J'f . .. . -5 -j '"'." --w--. -.- --",- - 5" rr-?,-;t,;T- :';T- : X'r . . " - . ?. ' " PUBLISHED EVERY' MOMDAY . AND THURSDAY V e AMVBLISHED 1821 - ' ' GREErJSBOnO, TJ. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915. HO..0Q lllum vuiiu 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 iu - 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 1 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. of he 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. 'At V-": -: A - . r? '-jt.' 1 '' Jvi 4- "-V'-s 'iv 'St .vtr v. ( -f -;-