TT TTTT PRO ATM .IS ' 1 HE ir I T "f PUBLISHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY gSTABLISt. GREENSBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1 , 1915 ' 1x1 VOL. 94 NO. 12 KEEN SB 1 w IOT . iflfiAL NEWS IN BKk.. V V MATTERS OP INTEREST Tv J READERS OF THE PATRI FAR AND NEAR. I Diversity Trustee. Mr. John N. Yson has been selected as a mem be of the board of trustees of the l -r vorsity of North Carolina. Mr Dick 111. Mrs. R. P. Dick, n raonchnrn's nldpst and m naf r i CU VJi - e .ived women, has been quite ill ,-riil days. i rosses of Honor. All Confede- i. veterans who desire to receive s of honor are requested to ap at once to Miss Lizzie Lindsay, this city . fcr the necessary appll ;on blanks. vien Will Attend. The junior College will entertain the senior l.-j; of the same institution Satur (i3 eening, and for the first time ilie young ladies will have as their -ursts their friends of the opposite To Swap Jobs. Mr. T. H. Vander :'ord. revenue agent at Greensboro, and Col. W. H. Chapman, holding a similar position in Richmond, Va., ar to exchange offices. Col. Chap men has been in the service for many Years and has been stationed in Greensboro before. Died Yesterday. Mrs. Arthur 0 onior died yesterday afternoon a; rer home on South Elm street, k. lowing a lingering illness. She .i.s 3 5 years old and is survived by husband and five children. The funeral and interment will take pir.ee tomorrow. Adjudged Bankrupt. Alec L. Sherman, trading as the Gastonia (Lthing Company, of Gastonia, was adjudged a bankrupt in Federal rojrt here yesterday. The liabilities scheduled at $9,255, with assets, r ludine exemntions of $6,500. The c. ..tier was referred to iteieree rtoo- i :.r. at Charlotte. To clean Up City. Preparations a leir.z ade for the annual ob-yK.'vam-f ui clean-up" week in Greensboro, whb-h will take place during the latter part of March or IT. h'r.-t of April. The work will be directed by tiie city health depart ment, with the assistance of various -:vif organizations and private indi- To Meet Tonight. The Greens boro training school for Sunday s.'-rool workers, which had an auspic io:: opening on last Thursday even ir.f. wiii hold its second meeting this -vfning at West Market Street Meth 1 '-r.-st church annex. J. M. Brough t Jr.. of the Raleigh bar, will de-l:-r the first of three lectures on err anization and management. Missionary Visitor. Mrs. Motte Martin, a missionary of the Southern Presbyterian church in Africa, is Pending a few days in Greensboro. - comes upon the special invita t -'.n of the missionary societies of t." Presbyterian churches of the city while here will meet with these Pieties and tell of the work being & ':omplished in the field in which is laboring. Henley-Xunn Mr. Frank R. Hen J:.of Raleigh, and Miss Virda l-'in, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Nunn, of Guilford College, were r... -.Tried Tuesdaj' evening at 8.30 ' 'lork it the home of Mr. and Mrs. J h. Moorefield, on Bellemeade 'f T. The ceremony was perform r by Rev. R. G. Kendrick, of For f" Avenue Baptist church, and was iifssed by a few friends of the inn couple. Nw M. I Church. The formal 'r-'-nirig of the new Metnodist Prot rhurch at Oak Ridge, which r plaf s the structure destroyed by r ' v hen Oak Ridge Institute was :-'n?-d. will take piece on the fourth v-:iday in this month. The special vireS will be held at 11 o'clock in forenoon and the sermon of the v ii'sion will be preached by Rev. ' A. f'ecil, president of the North ' oiina Methodist Protestant Con- . -ih e. rried to Burn House. Sheriff Afford was called to the Caffey r:ofe. near Hopewell, yesterday horning to take into custody M.. C. mbeth, a white man of apparently ' " years of age and mentally unbai led, on account of his attempting to set fire to his home. When the ?-eriff arrived the man was carry lr the furnishings from the house al placing them on a trash heap, en asked what he was going to j). he replied that he was going to start a fire. The unfortunate man a carried to the county home. , . Mrs. W. J. Johnson Dead. Mrs. W. J. Johnson, of Mayodan, Rock ingham county, died Monday night at St. Leo's hospital, following an operation. She was 39 years old and is survived by her husband and five children. The funeral took place in Mayodan yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Johnson, before her marriage, was Miss Lily May Walters, of Madison, and was a sister of Dr. D. A. and Mr. R. F. Walters, of Greensboro. To Amend Charter Senator Hob good yesterday introduced in the senate a bill that amends the char ter of the Greensboro and Northern Railroad Company and authorizes the submission of the question of bonds to aid in the construction of the proposed road by various towns and townships in Guilford, Alamance and other counties that the road would touch in reaching connection witn the Seaboard or Norfolk South ern from Greensboro. New Marble Yard. Mr. F. E. Tip ton, formerly of Hendersonville, has opened a marble yard at the corner of North Elm and East Gaston streets, and is prepared to serve the public with all kinds of monument and tombstpne work. Mr. Tipton came to Greensboro from Martins ville, Va., where he was engaged in business for several years. He has had 17 years' experience in lettering and carving work and is well equip ped to render satisfactory service. Insurance Meeting. The annual meeting of the Dixie Fire Insurance Company was held in the company's offices here yesterday. There was a large attendance of stockholders and directors. The election of new direc tors by the stockholders and new of ficers by the directors, left the per sonnel of the management of the 'company unchanged. The company has decided to concentrate its busi ness in the states of North Carolina, "3outh Carolina and Virginia, and has Reinsured its business in the outly ing states. The company will con- cities of New York, Philadelphia and Boston. The Dixie is the largest fire insurance company south of Phila delphia. Aged Woman's Death. Mrs. Wil liam Medearis died Monday morning at her home at Belew's Creek, For syth county, at the advanced age of S5 years. She had been suffering from a deep cold about two weeks and her death was not unexpected. The funeral and interment took place Tuesday afternoon at Bethel church, in this county. Mrs. Me dearis is survived by three sons and two daughters, who are Mr. N. H. Medearis and Mrs. J. A. 'Dean, of Winston-Salem; Mrs. Sallie Lin ville, of Belew's Creek, and Messrs. W. F. and J. H. Medearis, of Greens boro. Mrs. Medearis was an earnest Christian and had been a member of the Methodist Protestant church for about 70 years. What a Guilford Woman is Doing in Missouri. Mrs. Christopher Field, of Monroe City, Mo., has been kind enough to send The Patriot her poultry and dairy report for 1914, and if any other Patriot subscriber has made so good a report, we should like to hear of it. Mrs. Field reports the following receipts for the year from her flock of from 450 to 500 single-comb White LegTiorn chickens: Eggs to the amount of $746.23 Chickens 90.19 Total $836.42 Butter and cream during vear $ 81.30 Total $917.72 In her note to The Patriot Mrs. Field says: "I will send in my chicken report so that my friends in old North Car olina will know that I have not been idle. Poultry is only a side line with me, as I am a farmer's wife and have four children and most usually a hired man to cook for, and in addi tion, do my own sewing, washing and ironing, and make butter, etc." Mrs. Field writes that the weather in her section of Missouri is "right creepy." At the time she wrote the snow was six inches deep and the thermometer registered 16 degrees below zero. Banker Sentenced. C. H. Raine, formerly president of the Mercantile Bank, of Memphis, Tenn., yesterday was sentenced to the federal penitentiary in Atlanta for five years for misuse of the mails n rnnnection with the failure of his bank. He had previously entered a iplea of guilty TO ESTABLISH MODEL DAIRY CEASAR CONE WELL OPERATE SPLENDID FARM FOR HIS MILL PEOPLE. Mr. Ceasar Cone is perfecting plans for establishing and conduct ing a model dairy farm that will ca ter almost exclusively to the trade of the people inhabiting the mill vil lages north of the city. The W. D. Wharton farm, which is owned by the Cone interests, and which con sists of about 200 acres of land suit able for the business, will be utilized for the dairy. Mr. W. B. Thacker, a practical and experienced dairyman, has been em ployed as manager of the business. He is now engaged in buying cows with which to stock the dairy. It is understood that about 100 cows of the purest and best breeds will be placed on the farm to begin with and that others will be added as the demands may justify. Dairy barns and other necessary buildings will be erected as early as possible, and it is understood that no expense will be spared in their con struction. It is said that Mr. Cone will spend as much as $20,000 on his principal dairy barn. Since Mr. Cone and his associates never do anything by halves, it may be expected that the new dairy will be the best that money will equip. Not even the famous Vanderbilt dairy, at Biltmore, said to be thecfln est in the state, will eclipse it. It is the purpose of the manage ment that the dairy provide for he needs of the people of the mill vil lages. At present some of the peo ple keep their own cows, and their manner of keeping them leads .o question as to the sanitary condition of the milk they produce. Others buy from just as questionable sources, in many instances, while many are doing without milk alf&- gether, a condition which is consid ered evil by those interested fci t3& welfare. Despite the employment of trained nurses and other precautions for he sanitation of the villages, and fc he health of the people, it is said that the loss of young babies is still great er than it should be, and it is believ ed that the supply of good milk at reasonable rates would lessen chil dren's diseases. It will be seen to that the milk of the new dairy is of the richest and that it goes into the homes clean and pure. Golden Wedding Anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas C. Foust, who are among the oldest and best known people of Alamance county, celebrated their golden wedding an niversary at their home near Gra ham Tuesday. A reception was held from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon, and during these hours many friends p.nd relatives called to pay their re spects to the aged couple. ' Mr. Foust is in the eighty-third year of his age and his wife is six years younger. Both appeared to be in perfect health and received their callers with a warm welcome. The children of this aged and happy couple are: Dr. Julius I. Foust, president of the State Normal and Industria College; Prof. Thomas R. Foust, superintendent of the Guilford county schools: Prof. Frank L. Foust, principal of the Pleasant Garden high school; Mrs. A. L. Hen ley, of Greensboro; Mr. J. A. Foust and Miss Mary Foust, of Graham; Mrs. Lea G. White, of Winston-Salem, and Mrs. Smith, of Elon Col lege. To Represent President. Washington, Feb. 10. Duval West, formerly United States dis trict attorney at San Antonio, was selected today to go to Mexico as personal representative of President Wilson. Secretary Bryan an nounced the selection. Mi. West's mission is similar to that of Paul Fuller, who some time ago conferred with Mexican leaders and reported to President Wilson. Mr. West is commissioned to make general inqui ries into conditions and to interview leaders of all factions, making clear to them the position of the United States government with respect to the protection of foreigners and their interests. It is understood that while Mr. West will point out the growing ne cessity for a permanent settlement of Mexican affairs, he does not take suggestions from the United States. He has lived a number of years in Mexico and is understood to be fa- I miliar with the situation. IB GENERAL ASSEMBLY EDINGS OF THE STATE'S LAKERS IN THE SENATE AND HOUSE, e bill introduced by Dr. Fos Randolph, becomes a law the chair at the state nrison will f relegated to the junk heap and. inhere will be no more legal ex ecutions in this state, for his bill calls 'Jfor the abolishment of capital punishment in North Carolina. Twp bills affecting the forests of the slate received favorable reports, one of having allowing the state to purchase forest areas and the other to protect the forests of the state from the ravages of fire. Mr. Clark, of Bladen, is the author of an important bill which would al low husbands to convey their real property without the signature of the wife, where the latter is insane. Despite the earnest plea of Repre sentative Brockett, of Guilford, the house refused to amend the law raising the age of consent from 14 years, the present statute, to 16 years. The Guilford member argued for the adoption of the substitute bill which came before the house on a minority report wrhich changed the penalty in the original bill, making it a misdemeanor instead of a felo ny. He said that he spoke for the girls of the state of tender age who were forced to go out into the world to make a living and be subjected to the wiles and chicanery of unprin cipled men. He said that he did not propose to deal in the sensational and spectacular but only give the cold facts. When you sear the soul of a girl he declared she carried the scar to eternity. Her wrong step blasted the hopes of a sister, crush &a a loving father, brought sorrow to the face of a brother and sent a loving- mother to her grave in an guish and despair. He argued for Lthe. cause of civilization, the- cause of womanhood, and begged the mem- among -men and support the bill. With hardly a dissenting vote, the senate passed the Snow bill to pro hibit the trial of persons charged with crime in the garb of convicts or with shaven heads. Liquor Bill Up. The joint committee from the sen ate and house having in hand the bill of the State Anti-Saloon League to stop the shipment and delivery of liquors for beverage purposes heard advocates of the bill for an hour Tuesday afternoon under the direc tion of Superintendent R. L. Davis, of the Anti-Saloon League, who of fered a substitute for the original bill that so changed the measure proposed ' as to make it possible to ship wines out of this state and pre vent only those shipments and re ceipts of liquors involved in inter state shipments. After the hearing tlvj joint com mittee went into executive session and decided to have the bill and sub stitute with amendments printed and set the bills for further executive session consideration on Wednesday night of next wee. What some are pleased to call an other "entering wedge" in the cai:se of woman suffrage, gained a signal victory in the no use Tuesdav, when that body by a vote of 6 8 to 34 pass ed the senate bill providing that wo men property owners shall have the right of petition where eleci'.orss are to be held in which taxes would be assessed against their property. Dif ferent and sundry methods wore used to defeat the bill, but al! such efforts failed. Banks in Fine Shape. Washington, Feb. 10. Loans and discounts on the books of national banks of the country at the clos of business December 31,1914, amount ed to $6,347,636,510, an increase over October 31, of more than $31, 000,000 according to a statement today by Comptroller of the Cur rency Williams. Demand and time deposits December 31, amounted to $6,346,362,250, an increase over the amount at the time of the last comp troller's call of about $167,000, 000. White Man Lynched. Thomas Tinker, a white man, charged with shooting and killing Constable Richard Park, at Melber, Ky., was taken from the jail at May field, Ky.f Tuesday night and lynch ed by a band of 50 or more men. Tinker killed Park when the officer attempted to arrest him on the I charge of housebreaking. m if. ti ter, ':j electtab YOUNG MAN FINDS HIS WAY INTO TROUBLE. Elbert B. Tucker, of Greenville, S. C, spent a few unpleasant hours in Greensboro yesterday, and after be ing freed from certain legal en tanglements, left for home with the avowed intention of never again vol untarily setting foot on North Caro lina soil. Tucker arrived in Greens boro early yesterday morning and applied to Squire Dave Collins for a warrant for Miss Pearl Tucker, aged 16, who was described as a fugitive from justice. The complaining witness explain ed that the girl had been adopted by his mother some years ago and recently had left home without any cause or excuse. An officer found the girl at the home of a sister, Mrs. Thomas Calhoun, at Pomona, and she readily went to the magis 'ate's office, where she told a story of mistreatment in the Tucker home that caused her to leave. She ad mitted that she had been adopted cy Mrs. Tucker, but said the papers in the case provided she was to be free after she reached the age of 14. When Squire Collins dismissed the warrant, the girl turned the tables by asking damages for false arrest. The magistrate entered judgment in her favor for $50, and U was about that time that Elbert Tucker real ized that he was "up against it' He didn't possess the necessary amount of coin to satisfy the judgment and was about to be sent to jail by Squire Collins wrhen the girl relent ed and permitted him to go free. The young man from South Caro lina caught the next train that would carry him home, while the girl for whom he had come returned to the home of her sister at Pomona. In the Superior Court. Only a few cases, and none of them of special importance, have come before the civil term of Supe rior court that convened Monday morning. '. ; . R. O. Brann was granted an ab solute divorce from Hannah Brann, and Beatrice Jordan secured a di vorce from Lonnie Jordan. Neither suit was contested. A verdict for the plaintiff was al lowed in the suit brought by Mrs. Amanda M. Robinson against the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire and Engineers. The face value of a policy on the life of her hus band, who died a few years ago, w-as allowed, the sum being $2,000 and the interest. Double Murder Disco vered. New Britain, Conn., Feb. 9. A double murder was discovered today, when the bodies of Rev. Joseph Ze bris and his housekeeper, Iva Gil man, were found in the rectory of St. Andrews Lithuanian church here. There were bullet wounds in both bodies and a rope tied tightly about the neck of each. The bodies were found in different parts of the house. The police say they have no clue to the identity of the murderer. It is believed that the priest was kill ed first and that Miss Gilman, com ing to his rescue, was pursued up stairs and shot and strangled. It is known that the priest receiv ed threatening letters demanding money. Tools used by burglars were found in the rectory. It had been ransacked. Judge Fined Solicitor. Newbern, Feb. 9. Probably no incident in the history of Superior court circles of Craven county has caused as widespread interest and as great sensation as the placing of 'he fine of $50 yesterday on Solic itor Charles L. Abenethy, by Judge Carter, of Asheville, who is presid ing over a three weeks' session of criminal and civil court. Judge Carter adjudged the solic itor guilty of contempt when he re fused to obey his orders and forth with placed the fine upon him and ordered him into the custody of the sheriff until it was paid. After a de lay of a few hours Mr. Abernethy paid the fine under protest and was released. 21 Drowned in Mine. Nanaimo, B. C, Feb. 9. Twenty one men employed in the mine of the Pacific Coast Coal Mines, Limited, at South Wellington, seven miles from Nanaimo, were drowned by a rush of water today. Evidently one of the old flooded workings of the Alexandra mine, which has not been operating for years, was broken into by the men in the South Wellington, which ad joins it on a lower level. BATTLES ARE JN PROGRESS FIERCE FIGH11NG IN CARPA THIAN MOUNTAINS RUS SIANS CLAIM VICTORY. The Russian and Austro-German armies are fighting another series of battles for possession of the snow covered Carpathian passes to decide whether the Russians will commence another invasion of Hungary or evac uate part of Galicia, as they haver evacuated Bukowina. The Russians have issued two offi cial reports of the operations, claim ing the better of the fighting. Their right wing has crossed the moun tains and has been engaged in a bat tle near Bartfeldt and Svidnik, on the Hungarian side of the Carpa thians. This army, too, threatens the real of the Austro-Germans, who having entered Lupkow pass to the east, have suffered severe losses in a bat tie with another Russian force. The hardest fighting has occurred on the Galician side oi! Tukho'ka pass, where Sunday the Austro-Germans captured the heights in the re gion of Koziouwkha, only to be driv en back after a bayonet fight which the Russian report describes as be ing "without precedent in history." Correspondents say this battle was terrific. The Germans brought up their best reinforcements to aid. the Austrians, and themselves led the attack. Backed by heavy artillery, they assaulted the Russian position on the Koziouwka heights, but found hemselves under fire by the Rus sians on parallel hills and were cut off from the main German column. The Russian infantry then attack ed, driving them back at the point of the bayonet. Attack followed counter-attack until the Russians had gained their old position, leaving th; slopes, ac cording to their report, "littered with bodies of dead Germans." The fighting here seems to have been as desperate and aa sanguinary as that before the Warsaw lines dur ing last week and so far as can be judged by official and unofficial re ports has been just as unsuccessful for the Germans. The Germans now have assumed the offensive on the southern border of east Prussia and as a result another important battle is developing in that region. Of the battle in the northern part of east Prussia neither official communica tion speaks. At the other extreme end of the line, in Bukowina, the Russians are falling back before su perior Austrian forces but still hold the greater part of that province. There has been little or no fight ing in Flanders, France or Alsace, al though artillery and airmen continue active. It is believed the Germans are preparing for another attack on the British line near La Bassee, which if successful, would open the door to the French coast, from which, the Germans hope to threaten England. Meanwhile the allies are reported to be making slow progress along the coast of Belgium, where the capture of the Great Dane was of consider able advantage, as from it almost the entire coast as far as Osten can be controlled by artillery. The Russians are meeting more stubborn resistance in east Russia. The Germans have received rein forcements there. At the same time German troops appear to have been withdrawn from at least one posi tion in the Carpathians. On the right bank of the Vistula Russian light horse is sweeping northward on a wide front, mounted, and fighting with bayonets afoot. These troops have driven the Ger mans out of the villages command ing the main roads toward the Ger man frontier. Nadroge, one of the villages, is only twelve miles from the German frontier and about twenty-eight miles east of Thorn. In the Carpathians the Russians are moving steadily forward on the right wing. The Bukowina move ment is plainly sporadic, the Russian object here having been to draw as many as possible of the enemy's troops eastward, pending an ad vance on the Russian right. Merchant Found Dead. "Jack" Robertson, a well known retail merchant of Salisbury, was found dead early yesterday morning in the room of a club of that town. He spent Tuesday evening with friends at the club and appeared to be in his usual good health. His death is said to have beep due to heart trouble. -.;. v l : c I 1 ,..1 r V r t ' A: 4 t' i