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THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT
PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY
ESTABLISHED 18fc*V'^
SSr; GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1915 VOL. 94—NO. 10
LOCAL NEWSJORIEF FORM
HITTERS OP INTEREST TO THE
' READERS OP THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
.January Permits.—Mr. Marvin
Ro.les, the city building inspector,
reports that (luring the month of
jar.nary he issued seven permits for
buildings to be erected at an
Climated cost of $16,800.
livil Service.—A civil service ex-amination
was held here yesterday
for positions as title attorneys and
was taken by the following: Bruce
Craven, of Trinity; Leonidas Her-bij:,
W. J- Sherrod, Cooper Ha.ll, of
Greensboro, and Messrs. Hall and
Johnson, of the Winston-Salem bar.
TU positions pay $1,500 to $2,000
annually.
To Enlarge Creamery.—Mr. W. J.
Shsford, of Hickory, has purchased
an interest in the Guilford Creamery
company and will be associated with
Mr. J A. Hornaday in the manage-ment
of the business. Mr. Shuford
was formerly manager of the Ca-tawba
creamery, at Hickory, and is
conversant with all the details of the
business.
The Story Teller—Mr. Richard T.
Wyche, a brother of Dr. J. E.Wyche,
of this city, is to deliver a lecture
tomorrow evening at the Greens-boro
College for Women. Mr.
\V "lie is a favorite in Greensboro,
as he is wherever he is known, and
it goes without saying that he will
be heard by a large and apprecia-
;ivp audience of Greensboro's most
cultured people.
Railroad Men Here.—Mr. Fairfax
Harrison, president of the Southern
Railway, and Mr. E. H. Coapman,
several manager of the system,
were visitors in Greensboro yester-day.
They spent several hours in
looking over their company's prop-try
and later conferred with a num-ber
of leading business men of the
city relative to the proposed erec-iion
of a new passenger station.
New Undertaking Company.—An
advertisement on anothe: page of
The Patriot calls attention to the
fact that the Southside Undertaking
Company has been organized and is
ready for business at 600 South Elm
street, the stand formerly occupied
by the Wilson Undertaking ompany.
Messrs. John A. and N. Rush Hod-
'.-ir; are the proprietors and Mr. W.
A. Wilson the manager of the new
business.
To Meet in Greensboro.—The an-nual
meeting of the Woman's Mis-sionary
Society ' of the Western
North Carolina Conference adjourn-ed
in Charlotte Tuesday night to
meet next year in Greensboro. Mrs.
Lucy H. Robertson, of this city, was
re-elected president of the society,
which numbers among its member-ship
many of the leading missionary
workers in the Methodist church in
western North Carolina.
Congratulations.—Dr. W. M.
Jones. Guilford's efficient county
health officer, is in receipt of a let-ter
from Dr. W. S. Rankin, secre-tary
of the state board of health, re-garding
the registration in Guilford
county. Dr. Rankin offers congrat-jiations
for the accuracy of the reg-istration
work in the county during
ike past year. "The figures from
Guilford county," says he, "are
irnong the most accurate of any of
the counties of the state."
* Busy Month.—The report of the
police department for the month of
January shows that 105 warrants
" ' re issued during the month. This
number of warrants called for the
•r/est of 143 persons, as many as
1- being arrested on a single war-r.
t. Eighty-five of this number
*ere convicted, 13 were acquitted
■ir. 1 the remainder nol prossed. Of
the 143 persons arrested, 126 were
males and 17 females. A large ma-jority
of this number were negroes.
Burglars at Large.—Two Greens-boro
homes, both located in thickly
populated residential sections, were
entered by unknown par.ies Monday
ni;ht. At each home, so far as can
lie learned, the burglars got nothing
for their trouble. One of the homes
was entered while the family was in
the house, the burglar passing by an
open side window, within a few feet
of where two members of the family
were sitting and going to a rear win-dow,
through which he entered. The
family of the other residence enter-ed
are absent from the city and af-ter
rambling all over the house, the
burglar or burglars departed. Noth-ing
but an empty box Is missed from
this home. The residences entered
are those of Messrs. Andrew Joyner
and Frank Leak.
Real Estate Deal.—The Irving
Park Company, "a corporation .form-ed
for the development of a large
tract of suburban property near the
Country club, north of the city, has
purchased from the company own-ing
the club property a tract of land
at the price of $14,000. This leaves
the club all the land it needs, and
the club realizes about $3,000 more
for the part it sells than U paid orig-inally
for its entire holdings.
Called Him Names.—Walter S.
Royal, a High Point attorney, has
sued N. P. Farlow, secretary-treas-urer
of the Deep River Chair Com-pany,
of Randleman, for $5,000 al-leged
damages because in a 1,-tt -r
to a l-oai company, it is said, Mr.
Farlow ieferred to Mr. Royal as a
"thimble-headed simpleton" and
"an insulting little idiot." Mr. Roy-al
had a claim from a coal company
against Mr. Farlow's company's,
and it appears that the suit is a re-sult
of efforts to collect the account.
Hospital Addition.—An addition
to St. Leo's hospital, at a cost of
? 10,000 for building and equipment,
is about completed and will prob-ably
be ready for use during this
month. This makes the hospital
plant worth $1.50,000 ana one of the
Dest equipped institutions in the
South. On tlie first floor of tne an-nex
will be three new operating
rooms, and on the second floor are
seveial new bed rooms au-1 toih ts.
On the top will be a roof garden for
the use of the third flour of the
main "building.
"Chic" Doak For Coach—A press
dispatch from Chapel Hill says:
"Chic" Doak. of Guilford, was
chosen as coach for the University
of North Carolina baseball team for
the 1915 season, at the meeting of
the athletic council last night. Doak
is now coaching the university bas-ketball
team and came to Chapel
Hill from Guilford College, where
as baseball and basketball coach his
work was of the highest order. His
excellent coaching at Guilford en-abled
him to put out in the past few-years
some of the fastest college
teams in the state.
Sunday School Workers.—The ex-ecutive
committee of the North Car-olina
Sunday School Association
was in session here Tuesday after-noon.
The meeting was held in the
state headquarters in the Banner
building and was attended by J. A.
Brown, of Chadbourn, president of
the state association; President W.
A. Harper, of Elon College, chair-man
of the executive committee;
Secretary J. W. Long, of this city,
and a number of other leading Sun-lay
school women. Plans were
considered for a general extension
of the work throughout the state
In New Quarters.—The undertak-ing
firm of L. M. Ammen & Co. is
now located in new quarters, having
moved from 600 South Elm street
across the street to 607 South Elm
street, next to Lowe's grocery store.
Mr. Ammen, the head of the firm,
has been successfully engaged in the
undertaking business in Greensboro
for the past five years and is well
and favorably known to the public.
For several years he was associated
with the Wilson Undertaking Com-pany,
which went into bankruptcy
some time ago. The firm has added
picture framing as a branch of its
business.
New Corporation.—The Windlass
Wagon Brake Company has been or-ganized
here and will manufacture
and distribute from Greensboro a
newly invented wagon brake. The
patent is owned by George P.
Crutchfield, who until recently was
in the internal revenue service. The
capacity of the plant will be 200
wagon brakes a day. The incorpo-rators
are G. P. Crutchfield and H.
C. Marley, of this city, and Z. V.
Crutchfield, of Thomasville. The de-vice
is one which appears to have
real merit back of it, and tbe new
company starts out with most en-couraging
prospects.
Patient Runs Amnck.—Laboring
under the delusion that some one
was trying to kill him. Dr. Lancas-ter,
of Dobson, a patient at St. Leo's
hospital, yesterday seized his revol-ver
and fired through the transom
over his room door. He then jump-ed
through a window and ran down
Summit avenue several blocks and
entered the home of Judge S. Glenn
Brown. Mn. Brown was alone, with
the exception of a colored servant
woman, and both ran from the house
upon the approach of the intruder.
Officers who responded to a tele-phone
call had no difficulty in con-veying
Dr. Lancaster back to the
hospital.
THE COMMISSIONERS MEET
TRANSACT MUCH BUSINESS OP
INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF
THE COUNTY.
The February meeting of the
board of county commissioners,
which was held Monday and Tues-day,
was marked by the transaction
of a good deal of business of public
interest. Perhaps the two most im-portant
matters that came belore
the board related to the court house
proposition and a change in the
county road law.
The commissioners approved z
bill that will be presented to the leg-islature
authorising tne board to ia-sue
bonds' in the sum of $260,000
for the erection of the new court
house upon the approval of the peo-ple
of the county as expressed in an
el.ction. The bill probably will ue
introduced and passed by the legis-lature
wltnin the next few days, and
the election can bo held in 30 days
after rs ratification.
It was decided to ask the legisla-ture
to amend the present road law
of the county so as to abolish the of-fice
of \own«h;p road commissioner,
leaving all the road work of the
county to be directed from the of-fice
of the county superintendent of
rope's.
The commissioners were called
upon to handle several road mat-ters.
Citizens of Morehead township
petitioned for several changes and a
discontinuance in public roads near
Pomona, the particulars of which
will be found in an advertisement
elsewhere in The Patriot.
A petition was filed asking that
the road leading from Dr. Williams'
place, on the road from High Point
to Mechanicsville to the macadam
road, be improved with gravel. The
board agreed to comply with this re-quest
if the property owners shall
raise $1,000 to be expended on the
work. The petition was accom-panied1
by a subscription list
amounting to $700.
A petition was filed asking that
the road leading from Deep River
church, by way of Stafford's mill to
the macadam road west of James-town,
be improved and made a sand-clay
road. The board agreed to do
this work if the property owners
would pay $1,000 in cash and wcrk
of the cost. The subscription list
presented to the commissioners was
for $485 in cash and $395 in work,
a total of $875.
The board granted the petition
previously filed asking for the open-ing
of a public road in J .fferson and
Rock Creek township, beginning at
a point on the McConnell road, on
Walter Clark's land, and running
for a distance of four or five mile?
to a point on the Whitsett and Brick
church road, at Kivett Shepherd's
store, was granted and the road or-dered
opened according to law.
The matter of extending the use
and benefits of the Greensboro pub-lic
library to all the people of the
county was brought before the com-missioners
again by a committee
consisting of Mr. E. P. Wharton and
Dr. W. P. Beall. It was proposed
that, in return for opening the li-brary
to all the people of the coun-ty,
the commissioners make an ap-propriation
of two and a half cents
per capita, which, it was estimated,
would amount to about $1,500 an-nually.
The commissionen again
took the matter under advisement.
The monthly rep jrt of Dr. W. M.
Jones, county health officer, show-ed
health and sanitation conditions
in the county to be of a satisfactory
nature.
Mr. J. A. Davidson, county audi-tor
and superintendent of roads,
was appointed to represent Guilford
county at the good roads institute
to be held at the Univenity of North
Carolina for four days beginning
February 23.
Juron for the three civil terms
of Superior court to be held in
March were drawn as follows:
March 8—Rufus W. Low, Joe W.
Clapp, George W. Lednum, T. J.
Rumley, J. C. Browning, George
Coble, C. R. Bevill, W. A. Jobe, J.
A. Kirkman, R. M. Spoon, J. P.
Weatherly, W. D. Moore, George J.
Harry, E. F. Pate, C. L. Harbour,
C. H. Groome. W. D. Sutton, C. L.
Ward, W. L. Hanner, J. E. Benbow,
H. C. Cude, J. P. Horney, W. A.
Meyen and J. W. Allen.
March 15—Y. W. Brann, E. M.
Boone, Sam Garrett, Walter Wago-ner,
M. A. Lineberry, John D. Shaw,
J. B. Robinson, C. S. Maness, A. H.
Nance, J. F. Scnrlock, John Hardin,
A. B. Lee, M. H. Kdmondson, ▲. D.
Mangum, M. H. Brannon, Will T.
Osborn, A. C. Case, J. A. Walker,
Oliver Armfield, J. R. Rumley, 3. A.
Gordon, C. L. Gray, E. A. Zackary
and W. L. Smith.
March 22.—Isaac M. Thomas, H.
S. Lewey, W. T. Bowman, W. H.
Faucett, F. W. Cobb, Jacob Coble,
J. R. Schoolfield, James D. Donnell,
J. Rank Thomas, A. J. Jennings, J.
W. Elliott, Allie Highfill, R. A. Sills,
I. F. Bennett, E. E. Bain, Z. Lee
Groome, J. C. Strader, S. E. Col-trane,
D. W. Moore, O. S. Medearis,
Z. P. Campbell, M. P. Sechrest, A.
H. Idol and R. O. Lindsay.
IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE'S
LAWMAKERS.IN THE SENATE
AND HOUSE.
Bankruptcy Matters.
A voluntary petition in bankrup-tcy
was filed Tuesday in the United
States District court by E. Lyman
Scott and John A. Good vin, asv indi-viduals
and as partners, trading as
the Greensboro Furniture- Company.
The debts are scheduled at $1,706.-
)7 and assets at $1,929.20. The
matter was referred to G. S. Fergu-son,
Jr., referee in bankruptcy. T.
C. Hoyle represents the bankrupts.
In the matter of Robert Harris &
Bro bankrupts, the receiver. Ira
R. Humphries, was allowed the sum
of $1,289.15 in full of balance of
compensation as receiver, and also
the sum of $310 as receiver for the
individual assets of Robert Harris
Mid W. C. Harris.
In the matter of J. H. Walker &
Co., bankrupts, Ira R. Humphries,
receiver, was allowed a balance of
$631.79 in full of compensation as
receiver and also the sura of $51.79
as receiver for the indi'idual assets
of J. H. Walker and Alvis L. Walk-er.
W. I. Underwood, trustee. h?s ad-vertised
for sealed bids for the pur-chase
of the printing business of C
B. Kendall, bankrupt, the bids to be
opened in the office of G. S. Fergu-son,
J,r., referee in bankruptcy, on
February 15.
To Make Sunday Schools More Effi-cient.
President Harper, of Elon Col-lege,
addressed a mass meeting in
West Market Street Methodist
church Tuesday evening on the sub-ject
of Sunday schoor*work. The
meeting was held in the interest of
the development of greater effi-ciency
in the Bible training of the
Sunday schools of Greeiisboro and
there was good attendance. Dr. Har-per
made an able speech. Prof. W.
C. Jackson, of the State Normal Col-lege;
Mr. A. W. McAlister and others
made talks.
Professor Jackson declared that
the teaching of the Bible is the hope
of the survival of the Christian
church under the stress of modern
conditions. He is dean of the Greens-boro
Training School and he stated
that he had found the work in the
undertaking bigger than he had ex-pected.
Mr. McAlister praised the accom-plishments
of Professor Jackson so
far in the preliminary work under-taken
in the Sunday schools of the
city. He spoke of the Investigation
of the Sunday schools and the com-pilation
of statistics and of his own
conviction that in the Sunday school
is found the church barometer. Ihe
meeting was an enthusiastic one
and others will be held.
Fighting the Blind Tigers.
The result of m earnest effort to
wipe out the traffic in mean whis-key,
which is said to have grown
rather large, at the mill villages
northeast of the city, was evident in
the prosecutions in Municipal court
vesterday. Three young white men
were convicted of retailing whiskey
n the Proximity and Revolution
villages and were each sentenced to
six months on the Guilford roads.
Two of the three served notice of
appeal to the Superior court.
The defendants were Bob McPher-son,
Harvey Brady and Lon Brady.
The last named did not give notice
of appeal and the other two were
required to give $200 bond each
before being released, to guarantee
their presence in the higher court
for trial.
A peculiarly pitiable aspect was
given one of the cases by the pres-ence
in court of the wife and three
very young babies of the defendant.
All of the men tried, were young.
"Jim Crow" Law.—A bill by
Representative Clark, of Florida,
requiring District of Columbia
transportation companies to provide
separate accommodations for white
and negro races has been favorably
reported to the house of congress.
An unfavorable report by a vote
of 10 to 2 was the fate of the Weav-er
bill to amend the child labor law
of the state so as to raise the age
limit to 14 yean and provide for in-specton
to inspect factories under
the direction of the commissioner
of labor and printing. This was af-ter
a lengthy joint committee hear-ing
in the senate chamber during
which both sides were fully heard.
This is taken to mean that there
will be no change in the child labor
laws at this session
There was a big delegation of cot-ton
mill men in Raleigh for the
hearing, and before the committee
hearing they adopted a resolution
urging that no changes be made and
pledging that the individual mem-bers
of the Cotton Manufacturers
Association will, if the legislature
will leave the law in force as passed
two years ago, to give special atten-tion
to strict observance and report
and proceed .against any manufac-turer
who fails to observe the law.
The house committee on proposi-tions
and grievances ind senate
committee on railroads yesterday
afternoon considered quite a while
pending bills for requiring railroad
companies to pay employes semi-monthly,
the senate bill by Ward
also including lumber companies
and other corporations. In the end
the bills were referred to a sub-committee
for revision and consoli-dation.
However, there was mani-festly
such hostility to the bills that
neither of them nor any substitute,
most likely, has any possible chance
of getting favorable report.
The house committee on proposi-tions
reported favorably a substitute
bill that empowers the county com-missionen
of any county to levy a
tax on dogs from $1 to $2, the fund
derived to be applied to county pur-poses
at the discretion of the com-missioners.
The house yesterday passed the
Seawell bill for 12 1-2 per cent flat
and 12 1-2 per cent contingent fee
for fire insurance agent, contingent
fee to be based on profits of the
company. It was discussed for near-ly
two hours with vigorous speech-es
against it. but passed by a large
majority. Representative Grier, in
strenuous opposition, declared that
he thought the recent insurance in-vestigation
was "to slay the great in-surance
octopus," but now he fear-ed
that the legislature was, on the
advice of the investigation commit-tee,
simply strangling a little jelly
fish. The bill was sent to the sen-ate.
Among new bills introduced was
one by Laughinghduse to provide in-creased
pensions for Confederate
veterans so that they can remain at
home with wives, instead of being
forced to "desert their wives." as he
expresses it, "to come to the sol-diers'
home."
Representative Darden offered a
bill to authorize county commission-ers
to pay $10 rewards for informa-tion
convicting violation of the pro-hibition
law and making the mini-mum
punishment three months on
the roads.
Senator Gardner, of Cleveland,
led a lively and successful fight in
the senate Tuesday for the bill from
the house to divide the state into
two judicial circuits to take the
place of the present statewide rota-tion
of the 20 judges that keep them
far away from their home districts
during the greater part of their
terms of office. Senator Gardner
had charge of the bill and pitted
against it were Senators Weaver,
McMichael and McNider. Senator
Ward joined Senator Gardner in the
active argument for the bill and the
vote was 34 to 6 for passage, the
measure being ordered enrolled for
ratification.
Long, of Union, offered a bill in
the house to limit freight trains to
50 cars.
Representative Stacy offered a
bill providing of formation of dis-tricts
on the order of those for
drainage purposes for the purpose
of purchasing implements with
which to clear lands, such as stump-pullers
and the like.
A new bill by Long, of Halifax,
would penalize clerks of courts for
failure to transmit appeals to the
Supreme court in proper style.
Woman
senate and the house is to be the
fate of woman's suffrage bills now
pending in the uands of legislat've
committees—the Hobgocd bill in
the s.mate and the Roberts bill in
the house. This is th.s outcome o'
the joint hearing on these bills Tues-day
afternoon when the hall of rep-resentatives
crowded to its utmost
with a brilliant assemblage of wo-men
that many anticipated would
surely west from the joint commit
lee at least favorable reports for 'he
bill.
However, the committees heard
Dr. Anna Shaw, head of the woman's
suffrage movement for the nation;
Mn. Archibald Henderson, of
Chapel Hill, head of the movement
for North Carolina; Mn. Eugene
Reilley, of Charlotte, president of
the Federation of Women's Clubs;
Mn. Goodno, of Raleigh, president
of the Women's Christian Temper-ance
Union, and Mrs. Al Fairbroth-er,
of Greensboro, in the most stir-ring
appeals and arguments for
their cause and then retired to the
committee rooms and voted unfav-orable
reports for the bills. The sen-ate
committee on election laws voted
4 to 3 for unfavorable report and
the house committee on constitu-tional
amendments 6 to 3 for un-favorable
report.
Notice was given on both commit-tees
that there would be minority
favorable reports, to give the bills a
footing for fights on the floors in
both ends of the capitol.
DEFICIT OF «8,116,427
FOR MONTH OF JANUARY.
Washington, Feb.' 2.—Revenue
collected by the government in Jan-uary
failed by $8,116,427 to meet
the month's disbursements. Receipts
usually are low at this time of the
year, but in January the excess of
disbursements was only $4,512,262.
Neither customs nor internal rev-enue
brought in the expected re-turns.
Customs receipts amounted
to $16,558,193, compared with $23,-
528,080 in the same month last
year."and $H,~8»t>;9g2' lii Penewaery-
1914.
Another feature was the fact that
ordinary internal revenue receipts
were $27,096,155, or less by $6.-
000,000 than in December, and only
about $2,500,000 more than the re-ceipts
from the same source in Jan-uary,
1914, although revenue from
the emergency tax was included.
It was pointed out tonight that
the estimates of government reve-nues
for the fiscal year ending June
30 next contemplated internal reve-nue
receipts of $25,000,000 per
month and about $7,500,000 per
month from the emergency tax, a
total almost $5,500,000 in excess of
that actually produced during the
thirty-day period just finished.
Officials are not ready, however,
to predict how much revenue the
emergency tax will produce, and are
hopeful that other internal revenue
receipts will show an increase in the
next few months.
The first seven months of the fis-cal
year show an excess of disburse-ments
over receipts of $70,855,270,
compared with a corresponding ex-
?ess for the same period last year
of $17,867,609.
At the close of the month the net
balance in the treasury's general
fund was $57,020,589 and the total
cash assets in the treasury $1,991,-
153,159.
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Holds Man Prisoner in Tree.
Flemington, N. J., Feb. 2.—Alex-ander
Pyatt. of Flemington, is ma-rooned
in a tree in the south branch
of the Raritan river near Sunnyside
tonight. In the inky darkness, with
a steady cold rain falling, residents
of Flemington and other places are
endeavoring to rescue him from his
perilous position. Pyatt endeavored
to cross the river this afternon, but
the heavy downpour had turned the
river into a raging torrent and, un-derestimating
the depth of the wa-ter,
he attempted to cross the river
and was caught in the torrent.
Carried to one side of the road,
he succeeded In freeing his hone,
when the vehicle was overturned
and reached a tree where he is held
a prisoner, with the river still rising.
Although equipped with boats and
hand lines the work of rescue is a
perilous one and may have to be
abandoned until daylight. The horse
has not yet been receovered.
Unfavorable Reportt <
Suffrage.
Unfavorable reports in both the
Mr. T. M. Webb, of Brown Sum-mit
Route 1, one of The Patriot's
good friends in northern Guilford,
was a welcome caller at the office a
few days ago.
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