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Home. Mr. Robert Scott,
nf Mr. and Mrs. w. a. ocom
!i0 has held a position with a fire
nsurance company in Detroit Mich.,
7nr the past few years, has returned
home and taken a position with the'
msu'ance agency of W. B. Merrimon.
Aoed Woman Dead. Mrs. Martha
Brittain, an aged and well known
woman of the Guilford College sec
tion died at her home Monday night
at 9 o'clock. She was 80 years of.
age The funeral and interment took
place at Hickory Grove church yes
terday morning at 11 o'clock.
Mill Point Picnic. The annual
Fourth of July picnic of the Wo
man's Betterment Association of the
"Vlill Point school will be held at
Mill Point Saturday, July': 3T Re
freshments will be served through
out the day and everybody ' is cor
dially invited to attend.
Curtis-Pugh. Announcement is
made of the mariage of Mr. John A.
Curtis, of Climax, and Miss Lilly
p,,rv, of Randolph countKi?ta thiir
city last Sunday morning at 9 o'clock,
The ceremony was performed by Rev,
Shufor Peeler, of the First Reformed,
church. ' j '!
Mr. Reece's Condition. The con
dition of Mr. J. M. Reece, editor of
the Daily Record, who has been ser
iously ill for the past few -weeks, re
mains practically unchanged. He, is
partially paralyzed,- but is not en
tirely helpless. His friends earnest
ly hope for more cheerful news from
his bedside.
Wilson-Truitt. Mr. Archibald P.
Wilson and Miss Zbra Truitt, both of
this city, were married yesterday af
ternoon at 1.30 o'clock at the par
sonage of the First'. Baptist church,
the ceremony being performed by
Rev. J. Clyde Turner. They left im
mediately after the ceremony for a
week's bridal trip. -A.
Elks to Chaplotte.Abtut 50
members of the Greensboro lodge of
Elks left shortly after noon today for
Charlotte to attend the state conven
tion of the order, which, will be held
in the Queen City this afternoon, to
night and tomorrow. An effort will
be made to have the convention held
m this city next year.
New Business. The Glenwood
Mercantile Company has been organ
ized to conduct a "store in Glenwood,
the southwestern suburb of the city.
The company has been chartered by
the secretary of state with an au
thorized capital of $5,000, the incor
porators being Dr. W. C. Ashworth,
E. E. Mendenh'all and M. D. Stout.
Caldu ell-Forester. Mr. . E. C.
Caldwell, a well known young trav
eling man of this city, and Miss
Helen Forester were married Tues
day at noon at the home .;of the
bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs,-J. C.
Forester, on Chestnut street. The
ceremony was performed by Rev. Dr.
W. Byrd and was followed by a
wedding reception.
ot P. Officers. The following
officers of Greensboro Lodge No. 80,
anights of Pythias, have been elect
ed for the ensuing term: (J. M.
ntchett, chancellor commander;
w- C Snyder, vice chancellory H. W.
Sinclair, prelate; P. D. Kerner, mas
nnance; N. R. Hodgin, master
f work; R. b. McLennon, master of
arms; Rev. c. E. White, inside
guard: j. b. Pleasants, outside
guard.
liamsh Illiteracy. Mr. Paul
-ones, of Tarboro, state councilor of
the Jr. O. u. A. M., addressed a
number of mpmhorc f ,i
Mrs A.
jsid yesterday afternoon at. her
psiithree miles solith oh the city,
following an illness . of about six
months. Recently her condition' had
been critical and the end was nof un-
xpectedi. She is survived by her
husband and two little daughters of
five and two years of age; 'her moth- J-
er," Mrs. A. A. Fogleman ; four sis
ters and hree brothers. The funeral
and interment wilKtake place at1
Holt's chapel this afternoon.
I Ready to Vaccinate.--pr. W. M.
Jones, the county health officer, "will
begin inoculating' the people of .the
county with anti-typhoid vaccine thi
week. The first treatment will be
given at Gibson ville tomorrow after
noon between 2 and 5 o'clock.. Dr.
Jones Is anxious that the people of
that community meet him between
these hours and take the treatment.
He will have a regular time to appear
at different places in the county at'
regular intervals for the Administer
ing of the vaccine, but his schedule
hajg not yet been arranged. Dr. Jones
stat'es that so far only a few cases of
typhoid fever have been reported in
the county.
Stores May Close. -Since many of
the grocers of the city adopted the
f nileof closing their " stores at "1
o'clock on Wednesday afternoons
during the summer a movement has
been inaugurated lobbing " ta the
adoption of the plan by all the busi
ness houses of the city during the
months of July and August. The
matter was considered at a meeting
of the Merchants' Association this
week and committees were named to
make a canvass of the busienss men
to ascertain how many of them
would agree to such an arrangement.
The Wednesday, half holiday may be
adopted, but its usage will vnot be
unanimous by any means.
Made Clean Getaway. Leroy
Clendenin, a negro well and unfavor
ably known to the Greensboro police
officers, made a smooth and rather
daring escape, from jail about
o ciock jviopaay evening, we ana an-
jan, were caiieu upon to assist tne
jailer and relatives in removing an
insane sick man from iail. and it
was while engaged in the perform
ance of this service that Leroy con
ceived the idea of flight. When the
outer door of the jail was reached he
leaped into the yard and jumped
over the high board fence surround
ing the jail with the agility of a cat.
Before' the jailer realized what had
happened his prisoner was out of
sight. Clendenin was committed to
jail Monday on a vagrancy charge
and was being: held while officers
were securing evidence of several
store robberies he is believed to have
committed during the nast few
weeks.
SHERIFF: STAFFORD -
MISS BENBOW MARRIED.
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Mr. David B, Stafford, heriff of
Guilford county, and Miss Elizabeth
Benbow, of Oak Ridge, were married
yesterday morning in Baltimore, an
nouncement of the marriage ibeing
received. here in a telegram from the
sheriff to Mr. J. H. Shaw, his office
deputy. Sheriff Stafford and his
bride are expected to a,rrive in
Greensboro in a few days.
Sheriff ' Stafford left Greensboro
for Baltimore Tuesday night, but
was careful to keep his destination
and the object of his trip a secret,
mparting che information only to
his office deputy. By previous ar
rangement, I he met his affianced in
the Maryland city, she having stop
ped there on her return from Provi
dence, R. I.
The marriage of Sheriff Stafford
and Miss Benbow at this time comes
as -a surprise to their friends, al
though it was suspected by quite a
few that the happy event would take
place sooner or later. Both have a
great many friends who will extend
heartiest congratulations.
Sheriff Stafford is, one" of "Guil
ford's leading citizens, and it is
doubtful if any young man in the
county stands higher in the estima
tion of the public. He is serving his
second term as sheriff, having been
renominated last year by the Demo
cratic part without opposition and
elected by an overwhelming majority
of the votes of the people. He is a
son. of the late R. M. Stafford, who
served the county as sheriff several
terms years ago.
Mrs. Stafford is a daughter of Mrs.
W. E. Benbow, of Oak Ridge, and a
member of one of the county's old
and prominent families. She is a
young woman of" deep culture and
possesses1 many graces that add tr
the charm of her personality. She
is splendidly educated and for the
past few years has been engaged as
teacher in an institution for the deaf
and di&nb in Providence. R. I.
NEARLY
HALF THE COUNTRY
HAS PliACED THE BAN ON
;iv, LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
A MATTER THAT VEXES THE
NEWSPAPER MAN'S SOUL.
othe
His
is at White Oak Tuesday night.
speech was devoted
tue subject of education, which is
ne of the cardinal principles of the
order. Mr. Jones is especially inter
ested in the moonlight school move
ment that i i . . . .
nas ueen inaugurated in a
number of counties for the teaching
"l "'e adult illiterates.
-uus sew Job. Dr. E. E.
1 until recently city meat and
"k inspector, has made a contract
111 representatives of the French
I e,nment to accompany a shin-
left Tf War horses to France and
K YT uay mSht for Newport
erina' - rePort for duty. A vet-
evpranan is emPlQyed to accompany
. -w.pxoaa or horses sent to Eng-
It would seem jthat in this, enlight
ened age any one possessing t suffi
cient intelligence to write an article
for publication in a newspaper would
know that no newspaper of standing
will print a Tjontribution without
knowing the name of the writer, but
such is not the case. There still are
people . apparently so gullible as to
believe that self-respecting papers
will print anonymous communica
tions.
Scarcely a week passes that The
Patriot does not receive something
intended for publication that does
not bear the name of the author. It
may be a report of a wedding, a fu
neral, a religious meeting, a social
gathering or any one of a dozen
matters that would be acceptable if
the editor only knew who was re
sponsible for it.
Earthquake in California.
El Centro, Cal., June 23.-r-Sharp
earth shocks today centered the
anxiety of Imperial valley settlers on
the head gates of the great irrigation
system which had transformed near
ly 250,000 acres of desert. Tonight
the intakes of the Colorado river.
near Yuma, and the headway at
Sharp's were reported safe, although
the Sharp's heading was shaken and
sagged.
Engineers reported that another
shock as severe as the one that last
night rocked the little cluster of
towns in the valley and cost half a
dozen or more lives in the Mexican
border town of Mexicali undoubtedly
would, wreck the works there.
Scientists appear to agree that last
night's shock lay along the line of
what is known as the San Andreas
fault in the earth's formation, which
was involved in the north-central
California earthquake of 1906.
Damage estimated at $400,000 was
done in the district extending rough
ly from the shoulder of the Cocopah
mountains of Lower California to
San . Bernardino and Needles, Cali
fornia, on the north, Yuma on the
east, and San Diego on the west.
Lansing Made Secretary of State.
Washington, June 23. Robert
Lansing, who as counsellor of the
state department has advised Presi
dent Wilson in Jaw and precedent in
the v policy pursued by the United
States toward belligerent govern
ments since the outbreak of the Eu
ropean war, was named today secre
tary of state to succeed William Jen
nings Bryan.
and
the
r France and Dr. Lull has had
matter of maHn. j
vaB,eration for some time. If the
suhn, 1S not blown UP hy a Germati
fan. ; . or no other bad luck be-
tum , Dr- Lul1 wiU Probably re
Many Cases of Typhoid Fever.
it is stated that there are more
cases of typhoid fever in Greensboro
now than have been known here at
any one time in several years. Lr.
F. C. Hyatt, the city physician, says
19 cases have been reported to the
health department. Four of these
cases were contracted outside the
city. An investigation conducted by
the health department showed that
12 cases were contracted from in
fected milk sold by one of the local
dairies. The delivery of milk in the
city by this particular dairy was
stopped immediately and will not be
resumed until all traces of Infection
have been removed.
Dr. Hyatt is urging all the people
in the city who, have not done so to
take advantage : of the anti-typhoid
vaccination, which is administered
Few appointments in recent years
have given such widespread sjitisfac- Tennessee and West Virginia.
A canyass by the Associated Press
of legislative activity this year iri 'the
state law-making bodies of thV coun
try; most of which have adjourned
for theksummer, shows that among
the subjects which received notable-l
attention ".was that of the prohibition
or the regulation of the liquor tral
fic. . : '
The legislatures of two states en-J
acted ' statutory prohibition to be
come effective this year, and eight
voted:to submit the question of state
wide prohibition to a referendum of
the people. Of the latter, two estab
lished statutory prohibition, to be
come effective in the meantime.
Four states where prohibition is al
ready effective passed additional re
strictive. Jlaws and two of the five
states, inhere; under constitutional
amendment, prohibition is to go into
effect next year, enacted necessary
statutes for its enforcement. In six
of the .so-called "wet" states, state
wide proposals, met defeat. In others
questions of local option, transpor
tation and licensing were acted up
on. :
The two states where direct prohi
bition laws were. passed are Florida
and Alabama. Those whose legisla
tures voted to submit the question to
the people are Idaho, Iowa, Montana,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah,
Vermont and the territory of Alaska.
In Iowa the legislative resolution,
according to the state constitution,
must be passed by the next succeed
ing legislature, before the .people can
vote on it, but the state returned to
statutory prohibition meanwhile,
through the repeal of the so-called
mulct law. Idaho was also made
"dry" meanwhile, through statutory
enactment. In Utah the bill was ve
toed by he governor after the legis
latut,adjOurned In South Carolina
the vote will be taken at the election
thiar; in: Montana, South-Dakota,
Vermont, Alaska and -Idaho, in 1916.
It will be thus seen that as a meas
ure of the progress of the cause of
prohibition the 15 states already in
the ranks have this year been en
forced by four and the legislative
way cleared for four others, includ
ing Alaska, to join. In the latter
event nearly half the country will
haye placed the ban on the liquor
traffic.
The new Florida law goes into ef
fect October 1 and prohibits the
sale of alcoholic beverages except in
sealed packages or less than one
half pint each, nor can liquor be
drunk on the premises where sold.
This applies to restaurants, hotels
and clubs as well as saloons.
The Alabama law was passed over
the veto of Governor Henderson. It
becomes operative July 1. In addi
tion, the legislature enacted an anti
shipping law, which .forbids the
shipping to an individual of more
than one gallon of liquor or 60
bottles of beer per month.
The general assembly of South
Carolina took up a large part of its
session in discussing prohibition. Be
sides drafting a state-wide law for
submission to a referendum at the
election of September 12, 1915, the
assembly enacted a statute which
makes effective in the state the pro
visions of the Webb-Kenyon federal
act against the shipment of liquor
from "wet" to "dry" territory, South
Carolina being now local option. The
statute also forbids the shipment of
more than one gallon of alcoholic li
quors to any one person in the state
during any one month.
The four prohibition states which
decided to strengthen their present
laws were Kansas, North Carolina,
The
an ouster law, modeled after a Kan
sas statute, which provides for the
removal from office of state, county
or city officials (other than holders
of constitutional offices) who fail to
enforce the laws of the state.
West ' Virginia enacted amend
ments to the Yost prohibition law
limiting shipments bt liquor into the
state and forbidding a person to
have liquor in a public place even
for his own use. Nor htoreafter can
any one tn West Virginia, give , a
drink to another except in his own
home, home being specified as a
permanent place of residence, not a
hotel or other public place.
Statewide prohibition proposals
met defeat in Connecticut, Indiana,
Michigan, New Mexico, New York
and Wyoming. Both "wet" and "dry"
measures failed of enactment in Il
linois. They were 'all killed in the
house. In New Jersey and Pennsyl
vania county local option met defeat,
but was established by Minnesota.
The only action taken by the Ohio
legislature was the passage of a law
making state and county liquor li
censing officials elective instead of
appointive, thus "decentralizing-" the
JAPAN PREVENTED FROM r
i SENDING TPROOPS TO EUROPE.
t The Hague, via London, June 22.
-The' Handelsblad ; today asserts
that Japan was prevented from send
thg. 300,000 troops to Europe by an
unofficial hint to Great Britain front
Washington that such an expedition
would be undesirable.
The newspaper declares that a
Japanese army of that'strength was
landed in Manchuria, where it was
exercising preparatory to departure;
for the European battlefield, but that
Great Britain after receiving the inti
mation from the United States, in
formed Tokio that she was sorry, but
under American pressure must re
quest that the Japanese government
do nothing further concerning the :
dispatch of an expeditionarycorps to ,
Europe..
"After this," The Handelsblad;
concludes, "The Japanese army dis
appeared from Manchuria,N probably
to the relief of Great Britain, which ,
never has desired Japanese partici
pation in, the fighting in Europe."
"licensing system. California, ja local
option state, passed a measure for
bidding the sale of liquor to persons
with Indian blood in their veins or
white persons associating with them.
RUSSIANS DRIVEN OUT
OF GALICIAN CAPITAL.
The Russians have lost Lemberg.
They occupied the Galician capital
early in September and held it con
tinuously until yesterday, when the
combined Austro-German forces
compelled them to retreat from the
city, which is only sixty-odd miles
due west from the nearest point of
the Russian frontier.
Whether the fall of Lemberg
means that the Russian army operat
ing south of it in southeast Galicia is
effectively cut off from the army to
the north stretching across Poland
to the Baltic, cannot yet be sad.
Vienna and Berlin newspapers say
this is thecase, andhat. the Rus
sian arms have received a blow from
which they cannot recover.
if the stroke proves as crushing
as the Teutons predict, its effect
soon should be felt in the transfer
of vast German forces to the west,
where for days they have been hard
pressed by the French.
Washington Makes No Comment.
i Washington, June. 22. Govern
ment officials tonight heard without i
Comment of the article published 'in k
The Handelsblad asserting that ' an
unofficial -hint 'from-Was&ingtoto
London blocked plans, by Japan for
sending an expedition of 300,000 J
men to Europe to participate in the
European war. It" is known there :
were exchanges between the Ameri-
can and British governments wliile )
the . recent" Japanese-Chinese negotia-
tibns were in -progress, but their na-
ture was kept secret and officials are -not
inclined, now. to .discuss--- what
took place at that critical period.
The United States knew that Ja
pan had at least' 100,000 men in
Manchuria when she was waiting for
China's reply. It was generally un
derstood' here, however, that ..the
army was there for effect upon China
and to be ready for actual eryice in
event of a rupture between Tokio
and Peking.
.repoitfwm J?bkku have- indi
cated that Japan has not :bQenr mailed
on for a .European -expedition and
has not considered sending one. The
situation in the Far East as well as
the condition of Japan's treasury
has been regarded as making such a
development highly- unlikely now. at
least.
Women Mentioned Kor Gallantry.
Fifty-eight women connected with
various branches of the military
nursing service and of the Red Cross
are mentioned in dispatches from
Field Marshal SirvJohn French, commander-in-chief
of the British army
on the continent, for "gallantry and
distinguished service in the field '
On the Gallipoli peninsula heavy
fighting has been in progress. .From
the Italian front, by way of Heriin,
come reports of serious reverses suf
fered by the Italians in their at
tempts to storm the Austrian posi
tions along the Isonzo river. The
Austrians have powerfully fortified
the South Tyrol front and are said
to be prepared in every way for an
Italian attack along that line.
tion in the national capital. Mr. Lan
sing is a life-long Democrat, but he
has devoted his time to international
law and diplomacy and is as popular
with former Republican officials as
with "his colleagues. Members of the
cabinet and close personal friends of
the president advised the selection,
and Mr. Bryan himself, although not
consulted, is undevtood to have
Kansas measures approach the uni
que in prohibition legislation. Two
were passed, one providing that the
municipality where liquor is sold is
liable for damage for injury to per
sons or property resulting from in
toxication. The other, which is aim
ed at those who permit so-called
"keg parties" to be held on their
nremises. imposes similar liability
Poor Fool Tries Suicide.
Crisfield, Md. June 22. Upon his
arrival in the city yesterday after
noon and finding that his sweetheart
of other days was happily married
to'another man, Frank , Webb, of
Waynesboro, Pa., after verifying the
report by an interview with the
young wife, went to his room at the
Continental hotel and attempted to
end his life by severing the arteries
of his left wrist with a razor. He
was found unconscious and hurried
to a hospitaf, where" it was necessary
to take 13 stitches to stop the flow
of blood.
On the table in the room occupied
by Webb were three letters written
by him. One to the proprietor of the
hotel said ; that sufficient money
would be found in his pockets to pay
his bill and asked that his relatives
be notified. Owing to later develop
ments a letter addressed to the wo
man who had wed another and one
addressed to a relative in Pennsyl
vania were not forwarded.
France Gets Big Loan in This Coun
try. New York, June 22. Confirmation
of the much discussed" French credit
by American bankers was received
here when J. P. Morgan & Co. an
nounced the virtual completion of a
one-year loan to. the Paris branch
of the Rothschilds, the latter acting
for the French, government and the
Bank of France, as well as a syndi
cate of Freneh bankers
The amount of the loan and its in- ,
terest yield are yet to be. deltermlned,
but it is intimated that the sum is
not likely to exceed f5u,000, 000 at
approximately 5 per cent. It will be
secured by collateral in the form of
high-grade American railway' bonds,
to be placed with Morgan & Co. These
bonds include, some of the senior
securities of America's premier
roads, of which many millions "of dol
lars worth are owned by French in
vestors. The proceeds of the loan will be
used by the French government for
payment here of heavy commercial
obligations incurred in the purchase
of war supplies and foodstuffs! - It is
believed that the outcome of Jthis
transaction will tend materially to
relax the strained credit conditions
between this center , and Paris and
bring some ease to the London ex
change market, which recently has
been the financial medium between
New York and Paris.
hoped for the promotion of Mr. Lan- upon the owner of property whererlT
sin&' auor is sold or eiven away. J
North Carolina passed an anti
shipping act, known as the 'anti-jug
act," which forbids the shipment to
and receipt by any one person of
more than one quart of spirituous
liquors and four gallons of malt bev
erage every 15 days.
4 Tennessee, where the prohibition
laws have not. been strictly enforced
iA the larger cities, it is said, pass-
Weather Forecast.
Fair, hot weather will predomi
nate during the coming week over
the Southeast, according to the pre
diction of the weather bureau. A
period of showers beginning Friday
or. Saturday, however, was forecast
for the middle Atlantic coast and
Tennessee.
No New Efforts at Mediation.
President Wilson has made known
that all the offers of mediation in
Europe which the United States has
made publicly or semi-publicly have
been disclosed, and that . at present
no new efforts are being made. For
eign governments, he said, general 1
are aware of the desire of the United
States to do anything possftte to as
sist in bringing about peace.
Huerta Still in New York.
New York, June 23. General
Huerta, ex-dictator of Mexico,
squelched several delicately-woven
tales of his presence in El Paso, Tex.,
by appearing this morning at the
usual hourin his offices, at No. 61
Broadway.
"No, I have not started yet on mf ,
way to attend secret Mexican confer
ences on the border," he said, "smil
ing broadly, -"and I haven't the
slightest intention of doing so. My
plans are somewhat unsettled, but L.
have my home, you. know, in Forest
Hills, and I intend to stay there quite
while longer. -
The general admitted that his .
daughter isin El Pascwhichinay:
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