The Greensboro patriot [May 24, 1915]

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ESTABLIv^>^1821 GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1915 VOL. 94—NO. 41
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EI,1er Milliard.—Elder P. W. Wil-liard
preached at the Primitive Bap-tist
church, on the corner of Tate
and Carr streets, last evening at
earl. candlelight.
Move* to Greensboro.—Mr. W. A.
Overcash lias moved to Greensboro
from Concord and taken a position
with the Brown-Belk Company. He
lias been connected with the Belk
chaic of stores for some time.
(idled Away.—Rev. E. Frank Lee,
pastor o! Buffalo and Midway Pres-byterian
churches, was called to
jCewton Grove. Sampson county, Sat-urday
by a message informing him
„f the critical illness of his brother-jn-
la.v.
State Treasurer Here.—State
Treasurer Lacy spent yesterday in
Greensboro and in the afternoon
conducted the weekly religious ser-vice
at the Masonic and Eastern Star
home Mr. Lacy was on his way to
Davidson College to attend the com-mencement
exercises.
Has Typhoid Fever.—Mr. J. C.
Slurehison, for many years a resident
oi Greensboro, is reported to be ill
Of typhoid fever at his home in Char-leston,
S. C. Mr. Murchison has been
located in Charleston for several
years as division superintendent of
the Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
Sold Privately.—The auction sale
of automobiles, accessories,, etc., of
I he Steele Auto Service Company
and the salvage stock of the Ameri-can
Commission Company advertised
for Saturday was not held, owing to
the fact that the property had been
previously disposed of at private
sale.
Goes to Thomasville.—Rev. E. R.
Plott of this city, who has just grad-uated
from the theological seminary
t'f the German Reformed church at
Lancaster. Pa., has accepted a call
to the pastorate of the Reformed
chorea at Thomasville and will take
up the work the fifth Sunday in this
month.
Joseph Edwards Dead.—Mr. Jos-eph
Edwards, a well known citizen
of tiie Muir's chapel community,
died at his home Thursday night.
Me »as 72 years old and had been an
invalid for many years. He was
never married. The funeral and in-terment
took place at Muir's chapel
Friday afternoon.
Annual Sermon.—The baccalau-reate
sermon to the graduates of the
Agricultural and Technical College
for negroes was preached yesterday
afternoon by Rev. Joseph Friedland-er.
rabbi of the Hebrew congregation
in this city. The commencement ex-wises
of the college will be in pre-press
today, tomorrow and Wednes-day.
floor Graduates.—Four Greens-boro
boys are members of the class
that wjll be graduated from the A.
* M. College, in Raleigh, tomorrow.
Their names and the courses in
*hich they will graduate are: H.
Hopkins, agriculture; H. K. Wither-spoon.
civil engineering; L. C. At-
M«on. textile industry, and F. E.
wysong, mechanical engineering.
Camp Meeting.—The annual camp
»«et!ng of the Holiness church is be-
">8 leld in the tabernacle on West
we street. Services are held in the
forenoon, afternoon and evening and
*re teing conducted by Rev. L. B.
'ompton, of Asheville, an evangelist
M the Holiness church, and Rev. and
™re E. E. Shelhamer. of Georgia.
he meeting will continue for a week
TO longer.
Street Paring.—The city commls-
««>«« have decided to pave North
KIQ street from Church street to the
"-y limits and West Market from
«■ to the city limits, the work to
eem as soon as the paving of Walk-r
avenue and Asheboro street is
«>«npieted. These streets will be
*"«> with sheet asphalt, which is
onsi-iered about the best paving ma-terial
on the market.
•andidate For Moderator.—Many
^Ple in Greensboro and Guilford
"My wil be interested to know
"" Uev- Dr. j. Ernest Thacker, a
wve ot this city, who has been pas-ri,
n"1 "ne °f the leading Presbyte-
■■ churches in Norfolk for several
pkctf TM °ne °f the 8,x can<,tdate8
OI'T! '" nominat'on for the office
bvtr° rator of *• Southern Pres-ir.
«,"*■" General Assembly, which is
WHon in Newport News, Va. Rev.
5-n, a*" preached the opening
an?° ef°re the Gen«"H Aawmbly SlS?- a f,atterin* 3- s
Meeting at Whltsett.—A meeting
was held at Whitsett Thursday night
in the interest of the proposed $250,-
000 court house bond issue.. A num-y>
er of the leading citizens of the
community were present and express-ed
themselves as heartily favoring
the proposition. Messrs. A. B. Kim-ball.
C. A. Hlnes, J. Ed. Albright and
R. J. M. Hobba, of this city, made
brief addresses advocating the bond
issue.
Real-Dick Wedding.—Mr. J. B.
Beal, of Lynchburg, Va., and Miss
Nellie Dick, a daughter of Mrs. Lena
Dick, were married Friday at the
residence of Rev. C. E. Hodgin, who
performed the ceremony in the pres-ence
of a few intimate friends.
Shortly after the ceremony Mr. and
Mrs. Beal left for Scottsville, Va., to
visit the family of the groom, after
which they will be at home in Lynch-burg.
Receiver Named.—In the Superior
court Friday Judge C- C. Lyon
named Mr.'W. M. Combs as receiver
of the Greensboro Floral Company,
the appointment of a receiver being
made upon the application of Mr. C.
B. Bogart. Mr. Bogart formerly
owned the business, but sold it a
short time ago, and it was to protect
himself for deferred payments that
he instituted the-court proceedings.
The business will be continued by
the receiver.." ,
MoreheadJMck.—Mrs. John • A.
Gilmer has issued invitations to the
marriage of her granddaughter. Miss
Mary Eloise Dick, and Mr. James T.
Morehead, Jr., the ceremony to take
place in the First Presbyterian
church Thursday evening, Jane 3,
at 8 o'clock. Both Mr. Morehead
and Miss Dick are membeftj-of two
of Greensboro's oldest and most
prominent families and the an-nouncement
of their approaching
marriage is of interest -to many peo-ple
throughout the state.
Pro/. Highsmith' Resigns.—Prof.
J. A. Highsmith, who has been prin-cipal
of the Pomona graded school
for the past two or three years, has
resigned the position in order to
take a course next year in the Pea-body
Teachers' College at Nashville,
Tenn. Mr. Highsmith is a well
equipped school man and has given
entire satisfaction at Pomona. He
will be succeeded by Mr. W. G.
Sneed, who has been one of the prin-cipals
of the High Point graded
schools for the past several years.
Climbed Buildings.—A crowd of
several thousand people Thursday
afternoon had the rather thrilling
experience of seeing a man climb the
walls of the Guilford hotel and the
Dixie buildings. The climber, whose
name is H. H. Gardiner and who was
advertised as "the human fly,"
scaled the walls as easily as the or-dinary
man could ascend a ladder.
The man is employed to travel over
the country and perform this dan-gerous
stunt as an advertisement of
a new soda fountain drink bearing
a name similar to that of his satanlc
majesty.
Convention Closes.—The annual
convention of the North Carolina
Diocese of the Episcopal church,
which was held in this city last
week, adjourned Thursday afternoon
to meet next year in Henderson. The
convention was attended by 65 min-isters
and about an equal number
of laymen and was pronounced the
most successful held in many years.
About 100 ladies attended the meet-ing
of the woman's auxiliary to the
board of missions. Before adjourn-ing
both bodies sent telegrams to
President Wilson endorsing his
course In dealing with the critical
situation confronting the country.
Russia Begin* Offensive Movement.
Late reports from the European
war state that the Russians, with
strong reinforcements, ljave crossed
the San confluence with the Vistula
and are advancing southward in an
effort to outflank the Germans, who
crossed the San in the vicinity of
Jaroslau. They also are striking
hard at the Austrians in Bukowina,
but apparently have made no furth-er
headway there nor with their of-fensive
in the Opatow region. The
latter offensive, however, was a
movement to uncover the German
flank In Gallcia, which it succeeded
partly in doing.
In the Baltic provinces the Ger-mans
claim to have defeated the
Russians in the region of Shaxli and
also to have repulsed the Russian
attacks from the Dubysa and Nie-.
men rivers'. - .
In the West there Sas been a se-ries
of attacks along the greater part
of the line, but no action of first
importance.
COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
IN PROGRESS AT STATE NORMAL
AND GREENSRORO COLLEGE
FOR WOMEN.
The commencement exercises of
both the State Normal and Industrial
College and Greensboro College for
Women began yesterday morning
with the baccalaureate sermons. The
sermon at the State Normal College
was preached by Rev. Dr. W. M.
Vines, pastor of the First Baptist
church of Charlotte. Rev. James H.
McCoy, D. D., of Birmingham, Ala.,
a bishop of the Mi E. Church, South,
preached the sermon to the graduat-ing
class of the Greensboro College
for Women. Both sermons were
learned and eloquent discourses and
were heard by large crowds..,
Bishop McCoy's sermon was de-livered
in West Market Street Meth-odist
church, the auditorium of
which was filled to overflowing. The
distinguished divine took his text
from Isaiah 40:30-31, "Even the
youths shall faint and be weary, and
the young men shall utterly fail; but
they that wait upon the Lord shall
renew their strength; they shall
mount up with wings as eagles; they
shall run and not' be weary; and they
shall walk and not be faint." The
text, said the speaker, leads appar-ently
to an anti-climax—first, to fly;
second, to run, and, third, to walk.
But such is not the case, for after
all most people need the Lord in
walking—in the every-day, common-place
things of life. The great
events and occasions are not the lots
of many people, nor of anyone gen-erally,
hence the value of the prom-ise,
"they shall walk and faint not."
Bishop McCoy impressed upon his
hearers the thought of doing the
work of every day well and in this
way be prepared for the crisis of life
and the great event. Life is not ro-mance
and mountain-peaks; it is dry
facts and the long, even road. He-roes
are not accidents, but heroic
deeds are results of long preparation
for the occasion.
The annual sermon to the Young
Women's Christian Association of
the college was preached in West
Market Street church at 8 o'clock
last evening by Bishop.James Atkins,
of Waynesville. The sermon was el-oquent,
inspiring and helpful. De-spite
a thunderstorm that came up
just before the hour for services, a
large congregation was in attend-ance.
This afternoon at 5 o'clock the
class day exercises will be held on
the campus and this evening at 8
o'clock the annual concert df the ex-pression
department will be given in
the college auditorium.
The graduating exercises will take
place tomorrow morning at 10.30
o'clock. The literary address will be
delivered by Dr. Henry Louis Smith,
president of Washington and Lee
University.
At the State Normal College.
The sermon by Dr. Vines at the
State Normal and Industrial College
was based on the text, "We look not
at the things which are seen, but at
the things which are not seen; for
'the things which are seem are tem-poral
but the things which are not
seen are eternal." He discussed at
length the things that are eternal,
the soul, character, the kingdom of
God on earth,, and heaven. To seek
after and to cultivate these was the
urgent plea he Impressed on the
members of the graduating class.
"Only Christianity as expressed in
true education can destroy militar-ism
and bring about the reign of
peace and righteousness," said Dr.
Vines in the course of his sermon.
Continuing, he declared that "we are
always as preachers, teachers and
Christians to keep our eyes fixed up-on
the training ot the soul for the
highest and holiest achievements
and this will slowly but gradually
and surely bring about that ideal
time when nations shall beat their
swords Into plough shares and shall
learn war no more."
The reference to current events
came in bis discussion of the souls
of men as one of the four great re-alities
in the "empire of the unseen,"
as something of eternal value to be
cultivated from childhood. While
mankind In this respect is slowly
and painfully ascending, yet the
speaker found that "the colossal
cataclysm of the. great war In Europe
painfully reminds us that we have
not yet emerged from the age of bar-barism."
.
The address before the Young Wo-men's.
Christian Association was de-livered
last evening by Dr. C. Al-phonso
Smith, of the University 6f
Virginia.
Today is being given over to exer-cises
by the alumnae of the college.
Miss Laura Drake Gill, secretary of
the co-ordinate woman's college at
Trinity College, Durham, will deliv-er
an address this afternoon. The
annual concert of the music depart-ment
will take place this evening.
The graduating exercises will take
place tomorrow morning at 10.30
o'clock and will be followed by the
annual address by Governor Craig.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
OF THE PAST FEW DAYS.
Deeds transferring .real estate have
been recorded in the office of the
register of deeds during the past few
days.as follows:
A. M- Scales and R. R. King, Jr.,
commissioners, to W. E. Phlpps, two
lots on Payetteville street, a part, of
the Lev! Scott property; one 60 by
68 feet,.$3,000; one 60 by 111.82 by
25 by 104.65 feet, $2,736.30.
A. M. Scales and R. R. King, Jr.,
commissioners, to J. B. Stroud, a lot
on Fayetteville street, 26.06 by 26-06
by 118.99 by 111.82 by 25 feet, $1,-
915.
Miss Mary Milton to W-. S. Hanner,
a lot on Spring Garden street, 50 by
,150 by 57 by 133 feet, Morehead
township, -f10 and other considera-tions.
W. G. Paisley to Brown Real Es-tate
Company, a lot on South Cedar
street, 100 by 188 feet, Morehead
township, |10 and other considera-tions.
Brown Real Estate Company to J.
L. Jones, a lot on South Cedar street,
100 by 188 feet, Morehead township,
$10 and other considerations.
W. H. Davis to M. J. Wrenn, a lot
in High Point, on Factory street,
115 by 45 feet, $800.
J. F.'Gray to T. M. Gant, a lot on
Oak street, in Morehead township,
45 by 208 feet, $150.
Greensboro Loan and Trust Com-pany
to J. C. Watkins, a lot on South
Cedar street, Morehead township,
149 by 105 by 120 by 51 feet, $1,-
250.
Harriet Morehead to Rufus M. Mc-
Kensie, a tract of land in Gilmer
township, 17 acres, $25 and other
considerations.
Allen Peebles to J. M. Albright, a
lot on the Battle Ground round,
Morehead township, $100.
James Peebles to J. M. Albright, a
lot of land in Morehead township,
$50.
John Donnell to Maurice H. Don-nel,
a lot on Martin street, Morehead
township, 50 by 173.5 feet, $10 and
other considerations.
S. E. Willis to W. A. Henderson, a
tract of land in High Point, 40,000
square feet, $250.
D. S. Freeman to Mary Hanner, a
tract of land in Morehead township,
100 by 600 feet, $150.
Will Black to Jack Anthony, a
tract of land in Monroe township,
half acre, $200.
E. E. Mendenhall to J. T. Hedrick,
a lot in High Point, $200.
Rufus M. McKensie to J. R. Tuck-er,
Gilmer township, 17 acres, $2
and other considerations.
Sarah J. Lanst to C. V. Briggs, a
tract of land, township not mention-ed,
$500.
CIVIL TERM OF COURT
ADJOURNED SATURDAY.
The two-weeks civil term of Su-perior
court closed Saturday after-noon.
While no cases of special'in-terest
were tried, a good deal of bus-iness
was transacted during the
term, over 60 Judgments having been
entered.
The jury returned a verdict for
the defendant in a suit for $2,000
damages brought against the South-ern
Railway by Mrs. Hattie Durham
for alleged mistreatment by the com-pany's
agent at Jamestown on Sep-tember
3, 1914.
Judgments for the plaintiffs,
amounting to approximately $1,000,
were granted In two cases brought
against W. J. Thompson and J. W.
Burke by G. H. Miller & Son.
A verdict was given the plaintiff
in a suit brought by John L. Sulli-van
against Mrs. Effie Sullivan, his
daughter-in-law, concerning the title
to a tract of land a few miles south-west
of the city.
The next civil term of court will
convene June 7 and continue for'a,
week and will be followed by a
week's criminal term.
Mr. John M. Coble, of Climax, was
a welcome caller at The Patriot of-fice
Saturday.
STATE OF WAR NOW EXISTS
ITALIANS WILD FOR CONFLICT
—SERBIAN ARMY MARCHES
ON AUSTRIA.
A state of war now exists between
Italy and her former allies, Austria
and Germany, the formal declaration
having been made by the Italian gov-ernment
yesterday. Actual hostili-ties
are expected to begin today. The
German and Austrian ambassadors
to Italy were handed their passports
yesterday afternoon.
The Austrian troops have been
withdrawn from some of the frontier
posts and all navigation services in
the Adriatic have, been suspended.
The Italian senate has endorsed
the chamber's action in granting the
government extraordinary powers in
the event of war, for whlcfi the
whole country appears to be enthu-siastic.
Simultaneously with the entrance
of Italy, Serbia's reconstituted army
has fully recovered from the cam-paigns
which resulted in the Aus-trians
being driven back from Ser-bia,
and well armed and equipped,
it is announced, has commenced a
march toward the Austrian border
bent on another invasion of Aus-trian
territory. Thus Austria is be-ing
attacked from all sides and has
still another enemy, Roumania, in
prospect, for It has been an open
secret for a long time that Italy
and Roumania have an agreement
to act in concert. Roumania, how-ever,
is awaiting the conclusion of
an agreement with Greece and Bul-garia,
which also are expected to
join the allies, before she takes up
arms.
Austrian and German forces of ar-tillery
are concentrating on the front
of Trent and a considerable move-ment
of troops is reported from Mun-ich.
Great numbers of Italian troops
are massed along the frontier, and
while the Italian authorities are
guarding the movement of troops
with great secrecy, it is known that
Some 350,000 men have been concen-trated
on the coast of Italy across
the Adriatic from Albania.
Reports from the Italian colonies
in London, Barcelona, New York,
Chicago, San Francisco, Buenos
Aires and Egypt say that thousands
of Italians are ready to answer a
call for mobilization and that thou-sands
of others will volunteer for the
war.
Italy's Preparedness.
It is stated that in the past eight
months Italy has spent $400,000,000
in military preparations. Profiting
by the lessons of the war to date,
particular attention was paid to ar-tillery,
and her equipment in this
arm is said to be unexcelled in the
world. Her artillery is said to be
superior to the famous- German and
Austrian type, and in military circles
there have been rumors that she has
evolved a field piece of about three-inch
caliber exceeding in range, ac-curacy,
ease of handling and effec-tive
ot projectile even the famous
French "76."
Italy has a powerful fleet of mod-ern
warships. The duke of Abruzzi,
cousin of King Victor Emmanuel,
who is the chief naval officer ot
Italy, recently assumed command of
five dreadnoughts, the most power-ful
squadron ever assembled under
the Italian flag. In addition, Italy
has eight battleships of 'the pre-dreadnought
type, nine armored
cruisers, 13 protected cruisers and
the usual complement of destroyers
and torpedo boats. She also has 25
submarines.
Italy's population Is given as 35,-
238,000. Military or naval service
is compulsory and universal. ■ .
Italy's first move on land undoubt-edly
will be against the Austrian
frontier. The mountainous charac-ter
of the country promises opera-tions
and fighting of the most diffi-cult
nature. For several weeks past
both the Austro-Hungarians and the
Italian armies have been fortifying
along the dividing line.
Winter Lingering in the West.
Out West winter continues to lin-ger
in the.lap of spring. A report
from Denver Friday stated that rain
and snow had been falling in Colo-rado
intermittently for three days.
The temperature in Denver dropped
to 30 degrees, establishing a new low
record for this season since 1872.
The temperature has been below
the seasonable average in Wyoming,
Utah, western Nebraska and north-ern
New Mexico.
JE
PEACE CONFERENCE
APPROVES PRESIDENT.
President Wilson's stand in the in-ternational-
crisis was approved by
the Lake Mohonk Conference on In-ternational
Arbitration Friday night
at the conclusion of its twenty-first
annual meeting at Lake Mohonk, N.
Y. The conference platform declar-ed:
"We express onr gratitude to the.
president of the United States tor
steadfastly maintaining the neutral-ity
of our government and for assert-ing,
with firmness, clarity and re-straint,
the rights of our people as
citizens of a neutral nation."
In addition to the paragraph ap-proving
the aetiqn of President Wil-son,
the platform contained this:
"The Lake Mohcnk Conference on
Infbrr.otional Arbitration, although
meeting this year in circumstances
;.hr.t tend to discourage the hopes
entertained by many as lo the main-tenance
of general peace; particu-larly
among the larger and more
powerful nations of the world, re-affirms
Its faith in the beneficence of
the measures for the advancement
of which the conference was -found-ed.
The present war dally furnishes
convincing proof of the superiority
of those methods over the resort to
violence.
"We Invite the thoughtful atten-tion
of all peoples and nations seek-ing
a substitute for war to a con-sideration
of three following propo-sals
of a basis for joint action by
any two or more powers, to be bind-ing
on the signers:
"I. All justiciable questions aris-ing
between the signatory powers not
settled by negotiations shall be sub-mitted
to a judicial tribunal for hear-ing
and Judgment, both upon the
merits of the case and upon any
question of jurisdiction.
"1. All justifiable questions aris-arising
between the signatories and
not settled by negotiation shall be
submitted to a council of inquiry and
conciliation for hearing, considera-tion
and recommendation.
"3. Conferences between the Sig-natory
powers shall be held from
time to time and formulate and cod-ify
rules of International law which
thereafter shall govern in the decis-ions
of the judicial tribunal men-tioned
in the first proposal."
VERDICT FOR ROOSEVELT *
IN BARNES LIBEL SUIT.
Syracuse, N. Y., May 22.—Twelve
men chosen as a jury to determine
whether Theodore Roosevelt libeled
William Barnes when he charged
that he worked through a "corrupt
alliance by crooked business and
crooked politics," and that he ^was
"corruptly allied with Charles F.
Murphy of Tammany hall," today re-turned
a verdict in favor of the for-mer
president. The verdict was re-turned
after 40 ballots had been
taken and the jury had considered
for 42 hours the evidence which was
presented during five weeks of the
trial. Nineteen hours were consum-ed
before eleven of the jurymen, who.
since the second ballot had stood to-gether,
persuaded Juror No. 11
Edward Burns, a Syracuse motorman
and a Republican—to join with them
In returning a verdict which Colonel
Roosevelt later declared to be "typi-cally
American."
For eleven or those 19 hours the
jurors In favor of an unconditional
verdict for the defendant talked to
the one who, while himself favoring
a similar verdict, insisted that the
court costs and disbursements should
be divided between the two princi-pals.
Counsel for the plaintiff will carry
the case to a higher court on appeal.
It was charged during the progress
of the trial that the court was preju-diced
In favor of Roosevelt.
Reformed Church Clsaris.
The annual session of the North
Carolina Classis of the Reformed
church convened In Newton Friday
night with a good attendance of min-isters
and lay delegates. The open-ing
sermon was preached by Rev.
8huford Peeler, of Greensboro, the
retiring president. Rev. Dr. J. L.
Murphy, of Hickory, was elected
president for the ensuing year.
The session convened on the
eighty-fourth anniversary of the
Classis, which was organized at
Brick church, In the southeastern
part of Guilford county, on Mar 21
1831.
Rev. William A. Murray, who Is
Pastor of a Presbyterian church is
Griffin. On., visited relatives in Us
City Friday sad Saturday.
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