The Greensboro patriot [March 23, 1904]

              THE (GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 83. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1904. NO. 12
Dr. W. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
RESIDENCE: 318 WEST GASTON ST.
n M. P. riKAi.r.. THOS. EL LITTLE.
LSfaeboroSt 408 S. L. Js T. Uldg.
BEALL & LITTLE
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS
NIL :!15 So. Ijoan A: Trust Illdg.
Hoi rs: 8 to8 A. M.; 11:* to 1. i to 5 P. M.
VVj practice in llrcunsboro anil surround-
E. L. STAMEY. M. D.
RESIDENCE:
.inNortii DavioStreet.
OFFICE:
rdbam & Grlssom'a Dtag Store.
Dr. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
X-CCAJLi *J J=JWS.
OFFICE IN SAVINGS BANKBLDG.
SOUTH [IM ST.. GREENSBORO, N. C
-Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE. N. C.
Dr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLOC,
SOUTH ELM ST.
A M SCALES Z. V.TAYLOR. J. I. SCALES.
Scales, Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
<m? COUNSELLORS AT LAW
•REENSBORO. H. C.
Koberl I). Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office in Greensboro Loan and Trust BIdg.
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WRIGHT BUILDING. OPP COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO. N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
115 Ccart Square, GREEKSBORO, 5. C.
Special attention given to collections. Loans
R.-frotiatl 't.
Robert C. Strudwick
STTORNEY and COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
.15 Court Square. GREEHSBORO. I?. C.
F. P. HOBGOOD. Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
'■'. .i. Wright Building, Oji|K>site
irl Hi in-*'. Greensboro, V C.
MICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
A\D COUNSELLOR AT LAW
• crt Square. Greensboro. N. C.
HARRY G. BROWNE
PIANO TUNER
'..rtt-nsboro. * * * N. C.
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N'oi in.ii. Guilloril Col egc\
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L. FRANCIS HANES
PHOTOGRAPHER
HIGH CLASS WORK ONLY.
opposite the McAdoo House.
. M'.i I . Combined
Assets over
£325,000 $500,000
•Pie
Greensboro
ire Insurance Companies
.. in the last eight years,
• I ii, the people of Grecns-
...i less than $t'U««i in the
■ . * i heir Insurance. When
. a.. tor your home
ics. :: :: - :: :: :: ::
Simpson Schenck, Agent
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
riram,a end beautifies the hair,
l'mmiitvs & hixuriaul growth.
Never Fails to BeBtore Gray
Hair to lta Youthful Color.
Cure* "ra'.p di.eaw. & hair la.ling.
5"c.andil.ucal Druggirta
Sunflower seed at C. Scott & Co.'s.
Mr. Z. V. Taylor is iu New York this
week.
Mrs. J. \V. Liudau has goue to New
York on an extended visit.
If you want the best, be sure to al-ways
get the Chattanooga plows.
Melon and cantaloupe seeds, best
varieties only, at C. Scott & Co.'s.
('apt. J. H. Walsh was called to
Richmond Monday by the illness of
his father.
Mr. \V. I). Mendenhall, accompanied
by his son, K. J. Mendenhall, went to
New York Saturday.
Mrs. I,. Richardson has gone to
Davidson College to visit her brother,
Dr. Henry Louis Smith.
On another page will be found a no-tice
to builders that should interest
some tif our local contractors.
Cnloading a carload of Hancock bug-gies
and surreys at M. (J. Newell A-Co.'
s. They want your trade.
Dr. \V. A. Lash is enclosing the
i lawn about bis North Kim street prop-erty
with an artistic rock fence.
1 want to close out a few bays of line
seed white spring oats.
W.o. STRATFORD.
Rev. H. M. Hlair. editor of the N. C.
Christian Advocate, purchased Mr. S.
A. Kerr's property, on the North Side,
last week.
The best time to buy a grain drill is
now. See M. (1. Newell & Co. for bar-gains
in Bickford & Huflman or Em-pire
drills.
Mr. H. VV. Whartoii has been ap-
! pointed executor of the last will and
testament of his father, the late Prof.
J. R. Wharton.
Mr. Kverett I!. King has purchased
of Mr. Modliu the news and cigar stand
privileges at the Benbow and put Km-inett
Hines in charge.
Mrs. H. VV. Battle continues to im-prove
slowly. Her sister. Miss Mamie
Stewart, of Clinton, is now with her at
the Greensboro hospital.
There are no new developments in
the telephone situation here, but con-siderable
quiet and effective work is
being done, nevertheless.
Buy your garden and held seeds
from a SKKII iioi'SK if you want the
best results.
C. Si "IT A Co., Seedsmen.
Mr. C. A. Tucker, one of our oldest
veterans, who has been sullering from
all attack of la grippe for some time,
was able to be in town again Saturday.
I We want eggs, chickens anil butter
at market prices. I all In see us. The
I W. F. Clegg Commission and Rmker-
' age Company.opposite passenger depot.
The Democratic politiciansof Kaleigh
will be here in full force at the state
convention in June. The entire third
floor of the Benbow bas been reserved
by the Wake delegation.
Comfortable common sense low cut
Oxford ties for women, made to feel
easy on the feet and wear well. Three
grades, $1.00, $1.2-5 and $1.50 a pair, at
Thacker & Brockmann's.
The Gate City Ice Company, of
Greensboro, was incorporated with a
.capital of $50,000 yesterday by Messrs.
T. A. Armstrong, J. R. A. Power, VV.
M. Thompson and J. It. Dounell.
Her many friends and customers will
be glad to know that .Mrs. Harry Poe-zoit.
nee Miss Kilie Tate, has resumed
her position in the dress goods depart-ment
at Thacker A Brockmann'a.
Kscaping steam in the Infirmary at
the State Normal College caused a still
alarm to be sent to the lire department
Monday evening by some one who did
not know the exact nature of the
trouble.
(>ne of the best and largest stocks of
ladies' slippers and ties ever shown in
Greensboro can be seen at Thacker &
Brockmann's. The $1.85, $1.50 and
•*J.oo Oxford ties are great values and
hard tti beat anywhere.
The one-horse plow has a longer and
a higher beam than any one-bores
plow on the market. The Greensboro
Hardware Company will take pleasure
in explaining the superior merits of
this plow to anyone interested.
At a called meeting of the board of
aldermen Monday a contract was
awarded to Mr. J. C. Morris for the
erection of a hospital building 12x28
feet, to be completed this week, near
the site of the present house of deten-tion.
Roadmaster II. L. Fry, of this divi-sion
of the Southern Railway, is acting
engineer of maintenance of way at
present, relieving Mr. fl. A. Southgate,
who is ill in a hospital at Atlanta.
Capt. H. D. Knight is lilling Mr. Fry's
place temporarily.
Mr. W. G. Randall, the artist, will
leave in a few days for New Mexico,
where he will reside in the future, hop-ing
that his health may be restored.
Mrs. Randall will join him this sum-mer,
after the close of the present term
at the State Normal.
The brick work on the walls of the
Federal building was completed last
week. The chimneys are rearing their
heads heavenward this week, while the
carpeuters are making very satisfactory
progress on the roof framing, notwith-standing
the weather.
Kver been through the "Blue Grass"
region of Kentucky? Lots of old Guil-ford
county farms could be made just
as beautiful if care and attention and a
bountiful use of grass seed were used.
We've got the grass seed.
C. BCOTT A Co.
Mr. J. T. Snider, carrier of rural free
delivery route No. 1, has tendered his
resignation to take ellect on the ap-pointment
of his successor. He has a
more lucrative position ollered him.
Messrs. J. ('. Hockett and R. K. Hod-gin
are eligible to appointment as car-riers
for the route, both having passed
the examination some time ago.
The Battle-Matthews Lumber Com-pany,
of (ireensboro, was chartered last
week svith an authorized capital stock
of $50,000, the stockholders being Dr. J.
T. J. Rattle and W. H. Matthews, of
this city, and F. E. Dudley, of Fee Dee.
S. ('. The company is privileged to
manufacture lumber, iron, steel, etc.,
and carry on mining operations.
Mr. A. Y. D. Smith, secretary and
treasurer of the YanDeventer Carpet
Company, of Greensboro, attended the
funeral of his father, who died at his
home in western New Jersey, last
week. Mr. Smith had started north
before the news of his father's death
came, having learned that he was suf-fering
from an attack of pneumonia.
Mr. S. F. Hodgin. a son of the late
Asa M. Hodgin and a brother of Mr.
It. E. Hodgin, of Stunner township,
this county, died last week at his home
iu Krie Kansas, aged about fifty-five
years. Mr. Hodgin left Guilford thirty-live
years ago, living in Indiana a year
and then locating iu Kansas. He mar-ried
in the latter state and leaves a
wife and several children.
Millikan It Bain,the real estate deal-ers,
who recently purchased the It. G.
Glenn farm, on Rattle Ground avenue,
have discovered a valuable gold-bear-ing
ore vein on the property and will
develop il on an extensive scale. As-sayists
declare the ore yields over $20 a
ton. Some years ago a shaft was sunk
on the place, but it was abandoned be-cause
low-grade ores were not then in
demand.
Oartlaml council. No. 00, Jr. <). L".
A. M., with ."ill members, has been con-solidated
with Greensboro council, No.
18, in accordance with an agreement
reached last week, and the last named
council now ranks second in point of
membership in the state, High Point
taking first place with a membership
ofHii in Guilford council. In point of
enthusiasm Greensboro council bows
to none.
The highway commissioners went
out in a body last week to inspect the
work that has been done on the Ala-mance
road. They found the grade
nearly completed and the new rock
crusher in operation. Stone is being
spread this week, and if nothing inter-feres
the work will be completed within
three months. The commission is ar-ranging
to put other forces to work on
other roads at an early date.
The suitot Mrs. Wm. K. Shargreen,
widow of the young man who lost his
life in the railroad yards here last sum-mer,
was compromised in the Forsyth
Superior court yesterday, the plaintill
accepting $1,200 and the costs of the
action iu lieu of the amount asked—
$1,999. It will be recalled that Shar-green
was a representative of Collier's
publishing house, New York, and was
canvassing here for some weeks prior
to his death.
The Southern opened its new freight
depot in High Point yesterday and the
business men of the town are so happy
they will suspend their clamor for a
new passenger depot for thirty days.
Considering the business High Point
furnishes the Southern the town should
have the best that's going in the way
of depot facilities, both freight and pas-senger.
Wonderful things have been
accomplished with perseverance and
sweet oil, brethren.
A Word to Farmers.
I have just completed arrangements
with a big real estate firm in St. Louis
by which they are to send to me west-ern
farmers who are looking for south-ern
farms. If you care to sell your
place or a part of it, come iu and ex-amine
our plan, get our terms for sell-ing,
etc. S. 8. BKOWN,
!'-R 102 North Elm St.
Railroad Firemen Fatally Injured.
Mr. Thomas Avery Sullivan, a young
firemen running on the Southern be-tween
Speucer and Monroe, was fa-tally
injured in an unusual manner
last Wednesday afternoon while on his
run South. He was firiug the fast
mail. No. 97, that day, and as he ap-proached
the bridge over Stauuton
river, some forty of fifty miles north of
Danville, leaned out the cab window
to look at a hot-box on his engine.
A projecting timber used by a force of
bridge builders making some repairs
there struck him a fearful blow on the
head, crushing the skull. He was
transferred to a mail car and made as
comfortable as possible, but died soon
after reaching Danville. The remains
were brought to Greensboro the next
morning and on Friday were taken to
Guilford College for interment. Ex-actly
three weeks prior to his death
Mr. Sullivan was married iu Greens-boro
to Miss Jeuuie Cummiugs, of
Guilford College. Rev. A. G. Kirk-man,
who performed the marriage
ceremony, conducted the funeral. A
delegation from the Firemen's Brother-hood,
of which the deceased was a
mem- IT in good standing, attended
the funeral. Since their marriage Mr.
and Mrs. Sullivan had made their
home here" with an aunt of the latter,
Mrs. C. B. Wilson, living on Walker
avenue, but they were to have moved
to Spencer the latter part of the
month. Much sympathy is felt for
the heartbroken young wife and others
so sadly bereaved.
A Dastardly Assault.
Mr. Wallace L. Watson, a fireman
on the Southern Railway, made a trip
Monday night to Winston on a freight
train. Returning his train left Wins-ton
shortly after midnight and was
making tolerably fast speed when it
entered a cut just beyond Kernersville.
As the train was entering this cut,
Watson, who was on the tender shovel-ing
coal into the furnace, was hit by a
stone thrown by some unknown per-son
standing on the embankment. The
fireman was hit squarely in the fore-head
and knocked from the tender to
the ground. The engineer saw Wat-son's
body dropout of sight and hur-riedly
reversed the lever and brought
the train to a standstill. Several oflhc
crew went back and found Watson's
body lying beside the rails at the end
of the crossties. There was an ugly
wound on the forehead and the body
was badly bruised. When they search-ed
his pockets it was found his watch
worth H7 and a ten dollar bill were
missing. The railroad people have no
clue as to who the assailant was. Wat-son
was brought to this city and seut
to his home on Asheboro street. He
will be laid Up for several days.
David, the nine-year-old sou of Rev.
J. A. Bowles, who lives two miles
east of the city, was seriously injured
in a ball game last Friday, and his
condition has since been critical.
While playing with a number of other
children at the public school near his
home he was struck by a swift ball
thai fractured his skull and rendered
him unconscious for many hours. If
our information is accurate he was um-piring
the game, ami the pitcher, a
little girl, dodged the ball that struck
him unawares. Rev. Bowles, who is
pastor of the Proximity M. K. church,
has many friends who are anxiously
awaiting the news that his son is on
the way to complete recovery. The ac-cident
cast a terrible gloom over the
school.
Twenty-two cases were chalked up
on the police court blotter Monday
when the fateful hour of four o'clock
arrived. By virtue of the magnitude
of his crime John Stroud. colored, was
the star prisoner of the aggregation.
He was accused of larceny—stealing a
hat from the Vanstory Clothing Com-pany—
and went to Superior court un-der
bond. Threeother negroes charged
with gambling were granted a contin-uance.
The police caught them in the
act early Sunday morning. Plain
drunks and disorderly conduct consti-tuted
most of the other charges. One
defendant forfeited a ten dollar bond.
At the annual meeting of the stock-holders
of the Guilford Battle Ground
Company last week the old board of
directors was re-elected, which in turn
re-elected the old officers by a unani-mous
vote. It is agreed that the
Fourth of July celebration this year
should be equal or superior!to its pred-ecessors
in every particular. The pro-gress
made by the company the past
year has been very gratifying, while
its prospects never seemed brighter.
Two Hundred Acre Farm for Sale.
Fine cotton land, in good state of
cultivation; well watered: well timber-ed,
fair buildings; 7 miles south of
Greensboro; three-fourths of a mile
Ironi Pleasant I iarden station. Apply
at once to J. F. Ross.
GREENSBORO TOBACCO MARKET.
MARKET REPORT.
The receipts on our market for the
past week have not been as large as
they were for the previous week, yet
they were large enough to keep buyers
and warehousemen busy throughout
the entire week. The offerings were
of about the same quality as the pre-vious
week, which means that there
was a good deal of good working tobac-co
but very few fine to fancy wrappers.
The strangest feature about our market
for the past week was the fact that
prices advanced in a heavy week when
sales had been heavy for several weeks.
We had not looked for anything like
this, yet we saw it. Of course, this is
good news to faamers and we are glad
on their accouut that this has taken
place, for if there is any class of people
that we do have sympathy for it is the
farmer, because the writer was raised
on a tobacco farm. In summing up
the present situation, we would say-that
prices are better than they have
been at all this season, and that the
market is strong and active. Buyers
seem to be very anxious for the weed
at present prices. We think the cause
of this advance on this market is due
to the fact there is a greater demand
for tobacco here than there ever was
'. before and the market is not supplying
1 as much tobacco as our buyers need.
You can see why this would cause the
; advance, eveu iu the face of big re-ceipts.
We want your tobacco here
and we think it is a gootl time for you
to sell.
T'roxler Bros., of Brown Summit,
were here recently with tobacco and
well pleased.
J. J. Busick and J. C. Browning
were here with tobacco last week and
made good sales.
Uncle Dan Kirkman was here yes-terday
with a load of good tobacco and
well pleased with his sales.
David Sockwell, one of Guilford
county's good farmers, sold here dur-ing
the past week at $8.50 to $20 per
hundred.
S. R. Albright, S. I). Dick and H.
W. Gray were among prominent Guil-ford
farmers on this market during the
past week.
Marvin Groome, one of Guilford's
best farmers, was here with a load of
tobacco yesterday and highly pleased
with his sales.
J. It. Moore, of Brown Summit,
made his usual trip during the past
week and sold a big lot of tobacco here
for satisfactory prices.
1*. M. Fryer, of this county, was here
again last week and his prices ranged
from $5.50 to $24.50 per hundred. He
was well pleased with his sales.
1). It. Jeesup, H. R. Cannon, W. T.
Bcoggins and Richardson A Chilcutt
were among our prominent farmers
who sold on this market during the
past week.
Mr. J. L. Elliott, Union county, Ga.,
bad a nice lot of tobacco here last week
| and was highly pleased with his prices.
i This shows that Greensboro territory is
> spreading out.
T. T. Dudley, one of our old friends
• from Friendship, was here last week
I with two loads of tobacco. Mr. Dudley
had good tobacco and consequently
\ gets good prices.
W. H. McKinney and A. O. Rudd,
two of Brown Summit's best farmers,
I were here with tobacco last week and
■ were well pleased. They will be back
again this week. We are always glad
to have them with us.
The following good farmers were
here from Alamance county and were
I well pleased With their prices: J. E.
and S. L. Story, R. C. Dickey, S. T.
j Foster, Mebane & Haitb, Mrs. Julia A.
I Gilliam, W. F. Fuquay, J. B. Foster,
|J. C. Curl, R. L. iFoster, J. I). Ross,
I I .eat h & Keruodle and T. M. Ross.
Mr. E. L. Liudley, of Chatham coun-
I ty, was here last week with the last of
his crop raised on fourteen thousand
hills, which weighed out a little over
3,400 pounds and brought him $406.12
net. This shows that good farmers can
make money on tobacco any year. Mr.
Lindley is one of the best tobacco
farmers we know and most always has
a good crop, regardless of the season.
We notice from the Raleigh corre-spondent
of the Charlotte Observer that
the tobacco crop planted this season
will not exceed over sixty per cent, of
the crop. In the eastern part of the
state where they can grow cotton,as
well they are not expected to raiseover
twenty-five per cent, of the crop, so we
look for a good time for the tobacco
farmers iu the old belt, as the trade
will have to turn their attention to the
old belt for their supply of tobacco
next season.
See Townsend & Co. for weather-boarding,
ceiling aud flooring. 10-4t
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
aud careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized in 1880, but has been
doing a Banking business only about
three years. During this time its
growth has been rapid but healthful,
and today it is in the front of Banking
institutions iu Guilford county.
Statement below shows growth since
February 1st, 1899, to April 9th, 1908:
Capital and surplus Feb. 4 A A fn
1st, Is1.'.' S> "t,J( «,
Capital and surplus Feb. z z *^*>7
1st, WOO OO.ZZt,
Capital and surplus Feb. Jft'l 7flQ
Capital and surplus Feb. OQ CA1
1st, 1H0-J lZ7,3*rO,
Capital and surplus Feb. ICE ">1<i
1st, 1H03 133»AVJOI
Capital and surplus April 1AA /.Qi.
Total assets April »th. C7Q ASQ
95
55
13
4«
42
66
76 I
B. P. WIIAKTON, A. W. McAUSTEB,
President. Vice Prest
R. (J. VACOIIX,
Treasurer.
DAVID WHITE,
Secretary.
Mr. Andrew Joyner, the newspaper
correspondent, is putting in much of
his spare time rummaging among the
old papers in the court house that have
been resurrected for systematic index-ing
aud tiling in the new vaults. One
of the documents that caught his eye
this week was the following report tiled
some years ago by a candidate for office
whose sworn statemeut of election ex-penses
varied somewhat from the ste-reotyped
form usually adopted. The
statement reads: "I ruuued for justis
of pees iu my deestrict in town-ship.
I never spent oue sent. I was
| defeeted. So help me God."
Mrs. 1J. L. Liueberry has gone to
! Baltimore to see her husband, who is
; under treatment iu a hospital there for
j stomach trouble. A letter from the
i hospital authorities yesterday said that
[Mr. Liueberry was critically ill.
LATER—Word came last night that
Mr. Liueberry was dead. He was a
native of Randolph, and moved here
about a year ago, after building a nice
residence near Lindley park. A man
of unblemished character, he stood
i high In the esteem of a large circle of
| friends. The remains will be brought
I here touight. It is' probable that in-
: terment will be made in Randolph.
j Opening Sale of Our New Shirt Waist De-partment.
On Monday we begin a spring saleof
our 1904 shirt waists. Specials for this
week will be chambray anil black mer-cerized
waists at about one half their
usual price. M. E. Fox & Co.,
Next door to postotlice.
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, - - - $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
, United states Depository.
OFFICEUS.
W. s. Thomson. .1. Van Lindle)
President. Vice President.
Lee II. Itutlle. Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
w. s. Thomson,
C. II. Dorsctt,
W.C. Main.
.1. A. Hoaklns,
.1. Allen Holt.
E. J.Stafford.
Wm. Cummirurs,
J. \ an Lindley.
.i.C. Bishop.
J. A Davidson.
We extend to depositors every facility con-sistent
with prudent banking1.
Interest paid on time certificates C.t deposit.
WRITE OR CALL TO SEE US.
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