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GREEWSDORO, N. C, MONDAY, JU WE 7, 1015
VOL. 04 no.. 40
LOCAL NEWS IH b. 'ORil
.rATTRRS OF INTEREST t0v
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FAR AND NEAR.
job Again. Jim West, the
On t!:e
lotorer
who has had
've ' refreshment
stand
X.
rrd fourth of July celebrations
lor many years, is on the job again
ih Death of Infant George Minitree,
.lp -months-old son of Mrs. J. P.
Minitree, died yesterday morning.
1 funeral was heYd from the home
his morning at 11 o'clock and inter
l tnt made in Greene Hill cemetery.
iL Minitree's. husband died in a
sanitarium at Laurel, Md. about ten
da?wogCourts on Hand. Terms of
ljoth Federal and Superior courts
re convened in Greensboro this
morning. The Federal couj-t will
tmUe until the business is dispos
ed of, but the Superior court, which
is for the trial of civil actions, will
last only through the week. It will
be followed next week by a criminal
?erm.
, Too Much Liquor. James Modhn,
u white man of Jamestown, was ar
rosted Saturday by Deputy Sheriff
Guy on the charge of having in his
possession an unlawful quantity of
vhiskey to-wit, a suitcase full,
Avhich he is said to nave , brought
v.-ith him from Lvnchburg. He is to
lj'e given a hearing before a magis
trate in this city tocay.
Music Building. Plans are un
der consideration for the music
building it is hoped to erect at
Greensboro College for Women to
care for the needs of the large and
growing music department of that
institution. The tentative plans as
agreed upon call for a building con
taining an auditorium with a seat
ing capacity of 8 00, 30 practice
rooms, several studios, a director's
room and two society halls.
A New Church. A Presbyterian
church has been organized at Pleas
ant Garden with a charter member
ship of 20. Rev. Dr. E. C. Murray,
pastor of Alamance church, has been
holding services at Pleasant Garden
for several months preparatory to
the organization of the congrega
tion. The Baptists also are talking
of establishing a church at Pleasant
Garden. Heretofore the field has
been occupied exclusively by the
Methodist denomination.
Memorial Services. A large
crowd attended the memorial ser
vices at Hines' chapel yesterday. Ser
vices were held at 11 o'clock in the
morning and again at 1.30 in the af
ternoon. Children's day exercises
were held in the forenoon and in the
afternoon a sermon was preached
by Rev. W. C. Wicker, of Elon Col
lege. The Woodmen of the World
conducted a memorial service over
the grave of Mr. George N. Wyrick,
a de eased member of the' order.
Receivers Named. Upon the pe
tition of attorneys for. the creditors,
Judge T. J. Shaw, sitting in cham
bers in this city, Friday afternoon
appointed receivers for the Gold
Hold Consolidated Company, which
has been operating gold and copper
mines at Gold Hill, Rowan county,
under the management of Walcer
George Newman. Charlie Mont
gomery, of Gold Hill,, and Fred W.
Downs, of Salisbury, were named as
receivers. The mines are closed down.
Closing Exercises. The closing
exercises of the Jamestown high
school, which closed two weeks ago,
ere held Friday night in the Metho
dist church at Jamestown." An inter
ring address was delivered by Mr.
Thorn well Haynes, superintendent of
the High Point graded schools, and
diplomas were presented to the six
Members of the graduating class by
Mr- E. j. Coltrane, principal of the
school. The graduates are: Nettie
Groome,0 Vivian Hay worth, Bertha
Hay worth, Berta Cook, Rennie Gib
bons, Nervie Williard and Van
Wheeler.
Farmer Acquitted. Squire D. H.
Ulil-is baturday heard a charge of
agrancy brought against Henry Par-
oi the Colfax section Of the
OUntV. The warrant woe awnrn rnt
by
a neighbor, J. Q. Farrington, who
.es"' ed that Parrish was not provid
es for his family and was starving
-jr&es and cows. A large num-
(i people from Friendship and
River townships were present
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' messes. After hearing the evi
ence Squire Collins concluded that
Prosecution was malicious and
axed Mr. Farrington with the costs,
Mrs. R. p. Dicks Dead. Mrs.
Robert P. Dicks, formerly of Ran die
man and- Greensboro, died Friday
night in New York, where the family
has resided for the past few years.
She had been ill about a week and
the news' of her death came as a
great shock to friends here. She is
survived by Tier husband , who is con
nected with the New York office of
the Hunter Manufacturing and Com
mission Company, and three young
children. Prior to her marriage
Mrs. Dicks was Miss Lydia Lee, of
Sumter, S. C. and the funeral and
interment took place in that place
yesterday.
Mr. Harold Leaves. Rev. Earl
J. Harold has resigned his position
as secretary of the Social Welfare
League and left a few days ago with
his family for his former home in
Indiana. Mr. Harold came to
Greensboro some years ago as the
successor of Rev. Stephen Myrick
pastor of the Asheboro Street
Friends church. After serving the
congregation a while he retired
from pastoral work and became sec
retary of the Greensboro Inter
Church Association, which later was
merged into the 1 Social Welfare
League. His successor has not been
announced. . 11
For Liaw Library. The Greens
boro lawyers at different times have
discussed the Question Qf establish
ing and maintaining a law library
for the benefit of such members nf
th w mi ,aro tr,
ganization, and two or three years
ago the matter was carried to the
point of procuring a charter from
th"e state. The attorneys are agitat
ing the question again, and it ap
pears that an effort is to be made to
perfect an organization under the
existing charter. A library to be
used in common would save the law
yers much money every year in the
purchase of books for their individ
ual libraries.
May Move Station. A representa
tive of the postoffice department was
in the city a few days ago investi
gating the advisability of moving the
parcel post terminal station from the
Hiiffines building, near the depot, to
the postoffice building. The people
at the postoffice, who are badly
crowded now, are unable to see how
their working quarters could ac
commodate another force of men and
several additional tons of mail mat
ter a day, but it is possible that those
higher up may not agree with this
view. The postoffice department
people want to move the station in
order to save the rental of the quar
ters now occupied.
Water For Whiskey. in Munici
pal court Saturday Charlie Smith,
colored, was given a sentence of
four months on the city streets for
selling a pint of water to a white
man named Pegram. Thfc white man
gave the negro the money to pur
chase whiskey, and the liquor not
being accessible ad the negro desir
ing to hold on to the coin, he filled
a bottle with plin water and pass
ed it off for new corn whiskey. The
white man squealed to the police and
the negro's arrest followed. In
passing, sentence Judge Brown an-
nounced that he had little sympathy
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witn tue prosecution m sucn cases,
but under the law tne defendant was
guilty of obtaining money under
false pretense. )
Aid For Serbians movement
for the relief of the people of Ser
bia has been taken up by a number
of the ladies of Greensboro who rec-
ognize the need of these people, and
especially in the matter of clothing,
Owing to the epidemic of typhus in
Serbia, a. great deal of clothing has
been burned, this being a step to.
prevent the spread of the terrible
disease. It is stated that the need
for new clothing is very great, and it
is pointed out by those behind the
movement here that aid for the Ser-
bians now may really be aid Tor this
country since medical men have ex-
' m
pressed fears Of the plague being
transmitted to America. All who de-
sire to contribute to this cause are
asked to send packages to the Y. W.
C. A. rooms.
Fruit Crop Short.
The fruit crop in North Carolina
Will be only forty per cent, normal,
according to figunes compiled by
State Horticulturish W. N. Huttfrom
six hundred reports through the
msv.int-afn niaHmnnt pno ata 1 and
sandhill sections of" the - state. Theof the otner members of the family
cause of the shortage in the crop
appears to be the pear blight, which
is general not only through North
Carolina, but other st&tes in the
South.
J. C. WBARTOH DIES SUDDENLY
PASSED AWAY WHDELE ON VISIT
IN SALISBURY FUNERAL
THIS AFTERNOON.
Mr. John C. Wharton, one of Guil-
ford's oldest and best known citi-
zens, died suddenly Saturday night
in Salisbury, to which place he had
gone Thursday on a visit to two of
his daughters, Mrs. S. C. Smith and
Miss Lizzie Wharton. There was no
premotion of the end, death com
ing quietly and peacefully, as befit
ted the closing of a long, well-spent
and serene life. Mr. Wharton ap
peared to be in his usual health and
good spirits and during the after
noon had taken a stroll on the streets
of Salisbury. During the evening he
went to the bathroom to take a bath
preparatory to retiring for the night,
and when he failed to leave the room
a'fter an interval of some time, his
daughters made an investigation and
round nis dead body reclining in a
chair.
Accompanied by members of the
family and several friends, the body
was brought to Greensboro yester
day morning and carried to the resi-
dence of Mr. E. P. Wharton, a son of
the deceased.
The funeral is to be held from
Westminster Presbyterian church
this afternoon at 5 o clock. The
services will be in charge of Rev. C
K- Hodgin, the pastor, who will be
assisted by Rev. Dr. Melton Clark,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church; Rev. R. Murphy Williams,
pastor of the Church of the Cove
nant, and Rev. Dr. Byron Clark, of
Salisbury. Interment will be made
in the family plot in Greene Hill
cemetery. ,
Mr. Wharton was in the ninety-
second year of his age, having been
born' in the Alamance church com
munity September 27, 1823. He was
married in 1844 to Miss Rebecca
Rankin. Mr. Wharton settled on a
farm a short distance northeast of
Greensboro, where he remained until
he retired from active business. For
many years lie had made his home in
mis ciiy wiin me iamiiy or nis son,
Mr. E. P. Wharton.
Early in life Mr. Wharton connect-
ed himself with the Presbyterian
church, of which denomination he
was a faithful communicant until
death. He had been a ruling elder
in the Presbyterian church for '52
years, having been elected to that
high office in 1863, while a member
of the First Presbyterian church of
this city.
He transferred his mem-
bership to Westminster Presbyterian
church upon the organization of that
congregation and was one of the first
men chosen as an elder of that
church.
Mr. Wharton was a most compan
ionable man and retained an active
interest in the affairs of life until'
the end. He grew old only in vears:
his spirit remained youthful.
Mr. Wharton is survived by four
daughters and three sons, who are:
Mrs. W. B. Ratcliff, of Marion; Mrs.
W. H. Graves, of Glou oestMV Mrs
S. C.
Smith and Miss Lizzie Whar-
ton. Of Salishurv? Moaai-a T7! r
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Wharton, of Greensboro; Jesse R.
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liam S. Wharton, of Newberg, Ore.
TOMBSTONES STOLEN FROM
PLEASANT GARDEN GRAVE.
Occasionally one hears or reads of
ghouls entering a cemetery and rob-
ring a grave of a dead body or steal-
ing jewelry from a recently buried
corpse, but in all the history of
I graveyard robberies we believe it
j remains for Guilford county to nro-
I vide the scena for tho thf o rmK
stone two of them, in fact
I There is a erave in a famiiv
Jin the cemetery at Pleasant Garden
that formerly was marked bv neat
stones at the head and foot that faow
has nnthine tn do.?notn tt,a n,ma Af
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the person sleeping beneath the sod.
it is said the stones were removed
in the ni chit-time rMAntiv an? AHt..r
deatroved or senrotori r Mo.
has it that they were7 carried awav to
a secluded spot and buried.
Naturallv the Rtrano nwn,nM
mqv WSV A V1AVV
has created more or less talk in the
communitv. Ther ia a nrattv mnii
defined idea as to why the atones
were removed and who directed the
work of removal.
The tftTtihsfriTiAfl vor Tw cr-wa ttqh
were left unmolested.
Mr. J. F. Gossett, of southern
Guilford, favored The Patriot with aJ
pleasant call Friday.
BATTLE OH GAUGIAH FROHT
TEUTONS THE AGGRESSORS ON
NEARLY THE WHOLE OF THE
FIGHTING LINE. , 4
A great battle, with the Austro- j
Germans nearly everywhere the ag-
gressors, is raging along the whole
of the Galician front and a decisive
conclusion to the entire Russian
campaign in Galicia is in sight, ac
cording to a report from Austrian
field headquarters.
Przemysl is said to have been
cleared of Russians and the Musco
vite forces are reported to be in re
treat istward, except one band,
which is making a stand on heights
southwest of Medyka, which the Aus-
tro-Germans are attac?ving. To the
south of Przemysl an Austrian army
has broken through the Russian line
and is advancing on Mosciska on the
railway line leading from PrzemysJ
to Lemberg.
In the Stry region Vienna advices
say thei Russians are in full retreat
while on the Pruth line Russian at
tacks have been repulsedith severe
losses; - ,
un uie western front Berlin re-
ports the recapture of most of the
trenches lost to the French in the Lf
Petre forest and also a defeat of the
British near Givenchy. Heavy losses,
it is declared, were iniiicted on the
British.
Field Marshal Sir John
French,
commander-in-chief of the British
forces, in reporting on this latter
movement, says the British had oc-
cupied the German trenches during
the night, but were unable to hold
them after daylight. The Teutons,
according to General French, are
maintaining a heavy bombardment
on the British trenches at Kooge.
Paris, chronicles progress for the
allies nrth of Arraa, rne capture of
a trench at Souchex and the repulse
of a German counter-attg ck at Neu-
ville St. Vaast. In this region Paris
claims a gain of about r00 feet.
Farther east the. Germans are said
to have tried ineffectively to shell
VerduuwifhV a single long range ?un
au ctiu tu nave imuwu iew piu-
iectiles at St. Die, while the French
have bombarded the southern front
of the entrenched camp at Metz.
Fighting on the Austro-Italian
frontier has not assume! great pro
portions, although the Austrians re
port the capture from the Italians
of two summits on the east ridge of
Kreuzberg. Battles are in progress
on
the Carinthian frontier and in
coastal district near Karf reit.
Italian reports say that the mobi-
lizatioh of Italy's forces is now com-
Plete. It is added that, although the
encounters with the Austrians thus
far have been merely outpost skir
mishes, they invariably have report
ed Italian successes and given the
Italians advantageous positions on
Austrian territory.
German submarines are still show
ing much activity. The Danish steam
er Cyrus, the British steamers Iona
and Inkum and the fishing steamer
Chrysophrasus and a trawler have
been sent to the bottom. The crews
of all the vessels escaped, although
two of x the Iona's men are said to
have been seriously and two slightly
wounded by shells from a submarine
as they were launching the boats pre
paratory to leaving the steamer.
Defeat For Turks.
A report from London says the al-
Mes, in their offensive on the Galli-
I PU peninsula, captured and .held
two lines of Turkisk trenches along
I a front of nearly three miles. In
Mesopotamia the British forces have
I received from the Turks the surren - -
der of Amara and taken more than
2,000 prisoners, 13 guns, a gunboat,
barges and steamers. The pursuit of
the Turks, who were dispersed into
I the marshes, continues.
I As in all trench warfare, the allies
found their ppnpri advance on the
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I Gallipilo peninsula hindered through
the inability of part of their force to
I penetrate wire- entanglements which
artillerv fire had nnt miff icifentlv de-
stroyed. This left other sections of
the force open to an enfilading fire
and therefore nart of the eround
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gained had to be given up. Some al-
I so was lost whpn th Turks counter -
attacked.
A gain of 500 yards on a front of
three miles in this sort of fighting,
I however, in rnnairlprpH aatisfactorv
by the British, particularly as it in-
duced the Turks to counter-attack,
in which they suffered .heavy losses.
Rumania in Crisis.
Rumania is goln through a crisis
similar to that experienced by, Italy
before the latter country entered the
war. Those who favor neutrality and
those who jayor war are hoiding de.
monstrations at Bucharest, where
political parties are setting into
shape to put forward their views.
The general opinion in London is
lhat Rumania will ioin the
allies
when Italy gives the woid and that
Bulgaria will follow her lead.
With the king of Greece suffering
a relapse and in a serious condition, ernmenVs conduct of maritime war
no immediate change in the attitude fare as affecting neutrals. Compara
of that country is expected. tively brief, but described as insis
GREENSBORO BOY HELD ON
FALSE PRETENSE CHARGE
Forrest Wysong, a son of Mr. and
Mrs. O. C. Wysong of this city, and
a student at the North Carolina Col
lege of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts during the session iust closed,
was given a hearing before a magis-
trate in Raleigh Thursday afternoon
undefihe charge of obtaining money
by false pretense. He was held for
the next criminal term of Wake Su
perior court under a bond of $200.
It appears that young Wysong,
who is of a mechanical turn of mind,
conce ved the idea of building a fly-
ing machine, and not being possessed
of the necessary funds, induced
Stenhen C. Bruner. of Raleierh. to in-
vest $500 in the venture. The ma-
chine was to be used for exhibition
purposes and Mr. Bruner was to
share in the profits. The machine
was built in one of the shops at the
a. & M. College and when it was
completed the college authorities,
acting, it is said, upon the sugges-
tion of Wysong's father, would not
permit the young man to operate it.
Lawrence Hutton, a son of Rev.
j. R. Hutton, and Harry Wharton, a
son of Mr. H. W. Wharton, were in-
terested with young Wysong in the
flying machine venture, but they are j
not implicated in the lez&l proceed-
iners further than beira summoned
as witnesses.
- The prosecution largely bases its
charge bf false pretense against
Wysong vpen'the allegation that the
Wootianiar .while conferring,;, witl.i
;r. urumir us io me investment or
the S500. stated that a similar sum
had been deposited in one of the
Greensboro banks for the venture by
Mr. H. W. Whar.on. the father of
one of his assoc. atey
MOST GENEROUS OFFICER
OF THE LAW ON RECORD.
It is pretty well understood that
Sheriff Stafford has a big-hearted
and accommodating set of deputies.
They are usually willing to do any-
thing in their power to make the
way of the transgressor as smooth
as possible, and not one of them has
ever been acc.used of gloating over
the rr.!sfcrtunes of a fellow being.
They have been known to sit up all
night with a man under arrest (for
a consideration, of course) to keep
him from being locked up; but one
of these deputies capped the climax
Friday when . he went down in his
pocket to the extent of $52 to keep
a man out of jail
The man under arrest was charged
with passing worthless checks, and
he didn't deny the charge, and as it
I was the fourth or fifth time he had
been headed for the Guilford county
jail recently always escaping im
prisonment by the skin of his teeth
I it appeared to be a perfectly safe
bet that he would board with Jule
Dillon for a few days this time.
! The man was arrested just about
1 dinner time and asked Sheriff Staf
ford for a little grace before being
locked up. This was agreeable to
the sheriff, who went to his dinner
I while the prisoner was left in his
office in the cunstody of the officer
who had made the arrest. When the
sheriff returned from dinner there
was no prisoner in the office, and
upen inquiry he ascertained that one
I of the deputies had "softened" to
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the man and put up the money to
square the charge against him.
Sheriff Stafford is expecting to see
this particular man under arrest
again almost any day, but he says
l he has almost despaired of ever see-
I ing him in jail, where he ought to be.
I
l Enemies Work Toeether.
The Charlotte Observer says that
a German from the ship tied up in
Wilminaton harbor and a Belgium
I who made his escane from Antwerp
when that place was shelled, are at
J work in peaceable compi.nionsoip at
I the North Carolina town of War
saw, in Duplin county. Cne is a
notei porter ana me oiner aoeu gen-
eral jobs.
REPLY TO THE. GERU All NOTE
DEMANDS TO KN V DEFINITELY
IF RULES OF WARFARE ARE
TO BE OBSERVED.
President, Wilson read to his cabi-
nent Friday the draft of a note to be
sent to Germany demanding ad-
herence to the humane, principles of
international law in the German gov-
tent and emphatic, the communica-
tion will be cabled not later than
today and probably will be delivered
to the German foreign office tomor
row. The cabinent approved the note
-a mmmm 1 9 -9
as a wnoie. rne principle is iixea
and unalterable that the United
States must know definitely and
promptly whether Germany intends
to ignore visit and search rights and
continue torpedoing vessels with-
out warning, or whether rules or
maritime warfare which have gov
erned for centuries will be followed.
The alternative course is not stat
ed, but it is generally known that the
United States, in the event of an un
favorable reply, will discontinue
diplomatic relations with Germany.
The note sets aside as irrelevant
all contentions of the German reply
except one whether the Lusitania
was armed and restates the posi-
tion taken by the United States pre-
yiously that the Lusitania, after of-
fical investigation by competent in-
spectors? sailed from an American
port with no guns aboard. It further
calls Germany's attention to the fact
that the Lusitania dd not attempt
resistance but Was torpedoed without
warning.
The arrival of a communication
from the German government Friday
expressing regret for. the attack off
the American steamer Gulfight, of-
fering to pay indemnity as soon as a
claim is presented and details ar
ranged, and making a further pro
mise to take into cosideration any
facts which the United States may
l have on the dropping of bombs by
i .emmeu utwu -rrfc'v'ou
steamer Cushmg, made unnecessary
any discussion of these cases in the
new note to Germany.
The cabinent meeting lasted two
hours and at its conslusion all the
members had agreed to the principle
set forth in the note. It was stated,
that the sending to Emperor William
by Count Von Bernstorff, the Ger
man ambassador, of Meyer Gerhard,
an attache of the German colonial
office, as special envoy to carry mes
sages from the embassy and to out
line the American
points of view
would not delay the dispatch of the
note.
In German quarters in Washing
ton, it is expected that the German
reply will be withheld until Gerhard
had arrived and explained the situ
ation. This, it is estimated, will
take at least a fortnight as the boat
on wnicn tne envoy saiiea wouia
not bring him to Denmark much
sooner
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
OF THE PAST FEW DAYS.
Deeds transferrins the following
real estate have been fllea in the of-
flee of the register of deeds during
the past few days:
C. C. Wimbish to Ada M. Wimbish,
a'lot in Whitsett, Rock Creek town
ship, $10 and other considerations
Vernon Coble to David S. Coble, '
189.37 acres in Clay township, $3,
684.37. W. J. Edwards to Robert W. Har
rison, 12 acres in Morehead town-
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W. C. Tucker to F. L. Foust, a lot
in Pleasant Garden, Fentress town-
ship, 100 by 385 feet, $1,250.
- "ore to airs. a. ssj. r oranam.
Misses Geneva and Nora Ball, a lot
on ua avenue, city or ureensDoro
I 1500
Julian Milling Company to T. A.
Tannett, 1 1-4 acres in Clay town-
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ugourn urotners Keauy company
to F. F. Baynes, six lots In Summer-
fleld Bruce township, $150.
1 L. H. Hatley to W. A. Wyrick, 32
acres in Madison township, $480.
George W. Pritchett to W. H. Mat-
thews, a lot on Dakota street, city of
Greensboro, 50 by 149 feet, $300
W. A. Aydlette to Guilford Insur
ance -and Realty Company, 75 acres
in Monroe township, $100.
, J. P. Lahning to Lena Dick, a lot
on Fifth avenue, city of Greensboro,
$3,350.
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