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JENSBORO, N. C, SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 8, 1911.
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FIGHT AGAINST
THEWEWGOUNTY
Greensboro Lawyers
Oppose Measure.
Pass Resolution Appointing Committee
To Resolute Against Passage of Act
and to Ask County Commissioners to
Do Same and to Inform Legislature
of Sentiment of County Regarding
Matter Some Interesting Figures
Obtained. From Tax Books.
The Greensboro members of the Guil
iord Bar Association in session yester
Azj afternoon took the first step in the
right against the taking of a portion of
C.uilford and adjoining counties, sur-
ounding High Point township, and ea
tabishing a new county, to be known as
Piedmont. A committee was appointed
to draft resolutions protesting against
the creation of the new county and to
appear before the commissioners and re
quest that they do likewise. The reso
lutions follow:
"Whereas, certain parties residing in
md near High Point, have applied to
the General Assembly of North Carolina
Tor a new county:
"And Whereas, the undersigned, mem
bers of the Bar of Guilford county, re
ading in Greensboro. N. C, are opposed
to the establishment of the new county,
:-.nd are of the opinion that it would be
mpracticable and unwise to create the
-iame and believe, from the information
that we have, that the citizens of the
lerritory of Guilford not included, and
-ome of those included in the proposed
new county are opposed to tho creation
f the so;
"Now. therefore, be it resolved on this
t he 7th day of January, 1911, the under
pinned members being present and vot
ing: That A. M. Scales, John N. Wilson,
K. J. Justice, John A. Barringer, T. J.
Murphy and G. S. Bradshaw be and they
are hereby appointed a committee to
prepare suitable resolutions against the
-tablishment of said new county and
he taking of any of the territory of
Guilford county for such purpose, and
that said committee be and they are
hereby instructed to appear before the
Roard of County Commissioners at their
next meeting for the purpose of asking
aid board to pass resolutions objecting
to the creation of such new county and
to do whatever may be in their opinion
necessary to inform the members of the
legislature of the sentiment of Guilford
rounty in regard to the establishment of
-uch new county.
"Resolved Further, that the Secretary
,f this meeting be and he is hereby in
structed to send a copy of these resolu
tions to the members of the Legislature
from Guilford county, and that a copy
he sent to the local papers and the
Tews & Observer for publication."
The County Commissioners meet to
morrow and it is more than probable
that the committee will appear before
them with the request that they protest
ga3nat the passage of such an act and
do whatever they may deem necessary
to inform the legislature of the senti
ment of Guilford people regarding the
matter.
While but few Greensboro people have
repressed themselves on the subject it
is understood that the people of the
rural districts, both inside and outside
the proposed county are strong against
severing any portion of the county as at
present constituted. In fact, some of
those living inside the proposed coun
ty who signed the petition which was
ireulated when the agitation was com
menced, after looking into the matter
closely, have been heard to express re
grets for having been so hasty. Those
who have informed themselves as to the
sentiment in the rural districts state
that fuly three fourths of the people
are against the proposition, having as
ertained that the taxes will have to be
increased. And a number of prominent
High Point citizens, who come to Greens
boro several times each week, have ex
pressed themselves as against the propo
rtion. Senator Hobgood, who is spending
Sunday with his family, was seen yes
terday afternoon regarding his position
on the new county. While he stated
that personally he was opposed to it, he
refused to make any statement for pub
lication, further than to say that if the
tople of the county wanted him to op
pose the proposition and so informed
him he would take up the fight in the
nate. It is known that . Representa
fcve Dillard win fight the meaTir on
the floor of the House. Jpv Vdn
Representative is not Y ' some
of his friends here '-.'jP"he is not
in fa-or of the coujfrf --r
It is an established fct that the pro
posed county will not be a paying pro
position. The assessed v valuation would
have to be increased materially or the
tax rate nearly doubled in order to
make both ends meet. Granting the
fact that the portions of the other coun
ties proposed to be taken in pay into the
funds of their county as much as they
receive the new county would go in debt
each year about $9,000 as the following
figures show, these figures being taken
from the tax books for the fiscal year:
Assessed .valuation of portion
of Guilford proposed to be
annexed to the new county$ 4,021.995
Number of polls, 1,824.
Taxes Levied This Year.
State 8,801.88
Special School 2,026.41
General Purposes 9,509.26
Poor fund 693.23
Road Fund 4,955.53
Schools, general 9j5S.38
Total Taxes levied $35,944.69
Sheriffs 5; Treasurer
2 per cent $1,758.14
3 per cent, loss by
insolvents, etc 753.49 2,511.63
Total taxes available $33,433.00
Disbursements
(The State and special school funds
given below are fixed and the remaind
er of the disbursements are obtained by
finding eighteen per cent of the total ex
penditures for the entire county, the
portion of Guilford proposed to be tak
en off containing eighteen per cent of
the taxable values of the entire county.)
State Tax $ 8301.88
Special School 2,026.41
General school and Contingent
fund 12.610.78
County expenses 19.291.50
Total Disbursed in Proposed
County 42,730.57
Total Taxes available 33,433.06
Overdrawn this year $ 9,297.51
Then too a court house, jail, county
home, pest house, hitching lot (and a
clock on the court house dome) would
have to be provided. As the county
would have no funds there would have
to be a bond issue of at least $100,000
to equip the county. The interest on this
bond issue at 5 per cent, would approx
imate $5,000 per year, which added to
the $997.51 which the portion of Guil-
I ford proposed to be annexed received
I from Guilford over and above the
j amount contributed by the that portion
I of the county would make an annual
! deficiency of over $14,000.
Inasmuch as the promoters of the new
county have referred to the fact that
Durham county has made better pro
gress during her 28 years than has Guil
ford during the past 130 years. The Tel
egram has been requested to publish
some figures taken from the annual re
port of Durham county. In 1909 Dur
ham issued a funding bond issue of
?1 50.000, which added to a bond issue of
1887 of $30,000 made a total bonded debt
of $180,000. The total receipts for the
fiscal year, ending Dec. 1, 1910, for gen
eral purposes and for the road fund were
$68,436.50. At the close of the year
there was a floating debt of $37,738.03
and in addition $8,448.05 of the $30,000
bond issue was borrowed to meet run
ning expenses. The general fund on
Dec. 1 showed a balance of $1,586.15,
while there was an overdraft of $50458
in the road fund.
HEALTH LECTURES
To Be Delivered At Y. W. C. A. Rooms
First Lecture Next Friday Evening.
There will be a series of health lec
sture given at the rooms of the Y. W.
C. A. under the direction of the physical
department. The first of the series will
be given next Friday night at 8 o'clock
by Dr. Anna M. Gove, resident physic
ian of the Normal College. She will
give the same lecture in the afternoon of
the Friday following. The lecture next
Friday night will be delivered more par
ticularly for the benefit of young wo
men who are so employed that they can
not attend the afternoon lecture. Other
lectures of the series will be announced
later, to be delivered by Dr. Gove and
Dr. May Miles.
Ministers To Meet
The Ministers' Association will meet
tomorrow at eleven a. m. in the Ireland
Bible class room. A full attendance is
desired. W. F. Staley, president; Shu
ford Peeler, secretary.
Thacker & Brockmann are selling bed
room slippers -for men, women and chil
drenat reauoed prieeavRead.iheir adl1
on page five
IRK OF THE
'S CLUB
Reviewed at Monthly
Meeting Yesterday.
Reports Received From Several Depart
ments Civic Department Arranging
Elaborate Program For National Civic
Day Fund For Educational Depart
ment of State Federation Mr. J. P.
Cook to Speak In February.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Greensboro Woman's Club was held yes
terday, at the usual hour, in the assem
bly room of the Carnegie library, the
president, Mrs. G. W. Whitsett, presid
ing. Mrs. Kimball, in her monthly report,
showed that the civic department was
doing good work along the lines of clean
streets, sanitary public buildings and
the general appearance and health con
ditions of the city, and announced that
the department was arranging a very
attractive program for national civic
day, March 10, which is to be Reciproci
ty day, when the general club and mem
bers of the Junior Civic League will be
entertained. The department has also
in mind some noteworthy undertakings
which will mean much to the city, and
she called for more workers in this very
important and promising field. Wlvle
the handful of women in this depart
ment are earnest, faithful workers,
there are not enough of them to success
fully carry on the work projected.
In connection with the report of Mrs.
C. W. Tenney, chairman of the -literature
department, a letter from Miss
Adelaide Fries, of Winston, chairman
of the literature department, State 'Fed,
eratroh, was read, in which she urged
the club to enter the literary contest,
which, as was the case last year, will
be an interesting feature of fine arts
evening at the State Federation meeting
in May. The subjects for papers aTe:
"History of Your Own County" and
"WTiat the Study Clubs Have Done For
North Carolina."
A letter was also read from Mrs. F.
L. Stevens, of Raleigh, chairman educa
tional Department State Federation, in
which she called attention to the schol
arships and loan fund offered by the
department to young women denied op-
portunities for an education in any oth-
er way. She cited the case of one young
lady in particular who was now com-
pleting her course and needed more
money than available unless the clubs
throughout the state responded more lib-
erally. On motion of Miss Mary Petty
the Greensboro club pledged ten per cent j
of its receipts from club dues to this
perpetual loan fund. In Mrs. Stevens'
letter honorable mention was made of j
one bank the bank of Warrenton .
which everv year contributed thirtv dol
lars to this worthy cause.
Following reports of chairmen of de
partments the club Year Book, just from
the hands of the printer, was distribut
ed among those present, the tasteful
way in which it was gotten up eliciting
much favorable comment. The Year
Book committee was given a vote o
thanks and the printers complimented on
its typographical appearance. Copies
were handed the chairmen of depart
ments to be given out at departmental
meetings, and those who were not pres
ent yesterday can secure them by apply
ing to the chairman of the department
to which they belong.
The corresponding secretary, who at
the December meeting was instructed to
extend to Mr. J. P. Cook, of Concord,
an invitation to address the ladies at
the February meeting on the subject of
the Stonewall Jackson Training . School,
of which he is the founder and to which
he has dedicated his best energies, re
ported favorably, and on motion of Mrs.
W. H. Osborn it was decided to change
the hour of meeting on that day from
10:30 a. m. to 3 p. m. This wa& done in
order that all the club members who
complain . that they cannot be present
on Saturday morning may attend, as it
is especially desired that they show their
appreciation of Mr. Cook's visit and the
great cause in which he is enlisted by
giving him a good audience. The hour
of meeting will be changed for this one
day and this occasion only, the business
meeting lasting from, 3 ,tq 4,. after whieh
Mr. Cook will tell about the work of
this very successful . reform school for
.youthful, , offenders something .which
Ius lmg bbeia seeded In .North i Carolina.;
Six new ' members -were elected rand
WOMAN
, muck nratinff bnstai?;transacted.
LAYMEN TO MET
THIS AFTERNOON
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All Interested Urged to
be Present.
Preliminary to Anniversary Services to
Be Held This Week Session At Grace
Church This Afternoon At 3 O'clock
Rev, Melton Clark To Speak A Pro
gram For the Anniversary Services. ,
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qPhis afternoon at 3 o'clock at Grace
M. P. ehurch will be held a meetinsr of
the missionary committees of the vari
ous churches in the city, together with
the pastors' and other laymen interest
ed in the Laymen's Missionary Move
ment. Rev. Melton Clark will make an
address on the "Standard Missionary
Church."
The meeting is primarily for the pur
pose of arranging for the details for the
anniversary services Thursday and Fri
day in commemoration of the great
Laymen's Convention held in this city"
last January. A number of matters
will come up for discussion, notably the
matter of arranging reports from all
churches at once in order that the in
crease and work of the several denomi
nations may be figured out and placed
on ailarge vall map and displayed con
spicuously during the . sessions of th
convention. It & most important that there be r
full "attendance of the various mission
ary committees and pastors at the
meeting this afternoon and all laymen
who are interested in missionary work
are most cordially invited to manifest
their interest by attending. . .
-At anniversary services Thursday
and Friday will be" speakers representing
all denominations and the sessions
promise to be of much interest as well
as of a most instructive and inspiring
nature. The sessions will be held in the
First Presbyterian church and admission
will be free.
The committee on preparations has
had 1,500 cards printed and these have
been placed in the hands of the mis
sionary committees of the several
churches of the city. The cards are to
be placed in the hands of men who will
agree to attend the convention as much
as possible and will entitle them to re-
served seats. Men who propose at-
tending this meeting should obtain these
tickets. All seats not taken at the hour
for the service by holders of tickets will
be open to the general public. This
means that both men and women are
invited to the convention this time,
Blanks have also been sent to the
chairmen of the missionary committees
and pastors asking for reports of work
done along missionary lines since the
great convent iorfast winter. It is de
sired that each church mail one copy of
this report to Mr. Charles A. Hines, not
later than Monday night, and keep an
other to read at the convention.
Below is a program for the occasion,
subject to some minor changes:
Thursday Evening, 7:30 O'clock.
Mr. A. M. Scales Presiding.
Address, 'A Sufficient Motive for the
Task," Dr. W. H. Smith, Richmond, Va.,
educational secretary of the Foreign
Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
Convention.
Address, Dr. C. F. Reid, secretary Lay
men's Missionary Movement in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Friday Morning, 10:30 O'clock. ,
Mr. G. H. Miles, Presiding.
Address, 'Then and Now in Porto
Rico," Rev. T. E. White, returned mis
sionary of the Southern Christian Con
vention to Porto Rico.
Address, Dr. Banks McNairy, Lenoir,
N. C.
Address, "The Broadening Effect on
the Individual of the Laymen's Mission
Movement," Mr. S.'R. Harris, Henderson,
N. C.
Friday Afternoon, 3 O'clock.
Mr. A. Wayland Cooke, Presiding.
Address, "Missions and the Individu
al," Rev. J. Kenneth Pfohl, pastor of the
Home Moravian church, Winston-Salem,
N. C.
Address, "The Relation of World
Peace to Foreign Missions," Rev. J. H.
hPeele, Guilford College, N. C.
- 4 p. m., Denominational Rallies.
Friday Evening, 7:30 O'clock.
Mr. J. Norman Wills, Presiding.
Address, Dr. J, O. Reavis, Nashville
Term., co-ordinate secretary of - the exe
cutive committee f ; Foreign "Missions,
f or-the Southerii Tresbyterian church.-, -
'Adoption at Policy. for Comlng Yearr ,
WILL CEASE BUSINESS
Aetna Indemnity Company to Adjust
Difficulties Before Writing New Busi
ness. Raleigh, Jan. 7. State Insurance
Commissioner Young has notified all
agents of the Aetna Indemnity Company
to cease doing business in this state for
that company from this time, in compli
ance with a letter he has received from'
the president of the eompany notifying
him that the company has directed their
agents in North Carolina to discontinue
writing new business until the present
difficulty of the company has been "ad
justed it having been brought into, tem
porary embarrassment by the- action of
President Robin, of the Northern Bank.
Commissioners Young has. received no
tice that the Seaboard Fire & Marine
Insurance Co., of Galveston, Texas,vhas
reinsured its contracts in the German
American Insurance Co., of New York
City, and will liquidate their business.
Mr. Young says this reinsurance will
make the poliicies of the Seaboard Fire
& Marine Insurance Co., in this state
absolutely safe.
There is a movement on foot to cre
ate a new county out of portions of
Guilford, Rockingham, Forsyth and
Stokes with Stokesdale as the courity
seat. Committees have been appointed
and another meeting will be held on the
14th.
Mayor Wynne read a New Year mes
sage before the board of aldermen at last
night's meeting, congratulating Raleigh
upon its increased population, thanked
the board for its part in the city's prog
ress and urged that during the coming
year every effort be exerted to further,
the interests of the city.
State Geologist Joseph Hyde Pratt
will go to Burgaw Monday to attend a
good roads meeting. He will attend a
similar meeting at Fayette ville Tues
day. Prof. E. L. Middleton, statistical secre
tary for the State Baptist conyentionr
has moved to Raleigh and he and BTs
family will be given a hearty welcome.
They come herefrom Cary.
EUTERPE CLUB MEETS.
Mendelssohn Evening Greatly Enjoyed
by the Members.
The Euterpe Club held a very inter
esting and enthusiastic meeting yester
day afternoon in Miss Woodall's studio,
Southern Life & Trust, building. It
was Mendelssohn evening, and he pro
gram, which follows, was arranged by
Mrs. Banner:
Piano Op. 7 and Op. 18. Mendelssohn,
Mrs. Klingman.
Nocturne, from Midsummer Nights
Dream, Mrs. Van Noppen.
Quartet, Ring Out Ye Bells, Kucken,
Mesdames-Stone, Klingman, Swaim and
Banner.
Scherzo, Mendelssohn, Mrs. Wills.
Piano Duet, Mendelssohn, Mrs. Al
bright and Mrs. Wills.
The next meeting will be held next
Saturday afternoon at the same place,
Miss Woodall's studio.
TO ORGANIZE BIBLE CLASS.
Also a Mission Study Class At the Y.
TT. C A.
Mrs. R. R. Alley will speak this after
noon at four o'clock at the vesper ser
vice of the Young Woman's Christian
Association. All young women are in
vited to be present.
Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock in
the association rooms, a Bible class will
be organized which will be open to all
women. The teacher will be Rev. Steph
en S. Myrick, and the subject will be
"Old Testament Missionaries."
A mission study class will be organiz
ed Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock, with
Mrs. G. W. Whitsett as leader. The
subject will be, "Advance in the An
tilles." This class is also open to all
women, irrespective of association mem
bership. Convention of Christian Workers.
There, will be held a convention at
Friends church, corner Spring Garden
and Dairy street, beginning Sunday at
11 a. m. John Shober Kimber, of New
port, R. I., will speak once or twice each
day. Prof, and Mrs. Woody, of Guilford
College, will speak Monday, Tuesday
and- Wednesday from 10:30. to 12 m.
Bro.-Kimber is to speak each afternoon
at 430. Amos M. Kenworthy, the old
Quaker fptophet, is expected to speak oc-
casibnally during the week. Other help
ful workers are expected. The conven
tion lasts through the week and over
next Sunday. All welcome." Eli Reece,
pastor.
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The "Merry Widow".
Filled Opera House To Overflowing Fri
day Night Halifax Representative to
Be Elected Corporation Commissia
Reports Regarding Freight Rates from
Ports of Inland Cities Bills Intro
duced Yesterday.
Raleigh, Jan. TThe first theatrical ,
event for the members of the General
Assembly was "the. Merry ".'Widow"" at
the Academy of Music last night, the
legislators swelling the crowd to stand
ing room and many people were turned
away. Numerous theatrical parties werev y-, '
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tion was considered one of the . most XZ V.
praiseworthy attractions ever put on at p"- L
the local play hours; ' . ; VV
Mr. A. H. Green has been named by -
Halifax county as candidate for the-- s-'
House for the special election January -10
to. select a successor to Rev. P. N.
Sta-inbaek, the candidate-elect who re
cently died. The Republicans of : Halifax.
will also name a candidate. Mr. Greea.
is a Confederate veteran and a sima
pure Democrat. .
A number of local bills were introds-
fe
ed in both branches of the legislatmfe-
during today's session, there being sef
eral of general interest and importaoaoe
sandwiched in among the batch. ,-
Senate.
President Newland convened the Se-
ate at 11 o'clock, Rev. L. F. Johnson, of
the Qiristia-chur feriBStni
cation. X wft 4t''
Leaves of absence were granted T
Senators Long, of Iredell, and ,BrOTrntv
Columbus, until Monday. - '
Bills Introduced. " '
McLaughlin, of Cumberland: Estab
lishing the county of , Hoke out of poe-
tions of Cumberland and Robeson.
Johnson, of Dupin: Amendment mak
ing the landlord and tenant act xjaom
effective. ,
Senator Pharr called attention to that
Senate rule requiring that the captio
of each bill introduced should convey itav
intent and purposes.
A report was received from the cor
poration commission in obedience fo av.
resolution fjthe general assembly oC
1909 directing it to investigate freight
rates and put in force"' the same ratea
from North Carolina ports to inlawj
cities and towns as apply in Virginia if "
practicable. The railroads were notified I
and at a hearing September "13, 1009
traffic managers of . the Southern, Sea
board and A. C. L. Railways were exam
ined as witnesses, the State and varion .
merchants' associations being represent
ed by counsel. The corporation cow
mission's opinion is that the freight,
sate! from North Carolina orts to
land points is as low or lower than a
plyin Virginia or South Carolina.
The Senate at 11:20 adjourned to It
o'clock Monday. 1,
The House. " -
The Bouse of Representative conven
ed at 11 o'clock, Speaker Dowd calling;
on Representative Woodson, of Cleve
land county, to offer the. prayer.
Bills Introduced.
Stroup of Gaston": Regulate the rt ...
of interest in North Carolina by allow
ing as ; high as eight per cent ehargtdr j
by special contract with the borrower.
Pace of Wake: Requiring factories ta. -keep
at hand for employes first aid med
ical 1 supplies, and surgical first aid ap
pliances. N. C. National Guard.
The annual meeting of the North Car
olina National Guard Association will
be held in Durham on January 11 awi. ,
12. The first session will be held on.:
Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock...
Maj. W. C. Rodman, of Washington, ia
president and Capt. FL. Black, of Chr
lottek secretary and treasurer of the or
ganization. f
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