MbWD3fi: AND THURSDAY PUBLISH u:d i ' .the in V ? - EVERY -llX '-s'. 1 ' eSTABUSHEDrtO, 1 " . I n i ' BRIEF FORI! - ..." - voiJ'04-rjo. so tOCAL NEWS IH A. olt Dead. uaTTERS OP INTEREST TO THE he IBRS OF THE PATRIOT FAR AND NEAR. 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. pilPiifijMfie oh 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: alsotofcd started for tbltT2 S3"'"'-' - -:r : V. J - : ..t 1Dme m four or five weeks. free of charge by the city physician. Hi 1

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