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VOL. 83.
GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1 0, 1 904.
NO. 32
pr. W. J. RICHARDSON
office:
KATZ BUILDING.
RESIDENCE: 318 WEST GASTON ST.
tVM. P. Beall,
400 Afrbt'oro tot.
THOS. R. LlTTIiE,
408 S. L. & T. Bldg.
BEALL LITTLE
PHYSICIANS mCb SURGEONS
offic e No. 315 So. Loan & Trust Bldg.
Hors: 8 to 9 A. M.; 11:30 to 1, 2 to 5 P. M.
Will practice in Greensboro and surround-
.ng country.
E. L. STAMEY, M. D.
residence:
200 North Davie Street.
office:
At Fordham & Grissom's Drug Store.
Dr. J. E. WYCHE
DENTIST
OFFICE IN SAVINGS BANK BLDG.
SOUTH ELM ST.. GREENSBORO, N. C.
Dr. M. F. FOX
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
GUILFORD COLLEGE, NC.
Dr. E. A. BURTON
DENTIST
OFFICE IN LASH BLDG.,
South Elm St.
A M SCALES. Z.V.TAYLOR. J. I. SCALES.
Scales, Taylor & Scales
ATTORNEYS
cnt COUNSELLORS. AT LAW
GREENSBORO. If. C.
Robert D. Douglas. Stephen A. Douglas.
DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
Office m Greensboro Loan and Trust Bldj:.
C. G. WRIGHT
ATTORNEY AT LAW
W B G H T BUILDING, OPP. COURT HOUSE.
GREENSBORO, N. C.
THOMAS C. HOYLE
ATORNEY AT LAW
115 Court Square, GREENSBORO, If. C.
Spec.al attention given to collections. Loans
negotiated.
Robert C. Strudwick
ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR
AT LAW
1!5 Court Square, GREEIfSBORO, Tf. C.
F. P. HOB GOOD, Jr.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
.::. in Wright Building, Opposite
Court House, Greensboro, 2s. C.
MICHAEL SCHENCK
ATTORNEY
iND COUNSELLOR AT LAW
102 Court Square, Greensboro, IT. C.
Piano Tuning
1 ' c an export whose work we guarantee.
references:
i-tf- Normal. Guilford Col'ege.
1 . .iiK r. Salem Academy. Prof . Shirley.
And otheis.
A. D. JONES &. COMPANY
GREENSBORO, N. C.
L. FRANCIS HANES
PHOTOGRAPHER
-ilGH CLASS WORK ONLY.
Opposite the McAdoo House.
mi lined
Combined
Assets over
$500,000
$325,000
The
Greensboro
Fire Insurance Companies
1 tve. in the last eight years,
1 -'l to the people of Greens
not less than $40,000 in the
-t ut their insurance. When
- insure call for your home
;upanies. :: :; ,:: ::
J. Simpson Schenck, Agent
PARKER'S
HAIR BALSAM
Cleanses and beautifies the hair,
rromotei a luxuriant growth.
Never Pails to Restore Gray
Cures calp dieasei & hair iaUiiur.
Kfin J A-l V TV . "
Five rrlore bags crimson clover seed
at C. Scott & Co.'s.
Mr. John B. Farias has gone north
to enjoy a short vacation.
- Capt. E. L. Gilmer is'here from Fort
Scriven, Ga., for a brief furlough.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. King have gone
to Atlantic City for a period of recrea
tion. v
Congressman W. VV. Kitchin, of
Roxboro, was a Greensboro visitor yes
terday. Twelve varieties of Wood's southern
grown turnip seed to select from at C.
Scott & Co.'s.
Rev. H. Baldwin Dean has gone to
Wrightsville Beach to spend his an
nual vacation.
Miss Pauline Pretzfelder, of Alexan
dria, Va., is here visiting her aunt,
Mrs. .8. J. Kaufmauu.
Again we would remind our friends
that the Patriot office is now in the
Bevill building, on North Elm street.
Wood Wanted. Ten cords of oak,
delivered at my house just south of
Greensboro. J. F. McCullocii.
A valuable mule was stolen from
Kirkpatrick's brickyard last night.
The thief went north with the animal.
Messrs. W. A. McKnight, John H.
Rankin, Jr., and J. I. Medearis return
ed Saturday night from the St. Louis
exposition.
Squire J. A. Pritchett celebrated his
79th birthday Monday in a quiet way.
His health does not permit him to get
about much.
Mr. Ed. Hancock, who has been
laid up with typhoid fever for eight
weeks, continues to improve rapidly
and hopes to be up iu a few days.
Baskets, big and little and all shapes,
sizes and prices. Also all kinds of ta
bleware, glassware, stoneware, crock
ery, etc. Tucker & Erwix.
The stock of the Hague-McCorkle
Dry Goods Company was sold to the
New York Salvage Company yester
day and the business will be closed.
out.!
Rev. R. M. Andrews, pastor of Grace
church, is helping Rev. W. F.
Kennett in a series of meetings in
progress at Bethel M. P. church, near
Stokesdale. -
Mr. H. J. Elam has sold his residence
on For bis street and purchased four
nice lots near the Pomona graded
school building, where he will build
next spring. .
Mr. W. D. McAdoo is walking about
these days with a peach seed iu his ca
pacious tummy. He is confident when
it sprouts it will produce an entirely
new variety of fruit.
Mrs. W. M. Barber and children
have returned from Guilford College,
where they spent several weeks most
pleasantly among the good people of
that admirable locality.
Misses Fan and Nancy Brown,
daughters of Mr. Wisdom Brown, of
Washington, D. C, are here on a visit
to their grandmother, Mrs. N. A.
Brown, on North Elm street.
Dr. Jay, the Buncombe county child
murderer, was one of a squad of six
state convicts that went up the Wilkes
boro road Saturday to work on the
Wilkesboro-Jeflerson turnpike.
In a fight among negro gamblers iu
Duplin Monday evening George Wil
liams was seriously cut by a man nam
ed Cole. Williams was arrested after
a long chase, but Cole made his escape.
The Empire Lumber Company, of
Greensboro, was chartered Monday by
the Secretary of State, with an author
ized capital of $25,000. The incorpora
tors are Mesers.l J. M. Pegram, C. J.
Cox and J. S. Cox.
Don't forget the primaries next Tues
day. Every Democratic voter in the
county is privileged to record his
wishes there, with the assurance that
the primary vote will be recognized in
the county convention to follow.
Robert Crowell, a negro wanted at
Winston for criminal assault on his
mother-in-law the last of July, was ar
rested by the Greensboro authorities
Monday and turned over to an officer
who came for him that evening.
Prof. T. Gilbert Pearson, of the State
Normal faculty, - lectured before the
state agricultural society of Georgia
last week on "The practical enforce
ment of game laws." The society neld
its annual meeting at Tailulah Falls.
Revenue officers from this city made
a big raid over in Rockingham, near
the Caswell line, Sunday, destroying a
200-gallon distillery and its equipment.
It is said that the plant was operated
as a government distillery prior to the
enactment of the Watts law, but there
were evidences that it had recently
been doing a blockade business.
Prof. J. Allen Holt, of Oak Ridge,
was here yesterday morning on his
way to Charlotte in the interest of Oak
Ridge Institute, one of the educational
institutions of which this county is
proud. Prof. Holt is enthusiastic over
the school's prospects for the coming
year.
Mr. J. E. Stewart and family, of Co
lumbia, S. C, visited their old home in
this county last week, returning Mon
day night. Mr. Stewart is an engineer
on the Southern, running between Co
lumbia and Spartanburg. His friends
were glad to see him looking the pic
ture of health.
Postofflce inspectors have succeeded
in running down Jim Burns, one of
the two negroes who have been raising
money orders successfully in the South
for eighteen months. He was captured
in Savannah, Ga., and admits having
passed 135 raised orders since he began.
Two or more Greensboro merchants
were victimized by the men.
$8 for a Pair of Scales. We paid
that amount for a small pair of up-to-
date scales to weigh turnip and other
seeds on. These scales weigh from a
quarter of an ounce up, accurately.
We sell all our garden seeds by weight.
No short-weight papers for us.
C. Scott & Co.
In preparing the docket for the crim
inal court this month Clerk Nelson
finds that 113 cases were continued
from last term, enough in themselves
to occupy all the time of a regular
term. It is doubtful if the special term
of one week, which follows the regular
term, will enable the docket to be
cleared, as several of the cases to be
heard are of more than ordinary im
portance. Mr. Charles A. Porter has resigned
as chief clerk to Mr. W. E. Coffin in
the freight department of the Southern
Railway to engage in quiet agricultural
pursuits, having purchased a farm near
Sandy Ridge church, in western Guil
ford. He is succeeded In the agent's
office by Mr. George Phoenix, who is
promoted from billing clerk, Mr.
Phoenix being succeeded in turn by
Mr, Thos. Coffin. "i:
Mr. C. P. Vanstory treated a hun
dred or more of his friends to a royal
feast yesterday at his farm, ufhe Pop
lars," two miles west of the city. A
barbecue and brunswick stew prenared
under the skillful direction of Mr. John
Weatherly, together with a barrel of
sweet cider, lemonade and an abund
ance of choice fruit, were enjoyed by
the crowd regardless of the threaten
ing weather which had kept perhaps
half the invited guests from attending.
Mr. Will Trotter will join a party of
thirty or forty at Monroe next Tuesday
for a nice trip to the Pacific coast. Go
ing by Atlanta to St. Louis, where a
stop of a week will be made, the party
will jouruey on to San Francisco in
their private car, making a detour to
Lower California and Salt Lake City.
On the return trip a week will be spent
in Yellowstone Park. Mr. Trotter ex
pects to be absent a month, as stops
will be made at the principal western
cities.
R. A. Caldwell, a negro who was
sent to the roads for two years for sell
ing wildcat insurance here-and escap
ed after having served but a few weeks
of his sentence, was located in Houstor,
Va., last week and brought back by
Deputy Sheriff Jones, who went after
him Friday. Caldwell at first denied
that he was the man wanted, but the
deputy knew him and called his bluff.
It will be some time before he is again
made a "trusty" in the convict camp
because of his age, which is nearly six
ty years.
The Memphis Commercial Appeal of
August 4th prints a special from Cov
ington, Tenu., giving an account of the
marriage of a daughter of our good
friend Hon. S. R. Shelton, Miss Mary
Sam Shelton, and Mr. Elbert L. Roper,
a prominent young druggist of Coving
ton and a member of the firm of E. L.
Roper & Co. The ceremony took place
at the M. E. church there on the even
ing of the 3rd and was witnessed by a
large and fashionable audience. The
Commercial Appeal says the bride is a
most charming and attractive young
lady with a large circle of friends. The
groom was reared at Trenton, but has
been a successful business man of Cov
ington for several years. After a trip
to St. Louis and several Northern cities
Mr., and Mrs. Roper will be at home to
their friends at their residence on Elm
street, Covington.
Townsend & Co. are rebuilding their
storage warehouse and to make room
will close out what second-hand vehi
cles they have regardless of cost, con
sisting of half a dozen wagons, one
carriage and thirteen buggies, both
open and top. Must and will be sold
quick. . 32-2t
Murderous Assault on an Informer.
A few weeks ago Jack Dillard, a des
perate negro, escaped jail at Went
worth. He finally made his way to
Greensboro, where he was not known
and has been living here quietly for
some time. Friday another Rocking
ham county negro, Turner Holderby,
saw Dillard here and informed the po
lice that he was wanted .in our neigh
boring county. An officer went with
Holderby through Duplin, where Dil
lard was staying, but no trace of him
could be found. A few, hours later
Holderby returned to Duplin alone and
was standing in a restaurant there
when Dillard slipped up on him with
an axe and made a desperate attempt
to brain him, but HoMerby managed
toward off the blow with his arm,
which was badly injured. Fortunately
the blow broke the handle of the axe
and rendered it useless as a weapon,
otherwise Holderby would most likely
have been killed, as be was again
struck with the handle several times.
Dillard ran out of the restaurant and
grabbing up another axe that was ly
ing nearby took to the woods, going
toward Reidsville. He will hardly
venture home, however.
Wanted, An Amateur Detective.
J. T. Somers, of Jlockingham county,
! who is referred to in a special from
Reidsville as having done some detec
tive work in Danville recently, came
to Greensborq last week and hunted
up acting chief Neeley and told him
he had received several letters from
Chief Scott asking him to come here
and run down a bunch of blind tigers
tht were thriving here. The manner
of the young man caused Officer Nee
ley to doubt his statements and he
phoned tlje chief to know if he had
written Somers. The chief promptly
replied that he had never written the
man, in fact had never heard of him,
aud that he was evidently trying to
work a quiet rame of graft. After that
Somers was treated with scant courte
sy at headquarters. A day or so later
a man with whom the amateur detec
tive had stopped while in the city came
li. aud swore out a warrant for his
arrest charging him with larceny of a
watch aud other articles from a trunk,
the key to which had been taken from
the unsuspecting host's pockets while
he slept. Somers has disappeared.
The chief would like to get him sure
enough, now.
Death of Mr. M. A. Short.
. Mr. M. A. Short, aged about sixty
years and a well known citizen of
Greensboro, died Monday night at his
home on West Lee street after a brief
illness of catarrh of the stomach and
other complications which have affect
ed his health materially for several
years. Mr. Short was an active, indus
trious citizen. Some years ago he was
a member of the city police force, and
later was superintendent of the county
home for several years. A few weeks
ago, as our readers will recall, he was
made sanitary officer of the city, suc
ceeding Capt. W. C. Weaver. He held
this position up to the time of his
death,-attending to his duties up to
last Saturday, when he was taken vio
lently ill. ""He was a member of Reho
beth M. E. church, a few miles east of
the city, for many years, and his
funeral takes place there this morning
at 11 o'clock. A wife, who was a
daughter of Mr. J. H. Buchanan, and
an adopted son survive him.
Rev. McCullbch Returns to Adrian.
Rev. J. F. McCulloch, editor of Our
Church Record, organ of the Metho
dist Protestant conference in North Car
olina, informs the Patriot that he has
accepted a call to return to Adrian
College, Michigan, as professor of
Mathematics, for the coming year, and
will leave for that place early in Sep-
tomhpr T?pvt TVT oV.w 1 InJh was nresi- !
dent of Adrian for three years in the
early '90s and more or less pressure
has been brought to bear on him ever
since to secure his return to the institu
tion. 'He will continue to have super
vision of the church publications here.
He will not take his family North at
present. The good wishes of this paper
follow Mr. McCulloch to his new field
of usefulness.
Mr. C. W. Harrison, who came from
Elizabeth City some months ago to en
gage in the commission and brokerage
business as a member of the'firm of C.
N. Foreman & Co., is said to have dis
appeared with a good-sized bunch .of
the company's funds and left affairs in
such a tangled condition that It will
take several days to straighten them
out. Harrison left the city with his
wife Saturday morning, and it is said
that several retail merchants are be
moaning his unceremonious departure.
The firm will reorganize under the
name of C. E. Stapler & Co., and meet
all obligations.
Experts are now at
work on the books.
GREEIfSBORO TOBACCO MARKET.
MARKET REPORT.
The receipts on our market for the
past week have not been very large,
yet they were the largest for several
weeks. They were composed of old
stock in bad order and new primings,
all of which went off at very satisfac
tory prices to the seller. Prices oh old
tobacco were about -the same as they
have been for some time, and buyers
seemed to be anxious for it to round up
lots with.
The new primings offered were oCthe
first pulling, most of them saved'before
the tobacco was topped and of rather
poor quality, . yet the prices ranged
from $2.50 per hundred to $7.00, with
the bulk of them bringing $4.00 to $5.50
per hundred. Farmers " were highly
pleased with their prices on these
grades.
Be certain to kill out your primings
thoroughly, get them in good keeping
order and have them clear of strings
and dirt. We don't care whether they
are tied up or not. ' We want lots of
primings on this market this season
and are willing to pay the highest
market price for them to get them.
Won't you bring us all you can?
Johnston & Fryer, of this county,
were here yesterday with primings and
got good prices. Our buyers want
them.
T. P. Barham, A. P. Lowe, and
Morehead & Mason were here with
primings during the past week and
were highly pleased with prices.
W. T. Moore, B. P. Moore, Mack
Carter and Fletcher Roberts were
among the good farmers from Rocking
ham county with new primings. They
were more than pleased.
Messrs. W. H. Faucett, Lee Faucett,
J. T. Faucett and T. J. Styers were
among our good Guilford county farm
ers who were here during the past
week with new primings and were
well pleased.
T. T. Carter and Alex Williams, two
of Rockingham's best farmers, were
here last week with new primings and
were so well pleased with their prices
that they went down and bought twine
to go to saving them in earnest.
We have always advised farmers to
save all the good primings they could,
believing that it pays better than let
ting them go to waste. We are strong
ly of the opinion that the proper and
paying way to save them is to leave
about two or three leaves more at the
bottom of the stalk when you top your
tobacco than you want to mature
there, and take them off for primings
as soon as they begin to grain a little.
Then let the plant ripen up and cut it.
In nine cases out of ten this plan of
saving primings will pay your fertilizer
bill and will not damage your main
crop of tobacco in the least.
J. W. Lee Passes Away.
The illness of J. W. Lee, noted in
our last issue, terminated fatally Sun
day evening shortly after 10 o'clock.
Mr. Lee was famous some years ago as
an evangelist, but had not been identi
fied with the work in recent years. He
was brought from a Philadelphia hos
pital last week in the last stages of con
sumption and kept growing steadily
weaker until the end came. His wife,
two daughters and- a son, aided by
kind and sympathetic friends, minis
tered to him in his dying hours. His
funeral took place Monday afternoon,
conducted by Rev. L. W. Crawford, D.
D., pastor of Spring Garden M. E.
church. The pallbearers were Messrs.
II. E. Peele, E. C. Land, J. H. Prince,
W. P. Hutton, G. T. McLamb and N.
A. Stedman. Interment was made in
Greene Hill cemetery.
A well-known Prohibitionist of this
city sends us too late for publication
this week a strong endorsement of Mr.
Jordan for sheriff, stating that he un
derstands the prohibition advocates of
the city are endeavoring to defeat Sher
iff Jordan for re-nomination on the
ground that he is in sympathy with
the liquor traffic. Our correspondent
calls attention to the fact that while a
member of the board of aldermen Mr.
Jordan was instrumental in having
the saloon license increased from $500
to $1,000 and has in recent years at his
own personal expense and at great
hazard brought to justice some of the
most notorious violators of the prohi
bition laws in our county. The writer
further says he believes we can find
no' man who will enforce the laws
more rigidly than will Mr. Jordan and
that he richly deserves renomination.
Capt. F. P. Hobgood. Jr., in com
mand of Company L, N. C. National
Guard, left with his company this
morning on a special train bound for
Morehead City, where the Second and
Third regiments will camp this year
; for ten days, beginning today.
The
Strength
of a Bank
Is represented by its capital, surplus
and careful management.
The Southern
Loan and Trust Company
Was organized in 1890, but has been
doing a Banking business only about
three years. During this time- iti
growth has been rapid but healthful,
and today it is in the front of Banking
institutions in Guilford county.
Statement below shows growth since
February 1st, 1899, to April 9th, 1903:
Capifal and surplus Feb. AL 170 ntf
let, 1899 $ tOi Z,7D
Capitaland surplus Feb. 227 55
aiS?..8!.: 103,f8?. 1 3
Cai!t!Mo?. s.urp.1.u' .F.eb: 129,543.47
155,236.42
tdJ.ulA.l 166,696.66
JS.. .f.1?.1.." 570,689.76
E. P. AVharton, A. W. McAlister
President. Vice Pres. -
R. G. Vaughn,
Treasurer.
David White,
Secretary.
County School Notes.
Owing to the undvoidable absence of
two members of the board of education
there was no meeting of the board last
Saturday. The board will meet next
Saturday, August 13th, and all persons
with business are asked to be present.
The township committee of Fentress '
township, consisting of Messrs. Jno. C.
Kennett, C. E. Hockett and J. A.
Allred, have been asked to consider
the various sites proposed for the loca
tion buildings in Fentress township
and make recommendations at the . ,
board meeting next Saturday.
The location of the buildings in
South Monroe township and South
Center Grove will be fixed at the next
meeting and work on these buildings
will be authorized to begin at once.
Good progress is being made on the
erection of the new building at Porno--na,
Gibson ville and Mechanicsville.
Sketches of these buildings will appear
in the Patriot later.
The consolidation of the Cannon and
Smith schools, in Monroe and Madison
townships, and of two schools in Sum
ner township, will be considered at the
next meeting of the board.
Puts an End to it AH
A grevious wail oftimes comers as a ,
result of unbearable pain from over
taxed organs. Dizziness, Bachache,
Liver complaint and Constipation.
But thanks to Dr. King's New Life
Pills they put an end to it all. They
are gentle but thorough. Try them.
Only 25c. Guaranteed by all drug
gists. City National Bank
Greensboro, N. C.
CAPITAL, - $100,000
SURPLUS AND PROFITS, 16,000
United States Depository.
OFFICERS.
W. S. Thomson, s J. Van "Lindley,
President. Vice President.
Lee HY Battle, Cashier.
DIRECTORS.
W. S. Thomson,
C. H. Dorsett,
W. C. Bain,
J. A. Hoskins,
J. Allen Hblt,
E. J. Stafford,
Wm. Cummings,
J. Van Lindley,
J. C. Bishop,
J. A. Davidson. "
We extend to depositors every facility con
sistent with prudent banking. ', ' , s
Interest paid on time certificates of deposl
WRITE OR CALL TO SEE US.
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