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' . -1. 3 ESTABLISHED 1896. MARION, N. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1918. VOL, XXII NO. 26 , ; ' " A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PEOPLE OF McDOWELL COUNTY. ' 11 . -V- GERMAN FORCES ARE - INVADING RUSSIA Russia, Seeking Peace, Facing More Fighting Than Any of the Other Countries. With Russia in the grip of in ternecine strife, and her battle line denuded of men as a result of Jthe peace declarationof the Bolsheviki, Germany has already begun the carrying out of her threat of an invasion because of the failure of the Bolsheviki to sign a peace com pact with the central powers. A dispatch from Berlin announces that German troops have crossed the Dyina river. Reports emanating from Sweden ay that the Germans have begun pushing forward their troops into JRussia's two remaining Baltic prov inces Esthonia and Livonia the taking of which completely isolat ed Russia from the shores of the Baltic and give the enemy, in ad dition to the port of Riga, the city of Reval, situated on the Gulf of Finland opposite Helsingfors, whence they easily might operate against Petrograd by sea. Although Austria-Hungary 'had 4shown dissatisfaction over the stand that Germany has taken to ' ward Russia, the dual monarchy evidently has been placated by a promise of Germany that any Ger man military ctivi ty will be A con fined to northern Russia, and Austria-Hungary left to deal with whatever other problems may arise in the territory adjacent to her borders. Belated dispatqhes from Petro--grad tell of the capture of Kiev, the new capital of the Ukraine, by the Bolsheviki. .The fighting is described as having been of an extremely sanguinary character, 4,000 persons having been killed and several - thousand wounded. 'Great destruction was wrought in the town by shells and explosives dropped by aviators. At Odessa another big battle has been fought between the Bolshe viki and the moderates, during which warships in the harbor bom barded the city. Polish legions at Minsk are declared to have been sanguinarily defeated and put to route, while the Bolsheviki also are reported to have captured Ton--orod. on the Black sea, and Voro nezh, capital of the province of the same name. j On the batttle front in France and Flanders the operations con ' tinue of a minor character, excent for artillery duels on isolated sec tors and here and there raids of more than usual violence. The only attack of importance along the entire front has been in Cham pagne, on the sector where the Trench, aided by American gun ners, captured German positions last Tuesday. -, -v ' - Twenty-seven persons were kill ed and 41 injured in the air raid made by the Germans on London -Saturday and Sunday nights. As on Saturday night only one of the 4six or seven enemy machines which attempted to penetrate the defen sive barrage of the British, . reach ed London in Sunday night's at tack. n A third raid was attempted against the. capital Monday nighty r The British casualties during the ' last week were the lowest in many ' months, 1,403 officers - and - men . having been killed. The wounded and missing totalled 2,063. Over 22,000 Women Pledged to Work on War Savings Campaign. Over 22,000 organized women in North Carolina pledged to make the War Savings Campaign of this State "go over the top" before the end of this year was the feature of the last meeting of the War Sav ings Institute held in Raleigh on Wednesday of this week. Four teen thousand of these women were organized farm women who were pledged by Mrs. Jane S. McKim mon,. State home demonstration agent. The remaining 8,000 were the club women of the State whose pledge was given by Mrs. Clarence A. Johnson, president of the State Federation of Women's Club. Speaking for the women of the country Mrs. McKimmon said that the country women are patriotic, and that many of them were learn ing to save, but what they needed most was to know how to invest safely their savings. Therefore, Mrs. McKimmon said, the War Savings Stamps plan of saving and investing was a most welcome op portunity and a work the country people would heartily enter into. She believed -that the 250,000 or more other rural women affiliated with the canning and other club work in the country could be counted on'to take the lesson of Thrift to every home and. practic ally every person in the country.. The ..work of organizing War Savings Societies particularly ' the plan of converting existing organi zations into War Sayings Societies was endorsed by both groups of women and this will be the first work that all organized women in the State will take up. The next sixty days will be a campaign to get every citizen of the' State into a War Savings Society. This plan of saving, investing and getting others to save has been adopted by State and National authorities as the foundation and purpose of the War Savings campaign. Form of Flour Certificate. To the Public: , Under the recent ruling of the Food Administration, a retailer is permitted to sell a farmer as much as 48 pounds of flour, instead of 24 pounds, without purchasing ce real substitutes, when the farmer signs the following certificate: ?I hereby certify that I have pkodtjced, (not bought) and am consuming upon my table wheat flour substitutes at the rate of not less than one pound of such sub stitutes for every pound of flour I use. I further certify that I have on hand or under contract not more than pounds of wheatflour." These certificates must be signed by the farmer purchaser and kept by the retailer and may be used by him in purchasing- an equal amount of wheat flour without sub stitutes. The rule, however, does not app4ly to a person who has bought bis cereal substitutes. Kule No. 3 of the Rules and Regulations prescribed by the Food Administration, provides that po tatoes, both Irish and sweet, shall be bought and sold by the pound, except-where they are put up in standard barrels, standard boxes, or. standard hampers.. A bushel of potatoes, Irish or Sweet, should weigh fifty-six pounds. : - ; J. L. C. Bibb, County Food Administrator. NEWS FROM THE COUNTY Brief Mention of Some of the Hap penings in McDowell County Items About Home People. NEBO Nebo, Feb. 19. Mrs. Hattle Morgan died at her home here on last Tuesday evening about 7 o'clock, after a verr short illness. She was buried at Pin nacle. 8 he leayea four children, two sisters and one brother. Miss Mamie Goforth of Glen wood spent last week-end with her sister, Mrs. G. D. Taylor. T. B. Landia spent Monday here on business. Misses Bnth Hunter and Belle Dobeon of Greenlee spent Sunday with their grandmother T. J. Gibbs of Marion spent Sunday here with his daughter, Mrs. J. M. Tyler. Miss Adeline Wilkinson visited home folks at Old Fort Monday- G. D. Taylor spent Monday and Tues day of last week with relatives at Dy sartsville. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Siginon spent Sun. day at the Southern power camps with their daughter, Mrs. R. A. Hemphill. Joseph Wilson of Ash ford spent Sun day here with relatives. We are very glad tQ welcome into our midst Mr. Wilson and family of Denver. Colorado, who have moved here recent- DYSARTVILLE Dysartaville. Feb. 18. J. C. Tipton and family""vlsited homefolks in Burns ville recently. G D. Taylor of Nebo was a pleasant visitor here last Monday. Rev. C. C Totherow and wife spent Saturday night with J. M. Gjforth. There" are a number of new cases of measles around here now that will hin der the public school and church woik J. L. Spratt and James Taylor made a business trip to Nebo lat week R. E Roper made a business trip to Morganton Friday. Miss Alice Manga m has1 accepted a position in Rutherford County. We are glad to see the beautiful sun shine for the past ten days Farmers are getting busy now. Ernest Satterwhite has been critically ill with measles for the past few days, but we are glad to report he is improv ing. W. H. Taylor is on the sick list. Hope he will be better in a fey days. County Supt. N. F. Steppe was a visi tor here last week. W. W. Dysart of Lenoir was here on business last week. EAST MARION ' East Marion, Feb. 18. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Gaither Jarret, Saturday, a daughter. Lawson Condry spent Saturday and Sunday with homefolks near Union Mills. Misees Nora Bell Morgan and Callie Reel of Curfew were guests of Miss Ethel Morgan Saturday-and Sunday. Marion Parker spent Saturday and Sunday at his home near Qld Fort. CATAWBA VALLEY Catawba Valley. Feb. 19. Miss Stella Burgin, who is working in Marion, spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks here. Mrs. M. H. Grant has been sick with lagrippe but is improving. Mrs. G. G. Pendergrass of Stroud town visited relatives in the valley last week. Murray Tate and family have mofed to R. L Greenlee's farm, and John Cuth berteon of Garden City has moved to the Tate place. J. L. Moody is attending conrt in I Marion this week aa a iuror. I Enginemen for France. The War Department has asked the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers to furnish 50 men for tank service-and 1,000 engineers for transportation service in France. Services at St. John's next Sun day, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Two Funerals at Greenlee. In the hilltop cemetery of Green lee, lying in tne midst or what was once the D. W. Greenlee planta tion, there were recently two burials within ten day of each other. The first was that of the infant son of . Francis Leland Greenlee, eldest son of Mr. E. L. Greenlee, who for some years has been with the Aluminum Co.. of Bdeo, N. C. On Sunday, February 3rd, the grief - stricken young parents brought their heart's treasure to its grandfather's home here for burial from thence the next day. Very sweet and angelic was the baby's face as it lay in its little white coffin, the delicate features and flower-like hands showing no trace of the short, sharp struggle with pneumonia. The funeral ser vices w re conducted by Rer. Mr. Wagley, of Old Fort, at the home of E. L. Greenlee on the evening of February 4th. Ten days later there was another burial in the same family plot, that of Dr. John B. Baldwin, married some years ago to Miss Elizabeth Greenlee, well-known in this place, and who, after building up an ex tensive practice in Tennessee, went West for health conditions. After a most critical operation in a Den ver hospital he went to. the home of his sister in Ruswell. New Mexi co. Noted for his skill in surgery, in the interval which must el ipse before a second operation, be toolc up the practice of his profession in New Mexico, often traveling 150 miles in his car to attend patients. An act of devotion, heroic in his state of health, was the bringing of the body of bis mother, who died at bis home in New Mexico .home for burial among her people in Kentucky last June. But Dr. Baldwin's energy was far beyond his power of endurance. When be returned to Denver for the second oo-eration his strength was not suf ficient for it. For the sake of bis wife and babr daughter he risked and endured the week-long journey to her father's home here, reaching it on Thursday, February 7th. At nine o'clock, p. m., Tuesday, Feb ruary 12tb, came the death angel and peacefully released him from all pain. Dr. Baldwin was born in Nichol asville, Kentucky, thirty - three years ago, the son of an old and wealthy family, well known throughout the state. He was graduated with honors fromsereral medical colleges, attending among them Jefferson aod the University of Maryland. His skill in medi cine and surgery early attracted at tention and all his friends grieve for the unfulfilled promise of a life cut short in its prime. While in Denver he united with the Metho dist church, in whose teachings he had been trained since childhood. Besides his wife and little daugh ter, Mary, he leaves a sister and two brothers, now living in The West. NOTICC Tbo McDowell Oronty Union will hold Ita next meeting at Qleowood School Hoo, Saturday. March 2nd. Public ipeAkicg at 10:50 a. m. and ax ecntir a?esioa In afternoon, A foil at tendance Is dcrired at this Is the begin ning of a new tt , - . W. H. QEjaLVXJOE,Proa. C H. Poou Scy. STATE NEWS OF THE WEEK Items Concerning Events cf In terest and Importance Through out the State. - The DemocnHcSutecocssItUd is called to meet in Raleigh ca tie night of March 5th, to fix the time and place for the meeting of the State convention. E. A. Maynard. aged abont CO years, committed suicide Monday at his home in Hickory by shoot ing himself. He war despondent and in bad health. His wife and th ree daughters survive-. While at bis home in A ah evil! recently. Judge Frank Carter al lowed it to become known that he had no intention to resume the practice of law upon his retirement from the bench. On the contrary he purposes to devote his future to newspaper work. He slated that he is not considering the Abbe ville field, the inference being that he desires a location more accessi ble to the state at large. Poultry Ruling Applies Only Id the Dealers. Raleigh. Feb. 16 The re flat be a considerable confusion thro eg Lost North Carolina as a ress.lt of the published order of the food ad ministration affecting the traie in live and freshly dressed hens and pullets. According to Slat Fool" Administrator Henry A. Pge, this order does not affect loci! trtie ia North Carolina, since it applies only to licensed dealers, crincipal ly the cold storage concerns. Erery owner of a Sock of poul try is being urged as a piirictin duty to refrain from selling for slaughter any hens or psllets Every hen that is sold before the -1st of May will represent a fool loss to the nation of as average of not less than 30 ejrgs. If the aver age number of bens asl pnllels usually sold from February I to May 1 is sold this year it wj!l cirss an aggregate loss of lSr0.O3.tC0 eggs. The value of these cgs Is SO pef cent, to 100 per cent, of the . actual value of the hens. The pro gram being urged by the food ad ministration and the department of agriculture will not entail a lesss to the farmer but an actual gain. The co-operation of all cons -m ers of poultry p rod nets is also -c--. quested. They are asked to. fore- go the use of fowls on ineir Ub!e during the rext few weeks except male stock. J. M. Tyler Quits Schcc! YVcrk. Mr. J. M. Tyler, who has been principal of the Nebo High School for the past two years, has giveo. up his school work to accept & position with the Marion Insurance & Trust company, succeeding Mr, G. W. Giles, who has resigned to enter the army. Mry-TIcr's ser vices with the Nebo school were very satisfactory, the school cak ing great progress during tis si ministration. The authorities of the school and the people of Nebo regret to lose him. As yet do one has been rimed as a successor to Mr. Tjler. Snrt. N. F. Steppe is in charge of the school at present and wit centime to direct it until a compete &u can bo secured to tak e charge cf it. Who s&tcj serves. B-V irrr savings stamps.
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