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PUBLISHED EVERY- MO W D AY r AM D THURSDAY '4 .-S' e5TABLI- OUR SPECIAL my. III BRIEF F0RI1 PRESBYTERiar SYHOD CLOSES BI6: S0IT niSBPREHR COORf 20 CHIIDREII: LOST -III-FIRE HATTCBS OF INTEREST TO THE READI2RS OF TIIE PATRIOT FAR ANO NEAR. WILL MEET IN SALISBURY NEXT REGULATIONS FOR CONTROL OF J EFFORT TO RECOATER CSOO.OOO PUPDLS SEIZED ; BY PANIC IN EXTENDED FOR SHORT WHttfi YEAR GOOD REPORTS ' DISEASE ADOPTED BY IN STOCK AND DIVIDENDS ' BURNING , SCHOOL HOUSE ; SUBMITTED. BOARD OF HEALTH. 1 IN DEFUNCT CONCERN. IN MASSACHUSETTS. - : 0CAL QUARAHTIHE LfiW FOR CODHTY ...,f anhAcriDtion Proposition tbe rrai - 0f The Tatriot Is weenng who - Popular Favor. THK TIME TO SUBSCRIBE! NOW Our special October subscription offer was received with such favor (a the part of the public that we have decided to extend for a short while in w hich we will receive sub- to The Patriot at the rate scriptions f,f $1 a year, cash intadvance. Many new subscribers were added to T'ae Patriot's list during October, t ie number really exceeding our ex- rotation when we first made the spe- ,'ial offer. We know there are many i i, -nrrtii'M Hkft to take more peupic advantage of the offer, and for their venefit we are going to hold the proposition open a little while longer. No subscription for less than a Veir vill be taken at this special price, nor can we make any clubbing offer at this rate. We have not reduced the regular subscription price of The Patriot, which is $1.50 a year, in advance, but make this special offer in order IC acid a number of new names to cur list. Formerly we have had a soliciting aser.t in the field during the fall and Timer, but so far we have not em ployed one this season and have de cided instead to try the experiment lor a while of giving the agent's com-t-ssion to the subscriber. It this arrangement appeals to you, acd We believe it will. Send ns $1 wit:. out delay and receive The Pa triut twice a week for an entire year. ron't delay. Send in your sub scvir.non today and tell your neigh- bout this great offr. To Old Subscribers, the reason that we have never a subscription offer that did pply to both old and new sub rs alike, we will, while this of mains open, accept renewal iptions also at the special price be: in o: i a year. l.a-t Fight For Negroes' Lives. Charles A. Hines leaves this ai ;oon for Raleigh, where tomor rc, ,e will appear before the Su- j Vi o rn P on - court anu aiuc vv. - 1 of Ed. Walker and Jeff Dor wh colored, who are under , i a mnpdpr of sen - ice or aeatn iui wo Mr. John Swaim, of Pleasant Gar dtn. Mr. Swaim was shot and fatal lv .unded near South Buffalo creek on e evening of the 20th of last Ja- ary, dying at St. Leo's hospital a iv-..- days later. The prisoners were tried for the murder at the April term of Superior court and convict ed on a strong chain of circumstan tial evidence. Mr. Hines was ap pointed by the court to appear for Walker and Dorsett and conducted the defense In a skillful and able manner. Should the Supreme court refuse to srant a new trial. Governor Craig i!l Jix another date for the execu tion of the prisoners, who have been in the county jail since their arrest over nine months ago. Morehead Portrait 'Preeentatkm. The exercises incident to the pre sentation of a portrait of Col. James T Morehead, dean of the Guilford bar. to the Supreme court of North Tar .ina will take place in the court ro n in Raleigh tomorrow morning sT : : o'clock, tomorrow being the 'h set for the calling ofthe docket of t .is judicial district. A majority of t he lawyers of the city " will be pr -ent for the exercises. The speech of presentation will be made by ex- Jude R. C. Strudwick and the ac ceptance will be by Chief Justice Walter Clark, both of these gentle men being warm friends of Col Korehead. Mrs. M. V. York and daughter of Greensboro Route 1, gave The Pa triot the pleasure of a call while in Court Next -Week. The Novem ber civil term of Guilford Superior court' will convene next Monday, No vember 8, with Judge' Thomas J. Shaw on the bench. Commissioners Meeting. -The boards of county commissioners as sembled this morning for the regular monthly meeting and will be in ses sion through today and tomorrow. A Great -Defeat. The football team of the Greensboro high school met the Charlotte high school team in Charlotte Saturday afternoon and was defeated by a score of 32 to 0.' Milk Inspection. According to the report of Dr. W. A. Hornaday, the city meat and milk inspector, the milk tests for October show a de cided improvement in the product of the local dairies. J. AV. Beeson Dead. Mr. J. W. Beeson, a well known young man of Friendship, died yesterday morning at his home. He was 26 years old and is survived by his father, four broth ers and three sisters. The funeral was held this afternoon. Gray-Liewis. Mr. Grier Gray, a well known', young man of southern Guilford, and Miss Dittie Lewis were married in this city Thursday after noon at the home of Mr. A. M. Lewis. The ceremony was perform ed by Rev. F. L. Townsend. Accepts Call. Rev. W. R. White, of Campbellsburg, Ky., has accepted the call recently extended to him to become pastor of Asheboro Street Baptist church. He has notified the congregation that he expects to take up the work about the middle of De cember. Mrs. Hackett Dead. Mrs. Lydia Hackett died Saturday afternoon at her home about ten miles southeast of tbe city. The funeral and inter ment took place at Tabernacle church yesterday-afternoonat 3.30 o'clock the services being conauctea oy me pastor, Rev. T. M. Johnson. Mrs. A. M. Hall Dead. Mrs. A. M Hall died Saturday night at her home on Bellevue street. A short funera service was held at the home this morning at 10 o'clock, after which the body was carried to Center church for interment. Rev. C. E Hodgin conducted the set vices. Chestnut Blight. Mr. E. O. Crom well, of the North Carolina experi ment station, is making an investi gation of the prevalence of chestnut blight in Guilford county. The blight exists in this county to some extent and an effort is being made to check It before any great damage results. Held For Retailing. Thomas Patterson, a white man residing near Jamestown, was given a hearing be fore Squire Dave Collins Thursday afternoon on the charge of retailing and held for the December criminal term of Superior court under a bond of $300. It Is alleged that Patterson sold liquor on the fair grounds dur ing the recent Central Carolina fair. M. P. Conference. The annual session of the North Carolina Con ference of the Methodist Protestant church will convene in Grace church, this city, Wednesday morning, No vember 17. The conference will bring to Greensboro many ministers and laymen of this and other states. There are 63 pastoral charges and over 20,000 members of this branch of Methodism in the bounds of the North Carolina Conference. Rev. C. A. Cecil is president of the confer ence. Many Burglaries. Thursday and Friday nights about a dozen resi dences in the city were entered and burglarized. Thursday night the thieves operated' in the northern end of town -and the next night on the southern side. They secured money and jewelry at several places they visited. aDoarently not caring for any thing, else. No arrests' have been made in connection withthe thefts and by this time the thieves have. probably moved on to "some other town. Return to Greensboro. The fam tiy oMr. E. Gi Sherrill,- who moved to Raleigh recently, upon Mr. Sher rill's appointment to a position in the office of the secretary of state. have returned to Greensboro to re side. They were not overly pleased with the capital city as a place of res idence, and in addition, found living expenses In -Raleigh hignerhan in .Greensboro. As the cost rrifSHvIng in Greensboro has . attained a consider able altitude, it must be out of sight The Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina, which met in Gastonia last week, adjourned Friday afternoon, adopted quarantine regulations for time was argued before the Su f olio wing a busy and profitable ses- the contrpl of communicable dis- preme court Thursday and Friday, sion. eases in tbe county outside of Greens- J. B. and B. N. Duke. George W. The report of the . committee onl.boro and -High Point, elected Dr.-H. J systematic -beneficence showed tbe following contributions to various causes during the past year: To j Synodical home missions, $11,920; to Presbyterial home missions, $27,- 269; to congregational home mis- sions, $32,475; to unristian eauca- tion and ministerial relief, $62,212; to synodical schools and colleges, $27,638; to publication and Sabbath school work, $10,677; to the Ameri- can Bible Society, $1,395; to the or- phan'js home, $31,283; to miscellan-4 eous, $21,000. This is an increase of $41,017 over the contributions of the previous year. A significant report was that of the evangelistic committee. The re- port showed 500 more professions of faith and 100 more additions to the church than any previous year. The Dr. Turner a member who was in- Judge Justice overruled the demur work of the general and local evan- tensely iaterested in all its delibera- ers of the defendants and the plain- gelists was summarized as follows: 3,858 sermon preached,. 2, 736 profes- ways ready to give his bst work for It seems that originally the plain sions of faith, 1,252 additions to the advancement of the sanitary con- tiffs were owners of stockMn the Preabvterian church. 81 additions to other churches: 17 Sunday schools organized, 10 churches organized, $2,149 raised for the Synod's work, Annronriations to the amount of $14,285 have been made for the year and Synod apportioned $20,000 h,,v.oQ in c.otain this wnrt LU LllC Vli Ul Vll Vs? W J W VMiii w . i Rev William Black and Rev. O. G. Jones, general evangelists, and Rev. A. W. Crawford, superintendent of horn missioes. were re-elected. Rev. Dr. E. C. Murray, pastor of Ai.m.n,. .hr,h waa nr manent clerk to succeed Rev. E. L. slIpr nr. W. J. Martin, resident of Davidson College submitted the- re-1 eases . ofiptheHaJ or Ware r.t f tht iTtitntion and made a croum seartet fever stron? nlea for better financial sun- port. He stated that $75,000 had f. ho iiocro ni- UCCU JiCUfeCU v v..0w rv nmvidPd the church will raise $25,000. and he asked that this oit ho ridPd and raised in the c u y, nrav. O J 11 U i 1 . I1C acivcu a. i o w f j and snnnnrt of the neonle. statin ..I that they were needed more than the money. Inhis address Doctor Martin stated that, of the 350 students at Davidson, only 18 are not members nt Dnu oViumn and that in rpcpnt. Wl "" " mtina hid thPrfi hv Dr. j. w. Chapman, ten of that number pro fessed religion. Dr. Following Doctor Martin Thornwell Jacobs, field agent TTnivprtv nt Atlanta, w.v, ' x-i-v. j u ti,,i ko- Willi; 11 13 au UlU luouiuwuu "'"b v0h nd rbniit. mad a strone an- peal for that institution. He had " o r only a limited time in which to talk', frtrr.f..iiv did h nrpSpnt iha history of this college until its col- lapse aunng ine war ttuu tin' luagur flnsnf Tirrvflr that lioa hofnro it in thA 4. v, v.a u 1UIUIC Wlrtl lie uciu iuc aLiciinuu uu ho,rtv nafhv nt th h OUbX J rsf t,h intw w thA rpnnrt submitted of the systematic benefl- cence committee by Dr. Nea Ander - c t winaton.aipm it the sum of $193,626 contributed by the Presbyterians of the state for the five assembly objects. This was only about $1,000 short of the amount . tne asseiQDiv uuu ayyui tiuucu iu mo state. Fifty-nine per cent or this went to foreign missions. The report of the Barium Springs orphanage showed 202 children in the institution, a school building and auditorium recently completed and a spicuous place upon any building, or contract let for a central heating premises, wherein any person is af plan't at the cost of - $11,500. The flicted with a communicable disease, farm showed a profit of about $1, - 500: truck farm, $9t)0, and dairy, $400. The support fund last year-jany amounted to . $25,104.90; building and equipment fund, $4,726.68; be- quests, v$2,625. 22. The report rec- ommended apportionment of $25,- 000 among churches for support of orphanage during the coming year. Dr.H. G. Hili submitted thereport, and despite his 80-odd years, made ft splendid impression. It was decided to hold the Ttexti se.sion ote Syod- In the Krt Presbyterian church of SaHsburythe 1 fourth Tuesday in October, 1916. c .1 The Patriot was Pleed tojrec&wj , -. a.... hv Mr.wStd Shaw, of Climax. At a meeting held Friday: after-1 noon the fcxmnty board of " health W. - McCain, of High Point, to. sue- ceed the late Dr. J. A. Turner as a member ot-the board ;.nd adopted resolutions concerning the death of Dr. Turner- Dr. Mcpain is one of the leading pnysicians or iign I'oint ana a man of progressives ideas, and it is- be- lieved thjtt he will make a valuable member of the board of health. . The rpolutions concerning the death of Dr. Turner follow: 'Whereas, Dr. James A. Turner, a member or this board, and who had been since its establishment under the present laws, has been removed by death;, we, the county board of health, in meeting assembled, ; do hereby resolves - "1. That this board has lost in tions an4 actions and . arho was al- mtions ot; the county. "2. That it is with much sorrow that we chronicle the death of 30 val- uable a man. 3. That these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of this board anda copy forwarded to Mrs Jamea ATnrner." l Since the state quarantine law was repealed by the legislature of 1911 this county has had no regulations J for the control of communicable dis- eases. The law enacted by the board of healths will be controlled in its on- eration by Dr. W. M. Jones, county health officer, and he may establish rigid and complete quarantine in The full provisions of the new law follow: "Throueh and bv the authority in- - vested in section 10 of the public health laws of North Carolina, the Guilford county board of health does herfihv Pnact the fnllnwin reamta- 1 " tions to apply to the county of Guil- a -l i f . x iora, wun tne exception or me cities of Greensboro and High Point "Section 1 All previous laws are hereby ratified except when they are in conflict with the following: section z That the term com- I municable disease shall include every disease of a contagious, infec- tious, or nestilential nature. Darticu- larly diphtheria- or membraneous cronn. scarlAt fvpr smallnnr. mpas- les and whoooing cough. 1 . . . i "Section : That rielri and com- plete quarantine may be established i - in diphtheria or membraneous croup, scarlet fever and smallpox, whenever in the judgment of the health officer it is necessary to prevent the spread i - .wwoo. I "Section 4 Where no Dhvsician is in attendant fh nnrsA shall fur- I nish the Information of the nresence Of a known or susnected communica- - ble disease, and If no nurse is in at- tendance, then the parent, guardian, for custodian of the person sick with any disease mentioned in section 2 snail report the same to the health officer in writing. "Section 5-rr-That the physician or householder shall report to the health L , i uuitci m wriiiiig ui. iu leriumavuiu - l by recovery, or otherwise, of every I case of a disease mentioned in section "Section 6 The health officer is hereby empowered to post in a con- 1 a placard specifying the name of the I disease. It shall be unlawful for person to tear down or mutilate such notice In any way except upon authority from the health officer, "Section 7 It shall be unlawful fOT any principal or teacher of any public school or private school, or any parent, guardian or custodian of any minor cnld affected with any, of the diseases mentioned in section 2, to permit such minor to attend any public or private school, Sunday or pubBc gathering. 4:trit further be unlawful for any parent, guardian or : custodian:. of anyv minor child to permit such child to attend Wpbte f-f school or paMlc therIii. trom w house of premises wherein a case .of One of. the biggest lawsuits brought in North Carolina in some Watts, the estate of J. E, Stagg and J. B. Cobb trustee, are the plaintiffs and B. Frank Mebane 4md the Spray Water Power and Land Company, of Spray, Rockingham county, are the defendants. The case involves about $200,000 dividends and stock in the American warenouse uompanyK ac leged to have been guaranteed through a special contract with B. Frank Mebane and the Spray Water and Land Company. The American Warehouse Com- pany was declared a bankrupt two years ago ana no longer exists, out the contract with B. Ffank. Mebane ana me spray water rower ana Land Company is alleged to be such that they are still liable for annual aiviaenas guaranteed at six per cent" and stock. In the trial below tiffs appealed. Nan tuckett mills and other corpora- tions under the control and domina tion ot B. Frank Mebane and they oecame aissausnea-witn tne manage ment and threatened litigation, to avoid which B. Frank Mebane and his associates issued to the plaintiffs, in of their stock, shares in the American Warehouse Company which guaranteed six per cent, pledging earnings of future years if earnings m a specmce year iauea to proviae tnis- There was the additional pledge endorsed by the shares of stack by the Spray Water Power and Laud Company and B. Frank Mebane further guaranteeing. these dividends and specifying that this' agrer ment is binding during the life of the Spray Power and Land Company . rather than the life of the American Warehouse Company, whose stock was bemS guaranteed The plaintiffs are seeking to hold I jjjj ne defendants strictly to the fulfill I mpnt of thp rrn trn nt - of cnnranfoo and the defendants are pleading that. there being no evidence that che American Warehouse Company earn I i J . Al. . .1 . x tcu' 1A l"e contract ot guar ttUL ia LO ue consiruea as proviaing tnat tne defendants must pay such dividends, earned or not by the American warenouse Company, such uiimi wouiu ue voia; mat tne con X X - t J t J Jt - X . i A t fmot ic fnitharir.nra rtc " v""- o.xxix . , , . ,, , . . koid and tnat the real Purport of the I ... . i . . . . uardUwas luai Tne earnings ae- uc l,uuulu e5axi uismuutea in accordance with the stock certifi- UXUPU "n ine ocnir nana, tne plaintiffs I . . , . . - . . . , 1US1?1 tllitL Lue B1-UCK m ine Amen' nttieuuuHe vmpany was tasen i .X T v" cuc BU,UdUiee UL D- "anK Me,bane and ?e sPraf wf Pwer "7' p8 oe" liS at the time that the Ameri- w insolvent. The attorneys for the plaintiffs are .Trtnoa Piillor rt nnrham TXT lur I" . 7' T o 7' I Hendren, of Winston-Salem, and R. C. Strudwick, of Greensboro. King & Kimball, of Greensboro; E. S. Par ker, of Graham, and A. D. I vie, of Leaksville, appear for the defendants. To Debate Suffrage. The second of the. series of debates recently in augurated by members of the T. M. C. A. will be held Wednesday night and the opposing teams will argue for and against woman suffrage. The affirmative side of the question will be presented by Judge, N. L. Eure, A. B. High and Joseph J. Stone and tbe negative by C. M. Waynick, Dr. C. T. Lipscomb and G. E. Petty, any of the diseases mentioned in sec- tion 2 has -been reported, except upon written authority of the health offi cer. lic and private schools for cases, of known exposure , to the j following lis. CUvIai fATtfr flATAII llATR! dinth'eria, seven days (unless immu- nteed) ?- smallpox, M dys unfsaiged the mill supply bnsiness in vaccinatedi -y Twenty children, most of them girls ranging in age from seven to 17". years, lost- their lives Thursday n it fire which destroyed St. John's parochial school, at Peabody, Mass. Another . girl has injuries regarded as! probably fatal, while others were less severely .hurt. s Tlie 600 children had' just .entex ed their classrooms ' when the fire was discovered, and although a majority were guided to safety by sisters of the Order of Notre Dame, who were their teachers, panic seir.ed a large number as they neared the ' front door, and in their rush to escape they lost their footing and their bodies blocked the exit. All of the eisters escaped, hut Mother Superior Marie Carnielita was seriously burned. How the fire started may never be known. An early theory that a boil er explosion caused it -having been dismissed, state police officials were of the opinion that-a store" room In the basement, , where-a -gas meter was located, was its source. The first word of the fire is be lieved to have come from a tardy pu pil who smelled smoke and reported it to the mother superior. 'The chil dren had just finished morning pray er when the gong ' sounded for-fire drill. Mother Marie hurried- to tell the sfsrsfjtheiacttral danger, and the movements or the fire 'drill were quickly started. - The-building would have been, emptied in., the. opinion of the Rev. .Nicholas J. Murphy, pastor of St. John's Roman Catholic church, but for the falling .-of a chihL believ ed to be a cripple, in the front vestibule- Over, her body . child, after child, ;earful"pf the flames and press ed on by the crowd behind, stumbl ed and fell. The opening was choked and further escape stopped. The was reopened" and many children ear caped through it. The classes of pupils had filed through the coridors and started down the stairs in orderly procession. notwithstanding curling plume-? cf smoke, until the blockade occurred at the doors. Then with cries from those below in their ears, the children in the rear of the lines scattered to the rooms on all three floors of the build ing. Those on the lower floor dropped safely to the ground. From the sec ond floor most of the children, super vised by the sisters, jumped into the coats of firemen and bystanders which were held out to catch them. Many of those who went to the win dows of the. upper storiesswere warn ed against risking the long jump and escaped from windows below. Some of the braver and more resourceful slid down water .spouts, among them a boy of 14 years, who assisted anoth er boy with only one leg over a shak ing spout. Two girls were dropped to the ground, sustaining serjous in juries, one dying at a hiJspiQ.lJater. The sister teachers controlled " the situation until the mishap at the front door. Mother Superior Marie Carmelita said during the fire that she had made certain that all the children had left the upper floors be fore she did. No bodies were found above tht first floor. Former Greensboro Man Sued For Divorce. Mr. E. T. Garsed, formerly a resi dent of Greensboro but now engaged in business in Charlotte, is being sued for divorce by bis wife. In Mecklenburg Superior court a few days ago Judge James L. Webb is sued an order, pending the trial of the case, in which he awarded Mrs. Garsed $100 a month as alimony and $200 for lawyers fees. The finding of facts embodied in Judge Webb's order contains ' many highly sensational entries, the official order including citations of episodes tending to bear put the contention of the plaintiff that the defendant's attitude and manner was cruel and barbarous, while . additional. ' nota tions appeared, on behalf, of the de fendant, tending to explain or to ac count for such episodes and inci dents, -v . "- ," .. . While .in Greensboro Mr. Garsed was connected with. - the Proximity Uaimfacturfng Company. He Is en- 5?hartp"e y i; ;"v.J- jamraing.of -the rear--d6c6sh:' iinpedstbiovee nnTTrotrgTithe buTraiflIerlSx .r ... ; . . . '.j, L'i (' : , "If , I'tl X-. -t. , V , -' 1 - r.v -? v" r '1-- if 1 da; 4 in Raleigh, ' . . - - - - : . , the city Saturday.