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GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY FEBRUARY 22, 1915 VOL. 94—NO. 16
LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF FORM GUILFORD ALDMNI BANQUET
MVTTEBS OF INTERE8T TO THE
HEADERS OF THE PATRIOT
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Kew lawyer.—Mr. Julius C.
Smith, of High Point, who has Just
Xwln granted license by the Supreme
•osrt to practice law, was sworn In
before the Superior court of Guilford
c„-n> Thursday.
Mrs. Boyster Improving.—Mrs.
II. Hoyster, who is in a hos-liobert
King,
the services
of
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NOTABLE OCCASION SATURDAY
NIGHT—SEVERAL STBONG
SPEECHES HEARD.
George
pjtal in Richmond, Va., for treat-ment,
is improving very satisfactor-ily
ami is expected to be able to re-turn
home in a few weeks.
Over 2"" Enrolled.—The Greens-boro
1 raining school for Sunday
sf :ol teachers and workers, em-im-
iii? members of all the white
Protestant schools in the city, now
has an enrollment of over 200.
Revival Meeting.—A revival meet-i,'.-
was begun at Westminster Pres-bvierian
church Friday night and
»i:i be continued through the pres-
0„i week and perhaps longer. The
pastor. Uev. P. E. Hodgin. is being
assisted by Rev.
Kenansville. and
w,il at ten tied.
For Robbing House.—John Henry
Walker, colored, was given a hearing
in Municipal court a few days ago
and held for the Superior court on
tiK charge of breaking into and en-tering
the servants' quarters at the
home of Mr. It. P. Dalton, on West
Sycamore street. He was held un-der
a bond of $150.
Judge Hark Tonight.—Chief Jus-
!k- Waller Clark, of the North Car-ol::.!!
Supreme court, will make a
speed: in the countv court house to-nighl
in advocacy of woman suf-fr-
oce. his address having been post-poned
from a previous date. Judge
Clark is one n! the most earnest ad-vo'ates
of woman suffrage in the
state.
Held Inder Bond.—A. Horwitz.
v.v i was given a hearing last week
before I'nited States Commissioner
Collins on the charge of violating
t!:<- bankruptcy law by withholding
properly from the trustee in a bank-rupicj
proceeding, has been held un-der
a bond of SI.000 for the term of
I'nited States District court to be
held in this city in June.
Married Thursday Night—Mr. Ed-gar
M. Greeson and Miss Blanche
(ireeson were married last Thursday
nicht at the home of Rev. J. E.
Shenk. pastor of the First Lutheran
church, who performed the cere-mony.
The groom is an employe of
til* city as a member of the auto fire
track company and his bride has
made her home in Greensboro for
some time, having been in the em-ploye
of the Southern Bell Tele-phone
Company.
S. \V. Brooks Dead.—Mr. S. W.
Brooks, who had made his home in
Greensboro for several years, died
yesterday morning at his home on
Price street. The funeral will be
held from the residence this after-noon
at 4 o'clock and will be con-ducted
by Uev. C. I-;. Hodgin. Mr.
Brooks was 60 years of age and a
native of England. He is survived
b; iiis widow, two sons and two
:;i-u'rs. One of the daughters.
Mw- M. J. Westcott, resides in
Greensboro.
'■"cs hi Concord.—Mr. W. Giles
''• haw of this city, has moved to
".,,.•,) ,,, i.eeome editor and man-as.-
r of ihe Chronirle, a Repuolican
-"- f-kly paper published in that
i' ;•" Some years ago Mr. Mebane
"•" 'ii llit start' of the Greensboro
"«'1> Industrial News and did sp'en-
■'•'I mv -neper vwork. For the past
*• •'• years he has been traveling.
"'■- »l''.:ine has many friends in
'■"■•'•'lslmro and throughout the
':' •<■ v|,o will wish him well in his
''■•' ' venture.
'•nillord Jessup Arrested.—Sher-
■;' Stafford wore a satisfied smile
-■•n he returned to town Friday
v '•!'inK and announced that he had
arrestPd Guilford Jessup, who was
- -lit.-ci for the part he took in a
1 r'ui at the last Fourth of July cele-
•'"iim at Guilford Battle Ground.
nher participants in the affray
"•io arrested with little difficulty,
n:'t Guilford Jessup didn't want to
'• arrested and migrated to West
Virginia, lie returned to Guilford
"rant? last week, and Sheriff Staf-
*ord was advised that lie might he
foand at the Piney Grove school Fri-day
afternoon. Following the "lead."
th« sheriff followed his man to the
Piney Grove school and took him in
custody. Jessup gave bond in the
snw of $300 for his appearance at a
The Guilford College alumni ban-quet,
which was held at the Guil-ford
hotel Saturday night, was a not-able
accasion and was attended by a
large number of former students of
the college. Dr. Isaac Sharpless,
president of Haverford College, Hav-erford,
Pa., was the guest of honor
and Mr. William A. Blair, of Wins-ton-
Salem, was the toastmaster.
The address of Dr. Sharpless was
a plea for the preservation of the old
standards in the educational world
and was listened to with the deep-est
interest. He said a man educat-ed
by the old standards has a bent
of mind that will serve him well in
every relation of later life. The men
who conceived and founded the gov-ernment
of the United States re-ceived
only that sort of training. In
their college days they never dream-ed
of attempting to prepare them-selves
to found a new government;
but their intellectual capacity was
so prodigiously developed that they
were ready to meet any emergency.
Dr. L. L. Hobbs, who is soon to re-tire
as president of the college,
spoke on "Guilford's Place." He re-viewed
briefly "the splendid work
Guilford has done in the past as evi-denced
by the lives of the notable
men and women she has turned out.
Mr. J. Elwood Cox, chairman of
the board of trustees, spoke of the
endowment of the college, which has
grown from $60,000 in 1905 to
180,000 at the present time.
DENY ANY RESPONSIBILITY
BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE RE-PLIES
TO AMERICAN NOTE
OF PROTE8T.
TWOIM6RE VESSELS ARE SUNK
GERMAN SUBMARINE GETS IN
ITS WORK OF DESTRUC-
.. TIONTN IRISH SEA.
Home Burned.—The residence of
Mr. John Dean, about three miles
south of Greensboro, was destroyed
by a fire that was discovered about
5 o'clock Thursday morning. The
fire had made such progress when
discovered that there was little time
left to save any of the household ef-fects,
although all the members of
the family escaped without harm.
The loss is partially covered by in-surance.
A Bold Robbery.—Raymond Fair,
a young white man. was arrested
shortly before midnight last night a
moment after he had broken a plate
glass window in Bernau's jewelry
store and taken about $150 worth of
jewelry. Three police officers who
were going down South Elm street
heard the crash of breaking glass
vhen they were two doors above the
jewelry store and took Fair in cus-tody
before he had time to cross the
sidewalk. He was locked up for a
hearing today.
Recovering Nicely.—Miss Rebecca
Phoenix, who recently underwent an
operation at St. Leo's hospital for
cancer and later was carried to
Johns Hopkins hospital, in Balti-more,
returned to the city Saturday,
accompanied by her father, Mr. John
J. Phoenix. The specialist who ex-amined
her in Baltimore gave a fav-orable
report and advised that she
return to Greensboro for further
treatment in St. Leo's hospital. Miss
Phoenix was treated in Baltimore by
Dr. Howard Kelly, one of the most
eminent cancer specialists in the
country, and her friends will be glad
^o know that he holds out hopes of
her early and complete recovery.
T-.
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Preliminary hearing.
Transfers of Real Kstate.
Following are among the transfers
of real estate recorded in the office
of the register of deeds during the
latter part of last week.
H. B. Hoskins to Lillian I Harper,
property on Stee'e street, in High
Point, for about $2,500
W. R. Self, trustee, to the Brown
Real Estate Companv. on South Ce-dar
street. Greensboro, for $1,000.
Henry Farmer to Ernest Elliott
and others, 15 acres, for $225.
R. P. Gorrell to Gate City Motor
Company, property on Chapman
street, for $375.
Gate City Motor Company to L.
M. Ham, property on Chapmen
street, for $375.
Joseph P. White to J. W. Terrell,
lots in Gilmer township, for $640.
Charles L. Sockwell to W. F. Mar-tin,
236 acres in Washington town-ship,
for $6,844.
G. H. Miles to May S. Miles, for
$50, a lot on Schenck street.
L. F. Thompson to G. R. Thomp-son,
property on Gregory street, for
$300.
H. P- Cox to L. F. Thompson,
property on Gregory street, for $300.
E. Fremont Edwards to Lewis Og-burn.
13 acres in Friendship, for
1225.
The British foreign office Friday
evening issued a note in reply to the
representation of the United States
government concerning the use of
the American flag by British vessels
The note says that the Cunard
Line steamer Lusitania on her re-cent
voyage from New York to Liv-erpool
raised the American flag "to
save the lives of non-combatants,
crew and passengers." It adds that
in spite of the fact that American
passengers embarking on the Lusi-tania
on her outward voyage for
New York asked that the American
flag he hoisted, "the British govern-ment
did not give any advices to the
company as to how to meet this re-quest
and, it is understood the Lusi-tania
left Liverpool under the Brit-ish
flag."
After discussing the Lusitania in-cident
the memorandum says:
"The British government has no
intention of advising merchant ship-ping
to use foreign flags as a gen-eral
practice or to resort to them
otherwise than for escaping capture
or destruction."
In conclusion the statement says:
"The obligation on a belligerent
warship to ascertain definitely for it-self
the nationality and character of
a merchant vessel before capturing
it and a fortiori (stronger reason)
before sinking and destroying it has
been universally recognized. If that
obligation is fulfilled the hoisting of
a neutral flag on board a British
vessel cannot possibly endanger neu-tral
shipping and the British gov-ernment
holds that if loss to neu-trals
is caused by disregarding this
obligation is it upon the enemy ves-sel
disregarding and upon the gov-ernment
giving orders that it should
be disregarded that the full respon-sibility
for injury to neutrals ought
to rest.
"It is understood that the German
government announced their inten-tion
of sinking British merchant ves-sels
at sight by torpedoes, without
.giving any opportunity of making
any provision for the saving of lives
of non-combatants, crews and pas-sengers.
It was in consequence of
this .threat that the Lusitania raised
the United States flag on her inward
voyage.
"In regard to the use of foreign
flags by merchant vessels, the Brit-ish
merchant shipping act makes it
plear that the use of the British flag
by foreign merchant vessels is per-mitted
in time of war for the pur-pose
of escaping capture. It is be-lieved
that in the case of some other
nations there Is similar recognition
of the same practice with regard to
their flags, and that none has for-bidden
it.
"The British government has no
intention of advising their merchant
shipping to use foreign flags as a
general practice or to resort to them
otherwise than for escaping capture
or destruction. The obligation upon
a belligerent warship to ascertain
definitely for itself the nationality
and character of a merchant vessel
before capturing it and fortiori be-fore
sinking and destroying it has
been universally recognized. If that
obligation is fulfilled, the hoisting of
a neutral flag on board a British ves-sel
cannot possibly endanger neutral
shipping and the British government
holds that if loss to neutrals is
caused by disregard of this obliga-tion
it is upon the enemy vessel dis-regarded
that the sole responsibility
for in jury to neutrals ought to
rest."
A Overman submarine appeared in
the Irish'sea Saturday and torpedoed
without notice the British coasting
steamer Cambank, of 440 tons reg-ister,
"three of the crew were killed
and a wP-rth was drowned while the
men we|e taking to the boats.
Excm for the loss of life, the sink-ing
of tBJe Cambank was not in itself
matter, but the presence
rman submarine near the
ich the .Atlantic liners take
to and from Liverpool and along
which many steamers pass daily, is
certain to cause uneasiness.
The submarine yesterday found
another victim in the little Irish
coasting steamer Downshire. The
pownshlre was sunk not far from
the spot where the British steamer
Cambank was torpedoed Saturday.
The Downshire's crew, however,
were given time to escape in their
boats, and, instead of wa;sting a tor-pedo,
Be. Germans used a bomb.
The'submarines up to now have
demonstrated their ability to attack
only slow steamers or those anchor-ed,
as a number of liners have pass-
3d to aqd fro in the Irish sea where
the Gerfnan craft have been at work,
without being approached.
' The Land Fighting.
None of the official reports of the
'and fighting contains important in-formation,
although tln-re are big
battles In progress near the East
Prussian frontier, when; the Rus-sians
claim to have stemmed the
German' advance; in western G a lien
where the Russians have become
more active; in the Carpathians, and
in Bukowina, where again the Rus-sians
have been reinforced and are
resisting the Austro-German ad-vance.
There seems to be little change in
AMERICAN VESSEL BLOWN DP
VESSEL CARRYING COTTON
SUNK BY MINE IN
NORTH SEA.
IS
The American steamer Evelyn,
which sailed from New York Janu-ary
29 with a cotton cargo for Bre-men,
was sunk by a mine Saturday
off Borkum island, in the North sea.
The vessel's captain and 27 of ner
■jrew were saved.
The nationality of the mine which
destroyed the Evelyn has not been
established.
The Evelyn is the first American
vessel to meet with disaster as a re-sult
of a sea warfare of the Euro-pean
nations. She did not sink with-in
the war zone included in the Ger-man
admiralty's decree. Borkum
island lies directly off the German
coast at the mouth of the Ems river
and is German territory.
and in the Carpathians, the battle
lines remaining about as they were.
A big battle is being fought north
of the Nadworna-Kolomea line in
southeastern Galicia, and according
to German correspondents, the Rus-sians
have brought up large rein-forcements
from Stanislau.
The Russian and Turkish forces
again have come into touch in the
Caucasus, in the Trans-Tchoruk re-gion,
bvit the result of -he encoun-ters
is not given.
'ihere again has been a slackening
in the activity in the west.
Dardanelles Bombarded.
The British and French fleets
bombarded the Dardanelles forts
Friday with considerable effect. The
bombardment was renewed Saturday
with seaplanes and aeroplanes co-op-erating.
Besides desiring to bring Turkey
to her knees, the allies in their at-tempt
to force the Dardanelles aim
at an early release of the large stock
of wheat which the allies wish to get
out. both to relieve the markets and
to provide Russia with necessary
credit lo pay for war material
bought abroad.
News Received in Washington.
Washington, Feb. 21—The United
States government was advised of-ficially
tonight of the destruction of
the first Amerfcan vessel on the high
seas since the outbreak of the Euro-pean
war. American Consul Fee at
Bremen, cabled that the steamer
Evelyn and her cargo of cotton
bound for Bremen had been "blown
up at Borkum" just off the German
coast, and that the crew had been
saved. The cause—submarine or
mine—was not given in the dispatch.
After a conference with President
Wilson, Secretary Bryan cabled Am
bassador Page at .London and Am-bassador
Gerard at Berlin to make
an exhaustive inquiry as to the facts,
and, if the crew were landed in either
of their respective jurisdictions, to
furnish every care and convenience
to Captain Smith and his men.
Although the extent of the sea
zones of war proclaimed by Germany
was never defined exactly, the Bor-the
reJMrve tfosftiona in. West Galiclj^ kum islands are considered far dis-
Cargo Held For Prize Court.
London, Feb. 10.—Sir Edward
Grey, the foreign secretary, an-nounced
today that the British gov-ernment
has decided that the Amer-ican
steamer Wilhelmina's food car-go
should be held for-a prize court.
This declaration appears to make
clear Great Britain's purpose to de-clare
all foodstuffs for Germany con-traband
as well as to foreshadow
other reprisals. The foreign minis-ter,
after reviewing the German
methods of warfare and denouncing
them as violations of all internation-al
usegase, says:
"If, therefore, his majesty's gov-ernment
should hereafter feel con-strained
to declare foodstuffs abso-lute
contraband or to take other
measures for interfering with Ger-man
trade by way of reprisals, they
confidently expect that such action
will not he, challenged on the part
"Lazy Husband" Bill Passed.
What is known as the "lazy hus-band"
bill has been passed by the
Indiana state senate without a dis-senting
vote. The bill provides:
"Every husband who neglects to
support his wife and provide her
with necessary food, clothing and
medical attention, and every person
having any boy under the age of 16
years or any girl under the age of
17 years depending upon him or her
for education or support who will-fully
neglects to furnish the neces-sary
food, clothing, shelter and med-ical
attention for his or her child
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
and on conviction shall be fined any
sum not exceeding $500, to which
may be added imprisonment in the
county jail or workhouse for a pe-riod
not exceeding six months."
tant from the danger areas of sub
marines. The waters of the vicinity
and mined for defensive purposes
and Germany always has piloted in-coming
ships through.
At the German embassy tonight,
it was pointed out that the accident
must have been caused by a mine as
Germany, sorely in need of cotton,
would not torpedo a vessel laden
with such a cargo for German con-sumption.
No Ground For Action.
Early press dispatches from Ber-lin
announcing the loss of the vessel
by a mine caused a sensation in
Washington where the tension has
been more or less pronounced over
the situation in the wai*«ones since
the dispatch of warning notes to
both Great Britain and Germany. It
was virtually conceded that if the
cause of the accident was proved to
be a mine, there probably would be
io ground for diplomatic action by
the United. States, as the laying of
mines is not prohibited by any inter-national
conventions now in force.
NORTH CAROLINA NEIS NOTES
A BRIEF SURVEY OF WHAT IS
TRANSPIRING IN THE
COMMONWEALTH.
A Candidate.—S. H. Hobbs, of
Sampson county, who is prominently
identified with the Farmers' Union
in the state and nation, will be a
candidate next year for the Demo-cratic
nomination for state commis-sioner
of agnculture.
Belgium Refugees.—The first
•party of Belgian refugees that will
settle in North Carolina arrived in
Wilmington last week from New
York and went to Columbus county,
where they will settle on lands of a
development company.
Dropped Dead.—Miss Mary Mc-
Donald, of Cabarrus county aged 65
years, dropped dead in the Southern
Railway passenger station in Sr.lls-burv
Friday. She was nafmi ruVlMI
by the sheriff of Cabarrus county to
the state hospital for the insane at
Morgan ton.
Graham Inauguration.—The for-mal
inauguration of Dr. E. K. Gra-ham
as president of the University
of North Carolina will take place
April 21 and is to be made a nota-ble
occasion. Some of the leading
educators in the nation will be pres-ent
ami make addresses.
Will Build Road.—The project
> build a new sand-clay road from
As'iboro to High Point is assuming
definite shape and it is cpected that
actual work will begin inside of 80
days. The route is by the Randolph
county home, through the gap of
Carraway mountain by the home of
ex-Representative Thomas Redding,
thence by Flint Hill and Frazier's
Siding, and will be 23 miles long.
President Resigns.—It is under-stood
in Statesville that Rev. Dr. J.
A. Scott, president of Statesville Fe-male
college, will sever his connec-tion
with the institution when the
present school term closes. The col-lege
trustees are expected to make
definite announcement of the mat-ter
within a few days. Dr. Scott has
been president of the college for
many years and the institution has
grown during his administration.
Schools For Orphans.—The North
Carolina Grand Lodge of Odd Fel-lows
ha* taken the position that or-phan
homes should be made puUic
school districts and the children "of
those homes should share in the ed-ucational
advantages of the state the
same as the other children of the
state. At present the children of the
orphan homes are a nonentity so far
as partaking of the state's educa-ional
advantages is concerned, it Is
pointed out.
TRAVELING MEN ATTEND
SPECIAL MEETING HERE.
Mr. J. R. Kernodle and young son,
of Brown Summit Route 1, were vis-itors
at The Patriot office Saturday.
of neutrals states by appeals to laws
and usages of war whose validity
rests on their forming an integral
part of that system of international
doctrine, which, as a whole, their
enemy frankly boasts the intention
to disregard, so long as such neutral
states cannot compel the German
government to abandon methods of
warfare which have not in recent
history been regarded as having the
sanction of either law or humanity."
Fire in Wholesale District Friday
Night.
Fire early Friday night gutted the
building and destroyed the stock of
the American Commission Company,
a wholesale grocery concern doing
business on South Davie street. The
fire was discovered shortly before 9
o'clock and the firemen were on duty
until 11 o'clock, and by hard work
prevented the flames from spreading
to the adjoining buildings occupied
by the Patterson Company on the
north and Stockton & Hire on the
south.
The burned building was the prop-erty
of Mrs. W. M. Ridenhour and
was insured for about half its value.
While no appraisal has been made, it
is thought the damage to the Amer-ican
Commission Company is $25,-
000 or more, partially covered by in-surance.
A "Tadpole Statesman."
A bitter verbal clash between Rep-resentative
Palmer and Farr, of
Pennsylvania, on the floor of the
lower house of Congress Thursday
night held up final action on the an-nual
pension appropriation bill. De-bate
took a wide range, and in the
course of some remarks Represen-
•tive Palmer said it cost a million
dollars to elect a Republican senator
from Pennsylvania. This drew a
hot attack from Mr. Farr. In the
exchange that followed Mr. Farr
charged that Mr. Palmer had been
a lobbyist and Mr. Palmer called
Mr. Farr a "tadpole statesman."
A special meeting of the North
Carolina Council of the United Com-mercial
Travelers was held in this
city Saturday afternoon and was fol-lowed
at night by a banquet in the
Y. M. C. A. building. The meeting
was attended by traveling men from
all over North and South Carolina
and was made notable by the pres-ence
of two supreme officers of the
order—Grand Secretary W. D. Mur-phy
and Grand Page T. J. Phelps.
The first meeting was held at 2.30
o'clock in the afternoon, when Grand
Secretary Murphy made an address
to the various secretaries of the
North and South Carolina councils.
This was intensely practical and in-teresting
to his audience. At 4.30 a
meeting of the state council was held
and the initiation was conferred by
the degree team of the Greensboro
council. The secret work was fol-lowed
by an address by Grand Page
Phelps.
Mr. C. C. Taylor served as toast-master
at the banquet and toasts
were responded to as follows:
"Greensboro, the Home of the
Traveling Man," Mayor T. J. Mur-phy.
"Greensboro Council No. 296," E.
C. Caldwell.
"The Traveling Man as a Factor
in Commerce," J. E. Latham.
"The Grand Council of the Caro-linas,"
E. A. Hughes, grand coun-selor.
"The Order of the United Com-mercial
Travelers as a Fraternity,"
T. J. Phelps, supreme page.
"The Best Asset of a Live City—
the Traveling Men," C. O. Kueater.
"Unity, Charity, Temperance," W.
D. Murphy, supreme secretary.
Mr. T. R. Kirkman, of Pleasant
Garden, was among the callers at
The Patriot office Saturday..
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