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GREENS BUKU DAILY NEWS, 5CNDAT, NWBMBER 19. I3Z3 13 Founders of Greensboroysi The United States ef America will sever fully realise and can never re pa Hi obligation to Scotland. The leaaendanta of the Scotch have' olay- d a great part In the oonquest and ettlement of every etate . of the anion. They put Iron In the blood of America, They helped greatly to Snake this a Godfearing nation. In to atate and In no county la thia bet ter Illustrated than In North Caro- Ina and Guilford county. They came y way of the north of Ireland, and Ihua became known as the Seotch (rleh. Among these people were the Lindsays, who went first to Penn sylvania and Maryland, and then same to North Carolina. Most of ttiem settled In Mecklenburg, but iobert Lindsay, the grandfather of esse Harper Lindsay, settled In ullford on the water of Deep river 'est of the present city of Qreens oro. The county was at that time almost an unbroken forest. The leer, the bear and the buffalo roamed tnmolested In the woods and In the lanebrakes of Buffalo, Horaepen and Reedy Fork creeks, and of Deep fiver, ears later In 1781, when the attle of Guilford Courthouse waa (ought, both General Greene and Lord Cornwallls commented in their reports upon the dense forests of the lounty. A. similar comment was Bade afterwarda by George Wash ington, who passed through the coun ty In making a tour of. the south, At this' time the county seat was tailed Guilford Courthouse, though (ta name was after the Revolu lon, ehanged to Martinsville In konor of Governor Alexander Martin. a. courthouse, a jail, a large copper Imlth chop, and a few other strag- (llng buildings made up the village. Robert Lindsay represented North Carolina In the first house of oom- Sons and was a man of distinction, e had a family of six boys and two girls. His son, Robert, was also e man of nrominanoe and aeoulred joWtiderabla wealth, although he died St 'the age of forty-two. He mar ried Miss Letltla Harper, daughter If Lieutenant-Colonel Jeduthun Harper. Thia Robert moved to Breensboro shortly after it was rounded In 1808. He had five chll Iren, three sons and two daughters is follows: Jeduthun Harper, Jesse Harper, Robert Goodloe, Anne Ellsa, the wife of Governor Morehead, and Mary, the wife of James T. Morehead klit first. Jesse Harper Llndeay, the subject f this sketch, waa ,born In Martlns fllle on December 17, 1101, a few sionths after the founding of the !lty of Greensboro, and was, there ore, a baby when brought to Greens oro by his parents. ' He waa edu- Pyorrhea Now Can Be Cured Free) Sample Of Wonderful Guaranteed Home Treatment Kvery sufferer from Pyorrhea, Needing and Ulcerated Gums, Loose teeth and other aore and diseased bndltlons of the mouth, should accent Ills offer without delay. Bend your lame and address today to Moore's Uboratorles, Dept. 6194, Kansas City, lo., and they will mall you Sample treatment, postpaid, absolutely freei fudge Its merits for yourself. Also rti .booklet and history of rsmark--rH:-j cures. This simple home treat ment Is Indorsed by many leading rennets ana ' I !:' tot ffr. v;: h ' fcr i t service of the United States with headquarters at Washington. Mr. Lindsay died In December 188. at the age of seventy-eight, well beloved and full of hqnors. Famous Mysteries JBgia H. LIWDSAT. Proas aa Old Pketognpk. Dootors as being the boat efficient method known, to eon. ol theee dread conditions. Ba 11-18 for parka and squares at eated at the University of North Carolina, where he was graduated with the class of 1117. He delivered one of the orations at commencement. Well equipped for life's work, he returned to the village of Greens boro at the age of nineteen, which village waa also nineteen years old. The town had about three hundred Inhabitants, there being one hundred and twenty-four taxable polls. The town gave little promise of the splen did city Into which It hae developed. There were Ave stores and three saloons one for every forty-two iltlaens of poll-tax age. Surely Mr. Volstead was little dreamed of in hose good old days. The real estate f the town was valued at 168,416.00 and the total Income of, the town, Including license taxes, was 1180.00. Feung Lindsay at first engaged In the mercantile business with his brother Jeduthun, but retired from this after a few years trial. When twenty-four years of age he waa eleoted a member of the board of commissioners of Greensboro with Henry Humphries, David Boott, George Albright and Jamee T. Morehead. In 1840, together with Jamea Sloan and Dr. John A. Mebana, he was au thorised to aet out trees on Elm and Market atreeta, and this committee paid 184.00 to a colored man named Gill for netting them out These itaas grew Into the splendid elms which wsra for years ths Joy and pride of the -town. Although theaa trees were cut down recently when the town took on otty airs, yet sel dom has so small an expenditure re sulted In so much beauty and com fort. Should not we learn a lesson from this, and pay more attention to the beauty and adornment of our cltyT , Soma day .we will buy landa enormous i a asaxesaaa n easaaaseasa. j . t a-V 1 WIS. i W In the most complete line we have ever shown, in the greatest variety" All now at reduced prices. Due to the torn up condition of the building and our probable lateness In securing our new room we will continue the' REMODELING SALE ALL THIS WEEK Mahogany Candlesticks 10 inches high, artistic designs. .Regular $3.00 pair value, per 12 inches high and usual price $4 pair, d0 Op per pair . .... wLLo Mahogany Clocks Sessions make, fully guaranteed, size AA 9x16, value $10.00, at OO.UU All Wool Sweaters In coat styles, blue, taaroon, and white, athletic roll collars, value $10.50. Will close out tJ AC lot at , ttPOeaD Variety of Cut Clai Leu Than Wholesale Price New Shipment of Genuine Sattuma Jap Vaaes Also Jap Cloisene Bronze Vases, beautiful designs, especially adapted for Lamp Bases. 1 - I- - ! t- . . ... .... . IT MM too. price which would now be secured at email cost. In 18IS, 1858-and 1838 he represent ed Guilford County In the house at representatives and In the senate In 1844. Before the war Greensboro had three banks, all of which were pros perous, and Jesee H. Lindsay be came cashier of one of these, the Bank of Cape Fear. All of theee banks collapsed at the surrender ex cept the one of which- Lindsay waa cashier. After the war the Bank of Cape Fear waa succeeded by the Bank of Greensboro, and afterwarda the name ehanged to the National Bank of Greensboro, and then to the Greensboro National bank, which Is now ths Greensboro National branch of the American Exohange National bank. For practically a life time Mr. Lindsay in the bank for seven years, bank as Its president. For many years it waa the only bank In the city, He guided Ite destinies with rare prudence and consummate skill, "As punctual and particular as Jeses Lindsay" became a proverb of the town. "Probity, punctuality and ex actness were the marked character istics of his praotleal Ufa." He merit ed to have such Implicit eonfldenee and esteem of the people not only In Greenaboro but throughout the state. J. R. Wharton, now general man ager of the Butte Blectrlo Railway company, waa associated with Mr. Lindsay In the bank for seven years, and In retering to Mr. Lindsay writes! "To me ha looms up bigger and big ger aa I grow older and more fully realise what .a magnificent character his was. The thing about him which first made' the greatest Impression was ths fact that from all over the atate our best men and women seem ed to have such Implicit confidence In him. Politicians, statesmen, theo logians, all seemed to went to know his opinions and he guided by them Business men from Wilmington, Rat leigh, Fayettevllle, Charlotte, etc .were daily oalllng to see him or writing for advloe, and aa my desk waa next to his I saw and heard many things which I shall always re member and many whloh I think helped shape my life tor good." Zeb Vance was a 'great friend and admirer of Mr. Lindsay. On one oc casion he called at the bank and said, "Jesse, I am to stump the state with Tom Settle. Now, Tommy is not only a big fine looking fellow but be weare good clothes. Look at this shabby suit. It Is the best I have got. and I haven't got money to buy even a pair of pants." Mr. Lindsay loaned him the money with whloh to buy two suits. ' On another occasion Vanoe came Into the bank and said, "Jesse, the boys ' are beginning to ask me my views on certain financial queetions. I want half an hour's talk with you so that I can find out what they are." Mr. Wharton also says, "He waa Just as courteous and kindly with the lowliest as with the powerful and rich. , Alston was an old olub-f ooted African Methodist preacher1 out In Warnersville. He frequently oalled on Mr. Lindsay both for flnanolal assistance and advice, and waa al ways treated with the earns courtesy s Vance. Mr, Lindsay recognised the fine work done by Alston and regarded him as one of-the really big men of bis race." Those who were closely associated with him say that they never heard him say an unkind or harsh word. He wae a dignified, courteous. Chris tian gentleman. He was a dsvoted Christian and waa throughout his life one of the chief supports of the First Presbyte rian church. He gave the ohuroh its present alte, and waa always ons of Its stauncbest supporters. He was elscted a ruling elder ,ln 1848.. He was largely Instrumental In the oall lng to the church In 1888 of Sr. Jacob Henry Smith, who oontlnued as Its pastor for thirty-eight years. Only God can eetlmate the blessing to Greensboro and the state that grew out of thJa pastorate. Mr. Lindsay waa always his loyal friend and counsellor. Mr. Lindsay was for many years the treasurer of Orange presbytery and later, also treasurer of the synod of North Carolina, and finally the treasurer of the general asseably af the church. , He married his ' cousin Amelia Goseal Ellison and had four chil dren, only two ef whom lived to ma turity. Annette married Clement Gil lespie Wright, a distinguished law yer and a brave officer In the Con federate) army. Of this union there were two sons, Jeese Lindsay Wright, who died unmarried, and Clement O. Wright who has Just been elected to a fourth term In the house of representatives at North Carolina. There was, also, cne daughter,.! An nette Lindsay Wright, who died ia early childhood. The other daugh ter, Sallle, married John A. Gilmer, an able jurist and a colonel In the Confederate army, who was, also, for many, years an aider in ths First Presbyterian ohuroh. There was born of this union two sons and one onugnier. rfuue, ina wixe OI Barnuel W, Sick, who had two daughters, Sadie Lindsay ths wife of Oummlns A. Mebana, and Mary Blaise, deceased wife of Jamas T, Morehead Colonel Ellison L, Gilmer ef the United States asnp, and Jeha X. OUmer to the VETERAN POLICEMAN 27 YEARS IN SERVICE Fallow- Officers Shower Honors Upon Policeman J. R. Jeffreys At His Home J. R. Jeffreys, veteran police offi cer, and, in police clrclea affeojtion ately called "Daddy Policeman," was surrounded, stormed and almost over come last night In his home at 715 West Lee street, by doeens of his fel low officers and their wives who came to surprise him with numerous gifts and to make merry In celebra tion of his completion of 97 yesrs of "faithful service" on the Greensboro oollce force. When the policemen and their wives began arriving at the Jeffreys home the Veteran officers was com pletely surprised at the unusual number of guests snd af ths mysteri ous packages they were carrying. Into the djnlng room they went where the glfte were spread upon a talkie. Chief of Police George P. Crutchfleld wae master of ceremonies. In a few fit ting words he told Patrolman Jeff reys that the crowd waa there to felicitate him upon his 'many long years of faithful service, and to pre sent to him a few tokens of esteem. His resourcefulness as an officer com ing to his rescue Folloeman Jeffreys gallantly rallied to the occasion, and In well chosen wards thanked his friends for the honors they had show ered upon him. . While Policeman Jeffreys was ush ering his guests Into his home, two reporters for the Dally News were rushing to 715 West Lee street In a high-powered automobile. A brief telephone "tip" which had come to the city room gave a strset number where It was said a "big story was breaking." Shivering on the back eea,t of the oar aa It hurried through the night the newa writers discussed the ' "story" of firs, murder, sudden Vleath or Intrigue, which they be lieved was at the end of the ride waiting to be moulded liito type. They arrived at the Jeffreys home, and when ushered into the dining roont louna a most enjoyaoie social xuno' "Mrs. Eliza Gilbert" Green hefe I tlon in progress, 7 666 quickly relieves Cold and L a G r i p p e, Constipation, Biliousness and Headache. lyn thefe Is a plain headstone, bat tered by the elemente to auoh an extent that the Inscription la barely decipherable and, even when read, the three lines give little clue to the real Identttly of her whose mor tal remains are Interred beneath the simple stone. There is no epitaph and the carved letters merely form the words: Mrs. Ellsa Gilbert Died June 16, 1861 Age it But behind this Inscription there lies the romance of a personality which stirred more than one throne during the past century. The story of a beautiful woman who waa the toast qf two continents and the cause of Innumerable duels she who Is better known by her stage name of "Lola Montez. ' History Is none too clear as to the origin of thie woman who sway ed Europe by the sheer power of her charm, but the name of Lord Byron If generally connected - wtli her parentage and the first that is known of the child Is when she blos somed forth as a Juvenile darker in India, whence her mother hud gone with her step-father, a Captain Cralgle, of the Brltlsh'army. Here, for the first and almost tor the last time, the girl used her own name of Marie Dolores Ellia Rosanna, gen erally ehortened to- "Betty," and It wae here also that she learned many of the alnous alluring steps which ehe was to bring to England under the assumed title of "Lola Montei, the Castllian dancer." Lola's long-heralded appearance at His Majesty's theater In London, however, waa utterly wrecked by the tactvthat she wss reoognlsed aa the girl who had en lived many an army gathering In India with her dancing and, with the spotlight of publicity thrown upon claims to noble Bpsnlsh lineage, aha fled to the eontlnent, dancing with Indifferent success In Germany, Brussels and Warsaw, and finally drifting to Paris, where she posed as an exiled Polish patriot arid won success by the fire of her anger toward a hissing audience rather than because of the superior ity of her dancing. Almost Instantly she became the pet of the French capital, the talk of the boulevards, the, object of adoration of such men aa Dumas, Balsao anf Dujarrler, , editor of the all-powerful "La Preese." At the height of her popularity she deserted Paris for Berlin, where she danced by royal command at the palace of Frederick AV'llhelm, king of Prussia, and then continued her triumphal procession to Munich, It waa here that she became the favorite of Ludwtg 1, king of Bavaria, who bestowed upon her the titui of "Baroness von Rosuntlval and Countess von Candfeld," with au an nuity of twenty thousand florings, and an almost limitless retinue. Had Lola Montes been content with her lot, It is possible that she might have been permitted to remain In Munich until the end of her daye. Hut, back of her ambition to be the greatest dancer In the world an am bition which fell far short of realisa tion ehe also dreamed of being the power behind the throne of Bavaria, a eort of modern Pompadour whose whims might eway the deBtlniee of Kurope. For a time it appeared that i 'tin hope might be realised, for Lud wig even went so far as grievously to offend his queen In order to com ply with the wishes of the beautiful dancev. But after she had induced the monarch to dismiss his ministry and alter his entire state policy, Lola found that she had Incurred the enmity both of the Bavarian people and, what was even more dangerous, of Prussia. The forced abdication of Ludwlg eoon followed and Lola Mon tes fled to America where ehe en Joyed a brief period of prosperity because of her European reputation. After a disastrous tour In "Maseppa," under the management of P. T. Barnum, Lola gave a series of lectures In California, mads a flying visit to Australia and then returned I to New York, having succeeded In sandwiching two marriages into her three years' absence from the metro polls. Shortly afterwards Lola's health went to pieces and she was sent to a sanitarium In Astoria, L. I., where she died In such poverty that neighbors wsre forced to take up a collection for er burial In the grave marked by the simple head stone which bears the name "Mis. Ellsa Gilbert" all that the world now holds, but not all that It remem bers, of a woman of wonderful charm, of fascinating mystery and all-conquering beauty. tcepTTtiM. 1822, si tat wsetltr Snmute.) WHAT ABOUT APPENDICITIS? "Operation for appendi citis are un necessary." J. D. Bacon, M. D., la aa addreae be fore State Med lee I Soeletv convention Decatur, III, I have handled a great many appendicitis patients without uslna either knife or medicine, and every one is still enloyina: life and health, though most of them had been told that immediate operation would he necessary in order to save their lives. Compare this fact with the statement that "The New York Coroner found in 42 consecutive 'cases of ap pendicitis operations that the appendix had been healthy, sound and normal." L. A. Merrlan, M. D., Omaha Courier News. Investigate before having an operation look at the results. Original testimonials can be seen In my office. C. H. CREDEMAN, Ph. C. Ex-Member of KapiiKi- Palmer School ef Chiropractic hoi hsi niHo-ia.:ioi a -Si 1-8 Corner Bast Market and Davte Phone 2018 Our Prescription Business Is Growing Constantly You'd expect a reason and there is one. People in need of a physician and medicine, like to have their prescriptions filled by "The Careful Apothecary'' where only ' Experienced pharmacists execute your doc tor's orders with the purest drugs. Prompt Delivery Service, Too. Howerton's Drug Store 113 E. Market St Phone 47 We Close Sundays Audits Systems Tax Service Office 116 W. Market Street Phone 514 SMITH AUDITING CO. Greensboro, N. C. Headouaiteis for ' -CTICChRI STA4AS QfflT Give Her a Gift For Her Home When Christmas morning comes she will be supremely haDDv If von have been thoughjiul in your gift giving. There isn't anything that can make a woman happier or inspire more sincere gratitude than a useful gift for "her home" something that will make the Christmas. Spirit last tlte whole year through. This is a store of practical and useful gifts here are some suggestions that will help you to make tier happy. Iff m Does She Need a Dinner Set? Christmas time wilt oarer seem far away to the woman who receives a set of our' beautiful dishes, for Its usefulness and the pleasure of being able to set an attractive table will last from one Christmas te anothsr. Row pleaaefl and bappy she would ba on Christmas morning te find one et these Dinner Sets on her table, with best wishes from you. Our Chin Department offers a score of different patterns In foreign, and domestlo dinner ware. In open stook from whloh any slsa set ean be se looted. To Make Her Happy Give Table Silverware The gift that she will bs supremely proud of the gift that will add so much to ths appsaranoa of the dining Cable the gift that will last for many years. In our Community table silverware are many beautiful pat terns and the quality is guaranteed you'll make no mistake In choosing her gift from our assortment As sagg eated rift select a Buf fet. Set. they are put as In attractive sllk-llned boges. In theee patterns Tudor, 1 0 year guarantee, Qrosvenor, 10 years, Patrician, 10 years. would make her housekeeping bur den lighter. It will make this Xmaa " stand out as one of her happiest. Toasters. Percolators , Hot Plates, Round Heel Irons. Glassware Is AI- ways Appreciated ' Few women there are whs do sot delight In having sparkling glass ware In their horns era ean think of no finer glassware) gift than one of these aqutslte water seta, loe tea sets, (rult bowls with eandlsstloks for her buffet, a candy Jar or fern bowl any one of these Items would make a most desirable Christmas gift for her. We an displaying a new pattern In Llbby Cut Glass and especially urge yon to view our special room for this showing. Lfbby's cut glaas Is rsoognlsed as ths superior ef any other make. Universal Electric Appliances Will surely please her! If you want to be oonsldered a thoughtful man, give her a Universal Eleotrlo gift, and ehe will know that you are a thoughtful giver. There is nothing yon oould give her that - (MUiyjELLSL lis 1 13 1- M 1 "t a ''4 e 8: '3 Tr?
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