good and appeared to be well
cared for; plenty of tools and in good
condition, four day guards and one
night guard. We found 19 mules in
good condition.
"High Point Camp.—Here
In good condition, two day guards, a
good supply- of tools, three shoats
and three pigs. This camp has 10
hired hands. We recommend that
better care be taken of the harness
at this place and the same should be
oiled and dressed oftener."
In view of the frequency of auto-mobile
wrecks and accidents on the
public highways of the county, large-ly
due to excessive speed, and realiz-ing
the difficulty of obtaining con-victions
in many instances, the grand
jury recommends "that certain dis-tances
or spaces be accurately meas-ured
and layed off at various places
on the public roads where this fast
running is likely to occur, and a suf-ficient
number of markers or posts
placed to enable the officers or
others to testify- accurately and intel-ligently-
against this dangerous prac-tice.
This could be done with but lit-tle
expense to the county and ought
to work for the benefit and protec-tion
of the public generally."
Mr. J. H. Shaw was foreman of the
grand jury.
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county subscribes to various
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spent, of course, because we must
have something for the family to
read.
But if you can save about 75 per
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it is worth considering. Is it not?
We have made arrangements
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hundreds of dollars by merely or-dering
their reading matter through
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David T. Sock well Dies Suddenly.
Mr. David T. Sockwell, a well
known citizen of eastern Guilford,
died suddenly shortly after 7 o'clock
Saturday morning at his home near
McLeansville. He had walked out
Into the yard when he was stricken
and fell to the ground, expiring in a
few minutes. Mr. Sockwell was 74
years old and one of the most highly-esteemed
citizens of his section. He
had been in feeble health for the past
year or two, suffering from a compli-cation
of diseases.
Mr. Sockwell is survived by his
widow, three sons and three daugh-ters,
the children being: Messrs. W.
T., John E. and Robert A. Sockwell,
Mrs. H. R. Carmon, Mrs. Russell
Cobb and Miss Belle Sockwell.
The funeral and interment took
place yesterday afternoon at Peace
Lutheran church, of which Mr. Sock-well
had been an active member for
many years. The services were at-tended
by a large concourse of sor-rowing
friends and relatives.
Government (loses Wireless Station.
Washington, Sept. 25.—By order
of President Wilson, as commander-in-
chief of the army and navy, the
wireless station of the Marconi Com-pany
at Siasconsett, Mass., was closed
today because it declined to recog-nize
the right of the federal govern-ment
to exercise a censorship over
the plant.
The navy department took no cog-nizance
of the fact that the Marconi
Company had filed In a federal court
an application for an injunction to
restrain the naval officers from clos-ing
and censoring the station.
Although it appeared as if the
wireless company might compel the
naval officials to exercise force, the
company finally decided to offer no
resistance and the station was closed
at 1 p. m.
THE BATTLE STILL CONTINUES
FIERCE FIGHTING BKTWEEX
COXTEXDIXG FORCES IX
NORTHERN FRANCE.
For three long days, without ces-sation,
the Germans have hurled
their masses against the French and
English along the entire front in
northern France. The French offi-cial
view is that these operations, the
fiercest that yet have taken place, are
by high command, meaning possibly
direct instructions from the emperor
himself.
Their purpose has been to break
through the allied lines, but both
French and British official reports
say they have failed. From Paris It
is announced that not only have the
Germans been unable to achieve
their object, but they have lost a flag,
guns and men in the attempt.
The British, as usual, are laconic.
"The situation is satisfactory." the
report reads, "and the counter-at-tacks
on the British front have been
beaten back with heavy losses to the
enemy."
The bayonet has played an import-ant
part In these engagements, where
men In the trenches on the one side
or the other, only a few hundred
yards apart, come to grips with steel
after the positions have been shelled
and raked with rifle fire-
The French claim appreciable pro-gress
on the left wing and decisive
victory over the famous Prussian
guard in the center. In the Woevre
district, where the Germans have
made gains in the last two or three
days, little is said. One of the re
markable things in this great battle,
which has entered upon its sixteenth
day, is the spirit maintained by the
troops. British. French and Ger-mans
have withstood the most ter-rific
shelling the world has ever
known, an almost constant rain of
rifle bullets and hand-to-hand en-counters
with gun and bayonet, but
all reports agree that they are fight-ing
with the same determination and
tenacity as in the begining and that
even the commanders in some cases
are having difficulty in holding their
men back.
The German casualty list, as offi-cially
reported from Berlin, numbers
104.589 up to date, of whim 15.674
are dead, 65,908 wounded and 23,-
007 missing. ...^
Japanese Successful.
In the Far East, according to Jap-anese
reports, the Japanese have de-feated
the Germans on the outskirts
of Tsing-Tau, capital of the German
protectorate of Kiao-Chow. Though
the battle lasted 14 hours, the losses
so far as known were small.
German Zeppelins have dropped
bombs on Belgian towns, a German
aeroplane has paid another visit to
Paris, dropping explosives in its
flight, while a Zeppelin also has ap-peared
above the city of Warsaw.
From Petrograd comes an official
statement from the Russian general
staff that German attempts in Rus-sian
Poland have been repulsed and
that the Germans are in retreat.
tier man Possessions Annexed.
The French and British navies
have annexed the Island of Lissa, in
the Adriatic. The object of this cap-ture,
according to Italian reports,
was to induce the Austrian fleet to
come out and accept battle. The Aus-trian
navy has added another Ger-man
possession in the'South Pacific
in its list of captures. This time it is
Kaiser Wilhelm's land, the German
portion of New Guinea, one of the
emperor's most valuable colonies in
that part of the world. It is expect-ed
that Admiral Patey will take the
rest of the German Pacific islands,
leaving a small garrison at each.
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Death of L. Beecher Shepherd.
Mr. L. Beecher Shepherd, who had
been desperately HI at St. Leo's hos-pital
for a week or more, died yester-day
afternoon at 2.45 o'clock. He
was in a critical condition when
brought to the hospital from his
home in eastern Guilford and his
death was not unexpected.
Mr. Shepherd was a successful far-mer
and an influential citizen and
had many friends who will be griev-ed
to learn of his death. He was the
deputy sheriff of Rock Creek town-ship.
He is survived by his widow
and five children.
The funeral and interment will
take place tomorrow morning at 11
o'clock at Brick church.
Mr. A. R. Marsh, of High Poiu'
Route 3, was a caller at The Patriot
office this morning.
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