The Greensboro patriot [April 4, 1921]

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REDUCTION LAND VALUES
WILL BE SOUGHT
GREENSBORO, N. C. MONDAY APRIL 4, 1921
LAW PROVIDES ACTION MUST
ItK TAKEN FIRST MONDAY
IN APRIL.
It is reported that the county
commissioner* will foe visited at
their regular meeting this week by
farmer delegation* in the county
iv!atve to horizontal reductions of
tax revaluations assessed under the
revaluation act. N© definite date
has been set by the board to hear
i be petition of those asking for
liuilford county values to be reduc-ed,
but Chairman Tucker stated Sat-urday
that If euch a bearing was de-sired
the regular business to be con-sidered
would not permit considera-tion
or the matter before Tuesday.
possibly even later.
The law passed at the recent ses-sion
of the legislature relative to
horizontal reduction of land value
assessments 'provided that any ac-tion
taken by the county commis-sioners
should be done at the regu-lar
board meeting on the first Mon-day
in April. It is understood, bow-ever,
that the board might defer ac-tion
from day to day during a period
of four weeks.
The bill passed by the legislature
empowered the commissioners of the
various counties.to take action as
they saw it. The proponents'of the
measure before the general assem-bly
sought the passage of a law
which itself would direct a 30 per
cent reduction of rural property out-side
of incorporated towns. This the
legislature refused to do but com-promised
by empowering the county
commissioners to grant relief where
it was deserved.
It is general}- believed that land
values in Guilford county have suf- !
tered slight depreciation. While j
speculation created false values 'in
some instances, the prevailing opin-ion
is rather general that the pres- I
ent day average has not materially j
declined even from the top-notch
prices during the period immediate- ;
ly following the war.
MOREHEAD SCHOOLS HELD
COMMENCEMENT PRELIMINARY
.STAMEY GLENN NOT GCILTY
HELPING FUGITIVE FLEE.
Stamey Glenn, young white man.
charged with aiding and abetting
Will Miller in escaping from the
county convict camp, was dismissed
Friday morning following a hearing
before Justice D. H. Collins.
Miller was among the group of
eight convicts that escaped from the
road gang over two weeks ago. Sat-urday
evening preceding Easter the
sheriff with several deputies recap-tured
him on tbe Guilford College
road while he was being conveyed to
Winston-Salem (<in an automobile
driven by .Stamey Glenn. Whan
Miller saw the sheriff's party wait-ing
along the road be Jumped from
!he machine, while Glenn speeded
up his car and got away. MJller
endeavored to make bis escape
through the woods but was caught.
Judge Collins ruled that Glenn
was not guilty under existing laws
because Miller had already made his
escape before aided by Glenn.
The county schools of Morehead
township held a perliminary contest
Friday at Pomona school to select
representatives from the various
schools to the county commence-ment.
In the morning a literary test
was held with athletic contests fol-lowing
in the afternoon.
The winners in tbe literary con-test
follow: Sixth grade, writing,
Eurlie Smith, Pomona; fifth grade,
oral 'language, Hudson Thomas,
Pomona; fourth grade, arithmetic,
John Banks, Glendale; third grade,
arithmetic. John Poe, Pomona; sec-ond
grade, story telling, Harry
Mitchell. Glendale; advanced first
grade, drawing, Herman Boles, Mc-
Iver; first grade, story telling, Bev-ebiy
Sustane, Pomona.
The declamation eontest was won
by Julius Thompson, of Glendale
school, while Annie MoCurrie was
the successful contestant in the rec-itation
contest.
Pomona's relay team, composed of
Harold McCormtck, Herbert Nichol-son.
Ernest Summers, Howard
Stradler. Jack Lindley, Welborn
Plummer, George Newman and
Ralph Weisner. was the winner in
the relay race. George Newman, Po-mona;
Weatheriy Stone and Clyde
.Snyder, of Glendale, were the win-ners
in the three classes of stand-ing
broad ]amps, while Herbert
Meade. Giendare,- and Thomas Hod-gin,
Pomona, made the records for
the running broad Jump. Howard
Strader, Weatberly Stone and Clyde
Snyder were the winners of the 100-
yard race. The Pomona zig-zag
handball team won the right to rep-resent
the township at tfhe county
commencement, defeating all other
teams, and the sixth grade of Po-mona
school won the setting up
drill, contest.
Pomona and Glendale divided the
primary games representatives be-tween
them, the first and second
grades of Pomona school, and the
third and advanced third grades of
Glendale school being the successful
contestants.
S. J. TUTTLE AWARDED
$100.00 YERDICT
THREE SUITS FROM ONE ACCI-DENT
ARE DECIDED DIF-FERENT.
f0RD FARM BUREAU
\ SEEKS W MEMBERS
CAMPAIGN BEING WAGED TO
»CREASE MEMBERSHIP OF
ORGANIZATIONS:
IMPROVE ROAD TO
MOUNT PLEASANT MILL.
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The Jury in the Superior ■ court
hearing the case of Samuel S. Tuttle
against the North Carolina Railroad
Company, returned a verdict late
Saturday night awarding the plain-tiff
$100. The plaintiff sought dam-ages
in the sum of 910,000 for per-sonal
Injuries sustained as the re- >
suit of a collision with ta laundry
wagon with a train at the Highland
avenue crossing on February f,
1920. The trial of the case began-
Ith the addition of 1,0*0 new
"Mfcbers as Its aim;, the Guilford
'P*faty Farm Bureau will wage an
Scare campaign this month for the
■*M« of increasing its strength
if'thereby expand the sphere of its
fulness. *he campaign will be
»?o»sly. waged for thirty days
.the directors and officers of the
«ation believe that no serious
ittlea wMl be experienced »
I -" *"-' "' *u" "•"■ ■"■"* ■g"»rr>in.ng« tthnee ddeessiirreedd nnuummbbeerr of
Friday and was Concluded Saturday *$uttfordi farmers to Join together
afternoon.
P. M. King, administrator of Miss
Maggie Barber, recovered J2.500
against the North Carolina Railroad
Company for t'.ie wrongful death of
his intestate. Mia* Barber was rid-ing
in the laundry wagon with Mr.
Tuttle when the accident occurred
at the Highland avenue crossing and
her death resulted from injuries
tained. The defendant gave notice
of appeal to the Supreme court
tice in open court being filed Satur-day
afternoon.
The Columbia Laundry Company;'
claiming damages in the sum of
1690 against the railroad company
g*jMr mutual benefit.
'■ Tbe plans of the campaign include
|hs services of a number of solici-jjptv.
to visit the representative far-mer*
of the county. The solicitors
mill undertake to explain the ad-t*
njages to be derived from mem-
^e*lviD ln a Wrong county bureau
* the idea win be emphasized that
KRer strength and superior bene-
»jwni accrue from a larger and
♦je firmly united rural citizenry.
The ifarm Bureau already in-
' ^''*^r* ia lt* v>embenhiP some of
**)• leading and most successful far-
•A of this section. During the
MM period of its existencs it has
5 and
I SUS- 'Jjre.
.otlce itf
:, no- fl}Si
for the wrecking of its delivery «« Ooatb to be recognised as one of the
tomoWle, farted tfr win a veydlct.
The Jury' returned Saturday morn-ing,
announcing i- s decision In favor
of the defendant. The acton was
the- third suit arising from the same
accident, the Jury in each case view-ing
the affair from a different lgbt.
lug the affair from a different light,
and Judge Finley left for his home
in North Wilkesboro. Next week he
will preside over a term at Danbury,
Stokes county.
CAPT. W H. WEATHERLY
DIED AT HOME IN FLORIDA,
GREENE STREET PROPERTY
DROUGHT ABOUT 970.000.
As evidence of the fact that dirt
in Greensboro is not a drag^ on the
market. Bill Ross, realtor, made the
knockers sit up and gape a bit
Thursday morning when he • auc-tioned
185 feet on North Greene
street and received prices totaling
$69>52*.75. The lots were sub-di-vided
into small tracts and the aver-age
price per front foot was $378.
The property sold was a part of
the Greene street frontage of the
old John L. King home place. It was
sold to tbe Southern Power Corn-most
important farmer organlza-
S0B« and has demonstrated that It
•worthy of the support and co-op-eration
of the^rarmers of the connty.
• The purpose Of the bureau is to
encourage fural development, de-velbp
harmony between the farm-ers,
between the farmers and the
merchants and to work in harmony
for the advancement of ithe common
good.
At a joint meeting held Friday by
the County commissioners and the
highway commissioners, an agree-ment
was reached for the immediate
improvement of the road leading
from the old Buffalo graded' school,
at the end of the Asheboro street
paving, to the Mount Pleasant cot-ton
mill, a distance of approximate-ly
20 miles. The road will be re-bunt
to Alamance church and a
hard-surface of the penetration type
laid. From that point to the old
mill site, passing by Bennett's store,
in Greene township, a sand clay top-soil
road will be made. This im-portant
highway passes through por-tions
of Gilmer, Jefferson, day and
Greene townships and is a prominent
highway of the county.
Tbe commissioners also decided to
Tequest the state highway commis-sion
not to change the route of the
proposed' road from Buffalo creek to
Glbsonville. This route is a section
of the state highway and the state
commission has Indicated an inten-ton
of changing the route so as to
go by MoLeansvllls instead of fol-lowing
the old macadam road to
Wbttnatt.
J. El wood Cox. a recently appoint-
Td member of the state highway
commission, was directed to urge the
state commission not to change this
road.
VOL. 100. NO. 27
CIVIC WEEK WILL BE
OBSERVED IN THE CUT
MAYOR STAFFORD ENJOINS ALL
TO ENTER IN AND CO-OPERATE.
LOCAL DEBATERS WIN -
A DOUBLE VICTORY.
W. W. DICK. WILL BUILD
— x-~BBS '.APARTMENT HOUSE.
W. W. Dick has announced the in-tention
of constructing in the near
future an apartment house on Belle-nieade
avenue to • contain eighteen
IN8TATSED
pany. who in turn transferred it
■»•«■>*'JW£. &MJ& %<&BrMgglbb - -~ r-~—
Real Estate" 'Company1/ SlrPlftosa MJraTKMeyD SMO
purchased tbe property a few weeks
ago.
The sale was attended by a tre-mendous
crowd and the bidding was
lively.
Capt. W. H. Weatberly, 2. native,
of GuilforJ county, but who nad
made his home during recent years
i_ «■- . J J. . . I "•—' «»cnuc 'to - eigQteen
IsnonnvvniniPe. HH?islboiday8twas ^laid nto^-reet *PartmentS" Tne »"»°«y owned £ 1Ir. Dick is known as the old Wil-fn
."h. Y * C°1I
,rderate bUr,al plot «• ^rage house, between Greene
in the Jacksonville cemetery, wbere and EdgeWorth Streets' on Bell-he
Joined his comrade, of CirM war meade> .nd th<s vreseU. atrucJe
n' r» n- ,>. , ; . «_" ' ./ wil1 be entIrely overhauled and con-
^ ^V??^*?*' f^mmmijmmmX ***■ comfortable, steam
and i Iwl' , f ""'ftiP'"' j seated— hnd- thoroughly- modern
and j. M. weatberly, of ^mmm^mimWmPmindr ■■■■*-■■■■•■
*^T<£2£Z*4**?mmff* I The anfiouncement of Mr. Dick
oIl.H ' W£ * memb*r^f "111 b. weleome* b, Greensboro"cit-
C^mpany F Second North. CaroHn* ,„„ interested in the present hou-
2"' T* h* ',W*yf 'bore- *«»• i»8 situation. Homes eontinue scarce
allegiance to the Confederacy, .He j and the demand i.aufficient to fill a
Representatives of the Greensboro'
high school won a double victory In
the triangular debate held " Friday
night between the high schools of
GreensBoro, WinstoivSalem and
Asheville. The query d.iscussed
was, "Resolved, that 40,9 policy of
collective bargaining through trade
unions should prevail in American
industry."
James Headrix and Allen Stain-back,
arguing the affirmative side,
met and defeated the Asheville team
here; while Misses Margaret Hart-sell
and Gladys Holland, represent-ing
the negative defeated Winston-
Salem in the Twin City.
Tbe double victory of the local
teams entitles the Greensboro high
school to send' her debaters to
Chapel Hill to participate ln the
contest to decide state champion de-baters.
Civic week was ushered Into-
Greensboro this morning and the
program as announced for the en-tire
week promises a busy, yet in-teresting
week for those participat-ing.
Mayor E. J. Stafford Issued a
proclamation on Saturday officially
designating this week as ''Civic
Week" and urging every citizen to
enter into the occasion and' lend a
hearty c—operation.
All of the-fire fighting equipment
of the city was on display to-day and
the firemen gave demonstration of
their prowess. The opening day ot-the
"Civic Week" program was fire-prevention
day, and the people ©f
the city have been urged to clean up
trash and rubbish from their prem-ises
in order to make fires less like-ly.
The proclamation of Mayor Staf-ford
was as follows:
"Whereas, the Chamber of Com-merce
of the city of Greensboro hast
designated the week beginning April
4 as "civic week," and has desig-nated
Monday of said week as flrs-prevention
day. and Tuesday as cky
beautiful day, and Wednesday mm
community day, and Thursday aa>
health day, and Friday as women'*
day, and Saturday a* Boy Scout day,
and arranged for a mass meeting for
Saturday night;
"Now, therefore, I; E. J. Stafford,
mayor or the city *6f Greensboro, do
proclaim said week, beginning April
4, as civic week and said days as-designated
by the said Chamber of
Commerce, and do enjoin all the cit-izens
of the city of Greensboro to
enter into the spirit of this week
and to heartily co-operate with the
Chamber of OoaUMrM in the suc-cess
ot the prosram arranged by
the Chamber of Commerce." r
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FEDERAL AGENTS RAID - "■'
is affectionately remembred by
wide circle of friends in this county
who will mourn to bear of bis de-parture.
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SMOgER AND
NHmOPFICJSRS.
ANOTHER SUMNER STILL
GOES TO JUNK HEAP.
JAMES REED THOMAS
DIED FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
Sumner township contributed- an-
0 her distillery Thursday afternoon
10 increase the junk pile that the
county and federal officers are ac-cumulatlng.
Officers Johnson, Hobbs,
'-irk and White Journeyed to Sum-
■ Thursday afternoon, about 2 1-2
miles from the scene where they
captured an outfit on the previous
afternoon, and their search soon r—
' a led the presence of a 50, gallon
''"DPer still. A qnascKy of mash
»as found nearby, but & whiekey
or beer had been left betind. The
Place was deserted when tbe officers
arrived.
*>HN GAMBLE
LIQUOR MAKING PS
James Reed Thomas died Friday
! afternoon at 2 o'clock at his home
on Gibsonville Route 1. Mr. Thom-
I as was a prominent farmer of east-ern
Guilford. He had been in ill
health for some time and spent last
summer in Asheville in an effort to
regain bis health.
Mr. Thomas was married to Miss
Maggie Boone, of Whitsett, about a
year ago. He is survived hy his
widow, his father, Mr. D. L. Thom-as,
of Gibsonville Route 1; three sis-ters
and two brothers—'Mrs. J. F.
Hufflne. ot Gibsonville Route 1; Mrs.
J. C. Gerrlnger, of Brown Summit,
and Miss Mary Thomas, R. S. and
I. M, Thornae, of Gibsonville.
The funeral was at - Springwood
Saturday afternoon at » o'clock,.
Rev. whttaley conducted the fu-neral.
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At the regular meeting of JtSfjEfc
eal lodge of the Benevolent Pre**—
tive Order of Elks held Friday n^gbt.
new officers were installed and ad—
llghtful luncheon and smoker 'jqn-.
Joyed by the members.
The new officers inducted into''of-fice
were: E., P. Ross, exalted grain
ruler; M. E. Nathan, esteemed lead-ing
knight; J. E. Brittoh, esteemed
loyal knight; E. E. Bain, esteemed
lecturing knight; C. C. Collins, sec-retary;
F. if Taylor, treasurer; B.
MacKenzle, trustee for three years.
Several candidates were initiated
prior to the installation ceremonies
score or more of
houses:-
sucb apartment-
PLANS FOR FASHION
SHOW ARE PROGRESSING.
Mrs. Sarah Stamey Died at White
Oak.
Mrs, Sarah Stamey, aged 54, died
suddenly at her home in White Oak
Friday night about 7 o'clock.- Mrs.
Stamey suddenly fell back ln ber
chair While eating supper, and when
reached by members of the family,
was dead. Surviving are two daugh-ters.
Misses Artie and Dora Stamey
of White Oak.
?* 7— J Funeral services were conducted
Plansrfor the Greensboro Fashion Sunday at Worthvllle, Randolph
■Show, scheduled to be held in this
City on April 19 during the Nation-al
Good Roads Association conven-ton.^
are going forward rapidly and
present" indications point- to a'suc-cessful
Iff air.
The show will be held ln the Mu-nicipal
theater and proceeds of the
enterprise will be devoted to the
District Nurse and"-. Relief Associa-tion.
'The Merchants' Association
It backing the undertaking and ar-rangements
for an elaborate_enter-tainment
are rapidly maturing.
FARLEY'S STORE CAME
NEAR BEING ROBBED.
• Borchott-Hale.
Miss Texena Burchebt, daughter of
Mrs. W. J. Burchett, and Everett N.
John Gamble, indicted by the
xrand jury of the last Federal court «.». ... -. «~.—~... — ».-.«... ...
on a charge of manufacturing whis- Hale, both of this city, were married
■ey, was arrested last week at Plea— last Mosdaj. ih« young couple hat-
»nt Garden by Deputy Marshall C.
T Roane. The capias was ordered
«aued foUowingfthe indictment but
Gamble had avoided tbe presence of
the officers.
Gamble is from Sumner township.
,e Eave bond in th»,-s«ua .of $500.
lng kept the affair a secret until Sat-urday
afternoon. .
Mr. Hale is the son of m. S. Hale
and is employed in the mechanical
department pt the Daily News. Mr.
and Mrs. Hal* will make their home
here.
.-. A (,I"I 'y# MijLifljswpYV^ •
While Manager George J Yates.
of the James H. Farley store, was
in theubnildrng last night about 8.3 0
o;elock, he'heara a noise at the rear
of the store si If some on* was at-tempting
to break in. Dpon 'tam-ing
on all of the lights the would be
thief was . frightened away, "fir.
Tates stating that be heard the
sounds as the man hastened away^
Joe Wort ham, a young negro, was
later arrested by the police on a
-barge of attempted burglarly. The
police claimed that they have suf-
Oclsnt evidence to convict Wort ham
hot he ftoutly denies the charge.'
. Return to Country. *',
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Patterson, who
have been spending the winter at
the O. Henry hotel, have retumM'
"to their eauntry home, 'Twin Oaks."
LOA th'e Battle Ground rpad.
REV. J. G. WALKER AND
MISS OLIVE JONES TO WED.
county.
Set Calendar For Term Beginning
April 18.
At a meeting of the Guilford baa
held Saturday afternoon a calendar
was arranged for the civil actions
to be tred at the term of Superor
court beginning April 18. A term of
1 wo weeks will begin on that date
and a long list of cases were placed
'in the calendar for trial.
The announcement of the engage-ment
and approaching marriage of
Kiss Olive. Jones and R«v. J. G.
Walker was made at a delightful in-formal
tea given Friday afternoon
by Mrs. A. W. McAiister . at her
beautiful homo la Irving Park.
Rev. Walker is now located in
Greenville, 4, C.. where he is pastor
of the Presbyterian church. He was
at one time assistant pastor of the
First Presbyeesfan church ' of this
city and wae later pastor ot Glen-wood
and Bessemer avenue church-es.
Funeral Services For Maden Infnnt.
Jennie 'Maden, the 12-months-old
child of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Maden,
who live near Guilford College, died'
Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Methodist church at Summer-field
at 11 o'clock Saturday morning.
Interment was msde in the church
cemetery. ■'
FARM OF JOHN WILLIAMS,
Covington, Oa., March 31.—Fed-eral
agents raided the farm in Jas-per
county Ito-day of John S. Wil-liams,
charged with having caused
the murder of 11 negroes, and ar-rested
several negro farm, bands),"
whom they wanted as material wit-nesses
in the investigation of alleged.
peonage conditions on the farm,
which are declared to hare caused,
the killings.
Williams, It was announced to-day
by Judge John B. (Huftchesoa,
presiding Judge in the Newton coun-ty
Superior court, wiH be placed oa
trial here next week on one Ot the
murder indictments which followed
tb« finding of the bodies at thru*
negroes In a river in this county.
More than 100 venire men have been
summoned. Governor Dorsey
suggestsd to officials that Will!
be tried on each of the murder
charges seperately.
There are three murder charges
in this county against Williams,
who according to Clyde Manning.
his negro fasm boss, brought three
negroes into this county and had
them drowned. The Jasper county
grand jury will meet April 11 to
inquire into the deaths of eight n—
groes whose bodies were found in
that 'county and the governor has
asked the jurors not only to indict
Williams and Manning but also the
three younger sons of Williams.
High Pohst
Ejee-O-FBe Csssssnj' la Hands of
Hew Minister Arrives.
Rev. Wade 6. Smith and family
arrived in the cRy Friday and Rev.
Smith-Will immediately assume the
paatcjrate of The-Church by Side of
the Road. Pending the erect ion, of
their ham*, ta Irving Park the new
minister -mad his family will reside
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.on
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' The BJsct-Odrlls . Company, a
High Point corporation, was placed
in the hands of a temporary receiv-er
Thursday, the order being made
in United States Federal court oa
petition of several creditors. A. B.
Terry, of High Point, was named
receiver.
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jnfe.
Mr. Hughes Critically III.
The many friends ot Mr. J. R.
Hughes throughout the county will
regret to learn that be is critically
ill at St. Leo's hospital, following a
surgical operation which was , per-formed
several days ago.. Little"
ho^es are entertained of his recov-
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Brokaw Lodge Near
Burned.
High Point March ftgv Mr.'
kaw's lodge at the Falrvlew .d«h.
about 10 miles south of Hi*^ Poiax,
*as» destroyed by fire which Was .em*-'
covered about S O'clock. Mr. Bvo-ka*.
» in New Tork and nothing cast
be learned about the total loss, ert
it Is" believed that the lodge and Urn
contents were valued at more rhaa
$100,000.
J. B. Leathers Buys Irvta fliaMh
Rouse.
J. B. Leathers has purchased ehe>
North Elm street home of the late
Irvln Smith, tbe price paid being
$20,000. Tbe property Is on the
east, aide of North Ihn, near Fisher
Park, and is a most attractive place.
Mr. Leathers and family will move).
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