The Greensboro patriot [January 3, 1906]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 85. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1905• NO. 1
Or W. J. RICHARDSON
OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
■ ItlDENCE: 318 WEST GASTON ST.
K. L. STAMEY. M. 0. J.H.Bontt.M.O.
Res. 417 Arlington. Bes. MM ffjO^pn.
Phone No. K. Phone No. .6S.
STAMEY & BOYLES
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Otter their professional len lees t.. the people
Of Greensboro aim surrounding country.
~©r. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
O-FiCE IN SAVINGS BANKBLDG.
BOUTS ELM ST.. GREENSBORO, H. C.
■Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE, N. C.
Dr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG-.
SOUTH ELM ST.
C. W. BANNER, M. D.
OPPOSITE H'ADOO HOUSE.
Practice Limited to the Eye. Ear. No«e
and Throat.
on, | A. M.tolP. M.; RSOP. II. to
jp.Sf • to i W A. M- riven to the
worthy poor.
X-CCAi, STETXTS.
Or. J. J. HILTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GREENSBORO. N. C.
: i .! i.M Iowa; Drug Cornpany
to n A. M.. and a !•■ "> P. M.
,■ ai w lou-' 'ah HoWL
Beatdenoa Phone 88 l
Dr W. P. Reaves
. Surai n Ns» Orlean • By*,
in .,. II -; Ital.
Practice Limited to Disease j an3 Sur-gery
af "" Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat.
reiao t.. ■"■ P. M.
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A. ■ aCALCe. XV. TAYLOR. J.I. MALM.
Scales. Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
a? COUNSELLORS AT LAW
GREENSBORO. !t. C.
I
, ..._• ,-. ttobert I>. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
title* In Greemboro Loan and Trust Bldf-
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
IHC-T BUILDING, OPP COU-T MOUSE.
GREENSBORO, N. C
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
111 Caart Sanare, GREEBSBOKO. B. C.
fpocia; attention given to collections. Loans
•rotuted.
Robert C. Strudwick
ATTORNEY ani COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
..i Caart Square. GREEHSBORO. H. C.
F. P. HOBGOOD. Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Offioo In Wright lluilriing. Opposite
Court Mouse, (ireenshoro, N. C.
E. :>. Kuykendall. S. Glenn Brown.
Kuykendall & Brown
ATTOEHETS AT LAW
«n and 801, i Itjr Mat'l Hank Bldff.
CHARLES E. McLEAN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Otacv. I i.n . iisboro, N. C.
GEORGE M. PATTON
ATTORNEY AT LAW
'.' ' ! . AM Trust
About an inch of snow fell here Sun-day.
The special term of Federal court be-gins
today.
The schools and colleges of the city
re-opin today.
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Huntley spent a
portion of the holidays in South Caro-lina.
Mi-s Pearl Long, of Graham, was a
welcome Greensboro visitor the first of
the week.
Fou SAt.K-FiuefreshJersey-Holstien
cow. Apply to J. L. Hooper, at Po-mona
store. 52-2L
Rev. Dr. Smith has sold his hand-some
residence ou Church street to Mr.
R. G. Vaughn.
Mr. Worth Ross has returned jto
Washington after a pleasant visit to
his mother, Mrs. F. K. Ross.
Mrs.ti. W. Ward, of (Juilford College,
is reported quite sick. She haB been
in poor health for some time.
Mrs. F. P. Morton and children have
gone to Chattanooga to join Mr. Mor-ton,
who is there for the winter.
We are still anxious for live quail at
20 cents each.
FORSYTII A WATKINS.
Col. W. H. Chapman left Monday
for Richmond to assume his duties as
revenue agent tor the district of Vir-ginia.
Ex-Gov. Aycock and Hon. C. R.
Wats in are among the attorneys here
to attend the special term of Federal
court which begins today.
1.1i-i A white and liver spotted
setter, about four years old. Finder
will be rewarded by returning same to
A. A. Chandler, (ireenshoro, N. C.
MiH Annie Reuu, stenographer for
Mr. G. S. Bradshaw, has gone to Wil-son
to visit her father, Rev. J. J. Renn,
who is critically ill iu a hospital there.
An old fashioned "watch night" ser-vice
was held at West Market church
Sunday night, preceded by a love
feast. It was an interesting and help-ful
occasion.
Over twenty gallons of confiscated
liquor was destroyed by the police yes-terday,
being poured into a sewer in
the presence of the mayo; anil a large
crowd of spectators.
Mink and muskrat skins still con-tinue
in good demand. Retter bring
them before a decline. We pay New
York City prices.
FORSYTH St WATKINS.
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Haizlip, of White
Cliffs, Arkansas, are visiting their for-mer
horns at Brown Summit. We
know their many friends in that sec-tion
appreciate their visit.
The mails last night and this morn-ing
brought us eight or ten news letters
that should have reached us twenty-four
hours previous. We are compelled
to hold them over to our next issue.
At a Christmas entertainment given
by the First Presbyterian Sunday-school
last Saturday evening over $8-")
was contributed toward a fund which
will be sent to the orphanage at llarium
Springs.
Chief of Police Xeeley was presented
with a handsome silver service Mon-day
by the Law and Order League,
the gift being a token of the league's
appreciation of his efforts to make pro-hibition
a success iu (ireenshoro.
Mr. W. < alvin Rankin, one of (Juil-ford
's foremost school teachers, suffer-ed
a stroke of paralysis last week which
affected his throat and vocal organs.
He has been teaching at (iroometown,
but will not be able to resume school
work for some time.
Mr. C. E. Holton is again actively
engaged in the drug business after a
"vacation" of two or three years. He
had all along retained an interest In
the store that bore his name, but now
he is again in harness with his part-ner,
Mr. E. C. Sykes.
Mr. D. R. HuBines is about con-vince!
that he is a direct descendant
of Job and has inherited one of his
most prominent Ills. He has been suf-fering
for two or three weeks with
boils, having had as many as six or
■even on his neck and head at one time.
Mr. J. P. Buchanan, formerly of
Greensboro but now of Monroe, will be
married next Wednesday to Miss Car-raway,
of Wadesboro, In the Presby-terian
church at that place. After the
marriage Mr. Boohail ■-■< aid his bride
will come to Greensboro to visit rela-tives.
Master Early Lee, the bright and
promising four-year-old sou of Prof,
and Mrs. T E. Whitaker, of Oak
Ridge, was burned to death last week
while playing with matches. It was
the saddest occurauce of the holidays
in Guilford aud the greatest sympathy-is
felt lor the bereaved parents.
A horse belonging to President Dud-ley,
of the A. & If. College, became
frightened near the depot yesterday
morning and ran up El.n to Church
street, smashing the buggy to pieces.
One wheel of the buggy which came
off" while the horse was makiug its best
time ran across the sidewalk and broke
a plate glass window.
Mr. A. P. Frazier, for several years
Connected with the music house of A.
I). Jones A Co.
A SMOOTH GRAFTER COMES TO GRIEF.
Early Collapse of the Schemes ol a Stran-ger
Who Was Cutting a Wide Swath In
Greensboro Socially and Financially.
Johu B. McMillan, a smooth young
stranger who blew Tnto Greensboro a
few weeks ago with a choice assort-ment
of "fairy stories" and- proceeded
to take a hand iu the city's so-ial and
financial affairs came to grief suddenly
here, has been made j |ast Saturday eveuiug when the strong '
the local representative of the Cable j arm of the law interposeC| to thwart
Piano Company, which will open a : bim itl eome of ,1JH qoeBtton«4lto trans-branch
house here this month. Mr. P. j actions. The young man, who is both '
M. Asbury, who has been with the. handsome and pollsbed, put up at a!
Stiefl Piano Company for some time, leadiug hotel here, registered from Sa- \
The Largest Bank in Guiifcrd County 4%
will be associated with Mr. Frazier,
aud they will make au energetic, ag-gressive
team, as both are first class
salesmen.
The city high school class of 1905
held au enjoyable reunion at the home
of Miss Douglas Hendrix last Saturday
eveuiug, effecting a permaueut organi-zation
by electing Miss Hendrix presi-dent,
Miss Alice Kerr Houston vice-vannah,
Ga., and soon gave the nath es
to understand that he was possessed of
abundant means and was looking for a I
location to go into business. He sized
up the situation aud evidently picked
out the Cape Fear Manufactuiiug Com-pany
as au "easy mark." His flnvt
traiiMii-tiou was to negotiate with Mr.
John A. Hodgin. president of the com-pauy,
for the purchase of all his stock,
president aud secretary, and Mr. Ben i valued at 120,000. Iu exchange fir
W. Jones treasurer. During the even- the stock he gave drafts on parties iu j
ing delightful refreshments were seived | the far West, In some instances at-!
by the charming young hostess. Thlr-1 tacbiug to the drafts deeds to property
teen of the fifteen members of the class Ihe claimed to own iu distant cities,
were present. He also stated that he wanted to learn
Judge Gailand S. Ferguson is here ,lle 'umber business aud would work,
presiding over the six-day term of civil | without remuneration until the first of;
court that began Monday. The first t"e year, when he was to come into;
I case on the docket, that of Whartou vs. potses.wn of Mr. Hodgin sstock.
The Rank of Guilford, was settled out | A short time ago be appeared at the
I Of court Two or three minor cases ; "auk of South Greensboro with a:
I were disposed of Monday and Tuesday, I cheat for fl46 on the American Ex-the
case of P. V. Carter and C. M. change bank, of Duluth, Minn.,drawn
I iraves vs. The Southern Railway now j in fsvor of the Cape Fear Maiiufactur-being
on trial. Another term of civil I log Combany. He had endorsed the
court begins here January loth over Cheek himself, using the Cape Fear
[ which Judge Cooke will preside. Company's rubber stencil. The check
,H. on. A. . ,L. iB, rooiks was n, otHifiUed buy_ II was earned and sent to Duluth for col-
, ,..,.. i • u L;,.„>Q™«U I leelion, and a telegram received here
wire last night that tne I . S. Supreme > , , .
court had, f_o' und in ,favor ot..t.he dj„efre.„ndj- i Saturday* stated that it was a fo.rBgerJv.
., ,, , ,„ Cashier){. J. Mebane communicated
ants in the Greensboro water works Ift- .
.... . . . ■ wiln till I ape Fear ( niiioaiiv officials ■gallon of long standing. 1 he decision , . ' *
releases the »r6,000 tied up since thehm"ed,,fte,J' """. *« warranter Mc
ONE DOLLAR
may atari you on the road to wealth. Hank it
A srasr sum. "iis true, bill many a little makes a
ni.klo. mi,! the • ollars will almost MV« them-selves
0DO8 j-oo tat the liMi.if. Let them roll Into
the sat lossbank, when they win asm aompound
interest ami mount up to u tidy little sum to
draw upon when the need eorars. lint leava
them there jun as long as jron MB, be "use
money in a sat inas bank growa
Bend lor booklet, "Banking by Mall."
Southern Life & Trust Company
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, $200,000.00 SURPLUS, $50,000.00
4% E. P. WHARTOX. PRESIDENT
A. W. McAI.ISTKK. VIOB-PRI :.
R. G. VAUGHN. TREASURER
DAVID WHITE. SECRETARY 4%
JUDGE SIRUuWICK ELECTED.
sale of the water works to the city, but
the judgments and costs will probably
exceed that amount. The F'isher esiate
gels 185,000, with interest for six years
Mrs. Helen C Brown also gels judg-ment
foi a goodly sum by the uecisiou.
The Chinese wall Of vitrified brick
that lines the east sidewalk on South
Elm stieet from the railroad to court
square is a colossal nuisance. On the
opposite side of the street and covering
a like distance is a miniature mountain
of crushed granite five or six feet wide
at the base, but it can be scaled in an
i emergency by a person of ordiuary
; agility. These obstructions are any-thing
but a delight to the merchants
along the streets, inasmuch as little re-lief
can be hoped for before spring.
The county commissioners at their
meetlug this week, arranged with the
highway commission for necessary re-
| pairs ou the macadam road to Ala-m
He e church, convincing the com-
: mission that the damages referred to
were caused by Improper construction.
Mr. 8. J. Scott was re-elected keeper of
the county home and hissilary, which
includes pay for the services of his wife
as matron, was fixedatjo.m. Jurors
were drawn for the second term ofJau-uary
court. All pending road petitions
were granted and one petition for a
new road was filed.
The PATRIOT is under unusual obli-gatiou
to Sauta Clans, his recent visit
proving fruitful to a degree that was
almost overwhelming. Among the
j thugs we found iu our "stocking" weie
| a delicious persimmon pudding made
by a charming young lady living near
Vandal in. a flue forty-pouud ham that
came from Noble county, Ohio; a big
"■moke pipe" with a stem a yard long;
a silver plated cuspidore, a number of
smaller articles "too numerous to men-
Mil an'i arrest was issued. He wai
arrested by Deputy Sheriff Crutchlield
in front of the Hotel Guilford as he
all :utr« from a carriage, in which he
ha«. 'jein riding over the city with Mr,
x jri.'. Jainc- and wife, of Richmond.
\*».. Mr. James having made a trip to
Greensboro to consider a proposition of
McMi.lan to purchase with him the re-maining
i~i,(HN) worth of stock in the
Cape Fear Company owned by Messrs.
B. I'.. Smith and A. A. Johnson.
Seveial days ago McMillan went to
Mr. Hodgin and obtained his endorse-ment
to a check for 1198, which he also
cashed at one of the local banks. F'or
the pasl few days ietters and telegrams
having been pouring into Greensboro
giving the information that the drafts
for -Mr. Hodgin's stock were worthless,
but the telegram from the Duluth bank
Saturday was ..ie direct cause of
McMillan's arres..
li nis numerous conversations with
his fi iends since coming to the city,
McMillan talked a great deal about
owning a big ranch in Wyoming and
said lie had traveled extensively, vis-iting
every state in the In ion. He
slated that he had studied law at Co-lumbia
University, but concluded that
ther; was not a very bright future iu
this profession for him ami had aban-doned
the idea. Before Justice Collins
he cnuducted his own defense and dis-played
marked ability in doing so.
Mr. /.. V. Taylor, of the firm of Taylor
lor A Scales, appeared for the prosecu-tion.
The warrant on which McMillan
was arrested included in its charges
several different counts, forgery aud
obtaining money under false pretenses
being among them. McMillan tried
hard to pick the charges to pieces, but
still there was enough left, Justice Col-lins
thought, to bind him over and he
therefore placed him under a $500 bond
tlon,"and last but not least, in our esti- fof y, appearauce at the Ilext term of
illation, several kind letters aud postal he Hllperior oourt The friend fro
cards bearing cordial messages of greet-ing
appropriate to the season. Ib-aliy,
we fared better than we deserved.
Mr. O. S. Ball, who is under surgical
treatment for au injured leg, Is repotted
in a precarious condition. Fie recently
went North for treatment but was ad-vised
that an operation would afford
little or no relief. F'ull of discourage-ment
he returned home and suffered as
long as he could, finally having the
bone of the leg scraped in the hope
that it might at least afford temporary
relief. This has not followed, aud
there is little hope for the sufferer. Mr.
Ball was really an amateur athlete up
to two years ago, when iu jumping
Richmond failed to produce the nec-essary
$500, whereupon Jailor Busick
entered a new name on his register
Mr. Clifton Apple, aged 22years, only
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Apple, died
of consumption Suuaay afternoon at
the family residence on Jackson and
Spring Gardeu strtets. Mr. Apple had
been iu decliniug health for several
mouths but was confined to his bed
only a tew weeks. He was a clever,
industrious, honorable young man. and
his death is a severe blow not only to
his fond parents and four sisters but to
a large circle of warm friends who held
him in high esteem. The funeral ser-vices
were conducted yesterday after-thoughtlessly
from a counter at the ... , ,";,
Udell Hardware Company's store he noon, interment being made at Greene
njured his left leg near the thigh, most
likely rupturing a bloodvein. He
scarcely realized at the time that he
was hurt, but his injury has since given
him a great deal of trouble and bids
fair to shortly end his days. He is a
young man of fine character aud has
hosts of friends who deeply sympa-thize
with him in bis affliction.
Hill cemetery. The pallbearers were
Messrs. C. E. Thomas, R. W. Hall,
Roland F'lemiug, RobertChrisuiou, W.
C. Ogburn and F'.d. Woltz.
SmxeiLES—You cau buy them cheap-er
at Townseud & Co.'s than anywhere
else, aad they sell like hot cakes. 50-4t.
Becomes City Attorney, Succeeding; Mr.
A. n. Scales, Resigned.
At a special meeting of the board of
aldermen held last Thursday afternoon
at 2 o'clock ex-Judge Robert C. Strud-wick
was elected city attorney of
(ireenshoro to succeed Mr. A. M. Scales,
whose resignation became effective
January 1st, Mayor Murphy issued
the call for the meeting '1 huisday
morning, tl e object being slated as
general purposes.
Promptly at 2 o'clock the mayorcall-led
the meeting to order, the tntire
board being present. Mr. A. M.Scales
acted as city clerk in the absence ofMr.
J. S. Mlcbaux.
Alderman Udell, chairman of the fi-nance
committee, made a statement to
the board regarding the taking care of
coupons of city bonds. The statement
of the city treasurer as presented by
Mr. Odell showed amount due on Jan-
! uaiy 1st was 112,000, and that there
.tas » deficit of $8,700. Odell recoiu-meuded
that the IIIJJUI borrow $s,000,
giving two notes of $4,000 each, one for
thirty days and the other for sixty,
; The recouiuieudalioii was made iu the
j form of a resolution, and on being sec-onded
by Alderman Brandt, was
unanimously adopted.
Alderman Thompson made a short
talk to the board, stating in the course
of his remarks that some people had
construed his actions iu walking out of
the council chamber as being a protest
against the election of Mr. F". P. Hob-itol.
Jr. Such was not the case, he
said, and that it was on account of the
methods which he considered were be-
. lug employed by the remaining mem-bers
of the board in electing Mr. Hob-good.
He further said that he had no
I -grets to offer for his conduct, shue he
f:lt justified iu doiug so. Aud to end
1 the matter he moved that the board
■ proceed to the election of city attorney,
! which motiou WH seconded by Alder-m.
ii. 11 MI ii--< in and carried.
The name of ex-Judge R. C. Strud-wick
was placed iu nomination by Al-derman
Harrison, who made a speech
in his favor, aud seconded by Alder-man
Brandt. Alderman Wysoug pre-sented
the name of Capt. Hobgood.
The mayor appointed Alderman
Odell and Mr. Scales as tellers and
ballot was taken, Strudwick receiviug
three votes aud Hobgood three.
Mayor Murphy, before casting the
| deciding vote, made a short talk, urg*
| iug unity and harmony among the
inemben of the board. He said that
I no one felt like apologizing for the tiu-j
fortunate occurances iu ttie board re-cently,
but with all there was a feeling
' of give and take instead of rule or ruin
! regarding the affairs of the city. He
| had au unpleasant task to perform in
casting the deciding vote, as he waa on
friendly terms with both candidates
and no mistake would be made if
either was chosen. This was the sec-ond
time, he said, that he had Buch an
unpleasant task to perform, that the
first time, he voted against a good
friend but for the continuance in office
of an experienced man, who was also
his friend. After some further remarks
of a aimilar nature be cast the deciding
vote in favor of Judge Strudwick.
Alderman Brandt, who had been ap-pointed
a committee to investigate the
matter of electing a building inspector
for the city requested that he be allow-ed
until next regular meeting to make
his report, which was granted. The
boaid then adjourned.
Wilbur's Stock F'ood costs less than
one ceut a day. Write for special
prices per ton or iu carload lota to W.
W. Hogshead, Manufacturer's Agent,
114 Bessemer Avenue, Greensboro. N.
C. It. f.
To the Friends of the Farmers Warehouse.
Old Father Time has again launched
us ou another year's trip. None of us
can foretell what will ha; pea as tl e
next twelve months glide silently by,
but we wish to say I ere that we sin-cerely
hope as each one of them wings
its way into the dim past, never more
to return, it wiil find each one of our
good pations healthier, wealthier aud
happier. "May your troubles disap-pear
and your joys be multiplied."
Our market opens for lbe sale of to-bacco
today, the Bid msl , and we will
be pleased to see you with us again.
W Ith your help and strict attention to
business the tiist half of the present
tobacco year was fairly successful, and
we hope to make the latter half still
more so. We assure you our every ef-fort
will be exerted with this end iu
view, and we earnestly bespeak your
assistance. United, we shall succeed:
divided, failure is sure. Will you help
us? You will never regret it.
Greensboro's market figures show
that it is the staunches! tobacco market
in the state. Prices at the "tip lop"
and always steady. No up today and
down toiuoi ro A for us. This has beeu
tested and proven true.
The prospects are that our market
will opeu steady at ante-Christuas
prices, aud we feel confident thai such
will be the case. Our buyers are ready
aud at the tap of the bell will be in
their places. The holidays are behind
them and their atteutiou is strictly
centered ou busiuess. The cropisshort,
but we want and must have a great
deal more tobacco to supply the in-creased
demand. Bring us a load,
please, aud see for yourself.
The biggest average of the year was
obtained on the well known Farmers
warehouse floor.
Again thaukiug you most gratefully
for your kind patronage of the past aud
hoping to merit aud deserve a coutiuu-aioe
of the same, I remain
Your friend truly,
JOHN H. WiiiTT,
Owner and proprietor Fanners ware-bouse.
Greensboro, N. C.
Farm For Sale.
A good farm of 88 acres at Summer*
field, N. C. F'arm well watered, has
' fair buildings, plenty of fruit, aud lo-cated
convenient to good schools and
i churches. Terms to suit purchaser.
V. L. I in >i MIS,
l--_'t. Summertield, N. C.
Farm Wanted.
I want to rent a good two-horse farm,
1 with the privilege of buying.
I Address W. F'. BHBPHKRD,
51--U. Graham, N. C.
W. s. THOMSON. J. VAN LuDLBT,
President. Vice Pies.
LEE II. HATTI.K. Cashier.
The
City National Bank
UNITED STATES DEPOSITOItV.
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, - - - $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 30,000
Your stocking may be large enough to hold
the savings for which you have laliorcd and
aacritlced, hut is it gale enough? There it
only sale way—
BRING YOUR MONEY
TO THIS BANK
and deposit it in the Savings Ileparlment,
whore it not only will lie sale hut earn you
rnonev. Act now. I'elavs are flat ceroua.
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