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GREErJSBOnO, TJ. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915.
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TIr. CLwrton Here. The. P. P. Claac
ton, United States commissioner of
education.
MATTERS OP Uoro yesterday, stopping-over here a
FAR AND NEAIU ; I Where he delivered a lecture- Inef
night. Dr. Claxton was a member4
Board of EducaUon. ine montmy of the faculty of the State Normal
meeting of the county board of edu- and industrial College during the
nation will be held in the court house earlier years of that institution and
annex Saturday morning at 10.30 the greaer part of his time here yes
o'clock, terday was spent at the college.
Dr. Xevvlin to Preach. Dr. Thorn- W. E. Hockett Moves. Mr. W. E.
-.i?n resident of Guilford Col- uaai. n!ij
hs r i ix uumuru county man, wno
is to occupy tne puipu or tne has manaeer cf wrieht's hotel
t riends church in Winston-Salem
Sunday morning and evening.
Holding Court. Judge T. J. Shaw
. : Gaiiahnrv this week finishing
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ut a term of Rowan Superior court
wr Judge H. P. Lane, who is detained
It the bedside of a very sick: child.
B. B. Phillips Dead. Mr. B. B.
Phillips, the father of Mr. G, B. Phil
ips, of this city, died Tuesday night
,r his home'at Cameron, Moore coun-
tv. He was 73 years old and a vete
ran of the Confederate army.
Assisting in Revival. Rev. O. G.
Jones, of this city, one of the evange
lists of the Presbyterian Synod of
North Carolina, is in Mt. Airy assist
in? in a revival meeting in the First
Presbyterian church of that place.
19 New Residences. During the
month of November the city building
and plumbing inspector issued per
mits for the erection of 19 dwelling
houses in Greensboro, the total esti
mated ocst of the buildings being
530,000.
Col. McAlister Better. Cot A. C.
McAlister, of Asheboro, the aged
father of Messrs. A. W. and J. S. Mc
Alister, of Greensboro, wno nas oeen
seriously ill of pneumonia and com
plications for several weeks, is re
ported to be improving.
Visiting Here. Rev. Parker
Holmes and family arrived yesterday
from North Wilkesboro on a short
visit to Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Gant.
They leave today for their new home
in Newton, where Mr. Holmes be
comes pastor of the Methodist
church. , , .
Trustees Named. The directors of
the Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation have named Mrs. C. J. Tinsley
and Messrs. J. J. Stone and E. M.
Oettinger as trustees of the R. C.
Hood memorial fund, which is to be
raised for the purpose of erecting a
Y. W. C. A. building in this city.
Invitations Issued. Dr. and Mrs.
B. B. Williams have issued invita
tions to the marriage of their daugh
ter, Miss Fannie Somerville Wil
liams, and Mr. Fielding Lewis Fry,
t
the ceremony to take place in St. An
drew's Episcopal church Wednesday
evening, December 15, at 8.30
o'clock.
Coming Wedding. Mr. Joel P.
Huffman, of Elon College, has issued
invitations to the marriage of his
daughter, Miss Vivien Jewell Huff
man, and Mr. Bruce Lafayette Can
trell, of this city, the ceremony to
take place in the college chapel at
Elon College next Thursday evening
at 8 o'clock.
Death at Hospital. Miss Minnie
Allred, of Burlington, died at St.
Leo's hospital Tuesday morning at
4.30 o'clock, following an operation
tor peritonitis she underwent Satur-
THIRTY KILLED IH JXPL0SI011 FIGHTIliG 08 ITALIAN PROMT
BIG jFARM ON REEDY. FORK- -
SOLD AT GOOD PRICE.
VICTIMS DESTROYED BEYOXD
IDENTIFICATION IN ACCI
DENT AT POWDER PliANT.
SI43WIiY DRAWING NET AROUND
AUSTRIANS-POSITION OF
GREECE AND RUMANIA.
She was 21 years old and is
survived by her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. C. Allred, and a sister, Miss
Swannie Allred.
Stuart-Thomas. Mr. Ralph B.
Staart and Miss Nellie Thomas, the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Thom
as, were married last night at 9
o'clock at the home of Rev. R. D.
fcrierrill. who performed the cere-
roony. No announcement had been
made of the wedding, which comes
as a distinct surprise to the friends
of the young couple.
K. G. SherriU Resigns His friends
in Guilford will be interested in the
announcement from Raleigh that Mr.
E. G. Sherrill has resigned his posi
tion in the office of the secretary of
stste and will return to Washington
and resume the duties of the position
in Raleigh, for some time, has gone
to Charlotte to become manager of
the Stonewall hotel. Mr. Hockett was
engaged in the hotel business in
Charlotte several years ago and prior
to going to Raleigh was manager of a
hotel in Danville, Va. Mrs. Hockett
will visit relatives in Kansas before
joining her husband in Charlotte.
New School Building. Laborers
are at work excavating for the new
school -building to be erected on South
Spring street, on the lot the city re
cently purchased from Mr. C. A.
Bray. The building will be of brick,
with concrete foundations, and" will
contain eight school rooms four on
the first and four on the second
floor. The cottage that formerly stood
on the lot has been rolled back to
the Cedar street end of the property.
Slump in Marriages. The matri
monial business in Guiltord county
suffered a slump during the past 12
months, but whether is was due to
the prevailing depression in the com
mercial and industrial world or to
other causes has not been determin
ed. During the fiscal year that end
ed Tuesday 734 marriage licenses
were issued from the office of Regis
ter of Deeds Rankin as against 802
for the previous year, the decrease
being 68.
Child Burned to Death. The
adopted child of George Harris, col
ored, who resides on Mr. J. W.
Cone's place, a short distance north
east of the city, was burned to death
about noon yesterday' in a fire that
aesiroyea tne awemng nouse, a one
story frame structure. The, child w,as.
four years old and had been left
alone in the front room of the house.
Harris and his wife were at dinner
when the fire was discovered by a
neighbor. Coroner Stansbury de
cided that an inquest was unneces
sary. Injured by Automobile. Robert
Watson, 11 years old, the son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. S. Watson, who reside on
Asheboro street, was painfully injur
ed yesterday morning when struck
by an automobile driven by C. B.
Hester. The accident occurred in
front of the Asheboro street graded
school. The injured boy was called
across the street by a playmate and
his response was without notice of
the approaching car. The accident
was described as unavoidable, al
though there has been some trouble
recently on Asheboro street with
speeders.
Fiscal Year Ends. The fiscal year
in the government of Guilford county
ended Tuesday and the work of
checking up the books, records, etc.,
is now in the hands of the county au
ditor. It is stated that there will be
a decrease in the earnings Under
what is known as the Gordon salary
act, though the amounts will not be
known until al? the expenses are de
ducted and the figures audited. Last
year the offices of sheriff, clerk of the
court, register of deeds and treasurer
showed a combined profit of $18,
186.89, of which the schools received
$2,831.49 and the road fund $15,-355.40.
Thirty workmen were killed and
seven fatally injured Tuesday in an
explosion of four tons of black pow
der at the Upper Hagley yard of the
DuDont Powder Company at Wil
mington, Del. . It was the worst ac
cident that has occurred in any of
the company's plants in a quarter of
a century.
The cause of the blast is not
known, and according to a company
statement, the origin "will probably
always remain a mystery." Never
theless an investigation has been in
stituted by the officials of the company.
With the retreat: of the greater
part of the Serbian army across the
Albanian frontier, . the slowness of
the operations against - Montenegro
and in southern-Serbia owing to the
wintry weather, and the absence of
any major' operations On the western
and eastern fronts, interest in the
military side of the war is now trans
ferred to the Austro-Italian frontier,
where King Emmanuel's troops are
carrying on an energetic offensive
against the Austrians.
The fighting on this front has been
the most sustained and fiercest bat
tle of the whole war. For weeks the
Mr. J.' R. Caff ey has sold his farm
on Reedy Fork creek, in, Bruce town
ship, to the Brown Real Estate Com
pany, of this city, for $18,000. The
farm contains 721.58 acres and sold
for about $240 an acre. The place
was purchased by Mr. Caffey some
years ago from Mr. C. D- Benbow.
The Brown Real Estate Company
buys it as an investment and will
probably divide the property into
small tracts and place it on the mar
ket.
In the transaction Mr. Caffey pur
chased from the Brown Real Estate
Company three lots of what ts known
as "The Cedars" property, on North
Mendenhall street and Guilford ave-
Nearly all the victims of the blast Italians have been attacking the Aus-
we're young men between 16 and 21
years of age. Most of them lived in
and about Wilmington.
The explosion occurred in a small
packing house where black powder
pellets are prepared for shipment to
the warring nations. The packing
house was one of a large group of
'nail buildings which make up the
Upper Hagley plant, about three
miles northwest of Wilmington.
Twenty-six men were in the pack
ing house when the powder went off
and not enough of any of them was
left for identification, with the excep
tion of Allan A. Thaxter, the fore
man, whose home is given as Port
land, Maine. He was torn to pieces
and a part of his body was found
hanging on a tree across the creek.
It was identified by shreds of cloth
ing that still clung to it.
Four of the 30 men killed were
blown to pieces when at work out
side the packing house. Company
officials said the property loss was
small. The men injured were out
side the plant. They were struck by
bits of machinery, flying boards,
rocks and other debris. Physicians
stated they were so badly hurt that
not one :of them is expected to sur
; One theory advanced by workmen
at the yard is that the explosion
may have originated in a spark from
a horse's shoe or a spark caused by
a small car running over some spill
ed powder.
The shock of the blast struck ter
ror to the hearts of the residents of
Hagley, Henry Clay and other settle
ments along- the Brandywine, accus
tomed as they are to powder mill ex
plosions. The Dupont works are op
erating in three shifts and every
home in the neighborhood is repre
sented among the employes of the
plant.
Offered. Good Position.
Prof. C. C. Wright, superintendent
of the public schools of Wilkes coun
ty and well known as a Farmers'
Union official, has been offered-'the
position of secretary, of the state
board of agriculture to succeed Elias
Carr, who has resigned to return to
his farm in Edgecombe county. Prof.
Wright was in RaRleigh this week
Fatal Coal Mine Explosion.
Boomer, W. Va., Nov. 30. Thirty
men are missing tonight as a result
of an explosion caused by a blow-out
shot in mine No. 2 of the Boomer
Coal and Coke Company here today.
Three hundred miners were at work
at the time, but mine officials say 270
have been accounted for. Thirty
men were removed from the mine to
night by rescue parties. All suffered
from the effects of the explosion but
none was in a serious condition.
Ten miners were rescued from a
sub-entrance to the mine tonight in
a semi-conscious condition. When
revived they said they had seen many
men apparently dead a short dis
tance from the point where the ex
plosion occurred.
One of the rescued miners said
that 75 men were working near the
place where the explosion occurred.
The mine, which was recently in
spected and found in good condition,
trian bridgeheads and mountain po
sitions along the Isonzo river, and
are lowly but surely drawing their
nets around Tolmino, Gorizia and
Doberdo. Their, attacks have been
repeated time after time against po
sitions which had been most careful
ly prepared.
This for the time being is Italy's
contribution to the Balkan opera
tions of the allies, for it keeps a
large force of Austrians busy and
makes it necessary for them contin
ually to bring up reinforcements
which could be usefully employed
against the Montenegrins and Ser
bians. The Serbians, unless followed
into Albania, will in time probably
reappear as a rejuvenated army, for
it is said that 250,000 of them, in
cluding soldiers and civilians, have
taken refuge there and that they have
saved all their mountain batteries
and a portion of their field guns.
Also included in this number are all
the youths who can fill the gaps when
equipment reaches them from the
Adriatic.
Demands Not Complied With.
The ultimate stand of Greece and
Rumania toward the entente powers
is a question which again looms large.
GfeWe, so far as can be ascertained
has not yet complied with the de
mands of the entente powers' last
note, which it is understood em
braced the concrete proposition that
their forces should be absolutely un
trammeled in Greek territory. In
London the fear seems to prevail
that Greece will not acquiesce to the
full in these demands. Rumania ac
cording to unofficial reports, has de
clined to accede to a proposal from
Russia that Russian warships be
permitted to use the Danube to move
against Bulgaria and has demanded
that Russia respect her neutrality.
Kitchener Returns Home.
Earl Kitchener, the British war
minister, has returned to England
from the near East and is expected
in a few days to lay before the Brit
ish war council the results of his
observations and also his conversa
tions with the king of Greece, the
king of Italy and the members
the French war council, whom
visited on his trip home.
AUERIGA TO
REBUILD
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TKIS-UNTBT
COMMISSION IN
ARRANGING TO SPEND MANY
MHiT
IONS
HKIIR,
nue, in this city, the consideration be
ing $10,000.
Other real estate transfers in the
county recorded this. week are as fol
lows:
Vanstory & Balsley to W. W. Neal,
two lots with a frontage of 60 feet
each on Hendrix street, in this city,
for $2,650.
P. P. Yates and others to Garland
Daniel, a lot 22 by 41.66 feet on
East Sycamore street, in the city of
Greensboro, $10 and other valuable
considerations.
Sallie Clapp to R. M. Clapp, five
small tracts, three in Morehead town
ship and two in Gilmer, $1 and other
valuable considerations.
J. L. Jones to Annie H. Burton,
tract consisting of one-half an acre
in Monroe township, $10 and other
valuable considerations.
A. H. Jenkins to Frank Paul, a lot
50 by 150 feet on Ragan street, in the
city of High Point, $250.
A. L. Lambeth to Frank Pritchett,
a tract consisting of about two acres
in Madison township, $50.
Riley Totten and wife to Urias Tot
ten, a tract consisting of 19.312 acres
in Rock Creek township, adjoining
the lands of R. B. Andrews and'
others, $579.
C. G. Wright and wife to O. J. Dan
iel, a lot 45 by 108 feet on Fisher
avenue, in the eity of Greensboro,
tuint
C G. Wright and wffe to Margaret
J. Halladay, a lot 50 by 105 feet on
Wainman street, in the city of Greens
boro, $1,650.
R. R. King, Jr., commissioner, to
the Mineola Manufacturing Com
pany, a tract consisting of .97 of an
acre in the town of Gibsonville, Rock
Creek township, $150.
Miss Allie Gray Strickland to C.
C. Gray and wife, a lot 50 by 150
feet on Smith street, in the city of
High Point, $175.
J. W. Clinard and wife to Miss
Y 1
Allie Gray Strickland, a oV 50 by
That Eurone must be rebuilt after
the .war, and that a large part 6t Iha'
material for. the rebuilding, must ,
come from America,' are natural con
clusions. to be confirmed by the recent' 1
arrival in this country of the French
industrial and commercial commis
sion. These gentlemen will arrange
for the annual expenditure of hun
dreds of millions of francs, or scores
of millions of dollars,' for -American
machinery to be used in the rebuilding;
of French industry. The commission,
is not a government organisation,,
but is promoted by leading French
commercial bodies and bankers. It
is composed, the New York Times
a
tells us, "of distinguished experts,
the secretary of the appropriations
committee of the chamber of depu
ties, a representative !of the .Credit
FonCier, delegates of the French
spinning industry, the department of
argiculture, and the department of
commerce official spokesmen, " in
short, of French argiculture, ban king,
commerce, and industry." These ex-(
perts will observe and plan, inspect
our industries and talk with our busi
ness -men: The actual purchasing
will come later, when, the war is over,
Maurice Damour, w;ho heads the com-1
mission, thus explained his errand to
inquiring newspaper, men:
i "The United States has built
great requtation for making machin
ery of precision and reliability as si
result of the materials sent to France
since the War. This country will get
the great trade in machinery that1
Germany had before the war, a trade
that amounteed to $160,000,000 a
year. This is why we are here to
learn what to buy and how to buy and
how best to buy it and arrange close
connections between the banks of. the
two countries to aid- in making the
purchases. We want the cooperation
of your indusries, your commerce, .
and your banks. To obtain that is-
our mission. . . . , , . .., .
ernization in all French commercial,
industrial, and agricultural lines.
With our population reduced by the
war, we will be compelled to equip
our factories with modem machinery.
The money that we spent in Germany
for the purpose will be spent in the
United States. The figure of $160,
000,000 a year is small compared to
what will be spent in the future, be
cause the machinery of northern
France has been destroyed, and as
the Germans withdraw they will
leave little that can be used by us.
159 feet on Smith street, in the city 'We sha11 eventually buy. every kind
of High Point, $125.
GREENSBORO WANTS THE
CITIZENS' TRAINING CAMP.
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AN APPEAL TO MINISTERS
OF GUILFORD COUNTY.
The National Anti-Tuberculosis
Society has undertaken a tremendous
work. It is their object to have as
many people examined during the
week of the 6th to the 12th of De
cember as possible. This is dpne in
order that those cases of tuberculosis
in their incipiency maybe detected, j boro's claims would receive due con-
and the persons notified and advised I sideration.
how to cure themselves. It is not be- I Greensboro is one of a dozen or
is an old one and but few accidents I Ueyed that this agitation will bring j more North Carolina towns seeking
have occurred there. A majority of 1 about a state of phthisiphobia, or tne honor of being selected as the lo-
but
Efforts are being made to have
Greensboro selected as the location
of the citizens' soldier-training
camp the war department may estab
lish at some point in North Carolina
next summer. Congressman Stedman
called at the war department Tues
day and presented the claims of
Greensboro. The Guilford Battle
Ground Association has tendered the
government the use of the historic
battle field for the camp, and it Is
figured that this should have consid
erable weight in balancing the scales
in Greensboro's favor.
The assistant secretary of war told
Congressman Stedman; that Greens-
the men employed by the
are Italians.
company
conferring with officials of the de-
he formerly held in the house of rep- partment of agriculture in regard to
resentatives. Mr. Sherrill's family re- the matter and will shortly make
turned to Greensboro from Raleigh a
few weeks ago.
Wagoner-Barker Wedding. Mr.
i.acy T. Wagoner, a well known
oung man of Brown Summit, and
Miss Ruth Barker, of Summerfield,
'ere married last evening at the
ome of the bride's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John H. Barker. The ceremony
as performed by Rev. G. F. Milld
Way and was witnessed by members
of the family and a few friends. The
attendants were: Misses Hettie Bur
ton and Esther Wagoner and Messrs.
Roy Wagoner and Ernest Shields.
known his decision.
Lawyer Wins Libel Suit.
The suit for libel brDUght some
time ago by Charles O. McMichael, a
leading member of the Rockingham
bar, against D. F. King, a prominent
citizen of Leaksville, was tried in
Rockingham Superior court last
week. The jury returned a verdict
Saturday awarding the plaintiff dam
ages in the sum of $500. The case
was hard fought, the services of emi
nent counsel being "retained on both
sides. .
Guilford Case in Highest Court.
The damage suit brought in the
Superior court of Guilfor dcounty
about four years ago by W. L. Lloyd
against the Southern Railway Com
pany was argued Monday in the Su
preme court oi tne united states.
Mr. A. L. Brooks appeared for Lloyd
and Mr. John N. Wilson for the
Southern. Lloyd, who was formerly
an engineer in the service of the
Southern, brought suit for alleged
personal injuries and at the second
trial, in the fall of 1913, was given a
verdict for $12,500. This is the larg
est verdict for personal injuries ever
given by a jury7in Guilford county.
abnormal fear of tuberculosis.
that it will teach them that there are
many cases existing which are not
suspected, and that the great major
ity of them can be cured.
With this in view, the Guilford
County Medical Society has asked.
through this committee, that the min-1 Fourteen White Illiterates in Greens-
cation of the training camp, the others
recalled at the moment being: Char
lotte, Statesville, Hickory, Asheville,
Hendersonville, Waynesville, Gasto
nia, Salisbury, Raleigh, Goldsboro,
Newbern and Morehead City.
Mr. A. Coble, one of The Patriot's
good friends in southern Guilford,
was . a' 'welcome caller at Tthis office a
few days ago.
isters give an entire sermon, if they
see fit, or certainly part of their ser
mon for December 5 urging every one
to be examined. An effort is to be
made to give to those who are un
able to nay a free examination on
December 9.
Every minister is interested not
only in every person in his church
and congregation, but in the com
munity: and we take it they will
boro.
It is stated that only 14 adult il
literates have been found among the
white population of Greensboro.
When the school census was taken
recently the enumerator was requir
ed to take the names of all adult il
literates, and he reported that he
found only 14 grown white people
residing within the city limits who
could not read and write. Of course
gladly help in this noble and altruis-lit is regrettable that there is a sin-
tic work.
of machinery, agricultural imple
ments, tools, hardware, spinning ma
chinery, clock-making machinery,
and mining machinery.
"In return we want the United
State3 to buy the manufactured out
put that the United States formerly
bought irom Germany,, our toys, for
instance. We do not want to go into
competition with you. The machin
ery we buy will not be used for thai
purpose. We shall ask you to buy
from us goods that you do not manu
facture here extensively and which
formerly came from Germany. Our
war with Germany will not-end with
the fighting. A trade war will fol
low." , -
Much business for the United
States ought to come out of this visit.
Between the value of Europe's pres
ent needs, the "war-orders," says The
Wall Street Journal, "and the pro?
spective replenishments and -expansion
that will arise after the war. a
large section of United States' busi
ness seems to be provided for in years
to come," And the New York Times
is led to observe:
"Those who may be alarmed by the
absurd prominence given to the muni
tion and other war orders, those who
dread ' lest . American commerce
should not be 'stabilized,' forget Tiow
great a business the rebuilding after
the war will bring to th only coun
try in a condition to do it. The mere
item of agricultural 'machinery will
be stupendous. Russia's demand
alone will be very great. And al
though the development of her indus
tries has been difficult and she must
remain predominantly agricultural,
her industrial needs will be great.
Over much of Europe, outside of
Great Britain, replacement and 're
storation will be the imminent-task
of nations. . It is for the pnited.States
to do what service it can in such. n.
T. J- Battle chairman; F. C.
Hyatt, W. M. Jones, J. T. Burros,
H. W. McCain, Committee.-
gle illiterate person in Greensboro,
but it is doubtful if any other town Isttnation juxd to take siV:11-
in the state can make such a good I te it can get out of such a situation;
showing astbis. ' ' Jsojonrasinastt.
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