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ESTABLiVS-P 1821 GREENSBORO, N. C, THURS
LOCAL NEWSJJRlfr FORM
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE
READERS OF THE PATRIOT
FAR AND NEAR.
jlr. Runkn Out—Register of Deeds
p-i ikin. who has been wrestling with
• severe attack of grip, is able to be
, ,i8 office again. .
, ommiinion—The mid-winter com-nr
nion service at Peace Lutheran
,. :rch will be held Sunday morning
,t"ll o'clock, to be conducted by Rev.
T. ?■ Brown.
\sheville Court.—Judge James E.
Bod went to Asheville Monday to
preside over a term of United States
District court. The term is for the
trial of civil cases and is expected to
• y -inup for about two weeks.
. iiurl Next Week.—A two-weeks'
civil term of Guilford Superior court
ts-r.l convene Monday. Judge E. B.
Cline. of Hickory, who is to hold the
cojrts of this district for the next
<is months, will preside. A calendar
has been made out for only a week
an! it is probable that the term may
not last longer than that. A criminal
term will convene January 31.
I»eatli at Proximity.—Mrs. J. W.
Hf igin died Monday afternoon at her
home at Proximity, following a brief
illness. The funeral was held from
the home yesterday afternoon and in-terment
made in the Proximity ceme-tery.
Rev. F. L. Townsend conduct-in?
the services. In audition to her
husband, Mrs. Hodgin is survived by
a son and a daughter—Mr. L. W.
Hodgin and Mrs. M. D. Greene.
^ngajtement Announced.—The en-sacement
of Miss Nan Wood, of this
eft?, and Mr. Numa Causey, of New
Yerk. has been announced, the wed-di_
s to take place at an early date.
Miss Wood is a daughter of Ma], and
Mrs. W. W. Wood and a young wo-rn;-.::
of wide popularity. Mr. Causey
is <: native of the Julian section and
tor several years has held a respon-sive
position in the New York office
oi -.he Hunter Manufacturing and
Co -imission Company.
Annual Meeting.—The annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Greensboro National Bank was held
yesterday and the reports received
shoved the affairs of the bank to be
in excellent shape. The dividends
pa:! during the. year amounted to
SS.-iOO. or 8 per cent on the capital
Of flOO.OOO. C. D. Benbow, Neil El-lington,
R. R. King, Logan McCul-loc':..
R. M. Rees, C. M. Vanstory, E.
P. "A'harton and C. G. Wright were
ehosen as directors for the ensuing
year. The officers were re-elected as
follows: Neil Ellington, president;
F:. R. King, vice president; A. H. Al-derman,
cashier.
PRISONERS BREAK JAIL
AND ARE RECAPTURED.
Three negro prisoners confined in
the county Jail—Hugh Martin, "Red"
Campbell and Will Plummer—made
their escape Monday night, but their
period of freedom was cut short by
their arrest In Charlotte yesterday.
The escape of the prisoners was made
possible by the industrious use of a
saw or saws slipped to them in some
manner from the outside.
The three prisoners, who were con-fined
in a cell on the second floor of
the jail, sawed the iron bars of the
cell door, after which they went to
the third floor and sawed the bars
of a window. Their route to liberty
then was short and easy.
Descriptions of the three negroes
were sent broadcast and shortly be-fore
noon yesterday Sheriff Stafford
•eceived a message from Charlotte
stating that the prisoners were under
arrest there. The sheriff and Mr.
Jule Dillon, the jailor, boarded the
first train for Charlotte and returned
last night with the prisoners.
Hugh Martin, who is believed to
have engineered the escape, was ar-rested
during the holidays at a block-ade
still near Oak Ridge. "Red"
Campbell was in jail awaiting trial at
the next criminal court on a larceny
charge, having appealed from a judg-ment
of the Greensboro Municipal
court. Plummer is a convict on the
county roads and was brought to the
jail recently to recover from an In-jury
he had received.
NO CHANGE NEEDED IM TARIFF
DEMOCRATS SAY, NO OCCASION
EXISTS FOR SUBSTANTIAIi
REVISION OF IiAW.
AMERICAN EXCHAXGE BANK
HAD PROSPEROUS YEAR.
PLANNING SUMMER SCHOOL
AT THE NORMAL COLLEGE.
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Already plans are being formulated
lor the summer courses at the State
Normal and Industrial College. Presi-des
Foust announces that the sum-mer
session in the collegiate course
wE! begin June 1 and close July 27,
making eight full weeks. The teach-er
- raining course will begin two
weeks later and end July 27, being
six -veeks in length. The new course,
the housekeeper's training school,
»i■' be of the same length as the
teachers' course. The teachers' in-stitute
will be held for two weeks
from July 3 to 17.
-mong the lecturers for the sum-mer
courses will be Dr. William H.
Kilpatrick, of the teachers', college,
Columbia University, and Dr. Herman
H. Home, a North Carolinian by
Mrth, but now of the New York Uni-versity.
These lectures ' will be in
addition to the regular course offer-ed
The schools will be planned to
take care of all teachers, whether
'hey desire training for primary
grades, elementary schools, ' high
school teaching, or a general course.
There will be cources for college
students who wish to remove condi-
'ions.
Mr-- Warren and Christy Must Die.
The Supreme court of North Caro-line
yesterday affirmed the judgment
°' ":e Superior court of Forsyth coun-ty
-n the case of Samuel P. Christy
•!n'! Ida Ball Warren, in which the de-fer
:ants are under sentence of death
fc" i lie murder of G. J. Warren, the
husband of Ida Ball Warren.
- 'is decision terminates one of
,h< most sensational murder cases
this state has had in a great while.
As soon as the Supreme court certi-fie?
its finding to Governor Cralg, he
wi'l fix new dates for the electrocu-
«ion of Christy and Mrs. Warren, and
>t is said there is not the slightest
Probability of executive clemency.
The annual meeting of the stock-holders
of the American Exchange
National Bank was held Tuesday,
when very gratifying reports were
received of the past year's business.
The statement of the bank's condition
showed that the deposits had in-creased
during the year by more than
$400,000, the total deposits now
amounting to 11,983,585.79.
The second semi-annual dividend
of 4 per cent for the year was de-clared
on the capital stock of $400,-
000, making $32,000 paid in divi-dends
during the year. In addition,
the surplus has grown to more than
$80,000.
Directors for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: J. Van Lind-ley,
W. C. Boren, E. P. Wharton, J.
W. Scott. A. W. McAlister, E. E.
Bain, A. M. Scales, T. A. Hunter, Dr.
J. W. Long, J. C. Watkins, R. G.
Vaughn, W. S. Clary, Joseph J. Stone,
F. C. Boyles, E. J. Stafford, E. Stern-berger.
Rev. S. M. Rankln, J. A. Hos-klns,
J. W. Jones and D. R. Huffines.
The directors re-elected the officers
of the bank as follows: R. G. Vaughn,
oresident; J. W. Scott, vice president;
F. C. Boyles, cashier; F. H. Nichol-son,
assistant cashier; W. P. Hutton,
cashier of the South Greensboro
branch.
MRS. MARTIN WYRICK
DIE8 AT RD7E OLD AGE.
Mrs. Martin Wyrick, an aged and
beloved woman, died unexpectedly
yesterday morning at her home about
six miles east of the city. With the
exception of a cold from which she
was suffering, Mrs. Wyrick appeared
to be in her usual health. She be-came
ill soon after breakfast and
died at 10.45 o'clock.
Mrs. Wyrick, who had reached the
ripe old age of 92 years, is survived
by the following children: Mrs.
George West, Mrs. John Heath, Mrs.
Henry Kellam, Mrs. T. D. Whitting-ton.
Misses Katherine, Louisa and
Mary Wyrick and Mr. G. W. Wyrick.
She also leaves a sister, Mrs. Malin-da
Smith, and many other relatives.
The funeral was held this after-noon
at 2 o'clock at Mt. Pleasant
Methodist church, of which Mrs. Wy-rick
had been a member for many
years. Rev. J. E. Woosley, the pas-tor,
conducted the services.
Mrs. Henry Fanlconer Dead.
Mrs. Henry Faulconer, wife of a
train dispatcher for the Southern
Railway In this city, died Monday af-ternoon
at her home on Asheboro
street. She had been hopelessly ill
for quite a while and the end was not
unexpected. Mrs. Faulconer was 45
years old and a native of Gordons-ville,
Va. She Is survived by her hus-band,
two sons and two daughters.
A funeral service was conducted
from the home Tuesday afternoon by
Rev. J. H. Bennett, pastor of Centen-ary
Methodist church, after which
the body wu carried to the old home
In the opinion of a majority of the
Democratic members of the ways and
means committee of the house of rep-resentatives,
the European war has
not created a situation in this coun-try
which demands any substantial
revison of the Underwood-Simmons
tariff law.
That one or two schedules of the
tariff may have to be changed to
meet existing conditions, some of the
members admit; but the sentiment is
expressed that the measure would
have accomplished everything prom-ised
the country had It not been for
the loss in customs revenues due to
the conflict in Europe.
As was expected, the Republican
members of the committee are unani-mous
in expressing their disapproval
of the Democratic tariff law. They
insist that, war or no war, it has
been a failure and should be revised
all along the line. (
These views were expressed by
Democratic members of the commit-tee:
Chairman Kitchin—"Our commit-tee
will be called upon to provide
whatever additional revenue is need-ed
to meet prospective expenditures.
But until we know the actual condi-tions
existing and whether there is a
demand for such outlay, I cannot say
what our policy along this line may
be."
Representative Rainey, of Illinois
—"The tariff law has never had a
fair chance to demonstrate that it
can do all its makers expect it to do.
I think, however, that to quiet the
apprehensions of manufacturers, an
ant-dumping clause would prevent
manufacturers abroad from selling
their products here at less than the
cost of manufacturing them here."
Representative Hull, of Tennessee
—"At the close of the war the new re
adjustment of financial, commercial
and industrial conditions will- begin.
Then will be the appropriate time to
consider whatever steps may be nec-essary
to make our present competi-tive
revenue tariff system conform to
these new and changed conditions in
the world's trade, finance and indus-try."
Representative Garner, of Texas—
If I had my way about it, I would
have changed the tariff law at the
very beginning. I was never in favor
of free wool or free sugar. I don't
think, however, that the European
war has had anything to do with the
case."
Representative Collier, of Missis-sippi—"
There is absolutely nothing
that has transpired in this country
since the outbreak of the European
war to warrant any revision of the
Underwood law."
Representative Dickinson, of Mis-souri—"
I do not favor any general
revision of the present tariff law. I
believe, however, there should be
some expansion of the income tax
measure and that sugar should not
be placed upon the free list." i
Representative Oldfield, of Arkan-sas—"
Nothing has occurred up to the
present time to warrant any revision
of the tariff law."
Representative McGilltcuddy, of
Maine—"I cannot see the necessity
for any revision of the tariff law at
the present time. The measure is
working well and business is being
adjusted to it."
Representative Allen, of Ohio—
"Generally speaking, I do not believe
there is any necessity for a revision
of the Underwood law. It may be
necessary to collect some additional
duties when the emergency arises,
but this situation is not confronting
us at this time."
Representative Crisp, of Georgia—
"I am not in favor of any general re-vision
of the Underwood law."
Representative Casey, of Pennsyl-vania—"
I do not believe that any re-vision
of the present tariff law should
be attempted until we know exactly
the condition of the public revenues
and what our expenditures in the fu-ture
are to be. It will be time enough
then to talk of tariff revision or what
changes should be made in the exist-ing
measure."
Representative Helvering, of Kan-sas—"
I do not see the necessity at
this time for any general revision."
Montenegro is being treated to a
steam roller attack similar to that
which crumpled up its friend and
neighbor, Serbia. The Austrian on-slaught,
which has been a long time
In preparation, is now being prose-cuted
with great violence, menacing
several important positions close to
the; Adriatic coast.
The great Montenegrin stronghold,
Mount Lovcen, has fallen, according
to an Austrian official communication.
The attack has been largely assisted
by Austrian warships and the guns of
the Cattaro forts. In addition the
Montenegrins say the Austrians made
abundant use of asphyxiating gas
contrivances. A battle is raging on
the whole of the northern and east-ern
frontiers of Montenegro. On the
east the Montenegrins have been com-pelled
to evacuate Berane.
For the British public the latest
statements regarding the situation in
Mesopotamia will not entirely relieve
the anxety. The British General
Ayfmer's column, which is advancing
to . the relief of Kut-el-Amara, has
met and repulsed' a strong Turkish
force, but its present position is by
no means satisfactory, for it finds in
front of It a Turkish army greatly
superior In numbers. Therefore it is
evident that a successful juncture of
the two British forces, although they
are only 20 miles apart, may prove a
iifflcult matter.
There have been no fresh develop-ments
on the Russian front, where
the cold weather again has set in,
the thermometer at some points
touching 20 degrees below zero. Al-though
for the moment the Russians
have ceased their attack upon the
Austro-German lines from the Pripet
river ,to the Bessarabian frontier, in-formation
from German sources is
that,they have not given up the ven-
. merely.... re-organizing
their forces for another formidable
assault.
The Russians are reported as for-tifying
the positions recently won by
them and In this way their front has
been gradually extended until they
occupy about 34 miles of the east
bank of the middle reaches of the
Stripa river, a position which it is
deemed is secure against recapture by
the Austro-Germans.
As far as the western front is con-cerned
the center of interest is still
the Champagne region. According to
French accounts, there was clearly
nothing casual or ordinary about the
big German attack which the French
claimed they successfully stopped.
The French lines here make a
tempting salient, but the position evi-dently
has been made corresponding-ly
strong.
Paris claims that the French, by
vigorous counter-attacks, expelled the
Germans from all except a small sec-tion
of the trenches which they had
won in Champagne.
Deeds conveying Guilford county
real estate have been filed for record
this week as follows:
E. E. Bain and wife to the Cun-ningham
Brick Company, three tracts
of 77.66, 5.52 and 4.91 acres in Gil-mer
township, adjoining the lands of
C. D. Benbow, E. E. Bain and others,
for a combined consideration of $8,-
513.10.
A. B. Kimball, attorney, to W. M.
Crutchfield, a tract of 85.84 acres In
Oak Ridge township for $1,931.49,
or $22.50 per acre.
John B. Parks to Mary Elias, a lot
50 by 150 feet on, Dick street, in the
city of Greensboro, for $120.
John A. Hodgin and wife to John
C. Garner and others, a tract 210 by
210 feet in Sumner township, the
same to be used tor church and bury-ing
ground purposes, $20.
Emma and J. E. Hayworth to Ches-ter
Greer, two lots, each 25 by 100
feet, on South Main street in the city
of High Point, $700.
Willie L. Wood and Esther J.
Wood to Louis Caldwell Miller, a lot
50 by 160 feet in the city of Greens-boro,
Morehead township, $10 and
other valuable considerations.
Arthur McCollum and wife to Al-bion
B. Ingram, a tract consisting of
23 acres in Deep River township, ad-joining
the lands of J. W. Adkins,
George Lindsey, I. P. Raper and.
others, $400.
J. W. Adkins and wife to Arthur
McCollum and wife, a tract consisting
of 20 acres in Deep River township,
adjoining the lands of I. P. Raper,
George Lindsey and J. W. Adkins,
$250.
Mat Langhorn and others to John
H. Green! a tract consisting of 1.72
acres in Monroe township, $44.40.
Mat Langhorn and others to John
H. Green, a tract consisting of 5.91
acres in Monroe township, $106.'
Margaret J. Henry to Hannah G.
Anderson, a tract consisting of five
acres in Jefferson township, $1 and
other valuable considerations.
- WrR." Bishop and wife-to Elzevan
Ledville, a tract consisting of 12.5
acres in Sumner township, $185.
W. O. Donnell and D. L. Dounell to
the Brown Real Estate Company, four
small lots in Bruce township, $500.
MOB LYNCHES NEGRO
MURDERER AT GOLDSBORO.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY W. C.
HAMMER UNDER FIRE.
Marion Butler, acting for Randolph
county Republicans and others, yes-terday
filed with President Wilson a
petition and affidavits preferring
charges against W. C. Hammer,
United States district attorney for the
western district of North Carolina,
and requesting his removal.
The probable course indicated
would be for the president to sub-mit
the petition with the affidavits
to the attorney general for investiga-tion,
and in the event an investiga-tion
Is ordered the hearing probably
will take place in Washington.
There are five charges, which re-late
to alleged practice of fraud In
connection with the election of No-vember
3, 1914, and alleged non-per-formance
of duty as district attorney.
It is claimed that Mr. Hammer coun-selled
and advised voters and election
officers of Richland township, Ran-dolph
county, "to omit and violate
their duty by which voters were pre-vented
from voting at the election
for a representative in Congress and
deprived of their privilege as elec-tors;"
that he took possession of bal-lot
boxes unlawfully; that he failed
to perform his official duty; that he
failed to prosecute persons, and that
he misconducted himself by official
action toward a grand juror.
A Mothers' Circle.—A mothers'
circle wil be formed at Concord school
house Friday afternoon, January 14,
at 2 o'clock. The women of that sec-tion
will rally at the school uouse at
of the deceased in Virginia tor inter- this time and the circle wiU be form-meat.
ed.
Gqldsboro, Jan. 12.—Sweeping in-to
town this morning shortly after
midnight In automobiles, 100 or more
armed and disguised men took John
Richards, the negro who had con-fessed
participation in the murder of
Anderson T. Gurley, a planter of the
county, from the Wayne county jail,
and, carrying him to a river bridge
where the body of his alleged victim
was found, hanged him to a tree and
riddled his body with bullets.
Richards' confession implicated
three other negroes, two of whom,
Ben Coley and Isham Smith, were in
the jail at the time, but these men
the mob, at the request of Deputy
Sheriff Toler, whom they had in their
power at the time, left in their cells.
Since making his confession Richards
had showed signs of insanity, feigned
or real, and It is alleged that he made
another confession before being put
to death in which he again implicated
others.
Richards, hurried from the jail,
was placed in a waiting automobile
and the party in a short time had
set out on the river road to Hooks
bridge. This point reached, at the
corner of the bridge where Gurley's
murderer dragged) the body of his
victim and threw it into the river,
Richards was swung up to a limb of
a tree overhanging the spot. Possum Mr. T. L. Neece. of Richland, Iowa,
hunters who were within hearing say | arrived today to spend a few weeks
the
body
Three former officials of the United
States internal revenue department
and four other men, one of them &
North Carolinian, are to be placed on
trial during the term of United States
District court which convened in
Port Smith, Ark.. Monday on charges
growing out of a big blockade .iquor
conspiracy In which It is alleged that
the government was defrauded of
many thousands of dollars in taxes.
The defendants are James L. Sur-ber,
Atlanta, Ga., former superin-tendent
of the Georgia revenue divi-sion;
J. W. Grider. Sonora. Ark., and
Newton C. Spradling, Aurora, Mo.,
former government whiskey guagers;
J. R. Thomas, a Fort Smith saloon
keeper; Moses B. Brock, Salisbury,
N. C, alleged owner of one of the
moonshine distilleries; James L.
Smith, Atlanta, Ga., and Will Smith,
of Fort Smith.
Former District Attorney A. E.
Holton, of Winston-Salem, is in Fort
Smith appearing for some of the de-fendants.
The Indictments against the men
resulted from the operating in Fort
Smith of the J. C. Brewbaker distil-lery,
alleged to have run without a
license for thirteen months in 1914
ind 1915, its product having been
shipped to Kansas City and distrib-uted
from there.
More than a score of persons were
Indicted in connection with the case
in June, 1915. Five men pleaded
guilty, among them being John L.
Casper, of Kansas City, formerly of
Winston-Salem, named as "the brains
of the conspiracy," who was sen-tenced
to nine years in prison and a
fine of $33,000. Knox Booth, also
indicted, died three days later in
Memphis, Tenn., and government Je-tectives
are still investigating his
death. He had been superintendent
of the Tennessee revenue district, and
was expected by the government to
testify against his former associates.
He is said to have told friends he
feared for his safety.
Guy L. Hartman, of Kansas City,
alleged to have been Casper's busi-ness
associate, was arrested, forfeit-ed
a $25,000 bond, and is said to be
In Mexico. J. C. Brewbaker, also of
Kansas City, and against whom a
number of Indictments were return-ed,
also is missing.
Surber, Grider, Spradling, Thomas
and James Smith are defendants in
an indictment charging sixty-four
overt acts, which are alleged to have
formed a conspiracy.
Thomas also is defendant to an-other
indictment, alleging thirty-three
overt acts, constituting "moon-shining."
Brock and Will Smith are defend-ants
to an Indictment charging twen-ty-
six acts of "moonshinlng" and con-spiracy,
and involving the operations
of the M. B. Brock distillery In Fort
Smith from July 1, 1912, to April 30,
1913, a year before the government
alleges the Brewbaker distillery op-erated
illegally. The Brewbaker plant
is the one formerly occupied by the
Brock distillery.
The indictment concerning the
Brock plant charges 100.000 gallons
of liquor were distilled at the place
and that 75,000 gallons were remov-ed
without payment of the custom-ary
tax of $1.10 a gallon.
Charlotte Outstrips Greensboro.
Greensboro is not the only place
on the map where a meat Inspection
law is being discussed. Charlotte
has just passed a law requiring the
inspection of all meats offered for
sale as human food that goes a bow-shot
farther than the Greensboro or-dinance.
A farmer desiring to sell
fresh meat of his own raising in Char-lotte
is required to submit the car-cass
of the dead animal, with ail the
internal organs, to the city inspector,
•nd if the meat is found satisfactory,
it will be stamped and the farmer
given a writen permit for its sale. A
farmer can have his meat inspected
inly between the hours of 9 and 10
o'clock in the forenoon on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays.
POWER COMPANY SECURING
RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR LIKE.
The Southern Power Company Is
continuing to purchase rlghts-of-way
for a power transmission line (and
perhaps later an electric railway) be-tween
Greensboro and Spray and
Reldsvllle. It is understood that the
work of building the line will be
begun as soon as the desired rlghts-of-
way are secured and other pre-liminary
arrangements made. Dur-ing
the present week deeds have been
filed conveying rights-of-woy to the
Southern Power Company from the
following owners of land in the
northern part of Guilford county: J.
L. Tate, J. A. Herrin, W. J. Hendrix,
R. N. Gllchrist, J. E. McKnlght, Mrs.
N. C. James and others, C. R. Bevill.
John A. Barringer, M. G. Bevill, Sam
Richardson, George Shaw, the Cobb
estate. J. C. May. Mose Whltsett, Wil-liam
Gant. T. N. Sellers, John Shaw,
J. O. Cook, Mrs. Pear* Tyson and T.
L. Archer.
Mr. E. P. Gamble, of Greensboro
shots which riddled the negro's I visiting relatives and friends in Gull-1 Route «. was a caller at the office
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