North Carolina Newspapers

AND THURSDAY r: 8UISHED 1821 r jutv 2pt icic " ii - i , tmlmmm mmi m . ....... . i . , . rnii ire - m FAB AND NEAR. Harris1---01061"0 Har; 0106,0 t his home on DiHard street ied;e4ning,followingan illness Sturaa , weeks. The funeral was f Sef vairfield church yesterday, af ield at was 68 years of age. iern00nr. nbow Better. Mr. C. R. nf Oak Ridge, who suffered nf oaralysis a ib " SU' J was desperately ill for a ? a . neatly improved. He is "fabTe to be up and attend to bu5iD?tfere Vext. The grand lodge f ' "gr0 Knights of Pythias, in 0I' th last week in Elizabeth City, SSf ' meet in Greensboro next T The grand lodge numbers all Julyne.ro lodges of the state, and the & wiU be QUUe " large a representative one. Ch of Baby Lyman, the five- s-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. f 11 oloman, died at the homNo. JpLi, street, White Oak, Friday na The body was carried to SSm Saturday morning on the JJtraln and the funeral held in afternoon at 2 o cioc. Landreth. Tne luueitu UA or tae civ-vear-old daughter E. Landretn, wno near Brown Sum- J. Btiitli Edit ii tin A Mrs TV s.A at the home JJUridav morning at 11.30 o'clock, wl held Saturday afternoon at 4 fl-c;0pk from Lee's chapel. Interment TOc in the church cemefiry. Excursion Tomorrow. A special excursion train will be operated from W to Norfolk, Va., Tuesday night, leaving here at 7.30 o'clock. It is expected that a large number will avail themselves of the opportunity ci spending a short time at the sea h0w. The rate is very lew. Half of Money Raised Nearly $1,- 000 of the $1,900 needed to get the Greensboro baseball club out of debt las been subscribed, and the direc tors have hopes of getting the re mainder. They have found people responsive to the appeal, though sub scriptions have not been large. Mann-Brines Concert. The most enjoyable of the closing events of the State Normal and Industrial College was a concert Thursday evening by Miss Evangeline Mann, soprano, and M. J. Brines, tenor. The program Tas well chosen and splendidly exe cuted before an appreciative audi ence. Celebrates Birthday. D. E. Al- trisht, w ho lives between Greensboro snd Guilford College, celebrated his 5t'n birthday last Wednesday. Many relatives and friends were present and a big dinner was enjoyed. The day T.as spent most pleasantly and tae caests extended many good Snake in An Egg. Mrs. J. P. Rankin, of South Greensboro, dis covered a snake of well denned pro Portions in an ordinary hen egg Fri day morning. The snake was about ?,x :z :hes long, it was declared. Sev eral who saw the strange product of the ecg could not be shaken in their counts. fjpapt 'Story JteTes -Capt. G E.: St0ryy of the . local Salvation Army: corps, last night conducted his fare yrl service here. He will leave this week for Columbia, S. C, to take charge of the work there. He has been in Greensboro two years. He will be succeeded here by Ensign Parker, of Savannah, Ga ,rwho comes highly recommended. Wants Places Cleaned Up. Mrs. Mary T. Petty, who has charge of the Benbow arcade, was before the city commissioners Friday to urge them to adopt measures to clean up - sev eral places near her building. he says that some of tne premises in the community are , breeding places for flies. She was told the health of ficers would .investigate. Institute and Picnic. The farm ers' institute and woman's meeting at McLeansville Thursday promises to be a big event. The program of exercises begins at 10 o'clock. A big dinner will be served on the grounds. Every family in eastern Guilford is invited and are requested to bring baskets. There will be bomething of interest for both sexes of all ages. Objections to Paving. Thursday the paving of gutters was held up on North Elm street because of alleged bad work, the city authorities being the complainants. Friday property owners objected to the entire work and some of them stated it as their conviction that the paving was not up to specifications. The mater is being investigated, by the city engi neer. . Self Case Continued. The case of C. Self, charged with shooting E. L. Flack, at Brown Summit, last Wed nesday when Flack, in company wtih two of his brothers, entered the res taurant and jumped on him, was not tried Saturday owing to the fast that Mr. Flack was unable to be present. The case will be tried next Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock before 'Squire J. B. Minor. For House Breaking. Waldese Murray was arrested yesterday after noon charged with breaking into the house of Jasper Baynes and stealing a quantity of goods. Baynes had been in jail with his wife in connec tion' with the death of a child alleged to be theirs. Baynes gave bond-Saturday and he went home and found his house had been entered. Both parties are negroes and live on Watts street. Milk Source of Typhoid. Dr. W. S. Rankin, of the state board of health, who came here to investigate "simmer Chorail GmcertWtt school choral concert was given at the State Normal College Friday evening. Tne soloists assisting in the program were Mrs. Minnie Haynes Edmonds, soprano; Mrs. Nell Breshingham Starr, contralto; Gur- ney Briggsv tenor? P E. Epps, bass. Mr. Scott-Hunter was organist; Miss Allene Minor, pianist, and Prof. Wade R. Brown, director The pro gram, which was of a high order, was greatly enjoyed. A Menace to Health. Mr. W. H. Swift, was before the city commis sioners Friday to make complaint against the present method of clean ing surface closets in Greensboro. He spoke of the large number of cases that had been before him as acting judge of the city court?' He sug gested that the city do the work andl charge a fee for it, instead of mak ing the owners responsible. The commissioners declined to follow the v. suggestion, and will continue the old plan. Dr. Liull Returns. Dr. E. E. Lull reached the city Friday after a voy age to France and return. He went over as veterinarian on a ship that carried 1,046 horses from Norfolk, Va., for use in the French army. He left Norfolk on June 22 and reached Bordeaux, France. July' 6. He left Bordeaux July 8 and arrived at New port News July 22. He was away just a month and the sailing time was two weeks each way. The ship landed safely the cargo of horses. Of the 1,046, only 54 succumbed to the hardships of the voyage. Dr Lull was not sick at all. THIRD iioiE to $mm iPUIX, TEXT OF LATEST COMMJJN ICATJON IS -MADE PtJBIilC, ! ipiT PRESIDENT. FARMERS INSTITUTE AT PLEASANT GARDEN. The first of the three farmers' in stitutes to be held in Guilford coun ty was at Pleasant Garden Friday. A laree number of farmers and their families were in attendance and the sessions were held in the graded The 'text of the third?. American note qn submarine warfare presented at Beflin Friday by Ambassador Ger ard reveals that the imperial govern ment piad been informed it is the in tentioii of the United States to re gard f as "deliberately unfriendly" any repetition by the commanders of German naval vessels of acts in con travention of American rights. The United States announces that it will continue to. contend for the freedom of the seas, "from whatever quarter violated, without compromise and at any cost." In official and diplomatic quarters the communication was viewed as the strongest and most emphatic pro nouncement that has come from the Washington government 3ince the De fining of its correspondence with the belligerents of Europe. President Wilson returned to Cornish, N. H. Friday night to await developments On the assumption that Germany has already admitted the illegality of her practices by attempting to justify them as retaliatory moves against Great Britain, the United States ex presses the belief that Germany will ho longer "refrain from disavowing the wanton act of its naval comman der in sinking the Lusitania or from offering' reparation for the American lives lost, so far as reparation can be made for a needless destruction of Human life by an illegal act." i Following is the official text of the jlote which was delivered to the for e,ign office at Berlin by Ambassador Gerard Friday: "Department of State, "Washington, July 21, 1915. "You are instructed to deliver tex tually the following note to the min ister for foreign affairs: "The note of the Imperial German they deprive neutrals of their ac-land government jbfQ-Scrmiii;.Cftr- . knbwleged rights, particularly - when I tibn impels it opfessery solem&f , 4hey violate' the right to life itself. If fly upon the imperial government the 7 a belligerent cannot retaliate against necessity tor ai 'scrupulous pbserr- an enemy without injuring the lives l ance of neutral rights in this critical . . .. I .:. . , Jl . -5, oi neutrals, as wen as ineir property, i matter. jjxienasnip men prompw , humanity, as well as justice and a lit to say to the imperial government - due regard for the dignity of neutral that repetition by the commanders powers, should dictate that the prac of German naval vessels of. acts in tice be discontinued. If persisted in I contravention of those: rights must be- regarded by the government of the United States, when they affect American citizens, as deliberately un friendly. ; "LANSING." women were or nigh order ana were enjoyed and appreciated by the peo i1a fhA lAlinfv stock farmer of Rockingham county and a frequent contributor to agri cultural journals, , made an address filled with valuable information of the best methods of enriching soil by stock raising. Mr. French stated in his address that the soils of Piedmont it would in such circumstances con stitute, an unpardonable offense against the sovereignty of .the neu tral nation affected. The govern ment of the United States is hot un mindful of the extraordinary condi tions created by this war, of the-radical alterations of circumstance and method of attack produced by ha use of instrumentalities of ha val war fare which the nations of the world cannot have had in view when the existing rules of international law were formulated, and it is ready to make every reasonable allowance for Inquiries aaL to Orduna. The .Unitedi States will make diplo matic inquiries of Germany regard ing the submarine attack on theCu- nard liner Orduna at a time when she was bringing a score of AmerK cans home. A report of an investigation- con-; school auditorium. The nroeram for both the meetings-for men anQ4foyernment, dated the 8th of July 19J.5, has received the careful con- siaeration or tne government or nhe United States, and it regrets to be ducted by Customs Collector Malone, these novel and unexpected aspects at New York', presented to the state of war at sea; but it cannot consent department, embracing affidavits of to abae any essential pr fundamen tai right of its people because or a mere alteration of 'circumstance. The rights of neutrals in time of war are based upon principle, not upon ex pediency, and the principles are im mutable. It is the duty and obliga tion of belligerents to find a way to adapt the new circumstances to them. The events of the past two months have clearly indicated that it is possible and practicable to conduct such submarine operations as have characterized the activity of the im perial German navy within the so- called war zone in substantial ac cord with the accepted practices of regulated warfare. The whole world has looked with interest and increas ing satisfaction at the demonstration of that possibility by 'German naval commanders. It is manifestly possi ble. therefore, to lift the whole prac tice, of submarine attack above the criticism which it has aroused, and remove the chief causes of offense. "In view of the admission of ille- gality made by the imperial German government when it pleaded the right of retaliation in defense of Its acts, officers, -crew and passengers on the liner, contains the sworn statement of at least one American passenger that the ship was attacked without warning. All officials refused to discuss the report or its contents, but it is known that state department of fi cials did hot feel they could "address inquiries to German on (..statements made by British passengers alone. Now, in possession' of statements by Americans, the United States prob ably will ask the Berlin foreign office for its version. DR. ALEXANDER AT STATE : NORMAL COLLEGE FRIDAY. A. L. French, p'romineht grain .df " U tf W.LMd Dr.'H. Q.' Alexander, president of the State Farmers' Union, spoke to the students of the State Normal and Industrial College summer school Friday, as one of the closing events. His subject was "Adult Illiteracy." He treated the subject in a very In teresting and intelligent manner. He discussed the question of moon light schools and declared that through them it is hoped that 4.he il literacy among, the, adults ' of ' the state -may be .eliminated. Something very -unsatisfactory; because" It fallsi" of -eonformteg to the estalishfedqQMne, to meet the real differences between rules of naval .warfare, the -govern-the two governments and indicates ment of the United States cannot be- no way in which the accepted princi- eve that the imperial government pies of law and humanity may be ap- wil1 longer refrain from disavowing Dlied in the erave matter in. contro- the wanton act of its naval comman North Carolina are no better than the cause of typhoid fever in the city, they were 15 years ago. He gave as expressed the opinion yesterday that the reason for larger end better the epidemic had been caused by the use oi mieciea miiK. tie round no other cause. Forty-four cases have developed, but there have been no deaths since the last issue of The Pa triot. Few of the present cases are regarded, as critical. Pan-American Dinner. Fifteen hundred invitations were issued to the "Pan-American dinner" to be' given at the State Normal and Indus- trial College on the evening of Aug ust 4, when Secretary of the Treas ury McAdoo will be the principal speaker. There will be five-minute speeches by a number of others. It is expected that all officers of cham bers of (inmmfirp.fi and similar nrcani- Eliminate Crossings. By a good zations of the state will be in at- uta, 31 work in connection with double tendance. iractmg the Southern Railway has pirated many of the grade crcss 'n?s Between Greensboro and HJc.'burg 20 underpasses have been "fcte, 19 bridges built, 15 crossings Abated by changing roads, leav 1D? 19 grade crossings. Canning School Begins The can Dln school for sub-agents of the county began this afternoon in the irt house annex and will be con ned tomorrow morning. It is un- r 'he direction of Miss Grace ass county demonstration agent, tsred by Miss Ruth Evans, assis neld agent, of Raleigh. r- Keeling m. Mr. Spencer tenner. wh r... . icwuuy pent some ue st at t , .. . . eo S nospitai, is again a h 1 lnstitution. Friday lra a stroke of paralysis tfffotprl V, !o i j. j i j. cialiv not regarded as espe- - critical, his condition is serl- - ienas are not permitted to see W R!tCe Linging.- , - suitor of thQ -Mr. J. M. C ne ually Record, uen QPSnprotDlv ill Va rviU,&1j 111 Past R. G. Burnsides Dead. Mr. R. G. Burnsides passed away at his home on East Gaston street last nigth at 9.45 o'clock, following an illness of several months: He was well known in the city and county, and for a long time was in the employ of the city He drove tne nrst nre wagon ever brought to Greensboro, lie is sur vived by his wife and three sons, who live here. Mrs. Nancy Kirkman and Mrs. Mary Gorrell , are sisters, and Banjamln Burnside3, of Greens boro, is a brother. Two brothers live in Texas and another in Ashe- ville. The funeral will be held at Alamance church. He was 59 years of age. Mr. McAlister Speaks. The negro Sunday school workers of the city met Thursday night at St. James Presbyterian church for. the purpose of organizing to take up the teacher training work. Mr. A. W. McAlister was the speaker, outlining the work as carried on by the white Sunday school workers of Greensboro. Upon a suggestion by him, the following crops of today the use of better farm implements and better crop rotation. He was emphatic in his remarks to the farmers of Guilford and Pied mont North Carolina that there should be more stock raisers among them. Following the address by Mr. French the crowd adjourned for din ner and the grove about the school building was dotted . with table spreads on which were piled high the best things ' to eat that can be prepared. After the dinner hour the farmers gathered under a large tree where material had been placed for the con struction o a "V" shaped road drag, A road drag was made and horses road drag was made and horses hitched to it and the stretch of road in front of the school building drag ged. The farmers expressed them selves as being favorably impressed with the boys' road patrol plan,, and expressed a desire of having it start ed in their community. County Commissioner Tucker was present and saw the operation of the patrol, noting the success of the work. The drag was then turned over to a team and man making a gift of the imple ment to the farmers of Pleasant Gar den community. The cheapness of the drag was surprising to the farm ers wheu they were told that the to tal cost would amount to only 42 cents. v . There was held in connection with the institute for men. an institute for women. Mrs. w- im. nun. aauressea the institute in, the afternoon with other speakers. Rural life and eco nomics In the home, better living, hannier surroundings for women were all emphasized. versy, but purposes, on the contrary, arrangements for a partial suspen sion of those principles which vir- ually set them aside. "The government of the United States notes with satisfaction that the imperial German government rec ognizes without reservation the val- dity of the principle insisted on in the several communications which this government has addressed to the Imperial German government with regard to. its announcement of a war zone and the use of submarines against merchantmen on the high seas the principle that the hieh seas are free, that the character and cargo of a merchantman must first be ascertained before she can lawful- six Or . I AAmmUt.a WA T1 flTTlpH ATI nArmTlfiTlT siKiK 6UL weeks, has shown r lit C i . the Past , s u improvement during sci0Us at days- He has been con t( ta'-p ,tervals and been 'able ever. nourishment. " Hid nil. outlet.. aiiending physicians UUPe Of fivon x uai restora tion How- hold organization: Prof. J. E. Wallace, Rev. R. B. Watts, Dr. J. G. Walker, J. H. Dillard and W. N. Nelson. Weekly meetings will be held each Thursday night at 7.30 o'clock, t Investigating Fire. Capt. W. A: cott, of the insur ance department, is investigating" an alleged incendiary fire in Carteret county. It is believed that a fishing lodge was burned there because somebody. in the community was not to health. the St. James church, until the work pennitted to fish on the property of 1a woll rweanizfid and under wav. I the lodge. der in sinking the Lusitania or from offering reparation for the American lives lost so far as reparation can be made for a needless destruction of human life by an illegal act. "The government of the United States, while not indifferent to the friendly spirit in which it is made, cannot accept the suggestion of the imperial government that certain vessels be designated and agreed up on which shall be free on the seas -f T 1 m now niegaiiy prescriDea. The very agreement would, by implication, subject other vessels to illegal attack and would be a curtailment, and, therefore, an abandonment of the principles for which this government contends, and which in times ofcalm ly be seized or destroyed, and that er counsels every nation would con- the lives of non-combatants may in no 'case be put in jeopardy unless the vessel resists or seeks to escape after being summoned to submit to exam ination; for a belligerent act of re cede as a matter of course The government of the United States and the imperial German gov ernment are contending for the same great object, have long fetood togeth- tallation is per se an act beyond the er in urSinS the verv Pnciples un law, and the defAn f n n t. i on which the government of the taliatory is an admission that it is illegal. -me government of the United States Is, however, keenly disappoint ed to find that the imperial German government regards itself as in large degree exempt from the obligation to observe these principles, even vyuere neuirai vessels are concern ed, by what it believes the nolicv ana practice of the government of Great Britain to be in the present A .in. . wr wiui regara to neutral com merce. The imperial German gov- United States now so solemnly in sists. They are both contending for the freedom of the seas. The gov ernment of the United States will- continue to contend for-1 that free dom, from whatever quarterTiolated,' without compromise and at any-cost. It invites the practical co-operation of the imperial German government at this time when co-operation may accomplish most, and this great com mon object be most strikingly and effectively achieved. y -- '.. as well as 'for the children, IT North Carolina hopes soon to lower the percentage of illiteracy. While it is fine enough to educate the children, this does not t eliminate a condition that is unfortunate now, said the speaker. This percentage means that there are &u,uuu voters in tne state wno cannot read and write, according to the figures of Dr. Alexander. To aid these the moonlight schools have been started, and he appealed to the teachers to fulfill the great call upon them as the ones who are to alle viate the situation. He praised the work the teachers have done, and laid stress on the im portance of the profession, which necessarily must have in it the heart of service. He lamented the poor pay of the teachers, saying that "1 think the teachers of the state ought to get double what they are getting." The summer school will close tomorrow. WANT BETTER SYSTEM FOR TOBACCO STATISTICS. G. E. Webb, of Winston-Salem, secretary-treasurer . of the Tobacco Dealers' Association of the United States, and two other tobacco men, HelmGlover and H. L. Boatright, of Danville, Va., conferred in Washing ton Friday with a committee of rep resentatives of the department of commerce, the treasury department and department of argiculture in re lation tier tobacco statistics. A resolution Was adopted to rec ommend : to Congress when it con venes that all tobacco statistics shall be disseminated in. the future from one central' bureau instead of from ernment will readily understand that the government of the United States cannot discuss the policy of the government of Great- Britain with regard to neutral trade except with that government itself, and that it jnust regard the conduct of other belligerent governments as ir relevant to any discussion with the imperial German government of what this government regards as grave and unjustifiable violations of the rights of American citizens by Ger man naval commanders. Illegal and inhuamn acts, however justifiable they may be thought to be against an enemy who is believed to have acted in contravention of law and human ity, are manifestly indefensible whei "The imperial German government expresses the. hope .that this object, lne Iour Dureaus now m existence. may be in, some measure accom- j-The Internal revenue department is pushed even before the present war Torea ror tner work. The conrer- ends. It can be. The -government xence also will ask Congress to au of the United States not only feels orize the department of agricul obliged to insist upon it, by whomso- , ture to lie an annual statement of ever violated or -ignored, in the pro-. tne tooacco Dusiness or tne world, tection of its own citizens, but is also I At Present .the bureau of census, deeply interested in seeing it made tne bureau of statistics, the depart- practicable between the belligerents themselves, and holds itself ready at any time to act as the common friend who may be privileged to suggest a way. "Tn Ta m aaittlm a Hi A ranr voIha which this government sets upon, the j long and unbroken friendship be-1 ment of agriculture and the internal revenue department all issue tobacco statistics. Because of the absence of ' team work the data has been unsat- isfactory and of little use to the to . bacco industry, it was complained. Mr. . and Mrs. W. B. Blair have tween the, people and government f gone to Brunswick, N. 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