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r 10CAL NEWSJBRIEE;;FQRI1 UATTEBS OP INTEREST TCMniE " Naders of the pat FAB AND NEAR. its. For the .;iMinii a r 1 - - half of first August building permit; nupi- v.o tntftl estimated cost vred SIX aim - v be All were for dweinngs. - $14,- riMm Members . ol Had a ble trip to tuc cuvauiK .... .-mnaniT PAnnft ATI , io, al military cuivw. - p. vnrt caswen. 1" ' - - aS tie Guilford Grays, made a splen did showing. On Board of Accountancy. Mr. J. r il.:n ltTT eales, or iuiiA.w, u,- anvernor Craig a mem- iToi : the state board of accountancy. TM3 "ard wiU examine and license nv.iio eccountants Ordinance Works Well. The new trare ordinance which forbids the rVir0' of vehicles on Elm street, is forking well. Two policemen are treet constantly to remmu about the ordi- whc forget -Mr. G. W. on i-ie nance. will Make Address mid of the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, has heen invited n CT1pak at the American Life ,Cni ,n Mnnterev. Cal.. next venuu.i . month. His subject will be "Super vision." Funeral of Child. The- funeral of Aa Pearl Murphy, who died at the home of her parents! south pf the city Sunday, was held onday at Center Friends church. Rev. Mr. Reynolds itPri the service. She was five VUUUUVVx, years old. Superior Court. Opens. Judge M H. Justice opened the August term of Superior court yesterday after noon, signed several judgments and disposed of motions. No jury trials Avpre held. There will be four weeks of court in September. Death of Child. Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the two-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Lindiey, aiea Ionda v. t" m"wih ;v. i iuuv. -uo JCickBI. I VJHUSU2U 0111. 1 iltJ uuiuiuui Warket treet Methodis Sunday 1 sioners Tuesday afternoon were ask- Durham today. There they were I window on South Elm ttreet- " The joined by a Sunday school from Ral- I window was broken Saturday when a eigh. A baseball game, between thejpassirrg automobile wheel In -some two schools will "be 'played. .The jpro- way picked up a stone on thV street ceeds will go to the negro library. land hurled it against the window. Class Has Outing. The Baraca The rock had fallen from a wagon class of Grace Methodist Protestant hauling stone for street, work. The Sunday school had a picnic Monday J city declined to pay the MIL afternoon at the Children's Home at Meet at Old Point Comfort. The .... V High Point. About 40 members of $100,000 club of the Southern LifOy the , class went over in automobiles and Trust Company met yesterday at and both the young men and 'the Old Point Comfort, Va. A trip is children in the home-enjoyed the oc- given each year to agents producing casion. more than a certain amount of busl- Selling Canned Goods. Greens- ness. Those from Greensboro at- boro merchants have already boueht tending are R. J. Mebane, Arthur 1,000 cases of the products of the I Watt, C. A. Mebane, Dr. J. T. J. Bat- canning club products of the county tie, E. N. Snow, T. D. Dupuy, C. A and are in the' market for more. No 1 Banks. Jr., and J. W. Brcwley. merchant called upon has declined to Renews Fight on Flies. Mr. E. P. give an o'rder. The goods sell a lit- Wharton,, whose leadership in pre- tle higher than the ordinary canned vious. campaigns against the fly add products. Married in Winston-Salem. Mrs. Eunice M. Ireland and Mr. Neal W. Urling, both of this city, were mar ried in Winston-Salem Saturday. Mr. Urling is in business here, having" re cently came to the city. His bride is the daughter of Mr. P. M Shepherd. They will. live with the bride's sister, Mrs. L. A. Andrew. Gethsemane Revival.- The mem bers of Gethsemane church are hold ing a protracted meeting this week. Rev. Mr. Johnson, the pastor, is be ing assisted by Rev. Mr. Higins and Rev. Mr. Gordon. This will be the last revival in the old "Lulldlng. a? work will soon begin on the construc tion of a new church. Here From San Domingo. M. L. Ong, of SanDedro de Marcaris, Do minican Republic, is the guest of Mr. Andrew Joyner, on West Gaston street. Mr. Joyner for some time had ed to his reputation, is on the Job again. He has just returned "from the West. Immediately after his ar rival he announced that he would sell in front of the postoffice "tangle foot" at one cent a double sheets He means to make a lively fight on the fly from now until cold weather Attending Raleigh Meeting Coun ty Farm Demonstrator E. H. Ander son is in Raleigh attending the meet ing of farm demonstrators from "all sections of the state. Others who went from this county were Chaf fes and John Groome and Ernest Gam ble, of the boys' agricultural' 'club, and probably other members The thirteenth annual state farmers' and faVm women's convention will follow this meeting. Picnic Tomorrow. A union picnic of themajority of negro churches in the city will be held tomorrow at ttie Guilford Battle Ground. The South- New Corporatibn Chartered.- The Securities Guaranty Company, with this city las head office, has been in corporated and the certificate was recorded here yesterday. The au thorised stock is $125,000, with $50,- 000 subscribed for as follows: D. F7 Conrad of Lexington, 225 shares; J. B. Harrison, ' of Greensboro, 225 shares, and W; G. Swanson, of; Dan ville, Va., 50 shares. The company is i; authorized to run bottling works, make and sell ice and engage In other business. f Trying to Save the Trees. Repre sentatives of West Market Street Afethodist and First Baptist church es were before the city commission ers Tuesday to discuss the matter of a wider sidewalk on West Market street between the two churches. Mrs. J. E. Logan and others inter ested in the property between the two churches were represented by Colonel Barringer. Mrs. Logan wants' to put down a new sidewalk, but does not want her trees cut down. Some plan may be evolved by which the trees can be saved. Off to Atlantic City. r Among the Greensboro people who went to At lantic City on the Southern Railway excursion Tuesday night were the following: R. C. Berhau, Clifford Woolen, W. Z. Brown, R R. King, Jr., C. C. McLean, Mrs. I. F. West, Mrs. E. Caldwell, Mrs. P. F. McCar thy, J. J. Smith, J. H. Price, H. B. Leak, J. J. Lindsay, J. W. Brawley, J. L. Daniels, A. B. High, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Donnell, Miss .Nettie Fow ler, Mrs. L. G. Curtis, Miss Lela Coble, Miss Emma Lewis, H. F. Cobler Claude Pritchett and Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Pate. r Death Rate Low. The death rate in Greensboro for the first half of WAR 1 OF THE WEEK NOTHING DECISIVE IN EAST BRITISH LOSE TRANSPORT AND 1000 SOLDIERS. The general activity which is com pelling the Germans to give immedi ate attention to their northern half of the campaign has changed the character of the operations from Warsaw. The employment-of six German armies, or from 40 to 45 corps, over a front of 180 versts fac ing Osowiec and Brest-Litevsk, shows that their future tasks in the woody, swampy zone of Poliessie, surrounding Brest-Litovsk to the southeast, excludes the possibility of their turning the Russian left flank. In the Baltic provinces, on the Rus sian right, the Germans are now re inforced, troops having been brought alities, and j that: the: Italian govern Bulgaria and Greece rei Sctively car-f rying on military preparations. Ten Killed Near London. ! The outskirts of -London .were raid- ed Tuesday nigh t"by' Zeppelins' Sev- ; eral persons were killed, but the?" damage ta property was not lmpor- tant. Ten persons were killed and 36 injured.- One Zeppelin is believed f to have been hit. The air raid was! Over the eastern counties of Eng.- land. Kovno Taken by Germans. . Kovno, one of the crucial points in. the Russian defensive in the north has fallen and the road to the Vilna, Warsaw and Petrograd railway now is open to the troops of Emperor; Williams. ' The capture of Kovno was another - from Poland, where the army of triumph , for the German 16-inch Woyrsch has been filled by Austrians. Serious battles are expected now in the Baltic region, where the enemy's aims latterly have been com pelled to harmonize his . operations with the issue pf the recent sea fight. guns With the fortress the Germans took more than 400 guns, and ac cording to their account, an enor mous quantity cf war material. This, however, is not the most ser ious, part of the matter to the Rus- a government position in the repub- rn wil1 run a special train for this lie. Mr. Ong is chemist for the Santa occasion, leaving here at 8.30 in the Fe Sugar Refinery and is in the morning. The churches going are'i states nn his vncAtinn Trinity A. M. E. Zion, ProvidenceH Passed Bad Check. S. L. Elsing- Baptist, St. James Presbyterian, Shi-; v at the family home hear er was brought here from Asheville loh Baptist, New Zion, College Hillji Pleasant Garden. . Tlie funeraLjwas this $r.eek by Policeman SkD, O'Briant Bethel A; M. E. This promises faegroes brought the total to 11 The man flanks has removed fear that the cted Tuesday at Center Friends and will be tried in city eourt today Ibe a big occasion among the negroes. He retreated pending the arrival of sians. Besides opening the way to; reinforcements, at the time keeping Vilna., which is an open town and o vuiuuiuuiiaviuuo iiu vuc oca. i Li v ill wiuwu uiyjot. ii iuc uiuauiiaiiM Now that his reinforcements have ar- and everything, that, might, be xxf-use l rived he will make most stubborn ef-1 to the invaders have been removed. forts to regain the lost ground. Mean- the fall of Kovno takes away the last; while, reports from Riga show there Protection, with the exception Of thd- has been a resumption of the normal lissiafl field army, to the main linef life of the city. railway to the capital, and also The leading monasteries of Russia places the., Germana. in a .positipti, to' have asked and obtained permission I threaten the flanks of the Russian: to employ their workshops in making armies retiring to tlia Brest Litovsk line and those operating in southern Courland. FARMERS' ALLIANCE GAINS IN MEMBERSHIP.- shells for the army. The military situation is viewed by Russian army officers with a de gree of optimism, owing to the man ner in which the Germans have been August was low, according to reports checked at the crossings of the rivers to the health authorities. There were Liwiec and Krzna east of the Siedlce- L Persons who attended the twenty- no deaths from typhoid fever. The Ltiknv fmnt Confident is fait ninth annual session of , theNorth' only deaths among the white popu- here that the Russians will be able Carolina State Farmers' Alliance just lation were an infant and Mr. Snider, to make any further eastward 'pro- concluded in Hillsboro, report that who died at the hospital from in- cress of thp invaders vorv mstiv tn the organisation showed a gain in juries received in an explosion near them. w ainut iove. ine aeatns or nine "rha nnnnj-onf woaVncoo v.o n-n conduo church bv Rev. W. H. Reynolds School Bonds Sold. The city of Greensboro yesterday afternoon sold its $60,000 issue of school bonds to Bolger, Mosser & Williams, of Chi cago, at a premium of $654. There were 12 bidders. All bids were above par except two and one of those was at par. Death of Child Dorothy Adeline, the 20-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Foster, died Tuesday evening at 6.45 o'clock at the resi dence 503 West Bragg street. The funeral was held yesterday afternoon and interment was in Greene Hill cemetery. Picnic Yesterday. The Sunday for passing a bad check. He obtain- omracrs Awarded. ine city ed $100 from the Guilford hotel on commissioners opened "bids for the the check. The check came back and new school buildings Monday after- Elsinger was located in Asheville. He is a traveling salesman. Wins $250 Prize. The Odell Hardware Company, of this city, won fourth prize in the nation-wide win dow decorating contest of the Ric& Leaders of the World Association. The prize .was $250. Two other North Carolina concerns won smaller prizes. This contest was participated in by thousands of stores. Will Arrest Speeders. Beginning today deputy sheriffs will be station ed along the Pomona road, which is noon, d G. Johnson was the lowest bidder for the white school to be erected on Bragg street, his price being $9,918.90. M. L. Hlloday got thp negro school on East Washing ton streef at $8,884. There were tbout fifteen bidders on each build ing. Some b'ids were as high as $14,000 for one building. Work will be commenced right away. Convention at Asheboro. The Randolph County Sunday School Convention met this moraine in Asheboro and will be in session until tomorrow evening. Among the speakers for the two days are Rev. J. W. Lontg, Rev. A. G. Dixon, Prof. deaths among the negroes included Russian army would be" bottled up. three infants, one from tuberculosis and one from pneumonia. The ne gro convict who drank disinfectants and ate soap was also in the num ber. Popular Mail Carrier Dies. Mr. Jajnes H. King, for a number of years the carrier on rural mail route No. 1 from Gibsonville, died Monday Evidence of the seeming lack of 'of fensive power is found in the report ed removal of a portion of the Ger man troops from the Siedle-Lukow front to the Baltic region. yesterday. There was a, good at tendance, including a number of peo ple from Greensboro. The dinner was up to the high standard long ago set by this church. now one of the finest highways in school of Buffalo Presbyterian church the state, and all persons exceeding the SDeed limit will .be arrested. ueiu us annual picnic ai me ilLiiV-" I ' A tttm-i , . . Many complaints pave come to the j" xii.. . o. uieuaue, county officers, and this course was I Mr A w- McAlister, Rev. Joseph believed to be necessary. ; , Summer Bulletin - Issued. -The summer bulletin of Greensboro Col- I 1 TI7. 1 J . J JX Many Pay Dog Tax. According to "uu,eu 11 aB uwu 1BBUCU ttUU the police, there are 770 dogs in is n attractive publication. J?resi Greensboro, and tax has been paid dent Turrentine says he is expecting an enrollment that will tax the ca pacity of the. buildings.. The v music course has been entirely rearranged, and additions have been made to the faculty. To Have Factory Here. B. D. manuel and Company, .of Munice, Ind., expect to establish a branch fac tory here for the manufacture of. rib bons for typewriters, adding ma chines, etc. Mr. W. F. Thurmond, membership during the year just ended. The . folio wine counties were represented: Alamance, Bertie, Cof iambus, v;njritoC?sflKe!pwibe; Guilfbrd, Harhlati, Johnson, Lenoir, Martin, Orange, Wake, Wayne, Wil son and Warren. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: - President. M. P. Edwards, Speed, vice president, J. C. Bain, Wade; secretary and treasurer and business agent, J. H. Evans, Hillsboro; lecturer, H. M. Cates, Graham. In legislative matters the alliance- went on record as favorine the repeal of the -crop-lien iaw; fav oring segregation of the races in land-ownership; opposing the repeal on all but 91 of this number. It is announced that warrants will be is sued for owners who have not paid tax on their dogs. One who has not Paid is a policeman. Woodhouse-Doub. Miss Irma Woodhouse, of Boonville. and Mr. E. C Doub, of Winston-Salem, were married Tuesday at the home of the bridegroom's sister, Mrs. O. C. Cox, this city. Rev. Y. M. Swaim, of Winston-Salem, officiated. They will the sales manager, has been here for live in Winston-Salem. Close of Institute. The series of Sunday school institutes which have been held on one Sunday afternoon in each month for three months at Brown Summit closed last Sunday. At the last session Mr. J. Norman several days arranging for the open ing of the "plant about 15 persons. To Meet Here Next.; The North Carolina Motion Picture Exhibiters' League, which met in Wrightsvllle last week, decided to hold the Janu- Wills and Miss Ethel Troy, of this meeting in Greensboro. There Clty, were speakers. Buys Factory. S. F. Wall has Purchased the plant of the Kitchen Cabinet and Table Company, of High Toint, which has been in thfe bank- are more than 300 members of the organization. Percy Wells, of Wil mkigton. is president; H. B. Varner. of Lexington, secretary, and Otto Haas, of Charlotte, treasurerv Won't Accept Resignation. Ashe- Tuptey court Tf T PViannell is SU Perintendent Tho int has been boro Street Baptist church has de parted again and will continue to elined to .accept the resignation of ake tables and cabinets. Revival at Rehobeth. The revival ut Rehobeth church, which closed Monday night, was one of the most profitable and successful series of Rev. Robert P. Walker, which was tendered Sunday. This was decided by an enthusiastic and overwhelming vote last night. Mr. Walker has heen called to another church and may go despite the protest of his ttleetintrc. .r u-u i ill rrncra .- "eIU fint congregation. He has been Th e attendance v.ras unusually large. four years. In that time a $12,000 Hev. at. efc ' 1. " Church has been hum, iuu memoers during the revival, returned to received and the congregation has charge at Cooleemee Tuesday. 1 doubled. Peele, Miss Martha Dozier, Mrs. E. R. Michaux. of this county; Dr. W. A. Harper, of Elon College, and Mr. J. M. Broughton, Jr., of Raleigh. Boy's Tragic Death. Charles Workman, Jr., the seven-year-old j son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Work man, of High Point, met a tragic death Saturday when he wa(i run over by an auto wood-sawing ma chine. A front wheel and rear wheel passed over him. The father owns the machine and was running it along Seventh avenue in High Point when the boy fell from it and was crushed to death. The mother was ill at the time and was not told of the boy's death. Found Man in Room. Three It will employ I nng women wno nave a room in tne home or Mr. George J. Yates, on West Washington street, were great ly terrified Monday night when they awoke and saw a man standing in their room. Their screaming brought a number of neighbors, but by the time they came the burglar had quietly walked out on the porch and gotten away. The room had a large window opening on the front porch, and the man had taken out the screen and walked in. Destroyed 91 Stills. Revenue Of ficers under Col. W. H. Chapman, revenue agent here, destroyed 91 illicit distilleries during the month of July. Of this number 51 were in western North Carolina, 2? in the eastern part of the state and 13 in South Carolina. A big red ox and a dilapidated wagon were also taken In charge and will be sold. These were taken in -Wilkes county. The num ber above does not inelude illicit dis tilleries destroyed by state officers, Thousand Soldiers Drown. The British transport Royal Ed ward was torpedoed and sunk by a night at 10.30 o'clock in Gibsonville. German submarine in the Aegean He had been ill only a Tew days. The Saturday and only 600 are reported body was carried to Forsyth, Ga., saved out of 1,350 troops and 220 Tuesday and the funeral was held other persons aboard. , The official there yesterday. He had neve mar- announcement was made Tuesday ried and his nearest surviving rela- 'The transDort Roval Edward was tives are two cousins in the Georgia sunk by an enemy submarine in the OI tne b per cent. lntereRt Jaw or any. town in which he was buried. Mr. Aegean last Saturday morning. Ac- modification thereof; opposing in- vcinfr was nnnnior in r-ihCnniiQ otii nnrHinp- tn th infnrmotmr, ot nracant terference by the legislature with the On his route. He will be missed available the transport had on board r gllts of the Judiclary- among the many friendi his kindly 22 military officers and 1,350 troops, acts and upright character had won in addition to the ship's crew of 220 for him. officers and men. Mr. E. F. Pearce Dies. While on "Tue troops consisted mainly of a visit to friends nt T.ihprtv. Mr. TCir- reinforcements for the 29th division bert F. Pearce was taken suddenly ill and details of the Royal army medi and died MnndnV mnmiti?. His hndv cal corps. Full information has not was brought to Greensboro and the that about 600 have been saved." The loss of the Royal Edward is a serious one just at this moment. The men it carried were not part of a new expedition, but were reinforcements for the 29th division on the Gallipoli peninsula. The news came as a shock uneral was conducted Tuesday af ternoon by Rev. R. D. Sherrill at the residence, 51 7 West Lee street. In terment was in Greene Hill cemetery. Mr. Pearce had been in bad health for some months, but the announce- Big Gift by JHikes to Methodists. ' In a letter published in the Ral eigh Christian Advocate, from Bish op' John C. Kilgo, to the Methodists of North Carolina, announcement is made that Messrs. J. B. Duke and B. yet been received, but it is known N Duke' tne Norf n Carolina million aires, win give annually to the work of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, in North Craolina, of which they are members, the sum of $35, 000, this being the interest on a fund of $700,000. The announcement states that $15,000 a year will be man n-f Ytt. 4nV. nnmj Mfl r grear8hock to hla frtenas d re.- to the British public, who believed iS" atives. He had for a number of thfs submarine menace in the Aegean years been a member of Centenary nad been dealt with successfully. Methodist church, and was also a This 18 the first occasion since the member of a local K. of P. lodge. He sinking of the battleship Majestic on is survived by his wife and one May 27 tnat tne German submarines. which made the long trip to the Dar danelles, have scored a success. daughter, Miss Fannie Lee Pearce. PUBLIC SENTIMENT AGAINST EXECUTION OF A WOMAN. years ago for the murder of her hus band, others have been executed since, but nbne within recent years. The sentiment is strong now and it is strong enough to save a woman, no matter how aggravated her, guilt; I Trt..1nr trnnna in nment to save Jars, warreu. i- 1 t TCrfniv the south in preparation ior eienwi- . 000 for home mission work, and $10, 000 for the relief of aged Methodist ministers. These gifts are in addition to the millions given by the Dukes to Trinity College, the Methodist col lege of North Carolina. The latest benefactions to the college are funds for the building of a stone fence Greece on Eve of War. about the college campus, and other Eleutherios Venizelos, who early needed improvements of similar na- in the year resigned the premiership ture. of Greece because Kine Constantino The sentence of death imposed on ... t ahara! hlg n-,nftf that Greece Mm. J. 8. Carr TWri Mrs. Warren, in Forsyth Superior ghould joln the entente powers in the Mrs. Nannie Graham Parrish Carr, court, has started the talk about the war hag after tfle ,tlim to power of wife of General Julian S. Carr, of execution of women. Some papers niB party in tfle cnamDer of deputies Durham, died yesterday morning at assert that never in the history of and resignation o ne cabinet of M. 8.15 o'clock at her country home at the state has a woman oeen iesany Qounaris, been requested by his Oceoneechee, following lingering executed, while ethers have heard of monarcn to orm a new ministry. illness from a complication of dis- only one. It may or may not be to venizelos has asked four days in eases. The funeral will be held our credit, but it is a fact that more wnicn conslder his reply wjje Saturday. Mrs. Carr is surviv- than one woman has been executed u geems apparen. tnat the king and ed by her husband, four sons, Messrs. in the history of North Carolina. A tQe former premier have reached an Marvin Carr, of New York; J. S. woman, wnose case i understanding as to Greece's future Carr, Jr., Austin Heaton Carr and was hanged in Burke county many I that pollCy hag not Claiborne Carr, of Durahm; two become known. daughters, Mesdames Leila Patton The political situation, not alone and Lida Flower, of Kansas City, as regards Greece, but in all the Mo-I one brother. Captain Parrish other Balkan states, apparently re- and one Biter, Mrs. Fannie Halli mains in a chaotic stat6, although burton, both of Durham. j -there are unofficial reports that the to save I States ville Landmark. Cary Johnson has returned from v. 7' 4 i if I 1 I "r. Z 1 4 2 . ; 1 4T Vv .if ..." . .' X
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