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GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 8,1916
Hail and Thunder.—Greensboro
visited yesterday afternoon by
good showers of rain, accom-ied
by much thunder and a tall
nf hail- 1
Guilford College.—In an interest-of
baseball in this city
was
two
pan
ng same
.Monday afternoon Guilford College
defeated. Eton College by a score of
1. The game was witnessed by
about 300 people.
Charge of Abandonment.—Frank
Baldwin- of Washington township,
was S>vt>n a nearinS before Justice
, ,|ie peace Collins Monday on a
riarge of abandonment preferred by
-is wife. He was held for the Su-perior
court under a bond of $100.
■0,000 For Lot.—Messrs. John A.
• nd J- f• Hodgin yesterday sold to
Mr L. Richardson, for a considera-tion
of $6,000, the lot on the south-east
corner of South Elm and Lee
streets. The lot is 78 by 105 feet
a:,d is considered a desirable piece
o( property.
Cos-York Wedding.—Mr. Ernest
C. York, a son of Mr. -and Mrs. G. C.
York, of this city, and Miss Alma
Cos, of Durham,, were married Sun-day
evening at the home of the
bride's mother. They are at home at
(be residence of the groom's parents,
on Gregory street.
Baseball Saturday.—The baseball
teams of the University of North
Carolina and the University of Vir-ginia,
old-time rivals, are scheduled
10 play a game at the Cone Athletic
park Saturday afternoon. The game
is expected to attract a large crowd
of spectators from this state and Virt
ginia.
Married Last Night.—Mr. Bynum
A. Lamb, who is connected with the
grocery lirm of Hiatt & Co., and Miss
c'ieida Cox, a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Cox, were married last
r.ight at 8.30 o'clock, the ceremony
bring performed by Rev. Shuford
Peeler at Ins home on West Lee
street
Died Tuesday.—Mr. R. Lee
Adams, a young man of McColl, S.
C, who was brought to Greensboro
several weeks ago for treatment In
a local sanitarium, died Tuesday.
Two of his brothers were with him
when the end came. He is survived
by his parents, five brothers and
three sisters.
Mrs. Keitzel Recovering.—Mrs.
Kobert R. Reitzel, of Liberty Route
-, who underwent a serious opera-tion
at St. Leo's hospital, March 22,
when a tumor weighing 12 1-2
pounds was taken from her, is re-covering
nicely. Her physician
states that she may be able to return
Dome Saturday.
Joseph l'egram Dead.—Mr. Jos-
-ph Pegram, of Kernersville, died
yesterday afternoon at St. Leo's hos-pital,
where he had been a patient
for some time. He was 41 years old
:-.nd a well known citizen. The body
was carried to Kernersville last
sight and the funeral and interment
'ill take place today.
Warrant Dismissed.—A. M. Brit-
■>ain. who is engaged in the sawmill
business near Brown Summit, was
"efore Justice of the Peace Collins
Monday on a charge of selling 11-
inor. After hearing the evidence,
■Squire Collins dismissed the warrant
and taxed the prosecuting witness, a
Mrs. inn, with the costs.
Bays Good Property.—The Odell
Hardware Company has purchased
from Mr. T. M. Pichard the lot and
three-story brick building adjoining
t!»e company's warehouse on South
Davie street. The price paid for the
property, which is in the heart of
'> wholesale district and consider-
~i valuable, was $8,500.
Parents Rereuved.—William Shel-
T''n, tin? two an(j a naif years old
•'" "f Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Cartland,
•■'•'1 yesterday morning. The little
■'How had never been strong and for
'•>'•'• il weeks had been seriously ill.
•!i" funeral will be held from the
this afternoon at 4 o'clock and
'" ' conducted by Rev. Dr. Melton
I'»•<• Tuesday Night.—-Fire about
!" o'clock Tuesday night damaged
',' •'• ,(>" P. Tea Company's store, on
~ ''■ ' Klin street, but the blaze was
■nsuished before it made any ser-
' "s headway. The store is situated
t door to a moving picture show,
nieli Wag crowded with people at
"~« time, and there was much excite-
«W on the part of the audience un-
•■• » was ascertained that the danger
* *s over.
A Severe Drubbing.—The Boston
Braves, of the National Baseball
"■eague, and the Greensboro profes-
/ >1 team engaged in what was
U, ,/ed a baseball game at the Cone
Athletic park Tuesday afternoon. At
the end of seven and a half innings,
when the game was called, the score
stood 14 to 0 in favor of the Braves.
The game was witnessed by 1,500
people.
Real Estate Transfers—The trans-fer
of the title of Mary E. Sockwell
and others to part of 400 acres of
land in Jefferson township to W. T.
Sockwell, for $1,600, was recorded
Tuesday in the office of the register
of deeds. Mary E. Sockwell and
others also sold 90 acres in Jeffer-son
to Robert Sockwell for $2,500,
the deed to this also being filed
Tuesday.
At Buffalo and Midway.—Services
will be conducted at Buffalo and
Midway 'Presbyterian churches Sun-day
as follows: Buffalo—Sunday
school at 10 A. M. and preaching at
11 by the pastor. The holy com-munion
will be observed and new
members received into the church.
Midway—Young people's meeting at
2 P. M.; Sunday school at 2.30 and
preaching by the pastor at 3.30.
William' Sloan Dead.—Mr. Wil-liam
Sloan died Monday night at his
home on Chestnut street, following
an illness of several weeks' duration.
He was about 60 years old and is
survived by his widow and several
children. Mr. Sloan moved to
Greensboro from Farra'ington, Davie
county, 10 or 12 years ago and* for
several years had been engaged as
custodian of the Dixie building. The
body was carried to the former home
of the family in Farmington and the
funeral and interment took place at
the Methodist church there Tuesday
afternoon.
Suit Against Dentist.—A novel
lawsuit has been instituted in the
Superior court of Guilford county by
Mr. R. C. Prince, who is suing Dr.
A. H. Johnson, a dentist of this city,
for $5,000 damages. It is alleged
in the complaint that the dentist ex-tracted
a tooth for the plaintiff
about three years ago, and as a re-sult
of injecting an anaesthetic with
an unsanitary needle, the plaintiff's
jaw was poisoned. It became neces-sary
for Mr. Prince to submit to an
operation, another dentist cutting
through the cheek and removing a
portion of the jaw-bone.
Home on a Visit.—Mr. Andrew
Joyner, who for the past 15 months
has held a position under the United
States government in the customs
service at Santo Domingo, in the re-public
of San Domingo, arrived
Tuesday on a visit to his family. He
has a furlough of three months and
is undecided whether he will return
to San Domingo or not. He had a
very unpleasant journey home, the
steamer on which he- was a passen-ger
being caught In the storm that
raged along the Atlantic coast Fri-day
and Saturday. His friends are
glad to see Mr. Joyner looking the
picture of health.
Wedding at Whitsett.—Mr. G. C.
McKaughan, of this city, and Miss
Carrie Carmon, of Whitsett, were
married Tuesday morning at the
home of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. A. Carmon. The dame of
honor was Mrs. J. Frank Swift, of
Greensboro, a cousin of the bride,
and the best man was Mr. W. C.
Jenkins, of this city. Master J. Frank
Swift, Jr., was the ring-bearer. The
wedding march was played by Miss
Elizabeth Wheeler. Rev. R. E. Red-ding
was the officiating minister.
The home was beautifully and taste-fully
decorated for the happy event
and the wedding was one of the pret-tiest
that has taken place in eastern
Guilford in a long while. Upon their
return from their bridal trip Mr.
and Mrs. McKaughan will be at borne
in this city.
Broke Baseball Contract.—The
baseball team of the North Georgia
Agricultural College, at Dahlonega,
spent a portion of Monday in the city
and while here engaged in some
pretty warm and plain talk concern-ing
the alleged bad faith of the Elon
College team in breaking a contract
to play the Georgians on Easter Mon-day.
Elon, it appears, had guaran-teed
the Georgians a minimum of
$75 and their expenses from Satur-day
night until after the game Mon-day,
but instead of carrying out their
agreement, the Elon boys played
Guitford College in Greensboro, be-ing
defeated by a score of 4 to 1. The
Georgians were very sore over the
treatment they had received from
Elon and before leaving here Mon-day
afternoon placed their case in
the hands of an attorney.
COUNTY COMMENCEMENT
PROGRAM ABOUT COMPLETE.
The program for the county school
commencement, which is to be held
on April 17 at the Central Carolina
fair grounds, is about complete. The
township preliminaries have been
held and those who are to represent
the townships in the various events
at the county commencement select-ed.
The preliminary contest in recita-tion
and declamation will be held in
Greensboro on Friday afternoon or
night, April 16. At this preliminary
contest three boys will be selected to
declaim at the county commence-ment
and three girls will be chosen
to recite. The boy who declaims
best at the commencement will re-ceive
a gold medal and the girl who
is best in recitation will also receive
a gold medal.
Prizes will be awarded to the
schools as follows: For best ap-pearance
in line of march, best per-centage
of attendance at commence-ment,
best exhibit of school work,
best exhibit of domestic science
work, best exhibit of work in domes-tic
art, best exhibit in manual train-ing
work. The school exhibits will
be disposed in the agricultural build-ing
at the fair grounds. This build-ing
will be open on Friday, April 16,
so that the schools can place their
exhibits.
Prizes will be given for the fol-lowing
athletic events: 100-yard
dash, half-mile relay race (boys),
standing board jump, running high
Jump, potato race (girls), relay race
(girls.)
Certificates will be presented to all
those who have completed the sev-enth
grade and are entitled to enter
the high school. The address to the
seventh grade graduates will be de-livered
by Dr. J. L. Mann, superin-tendent
of the city schools of Greens-boro.
Notice to Committeemen.
It is desired to have every school
committeeman in the county attend
and participate in the county com-mencement
exercises, and to this end
Superintendent Foust has addressed
the following letter to the commit-teemen:
"As you know, our county com-mencement
will be held at the Cen-tral
Carolina fair grounds on Satur-day,
April 17. and I am writing this
as a special invitation for you to be
present. The indications point to
even a larger attendance than we
had last year, and I hope to have
every committeeman in the county
present.
"Last year the school committees
attended well and all seemed to en-joy
the occasion, and we hope to
have more of them present this year.
"The parade around the race
track will begin at 10 o'clock, and
we want the committeemen of the
county to lead the procession. I
think this fitting because of the
great work which the school com-mitteemen
are doing without any
compensation. We have an-excellent
set of men serving as school com-mitteemen
in the county, and it is
but right that they should head this
great educational procession.
"Please lend a helping hand to-ward
getting a good representation
also from the school of your dis-trict."
MEETING OFJMMISSIONERS
LIST-TAKERS AND ASSESSORS
NAMED—BOND ELECTION
D3 UP TODAY.
On Jury With Her Father.
Redwood, Cal., April 6.—San Ma-teo
county claims the distinction of
being the first county in the state to
present a father and daughter serv-ing
on the same trial jury. ■
W. W. Matson, of Belmont, and
his daughter, Mrs. Elmira Eichen-berger,
qualified yesterday to sit on
the jury which is trying Felice Lom-bardi,
charged with the murder of a
man in South San Francisco last De-cember.
Mrs. Carrie Belton Rhodes, a club
woman of Burlingame, is also on the
jury.
Died Suddenly.—Mr. T. A. John-son,
who had conducted a restaurant
in this city for a number of years,
died suddenly about 4 o'clock Mon-day
morning in his room over Con-yers'
drug store, on South Elm
street. Death came almost without
warning. He had worked in his res-taurant
and appeared to be in his
usual health when the place was
closed at a late hour Saturday night.
Mr. Johnson was about 50 years old
and is survived by his widow and
several children. The body was car-ried
to his former home in Chatham
county, where the funeral and Inter-ment
took place Tuesday.
On account of the press of other
business, the county commissioners
did not take up the question of the
proposed court house bond issue at
their monthly meeting Monday and
Tuesday, as had been expected. The
matter was deferred until today, the
commissioners meeting in adjourned
session at 9.30 o'clock this morning
to give it consideration. It is gen-erally
believed that an election will
be called to determine whether or
not $250,000 In bonds shall be is-sued
and that it will be beld in the
near future.
In addition to transacting a large
amount of routine business, the
board drew jurors for the May civil
term of Superior court and appoint-ed
list-takers and tax assessors for
all the townships except Morehead,
where a list-taker only was appoint-ed,
the assessor to be named later.
The estate of Lonnie Poole was
granted a rebate of poll tax for 1914.
Ben Massey,. J. H. R. Wyrick and
W. H. Long were exempted from the
payment of poll taxes on account of
physical infirmities. Massey' and
Long were granted rebates for the
taxes paid in 1914.
Garland Daniel, secretary of the
Central Carolina Fair Association,
appeared before the board and re-quested
that the sheriff be instruct-ed
not to license any circus to exhibit
in Greensboro during the next fair,
which will be held October 12-15.
The board took no action in regard
to the matter, hut doubtless the fair
will be protected against circuses.
The board made an appropriation
of $200 to the Central Carolina Fair
Association, the money to be ex-pended
in premiums for agricultural
exhibits.
Upon petition of patrons of the
district and the recommendation of
the County board of education, the
commissioners ordered a special
-school tax election for the Whitsett
district to be held at J. W. Thomp-son's
store on Tuesday, May 11.
An appropriation of $15 a month
was made to the Greensboro Rest
Cottage, a home for fallen women,
with the understanding that the ap-propriation
may be withdrawn at
any time.
Salaries Fixed.
Salaries of the clerks in three of
the county offices were fixed as fol-lows:
Register of deeds—Roy H. Jones,
$100 a month; John H. McAdoo, $75
a month; Miss Addie Crowder, $50
a month.
Superior court clerk—R. H.Whar-ton,
$100 a month; Andrew Joyner,
$75 a month.
Sheriff—.J. H. Shaw, $100 a
month.
A petition was filed asking for the
opening of a public road in High
Point township, beginning at the ma-cadam
road on the line between the
Blair dairy farm and Mrs. Elder's
lot, running thence southwesterly to
an open street beyond the residence
of E. E. Farlow, thence southwest-erly
and crossing the Asheboro rail-road
and joining the public road
leading toward the brickyard and to
Trinity.
The petition, previously filed ask-ing
for a public road in Sumner
township, running from the Greens-boro
and Randleman road to the
Greensboro and Asheboro road, was
granted.
Jurors for the two-weeks civil
term of Superior court to convene
the second Monday in May were
drawn as follows: T. J. Busick,
James F. Chrismon, B. H. Brown, C.
C. Shepherd, John Q. Curtis, M. T.
Humble, Eli F. Smith, C. E. Homey,
C. V. Paisley, W. P. West, Robert
U. Neece, William M. Smith, Robert
T. Smith, T. R. Lucas, J. N. Longest,
W. C. Rankin, C. C. Parker, G. O.
Coble, D. E. Allred, James Lockamy,
Will Donnell, J. M. Coble, W. Y.
Warren, W. E. Moore, J. M. Foy, O.
J. Denny, J. E. Parks, D. R. Aiken,
N. S. Baxter, R. L. Weisner, J. H.
McGee, T. R. Osborne, J. H. Smith,
J. B. Winfrey, George L. Morris, A.
C. Shaw, Robert E. Bundy, Francis
Lowe, O. L. Pegram, C. E. Bolejack,
Joseph Adkins, W. S. Ferguson, R.
A. Strayhorn, M. L. Hayden, F. O.
Sappenfield and T. Y. Hamilton.
Community Meetings.
The monthly report of Dr. W. M.
Jones, the county health officer, re-ferred
to the community meetings
that are being held in various parts
of the county. The meetings have
aroused much interest and the at-tendance
generally has been good.
The biggest meeting yet held was
at Proximity, where 600 people were
present. In addition to an address
on health and sanitation by Dr.
Jones, helpful talks were made by
Messrs. Ceasar and Bernard Cone
and Prof. Thomas R. Foust, county
superintendent of schools. Other
meetings have been held at Glbson-ville,
where about 200 people gath-ered;
at White Oak, where the at-tendance
was about 125; in the city
before the civic department of the
Woman's Club, where 20 heard the
physician's talk; at Jamestown, be-fore
the Woman's Club, where the
attendance was 12; at Revolution,
where 250 people gathered.
Dr. Jones has planned to hold sim-ilar
meetings in other sections of the
county.
The report of Dr. Jones stated
that there are three cases of small-pox
in the county, these befag on the
county line. The health officer has
had no trouble with smallpox this
season except on the borders of" the
county, the disease having been
brought from other counties.
List-Takers and Assessors.
The commissioners appointed list-takers
and assessors for the various
townships as follows, the first named
in each case being the list-taker and
the second the assessor:
Washington township—D. M.
Chrismon and Alfred Apple.
Rock Creek—J. W. Summers and
L. T. Barber.
Greene—W. G. Causey and W.
Hanner.
Madison—S. T. Liles and A.
Lambeth.
Jefferson—R. L. Davis and C.
Pritchett.
Clay—D. H.. Coble and Vance Gar-rett.
Monroe—S. G. Lomax and S. G.
May.
Gilmer—H. W. Clendenin and
John E. McKnight.
Fentress—H. L. Coble and C. T.
Weatheriy.
Center Grove—Henry Brown and
Rufus McNeeley.
Morehead—J. B. Webster,
sessor to be appointed later.)
Sumner—R. C. Short and
Johnson.
Bruce—J. H. Barker and R. O.
Gamble.
Friendship—A. T. Millis and L.
W. Smith.
Jamestown—A. F. Johnson and L.
O. Willard.
Oak Ridge—William Brookbank
and Frank Linville.
Deep River—J. L. Charles and H.
C. Cude.
High Point—R. L. Pritchett and
S. H. Mendenhall.
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Miss Jeannette Knight Dead.
Miss Jeannette Knight, an aged
and beloved woman of the Guilford
College community, died Monday at
noon at the residence of her ne-phew,
Mr. Cornelius S. Knight,
where she had made her home for
several years. Death was due to the
infirmities of age. She was 85 years
old and had been in feeble health for
quite a while.
Miss Knight was an educated and
cultured woman and possessed a dis-position
that won for her the abiding
friendship of all who came within
the circle of her influence. In for-mer
years she was a well known
school teacher,, and there are living
in Guilford county and elsewhere
many people who cherish her mem-ory
as an instructor. She was a wo-man
of retentive memory and a ver-satile
conversationalist.
Miss Knight is survived by a sis-ter,
who resides in Indiana; three
nephews and four nieces. The neph-ews
and nieces are: Messrs. R. G.
Hiatt, of this city; C. S. and N. M.
Knight, of Guilford College; Mrs.
James I. Fountain, Mrs. Lola Lamb,
Mrs. M. Vuncanon and Mrs. Blay-lock.
The funeral and interment took
place at Guilford College Tuesday af-ternoon
at 3.30 o'clock, the services
being conducted by Rev. Albert
Peele and Rev. W. L. Dawson.
- Dr. H. Q. Alexander, of Mecklen-burg
county, addressed a good audi-ence
of Guilford farmers at the
Rocky knoll school house, a few
miles south of Greensboro, Monday.
He made a very interesting talk,
outlining many of the advantages ot
the Farmers' Union as an organiza-tion
for the advancement of the
farming class and stressing the im-portance
of co-operation, crop diver-sification
and other things for which
the union stands.
Incidentally Dr. Alexander paid
tribute to the progressive spirit of
the people of Guilford. saying the
county is one of the most prosperous
of all the counties of the state. The
speaker called attention to the fact
that, in spite of the advancement of
the past few years, Guilford county
is still tar behind in- the production
of good supplies. The county will
not be what it should be and the peo-ple
will not be as prosperous as they
ought to be so long as they continue
to import foodstuffs that could and
ought to be produced at home.
Dr. Alexander is a strong advocate
of the diversification of crops and
spoke plainly on this question. He
believes the 'only kind of farming
that is successful', especially in this
part of the country, is diversified
farming, and he warned his hearers .
of the folly of depending too much
upon any one crop.
"Cotton and tobacco should be
raised only as money crops, attention
first being paid to a sufficient pro-duction
of food products to take
care of the population, und especial-ly
of the individual farmer. This
year, he said, must be a year of re-trenchment,
and he advised against
the use of credit. If the farmer is
not able to pay for commercial ferti-lizers,
for instance, he should do
without them. He designated credit
as the great curse of the South. In
this connection, he said that fertiliz-ers
to the value of $20,000,000 were
used in North Carolina last vear, and
census reports show that fully two-thirds
of this was wasted.
The speaker called attention to
the favorable conditions existing in
this section for cattle and stock rais-ing
and urged his hearers to take a
greater interest in this subject.
Dr. Alexander stressed especially
the importance of co-operation on
the part of the farmers in every way
possible, especially in the matter of
marketing their products. He call-ed
attention to the fact that in the
past the farmer has had nothing
whatever to do with fixing prices. He
has purchased his supplies at the
other fellow's price and has sold his
products to the man who has named
the price. He argued that co-opera-tion
and organisation would over-come
these great handicaps, and that
the cause of the farmer could be ad-vanced
wonderfully if small preju-dices
and socalled "self interest" be
forgotten in the work tor individual
and class betterment.
Sulzer Acting For "Movies."
New York, April 4.—William Sul-zer,
former governor, it is announced
at the Mittenthal Film Company's
studio in Yonkers, is posing there for
a motion-picture drama entitled
"The Governor's Boss." Pauline
Hall, actress, has the leading wo-
.man's part. The play was written
on "the same old bill" clash with
Charles F. Murphy. G. A. Ellis, man-ager
of the studio, said it would take
fully two weeks for Sulzer to act the
six reels.
CARNEGIE LIBRARY NOW
A COUNTY INSTITUTION.
Beginning today, the doors of the
Carnegie library are open to all the
white people of Guilford county In-stead
of the- people of Greensboro
only, as has been the case in the
past. This is the result of an agree-^
ment between the city and cofinty'
authorities, the contract having been
signed yesterday afternoon.
By the terms of the agreement,
the library book fund is increased by
an appropriation of $1,250 made by
the county commissioners, this being
half the amount of the city's annual
appropriation. Mr. E. E. Bain yes-terday
resigned as a member of the
board of trustees and Prof. Thomas
R. Foust was elected in his stead to
represent the county.
It is the intention of the trustees
of the library to carry this extension
work still further by establishing in
six localities throughout the county
sub-stations for the library. These
stations will be fixed wit.tin the next
ten days. In the meantime the peo-ple
of the county are invited to the
library and. will 'be welcome there.
It is intended to popularize the li-brary
and at the same time increase
and bring up-to-date its service. Ac-cording
to representations to the city
commissioners, the increase in the
book fund will enable such purchases
of new fiction, for Instance, as to
make the service quicker nad more
satisfactory to the city than it was
under the old system,i although the
county will be using books at the
same time.
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