North Carolina Newspapers

it 1 V VS. v.- PUBLISHED -I. if- -'J ... k - V. r i - 1 - 1 -- v- MED 1821) r. -7- , ...-1' W LJ m '"I Nrt 1 . - - ' - r . - - - - " - ' W,- r- NEWS IN BBJfit tvt BREST TO THE ri. cr OF THE PATKv FAB AND NEAR. ON GUTLFOIID COLLE0E SEWAGE MATTER, rr,jx- u officially I UUaJ t101, ' ' which is a legal n this state. In Greensboro aV i being observed by the ile ua: . h the banks. Revenue Officers ?tiU aoturriav seized vv:'iiul jonnsw" He" t de -till which they found at ,bit about four miles north of p -hp They didn't have the Git?0! , Matne the owners and of meeting Gators of the plant. r ,,e"e Opening. Greensboro Col 1 fr Women will open Wednes-legei,.nin- for the fall term. For- W . 1 ,..n,iao tn which the fed, Will ue iieivx in 1;,, 1I1V1 pUP clnpel Tuesday morning, ;nber ) xv.v, Guiirora coun- Se ty 1 l.aiWM'S, civ of the 77 new law- hv the Supreme court ..1. Thpv are: Robert Evans io;t ef r Stephen oianu uwwj, w-kt, Hubert Dale Pegg, Holt iicuau., Edward Columbus Jerome and Don Bavmond RirKman. erwes to Liean up. aciiu6 uu . ,-D r.f tho rirv health de- der msirucuuiio w. . tmpnt. M. K. Tyson, the-assistant Mih ofhcer ior i.iie v""-'cu iC " . 1X1 J. Greensboro, has announcea inai September 15, 16 and 17 will be ob- :,ed as clean-up days in me color ed settlements of the city. Civic Meeting. The Civic Com mon Council of Greensboro, which Tas formed recently by representa tives of a number of organizations in he citv. will hold its first meeting HV ' in the rooms ot tne unamuer oi oum men tomorrow night. The call does not specify the object of the meeting Fioe Apples. County Treasurer is exhibiting some very came from an orch- Stokesdale. 4- McKinney e aDDles that ar,l on ins itnui iicai They are of the Kea nucKingnam va ne;;., and are very large and almost perfectly formed. One of the finest sneciments measured 11 7-8 inches ji ciri'umierence, ana Mr., iviciviniiey says tnere are still larger appie uu ike trees. Death in Leaksville. Mrs. John D. Martin, the mother of Mrs. W. H. McGlamery and Mr. G. A. Martin, of this city, died Thursday night at her home in Leaksville. She was 60 years of age and is survived by her hsband and several children. Be fore her marriage she was Miss An nie Billard, a member of one of Rockingham county's most promi nent families. luto Accident. An automobile occupied by J. T. Brown, Jr., T. M. Price and Misses Florence Allred and Florence Elkin, of Proximity, turned turtle at the corner of North Elm and Church streets shortly after 8 o'clock last night, the accident being lue, n is alleeed. to reckless driving. Brown was ninned beneath the car. but suffered no injury worthy of the name. The young women suffered several cuts and bruises. S. H. Boyd Named. Mr. Samuel H. 3od nf P.roonehnrn whn hnlda a Position in Washington as chief of tke income tar rHvfsirm of tbf treas ury department, has been named by Secretary McAdoo as one of a com mittee of six "to make a thorough investigation of the entire treasury service for the purpose of making commendations for placing the de partment on a more efficient, eco nomical and modern business basis." Hebrew New Year. The Jewish year's day, the oldest of all the Tebgious festivals of the world, will be celebrated Thursday. The obser vance Of tho hnlimr TirVtlstV. 4a rt ' v. ILKJ k J , TV IX lsll IB ISUC ciost solemn in the Hebrew calen- (iar' '111 begin at sundown Wednes da evening and continue until sun- ihursday. The places of busi- tleSS Of tho T-TfiVv.rtTira a Vk-k - iijcwo ji uiccuauuiu be closed during the day. Re- synagogue, on East Lee street, Wed- evening and Thursday morn- Dr.Thomas Newlin, president of Guilford College; Dr. L. L. Hobbs, president emeritus, "and Mr. J. El- Wbod Cox, chairman of the board of trustees, held a conference with the, city commissioners Thursday after noon regarding the disposal of the sewage 01 the college. Tho matter has been a bone of contention for 3me time, the city authorities contending that the sewage should be either di verted from the Greensboro wafer shed or a system of sand filters in stalled in accordance with instruc tions from the state board of health. In Thursday's conference the posi tion of the college "was outlined by Dr. Hobbs, who assured4 the commis sioners that the college authorities are desirous of co-operating in every way possible with them in order to better conserve the health of the community. He suggested, however, that the institution is not a money making one and that the expenditure of a sum of money that would be necessary for this work would bo a very serious drain on itj r sources. He made a proposition, therefore, that the proposed sand filters be in stalled and the college and city share equally in the expense. The commissioners took no official action on this proposition, although Mayor Murphy spoke unofficially for the board, stating that he did not think the city would be willing to bear part of the expense for this work, but that he would make a counter proposition that if the sew age be diverted to some other stream, not emptying on the Greensboro wa tershed, the city would bear half the expense of the work. The college authorities seemed to think that the expense that would be involved by the proposition tentative ly submitted by Mayor Murphy wpuld be too great for them to bear. However, it was decided to have the city engineer make a survey and sub mit an estimate of the probable ex pense of diverting the sewage to some other, stream, presumably South Buf falo, after which another conference will be held and some definite plan of action agreed upon. OFFICERS ABRjEST JOHN WADE AND CONFISCATE AIJTO, TWO HORSES AND LIQUOR. Scrr: -yr 1 the pastcrw rdays wa the purchase by Mr. - W,!p; -Boren of tne vacant lot ImmediaicjS-west of, 'Tie.' A, F. For- John Wade, a white man of Hih tune's feMqence, on -STest Market Pokrt, who is reputed to be one of street, anTunning thrijpgU to Fyca- theking bees of the blind tiger in- more strcat. v Mr: Boren will erect dustry in Guilford county, ran afoul Dn the prt&erty a twinstory fire-proof of the law Friday night, and when buildingihe used as a garage. The he regained his liberty Saturday af- build in gfUl extend through the ternoon the officers had confiscated block, ftto entrances pn VtJi West his automobile and about 15 gallons Market and Sycamore "streets. It is of corn whiskey and required a jus tified bond of $1,000 for his appear ance at the next criminal term of Su perior court. The arrest of Wade is one of the most important blind tiger house bWlding. raids made in the county in some Mr. Boren's purchase marks the time. invasion of the resident section of Friday afternoon Deputy Sheriff West Market street for business pur- Shaw, who is holding things down poses. This street furnishes the most An important, riaitate deal ofJteTT . BOARD OF EDUCATION AT saturda:ys MEETING. TO APPRAISE PROPERTY FOR INHERITANCE TAX. Dr. W. T- Whitsett, chairman of the county board of education, was under fire at . a meeting of the board Saturday, the attack coming from neighbors of his at Whitseft who are dissatisfied with the manner in which the public school at that place is be ing managed. A delegation of citi zens appeared before the board and asked that body to take steps to remedy conditions surrounding the conduct of the school, which 1 for years has been operated in connec tion with the work of Whitsett In stitute of which Dr. Whitsett is the head and controlling spirit. The complainants asserted that during the cross-continent trip of attractive outlet for the expansion of Dr. Whitsett made promises in the rumored "that the building will be occupied by the Greensboro Motor Car Company, which at present is quartered in the old Banner ware- it appears tnat tnere are quite a number of estates in this county de scended from people who have died since iyu5 that nave not paid any inheritance tax, and preparations are being made to appraise the property and collect the money, which will amount to a snug sum. The inherit ance tax law was passed in 1905 and has been changed by practically every legislature that has met since then. The corporation commission, which collects this tax, h;i.s appointed Mr. B. E. Jones, appraiser for Guil ford county, and he has been engaged for several days in familiarizing him self with the law so as to be able to perform the duties, of the position in telligently and with expedition. There is a good deal of valuable real estate in Greensboro, High Point and throughout the county to be apprais ed for the inheritance tax. All the back taxes will be collected. Guilford's Assessment Raised. The North Carolina corporation commission, in its capacity of state tax commission, has ordered an in crease of 10 per cent in the assessed valuation of all real estate in Guil ford county, this being done in an effort to Dlace the assessments of the various counties of the state on a basis of equality as nearly as possi ble. The figures are not available yet to show just what thiq will mean in the way of increased revenue; but it will amount to a considerable sum. It is estimated that the increased assessment for the entire state will amount to $92,000,000. Sheriff Stafford, received a grapevine telegraph message to ths effect that Wade had an appointment to deliver an automobile load of liquor that night to several Greensboro tigers at a rendezvous on the High Point road. He decided that he would be on hand for the performance and invited Dep uties Weatherly, Hobbs, Clark and Ingram to join him in the chase. Along about 8 o'clock the officers rode out to a point a short distance beyond the Jewish cemetery and con cealed themselves along the side of. the road. In a short while two or three negroes appeared on horseback and began riding slowly up and down the road, and the deputies knew then that they had chosen the right place. Later other horsemen and a man in a buggy appeared. Leaving one of their number to keep watch on the road, the tigers gathered in. a small body of woods between the officers and the cemetery to await the coming of their Saturday and Sunday supply of liquor. After lying on the wet ground about two hours the deputies were rewarded by the appearance of Wade's automobile. The machine had hardly come to a stop in ths road when the negroes began swarm ing out'of'the woods and claiming their liquor. The officers made a rush for the machine, coming up from the rear. Wade was under ar rest before he realized what was happening, Deputy Shaw seizing him as he sat in the car. The negroes made a break for liberty and all but one got away. Two of the men ran off through the woods and left their horses tied to trees. Wade and the negro, along with the automobile, the liquor and the two abandoned horses, were brought to town, the two men being commit ted to jail. Wade was unable at that hour of the night to give the bond of $1,000 required of him, but he furnished it readily when carried before Justice of the Peace Collins Saturday afternoon for a preliminary hearing. The negro, who is held under the charge of having more li quor in his possession than the law allows, will be given a hearing today. The officers seized the automobile and the two horses under the section of the prohibition law which says that any vehicle, animal or other property used in transporting liquoi illegally shall be confiscated to the state. The officers know the owners of the two horses and they will prob ably be arrested. At a recent term of court Wade was convicted of selling liquor, but got off by paying a fine and giving a bond of $500 for his appearance at court from time to time to show that he had not been engaged in the li quor business. It is presumed the t this bond will be declared forfeited at the next term of court. the business district of the city , and Mf. Boren's lot is one of the most de- sirable pieces of unimproved prop campaign preceding an election on special scnool taxation in the district which he failed to keep. The elec- erty in the city. It lies between the tion, adding 20 cent on the $100 homes Of Dr. Fortune and Col. John to the taxes, was carried almost N. Staples and almost directly oppo- I unanimously, because the people site West Market Street Methodist church It was purchased a few years ago for the erection of a church joint ly by the -congregations .f St. Barna bas (now Holy Trinity) and St. An drew's Episcopal churches; and when the project was abandoned the prop erty passed under the control of Mr. J. R. ponnell. The price at ''which he sold to Mr. Boren has not been made public. BONDELECTION FOR THE SOUTH BUFFALO SCHOOL. were led to believe-, so it was stated, that' a meeting would be called for the community to decide upon and recommend committeemen for the district before those officers were appointed by the board of education. Dr. Whitsett had promised such a meeting, it was alleged, and broken the promise. Rev. R. E. Redding said that Dr. Whitsett had secured his assistance in campaigning for the special tax and had led him into giving his word that the choice of the commit teemen would be left to the voters, A meeting of the school Jatrons of and had made him untrue to that ob- the South Buffalo district was held at the. school building Friday night for a discussion of a proposed bond election to provide funds for the erec tion of a new building, which is de clared to be badly needed. Consid ering the inclement w:eather, the meeting was well attended, and con siderable interest was shown in the question under discussion. Jt is pror posed to vote bonds to theinount ofJ $10A0coniJ)RdV3 equip a modern building suitable to the needsof the school in all particulars. The location of the proposed new building was the only subject that created any division in Friday night's meeting. A. considerable number of the patrons desire the new building erected north of South Buffalo, while those patrons who reside south of the creek are "in favor of retaining the present location at the intersec tion of the Alamance and Tabernacle roads. The meeting finally voted to leave the selection of a location to the county board of education, which body has jurisdiction in the matter anyway. ligation. He was fighting out of the false situation for his. honor and in tegrity as a preacher of the gospel, he said. Messrs. L. A. Oarmon, Richard Wharton .and Vernon Iseley address ed the board along the same line. At the regular , meeting in July the board, appointed Messrs. Joseph B. Whitsett, i the father of Dr. Whit sett) J. ' JBummers and Ed. ' B. MOVEMENT; OV, RUSSIAN AND GTSIIAir TROOPS. ' v;-- jfrgn ' The great battii ;fbelaviedv in Coorl&nd , upon the outcome of wnlcn. hfnges the fate f the important, llus- sian port of Riga, at present a closed gate to a possible vGe(nnan advance on Petrograd, is the dominant fea ture of the latest .var um, Further success by the German fax; their at tempt to force a crossing of the Dvina river is reported "from Berlin, bat the Russians are defending this most crucial line stubbornly. Along the rest of the eastern line ' fierce fighting is continuing various ' points. Northwest and west of Vilna, the -Russians have been making counter-attacks, Imt the Germans claim that this Russian of fensive, uu dertakenn an attempt to arrest the, Teutonic advance nas " resulted" fh' failure. Vienna ftnnounces -that at several points near the GtUirtah fron tier the Russians -again are offering ri-sishiuce along the entire front. In the western theater there haa been at many points, violent cannon ading. ' ' On the Austro-Italian frontier the main activity has been in'te Tolmi no district, where, Vienna asserts, an attack "against the bridgehead was repuised. ft is announced in Athens that Serbia has accepted in principle the proposals made by the entente pow ers for territorial concessions to Bul garia. Serbia is said to have m'jtde the reservation that her new fron tier remain in contact with Greece iu some part. According to a semi-off--cinl announcement from Nish, the Serbian reply will be presented at an early date,. The efforts of the pope in behalf of peace continue to be an absorbing tcpic. The pontiff -has exprV.iMl the belief that the United States is now in a position to address both groups of belligerents in the matter of pexce, with the probability of inducing them to take the preliminary steps which would lead to negotiations for the ending of the war. In London the rumors of peace overtures are exciting considerable Interest, but it is authoritatively tf strieV OTnt&ItteeenTjal sWttwiitttat -thiattrnttiifc nave no f onn- subsequently the committee made a dation In any 8tf pTaken "iby ttre-Brit-contract for the school to be taught jsh government or in any statement at Whitsett Institute, as has hen the issued in London' from authoritative. case for a number of years. Out of deference to Dr. Wbiitsett's position as a member and chairman of the board of education, the contract was made with Prof J. H. Jovner. a member of the faculty of Whitsett Institute. WILL NOT AID NORMAL COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL. aesdav in? Ma.v-Stratford. Mr. D. Burton ay and Miss Isla Stratford were amed Thursday afternoon at 12:30 0ck at the home of the bride's till111' Mr and Mrs w 0 strat" on Asheboro street. The cere- Commercial Secretaries Meet. A meeting of the North Carolina Commercial Secretaries' Association, the membership of which is, com posed of secretaries of chambers of commerce, boards of trade1 and simi lar organizations of the state, was held in Greensboro Friday afternoon The commissioners have decided that the city, which bears a part of the expense of the training school at the State Normal and Industrial Col lege, will not pay for any high school instruction in the school after this year. The matter came up when the authorities of the Normal decided to add the tenth grade' to the work of the ' training school and asked the city to defray its share of the ex pense. Dr. J. L. Mann, superintendent of the city schools, believes that all the high school pupils should be. requir ed to attend the ,.high school on Spring street, where there is plenty of ropm and ample equipment. The commissioners decided that the city would continue to bear a share of the expense of the eighth and ninth grade work at the training school for another year, but begin ning with next fall, no grade higher than the seventh will receive finan- Mr. R. R. King, who appeared be fore the board in the capacity of at torney for the protesting citizens, said he had cpme to realize that there will be no peace until the matter is straightened out according to the contentions of his clients, and he charged that Dr. Whitsett held the key to the situation. This key was In his ability to cause the peaceful withdrawel from office by resigna tion of the three committeemen. It developed that the resignation of Mr, J. B. WhitSett was before the board, and it was the sense of the meeting that the situation would be clarified by the resignation of the other two committeemen. It is un derstood that these resignations will be forthcoming, and when they have been received the board of education will be in position to entertain any suggestions that may be made by the patrons of the school concerning the personnel of the district committee. While Dr. . Whitsett was the sub ject of sharp criticism, there were expressions of appreciation of his in terest in the school work, it being stated - that his action in connection sources. It is added that England has no intention, of making atpres . ent any concessions other than those enumerated in Premier Asquith'a speech of November 9 last,' when he said, "'the irreducible minimum . of terms included ttfe restoration of Bel gium, security for France against ag" gression, the rights of existence for small nations and the overthrow of thf Prussian military machine." EIGHT DROWNED WHEN STEAMER WAS TORPEDOED. London, Sept. 5.- The Allan line steamship Hesperian was torpedoed at 8.20 o'clock last night off the south coast of Ireland, 100 miles southwest of Fastnet. Approximate ly 350 passengers were on .board, one or two of them Americans. Eight persons were drowned, but it is not known whether they were passengers or members of the crew. , The steamer did not sink, and is reported proceeding under convoy to Queenstown, where most of the pas sengers and crew were taken by res cue steamers summoned by wireless calls for help. Passengers landed at Queenstown asserted that the attack was made without warning. The United States embassy here has not yet received any confirmation on this point. The American7 consul at (Queenstown tele 'gin, presbvt performed by Rev. C. E. pastor of Westminister of thf relatives and a few friends. inn V fit home after the 20th sreri ln Richmoad. Va.fi. whjere the sales' h( adlliarters a3 traveling Money For Farm LAfe Schools. The county board, of education Saturday made an appropriation of finn to each of the farm life schools t Pleasant Garden and Jamestown for the purpose of launching a move- for the coming school year; The bnent for a state-wide homecoming Wftnpr will be used in TJUTchasingJ period. It was decided to -wage a no-dpfl Pnuinment and supplies for vigrou8 campaign for bringing back the two school farms. While there native Nortii Carolinians on visit to nwrnt tntlmt effect, it their old homes. It; was decided, to seems to be undewtood 4hat the ap- have this home-coming period during Yia month of October, when the vari- nnnfiaTinn will w xouuuwu iui cr"'" or three years. The people iavefous fairs of the state will be held. VW rnrt dftal of interest in these and the co-operation of the officials farm life schools, ah u is said by ipine w Ov-Ov 9 those whofoiight to know ,wh they I the Tar v Heels dispersed abroad to taiKinir aooui-vu.en.w- are have been very satisfactory. visit to the folks. graphed that there were one or two with the school in the Whitsett ! dis- Americans aboard, adding ihat nbne trict hail been generous. 1 were lost. The Hesperian, i,9Z0 tons-gross, was dutward bound from Liverpool for Montreal. Many of the passen gers were wounded Canadian soldiers on their .way home from the front. Laborers Return to High Point. A report from High Point says: A number of the couple of thousand Jal aid from tha miintfcin&litv. - . ..... . . . j i Dr. J. I. Foust president of the I persons wuu icit ucio uuims -" i liiariy reports trom queenstown were Normal College, stated that, while ier ou acwuui Ui D"wltafe" i mat mere were ou passengers: in tne he would prefer to have the co-opera- PrK are aruting dbck in response flm caDln, 160 in the second, and tion of the city, the high school work to the cans oi tne manuiaciurer. 250 in the third, but it later was an would be carried on In the training Wd lt is not impossible that the nounced at the Allan line offices in school, even if it should be necessary DePiemu,r yji m Liverpool mat me passengers num- to go out of town for the pupils. . ' Road Recruiis. Six prisoners from Caldwell county were brought to Greensboro Saturday to work on the Guilford roads. They are to serve sentences aggregating 33 months. Mr. J. R. Wall of Gibsonville . Route 2, was a caller at the this morning t names of 1,000 more employes than were on them several mopths ago. Espeoially is this true in skilled la bor. The factories are using skilled men almost as fast as they can get them, an indication that there is , a tendency to Improve the- standard of roods turned out. It is aid that the plants manufacturing the high-grade goods suffered .the least during the depression, a r condition ;that will of ace1 ' probably eacirarage othera to jLdd taj ptheirhUnrr fiedei?arixaettta bered only about 350. There were approximately 250. in the crew. l,GO Christians MUled. At least d,0e Christians were kill ed and about 4,050 others died of dis ease in Urumiah, -Persia, during, the five months.of Turkish occupation. according ta a letter received by J. L. . Teheran, from Dr. William AiShedd, -ot.Tlrnmian,: and made public in New York bythe Preshyteriani oard of ' r foreign' missfous. ' v " -ir.xir. . 1 t ? ' ' 4 5.V ' " - a. - Ji: ;.v f " - , 1 :rx" a. - r . i T. 4.::-- 'It -I w- r t