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This is most important. English Drug Co. Tht Stort That AIwiji ELu It" Thone 39 Ileum, N. C LJ tirViV? aft ofiri) MM M ON ROE, Af. C. Prepared Feed,Cotton Seed p CHARTERED IN 1859 handsome new buildings, beautiful equipment, and a nation-wide rep V"' AAA. I'. S. STEAMER MONTANAN IS TORPEDOED AXI SrXK Three Members of Chilian Crew anil Two of Naval Armed Guard l"rt bully Lot Ship Sunk in Foreign Waters Was Built Fr Service Through Panama Cunel. Washington. D. C The American steamer Montanan of 6.659 tons ;,W was torpedoed ana sunk in foreign maters last Friday with the probable loss of three members of the civilian crew and two members of the Naval Armed Guard, the Navy Department to-night announced. Eighty-one sur vivors were landed. The Montanan was in the service of the quartermasters' department of the army and was used as a supply ship. The members of the Naval Armed Guard reported as missing are David W. Johnson, coxswain, and Chester C. Eldridge, seaman, The names of the civilian members of the crew un accounted for have not been ascer tained. The Navy Department's announce ment follows: "The Navy Department is Inform ed that the steamship Montanan was torpedoed and sunk In foreign wa ters on August sixteenth. Eighty-one survivors were landed. Five men are reported missing three members of the civilian crew and two of the Na val Armed Guard. David W. Johnson, coxswain, and Chester C. Eldridge, seaman. The names of the three civ ilians were not given in the dispatch received. "The Montanan was an American cargo ship of 6.659 gross tons." The Montanan owned by the American-Hawaiian line was launched in 1913 at Sparraw's Point, being built for service through the Panama ca nal. In October last year with oth er American vessels over two thou sand five hundred tons dead-weight, she was requisitioned by the United States shipping board and soon after ward assigned to the army quarter master's department. Tho vessel was manned by officers and crew from the Navy when sunk. The vessel was outbound from an American port. STATE FAIU GROUNDS TO HE USED AS TANK C.VMP SITE I'miiiiinoiis Alireeiiieiit of Directors to either 1 vent or Sell GiiiiiiuIm Made Certain the Xeces.sjiry Ground Fifteen Thousand Acres Can be Given und Considered llest Camp Situation Between Arizona and the Atlantic North Carolina's Third Camp: Raleigh, August. 22. Definite an nouncement from Washington to night that Raleigh had won the tank camp which Theodore Tiller, in the Greensboro News, has with such per sistence prophesied, has brought Joy to the city . Raleigh newspapermen, "chloro formed" last week when Raleigh made its perennial stab for something were aroused to-night and told to go it. There was nothing to write then. Last week when the state fair direc tors were hastily summoned in spec ial sessions and asked to vote the fair grounds for the camp, unanimous agreement gave certainty to the nec essary land. The association will sell for one hundred thousand dollars or rent for fifteen thousand dollars the first year and ten thousand dollars per annum each succeeding year until the war ends. Fifteen thousand acres can be giv en and from Washington to-night it is announced that this the best site between the Atlantic and Arizona. Raleigh had raised about $20,000 to put into the property necessary for the Governments use. It took less than thirty minutes to do It. RECENT HAPPENINGS Ijitest News of the War, the Stute and the Nation. On Tuesday Gen. Mangins troops near Fonteny on the Alsne captured several thousand German troops in the space of a few hours. American Avaitors began a cam paign of bombing German submarine bases with an attack on Ostend on August 15. Details of the attack are lacking but It is reported that the effort met with considerable juces.-. It Is said that in this attack the Amer ican avaitors showed that they were particularly good at night bombing. The Canadian casualty list Issueu for Tuesday contains the name of S. Leeper of Hermitage, Tenn., wound ed. A tank training camp, report lias it to be the largest In the world. Is to be located at Raleigh, according to advices coming out in Washington. This camp will embrace thousands or acres of land taking in part of state fair grounds. Ninety-four survivo-s of fho sliip Proteus sunk In a colliiiou wi'h the tank steamer Cushing o!T tho Dia mond Shoals lightship were lauded at Norfalk, Virginia, on Tuesday from the Csuhing. Enrico Caruso, the Italian (..rend Opera singer was married Tuesday to Miss Dorthy Benjamin, the daughter of a New York Patent Attorney. General Jose Marina, the Spanish war minister has Issued a statement declaring the recent note from the Soanish Government to Germany will have no effect upon Spain's Intention to remain neutral. On August 14 Lieutenant Rene Fonck. a French avaltor, shot down three German airplanes In the record time of twenty seconds, according to official dispatches. The Chinese Government has sent plans to establish Immense laundries at all of the large army camps. The average cost will be one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Tho Chinese oGvernment has sent a large force of troop to the Siber ian border to prevent a threatened Invasion of Chinese territory by Ger man and Hungarian prisoners of war who joined with the red guard and other elements of the Bolsherlki gainst the Ciecho-Slovaks in tno traw-Balkal region. ltUITIMI MIKE SMASHING i:u i:ox ten mile front Army Before Drove Into iU-lon' Dawn During Heavy Foe. Made , Stead) i'.ogrew. Camming Villus Guns ami Prisoner. j With the British Army in France.! Aug. 22. (By the Associated Press" I V.V.; V T.' I Z' T. win. General von Below's seventeenth ar-' snlnRto. l- t- August In Zionist may gel into line at Wades my during a heavy fog at dawn t)jan:!er 10 trom Chairman boro. day on a front of more than ten milea J; au,berla"1 of th Senate Notary j The- route of the excursionists will extending from the Ancre river to' Lom,,li,tw. asking whether it was be the State highway bv Wadesboro. Moyenneville. the British have throughout th ri:lr ni-iHa ctnut., r m gress forward, capturing villages. tak - ing prisoners and guns and inflicting heavy casualties on the surprised en emy. Coming directly on the heels of the battle south of the Somme, the scene of which virtually adjoins the field oT the new operations, this blow ex ploits to the limit the confusion tre ated among the German forces by their recent defeats. Heavv flfhtinar has nrpiirerl slnnir the embankment of tho Aihort.irr,,. railroad, which, although well within the Gorman lines last nieht. seems to have been easily reached by the storming British Infantrymen who were assisted in this task by tanks. It was from this embankment that the Germans, armed with countless machine guns, fired a rain of bullets In an effort to keep the British from coming further, but while they were doing it they themselves must have suffered severely, not only from the flood of direct and indirect machine gun fire, but from shells which were sent crashing about their ears from directly in front of them, for the Brit ish field guns moved up closely in the rear of the infantrymen and from their flank, where the big British guns hurled in an avalanche of steel from the north. In rnnin.irloon vith tha haritAr fighting it Is worthy of mention that at some places no resistance of any use "lttr"se uu,, a ,,a"" practical importance developed. For of exemption. Marriages so contrce -iustance the village of Beaucourt was I 0(1 wiU not have the efrct desl,re,l: taken with only three casualties. OneTn statua of registrants married at wounded man returning from the fighting said he went in three kilo meters through the enemy lines be fore seeing a single Boche. But this is PYTtl:iinari hv tha fnot Ihnt tha P.or. man positions were very thinly held at some points. Logest wood was one of the most strongly held posi tions in the foreground, und this was readied early in the day. As to prisoners, there is no definite information, but more than one thou sand have reached the cages und they have come In from a considerable dis tance, most of them having been cap ture! (luring the early fighting. Some lllC VUI 1J II r, II i ill fS. flMllv prisoners arrived at the andhags and long curved of the first cages with ha porcelain pipes. They seemed clean and were as pleased with themselvs as if going on leave. One of them, on being questioned, said he was hap py to be taken. SECOND AMERICAN TROOPS TRAXSI'ORT AT VLADIVOSTOK .Movement of Jap Army Reintr Delay ed by Demands for Control of Chi nese Roads Enemy is Mussing Terror is Ivelgning in Petrograd. By the Associated Press. A second transport carrying Amer ican troops arrived at Vladivostok last Tuesday. The transport bearing the first contingent of American sol diers entered the harbor yesterday af ternoon, after a voyage of seven days and a half from Manila. A thirp troopship is expected tonight. In the absence of artillery, the British have equipped two gondolas with guns from a cruiser and sent them to the Ussusi front. WHAT CZECHO-SLOVAKS FACE General Dieterichs, commander of the Czecho-Slovak forces, pointing out to-day the great odds his troop3 are facing, estimated th3 enemy strength at forty thousand men, ivllh seventy guns and two hundred ma chine guns. The status of the Czecho slovaks In Transbaikalia Is unknown, he said, but it certainly must be des perate. To ataln the object sougnt by the Entente Allied Governments a substanial force must be sent to the Manchurian front. Opinion on all sides appears to be that the Allied Government are un-der-pstimatinz the magnitude of the tsk of liberating the Czechoslovaks, j and do not realize the necessity of ac- tual warfare against superior num bers. Dr. Yaromlr Spacek, a member or the Czecho-Slovak National Council, has left for Washington to acquaint Prof. T. G. Masaryk, the President of the council, with the'situation of the Czecho-Slovaks. Dr. Spacek told the correspondent that the Czecho-Slovak will abide by the decision of Prof Masaryk as to whether they shall pro ceed to France, whih Is their ambi tion, or stay In Russia to fight the en emy, If given adequate support. MR. CARELOCK SAYS WEEVIL WILL DESTROY ONE Mr. CarelH-k Reports Good Crops In (Jeorgla. (From the Pageland Jornal.) Mr. James F. Carelock left ae:e Monday morning on his return to his home In Coffee count, Geoigia. after , a visit of more man two ween? m Union county. He moved trom that countv to Georgia eleven years age. and it had been nine years since he has been back. He and his sons own two thousand acres of land a few miles from Douglass, and are doing well. He says the boll weevil appear ed there late In the season two years ago: last year it appeared a :itn earlier and did some damage. Ti ls year It was there waiting for the first forms on the young cotton. n inmnf the weecil will destroy one-third or one-fourth of the yield. He Is con cerned very little about the weevil, howver, as he says there are otner crops that pay as well. He plants valvet beans and peanuts In all his corn. Last year wnen rrost came no nulled the corn, and then about six ty cows and sixty hogi on forty acres nf tha baant and oeanuts. No feed tu given to the cattle or hogs and ln early spring all were taken off in much better condition than when they were put lu. I THE STATUS OF MARRIED 1 31 EN WILL HE UNCHANGED! j ,ker '" T,,It 1 tvler Se ltn l-aw .Harriett .vu-n nut Ik- I kisysl A Heretofore Financial Mn- .It my of W ives and Child. n L..fc- ed Ipon a l.eason For Deferred Clavsitieation. 1 1 ueparinieni pro ieu i nrmiM. uiarnru ui.-n as !e.la8S under the new un-Powe'" Secretary Baker to-day in forme J the Senator that existing regulatUm as to married men would continue in force. Senator Chamberlain had written to the Secretary saying if it was true that deferred classification fo- mar- riea men generally was conteuipu:iea !,jer of the trip many Senator would oppose lowering It can be mad9 interesting and pro the present draft age to eighteen fitable to spend two days and three years; nights at Kaleigh and in attendance '"'i11' suuauuu. m.. njnei ' relied, "with regard to married men ! in clas? one ,s that four clas?es of married men are included within the limits of that class; first, marled men who do not support their wives or families: second, married men whose wives support them; third, mart led men whose wives have adequate In- dependent means; fourth, married useless occupations, and who are not the main or principal support of thir families. "There Is no Intention to change i this situation. 'In construing the regulations with regard to dependency of wives and children, financial dependency las been looked upon as the reson for de - leneu ciaiumn-aiiuu. im win "-( ed to report to J. Z. Green at Marsh tinue to be the easej .iville. either by phone or postcard be- "I am told that In some parts or, tween now aaJ SatUrday night of this the country there is an abnormal m-l-g crease in the rate of marriages which j A- ,he mn , the excursion party j uK5st9 the possibility of a desire to a uni-aim unuer vuuuiiiuna ounsra ing any such purposes will be that of unmarried persons so far a thir classification is concerned ! WESTERN RATTLE LINE IS SHORTENED BV SUCCESSES Fifty Miles Cut out by Our Recent Advances General March Name the Thirty-Two Divisions of Ameri can Troops Already In France. Washington, D. C. Allied Succes- . , ... , , , I?!? " ,hf Marn,V ln 1 'carJ-v aml ln 1 1 ,nd,er in leiu "I'.erat.ons have rev- suiieu in u i uuii uiiiuu ui nir w cci- ern battle front by more than fifty miles. General March, chief of staff to-day announced. The Allies in en agagements conducted this week, he added ,have maintained their posses sion of the initiative by making at tacks on limited fronts and at wide ly separated points. At the beginning of the German offensive in March the battle front in France measured two hundred and fllty miles; to-day it is less than two hundred miles In length and the lat est British gains are reducing it fru ther. General March said he was without official confirmation of the result of the British advance north of the Scrape and therefore would refrain from comment. Summarizing the results of recent operations he pointed out that the Flanders salient had been flattened out by the enemy retiring from one to two miles on a fourthteen-mlle front; on the plains of Roye the line had been put well back of the old 1916-1917 line and between the Aisne and the Oise the French have carried the line forward four miles to the plains surrounding the city of Noyon which is four miles beyond. Captures of the town of Erapelle, in the Vosges. the chief of staff said, had resulted in the elimination of a very sharp salient. This operation was carried out by the fifth American division which has been under Major General John E. McMahon. Thirty-two American divisions have arrived In France, General March said. They are the first to sixth, in clusive, of regulars; the twenty-sixth twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twen fv-ninth. thirtieth, thirty-second, thlr- lythird, thiry-flfh. thirty-sixth, tlilr- tv-seventh. forty-first, and forty-sec ond national guard; and the seventy sixth to elghtythlrd Inclusive, and the eighty-fifth, eighty-ninth, ninetieth, ninety-first, ninety-second and ninety third national army PEOPLE OF VIENNA ARE IN RAGS BIT DRINK CHAMPAGNE Plenty of Money In Austria, Hut Food And Clothes Are Scarce -Three .Meatless Days a Week. Are Order ed in Vleniui A Orcl'nury Worker Earns From Elghry t One Hun dred IKillars rt Wii'k. Berne. August 22. Public insecu rity is greatly increased at Vienna be cause of the war, acorrding to a trav eler who has Just returned to bwit Zetland from the Austrian npital. 1 hefts are reported every nigat, j tnieves Deing especially anxious to obtain clothes, the price of which has risen fabulously. A decent suit for a man costs from three hundred dollars to four hun dred dollars. Shoes worth sixty dol lars an da pound of bread bought secretly with a bread ard, costs from two to three dollars. On the other hand, the ordinary worker. Is earning from eigti'y to a hundred dollars a week. As a re sult ordinary Iron workers and coal carriers are seen drinking champane at fashionable bars. Coopers are greatly needed ln view of the excel lent harvests In the wine districts. Hungarian vineyard owners are offer ing mast coopers sixteen thousand dollars a year. Three meatless days a week have been ordered by the municipal au thorities at Vienna, according to an official despatch to-day from Switzer land. The Austrian capital is report ed threatened with complete exhaus tion of its meat supply. THE UNION AUTO EXCURSION. tjv I .fine 7;00 to 7:;li Net Tue j day Moruiiig Note ami Sugge. j lions. j The auto excursionists will leave j Uarshville next Tuesday morning at 7:00 to 7:30. New Salem and east j Goose Creek passengers can join the j crowd at Polkton and South Marsh- ville and east Lanes Creek excur- - ;Lilesville. Rockingham, Ellerbe, Jack- ison Sorines. Pinehurst. Southern Pines and Sanford. Stop will be made for dinner at Jackson Springs where the crowd will be requested to assemble in the pavillion to ascertain how many are in the party and to hear further an- nouncetnents relative to the remain . ,e Karmers' and W omen's Stata Convention, starting on the return trip FriJay morning, but any group on a car can arrange the day for leaving Raleigh to suit themselves. Before entering the college grounds at Raieigh it Is suggested that each automobile on arrival at Cary go to the Cary Hish Schoo, groUnd3 kai wait until all the other cars arrive. Entrance can then be made into the college grounds In a body, which will enable the authorities at the college to assign rooms more conveniently. The college authorities would like to know in advance approximately how many visitors will be Included in the excursion and each car owner wn0 wil,'carry pasSengers Is request an; requesttyJ t0 wear overalls on the j trip. HAS FAITH I V GOVERNMENT Man Who Knew Nothing of War's C:uuo Sent His Sons. Cora H.i::i-, in the Independent. i.Vw York.) Mr. Kirk lives in a little house where the north winds swirl throuf'a the hills into the valley. He thinks !he is an American because his fore i fathers were born in this country. In I fact, he is a reversion to type, a j Scotchman, with Presbyterian brows, iwho had settled down in tho Primi tie Baptist Church as a rock settles jto the bottom of the sea, from whence i nothing can move that rock. He Is an old man, poor in everythings ex cept sons. I met him hauling wood one day just alter three of them had been call ed to the National Army. I wanted to know if any of his sons had asked for exemption. "1 told 'em not to," he answcied simply. "But you still have a large fam ily to support, and you are too old to do heavy work. You might have kept one," I Insisted. "Would I be taking ray boy's chance from him for that?" he re turned, as If I had suggested that ne take the bread out of his children's mouths. "You wanted them to go, then," I asked. "Not that exactly. But you know Herbman over there," he answered, pointing to the only painted house ln our valley. "He has got more than the rest of us, but not a friend, not a teal neighhor, and do you know why? Well, during the Civil War ev ery man in this valley fought In the Confederate army but Herbman. He stayed at home, hid out. That's nearly 60 years ago, but we've never forgot ten or forgiven htm. He's dead. Peo don't even talk about him. That's w hy I mean, I wanted my sons to go as they'd live even if they died." "That ain't all." he added, after a pause. " I am as you say, an old man, but I have had peace and plen ty all my life. I have had my rights. I have been protected, me and my children, and I never paid more'n $5 for taxes ln my life. That is what the Government charges me each year to take care of nie and my prop erty. It is mighty little when you think of the privileges I have had. If the Government needs my sons, well, there they are! "But what Is this war about, what are we fighting for?" I asked. "I don't know. I am too busy to keep up with things. I don't read and I don't believe half I hear. I just leave It to the Government. If we are flghtin', it's because we've got to fight, or because we ought to fight. That Is what I told the boys when they left. A good soldier doesn't ask questions until he has done his duty and gits bark into citizens' clothes. Then he doesn't have to ask any. He knows. The tables are turn ed. The Government doesn't own him; he owns the Government. So I don't care what they think we are fighting for. That is what this war means to me and my boys." Card of Thanks. We desire to express our sincere Hi.itbi ami n Ttnrpln t inn In mir friea,ls an neighbors for their many acts of kindness durli during the sickness and death of our daughter, Lessie. May God's richest blessings reat on each one Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Helms. Spoiled Her Trip. "Then jour wife didn't enjoy her trip to Ningara?" "No; the minute she saw that rush ing water she began to wonder if she hadn't come away from and left the bathtub faucet open." The Middlesex Regiment. While some Scottish regiments weie disembarking In France, some French officers were watching them. One observed: "They can't be women, for they have mustaches; but they can't be men for they wear skirts." "I have It." said another. "They are that famous Middlesex regiment from London." Defend the "Breard Line" with eter nal vigilance our men are risking their lives to hold It
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