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Greensboro Patriot - . i- PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY " . 1 J -i ESTABLISHED 182tL GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1915 VOL. 94 NO. 10 J 1 LOCAL NEWS IN BRIEF FORM a TParr M , .tr" FAR AND NEAR. L January i ctwiu. ii. iamn flt Boyies, tii v.xLJ wUliU6 xyectur, il, Alf TT Kill MlM IV mMM-n..A.L I' ,rts that during the month of rep' Tor-iarv he issued seven permits for . new Duuainsb 10 u iciea ai an pr raated cost of $16,800. f? (Hvil Service. A civil service ex- agnation was held here yesterday Ior positions as title attorneys and was taken by the following: Bruce C raven, ui iiuiiij , uuuiuao J hi::. W. J Sherrod, Cooper Hall, of (irT-ensboro, and Messrs. Hall and loi nson. of the Winston-Salem bar. TU- positions pay $1,500 to $2,000 iinnually. To Enlarge Creamery. Mr. W. J. bi. uoru, ui xiiiwi j , nao yuiwmscu an interest in the Guilford Creamery rnupany and will be associated with Mr. J. A. Hornaday in the manage- ment of the business. Mr. Shuford uas formerly manager of the Ca- ciwba creamery, at Hickory, and is conversant with all the details of the usmess. The Story Teller Mr. Richard T. AVv.he. a brother ot Dr. J. b.wycne, of this city, is to deliver a lecture tomorrow evening at the Greens horo College for Women. Mr. Vche is a favorite in Greensboro, ;)v lie is wherever he is known, and it ?oes without saying that he will he heard by a large and apprecia tive audience of Greensboro's most cultured people. Railroad Men Here. Mr. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern :c.ilway, ana Mr. J. n. toapman, e-eral manager of the system, w-re visitors in ureensooro yestex- is nQW coaching the university bas day. They spent several hours in ketball team and came to Chapei losing over their company's prop- HiU from Guilford College, where er:;. and later conferred with a num- ag baseball and basketball coach his her of leading business men of the work was of highest order. His city relative to the, proposed erec- excenent coaching at Guilford en tion of a new passenger station. abled him to nut out in the nast few New Undertaking Company. An advertisement on ar-othe: page of The Patriot calls attention to the i act that the Southside Undertaking Company has been organized and is ready for business at 60 0 South Elm street, the stand formerly occupied by the Wilson Undertaking ompany. Messrs. John A. and N. Rush Hod trin are the proprietors and Mr. W. A. Wilson the manager of the new business. To Meet in Greensboro. The an- Mial meeting of the Woman's Mis sionary Society ' of the Western North Carolina Conference adjourn ed in Charlotte Tuesday night to meet next year in Greensboro. Mrs. Lucy H. Robertson, of tins city, was re-eiectea president oi tne society, its member- which numbers among ship many of the leading missionary workers in the Methodist church in western North Carolina. Congratulations. Dr. W. M. Jones. Guilford's efficient county health officer, is in receipt of a let- te- from Dr W S. Rankin, secre- tarv of the state board of health, re- warding the registration in Guilford county. Dr. Rankin offers congrat ulations for the accuracy of the reg is:ration work in the county during the past year. "The figures from ;--.; ilford county," says he, "are .trnong the most accurate of any of The counties of the state." . .. Busy Month. The report Of the (thee department for the month of h.iuiarv shows that 105 warrants 'vfre issued during the month. This n-nber of warrants called for the .rest G -jg persons, as many as 12 being arrested on a single war- r . t. Eighty-five of this number v-re convicted, 13 were acquitted ;r, l the remainder nol prossed. Of fhe 143 persons arrested, 126 were males and 17 females. A large ma- icritv of this number were negroes. Burglars at Large. Two Greens- boro homes, both located in thickly populated residential sections, were entered by unknown par.ies Monday nh-ht t each home, so far as can be" learned the burglars got nothing for their trouble. One of the homes was entered while the family was in the house the burglar passing by an open side'window, within a few feet of where two members of the family were sitting and going to a rear win- ,i- 1. ,i,i, Afn a Tho , UUUUKU W lllll 11C OU151VU, v famiiv f h.r rHpnrP Anter- ed are absent from the city and af- tpr tq TYi vi incf on nvCr ttiA house, the burglar or burglars deoarted. Noth- upon the approach of the intruder. Boone, Sam Garrett, Walter Wago ing but an empty box is" missed from Officers who responded to a tele- ner, M A Lineberry John D. Shaw, thic v, - ontArori- phone call had no difficulty in con- J. B. Robinson, C. S. Maness, A. H. are those of Messrs. Andrew Joyner and Frank Leak. Real Estate Deal. The Irving Park Company, a corporation form- ed for the development of a large of suburban property near the "JI I V V, " iJuiLiinatu num me company own ins t.hp rl 11 H nrnnortv o trnnf l -. tho . ftf t1Annn . , the lub . . . , I the club realizes about $3,000 more .. me part 11 sens man it paic orig inaUy fop Us entire holaings. Called Him Names. Walter S. Royal a High point attorneV) nas sued N p Farlow ecretary-treas- urer of the Deep River Cha-r Com parv of Randleman, for $5,000 al- ltg(ici d a mages because in a letter to a (oai comDany. it is Bai4 Mr. Farlow lef erred to Mr. Royal as a "thimble-headed simpleton" and "an insulting little idiot." Mr. Roy al had a claim from a coal company against Mr. Farlow's company's, auu il appears uiai. me suit is a re- suit of efforts to collect the acccimt. Hospital Addition. An addition to St. Leo's hospital, at a cost of $io,000 for building and equipment, is about completed and will prob- aDiv be ready for use during this month. This makes the hospital nlant wvrtk $1.50.000 ana one of the Lest equipped institutions in the South. On the first floor of the an nex will be three new operating rooms, and on the second floor are several new bed rooms and toih t.s. On the top will be a roof garden for the use of the third floor of the niain "building "Chic" Doak For Coach A press dispatch from Chapel Hill says: "Chic" Doak, of Guilford, was chosen as coach for the University of North Carolina baseball team for th qPason at the mpptine- of tne athletic councii iast night. Doak vears somft ftf thp fastPRt poIWp teams in the state. Sunday School Workers. The ex ecutive committee of the North Car olina Sunday School Association was in session here Tuesday after noon. The meeting was held in the state headquarters in the Banner building and was attended by J. A. Brown, of Chadbourn, president of the state association; President W. A. Harper, of Elon College, chair man of the executive committee; Secretary J. W. Long, of this city, and a number of other leading Sun lay school worKers. Plans were considered for a general extension of the work throughout the state In New Quarters. The undertak- ing firm of L- M" Ammen & Co- is now locatea m new quarters, naving moved from 600 South Elm street across the street to 607 South Elm street, next to Lowe's grocery store. Mr. Ammen, the head of the firm, hoc! Vioon cnpnoGcfnllv nno"Q(riH in the undertaking business in Greensboro for the past five years and is wel1 and favorably known to the public, tor several years ne was associated with the Wilson Undertaking Com- pany, which went into bankruptcy some time ago. The firm has added picture framing as a branch of its business. New Corporation. The Windlass att. t- i i , . . i, 1 vvaguu niaite Vvomuany nas ueeu ui ' ganized here ana will manufacture anc distribute from Groensboro a newly invented wagon brake. The patent is owned by George P. Crutchfield, who until recently was in the internal revenue service. The capacity of the plant will be 200 wagon brakes a day. The incorpo- rators are G. P. Crutchfield and H. C. Marley, of this city, and Z. V. Crutchfield, of Thomasville. The de- vice is one which appears to have real merit back of it, and the new company starts out with most en- couraging prospects. Patient Runs Amuck. Labojin under the delusion that some one was trying to kill him, Dr. Lancas- ter, of Dobson, a patient at St. Leo's hospital, yesterday seized his revol- ver and fired through the transom over his room door. He then jump- ed through a window and ran down Summit avenue several blocks and entered the home of Judge S. Glenn I Brown. Mrs. Brown was alone, with the exception of a colored servant woman, and both ran from the house veying Dr. Lancaster back to the hospital. THE COMMISSIONERS MEET TRANSACT MUCH BUSINESS OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE COUNTY. Th February meeting of the of county commissioners. board which was held Monday and Tues- day, was marked by the trnasactiun of a good deal of business of publio interest. Perhaps the two most im portant matters that came before the board related to the court houio proposition and a change in the cuunty road law. The commissioners approved a bill that will be presented to the leg islature authorising trie board to is sue bonds- in the sum of $250,000 for the erection of the new court house upon the approval of the peo ple of the count. y as expressed in an ehction. The bill probably will uc introduced and passed by the legis lature witnin the next few days, and the election can be held in 30 days after rs ratification. It was decided to ask the legisla ture to amend the present road law ot tlle county so as to abolish the ot- fice of '.ownehip road comuiissiorT, leaving all the road work of the county to be directed from the of fice of the county superintendent of roods. The commissioners were called upon to handle several road mat ters. Citizens of Morehead township petitioned for several changes and a discontinuance in public roads near Pomona, the particulars of which will be found in an advertisement elsewhere in The Patriot. A petition was filed asking that ine roaQ leaaing irom ur. wuuams Place' on tne road from High Point to Mechanicsville to the macadam road, be improved with gravel. The board agreed to comply with this re quest if the property owners shall raise $1,000 to be expended on the work. The petition was accompanied- by a subscription list amounting to $700. A petition was filed asking that the road leading from Deep River church, by way of Stafford's mill to the macadam road west of James town, be improved and made a sand clay road. The board agreed to do this work if the property owners would pay $1,0 0 0 in cash and wcrk of the cost. The subscription list presented to the commissioners was for $485 in cash and $395 ,in work, a total of $8 75. The board granted the petition previously filed asking for the open ing of a public road in J jfferson and Rock Creek township, beginning at a point on the McConnell road, on Walter Clark's land, and running for a distance of four or five mile? to a point on the Whitsett and Brick church road, at Kivett Shenherd's st0re, was granted and the road or- dered opened according to law. The matter of extending the use and benefits of the Greensboro pub- i- i i . i ,i i .i nc norary to an tne peopie oi tne county was brought before the com- missioners again by a committee consisting of Mr. E. P. Wharton and Dr. W. P. Beall. It was nroDOsed that, in return for opening the li- brary to all the people of the coun- ty, the commissioners make an ap- propriation of two and a half cents per capita, which, it was estimated, would amount to about $1,5 0 0 an- l,,.nn.r tv, : : : Uiuanj. inc cummiaaiuiitia ag3.u1 tooK tne matter under advisement, The monthly rep jrt of Dr. W. M. Jones, county health officer, show- ed health and sanitation conditions in the county to be of a satisfactory nature. Mr. J. A. Davidson, county audi- tor and superintendent of roads, was appointed to represent Guilford county at the good roads institute to be held at the University of North Carolina for four days beginning February 2 3. Jurors for the three civil terms of Superior court to be held in March were drawn as follows: March 8 Rufus W. Low, Joe W. Clapp, George W. Lednum, T. J. Rumley, J. C. Browning, George Coble, C. R. Bevill, W. A. Jobe, J. A. Kirkman, R. M. Spoon, J. P. Weatherly, W. D. Moore, George J. Harry, E. F. Pate, C. L. Harbour, C. H. Groome, W. D. Sutton. C. L- Ward, W. L. Hanner, J. E. Benbow, I H. C Cude, J. P. Horney, W. A. Meyers and J. W. Allen March 15 Y. W. Brann, E. M. Nance J. F Scurlock, John Hardin, A. B. Lee, M. H. Edmondson, A. D. Mangum, M. H. Brannon, Will T. Osborn, A. C. Case, J. A. Walker, Oliver Armfield, J. R. Rumley, J. A. Gordbn, C. L. Gray, E. A. Zackary and W. L.. Smith. March 2 2. Isaac M. Thomas, H. S. Lewey, W. T. Bowman, W. H. Faucett, F. W. Cobb, Jacob Coble, J. R. Schoolfield, James D. Donnell, J. Rank Thomas, A. J. Jennings, J. W. Elliott, Allie Highfill, R. A. Sills, I. F. Bennett, E. E. Bain. Z. Lee Groome. J. C. Strader, S. E. Col trane, D. W. Moore, O. S. Medearis, Z. P. Campbell, M. P. Sechrest, A. H. Idol and R. O. Lindsay. Bankruptcy Matters. A voluntary petition in bankrup tcy was filed Tuesday in the United States District court by E. Lyman Scott and John A. Good vin, asy indi viduals and as partners, trading as the Greensboro Furniture Company, i hearing they adopted a resolution The debts are scheduled at $l.7U6.- lirginq that no changes be made and 17 and assets at $1,9L'9.20. Thejple4?ing tnat the indiv-lual mem matter was referred to G. S. Fergu- bers of tne Cotton Manufacturers son, Jr., referee in bankruptcy. T. Association will, if the legislature C. Hovle represents the bankrupts, j win leave the law in force as passed In the matter of Robert Harris & I Bro bankrupts, the receiver. Ira j k. i-iumpnnes. was allowed the sum of $1,289.15 in full of balance of J compensation as receiver, and als the sum of $310 as receiver for the individual assets of Robert Harris '.nd W. C. Harris. In the matter of J. H. Walker & Co., bankrupts, Ira R. Humphries, I receiver, was allowed a balance of $631.79 in full of compensation as receiver and also the sum of $51.79 as receiver for the individual assets of J. H. Walker and Alvis L. Wilk- er. W. I. Underwood, trustee. h;'s ad vertised for sealed bids for the pur chase of the printing business of C B. Kendall, bankrupt, the bids to be opened in the office of G. S. Fergu- son, J(r., referee in bankruptcy February 15. on To Make Sunday Schools More Fffi cient. President Harper, of Elon Col lege, addressed a mass meeting in West Market Street Methodist j church Tuesday evening on the sub- ject of Sunday schooPwork. The meeting was held in the interest of the development of greater effi ciency in the Bible training of the Sundav schools of Greensboro and there was good attendance. Dr. Har- per made an able speech. Prof. W. C. Jackson, of the State Normal Col- j strenuous opposition, declared that lege; Mr. A. W. McAlister and others j he thought the recent insurance in made talks. vestigation was "to slay the great in Professor Jackson declared rliat , surance octopus." but now he fear the teaching of the Bible is the hope i ed that the legislature was. on the of the survival of the Christian advice of the investigation commit church under the stress of modern conditions. He is dean of theGreens boro Training School and he stated Miat he had found the work in the undertaking bigger than he had ex pected. Mr. McAlister praised the accom plishments of Professor Jar-kson so far in the preliminary work under taken in the Sundav schools of the city. He spoke of the Investigation of the Sunday schools and the com pilation of statistics and of his own conviction that in the Sunday school is found the church barometer. The meeting was an enthusiastic one and others will be held. Fighting the Blind Tigers. The result of n earnest effort to wipe out the traffic in mean whis key, which is said to have grown rather large, at the mill villages northeast of the city, was evident in Ihe prosecutions in Municipal court vesterday. Three young white men were convicted of retailing whiskey m the Proximity and Revolution villages and were each sentenced to six months on the Guilford roads. Two of ( the three served notice of appeal to the Superior court. The defendants were Bob McPher son, Harvey Brady and Lon Brady. The last named did not give notice of appeal and the other two were required to give $200 bond each before being released, to guarantee their presence in the higher court for trial. A peculiarly pitiable aspect was given one of the cases by the pres ence in court of the wife and three very young babies of the defendant. All of the men tried, were young. "Jim Crow" Law. A bill by Representative Clark, of Florida, requiring District of Columbia transportation companies to provide separate accommodations for white and negro races has been favorably reported to the house of congress. IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS OF THE STATE'S LAWMAKERS .IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE. An unfavorable report by a vote of 10 to 2 was the fate of the Weav er bill to amend the child labor law of the state so as to raise the age limit to i4 years and provide for in spectors to inspect factories under the direction of the commissioner of labor and printing. This was af ter a lengthy joint committee hear ing in the senate chamber during which both sides were fully heard. This is taken to mean that there will be no change in the child labor laws at this session There was a big delegation of cot ton mill men in Raleigh for the hearing, and before the committee two years ago, to give special atten- j tion to slrict observance and report j and proceed against any manufac turer who fails to observe the law. The house committee on proposi tions and grievances .nd senate committee on railroads yesterday afternoon considered quite a while pending bills for requiring railroad companies to pa employes semi monthly, the senate bill by Ward also including lumber companies and other corporations. In the end the bills were referred to a sub committee for revision and consoli dation. However, there was mani festly such hostility to the bills that neither of them nor any substitute, most likely, has any possible chance of getting favorable report. The house committee on proposi- tions reported favorably a substitute bill that empowers the county com missioners of any county to levy a tax on dogs from $1 to $2, the fund derived to be applied to county pur poses at the discretion of the -commissioners. "' The house yesterday passed the j i Seawell bill for 12 1-2 per cent flat and 12 1-2 per cent contingent fee j for fire insurance agent, contingent j fpp to tie based on profits of the ! company. It was discussed tor near lv two hours with vigorous speech es against it. but passed by a large majority. Representative Grier in tee, simply strangling a little jelly fish. The bill was sent to the sen ate. Among new bills introduced was one by Laughinghouse to provide in creased pensions for Confederate veterans so that they can remain at home with wives, instead of being forced to "desert their wives." as he expresses it, "to come to the sol diers' home." Tipnresentative Darden offered a bill to authorize county commission ers to pay $10 rewards for informa tion convicting violation of the pro hibition law and making the mini mum punishment three months on the roads. Senator Gardner. of Cleveland, led a lively and successful fight in the senate Tuesday for the bill from the house to divide the state into two judicial circuits to take the place of the present statewide rota tion of the 20 judges that keep them far away from their home districts during the greater part of their terms of office. Senator Gardner had charge of the bill and pitted aeainst it were Senators Weaver, McMichael and McNider. Senator Ward joined Senator Gardner in the active argument for the bill and the vote was 34 to 6 for passage, the measure being ordered enrolled for ratification. Long, of Union, offered a bill in the house to limit freight trains to 50 cars. Representative Stacy offered a bill providing of formation of dis tricts on the order of those for drainage purposes for the purpose of purchasing implements with which to clear lands, such as stump pullers and the like, A new bill by Long, of Halifax, would penalize clerks of courts for failure to transmit appeals to the Supreme court in proper style. Unfavorable Reports on Woman Suffrage. Unfavorable reports in both the senate and the house is to be the fate of woman's suffraeo bills now pending in the nands of legislature committees the Hobgood bill In the si.-nate and the Roberts bill in ihe house. This is th. nucome o' the joint hearing on these bills Tues day afternoon when the hall of rep resentatives crowded to its utmost with a brilliant assemblage of wo men that many anticipated would surely wesi from tho ;cint commit lee at least favorable reports for 'he bill. However, the committees heard Dr. Anna Shaw, head of the woman's suffrage movement for the nation; Mrs. Archibald Henderson. of Chapel Hill, head of the movement for North Carolina: Mrs. Eugene Reilley, of Charlotte, president of the Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. Goodno. of Raleigh, president of the Women's Christian Temper ance Union, and Mrs. Al Fairbroth er, of Greensboro, in the most stir ring appeals and arcuments for their cause and then retired to the committee rooms and voted unfav orable reports for the bills. The sen ate committee on election laws voted 4 to 3 for unfavorable report and the house committee on constitu tional amendments 6 to 3 for un favorable report. Notice was given on both commit tees that there would bo minority favorable reports, to give the bills a footing for fights on the floors in both ends of the capitol. DEFICIT OF $8,116,427 FOR MONTH OF JANUARY. Washington, Feb. 2. Revenue collected by the government in Jan uary failed by $S. 116, 427 to meet the month's disbursements. Receipts usually are low at this time of the year, but in January the excess of disbursements was only $4,512,262. Neither customs nor internal rev enue brought in the expected re turns. Customs receipts amounted to $16.55S,193, compared with $23,- 528080 In the same .month. lf&J. year, ana T7r33trrs3- in- 1914. Another feature was the fact that ordinary internal revenue receipts were $27,096,155. or less by J5. 000.000 than in December, and only 3 hnn t 0 fl A f I Ci Ci m nra trior- tKn tz ceipts from the same source in Jan uary, 1914. although revenue from the ernergencv tax was included. j It was pointed out tonight that i the estimates of government reve nues for the fiscal year ending June 30 next contemplated internal reve nue receipts of $25,000,000 per month and about $7,500,000 per month from the emergency tax. a total almost $5,500,000 in excess of that actually produced during the thirty-day period just finished. Officials are not ready, however, to predict how much revenue the emergency tax will prodoc. and are hopeful that other internal revenue receipts will show an increase in the next few months. The first seven months of the fis cal year show an excess of disburse ments over receipts of $70,855,270, compared with a corresponding ex cess for the same period last year of S17.S67.609. At the close of the month the net balance in the treasury's general fund was $57.020.5S9 and the total cash assets in the treasury $1,991. 153.159. Flood Holds Man Prisoner in Tree. Flemington. N. J.. Feb. 2. Alex ander Pyatt. of Flemington. is ma rooned in a tree in the south branch of the Raritan river near Sunnyside tonight. In the inky darkness, with a steady cold rain falling, residents of Flemington and other places are endeavoring to rescue him from his perilous position. Pyatt endeavored to cross the river this afternon. but the heavy downpour had turned the river into a raging torrent and. un derestimating the depth of the wa ter, he attempted to cross the river and was caught in the torrent. Carried to one side of the road, he succeeded in freeing his horse, when the vehicle was overturned and reached a tree where he is held a prisoner, with the river still rising. Although equipped with boats and hand lines the workT of rescue Is a perilous one and may have to be abandoned until daylight. The horse has not yet been receovered. Mr. T. M. Webb, of Brown Sum mit Route 1, one of The Patriot's good friends In northern Guilford, was a welcome caller at the office ft few days ago. 1 .- t t 4 f rank Leak. ltxoVw. . 1 ' r -r . -T ... -