North Carolina Newspapers

" .- . " ' i...; ""'...'rtSAv.'r, PU D LI S HE D EVERY MONPAY r AND THURSDAY f f J" t- ESTABLISH. 3 f jCAL NEWSJBR ,Ra OF INTEREST TO THE OF THE PATRIOT to Kansas. Wiley F. Steele, hPPii with the Tuxedo cigar .hn .ia store Farraers' for mi Jeffrey wo"- muies six years, has given up his -ni en to ToDeka. Kan., position auu," ;n -c-pt a pace- Hred For Peddling. J. L. Pe- , a negr0 who had been peddling lr6SSi3 the city without a license, was Municipal court Tuesday and paid I .e for doing so. Concert Tonight. Mme. Evange .. lann. soprano, and M. J. Brines.v will give a joint concert at the f-e'xormal and Industrial College Jt'Wt at S.30 o'clock. City Buys Truck. The city com- i n..nVinai1 a Q ft ft A joners nave puiuioocu yuuw truck to be used in street It will take the place ofvslx It has been here this week f0r demonstration. jVctk on Pomona Road. The Po- mora road is finished to the entrance t0 the Van Lindley nurseries. This is a ".ne piece of work and is the first road in the county to have a con crte foundation and an asphalt fin ish. County Convention, The annual convention of the Guilford County Cunda ' School Association will be held at Alamance Presbyterian riiurch Sunday, July 31, commencing at. 10 o'clock in the morning and con tinuing through the afternoon. Actomobile Ordinance. The city commissioners yesterday afternoon discussed an ordinance that will reg ulate traffic and prevent the parking or" automobiles on South Elm street. The ordinance was not passed for the reason some changes were desir ed in it before its enactment. It may be passed today. Excursion Enjoyed. The excur sion of the Methodist Sunday schools of the city to Winston Salem Tuesday vas enjoyed by a large number of people. About 200 were on the train. The greater part ol the day as spent at the Children's Home, T'.iich is maintained by the M. E. Church, South, near the Twin City. Eight Cases For July. Dr. F. C. Hyatt, city health officer, states that tnly eight cases of typhoid fever lave been reported to him this month and he believes that the work of the department is proving effec tual ir. stamping out the epidemic. The -vvork of the department for pro tection of the community health, however, is unabated. Bound Over to Court.- W. D. Spencer and Levi Reives were tried Monday afternoon before Justice of the Peace w. C. England on charges of retailing. There were two cases against Spencer and he was held to Superior court under a bond of $100 m each case. Probable cause was al so found in Reives' case and he was Jlel to Superior court under a bond of $100. So Dairies on Main trAt Tho commissioners Tuesday after noon enacted an ordinance that pro tobus the maintenance of dairies - ui iiumi ej 1 111, ivien- Mdver. Phnrrh TTo-irH- ie- Asheboro and WpsJ ivfaiot greets anH Siitv. . . uium. avenue, rso aairy J stable where more than two cows th! Pt Can be maintained near -wugiuares. lua Store Chanc-o stni C , I U LU Wnn fm- u . havn k e past several years thp m -.ius t urug siore in c -viCAd00 hiiilHinc j. it s h,aVe S0,d out to Carl avii who has hDDn ...... . some nttle time. Mr. Davis openrf COntro1 When the ea for business yesterday morn-. inff nrn . 1UL Knwn what the retir- r"clu's intend doing. Street Wni-t r , fif . v uiiimeuteu. worK enm, ai&ei aireet was car u iw,. VV1U taie at least two Pie Co" comPlete the work. Peo- Colie&ellng int t0Wn from Gullfopd for a , may be able to use the street have t06W daS' but Soan tney wil1 K0rinal pme in by Way of tne State College and Walker avenue. Torn T ",c,ai rowns. Rev. Craw itv pairing West Market street ;ced this week. The street ne is already torn up for two wm take the Jackson Ju general secretary of venile Protective Association ooutl at Wo ; U1 nas returned to his viSit to uilford College after a the atnUmb6r f towns atid cities ork in furtherance of his M Ne.vb delivered two addresses twtwnn Sunday' July 11. and iatio last Sunday. Branch ace, n8 wer organized at these Institute Tody.r The feasant tin-rn njciug neia coaay. a feature of spe cial interest will be a demonstration of road work as it is doni by the North Carolina boys' road patrol. This demonstration "will prove of much more than passing interest in QuUord county just now, owing to the fact that so much is being said and done in an effor to secure some system of road maintenance. Canning School Postponed. The canning school that was to be con ducted in the court house annex on Thursday and Friday of this week has been postponed until the first of next week. Miss Schaeffer says that the reason for the postponement was on account of a message received from Miss Evans, assistant field agent in home demonstration work, of Ral eigh, stating that.it would be impos sible for her to be present at the school -this week. City Water All Right The month ly examination of the Greensboro water shows it to be all that could be desired. If dairies will use it there is no danger. The report of Dr. Shore for the month of July on it contains in part the following data: Sediment, very slight; color, very slight; turbidity, 0; odor, 0; alkilinity, 5 per cent; chlorine, 2; bacterial count at 20 degrees centi grade, to the cubic centimeter, 300; count at 38 degrees, 24. Mrs. R. R. Fryar Hurt. While standing on a chair gathering peach es Monday afternoon Mrs. R. R. Fryar, of McLeansville, suffered a very severe fall which rendered her unconscious for several hours. Mrs, Fryar was standing near the edge of the chair and as she reached- 7or some peaches lost her balance and fell. Dr. W. T. Holt was hurriedly called and was soon able to revive her. Although her condition is ser ious, it is not critical by any means. Will Close Down Mills The White Oak and Proximity mills will close August 1 for one month and Revolu tion will close for ten days or two weeks. The two first named fac tories expect to resume operations. September 1 with such dyes as can be secured in this country. The lack of dyestuffs is the cause of the crisis with the mills, causing the closing, and there is nothing in sight to war rant belief that dyes will be available either the first of September or any other early date. . . Luther Grundaman Dies. Martin Luther Grundaman aled Monday af ternoon at St. Leo's, hospital after a month's illness from typhoid fever. The funeral was held Tuesday after noon at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. F. Nowlan, on Wilson street. He had been with the Greensboro Daily News and its predecessor, the In dustrial News, since it was first started. He was a very popular and energetic young man His associates were, pall-bearers. One brother and four sisters survive. Rack to Virginian-Henry Sharpe, the negro who was caught here sev eral nights ago, an escaped convict from the state penitentiary at Rich mond, Va., where he served a short time of a 10-year sentence for mur der, was carried back to Richmond Monday night. The negro expressed complete willingness to return to the Virginia prison to complete his term at hard labor. It will be remember ed that a reward of $50 was offered for his capture and the officers who landed Sharpe have received their money. Negro Shot by Officer. Birdie Holt, a negro, was shot in the hip and seriously wounded Monday while re sisting arrest at the hands of Deputy Sheriff C. C. Shepherd at Gibsonville. Mr. Shepherd shot when he believed Holt was attempting to draw a gun to be used against him and another man with him. Holt was wanted for an assault upon a negro woman. He has the reputation of being a bad man and had threatened the life of the officers if they undertook to ar rest him. He is recovering nicely at St. Leo's hospital. Rig Farm Conveyed. A deed evi dencing a real estate deal of consid erable size was filed Monday with the register of deeds to be recorded. The contracting parties were H. R. Ire land and wife to H. C. Pollard and wife, and the deed calls for two tracts of land in Alamance and Guilford counties, located on the county line near Reedy Fork. The iands adjoin the property of A. F. and Carr Ise ley, George Donnell, J. P. Sutton, J. L. Kernadle, J. H. Ross, L. M. Ger ringer, G. R. Kernodle and Walter Fuller. The two tracts contain In the neighborhood of 500 acres and the consideration was $5,000. Funeral xof Mr West- The funeral of W. P. West was held Monday from Buchanan's chapel, four miles east of .the city, and was attended by one of the largest crowds of people ever seen at a funeral at that place. The services were conducted by Rev. Mr. DeLancey. The pall-bearers were: Henry Heath, Ed. Holt, A. T. Whit sett, Lacy Donnell, Banks May and I. D. Blaylock. Misses Donnie Heath, Frances Lineberry, Vena Dod son, Ruth Buchanan and Mary Lynch were the flower bearers. Interment was in the church cemetery. Two Troop Trains From Here. Two special troop trains left Greens boro Monday night carrying men to the annual summer encampment at Morehead City. These troops con stitute the Second regiment of the North Carolina national guard, and they will remain at Camp Glenn for 10 days. The soldier boys gathered here late Sunday afternoon and night, companies coming from Winston-Salem, Mt. Airy, Concord, High Point, , Asheville, Statesville and other points west of this city. They were concentrated here for the last lap of the trip. Mrs. Baynes Succumbs. After four weeks illness with typhoid fever, Mrs. Bascom T. Bayned died Tues day morning at 11 o'clock at her home on Martin street. She was mar ried only last November. She was a gifted musician and had been or ganist at Grace M. P. church for sev eral years. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon at Grace M. P. church and interment was in Greene Hill cemetery. The surviving rela tives are her husband, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Clapp, of Julian street, four sisters and two brothers, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. L. H.Hines, Miss, Mary and Messrs. Clarence and Bynum Clapp, of this city, and Mrs. W. T. Kidd, of Charlotte. Miss Jones Dies of Typhoid. Miss Mary Josephine Jones died at the home of her parents on Mendenhall street Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock, following a short illness with typhoid fever. She had successfully nursed her mother and sister through the crisis of the disease and then was stricken with it herself. The deceas ed was a student at the State Normal and Industrial College and a member of the Church of the Covenant. Her father, Rev. O. G. Jones, is the synodical evangelist of the Presby terian church in the state. The fu neral was conducted yesterday morn ing by the Presbyterian ministers of the city Revs, Messrs. Williams, Clark, Hodgin and Crawford. Death of Mr. J. B. Neese. Mr. John B. Neese died at his home in southern Guilford Saturday night at 11 o'clock, following an illness of three weeks. The funeral was held Monday morning at 11 o'clock from Mt. Hope church and was attended by a large crowd of people. The service was conducted by Rev. Shu ford Peeler, of this city. The de ceased was 63 years of age and had been a member ef the Mt. Hope Re formed church for 37 years. He was once a deacon in the church and at the time of his death was one of the elders. Mr. Neese was one of the most prominent residents of the Mt. Hope community. Surviving are three sons, one daughter, a brother and four sisters. E. Jj. FLACK IS SHOT; EXPECTED TO RECOVER. E. L. Flack, of near Brown Sum mit, is in St. Leo's hospital suffering from wounds inflicted by a pistol in the hands of C. Self. The difficulty took place at Brown Summit yester day afternoon. Flack and his two brothers, C. W. and C. J. Flack, entered the soft drink store of Self and a quarrel soon arose. After some words, Self drew his pistol and fired at Flack. One of the bullets entered the ab dominal cavity, while the other pro duced only a flesh wound. The wounded man was brought to. the hospital and the other three placed under arrest. Self was re quired to give a $500 bond and the two Flack boys were placed under bond of $100 each. The hearing will be before 'Squire J. B. Minor Saturday at 2 o'clock. Self told Sheriff Stafford that the Flack boys came in his place under the influence of whiskey, started a quarrel with him and all three jump-' ed on him. He showed a shirt that had been almost torn to pieces. He had received a blow in the eye and another on the side of the head. A. C. Cobb spent Sunday with rel atives at McLeansville. WiKPOIJip TO Mi ONLY. QUESTION OF TIME UNTIL it-Atlis INTO HANDS OF lfl TEUTONS. I ' - - - The question uppermost in the minds. 6 British military critics now is whe, Warsaw will, be evacuated, rather4hn whether it will be evacu ated. I Withj virtually all of Courland? in the hands of Field Marshal von Hin denburg and with the Austro-Ger-man, forces across the Bug, contin ued occupancy of the Polish capital exposesj the Russians to danger " of disaster Through Copenhagen comes a re port of the occupation of Windau by the Geimans. This menace to the Russians from the north is parallel ed by the advance of the Teutonic al lies on the Lublin railroad, one of the chief Arteries of communications with Warsaw from the southeast. The wisdom of abandoning War saw and thus straightening the Rus sian linedaily becomes a more defi nite subject of speculation among the allies, and Russian retirement from the capital before it is invested completely is predicted widely. From Windau the Germans are re ported to be advancing towards Riga, with the intention of seizing that port for a naval base. ' All the glory has not gone to von Hindeiiburg, as his colleague, Field Marshal von Mackensen, is credited with the capture of Krasnostav. The Germans apparently are con tent to maintain a series of sporadic attacks on various portions of the western line. Paris claims the Ger mans suffered severe losses in an unsuccessful assault on the heights of the Meuse. Np Check to German Drive. From the shores of the Gulf of Riga jn the north, to that part of southern Poland back into which they drove the Russians from Gsli cia, the Austro-German armies are still surging forward and if Warsaw can be denied them it will be almost a mlrlrlSfe - ' This seems to be the concensus of opinion, even among those in Eng land who heretofore have been hope ful that the Russians would turn and deliver a counter-blow, and news of the evacuation of the Polish capital, followed by the triumphant entry of the Germans amid such scenes as were enacted at Przemysl and Lam berg would come as no surprise. The German official statement, be ginning its recital at the northern tip of the eastern battle line, records the progress of the German troops to within fifty miles of Riga; then, fol lowing the great battle arc south ward chronicles further successes Jn the sector northeast of Warsaw, cul minating in the capture of Ostrolen ka, one of the fortresses designed to shield the capital. Immediately southwest of the city and less than twenty .miles from it Blonie has fallen, and further south, Grojec; while German cavalry are astride the important railway from Radom to Iangor. The Lublin-Cholm railway Is still in the hands of the Russians so far as is Jcnown, but the town of Lublin has been captured or is in danger of falling into the grip of the Austro-Germans, the Russian commander in chief having issued, through the civil governor an order that In case of a retreat, the male population is to attach itself to the retreating troops. There has been a flash of British activity in Flanders, without any &p preciatable change in the situation, and the British public is far more in terested in the South Wales coal strike, which by virtue of David Lloyd George's flying visit to Cardiff, seems to have been settled. The Serbian armies are being re equipped and reorganized, according to semi-official advices reaching Lon don, and will soon be In a position to resume the offensive. Z. V. Jndd Goes to Alabama. Mr. Zebulon V. Judd, prgfessor of rural education at the University of North Carolina, has accepted the chair of education at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn, Ala bama. The position was offered in early June, but his attachment to North Carolina and to his alma ma ter, the University of North Carolina, made him very reluctant to consider any other field. Twice he declined, but later was prevailed upon to give a favorable answer. C C. Fulp has gone to Moore's Springs to spend his vacation. MAY GET $100,000 ESTATE BY EVIDENCE SECURED HERE. J F. Kirkman, of Omaha, Neb., is in the county endeavoring to get evi dence that will , prove him heir to a fortune of $100,000 left a few years ago by John O'Connor, a cobbler in Hastings, Nebraska. Mr. Kirkman believes that the map was in reality James Madison Kirkman, his father, NEGRO OTSBAND AA WIFfi S HELD ON SERjjOTJS" CHAROI i Jasper Baynes" 'and- wife, Sallit Baynes, negroes, are in jail and will be held until the Septmber term; of eourt. The charge against the wifa is killing an Infant child of hera while her .husband is charged with being an accessory before the fact to the crime. The coroner's inauest and a native of the Guilford College j was held late yesterday afternoon. The body of the infant was found in the woods north of the negro A. & T. College Sunday night. Sheriff Stafford and his officers began an investigation immediately . MA TT A m w a in in unity. ii jar. ivirKman suc ceeds he will be the first of a hun dred claimants to make any head way. Mr. Kirkman saya his father was born in Guilford county in 1838 and ! following the findine of th hnrtv left here for Indiana when he was and evidence gathered pointed to the about 28 years old. There, ir. J8M, ; guilt of the Baynes woman and her he married, and J. F. was The only -husband. The man was arrested at child. When the child was five his home on "Watts street Tuesday months old the father left Lome and night, but his wife nnnlrt nnt o In- was not seen again in Indiana. year later the wife died. The boy, who was left an orphan at Ihe age of six years, grew up in Indiana and then went to Hlkmis. Later he went to Kansas, and about a year ago moved to Omaha. Neb. He was then less than 150 miles from the place, where John O'Connor died, and the almost constant publicity about the litigation over the deceased cobbler's estate finally attracted his attention. He became interested first because the man had been a cob bler, a shoemaker, as his father had been; and then he read of a specific identification, a peculiarly crippled thumb, that he knew to have beer, possessed by his father. It was then that he determined to take up the in vestigation, and ' he has been at it steadily ever since. He first went to Hastings, the scene of John O'Connor's last years, and procured from the court copies of photographs and other data neces sary in the work to follow. Five small photographs were found catea. Yesterday morning he was subjected - to a close questioning bf the officers and he admitted that she might be found at his brother's near Battle Ground. ' Officers went immediately to this place and asked if she was there. The woman who met tht?m said she was not. She had to-be threatened with being incarcerated before she "Vrvilr! nrlmit- "Ho T Mtes about. The officers instituted a search and finally located their quar ry under the house. She was inxme- - "-viui . cm. iiuyrurisea t trap door :n the floor andwas lying flat on the ground.' When " asked what e was doing ther she said she had ben feeding a dog.' The woman was brodght oack to the. city .and placed i jaii, ; A number of witnesses wre exam ined "at the inquest later, the most important estimony-ixowve-oefng submitted by physicians. Both .the man and woman disavow any guilt on their iart-ut the finding of,tt&e-1urv was against-them. Their caso Wni among the dead man's possessions. ! be threshed out before the next crim Two were of himself, taken while he Ina! term grand jury. was still a young man. These were 5 . identified yesterday by people living , BIG CONTRIBUTION near Guilford College as James Mad ison Kirkman A protograph taken of him after his-death is -also exhibit ed by Mr. Kirkman, and he says that TO "CONSCIENCE FUND." Washington, July -20. Ten thou sand dollars' in currency, the second1' several people in this county to whom ! largest contribution to the conscience he showed it thought at first it was fund ever received by the aays and place the information in the hands of his lawyers. TWO FARMERS' INSTITUTES IN COUNTY NEXT WEEK. govern- Harrison Kirkman, of whom John j ment, arrived at the treasury depart ed Connor is now supposed to have , ment today in a plain envelope mail been the son. j ed Monday at New York, accompa- He will return to Omaha in a few nied by an unsigned letter saying: The sender has paid double to the United States the amount he stole and still conscience is not sat isfied. Here is another payment." The package contained three one-thousand-dollar gold certificates, eight five-hundred-dollar certificates and thirty-one-hundred-dollar silver and gold notes. Treasury officials found nothing in the letter or the amount to indi cate a connection with any of the government's losses by fraud cV theft so they placed it with :!$ 500,000 more which has accumulated in the treas ury vaults from conscience-stricken persons who have sent sums ranging from one cent to $18,669. The larg est sum ever received came in 1909, probably from some one who had perpetrated a customs fraud. The $10,000- package today came addressed to Secretary McAdoo and marked "Personal." Two farmers' institutes will be held in the county next week at Mc Leansville, Thursday, July 29, and at Guilford Battle Ground, Friday, July 30. Posters are out announcing these and the speakers on the pro gram. There will be discussions on farm operations, crops, live stock, in sect pests, by Franklin Sherman, state entomologist; R. S. Curtis, North Carolina experiment station; E. G. Moss, of Granville test farm, the county, demonstrator and others. At each of these places Mrs. W. R. Hollowell will conduct a woman's in stitute, to which all women interest ed are invited to come and join in the discussion of subjects pertaining to household economics, home con veniences, health in the home, the education of children, and other top ics of interest to mothers and home makers. The institutes open at 10 o'clock and there will be afternoon sessions as well as morning ones. Everyone is expected to take lunch, to stay all day and to make these Guilford institutes the best ever held. 44 PUT EXPLOSIVES ON LUSITANIA, HE SAYS. Chicago, 111., July 20. A man who signed himself "J. S. K." wrote to the Chicago Daily News today that he had placed explosives aboard Ihe Lusitania- before she sailed on ber fatal voyage. The writer said that he was a member of an organi zation but had become disgusted with It. He added that he would be dead in Lake Michigan before the let ter was delivered. The letter said: "The gang" was composed of English miner. The writer referred to "Holt's bomb" but said his was "more deadly." - H. G. Clabaugh, chief of the local federal investigators, said fne'missire was worth investigation because of reports that there were two explo sions on the Lusitanla, only one of which was oaused by a German tor-' MURDERED" MAX RETURNS; ANOTHER SERVING SENTENCE. Milwaukee, Wis., July 19. Frank Klug, for whose "murder" Nick Geor gian is serving a twenty-five-year sentence, and whose "body" was identified by relatives, returned to day to his awe-stricken family. Klug supposedly was murdered on August 22 last near Lake Station, this county. Georgian was sentenced on December 5, 1914. According to attorneys and offi cials, the fact that it was not Klug who was murdered will make no dif ference to Georgian. That a man was murdered was well established, they said, and the circumstantial evidence positively connected Georgian with the crime. Georgian, however,' has continual ly denied his guilt. Klug left home because of dhv couraging domestic conditions. Fear ing arrest for desertion he said, he made no effort to communicate with" his family, and a recent letter from friend gave him :Tiis first intimation that he had been urdered." " Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brooks leave today for North, (.W,Ukesborx. VFront there thev will A " v wuciutB on horseback. UrBro6Stldped his own hones to North Wilkesboro,