N. C. TROOPS GET READY FOR WINTER EQUIPMENT TO ENABLE BOYS TO WITHSTAND WINTER HAS BEEN ISSUED. COMPLETE ARMY THEATER Improvements Are Made on Pennsyl vania Avenue. The Seventh Divis ion Is a Complete Army Within Itself. Camp Stewart, El Paso, Texas. Second Lieutenant Wentworth W. Pierce, Co. D, Second Regiment, Godsboro, has been recommended for promotion to first lieutenant in the Second Regiment machine gun com pany. Second Lieutenant Willis P. Monroe, Wilmington, and Second Lieutenant Lawrence M. Currie, Lum ber Bridge, will be second lieuten ants In the machine gun company. Captain J. W. Bizzell Is captain. Ed ward R. Michaux, Goldsboro, is first sergeant. Headquarters of the com pany will be at Goldsboro. Cook Ben Sowers, Company A, Third Regiment, Lexington received a telegram an nouncing the arrival of a thirteen pound boy at his home. He named the youngster Woodrow Wilson by wire. The brigade is settling down to rou tine work and getting in shape for venter. It has been hard to secure lumber enough to complete the mess halls, but this work is nearing com pletion now. Only a few remain un finished. This does not mean, how ever, that they are in condition for use in the interior, but only that the roofs are on, the sides screened and doors in place." If we are to stay here through the winter it will be neces sary to wall up the mess halls and put in windows. It is already cold enough to make eating mighty uncomfor table in the mornings. The men eat with their overcoats on and suffer no serious discomfort, but it gets very cold here and warm eating rooms are absolutely necessary. The officers of the brigade, at their own expense, are walling up their tents and getting ready for winter. The company artificers are doing the work and are being paid extra for it by the officers receiving the bene fit of their work. The quartermaster has promised lumber sufficient to build a comfortable office for brigade headquarters and work on this will be started soon. The long street that runs through the camp, known as Pennsylvania Avenue, is being put in shape by the regiments. The Third Regiment started improvement and is just fin ished its section of street, while the First and Second have already put theirs in fine shape. The street is nisely rounded up and graded so that water runs off readily (or would run off, if there were any water), and it looks good. One of the El Paso pa pers called it a "model for the road builders of th8 southwest." The North Carolina Brigade takes up about 2,500 feet of front on Penn sylvania Avenue. There are still enough Pennsylvanians here on each side of us to make the street's name stick. A big army theatre has just been completed. It was erected as a pri vate enterprise with the consent of the army authorities and if its busi ness holds up as it has strated, the thing will prove a gold mine. The place seats 800 people and at 20 cents per and two full houses every night, the management is raking in consid erable coin. The theatre stands Just back of the headquarters of the Third Regiment. Practically all of the troops that were ordered to the border in Septem ber are now doing service here and elsewhere along the Rio Grande. The Georgia troops are expected in El Paso Thursday morning. They will take the camp vacated by the Massa chuetts guardsmen who are going home just as soon as the Georgians arrive here. The Massachuetts outfit received orders to go home two weeks ago. but was forced to wait on the Georgians and they have been rais ing Cain ever since their orders came bacuase the Georgians were delayed. The half dozen newspaper corres pondents down here with the Bay State soldiers, had been growing sar castic about it and were referring to. the Georgia brigade as "mythical," "legendary," etc. ,and expressed many doubts as to the existence of any such a body of soldiers. The Geor gians will be sationed at Camp Cot ton, near Fort Bliss. There are still some trops at state mobilization camps, but not a great many. With nobody available to relieve us, the New Charters Granted. Raleigh. Several new corporations have been chartered recently. Espe cially notable was the Belmont Bridge Co., of Belmont, Gaston coun ty, having authority to erect and op erate a toll bridge between Mecklen burg and Gaston counties near Sloan's Ferry. The cpaital is $5,000 authoriz ed and $SC0 subscribed by C. E. Tay lor, J. M. Sloan, . J. Maurey, J. M. TiPBsiev, J. W., D. P. and S. P. Stowe outlook for quite a long stay1 In Texas is fairly good. The Seventh Division Is a complete army in itself. It has a full brigade of artillery, more than a regiment of cavalry, three brigades of infantry, a full engineering outfit, signal corps and everything else needed to make it an independent ,self-sustaiing fight ing force in itself, without outside aid. No other division is so well equipped. There is talk of transforming a regi ment of infantry of this division into cavalry. It is more than probable that if this is done one of the Penn sylvania regiments will be selected for it. It does not now appear that any of the North Carolina outfit will get bor der patrol service. The policy of the War Department seems to be to keep the Seventh Division intact as a sort of reserve, and while regiments of the other divisions have been detached for border patrol, no part of the Seventh has been so detailed. Quite a number of the boys cele brated not wisely but too well follow ing pay-day. There were two cutting scrapes in which Tar Heel soldiers were Involved, one man being from A Company, First Regiment and the other from M Company of the same regiment. Details of neither fight are yet available. Both soldiers are un der arrest and will be tried in a few days. The boys of the Third are joking their worthy chaplain, Capt. A. Mc Cullen, of Durham, unmercifillu about an episode said to have trans pired at the fair a few nights ago. Two of the boys, one a non-com. and the other a commissioned officer, stopped at a coffee stand where a flirtatious grass widow demonstrated the good qualities of a certain well known brand of coffee. They sam pled her coffee and she suggested that they speak to their commissary officer about it and have him buy some. Then she asked what regi ment they were from and when they said they were from the Third, she said: "Oh, yes, I have the card of one oJ your officers here. He said to have three pounds of this coffee sent out to camp." She reached back under the counter and brought out a scrap of paper on which was written. "Capt. A. McCul len, Third N. C. Infantry, Camp Stewart." "Sure," answered one of the boys, "we know "him. He's our preacher." "Preacher," fairly screeched the fair one, "that man a preacher! If you could have seen him carrying on with us girls In here you would never have thought him a preacher." The truth of the matter is that Capt. McCullen had not even been to the fair, had not ordered any coffee and in fact had never laid eyes on that "widder" and he is wondering who It was that worked the trick on him. Major Sidney C. Chambers' Second Battalion, the Second Battalion of the Third, added yet other hiking laurels to their collection. This battalion is the one that hiked 53 miles in less than two days at Camp Glenn, carry ing full equipment, which was some stunt. Monday they hiked up the Franklin range, climbing all the way, a distance of seven miles. They rest ed and ate their sandwiches and were taking it easy when an orderly rode up and informed them that it was pay-day down in 'amp and that their presence was desn ed. The men shouldered packs and guns and hiked it back to Camp Stewart without a single stop. They got back in camp before 1 o'clock and they had started at 8 o'clock. They made the hike in less than four hours of actual march ing time and that is something of a record. Terrain exercises in which Briga dier General Young of the first bri gade, Logan of the second and Mc Neill of the third, all of the seventh division, participated have been held. The exercises consisted of placing each brigadier in turn in command of the division theoretically opposing a hostile force of equal strength. Each brigadier was required to esti mate situation, dispose of his troops and direct the attack. General Young, his adjutant. Major Gordon Smith and his two aides Lieuts. Young and Stone with four orderlies put in a busy day of it and covered about twenty-five miles of roup;h ter ritory. General Your.g and staff, ac cording to observers, who followed the exercises closelv more than held their own and won praise for their good work. The moving picture show of the State Board of Health is this week at Smithfield where the Johnston county fair is in progress. At the same time. Miss Kate Woolfolk has one of the State Board's Health ex hibits at Sanford. Miss Kate Her ring has another at Rockingham while there are other exhibits at Hen derson. Clinton, Clrfcton, Matthews, Boliva and at Oxford where a colored fair is being held. The Danbury-Walnut Cove Trans portation Co., of Danbury, capital $5, 000 authorized and $500 subscribed by I. E. Pepper and others for automo bile lines. The Sprunt Charlotte Warehouse Company of Charlotte has been char tered by the Secretary of State with an authorized capital of $125,000, of which $25,000 has been paid in by W. P. Sprunt of Wilmington, L. B. Mc-1 Koy. G. E Wilson. Jr., of Charlotte similar; D. A. R. MEETS IN RALEIGH Over One Hundred Delegates at An nual Affair Are Brilliantly Enter tained. Good Reports. Raleigh. Judge R. W. Winston wel comed the Daughters of the American Revolution to Raleigh for their annual conference of the North Carolina So ciety in place of Governor Craig, who found it impossible to fill this engage ment. Miss Lida Rodman of Washing ton as regent of the North Carolina Society, presented and there were other welcome addresses by Mayor James I. Johnson, Mrs. B. P. William son, head of the Raleigh Chapter, and greetings by representatives of other societies and clubs. The welcome ceremonies occupied most of the fore noon session in representatives hall of the State House. Mrs. W. O. Spencer of Winston Salem, responded to these welcome addresses and greetings. Dr. I. McC. Pittinger and Mrs. G. P. Edwin led devotional and ritualistc ceremonies and there were a number of splendid ly rendered vocal selections. Miss Rodman presented her an nual address just before the recess hour recounting effective work by the society the past year in this state and pointing out possibilities of far greater usefulness in the coming year. During the afternoon there were re ports from state and national officers on the activities of the society in the state and the nation and also reports from the 34 chapters within the state that constitute the conference. Later in the afternoon there was a recep tion to the more than 100 delegates by Mrs. Durfrey. At night at the Gov ernor's Mansion there was a brilliant musicale under the direction of Miss Helen Day. Mrs. T. S. Morrison of Asheville was elected regent of the North Carolina Society Daughters of the American Revolution. She succeeds Miss Lida Rodman of Washington, N. C, who, be cause of poor health the past year, insisted that a successor be chosen. Other officers elected were: Vice re gent, Mrs. W. P. Macy, of Elm City; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Grace Jones, of Asheville; treasurer, Mrs. James M. Dunlap, of Asheville. These officers were placed in nomination by the nominating committee, which con sisted of Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, Mrs. B. P. Williamson and Mrs. John F. Wily. New Corporations Chartered. Raleigh. New corporations wer chartered as follows: The North Carolina Woodworking Company of Fayetteville, capital $50, 000 authorized and $20,000 subscribed by W. H. Lilly and othors for general woodworking business, including buck ets, tubs, barrels and Ihe like. The Buffaloe Realty Company of Asheville, capital $200 000 authorized and $10,000 subscribed by S. F. Chap man, D. P. Morgan and others for a general real estate business. The Avery Feldspar Company of Bewland, Avery count r, capital $10, 000 authorized and $2 000 subscribed by J. W. Ragland and others for min ing feldespar, mica and other deposits, j An amendment to 1he charter of the Cabarrus Cotton Mills Company : names the principal oflice at Kannap- j olis with power to establish branch offices and mills elsewhere in this and other states and provides that the life of the corporat'on shall be ex tended 60 years with the capital $2, 000,000 authorized and $500,000 sub scribed. Burke Is BuiMing Bridges. Morganton. Burke County is set ting a splendid example to the coun ties damaged by the flood and while the counties, further down have been wrangling over bridges, two have al ready been finished in Burke, both : permanent steel structures and two j more are under construction. NORTH CAROLINA NEWS BRIEFS- Captain Willis G. Peace. Coast Artil- f lerv Corns, on detached duty, has been ordered to No-h Carolina as iv- j spector instructor of the Coast 4ir- tillery companies of the state With ' headuarters at Raleigh, according to notice received by Governor Craig. ! Dates havo been arranged for the North Carolina Motion Picture Exhib itors Convention, w'ii(h is to take place in Charlotte at th Sebvyn Ho tel. December 19-21 inclusive. Rural route No. 1 has bp;-i estab lished at South Mills to January 3. 1917. I'Dramence The State Bonn! of na tions sent out over 4,000.000 ballots ( f ar ill par ties, state and national. a,d tlre are numbers of calls for mol e balk ts by local authorities fearful ','hat the illot ments for their precinis wen1 not ample. ' The Methodists at Fw;ne have de cided to build a npv c V.ireh at a cost of $10.0CO to meey the demand.i that the growing cornunit v avd the Appa lachian Training S'-hocl's location j have placed .npon tliem. j Govcrnoryrrai? v ired the Governor j of Virgina a note of congratulations ,. to the rnple of Virpiria on the in auguration of prob.ibii.in in that state. Amctng the most prosperous indus tries In North Carolina are the flour mills of the sandhill sec tioi.. which are ilunning on homrcr-own wheat. XV. I R. Land and J. II. Gordon of j Haniet. have let the contract for the j Ition of a three-story store and , .. !.. IT l- T W vTce nuinur: in uauuei iu . , .ost ai,out $30,000 and will be iNimWIONAL WifSOIOOI Lesson (By E. O. SELLERS, Acting Director of Sunday School Course, Moody Bible In stitute, Chicago.) (Copyright, 1918, Western Newipaper Union., LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 12 WORLD'S TEMPERANCE SUNDAY. LESSON TEXT Romans 14:13-15:3. GOLDEN TEXT It is not good to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do any thing whereby thy brother Btumbleth. Rom. 14:21. The early Christian church had two outstanding problems, the question of the Sabbath days (two of them) and the question of eating meat offered to idols. This lesson suggests the solu tion of the latter. Our modern prob lem of intoxicating liquors is very much the same as this ancient one of the early Gentile Christians. I. "Let us not therefore Judge one another" (vv. 13-15). There are cer tain acts which are universally conced ed to be right and within the Christian law of liberty. There are also other acts which are as plainly prohibited. There are a large number of acts which lie in the region between these two, and men ought to be careful how they condemn one another for these latter things. Where good and true men dif fer, their acts, on the matter of the Sabbath (See Col. 2:16), or on temper ance, must be determined as being unto the Lord, sincerely, conscientious ly. It is not for us to judge (v. 13), literally, to pronounce judgment. They have a right to their opinion and to their liberty of thought and action, but (vv. 14, 22, 23) us for Paul or the Christian, he must have a clear con science. He must have faith, and be assured that he is right; otherwise he is condemned by God and by his own conscience, and Is not a sincere Chris tian disciple. The word "therefore" in verse 13 points back to verse 12, which ought to be carefully pondered. As we have each to render our accounts to God, we should stop judging one an other. Food is a very proper thing, and laws are also proper, yet love is the ruling principle of the Christian life. We ought to have our liberty cur tailed rather than have our souls lost. If we magnify our liberty to the sacri fice of our brother's soul we "walk no longer in love." The demands of Christian love are more to the true followers of Christ than the permis sions of Christian liberty. The privi lege of eating and drinking while it injures others, however harmless to yourself, is not to be tolerated. The word "stumbleth" here used (v. 21) Implies a movable trap or snare, literally any impediment placed in the way so as to cause another to fall. We must never forget that even a weak brother Is "a brother for whom Christ died." II. ''Let not your good be evil spoken of" (vv. 16-23). The kingdom of God Is not meat and drink, but it Is a life of righteousness, peace and joy In the Holy Ghost. Our liberty Is to be so used that It shall not be evil spoken of. The real proof that we are in the kingdom of God and that the kingdom of God Is In us is not found in our scrupulousness or lack of it, in our eat ing and drinking, but in the manifesta tions of righteousness in our lives, and of having peace in our hearts (15:13). This peace must be manifested toward our fellow men (v. 19 ; Ch. 15 :18) and being filled with "joy In the Holy Ghost." The object of our pursuit is to be the things which make for peace, the things' whereby we may fill one another up, not the exploitation of some pet hobby, for the kingdom of God rtoes not consist cf riding hobbles. Infthis matter of temperance reform we all recognize that alcohol has many usos besides that for drinking pur poses, and that there are various opin ions about drinking certain forms of it, and various ways of advancing the temperance cause, all of which are honestly held by many good men, but Christian patriotism demands that ev ery true-hearted man or woman, every one who is loyal to his country, to hu manity and to his God, should take Paul's position, (1) That he will not be a stumbling block in the way of the weak and of the young. (2) That he will not do 'anything to destroy his brother for whom Christ died. (3) That he will deny himself anything for their sake. (1) That his attitude will b that of love and not of selfishness. This places temperance on n high moral plane, but the world Is also beginning to recognize that the temperance ques tion is also an economic one. It is well to have faith, but it is also well to have the love that does not Injure others by the exercise of that faith. The quest'on is, "Are you perfectly sure this thing is right?" When in doubt as to whether any ac tion will please God, doubt your doubts, and avoid that act. III. "We then that are strong" (15: 1-3). This section Is iu reality a con tinuation of Chapter 14. Paul is con tinuing his thought that we are not to please ourselves, but rather to live such lives as will edify or build up our neighbor. Our strength is not given to us that vt may glory or lord it over our weaker brethren, but rather that we' may serve them. To please my neighbor does not mean that "when, in Rome do as the Romans do," but ruther to live such a life that my action will be for the good and edl fic.it luii of my brother, thereby plea Vii God (GaL 1:10). Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a Gen eral Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts oq the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds op the Whole System. 50 cents. Educated Rooster. "Spizzerinktum" Is an old name even for a rooster, but this rooster Is no ordinary fowl. The bird comes from a strain of Barred Plymouth Rocks, was hatched last May and weighs six pounds. He Is owned by E. E. Bennett of Hartford City, who refuses to part with his prize-winner at any prices. Judges at various fairs where he has been shown, have told the owner that he is a most promising bird, and this is borne out by the fact that $100 has been offered for him. "Splzzerinktuni" Is also an educated fowl. One of his chief delights Is rid ing the seat of a specially constructed wagon and holding the reins over eight boys who act as steeds for him. He drove this team in the centennial pa rade at Hartford City. Indianapolis News. CUTICURA COMFORTS BABY Suffering From Itching, Burnina Rashes, Eczema, etc. Trial Free. Give baby a bath with hot water and Cuticura Soap, using plenty of Soap. Dry lightly and apply Cuticura Oint ment gently to all affected parts. In stant relief follows and baby falls into a refreshing sleep, the first perhaps In weeks. Nothing more effective. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. "Fifty-Fifty." In Cornwall. England, there was a case involving the ownership of an eight-day clock. After listening to the parties the judge said to the plaintiff: "You get the clock." "What do I get?" a.iked the defend ant. "You get the eight days." Element of Uncertainty. "How do you think your state is go ing next election?" "We're going to have a walk-over," replied Senator Sorghum. "But I'm not quite sure which of us is going to get walked on." Pertinent Inquiry. "See, my dear, what beautiful green dresses the trees have In summer!" "And, ma, In winter do they puck the beautiful green dresses In their trunks?" English colonies total 13,W-J.:i21 square miles it; area, with a popula tion of 3S9.00.",03o. Alabama ranks first among the southern states as a producer of min erals. South Africa's diamond Industry is to be revived. For Forty Years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Has Been Woman's Most Reliable Medicine Here is More Proof. To women who are suffering from some form of woman's special ills, and have a constant fear of breaking down, the three following letters ought to bring hope: iff iTnkhaui remedies." Mrs. Mayme Asbacii, North Crandon, Wi3. Testimony from Oidahoma. Lawton, Okla. "When I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I seemed to be good for nothing. I tired easily and had headaches much of the time and was irregular. I took it again before my little child was born and it did me a wonderful amount of good at that time. I never tail to recommend Lvdia E. I'inkham's Vegetable Compound to ailing women ttecause it has done so much for me." Mrs. A. I McCaslaxd, 0'J Have St., Lawton, Okla. From a Grateful Massachusetts Woman. Roxbury, Ma33. " I was suffering from inflam mation and was examined by a physician w ho found that my trouble was caused by a displacement. My symptoms were bearing down pains, backache, and sluggish lrver. I tried several kinds of medi cine ; then I was asked to try L'dia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It has cured me and I am pleaded to be in my usual good health by using it and highly recommend it." Mrs. B. M. Osqood, 1 Ilaynes Park, Roxbury, Mass. If von want special advice write to Lydia IvAiJiam 31edicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Yonr "N.nened, read and answered by a woman and held Strong DrinKs Irritate Strong drinks like beer, whiskej. tea and coffee, irritate the kidney and habitual use tends to weaken them. Daily backache, with head ache, nervousness, dizzy spells and a rheumatic condition should be taken as a warning of kidney trou ble. Cut out, or at least moderate, the stimulant, and use Doan's Kid ney Pills. They are fine for weak kidneys. Thousands recommend them. A North Carolina Case XvnFlctm f J. f. wminis. Johnson St., Mcjlon, N. C. says: "I was all run down from kldnev trnnhU and doctors held out no hope for my recov ery. I auffered from rheumatic pains and was nervous and didn't sleep welL The kidney secre tions were scanty sage. me quickly and continued use cured me. I have had no sign of kidney irouoie since ana l give uoan's Kidney Pills the credit for savin- my life." Cat Dean's at Any Stare, BOc a Bo DOAN'S "SSSET FOSTER-MILB URN CO, BUFFALO. N.Y. ATOld operations. 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