It Costs Nothing to Join
our Chriatmaa Banking Club and it ia an easy way to have money n«nct
Chriatmaa. The plan ia simple! You atart with 10c, 5c, 2c or lc and
increase with the name amount each week.
Or you can depoait 50 centa, $1.00, $5.00 or more each week and
depoait this same amount each week.
How to Join
Look at the different Cluba in table below and aelect the one you
wiah to join, the lc, 2c, 5c, 10c, 50c, $1.00, $5.00—then cmm to mm
Bank with (Im ferat w««kly payment. We will make you a member of
the Club and rive you a Chriatmaa Banking Club Book showing the
Club you have joined.
What The Different Clubs Will Pay You
le Club
rATMENTS
1st WMk, lc
2nd Wad, 2c
3rd W«tk 3c
(■maw wwkljr hr lc
TaUl la M »«lu
$12.75
2c Club
PAYMENTS
1st Week, 2c
2mI Week 4c
3rd W«*k, «c
limur »«klj hy 2«
Tatol hi M »«iu
$25.50
5c Club
PAYMENTS
1st WNk, 5c
2md Wwk, ... 10c
3rd W««k, ... 15c
IxntM w**kly hjr Sc
TaUl in M wmm
$63.75
10c Oak
PAYMENTS
let WmL .... 10c
2nd W«*k, . . 20c
3rd W»«k, . . 30c
Imthm »«Wj *>j ttc
Tats! la M wMka
>127SO
50c Club
PAYMENTS
l.t W«*k, . . ...50c
2mi W«k, 50c
3rd Week, .. 50c
Deposit 5«* weakly
Total is M w«rk»
$25.00
$1.00 Club
PAYMENTS
lat WMk, . 91.00
2nd We«k, . 91.00
3rd W#ek, . 91.00
DeMH »t.M weekly
Total ia M weafca
$50.00
$5.00 Club
payments
l.t W«ck, . . $8.00
2md W««k, . *5.00
3rd W—k, $5.00
Dvpoait tS.M wa«Uy
Tatol in 5# wwha
$250.00
X Club
FOR
12, $3, $4
$10
YOU CAN BEGIN WITH THE LARGEST PAYMENT FIRST AND DECREASE YOUK rATMLrtia wtn ~
The Reasons For The Club
To UMk "tko Bankiag k.bit" to thoao who kar« mt« UrjjTil"1' """ "WMMV*
It B*kM your pomio», «ickoU and dim**, oftea foolUkly »p«at grow into Ml«m
dollar* grow into fortune. Start year fertile today.
To giro you a Bank coomction and show you kow our Bask earn bo of aorvico to
For Old and Young
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MONET. M«jb» this little rtirt jam gira tlka aaw mar mm Jay aat tfcaai up la kaataaea ar toy Urn
How aftaa bit yaa wiafcad Uat yam parrata had taagfct yaa early, tfca rata* at Wiafciac yaar
mamej. Taa waaU ha waO-at today. Doa't ataka tha aaaia aiatik* witll TOUR rfciUraa.
BANK OF
Capital and Surplus, $100,000.
MOUNT AIRY
Resources, $750,000.
VINOL MAKES
(MEN STRONG
Mad lariforatM OU PaopU
Any doctor wffl tall yoa that tfca
ftgradianta of Vmol M printed balow
'cantain tha tfaMtt) naadad to im
prora tha haalth of <fattesta childraa
and taMfi atrangth to old
atrangth
» L"4
nu-dowa childran or agad parents I
®ar prora thia at oar axpenae. t,
■aaidaa tfca good it doaa chOdraa
and tha agad thara la nothing liko •
(Vinol to raatora
work ad, ran-down man.
Tnr h. If m ara sot antiraly aat
Ofied. wa will ratora jomt monay
without qoaattan; that ororaa oar
your protection. MQ.
■ana of paayU km baaa oontlaaad
thia way.
I. W. WEST DRUG CO.
Confederate Women Knit
Sock* for the Soldieri. ,
Fayetteville, Dec. 19.—The old la
dioi at the State Home for Confed- <
•rate Women, nvar thin city are doing
th»ir bit by the American floldier. The
latent bos of knlted nupplien nent to
•outhern Red Croaa headquarter* by '
the local cha|>ter contained 11 paira of
beautiful knit tocko, the work of the
fediea of the home, whue Angara have
»t lout the deftneai they acquired in ,
•dtting for the bey* who followed
0e« and Jacknon in the
The bos, which wa» the third aent
hjr the Fayettrrllle chapter, alao eon- J
talna lit nweatera, M mafleta, SA'
m tstleta, two eye bandage*, one hel- J
•et and mm pair of bad cocka.
Production of Rifle*
Suffered From Delay.
Washington, Dec. 19.—How produc
ion of rifles and machine guns for the
irmjr m delayed (hiring the eariy
lay* of the war, kul ia now being
ipeeded up, was recounted today in
he senate military committee'! war
nquiry by heada of large private mun
tiona planta.
The manufacturer* enthusiastically
iraised both new type* of American
veapons. They told private enter
>rise in anticipating the nation'* war
lecessities, and one of them eriti
M the ordnance bureau for alleged
ndifference to the probability of war.
le said the department head* brua
piely declined to consider ordering
nachine guns imraetf.ately after the
jerman ambassador had been dismis
«d.
wraers ror rules placed several
nonths after war was declared, the
nanufacturers war* agreed, were far
thead of contracted deliveries, without
ret reaching maximum factory rapa
■ity. Virtually all of the contracts
'or rifles, machine guns and caitri
Itie*, they tsetified are on the cost
>lus a per cant nf profit basis, with
nachinery in )hcir plants owned by
he government.
With the testimony of the largest
>rivaU' munition makers, the commit
m virtually concluded its Inquiry into
he ordnance i itustion. One mors
oanufactursr will he heard tomorrow
ind than the committee plana to open
t new branch of its investigation,
irobably tomorrow afternoon by ques
ioning Quartermaster General Sharpe
-egardlng shortage ami production da
Imy. in dotkinf and other iqiifMnt,
and con struct ion and location of the
national cantonments.
Chairman Chamberlain today pro
mised a Marching inquiry into tha
quartermaster general's department,
of which Major general Goethala soon
will taken charge. The question of
disease epidemics in the cantonments,
in their relation to clothing ahortage
and poor sanitation, which Surgeon
General Got gas disclosed ia his re
ports, will be developed.
German Strength on the
West Front it Tremendous.
Washington, Dee. 19.—Germany's
strength on th« France-British front
is placed in official dispatches received
here today at 164 division*, or within
one division of the great force amas
sed there last July when the German
military effort against Franca was at
its maximum.
Withdrawal from Russia and drafts
upon the younger classes of reser
vists hsve enabled Hie kaiser not on
| r
ly to make up the enormous losses
suffered in bloody battles with the,
allies, but to replace the men sent
to aid the Austrians in their invasion
of Italy. Winter, therefore, flnds the 1
Germans with aimiet facing the allies
In France virtually equal to the lar
gest ever before mustered, with adver
tisement of a greet offensive, which
may presage another peace propoeal.
The alllee, however, ara understood
to maintain a considerable superiority
in number on the French front
Negro Soldier Tells
Of Murderous farty.
San Anton ia, Tex., Dec. 18.—Ad
mitting hi* own complicity ud de
daring that he had dmd threatened
with death by other negroe* If he
told what he knew, Private Ezekied
Bullock, K company. 24th infantry,
today testified that all member* of
lower A guard at Camp Logan the
night of August 23, last except Pri
vates Blythe and Blunt, were in the
party that passed Miller's restaurant
at Houston before it met the auto
mobile in which E. II. Jones was shot
to death and Charles Clayton wounded
Bullock was the last witness used by
the prosecution today in the court
martial of 16 negroes of the 24th in
fantry at Fort Sam Houston.
There were 18 negroes in the lower
A guard, the night of the riot and
Bullock's testimony admitting his own
presence accounts for all of them. He j
testified he saw McDonald and Wright ^
defendants, kneel and shoot Into the
car and that three other negroes on
the opposite aide of the road aUo ft red.
Other »hots camo from the back row
I
of negroes, he raid, but he could not
tell who fired he dropped Into a
ditch and the bullet* went over his
head. l!e assert* that he purposely
led the negroe* back to Sergeant
Branxom'« guard the night of the Hot
in order that he might "turn them in."
Bullock gave a detailed itory of the
action* of thu negroe* the afternoon
and night of the riot He said that
he had been promiaed immunity.
War Department acts
On Gorgaa' Eip«Mrw.
Washington, Dae. 15.—The war de
partment has iaaued order* carrying
into effect urgent recommendations
of Surgeon General Gorgaa for ru
moring and alleviating eooditiona
which have lad to exceaaive maaalea
and pneumonia caaea in many Ameri
can cam pa.
Hia main recommendation! were to
relieve over-crowding giving a tent
for live men initeaH of nine.
The chief of itaff at one* ordered
thia change, along with eetabliahment
of obaervation cam pa, inatallation of
plumbing in hoapitala, where incom
plete, and expediting of iaaue of heavy
clothing.
At Camp Sevier, S. C.. General Gor
gaa deecribea the aanitary condition*
aa "nerioua." Sixty men have died of
pneumonia in the laat month, he aaya,
The camp haa been expoaed to a cen
tral epedemic of meailaa, about 2,000
:a«i having occurred within the laat!
month.
la ascribed to over-crowding.
"In the past, in this ramp, the di
vision commander has had to put 11
and 12 men in a tent, due to the short
age of ten lag*. This would give
shout 20 square feet of space to each
man. At present he has put nine in a
tent, which gives about 2fl square feet
to the man. I urge that the division
commander be directed to furnish at
least SO square feet of floor space to
the man, which would give about five
men to the tent."
The hoepital, which contains 760 pa
Uenta, needs heat and plumbing bad
tjr, Goitnl GorgM ««y». H« uig—
action Bad ipttd in comttiif tUa
•nr.
Brother Kill* SUter
TW Eadt own Life
Norfolk. Va, Dk. 1».—Neva radh
•d Norfolk this moraine that but
night George W. Dailey, residing at
Fentress, Norfolk county, »hot and in
stantly killed hU «irter, Mrs. William
Dudley, and turning the revolver am
himself, and Mnt a bullet rrashing
through his own brain. Dailey thrai
but a few hours.
Examining physicians declared tk*
woman had boeti shot throe timea
in the region of the heart, two bal
lets entering the brest and one tk*
back. There was no ejswiUnaM
Mrs. Dudley was a bride at four
woeks and her brother is said ta bare
been bitterly opposed her starriaga.
A letter addrassed to his hrather was
found in his pocket in which ha <U
c la red his intention of kilting 1*4
»lster.
We have installed a mill
for (rinding corn and cob
into cbopa, which makes a
good quality of feed.
Lard Bkff ids