The Greensboro patriot [December 16, 1903]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 82.
GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1903. NO. 50
Vr. W. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
RESIDENCE: 318 WEST GASTON ST.
M r. itKAi.i- ,
■ Asheboro St.
TIIOS. II. LITTLE,
las S. I,, & T. Hkljr.
BEALL & LITTLE
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS
•,■■•: So. 31fi So. Loan & Trust lildir.
Hours: 8 lo v A. M.i 11:90 to I. -' to8 P. M.
i] practice in Qrecnsboro and surrouiul-iiiiutrv.
E. L. STAMEY, M. D.
RESIDENCE:
.MO North Davie street.
OFFICE:
. i Kcmlham & Urixaom'a Drug Store.
Dr. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
OFFICE IN SAVINGS BANKBLDG.
SOUTH ELM ST . GRCCNSBORO. N C.
Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE. N. C.
Dr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG ,
SOUTH ELM ST.
T-IOC^XJ iTE"^v7"S.
See the line of Christmas novelties at
Gardner's.
Mr. <). C. Wysong went to Cincin-nati
Saturday.
Mrs. J. D. tilenn is at Martinsville,
\'a., visiting her mother.
('apt. Frank Krwin, of Washington,
! is here to spend the holidays.
Don't buy anything for Christmas
until you see what Gardner has.
Our 20-ceni Florida oranges are
sweet and good. HIATT A LAMB.
The stalls in the city market are to
be rented next week for the coming
yea iv
Nunnally's fine Candies in packages
especially decorated for the holidays,
at Gardner's,
The work of installing the new pipe
organ at West Market church will be
completed today.
Rev. J. F. McCulJpch, editor of Our
I Church Record, made a business trip
to Baltimore last week.
.\ handsome calendar advertising the
Soiithsido Hardware Company was
sent the PATRIOT last week.
I have a full line of up-to-date lire-works.
Now is the time to buy, before
the rush. (i. W. DINNY.
WANTKII A farm suitable for grain
and slock raising. Address
50-81 l><>\ loo, Greensboro,N.C.
Two young sons of .Mr. J. M. Weis-uer,
v. ho moved here from Oak Ridge
last week, are <|iiiie sick with pneumo-nia.
Heath & Co., New York stock brok-ers,
will open an office here the first of
I the year with Mr. Garland Daniel in
; charge.
Citizens of the South side are strenu-ously
opposing the licensing of another
en I>. Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas. saloon on South Elm street, just across
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS tne niltoaa-
Sherill Jordan gives notice in another
ATTORNEYS AT LAW column that there will I* no court next
week and that thejurors drawn for the
"'.:ce in Greensboro Loan and Trnat Bide, week need not appear.
Mastei Koderic k Stainev, who is re-
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Scales, Taylor O Scales
ATTORNEYS
on? COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREENSBORO. H. C.
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
■r f) GMT BUILDING CP» COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO. N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
S Court Square, GREEBSBORO. B. C.
mention given to collections. 1/o.in*
Robert C. Strudwick
TTORNLY onS COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
: Court Souare. GREEWSBORO. S. C.
. P. HOBGOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
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linn -. . (ireenslioro, N ('.
IICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
-■;0 COUNSELLOR AT LAW
Square, Greensboro, N. C.
■000
' 'orahineil
Assets over
$500,000
Ihe
Greensboro
surance Companies
■ • I . :!-• eight years.
• • ■ :•• i pie •■! Oreens
w than $4ii.iiilU In the
i n! I hc.r insurance When
in call for your home
Simpson Schenck, Agent
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W.MURRAY
\ M. K I S D3 or
NSURANCE!
So. Kim St.
£3
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But tired of e.»perimentinir, then
Itleol Tar lleol C'onirh Syrup. Invalua-
C'"III?IIH. Asthma, Ilronchitis and Weak
I'rlce a cents. All druggists.
covering from an operation for appen-dicitis,
was able to be moved home
from the hospital today.
The corporation commission ascer-tains
that the increase hi the valuation
of real and personal property in Cuil-ford
county is$l,:>fi8,±M.
We handle the choicest tobaccos and
■ iirais. All the popular brands in
-lock. <'. So ITT .'.• Co..
:HKS South Kim street.
Ue\.< . K. M. R^per gives notice in
another column that he has called ill
IUH sale advertised for December I'L'nd.
lie intends to move to (ireeusboroat
an early dale.
If you want something real good for
Christinas buy three pound.- of that
splendid cheese for oO ecnts and two
pounds of Atniore's mince meat for 'Si
cents at C. W. Denny's.
Mrs. \V. K. Stone, of Raleigh, visited
friends here last week. She returned
home Thursday accompanied by her
mother, Mrs. Judge Dick, who will be
her truest I'm a few week.-.
An important meeting of the stock-holders
of the Ciuilford Rattle Ground
Company is called by President More-head
for Saturday, Jan; 2nd, at the
Greensboro National Rank.
Dr. John Thames, who has been in
Philadelphia aboul a year, ex|>ects to
return to Greensboro about the first of
the year, having finished a special
course in medicine and surgery.
Col lees have advanced materially in
the pasl few week.-, but we are still
Belling at the old price while our pres-seut
supply lasts. C. SOITT & Co.,
303 S. Kim, McAdoo House Riock.
Dr. Minor H. Baldwin, the famous
organ soloist of New York, gave a
splendid organ recital at the Fret Pres-byterian
church Monday night before
a good sized audience. It was a rare
musical treat for our people.
Mr. E. K. Bain was operated on for
appendicitis last week and is getting
along nicely. Mr. E. P. Wharton is
another sufferer from the disease, nut
has not yet decided to undergo an
operation. This is his lirst attack.
Mr. !•'. 1". Morton is here for a few
days with his family, who are spend-ing
the winter here. Mr. Morion is
traveling for a while, but will resume
his occupation as a summer resort ho-telist
as soon as the season opens again.
The holiday goods displayed in
< ireeuSboro stores this year eclipse any- j
thing ever seen here. That the old j
town has acquired metropolitan airs is
clearly evidenced by our mercantile es-tablishments
at any season of the year.
Fireworks, the greatest variety of
styles and prices to be found in the
city, at Scott's, McAdoo House block.
Mr. John 15. Wright, of this city, has
obtaiued a pateut on a safety appliance
for trains that will reduce the liability
Of wrecks. It is a sort of automatic
air-brake. A company will be organ-ized
here to manufacture the appli-ance.
Game Warden Weatherly seized sev-eral
dozen birds at the express office
last night. They were packed in the
middle of a barrel which had rabbits
on the bottom and eggs on top, and
were in transit from Winston to Rich-mond.
Chief Taylor, of the lire department,
is negotiating with the manufacturers
for a number of smoke-masks, ap-j
pliances that enable Bremen to enter a
| burning building and remain fifteen or
J twenty minutes without great discom-fort
or injury.
Last week Mr. .1. Van l.indley, of
■ Pomona, who is at the head of the nur-sery
company which bears his name,
purchased three small tracts of land
adjoining the large tract be recently
j purchased at Kernersville for thegrow-
; iug of apple stock.
The divorced wife of a millionaire
advises girls not to many a man of
millions and she seems to have struck
a happy chord. Few of the girls here-abouts
are marrying men with more
than a quarter of a million and from
that down to thirty cents.
Jim Fox, the well known base hall
player, has returned to the city and is
now tit work for the Southern Express
Company, running on the North Caro-lina
road. He played with the Wheel-ing,
W. Va., league team last season
and made his usual high average. .
(ilass panels have been placed in the
big outer doors at the county court
house and the chances of being crip-pled
there have been materially les-sened.
Storm doors for the building
are still in the things-hoped-for class.
They should be put up by all means.
Asheboro Courier: Lieut. Hay wood
: Bobbins, who has been stationed at
; Fort Bayard, New Mexico, has been
retired from active service in the U. S.
Army and is spending the winter in
California with bis wife, alter which
they will return to Randolph to live.
Mr. <;. M. R.CIapp, of I hick Church,
who is something of a taxidermist as
well as a surgeon, brought several wild
animals which he had "stuffed" to
Mr. c. W. Jennings, the fur dealer,
Monday. While here Mr. Clapp ■ailed
for his fifty-second annual PATUIOT
subsetipiloii receipt.
Mr. Roliert I.. Weisner intends to
move hi- family to l.awreneeville, Va.,
in a few "lays, where he has been prof-fered
a irood situation in a furniture
factory, lie has been working for the
Gate City Furniture Manufacturing
Company here the past two years, and
i.- a -killed mechanic.
A threatening blaze in the boiler
room at the Brooks Manufacturing j
Company's plant, on South Ashe
street, light in the heart of the lumber
district, was extinguished by the fire
department Saturday night about S j
o'clock. The damage did not exceed
two or three hundred dollars.
Elbert Auman, the ten-year-old son
of Dr. Auman. of Liberty, was literally
torn to pieces by a freight train Satur-day
yet lived twelve hours after the
accident. No one knows how the ac-cident
occurred, but it is supposed the
little fellow tried to climb on the train
as it was moving slowly up a grade.
A young man named Harry Purely
was arrested at the Deavor boarding
house Sunday on a warrant sworn out
by Grover Campbell, another hoarder,
who charged Purdy with the larceny
of a pair of pants. The stolen gar-ments
had been dyed and Purdy was
wealing them at the time of his arrest.
Mr. A. II. Coletrane and a gentle-man
named Spencer have bought the
old Col. Millie farm of 600 acres on the
Jamestown road, seven miles south-west
of this city, and are operating a
sawmill there. It is estimated that it
will take two years to cut the timber
on the farm, much of which is original
forest.
Mr. K. I'. Motley, of the Bell Furni-ture
Company, and Miss Berthatieago,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Seago,
who live on North Kim street, were
married Monday evening by Rev. Ira
Irwin at the Centenary church parson-age.
The marriage was a source of no
little surprise, yet there was no objec-tion
to the match.
Mr. Walter K. Crawley, pressman at
the Telegram office, was married in
Danville, Va., last Sunday to Miss
Maude Childress, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. P. Childress. They came to'
(Ireensboro Monday afternoon and will ,
make their home for the present with
the groom's brother, Mr. Charles Craw-ley,
ou East Washington street.
We are better prepared than ever to GOVERNOR'S REQUISITION DISHONORED.
nieetthedemandsof our holiday trade. |
and we are not neglecting our staple | Chief Scott Fails to Secure a Self-Confess-
UDes either. Our customers can de-pend
on getting the best of everything
eJ Murderer in Pennsylvania.
Armed with a requisition for Will
Pa., last Thursday night expecting to
return with his prisoner Sunday night
or Monday. Reaching Harrisburg Sat-
Mr. M. J. Dacey, who has held a re-sponsible
position at Proximity for
several years, went to bis old home in
\irginia last week on an extended urday Mr. Scott found Ingram in jail,
leave of absence. His health has not | but Governor Peuny packer had left the
been good for some time and he is j city, intending to return Monday. On
forced to take a vacation to recuperate, j the governor's return the requisition
Mr. J. K.Walters, formerly of Rocking- was submitted, but by reason of the
ham county, holds Mr. Dacey's posl- i fact that it was not based on an indict-
Uon .luring his absence. ment he refused to honor it. taking ad-
Raleigh News ami Observer. l:sth:
Mr. V. K. Wilson, of High Point, a
vantage of a mere technicality to shield
a man who had admitted being guilty
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
and careful management.
The Southern
flagman of the Southern Railway, Ic,f tlle crime with which he was
whose leg was badly mashed while be charged. Disappointed yet unable to
was moving some freight from the help himself Mr. Scott returned empty-train
at Gary, was able to leave Bex handed, but that is no indication that
hospital yesterday for his home. His ! he is yet through with the case,
foot caught between the guard rail and Ingram had married in Pennsylva-main
rail, and as he fell the leg was
mashed between the ankle and knee
by the falling freight.
Miss Marjorie Kong, daughter of Dr.
J. W. Long, is among the sufferers
Loan and Trust Company
nia, and his wife employed counsel to
represent him in the case, but the
counsel's objections to the serving of. „
,,,„ r„ ■„,„ , . , growth has been rapid but healthful,
the requisition were all overruled and
Was organized in 1890, but has been
doing a Banking business only about
three years. During this time its
the writ was denied upon the ground
from appendicitis. She underwent an :l,lva"('e'1 lp.V the governor of the com-
I operation Monday which was per- I ulollw«-'»|th. which is, from his etand-i
formed by Dr. I. S. stone, of Washing- i|loint' teual>le of course, but it hardly
ton. I). C, and has since rallied nice- jfeemsapplicable in a case wherein the
ly. From the frequency with which identity ofa prisonerand hiscounection j
the disease has appeared in (ireensboro wlth u ,,i",e are undisputed.
and ttxlay it is in the front of Banking
institutions in Guilford county.
Statement below shows growth since
February 1st, 1899, to April 9th, IMS:
lately it might be classed as epidemic
were it not for the fact that it is not
yet classed as a germ disease.
William K. Rudder, a telegraph
The chief of police of Harrisburg says
he will hold Ingram ninety days, thus
allowing ample time for a bill of in-dictment
to be found at the next term
of criminal court, but there is no telling
operator of Danville. Va., who was what mav ,,.,,,,,<.„ if [ngraBl.H wUe
employed by the Western Inion Com-; ,,,„ manage to keep counsel at work
pany here for several months early in j„ ,,is behalf. In drawing the com-the
year, was knocked from the end of p|aint on which Governor Ayeock's
a cross-tie. where he was sitting, near j requisition was based the affidavit of
.the East Market street crossing Satur- two eye-witnesses of the tragedy at the
day afternoon* and painfully injured, Battle Ground were incorporated,
hi- left shoulder being broken. He which is ordinarily sufficient in such
had returned to the city only a day or
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st. 1899
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st, l!«m
Capital mid sin plus Fell.
1st. p.mi
Capital anil surplus Feb.
1st. vm
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st. 1MB
Capital and surplus April
!'th. HWI
Total
MB
assets April 9th.
$ 44,372.95
66,227.55
103,789.13
129,543.47
155,236.42
166,696.66
570,689.76
so before the accident from a trip north
•in I west.
. ol. and Mis. Vt. I'. \\ ,»„:, uf Ashe-boro,
have issued invitations to the
marriage of their daughter Mabel
Emma to Mr. w. A. Underwood, the
ceremony to take place in the M. E.
church at Asheboro on Wednesday work.
afternoon, Dec. i^'.rd, at four o'clock.
Mr. I'uderwood formerly lived in
(ireensboro, traveling for the I,. Rich-ardson
DrugCompany. He now travels
for a Lynchburg house. His home is
in Asheboro.
E. P. WHARTON,
President.
R. G. VAUGHN,
Treasurer.
A. W. MCAUSTUK,
Vice Pres.
DA v it> WHITE,
Se-retary.
manly
cases.
On his way north Mr. Scott went to
Kmporia, Va., and took a look at the
oegro I,el.I there as a < iacii McAdoo
suspect. It was not (ireen. During
the chief's absence Officer Jordan was
acting chief. He kept everythingmov- A stroke of paralysis, the second in
ing nicely, :>s he is a veteran in police ! went months, sustained by Mr. J. W.
| Beaman, superintendent of construc-j
tion of the annex to the Federal build-i
ing here, as be was walking along
At a special meeting of the board of North Davie street Saturday afternoon,
Sewer Contract Awarded.
Superior court clerk .1. .1. Nelson,
lias received the pension checks for the
aldermen Friday morning the contract resulted in his death the following af-was
awarded to Guild A- Co., of Chat- ternoon at 5.20 at his residence, the 8.
tanooga, Teun., to construct the re- L. Trogdon property, on Humphrey
maining thirteen and a half miles of j avenue. From the lirst his condition
lateral lines of the city sewerage Bya- j seemed hopeless and medical skill
old soldiersand their widows and they'?"- ' '^ "' „ ,,'e;;"' ^ ""' mailed naught in string the erruueel
are being distributed today. There ate aSf^*«4,529, though the total eost hand of Death. Mr. Meaman was
four in the lirst class who receive M;U "!th!f*tenWOn
i ""l fo°* UP *};'>m>> ; »»tive of Massachusetts, but had lived
a
ed
the difference between these figures \ \n Washington many years, where ho
being expended for piping, etc. The was connected with the Treasury de-bids
were opened Thursday night at a j partment. His age was 57. He came
meeting of the board and after consid- j here several months ago to have a gen-ering
them for a while adjournment Ural oversight of tbe improvements be-was
taken until the next morning, ling made.iu the government building
The work on the laterals will com- and had formed a number of warm
mence at once and be pushed to an friendships. His wife and one son, Dr.
early completion. It is thought that
three or four months w ill be required
each; four in the second class who re-ceive
$45 each: twenty-one in tbe third
class who receive $35 each and bin in
the fourth class receiving $11 each.
The total amount to he paid to tbe old
Vets and their widows in this county
aggregates $t,ii95.
In the Superior court yesterday Dr. ( w „
Westicy Coble was given a verdict for will are Hie only surviving members of his
$S00 in his suit against D. R. Hufflnes t,, finish the job. family. Dr. Reaman arrived here
for malicious prosecution. Seven thou- The lowest bid made was by Guild Monday evening and with his mother
sand dollars was asked. 'I he suit grew g. , •„., the company which has been at ; left that night with the remains on one
out of a horse trade several years ago. . wolk i,ele for some months putting in |0f the late trains for Washington.
In the litigation which followed Dr. sewerage. Next came the bid of Dunn where Interment will be made today.
Coble was successful. Today the issue lV Coleman, of Riverside, Ala., and I
between I'hlegar & Meudeuhall, in- above theirs was that of A. I., Pallet- Sale Called In.
volving the title to the Mendenhall son & Co., of Maeon, while that of H.I As I have sold a good many things
office building, just north of the curt n. .Nichols ,v Co., of Chattanooga, I privately I wish to call in my sale of
house, is being heard.
'Ihe (ireensboro lire department
made ready to go to High Point last
Friday night in case its services were
needed. Promptly on receipt ofa phone
message that a bad lire had broken out :
there Chief Taylor assembled bis men
anil had everything arranged for a
speedy departure, even to the placing
of a car for loading the apparatus, but
fortunately the High Point firemen
were able to stop the conflagration
without outside assistance.
Miss Alma McDonald, who attended
the Baptist convention at Charlotte
was the highest. December 22nd, 1903.
C. E. M. RAPKK.
December 12, 1903.
Dr. C. D. Mclver, who was in New i
York last week, telegraphed home that
Mr. Andrew Carnegie was pleased with
the terms upon which the Greensboro
aldermen accepted his library proposi- L,t (
tion and that the $30,000 for the build- '
ing would be forthcoming as soon as a
site is secured. Several sites have been
suggested and some-actually proffered
the city, and one w ill be selected at an
early date. Mr. Wright's property on
North Elm, the Cone property on West
Washington and the McAdoo property
on Fast Washington are most men-last
week, had the misfortune to lose a jtioned in this connection, while many
valuable diamond ring while away. As believe that the county could well af-she
stood before an open grate at the ford to donate the old public hitching
residence of Mr. W. C. Crutehlield, l„t on North Kim for a site. None of
where she w as a guest, she dropped the the money coming from Mr. ('arnegie
ring in the glowing coals and in an in- can be used for the purchase of a site,
stant the stone had been consumed, as the entireamountmust be expended
Few people are aware of tbe fact that on the building. —
a diamond will hum more readily than
c.al, but such is the case, as it i>* mere- Te" barrels fancy New York state
ly a pure carbon apples and live barrels of mountain
apples just received at Hiatt & Lamb's.
Notice to Jurors. Ni,.e „nuii;es |e,1111Ils, t,„,).,IluIs, rai.
Ry order of the presidingjudge, Hon. sins, dates, figs, prunes, grapes, nuts.
• 'liver H. Allen, the jurors summoned apples, etc., at Denny's.
to appear for the second week of the
Your Christinas orders will be appre-ciated
ami filled promptly at the low-
THE
City National Bank
Of Greensboro, N. C.
With assets of over half a
million dollars, offers abso-lute
security to depositors.
We want accounts of all
kinds,both large and small,
and pay interest when you
desire it. Give us a part
of vour business. :: :: ::
present term of Guilford Superior court
beginning next Monday, December 21,
are hereby notified that their presence
will not be required, as the term will
end Saturday, December 19th.
J. F. JORDAN, Sheriff.
We have ju-t the candies, nuts, rai-sins,
oranges, etc., that careful buyers
want. C. SCOTT A- CO.
Cocoauuts a and 10 cents each, pea-nuts
and popcorn in abundance.
HIATT & I.AM I:.
J. M. WALKER,
President.
J. VAN LINDI.KT,
Vice Pres.
I.EK H. BATTI.K, Cashier.