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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ISHED 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17f 1914 VOL. 93—NO. 101
LOCAL NEWS i«. "ORM
MATTERS OK INTEREST TO THE
HEADERS OK THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
, t,riNtn>as Program.—The pupils
rightwood school will present a
istmas program tomorrow even-at
7.30 o'clock. The public in-s..
ng Service Sunday.—The song
rvice and singing closing at Bur-
[l e chapel, which was postponed
account of bad weather, will be
. nest Sunday if the weather per-
\> priding Announced.—Mr. and
\. K. Scarboro have issued in-
, ions to the wedding of their
chier. Miss Myrtle, to Mr. E. J.
. >.-. on December "3, at Asheboro
. -t Baptist church.
Marriage This Evening.—Miss
.. Wan'., of this city, will be mar-
10 Mr. W. L. Callum, Jr.. of Al-lerquc.
New Mexico, this evening.
. Callum is :i son of Mr. and Mrs.
[.. Callum, of this eit!.
r uncial of Shepherd Forbte.—The
eraI <>l" Shepherd Foil.is. the son
Mr. and Mrs. \V V. Forbis, who
I in Baltimore Saturday, was held
Uethel Presbyterian church Mon-atternoon.
Dr. Melton Clark con-led
the service.
Plans a Congress.—M. K. Tyson.
• ident ot the Colored Professional
... business Min's Club of ll'.i icily.
tanning to have a state-wide lit-
,iy and educational congress held
some city in this state, the place
• yet being decided.
Moves to Reidsville.—Mr. B. P.
. ilker. of Greensboro, has moved
- family to Reidsville 10 reside. He
i upies the A. L. Hair's residence
Lawsonville road. Mr. Walker
opened up a junk yard on the
raises.—Reidsville Review.
Will Give Recital.—The pupils
••>■ music department of the Nor-i
College will give a public recital
-.... auditorium this afternoon at
rclucL. \t this time the training
,ool glee club, composed of thirty-girl
voices, under the direction
vfif-s Harris, v HI sing.
Kit's Tno Rig Hogs..—J. 1).Short.
• : lives one mile south of Creens-ro
(ii the Ashe street road. Mon-
■;. killed two hogs which weighed
i pounds each, or a total of 880
;nd». He fed them on corn and
al. The hogs were a mixture cf
rkshire and B'aefc Mammoth.
iVaiden-Clapp.—Last evening at 7
lock at the home of the bride's pa-
..•-. Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Warden,
•. West Bragg street. Miss Laura
. irden and Mr. John Clapp were
nited in marriage. Rev. J. S. Cox,
: the Friends church, officiated.
■..-. a few intimate friends were
.-• sent.
Shot Through Nose.—Henry Tay-
- a negro, was carried to St. Beo's
spital last night with a bullet
■ind in his nose. Taylor is thought
have been shot at a negro home on
Inter street by a negress. but the
tails were not completely known.
• was not considered dangerously
mnded.
Freight Derailment- A derailment
four freight cars Tuesday after-
.11 at Johnson's siding, two miles
low Pleasant Garden, on the old C.
. & Y. V. railroad, delayed the train
■ in Sanford to Mi. Airy slightly
■ i two hour.-, the train arriving
r< about 7 o'clock. No one was in-
. ■ ■; by the mishap.
Pension Uariants (lei*.— The
-•Hal Christmas gifts for Confederate
■terans and their widows have nr-
<<! at Hie office of Clerk of Su-
•■: >r ( "iirt Gant this week. Those
' called for by Saturday will be
iied. A deputy clerk will BO to
II ■ Point Saturday to distribute the
rrants to pensioners there
I oiiipetitive Exanunation.—The
: itiil States civil service commis-ion
announces an open competilve
lamination tor several government
vitiens for m«»ii only during Janu-ry.
Those happening te be interest-
! cat- obtain application blanks from
>■ local secretary of '.he United
tates civil service board at the post-it
ice.
Wanted in Ohio.—Harry James,
ne of i he men kept here to testify
n the Eddings case, was placed un-
1 r arrest Tuesday morning on a fug-tive
from justice warrant issued in
lansfield, O. James was en route to
■ mthern states when the turn of
ite and the shooting of R. J. Allen,
'r., caused his detention here. It
as then that the officers learned of
is character. He will not go to
••io until requisiUon papers are se-ired.
Off F»«r Christmas—Young women
in the colleges here are already go-ing
home for Christmas. The Greens-boro
College for Women will close to-morrow
and work will be resumed
on January 5. The State Normal Col-lege
will give vacation from Decem-ber
22 to January 5, and the city
schools will be closed from the 22nd
to January 4.
Saturday Pay Day.—December 20
coming this year on Sunday the
Southern Railway will pay off its
railroad and shop force on Saturday,
the 19th. This was the agreement
made between the company and the
men, that when the 20th, the regular
pay day, fell on Sunday, the previous
day would be the one in which checks
would be handed out.
Goes to Atlanta.—Rev. Dr. J. L.
White, of Macon, Ga., a former pas-tor
of the First Baptist church of this
city, has accepted a call recently ex-tended
to him to become pastor of
the Baptist tabernacle, in Atlanta.
This is the largest Baptist church in
Atlanta and was served for a num-ber
of years by Rev. Dr. Ben. G.
Broughton, now of London.
To Help Polish Jews.—The Jews of
Greensboro will send $2,000 to the
American Jews' relief committee for
the relief of the Jews in the war
stricken section of Europe. The Cone
Export and Commission Company
donated $1,000 and Mr. Ceasar Cone
made a personal donation of $500.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews in
Europe are in dire need of funds.
Jones-Richardson.—Mr. II. Smith
Richardson, of this city, and Miss
Grace Jones, of Danville. Va.. were
married last evening in Danville. Va.
After a wedding trip they will live
here. Mr. Richardson is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. L. Richardson and is
secretary of the Vick Chemical Com-pany.
His bride is a popular young
woman of Danville and has visited
here frequently.
Fire at Postoffice.—The lobby of
the postoffice last night about 10
o'clock was discovered to be filled
with smoke and an investigation re-vealed
fire burning the baseboard be-hind
one of the radiators. It is pre-sumed
someone had carelessly flung
a match behind the radiator and that
Box Party at McLeansville.—The
McLeansville high school will give a
free entertainment followed by a box
party Saturday night. The program
of the entertainment is varied and
well selected. There will be some
amusement for all and the public is
cordially invited. The proceeds of
the box party will go to help build
up a larger library for the school
and for the expense of entertain-ments.
New Garage.—Carpenters are at
work tearing down the building at
120 East Market street, which was
formerly used as a store room by
the Forbis Furniture Company and
will soon begin work on an up-to-date
garage. Mr. C. O. Forbis is
the owner of the property and will
construct a one-story brick building
141 feet long and 28 feet wide. He
will rent the building for use as a
garage.
More llig Hogs—Thomas Norwood,
a resident of Glenwood, Tuesday kill-ed
two 13 months' old pi?:. that
weighed 91S pounds. J. F. Gossett
and '.V. L. Hodgin, residing on
Greensboro Route t. joined it. hog-killing
and killed three hogs Ina!
were 12 months old and weighed 1,-
1 90 pounds. The hog of Mr. Gos*ett
weighed 385 pounds, and those of
Mr. Hodgin weighed 420 and 3S5
pounds, respectively.
Case Continued.—In the United
States court Tuesday J.idge Boyd
continued the case of the Tryon Wa-ter,
Light and Power Company vs.
the town of Tiyon to January 19,
when he will hear evidence in the
case at Charlotte. The plaintiffs
sought a permanent injunction upon
the pleadings and affidavits, but the
court refused this. The plaintiffs
seek to keep the town from building
a waterworks system.
Burnett Released.—John Barnett.
a young white man who was convict-ed
last week in United States court
of using the mails to defraud, and
who has been in jail since that time,
yesterday was released on bond, the
bond being given by his aunt. Mrs.
Cadwalder, of Washington. I). C.
Mrs. Cadwalder and nephew left yes-terday
afternoon for Washington, D.
C. Barnett to appear at the June
BRITISH TOWNS BOMBARDED
GERMAN CRUISERS SURPRISE
THE ENGLISH BY SHELLING
THREE COAST TOWNS.
A squadron of swift German cruis-ers
crept through the fog of the
North sea Tuesday night to the Eng-
'ish coast and at daylight yesterday
morning began a bombardment of
three important towns- —Hartlepool,
at the mouth of the Tees river; Whit-by,
25 miles southward, and Scar-borough,
noted as a pleasure resort,
15 miles beyond. Hartlepool suffer-ed
most. Two battle cruisers and an
armored cruiser were engaged. The
British war office fixes the number
of dead at Hartlepool as seven sol-diers
and 22 civilians.
At Scarborough, shelled by a bat-tle
cruiser and an armored cruiser,
13 casualties are reported, while at
Whit by two were kilted and two
were wounded.
Men. women and children of the
civilian population were left dead or
wounded, struck without warning
while al work. In all the casualty
list totals 110, of whom 31 are
known to be dead.
At Hartlepool churches were dam-aged
and the grs wirTr and lumber
yards were set afire, while the ab-bey
at Whitby was struck. The Bal-moral
hotel at Scarborough received
Jie full effect of the she!1.. A number
of houses and shops were shattered
and partly burned in each of ;he
towns.
■ The hostile squadron escaped in
ihe mist after an encounter with
Britisli coast guard vessels.
The only news from the East is
the admission of the Ger.nar. general
staff that the German column which
advanced through Mlawa toward
Warsaw 'has re-occupied its old posi-tions,
owing to the superiority of the
enemy." This in a measure confirms
accounts of a Russian victory.
Austrian Gain.
The Austrians again have crossed
the Carpathians, and, according to
their own account, are driving the
Russian left back toward the river
San. The Austrian army, assisted by
German reinforcements, has under-taken
to fcrce the Russians to with-draw
frc^n in front of Cracow and
also to relieve Przemysl. The Aus-trians
apparently have met with at
least partinl success in the first pro-ject.
Their army in Servia. however, has
not recovered from the surprise
Which the Servians gave ii. Just when
they were thought to be beaten the
Servians turned on the invaders and
drove the m westward an'! nort'iw;:rd
out of the Servian territ >ry. The only
pait of Servia remaining in Austrian
hands is a small territory including
the town? of Shabats and Losnitza.
The Montenegrin army also is do-ing
its share, and according to a Cet-tinje
report, has cut off part of the
Austrian right wing, which retreat-ed
into Bosnia. It is announced in
behalf of Servia that the previous
letreats were due to lack of ammu-nition
and that the stores had been
replenished by captures from the
Austrians.
"Vienna asserts that the retirement
of the right wing made is advisable
to abandon Belgrade. which was
evacuated without fighting.
C. F. A Y. V. SALE PUT UP TO
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
England Aroused.
A wave of intense anger has
spread over England because of the
attack. Bitter denunciation is heard
everywhere of a policy which per-mits
shelling of undefended towns.
The admiralty report announces
that such, demons.;rations are n.it dif-ficult
to acomplish, but the popula-tion
generally cherishes so great a
Double Wedding Here I<a*t Night.
The performance of a double wed-ding
was the unusual event occur-ring
last evening ai 9 o'clock at the i
home of Dr. Melton Clark, pastor of I.
Attorney General Blckett has offi-cially
laid before United States At-torney
General Gregory his recom-mendation
that the government instl
tute proceedings for the annullment
of the receivership suit of the old
Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Rail-way
Company in 1898 and its sub-sequent
dismemberment through
which that part from Wilmington to
Sanford and Fayetteville to Bennets-vllle
became part of the Atlantic
Coast Line system, and that section
from Sanford to Mount Airy a part
of the Southern. In the same con-nection
Attorney General Bickett
tenders the suit to the United States
district attorney, if he sees fit to take
action.
The 1913 legislature passed reso-lutions
directing the corporation
commission to investigate the sale
and partition of the road and report
its findings to the attorney general,
and it is on the strength of the find-ings
of the corporation commission
that the recommendation is sent to
the United States district attorney.
Attorney General Bickett also sub-mitted
to Attorney General Gregory
the findings of the corporation com-mission
and a history of the building
of Hie railroad, and an analy-is of
evidence and a brief on the law pre-pared
by A. B. Brooks, of Greens-ooro,
which he commends to the
United states district attorney.
The ground on which Attorney
General Bickett would have the sale
of the railroad set aside Is that it
was a violation of the decree of the
Circuit court of the United States
against dismemberment and In vio-lation
of the Sherman anti-trust act.
He asserts that the sale- can be set
aside without any injury to innocent
parties-.
The insistence is made that, even
the First Presbyterian church. Two
couples met there at this hour,
neither of the two being acquainted
with the other prior thereto.
T. Richard Brown, of Ashland, Pa.,
confidence in the protection of I he I now living in Charlotte, and Miss
paper which had collected there had (term of court here next year.
caught. Little trouble was required
in extinguishing the blaze.
Firemen to 1 "east.--The following
invitations have been received by
friends of the Greensboro fire de-partment:
You are cordially invited
io be present and partaKe of the
viands of an annual supper and
smoker to be given to and by Greens-boro
volunteer firemen and fire de-partment,
to be held in Eagle and
Hook and Ladder halls Friday night,
December 18. 1914, 7 o'clock."
Rowe Coming Saturday.—W. H.
Rowe. recently appointed manager of
the Greensboro Patriots for 1915,
will arrive in the city Saturday and
will spend two or three days here
conferring with the directors of the
club. Considering the late date at
which Rowe received the appoint-ment,
he is doing great work toward
landing a bunch of good players to
lepresent Greensboro next season.
Miss McLean to Wed. —Invitations
reading as follows have been issued:
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Greer McLean
request the honor of your presence
at Hie marriage of their daughter,
NeWe Ross, to Mr.-Ruffin Braxt.on
McLennan, Tuesday evening. Decem-ber
twenty-ninth, one thousand nine
hundred and fourteen, at six forty-five
o'clock, Westminster Presbyte-rian
cbuich. Greensboro. North Caro-lina."
To Roads For Contempt.—Charles
Henderson, a young white man of the
Pomona mill section, was sentenced
by Justice Collins to the roads Mon-day
to work out a $",0 fine for con-tempt.
The specific charge was abus-ing
a witness in court. Henderson,
Roy James and Edward Lockey were
charged with retailing and the hear-ing
was in progress when Henderson
cursed and abused George Putman.
»he state's witness. All of the de-fendants
were bound over to Superior
court for retailing.
The Christmas Tree—The com-munity
Christmas tree, a large cedar
donated by J. L. King, will be placed
on the court house square Saturday
and on Monday the North Carolina
Public Service Company will start
wiring the tree preparatory to light-ing
up. The first lights will be turn-ed
on Monday night and a few will
be added each night until on Thurs-day,
the 24th, the tree will be literal-ly
covered with electric lights. The
top of the tree will be decorated by
Mr. Smith, of the Odell Hardware
Company, and the lower part by a
committee appointed from the civic
department of the Woman's Club.
Fine Potato Crop.—Mr. Andrew
Coble, a good citizen and farmer ot
the Julian section, was in the city
yesterday and gave The Patriot the
pleasure of a call. He informed us
that he raised a fine crop of fall po-tatoes
this year, the yield amounting
to 20S bushels. They are of the
Irish Cooler and Red Bliss varieties
and Mr. Coble is finding a ready sale
for them. He says potatoes at a dol-lar
a bushel beat cotton and tobacco
at almost any price.
Richardson-Caudle.— At the resi-dence
of J. B. Richardson, in Center
neighborhood, his daughter. Miss
Nellie, was united in marriage yes-terday
at high noon to K. S. Caudle,
of New Salem, Rev. J. B. O'Briant
officiating. Only the parents and im-mediate
relatives of the bride and
groom were present. Mr. Caudle is
a young and progressive business
man of New Salem and his bride is
the attractive daughter of one of the
most prosperous farmers of the coun-ty.
Mr. and Mrs. Caudle drove to
Greensboro by automobile and went
(0 Charlotte to visit friends
Southern Depot at Madison Bu.'uecl.
The Soul hern Railway depot at
Madison was destroyed by fire Tues-day
night, the origin of which is
unknown. The flame were discover-ed
about 3 o'clock and had gained
such headway that it was impossible
to extinguish them or to save any-thing
from the building. All the
contents of the depot as well as the
building itself, were a complete loss.
The passenger train was standing
near the depot at the time and the
baggage car, which was nearest to
the flames, was ignited. A brake-man,
who had rushed to the scene of
the fire, uncoupled the- other cars
and let them roll out of danger. The
baggage car was badly damaged.
Fell From Horse Dead.
Mr. Cicero Ingold, who resided in
the Julian section, met with a sudden
death Monday afternoon. He was
returning home from a trip to Julian
when he was seized with a sudden
attack of heart failure and fell from
the horse he was riding to the ground
dead. Another man passing along
the road saw Mr. Ingold fall and ran
to him, but life was extinct when he
reached him.
Mr. Ingold was about 60 years old
and Is survived by his widow and sev-eral
children. The funeral and in-terment
took place yesterday at Beth-lehem
church.
British navy that Ihe inhabitants ot
the coast towns made no serious
preparation to meet a bombardment.
Except for the working people, the
English are late risers during the
short winter days. The bombard-ment
occurred between S and S
o'clock, an hour when man} persens
were at breakfast, while others were
on their way to work or were open-ing
their shops.
The general belief in London is n.it
the German attack will give impetus
to recruiting. The day A-as one of
eager waiting after the admiralty
bulletin was issued shortly before
noon.
The Western Theater of War.
In the western field of the Euro
pean war the offensive movement of
the French and the British has be-come
general and is being pushed
With strong forces, particularly in
Flanders, the Argonne, the Woevre
and Alsace. While the French claim
success at all points except Steinbach,
In Alsace, the general official reports
from Berlin say the allies' attacks
have been unsuccessful at several
places.
On the whole, however, it would
appear that the allies, who now have
a superiority in numbers as well as
in artillery, have made some progress
and have withstood vigorous German
counter-attacks.
The fact that the allies are in pos-session
of Hollenbeck. in Flanders,
and that heavy fighting is going on
again, shows that they have made an
appreciable advance during the past
two days, as last week they were be-ing
attacked by the invaders two
miles west of St. Eloy, on the Ypres-
Arinentieres road.
In the Argonne region the French
say: "We have made progress and
maintained our advance of the pre-ceding
days."
The force which has been checked
at Steinbach is the left wing of the
army, which for some time has been
fighting its way toward Muelhausen
and which has cleared a considerable
part of Alsace of Germans. It is evi-dent
that, while the Germans are
prepared to offer stubborn resistance
to attempted advances In the regions
mentioned in the official communica-tions,
they expect the main attack of
the allies to bo made in another di-rection
or themselves are preparing
for an offensive, for they have gath-ered
considerable forces at Courtrai,
from where they could be transfer-red
quickly either to Flanders or
southward across the French fron-tier.
juar.Ka Tankersley, of Washington,
D. •'.. were one couple of the happy
ceremony, being accompanied by F.
D. Wolfe, of Spencer; and Horace I).
Dupree. of Lenoir county, and Miss
Mabel C. Hart, of Rock Hill, S. C,
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. E. It.
Ford, of Greensboro, were the other.
The respective brides and grooms
came to Greensboro to meet each
other.
The newly married couples left the
city on trains due to leave within five
minutes of each other, and took op-posite
directions Mr. and Mrs.
Brown going to Winston-Salem at
10.20 o'clock, and Mr. and Mrs. Du-pree
going to Richmond at 10.15
o'clock.
if it : hould be held that the road
I was an intrnstate enterprise, that it
; was engaged in intrastate traffic to
the extent of hauling 5 per cent of
the interstate commerce at Greens-boro
and 85 per cent at Fayetteville.
match g th•> combination between the
Southern and the Atlanti" Coast Linc-ofliclals
to Tiirchase and partition la-ter
contracts in restraint of trade un-der
the Sherman ati-trust law. It i->
asserted that the result has been to
defeat the objects for which the road
was built and that induced the state
and municipalities to mane .tenerous
appropriations for the construction
of the road.
<'ilj Court Handles Matter of Art.
Mr. W. D. Meyer, of the Meyer's
department store, was tried in Muni-ipal
court Tuesday morning for dis-pla\
ing obsence and vulgar pictures
and was found not guilty. The pic-tures
in qiK-stion were t'.ree in num-ber,
which were displayed with a I
number of other pictures in 'lie store
virdow the latter part of lpst week. I
They were copies of famous nude ;
paintings and looked upon generally
;,s works of are. They were: "The
Water Witch.'' by Cl.abis: "The
Bathers," by Laurens, and "The
fiirlli of Venus." by Duptiis. At the
time the pictures were displayed a l
police officer told Mr. Meyer to tike |
them out of the window. This he
refused to do and later a warrant
was sworn out for him.
Wanted in Many Places For Forgery.
It is said that Clarence Andrews,
alias Carter, in jail at Asneboro, has
been seen by parties from different
parts of the state who i.ave identi-fied
him as the man who had f'.eeced
them out of money. A letter aiso
lias been received from Detective W.
J. Burns by I. F. Craven, of Rrni-seur.
stated that Andrews is wanted
from Colorado to eastern North Car-olina.
A mar. from Canton Haywood
county, saw Andrews Tuesday and
identified him as the nr-n who had
fleeced him and I.is son out of $158.
A Mr. Anderson, from Hum! Hall,
identified him as the one i:\io had se-cured.$
6S from him last August.
Andrews is said to have operated
in 25 towns in the last six months.
He is now being held in jail until
further information is received from
''urns. The VOUIIg man :s unanle to
give a bond for $500.
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Negro Shot Wife and Escapes.
A message was received Tuec 'ay
at polic headquaru-rs from .{ceds-ville
asking that the local officers be
— ' on the watch for Earl I'avis. negro,
Disapproves Literacy Test of Inuni- who Monday about 1 o'clock shot and
gration Bill. I killed his wife and made ils esc.ap.->.
Although President Wilson has an- Davis had the reputation of being a
nounced that he did not favor the lit- good negro and litt'e can be learned
eracy test in the pending immigration concerning the cause of the -.hooting,
hill, Indications are that the measure It is said that a dispute between the
.vill be sent to him for approval or man and his wife ended in a quarrel
veto with the literacy provision un- in which Davis shot the woman
changed. No disposition to amend through the temple. She lived only
that section has beer apparent in the long enough to UU the officers that
senate where the bill is undei on-jher husband had shot her.
•dderation. ! Da»ts was an etapioye of the Amer
It was the literacy test which, ican Tobacco Company. He is 28
prompted President Taft to veto the'years old. weighs about I 60 pounds
bill just before he close of his admin- and is five feet seven inches tall,
istration. The measure, substantial-ly
unchanged, was repassed by the Drowned in Bath Tub.—Overcome
house President Wilson said Tues- j by gas. Aydlett Turner. 12-year-old
day he had not decided what action son of R. W. Turner, of Elizabeth
he would take should it be passed . City, was drowned in the bath tub
also by the senate with the literacy in his home Saturday. Leslie Spence.
test included. »• >ears old' who was ,n !,he ™"»
with young Turner was also over-
Brockton Lyon is home from Co- come, but escaped drowning by fall-lumbia
University. New York, to lag on top of the Turner boy s body.
spend Christmas with his parents, He will recover. The bath room was
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Lyon. heated by a gas stove. _
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