The Greensboro patriot [January 4, 1915]

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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1915 VOL. 94—NO. 1
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FAR AND NEAR.
Ne,v Rector.—Rev. L. W. Black-
,](it,r. formerly of Scotland Neck,
; moved to High Point to become
itor of the Episcopal church In
.1 place.
lni(,n Service.—The Pm-byterian
..i-nsA'io-is if tic city united last
,li; in a New Year's union com-ur.
icn service at the First Presby-fijn,
church.
jlrs. John Harris Dead—Mrs. John
is, who had been in ill health
line time, died yesterday morn-tbont
3-30 o'clock at her home
SuBimerfleles. The funeral and
B,ent will take plae- this after-at
Suninierfield.
Board of Education.—-The county
,.,i oi" edneatiin held a regular
luting Saturday and transacted rou-te
business. The board is holding
oilier neeting today t'J go over the
unty treasurer's school account and
k" the apportionment of funds.
Will ({cumin Here.—Rev. J. E.
;pn'K. p:istor of the First Lutheran
urcli. who recently revived a call
the pastorate of the" First Luth-i,:
i church of Lynchburg, Va.; has
uned the call, much to the grati-ition
of his Greensboro congrega-l>
ividenil Checks.—The American
kc'iange National Bank has declar-the
usual semi-annual dividend
4 per cent on its capital stock of
'■0.000 and dividend checks for an
cregate amount of $16,000 have
En mailed to the 215 stockholders
:he bank.
Re\. Mr. Klapp Married.—Rev. S.
Klapp. of this city, a well known
nister of the Christian church, and!
ss Ka.inie Gillie, of Ruffin, were
rried last Wednesday at the home
-.lie bride. The ceremony was per-med
by Rev. P. T. Klapp. of Elon
iege. a brother of the groom.
Inventor* Season.—The annual
. k-tat-ing season among the mer-
■-nts has arrived and many Grcens-
'o business houses are now busy
h their inventories. Some of the
al merchants have finished the
k and.most of the others will do
within the next week or two.
•alurday a Good Day.—Saturday
a a busy day in Greensboro. The
sets were filled with people, the
ivvd in town being especially large
so soon after the holidays. The
siness houses, especially those that
vertise and invite the patronage of
- people, enjoyed a good trade,
ilied Yesterday.—Mrs. J. N. Graves
fed o! pneumonia yes*. :rday morn-
E at her home at White Oak. She
2o years old and is survived by
husband and two '-hildrcn. The
neral will be held from the home
a'temon a< 3 o'clock and in'.er
f-jt made in Greene Hill cemetery,
a Keast Right.—The annual ban-
« given Friday night by the mem-rs
of the local police and sheriff's
rccs was what is described as a
I right. The banquet was spread
i long table on the third floor of
l city liali and consisted of almost
BTthta 3 imaginable that is good to
"llouc Girl Dies.—Xlss Mary
IWB, a member of the senor class
the Greensboro College for Wo-s.
died Friday night at her home
•reenville. Miss Brown was call-
•'«nie shortly before the holidays
*e death of an uncle and con-f'W'l
pneumonia 30on after her ar-y
stilN raptured—During the month
Member the officers under Rev-
•'' Agent Vanderford, of this city,
'"•'- territory embraces North Car-
'* and parts of South Carolina and
zi<i>a. captured 67 illicit dlstil-
Of the captured stills 44 were
forth Carolina, 22 in South Caro-
8 Wd one in Virginia.
*M igated Death—Saturday Cor-
"r Stansbury, Sheriff Stafford and
Ny Physician Jones were called
!r',v' n Summit to investigate the
11 «i a colored baby concerning
•* there were reports of foul play.
ljs found that the child had died
' natural causes, aggravated by
'•^sress and negligence.
"ar's Births and Deaths.—The
*"""> report in the office of Mr.
"■ Kees. commissioner of public
*•!. shows that during the year
I 382 deaths occurred in the city,
llping negroes ana 158 be'.ng
II people. During December 26
fts occurred, 19 bein„- negroes
whites. During the year 422
'dren were born, 301 whites and
negroes.
Candidate For President.—Col. F.
"P. Hobgood. Jr.,"who will again rep-resent
Guilford in the state senate
during" the session of the legislature
to convene Wednesday, is a candi-date
tor election to the office of
president pro tem. of the senate. He
is opposed by Senator O. Max Gard-ner,
of Shelby. The ejection will
take place at the Democratic .caucus
tomorrow night.
New Revenue Men.—Mr. J. P.
Stell, formerly chief field depuey in
the Internal revenue service in the
fourth district, has been transferred
from Raleigh to Greensboro and be-comes
a member of Revenue Agent
Vanderford's force. Mr. T. H. Allen,
formerly of Greenville, S. C, is an-other
new member of Mr. Vander-ford's
force. He is connected with
the income tax division of the ser-vice.
Shot in the Foot.—Mr. Ernest
Thornton, of Burlington, is a patient
at St. Leo's hospital receiving treat-meat
for a painful wound inflicted
in one of his feet by the accidental
discharge of a shotgun. Mr. Thorn-ton
had returned to his home Thurs-day
evening from a hunting trip and
was handling his gun when the wea-pon
was dscharged in some manner,
the entire load taking effect in his
foot.
Aged Woman's Death.—Mrs. Julia
Edwards died yesterday afternoon at
3.30 o'clock at the home of her son,
Mr. G. N. Edwards, of Pomona. She
had been in feeble health for some
time and, her death was not unex-pected.
Mrs. Edwards was 79 years
of age and is survived by two sons
and three daughters. The funeral and
nterment takes place today at Muir's
chapel, the services to be conducted
t»y Rev. W. L. Daw3on.
Complaint of Roads.—There is a
good deal of complaint as to the bad
conditon of many of the roads in the
county. The continued rains and
the freezing weather have combined
to put the roads, especially those that
were graded or worked during the
fall, in bad shape. However, the
roads are passable and one can travel
anywhere in the county, and this is
a great improvement over conditions
that existed before Guilford built
good roads.
City Water Pure.—A recent analy-sis
by the state board of health shows
Greensboro water to be absolutely
pure. Every day for a period of 30
day there was sent to the state board
of health a half gallon of water be-fore
It went into the filters and half
a gallon after it had been through
the filters. The examination of the
filtered water showed nc sediment,
and all traces of colon bacilli and
acid producing bacteria were re-moved
by filtration.
Saved Over $18,000.—Under the
operation of what is known as the
Gordon act, the law placing the of-ficers
of Guilford county on salaries
instead of fees, the county saved dur-ing
the year 1914 the neat sum of
$18,186.89, this being an increase of
$4,050.32 over the saving for 1913.
The balance for the past year would
have been even larger but for In-creased
clerical expenses, this being
made necessary by the increased vol-ume
of business handled in the court
house.
Injured by Train.—A young white
man giving his -iame as S. P. Cobb
and his home as Dtnvll-'e, Va., was
found late Friday night lying by a
railroad track on tha Fomona yards
with several bruises about his head
and body. He refused to tell how
the accident occurred, but it is
thought that he fell from a train on
which he. was boating his way. He
was seen at the staton in this olty
*hortlv b.'foro the Jeyartuie of south-bound
train No. 29. The young man
was carried tc St. Leo's hospital and
given medical treatment, but his in-juries
were of such a .-'.light nature
that he was able to leave the hospi-tal
Saturday and return home
C. F. « V- V. Matter.—It is ex-pected
that Hon. A. L. Brooks and
Attorney General Blckett will go to
Washington within the next week or
ten days to take up with the attor-ney
general of the United States the
matter of bringing suit against the
Southern Railway and the Atlantic
Coast Line in connection with the
ownership by those roads of the dis-membered
Cape Fear and Yadkin
Valley railroad. The review of the
facts of this ownership, prepared by
Mr. Brooks, together with Attorney
General Blckett's opinion of the case,
are now at the department of Justice,
where officials have the matter under
advisement. Mr. Brooks was In Wash-ington
Saturday, but did not make
any definite engagement with offi-cials
of the department of justice.
Occupy New Offices.—The South-ern
Life and Trust Company and the
original four" Greensboro fire in-surance
companies now occupy offices
on the fifth floor of the Southern
Life and Trust Company building.
The entire floor is occupied by the
clerical forces and executive officers
of the five companies, the offices be-ing
as handsome and modern as are
to be found anywhere in the South.
The offices are reached by a new
electric elevator that has just been
installed in the building.
George Whitesell Dead.—Mr.
George G. Whitesell, an aged citizen
of the county, died Thursday morn-ing
at. 3 o'clock at his home about
six miles east of Greensboro. The
funeral and interment took place
Friday afternoon at Midway Presby-terian
church, the services being con-ducted
by the pastor, Rev. E. Frank
Lee, and Rev. C. E. Hodgin, of this
city. Mr. Whitesell was 78 years of
age and is survived by three broth-ers—
T. G. and J. A. Whitesell, of
Elon College, and Alphonso White-sell,
of Randleman. ..
Advertising Greensboro. — The
Greensboro Chamber of Commerce
has just issued and is mailing out
a booklet entitled "Greetings from
Greenboro." The first cover contains
the title and the poem of Kipling,
"The cities are full of pride, etc."
The inside pages are full of informa-tion,
about Greensboro, its resources
and advantages. On the last cover is
the following: "A city la as progres-sive
as its average citizen—no more,
no les. No man can avoid his respon-sibility.
He is either helping or hin-dering.
'They' aro not accountable
for condtions. The praise or blame
is yours or mine."
Stamps For Deeds.—Since the spe-cial
war stamp act went into effect
the first of December there has been
some difference of opinion as to
whether or not stamps should be at-'
tached to deeds written prior to De-cember
1 but recorded after that
date. Register of Deeds Rankin has
been notified that a ruling by the
treasury department in Washington
holds that stamps are not necessary'
on deeds written before the stamp
act became operative. A number of
such deeds were recorded in this
county last month, and until he re-ceived
the notice from Washington
the register of deeds had been requir-ing
stamps to be attached to them.
Our Clubbing Offer.—The clubbing
proposition whereby we offer The
Patriot, the Atlanta Constitution and
the Progressive Farmer all one year
for ?;' v.ill be continued for a while,
though we can't say for how long.
This is decidedly the best clubbing
offer we have ever made or heard
of, and we advise those of our friends
who wish to take advantage of it to
do so at once. The Patriot twice a
week, the Atlanta Constitution three
times a week and the Progressive
Farmer once a week will provide
your family with instructive, enter-taining
and helpful reading matter
—and all for only $2 a year.
Died Suddenly.—Mrs. Ella Jane
Langston died suddenly Saturday
evening at 6 o'clock at T.er home on
Arlington street, following a stroke
of apoplexy she suffered during the
afternoon. The funeral was held
from the residence yesterday after-noon
at 2 o'clock and was conducted
by Rev. R. M. Andrews and Rev. R.
D. Sherrlll. Interment 'vas made in
Greene Hill cemetery. Mrs. Langs-ton
was the widow of '.he late Al-pheus
W. Langston and in the sixty-second
year of her age. She was a
native of Randolph county and had
made her home in Greensboro for the
past 15 years. She is survived by
four children—JVirs. J. W. Thompson,
Mrs. R. J. Sciioonover, Mrs. Charles
W. Edwards and Mr. Charles C.
Langston, all of this city.
Didnt Need Any Fire.—Mr. M. W.
Gant, who returned Friday from a
pleasant visit to Manatee and other
points in Florida, says the people of
that state have no idea of cold
weather. When the thermometer
drops a few degrees and it gets the
least bit chilly, the people whose
houses have chimneys build fires and
begin to speculate on how long the
"cold snap" will last. When Mr.
Gant reached St. Petersburg one of
these slightly chilly spells of weath-er
was on and the hotel at which he
stopped had fires going. But it wasn't
cold to Mr. Gant. He had discarded
his vest and put on a light coat, and
when the hotel' clerk asked him if
he would like a fire in his room;
Guilford'8 clerk of the court replied:
"Fire? Thunder: no! But if you
have a palm leaf fan handy, I'd like
to horry it."
BIENNIAL REPORT OF THE
8TATR"NORMAL COLLEGE.
Dr. J. I. Foust, president of the
State Normal and Industrial Col-lege,
submitted a report of the work
of the institution for the past two
years at a meeting of the directors
held Friday. The report showed that
the college is in splendid condition
and that additional facilities have
been provided to care for the con-stantly
increasing patronage. Two
dormltles, accommodating 120 stu-dents,
have been built since the last
report was made.
The report slows that the enroll-ment
in the scholastic :,ear 1912-
1913 was as follows: Regular ses-sion,
615; summer session, 318; and
in the training- chool, 286. Omitting
those counted twice, this is a total of
1,146? The enrollment during the
scholastic year 1913-1914 was as fol-lows:
Regular session, 6:'.3; sum-mer
session, tf49; training school,
326. Omitting those counted twice,
the total was 1,313.
In the 22 years that the college has
been in operation 6,031 students have
matriculated apd 717 have gradu-ated.
All but, 33 of the graduates
have served the state as teachers.
The report showed that the percent-age
of students at the college who
were prepared in the public schools
of North Carolina is exceedingly
high. In 1912-1913, 597 out of 615
were thus prepared for college and
in 1913-1914, 619 out of 633 receiv-ed
their training in the public schools
of the state. '
During the past two years the en-trance
requirements have been rais-ed
to 12 1-2 high, school units. It is
proposed to raise the enrollment to
14 units in the near future, making
the Normal a standard college.
Reports of the work being done by
the extension department of the col-lege
were made. This department
hopes to come in contact with a large
percentage of the inhabitants of the
state and to render them valuaole
service. The department has been
do.'ng good work by lectures from the
faculty, correspondence and bulle-tins.
:-.i.
Prof. W. C. Jackson was made
dean of the college to rucceed Prof.
J. A. Matheson, resigned.
The directors decided to asr: the
legislature for an increased appro-priation
for the support of the insti-tution.
The college is now receiving
from the state $90,000 annually for
maintenance.
BOY ABLE TO WALK AFTER
HIS NECK WAS BROKEN.
Aubrey Casper, the 11-vear-old son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Casper died at
the home of his parents in this city
Saturday evening as the result of in-juries
sustained in a fall from a horse
early in the day. Notwithstanding
the fact that the fall fractured his
skull and broke his neck, the boy
was able to walk for an hour or more
and lived about ten hours after the
accident.
The boy and a playmate were rid-ing
a gentle horse early Saturday
morning when the saddle girth slip-ped
and both were thrown to the
ground violently. The accident/ oc-curred
on North Davie street, in front
of the residence of Rev. Dr. Melton
Clark. Several people ran to the as-sistance
of the boys, but young Cas-per
walked off alone and did not re-turn
home for about an hour.
When the boy reached home a phy-sician
was called and the extent of
his injuries ascertained. He grew
weaker gradually during the day, al-though
he got up several times.
The funeral was held from the
home yesterday afternoon at 3.30
o'clock and interment made in
Greene Hill cemetery. Rev. Dr. Mel-ton
Clark conducted the services.
T. P. A. Banquet.—The annual
banquet of Post A of the Travelers'
Protective Association of America
was held in the dining room of the
Y. M. C. A. building Saturday night
and proved to be a most mjoyable oc-casion.
Mr. Eugene McNairy served
as toastmaster and toasts were re-ponded
to by Mr. A. L Byrd. the
state president; Mr. C. F. Tomlinson,
of High Point; Mr. Walter R. Leak,
of Winston-Sale ra; Messrs. E. E.
Mendenhall, C. C. McLean, Ceasar
Cone and Mayor Murphy.
The destruction of the British bat-tleship
Formidable in the British
channel Friday by a mine or a sub-marine
boat, although one of those
events Englishmen now realize must
be expected so long as the British
navy is compelled to Keep the seas,
has caused widespread grief.
This is due not so much to the loss
of the ship, which was 15 years old
and cost about $5,000,000, as it is
for the men—about 600 in number
—who went down with her. So far
as known only 141 of the Formid-able's
crew of 750 were rescued. The
British admirallty has not given thc-locality
where the disaster occurred
and declares it is unable to aay
whether the ship struck a mine or
was torpedoed, but as the British
fleet again has been active in shell-lag
German positions on the Belgian
coast and as German submarines
have been more and more using
Zeebrugge as a base, the inclination
is to believe that a submarine again
has been successful in an attack.
War Prisoners in Need.—American
relief for 70,000 German and Aus-trian
prisoners of war. scattered
through Siberia in prison camps and
said to be in need of clothing and
medical supplies, is being sought by
the Red Cross.
ANOTHER ENGLISH SHIP
DESTROYED FRIDAY.
Artillery Engagement.
Fighting in Flanders and northern
France has been conflnen. largely to
artillery engagements, except Beth-une,
where the Germans claim they
have taken a British trench. They
admit, however, the loss of Saint
Georges, near the Belgian coast,
which the Berlin official report says
it was decided not to attempt to re-take
owing to high water.
In the Argonne region where the
battle has been a'mnst continuous for
weeks past, the Germans have made
a little progress as an offset to
which, however, the French declare
they have continued their advance In
upped Alsac.
On the whole the situation seems
virtually to have reached a position
of stalemate. Neither side has made
great impression on Its opponent's
line and both being very strongly en-trenched,
it is considered unlikely
that either the Germans or allies will
attempt another general offensive
until superiority in numbers is at-tained
by reinforcements. "
Much the same situation prevails
In northern Poland, where the Ger-mans
are reported to have failed to
cross the Bzura and Rawka rivers
and to have been unsuccessful in ad-vancing
along the Pillca river. They
are said to be digging themselves In,
preparatory to remaining until the
hardening of the ground by the frost
make troop movements less difficult.
The growth of the British army is
shown by an army oraer Issued con-stituting
six armies of three corps
each. The several generals who cam-manded
army corps at the beginning
of the war now found themselves at
the heads of the armies.
Pardon For Stripling Urged.
A press dispatch from Atlanta
says: "Governor Slaton has reserved
his decision after hearing to..- appli-cation
for the pardon for Thomas
Edgai Stripling, serving a life sen-tence
at the state prison farm for
murder. Stripling's relatives and at-torney
presented the application. The
prisoner's poor health was urged.
"in 1897 Stripling killed W.J. Cor-nett,
in Harris county, Georgia. Ht
was sentenced to life imprisonment,
but escaped jail before he began serv-ing
the sentence. Fourteen years
later he was accidentally found by a
former acquaintance in Danville, Va.,
where, under the name of R. A. Mor-ris,
he was police chief. He was
brought to Georgia and sent to jail."
(Before going to Danville Stripling
lived in Greensboro and Reldsvllle.
He was engaged in the insurance bus-iness
in this city.—The Patriot.)
New Corporation.—The first char-ter
issued by the secretary of-State
this year comes to a Greensboro con-cern—
the Tomllnson-Tatum Coal
and Transfer Company, which is or-ganized
with a paid in capital of $8,-
000. The incorporators are Tatum &
Dalton, J. E. Tomlinson and W. H.
Mattstews. The company will take
over the transfer business of Tatum
& Dalton and will engage in the coal
business at the Cunningham coal
yard, which was recently purchased
by the incorporators.
To Vote on Suffrage.—The pro-posed
constitutional amendment pro-viding
for woman suffrage will come
up In the house -if representatives on
the KSth inst. for a vote- Represen-tative
Henry, chairman of the honse
rules committee, predicts that the
amendment will be defeated by more
than a two-thirde vote.
NORTH CAROLINA HEWS NOTES
A BRIEF SURVEY OF WHAT IS
TRANSPIRING IN THE
COMMONWEALTH.
Legislature to Meet.—The legisla-ture
will meet in biennial session in
Raleigh Wednesday.
Died of Burns.—Thelma Gibbs, II
years old. diec ir. a hospital in Arne-vil'e
Sat'jrJay as the result of burns
received a few days previously at
• he home of her parents at Black
Mountain.
Bryan In Asheville.—Secretary of
State Bryan arrived in Asheville
New Year's day for a short rest. He
has been exercising himself by cut-ting
down trees on tile ten-acre tract
of land he recently purchased on Sun-set
mountain.
Woman Suicides.—Hft, Kirby
Simmons took her life Saturday af-ternoon
by ju'.iping into a well at her
home about five niles from Hickory.
Ill heblth is*giv>-n as the co'is». She
was 21 years old and h&fi been mar-ried
aboit a year.
Found Dead.—John Cauble, for
many years a citizen of Mocksville,
was found dead in bed tit his l:omc
a few mornings ago. He awoke dur-ing
the night and asked his wife to
prepare him some medicine, and
".'hile she was getting the medicine
he expired.
Prevented a Wreck.—A. R. West
stood in the cold and rain for two
hours on Christmas eve to flag a
train on the Murphy branch of the
Southern Railway and prevent it
running into a big boulder that had
fallen on the track. His service prob-ably
prevented a disastrous wreck.
AccidentiiUy Killed—Samuel Brid-get's,
a well known young man of
Goldsboro, accidentally shot himself
while hunting Thursday and died in
a few minutes. He was climbing a
wire fence when the hammers of the
gun caught on a wire and the con-tents
of both barrels entered his
left breast.
Killed Her Husband.—Mrs. Min-nie
Evans, who killed her husband,
Bud Evans, in Haywooc county last
week, was discharged by the coro-ner's
jury. It was in evidence that
Evans, who wjas a bad man and had
previously atfkcked the woman with
a knife, was 'after her with a club
when she shot him.
Suffragettes in Action.—It is
stated that woman suffrage head-quarters
will be kepi open In Ral-eigh
during the session of the legis-lature.
It is expected that a con-stitutional
amendment providing for
woman suffrage will be introduced,
but of course the legislature will not
pass It. North Carolina is too con-servative
a state to countenance such
a fad.
Rev. Dr. Cole ]>ead.—Rev. Dr.
John N. Cole, superintendent of the
Methodist orphanage in Raleigh and
one of the most prominent Methodist
ministers in the state, died Friday
morning in a hospital In Charlotte,
where he had been under treatment
for six weeks. He was 62 years old
and for years had been a leading
■•nember of the North Carolina Con-ference.
The funeral was held in
Durham Saturday aftern >on.
Liquor Killed Boy.—John Moose
and Ben Snipes, white men, are In
jail at Statesville charged with hav-ing
given Henry Baley, a 13-year-old
colored boy, a sufficient quantity
of liquor to cause his death.. After
drinking the liquor the boy was
found in an unconscious condition
i na field and died soon after being
carried home. A post mortem ex-amination
confirmed the attending
physician's diagnosis that death was
caused by drinking too much whis-key.
It is doubtful if Moose and
Snipes can be held on a more seri-ous
charge than giving liquor to a
minor.
Archbishop of Casterbury in Pastoral
Letter Urges Enlistment.
London, Dec. 30.—The archbishop
of Canterbury, in a New Year's letter
to the laity and clergy, seeks to give
impetus to recruiting by a fervent
appeal to all men qualified to bear
arms.
"The very life of the empire,"
says the letter, "may depend upon
the response given to the call for
men. I think we can say deliberately
that no household or home will be
acting worthily If In timidity or self-love
11 keeps back any of those who
can loyally bear a man's part In be-half
of the land we love."
Mr. P. W. Iseley, of McLeansville,
was a New Year's day caller at Tha
Patriot office.
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