Greensboro police raid gambling dens, bawdy houses

100 YEARS AGO From the Greensboro Patriot, March 13-19, 1905 The county commissioners have chosen a site on the county farm for a workhouse where the courts may send prisoners who should not be sentenced to convict camps, such as youths and women. Inmates at the workhouse will be assigned tasks within their physical condition, such as sewing and repairing clothes and producing vegetables and foodstuffs. The 15-acre site will be fenced. Taking advantage of a new law that gives them jurisdiction for one mile outside the city limits, Greensboro police have begun raiding gambling dens, bawdy houses and liquor joints that have moved outside the city in recent years to avoid law enforcement. About 40 people from such places were guests of Jailor May over the weekend. ... John A. Tucker, whose lease of the McAdoo Hotel expires April 1, plans to open a 30-room Tucker Hotel in the Holton Building next to the McAdoo, whose owner, W.D. McAdoo, plans to refurbish it from top to bottom. ... Joseph M. Morehead was reelected president and J.W. Fry was named vice president of the Guilford Battle Ground Co. at its annual meeting, held in the parlor of Greensboro National Bank. At the Grand: romantic actor William Bramwell in Victor Mapes' new play, "Captain Barrington"; balcony 50 cents; orchestra $1.50. 75 YEARS AGO From the Greensboro Daily News, March 13-19, 1930 The Chamber of Commerce urged its members to undertake previously delayed building projects, big and small, so as to provide jobs for the city's stagnant construction industry. The chamber's job plea was in response to recommendations from a conference of civic leaders called by Mayor R.R. King Jr. to talk about ways to relieve unemployment in the city. The chamber said its members could take advantage of low building costs now prevailing while also bringing "the manless job to the jobless man." Air mail service through the Greensboro Airport will double in April when Eastern Air Transport adds a new southbound flight to Atlanta through Charlotte and a second northbound flight to New York through Richmond. There now are daily flights from Greensboro to Atlanta via Spartanburg and to New York via Richmond. ... Air mail pilot Dick Merrill spotted a house on fire at Monticello shortly after taking off about midnight from Greensboro for Richmond but managed to wake up the family in the burning house by flying back and forth over the house and accelerating his engine to make maximum noise. ... Gibsonville residents have asked the county commissioners for help in persuading the state to build a new, more direct road from their town to Greensboro, saying they would rather have this than improvements to the circuitous Route 10. At Senior High School auditorium: The Sedalia Singers with tenor Rudolph Gaston Scott and soprano Amy Bailey; 50 cents and $1.