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SECTION TWO-Pages 5-12 VOLUME 36 SMITHFIELD, N. C? FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1917. Number 69 ENROLL NOW TO WIN THE WAR. Wilson Calls on All Families to Con serve Food Supply. 500,000 Pushing Pledge Week. Cards Will He Signed to Save Wheat, Meat, Sugar, Pork. Krir.nants Being Including Among Those Asked to Join Movement. No Better Way to Victory, Says Pres ident Wilsonf President Wilson wants the families of the land to enroll themselves in the great army of food conservation ists. In a statement issued Sunday, he asks every one in the country to do their bit toward saving the nation's footT supply. In his statement President Wilson says in no way can the achievement of victory in the war be more certain ly accomplished than by the pledges of families and restaurants to save food. The President's statement follows: "The chief part of the burden of finding food supplies for the peoples associated with us in war falls for the present upon the American peo ple, and the drain upon supplies on such a scale necessarily affects the prices of our necessaries of life. "Our country, however, is ^blessed with an abundance of fodstuffs, and if our people will economize in their use of food, providently confining themselvest to the quantities required for the maintenance of health and strength; if they will eliminate waste; and if they will make use of those commodities of which we have a sur plus and thus free for export a larger proportion of those required by the world now dependent upon us, we shall not only be able to accomplish our obligations te them, but we shall obtain and establish reasonable prices at home. "To provide an adequate supply of food both for our own soldiers on the other side of. the seas and for the civil populations and the armies of the allies is one of our first and foremost obligations; for if we arc t6 maintain their constancy in this struggle for the iundependence of all nations, we must first maintain their health and strength. The solution of our food, therefore, is dependent upon the indi vidual service of every man, woman and child in the United States. "The great voluntarily effort in this direction which has been initiated and organized by the food administration offers an opportunity of service in the war which is open to every indi vidual, and by which every individual may serve both his own people and the peoples of the world. "We cannot accomplish our objects in this great war without sacrifice and devotion, and in no direction can that sacrifice and devotion be shown more than by each home and public eating place in the country pledging its sup port to the food administration and complying with its requests." The campaign for family enrollment week will be vigorously conducted. More than half a million workers will make a house to house canvas, asking that pledge cards be signed. Families and restaurants will be asked to con serve staples such as wheat, meat, su gar, pork and so on. TUESDAY'S WAR SUMMARY. ? The drive of the Germans and Austro-IIungarinn armies, begun a week ago against the eastern and northeastern fronts of the Austro Italian theatre, continues unabated, but with the Italian cavalry fighting rear guard actions to cover the re treat of the Italians to positions chosen for a stand and the Teutonic allies also being impeded by the flooded condition of the Tngliamento river. Udine, former headquarters of the Italian army in Eastern Venetia, has been captured by the invaders who also are pressing the Italians west ward from the Isonzo front and in vading Italian territory from the north through passes in the Carnic Alps. . The invasion of the province of Venetia from the east, with Udine the apex of the drive, air' !?.dy is about 20 m'les, but as yet n odefi nite information is at hand from which it is possible to judge the ex tent of the advance of the Teutons in the other districts. If the move ment from the north keeps pace with that from the northeast and the east, however, the predicament of General Cadoma's force* necessarily would be a serious one ar.d it is not beyond the relms of possibility that unless the eastern ?rmies are able to make a stand on the plains of Friuli a further considerable number of the Italians will be capturcd. Nothing has been vouchsafed in either the Italian, German or Aus trian official communiques to indicate what the situation is in the Trcntiuo sector which lies to the west and northwest of the present line of ac tivity, but it is not improbable that if, as unofficial advices have stated, the Austro-Swiss frontier has been closed, reinforcements both from Ger many and Austria are being hurried up for an' offensive of great magni tude in this region. The driving back of the Italian southward in this re igion might seriously affect the plans of the Entente Allies to send relief to General Cadorna if the route cho sen for this purpose were across the Franco-Kalian border and eastward by rail. In the retreat of the Italians the British artillery units which early in the spring were sent to the Isonzo front to aid the Italians in their drive toward Trieste saved all their guns, but the men suffered severely from cold, the inclement weather and lack of food. Field Marshal Haig again has sent forward his forces in the Ypres sec tor on what apparently were intend ed as line-straightening operations and again has been successful in gaining the greater portion of his objective. The attacks were delivered over small fronts in the regions of Passchendaele and Poelcapelle where spurs, ridges and other points of van tage wore taken. The Canadians, with their usual brilliance of attack, early in the of fensive gained their objectives, in cluding Crest Farm, 400 yards from the heart of Passchendaele. Some of them even penetrated into the town itself and also were close to the vil lage of Goeberg to the north. Tho German official communication^ ad mits that Passchendaele was captur ed, but asserts that later the Cana dians were driven out. On the other battle fronts, except for spirited artillery fighting in the Aisne and Mouse sectors of France, the operations have been of a minor character. MUST HAVE MET FOUL FLAY. Mr. Charlie Starling Disappears Mys teriously During Night. Blood Is Found In Koad and Near Old Well. Body Mill Missing. Some Family Troubles. Selma, Nov. 1. ? Mr. Charlie Star ling, a farmer living about three miles north of Selma, left the home of his sister Monday night, October 22nd, about eight o'clock, and went as they thought to his homo not far away to look after his mules, and has not been seen sincc. Last Monday sotne people traveling the road not far from his home, discovered blood in the road that had had dirt thrown 'on it from outside of the road. The discovery was soon known pretty generally throughout the neighbor hood, and a posse of citizens gather ed and dug up quite a quantity of blood in the road. The search later led them to an old unused well which they began to probe in. They found two sacks filled with white sand, and the sand had blood in it, an old ash bucket about half full of ashps with a rock in it. The bucket also was bloody. They then began to draw the water out of the well, but could not get it all out Monday nightr and Tuesday the task was again begun. The water was finally drawn out near enough to the bottom s6 that men could stand on the bottom of the well and search it. The body that was thought to have been in the well was not found in there and has not yet been found. The prevailing opinion is now, that Mr. Starling was murdered, the blood and sand was thrown into the well as a hiding place and the body taken to some other un known place and disposed if. We are informed that Mr. Starling had had recent family troubles, and had only recently been put under a peace bond by the Recorder's Court. Look After the Dogs. This week a mad dog was killed in the town of Smithfield. This dog had been with several other dogs and may have bitten some of them. It is of the greatest importance that every person in the town who has a dog watch his dog for the next few days. * List of .Men Selected for .Military Service from Local Hoard Number One, Johnston County as Reported by the District Board fur The East ern District of North Carolina. The following list of men, called for military service by the Local Board for Johnston County, District No. 1, have been duly passed upon by the proper Local and District Board and are hereby certified as se lected for military service and not exempted or discharged: (White.) Wm. H. Massengill, Four Oaks. Paul Youngblood, Wilson's Mills. Thomas V. Wilkins, Clayton, R. 1. Iiandy M. McLamb, Benson, R. 2. ~ Calvin M. Hardee, Benson, R. 3. Victor Barbour, Clayton, N. C. Ransom F. McLamb, Benson, N. C. Junius Sanders, Four Oaks, N. C. E. Harrison Honeycutt, Willow Springs, N. C. Lonnio M. Holt, Benson, R. 1. Hubert G. Wood, Johnson, N. Wm. F. Honeycutt, Clayton, R. 1. Questcr V. Moore, Benson, N. C. Jesse D. Dickens, Smithfiehl, N. C. Leonard C. Raynor, Benson, N. C. Hubert F. Johnson, Bonson, R. 4. Jacob A. Jones, Smithflcld, N. C. Laurey R. Johnson, Benson, R. 2. Ransom F. McLamb, Benson, N. C. Willie E. Norris, Benson, N. C. Herbert Strickland, Smithfield. Alexander Nordan, Benson, R. .'5. David L. Johnson, Smithfield, N. C. Lunda L. Benson, Angier, R. 1. E. A. Johnson, Benson, N. C. Edgar B. Sanders, Benson, R. 4. David Jernigan, Benson, N. C. Robert E. Holt, Clayton, R. 1. Rupert Adams, Wilson's Mills. Henry Gordan, Wilson's Mills, R. F. I). > Walter King, Four "Oaks, N. C. Ruffin Wimberl^, Benson, R. 2. Troy V. Allen, Four Oaks, N. C. Grover C. Whitley, Smithfiold. James Parker, Benson, R. 2. Willie W. West,, Four Oaks, N .C. Oker B. Coats, Garner, R. 1. Lawronce P. Johnson, Wilson's Mills, N. C. Robt. D. Browning, Four O.iks. Luther L. Wilkins, Smithfield, N. C., R. F. D. John L. Johnson, Willow Spri gs, N. C., Route No. 1. (Colored.) Charlie Whitley, Smithfiold, N. C. Donnett Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. Herbert MitchAier, Smithfield. Columbus Vinson, Wilson's Mills. William Lassiter, Clayton, R. 1. Sun Tate, Four Oaks, N. C. EASTERN DISTRIST OF NORTH CAROLINA. JOHN D. LANGSTON, Chairman. E. R. PACE, Secretary. SCHOOL NOTES. We still have some sehools without teachers. Op account of insufficient funds and the high prices of board, employing teachers is quite a prob lem this year. Just the other day a teacher returned her contracts, say ing the board was so high she could not afford to teach for the amount that would be apportioned to that school. The salary was only $35 00. This is <?11, with our present funds, that can be allowed for several of our schools. Quite a number of teach ers have left us for higher salaries somewhere else. What shall we do? Let our children suffer? It is for the people to say. There are a few changes in the books this year, which I hope the parents will take note of and secure what books they can by the time school opens, so that no time may be lost. The principal changes are in the readers and spellers. Reading ? "Literature Series", and Spelling ? "New World," for grades 1, 2, 3, 15c, and for grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 15c. About seven cents will be allowed for the old spellers in exchange. The read ers are worth from 25c to 50c, with ; an exchange price of about half for the old reader. Each teacher will be supplied with ^ complete list of books, which have been adopted by the State for the next five years Our first County Teachers' Meet ing will be held in Smithfield, on No vfmher 10th, at the Graded School Building. We are expecting a large crowd of teachers present and a good meeting. All who are interested in schools are invited to attend. L. T. ROY ALL, County Superintendent. WAR TAXES NOW EFFECTIVE. 1 'IV ? Cents Required for Letters on ] November 2nd. Everybody Is Going i to Help I'ncle Sam Finance the < Croat World War From the Man < Who Sees the Movies to the One < Earning .Millions a Year. Washington, Oct. 31. ? This is the 1 last day of grace from many new war taxes. ? Wnh the exception of increased letter rates and tobacco taxes which go into effect Friday, the special stamp taxes on documents, legal in struments and parcel post packages which go into operation December 1, all special taxes begin to apply at midnight tonight. They include: One cent on each dime paid for amusement admissions. Throe per cent mi payments for freight transportation. Eight per cent on passenger fares. Ten per cent on payments for Pull man and similar accommodations. Five per cent on oil pipe line trans portation. One cent for each 20 cents or frac tion paid for express packages. Five cents on each telegraph, tele phone or radio message costing fif teen cents or more. Various taxes on cigars, cigarettes, tobacfo and products. Ten per cent on club dues. Eight cents on each $100 of new life insurance and one cent on each dollar of premiums paid on fire, ma rine, casualty and otm^r insurance policies. Although the tobacco taxes, do not become operative until Friday many dealers have already advanced retail prices in anticipation of the tax lev ies. Other taxes of the new law, in cluding tho* on hard and soft drinks, i :?comes and war-excess profits, have been in effect since the law was ap proved October 3 but in indirect form. On December 1, the new stamp taxes, including those on parcel post packages, will be payable, putting the entire law into complete operation, except for increased rates on second class mail, postponed until July 1st next. Increases in first-class mail rates probably will be most generally felt by the people. The law provides that the postage on letters, except "drop" or local letters, shall be 3 cents; and that on post cards, including private mailing cards, shr.U be one cent more than heretofore. This increase in cludes so-called picture post cards. The advances were made effective thirty days after passage of the law, and are construed by the post office department to begin with letters and post cards postmarked November 2nd. The increases also have been ex tended by departmental order to first-class mail to any foreign coun tries, which, under postal conventions, have enjoyed the domestic rates. The new 3-cent letter rate, therefore, will apply to letters to Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, ? Kngland. Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Bahamas, Bar badoes, British Guinea, British Hon duras, Santo Domingo, Dutch West Ifidies, Leeward Islands, Newfound land and New Zealand. The post card increase will extend to Canada, Cuba, Mexico and Panama, the only countries which have enjoyed the do mestic post card rate. For consumers' convenience, books of postage stamps containing 3-cent stamps are in readiffess for sale and the department has had printed thou sands of 2-cent post cards. First-class mail postmarked tomorrow or any time prior to 12:01 a. m. November 2, regardless of time taken for de livery, will be transmitted at the old rates but that postmarked thereaf ter must pay the increased toll. Amusement admission taxes be come effective tomorrow at places charging more than 5 cent*. They are 1 cent for each ten cents or frac tion paid for such admission, payable by the person admitted but collected by the government from the amuse ment proprietor, required to make sworn return to the treasury. A flat tax of 1 cent for each child under 12 admitted when children are charged also is provided. Passes also are taxed, except those to bona fide employees, municipal officers and children under 12, at the regular rate, which also is extended to cabarets or other entertainment in which the admission is included in the price paid for refreshment, merchandise or ser vice. Persons leasing theatre boxes must pay ten per cent on their rent : L The new rates on cigars range "rom 25 cents to $7 per thousand anil jn cigarettes from 80 cents to $1.20 H>r thousand. Five cents a pound is the r.ew tax on tobacco, snuflf and >ther manufactured tobacco, while ?igarette papers are taxed from 1-2 :ent to 1 cent per hundred. As the taxes are now reaching the ultimate ronsumcr, the raises mean about 1 pent more on fiv?? cent tobacco pack ages, from 2 to 5 cents on cigarette packages and from 1 to 10 cents on cigars. The taxes on freight and passenger transportation are also extended to motor vehicle competitors of steam ; nd electric railways and water line3. The passenger transportation tax is nof applicable to fares costing 25 cents or less or communications or season tickets for trips less than thirty miles. Payments for service rendered the federal and state gov ernments are exempt from taxation. The ten per cent tax on Pullman accommodations is applicable to payments for seats, berths, and staterooms in parlor and sleeping cars or on vessels. The live cent tax on telegraph, telephone or radio messages costing 15 cents or more applies only to those originating in the United States. ( 'lub?? whose dues are less than $12 a year .and fees to lodges are ex empt from the 10 per cent tax on club d,u The v new insurance taxes are im posed on new policies issued, with reinsurance policies exempted. In dustrial er weekly payment policies are taxed "oity per cent on the first prcnvnm oft policies for $500 or less. Sixth District Woman's Clubs. The annual meeting of the Sixth District of Woman's Clubs of North Carolina was held with the Woman's Club of Smithfield Wednesday after noon. A luncheon was served at the home of Mrs. E. W. Pou. This was given by the Chamber of Commerce. The business session was held in the room of the Woman's Club, about fifty women being present. Mrs. II. L. Skinner, District President, pre sided over the meeting and welcomed the ladies, explaining the purpose of the nie'cting. Mrs. D. J. Thurston, of Clayton, graciously responded. Miss Margaret Etheredge, of Sel ma, gave an interesting account of her work among the mill people. Reports were given from the Wo man's Club of Raleigh, by Mrs. George W. Lay; from the Twentieth Century Club, Raleigh, by Mrs. A. S. Barnes; from the Halcyon Club, Clayton, by Mrs. R. W. Sanders, ami from the Woman's Club of Smith field, by Mrs. L. T. Royall. A talk was made by Mrs. F. H. Brooks, Chairman of the Woman's Committee of National Defense of Johnston County, telling of the work done 1n the county. Mrs. Palmer Jerman, of Raleigh, talked upon the registration of wom en for scrvice. Mrs. Skinner then introduced Mrs. Clarence Johnson, of Raleigh, Pres ident of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, who made a most interesting address. Mrs. Johnson told why Federatipn is worth while and urged the women to keep up their club organizations for the, pur pose for which they were organized, while also engaged in patriotic work. She closed with an earnest appeal for women to give themselves to the business of preparedness, praying to be emancipated from the little things of the past, and looking to^ the big things of the future. After this address Mrs. T. J. Las siter presented Mrs. Johnson with a beautiful bunch of chrysanthemums, from the Woman's Club of Smithfield. MRS. L. T. ROYALL, Secretary. I'ure Bred Cows. The? State Department is going to send a specialist to Pennsylvania next Monday to buy pure bred and grade cows and heifers to distribute over the State of North Carolina. The pur^ bred cows will cost from one hundred to one hundred and fifty dol lars. The pure bred heifers from s--v enty-five to one twenty-five. The grade cows and heifers will cost about one-fourth less. These will all come from the cow testing associa tion's herds. If there are any one here in John son County who wishes to purchase one or more call or see the county agent at Smithfield before Saturday night, November 3rd. THE NEWS UP CLATTON WAY. Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Jenkeiw Co To Humpton, Va. Dry Goods De partment of J. G. Barbour & Sons Adds New Feature. Other Items of Local and Person Interest. Clayton, Oct. 31. ? Miss Annie Lau rie Baucum, of Mount Moriah, spent the past week-end with Miss Barbara Gulley. ' ? Mr. Allen Smith, of Smithfield, was in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rand return ed Tuesday from Wilson where they have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Woodard who has been very ill. Mr. Hugh Austin, who was in school at Richmond this year, camo home Sunday to spend the night with his father near here before leaving Monday night for Raleigh to leave' for his appointed place in the Navy. Mr. Herbert Coats, who runs on the train from Goldsboio to Greens boro, spent Sunday here with his fjwnily. Mr. Ralph Austin spent last Sun day with relatives at Benson. Mrs. Ii. A. Wall spent Monday in Garner. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Smith, of Lil lington, spent Sunday here with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Gullcy. Mr. J. R. Coats spent Monday in Raleigh. Mrs. Jcsmond Duncan spent Mon day in Raleigh. ^ Mr. C. W. Lindsay, of Lillin^ton, spent several days this week hero with relatives and friends. Mr. Arthur Smith spent Tuesday in Raleigh. The firm of J. G. Barbour & Sons have added to their Dry Goods /De partment a complete stock of "New Idea" patterns. Two extra lady clerks have also been added these being Misses Rosa Hinton and Hattie Honeycutt. This is a great conven ience for the ladies. We see that after Friday of this week all postage will be increased one penny. Letters three cents, poet cards two cents and a U. S. Postal must have a one cent stamp placed thereon. rru_ i j. i i \ ~ r - 1 r inc icciure uy nr. jorin fj. wmie at school auditorium last Friday night was largely attended and every one present thoroughly enjoyed it. A very neat sum of money was re alized. The many friends of Rev. and Mrs. C. A. Jenkens regret very much that they have left our town. They are making their new homo at Hampton, Va. We wish them much success and happiness in their new home. Mr. Glenn Pope told his many friends here "good-by" last Satur day for the last time and left for the training camp at Columbia, S. C. Our best wishes go with him. Mr. Porter Duncan and Mrs. Jes mond Dyncan are visiting Mr. Jes mond Duncan who is in training at Camp Jackson. Mr. P. C. Duncan spent a few days this week in Princeton on business. Mr. J. T. Holt, of Wilson's Mills, was here Wednesday. SUM' TIMBERS ARE PROMISED. When Shipping Board Threatened to Take Over Mills Unless Lumber Was Forthcoming, I. umber Produc ers Yielded. Washington, Oct. 29. ? Southern pine lumber producers at a conference today with shipping board officials gave assurance that they will furnish timbers for the wooden shipbuilding program as fast as needed by build ing concerns. The shipping board had threatened to take over and operate lumber mills. unless timber was forth coming in more liberal quantities. Delays in delivery of timber, it is declared, have seriously hampered wooden shipbuilding operations along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Ship ping board officials blame the build ers, as well as the timber producers. Inexperienced constructors, in many instances, it is declared, have laid down keels for too many ships instead of proceeding with the construction of a few at a time. This is said to have made it hard for the lumbermen to meet their requirements. On the other hand, the lumber producers, it is clain.ed, have shipped material to fill "?< private contracts ahead of govern ment orders because of higher prices paid. To speed up the production of the heavier timbers the shipping board is preparing to grant a slight increase in the price, now $35 -a thousand.
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