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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 83. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13. 1904. NO. 15
Dr. W. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
RESIDENCE: 318 WEST GASTON ST.
«'«. P. REAI.U
40U Asheboro St.
THOS. R. LITTLE,
♦08 S. L. & T. Bidg.
BEALL O LITTLE
PHYSICIANS and SURGEONS
Office: No. 315 So. Loan 1c Trust Bidg.
Hours: 8 to 8 A. M.: 11:30 to 1, 2 to 5 P. M.
Will practice in Greensboro and surround-ing
country.
E. L. STAMEY, M. D.
RESIDENCE:
300 North Davie Street.
OFFICE:
At Fordtaam A: Grissom's Drugstore.
Or. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
O-FICE IN SAVINGS BANKBUDG.
SOUTH ELM ST.. GREENSBORO. N. C.
X-OC-A-XJ 3&W?
Or. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.
Or. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG.,
SOUTH ELM ST.
». K. SCHLES. Z. V. TAYLOR. J. I. SCALES.
Scales, Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
on? COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREEUSBORO. H. C.
KOCK rt I). Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office in Greensboro Loan and Trnst Bide.
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WRIGHT BUILDING. OPP. COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
115 Court Square, GREEUSBORO. H. C.
Special attention given to collections. Loans
fated.
Robert C. Strudwick
ATTORNEY aid COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
115 Court Square, GREEHSBORO. B. C.
F. P. HOBGOOD. Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
In Wright Building. Opposite
Court House. Greensboro, N. C.
MICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
2 Court Square, Greensboro, N. C.
HARRY G. BROWNE
PIANO TUNER
Greensboro, <H m M N. C.
REFERENCES:
Normal. Guilford Col cge.
Greenslioro Female College.
L. FRANCIS HANES
PHOTOGRAPHER
HIGH CLASS WORK ONLY.
: Opposite the McAdno House.
I !om.)ined
« apital,
("omhine'I
Assetfl over
$325,000 $500,000
The
Greensboro
Fire Insurance Companies
Have, in the last oifrht years,
to the people «>r Grecns-n
not less than $40,000 in the
'isi of their Insurance. When
you Insure <-a)l for your home
companies. :: " :: :: :: :: ::
j. Simpson Schenck, Agent
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Clrei)*-, mud beiutific the hair,
l'romotet a luxuriant growth.
Neve* Pails to Beetore Gray
Hair to its Youthful Color.
Curvi ica'.p diieaece & hair falling.
SOc.andtU'al Draga-im
Hard and elastic trusses (fit guaran-teed)
at Gardner's.
Mr. R. E. Pearce has taken the con-tract
for plastering the Beubow Hotel
annex.
Squire I). H. Collins has beeu ap-pointed
a notary public by Governor
Aycock.
Dr. K. L. Stanley aud Rev. VV. L.
Grissom have returned from a business
trip to New York.
The city has given an order for a line
La France lire engine which is to be
delivered inside of two mouths.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Murchisou visited
in Washington last week, the guests of
Congressman Joseph If. Dixou.
Chief of Police VV. A. Scott is in the
western part of the state enjoying a
brief vacation. Officer Neeley is acting
chief in his absence.
The Trinity College Glee Club will
give a concert here April 22nd for the
benefit of the rebuilding fund ofGreens-boro
Female College.
Dr. Chas. I). Mclver made the prin-cipal
address at the close of the educa-tional
department of the T. M. C A.,
Winstou-Saleui, last night.
A good game of base ball is promised
for next Saturday. Oak Ridge' plays
the St. Albau's School team, from
Radford, Va., here that day.
Tlie Charlotte Observer announced
yesterday that Mr. Robert K. Folliu.of
Winston, a graduate of the University
and for five years a member of the
New York Herald stall, would succeed
the late I. K. Avery as city editor of
the Observer.
WillThigpen and Will Riley.charged
with disorderly conduct on a street c:ir
the Saturday night previous, were given
a bearing In the mayor's court last Fri-day
evening and heavily lined, the
former paying over $40 in lines and
costs and the latter about (20.
A recent ordinance lixes an annual
tax of live dollars on each slot or vend-ing
machine erected in this city and
provides that no machine of this char-acter
shall be placed on the sidewalk
abutting any property without the per-mission
of the owner of said property.
Mr. Charles H. Ireland and Miss
Nannie Lee Smith, who attended the
mid-winter meeting of the VV. N. ('.
Missionary ('(inference of the M. E.
Church. South, at Newton last week,
report a collection of over four hundred
dollars there for the Greensboro Fe-male
College rebuilding fund.
The highway commission put the
grading force to work on the James-town
road last week, establishing a
camp near the old Armiield mill. By
a change in the route below Jamestown
tlie road between this city anil High
Point will be shortened one mile, while
hereafter it will not run parallel to the
railroad until it neara this city.
A coat of paint is lieing applied to
the exterior of the Hotel Guilford and
the lobby is being repapered and other-wise
improved. Later an elevator will
lie installed and a number of bath
rooms added. The new proprietors are
determined to have every appointment
of the big house as near perfection as
possible, knowing that the traveling
public is always appreciative.
Brigadier General Woodruff and In-spector
General Rain gave the Gate
City Guards here a rigid inspection and
practice last Thursday night. Col. J.
N. Craig, of Reidsville. commanding
the Third Regiment, to which the
Greensboro company belongs, and Reg-imental
Officer It. M. Albright, of Ral-eigh,
were visiting officers at the drill.
These military experts speak highly of
the proficiency of the guards.
The two hundred and sixty-eighth
session of Orange Presbytery convened
here yesterday in the First Presbyterian
church with a full attendance. Rev.
S. M. Raukiii, of this county, was
chosen moderator and Rev. J. W.
Goodman and Elder J. V. Price clerks.
Rev. I). Clay Lilly, D.D., of Kentucky,
who has accepted a call to the pasto-rate
of the First Presbyterian church
at Winston, is in attendance at the
Presbytery. Rev. W. E. McAlpin, a
returned missionary, is another inter-esting
visitor.
Dollar shoes for grown folks, general-ly
speaking, are "not much," and we
do not sell or recommend them. But
we find we have entirely too many
ladies'(1.50 and (1.36 button shoes on
hand. They are of good, solid depend-able
quality iu both plain common
sense and neat cap toes, regular heels,
half heels and spring heels, all sizes
from 2.1 to 9. We are going to close
these out at one dollar a pair. Even if
you prefer lace shoes it will pay you to
buy a good pair of |1,50 button shoes
at only one dollar.
THACKER & BROCKMANN.
YOUNG RAILROAD MAN'S TRAGIC DEATH
J.Stanley Parker Sends a Bullet Through
His Brain While Seated In a Hotel Lobby.
Seated at a writing desk iu the lobby
of Hotel Clegg, surrounded by a num-ber
of guests of the house aud in full
view of scores of people lounging about
the Southern Railway passenger sta-tion
just opposite, J. Stanley Parker, a
young railroad man from Danville,
Va., fired a bullet through his brain
Saturday evening shortly before 7
o'clock.
The reverberating crack of the re-volver
first drew attention to the man,
and in a moment he was seen to fall
forward on a pile of letters he had just
written, his life blood ooziug from a
blackened wound in his right temple.
He had gone to the hotel about fi
o'clock, and calling for some station-ery
sat down at a writing desk near the
big south window of the lobby, indict-ing
four letters—one to his bride of less
than a week who was stopping at a
hotel nearby, one to Mr. B. A. Stone,
who is employed in the yardmaster's
office here, one to Vadrmaster Pierce at
Danville, and one to his parents, Mr.
aud Mrs. J. H. Parker, of Danville.
In each of the letters he clearly ex-pressed
his purpose to take his own
life as soon as he finished writing, but
in none of them did he assign any defi-nite
reason for such an act, beyond
stating that he was tired of life and
was weighted down with more trou-bles
than he could bear. The nature of
those troubles is largely a matter of
surmise, but it is presumed that the re-sponsibility
of caring for a wife after
having lost his position and having no
immediate prospects of bettering his
condition, together with a real or fan-cied
impairment of his health, was
chiefly responsible for his despondency.
After about an hour of unconscious
suffering be died peacefully at the Al-len
House. Several physicians who
were hastily summoned found tiiat he
was beyond human aid, the bullet
having passed clear through his head,
lodging just uuder the skin about his
left temple.
Parker was about 28 years old. Un-til
quite recently he was an assistant to
theyardmasterat Danville, where he
ha<l lived all his life. It is rumored
thai lie lost his position because of dis-sipation,
but that statement is unveri-fied.
I'uesday evening of last week he
was married at Pelham, the Gretna
Green of North Carolina and Virginia,
to Miss Bessie Turner,of Danville, and
with his wife came to Greensboro Fri-day
eveufng and put up at the Allen
House. lie expected to draw here
what pay was due him, but learned
later that he would have to return to
Danville for it. Passes had been issued
for the trip to Danville, and these Par-ker
enclosed in his note to Mr. Stone,
who was an old friend, asking him to
take Mrs. Parker to Danville and place
her in the care of bis parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. H. Parker.
On Saturday young Parker spoke of
his troubles to several acquaintances
here, staling thai he had started South
to make a living, hut no one suspected
that he was in such a desperate frame
of mind ns to attempt taking his own
life. Ills wife was heartbroken over
the tragedy. Beyond stating that Par-ker
commended bis wife to the care of
his people, Coronet Turner gave out no
information whatever as to the con-tents
of any of the letters. The letters,
or some of them ill least, were opened
by the coroner to determine if the de-ceased
really contemplated suicide or
whether it resulted from momentary
aberration. The purpose of the young
man seemed to have been firmly Used
iu his mind. No inquest was lield.
The remains were prepared for burial
by Undertaker F. F'. Smith and for-warded
to Danville Sunday morning.
Much sorrow has been expressed in
both cities over the unfortunate occur-rence.
Death Follows a Second Operation.
Mr. James R. Stout, a merchaut at
Julian for ten years or more, and for
several years postmaster at that place,
died in the Greensboro hospital last
Wednesday evening after a second
operation for appendicitis. He came
here two or three weeks ago for hospital
treatment and seemed to be getting
along nicely until a day or so before
his death, when complications arose
which necessitated another operation,
aud from this he never rallied. Mr.
Stout was about -18 years old. He was
a man of excellent character aud good
business qualifications, and will be'
missed iu his community. He was a
devout member of the M. P. church.
The editor of Our Church Record
characterizes him as "oue of the best
men we ever knew." His remains
were buried at Shiloh cemetery Friday
morning at 11 o'clock, after appropriate
funeral services conducted by Rev. J-R.
Hutton, of Climax.
FOB SALE—Four good well bred
jacks from four months to four years
old, one broken; also eight jennets from
five mouths to ten years old. This is
three-quarters Spanish *>toek, and guar-anteed
to be* all right iu every partic-ular,
D. A. ARMFIELD,
15-3t R. F. D. 8, Greeusboro.N. C.
Someone stole sixty pounds of solder
from the Federal building this week.
Missionary Onion Adlourns to Meet In
Asheboro Next \ ear.
The annual meeting of the Woman's
Foreign Missonary L'ulon of Orange
Presbytery, which after a three days'
session came to an ending Friday
morning, was throughout largely at-tended
by members of the Union.
At Friday morning's session Ashe-boro
was selected as the next place of
meeting and officers for the ensuing
year were elected as follows:
President—Mrs. R. D. Blackuall, of
Durham.
First Vice President—Mrs. Dr. J. G.
Broduax, of Greensboro.
Second Vice-President—Mrs. M. A.
Gray, of Lexington.
Secretary—Mrs. F. L. F'uller, of Dur-ham.
Tieasurer—Mrs. Hill, of Durham.
Houorary President—Miss S. O. H.
Dicksou, of Wiuston-Salem.
Superintendent of Youug People's
Societies—Mrs. Calvin H. Wiley, of
Wiuston-Salem.
Resolutions of thanks to the mem-bership
of Westminster church aud to
the people of Geensboro generally were
adopted, upori motion of Mrs. M. H.
Jones, of Durham.
Resolutions of respect were adopted
for Rev. Dr. Robert E. Caidwell, the
late lamented pastor of the F'irst Pres-
GREEHSB0R0 TOBACCO MARKET.
HARKET REPORT.
The receipts on our market for the
past week were not as large as they
were for previous weeks. Farmers are
now busy preparing for this year's crop
aud are staying -at home pushing
things to where they can get ready to
plant. The quality of the tobacco was
about iu keeping with that of previous
weeks and prices were fully as good as
they have been at any time this season.
Good lugs and smokers are iu very ac-tive
demand and everybody seems to
be anxious for them at a little better
prices. We notice the scrap market is
considerably higher. Scrap is now
selling freely at 3 to 5 cents. Good fill-ers
are eagerly sought for by our filler
buyers aud whenever a pile is found
they are pushed to outside prices before
they turn them loose. All grades of
wrappers from common to fancy are in
very active demand and bring tip-top
prices whenever they are offered. We
trust that the farmers aud patrons of
this market will take advantage of the
present prices.
L. E. Walker, of Alamauee county,
was here last week and very well
pleased with his prices.
The
J. A., C. A. and M. C. Groome were
byterian church of VVinston-Salein, who jon the market during the past week
I was chairman of Foreign Missions for ! aud were ver>' well pleased with prices.
Orange Presbytery. J. M. Clapp, G. W. Underwood, VV.
The uuiou had the unusual pleasure T. Lee aud VV. R. Zimmerman were
of heariug three missionaries at its ses-'among our good Guilford customers
sion here—Rev. John R. Stuart, Jr., | the past week.
and Rev. Lacy Little, from the foreign j Lacy Iseley, VV. P. Iseley and John
lield, and Miss Lizzie Moore, from the | Iseley were among the good Alamauee
home field. Their addresses were great-; farmers who were ou the market dur-
: ly enjoyed. All the sessions of the : iug the past week.
j union were well attended, interesting j j D YVhittingtou was on the mar-jand
profitable. |ket during the past week. His prices
ranged from (6 to (21. He was highly
p eased with his sale.
J. R. Troxler, of Brown Summit sec-tion,
was here last week with auother
load of good fillers for which he re-jceived
a very satisfactory price.
sold
The City's Water Filtering: Plant Again
in Good Working- Order.
The old joke about "not drinking !
anything stronger than Greensboro
water, and I have to weaken that," is
played out. The city's filtering plant |
ha- beeu put in perfect repair and is
loq* turning out daily over a million jhere thitf week- His Pli(:es rauged
i gallons or Nature's sparkling nectar fit! from *7-i5 to ** Per hundred, averag-for
the gods. Two Jackson filters, each ' ,n8 ubout *13 for his e,ltire load-
With a capacity of half a million gal-1 A. P. Robertson, J. J. Mitchell, S. R.
Ions daily, were put in about two years I Lemons and VV. J. Thompson were
ago, but for some reason never gave among our good aud well pleased
full satisfaction. The city declined to i Rockiugham customers last week,
pay for them iu full until they came1 j. Mac Garrison, of Alamauee couu-up
to the contract requirements, and I ty, was here last week with a load of
there the matter rested until this win- ■ tobacco aud well pleased. We are al-ter,
when Mr. VV. T. McCormick, C. E., I ways glad to have Mr. Garrison with
of Alabama, but now located in Char-I us,
lotte, visited the plant and discovered j 0ur old frieud Jacob Cook of ,{an.
"jdolph, was here duriug the past week.
His prices rauged from (5 to $25 per
huudred and he was delighted with
same.
VV. (). Doggett was here twice last
week, which makes his twelfth load
on this market for this season. He lias
been well pleased with prices all the
way through.
N. C. •Garrison, of Alamauee, was
here with a load of tobacco last week,
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
aud careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized iu 1890, but has been
doiug a Banking- busiuess only about
three years. Duriug this time its
growth has beeu rapid but healthful,
and today it is iu the front of Banking
iustitutious iu Guilford county.
Statement below shows growth since
February 1st, 1899, to April 9th, 1903:
CaiK:ted8.urp!us.Fob: $ 44,3<2.95
CaiSt.tiiaind8.urplu!.F:eb: 66,227.55
Capital and surplus Feb. JQT 78Q 1 'X
Capita] and surplus Feb. I^O CA'J A*7
1st, 1902 izy,34o.4<
Capital and surplus Feb. ICC 11/ <n
1st, 1903 lOOtZOO.IZ
c^.ai9&n^8u.?!us.Ap.ri! 166,696.66
Ti903.,as90t8.Apr.'!..9th: 570,689.76
E. P. WHARTOX,
President.
R. G. VAUG/IX,
Treasurer.
A. VV. MC'AI.ISTER,
Vice Pres.
DAVID WHITE,
Secretary.
the cause of its failure to
lion. He communicated with the filter
company's officers in St. Louis, and
after a conference with the president
here submitted plans for improvement.
His suggestions were followed, and to-day
tlie city is drinking water that is
not surpassed iu any municipality iu
the state. So well pleased are our au-thorities
that they have coutracted for
the installation of two more of the fil-ters,
which will give tlie city two mil-lion
gallons of pure water daily, if re-1 alter haviuK trie<1 a" ,he othermarkets
quired. When the plan! was first in-stalled
the average consumption was
less than eight hundred thousand gal-lons
daily, but this has largely in-creased,
and will increase during the
summer months beyond the capacity
of the system as it stands, and it is to
meet this condition that the system is
enlarged.
Mother and Son Die the Same Night.
Word was received here yesterday
that Mr. W. R. Lambeth, who has
been quite ill at his hone on Keedy
F'ork for a month or more, died Mon-day
night at 10 o'clock. A few hours
later his mother, Mrs. H. VV. Lambeth,
who had been ill only since last week,
also passed away. The funeral servi-ces
of both take place this morning at
Center church, near Hillsdale, conduct-ed
by Revs. A. G. Kirkman, of this
city, J. F. Kirk, of Summerlield, aud
J. A. B. F'ry, of Charlotte. The hus-hand
and oue daughter, Mrs. M. H.
Holt, of Oak Ridge, are all that remain
of Mr. H. W. Lambeth's family. The
afllictions of this worthy Tamily have
been great in recent years aud much
sympathy goes out to them. Further
meutiou of the lives of the deceased
will appear iu these columns later.
We appreciate the spirit which
prompts many correspondents to ex-press
sympathy for most every person
whose illness is mentioned iu their news
items, but unless the rule is invariably
followed it would seem like unjust dis-crimination,
hence we believe it best to
omit all such comments, except possi-bly
iu cases of extreme or unusual
alllietion, believing that the reading
public will take it for grauted that all
sick persons are the object of tender
solicitude, not only ou the part of cor-respondents
but of all the people of
their respective communities as well.
iu the country. He expressed himself
as being highly pleased with prices.
J. H. Chrismon, of northeastern
Guilford, was here with a load of that
good tobacco peculiar to his section.
His prices ranged from (6.76 to $19 per
huudred. He made a good average and
was well pleased.
J. J. Busick, R. P. Gordon, Thomas
Milloway, Thomas Allen, A. B. Lee, J.
C. Williams aud Abe Reed, from the |
Iron Works section of Rockiugham
county, were here during the past week
with some of that good Rockiugham
tobacco, which our buyers so much aji-preciate,
and they were highly pleased
with their prices.
Sheriff R. T. Keruodle has severed j
his connection with the Planters ware- j
house and will no longer be connected
with the firm of Keruodle, Gamble it
Co., but the warehouse business will
be continued by Gamble & Fulton.
We regret very much to see Mr. Ker-uodle
leave Greensboro aud he also re-grets
leaving, but he has oue of the
largest farms iu Alamauee county aud
no oue to look after it for him, so he
feels that it is necessary to go back to
his old home and look after his farm
until next fall. He will sell the re-mainer
of his crop of tobacco ou this
market and will thank all his frieuds
to patronize his former partuers at the
same old stand. Mr. Keruodle is one
of the liveliest men that has ever been
on this market in the warehouse lousi-ness
and always looked after the in-terest
of his friends, aud no doubt he
will conueet himself with the ware-house
busiuess here again iu the fall.
Makes a Clean Sweep.
There's nothing like doing a thing
thoroughly. Of all the Salves you ever
heard of, Buckleu's Arnica Salve is the
best. It sweeps away aud cures Burns,
Sores, Bruises, Cuts, Boils, Ulcers,
Skin Eruptious aud Piles. It's only
25c, and guaranteed to give satisfaction
by all druggists.
Ramseur's Improved Train Service.
Beginning next Monday Ramseur
will have a double train service daily
except Sunday to Greeusboro. F'rom
and after that date a passenger train
will leave Rainseur at 5 A. M. and
reach Greeusboro at 6.80 A. M. Re-turning
a mixed train will leave Greeus-boro
at 8 A. M. and arrive at Ramseur
at 10.50 A. M. The mixed train leaves
Ramseur at 11.45 A. M. and reaches
Greensboro at 2.40 P. M. The passen-ger
train leaves Greeusboro at 3.30 P.
M. aud reaches Ramseur at 5 P. M.
Roth these trains will be handled by
Conductor Lane and Fngineer Cope-laud,
who instead of making one trip a
day from Ramseur to Madison as at
present, will hereafter make two round
trips to Greensboro. The business ou
tlie Madison branch will be handled
by a crew from this city.
Mr. VV. T. Gentry, general manager
of the Southern Bell Telephone Com-pany,
was here last night in confer-ence
with the citizens' committee re-garding
the matter of telephone rates
for the city. Greeusboro demands
that the old rates of $3 and (1.50 be re-stored,
while the Bell company main-tain-
that such rates do not justify the
service that it intends to give the city.
A definite answer to the committee
will be given next Tuesday night. In
the meantime the automatic telephone
system on exhibition at the Beubow
House continues to attract favorable
attention, and there is an increasing
demand for its installation. Unques-tionably
there will eventually be two
phone systems here if a satisfactory ar-rangement
as to rates is not made with
the Bell company. The business men
of the city are not iu a mood to be
trifled with much louger.
City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, --- $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
United States Depository.
OFFICERS.
W. s. Thomson, J. Van Lindlc>
President. Vice President.
Lee II. Rattle, Cashier.
Ill HECTORS.
W. S. Thomson,
C. II. Dorsett,
W. C. Rain.
t. A. Hnskins.
J. Allen Holt.
K. J. Stafford.
Wni. Cummings,
J. Van I.iudley,
J.C. Bishop,
J. A. Davidson.
We extend to depositors every facility con-sistent
with prudent banking.
Interest paid on time certificates of deposit.
WRITE OR CALL TO SEE US.
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