The Greensboro patriot [September 19, 1900]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 71). GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1900. NO. 38.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
Dr. W. j. RICHARDSON.
KATZ BUILDINO.
N'CE: 615 W. GASTON ST.
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
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Dr. J. J. BRYAN
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Dr. R L. Rierson,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
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Dr. J. E. WYCBE,
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L_ Bank Building,
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Dr. L. A. PfflPPS.
YSICIAN AND DENTIST,
DANVILLE,
I County, N. 0.
J. I. SCALES.
Scales & Scales,
orneys and Counsellors at Law,
NSBORO, N. C.
Z. V. TAYLOR,
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GREENSBORO. N. &
ROBERT D. DOUGLAS,
Attorney - at - Law,
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BYNUM & BYNDM,
neys anil Counsellors at Law.
SQUAEE.
Oliver S. Newlin,
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
SSBORO, N. C.
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REENSBORO, N.C.
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Prea ription
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1900-
FANCY GOODS.
tcb.es, Catalan,
Sterling Silver,
in Clocks, and
in Novelties.
B FARRAR'S SON,
Jeweler and Engraver.
W. G
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-Mrs. A. S. Glenn is visited in Vir-ginia.
—Hon. F. M. Simmons was in the city
yesterday.
—Mrs. T. J. Shaw returned to the
city Monday.
—Mr. Moses Strauss, of Baltimore,
is in the city.
—Dr. Lucien Ector is in from Mon-tana
on a visit.
—Mr. L. Richardson is out again
after a brief illness.
— Dr. E. W, Smith has returned from
a vacation tour north.
—Brother W. H. Curtis, of Madison,
was a welcome caller Friday.
—A new wooden fence is being built
around the rear of the jail lot.
—Mr. Harris E. St. Clair, of Salis-bury,
was in the city Monday.
—Mrs. W. R. Hay ward, of Charlotte,
is the guest of Mrs. J. J. Stone.
—Hugh Smith went to Chapel Hill
Saturday to enter the University.
—Mrs. A.M.Scales and children have
returned from a visit to Wilmington.
—Dr. Burbank, the opthalmologist,
has a professional card in the PATRIOT.
—Miss Hazel Love, of Wilmington,
visited Mrs. S. L. Alderman last week.
—Miss Louisa Osborn, of the Guil-ford
College faculty, was in town Mon-day.
—Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Armitage, of
Cleveland, Ohio, are visiting friends
here.
—Rev. C. E. Hodgin is assisting in a
series of meetings at North Wilkes-boro.
—No. 1 red rust proof and white seed
oats and mountain seed rye at Hiatt &
Lamb's.
—Rev. P. E. Parker, of Stokesdale,
was a welcome caller last Wednesday
afternoon.
—Miss Ada Thomas returned last
Saturdav from a pleasant visit at
Reidsville.
—Rev. R. E. Gillespie is at Raeford,
Cumberland county, assisting in a re-vival
meeting.
— Mr. John C. Wharton has returned
from a visit to friends in the western
part of the state.
—Fuller Reid came home from New
York last week on a short visit to his
mother and sister.
—Mrs. D. Schenck, Jr., has accepted
I a position as stenographer with the
' Southern Railway.
— Hon. Thomas Settle removed his
furniture from this city to his home in
Asheville last week.
— Mr. G. Floyd Ross left Friday to
enter the University of Tennessee. He
will take the literary course.
— Miss Cornelia Roberson, of the
High Point graded schools, Is sick at
her home at Guilford College.
—Mr. Marvin Hardto, of Blacksburg.
S. C., was here Saturday on his way to
Guilford College to enter school.
—Miss Lillian Weatherlv left Sun-day
night for New York to make a
. study of musical kindergarten systems.
—President Alderman, of Tulane
i University, was in the city yesterday.
He «i.l return to Louisiana nest week.
— Mr. R. L. Fogleman, of Hinton,
brought a sweet potato weighing 5
pounds and 10 ounces to this office last
week.
—Mr. D. R. Huffines' handsome new
building adjoining the Southern depot
on the west is nearly ready for occu-pancy.
—The Gate City band of twenty
pieces will accompany the Greensboro
Elka to the carnival in Danville Octo-ber
2nd.
—New fall goods are coining in daily
now. New cheese, new rice, new grits,
new oat meal, new breakfast food, etc.,
at Scott's.
-The H.irry-Belk Bros. Co. has a
new "excursion" adv. in this issue.
Prloea are quoted ou a number of sta-ple
articles.
—MU» Dovle Ifeodenhall,of Kimes-ville,
was granted a life certificate by
the state board o! public school exam-iners
last week.
—'-The acme of perfection in boys'
clothing," is what Merritt. Brower &
Co. claim for the Grindstone brand.
See their new adv.
—Two small white boys are under
arrest for robbing the safe at the Ban-ner
warehouse recently. They ac-knowledge
their guilt.
— Mr. Charles Hancock, of Beaufort,
a student at Guilford last year, passed
through this city on his waytoTrinity
College to take a course in theology.
—Everything made out of cotton is
higher (or soon will be) Bunch cot-ton
is now 00 cents. Big stock on
baud. J. W. SCOTT & Co.
—Greensboro's colored baseball ag-gregation
failed to capture the flOO in
gold and the prize cup at Charlotte
last week but put up good ball in the
contest.
—The last meeting of the state board
of examiners as at present constituted
was held at Raleigh Friday. President
Mclver and President Hobbs were in
attendance.
—Mr. W. B. Stewart returned from
his northern trip Monday. He bad a
fine time while away, visiting many
points of interest along the great lakes
and in Canada.
—A carload of deaf and dumb chil-dren
from the east and surrounding
| country, were at the depot between
trains last Wednesday night on their
way to Morganton.
—Claudia Jones, a young colored
; girl, died here last week from the ef-i
fects of some poisonous drag which
i she mistook for quinine. She was suf-fering
from neuralgia.
—An interesting revival meeting is
in progress this week at the West
Washington Street Baptist church.
Pastor Johnson is assisted by Rev. T.
M. Martin, of Missouri.
—Miss Nina and Lota Troy have re-turned
to Littleton to resume their
positions as teachers in Littleton Fe-male
College. They recently returned
j from a visit to New York.
—President Mclver, of the State
! Normal and Industrial College, and
President Hobbs, of Guilford College,
are arranging an educational exhibit
for the Central Carolina Fair.
—I have Virginia Turf seed oats and
Kivett and Fulcaster seed wheat for
sale at reasonable prices.
C. H. HANCOCK,
3S-2t Greensboro, N. C.
—Mr. Marshall Dundas.a well known
, farmer of the Guilford College neigh-i
borbood, recently sold bis farm and
personal property and left Thursday
for Lewiston, Idaho, where he will lo-cate.
—The Fall announcement of J. M.
Hendrix & Co. should be read by
everyone. This old reliable firm can
always be relied upon forthe latest and
best of everything in dry goods and
shoes.
— The board of aldermen last Friday
night fixed the tax levy for the city at
1*100 on the hundred valuation for
general purposes and 30 cents for
'special, the same rate that prevailed
last year.
—"Uncle Bob" Sloan has enjoyed
j the cool bracing weather of the past
few days as much as anyone in town.
The hot spell kept him indoors too
much of the time to suit a man of his
disposition.
—Mr. Charles E. Turner, of Durham,
died at the home of his brother. Dr. J.
M. Turner, in Wilkesboro, yesterday
after a lingering illness of consump-tion.
He was also a brother of Dr. J.
P. Turner, of this city.
—A stalk of corn measuring eight
feet and nine inches from the root to
i the ear is on exhibition at the Greens-boro
Hardware Company's store. It
was grown by Mr. John L.King on
his farm southwest of the city.
—All kinds of clover and grass seed
are much higher this fall on account
of the drought in the west. Don't be
surprised if we have to charge you a
slight advance over former prices.
J. W. SCOTT & Co.
— Mr. Adolph Kolischer, who was in
the city as the guest of Mr. J. F. Jor-dan
n.it long ago, has procurer* options
on enough land near Sanford to estab-lish
a colony of Germans, who expect
to engage in farming and fruit raising.
—At a meetiug of the Republican
county executive committee Saturday
Postmaster Tyre Glenn resigned the
chairmanship and John G Brodnax,
Jr., was chosen as his successor. Carl
Wheeler was elected secretary to suc-ceed
Mr. Brodoax.
—S. L. Gilmer it Co. are closing out
the Sample Brown Mercantile Com-pany's
stock at about half price to
make room for new fall goods. This
stock is well known. It includes dry
goods, notions, carpets, millinery, etc.
Read the adv. concerning it.
—The Galveeton flood sufferers are
being remembered here in a substan-tial
way. A fund for their relief was
started at the suggestion of Mayor
Taylor and it is growing right along.
The OJeli Hardware Co. heads the list
with a fifty dollar contribution.
—Greensboro Female College opened
!:i«t Wednesday with a gratifying en-rollment.
Every available room in
the building is occupied or engaged
and the year promisee to be excep-tional
from every standpoint. Class
work began Friday and la moving off
satisfactorily.
TOBACCO NOTES.
—High Point Enterprise : The family
; of Mr. W. H. Regan left Saturday for ■'
Hot Springs, Va , where they will j iteme of Interest to the Grower, the
spend mere! weeks. Mrs. Ragau's| Dealer, and the Manufacturer.
i many friends hope that her stay may ! Mr R « T =., _. . ... L ** .
greatly improve her hea,th._Rev. / ]^^" H'"h ™« >»
L. Groome was here Monday and tells i „.
the Enterprise that if he does not sell! , r
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ecent rains cam« t0° Ute l<> be
his lot he will soon build. j °f mUCh value t0 the tobacco crop.
-Mr. W. s. Hill left for Philadel- L *** and Coble- of Oakdale, Chat-jphia
Friday night to have an eye dan,county. made sales here yesterday,
treated. While out driving a week or P- Strickland and S. J. Purdue, from
so previous he came in contact with an ' Rockingham, sold tobacco on this mar-overhanging
branch that injured one ; Ket last week.
■ of his eyes. For a time the Injury | W. L. Morton, W. T. Rich and S E
seemed trifling, but it gradually grew Jeffries, of Alamance, made good sales
$1.00 BUSHEL.
worse until his sight was threatened.
We hope he may speedily recover.
here last week.
Among the sellars from Guilford
-Mr. Thomas L. Brown, formerly last week was Will Fitzgerald. Mon-
, horticulturist at the State Normal and day R. H. Smith was on the market
T^Tll th0",egeH " 80°n i!° t8Je j Ye8terday we °<«<* on the market
; charge of the landscape work on the , from RockinKhan)i ,, v McCollum ""
.p.r.op_erty_o.f, a nort.hern milli.onai.re who R**• M•nccLC.ooluluumm, KR. TL. MMIcOCoII um an™d* S,. i
has recently made extensive invest- A R00erti
ments near Asheville. Mr. Brown's ~.
family is at present visiting in Michi- .. „ WHt6r 9UPPly haV'Dg lncreased-gan
but will return to North Carolina ' „ Sou
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hern Tobacco Company and
Berger-Wood Tobacco Co. are running
again this week.
Cigarette consumption in the United
States is greatly decreasing, but the
trade is opening up and increasing in
Japan and Ceina.
Yesterday J. L. Hawkins. J. M. Phil-lipi,
Iverson Stanley, Bird Hayes and
CRIMSON
GLOVER
10c POUND.
soon.
—All persons desiring space for ex-hibits
at the Central Carolina Fair As-sociation
meet, should write or call on
Col. W. H. Osborn, who will give you
j all his time and attention. Farmers,
j manufacturers, everybody—this means
| you. Don't lose any time, but see or
! write the Colonel at once. He wants jJ* D Smith represented the Guilford
; you and we, the people of Greensboro, i ■•Hew on this market.
I want you here. Don't fail. Remem- j The Southern Tobacco Journal says
| ber, the time is Oct. 9th-12th. Come, a short erop means a short tobacco
everybody. year. The leal men will have a long
—A gold watch and chain, gold , vacation in the summer of 1901, and it
'medal and a razor were stolen from j behooves them to hustle while business
the room of Mr. J. E. Hardin at Mr. J. is on-
"RED TOP"
CLOVER
121-2c. POUND.
W. Stafford's boarding house near the
Revolution cotton mills the other dav
and a young negro employed about the tobacco, and the citizens of the Coast
premises was suspected of the theft, state claim any kind of tobacco can be
He disappeared suddenly, but was lo-; successfully grown in thatstate.though
cated at High Point yesterday with j U is understood the climate and soil Is
the stolen articles in his possession, more suited to cigar leaf tobacco than
Chief Jordan brought him back last other varieties.
night. His name is Robert Williams, j Florida, according to local papers, is
—Mr. J.T. B.Shaw and Miss Juanita i becoming one of the great tobacco-
Cooper were united in marriage at the growing states and the product has
home of the bride's parents, Mr. and been pronounced in some respects
Mrs. Thos. Cooper, on Eugene street, equal to that of Cuba. Sumatra wrap-last
Wednesday evening by their pas-' per tobacco raised in Florida recently
tor, Rev. L. Johnson. A few intimate ! took the prize at the Paris exposition
j friends, together with the families of j over the world. The same quality of
the bride and greom, witnessed the ! tobacco is being raised in Decatur and
ceremony. The attendants were Mr. other southern Georgia counties and is
Frank A. Brooks and Miss Flora
Cooper, Mr. W. E. Blair and Miss An-nie
Boyce. Mrs. Nellie D. Elliott pre-sided
at the piano. A number of beau-rapidly
becoming a lucrative industry.
An interesting experiment in tobac-co
culture is being tried in the fields of
the Connecticut Tobacco Experiment
tiful and useful presents were bestow- Company at Poquonock, Conn. Nine
ed by friends. rows, 500 feet long, of tobacco plants
are being grown under a' covering of
thin cheesecloth, the object being to
keep the temperature in which the
plantsare growing comparatively even,
—A number of the directors, stock-
| holders and creditors of the defunct
Bank of Guilford have united in an ef-i
fort to have Receiver J. S. Cox removed ; aod t0 protect the"m from insects and
on the ground that he was an officer of i the eiementg. Aireadv the success of
of the hank when it went into liquida-: the experiment is said to be assured,
tion and further that there has been ' 8ucoess means the obtaining of leaves
extravagance and needless delay in I g0 perfect that they will sell for a
winding up its affairs. King & Kim-, higherpricethanordinary Connecticut
ball, Scales & Scales and C. M. bted-! tobacco,
man, representing the complainants. . , .
will be heard before Judge Hoke at
Pittsboro on the 25th inst. Judge
Joho Gray Bynum represents Mr. Cox.
i The bearing promises to be quite in-teresting
from a legal standpoint, inas-much
as Receiver Cox is really under
the direction of the court and can only
: pay out money under its order, while
all fers involved are fixed by statute.
' Mr. Cox was elected a director of the
bank to succeed the late H. H Cart I and
Farmer, Neighbor and Friend, Lend
Us Your Ear.
We are simply going to have one of
the "biggest" times here in Greensboro
October l):h-12th tnat you can ever re-member.
The occasion is the Central
Carolina Fair Association meet. You
are personally inviti-d. We want
you to be here with your stock, your
poultry, rour butter, preserve", jellies
.k,„. . .,„n.k k.i I„„JI,.J»... and canned goods, aod above ail vou about a month before it closed its doors "
and resigned a few days after his elec-tion.
No objection was made to his
appointment as receiver.
want to bring the larce*t collection of
farm products, if you should oe suc-cessful
'n showing; the iarg' ?t and best
collection, of course you get the prize,
but that is not all. Raokin, Cliisholm
Stroud & Kees have a nice suit of
clothes that they will give you free of
charge. This is their individual prize.
It is a good suit and retails at $12 50,
but aside from giving this suit away,
they will sell the same suit during fair
week to anyone attending the fair at
the extreme low price of $10 For
further particulars read ad. of this en-terprising
firm which appears this
week on our religious page.
—A. B. Coleman, living near Ossipee
mills, Alamance county, is in jail here
in default of a ffOO bond fixed by
Mavor Taylor Thursday after a pre-liminary
hearing wherein he was
charged with the larceny of a horse
belonging to Wheeler Bros, liverymen
here. Coleman is not yet of age but
be is old in experience. Not long ago
he married a widow with some real and
personal prooerty, five children being
included in the latter, and since then,
according to an Alamance paper, he
has figured in various escapades. He Excursion to Norfolk Sept 25th.
will have ample opportunity to repent The Southern Railway announces a
of this last one. Tuesday night of last grand excursion from Charlotte to
week he hired a hor-e of Wheeler Bros Norfolk Tuesday, sept. 25th, which
for an hour and failed to return. Wed- will allow passengers two davs and
ne*day morning he lauded in Graham two nights in the magnificent "City by
and sought to trade or sell the horse the Sea." The train reaches Greens-aod
had closed a deal but had not de- boro at 10 P. M. and arrives at Nor-livered
the horse when he was arrested, folk the next morning at 7.30. Re-
Otficer Merritt brought him up Tours- turning it leaves Norfolk at 7 P. M.
day noon and at the preliminary hear- Sept. 27. The fare from High Point is
ing he was represented by counsel, Mr. $3.25, Greensboro $3.00, Gibsonvilie
Hughes, of Graham. His wife anu $2.90, Burliugton $2 75. Tickets will
father-in-law were present but they be sold from points on branch lines at
fail 3d to give the bond required. It is approximately the same rates. See
reported that earlier in the week Cole- your agent for further particulars or
man sold a buggy and harness that did write R. L. Vernon, T. P. A.,Charlotte,
not belong to him. N. C.
TIMOTHY
$200 BUSHEL.
California is experimenting with the
cultivation of both cigar and burley TORNIP SEED
40c. POUND.
J.J. PHOENIX
—The enrollment at the close of the
first week in the Lindsay street graded
school was 502, or 28 more than the en-rollment
at the end of the first month
last year. The Asheboro street enroll-ment
at tbe same time was 3ts, a gain
of 27 over the first month of last year.
School No. 3, on the West side, opens
tomorrow. The colored schools have a
total enrollment of 440, which IK also
an increase over the first month of last
vear. The high school building is
completed, a second story has been
added to colored school No. 1 and
modern school desks have been placed
in both colored schools, hence the
promising outlook for a most success-ful
years work.
Deafness Cannot be Curna
by loriii applications, K- they c innot reach the
disea-ed portion i*fihee:ir. There it on!
way to care deatnew, and that is by coontua-tional
remedies, i>.-uit..— i- caused by an m-ilanu'd
condition "l tic mncons lining;of the
Bastachian Tube, w lien lhi« tuba seta luflam-t-
a vou have a rumbling nuun4 or imperfect
hearing, and when it i-» ntirelyclosed deafness
is the result, and unless tne inflammation *-an
be taken out an<! tin-i tube restored i" :i- nof"
ma] condition, hearing will be destroved for-ever:
nme eases out "t ten'are caused bj
catarrh, which is nothing hut an inflamed con-dii'on
of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars h>r any
■•-•I t Deafness cau-ed by catarrh thatcaa
'"■i !»•• cured by Hall'a Ca arrta ' ure. aend for
circulars, free
K. .i.i.HKM.v .v i n..Toledo,O.
Sol by I'm.-e.-i-. price ~«\ |HN i-.ttic.
Hn - Family Pills »•« the *■-•!
City National Bank
OF GREENSBORO, N. C.
AT CLOSE Or' BC3ISESS APRIL "IS, 1«H.
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Report toC ipU • ' •■'
RESOURCES:
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Banking House. I and fiat ......
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Total nii.ri; M
LIABILITIES:
Capital Rtoek ' " J
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Bills I'av.l.le M •■- "J
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT:
Deposits Aj.r .-■:..".-" B ' ;' g
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Deposit- April HO. WOO "ii'SS 2
Profits " " "•'** "*