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stt NEED OF CITY PLANNINQ >Japaneee Municipal Authorities Awpw.e to Dangers Connected With Con. geeted Centers of Population. The remarkable expansion of Jap anese cities during the last few years bus accentuated the urgent necessity of city planning. With this end in view a conference of the mayors of the leading Japanese cities hus oc curred at Tokyo. Among .those present were the mayors of Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto and Kobe, while Tokyo Swl'lMB iratf w 4,lu Tokyo, city planning was set on foot twenty years ago, about the same time the question of city planning was receiving attention in Europe and America," said Doctor Sekl, mayor of Osaka, In an Interview with u Tofcr ? Yomiurl representative. "In Osaka, however. It is only a few years since tlie problem began to claim SerlouH At tention, although the necessity of city planning In Osaka is perhaps more ur gent than In other cities. The density of population In Osaka Is certainly greater than in other places and Im provement In sanitary and other mat ters is urgently needed. It is esti mated that the population of Osaka twenty years hence~rvill be 2,630,000 and that of the two neighboring dis tricts 2.30/),000, making a total of 5, 000,000. This estimate is bitsed on the present rate of Increase, but it is pos sible the rate of increase may be larger. Herein lies the urgent nuture of city planning for Osaka." RSH AFFECTED BY WARFARE Explosion of Mines Off British Coast Has Resulted In Great Diminution of Catches, Is Repprt._ Wilfred Buzley, who Is on the way to his ten plantation In Assnm, India, "aid on his arrival In this city that the frequent explosions of mines off the British coast had caused a groat scarci ty of "ffsh. according to Now York Times. This was especially the case nlong the east const of England and Scotland, and had also affected the cciist of Holland. nerring, which for 1 crly were plentiful nt this season of year off the coast of Scotland, sell i- t a cent apiece retail, now bring 11? ?* fits, he said, and were scarce. Flou l->?s and cod, formerly eight to ten ct nts a pound, are now worth 50 cents r.t retail. It was only at rare Intervals^ Mr. Busdey said, (hi* the poor were able to purchase fish. "T he only fish In British waters that appeared to defy the mines and tor pedoes." Mr. Hurley continued, "is the hardy halibut. Just before I sailed from England one of the stenm trawl ers offlheVonM was about to haul in tb? lines v !ien the captain noticed n gliint halibut following close behind n >?" ! that was Impaled on one of the The halibut made several at tempts to swallow the cod and was eventually hauled up <?to the deck of the trnwler. (The skipper told me that the big fish'weighed 10S pounds, and was sold In the market for SCO." Franglais a New Tongue. "Frr.nglals" is a new language thnt the Trench words for French and English?and the language itself Is '' nf " f""-*-.,' jlimh'" "f n-rr** that were perfectly gooil when they played hy themselves hut don't ahvavs nils. Franglnis is what you hear where Americans and English men and worn-' en without a very good koowleflgo of their hosts' own speech find tliwrTselves at work alongside of French men and French women?soldiers, nurses, relief workers, shopkeepers nud all sort* fntte ? American Red Cross workers say that when you gather up several hundred little French babies who have hardly begun to speak any language at all and several hundred little nnes who are speaking the universal and universally Incomprehensible language of babyhood, the results aTe one de gree harrier to understand than grown up Franglais. Wow to Mail Cut Flowers. Tou have some lovely forg*t-mo-noti In your garden. You would like Marj to have some, but she Is so awkwardly far away. Didn't It occur to you thai you could mall them satisfactorily, U you only knew how? Here's how. Separate the large hunch Into smaller bunches of perhaps four oi five flowers. Now wring out a wad oi absorbent cotton In salt water?a tea spoonfal to a pint will be sufficient Break the damp wad Into smallei pieces and wrap firmly about the end? of the stems. Finally wrap flower, stems nnd all, loosely In newspaper, wax paper If you have It. It Is a good plan, too, to line the bor with the dampened cotton. Famine In Cherry Stones, Scarcity of fruit In Great Britain has Interfered with the movement for yfolle^tlng cherry stones nnd hard nut <fyiells, in which the boy scouts are taking part. Hundreds of tons' are needed every year to make charcoal fir gas masks, charcoal from these substances having many times mora absorptivity than charcoal made from wood.?Springfield Republican. Eagle la Pershing's Mascot General Pershing's personal mascot Is a large golden eagle which the people of his native state sent him and which Is now In the'Bronx Zoo logical park. New Vork. ' There Is a rule aga!ust soldiers or regiments tak ing their living mascots "over there" with them. Stella-Vitae THE GUARANTEED TONIC FOR WOMEN Stella-Vltae has been in *uooe? ful uselothetreatmentofthosediseasei peculiar to women for more than * third of a century. Por nearly ten years it haa bee; n , 1 under a plain, positive guarantee eneflt. Less than otic toot out of every ono tMousand \ousands of letters lilitflhis praising ?'ISOfltae and telling Jbf benefit U i rin*\vomen have beA received. s. ESn. 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All dealers sell Stella-Vltae and will return your money if it does not beuo fit you. Don't put off a tnal. 1 ? FOR SALE BY SCOGGIN DRUG STORE Xulice of Sa*e. ? Pursuant to a judgment of the Su ' perior C :- i of Franklin County, in a Special proceedings therein pending, in which R. H. White. G. W. Whit*, and others are the petitioners, the undersigned Commissioner /will, on Monday tlie^th day of fifoveniber, 1918 between\he hours of 12 M and \ 1 o'clock P. MlNoffer for/sale to the ? . if best bidder foXeash.^t tiie Court j House door in LouVebuJg. North Car jolina, a certain traouof land lying jand being situate in^^unn's Town-. I ship. Franklin Coutx, adjoining the 'lands of J. G. Buna, Sarah E. Wea ithers and others, rihd bein?s^ie dis-' ?ti lbutivo share ctf the late Elizabeth : I J. White, in the estate of Duncan < ?llunn. ln*e of Franklin County, con-! ?taining 23 acres more or less. This' _n,j day of October 191S. . 10-4-Jt G. W. WHJ3JE. Com. \ f 1 j Ask J. A. 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Nothing bur the saving habit will accomplish this. / Luck won't do jt. \ / *? '* Start Right?Save / \ Open a Savings Account right away; gndcultlvate it. Stay with it. Add to it. In the years to come ylu'll bless the Impulse that caused you to start it. We help you to save and pay you 4 per cent on your savings. The First National Bank LOUISBURG, North Carolina W. H. RUFFIN, President F. B. McKINNE Cashier W. D. JACKSON, Assistant-Cashier Furniture -XS. ^fLU" Owing to the epidemic qA Influenza we rave had more time t6 no though and Inspect our stock aod 1 oping this we And that there are ihany Veins on our floors to offer yoa that lt\Wlll be impossible fr you or us, to gettat any prloe after these art sold. Ana when we are abl to again tt-eplace lameit win be at a much h?htr ?rlce. \ C03TE IN A>T) $EE FOE YOURSELF Yours to serve, * J- S Howell Louisburg, ? - ? North Carolina.
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