The Greensboro patriot [March 9, 1904]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 83. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1904. NO. 10
•Dr. W. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
RESIDENCE: 31a WEST GASTON ST.
•VM. P. BEAM*
■ Asbt boro St.
TlluS. H. I.ITTI.E,
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BEALL Cf LITTLE
PHYSICIANS atib SURGEONS
Office: No.315So. Loan & TrustBid*.
!l, urs: BtoSA. M.i USOto 1. Sto8 P.M.
Wi i.rrn rice in Greensboro and surround-ng
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E. L. STAMEY. M. D.
RESIDENCE:
20 KoriU lu\ ic Street.
OFFICE:
,.,!..iin -\ Urissom - Drugstore.
Dr. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
XJOC-AJII WE'WS.
OFFICE IN SAVINGS BANK BLDG.
SOUTH ELM ST., GREENSBORO, N C.
Dr. M. F. FOX
»HYS!CIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.
Dr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG..
SOUTH ELM ST.
A M SCALES Z V. TAYLOR. J. (.SCALES.
Scales, Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
uu COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREE3SBOR0. H. C.
Wood's seeds just received. Gardner.
See Townseud & Co. for shingles.
Price is right. 10-tt
Miss Laura Coit, of the State Normal,
is atSalisbury enjoying a brief vacation.
Valentine beans, garden peas, gar-den
seeds and seed corn at ('. Scott A
Uo.'s.
Mrs. H. H. Fisher, of Norfolk, is
her* on a visit to Mr. (1. H. Royster's
family.
Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire eon-
, lirmed a large class at St. Barnabas
church here Sunday morning.
Mr. Clarence Scott lias not been able
in get t-> his store this week, being laid
up with an attack of la grippe.
A few good second hand plows of
Oliver. South Bend and Syracuse make
for sale cheap at Townseud 6s Co.'s. I
Plant bed cloth 21 cents a yard at
Thacker & Brocknianu's. Better lay
in a supply. It will not be cheaper
later on.
Mr. Charles L. Lamb, who has been
sick for several weeks, is now at the
point of death, lie has been very low
since Sunday.
Mr. If. ('. Itepiau has purchased two
lots on the corner of Ifcheuck and
LCdgewort.il Btreetaand will build a cou-ple
of nice houses for rent.
In the I'. S. District court Saturday
Judge Boyd issued orders adjudging
bankrupt Ceburu G. Phifer, of Auson
county, and J. (I. Mahe A: Co., of Burke
county.
Mr. E. R. Carter will move his fam-ily
to I'.luelieid. \V. Va.,the first of the
; month, w here he will become secretary
and treasurer of a large coal and coke
company.
The county commissioners were in
session Monday and Tuesday. A jury
was drawn for the April court anil the
road petitions on file approved. Much
routine business was transacted.
(iood two-horse farm for rent. Will
furnish stock and farming tools to a
good man. Also good heavy faun
horse for sale. Apply at once bi \V.
I). Boss, Pleasant Harden, N. C. M--Jt
Corporal llirscb, of the recruiting
station here, has gone to fort McPher-
SIIII. (in., tn stand an examination for
promotion. During his absence Ser-geant
S. \'. Kilmiston. of Winston, has
charge of the office here.
A deplorable sanitary condition ex-isting
northwest of the city was re-purted
to the county board of health
yesterday and steps "ill lie taken at
ections. Loans once to llx the responsibility lor the
same and apply a remedy.
I'he clouds seem to have ••rolled by"
for a while and you will want to be
planting your vegetable and field seed.
Don't forget us when you come to
tow ii to make your purchase.
('. SoITT A Co., The Seedsman.
The slump in the price of eggs the
past week caught many of the country
merchants on the wrong side of the
market. Those of us who have been
paying 25 to 30 cents for eirgs all winter
are more easily reconciled to the situa-i
lion.
Mr. Weldon K. Schenck has resigned
'•his position with the Southern Kail-way
to take the management of the
Carolina Fuel Company, a branch of a
West Virginia concern that has been
represented here for some time by Mr,
K. I!. Carter.
Karl Wbittiugton, an employe of the
table and mantel factory, had his right
arm terribly bruised and mangled in a
machine he was operating Saturday
morning. He will not lose the arm. as
no bones were broken, but it will be
slow in healing.
At least two hundred men will travel
for the two Jiisr nurseries here this year.
Mr. Young will have nearly a hundred
men in the lield. while tne Lindley
nursery will have fully as many if not
more. There are no concerns in the
South in better standing among fruit
. growers.
A good 8-seat hack nearly new for
sale at a bargain by Townseud & Co.,
also two good second hand 2-horse wa-gons,
two good second hand top bug-gies,
one lady's phaeton I nearly new ,
one sidespring buggy i but little used,
two good sidebar open buirsries, one
i. i. Do ig as. Stephen A. Douglas.
DOUGLAS O DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
;.-eecs&cri> Loan and Trust Bide
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WP I - T BUILDING. OPP COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
::5 Ccirt Sijnare. GREEUSBORO, H. C.
Robert C. Strudwick
iTTORNEY and COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
U5 Cocrt Square. GREERSBORO, H. C.
F. P. HOBGOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
n IVrii b Itul ilinir. Opposite
11 >u?>e. 0rcens K,ro, N <\
MICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
I rt Square. Greensboro, W. C.
IARRY G. BROWNE
PIANO TUNER
• nsboro, !* \t H N. C.
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L. FRANCIS HANES
PHOTOGRAPHER
H.GH CLASS WORK ONLY.
site I lie McAdoo House.
ii i .
$325,000
Combined
Assets over
$500,000
The
Greensboro
! Insurance Companies 2-seat top carriage all at(bargain prices.
Miss D. K. Keache. of Baltimore,
and Miss Blanch May, of this city,
milliners for the Harry-ltelk Brothers
Company, have returned from New
York, where they selected the spring
. millinery stock for the firm, under the
supervision of Mr. I). K. Harry, the
manager, who was north buying other
goods.
iu<' in*! elirbt yenrs,
. II people i.| iiIX-'-II-ess
than M0.UUU .n the
-I cil' iheir insurance. Whi-i:
- i your home
allies. :: :: .: :; :: ;:
Simpson Schenck, Agent
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
i" ■ l and lionit.r.i-8 tl«' hair.
rn inolef a lux'iria'it pn»wlli.
Never Falls to Restore .Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Cur.-, scalp ■! - n. - & hair falling.
S I ?l '■ ar Dm^gUn
The Katz property, on the corner of
South Elm and Sycamore streets,
which was recently damaged by fire,
was purchased yesterday by Col. W. 8.
Thomson and Mr. Lee H. Battle, pres-ident
and cashier of the City National
Bank, who will improve it at once.
They contemplate the erection of a
live-story building there, but their
plans are not yet matured.
The Southern Loan and Trust Com-pany,
of this city, has given up its suc-cessful
lire insurance business because
of the feeling that a company doing a
banking and life insurance business
should not subject itself to the hazard-ous
risks of lire insurance. The lire
risks have all been transferred to other
standard companies which will be rep-resented
by Mr. McAlister as general'
'agent.
i
Word was received from Mr. C. N.
McAdoo yesterday morning that his
father-in-law, Mr. 1). A. Breard, of
Monroe, La., had just died at Kl Paso,
Texas, of consumption. Mr. Breard
visited his daughter. Mrs. McAdoo,
I here last fall and is known to a iiuni-
! ber of our people. He was one of the
largest planters of his state «und had
extensive financial interests in the
southwest. His family was with him
when the end came.
Mr. ('. I). Benbow received a ship-ment
of .wii Aimoru goats from Flori-da
Monday. They were sent out to
liis farm on Reedy Fork, where he has
four hundred acres of unimproved land
.fenced in. These goats are expected
within two years by continual nipping
of the buds and feeding on the bushes
I to clear up the undergrowth. Out of
the 350 in the shipment twenty of
them were found dead when they ar-rived
as a result of overcrowding in the
| ears.
Mrs. T. J. Smith, an excellent wo-man
living two miles east ol Summer-field,
died of pneumonia at 1 o'clock
Sunday morning and was buried yes-terday
afternoon at Summerlield. She
was a daughter of Mr. Jesse McMichel,
who lives in the same neighborhood,
and was about forty years old. She
had long been a member of the M. I'..
church at Summerlield and will be
sadly missed in her home, church and
social circles. I'he bereaved husband
has the sympathy of a host of friends.
Mrs. Margaret Stewart Battle, wife
of Rev. II. W. Battle, D. I)., pastor of
the first Baptist church, suffered a
stroke a paralysis Saturday morning
which a fleets her entire right side.
She has since been in a critical condi-tion
but yesterday seemed better in
some respei-ts. The many friends of
the family ale much concerned over
her condition and welcome any word
of an encouraging nature from her.
Dr. Battle had not been well for several
days prior to his wife's illness. but*is
improving slowly.
'fhe wife of Mr. I!. L. Avery, yard-master
of the Southern Railway here
for several months, died at the resi-dence
of Mrs. Doyle, on West Sycamore
Street, Sunday of consumption and the
remains were taken to ber former home
at Waidroil, Did., for interment. Mrs.
A very bad been a resident of Greens-boro
but about six months, and her
health had been so poor that her ac-quaintance
here was necessarily lim-ited,
yet much practical sympathy
was shown the bereaved husband.
She was about thirty years old.
A busy time is approaching for the
farmers, much of the mid-winter work
that should have been done ere this yet
remaining to delay the spring opera-tions.
Since the late fall there lias
been no plowing done, thegrouud hav-ing
been frozen almost continuously
since the middleof November. Whe: t
shows much improvement of late, and
the state entomologist says Hie fruit
prospects are remarkably line, so there
is much to Stimulate the agricultural-ist,
even though he is somewhat be-hind
with his work at the beginning
of the season.
M. E. Fox & Company,
Next door to postortice. As previously
stated in these columns this linn re-cently
located in Greensboro. The Fox
millinery establishment has been suc-cessfully
carried on in central New
York for the past twenty years, under
the management of Mrs. Alice Hazel-ton,
an experienced buyer and designer.
who has established a reputation for
up-to-dateness in all things pertaining
to millinery. Announcement of open-ing
later.
A department of skirts, shirt waists
and suits, with the latest in fancy neck
wear, will be in charge of E. B. Lang-don.
See Townseud & Co. for weather-boarding,
ceiling and Mooring. Ill-It
DEATH OF PROF. J. R. WHARTON. GREENSBORO TOBACCO MARKET.
Soja beans. It's a little early to talk
of them yet, but just want to say we've
got 'em. c. SCOTT & Co.
Wood's seeds just received, (iarduer.
Go to Gardner's for garden seeds.
His Last Illness Terminated In the First
Morning; Hour of Saturday.
The silent grave holds all that is
mortal of Jesse Hankiu \V barton, one
of Greensboro's honored citizens whose
illness in recent months has been noted
from time to time in these columns.
'I'he end came peacefully between the
bourn of twelve and one o'clock Satur-day
morning, and while it brought
grief inexpressible to an uncommonly
large circle of friends and relatives it
marked the dawn of an eternal day for
one of the purest and best men the
community has ever known. Few
there are in the cily or county who
knew not the familiar face of the de-ceased,
his long connection with the
public school system bringing him into
close touch with two generations of his
fellow men. Walking constantly up-right
in the Bight of God and man his
life was an inspiration and an exam-ple
to the youth of the county, in
which his interest and energies seemed
to center. As county superintendent
of public instruction for nearly a quar-ter
of a century he developed a school
system in Guilford that is unexcelled
in any county in the state, giving up
that work scarcely a year ago by rea-son
of the infirmities of age: but it
stands today as a monument to his
ability, his energy and his untiring
philanthropic zeal. From early man-hood
his pure character, his lutellec-1
tual endowments, his lofty ideals, his:
integrity, his fidelity to every worthy '
cause had all been marked characteris-tics,
and the Impress of his character I
upon the community is indelibly fixed.
But the useful life is ended, and naught
but the healing touch of Tiniecan bind
the wounded hearts of those to whom
he was nearest and dearest.
Jesse l>. Wharton was born Septem-ber
-l, Is:;;!, at the Wharton homestead
near what is now the northern limits
of the city. His parents were the late
Watson and Melinda Wharton. After
an academic training he took the full
i.-v.. nj t lie state University, grad-uating
therefrom at the age of twenty-three.
He had ever since been promi-nently
identified with educational in-terests.
His first year as a teacher was
spent in eastern North Carolina. II
was there he met and married his lir.-t j
wife, Miss Martha L. Turner. Of that
union, dating from August ::, ls'.'.i, two j
children were born, a son and a daugh- :
ter. 'I'he daughter dieil at the age of I
sixteen. 'I'he son, Rev. '!'. A. Whar-ton,
D. 1'.. is pastor of a flourishing
church, Hie First Presbyterian, in Co-lumbia,
Ten ii. He visited bis father
here only a few weeks ago, but was
taken ill soon after his return home
and was unable to attend the funeral.
On May hi, IS'17, Mr. Wharton was
united in marriage to Miss Mary J. '
Bankin, of this county, who survives.
To them were born four sons, Messrs. ,
Henry W.. Ernest R., Lee G. and
Robert H. Wharton. Mr. Lee G.
Wharton died Tast year. The other
three sons are all residents of this city.
Mr. Wharton taught school one
year at Statesville and two years at
Salisbury, returning from the latter
place because of his father's failing
health. With the exception of the
periods mentioned and three years
spent as a Soldier in the cause of the
Confederacy his life was spent in his
native county. I luring the war be-tween
the slates he served with dis-tinction
and valor with several other
Guilford men in a Virginia battalion
of artillery, most of the time in an I
Official capacity. After the war he \
taught for a time in the old Kdgeworth
academy and upon the establishment
of a graded school system here, the'
fust in the state, was made super!u-1
tendent. In a few years lie was made
county superintendent, filling that po-sition,
as others, with signal ability.
Tiie only break in the period of his ad-ministration
of county school affairs
was one of two years when Mr. S. A. j
Hoilgin was superintendent under a j
Republican administration. For three
years prior to the fall of 1893, when the
PATRIOT came under its present man-:
agement, he and one sou, Mr. Henry ■
W. Wharton, successfully guided the j
destinies of this publication through a
trying period. Always a student and:
a ureat reader, Mr. Wharton was a
writer of unusual ability, being gifted'
with a power of expression that was '
forcible by reason of its directness and
simplicity. He was a lifelong l'resby- i
terian, a valued member of the First
Presbyterian congregation, and his fu- j
neral took place from the First church
Sunday afternoon, conducted, in the;
absence of the pastor, Dr. Smith, by j
Rev. C. E. Hodgiu, of Westminster!
church. After an appropriate service j
the body was laid-to rest m Greene
Hill cemetery, Messrs. J. W. Scott, G. |
II. McKinney, G. W. Denny, K. M. i
llendrix, W. C. McLean and R. G.
Vaughn acting as pallbearers. A large
bodyHf Confederate veterans attended i
the service, their honored comrade
having long been a member in good
standing of the local camp. Many of
those in the large congregation felt
that they had lost a warm personal
friend. Peace to his ashes.
MARKET REPORT.
The receipts on our market for the
past week have been the largest during
the present crop, and throughout the
entire week farmers came in from
every section of the country in great
droves and the warehouses were full
every day during the week except
Monday. Some of them were full to
overflowing a good many days; and
despite the fact that sales were heavy
prices coutiuued about the same
on all grades and farmers, as a rule,
were well pleased with their sales. Of
course, there were a few people who
took in their tobacco, but afterward
let it iro at a small advauee or possibly
uo advance at all. This was true a
good many years ago when tobacco
was selling higher that it has ever sold
before or since and will continue to be
true regard leess of the price, but the
majority of our customers last week
were highly pleased aud made very
satisfactory sales. We saw no giving
away in prices at any time, aud ou
last Saturday, which was about as
large a sale as we had, farmers were, if
anything, better pleased than they
were any day during the week. We !
did not see but two piles of tobacco ta-ken
in on this sale. The bulk of the
offerings was in smokers and fillers,
with no line wrappers scarcely at all. |
There was-a great deal of very common
undesirable tobacco sold on this mar-:
ket last week and also a great deal of :
very desirable tobacco in working
stock. On the whole, we think that
the buyers had about all they could do, ,
and farmers were well pleased aud
will continue to patronize us more free- :
ly. The farmers of this section are be-ginning
to realize that this market is
fully as good, if not better, than any
market in their reach. Our buyers are
still anxious for the weed and the mar-ket
is active.
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
and careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized in lSliO, but has been
doing a Hanking business only about
three years. During this time its
growth has been rapid but healthful,
aud today it is in the front of Banking
institutious iu Guilford county.
Statement below shows growth since
February 1st, 1880, to April 9th, 1903:
^il#..r!*.l^ $ 44,372.95
66,227.55
103,789.13
129,543.47
155,236.42
166,696.66
570,689.76
CapitHl and surplus Feb.
lit, l'.HW
Capital ami surplus Feb.
1st. l'JUl
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st, lfllr-'
Capital and surplus Feb.
1st. 1SU
Capital and surplus April
Kb. l«B
Total assi'ts April lull.
liVi
Alfred Wagoner, one of Alamance
county's good farmers, was here with a j
good lot of medium tobacco last week
and well pleased with his prices.
Mr. (L W. King, of Rockingbam,
was here last week. His prices ranged
from jii to $19.50, averaging $12 per
hundred for a medium lot of tobacco.
II. C. Kudd, of Brown Summit, was
here last week with a good lot of medi-um
tobacco which he sold at $8.25 to
$17.00and was well pleased with his
prices.
Col. W. H. Evans was a prominent
Alamance farmet on our market last
week with tobacco and expressed him-self
as being well pleased with his j
prices.
T. J. Friddle. Henry Baldwin and J. |
l>. Page, some of our good farmer
friends from Kockingham county, were
here with tobacco last week that sold
satisfactorily.
J. 1". Cuuimings, a prominent farmer
of Kockingham, was here with a lot of
good medium tobacco last week. His
prices ranged from $5 to $18 per hun-dred
and averaged 11 cents.
I!. K. Fryer has been here from one
to three times a week for several weeks,
which is very favorable for our market.
He has tried other markets, but is sell-ing
all this tobacco here now.
Walter Maxwell, F. F. Sharp aud
Abe Iteed, some of Hockingham's good
farmers and Oreensboro's good old
stand-byes, were on this market last
week with tobacco and well pleased
with their prices.
('apt. J. W. Forbis. one of (iuilford
county's oldest and best citizens, was
here with tobacco last week. His
prices ranged from $6 to $27.50, and it
is useless to say that he was highly
pleased with his sales.
Uurold friend J. W. Ellis, of Liberty
was here with a lot of his tobacco last
Saturday. His prices ranged from $7
to f-H per hundred. He said he got
more than he expected for it, and of
course he was pleased.
Samuel Hullines, of eastern (iuilford,
was here with his last loa.l of tobacco
last week. His prices ranged from
$5.20 to $22.50 per hundred. He has
sold his entire crop on this market and
has made a good average.
.1. J. Everett, A. P. Low, W. ll.
Warren, W. (). Doggett, J. II. Dick,;
C. P. Terrell and J. B. Ogburn.some of
Guilford'S best farmers, were all on the
market during the past week, and were |
all well pleased with their sales.
B. B. Fonville, R. A. C. Kernodle, J.
W. Loy, J. F. Iseley, (i. T. Hurdle, O
W. Faucett, J. P. King, L. B.Cantrell,
J. 11. Hall, J. F. Foster, Joe Cobb and
1). la. Garrison were some of the prom-inent
Alamance farmers on this market
during the past week.
For lack of space we fail to give
many names, but there were hundreds
of farmers who sold on this market
K. P. WHARTOX, A. W. MCAUSTEB,
President. Vice Pres.
R. G. VAUGHN,
Treasurer.
DAVID WHITE,
Secretary.
during the past week and were well
pleased with their sales whom we
would like very much to mention.
However, we thank them just as heart
ily for their patronage and hope they
will come to see us again.
Miss Percy McNeely, a little girl of
about twelve years of age, was here
with a crop of tobacco that she worked
with her own hands and sold it on this
market last Saturday for $41.73, which
is a mighty good showing for a twelve
year old girl and convinces us of the
fact that industry and energy will al-ways
accomplish something even if it
is only a small irirl who possesses it.
Can't a good many little girls in this
section do as well or better this year?
Annual Meeting of the Farmers' Mutual.
Notice is hereby given that the an-nual
meeting of the Farmers' Mutual
Fire Insurance Association of Guilford
County will be held in the court house
in Oreensbon Saturday, March
19th, 1904, at 11 o'clock A. M. A pres-ident,
secretary and treasurer are to be
elected at this meeting and much other
Important business is to be transacted.
All policy holders of the association
are urged to be present. By order of
lu-^t JOHN A. YoUNO, President.
Seed oats, either black, white or rust
proof, also seed corn for both field aud
garden. C SCOTT A Co.
Townsend & Co. buy corn planters in
car lots, hence their prices are right. ::
Don't buy seeds until you get prices
from Gardner.
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, ... $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
Coked States Depository.
OFFICEIis.
W. s. Thomson, .1. Van Lindlc.
President. \ Ice l'n•-.
Lee II. Itait le, Cashier.
DIHECTOKS.
W. S. Thomson,
('. II. Dorsett
w. C. Bain,
.1. A. HiSsklns.
J. Alien Holt.
E. .1. Stafford.
tVm. Cumminir*,
.1. Van Llndley.
.1. C. Bishop.
J.A Davidson.
We extend to depositors every facility oon-sistcnt
with prudent banking.
Interest paid on timecertificates ol deposit.
WRITE OR CALL TO SEE US.
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