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ESTAbk. '"O 1821. GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY. JANUARY 31,1921 VOL. 10O. NO. 9
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CAPT. NEIL ELLINGTON DIED
SUDDENLY YESTERDAY
PROMINENT BANKER AND ONE
OF THK EARLY RESIDENTS;
FUNERAL TOMORROW.
DR. J. C. MONTGOMERY DEAD
AFTER ILLNESS OF ONE WEEK
Captain Neil Ellington died' sud-denly
yesterday morning about 7.30
o'clock. The end came quietly and
peacefully, without apparent pain
or suffering, and only his heavy
breathing signified to hia wife in*
the room that he .was not in the en-joyment
of, his normal health.
Awaking about 7.30 o'clock Sunday
morning. Captain Ellington peered
jut the bed room window «t>the sun-vise
and commented to his wife on
how beautiful and glorious, it was.
le later turned,over and extreme-y
heavy breathing was noticed by
Mrs. Ellington. Before members of
'he family could be summoned
ioath had ensued.
Captain Ellington was one of the
earliest and most prominent bank-ers
of Greensboro. Coming to this
city in 1S6S at the age of 19. he
first became associated with the dry
..•oods firm of Bogart and Murray,
later going with W. -S. Moore. Ir.
1870 The Bank of "Greensboro was
established by Jesse H. Lindsay, J.
A. Gray and Eugene Morehead and
young Ellington went wtlh the con-cern
as (bookkeeper- In 1891 he
A-as chosen president of the bank,
•vhich position be retained until a
decline of health in 1917 forced, b.im
:o resign active direction of the ih-
-litution.
When the Guilford Grays were re-.
organized shortly after the civil war
Mr. Ellington was chosen captain
ind he held this commission for
-everal years.
Surviving the deceased are his
■vidow, who was Miss Ida Sloan,
and on/ daughter, Mrs. Max T.
I'aye. Two brothers, J._B. Elling-
:on. of
sam K
. ive.
Funeral services will be conduct-ed
tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock
by Dr. Charles F. Myers, pastor of
'he First 'Presbyterian church. Cap-sain
Ellington was a faithful mem-ber
of that congregation for many
years and" during the latter part of
Dr. John C. Montgomery died yes-terday
afternoon at 12.15 o'clock
following an illness of one week
from pneumonia. Funeral services
will be conducted from the residence
on Walker avenue at 3 o'clock this
afternoon. The service will be In
charge of Dr. S.-B. Turrentlne, pres-ident
of Greensboro College for Wo-men,
who will be assisted by Dr. J.
H. Barnhardt and Rev. R. Murphy
Williams.
Dr. Montgomery had practiced
his profession in Greensboro for iO
years. He moved to Asheville a few
years ago but after two years he re-turned
to this city. He was a grad-uate
of Richmond Medical College,
"later taking a post graduate course
at Philadelphia, and he ranked
high in the medical profession of
this section.
The deceased was born in Rock-ingham
county .and was 61 years
old at the time of his death. He is
survived by his widow, who was
formerly Miss Beulah Jeffreys, of
this city, and also one daughter.
Mrs. Clauds Heritage.
The following will serve as pall-hearers
at the funeral this after-noon:
C. W. Edwards, C. L. Van-
Noppen. Frank Boyles, A. Waylan!
Cooke, Dr. E. L. Stamey and Dr. I..
1. Simmons.
CRIMINAL TERM SUPERIOR
COURT BEGAN TO-DAY
GRAND JURY DRAWN FOR SIX
MONTHS; HEAVY DOCKET
FOR TRIAL.
REFUND OF MOOREFIELD AND
FAGGETT BONDS REFUSED.
PETITION FOR TWO MORE
WKKKS OF CRIMINAL CO: RT.
Clerk oi the Superior Court At.
W. Gant has forwarded to H >n.
Clem G. Wright, senior represent-
Uve from Guilford in the stale leg-islature,
a' bill designed to change
the terms of Superior court for this
county so as to prevent the ~-iong
intervals between the criminal terms
and also convert two of the present
civil terms to terms for the trial of
Guilford Superior court convened
this morning at 10 o'clock for a
term of one week with Judge T. B.
Finley, of WUkesbdro, on the
bench. The entire term will bo
used foT the trial of criminal ac-tions.
Immediately after the opening of
court the names of the jurors for
the term were called and the grand
jury was selected. The grand jury-drawn
this morning will serve for
six months expiring at the conclu-sion
of the regular criminal term to
be held In June. An able and force-ful
charge was made to the jury by
Judge Finley. who impressed upon
the members of the jury the seri-ousness
of Iheir duty and the re-sponsibility
of tfce'r office.
About 123 casen are listed on the
j docket for trial. Two murder cases
j are Included in the number, Her-
! man Johnson and Henry Martin.
■ both negroes, being charged with
murder. The other cases on the
; docket' consist mainly of larceny,
! whiskey violations, breaking and
j entering and minor offenses. Ninety-cases
were brought over from the
December term, about SO bound
over on probable cause since that
term and five appeals having been
made from the Municipal courts of
High Point and Greensboro.
In view of We fact that the pres-ent
term is tor but a single week It
is highly improbable that the dock-et
will be cleared. At the conclu-sion
of the term it is most likely
that a large number of the cases
will be unfinished and will be con-tinued
to the next term of court.
Denying the petition for J. R.
Moorefield and Sherman Faggett..
Judge C. A. Jones in Municipal
court Saturday morning declined to
allow a refund of the $500 bond
which had already been declared
forfeited on account of the failure
of Faggett to appear in the city
court. Neither of the defendants
were present at the hearing Satur-day,
they being represented by R.
C. Strudwick,
U wilt he recalled that Faggett
was serving as chauffeur for Moore-field
when-the memorable chase of
ten days ago between police and
deputy sheriffs for a distance of 15
miles ended in the arrest of Moore-field
and Faggett at Friendship.
Faggett v.-n-, placedi under a bond of
$500 for hia appearanee in the city-court
and Moorefield was his bonds-man.
«
Moorefield was also under a bond
of $500 for his appearance in the
city court, his bondsmen being his
father. J. W. Moorefield. It Is ex-pected
that final judgment will b^
entered th:3 week against J. \V.
Moorefield. Another bond of $500
given by Moorefield will be forfeit-ed
unless he appears this afternoon
GOY. MORRISON'S FIRST
MESSAGE LEGISLATURE
UNDISGUISED CHALLENGE TO
OLD LINE LEADERSHIP
BRINGS FIGHT TO OPEN.
Governor 'Morrison's opening
message to the general assembly
was delivered in person Friday. In
his message the governor said:
To the members of the General As-sembly:
Having called your attention to
the larger problems of the state in
my inaugural address .and urged
your attention to them is a 'man-ner
which I believe the people have
authorized me as their spokesman
to do, I now desire your indulgence
for some further and more particu-lar
recommendations upon one of
the subjects diiscussed in my inaug-ural
address, of which I gave notice
on that occasion.
I refer to the subject of taxation
for the support of the state govern-ment.
I believe I havu been pecu-liarly
authorized to speak for the
people of the state upon this most
important subject, and I therefor"
speak with confidence that I voice
the carefully formed judgment of
at a hearing scheduled before D. H. I the people; we ought not to levy
Collins, justice of the peace. J. W. j any ad valorem taxation whatever
Moorefield was al30 surety in this ■ for state purposes, and completely
TWO Propers..+. «■Wff, iffJnhMlli rtWlHH j jfrMWrtlF-JflW tfaj WPAMA* ATTAINS -
f Brook**. WT* W. a-nd- D* ina, courts are-he,d ,n january. 1W^OTinW^ *^JSS v
Slllngton, of Spray, also sur- May, .Jln,a. September and'Decent-j rolB*'
ber.
Under the pr&sent arrangement
it frequently happens tlfat intervals
of three months occur between
terms and defendants in jail await-ing
trial are required to serve an
ordinary sentence even before they
can secure a trial. The changes as
release to the counties and towns
It seems that both of the defend-11 and cities this source of taxation;
ants have cleared out. Since their |"but we ought to levy sufficient tax-failure
to appear in Municipal court j ation. other than advalorem. to dis-on
January 26. the original date tor , charge the high duties of a great
the hearing, the police have made and progressive state and to admin-dlllgent
search for the two men but i ister our state government in rigid
without success. \ economy, though ;in unquestioned
' efficiency. Prolonged discussion
land consideration"of the subject
WOULD-BE MASHER IS I ha8 re„uito,i |n a fceed judgment by
SLAPPED BY LADY OX STREET j ,he pe0_,e o£ lUs #*& tnal aii va.
i lorem taxation for state pur-roses Is
A rather stinging rejection was the most difficult of,-all tax to levy-justice
tai luit^rr»1so*^"^nrt»ress>e*^
sive to collect; that it is no longer
necessary- for state purposes and.
that the counties and towns and
special tax districts oi the state re-quire
all the revenue which can PK
j recn^red ye/terday afternoon by ,pnj. and collect in- equity and
of the Elm street "lady-smashers' "
EARS. , wnen a young man, after making
supposedly pert remarks to a lady
. Upon his attaining the age of SO OQ the prlnclpai thoroughfare of
years his fellow members in Con- j tne cjty waB given a smart blow on
gress took occasion to give Major ] lhe gld8 of hlg chwk. with trav-
Charles M. Stedman a little' surprise
celebration last. Friday.
edi and spontaneous
"Unreserv-congratula-ellng
bag in hand the young 'tody.- justly and constitutionally levied
. apparently about 19 qr 20 years of
age. and good to look upon.' was
nis life was a deacon of the church. I offefed by Wr Q.Bt wooW aHow a
lot of respect to the oft expressed
*ent intent's of. the 'deceased., wem-
Sers of tire family have requested
.hat no Bowers be sent.
MtMA.V SPIDER WALKED UP
HIDE SEVEN STORY BrttJHXG
The Human Spider, who some-times
goes'.by the name of Bill
-brother, entertained a large ga::-
ring of people Saturday evening at
the corner of Eftii and Market
streets, when"W HtersiUy walked up j ™r "[erin9i win materially aid ir
criminal term In January,
M«y. jme, August. October and De-cember
and- rot more than six
weeks.- wcuM clip?? - oat ween
terras.'
During the past year t&e 'crimi-nal
docket '.n <b;s county has been
constantly congealed and there are
at present cases ou the calendar
that have been hanging over for a
year or more. It is believed th'it
the addition of two weeks, together
with the re-arrangement of tbo
tlons." were accorded our dlsUn-.- n^njng ner waj to the railway sta-
KUished fellow townsman and tne-.tio,,. R WU around « o'clock: rn
March~i "°rand OW MaB" ot tne fifth diB" , the afternoon and the streets were
trict waa showered with eongratu-1 cr0W<k4> Two younK n«* ap-through
advalorem taxation upon
the property of the state:
Tax Upon Prfsicip** Property.
I do not deem tt wise, to occupy
your time with arguments and dis-cussion,
because I feel sure that
.lations by hie Innumerable adm'.r: j proaene4 tTOm the rear and when ' this question has been discussed tor
he side -of the «ew American *»*.
cnaage Bank building. Starting at
he second floor of the structure,
ino self styled spider crawled to the
•op floor, going from ledge to wlu-now
and from window to ledge. Up-an
reaching the fifth floor Strother
tood on his head upon a window
ill and gave the crowd below a
r.vartul fright by faking -a near
amble. After gaining the top floor
:ie climbed to the roof over a rope
xtended from the top of the build-ng.
clearing
ation.
up the unsatisfactory sltu-
GROVER HENLEY ARRESTED
ON CHARGE OF AUTO THEFT.
Grover Henley, of near Coifax.
was arrested Friday night by Sher-iff
D. B. Stafford, and deputies, and
in default of $3,000 bond was placed
In jail to await a hearing tomorrow
morning before D. H. Collins on a
charge of stealing an automobile
from a Mr. Wnitesoll. wl-.o lives
the ers ,n Wl»blngton. ' tfc€y calM alongside one ot them
As a more concrete testimonial ot. made improper advancements. 13ne
their esteem the house members tttrned OB ^r neei aD)j smote him
presented Major Stedman with a 1 upon tne jaw> t0 the amusement and
gold watch, which represented vol-unteer
contributions from members
ot Congress and employees. The
contributions were made by Repub-licans
and Democrats, indicating
that Major Stedman is held In the
highest esteem by members ot op-posite
political taHh, as well as to theupgtee a* account of bain* as-those
of his own party. ■•«»u»8d ** tne f»ir "oun* **»**'•
As the last surviving member in j .,
the house or senate that was an of- j
fleer in the Confederate army. Major ,
Stedman stands\out as a splendid .
representative of the old school.
Broad-minded, chivalrous, loving all ]
and loved as much, he occupies an
general satisfaction ot those who
happened to be passing.
Without further offerings at
friendliness the young men turned
about, lost themselves in the crowd,
and so tar have made no complaints
i. J. PHOENIX SUCCEEDS W. L.
BREWER AT CHILDREN'S HOME
enviable position in the national
assembly.
We extend to the major many-happy
returns for the year and may
he continue to grow younger with
A member of the crowd suggest- , nortQ o{ th,9 city_ ; the passing of each score.
d that the visitor;, should be placed j Ab0ut two weeks ago officers took j
jnder a big piece bond to prevent < he par away from Henley, but were j
Mm from the temptation of using un,jJ>le to ldentlfy the OWner until V5~-53E£ WEEK drakes
bis peculiar talents In "second FHday Henley nad 6tated that the * **®**' VISITOR LAST WEEK, jertakes
John J. Phoenix Is now superin-tendent
of the Children's Home of
North Carolina, he succeeding W.
L. Brewer, resigned. The change
became effective last Friday when
Mr. Brewer gave up the service in
order to return to his profession as
an architect.
During the supervision of Mr.
so long and with such thoroughneea
that anytWng I eeald say wdu>*
largely be repetition. We now
know that ad valorem taxation Is a
tax upon the principal property of
tbe people and that when levied by
uniform rule It frequently bears
most burdensomely and unjustly up-on
those least able to pay. A tax
upon property necessarily reaches
those who by reason of age, infirm-ity,
youth or sex have'-Uttle earning
capacity and although possessing
some property, need all the Income
to be derived from it upon which to
live. These non-earning classes al-though
small property holders may
have such small Incomes that they
are utterly unable tp bear heavy-taxation
and the state must either
tax them oppressively or decline to
do many things which the state
ought to do and is fully able to do.
rather than oppress the weak and
non-earning property owners .with
additional taxation. The tax which
the counties, towns and cities and
other communities will levy upon
-tory" work.
I RANK C. BOYLES 18 BACK
AFTER KNJ?0»CBD VACATION
! car belonged to a neighbor ord
j that it had been left with him. Mr.
j WbSteeell identified the car Friday
; as being his property und Henley's
I arrest followed.
; :•'•;.' . "''• :.;.!<.lt .waa alajr.stated that the defen-
Frask C. Boyles. cashier of the_|;^Bt Baj m &;» possession medical
itnericao Eacbaaj*'.Matiottal "*™V jpjfrj.ij5si:i< beionflng to Dr. Spoon.
retorsed to «»'«jl;^^*^'*?*,:.;>t liberty, and H ie U*ely another
*a enforced ;oa3a^tf^f^#»^ftf.j ^<i»«w* JHM be lodged ataiast hrm..
weeks to tbet."iatorest^al W-b^aUh,..- _:.._—,
J*r. Boyles haa ree^m.«d..baKwOrk at \
rhe bank ani hie. many;'.Xyiaada;wW| i
be pleased to" lea'cVtbaj; the condl^ ! i»ss J
lion of his hea'Rh'jhaa greatly im- j of »u a
•roved.
The genial cashier contracted a
severe case of grippe following a j
lunting trip last fall and Ms kealth
*as seriously impaired as a result.
He spent severaV weeks In Florida.
.,lso a week in Onslow county. N.
<:.. and last week he went to New
York for a complete physical exam-ination.
The examining, physicians
declared that his bealtb Is now" vefy
sood. ' • .'.
T. Gilbert Pearson, of New York,
formerly secretary of the North
Carolina Audubon Association, wss
a visitor in GreensOoro l38t week.
Mr. Pearsoo. who Is still interested
in the -i>irds, was here on partic.-.'
lar business la their behalf.
Brewer the society has rendered
splendid work. The organization un- tn~JprinC7pal property of the people
will require all of
.fotaoson-Bry" Marriage.
Blanche Johnson, daughter
and Mrs. O. II. Johnson, e'
to care for orphan chil-dren,
or any child without a proper
home, and place it through adop-tion
in a good, Christian home.
During the 17 years ot its service*
the society has placed 1.700 chil-dren.
Mr. Phoenix has only recently re-turned
from overseas eervlca with
the taxation
which it Is either wise or just to
levy upon property in this state.
Government is becoming more and
more expensive because it is prop-erly
doing more and more to 1 re-taining
the institutions established
for the care and maintenance of tta
unfortunate and defective people;
to support its institutions for high-er
learning and to discharge all of
the duties of a graat common-wealth.
We can tax the people of
the statu not only as much without
ad valorem taxation as with it, but
with greater justice to all classes.
There is absolutely no reason why
we. should not raise through, taxa-tion
all the money necessary to pay
the interest upon a sufficient issue
of state bonds to make the perma-nent
improvements- necessary at
our institutions tor the care ot tbe
unfortunate and defective of our
state and at our institutions toy
higher learning, and to defray the
current annual expenses of an eco-nomically
administered state gov-ernment.
Budget Report Should Not Bridlk
There should be no extravagance-or
waste in this state, either in the-peramanent
improvements made at
our state institutions, or in the an^
nual expenses of their maintenance,
and certainly there should be most
rigid, economy in the administration
of our government, not only at
these institutions, but in every de-partment
of it. No set of men bad
any right to anticipate what the-income
of North Carolina would be-through
taxation for the next two
years. The progressives of th»
state had just won a great victory.
We were pledged to progress. We
had amended our stats constitution
upon the subject of taxation. We
had cleared away the obstacles and
made ready to take care ot this
state's unfortunates and to make
our institutions for higher learning
wdrthy of the age in which we live/"*-
What the representatives of this new
day in North Carolina would do
could not be cilcul .ted by a bud-get
commission, and »e ought not
to be bridled by its rccon>menda-jjtBt-
yfyQMfe fo exerglso tb»?
credit of this slate, not merely to
give to our institutions for the un-fortunate
and defective and our in-stitutions
tor higher learning what
we must give to save ourselves from
positive disgrace and shame, bat .
what a wise statesmanship and . a '
great and. progressive ciyilltatlo"
Suggest as wise, and, without waste,'
necessary to accomplish the noble
purpose aimed at through these in-stitutions.
We do not wasit to make
and have onr being as a crippled,
weak and halting state, but w*
wa«t to stand up like, a' mighty .
giant of progress and go forward in
the upbuilding of our state and tbe
glorification of our God. The ma*
who whispers: "Go slow, we haven't
got the money;" "the people won't,
stand tor any foolishness," is asleep
and does not realize that North Car-olina
is determined.to make our
government strong for the protec-tion
and upbuilding of our people.
- Hard Surfaced Highways.
We must not only take cere of
these noble institutions, birKlf we
aro true servants of the people, we
must build a system of hard-sur-faced
state highways in 'his state
and cease to waste more;- in build-ing
mud roads.
The people delKand that this
whole program ' shall be rarried
through, and fully know that tney
are amply able to do K, If they can
get their public servsnts to enact
the legislation neoesBary. If they
did not want these things done, why
did they elect me governor of North
Carolina? For I ndvocated the whole
program '° *be primaries and In
the general election, from Swain to
Pasquotank. How can we raise
tbe moon}- with which to pay the
Interest tor the' public improve
meats and the current expenses ef
the government? There Is no diffi-prove
and protect the people. The culty about tt if we fill bat get
necessary county and town expedsss ^ggssjr'from the Idea thai "tJke;8trjy
are great, but the people from this tWp'irt can justly tax Ts^iff prop- "
Before the war he }o«»l goveromeat obtain more beae- erty of the weakling and the w!<}o'w.
Mr. Pearsoo stated that this state j ra pres(o>Bt fof 17 year, or tbe « than in the past, and more than a&raatla» »hat the modern sense."
mains tbe foremost qoaH section , Pr0tlmJlf q|ftreaatlle Company and i» received in
.the T.9L C. A
remains
ot the country. He attributed tiki*[■he ta ,|W„,(,)„,.« Till qualified for
fact td the degulatlons -which have' tbe p,,^,,,, ot superintendent of
been enacted for the. nreaervatlon • „. .... . ....
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tor preservation cli;,dren.a Home.
of the birds, but tor which tact be, ,
any other country to ^ justice in taxation suggests.teas
tbe world. It is., therefore, aeces- „t tBe horded upon the^pfincipat
eery, unless we are going to retard property of the people"t^fi more
. upon annual Income, profits
Chatham county, and Charles C. t thinks the quail would long since
Bryan wore united in marriage Sat- | have become extinct in this state.
urday afternoon, the ceremony be-ing
performed by Rev, «. C. Stub-bins
in the pastor's study of the
Grace M* P. church. v —
Mr. Bryan is a son of Mr. and
Mrs, D. C-> Br'yan, of Chatham coun-ty..
Both of them have been res'd
tag in Greensboro, where they Jield.
pesltfohsV and they will continue to
make thoir home here.
His trip to North Carolina last :
week was in the interest of migra-tory
birds, difcks and' g&'efte in par-ticular.
He reported that in ry,--
rituck county the laws have been
flagrantly violated durii.g racent
months. He is hoping for improve-ment,
however, to^ come, as th* -f- i
suit Of tadletmenta issued agaiort
James L. Pope Brad.
James L. Tope d-ed. Friday night
at the home Of his. daughter, Mrs.
Evelyn Causey, on the Tabernacle
road. Mr. Pope was 69 years of age.
He is survived by his widow. : SJ
children and one brother. . -
Interment was made at Pa-k?
Cross Roads church, in Randolph
the progress of our people, to al-low
the towns and cities ane>eoun-tlc.
s of the state larger revenue.
State din r-ai.sc Enough Revenue.
But because we are about to adopt
a new system of taxat'on aider
which ad valorem taxation will be
■and
business.
Tbe United States government for
rorne years has been levying and
collecting the largest tax bills ever
levied and collected on earth, and
ur* one dollar of It is upon an ad
released to the counties and the »valorem 4>asis. It colle.-ted from
t->wn3 and cities, we must not con- North Carolina last-year more than
elude that the atate will be unabl*
ebou.. 660 persons of that section, county.
to raise by constitutional and. just
taxation all the revenue wh'ch It
may need for tho purpose of sus-
/>"o hundred and sixty millions of
dollars, and every source of taxa-tion
U'ed by the United States gov-ernment
is available to the people of
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