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GREENSBORO, N. C. A Partial View Of The Famous Coveland Orchards M ess;einiier ernm-oi s VOL. VII. BY WM. B. MERRIMON. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1953. OFFICE DIXIE BUILDING NO. 4 Where I Stand. The Heme Coming. A Fact. PAGE TWO -A GOVBLrAND ORCHAKOS, some thing over four hundred acres of land in Patrick and Carroll counties, Virginia, and owned by enterprising Greensboro citizens; this year produced something like Fifteen thousand "barrels of apples a thousand more than last year. The owners are as follows: J. W. Pry, M. P. Douglas, W. E. Allen and 8. L. Trogden, all of Greensboro. Captain J. F. Fry is president ; W. E. Allen, vice-president, and S. L. Trogden, secretary and treasurer. There are about a dozen varieties of apples grown In this orchard (which is being enlarged each year, and the apples are of the choicest I kind. The above picture we. have I printed once hefore it was made from a kodak picture taken by Cap tain J. W. Fry, and indeed presents a beautiful scene. When this ' com pany gets all its land in . bearing trees the output will be between six teen and twenty thousand barrels a year and will be a money maker right.',;..-. It was only a few years ago that this land was wild; simply the virgin forests and now it has been trans formed Into . a- business proposition that grows more valuable each year. The company does things on a strictly business principle, and. the fruits coming from this orchard are cp.vofully wrapped in printed wrap pers; selected with the greatest care and graded, and the idea is to make the name . Coveland Orchards stand for the best in the apple line.. We had promised ourself the pleasure of a visit to these orchards. and Mr. Trogden was ready to do his part, 'but illness interfered, so we must content ourself with looking at the picture which is indeed one worth while. But next year it will be still more interesting, and we hope to be able to visit it and write more fully about it, and present oth er views. IX POLITICS. The Merchants' Association Thinks Politics The Thing. The merchants of Greensboro have concluded the business man is the fellow who should pay some atten tion to politics that is make poli tics a part of his business. And resolutions have been adopted look ing to this end. Well, why not? If there is any man in the world who should exerci&e his influence in selecting "business men to do busi ness it is the merchant. He is one of the big tax payers, always, and he, is the automatic bleeding station. He is compelled to give up to more fool things to every passing fancy, and not to give up is to make him feel that h.e will be boycotted. .The merchants support schools and build roads; they boom the markets; they support programmes of one sort and another they give liberally to news papers expecting of course returns and when it comes to saying how ifceir oily or state should be nn they sit down and let the politician do all that and- they pay the bills. Or at least some of the bills. We never could understand why a merchants' association didn't offi cially drop in the game stand pat, and say that it did -not propose to let this or that go through without a protest. But they don't. They don't seem to care anything about anything that happens except the dollar that might come their way for goods. At least it has . been ;.. that way. Now that our association has taken the initiative maybe .thfr state m or, -nrm i. follow ?' ssJivvant maybe ie-mfcihanUHua'organued may become a power, for good in a civic way.- Let tis hope. HOW ABOUT IT WADE? Wade Harris Thinks Bryan Irrever entBut Is He? 'Colonel Wade Harris must have a care -'because there is something to what Bryan said. Bryan said that Roosevelt had classed Christ as a mollycoddle and Colonel Wade ob jects this way:" " "Colonel Bryan is disposed to de precate President Wilson's biblical quotation because it was selected from the Old Testament. In this part of the country the people have a -stubborn sort of a notion that the Bible is the Bible, book for book, chapter for chapter. Colonel Bryan would also make it appear that Koosevelt classes Christ with the mollycoddles which Roosevelt has never done, so far as we have any evidence. It is the privilege of all Bible students to express ' admira tion for the New Testament to the disparagement of the Old, but to those who entertain sentiments of reverence for the Divine any refers able connection with Christ and mollycoddle is of repulsive contem plation." But the question is, didn't Roose velt say it? He said all those who were advocating Peace at any price were mollycoddles whereupon Mr. Bryan relies alone upon the authority of Christ for his preachments. Christ certainly came to this world to bring peace and good will to man and if he was for Peace why doesn't . he come under Teddy's classification. We are asking for Information. O jTHE JITNEY. THE RADS. Republicans Meet In Raleigh And Harmony Is Their Motto. The republicans have met this week in Raleigh, and if there is any blood on the moon we fail to see it. They didn't do much of general in terest, but it is understood that if any scalping knives were sharpened they were kept in the belt. . . The talk was that Carl Duncan or John T. Morehead would be nominat ed for Governor, and some thought perhaps Harris would consent to try again. . The republicans are very hopeful for a national success in 1916 and they also have eager eyes on several congressional districts in the Tar Heel State. . It is claimed that the party, if it gets out can cast ordinarily ninety thousand votes, and that this coming year on the tariff it will count a hundred and twenty-five thousand. No doubt but what hundreds of dem ocrats who vote the national tariff ticket will next year be very busy. In this town quite a sprinkling of dem ocrats in state matters say they will nationally hand it to protective tariff. The people are talking more than ever. They can't: understand the split in the democratic party and nat urally many a man will want to be with the winners and if the repub lican party isn't split like Teddy split it it .will do something next go round. And the old time-stainefl Tariff will remain. Paramount. : O1 1 ' His Center Of Attraction. -. "1 ...... ' ; Durham HaiinrA; Pr, Fight Over Durham is always fighting about something and sometimes winning out. Just now the jitney people want franchises and the new ordin ances make the jitney prohibitive. And accordingly the jitney enthusi asts are claiming all kinds of. things and the matter "will get into the courts and the jitney fad will per haps have gone glimmering before the question is really settled.: Germany Cut Out. Postmasters have been notified not to accept any parcels post packages for Germany, Austria or Hungary, because the steamships carrying this mail refuse to accept packages ad- ! dressed to those countries. Afraid of dynamite and .munitions, we sup pose. . We met Colnel' Frank C. Boyles, cashier of the American Exchange National bank, last Tuesday and we said to him: "What do you think of this pre paredness business?" Frank said: "It's a boy." We then asked him if he thought the money market was getting easier, and he agajn replied: "It's a boy." Just then a sweet faced' little girl came toddling down the street and we suggested that "There is a cute little girl," and Frank said: "It's a boy:",: v:;'V-. We learned later that mother and child are doing well, and Frank's friends are offering congratulations. Finally Won. The democratic -candidate for Gov ernor in Kentucky finally won but, as it is said in the Book of Job, 'twas by the skin of his teeth. Kentucky almost went republican. In fact every state where elections were held the free trade doctrine lost out. An ' Awful Case. iWt W. Keermeen who was to hang November 19 was given a three week's reprieve, that the court may have an opportunity to investigate regarding his sanitary. Tempe, Ari zona, Daily News. -v . Certainly. If the court should find that he is not sanitary he should he hanged. Thanksgiving. Following the President's procla mation making Thursday November 25 a legal holiday, and a day of Thanksgiving, Governor Locke Craig issues his proclamation and calls upon the people of North Carolina to observe the day. You Might' Come Across. As Everything is starting this week another volume another year on its journey, if you are in arrears now would "be a good time to come across. It doesn't take as much moral force to pay one dollar as it does to pay more better send in or drop in. No Danger. They are sending it out from Washington that friends of the Presi dent a;re going to see to it that Claude kitchinis not leader of the House. When this rumor first started the President said there was nothing of it.' But the alert corre spondents have it now that friends of the President propose to put the North Carolina man down a peg or two. It is all right, but somehow it seems, funny that a good democrat, like Claude Kitchin or Bryan cannot express honest views without being called traitor. Democracy is divid ed right now and the election In 1916 will show it. Going To Get In. Wilmington is. going to be in the base ball league, so she is organiz ing a stock company and will join the Virginia League. No thine like it if the bug has settled on you. And tne Dase oau bug is about as desper ate as the doodle bug. f : V : 0 i Many Fires , Reported. Because of the cold weather and the time for starting fires in the stoves we' see reports of many burn ed buildings. A little inspection, a little caution may save a big fire. It seems cold enough to put 'em on -because there has... been frost several times, and ' the leaves are about through falling. Reminiscent. In thi Department the Old Man writes passing fancies maybe recalling happen ings of forty years ago maybe something of only a few months. All people lire either In the past or the future. It Is what you did yesterday or what yon will d tomorrow. Never what you are doing now. This department Is conducted sim ply to take care of those pleasant things that happened as we walked along the road that is now grass grown and indis tinct the road over which we will never walk again. I feel that inasmuch as this is the commencement of the third year of Everything in this form, it will not be amiss to "remiss" a little con cerning it and to incidentally say the first issue as a weekly was pull ed November 14, 1913. It was not my intention to start a weekly paper when I went into the game but I wanted to do some thing in the way of spoiling white paper, and didn't know any other way to successfully do it. In 1902 I was conducting an advertising business in Atlanta; and the thought occured to me that a publication was worth while something to exDldit myself and something to aid human ity in its struggle. So in May I pull ed the first copy of Everything a neat magazine with engraved covers and colored two or three times a nine magazine,, that at. once found popular recognition. i It sol at :5c waytoo great. ; The r circulation of course didn't justify a price for ads to pay for it and the cost of pro duction was more than I got for it from news dealers. I used to send two hundred p.rmlea to one news dealer, I recall, in At lanta, iarry Silverman, and then go down and watch the pile disappear. Men would walk un and see thia n tie blushing mag lying on the coun ter read a little of it and lav Hnvn the nickel and walk away then mey wouia talk about it. The more papers I printed the more mnnuv T lost. The big daily papers in At- mm uiuijr aua ioriy tnousand circulation cnarged so much per inch per thousand, and as I xena net starting I couldn't show up enough circulation to compete with them so aner running the list to the limit it was a go, I concluded to take the publication to San Francisco and let 'er loose where there WPTP rt tri ple and where advertisers did things. &o i punea an Issue early and start ed for California taking with me cuts, plates, all the things needed and had partially tied up with a man ui weaun ana we expected to do some big things. But when I got to Frisco the terms did not suit me I wanted some better arrangements than my " partner thoueht I h mild have so I hiked back and shipped io vxreensDoro. I started It off as a semi-monthly, feeling that once a month to handle current topics was not perhaps frequent enough, and for several years ran the semi monthly makine monev ajh mnnth and giving Everything a reputa tion mat still sticks. After runnine until I felt tho hrain fag coming on one day I reached up and turned off the gas; took the Madam and we spent a year in Cali fornia sight seeing and resting. Then I returned and resumed. I was tired, anyway, so made it . a monthly and ran it, as such for three years mak ing some money and having some fun. Then again the call of the wild came and I closed down making arrange- meuis wnn tne post-office depart ment to hold on to my date line and numbers and went tr California and remained nearly a year return ing wonaenng what to do. Many friends suggested aweekly; the Madam said she was going' to start a woman's nauer if I didn't start something and to start some- imng naa always -been a hobhy of mine so I went to New York. bought a plant, leased a building for five years and two years ago pulled this bloomln', articulate album of song ana it nag grown and is growing. During the past few monthw nver flvo now names have been addea" to the list; newspapers copy it and talk about it; letters from the best people in several states are received telling me what they think of the rag and all of 'em coming my way say they like it so I feel- that the work has not been in vain. I have recently suffered a little inconvenient ho. cause of a lung that needs half soling, but I'm going to Arizona this week and remain" nerhana all winter Tint the paper will appear with charming regularity. I snail open a branch office down there and do nothing but breathe pure air and write hot stuph: It is easy to make a mail - connection- and therefore Everything will be just like it has always been--a red hot, truth tell ing, entertaining newspaper and now is the time to subscribe. HERE IT is again. I am printing- my' picture in the last issue of this series of the Mes senger because I want to print It and because I fear there may be a reader or two who hasn't seen my classic counten ance. I have before said that I want every man to know me when he sees me coming. I want him to- burst out in a broad smile aud say : "There's Merri mon, the insurance man." And when I have done that when I have completely done that, I feel that I have spent my money for printer's Ink Judiciously. With out knowing me the ice is not broken. When they recognize me they say, "Yes, I have seen your picture," and we proceed Immediately to .business. That is why I print my photo not that I care to look at myself oftener than once a day but so everybody will know Merrimon, the Insurance Man when they see him coming. And isa't that the thing to do? I have been asked, by several men of note how the Messenger stands on the matter of Prepar edness. I stana for it. That Is I think every man ssould be pre pared for the day he gets sick. He should be prepared for the day the burglar visits his home. He should be prepared for fire. He should be prepared for the liability he may sustain if one of his employes monkeys with a buzz saw while in motion and loses an arm or a finger. He should be prepared against acci dent by automobile. He should be prepared against all the ills that flesh and property might be heir to and he is Prepared If be has one of the many policies issued by the Aetna to cover each case. It doesn't cost much money. It brings a wealth of peace of mind and I want to see you. Plate Glass. I Felt Good. I heard of an accident last week and knew I had written a policy a few weeks before a policy that meant a great deal to the insured, because he felt that he could not afford it. But I feel better to know I sold him. He Is now drawing $25 a week and will get some extra hospital fees and the $25 a week will help him and his family so much. In cases of this kind my heart that I have deserving person good, it costs, the Company but it can better afford to pay it tha.n the man I have in mind could have afforded not to have his weekly stipend of twenty five bucks per. I feel in done a I know money Do You Read Them? Insure. Don't wait until to morrow but Insure today. Are you reading In the papers about, all these automobile acci dents so lUiiuy people getting killed. The more machines the more accidents. I can write you a policy that will insure your machine. I can write you . a policy that will give you a nice check each week you are in the hospital and I can write you a policy that will cause you no worry if the other fellow sues you for running iuto him. The Aetna automobile protection is the greatest ever offered. I would like to explain it to , you and show you the small cost. o . Come see me any time and let me .show you what I can do in the way of protection for a few dollars. It is remarkable bow cheap insurance Is wben the benefits are considered. Go down our Main street or any main street most any day and you will observe on your trip at least one cracked plate glass. These big glass windows cost money. They are very ex pensive. I insure them. If yon have one cracked or broken the Aetna puts it in for you and it costs you practically nothing. The man who has paid for two or three of these most always Insures. But why not insure before the first one is broken. That is the way to beat the company. " Do Yon 'eed A Bond? Instead of asking a friend to go on your bond let me bond you. The bonds I give will be accepted by any court. The price is low, and yon don't have to ask favors when I bond you. See me about the next bond yon need. Thanksgiving. I was going to say something this week about my trip to Cal ifornia and the exposition as the guest of the Aetna -Company. But I have already told you so much about it in the last three weeks that I conclude I'll cut it out this issue. But I certain ly look back on that trip as one worth while. All the agents got a new inspiration. They learned more about the insurance busi ness in its various departments than they ever knew, and there fore I feel I am better able to render more efficient service, al though my thousands of satisfied customers have always told me that I had things down Just right. The home-coming trfp was great but the regret that it wns over and the burdens of life must again be taken np, made It a trifle different than that Joy ous ontgoing trip which we wljl tever forget. t , . o , Do Yon Read Them? Are yon reading in the daily papers the accounts of the au tomobile accidents happening with alarming multiplicity? Seems that almost every day there are a dozen accounts in the papers of serious accidents. Better let me insure you on this score. o : Christmas Next. Christmas is Just over the knoll in the valley yonder, and I wonder if yon are not going to make yourself a . Christmas present of one of the accident and health policies. Ton should do it by all means. It means happiness and peace of mind, o Tell The Story. Just a few days now until Thanksgiving. Don't you know you would have more cause to feel thankful if you would let me write yon an accident and health policy? I do and hope you will phone me this afternoon. PROMPTNESS ALWAYS. New York City. Dear Mr. Merrimon : I thank you indeed for your promptness in settling my recent claim against the Aetna. Yours truly, T. Gilbert Pearson. In the last three Issues I have printed some letters and a cou ple more this issue letters from people who have had my service, and invariably- they are pleased. These letters are an inspiration to me. and should be evidence to all people that insurance in the Aetna Is quite the thing. No red tape. Xo foolishness. Pre sent your claim and it is paid without any frills or furbelows. Fire InHoranee. Remember that we write fire insurance policies in the best companies in the world. Come to the office in the Dixie Build ing and let Mr. Fred Odell tell you all about it. I am not an alarmist. I don't- want you to feel that yon are going to be suddenly stricken with disease of any kind, but a little circumstance that happen ed in Greensboro last week will illustrate the point. .1 talked with a man about an accident and health policy. He told me that an accident policy might bte worth while if he traveled, but as for a health policy, he had never been In bed on account of sickness for fifteen years. Well, he-looked it, and t didn't urge him. I didn't try to- frighten him and tell him he might shuffle off this mortal coil in five minutes. But Monday I was informed that he had gone to bed, had a very bad develop ed case of Bright's disease and would probably be laid up for weeks. So it shows that you can't tell. An accident and health policy costs but little and Preparedness is now the slogan. Come and see me and let me write you security in the old reliable Aetna. o . Still Growing-. I must take this opportunity to thank my many friends and customers for their continued loyal support. My business' grows with the weeks. The of fice force is again growing In adequate, although I keep in creasing it. My friends are re sponsible for this and I thank them for it. Come see me in the Dixie building. Phone me If you want to talk over matters. o . - Easy Enough. The bold, bad burgle man al ways runs at large. He may never go to your home to rob it but he might turn np there to night. We issue insurance against the thief, and if he comes and steals we make you whole. A small fee and you are safe. Better see me about that. Before I have told you TODAY" and not tomorrow is the time to take out the insurance policy. HIS THANKS. Mr. W. B. Merrimon, - Gen. Agt. Aetna Ins. Co., Greensboro, X. C. Dear Sir: Draft for $17.14 for 8 days sick ness received some days ago. I thank you very much for your promptness in this matter. Very respectfully, E. L. Pleasants. WHO'SWHOi The Durham Sun tells this story of a good old dog, who, something like Old Dog Tray who was ever faithful got Into bad company. This particular dog who occupies a place in Who Is Who seems to have been like ; John Casper wanted to beat the government, and went into the illicit stilling .business. Perhaps he will be sent to the Federal prison at Atlanta: "A houn dog is being detained by local authorities on charge of aiding and abetting in the manufacture of blockade liquor. Will Pearce, a ne gro, also was captured when officers raided a still in Lebanon township, Thursday evening. "The dog is an old timer at the blockade business, officers say, and has been captured a number of times before In raids on stills in Lebanon township. -He serves as watchman at the stills and gives warning of the approach of revenue officers. "The houn dog was placed in the jail lot and left with Major, the big police bull dog, to guardhim. "Thursday night he denied being connected with the blockade still, but Friday pleaded guilty to the charge. The officers are puzzled with what to do with him. He would be of very little use if sentenced to the county roads, they say. t "The still of 100 gallon capacity was captured on Little river near South Lowell. Officers also found 500 gallons of beer, 40 gallons of whiskey and a peck of malt, all of wfaich was dumped in the river. . "The negro probably will be tried Saturday morning before Squire R. A. Harris." A LUCKY FEND. Judge B. F. Long Discovers A Vain- HUIO appropriated money 'to buy the of Mount Mitchell, and a commission was appointed to proceed with the purchase. But Judge B. F. Long, of Statesville, remembered having drawn a deed once which was given by Professor Mitchell conveying this mountain top to his daughter. The deed, however was lost, and the , Judge didn't know just where to find it. But by diligent search he dis covered it recorded in Asheville. This puts a different face on the mat j ter, and the state will be saved some money no doubt. At least it will not buy the land of some one who did not own it. There is nothing 'like remembering things, and Judge Long is to be congratulated. Greatest In History. The New York reports show that exports were greater in the month r history of the Western World. And yet with all this business we are still obliged to put stamps on the notes we give and pay a cent on each tele-; grac fe?ww " Vr 'C. BUY THEM. Let Every Man And Woman Buy Some lied Cross Seals. If He Is Right. Greensboro will sell Red Cross Seals this year the good women will conduct the campaign purely for the good they can do, and every man and woman should buy some seals. This money is used to help unfortu nate people people who are ill and a Red Cross Seal makes your Christmas package and your Christ mas letter look better than any oth er ornamentation you can devise. Buy as liberally as you can but be certain to buy some. Sorry Beats Guilford. Surry county Is going to have a new $60,000 court house which is going some. At last reports the same old tobacco veneered building was doing business for Guilford and perhaps will continue even until death. If Editor Saunders tells the truth in what he prints from time to time about a lawyer of that town, the lawyer doubtless thinks that Saund-I ers is a live wire. And if not the! truth certainlv the lawyer would make things smoke. Saunders is a live one. ' o- , That Billion Dollars. A great many - of the democrats are wondering what they wlil do to If the . Preparedness programme . goes through. And before it . goes through a great many enthusiastic patriots will feel their pocket books and conclude that maybe we don't need Preparedness. Queer Looking Word. 'Many well informed in talking about Pre-pared-ne8s insist upon calling it Pre-par-ed-ness. We don't say Pre-par-ed we say Pre-pared. However, if it costs a billion there; is no use xor us to try to pronounce it? except a fraud. ' : Thanksgiving Next. ; ' And next, week we . will have Thanksgiving. All of. us have much' to be thankful for so order a tur-- key and sit .down and eat it and feelj good for not matter what your, con dition it might have been infinitely worse. Here is the Foster Flyer, a truly great Cooking Stove Value This is one of the best con structed stoves jve have ever sold. It has a duplex grate with sec tional back and burns either wood or coal. Heats quickly and is an ideal baker. PRICES $16 AIID $18:50 Also have a big line of heating stoes now on display. ' GUILFORD HARDWARE COMPANY South Greensboro FURNITURE AT COST THIS IS NO FAKE SALE BUT A FACT We are absolutely going out of business. Every thing in our storeiis tor sale at COST. Gome see us. Get prices. Select what you want tor today or tor CHRISTMAS. Here is Opportunity. Not an article reserved. Cash, will talk here lor the neit thirty days. MEDEARIS FURNITURE CO. Opposite American Exchange National Bank, Greensboro. P. S. Also 2 horses, 1 buggy, 1 furniture wagon and two seta of harness will be sold. . , , SPECIAL TRAIN TO RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Via Southern Railway An nual Foot Ball Game Between UNIVERSITIES OF NORTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 25th, 1915, Special train carrrine first cIasa dv sleeping cars passing Grenesboro at 11.50 p. m. Wednesday November 24th, 1915, arriving Richmond following morning Mull Street Station. Returning special train will leave Mull Street Station, Richmond, 12.0O r' TnUnia November 25th. Sleeping cars ready for occu pancy 10.30 p. m. ....... . ; . . . Special sleeping cars from Salisbury, Winston-Salem and Greens, boro. Following round trip fares will apply from stations named: Greensboro ..... ... ...... $3.00 Keid?rille ...... S3 oo Mount Airy ... ... $4.30 Lanville .. ... . 3oo North AVilkesboro . . ; $3.00 Mudtson .... " Tln Winston-Salem ..... ;; . . $3.50 Elkin . . ... . . ' 52 Mocksrille .. ... .. .. .. $4.00 SilerCity .. .'.V $t! Gulf .. ....... .. $4.50 rbomasville .-..$3.50- Fares from 'all intermediate sUtions on same low basis. Passengers from all branch linepoints will use regular trains to and Greensboro nd other Junction points connecting with the special train. Tickets will also be good On regular train No. 13 leaving Rich mond at 10.3O a. m. Friday, November 26th, last opportunity of the season to visit Richmond at low cost and see great Annual Foot Rail Game. Go and help Carolina win. PULLMAN RESERVATION MfST BE MADE. IN ADVANCE. For further information and; PiHman reservations ask any Agent Southern Railway, or wOe, ' . . - R. H. DeBUTTS, D. P. A., Charlotte, N. C. 1:
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