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
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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.
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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
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equipped and safely con-
t ducted institution, are
cordially invited. ' $
Jbour per cent, on sav-
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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. ;
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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
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