The Greensboro patriot [October 8, 1914]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
C5TABLISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 81
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,le's Day".—"Old Peo-
*ill lie observed at the
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..! > chapel Sunday. The
..,.1 will meet at 10 o'clock
.v ill be preaching at 11
•;■;.,■ public is cordially in-
.ittend.
Kriiial al Proximity.—A revival
..,■!.■- i i" progress at the Prox-
;•.-! church. The pastor.
.',, v. MiManus, is being assist-
, .... II: P. Walker, pastor of
Street Baptist church.
- ... ;ave been about 40 profes-
... : :■ ligion.
tYuit-Kurkner.—Mr. Ed. Fruit, a
i .;... n voung farmer of the Tab-church
neighborhood, and
.•one Buckner, formerly of Si-
.-, ■-. but who has been making
- | nil in (irecnsboro for the past
.r were married Sunday af-
■ -:.... \>\ Rev. J. P. McCulloch.
Death at White Oak.—Mrs. F.
trkmon .iied at 5 o'clock Tuesday
,rning at' her home at White Oak.
- K »as 3S years old and is survived
:. her husband and four young chil-dren.
The funeral and interment
rook place yesterday afternoon at
ftMeboro, t i;e former home of the
Infant Adopted.—The baby boy
that was deserted and left on the
steps at the home of Mr. L. R. Gree-son
a few nights ago, as related in
Monday's Patriot, has been adopted
by Mrs. Emily Strunks, who resides
on South Elm street. She went be-fore
the clerk of the Superior court
yesterday and complied with the le-gal
formalities in connection with the
adoption of an abandoned child.
Married Today.—Miss Bronna May
Clymer. of this city, and Mr. Ernest
V. Ellis, of Richmond. Va., were mar-ried
today at 12.30 o'clock, the cere-mony
taking place at the home of
the bride's parents. Bev. Dr. P. H.
Fleming, pastor of the First Chris-tian
church, was the officiating min-ister.
Immediately following the
ceremony. Mr. and Mrs. Ellis left on
a bridal trip to Northern cities and
upon their return they will be at
home in Richmond.
Barrows-Wilson.—Mr. Fred L.
Barrows, of Charleston. S. C, and
Miss Pearl Elizabeth Wilson, of this
city, were married Tuesday night at
the home of the bride's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Wilson, on East
Washington street. Rev. R. M. An-drews,
pastor of Grace Methodist
Protestant church, was the officiat-ing
minister. Mr. and Mrs. Barrows
have gone on a honeymoon trip to
Florida and Cuba and upon their re-turn
wil be at home In Charleston.
Hunter-Merritt.—Mr. Hill M. Hun-ter,
a well known young business
man of the city, and Miss Annie Mer-ritt.
a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John
W. Merrltt, were married in Centen-ary
Methodist church Tuesday even-ing
at 6 o'clock. The ceremony was
»lr-. Herbert Compton Dead—Mrs. performed by the Rev. R. D.
Htrt rt Compton. formerly Miss Ada ! Sherrill. pastor of the church, in the
-::ar- a member or a well known j presence of a large assemblage of
.:,:,,- county family, died sud- friends and relatives of the young
at her home in Burlington I couple. The marriage was followed
Tues-iaj night. She was a sister of j by a reception at the home of the
.1. A. Tate and Messrs. Lacy. | oriae -s parents, on Pearson street, af-ter
which Mr. and Mrs. Hunter left
on an extended bridal trip through
the South.
Two l-'ine Speeches.—Hon. A. L.
Brooks, who has thrown himself in-to
the thick of the fight for the adop-tion
of the proposed amendments to
the state constitution, spoke in
Washington Monday at noon and in
Greenvile Monday night under the
auspices of the state Democratic ex-ecutive
committee. Press reports
from the two towns say his speeches
ware forceful and eloquent to a high
degree and aroused much enthusiasm
.owing satisfactory signs'among his hearers. Mr. Brooks gave
•o'vement and is expected to } unstinted praise to the accomplish-n
Ureensboro tomorrow morn-: nlt"ntH of tl,e Democratic administra-lr.
Wilson went to Baltimore tlon and raade a strong plea for the
FOUNDER'S DAY CELEBRATED
NOTABLE OCCASION AT STATE
NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL
COLLEGE FOR WOMEN.
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN
SPEAKING DATES ANNOUNCED
FOR NUMBER OK PLACES
IN THE COUNTY.
»rl, Elmo and Baxter Sellars. of
-"<■:..-boro. ,
Death at Infant.—Fred, the six-
• -,r.'' >-old son of Mr. and Mrs. David
■I 1. died Tuesday afternoon at
•lie ..I his parents on Summit
■ -.•:. • •. ■ .■••i, following an illness
I pneumonia. Tne funeral was held
: in the residence yesterday after-
■on and interment made in the
-i.v.'.'iiiy reniPterj.
Mr*. Wilxm Improving. -Mrs.
ill X. Wilson, who has been under
• atment of specialists in a Bal-l^
ospital for the past two
it
• > night to accompany his wife
l*a-tor Re«ign>.—Rev. O. W. Mc-i-
resigned the pastorate of
■ limit} and Magnolia Street
churches and left yesterday
iisville, K>\. to enter the
adoption of the amendments.
Farmers' Warehouse.—The Farm-ers'
warehouse has an advertisement
on the third page of The Patriot di-recting
the attention of tobacco
growers to the fact thtt the buyers
of all the leading tobacco companies
Baptist Theological Serai- j are now on the Greensboro market
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Parti
■:• is to be succeeded by Rev.
'ionlon. who will arrive in the
i rrow and enter upon his
I '. (iuest.—Miss Myrtle
!•■• a party Saturday even-liome
in Clay township.
Iier Cousin, Miss Lillian
tlreensboro, who was vis-
,\ number of interesting
and Inviting sales on the floor of the
Farmers' warehouse. The Farmers'
warehouse is being conducted by
Messrs. John II. Whitt. a veteran
warehouseman, and Garland Mitch-ell,
who is well and favorably known
to the patrons of the Greensboro
market. Every farmer knows his in-terests
are safe when in the hands of
John Whitt and Garland Mitchell.
'• indulged in. after which Center Brick Warehouse.—The
refreshments were served | Center Brick warehouse for the sale
ing room. The affair was
II
• n uyed by all present.
lather Dead.— Dr. C. T. Lips-illed
to Charlotte yester-iiii'ssage
announcing the
of his father, Mr. Na-omb,
at the home of a
: in that city. The funeral
place this afternoon in Gaff-
' • where Mr. Lipscomb had
irominent business man for
I".-. The deceased was 74
I and is survived by his wid-
: -i~ children.
Engage in Business.—Mr. R. L.
: n who formerly was engag-
■isinesa here with the Mc-r>-
Markham Company and
•Jreensboro several months
; a visit to his former home in
•■'ranee, has returned to the
• is preparing to engage in
for himself. Mr. Markham
<t the best automobile men in
1:"try and knows the business
"' Z. He worked in the Ford
ior several years before com-
'•reensboro and has the repu-
' being one of the best me-
'■" the country. There is
about an automobile that he
understand. Mr. Markham
•■'•? friends in this section who
' uis return and will be glad
■ •"" that lie will again engage in
:'-'''mobile business here.
of leaf tobacco has been leased for
the season by Messrs. Walter H.
King and Walter A. Aydelett, two of
Guilford's best known and most pro-gressive
farmers. An advertisement
on the seventh page of The Patriot
directs the attention of all tobacco
farmers to the fact that Messrs.
King and Aydelett are prepared to
take care of their interests at the
Center Brick. This is one of the best
warehouses in the state, and the new
proprietors promise to see to it that
every pile of tobacco offered for sale
on their floor brings the highest mar-ket
price.
Auction Sales.—The American
Realty and Auction Company will
conduct two auction sales in Greens-boro
Saturday that should prove of
interest to many readers of The Pa-triot.
Begin ing at 10 o'clock, thia
concern will sell four houses and five
lots on Eugene street, a dwelling
house and store on Keogh street, and
one dwelling and five vacant lota on
Wharton street. This is desirable
property and easy terms will be of-fered
to purchasers. At 1 o'clock
Saturday afternoon the same corn-
Monday was the twenty-second an-niversary
of the opening of the State
Normal and Industrial College and
the occasion was fittingly celebrated
as founder's day. The exercises were
featured by addressed by Dr. Edwin
K. Graham, president of the Univer-sity
of North Carolina, and Chief Jus-tice
Walter Clark, of the North Car-olina
Supreme court.
The formal exercises of the day-opened
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon,
when the student body of 700 young
women filed into the college audi-torium.
Under direction of Prof. W.
R. Brown, the audience arose and
sang "America," accompanied by the
pipe organ. The invocation was by-
Rev. J. Clyde Turner, of the First
Baptist church.
President Foust read a large num-ber
of telegrams from alumnae asso-ciations
and individuals alumnae of
the college, these greetings and con-gratulations
coming from every sec-lion
of the state. This was followed
by a duet, by members of the college
faculty.
These exercises were followed by
Dr. Graham's address, the subject of
which was "The Practical Idealist."
He said that he had thought at first
he would speak upon the life of the
late President Mclver. but upon re-flection
decided that he would choose
a subject which Dr. Mclver typified,
because he was an idealist, and yet
withal intensely practical. Among
other things, Mr. Graham placed
himself on record as favoring woman
suffrage in this happy style: "The
opinion of women upon things that
affect the home, health and other
public matters must be expressed In
some way, and in my opinion a white
piece of paper and the ballot box is
the manner and most comfortable
and convenient."
The morning's exercises closed
with "Carolina." sung by faculty,
students and visitors and the bene-diction
by Rev. Mr. Turner.
Monday night at S.30 o'clock an-other
large audience gathered in the
college chapel to witness the exer-cises
attendant to the dedication of
the woman's building, the newest
building on the campus. This build-ing
was erected as an additional dor-mitory
and is used for seniors only.
It is situated to the northwest of the
auditorium and just west of the
Spencer building. By an act of the
general assembly, it is dedicated to
the "Women of the Confederacy."
Chief Justice ("lark was chosen as
the speaker for this occasion. His
tribute to the women of the Confed-eracy
was both appropriate and
beautiful. He congratulated the state
upon this small recognition of their
services to the commonwealth.
Judge Clark spoke of the great
pride the people of the state took in
the Normal and Industrial College.
In eloquent terms he referred to the
work done for it and for education
by Charles D. Mclver. He told also of
the great force for educational ad-vance
in the lives of Charles B. Ay-cock,
Edwin A. Alderman and James
Y. Joyner. In his address he declar-ed
that the three great influences
working for the uplift of North Car-olina
are good roads, good schools
and prohibition. He emphasized the
value of the education of women, and
spoke earnestly of the cause of wo-man
suffrage.
In the closing period of his ad-dress
Judge Clark spoke of the four
great social and political upheavals
in the last fifty years in this state;
these the great struggle of 1861-65,
the campaign of 1876, by which the
carpetbagger and the alien were dis-placed;
the victory of 1900, when
there was put off an illiterate ignor-ant
and debauched suffrage of an in-ferior
race, and lastly the great fight
for the educational forward march
of the state.
Following Judge Clark's address,
an oil portrait of Governor Aycock
was presented to the college by the
class of 1914. It will be hung in the
auditorium with those of Mclver,
Vance and others.
OCTOBER MEETING OF
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
The Democratic campaign in Guil-ford
county will be opened at Whit-sett
with a speaking by the candi-dates
Saturday night and this will be
followed by a number of other meet-ings
throughout the county. All the
meetings arranged for so far are to
be held at night and the dates and
places are as follows:
Whitsett, Saturday night, October
10.
Pleasant Garden, Monday night,
October 12.
Jamestown, Tuesday night, Octo-ber
13.
Monticello, Saturday night. Octo-ber
17.
Summerfield, Monday night, Octo-ber
19.
Tabernacle school house, Tuesday-night,
October 20.
Proximity, Friday night, October
23.
Mt. Pleasant school house, Satur-day
night, October 24.
White Oak, Wednesday night, Oc-tober
28.
Stokesdale, Thursday night, Octo-ber
29.
High Point. Friday night, October
30.
Gibsonvllle. Saturday night. Octo-ber
31.
Greensboro, Monday night, Novem-ber
2.
Other appointments will be made
In the county later in the campaign.
Chairman Sherrill has invited a num-ber
of notable speakers to comejto
the county during the campaign,
among them being: Senators Sim-mons
and Overman, Congressman
Claude Kltchln, ex-Governor Kltch-in
and ex-Governor Glenn. Con-gressman
Stedman hopes to be able
to make one or two speeches in the
county, and it is possible that Con-gressman
Heflin, of Alabama, one of
the most eloquent Democratic speak-ers
in the country, will be able to
give Gullford a date.
The fact that Congress still is in
session makes it rather doubtful
whether or not any members of that
body will be available for campaign
speeches, but if the present plan or
adjournment is carried out, prob-ably
most of the gentlemen enume-rated
above will be able to talk to
the Guilford voters.
Mr. E. G. Sherrill. chairman of Hie
county executive committee, is giv-ing
his entire time to the campaign
and is devoting his efforts especially
to getting a full registration. Along
with the other party leaders, he is
very desirous of seeing the Demo-cratic
majority In Guilford maintain-ed,
if it is not increased. Talking
with a reporter of The Patriot yes-terday.
Mr. Sherrill said:
"I believe we could easily roll up
a majority of 2.000 in Guilford this
year—in fact. I know we can do it if
every Democrat will do his duty. Ti'e
majorities two years ago ranged from
1.300 to 1.800, and there is every
reason why we should give an in-creased
majority this year. In 1912
we gave President Wilson a majority
of approximately 1.400 over both
■raft and Roosevelt, and in view of
the splendid achievements of the ad-ministration,
I think we should bet-ter
that majority this year by at
least 500. If all the Democrats v. ill
do their duty. Guilford will give all
the candidates a majority of not less
man 2,000. That is the mark I have
At the October meeting of the
board of county commissioners,
which was held Monday and Tuesday,
the appropriation of $500 annually
for farm demonstration work in the
county was ordered continued. This
appropriation supplements a fund
provided by the United States gov-ernment
and goes to pay the expense
of the county demonstration agent.
The annual appropriation of $50
to the North Carolina Children's
Home Society was continued.
The board also made an appropria-tion
of $50 to be used by Dr. W. M.
Jones, county superintendent of
health, for the purpose of making a
health exhibit at the Central Carolina
fair next week.
A warant for $127.80 was ordered
issued to reimburse the city of
Greensboro for necessary expenses of
the attendance of witnesses upon the
last criminal term of Superior court.
H. T. Curtis was appointed road
commissioner of Clay township to
succeed D. H. Coble, resigned.
The board granted the petition
previously filed asking for the open-ing
of a public road to lead from
West Lee street, at the city limits, to
the Freeman's mill road.
The following jurors were drawn
for the two-weeks' term of Superior
court to convene November 9: Sam
L. Summers, J. L. Greeson, John
Farmer. W. A. Green. R. A. Andrew,
I. L. Trogdon, W. R. Andrew, G. R.
Shaw, R. L. Simmons, Tom Pember-ton,
R. P. Boon. Charles Cook, E. B.
King, D. L. Loy, C. D. Smith, T. L.
Mangum. L. F. Dairies, S. L. Alder-man.
H. L. Burgman, P. W. Hardie.
V. C. Lewis, H. D. Blake. W. M. Shel-ley,
J. B. Ogburn, R. G. Campbell,
W. G. Ragsdale, J. G. Orrell, W. W.
Tucker. J. W. Bailey, J. W. Kerns,
F. C. Briscoe, Robert Brockett. Sr.,
L. R. Spencer, R. L. Winfrey and A.
M. Briggs.
GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS
SUMMARY OF EVENTS THAT GO
TO MAKE UP THE WORLD'S
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Opens Campaign.—Mr. John T.
Benbow, Republican candidate for
Congress in the fifth district, fired
the opening gun of his campaign in
Danbury, the county seat of Stokes
county, Monday. It Is understood
THREATENED LAWSUIT
OVER CRANFORD ESTATE.
Mrs. Eva Cranford, widow of the
late W. L. Cranford, who committed
suicide by shooting himself at his
home on East Washington street
early last Saturday morning, went
before the clerk of the Superior court
yesterday and qualified as adminis-tratrix
of the estate. Mr. Cranford
left a will, in which Capt. Neil El-lington
was named as executor, but
on account of the fact of the instru-ment
having been mutilated, the
clerk of the court did not feel inclin-ed
to probate It.
The will, which was made in July,
1911, provided that, after all Mr.
Cranford's debts were paid, the re-mainder
of his property was to go to
Mrs. Eva Tyson, to whom he was
then engaged and to whom he was
married three months prior to his
death, with the exception that $1,000
of a $2,000 life insurance policy was
to go to Miss Elizabeth Coltrane, a
niece of his first wife.
The will appeared to be in Mr.
Cranford's handwriting, and on the
reverse side of the sheet of paper on
which it was written there was a
codicil that had been obliterated by
ink blots. This codicil appears to
have been written August 20. 1914,
and a close examination discloses
that the bequests of the original will
were revoked and Miss Coltrane
made the beneficiary. Mr. W. H.
Rees a>so was named as executor in
place of Capt. Ellington.
Attorneys had been employed in
the case and it appeared that a law-set,
and with a united effort on the suit was in sight, but it is probable
part of the Guilford Democrats, we
shall not fall short of achieving our
desire. I want to urge every Demo-crat
in the county to get busy and
keep busy until the close of the polls
on election day."
pany will sell a number of horses,
mules, ponies, cows and yearlings at
W C Ogburn's stable, on South that he spoke to a large crowd and
Davie street. Advertisements of the aroused considerable enthusiasm
two sales will be found on the sixth j among to jU»P«Mk»»t, Who made
page of this issue of The Patriot. up nine-tenths of his audience.
Burglar Caught in the Act.
John Sellars, a negro with a long
criminal record, was arrested soon
after 3 o'clock yesterday morning for
burglarizing Tom Pemberton's drug
store on Asheboro street and in Mu-nicipal
court a few hours later was
sentenced to the county roads for
two years and eight months. A lady
living near by discovered the negro
entering the store and a telephone
message to police headquarters call-ed
officers to the scene. Sellars was
discovered under a counter. There
was evidence that he had broken in-now
that the estate will be settled
without litigation. Her action in qual-ifying
as administratrix would seem
to indicate that Mrs. Cranford will
not insist upon a settlement of the
estate in accordance with the terms
of the original will.
Trains to Be Discontinued.
The North Carolina corporation
commission has granted the request
of the Southern Railway that it be
allowed to discontinue temporarily
several passenger trains on account
of a falling off in revenue. The trains
to be discontinued are: The second
sections of Nos. 37 and 38, between
Danville and Charlotte; Nos. 13 and
14, between Danville and Charlotte,
and one train each between Durham
and Raleigh and between Ashevllle
and Spartanburg. The service be-
Earthquake Killed 2,500.—An of-ficial
Constantinople message says
that the victims of an earthquake in
the Konia province. Asia Minor. Sat-urday
midnight is estimated at twen-ty-
five hundred.
Three Killed.—Three men were
killed and more than 25 persons
were injured, several seriously, when
two interurl.an passenger cars col-lided
at Woodlake, a pleasure re-sort
near Sherman, Texas.
Cost of the War.—It was recently
announced from Berlin that the war
is costing Germany $5,000,000 a day.
The French minister of finance says
the war is costing France $7,000,000
a day and that the first 60 days of
the conflict cost $420,000,000.
Need More Money.—Ambassador
Morganthau, at Constantinople, has
appealed to the state department for
additional funds for the relief of
Americans in the Ottoman empire.
The recent deposit by this govern-ment
of $150,000 has been found in-adequate.
Furnish More Soldiers.—Canada
will raise immediately and send to
the front a second expeditionary
force of 20,000 men with a first rein-forcement
of 10 per cent, making
22,000 in all. These contingents will
bring the total of Canada's force at
the front up to more than 50,000
men.
Facing Starvation.—Rear Admiral
Howard, commanding the American
naval forces of the Pacific coast of
Mexico, has reported to the navy de-partment
that there was a shortage
of food all along the western coast
and that the populace of Acapulco
faced starvation. It is absolutely
nacessary, he said, that corn and rice
be provided promptly for Acapulco.
To Wear Cotton.—A movement to
aid Southern planters by populariz-ing
cotton evening gowns has been
started in New York by Miss Flor-.
ence Guernsey, president of the New
York City Federation of Women's
Clubs, who Issued an appeal to 100,-
000 members of the federation to
purchase such a gown and wear it at
peace demonstrations to be held this
week.
To Sell Monticello.—That Monti-cello,
home of Thomas Jefferson,
should be maintained as the "Vir-ginia
home of the presidents" is the
opinion of Its owner, Representative
Levy, of New York, who has notified
Secretary Bryan he would consider
an offer of $500,000 for the purchase
of the estate by the government. His
communication will be referred to
Congress.
Abandons Banquet.—The New
York chamber of commerce has de-cided
to abandon its annual banquet
because of the war. It was the first
time such a step had been agreed up-on
since the financial depression of
1873. President Seth Low, in an ex-planatory
statement, said it had been
suggested that many members might
be glad to send to the Red Cross
checks for $20, the usual price of
tickets.
Steamer Detained.—The steamer
Alexandria, formerly of the Kohmos
line, is detained in the harbor at San
Francisco with a United States naval
officer on board until questions con-cerning
her registry can be settled
with Washington. The collector of
the port refused to allow the vessel
to clear for Valpariso, as it was re-ported
the Alexandria carried coal
and provisions that were to be trans-ferred
to German warships.
Slavery Charges.—Charges that
slavery is practiced in the Philippine
archipelago, despite legislation by
the Philippine assembly to check It.
were made in the house of represen-tatives
Tuesday during debate on the
Jones' Philippine bill. An amend-ment
by Representative Cooper fin-ally
was adopted declaring that
"slavery shall not exist in the Philip-pine
islands nor shall involuntary
servitude exist there In except as
punishment for a crime."
to the cash drawer and stole several tween Greensboro and Goldsboro and
dollars. He also had a bottle of co- between Sanford and Mt. Airy will
calne in his pocket. He was sen- not be disturbed,
tenced to the roads for two years for
larceny and for eight months for hav-ing
cocaine in his possession.
Mr. Charles O. Forbis Is spending
a few days in Philadelphia.
Mills-Dixon Wedding.—Mr. Luther
C. Mills and Miss Kate Dixon were
married Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock
at the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Dixon, on Walker
avenue. The ceremony was perform-ed
by Rev. R. G. Kendrick, of Forest
Avenue Baptist church, and was fol-lowed
by a wedding reception. Mr.
and Mrs. Mills have gone to South
Boston, Va., on their bridal trip and
upon their return to Greensboro will
be at home at the residence of the
I bride's parents.
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