North Carolina Newspapers

v -.-. v- r i : 5iiirfjpiA Jew r V1 'V- V 4 - -v. Ir f.M e y c ' PUBLISHED EVERY IV1QN OAAWP THU SDAY -v . u . S' '', i ' 'A-'S GREENSBORO, Hk C, -MON bk VOL. 04 -fJO. 27 ' f.o V .... f. , 5 KKHhll'tt iVA ' . y f I ; - ' , . - - T. . tf , . . .V,,' ... i, W ST -;,n;tir- I Hi " , . f r v v .! f IK III Us)). -ix 1l , ll iL - - LOCAL HEWS ffl BRIEF ..tKHS OF INTEREST TO THE ku. OP THB PATRIOT FAK AND NEAR. ... cminrrv. Mra. M. H. AW Move ( . V- ford and .or Mr. her son-in-iaw ana aaugn ;vnd Mrs. H. E. Ballance, j to tneir bululucj uumo of the city, ana win remain until next fall. east there Bark limine. W" uamulul rnnnectea wiui iuc ueauw i vatnmcr) tft Vli reason. na 1 vc at Smnmerneiu u.uu wm his farming operations. Widen Street. In order to jun1.'' vide' port:- ( .urch street at a point jubi ,.f Hendrix street, the city has m TT T1 " mVii A run-.--'---1 ! from Mi. I. D. U6umu a. . i 1 1 ( f kind lying on tne east Biae strir cf ti.t t!'et-t lor a tuusiuciouuu Spial ScTinon Rev. J. Clyde u,,i Dreach the annual ser- Tu: mi : v,f()It. the members of the rouncil of the United ,v..,n,prcial Travelers at the First :,,Mit ci.urch next SurlcTay morning . n o'clock. In Supreme Court. Appeals from judicial district, the twelfth, ' te argued before the Supreme fyrt tl i week, and a number of . t. Greensboro lawyers will be in ;auiel to look after cases in which t-t-v are interested. Vnticully 111. Miss Rhoda Worth -c cr-.tM-ally ill at her home on South ( elar street, suffering from the ef ytj of a stroke of paralysis. Little ro ,(,p- is entertained for her re nvrrv. Miss Worth was 7 8 years r !d a lev. days ago. Baptist Revival. A revival'meet :z: becur. yesterday at Forest Ave-r.u- Haptist church. Rer. C. E. Mad of Raleigh, who was the first ;.aa-. ' nf the church, will arrive to- l assist ine-pasior, icv. u. k in the services through Ka-ter aatin GreeUBboro Col ;: : .r Women closed Thursday for Kast.-r holidays and will resume jfK to::., : : ., : row. Most of the students ; :.-ir homes for Easter. The or;:ial and Industrial College en' -tat :id : N anv easier aonuaj mio Appointed Delegates. Messrs. rone. A. W. McAlister and W. ii Siit. of this city, are among :ie i- .. .rates appointed by Governor :a;j m, represent North Carolina at r.e rational conference of charities and corrections to be held in Balti-or- Ma 12-15. New Members. The member viip campaign in which the Greens . 'oro V M. ('. A. was engaged in riv alry !!;: the Winston-Salem asso- at:o:; hist week resulted in victory or t Twin City. The Greensboro association added 222 new members :un:iL' the campaign. Hotel Company. A corporation r:r.o v n , ; 'ii pari ;uct ri;. r"ra tors ' f t;.e u ::.!.! W I' the Greensboro Hotel nas been organized to con McAdoo hotel. The incor- are: W. I). McAdoo. one tiers of the property; J. . manager of the hotel, and ummer, the chief clerk. New ire-:.- officers Nev officers of the "ro lodge of Elks were in Kriday night as follows: J. '. exalted ruler; Thomas J. esteemed leading knight; Merrimon. esteemed loyal 1 M. Vanstory. esteemed M i ft r; l ' ; - knight; K. P. Ross, secre " !' N. Taylor, treasurer. sl'!enclici Kevival. Rev. W. O. JOOi pastor jf Spring Garden tliodist church, has return M ore head City, where he 1 revival services in the ' l.odist church of that place a.v. The meeting was very 'On or more professions :i having been made. - in March. During the : March 106 warrants were ' . city police department, ' -t number issued for any IT. being for drunken l' fendants were tried on i retailing whiskey. The nts charged, affrays and ''latum cf the speed laws, tc. I nun Appendicitis. Mr. ! M)k. of PiTot Mouatain, : pencl ii it is Thursday morn-I-eo s hospital, where he a patient for four weeks, uly 19 years old, but was ! "ne of the most energetic v,sive farmers in his ,sec- I I I Cv In c ong: 'ion. i IS survived by his widow i M r- young children, his mother 1 3veral brothers" 'and' sisters. I Grocers Indicted. United States ommls8ioner Collins has issued a warrant for W.L.Hepler & Bro., who are. engaged in the. grocery business in this city, charging them with sell ing oleomargarine without paying the special license tax imposed by the federal government. They will be given a preliminary hearing on the' 14th inst. Fire This Morning. Fire this morning about 10 o'clock at the res idence of Mr. W. N. Barnes, on East Sycamore street, did considerable damage. The fire originated in a room in which a number of mattress es were stored and these were burn ed. The furniture and other house hold effects were badly damaged. The damage to the building is slight. New Hotel Talk. Talk of build ing a new and modern hotel in Greensboro has .been revived. The promoters or backers of the enter prise propose to organize a company with a capital of $200,000, one-half of which is to be subscribed by Greensboro people and the other half by outside capitalists. Sub scriptions to the capital stock are be ing solicited. Fire House on Fire. The home of the Eagle Hose' Company, on South Davie street, came near being de stroyed by fire a few evenings ago. A quantity of hay stored in the loft of the building caught fire in some manner and burned fiercely for some time. The members of the company, with the assistance of other mem bers of the department, extinguished the blaze after some hard work. . Fruit Crop Safe. The experts agree that the fruit crop has -not been damaged by the recent snows and frosts. Doubtless there Wjould have been a different tale to tell had there been any considerable amount of warm weather in Marctu Fruit-growers are anticipating a fine crop this year. Mr. W. N. Hutt, the state horticulturist, says the outlook for a good fruit crop all over the state is encouraging. John D. Hunt Dead. Mr. John D. Hunt, a well known citizen of west ern Guilford, died last Wednesday night at his home at Friendship. He was 7 2 years of age and had been ill for some time. He is survived by his widow and one son, Mr. Charles Hunt, of Friendship, and a half brother, Mr. W. M. Hunt, of Pomona. The funeral and interment took place at Guilford College Friday morning at 1 1 o'clock. To Manufacture Cigars Mr. Sam uel B. Kersey is preparing to open a cigar factory on the second floor of the Maddox Drug Company's build ing. He will operate under the name of the El Reno Cigar Works and will employ several cigar mak ers from the start. Mr. Kersey has had long experience in the cigar manufacturing business. When the new plant is in operation Greensboro will have six cigar factories Ernest Kime Guilty. The trial of Ernest Kime, charged with the mur der of Frank Garner, consumed the last three days of last week in Ran dolph Superior court at Asheboro The case was given to the jury Sat urday afternoon and at 10.30 o'clock Saturday night a verdict of guilty of second degree murder was returned Judge Shaw sentenced Kime to 30 years at hard labor in the state pen itentiary, this being the maximum sentence for second degree murder. Address on Efficiency. Mr. A. W McAlister was the speaker at the general exercises of the Greensboro training school for Sunday school workers Thursday evening. His theme was "Sunday School Efficien cy," and his address was based upon a very exhaustive investigation made by the Sunday school of the First Presbyterian church, of which Mr McAlister is an active member. He is also president of the city train ing school. Mr. McAlister present ed a carefully prepared lecture. Held For Affray. Roscoe Iddings and Oscar Holder, white men, were given a hearing before Justice of the Peace Collins Thursday after noon for engaging in an affray with deadly weapons on March 18. The battle occurred west of the city, and it appeared that rocks, bottles and anything else that came handy were used as weapons. Iddings got the worst of the affair and for several days carried his head around swath ed in bandages as visible evidence that he had been in a fight. After hearing the testimony of eye-wit nesses. Squire Collins held both men for the April term of Superior court Iddings . gave a bond of $50 for his appearance, but Holder was unable to ralse tne 300 bond required of him; r ' Organize Apple Growers The Greensboro Chamber of Commerce Is lending its assistance to the , or ganization of an association Of North Carolina apple growers, the prin cipal object of the organization be ing to provide a distributing point at or near Greensboro for the large amount of apples grown in this sec tion of the state. This movement has the endorsemenJnd support of a large number of apple growers. Killed Himself. A colored man by the name of Seawell, who resided on Susman's alley, either committed suicide or killed himself accidentally at his home yesterday morning. He was sitting on the porch with a pis tol in his hands when the weapon was discharged, the bullet entering his right eye and producing almost instant death. Eye-witnesses of the affair say Seawell was examining the pistol and was looking down the barrel when the weapon fired. The officers who made an investigation believe the revolver was fired acci dentally. For Beating Board Bill. A young man giving his name as C. R. Cotter, with two or three aliases, was ar rested at a local hotel Thursday charged with beating a board bill at a hotel in High Point. It is alleged that Cotter and his wife slipped out of a side entrance of the h6tel in High Point and walked to James town, where they caught a train for Greensboro. The young woman ac companied her husband with the of ficer back to High Point. Friday Cotter was given a hearing in the re corder's court and sentenced to jail for six months. To Build Hospital. Drs. W. P. and C. R. Reaves .are preparing to build a modern and up-to-date hos pital for the exclusive treatment of patients suffering from eye, ear, nose and throat troubles. The burld ing, which will be three stories high and contain about 45 rooms, will be erected on the Tacant lot on West Sycamore street between the Elks Club and the North Carolina Public Service Company's building. The structure will cost something over $3000, and it is understood that it is to be completed and ready for oc cupany by fall. Aged Woman Dead. Mrs. M. E. LedWell died yesterday morning at her home at White Oak, following an illness of pneumonia. She was 70 years old and is survived by one son, H. M. Ledwell, and five daughters Mrs. Lee Wood, of Randleman; Mrs L. D. Mendenhall, of Asheboro; Mrs. E. McLaughen, of Kings Mountain; Mrs. Delia Ransom, of Greensboro, and Miss Lee Ledwell, of Greens boro. The body will be taken to Mrs. Ledwell's forme home at Ran dleman, where the funeral and in terment will take place tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock. To Build Handsome Home. Dr J. L. Kernodle has purchased from the trustees of the West Market Street Methodist church the old par sonage property, on the corner of West Market and North Spring streets, the purchase price being in the neighborhood of $6,500. Dr. Kernodle will remove the old par sonage building from the lot and erect a handsome residence during the spring and summer. The lot has a frontage of 75 feet on West Market and a depth pf 150 feet and is one of the most desirable pieces of residence property in the city. Held For Retailing. Sanborn Roach, a young white man residing in the Hamburg community, was given a hearing before Squire B. E. Jones Friday afternoon on a charge of retailing. The prosecuting wit ness, N. McFarland, testified that he purchased whiskey from Roach near a church while religious services were being conducted, and on this showing the defendant was held for the April criminal term of Superior court under a-bond of $100, which was furnished by his father. Roach denies the allegation vehemently and says it is a frame-up on the part of his enemies. More lilockadlng. Mr. C. M. Jus tice, chief clerk in the internal reve nue agent's office here, says the rev enue men anticipate a considerable increase in the illicit manufacture of whiskey in North and South Caro lina on account of the' anti-jug laws passed by the legislatures of the two states. On the day the law went in to effect in North Carolina the de- fstruction of 16 blockade stills was reported to headquarters in this city. iii very liuuc lue proniDltlon screws are tightened the price of blind tiger liquor goes up, and it is said that blockading is more profitable now than at an? time in tha'past A Unique Donation. Mr. F. nE.1 Tipton, who recently opened a mon ument and .tombstone business ' on the corner of North ' Elm and - East Gaston streetsand who is doing a splendid i business ' has made a uni que donation to the Elks charity fair to be held in Greensboro next week. He. has made the Elks-a pres ent of a $100 monument to-be sold duringrthe fair In addition to lo natingWthe monument, Mr. Tipton will alsp letter it and erect it for the purchaser, at any place in North Carolina.. This is a very liberal do nation, on the part of Mr. Tipton and his gift is highly appreciated by the Elks. ; Suspect Released. After hearing the evidence against Thomas Burns, who was held as a suspect in connec tion y1th;the ppstoffice robberies at West .Durham, Hillsborp and Elon College, United States Commissioner D. H. Collins Thursday ordered his release. Burns wras suspected by reason of the fact that he was in each of the three places about the times the robberies took place. He is a traveling umbrella mender and was arrested on a warrant sworn out by Postoffice Inspector ,R. W. Hod- gin. iNotning was rouna in nis- pos sesion that would seem to implicate him in the postoffice robberies in the slightest degree. Back to the Roads -Leslie Woods, a young white -man better known to the Greensboro public as "Cricket," finished a term of eight months on the roads for larceny last Wednes day and was released from the camp near Colfax. A negro by the name of Rufus Williams was given his lib erty at the same time and the two struck out together in search of ad venture. They found it in the vi cinity of Friendship in the shape of a bountiful supply of corn liquor. Thursday "Cricket" and the negro "borrowed" Charlie Hunt's automo bile and started for Greensboro, in cidentally breaking all the speed laws ever enacted. A telephone mes sageappflsed Sheriff Stafford of their wild flight, and accompanied by Deputy Joe Phipps, the sheriff cranked his trusty Ford and went out to meet the ex-convicts. "Cricket" and his colored companion passed the officers at Muir's chapel and gave them the "high sign" as they went by at 40 or 50 miles an hour. When nearing the city they stopped at Fields' store, where the officers came upon them and placed them under arrest. They were placed in jail to sober up and Friday after noon were given a hearing before Squire Collins for driving an auto mobile at a reckless speed while in toxicated. The squire fined "Cricket" $10 and costs'and the negro $50 and costs. Of course neither had the price and both were sent back to the roads to work it out. Converts Cost $2.93 Each. A dispatch from Philadelphia to the New York Sun says: With $53,127.70 donated in free-will offering to Billy Sunday by Philadelphia and $62,650 collected to pay the expenses of conducting the campaign, what each trail hitter cost, reduced to dollars and cents, is $2.93. The converts gathered in the eleven weeks battle against sin by the baseball evangelist numbered 39,493, as shown by revised figures Of th'e money contributed solely for the private purse of Sunday, $5,312 77 will be deposited in a bank at Warsaw, Ind., for the fund known as God's tenth: Against this fund both Billy and Ma check for charit able purposes that they personally investigate. This leaves Sunday's individual honorarium $47,815.93. Based on eleven weeks work it nets Billy a salary equal to $4,346.81 a week Sunday's yearly labors usually ex tend over a period of forty weeks If he receives a sum in every city where he campaigns equal to what the Quaker city dbnated his yearly income would be $173,870.40. Dominicans Are Punished. Washington, April 2. Difficulties over financial affairs of the Domini can republic were brought to a head today when the United States cut off the allowance of $2,000 a day which the Dominican government has been permitted recently to draw from its customs reserve funds to meet a de ficit in current expenditures. Notice from the state department of this step brought prompt action by officials of the island republic They- cabled they would dispatch to Washington immediately a special commission to confer with Secretary Bryan: in an effort to readjust the (ftituatioh. e. g. sherrml appointed Bounty tax assessor. Mr. EVG. Sherrill has been ap pointed by the state tax commission tax assessor for .Guilford county and .will enter upon the duties of the po sition May 1, when the work of as sessing and listing property for tax ation will begins. His term, of office will continue during the assessment, listing and. equalization of property for taxation, which will require 60 or 90 days. His compensation will be $4 ; a day and expenses when away from home on business for the coun ty. It will be Mr, Sherrill's duty to see to it that all the real nd per sonals property in the county gets on the tax books at a fair and equitable valuation. He will meet with the township list-takers and assessors at the court house in- Greensboro the first Monday in May for a general discussion' of the work,' and he will also spend at least one day with the list-takers in each township. This is reassessment year arid it is expected that the - property 'valua tions in Guilford will show a healthy increase. A special effort will be made to get all the property on the books and to equalize the assess- ments something that has not been done in the past. While it is not planned to raise the assessment on property that is taxed at what is considered a fair rate, property that is assessed too low will be raised. If this is done, and personal property that has been escaping taxation is put on the books, it is believed that the increase in Guilford's valuation will be the greatest ever known. Heretofore the list-takersand as sessors have, been members Tf the board of equalization, but under the law passed by the legislature the county commissioners alone consti tute the board. The board of equal ization will meet in every county in the state on the second Monday in July. . .. The township list-takersLand-as sessors will be appointed by the county commissioners at their meet ing Monday. The law leaves the fix ing of the compensation of the list- takers and assessors in the " hands of Uje county commissioners, but stipulates that it shall not exceed $3 a day. Following are the assessors ap pointed for the adjoining counties: Alamance, S. H. Webb; Rockingham, WilHam Young; Randolph, E. ' L. Moffitt; Forsyth, Z. T. Bynum; Dav idson, J. W. Lambeth. Preferred That Robbers Have His Money. Newark, N. J., April 2. When four masked men gathered $1,000 in real money from the pockets of Joseph DiGanel, nianager of a bak ery at No. 918 Bergen street, early this morning he chuckled and said: "Well, my wife didn't get it." DiGanel was busy at the bakery after the men under' him had gone for the .day, when there came a rap on the door. He paid no attention to the rap, and it wtas repeated with a call of "Joe." He opened the door, and the masked men rushed in. One rapped him on the head with the butt of his revolver. A coat was then tied about his head and his clothing searched and the $1,000 in cash was lifted. They then ran out and Di Ganel managed to get the coat off his head and give an alarm, but the men disappeared. When questioned by the police as. to why he had such a sum of money on his person, DiGanel explained that he was under bonds to support his wife and was afraid to put the money in a bank lest she learn he had it and try to get a portion. The only satisfaction he seemed to get was that his wife would not get any of it now. f Gamps Worse Than Hell. "I would rather spend four years in hell than four years in a turpen tine camp," declared Len F. Greer, associate member of the Alabama board of convict inspectors, in de scribing to the legislative investi gating committee conditions in the turpentine camps of south Alabama. Greer said that he would mend that all contracts for lease of state convicts to ' persons operating in south Alabama be canceled. He declared' tasks were too heavy r and hours too long. Prof. Samuel H. Hodgin, presi dent of Wilmington ; College, Wil mington, O., is: vfeiting -relatives and friends in the city and county. BIGGEST SHOW III TEH YEARS STORM RAGED THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT AND UNTIL AFTER :". NOON SATURDAY. The oldest inhabitant is not old. enough to remember when such a snowstorm as that of Friday night and Saturday visited Greensboro and this section of country at this season in the past. The snow was not only the heaviest of the year, but it is said that such a fa.il of the "beauti ful" has not been seen here for at least en years. The snow began falling shortly af ter 9 6'clock Friday night and con tinued almost without interruption until after noon Saturday. It, was a full grown snowstorm from the start, and at times the flakes fell in almost blinding fury. Police officers and others who were out Friday nighjt say they never saw it snow harder than it snowed for an hour or two after midnight. Saturday morning the ground was covered to... a depth of about eighth inches,1 andhad it not been for the fact that the snow followed a rain of about six hours that had thoroughly soaked the ground) the depth would have been much greater. A prettier snow was never seen here. There was practically no property damage and the absence of extreme temperature prevented any suffering on account of the storm: The lowest temperature recorded at . the local station of the weather bureau was 36 degrees. The snow began to melt Saturday afternoon, , and when the warm sun came out yesterday morn ing it went away in a hurry. Storm Was General. The snowstorm was general throughout North Carolina and along practically the whole Atlantic seaboard from Maine to Florida. Raleigh seems to have been the cen ter of the worst of the storm in this , 9tate: JriyBtwoyieet fsaow- feli,. tne?e " arid 'ir was accompanied b a wind that at times reached a veloc ity of 60 miles an hour. A number of houses were wrecked and the streets were filled with a tangle of poles, wires and trees. Miles of tel ephone, telegraph and power lines went down. The plant of the Carolina Light and Power Company was put out of commission, and Saturday night Ral eigh and a number of other towns were without electric lights or pow er. No loss of life from the storm has been reported in the state, although a - number of persons suffered in juries. The storm was especially severe in Norfolk' and vicinity and resulted in much property, damage. In Rich mond three men and six horses were killed by coming in contact with live electric wires borne down by the weight of the snow. The snowfall in Philadelphia was 19 inches and in New York it was 9 inches. ' No Wheat Trust Found. Charles F. Cryne, United States district attorney at Chicago, who has been investigating the cause of in crease in the price of wheat, confer red in Washington Friday with At torney General Gregory and G. C. Todd, the assistant In charge of anti trust prosecutions. It was said after the conference that so far no evidence had been dis covered to indicate the existence of any combination or corner arbitrar ily to force up' the price. The inquiry has tended to strengthen the belief of the attorney general that the great factor in the rise was the un usual demand for wheat abroad and the speculation to be expected as a consequence. Secretary Garrison Not a Prohibi tionist. When Secretary of War Garrison was interviewed in Washington the other day on the subject of prohibi tion in the army, he said he was so busy planning a reorganization of the -country's military defenders that he had not even considered what he would "prohibit" when he had brought the army up to what he recom-ythought its proper size To intro duce a dry order into the army regr ulations at present, Mr. Garrison said, "would be like taking a bottle from a baby." v. Messrs. Word H. Wood, of Char lotte: .and spent yesterday in the city with','iheir - parents, Ma4ana'rtrs.W.y.'vyV::W66,d I I ; :'Ki' f -t 'A . m fa i .V?:! ' t r t I K,: v.'.r M 'V . 4 m -'.C '. " '.;- i. V S'J: I" c - - f-