VOL. 8T. GREENSBORO, N. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5. 1908 NO. 32 Dt W. J. RICHARDSON OFFICE: McADOO BUILDING H EXT TO POSTOFFICC RESIDENCE: 615 WEST GASTON ST. J. H. BOYLES, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office in Holton Irur Store Building1. Office Phone 806. Res. 409 W. Oaston; Res. Phone 768. Dr. J. E. WYCHE DENTIST OFFICE IN CARTLAND BLDG. IOUTM CLW ST.. amiNttOHO, n. e. Dr M. F. FOX PHVSCCIAN AND SURGEON OU1LFORD COLLEGE, N. C Ifc: E. A. BURTON DENTIST Office In Mrs. Watlinyton building. Next door to Conyer's Drug- Score. Upstairs. C. W. BANNER. M. D. OPPOSITE POSTOrriCE. Practice Limited to the Eye. Ear. Nose and Throat. Office Hours 9 A. M. to 1 P. 2.30 P. it. to 5 P. M. Sunday, 9 to 1O30 A. M. given to the worthy poor. 0&s Phone W Residence Phone 390. Or W. P. Reaves Tro 7W-rs House Surpreon New Orleans Eye, liar. Nose and Throat Hospital. Practice Limited to-Diseases n3 Sur- 7 Of Ey E" Nose w3 Throat. Hours L30 to 5 P. M. WaAdoo Building. Next to Postoffice. r. C. T. LIPSCOMB DENTIST Office' over Sykes Drug Company. Phone 793. . " . Br.J.R.YiiUiams Dr.A.F.Fortune Offices 108 W. Washington. HOTTKS: HOURS: 10 to 1; 3 to 4. 8.30 to 10; 1 to 3. Free Clinic for Poor Deserving: Patients: Consumption, Mondays and Thursdays. 3 to 4. Disease or women, Tuesdays ana xnuays. J to S. a. V. TAYLOR. j. i. scai.cs. Taylor & Scales ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW GREZITSBOKO. If. C. &3bert M. Douglas Robert D. Douglas. DOUGLAS & DOUGLAS ATTORNEYS AT LAW ' ' in Greensboro Loan and Trust Bldr. THOMAS C. HOYLE ATTORNEY AT LAW City 5at'l Bank Bid?., Greensboro, B. C. 8peci attention given to collections. Ix)ns negotiated. Robert C. Strudwick TTOUNEY s3 COUNSELLOR AT LAW us trt Square, GREZ3SB0K0, T. C. F P. HOBGOOD, Jr. ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jict; in Wright Building, Opposite Court House Greensboro, N. C. S. GLENN BROWN aTTOSNEY at law Wright Building. IDS North Elm St. Levi M.Scott. Chas. E. McLean. SCTT & . McLEAN ATTORNEYS AT LAW tttlce: ill Court Sanare. Greensboro.IT.C. GEORGE M. PATTON ATTORNEY AT LAW 108 Court Square, - Greensboro, N. C TWOS. J. SHAW CHAS. A. HINCS SHAW & HINES ATTORNEYS AT LAW Offices: Rooms 207 and 208 New McAdoo Building- next to Postofflcc A revival meeting at Lee's chapel will begin Sunday. Mr. G. S. Bradshaw spent Monday in, .Wentworth on professional busi ness. Mrs. Harry S. onneli has gone to Savannah, Ga., on a visit to her pa rents.. Mr. D. II. Coble, living out on Route 6, has 100 bushels of Appier seed oats for. sale. 32-2t. Mr. Ernest W. Stewart left night for Baltimore to enter Johns Hopkins hospital for treatment. Second hand gasoline , engines for sale by the Elmore Gas Engine Co., 107 South Davie street. 31-2t. Mrs. F. S. Eldridge and daughter, Miss Ruby, have returned from a vis it to relatives in Missouri. Master Wharton Newell has gone to Brown Summit to spend a., week with his uncle, Mr. W. H. Rankin. The monthly meeting of the high way commission was held Monday, but only routine business was trans acted. When you want gasoline engine in formation, or any kind of machine work, call on the Elmore Gas Engine Co., 107 South Davie street. 31-2t Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Field, of Monroe county. Missouri, are in southern Guilford visiting relatives and friends.,. It is four years since they last visited home folks in this section. The Guilford Furniture Company will continue to give their patrons the benefit of the closing out sale prices for several days yet, in order that everyone may be accommodated. Goods are still going at one-half their regular values. John Robinson's circus will exhibit in Greensboro on Saturday, August 22nd. The tents will be pitched on the Teague property, opposite the State Normal-and Industrial College. This will be the first circus to visit Greensboro in five years. Recently Mr. J. L. Sams, a clerk in Wills' book store, has been award ed two prizes by the Curus Puoasa- ing Company, of Philadelphia, for su periority in window displays. ie prizes were won over competitors in air parts of the United fctaes. "The Patriot has a scholarship good for a business course in one of the highest class commercial schools in the South. ' The scholarship will be sold at a reasonable price. If you desire a really high graae course, ad dress The Patriot for further particu lars. 31-tr. Mr. H. P. Wyrick, a steamfitter in the employ of Mr. B. MacKenzie, has been quite sick with typhoid fe ver for two months at his old home near Hines chapel. There has been some improvement in his condition the past few days. He became ill- while working at Morganton. Mr. J. S. Webster, a former resi dent of Greensboro, who has been in charge of the special agents of the Winston-Salem division of the South ern Railway for some time, has given up his position and gone to Lafayette La., where he will be located as a member of the Baldwin detective agency. Mr. James T. Carroll died Sunday night at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Carrot, on South Ashe street. He was 24 years of age and had suffered from lung .trouble for some time. Rev. T. J. Ogburn conducted the funeral from the family residence yesterday morning, .nter ment being made in Greene Hill cem etery. Mr. John A. Hodgin has awarded the contract for the erection of a substantial brick building on the cor ner of South Elm and Lewis streets. On the ground floor there will be three stores and the office of a ho tel that will occupy the secona and third floors. ihe buiding will De quite an improvement to that section of the city. The Patriot hears Repeated com plaints of reckless automobile speed ing on the macadam road between Greensboro and High foint. farmers who travel this road say they are shown no consideration whatever by many drivers of the big machines and are always crowded to the ditches by them. There is apparently no regard for the speed limit of late, and there is little encouragement in the situa tion for anyone but the undertakers. Mr. Andrew C. Williams, who came to Greensboro from Danville a vear aeo to become agent of the Southern Express Company In tms city, gave up the position yesterday and left today for New York to con sider a proposition he has received from a concern in that city. The res ignation of Mr. Williams was occa sioned by the fact that he had been notified that he was to be transferred to Salisbury. He will be succeeded as agent here by Mr. W. W. Allen, at present agent in Charleston, S. C, but who resided in Greensboro sev eral years while route agent for the company. . ' Prof. Charles H. Moore, a well known colored educator of this city, whn is traveling in the interest of the National. Negro Business Men's L,eaeue. addressed the local league last Thursday night. The local league is similar -to that of tne board oi trade or chamber of commerce and attached to it a civic improvement club which aids the negroes in keep- ing an interest in civic aiiair as sanitation, clean yards, cultivating pride in making attractive in appear ance thpir home districts and in oth er ways showing an interest in everyJ thing that may maice up a oeuer com munity life. CHAIRMAN ISSUES A CALL. Demcratic Executive Committee to Meet August 15th and Select Dates for Primaries and Convention. , - Mr. Edward A. Brown, chairman of the democratic executive committee of Guilford county, has issued a call for the committee to meet in Greens boro Saturday, August 15th, for the purpose of selecting dates for hold ing the precinct primaries and coun ty convention for the nomination of a county and legislative ticket. Very little interest has been manifested in democratic politics in tms county since the warm gubernatorial cam paign, and very few suggestions have been heard as to either candidates or priamries. Probably the prima ries may be called for the last Sat urday in August or the urst, Satur day in September, to be followed by the county convention a week later, rfo far there is a dearth of candi dates anxious for an opportunity to heed the voice of "many friends' and serve their party's cause, but it is not anticipated that it will be neces sary for the county convention to issue any search warrants when the time comes to make nominations. Col John a. Barringer, a leading member of tne Greensboro bar, is the , only candidate. for the state senate, thoughJ the names of two or tnree other gen tlemen have been mentioned in this connection. Prof. J. Allen Holt, who represented Guilford in the senate' of the last general assembly, will not be a candidate for renomination. There was some talk of inducing Prof. T. E. Whitaker, who is associated with Prof. Holt at Oak ge Institute, to make the race, but he has announced that ho will not be a candidate. Mr. A. B. Kimball, who is regarded by many people as an available man, will hardly consent to become a can didate for the senate, on account of the exacting demands of his legal business. Messrs. John C. Kennett, of Pleas ant Garden, and T. J. Gold, of Higu Point, are understood to be cand. dates for the nomination for the house of representatives. Mr. E. J. Justice, who represented Guilford in the house at the last session and was elected speaker, will not seek a renomination. t His colleague, Dr. J. R. Gordon, of Jamestown, would ac cept another nomination, but it is understood that he will not make a fight for it. or. W. T. Whitsett, president of Whitsett -Institute, has been urged by some of his friends to enter the race, and there is a strong demand in some quarters for Mr J. A. Davidson, a well known cotton manufacturer of Gibsonvi!le and the present "chairman of the board of county commissioners, to become a candidate for the . house of representatives. . So far Sheriff Jones, who is serv ing his first term in a manner ac ceptable to everybody, has no oppo sition, and it appears that he will be renominated witnout a fight. The race for county treasurer is be tween three Confederate veterans Mr. J. W. McNairy, the present in cumbent; Mr. G. H. McKinney, his predecessor, and Mr. A. Weatherly. A one-legged Confederate soluier, Mr. W. H. Rankin, of Brown Summit, and, a crippled preacher. Rev. A. G. Kirkman, are competing for the nom ination for register of deeds. Mr. Kirkman has held the office about 16 years and is regarded as the hardest man in the county to beat. He Is khown and loved by every woman and child ih the county, and the men have' been afraid to vote against him, even if they had the disposition to do so. Mr. Rankin is well known and popular throughout the county, and many people are finding it dif ficult to decide between the two can didates. Death of Rev. G. W. Bowman. Rev. G. W. Bowman, an aged and beloved citizen of Guilford county, died Sunday afternoon at the home of his son, Dr. H. P. Bowman, in Murphy, after an illness of a few days of stdmach trouble. He moved to Murphy about two months ago to make his home with the family of his son. The remains were brought to Greensboro yesterday and carried to Union church, near Liberty, the for mer home of the deceased, where the funeral was held. The service was conducted by Rev. T. J. Ogburn. Mr. Bowman was 81 years old and spent practically his entire life in Guilford county. He was a minister of the Lutheran church and a prom inent figure in the religious life of his section. Alamance Church. It Is earnestly hoped that the men and women will meet at Alamance church on Friday before the third Sunday in August. The object of the meeting is to clean off the graveyard and the church grounds; also to give the church a good cleaning. Bring your lunch ano let us have a good day. m the afternoon the elders and deacons are to have a full meeting to attend to important business. Please let every officer be present if possible. Also the ladies' society will meet and elect officers and attend to oth er important matters. JVC. SHIVE, Pastor. Position Wanted. As miller in small roller mill or a good burr mill. Have tools and can keep, mill in good repair. Good cre dentials furnished as to integrity and ability. Correspondence solicited. S. M. KELLAM. 311 E ' Franklin St., Salisbury, N,; C. GRAVE CHARGES PREFERRED. M. L. Bloomberg, Secretary and Treasurer Greensboro Table Compa ny, Placed Under Arrrest. A mild sensation was sprung on the buiness community Friday, when Mr, M. L. Bloomberg, secretary and treasurer of the Greensboro Table Company, which went Into bankrupt cy .July 25th, was placed under ar rest in arrest and hail nrnpflinsra Mr. Bloomberg was arrested upon his return from a visit to Norfolk, tlie warrant having been sworn out by Mr; ,C. M. Edwards, an expert ac countant, who is engaged in an ex amination of the affairs of the Greensboro Table Company. A bond of $1,000 'was required of Mr. Bloom berg for his appearance at the Au gust term of Guilford Superior court. The bond was signed by Messrs. E. Sternberger, J. R. Oettinger, S. Schiff man and S. A. Levy. Mr. Bloomberg-came to Greensboro from Richmond, Va., in 1904, becom ing secretary and, treasurer, of the Greensboro Table Company in 'June of that year. He was employed, on a salary and a percentage of the promts the corporation might earn. It is said that the reports submitted by Mr. Bloomberg to the stockholders for the years 1904 1905 and 1906 in dicated that the company was mak ing money. The report he prepared of the business of 1907 showed a loss of about $20,000 for the year. While the report for last year was being prepared, the directors engaged an expert accountant to make an ex amination of the affairs of the com pany, not suspecting at the time that anything was wrong. It appears that the accountant discovered that the funds of the company had been mis appropriated to the extent of several thousand dollars. In addition it is alleged that much of the material and labor that went into a handsome resi dence erected by Mr. Bloomberg was furnished by the Greensboro Table Company, and that at least a part of the furniture that went into the completed residence came from tne same source, no charge having been made on the books of the company for any of the material, labor or fur niture. Following the bankruptcy proceed ings against the Greensboro Table Company, Mr. Bloomberg resigned as secretary and treasurer of the Furni ture Distributing Company, which was conducted by himself and others in terested in the bankrupt concern v ' COUNTY COMMISSIONERS MEET. Jurors for Two Terms of Court Drawn Telephone Company Grant ed Franchise. The August meeting of the board of county commissioners was held Monday and yesteraay, when the us ual amount of routine business was attended to. The board rebated the taxes of the Central Caroling? Fair Association and ordered the company to remove from the public highway a section of the air grounds fence. JA contract for repainting the inte rior of the court house was awarded to Andrews & Brewer,- who are just completing the repainting of the ex terior. The board decided to illuminate the town clock tower above the court house, in order that the munici pal timepiece may be of service at night. Several road petitions were re ceived and ordered adveruseu. The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company was granted a franchise to erect and maintain tele phone lines along several puuiiC roads. The following jurors were drawn for the civil term of Superior court to convene on the 24th inst.: David Apple, W. R. Zimmerman, Daniel Garrett, W. A. Heath, A. R. Thomas, D. Grant Coble, W. C. Som ers, W. C. McLean, D. b liarrett, R. T. Scott, L. F. Davis, Z. L. Groome, J. H. Wray, D. B. Anderson, virgil Lowe, W. B. "Anthony, Sapp People, E. P. Parker. Jurors for the criminal term of court to convene September 21st were drawn as folltfWs: Henry B. Gerringer, James A. Fry ar, William . Albright, Daniel F. bright, J. N. Layton, W. H. Levens, John R. Faucette, Geo. W. Lemmons, W. G.-Cobb, S. A. Holt, E. M. Co ble, H. W. Welker, D. W. Brewer, T. N. Sellars, W. F. Jackson, Gv S. Gaulden, Webster M. Fentress, R. Ross, T. R. Dillard, James Dennis, Geo. P. Ammons, J. H. Pegg, John R. Whittemore, W. H. Vickory, F. F. Baynes, J. C. Bunch, W. R. Beeson, Caleb Barker, J. Ad. Harvey, W. L. Kevitt, W. E. Benbow, J. T. Ben bow, A. A. Gray, S. H. Davis, R. B. Whitt, J. M. Gordon, Jr. Popular Excursion to Norfolk, Va. The Southern xtailway will operate Uc nnnnlflr fxcpnrsion to Norfolk on August 18th. The train witl consist of first class day coaches and Pull man cars, giving two days and one night in Norfolk. The rounu trip rate from Greensboro will e $3.50. For detailed information see large flyers, or call on your depot agent. 32-2t R. L. VERNON, T. f. A. New Store at Stokesdale J. C. Norman, formerly of the Southside Hardware Co., Greensboro, has recently opened a hardware store n Stokesdale. N. C, and invites his old friends and new ones, .and all the citizens of the Stokesdale com munity, to call and see his up-to-date line of general hardware and va ried stock of the best farming im plements, buggies; wagons "and paints LOST $1300 JN GOLD BY MAKING GARDEN HIS BANK. Kokomo, tnd. Leonidas Pickett, a well-to-do Howard county man, aumits a loss of $1,300 in gold through a prac tice or burying his savings in the ground on his farm. Doubting the safety of banks, he put-his money away in a sheet-iron box in a corner of his garden: The" last time he made a deposit his cash on hand amounted to exactly $1,300. - Not having occasion to use any of the money he did not visit the place where it was buried for several weeks. One day he desired to make another deposit. Taking a spade he went confidently to work to un cover the sheet-iron box. He failed to find it. At first he thought he might have missed the location of the buried treasure, and he made several other excavations. His search was in vain the money was gone. ; Pickett was so chagrined over his loss that he did not tell any one of it for several., weeks. Recentir. how ever, he employed detectives to try to recover the missing money. Through them "the fact of Pickett's loss became known to some of his neighbors. The story was so remark able that some of them quast'oned him regarding it, and he admitted it was true. National . Deposi or. If Mr. Pickett had put his savings in a savings bank at 4 per cent in terest, compounded quarterly, he would have had an annual income of $52.78 for life, and his family would have had the $1,300 still. This reminds us of the experience of a hard-working blacksmith living in the suburbs of Greensboro. Last summer he had some money on Land, and C. A. Eray, the wide-awake pres ident of the Home Savings Bank, went Out -to see him and tried to convince him that his money would be much safer in the bank than it would in his house, but to no avail. He would not put it in fie bank. About three weeks later hi Louse burned one night and ho lost nis money, which, according to the best information we can get, amounted to $134. He should have had it in the Home Savings Bank, of Greensboro, N. C, at 4 per cent interest, com pounded quarterly, and he would have had .an annual income of $5 4.'I for life, and his family still had the money. . There is no other investment so sure as a deposit in an exclusive savings bank. In the panic of last fall, commercial banks "busted" all overthe .country, but not a single exclusive savings bank failed from Maine to Texas. ' Money was lending on call in New York city Monday at of 1 per cent intrest per year, but the Home Sav ings .Bank pays 4 per cent, compound ed quarterly, which is the highest rate paid by standard savings banks. Hadn't you better put your idle' mon ey in the bank before something hap pens to it? DEATH OF DR. W. A. LASH. Passing of a Well Known and Prom ' inent Citizen. Dr. W. A. Lash, who ,had been near death's door for many months, passed away Sunday night, at his home on North Elm street. - The fu neral was held from the residence ye- terday afternoon at 3 o'clock, the service beinug conducted by Rev. S R. Guignard and interment made in Greene Hill cemetery. Dr. Lash was buried with Masonic honors. The health of Dr. Lash had been poor for the past two years, during which time he suffered six strokes of paralysis, receivinng the last two during the past week. ,Mrs. - Lash, who was stricken with paralysis about the time her husband received his first stroke, died of typhoid fever a month ago. Dr. Lash was 63 years old and a native of Stokes county, where he spent the greater part of his life About 30 years ago he was married to Miss Annie Eliza Murphy, a daugh ter of the late Capt. James Murphy, of " Salisbury, and one of the reigning socjety belles of the state. They made their home at Walnut Cove un til 1894, when they took up their res idence in Greensboro.; Dr. Lash, who was one of the wealthiest men in his section, be came associated many years ago wuu the late Dr. D. W. C. Benbow and the late Julius A. Gray, of Greens boro, and others in the organization of the Uorth State Improvement Company, which built the Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley Railway, between Mount Airy and Wilmington. Upon the death of Mr. Gray, Dr. Lash suc ceeded to the presidency of the com pany and the road. Tne failure of the company swept away the exten sive fortunes of Dr. Lash and Dr. Benbow, but later they managed to retrieve much of what they "had lost in an enterprise that played an im portant part in the development of the state. A sister. Mrs. Annie E. George, of Oak Hill, Va., is the only surviving member of Dr. Lash's immediate family. ' Improved Farm for Sale. I want to sell my farm of 178 acres, known as the M. L. Cude place, lying 3 miles north of Friendship, and convenient " to churches and schools. One-half. the place is in cul tivation, balance in oak and ' pine timber. A' 10-room building, good wells, spring and spring house, plen ty of good outbuildings, fruity etc. Terms cashr Call or, address C. T. ROBERTSON, 31-4t R. 1, Colfax, N. C. WPDL - s v . -..'" HI ' :-.f n The management of g t this bank has endeavored . to pursue a progressive policy, to be liberal in its treatment, and to adhere t strictly to the legitimate $ lines of banking. Its bus- J iness is confined exclu- f siveiy to that ot banking, having none of its funds invested in stocks, bonds t or real estate. , . " Accounts of conserva- tive. people, who desire X "ie services or a wen At r - V equipped and safely con- t ducted institution, are cordially invited. ' $ Jbour per cent, on sav- J. American I Exchange Bank GREENSBORO. N. C. Capital, $300,000.00. E: P. WHARTON, President. J. W. SCOTT, Vice President. R. G. VAUGHN, Cashier. F. H. NICHOLSON, Asst. Cashier. J. W. CASE, Myr. Savings Dept. ; AAAAAAAAAAAAAA A. . A. A. A A jl ... Alumnae Association Meeting. The executive committee of the Greensboro Female College iumnae Association held a meting in this city Saturday afternoon for the transac tion of routine business. The meet ing was . well attended and much in terets was manifested in the work of the organization. The officers of the association are: Mrs. W. H. Branson, president; Mrs. Frank Martin, Winston-Salem, first vice president: Mrs. Lucy Moss, second vice president; Mrs. S. L. Alderman, third vice pres ident;' Mrs. E. L. Sides, treasurer; Mrs. Walter Curtis, recorder; Mrs. L. W. Crawford, Mrs. J. J. Fousnee, Mrs. J. Norman Wills, committee on memoirs; Mrs. J. Ed. Albright, corre sponding secretary; Miss Nannie Lee Smith, recording secretary; , press committee, Mrs. Gunter and Mrs. Ross. . ' Eye Troubles. If you have trouble with your eyes and want comfort in' glasses, it mat-. ters not the failure of others, k visit to Dr. Taylor, a specialist in this line, will give you relief or your money back. Office: Greensboro Na tional Bahk building 30-4 1. For Sale or Trade. . An Aultman & Taylor engine, 12 H. P. ; threshing machine and saw mill good as new 29-tf J. T: EDWARDS & SON, Colfax, N. C. IT IS CAPITAL To watch the sure, and steady growth of one's bank account. The idea of saving becomes twice as strong when one has started the little pile on ita way, knowing that every dollar will earn interest. If you have not been of a saving turn, now is your time to start. We will take care of your ac count, give you good security and good n terest too."' HOME SAVINGS BANK Opposite City Hall , GREENSBORO. N. C. C. A.' Bray, Pres. : 'Tyre Glenn. Cashier 1