North Carolina Newspapers

sis ' T v 4 1 ,S- -. 'it - -1 7 -t '-: ' ' - -1 3 . J 4" i. 1 f -3- x f 4 i i -"jji- a, it to I i f W 1 r ! PUBLISHED VI ON DAY AN D TH U RSDAY a h s 1 .'i nv ESTABLISHED 1 , N. .Cm THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1915 VOItNO. 4i " - r mm mm m, a .k. m. m 1 . LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF FORM MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE READERS OP THE PATRIOT FAR AND NEAR. On a Fox Hunt. A number of lo cal sportsmen will go to Manchester, near Fayetteville, this afternoon to spend several days on a fox hunt. Changes Name. The name of the Telfair sanitarium has been changed to tfre Glen wood Park sanitarium. r)r. W- C. Ashworth is the medical oirector of the institution. .V. W. C. A. Campaign. A cam paign to raise $3,000 for the Young Women's Christian Association is be inc conducted this week. About 25 iulies are making a canvass of the U!v for subscriptions to tie fund and meeting with fair success. Huh Meeting. At the annual r.iet ting of the Merchants and Manu facturers' Club last night the fol ,vsinr officers were elected for the fns'iin? year: L. J. Brandt, presi dent: Dr. John A. Williams and Ju liu? W. Cone, -ice presidents; W. B. Mrrimon, secretary and treasurer. Operation For Cancer. Miss Re lecca Phoenix, the oldest daughter of Mr. John J. Phoenix, is a patient i.i St. Leo's hospital, where she un '"Twent an operation a tew days ago :or cancer. While her condition is ritur illy serious the attending phy sicians are hopeful of an early re covery. Baseball Schedule. T .e schedule committee of the Carolina Baseball League held a meeting here Tuesday afternoon and arranged a schedule for the coming season to be sub mitted to a meeting of the league di rectors to be held on Friday of next v eek. Aged Man's Death. Mr. Robert L. Moore, the aged father of Mrs. J. J. AVaynick, of this city, died Sunday at his home near Reidsville at the ripe old age of 90 years. The fu neral and interment took place Mon day afternoon at Speedwell Presby terian church, of which Mr. -Moore had been an elder for more than 30 years. Memorial Service. Immediately after the adjournment of court Mon day the members of the bar held a memorial service for the. late David P. Stern, who died suddenly a few weeks ago. Appropriate resolutions were presented and adopted and re marks were made by Judge W. P. Bynura, Col. James T. Morehead and Mr. John N. Wilson. Jobs For Lawyers. A civil ser vice examination of applicants who may desire positions as title attor neys under the United States depart ment of agriculture will oe heid in Greensboro on Wednesdc.y, February 3. The examination will be open to lawyers between the ages of 25 and 55 years. The places to be filled pay 1rnm ?1 fiOO th ? 2 000 a vpar. Road Work Discussed. At their adjourned meeting yesterday the county commissioners spent some time in discussing the matter of im proving the principal roads leading into Greensboro and High Point, but no definite conclusion was reached V-yond the fact that the work will he begun in the spring. The methods and materials to be employed in the work will be decided upon later. Rare Coins Sold. A number of rare gold and silver coins that had been deposited with one of the local banks as collateral were sold at auc tion at the court house door Monday iind brought good prices. Mr. A. B. Kimball was the purchaser of 67 $1 J'ieces at $2 00, a premium of $133. Mr. Kimball also purchased $45 orth of rare silver coins for $52. :erk of the Court Gant bid in 46 " - -r-0 gold coins, with a face value of ? 1 1 5 , for $120. Mr. W. F. Bogart paid $7.75 for 650 old-fashioned 'arge pennies, sometimes referred to "cart wheel" pennies. A Business Change. A business " ange of interest to the public will take place February 1, when the ; of C. Scott & Co., grocers and '"'Ismen, will be succeeded by the Scott Mercantile Company and the -tore moved from the present loca tion in the McAdoo hotel building to tfie three-story granite front building recently vacated by the M. G. Newell f'ompany, on South Elm street. Mr. Clarence Scott, who has built up the business to its present proportions, in be at the head of the new firm, and associated with him as stock holders will be Messrs. W. C. McLean ad John P. Scott. The business will be enlarged and conducted on a more tensive scale. The new store will Provide ajnple rpp Qariry heavier stocks of goods. ' " I - - - - . . - VMMHMiMHHHHMHHVHBHHHMHHHiMBBHMMMMMaiMiBHMMHB-BaMt. Stockholders Meeting The stock holders of the Greensboro National Bank held their annual meeting yes terday and received reports of the business for the past year. The re ports shewed an increased business for the year. The directors were re elected, and upon the adjournment of the stockholders they met and re elected the officers as follows: Neil Ellington, president; R. R. King, vice president; A. H. Alderman, cashier. To Invite President. A delegation of Greensboro citizens will call on President Wilson on the 28th inst. to invite the chief executive to make an address at the Guilford Battle Ground celebration July 4, when the monument to Nathanael Greene will be unveiled. The delegation will be accompanied to the White House by Congressman Stedman and Senators Simmons and Overman. The per sonnel of the delegation will be made known later. To Train Teachers. A school for the training of Sunday school teach ers of the city will be started Feb ruary 4. The school will pe under the direction of Prof. W. C. Jackson, of the State Normal and Industrial College, who will be assisted by a faculty of able and experienced teachers. It will be a night school of religious education, and the curricu lum will include lectures on Bible studies, child psychology, pedagogy, story telling, boy training, organiza tion, grading, management, etc. Bank Had Good Year. The an nual meeting of the stockholders of the American Exchange National Bank was held Tuesday afternoon, when very gratifying reports were re ceived of the past year's business. The profits for the year amounted to over $48,000, out of whh'h two semi annual dividends of 4 per co.nt were paid on the capital of $400,000, leav ing something over $16,000 to be added to the surplus fund. The stock holders re-elected the directors and the directors in turn re-elected the officers of -the bank, who are: R. G. Vaughn, president; J. W. Scott, vice president; F. C. Boyles, cashier; F. H. Nicholson, assistant cashier; A. M. Scales, attorney; W. P. Hutton, cashier of the South Greensboro branch. Sto!er Purse Found.---Miss Flos sie stone, ot Burlington, vno, wnne on a visit in this city several weeks ago, had a purse containing $50 snatched from her hand by a high wayman, was made happy this week by the return of the purse and all but $2 of the money it contained at the time of the theft. Miss Stone stopped off in Greensboro to spend the night with the family of Mr. M. M. Wilson and was on her way to the Wilson residence when a strange man who had followed her and her com panion for some distance grabbed the purse from her hand near the corner of Bellemeade and Cedar streets. The robbery occurrd after dark and it waS possible to give the police of fleers a good description of the thief. The little son of Mr. Wilson found the purse in a vacant lot near the scene of the robbery. It is believed that the thief became frightened and threw the purse away after taking out the missing $2. Local Firm Sued. Miss Loula M. Riley, of Sanford, who was formerly employed as a clerk in the store of Ellis, Stone & Co., in this city, has instituted a suit for $15,000 damages against W. H. Stone, Jr., the head of the firm; Thomas Hicks, an employe, and W. T. McCuiston, a member of the police force. In her complaint Miss Riley alleges that on the even ing of December 4, 1914, she was de tained in the store by Hicks, and af ter being locked in a room on the third floor of the building, was charged with the theft of goods from the store. She alleges that she was kept in the locked room about three hours and was then carried to her boarding house by the defendants, who made an unsuccessful search of her room for stolen goods. The suit is brought in the Superior court of Lee county. Ellis, Stone & Co. have caused a warrant to be issued charg ing Miss Riley with larceny, and it is understood that the case will come up in Municipal court in a few days. Miss Riley is represented by Col. John A. Barringer. Want 10,000 Members. "Ten thousand members" is the slogan which the corn club men are adopt ing for the work in North Carolina this year. Last year there were be tween 6,000 and 7,000 members in the state, which was- a creditable showing, when the record of this state is -comnared with;tUat oft other states. TO BUILD HEW CODRT HOUSE PRESENT STRUCTURE WILL BE REPLACED BY SPLENDID NEW BUILDING. Guilford county is to have a new, modern and thoroughly up-to-date court house, a structure that is ex pected to eclipse any building of the kind in the state. It will be erect ed on the site of the present court house and work will be begun as soon as the necessary arrangements can be made. This was decided up on definitely at an adjourned meet ing of the board of county commis sioners yesterday. The new building will be eight or ten stories high and will cost from $150,000 to $200,000. he money will be procured from the proceeds of a bond issue to be authorized by the present legislature, and it is es timated that rents from . offices in the building will create a sinking fund that will retire the bonds in 15 or 20 years. Mr. W. C. Boren, chairman of the board of commissioners, makes the following statement concerning the plans for the new court House: ' The county commissioners have done everything they possibly could to clear up the court bouse litiga tion, but have failedto do that. The property owners and otners interest ed have failed to make any proposi tion of any kind. "The county has on the corner un encumbered about 80x140 feet, prop erty that is too valuable to erect sim ply a two-story building now, and property that will not sell for what it ought on account of encumbered lots around it. The commissioners have decided that the best thing for the county to do is to put up what is known as a commercial building not less than eight or ten stories high, to be used for offices, court building and the like. "It is Estimated that a building of this kind outside of the offices uset by the county and court room, will rent for from $15,000 to $20,000 per year, and the amount will gradually increase from year to year as the property grows more valuable. "The proposition is to have a bill passed in the legislature authorizing the commissioners to put up a build ing ot this kind and issue necessary bonds for the purpose, all the in come in the way of rents to be ap plied to a sinking fund until the bonds can be paid. It is conserva tively estimated that the rents from this building will pay all bonds is sued for the same in 15 or 20 years. The only cost to the county will be the interest on these bonds during the time." County Teachers to Meet Saturday. The regular time for the meeting of the Guilford County Teachers' As sociation was last Saturday, but County Superintendent Foust, after consulting with quite a number of teachers, decided to postpone the meeting until next Saturday, the 16th. As the schools did not open until January 4, there was only one week's work until the regular time for the meeting on January 9 and it was thought best to have at least two weeks' school before the meet ing of the association. Dr. Chase, professor of the philos ophy of education at Chapel Hill, will address the teachers next Saturday at 10.30. This address wi-1 be free to all the teachers of the county. After this address Dr. Chase will meet with the high school teachers and discuss problems with them. On Friday night Dr. Chase will speak to the people of Summerfield at the high school building. This is a rare opportunity for the people of that section to hear one of the fore most educators in the state. Negro Preacher Held. John Thompson, a colored preacher, is in jail awaiting the next criminal term of Superior court, when he will be tried on a charge of criminal assault. His alleged victim is Emma Rankin, a 14-year-old colored girl, who resid es with her mother near Guilford Battle Ground. The preliminary hearing was held before Justice of the Peace Collins and . the prosecuting witnesses were the girl and her moth er, Jennie Rankin. Thompson's home is near Rudd. Prohibition in Alabama. A bill providing for state-wide prohibition has been introduced in the Alabama legislature. It is similar to the pro legislature of 1911. i - : : LITTLE LIGHTING GOING ON WINTRY WEATHER AND MUD IN TERFERE WITIi MOVEMENT OF THE ARMIES. Late reports from the European war s$ys the French attacks north of Soisspns on the Aisne and near Per the, east of Rheims, are developing into a serious offensive. The gains the French have made at these points, if followed up, would have two-fold importance. They threaten the railways which the Germans are using to supply their troops in the fighting line and are a serious men ace to German, forces which hold positions to the north of Rheims. The French have found it impossible to take by frontal attacks positions from which the Germans aTe bombarding Rheims, but advance on either side would envelop them and force a re tir$rmijmt, thus giving the cathedral cit relief from the German shells. in the Argonne and on the heights of the Meuse the Germans claim to have made further progress. It is understood that the Germans have sent heavy reinforcements to this dis trict to prevent the French "from breaking their lines, which are close to;their own border and not far from Metz. Fresh German troops despatched to Alsace, combined with the wintry weather, have stopped the French ad vance in that region. Along the rest of the front artillery is doing most of the work. Only isolated attacks are being attempted, bad weather and mud making movements of large bodies of troops out of the question. Similar conditions prevail in the East, and while they have not com pletely stopped the fighting, they have called a halt of operations. In the re stricted areas, along the River Raw kai near Bolimow, there has been fierce righting, but according to Pe- trograd correspondents the Germans have: tkot made material advances. Sevg,ont1au,e .on the Nidav river, where the Austrians oppose Russian attempts to penetrate to Cracow. The Germans are keeping the Ma surian lakes open with ice-breakers to block the Russian advance in east Prussia. Russian troops hold posi tions around the lakes and have been waiting for them to freeze over be fore resuming their offensive. The Turks deny they have been de feated by the Russians in the Cau casus. To offset this denial, Petro grad has a report that Noury Bey, chief of the general staff of the third Ottoman army corps, who was sent by the sultan to investigate the re port, of the defeat, has been captured by Cossacks. The Turks have been offering stub born resistance to the Russians at Kara-Urgan, where a battle has been in progress for five days. The posi tion at this place is more favorable for the Turks, who have not the deep snow of the mountains to contend with and are in closer touch with their base. It is a death struggle for them, for so long as the Russian fleet commands the Black sea the Turks cannot get reinforcements from Europe, the overland route be ing a long and difficult one. They havean army corps at Bagdad, but this is needed to oppose the advance of the British Indian army from the East. Believe British Note a "Feeler." Sir Edward Grey's answer to the protest made by this government against British interference with American shipping has been accept ed in official circles in Washisgton as the handiwork of a keen diplomat, who prepared the note as a feeler, and whose final answer will depend to a great extent upon the manner in which it is received in this country. The administration purposes to in dulge in a little "watchful waiting" at the expense of the British foreign secretary. The president and Secre tary Bryan will not comment upon the note. Pending the arrival of the second note, the state department will re double its efforts in the interest of American shippers. The department is expected to make an immediate protest in the case of every ship which is held up hereafter. Sudden Death. Mr. Shep Durham, an aged citizen living near Stone ville, was found dead sitting in his chair one day the past week. He was alone in the house and had prob ably been dead about three hours when found. The, cause of his death is unknown, but he had been in bad health for some time. REPUBLICAN ME1TING HELD IN RALEIGH TUESDAY About 200 Republicans were in Ral eigh Tuesday for a conference of the state executive committee the Re publican members of thi. legislative and party leaders generally. The conference directed Chairman Linney to name two commttees, he to be charman of both, one to draft a platform to suggest to the state con vention for the 1916 campaign and the other to prepare bills in line with the state Republican platform for the last campaign to have introduced by Republican leaders In the legislature and pressed as party measures. Chairman Lnney named as the com mttee on platform in 1916: Frank A. Linney C. A. Reynolds J. J. Britt, I. B. Tucker, and George E. Butler. The committee on legislation is to be announced later. The conference praised the under taking of Secretary Gilliam Grissom in publishing a quarterly newspaper knewn as The Protectionist and de clared itself favorable to procuring as many county weekly newspapers as possible to advocate ana promulgate Republican principles. In the conference and in talk pre liminary and subsequent thereto the leaders refrained from pecia1. talk as tor possible candidates for governor and other offices, declaring when ques tioned that any one of a half dozen party leaders might be the candidate. Chairman Linney stated to the con ference that he had received letters from numbers of Republicans, mostly followers of Roosevelt, to the effect that they would attend this meeting but for some objection to one or an other of the members of the state committee. Rejublican Senators Open War on President. Washington, Jan. 13. One of the liveliest debates of the present Con gress stirred the senate today, when Rpublican leaders launched a vigor- ious .attack on .President Wilson's In- , dianapolis speech, the administra tion's Mexican policy and Democratic legislation. Democrats met the at tack with praise for the president and a prediction of his re-election. The debate was precipitated over Senator Cummins' resolution asking the president to indicate what the government proposed to do with Mex ican customs collected during the oc cupation of Vera Cruz. Action on the resolution was postponed until tomorrow. Senator John Sharp Williams, one of those who replied to Republican criticism of the administration, de clared with emphasis that President Wilson would be "renominated" and er-elected for the presidency" be cause the Amercan people have found him not only able to take the place of men about whom they were quarreling, but good enough to stand in his own stead." Senator Cummins voiced with a wish that President Wilson could be confined more closely to "the exercise of his constitutional powers." Senator Borah- made a general broadside attack on the administra tion. Anti-Saloon League Meeting in Ral eigh. Raleigh, Jan. 13. The eighth bi ennial convention of the North Caro lina Anti-Saloon League convened in the First Baptist church this after noon at 3 o'clock for a two-days ses sion, with Superintendent R. L. Davis presiding with President J. A. Hart ness. There were about 75 present for the initial sessioh, including about a dozen ladies. The address of welcome was by Commissioner of Labor and Printing M. L. Shipman and the response by Rev. C. E. Mc Whorier. There was a stirring address on the cause of temperance, especially from the viewpoint of the medical profession, by Dr. J. M. Parrott, of Kinston, who has pronounced views in favor of the complete elimination of liquors, even for medical pur poses. Sessions of the convention con tinue through tomorrow, the closing feafnre being the address by Rich mond Pearson Hobson and the ban quet complimentary to the members of the general assembly. The league heard tonight with a much larger attendance a stirring ad dress by Rev. A J. Barton, of Waco, Texas, on prohibition both as a state and national factor Mr. T. C. Fentress, of Pleasant Garden gave The Patriot a call yesterday. 12,000 PEOPLE ARE KILLED: EARTHQUAKE WORKS HAVOC IN ITALY ONE CITY WIPED OUT. Rome, Jan. 13. A terrific earth quake, the strongest ever felt in Rome, occurred early today. It last ed several seconds and caused a seri ous panic, people everywhere rush ing from their houses in terror. Many buildings were damaged by the shock. The town of Avezzano was virtual ly destroyed by the earthquake. The dead are estimated at 12,000 and it. is believed that 20,000 people are In jured. One thousand persons escap ed from the ruins, but most of them were injured. I As details began to arrive it was ajpparent the disturbance in the pro vince of Rome and the Abruzzia had been greater than at first believed and that it also had been felt severe ly around Naples. At Monteretondo three persona were killed and tvo wounded; at .Za garnlo the dome of a church fell; at Galiano part of the cathedral was wrecked; at Veroli two persons were killed and two injured. At TiVOll one person was killed; at Pereto five houses collapsed and at Poggie Na tivo one person was killed and sev eral 'were injured. There is no com munication with the ancient fortifled city of Acquila iti the Abruzzia, owing to interruption of telegraph service. It is reported, however, that several villages were destroyed in that vi cinity. At Torre Cajetani, 37 niles east of Rome, almost the entire village -as destroyed; at Arnara the municipal building collapsed. From numerous places calls for physicians are reaching Pome. When the shock was first felt frightened people rushed in the churches, but the police ordered them out of those which were In danger of collapsing. In all the churches after thehock had subsid ed, special prayers were offered for deliverance from disaster. It is announced officially that the center of the earthquake was between Campobasso and Sarno and tljat it was felt strongly at Perugia and slightly as far north as Ferrara. In the country places the people are camping in the open. The town of Pofi is reported to have been half destroyed. At Guili ano two persons were killed. At the Meteorological Institute it is said that the duration of the eaith quake altogether was atcut one min ute. It was stated it was not believ ed the disturbance ptendod to tlioilv. Eighty Plead Guilty of i olitical Cor ruption. Indianapolis, Ind., Jan. 12. Eigh ty of the 114 men arre-ited recently on federal Indictments charging con spiracy to corrupt the election of No vember 3, last, in Terre Haute, led., pleaded guilty in the United States distrct court here today. Eght plead not guily and demurrers were filed for the remaining 2t: including Mayor Donn M. Roberts, Circuit Judge Elihu Redman, City Judge Thonias Smith, Sheriff Dennis Shea and other Terre Haute officials. Ar gument cn the d jmurrers was set for January 20. Eight of the eighty who pleaded guiltj' were employes or former em ployes of the Terre Haute city admin istration and included J. Edward Holler, within the last week deposed as chief of police; John F. Nugent, former night chief of police; Eno Harms, custodian city hall, and two policemen and two city hall em ployes. The cthes were bar tenders, alleged gamblers and persons with out an occupation. All the defendants were allowed to return to their homes. Those who admitted their guilt did so without being promised immunity. They are expected to testify for the government in the casea to be tried. Makes Miscegnation a Crime. The house of representatives, by an overwhelming majority of 236 to 60, has passed the Clark bill, which .makes the intermarriage of whites and blacks a crime in the District of . Columbia, for years a haven for mis cegnation. The penalty provided is a fine from $1,000 to $5,000. or from one to five years in prison at hard labor, or both. - The bill will go tpth senate and effort .wiu. .nSaJa'Ja itft passage ; at this ,eeiQi Wmtfii: brealrnp'tife jffaciltelof edn&r riages at the WpMtof the MMH, ' r i -A" -.A P 1 r V H i 1 . 1 f i ; . ;;!:.. i :n - . v M' " : r4 i Si1 ! 4 t H -V It, '( H i I t m - X 4 t J t i i i 1 J, is i V m hi 4 t J. 'J Si! ill vf i ; i -: f -vf -V T" -."....'- .-..-