The Greensboro patriot [January 23, 1907]

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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
VOL. 86. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1907. NO. 4
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OFFICE:
KATZ BUILDING.
MB8IDCNCE: 316 WEST GASTON ST.
■ . L. Si.mi. M. D.
B» 1.417 Arlington.
PhOQO No. 25.
J. H . BOVLES. M. D.
Kes.409 W.Oaston.
Htaone No. 7*S.
LOCAL iJiJVA/H.
STAMEY & BOYLES
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Offer their professional services to the people
of Qreensboro and surrounding country.
OfPioa: Over Holms' Drug: Store.
;m)t South Elm Street. Phone t
Or. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
•FFICE IN SAVINGS BANRBLDG.
eeOTM ELM »T.. Q*(EHSaORO. W. C.
•Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
OUILFORD COLLEGE. N. C.
Dr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
Office over K. P. Oorroirs Dry Goods Store.
Opposite the Souttasidc Bank.
SOUTH EU« ST.
C. W. BANNER. M. D.
OPPOSITE M'ADOO HOOSB.
Pracdce Limited to the Eye. Ear. Nose
and Throat.
Oriel Hours-9 A. St. to 1 P. M.; 2.30 P.M. tO
« V. -I. Sunday. » to 10.30 A. M. given to the
worthy poor.
Dr. J. J. HILTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GREENSBORO. N. C.
OtSoe Third Floor Galloway Drug Company
"Souw" From ft to II A. M., and 3 to 5 P. M.
White Oak office at White Oak Hotel.
Guilford buggies and Vulcan plows
aie the beat ones made. 3—it.
There will be preaching next Sun-day
morning at 11 o'clock at Holt's
Chapel by Rtv. 8. B. Turrentine, D. D.
Borne special bargains in fruit trees,
especially apples, are advertised by the
J. Van Lindiey Nursery Co.
Townsend & Co. sell the Vulcan
plow. It's the be«t one made. Ask
your neighbor and read our trial
ofler. 3-8t.
I The Foust literary society of Bessemer
■ | school will give an entertainment Fri-day
efternoon at 2 o'clock to which tbe
public is invited.
The Southern and the A.C. L. are
said to have reached an agreement
! whereby the broken connection at Han-
' ford will be restored.
Mr. H. A. Qarves, of Pomona, was
reported quite sick last week. His
ailments have developed principally
from the ntirmitiea of old age.
Mr. W. O. Stratford has purchased
the W. R. Forbis place, 811 Asheboro
street, and will move his family there
He will rent his residence on Julian
street.
Mrs. Neil Ellington and daughter,
Miss Paisley, returned Friday morning
from a visit of several weeks to Mrs.
Ellington's sister, Mrs. Jed. Scales, in
New York.
WANTED—A respectable young wo-man
who is a good seamstress to make
vests. Pay while learning.
J. E. CABTLAND & Co.,
Greensboro, N. C.
Yesterday at Raiaigb Hon. F. M.
Simmons was elected to succeed him-self
in the United States Senate. All
but two of the Republican votes were
given Judge S. B. Adams, of this city.
CASE MUST STAND FOR TRIAL.
Judjrc Boyd Overrules Demurrers to ClTll
Suits instituted Against Charlotte Cot-ton
Hill Owners Charged With Import-ing
Alien Labor.
Saturday afternoon in the Federal
court Judge Boyd overruled the de-murrer
to the complaints in tbe suits
for penalties against the Charlotte mill
men, who are charged with importing
alien laborers in violation of law, and
sustained the demurrer as to a part of
the cases in the indictment for conspir-acy
to violate the labor contract laws.
Oue of the cases, which will be used as
a test case to carry to the higher court
lu ease of a conviction of the defend-ants,
will i e tried between now and
April 1.
The decision of Judge Boyd was an-nounced
just after the demurrers had
been argued at great length by attor-neys
for the defendants and govern-ment.
For the defendants C. W. Til-lett,
T. C. Gutbrle and E. T. Cansier,
of Charlotte, appeared, and District
Attorney Holton and Assistant Dis-trict
Attorney Coble represented the
Uulted States. The complainta and
the indictment were tiled at the recent
term of United States Court at Char-lotte,
and were transferred to tha si e-cial
term which convened here last
Mouday. The defendants demurred to
the complaint and bill of indictment,
and it was necessary to hear the argu-ment
on these, and the court's ruling
to bs announced, before the trial could
be heard. The defendants are Thomas
M. Costello, E. C. Dwelle, Bumner
Sargent and Edward A. Smith.
Judge Boyd made bis rulings upon
the demurrers, both in the criminal in
ployes, when tbey bad no just reason
to know that there were any auch per-sons
unemployed in those distant
states?"
"I most certainly do not suppose
that your honor would make any auch
ruling," replied Mr. Tillett, "hut I cer-tainly
understood the Department of
Justice to contend that It would be the
duty of the manufacturers here to go
to the New England States, and to
pay wages sufficient to bring employ-ers
here to work iu our mills."
Judge Boyd replied: "That, to my
mind, would be unreasonable and, as
I have already stated, I will hold that
If these are skilled laborers then the
district attorney will have tbe burden
upon him of showing that laborers of
a similar kind unemployed could be
found—not in New England or Cali-fornia—
but in the territory around tbe
mills from which the usually secured
their laborers."
Mr. Cansier made a motion that the
diatrict attorney be required to amend
his complaint so as to set forth what
kind of labor each one of the aliens was
imported to do, so that it migbt appear
whether or not this wae skilled labor.
District Attorney Holton thereupon
agreed to furnish what the lawyers call
a bill of particulars, showing tbe addi-tional
facts called for by Mr. Cansier.
The question was then raised as to
when tbe cases would be tried on their
merits. It was agreed by tbe judge
and all tbe lawyera tbat tbe trial ought
to take place just as soon as the parties
could get ready for trial.
District Attorney Holton announced
that he only desired to try one case as
a test case and he would select tbe pen-alty
case, in which there were 21
counts. He would leave the other
SALVATION AMY LEADER SPEAKS.
Brigadier Damon Heard or Large Audi-ences
at Lectures on Sunday.
Brig. Alex M. Damon, in command
of tbe Atlantic coast division of the
Salvation Army, was a visitortoGreenf.-
boro Sunday, and addressed two large
audiences curing the day. In the
morning be spoke iu West Market
Street M. E. churcb, and at night de-livered
his lecture, "In Darkest Amer-ica,"
in the Smith Memorial building.
The congregation at West Market
Street church Sunday morning filled
the large auditorium and a part of the
Sunday school annex. Just before tbe
address Mrs. F. J. Sparger eang very
beautifully "Rock of Ages." Dr. Det-wiler
introduced Brigadier Damon,
who delivered an inspiring and helpful
address.
The speaker took a passage of scrip-ture
suitable to the occasion, and ap-plied
it to the Salvation Army, empha-sizing
the fact tbat in the union of so
many Christian workers there is
strength. He attributes tbe success of
tbe army to the wonderful determina-tion
tbe soldiers have for the cause. A
pleasing feature of tbe service was a
solo by Adjutaut Gore, who played tbe
guitar accompaniment.
Never has the Smith Memorial build-lag
held a larger audience than on
Sunday night, when Brigadier Damon
delivered his lecture, "In Darkest
America." Every seat in the large
auditorium and ail available standing
room was taken., Meu, women, and
children composed this audience of im-mense
proportions.
The lecture is illustrated with nu-merous
atereopticon views, the address
being descriptive of the scenes and iu-j
count*. He would also leave the crim-
I inal indictment to await tbe result of
' the first trial.
derful vividness by*slh
uses a good machine, aud
with wou-n
tern. He
the canvas
Office Phone 30. Kesidcnce Phone 380.
Dr. W. P. Reaves
Two years House Surgeon New Orleans Eye,
•iar. Nose and Throat Hospital.
Practice Limited to Diseases O»K» Sur-tery
gf the Eye. Ear. Nose <m3 Throat.
Hours 130 to 5 P. M.
HeAdoO Building. Next to Postoflicc.
In common with scores and hun-dreds
of olber people, we have been
afflicted tbe past week with an attack
of la grippe that has nearly put us out
of commission, temporarily. And the
end is not in sight.
dictment and also in the civil suits, for
penalties. There were20 COUUte in the j I*"""* "se !n wlr'";i there were 511 cident- that are portra.
indictment. Judge Boyd sustained tbe
demurrer as to 16 couuta, but overruled
I it as to rive euatits. He also overruled
the demurrer in the civil suits for the! Jud«e B°yd Baid ne would »ke to : of songs that touched the hearta of the
penalties | have tbe cases tried some time before : large audience. Tbe solgs alto were
In making bis ruling, Judge Boyd
is large. Adjutant Gore sang a number
stated that it ought to be clearly un-derstood
that he was not passing upon
the first of March, and he suggested
tbat Messrs. Tillett, Gutbrie and Cans-ier,
the defendants' counsel, take two
the guilt or innocence of the defend- jor xhtt* days for conference, and that
Mr. William Green Ballard. a young uaU but lrmt tn„ real qoe8tiou before
Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB
DENTIST
Office over Sykos Drug Company.
Phone 79B.
I. V. TAVI.OR. J. I. eCALES.
Taylor © Scales
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS
AT LAW
G REEBSBORO, II. C.
Robert M. Douglas. Robert D. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
1 titles ia Greensboro Loan and Trust Bldr.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
U Csurt SQnare. GEKKHSBORO, I. C.
Epoola] attention given to collections. Loans
[ aetoFfated.
Robert C. Strudwick
ATTORNEY an? COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
"• Csart SQnare, GREENSBORO, It. C.
P. HOBGOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
tsfltoe In Wright Building. Opposite
Court House. Greensboro, N. C.
E. D. Kuykendall. 8. Olenn Brown.
Kuykendall «3 Brown
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Rooms 300 and 301. City Hat'l Bank Bldg. 1 H Levl M. Scott. Chas. E. McLean.
SCOTT & McLEAN
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
1 1 1 Otlice: 111 Court Square, Greensboro.H.C.
■1 J GEORGE M. PATTON
1 jt ATTORNEY AT LAW
Southern Railway conductor living
here, and Miss Heleu Pemberton Reid,
a granddaughter of ex-Governor Reid,
will be married at High Point next
Wednesday evening.
Chief Neelley went to Richmond last
week and brought back the young
white crooks, Dod Wilson and Jack
Williams, who were arrested there
with a lot of goods stolen from Greens-boro
hardware stores. Tbey are iu jail
under heavy bonds.
Thacker & Brockmann are closiug
out their ladies' winter underwear at
reduced prices, the $1,25 grade at $1.00,
tbe $1.00 grade at 75 cents and the 75
cent grade at 50 cents. Tbey also have
a table full of wo >l dress goods to be
' sold at a big reduction.
The steamer hose compauy was
called out ia.it night at 9.30 by telephone
on accouut of a fire iu the Gilmer Hats
on North Elm street. The fire was
caused by coals falling from an epen
grate. Chemicals were used to ex-tinguish
tbe blaze. The damage
amounts to about one hundred dollars.
Why pay $3.50 and $4.50 for shingles
when you can get them at C. C. Town-send
& Co.'s from $1.50 up? Our $2 00
shingle treated with creosote or paint
at a cost of 40 to 75 cents per thousand
will last HH long as the best $4.50
shingle you can find. Be sure to see
them before you buy. Several hun-dred
thousand always on band toselect
from. 3-4t.
The remains of Mrs. Lizzie McBride,
who died Saturday morning at 8.40
o'clock at her home, 331 West Lee
street, were taken to Sharon Baptist
church Sunday for interment in the
graveyard tnere. The funeral occurred
at 2 P. M. and was conducted by Rev.
Mr. Totten. Mrs. McBride was a
widow and leaves a step-daughter,
Miss Liz/.ie McBride.
The big auction sale at E. M. Cald-cleugh
& Bro.'s china store has been
tbe leading attraction for shoppers the
past week. The immense stock ia
selling fast, but tbere are still thou-sands
of dollars' worth of goods tbat
have not yet been offered. There was
not a more complete store of its kind
in the state, and our readers will miss
an exceptional opportunity if they do
not get a share or tbe wonderful bar-gains
tbat are to be had there daily.
Room 7, Qreensboro Loan and Trust
Company Building.
Land for Sale.
A parcel or tract of land lying north-east
of Greensboro and two miles from
White Oak Mills, containing 90 acres,
is for sale. Very well watered, good
meadows, good farm land and build-ings.
For further information address
Samuel F. Schoolfleld or Charley L
Cockelreese, R. F. D. No. 4, Greens-boro
»N. C. 2-St.
bim was whether or not the district
attorney bad alleged facts wbicb, if
admitted to be true, would constitute a
cause of action. •
The judge further stated that it had
been stated by tbe defendants' counsel
that the statutes under which tbe suits
brought were so crude aud self-contra-dictory
tbat no valid penalty had been
imposed thereby. It was a fact, he
said, tbat it was u crude statute, and
they then notify the district attorney
what day would suit tbem for tfie trial.
In concluding, Judge Boyd said he
wished again to emphasize tbe fact
illustrated by means of tbe machine.
The greater part of the lecture is de-voted
to descriptions of the work in
the slums of New York. A few years
ago the army occupied one room in the
large city. Today several magnificent
buildings are owned and occupied by
the army. Large office buildings,
tbat iu overruling the demurrers he I meeting halls, auditoriums, hotels, and
bad not adjudged the defendants
guilty aud bad not, in fact, passed up-on
tbe merits of tbe case at all.
"Indeed," he said, "if these defen-dants
are not guilty it is better for tbem
tbat there should be a trial UDOU the
merits and let them have a verdict of
the jury in their favor. This would be
if the
the meaning iu some of its parts was
exceedingly difficult to understand, a complete vindication whereas
but he was only a nisi prius judge, hav- cate* were dismissed upon tbe demur-ing
a limited territory over which he !tere tbey would "^P6 mere|y throu8h
had jurisdiction, he thought it would a technicality."
factories are among the uses of the
army's property in tbe great metro-polis.
As Brigadier Damon carried bis audi-ence
through some of the awful scenes
of the "dark side of American life,"
mauy no doubt were greatly impressed.
Near tbe close of the Ucture a collec-tion
wae taken, and a handsome sum
realized.
SOUTHERN LIFE AND TRUST COMPAUY,
not be proper for bim to declare the
statute void, unless it was clearly so.
If be should rule tbe statute void
aud manufacturers, relying upon bis
rulings should attempt to bring foreigu
labor into tills country in disregard of
tbe statute, and it should afterwards
turn out, ou appeal from his ruling,
that tbe higher courts should hold the'
statute valid, then the effect of his rul-ing
would be to mislead the manufac-turers
aud get them into trouble. He,
therefore, deemed it best to let the
higher courts declare the statue invalid
if it should be held by tbe judges of the
higher courts to be unintelligible or
unenforcible.
Continuing, Judge Boyd said tbat be
recognized the importance of these
cases—that the manufacturers of this
country ought to know aud to know
clearly what their rights are iu import-ing
laborers from foreigu countries;
that the ambiguous phrases iu this
statute ought to be speedily and clearly
construed by the court.
While the demurrers were overruled,
yet upon tbe main question discussed
by the lawyers as to the right to im-port
skilled labor, Judge Boyd's ruling
was with the defendants. It was
learned that his opinion on this, tbe
moat vital point in the case, was en-tirely
satisfactory to the defendants.
Tbat ruling was as follows: Judge
Boyd announced that if it should de-velop
that tbe aliens in question were
imported to do skilled labor then he
would hold that before the defendants
could be convicted the Uuited States
government would be compelled to
prove that labor of that kind could
have been found unemployed and rea-sonably
available in the territory with-in
which manufacturers ordinarily ob-tained
their employes.
At this point Mr. Tillett stated tbat
it bad been suggested that the defend-ants
would have to show that tbey
could not get these laborers in tbe
manufacturing centres of distant states.
Jndge Boyd replied: "Do you suppose,
Mr. Tillett, that I would bold these de-fendants
guilty because thsy had not
gone to distant states to secure em-
Academy of Medicine.
A well attended meeting of the
{ Academy of Mediciue was held Friday
; night in the directors* room of the City
| National Bauk. Dr. Micbanx read a
paper ou "The Conservative Surgery of
the Hand," Dr. Harrison, who is tbe
head of the city/health department,
read some statistics connected with
that department and urged the co-ope-ration
of bis brother physicians in re-porting
all contagious cases, also
deaths, births, etc. Dr. Farrar waa to
have read a paper but was detained.
The Academy of Medicine has de-cided
to make a banquet an annual
feature of tbe Academy. The one last
spring was such a success aud was so
productive of good results lu a number
of ways that it was felt one every year
would be desirable.
Dre. J. A. Williams, J. P. Turner,
and E. R. Michaux were appointed a
commute to arrange for the next ban-quet,
which will be some time in the
near future.
New Corporations for Greensboro.
Tbe secretary of state' Monday grant-ed
a charter to the Greensboro Securi-ties
Company, Greensboro, authorized
capital stock of $125,000, but the com-pany
can begin business with $15,000.
Incorporators are: J. M. Hendrix, 30
shares: P.. G. Vaughn, 30; E. P. Whar-ton,
30; David White, 30, and A. M.
Scales, 30. Object is to act as trustee,
assignee, etc., to undertake and carry
on any business commonly carried on
by capitalists, promoters, etc., to sell
bonds, buy and sell real estate, invest
in merchandise, etc.
Yesterday a charter was granted to
tbe Arrow Company, of this place,
and it has already opened up for busi-ness
at 227J South Elm street, upstairs.
The incorporators are J. W. Shields, C.
B. McMaaters and W. C. Boyles.
Wanted to Buy at Once.
Annual Meeting Held Yesterday—Reports
Show Best Year in it's History—Old
Officers Re-Elected.
The annual meeting of tbe stock-holders
of the Southern Life aud Trust
Compauy was called to order at the of-fice
of the compauy at four o'clock yes-terday
afternoon. A large number of
the stockholders were present. Tbe
treasurer's report was read and showed
the best year the company has ever
had. The capital stock of tbe company
has receutly been iucreased to $800,000
tud $35,000 was ordered to the surplus
fund. The reports were heard in detail
from the various departments and a
number of speeches were made by the
stockholders iu commendation of the
faithful work of the year. The stock-holders
thereupon adopted the follow-ing
resolution:
"Whereas, After hearing the reports
of the officers and the various heads of
the different departments of tbe South-ern
Life and Trust Company, made to
the stockholders of tbe company at its
annual meeting held this day, said re-ports
were gratifying in every particu-lar
and showed such thorough organi-tion
and devotion to tbe best iutereats
of the company, and,
"Whereas, The success of the com-pany
in all or its departments during
the past year has been unprecedented
in its history,
"Now therefore, be it resolved, That
the stockholders do hereby tender their
heartfelt thanks to these different offi-cers
and heads ofdifferent departments
and all connected therewith, and wish
to assure them of their sincere appre-ciation
of the labor and thought they
must have expended upon the affairs
of the company.
"Be it further resolved, Tbat the sec-retary
of this meeting be Instructed to
have this resolution enrolled upon the
minute book of the corporation as a
part of the proceedings of the stock-holders
meeting."
The following were elected directors
fer the following year: W.H.Watkins,
Ramseur; J. M. Mclver, Gulf; T. A.
Hunter, J. Van Lindiey, E. P. Wbar-ton,
J. M. Hendrix, H. T. Ham, A. W.
Five hundred cords of dry oak and j McAlister, E. E. Bain, W. C. Boren,
pine wood. The Greensboro Manu- David White, Z. V. Taylor, A. M.
facturing and Coal Company, W. E. Scales, R. G. Vaughn, W. D. Menden-
Hockett manager, 762 West Lee street. ■ hall, C. P. Frazier and J. N. Longest.
42 t. f. i At a meeting of tbe directors Which
IN MAKING
INVESTMENTS
WHAT DO YOU WANT?
FIRST:
. SECURITY.
SECOND:
LARGE RETURNS.
The 6 per oent. prefer-red
stock of the Hunter
Man uf actu rl ng and Com-mission
Company offers
both.
The security cannot be
questioned.
The investmentwill net
you 6 per oent. with all
taxes paid and Is equal
to an 8 per cent. Invest-ment.
If this stock Is re-tired
before the end of
ten years, you will get
$110 per share for your
stook and you are as-sured
of getting your
money back in ten years.
We will sell this stook
in large or small blocks
to suit purchasers. The
prioe for the present will
be par. <
Call on or write to
TRUST DEPARTMENT \
SOUTHERN
LIFE'AND TRUST
COMPANY
GREENSBORO, N. C.
_, a SMMMBS
was held immediately after the stock-holders'
meeting the usual 10 per cent,
divideud was declared and officers
elected as follows: E. P. Wharton,
president; A. W. McAlister, first vice
pre-ident; A. M. Scales, second vice
president and general counsel; David
White, secretary, and R. G. Vaughn,
treasurer.
Fine Shoes for $1 95.
Six dozen pairs of ladles $2 50 and
$3.00 shoes have been marked dowu to
$1 95 at Thacker & Brockmann's. These
are broken lots, odd pairs and sample
shoes, some of them very slightly shop-worn.
Tbere are a few pairs of $3.50
cushion sole shoes lu small sizes in the
lot. All will go at the unifoim price
cf $1.95.
Special Notice.
On account of having to attend a
meeting of tbe Executive Committee
of tbe Teachers' Assembly in Raleigh,
it will preveut my being In my office
on Saturday, Jan. 26. I will be there 6
Monday, Jan. 28, iustead.
THOS. R. FOCST,
Couuty Superintendent.
Greensboro, Jau. 22, 1907.
Hangman's Rope Arrives.
Sheriff Jones bas received the hemp
rope with which Frank Bobaunon is
to be hanged February 8th. it was
loaned to Sheriff Jones by Sherifl Ju-lian
of Rowan connty and bas been
u-ed already iu banging two persons.
BANKING HOME
with this bank. Established in 1899.
We want every Corporation, Individ-ual,
Merchant and the Treasurers of
School Districts and Societies to realize
the safety of funds deposited here.
A glance over our recent statement
together with a knowledge of our offi-cers
and board of directors will impress
you with a sense of security.
Resources over $1,000,000.
We pay 4 per cent on savings deposits.
CITY NATIONAL BANK
T. B. 03STMV, Xsr. Savinji Itpi,
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