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,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.
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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,