North Carolina Newspapers

-r?r --i 0V.M(lunF-. 3j -??a d, a, .SS'-. IhjM Kvdl'i 1 r' I 'f rv' ll ' -7; : " ; ' - " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 1 1 " ,' ' ' 11 - " ' 1 ' 1 1 'iii i -i eSTABLISHED 10?l STATE MbXi C0HYE1ITI0II NORTHT r SP CAROLINA PHYSIC PROGRESS HERk The medical profession ot the is splendidly represented in the S-tv second annual convention of 8 vnrth Carolina Medical Society, vened in thi city Tuesday -hich con jnomiug and nrh today. will be in session Between 400 and caa nhvsicians are in attendance, presenting every section and al- fflost every county of the state. The opening session of the conven tion was called to order in the Orand nPra house Tuesday morning at 10 and was presided over by Dr. t rr t Battle, of this city. After prayer by Rev. Dr. C. W. Byrd, pas tor of West Market Street Methodist chorcli, the visiting physicians were formally welcomed to' the city in a brief but happy address by Mayor Murphy- The response to the ad dress of welcome was by Dr. B. K. Hays, of Oxford. The feature of the opening session vas the address of the president, Dr.. L B. McBrayer, which was of more than ordinary interest to the general public. He laid special stress on the evil of narcotics, saying along this line: 'it affects so vitally the mental and physical health of our people that I feel compelled to bring again the matter to your attention. In doing so I feel that I cannot do better than to refer you to the comprehensive and pointed statement on this sub ject contained in the president's ad dress of Dr. J. M. Parrott last year, found on pages 2 5 and 26 of the pro ceedings of 1914. The records of our insane hospitals show that 50 per cent of the patients are there on ac count of the use of narcotics. We are spending nearly three quarters of a milliond dollars every year caring for those we have there, to say noth ing of the cost of the buildings and grounds, and there are yet? a few hundred insane people in the state who cannot be admitted. for want of room. When it is positively known that we could save $350,000 an nually in the maintenance of our in sane hospitals by stopping the sale of narcotics whiskey, opium, co caine, etc. it would seem that we should do it as an economic proposi tion. Until we do this we should at least make preparation and treat these habitues before they become insane and save them to their family, their friends and the state, and make of them an economic asset instead of a total loss. We are maintaining an ambulance service in the valley be low at sreat cost, rather than spend a few dollars to build a fence along the edge of the precipice to keep our people rrom falling." Dr. McBrayer added that whiskey, opium or cocaine is just as harmful when put up in bottles, labeled pat ent medicines and sold through ad vertisements as it is when it is label ed whiskey and sold in a barroom or labeled opium with the skull and cross-bones displayed on the wrap per and sold through a drug store. "It is high time," said the speak er, "that the religious and all other self-respecting newspapers in our state cut themselves loose from the unholy alliance with patent medi cine frauds." Tuesday afternoon there were symposiums on narcotics and cancer, to hich the public was admitted. These questions were treated from their technical side, but in such a ay that a layman could understand. in the surgery department Dr. John a. Williams, of Greensboro, had charge of the program and pa pers were presented by twenty or ore of the state's leading surgeons. Board of Health Report. Yesterday there was a joint meet in? of the medical society and the state board of health. Dr. W. S. Rankin, secretary of the state board f health, was unanimously re-elected for a term of six years. The report of Dr. Rankin showed increased activities in an depart ments of the state board of health. "c Mate laboratory of hygiene Chr. 1 uweq a gain of 25 per cent in its r0Utine Work nvor that n.t loot voor and 000 n addition distributed 11,006, "nits of diphtheria anti-toxin as i y. 254, 000 the preceding J ear and 137,211 doses of typhoid vaccine as against 30,000 doses the er before. oepartment of education and engineering, whose work it is to in-. teJ"eat and educate the public gener ally in sanitation and hygiene, dls- trilHited last year 47,000 copies of "the. Health. Bulletin every month. It supplied ,31 daily pajers with 162 news, articles and 275 weekly papers with-140" news articles, or, in brief, it published through the state press about one article a day on some time ly subject relating to sanitation and hygiene. y The bureau of vital statistics is that department of the state board of health that does the work of colUfet-1 ing, classifying, and recording the births and deaths of the state ac cording to race, eountj, town and township; and' further classifying deaths according to cause and age. This bureau is the state's barometer. Charts prepared by this department showed that for the first five months of 1915 there were 7,039 more births reported than for the first five months of the year preceding, and 3, 058 more deaths. The death rate and birth rate for the state are 13.4 and 29 respectively as compared with the registration area rates of last year, which were 14.1 and 26. The .report of the bureau of tuber culosis showed that during the year that ended June 1 341 patients had been treated at the sanatorium and that 255 had been returned to their homes either as arrested or improv ed cases--air less dangerous as t?on veyorsvof infection to their families and associates. The work of the bureau for the eradication of hookworm disease ter minated May 1, 1915. Dr. Rankin's report summed up the work of its five years' existence in these figures: Number of North Carolinians exam ined for hookworm infection, 267 999, or one-eighth of the population of state; number found infected, .78, 977; number treated, 95,618; cost of work to counties, $20,394.96; to the state, $15,016.37; to the Rockefeller sanitary commission, $68,653.28; to tal, $104,064.37, or a cost of $1.08 per case treated. On the termination of the hook worm work the bureau of rural sani tation was created. This department has for its work the development of intelligent local self-government in rural sanitation in North Carolina It is following two methods to ac complish its purpose. The first is the employment of the whole time county health officers by the coun ties, while the second is a method known as the unit system of county health work. Several papers were presented at yesterday's sessions of the society on purely technical subjects of no inter est to the public. Young Physicians Licensed. A feature of special interest in connection with yesterday morning's session of the society was the an nouncement of Dr. Hubert A. Roy- ster, secretary of the state board of examiners, of the names of those who had successfully passed the ex amination for license to practice medicine. The examination was taken by 134 candidates, licenses be ihg granted to 105 and 29 failing. Thirty-eight physicians formerly licensed in other states asked for re- cinrocitv license. Thjrty-two ' of these were accepted and six rejected. Two women were among the suc cessful applicants for license. They were Louise M. Ingersoll, of Ashe ville, and Margaret Ca3te Jones, of Goldsboro. Eleven of the young physicians 11 censed are colored men. Three of the successful applicants for license are George B. Robertson, Julius G. Thomas and John E. Por ter, of Greensboro. Frank's Case With Governor. Atlanta, Ga., June 16. The fate of Leo M. Frank was placed finally in the hands of Governor Slaton late today at the conclusion of the hear ing on appeal for commutation of his death sentence. The governor took the case under advisement, with the announcement that he would ren der his decision as soon as possible. It is not expected, however, that this will be before Friday or Saturday at the earliest. Frank is under sentence to be hanged June 22 for the murder of Mary Phagan. Making Cotton Flags. Cotton flags will float over public buildings and from coast guard cut ters and other vessels of the United States treasury department soon. L Tests have just been completed by the deDartment with flags made of American cotton Instead of Imported bunting, and these have showed that cotton flags are serviceable, durable and more economical than . wool bunting. - GUILFORD COUNTY USING NEW ROAD MATERIAL; Guilford county is now using as a road-building material a by-product that was formerly considered worth less. For years, broken and imper fect pieces of terra, cotta that came out of the kilns of the Pomona Terra Cotta Company's factory west of the city have been thrown upon the ground, 'and the accumulation had grown until there was a great pile of the waste material. . A short time ago Mr. W. C. Boren, chairman of the board of county com missioners, who is also president of the Terra Cotta Company, conceived the idea that this waste material might be of some benefit in road building. He gave the county about 500 tons of the material and the con struction force began using it on the road leading west from Spring Gar den street by Pomona and to the Ma sonic home. The engineer of the work on that road pased upon the burned clay as I fit for use to replace rock in the con crete base, and the gift of Chairman Boren meant a saving of approxi mately $250 to the county, after the hauling had been paid for. Crush ed rock costs about $1.25 per ton. Mr. Boren has diccovered now that his broken terra cotta is a valuable by-product. At the time he made the gift, Mr. Boren was not sure that the crushed terra cotta was of any value for that .kind of work and it was regarded as in the nature of an experiment to use it in the road building, an ex periment justified by the opinion of the engineer. T lierefore the road has been laid for a large part with the terra cotta admixture and now Mr. Boren has received a report from an article which is a brief of some inves tigations carried on at the Iowa State College of Engineering and re ported in the Iowa Engineer. It deals with the construction of two reinforced concrete beams one of concrete containing crushed stone and the other of concrete containing fragments of burnt clay in the same uu,Cuui uu4t, proportion. The concrete containing1 4u ... t, , oo the burnt clay at the end of 28 days developed a crushing strength of 1,- 250 pounds per square inch; the crushed stone in the meantime devel oped only 860 pounds. In 38 weeks the burnt clay concrete showed a compression strength of 3,690 pounds per square inch and the crushed stone concrete 2,300 pounds. The burnt clay concrete weighed only 71 pounds per cubic foot and the crushed stone concrete weighed 93 pounds per cubic foot a remark able difference in favor of the burnt clay, as almost always the elimina tion of weight in structure is desir able. Notwithstanding its lightness. the beam made of burnt clay con crete withstood a load of 65.000 pounds placed at the middle of a nine foot span, while the crushed stone concrete beam withstood onlv 47,500 pounds. PROXIMITY AND WHITE OAK MILLS WILL SHUT DOWN. It' is announced that the Proximity and White Oak cotton mills, two of the largest textile plants in the South, will shut down August 1 for an indefinite period of time, owing to the inability of the management to procure further supplies of dyestuffs. .These mills manufacture what Is known as blue indigo denims and use dyestuffs made in Germany ex clusively. Owing to the blockade maintained by England, it is impos sible to ship dyestuffs from Germany, and as the supplies in this country are practically exhausted, many of the mills are facing a serious situ ation. The . Revolution mills, which manufacture outing goods, will con tinue to run for the present, but may find it necessary to shut down, in the fall. The shutting down of the Prox imity and White Oak mills will be a serious matter for the majority of the 12,000 people who inhabit the mill villages north of the city. Many of these people have been employed by the Cones eo-long that they have become a part and parcel of the com munity. Even if they could find satisfactory employment elsewhere, few of them would care to move. Aside from the inconvenience to the help, the closing down of the mills at this time will cause a heavy loss to the owners, since there is a good demand at profitable prices for the class of goods manufactured. III BRIEF FORD my- MATTERS7 OF INTEI1EST TO -.'XHB -IHffAliims OF THE PATRIOT 1 FAR AND NEAR, Back tat Home. Mr.' Thomas C. Hobbs, who has-been engaged in the insurance business in Wilson for sev eral years, has moved his family back 4o Greensboro and expects to reside -here permanently in the future. Doing: Well. -A message received yesterday trom Baltimore stated that Mr. Clarence Scott, who underwent a serious operation in a hospital . in that city Saturday, was doing as well as could be expected. He is not yet out of danger, however. Revival Meeting. A revival meet ing wilt begin at the First Presbyte rian church this evening and con tinue for a week or longer. Rev. Dr. Richard Orme Flinn, of Atlanta, will do the preaching. Services will be held at 8.15 in the morning and 8.30 insthe evening. Ice Cream Supper. The Woman's Betterment Association of South Buffalo will give an ice cream sup per Tuesday night, June 22, at the end of the Asheboro street car line on Randolph avenue. The proceeds will be used for the benefit of the school and the public is cordially invited to attend. v Milloway-Waynick. Mr. O. H. Milloway, the Southern Railway's agent at Benaja, and Miss Bertie Lee Waynick, an attractive and popular young woman of Rockingham coun ty, were married in this city Tuesday afternoon, the ceremony being per formed by Rev. Cr. F. Milloway at his home. Immediately after the cere mony Mr. and Mrs. Milloway left on a bridal trip to New York and Nia gara Falls. Red Men Wedding. A unique and interesting ceremony took place in the hall of the local tribe of Red Men Tuesday night, when Mr. John W. Thomas and Mrs. Jennie Ker- nodle were married in the presence of the members who had assembled for the regular weekly meeting. The ceremoywas performed bv R E kaJ: Andrews, -senior Ragamore, according to the ritual of the order. Mr. Thom as is 71 and his wife 61 vears of age Died Last Night. Mr. S. J. Smith- erman, the father of Mrs. W. L. Trot ter, of this city, died last night at his nome in Troy. He had been a sufT ferer from rheumatism for some time and this affected his heart. Mr bmitherman was about 60 years old and one . oh the most prominent bus iness men in his section of the state. He was extensively interested in cot ton manufacturing and other busi ness enterprises. He leaves a widow and 12 children. Sunday School RaUy. A Sunday school rally for Jamestown township will be held at the Methodist church in Jamestown Sunday afternoon at 3 o clock. The matter of employing a superintendent of Sunday school work and religious education in the county will be considered along with other subjects relating to better or ganized Sunday schools and more ef ficient teachers. Rev. J. Walter Long, secretary of the North Caro line Sunday School Association, will be' present and make an address. Married Yesterday. Mr. Baxter Lee Fentress, a well known young lawyer of the city, and Miss Julia Miller Blake were married yesterday at noon at the home of the. bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Blake, on West Gaston street. Only rela tives and a few close friends wit nessed the ceremony, which was per formed by Rev. Dr. Melton Clark, pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Shortly after the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Fentress left on a bridal trip to several places of inter est in the North. Miss Phoenix Dead. Miss Rebec ca Phoenix, daughter of Mf. and Mrs. John J. Phoenix, died a few minutes before 2 o'clock this morn ing at St. Leo's hospital. She had suffered from cancer for some time and had been under the treatment of some of the most eminent special ists in that disease in the country. Miss Phoenix was 21 years old and a young woman of many attractive qualities of both mind and heart. She had a wide circle of friends who are grieved over her untimely death. The funeral will take place tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the family residence, on Summit avemue ex tended, and interment will be made in Greene Hill cemetery. The ser vices will be conducted by Rev. Dr. Melton Clark, of the First Presbyte rian church. Hii Dr; ; Byrd . a . Member. Rev. Dr. jPharles W. Byr,' pastor of West Market Street Methodist church,. who has been a member of; the board of trustees of Vanderbilt University, I Nashville, Tenn., for some years, was re-elected for another term, of four years at a meeting of the boards of trust in Nashville his week. Van derbilt, is the university from which the M. E. Church, South, some time ago withdrew, its patronage and sup port following a court decision to the effect that the church did niot fown and consequently could not con trol the institution Offen-Grissom. Dr. Roger L. Of fen, of Stamford, Conn., and Miss Annie Lee Grissom, the youngest daughter of Mrs. W. L. Grissom, were married in West Market Street Methodist church last night at 9 o'clock. The beautiful ring ceremony of the Methodist church was used, the vows being taken before Rev. Dr. C. W. Byrd, pastor of the church, and Rev. Dr. J: H. Weaver, presiding elder of the Greensboro district. The marriage was followed by a recep tion at the home of the bride's moth er,, on West Market street. Dr. and Mrs. Of fen left on a late . train last night on their bridal trip. Mr. Poole's Funeral. The funeral of Mr. E. Poole, whose death was an nounced in Monday's Patriot, was held at West Market Sbeet Metho dist church Tuesday afternoon at 5 o'clock and was attended by one of the largest crowds that has assem bled in Greensboro for a funeral 'in a long while. The services were w conducted by Rev. Dr. C. W. Byrd, pastor of the church, assisted by Rev. Dr. J. H. Weaver, presiding eld er of the Greensboro district, and Rev. H. M. Blair, editor of the North Carolina Christian Advocate. The pall-bearers were: Messrs. Charles, H. Ireland, F. G. Boyle. C 0. Mc Lean, J. G. Foushee, J. M. Harry and J. C. Pierce. Had Good Meeting. The North Carolina Health Officer' Associa tion, which met in annual session in this city Monday, . held what is pro nounced the best meeting in the his - lry V1 W$ MWny- ouu18"'1 vfkal -mteest 1& -connetian-:25Kitbir -.A tory of the organization- Subjects pf health and sanitation were discussed in a practical manner, ind the gen eral tenor of the addresses and pa pers presented" showed that the state as a whole is making marked im provement in public healih work. Of ¬ ficers of the association for the ensu ing year were elected as follows: Dr. D. E. Sevier, of Asheville, president; Dr C. T. Nesbit, of Wilmington, vice president; Dr. George W. Cooper, of the state board of health, secretary. PREFERS PENITENTIARY TO THE GUILFORD JAIL. In the Federal court last week Nunnery King, who was convicted along with Prince Farrington of the charge of operating an illicit distil lery, was sentenced to the Guilford county jail for three months, Far rington drawing a term of 15 months' in the federal penitentiary at Atlan ta. Monday King wrote Judge Boyd a note stating that he would prefer to go along to Atlanta with the other boys and intimating that a sojourn of three months in the Guilford jail held no charms for him. Upon receipt of the note Judge Boyd had King brought before him by a deputy marshal and the pris oner reiterated and emphasized the request made in the note. When in formed by the judge that the short est term to which he could sentence a prisoner in the Atlanta peniten tiary was a year and a' day, King re plied that he preferred that to three months in the Guilford jail. Where upon Judge Boyd ordered the neces sary change in the judgment where by King became an inmate of the great prison in Atlanta that houses all classes of violators of Uncle Sam's laws from all sections of the country. Deputy Marshal Boger and Police Officer Brown left for Atlanta Mon day night with King and the other thrpe prisoners sentenced during the present term of court. The other prisoners are: Prince Farrington. who. is to serve 15 months; Buck Cobbler, a year and a day, and J. M. Morgan, two years. ' . British Navy Loss 1 3,547. London, June 19t Thirteen thou sand five hundred . and forty-seven officers and men of the British navy, including marines and members of the naval division, have been killed or wounded or reported missing from the beginning of the war up to May 31, according to announcement made in London today. . Of this total . 8,- 245 were killed. 7V PROF.' J. ALLEN HOLT DIED AT HOME TUESDAY NIGHT Prof, J. Allen Holt died at his home at Oak Ridge Tuesday evening at 8.15 o'clock, following a lingering illness of Bright's disease. . He. had been in failing health for the , past fire or six. years, but was able to be up the greater part of the time until about a week prior to his death. He was in the sixty-third year of his age and had spent the greater part of his life at Oak Ridge. The funeral and interment take place at Oak Ridge thla-morning at o'clock. The teachers of Oak Ridge Institute will serve as active pall-bearers and the directors of the school as honorary pall-bearers. Sev eral friends from Greensboro went to Oak Ridge this morning to attend the services whicJaare to be con ducted by Rev. Dr. F. T. Tagg, of Baltimore, assisted by Rev. L. W. Gerringer, of Kernersville, and Rev. W, R. Lowdermilk, of Concord. Prof. Holt is survived by his wid owj Mrs. Sallie Knight Holt, and three children Prof. Earle Holt, of Oak Ridge; Mr. Clyde Holt, of Greensboro, and Mrs. Joseph H. Gwynn, of Mt. Airy. Early In rife Prof. Holt became a teacher and for about 40 years was one of the principals of Oak Ridge Institute, being associated with his brother, the late Prof. Martin H. Holt, who died last November. He seryed for a number of years as a member. and chairman of the county board of education and was a mem ber of the state -senate from Guilford f or : one term. He was also a mem ber of the board of trustees of the University of North Carolina. CRIMINAL TERM OF COURT HAS A LIGHT DOCKET. The criminal term of Superior court this week is occupied with the lightest docket that has confronted any term of court here in two or three years. When court convened Monday there were only 60 cases on the-.docket, with 19 prisoners in jail awaiting trial. Following are among -the cases disposed of : " "y L. M. Hinson, white, retailing not guilty. Tom Patterson, white, retailing; $200 -and costs. Will Beatie, negro, assault with a deadly weapon, 18 months. Effie Thomas, negress, retailing, costs. Will Wray, negro, carrying con cealed weapon and assault with a deadly weapon, no sentence, but con victed. Henry Wylie, negro, assaul with a deadly weapon, guilty. No sentence. John Doggett, negro, carrying a concealed weapon, $20 and costs. Willis Donohue, negro, carrying a concealed weapon, $20 and costs. Riley Patterson, negro, carrying a concealed weapon, two months in the work house. Riley Patterson and Allen Steed, negroes, larceny, six months each in the work house. Will Simpson, negro, carrying a concealed weapon, $20 and costs. Ed Smith, negro, guilty of break ing and entering. James Joyce, negro, guilty of lar ceny and receiving stolen goods. Levy Austin, negro, guilty of car rying concealed weapon. Robert Hanner, white, guilty of larceny. Tom West, white, $100 fine and costs for retailing. Cash Register Conviction Void. The United States Supreme court Monday refused the government's application for a writ of certiorari in the cash register case, in which the conviction of John H. Patterson and 24 officials of the National Cash Register Company, of Dayton, O., under the criminal sections of the Sherman anti-trust law had been ob tained in the United States District court in Ohio, only to be reversed by the Circuit Court of Appeals sitting at Cincinnati. The Supreme court's decision is re garded as having far-reached Impor tance, inasmuch as it is felt that if the court's action indicates its opin ion in regard to the enforceability of the criminal sections of the law, and is not based entirely on some techni cal statutory considerations, it may have the effect practically of reading those sections out of the law. The decision drew attention again to the view, which has' developed among government officials recently, that a wave of judicial sentiment against the strict enforcement of the Sherman law. is sweeping the country. "' f '' ' . x X'' - v 4- V . 1 1. ''"J -V'v; .SI 4 4".