North Carolina Newspapers

v v , , H - . ft ""41 PilBLlSHED EVERY MONDAY AND THURSDAY 2s-i j i GREENSBORO, N. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1915. VOL. .70 5, I - -r . . , i.wtwWM.. . i im.i... . - . II II II II A Y' f M H I " 1 1 r I" -iX Xt ji"X 11114 If . ,JW , II --z J , V Y " II r I t Z I - I I. . " V'e-f'f4..i LOCAL og OP INTEREST TO TBB a OF THE PATRIOT ,. FAB AND NEAR. i court. Judge James -B. ??Zft last night for Charlotte. today he opens the regular tall b ,ited States District coUft. (enn - sq000. The city ! of High Point has voted to coUDC' o 5 000 at 5 per cent to take Outstanding indebtedness against P .... Mwine 6 Der cent in- tbe city no irest. ...liS. V4f-i-'-'-'-'l I-''.''--. - - - Fool rtuch Guilford. Football has been outlawed at Guilfoig, died yesteTday at 10 o'clock at St. Leo's .. Amo vears. .Ilnord TUI BUl" J ' - J college again this year, though lere are to be no inter-collegiate Yesterday. Mrs. cnrt. of Reidsville vital. She was 38 years old and 5a ,a-vived by her husband and nine,, children. Back From West. Mr. J. Van Undleyhas returned from an extends western trip that included visits eU 'L, - the San r raiiuiscu cipusinuu auu. ' f:? ' fuaa., ; - Bitbs-During the mmth"of September there were is death laliiBcity, 10 among thel wliitr 'ratr ana nine anlong tKe cbVl births were reported among the white' and nine among the colored people of the city during the past month ' - ' ohnloBDea4. Mr. W. Johnson, of Bear Creek, a half broth er of Mr. J. A. Davidson, auditor and road superintendent of Guilford: county died Friday afternoon at St. Leo's hospital, where he had een. a surgical patient for a week. Mr. Johnson , wlio was W prosperous farm- . . . i- r. er. is survived by his widow and eiaht. is to oe -piajan . .. . " " cniiaren. Contracts Awarded. -The eon tracts for the garage. building to be DAUAGE BY THE GULF ST0RI1 108 PEOPLE KILLED AVI 130 MISSING PROPERTY LOSS EXCEEDS $12,000,000. i ARE FAVORABLE FAIR MAKING STRONG APPEAL TO FARMERS. 3 DEPENDED OH PRAYE&011LY '4- FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD IS OPTI31ISTIC, IX REPORT FOR THIS ' DISTRICT. it Later reports - from the tropical hurricane which swept over New Or leans and vicinity Wednesday after noon and night, an account of which was printed in Thursday's Patriot, show that 198 lives were lost and 310 people are missing. Seven persons were killed in New Orleans and the property loss there is esti mated at over $2,000,000. The property loss in the area cov ered by the storm is said, to be in ex cess of $12,000, 000. Weather bureau reports showed that it was the worst storm ever ex perienced in New Orleans. , Attaining The ffderal reserve board has is sued a rfeport on business conditions in the h district, which includes North citplina, that full of hope ami encouragement for th optimist. The report says: "The ttear approach of the time-at which cotton is to move finds general businesSf lk. this district in a much more fattfrable position than could have been- anticipated tnree months or morejjfigo. At prices now prevail ing for the staple, a large share of the crop -Syill move from first hand, :ind consequent liquidation of season al tradeObligations is apt to be in Martha erected on West Market -street by at one time a velocity of from 120 to generous. volume, either as the re Mr. W. C. Boren were awarded Fri day; 'Longest & Tessier were, given the contract for the erection,. of the building and the plumbing and- heat ing will be installed by Hunt Broth ers & Petti t. The two contracts amount to $33,500. Post Graduate Course. -Mr. Allen Adams, "a son of Judge Spencer B. &e wa$ Adams has gone to New Y6rk to take to ntw points of interest. A. W. Council Dead. Mr. A. w. college or uoiumDia university. Me Council, a well known citizen of High was licensed py the Supreme cOurt Point, died Thursday , night, t fpUow and "admitted to the bar about a been taking a post graduate course at Wake Forest College. Death of Child.- Katherine, the five-vear-old daughter of Mr. ar' Mrs. L. M. Ham, died Friday morn ing at . the home of the parents on Wainmn street, following an illness of ten d-ays. The funeral was held from ,the home Satui day afternoon at 4 o'clock and interment made in Greene;Hiil cemetery. Rev. Dr Mel ton Clark conducted the services. Nd Conrtffxt WkThe imefm bers of the bar held a meeting Satur day? afternoonr -and decided not to ar range 'a rcjalendax for the. two-weeks' civil term of Superior court sched uled to convene next Monday. The jurors summoned for the term will be notified by the sheriff not to at tend. The next term of court, which was oo yea i um ouu ou.ta his widow and seven children. Incorporated. The . underta business of Poole & Blue has been incorporated under the name of the Poole and Blue Undertaking Com pany. The authorized capital 'is $25, (100 and Mrs. E. Poole and Mr. J. H. Blue are the principal stockholders Picnic at Park. The employes of the maintenance of way department cf the Danville division of the South- em Railway enjoyed a picnic at'Lihd ley park yesterday. About 250 men were present, a number of them be- ins accompanied byznembejrs pCtheir iamilies. . . . Defendant Won. The Superior court jury that heard the damage suit brought by Mr. R. H. Mitchell, of Guilford College, against Mr. J. B. Stroud, of this city, which was in progress when Thursday's Patriot vent to press, returned a verdict in ft,- favor of the defendant. Preacher Moves. Rev. R. P. Walker, who recently resigned the pastorate of Asheboro Street Bap tist church, left Friday with his fam ily for Albemarle, r where he be comes pastor of the Baptist church at that place. His successor in this Wy has not been called. Bryan's Speech. The subject of William J. Bryan's speech in this city Friday night will be '.'Hie European War and Tts T.pssoti in TTs -V The address will be delivered in the Grand onera house and will beein at j u ciocK. i ne prices oi aamis- 8lon will be 50 cents. 75 cents and II. Pounder's Day. Tomorrow will be observed as founder's day at the State Normal and Industrial College an3 a program will be carried out in celebration of the twenty-third anni versary of the college. The -address the occasion will be delivered by Dr E- W. Sykes, dean of the faculty f Wake Forest College. Moonlight School. The Enter- Mse says arrangements are being fcade for the opening of a moonlight, or night, school in High Point for will be for the trial of civil cases, will convene the first Monday in Novem ber. Two Babies Dead The 12-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Mc ni,tntr riiori FHdav morning at the V' AUU.3 v - W " home of the parents on Blandwood avenue. The funeral was held from the residence Saturday morning at 10 o'clock and interment made in ureene Hill cemetery. The nine-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Oakley, of White Oak died Thursday night. The funeral took' place Saturday morning and in terment was Wde ln the 'Proximity cemetery. High Price For Property. The record price for business property on South Elm street was paid a few days ago, when Mr. L. J. Duffy pur chased from Mr. W. H. Stone, Jr., the property adjoining the North Carolina Public Service Company's 130 miles an hqur, the wind unroof ed hundreds of buildings, demolished others and blew down telephone poles, signs, trees and wires. When the storm's fury had passed the streets were littered with debris. Scarcely a large plate glass window remained intact in the downtown section and many stocks of goods were damaged by wind and rain. In the Cumberland Telephone Company's exchange, 15 persons, mostly girls, were injured when all the windows in the east front on the floor where they were working crash ed in. The maximum velocity of the wind was reported by the weather bureau as between 120 and 130 miles an hour. The wind blew at this rate for one minute, between 5.30 and 6 o'clock at night. The highest sustained velocity was 86 miles, abottt 5.40 P. M. For more than seven hours the hurricane swept over the city at a rate of more than 60 miles an hour. The lowest mark registered by the barometer was 28.11 at 5.30 P. M., which, according to local weather bureau officials, is the . lowest mark ever, registered in the United States. Police and fire departments were kept busy responding to calls for as sistance and investigating reports of collapsed ouildings. Two hundred young women were removed by the police in automobiles and police ve hicles from a cigar factory threaten ed with destruction just before night fall. They were housed in the crim inal court's building until the storm abated. the Purpose of teaching adult illite- Seventeen Drowned. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 30. A report reached here late today by railroad sources that a railroad section fore man and 16 negro section workers were drowned at Manshac, La., a f6w miles south of Hammond. v: Four Deaths at Mobile. Mobile, Ala., Sept. 30. Fcur deaths and some property damage resulted here from the tropical hurri-? cane hich struck this section late yesterday. Two men, Albert Fritz and C. D. Smith, were killed by fall ing electrical wires, and the infant son and daughter of W. A. Barbar suit of &gch actual sales or from the proceedii-of loans negotiated upon some percentage of the crop. "In this district there seems to be no nervousness on the part either of the producer or consumer. All ap preciate 'the practical value of bank ing facilities now at their command, the absence of which last year so largely contributed to the uncomfort able ano -excited conditions which prevaile. Not only are collections quite fajr for this season of the year, but, what is as essential, orders are being placed for the staples in in creasing volume, which will be ac centuated should present world con ditions e maintained. "In tobacco the possibility that the central I governments in Europe, which have stored in this country a material share of last year's pur chase, may not during the present season be in the market as actively as heretofore may later be a depress ing influence. Meanwhile leaf prices are holding very well, while manu facturers are busy on favorable terms. "Cotton milling in several direc tions is beginning to feel the effect of hb$eAc.e of a proper supjply5ot dye-stuffs. "Great improvement is noted in the furniture manufacturing lines, an in dustry of considerable proportions in this district, the movement helping lumber in some slight degree. Build ing operations, however, are far be low normal. "Retailers are doing better, and with the advent of cooler weather look for further and pronounced im provement. Labor is fully employed and in some neighborhoods is scarce. "Coal is continuing to hold the Im proved position it has gradually been occupying during the past 90 days. "Banks throughout the district are in an easy position, and in only a rel atively few instances, to be found in strictly agricultural sections, is there any evidence of overborrowing. By far the greater number of banks are either rediscounting very modestly or have idle funds awaiting investment. "Conditions as a whole are sound and give excellent promise for the fall months." The Central Carolina fair, which will be-held October 12-15, Will em phasize the development of soil cul ture in Guilford county and will pro viflpfee best sort of advertising for thissection. Visitors from a distance who make a practice of judging sec tions by the showing in exhibitions of this nature cannot help but he im pressed by the showing at the local fair, according to those in touch with conditions: There are iu Guilford a number of leading .farmers who can be counted upon each year to pro duce the very best of their farms for the exhibition at the fair. Several of these Guilford men go to- Mecklenburg and to the state fair with their exhibits and are winners of the chief notice because of their variety and size. The lecal fair is this year making a stronger appeal than ever to the farmers and there is a wider, more intelligent "Interest in tlie rural districis in the faift The farmers have come to know that what their lands need is advertising arid to recognize the fart that they not only get free advertising by put ting their produce on exhibition at WOtJLDNT PERMIT PHYSICIAIT TO ATTEND SICK CHILD ADTlf DEATH FOILOWED. A William Marion Embler and wife, Charles Plemmons and Lewis Ram son, the last a negro, all of Ashe- ville, were held for trial on, a charge of mughter following the .re turning of a true bill by the grand jury .Friday in which, it is charge that through their refusal t$ atfow . physicians to '' attend ; lO'-ear-old . Ezra Embler they were responsible for the child's death following a lotfg siege of typhoid fever. Allegations made by officers are to the effect that they depended on prayer to cure the "child andU kept, physieiars from the boy 's bedside. Their prayers were continuous by day and night; but the little iellow died- " : ' ; ' '' ,"' Bonds for he appearance of the four defendants at the next term of Superior court were named in the sum of $500 and the three white de fendants furnished bail, while the negro went) to jail. ; He refused, to employ an-attorney, stating that he would denend on nraver to snvo hltn. the fair but are actually paid Pm- ri hawevir! Smvid lumuio iui laivtug auvauiage ui liic I counsel opportunity. Mr. Garland Daniel, secretary of the Central Carolina Fair : Associa tion, has been spending the past few days in a round of the cities where the fars are now in progress with an eye to the midway. He has al- 'dtes to read and write. Prof. iflOrnwell HavtiAa aimorlntAnrient of the High Point graded schools, is at ,fle head of the movement. 71 ormer Resident Dead. Mrs. J. Campbell, who formrlv resided in Jreensboro, died Thursday at her "ttle in fMri l lness- The body was carried to the ori&er home of the family in Penn- ''ua ror burial. Mrs. Campbell as the mother of Mrs. Henry Hunt m Mrs. Herbert Fields, of this city. Woman Dead. Mrs. Mary ' Hives H iorJ Pt.1oit mnvninir at o'clock at the home of her South El ... on cci, one w no a t jcoip a and had been in feeble health for , me time. She is nrvlvpd hv t.hre &l,terS and a son, who are: Mrs. trchanan, with whom she resided; rs- J- Johnson and Mr. J. E. Rives, f this city, and Mrs. A. D. Sut- Of Hieh Point The fimral held from Centenary Methodist rh. of which Mrs. Rives was a 11 interment Number Drowned at Frenier. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 30. Seven or eight white persons and 17 ne groes were drowned and a score more injured at Frenier, La., in yester day's storm, according to reports to the office of the general superintend ent of the Yazoo and Mississippi Val ley Railroad here today. thai O'pi Saturday morning at met death when the Barbar home building on the south for a considera- wag demolished. tion of $42,500. The property has a frontage of 41.05 feet and the price paid is a little over $1,000 a front foot. Mr. Duffy made the purchase for a customer whose identity has not been disclosed. Declined to Bear a Share. The city commissioners have declined to bear a share of the expense of install ing sand filters to care for the sew age disposal of Guilford College, the work having been ordered done by the state board of health as a protec tion to Greensboro's watershed. The trustees of the college asked the city to bear half the expense, but the com missioners did not feel disposed to make the expenditure. It is esti mated that the installation of the filters will cost about $2,000. -kta n. - flAiuUdate. Mr. L ' ' Brandt, who has been strongly dorsed for appointment as postmas ter of Greensboro, has decided, for business reasons, not to apply for the position. The retirement of Mr. Brand leaves the field open to Mr..A. Wayland Cbbke, unless some other ctrijdldate should appear pretty soon. The term of Postmaster Douglas will expire January 25, 1916, and it is understood to be the purpose of Con gressman Stedman to recommend a candidate for the appointment soon after Congress meets in December. made in J. en- Dynamite on Steamer. Eight sticks of dynamite were found under some merchandise on the pier of. an Italian steamer that was about leaving New York for Italy with 1,700 reservists on board. The conjecture of the police is that some body undertook to carry the explo sive on board, but finding that per sons and baggage were critically ex amined, concluded that he could not get through the linesf with the stuff and divested himself of Jt. Mr. J. H. Neece has returned from President Orders' Economy. Washington, Oct. 2. President Wilson ;as begun to prepare Uncle Sam's pay roll for next year. All of the estimates must be presented to Secretary McAdoo before October 15; so that he can whip them into final shape-after they are pared down to the last dollar. '$ The president has sent word alonj the line to every cabinet officer that Heavy Revenue Collections. A. D. Watts, collector of internal revenue for the fifth North Carolina district, reports that the collections in his district during the month of September amounted to $1,035,463. 23. The source from which this in come was derived is as follows: Tobacco, all forms, $1,022,556.80; emergency (war) taxes, $11,257.94; income taxes, corporation and indi vidual, $1,248.74; fines and penal ties imposed, $246.74; liquor li cense, $89.69; and narcotic license and order forms, $63.41. This is the largest amount ever collected In the district in one month, and by comparison with the sainb month last year shows that the col lections for the present month ex ceeded those for September, 1914. by the sum of $413,775.29, or 66 2-3 per cent. Governor's Son Turned Back. Arthur B. Craig, a son of Gover nor Craig and a member of the sophomore class at the United States Naval Academy, is one of 15 students turned back to the next lower class by order of Secretary of the Navy Daniels for the offence of hazing. Another of the hazers thus punished is a sonf Admiral Benson. ready gone as far as is humanly possible, he thinks, in looking after the other departments for the com-"' ing event and the attractions inside the grounds for those who are look ing for entertainment and fun is the final consideration. The secretary is not unaware of the demand for clan attractions and he expects to have the very best midway shows in the section on the line at the Central Carolina fair, which is now approach ing its dating. &7$i&bi7in' " " . " ' r .'j J Wireless Talk to Hawaii. New York, Sept. 30. That wire less telephone communication from the Atlantic seaboard to Hawaii, a distance of 4,600 miles, is now an accomplished fact, was announced today at the offices of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Exceeding even in success the trans mission of the human voice from Ar lington to Mare Islands, Calif ornip, a distance of 2,500 miles, accomplished yesterday, it was stated that subse quent experiments had resulted in successful telephone communication between Arlington and the naval ra dio station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The distance over which this wireless communication was held is greater than the distance from New York to London, Paris, Berlin or Rome. The voice had to travel over The whole of the United States, a distance of 2,500 miles, before it encountered the more simple wireless conditions which exist over large bodies of water. For the purpose of this test, it was stated that the receiving was done on small wireless antennae erected by engi neers of the telephone company by permission of the naval authorities In the Pearl Harbor station. It is charged that a nurse who was ent to; attend the child by Iheco-un-ty was unable '.to perform her work and protect her patient by teason of the 4 loud and boisterous praying oil thV members of the sect and finally was driven 'from the house when she demanded that the prayers be less noisy. j ThecpverjSipn of the fourAto tho strange ..creed followed an yenpaic meeting" conducted by a visiting min- ister who based his hope in the fu ture and his protection in the pres ent on prayer.. . . 3 Martha Washington's Will Returned. J. P. Morgan" has sent to Justice James Keith,, president of the Vir ginia ;Court ofppJaisV'toeisphsed' will of Mrs. Martha Washington, taken from Fairfax court house by a Union soldier during the war, and bought by the late J. P. Morgan for his library. Fairfax Harrison, president of the Southern Railway, was the mediator between Mr. Morgan and Governor Stuart and Justice Keith. The will probably will be placed, by consent, in a fire-proof vault at Mount Ver non. The state of Virginia" has a suit pending in the Supreme court of the United States to compel Morgan to return the will. The suit probably will be dropped. May Resort to "Military Ballot." Lord Kitchener is reported as say ing that he prefers volunteering to conscription, but the volunteers are not coming forward fast enough, and unless enlistment is accelerated he would favor what is known in Eng land as the "military ballot." Every district would have a quota of sol diers to raise, and if it did not get enough volunteers the deficit would be made good by drawing lots by all men of military age in the district. The Philadelphia Record thinks if the men of England will not volun teer in sufficient numbers, and resist conscription, they deserve to be con quered by Germany and its system of universal compulsory military service, which is conscription even in time of peace. TO Test Blue Sky" Law. North Carolina's "Blue Sky" law is to be tested through litigation just started in Buncombe Superior court, thence through the Supreme court of the state to the United States Supreme court, according to information received by the state de partment of insurance. It conies through the case of J. W. Agey and other agents of the Southern Orch ards Company, of Tatntll county, Ga., arrested in Buncombe and Ala mance counties for selling stock in the company without having license from the department of insurance. The agents are out under $250 bend each and their trial in Buncombs comes up this week. fcene tj,-h . .a. mniaranr w air u 1 1 Canal Reopening Decayed. Colonel Harding, acting governor of the Panama canal, has cabled 'the war department that further earth. movements-would delay reopening the canal , until October 10, or five he must keep expenses down to tb days Jonr tnan been pwqrious- I it reportea. Ready tp Surrender. Three former' Villa officers, ac cording to an announcement from the Carranza agency in Washington, are en route to Vera Cruz commis sioned to arrange for the surrender of many of the chiefs of Villa's army. The announcement says they are J. S. Mann For State Treasurer. J. S. Mann, superintendent of the state penitentiary, has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomi nation for state treasurer next year. Mr. Mann said he wants it under stood that he will not make any fight on the administration of Treasurer Lacy, and in fact, regards the Lacy administration as above criticism. He proposes a friendly contest on the principle that this office should not be too long monopolized by one per son. Mr. Mann's home is Hyde county. He served four years as superintend-4 ent of the penitentiary through ap pointment of Governor Aycock, was reappointed by Governor denn for four years and then dropped oat for the four years of the, Kitchin admin istration. He was reappointed wheat Craig became governor." 60 Salooms Closed. The increase, of $ 300 in the New "trarelin incofcnito because Villa Is Xpk WUiUlWr cenrojtee ignorant of their Intention and which became efecJfTe October 1, secrecy must be preserved: to avoid closed 600 saloons in, Manhattan and assassination of such of them as still Brooklyn. The Increase -brings the remain within his reach," cost-of a- liquor license up to $1,500, - 'V-..,;',. ' '.1i1.:L-. - ,C'...- : ? . "iiv- ,. .; . . Jt.-iV'.'- f s2.-St-. - L- - - sft !L. m . ;fxSf.r--:'- -.J.:v;:: - "M i-' & , t V .- it , t: v i r . Jv hi ' :- 1 j minimum. "irm conducted,htfrvi i