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VOLXXIII- (TUESDAY) WARRENTQN, N. 7 FRIDAY; MARCH 22, 1918 T (FRIDAY) v NumbeT24
75q AYEAB A SEMI-WElLY NEWS PAPER fiEVOTED TO THE INTE RESTS OF WARRENTON AND "W ARREN 4SOUNTY" 3c. a'cOPY
SUMMARY OF WAR
ON ALL FRONTS
FirHTlNG HELD TO SMALL
INFANTRY ATTACKS.
Secretary Baker Narrowly Miss
ed By Shell; Americans Send
ing Over Gas; Artillery Bang
ing Away Along Line.
11 along the western front the ac
tivity of the fighting forces still has
been hekl down to small infantry at
tacks and artillery duels which on
some sectors have been quite violent-.
To the French again has fallen the
lask of facing the fVercest infantry
fio-hting. n Lorraine the Germans
delivered numerous strong attacks bu
all of them were put down with san
guinary losses to the attackers. At
several other points the Germans also
have endeavored to penetrate French
positions, but everywhere have been
beatn off, eaving behind them men
killed and wounded.
The American troops on the Toul
sector recently have been giving U12
Germans, and effectively, a dose of
their own favorite weapon, asphyxiat
ing gas. Four digerent sectors of the
Germans were gas shelled and the
quiescent attitude of the enemy upon
all of them afterward indicated that
the gases had had the desired effect.
On their part the Germans have
adopted another new plan of warfare
which the American troops on the sec
tor attacked described as "ditry work
This was the dropping from an air
plane of large rubber balls filled with
mustard gas. None of the American
troops were injured in the attack. Sec
retary of War Baker has had a" nar
row escape on the American front. A
German shell burst within fort yards
of his automobile, but did no damage.
Although the snow is melting ' in
the mountain regions of the Italian
theatre sufficient of it still lies on the
ground to make impossible for the
present the commencement by either
side of hostilities of great magnitude
Bombardments continue all along the
front, being especially violent west of
Lake Gard. Heavy freshets have
made the Piave river impassable to
large forces of troops. Enemy air
men continue to drop bombs on Venice,
where the already great damage daily
is being added to. Large portions of
the population are evacuating- the
city.
In Russia the Germans and Austro
Germans are stuT advancing. Petro
grad is being menaced by a force of
Germans which is operating 150
miles south of the former capital,
while in the South Kharkov is being
approached by combined forces of the
enemy. Even Moscow is reported to
he in danger of an enveloping
maneuver and there is talk of again
moving the capital.
While special dispatches from Rus
sia to assert that the Bolsheviki
leaders are hostile toward the invaders
no concrete evidence has been forth
coming to show that for the present
at least, efforts are . being- made to
reorganize the army and give combat.
Announcement has been made by
the British first Lord of the Admir
alty that the tonnage of shipping sunk
during the last twelve months aggre
gated 0,000,000. He denied that it
had been 9,500,000 tons claimed by
the Germans.
during the last week 11 British
m rchantment of more than 1600 tons
each and siy vessels under 1,600 tons
were sunk by mines or submarines.
Young People Mis
sionary So. Organized
.The Young People's Missionary So
cety of Wesley Memorial Church war,
Jiganized March 20th, 1918 with the
following officers: Mattie Fleming,
President; Tempe Boyd, vice-president
"orothy Baker, supt. of study and pub
1Clty; Kate Macon, corresponding sec
.eary; Annie Joe Lancaster, record
ng secretary; Mary Burwell, treasurer
rhe first regular meeting will be
yeJ next Monday March 25th. The
n& people are urged to come.
DOROTHY BAKER,
Supt. of Publicity.
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ALL CLOCKS TO BE
TURNED ONE HOUR
DAYLIGHT SAVING BILL TO
TAKE EFFECT MARCH 31
The Bill Puts All Clocks For
ward An Hour Last Sunday
In March and Tunrs Them
Back In October.
Washington, March,, 19 The day
light savings bill was signed today
by President Wilson. It puts all
clock forward an hour on the last
Sunday in March and turns them
back again the last Sunday in Octo
ber. The daylight savings plan will
go into effect and be observed with
out the slightest disorganization and
impairment of existing, conditions.
Trains will be run as usual, the every
feature of d.ilylife into which the
element of time shall enter will re
main unchanged.
Before retiring on the last Saturday
of this month, the American house
holder will set his clock an hour ahead
and then go to sleep and forget en
tirely about daylight saving until the
last Saturday in October. On that
date he will reverse the process, tuin
ing the hands back an hour and the
next day the nation will run on sun
time.
In the summer the American man
actually will rise, transact his daily
business and retire an hour earlier
than has been his custom, but with
his clocks an hour fast he will not
know the difference, thus an hour of
daylight will be conserved in the af
ternoon. ADMINISTRATION
AFTER BLOCKS.
NOT TO SELL EXCESSIVE
AMOUNTS OF FOODS.
Large Purchases of Sugar, Corn
Meal, Molasses and The Like
To Be Investigated By Mer-
. chants Making Sales.
Mr. W. G. Rogers, County Food Ad
ministrator, handed us the following
for publication Wednesday:
"Henrv Pae;e. U.S. Food Admimstra
tor for North Carolina, today dropped
a bomb into the camp of blocKaaers
and those merchants- andmillers who
have been supplying bockaders with
food products. Mr. Page's statement
covering the matter was characteristi
cally short and sweet. Here it is:
To use food products, sugar, corn
tnnl. molasees and the like in the
manufacture of blockade whiskey, rum
etc. is clearly a wilf ull waste of food
and as such is punishable under the
Lever Act. It is -also unlawful for
merchants or millers to sell these pre
ducts to such persons or in such quan
tities as make it appear reasonable
certain that they are to be used in
the manufacture of illicit intoxicants.
The Federal Food Administration
fir North Carolina gives notice that it
will take prompt and drastic action
evidence can be secured that any
merchant and miller has offended "
MUSIC APPRECIATED BY BOYS
IN CAMPS AND 'OVER THERE
Philadelphia, Pa., March 19 The
singing of popular songs by American
soldiers on active duty "over there" is
advocated by their superior officers, ac
cording to a U.S. Marine just returned
from France. He declares that most
of the popular song hits of the day
are familiar to the troops m the
trenches and that they sing them at
every opportunity. ,
o: ic a soldier's second na-
ture," said the Marine. "It drives-
away loneliness and neips to iiv
the spirits cf the boys. The soldier
who can pick a banjo, or guitar is a
welcomecomrade in-any camp, not
pnly to the enlisted men, but to the
officers as well." . .
You will find as you look back upon
your life that the moments that stand
out, the moments when you have really
lived, are the moments when you have
done things in a spirit of love.
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COLORED PEOPLE
TO GO TO ILLINOIS
LEAVE HERE ON APRIL 2ND
FOR CAMP GRANT, ILL.
Large Number Of Colored Peo
. pie Ordered Here On April 2nd
All Are Men of County's First
Quota.
The colored men of the county's
first quota are to entrain here on
Tuesday, April 2nd, for Camp Grant,
Illinois. The following colored peo
ple of the first quota have been order
ed to appear here for entrainment
upon that date by the Local Board:
George Burchett, Warren Plains, Rl.
Boyd Hunt, Merry Mount.
Warren Powell, Littleton.
Stanley Williams, Elberon.
Sam Holloway, Manson.
Willie Gregory, Littleton.
Herbert Fogg, Vaughan.
Dennie Randolph, Henrico, N. C.
Robert Arrington, Littleton.
Ernest Milam, Macon.
Green Thomas Reynolds, Inez.
Isaac Thomas Alston, Alston.
Manly Durham, Route 2, Manson.
Will Newburn, Ridgeway.
William Russell, Mo. St Co, Pittsburg
William T. Davis, Elberon.
Daniel Hargrove, Ridgeway.
Jerre Gardner, Route 3, Littleton.
Sol Lindsay Alston, Inez.
Sam Moss, Warren Plains, Route 1.
Robert Williams, Creek.
Walter Giggetts, Route 1, Norlina.
Edward Drumgold, Vaughan.
Collin Allen, Afton.
Ben Shearin, Warrenton.
John Jones, Warren Plains.
Raymond Camill, Manson.
Thomas Walter Coppedge, Littleton.
Anthony Robert Perry, Inez.
Arthur Williams, RFD, Henderson.
William Davis, Shocco. "
Lemuel Johnson, Norlina.
James Battle, Elams.
Douglass Williams,Route 1, Warrenton
John Hunter, Route 1, Warrenton.
Taff Alston, Inez.
Leonard Perty Ramsey, Warrenton.
Thomas Williams, Alston.
Anthony Alston, Inez.
Clinton Jordan, Capron, Va.
William Henry Green, Warrenton.
William Sylvester Shearin, Norlina.
Bennie Lee Kearney, -Newport News.
Lemon Cobb, Route 1, Norlina.
Robert Alston, Marmaduke.
Leonard Whitted -Williams, Raleigh.
William Lindsay Alston, Inez.
Austin Alston, Jr., Warrenton.
Rann Boyd, Macon.
Henry Davis, Vaughan. .
Moses P. Sewart, Macon, t
Mack Jerfrey Davis, Littleton.
Alfred Alston, Norlina.
King 'Hawkins, Baltimore, Maryland.
William, Love Perry, Warrenton.
Robert Nathaniel Kearny, Warrenton.
George Hargrove, Ridgeway.
Sandy Powell, Jr., Alston.
Ned Williams, Inez.
Aaron Evans, Route 1, Manson.
Edgar Alston, Areola.
Jesse Pender Brown, Embro.
Joe Williams, Creek.
Marcellus E. Brown, ElberorlT
Edward Walker, Berkeley, Virginia.
Willie Arthur Ross, Elams.
Cornelius Williams, Inez.
Eugene Davis, Elberon.
Herman Somerville, Macon.
All Gasoline Sold By
Wednesday Noon
Wednesday noon and not another
"drap" of gas for sale in town is the
way the gasoline situation rests.
The car of six thousand gallons was
disposed of in twtTdays, and the de
mand though temporarily satisfied is
expected to become acute' before the
arrival of another car..
Mr. H. W. Thompson, local Texaco
salesman, states that Jie hardly ex
pects another shipment before the mid
die of the week. Car owners are ap
prised of the facts in the hope that
everyone will conserve.
Big German Drive Is Now Emminent
London, March 19 The heads 01
the German army have invited a num
ber of neutral correspondents to be
present at the opening of the great
German offensive in the West, accord
ing, to an Exchange Telegraph dis
patch from Amsterdam. -
"KULTUR AS" RE
FLECTED IN WAR
METHODS OF GERMANS IN
1871 ARE BARBARIOUS
Noted Vriter Tells Of German
Army Methods In '71, Show
ing TJiat Their Boasted Kul
tur Is Utter Cruelty.
"Every village they have passed
through has been the victim of what
is only organized pillage. Every city
has been practically sacked, ransacked
on system; its citizens plundered, its
civil officials terrorized, imprisoned,
outraged, or killed. The civil popula
tions have been, contrary to the usage
of modern warfare, forced to serve the
invading armies, brutally put to death
reduced "to wholesale starvation,- and
desolation. Vast tracts of the richest
and most industrious districts of Eu
rope have been deliberately stripped
and plunged into famine, solely in or
der that the invaders might' make, war
cheaply. Irregular troops, contrary to
all the practice of war, have been sys
tematically murdered, and civil popu
lations indiscriminately massacred,
solely to spread terror. A regular sys
tern of ingenious terrorism has been
directed against civilians, as horrible
as anything in the history of civil or
religious" wars. Large and populous
cities have been, not once, but 20,
40 times, bombarded and burnt, and
the women and children in them wan
tonly slaughtered, with the sole object
of inflicting suffering. All this has
been done not in license or passion,
but by he calculating ferocity of scien
tifi'c soldiers."
The above was not written, thougn
it might have been, yesterday, last
week, last month, or last year. It
appeared in the English Fortnightly
Review February, 1871, shortly before
the surrender of Paris. Frederick Har
rison, the writer, is still alive. Its
satements were true then, are true
now. Julius Caesar in his Commen
taries narrates events which show that
even before the time of Christ the
Germans demonstrated the possession
of ..all of the rudiments of their modern
"kultur." It is no new thing; and
hundreds of thousands of men will
have died in vain in this war if this
sinister thing is not absolutely and ut
terly exterminated forever by the forc
es of civilization arrayed against it.
TEN MEN TO LEAVE
HERE MARCH 29TH
FIRST ALLOTTMENT OF SE
COND QUOTA TO GO.
Ordered By Local Board To Re
port Here March 29th To Enr
Train For Camp Jackson, Co
lumbia, S. C.
The following ten white men of
Warren county are ordered to report
here Friday, March 29th, and will
upon that day entrain for Camp J ack
son, Columbia, S. C.
These men are the first ten white
men of the county's second quota, the
last of the first quota having left
here Wednesday in charge of J. R.
Rodwell and composed of eleven men.
The men to leave the 29th are:
Roscoe DeWtt Hux, Chrome, N. Jersey
Joe Radford, Wood.
Davis L. Peck, Warrenton.
John McRobert Booth, Warrenton,
Thomas Leete, Wise.
Joe Smith, R F D 3, Littleton.
George Van Brown, Vaughan. .
Tunis Pitchf ord, Littleton.
William Randolph Parsons, Littleton.
Emmett Clements Reid, Littleton.
This goes down through order num
ber 573.
American Artillery Does Good Work
With the American Army It is now
permissable to announce that an Amer
jean artillery battery in the Luneville
sector has located and blown up a
battery of mine throwers, one of which
a few days ago obtained a direct hit
on a dugout where there were a num
ber of American soldiers.
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PATRIOTIC COUNTY
MASS MEETING
COLORED PEOPLE TO MEET
HERE MARCH 31ST.
Patriotic Gathering To Bid Fare
well To Colored Men of First
Draft and To Distribute Bibles
and R.C. Bags. -
The colored Y. M. C. A.,-Y. W. C. A.
Red Cross and the ctitzens of War
renton and Warren county met in
joint session Monday night, March 18,
and passed resolutions to gather in a
mass meeting in the Court house Sun
day, March 3'st, and render the f ol-
owing patriotic program in honor of
the quota of drafted young men who
are to leave for Camp Grant, Illinois.
April 1st: -
Devotional Exercises . ...
Patriotic Address. .
Rev. C. H. Williamson
Music by the choir. .... ... . .........
Paper Mrs. B. U. Thornton
Presentation of Testaments in Be-. .
half Y. M. C. A.. .Rev. J. H. Hudson
Paper ... Mrs. P. F. Haley
Presentation of Comfort Bags In.
Behalf Red Cross Rev. J. K. Ramsay
Remarks by citizens.
This being the first time , in the
history of the American negro that
colored drafted young men of War
ren County have been called to serve
in the army, therefore we most sin
cerely invite and expect every citi
zen in the county to take an active
part.
J. S. WORTHAM, Chm., .
Miss M. F. HALEY, Organist
H. II. TAYLOR
M. F. THORNTON
KELLY KING
- ROBERT WARRICK
HENRY WATSON
K. II. BULLOCK
W. W. HARRIS
W. H. HAYES
CASWELL CURTIS
JACOB JORDAN
SANDY RICHARDSON
THADEUS DAVIS
PHILLP FITTS
THEOLPHUS WILLIAMS
W. BT WILLIAMS
POMP WILLIAMS
HUGH WIILLIAMS,
- Committee.
DOUBLE STANDARD
MORAL SHOULD GO
CLEAN MEN NEEDED AND
SHOULD BE KEPT PURE
Governor Bickett Reveals Star!
ing Facts Before-Social Ser
vice Conference, Asks For Cam
paign of Publicity.
Today, as never before, the world
needs ciean men," for without purity
there can be no power. Dr. Elliott
says that in the French army more
men have been put out of commission
by vice than by bullets. Surgeon
General Gorgas says that any general
on the western front, if given the op
tion, would prefer to take the casual
ties created by bullets rather than
casualties created by vice.
"And this is due, not to military but
to civil life. I have recently visited
three camps, and my judgment is that
the men in these camps are living
cleaner and more wholesome lives than
95 percent of men of the same age
at home. The army authorities have
carefully safe "guarded the men, and
have compiled the records, and these
show that in the year 1917 in the reg
ular United States army thirty-eight
out of one thousand were sick as a
result of immorality, while in Sep
tember of .the same year in the Na
tional army, made up of men fresh
from civil life, 388 out of every thous
and were afflicted with diseases due
to vice. v .
" This was in September, during the
period of mobilization, and by Decem
ber these 388 per thousand had been
reduced to 80 per thousand. These
facts will be startling to every one wno
has not investigated the subject; they
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POPULAR WARREN
TON COUPLE WED
MR. ALON AND MISS AR-
RINGTC ; T MARRY W'DAY.
Married At Home of the Bride
On Fifth Avenue At Two O'
clock Wednesday By Rev. E.
W. Baxter.
From one thirty to two on Wednes
day afternoon the doors of the home
of Mrs. S. P. Arrington on Fifth Ave
nue were opened by the magic" touch
that jportends happiness and the guests
greeted with the merry welcome of
little Miss Katherine Pendleton Arring
ton and Dawson Alston, and were ush-
red into a paradise of greensand white
the artistic results of Mrs. W. G.
Rogers, Mrs. Kate Pendleton Arring
ton and Mrs. Van D. Alston.
At two amid a scene of beauty and
in an atmosphere filled with the best
of wishes from hosts of friends Miss
Lilly Arrington, daughter of Mrs. S.
P. Arrington, became the bride of Mr.
Howard Alston of this city. ,
Rev. E. W. Baxter, pastor of the
Episcopal church, performed the cer
emony as the bride and groom kneeled
before the improvised altar, the crown
ing decorative center of the parlor en
chanting in its decorations of bridal
wreaths, mock oranges, Easter lilhes,
narcissus, white hyacinths and fern.
The bride, becomingly attired in a
san colored travelling suit, with Filet
trimmings, with hat, gloves and shoes
to match, carried a beautiful bouquet
of lillies of the valley and orchids, en
tered upon the arm of her brother Mr.
John Arrington, of Greenville. She
was met at the altar by the groom
with his best man Mr. VanWyck Wil
liams, of Greensboro. Miss Octavia
Arrington, neice of the bride, of Gren-
ville, ;S. C, in . navy blue georgette
was maid of honor.
Following the ceremony, the doors
of the dining room were opened and
into this creation of white spirea, fern
and bride's roses, the guest entered.
Antique silver candelabrae graced ev
ery vantage point, and upon the cen
ter of the table a crushed bouquet of
fern and bride's roses lay. Around
the festive board Mrs. T. F. Heath, of
Petersburg, poured coffee and Mes-
dames H-. L. Falkener, B. B. Williams,
A. A. Williams, Lewis Scoggin, of
Louisburg; Misses Kearney and Kate
White Williams served chicken salad,
cheese straws, olives, beaten biscuit,
block green and white cream and cake.
Following the reception Mr. and
Mrs. Alston motored to Norlina where
they took nuij ber 3 for a bridal tour
of Florida.
Miss Arrington is the charming
daughter of Mrs. S. P. Arrington, of
Warrenton, and has a lohg list of rel
atives among the old families of War
ren. Mr. Alston is a succesful busi
ness man of this city, being connected
with the Warrenton Department Store
Co. Bothparties have a host of friends
who extend best wishes for happiness,
prosperity, and a long walk together
down the sunkissed corridors of Time.
The put of towns guests for the wed
ding were: Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Heath,
f Petersburg; Mr. John Arrington and
Miss Octavia Arrington of Greenville,
S. U.; Mrs. Bodie Williams, Mr. Van
Wyck Williams, of Greensboro; Mrs.
Edward Alston, of Henderson; Mr. and
Mrs. W. L. Long and little daughter
Rosa Heath, of Roanoke Rapids; Mrs.
Tom Long and little daughter Bettie
Gray, of Roanoke Rapids; Mr Wil
liam Arrington, of Petersburg; Miss
Ruth Mason, of Garysburg; Dr. and
Mrs. T. J. Holt and Mrs. Hugh White.,
of Wise; Mrs. L. E. Scoggin, of Louis
burg;' Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Hawkins
and Miss Lucy Edwards, of Ridge
way. Baptists to Have A
Series of Meetings
A series of meetings will be held
In the Baptist Church commencing
May 15th. Dr. J. H. Dew, of Ridge
crest, is to assist the pastor.
Mrs. Dew, who is known as one
of the sweet singers of the South jwill
be with us, and will contribute largely
to the interest of the meeting.
T. J. TAYLOR.