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.viv r -v. v, 1 t, ;THE WILMINGTON DISPATCH, sATURD AY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 1 , 1 1 9 1 7 4 - PAGE EiGtrr V 1 V'- ' Iw"J MOTS Mil if EUESPJi liyiDST URBEHPNEEll v ffiflNGS THAT : NEVER HAPPEN : .-.5 flOTIGE TO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE , hlVyy:1. By GENE'. BYRNES ' f ft M i Si 'S fOOlBILl intJORTH LOAN He Must Be, for Glory is All This Season s Football Fatality ,ClT,zEN8 mU8T see', that - PRB AND KNOW WAT IM; TALKING BPurr- - List is Shorter Than VENf ABLE FIRES ARE REDUC t All thosehaying subscribed through this bank f ; the Second Liberty Loan and have not already don f H Office Him Pays is CITY--LIFE HftS-ITOT Last Year ED TO MINIMUM.' T.H" COUNTRY fu1 SECOND LIBERTY If.. il if I T-i i ft -1 ;-.fi? j is.H It m it i I'M ittf ti4 mm JO Mi i x:i 1 (Special to The Dispatch.) Maxton. Doc. 1 Highbrow hovr nf T.nfo made much maea-' Chicago, Dec. 1. Football exacted r aHo a toll of-12 victtma during tne 4 i J 1 1 rPV, n-nlrrtC'lV- f about the prominent and opulent bar- season jnenuew a . oned down iony b j a r T- Tv, a f ABUNDANT HARVEST READY ers who have marath Btuwco, o.. . . ' Tiumbftr was V.ix shirt sleeve? and turneu ouice uu, t. t, seven stories ' s nl. hr!! w 1 number was ux less than in 1916 ahtlKEvery FarmerFarm. Wifer 6lrl, Boy. the government for an annual income of just one dollar. Knw much of this is fact .and how- much more camouflage we donft know, In 1914 four less than two years ago there were 15 deaths. . " - Defenders of, the popular college sport pointed to the fact that not a fa tality nor even a serious Injury occur- but wherever p. Maxtonian runs across nivnr!t.1(s and collet- ... i CIT 1.1 " l.iV "'(- . one of said articles, ne t eg whefe the game is conducted -un for in ,her " . f der expert physical , direction. All of and Employee on Farm Must See That No Food Crops. Are Destroyed ( By 'Fire. " "': " r Recent reports from sections o1 North Carolina telling of alleged up risings against the ' selective draft, the victims, with one exception, were ; .wnen sifted down proved to be purely either high school students or players unproVen rumors or cases of protest i"Tut. tut. nothing to it mivnr Maxton has a banker .whnr,P salarv-Sl.OO appears princely, not to say a fat and uicy j m. bpeaK with liule Qr training, partici-. made b persons thoroughly ignorant ing by and large, V1 pated in the semi-professional pmes of providing for the.eelective dred percent, greater than the mayors jority of thecases showed that unfortunate that the re- salary. the Dlayers entered the game without - Mayor J. M. Armstrong is a banker j prtoowledge of it ane without Port should have gone out to newspa by his own predilection, but more pr0per physical condition for so rough pers throughout the nation leaving th The open style of play, instead oi organized protest or a protest of any the smashing game which rapidly ; j proportion from North Carolina against being discarded, has eliminated much j & condition such, as the country now of the danger, in the opinion of Fred! facea North Carolina is fortunate in L. Murphy, a former Yaie star, nuw beine more than 99 o'er cent. Ameri- la"-elv perhaps, through inheritance since his father, the late J. S. Arm strong, was a banker of parts in Wil mington and Baltimore. And certes, if there is any position the prpat. wide world wherein a banker is urgently and forcibly needed j coach . at Northwestern University is that of the head of a municipal nailiwick, for deficit is its most promi nent title. The banker or whatever he maybe who essays to uphold the dig nity, finances and credit of ye small town lias a job bes'de which that of the ancient individual who went about with the earth on his back was child s play. Harking back to the beginning our present mayor was elected unanimous ly, and might quite as readily have bee-n elected by acclamation, had the electorate thought of it, which it didn't. Let not this fact, however, lead one to believe that being mayor of North Carolina's prize town is a thing lightly achieved, for take it from me, runninc for mavor here is a parlous undertak ing. The Maxton electorate cares not a piffle for precedent, and rarely by any chance elects its executive in the same manner twice. It has been known to tire of one set of candidates by neon, take them nil down, and start all over again. This is unorthodox, but nossesses, at least, the virtue of allow ing a large number of the ambitious to join the ranks of the "prominenlty mentionpd," and "also ran." At other times two nonular gentle men have convent ion ed to the fore, neck and neck, at which time the ver satile electorate dispensed with furth er worry by having them toss up a coin, and let it go at that. By what process of reasoning th best flipper of coins is fidjucU"'! best mavornlty timber is a (rifle v scure, but it ?oes in Maxton when the electorate feels that way. . Mayor A.rmstroe' Rbinet. Me?. iR. L. McCofmnc. C. V. Roberson. E. E. Chandler, and L B. Martin, all prom- k ment husmes men. rnd successful were also of thp unanimous class, and we are glad of it. hut qfer some years experience with thp Maxton ballot, the fates themselves are ignorant as to whtjwill happen to the next candidates ine p ayers n that less than one per cent of the protected through improved heavily can. Recent war census figures show 4' ' 4- FALL AND WINTER PLOW ING ONE OF THE MOST IM PORTANT FUNCTIONS OF THE FARMER. (By Allen Mauil, General Ad vertising and Development Agent, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad). padded uniforms and headgears The list of victims r Roscoe E. Battan, Hastings, Neb . high school student; killed November 16 by a blow which produced heart paralysis. 4 George A. Blewett of os Angeles, 20 years old, student at the Univer sity of California; died of a brain hemorrhage on October 8 two days after a freshman game. Charles C. Persiani, Jr., of Plants ville, Conn., 19 years old, student at Pennsylvania Military College, died November 18 of a ruptured blood vej sel of the brain. Elvin Anderson. Trinidad, Colo., high school student, died October of an injury to his spine. Roy Groues, Wilsonville, :Neb., high school student, 17 years old, died No vember 15 of internal injuries. Guy Henry, Athens, Texas, high school student, 18 years old, ued Oc tober 13 of internal injuries sustained in a high school game. Thomas Ryan, of Alvardo. Texas, died November 13 of injuries received in a high school game played four days previously.'' Henry Leidendecker. Champagne, 111., high school student, 17 years old, died November 15 as a result of in juries received in a game played two weeks previously. Harold A. Holtz, 17 years old, died in Indianapolis, on November 12 of in juries received in "a game played a mrnth previously. F. J. Boyes, half back on the Charleston, S. C navy yard team, died November 3. of concussion of tue brain as the result of being tackled. Ellis Hamilton, of Detroit, 17 years old. died November 26 of injuries re ceived in a game played the previous day. Harry De Loff, of Detroit. 26 years old, died November 29 of injuries suf fered in a semi-professional .game. BUSINESS SPECIALS MESSENGER SERVICE. For this service we use the Pos .tal Telegraph Cable Company's messengers. They will call for your "ads." in the' same manner and quick time as they now cover tthe city for telegrams, night letter grams, cables, etc. For further information as to "ads." call 176, but for telegraph service call "Postal Telegraph." WANTED FIFTY white or colored, to clean land Guaranteed three veara work. An-1 V V 4 4 4 4' Humus is essential to crop produc tion in all soils. A soil without humus cannot be depended upon ro produce maximum crops. The application of mineral fertilizers will not restore its fertility. Organic matter is absolute ly necessary to keep a soil in good mechanical condition. A soil not in proper mechanical condition cannot be productive. The most economical way to put humus in a soil is by plow ing into if the vegetable matter in the form of green crops, vegetation of all character and by the application of barnyard manures. It is usual at the end of the season 'that our lands in the South are cov ered with a rank growth of grasses, weeds and other vegetables. Early fall and winter ploying should turn this vegetation into the soil that the winter rains may decompose it and turn it into humus. If there were no other reasons for early fall and winter plowing, this one is sufficient to make it imperative. In diseussing; humus and its rela tion to crop production one of our agricultural experts enumerates the toliowing functions of humus: STATE DELVES INTO FINANCIAL AFFAIRS OF GASTON MEANS (Continued From Page One). l'st of securities aggregating some thing like $75,000. The witness testi fied that he selected securities amount ing to $3S,000 as collateral for the loan. N. M. Garrettson, of the Illinois Trust Company, Chicago, next was presented by the State to prove that Means took another list of securities on December 26, 1916, to the Illinois Trust Company and secured a loan of $15,000, putting up about $25,000 as collateral. The State claims that Means took the securities composing the $125,000 trust held by the Mer chants Loan and Trust Company for the benefit of Mrs. Robinson and dis posed of them for his own benefit at various banks. Mr. Garrettson identified a tran script of account . showing that Means deposited in about one month's time in January and February, 1917, the sum of more than $105,000 and drew it all out within a period of about thir ty days ending September 27, 1917. Deposits made to-night in the Sav ings Department of the American Bank & Trust Co., will draw 4 percent Compound Interest Advertisement. that which is lost, the land becomes non-productive although it may con tain a large quantity of plant food. The Southern farmer who overlooks the saving of all vegetable matter grown on the soil after his crops are nunius is the chief supply of ni: made does not appreciate the impor trogen. Humus makes the soil more mellow and granular. tance of humus as an ameliorator of land. When humus is absent, sandy "Humus permits air to enter heavvi soils become too loose and leach and and compact soils. JlTbt, and soil containing clay bakes "Humus acts as a sponge and in- and becomes lumpy. The different creases the water Holding capacity of , physical characteristics of clay lumps KOil- i land mellow soils are largely due to "Humus fufi.;shes food for countless ; the greater amount of humus in the numbers of bacteria that are benefi- good soils, and yet we have seen that cal t0 plant growth. ' I the chemist may pronounce the clod- "Humus binds together the soil par- dy soil richer in native plant food. ticles and thus prevents the soil f rom Commercial fertilizers are of little anttmg-by winds and washing. benefit. Plowing under a heavy coat '! 4N.i makes avMlable plant food ing of barnyard manure will greatly fr Am the store of unavailable plant benefit it The heavy coating of 'PPjT !n t"e soil " heavy yard manure weuld likewise - ?t is easy then to understand the greatly improve its textures. .But the importance . of plowing into the soil most important thing for our farmers the vegetable matter available on the to understand is the preventing of an' . their land from becoming cloddy and . Duumei ii, nave been com- compact. Humus is the only remedy, 'raitting the error of permitting their The chief source of humus i v?e- ,L lands to remain unpiowed from late table matter and barnyard manures. ; r ? cultural; season till spring plowing These applied to the land in abun- time cpmesVWheji they rake. up the dance will keep it in a mellow condi vegetabK matter and burn it. This is tion and at the same time conserve - - robbing th$ soil and lie who robs the its crop producing powers by render--soil is FblFf.,.own household, ing thev plant food in the soil avail ' stealing from juijseif able to the grow in gr crop's. , V Jt KamTa L tCX thQ- each WhatJ have J'ust stated is the first 15.' . -XZrirxTtinn nt L " Jt- &ic-.ynuwpis oi-agncuiture, ana one -. : a certain., prowiuwu. m numus. . If which' contributes more tnwnrd . tho i- nothing- Is returneu .io-u to replace sucWof tfc .T born. The people of North Carolini "Will he found always ready to support the powers that have charge of th conduct of the war that has been thrust upon America. In some parts of the country serious complications have arisen with Indue- ! trial socialistic organizations. State end county officials and in some in stances troops have had to be called to cope with the situation. In the Dakotas army officers have been warn ed of an organized plot to destroy great crops of grain as it is harvested and stored. Throughout various parts of the country have come reports of arrests of supposed German spies or pro-German agitators. But none of this sort of activitiy has been reported in North Carolina so far. There remains but one enemy of the people of North Carolina and that enemy by proper effort is the easiest of them all to cope with. It is care lessness. Abundant crops are now ready to harvest or have already been harvested. The urgent need in North Carolina is what may be termed a burning need. It is that every farmer, every farm wife, every farm employee, every boy and every girl on every farm In the state should use every care to see that these food crops and this cotton is protected against the danger of destruction by fire. North Carolinians have little to fear from alien enemies or their sympa thizers because there are few if any here. Incendiary fires are few and those that occur are the outgrowth of personal enmity and not the acts of enemy agents. It is Incumbent upon every citizen to see that preventable fires are reduced to a mnimum. Every ounce of food destroyed or unnecesari ly consumed is an ounce of treason Jgnorantly or intentionally committed. The fact that insurance is carried and' that the value of the burned food stuffs may be collected in money does not even tend to mitigate the loss. When foodstuffs burn in a time like this money will not replace it. Every ounce of foodstuffs produced is needed somewhere while thousands are suf fering from the lac of sufficient food. The duty which so plainly faces North ' Carolina is the duty to guard against themselves. A little care and the i practice of ordinary precaution against j ' ' the destruction by fire of crops in ST HELENA MILK AND CREAM; & VIM v v 4 V V v SEE CHAS. FINKELSTEIN FOR your Diamnods, Watches, Cameo Broaches, Wrist Watches and a full line of Solid gold and Gold filled Jew elry. Buy early and save money at Chas. Finkelstein's. No. 6 Sot Front St. ; Phone 642 11-30-tf SMITH MOTOR WHEEL IN FIRST v class1 condition for . sale cheap. Queen City Cycle Co., 209 Market St 11-14-tf WANTED OLD FALSE TEETH Don't, matter if broken. I pay $2.00 to $15.00 per set Send by parcel post and receive check by return mail. L. Mazer, 2007 S. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. ll-230tj I SHORTHAND, TOUCH TYPEWRIT. ing and all commercial branches of siudy taught most thoroughly and 10-20-tf. ply M. Lance, Carolina Beach. 8-31 if , CITY ELECTRIC CO., 206 PRINCESS , . street. Phone 995. Pythian Bldg. Everything electrical. WANTED 50 LABORERS TO LOAD the Steamship Chippewa. Apply at AUTOMOEILE OWNERS! 11-4-tf 7 o'clock tomorrow' morning at Clyde' Steamship Co., foot of Castle street. 1 2-1-1 1. HAVE your worn-out tires double treaded, it makes them better than new.: See the Fair 2-in-l Auto Tire, corner 4th and Bladen; phone 738. 11-24-30UJ WHEN YOUrt BOY GOES INTO THE Trenches,see that he takes with him REMEMBER YOUR FRIENDS WITH your portrait. He will treasrre It ' a box of candy or fruit. We have a shove all the gold on earth. Fr.itz & I complete line. Bear Produce and tfendrick. 83-tf Mdse Co., No. 14 Market St. Phones 452-453. H-i4-lf. WANTED TO COlMTRACT FOR, OR , WANTED AN ACTIVE MAN WITH purchase twenty cars sweet gum oi pine logs. Logs not smaller than fourteen inches diameter at small end. State price. F. O. B. Cars, what siding. Address "Logs",, care Dispatch. v ll-26-7t FREE TRIP IN AUTOMOBILE Chance to see cantonments, Colum bia and Atlanta. Want responsible party for company. Apply for par ticulars 314 Red Cross. Leaving Sunday 12-1-ltj. Some money not less than $1,000. We leave money in your bank and help finance; permanent position. Marine Iron & Steel Co., Norflok, Va. ll-27tf. barns and warehouses will conserve J the foodstuffs that the promised boun tiful crops will yield. It is the duty of each to see that carelessness does not permit .their destruction. If North Carolina crops are destroyed in barns or in storage it will not be by the hand of an alien enemy or an erratic pacifist for there are none of this class roaming this section. Nor will it be j "an act of Providence," but the inevf- ! table result of purely human negligence. Sweet' potatoes; Irish potatoes; tur fnips; chickens and turkeys; iresh 'eggs 50c. Herteuberger & Varga, 2 N. Second, phone 1493. U-28-3tj WE DELIVER ALL MAGAZINES ON date of issue when so requested Phone youi nrder to 745. Gordon's News Stand. IN THE WAR AGAINST WASTE. ,FOR RENT TVO FURNISHED rooms for light housekeeping, lights, gas, water and nse of phpne. quite reasonable. Phone 591-J, or call 505 S. 4th. Dec 1. 3t. WANTED SECOND-HAND FIVE passenger Auto good condition. H. E. Evenson, 716 Castle St. Phone 1026-J. Dec. 2-ltj Joining other numerous forces throughout the nation In the war against waste as a helping hand to the country's struggle to "Make the World Safe For Democracy," one of the large insurance companies has is- has as its object the promoting of S . -; patriotism, good citizenship and the i S J. B. McCABE & CO. physical bettermt of the people. ! Certified Public Accoun- 1 some very timeiy suggestions are i herewith presented from this valu STENOGRAPHERS ATTENTION! Unusual demand for experienced stenographers Experts enrolled free, and positions guaranteed. Give experience and references, En close stamp. Southern Commercial Bureau; Cotambia, S. C. 1129-lOtj able paper: "Give no time or money to selfish pleasure which can be given in unself ish service to the nation." "In the name of 1 common humanity and of common sense, let us at once j adapt ourselves to the t extraordinary j war conditions; which have come, tants. Room 810 Murchlson Bank Bldg. j E Phone 996..-. WILMINGTON, N. C. iiiiiiii!iiii:ii!iiiiiiiiim;tiiiii!iii;ii'iiiiiiiiiiiiii!i!ii!!iiiiiiniiii upon us." "Unless extra!vagance4 . is checked, the nation wiU bs injured people will go hungry and . the war will be pro longed." - p . "What a blessing rational economy would bring to war worn humanity in the present food crisis." ; v-" M: "But economy is not enough. We must prsduce nvre, conserve mors and every, one enlist in the wai against waste.! NEOLIN SOLES Makes Walkin . Pleasure , Attached by , like McNulty," former1 manageof Johnny vErtle, has 'taken, Roy Moore under his , wing. . " MikQ ' desires to match' hiK new bantam for, a rumpus with the St Paul scrapper. ' .'- - SULLIVAN, Kingr of Shoemakers 217 N. Front Street. Phone SSS. Eiiiii! W, e. Cooper & Cq. (COTTON J Mercliants Witningtoii, N.C, piiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiuiiiitiiiiiiiiuniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiuiiinuinig T7 1 1 fM n A mm 1UI Builders OF EJ A full stock of the following Items: Wire Xails. Wire Fencing. ,'FIonr, all grades. . .--f- Ciore's line gronnrt Corn" Meal. " Gtfre's Fancy Corn Syrap. . Gore's-J3xtr Fancy Molasses. . icnniiM Sed, Wheat.. ,"Ilease writer r for prices and samples. y- O. VGOBE COMPANY. ..Wholexale -Cirocers, Wilmington. vNV C.v Supplies I Wi B, THORPi&CO 1 1 Water and Ann streets '1 Phone 789. vfi iiriiiwiiiTiifinMiiiniiiHninniniiainiiiniuiurninTiiijiiiiiTzf arrangements for payment. PEiPEOLES SAVINGS BANK (pomer Front and Princess Streets Statement Condition THE MURCHISON NATIONAL BANK of Wilmington, X. C. At the Close of Business, November 20th, 1917. RESOURCES: Loans and Discounts ..$ 7,595,091.84 U. S. Bonds (at parf .. 1,426,850.00 Bank Building ........ 494 900.00 Bonds and other Se-. . - " curities . 468,400.00 Customers' Liability Acceptances '.. 1,050,000.00 Cash and Due by Banks 4,598,665.15 $15,633,906.99 LIABILITIES: Capital Stock mm Surplus and Net Profits VULUiatlUU Special Deposit IJonds. Acceptances Deposits November 20th, 1915 November 20, 1916 . November 20th, 1917 DEPOSITS. "M.OOO.00 1".ooo.oo -050,000.00 3-.HS,96L73 ''.242.5U.sa .441,245.S 5 -M48,961.73 H. C. McQUEEN, President J. W. YATES. Vive-President M, F. ALLEN, Assistant Cashier J. V. GRAINGER, Viec-Prsid nt C. S. GRAINGER, Cashier W. S. JOHNSON, Assistant Cashipr T. V. Grainger, Jr., Assistant Cashier. New Interest Quarter- December 1st is the beginning of a new Interest Quarter. Deposits made now and through Saturday night drawjnterest from the first. Your success begins to take form when you begin to save. ' Open your account at this bank and get your plan working. The Home Savings Bank Corner Front and Chesnut Streets. Condensed statement of condition of the American Bank & Trust Company of Wilmington, N. C. At the close of business November 20th, 1917. Fix- RESOURCES. Loan and Discounts. $2,166,114.83 8,049.53 45,770.28 16,231.76 317,279.27 98,400.00 . 773,413.20 .$3,425,258.87 Overdrafts Real Estate . . . Furniture and Bonds and Securities Domestic Acceptances Cash and banks -1 Total .. due from LIABILITIES. Capital Stock Undivided Profits Dividends Unpaid, Deposits Total .$ 200,000.00 39,277.48 258.87 ..3,185,480.39 .$3,425,258.87 officers: r Thos. E. Cooper, President. ? Milton Calder, Vice President. C. E. Bethea, Cashier. E. Fred Banck, Asst. Cashier. R. L. Henley, Asst. Cashier. Christmas Games European ' War Game United States Puzzle Map Comical Ani mal Ten Pins. Tintograph Sets Ring Toss Battle Ship Puzzle Box Heart Dice Rook, Parcheese, Etc., also Alarge line of Children Picture Books and books for Juvenile Readers. G. tV. YATES COMP' Books and Stationery. 117 Market Street Yoiliei Your Wife and Children Air theyjrotected If you are taken seriously ill. Disease plays no favorites., It Is your duty to protect them. An : accident and health policy is a .safeguard and a protec - tion-;toycnjan(i. your family. Consider the matter. Con v nlt - .'"-' '- ' ' 1 . . .1' C. L. DICKINSON. Phone 656 Princess BalWmg BUSINESS ADS ffli ar- - " - it 3 tfXKPfHf p.- ,-5 f-i V -'"J - ! - - j a"' v-
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