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OBSERVED BEST BY EXTRA WEEK WILL GET IRE SIGNERS -IT DRAFT iCH AN OPERATION AVERTED iSli Ell Mlf'f iiiw mMK i -4. wmnm r MEN BEEN CHANGED GOVERNOR BICKETT TELLS AGRI CULTURAL BOARD HOW TO OBSERVE THRIF'i MONTH. DISPATCHES FROM RALEIGH Doings and Happenings That Mark the Progress of North Carolina Peo ple, Gathered Around the State Capital. Raleigh. "I have called upon the farmers to observe Thrift Month," and I know of bo better way for them to do so than by purchasing Liberty bonds," said Governor Bickett in a letter to tho members of the State Board of Agri culture, calling upon them to urge. In turn, the farmers of the State to back the campaign for the sale of ?27, 000,000 bonds in North Carolina. "It Is neither right to expect nor safe to permit the few to buy all thesa bonds," Governor Bickett said in ais letter .emphasizing the fact thai ihe State- is facing a stupendous task, bat not expressing anything in the war of pessimism over the outcoue. The governor's letter follows: The people of North Carolina have been called upon by the Federal gov ernment to Invest $27,000,000 In Lib erty bonds, this being the State's pro portion ot the second three billion dollar issue. If our people fail to pur chase these bonds promptly it will mean that North Carolina Is not do ing her part to helD win this war that she is either wilfully or carelessly falling to carry her share of the bur , den the war imposes upon the vari ous States. My faith in their patri otism and loyalty refuses to permit me to entertain for one moment any doubt of the willingness of our citi ens to rise to this emergency if the matter is properly presented to them. However, it is no small task to sell $27,000,000 worth of government bonds, and if the States proportion is to be taken care of. every citizen must do his part. It is neither' right to expect nor safe to permit the few to bay all of these bonds. Urge Farmers to Buy. . "I thererore earnestly request you. as a member of the State Board of Agriculture, to bring this matter to the attention of the farmers of North Carolina, and use all your influence to the end that every one of them buy at least one Liberty bond. The percen tage of increase in the prices of the farmer's products as a result of this war is greater perhaps than that of any other class of our citizens. The average farmer is in better position to day than ever before to make a safe and profitable investment such as this. Is Patriotic Duty. "Moreover, it is the farmers' patri otic duty to buy a bond. I know of no better way by which he can serve hi.- country in this crisis. If we are to light this war to a successful finish these bonds must be sold. In the pros ecution of this war money is just as necessary as men and munitions. "The offer of these bonds gives the farmer a magnificent opportunity to take stock in his government. If he la wise he will be eager to grasp this opportunity, for by so doing he will help to insure for himself and his chil dren a continuation of government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Bond Buyer Receives Also. "Please do all in your power to bring these facts home to the farmers of North Carolina. Let them know that the bond buyer receives as well as gives. He not only comes to the aid of the government, but he also makes a good interest beiring investment. The bond he receives is the safest se curity In the world, because the prom ise to pay is backed by the faith and honor of the United States, the richest nation in the world. The government of the United States has never failed to pay its bonds when due, and never will fall. The great corporations and rich individuals, seeing the advantage of so good an Investment and respond ing to the patriotic impulse are invest ing billions in war bonds. "Will the farmers of North Carolina be less patriotic? Will they let this opportunity to serve and to save pass by unheeded? "I have called upon the farmers to observe Thrift Month, and I know of no better way for them to do so than by purchasing Libe-tv bonds. I want, therefore, again to urge you to co-operate heartily and effectively with the State Liberty Loan Committee to the end that every farmer that is able to do so buys at least one $50 Liberty bond. Yours very truly. "T. W. BICKETT. "Governor." Home Elected Fair President. The North Carolina Agricultural Society in annual sestvon elected Charles W. Home of Clayton, presi dent of the state fair '.o succeed R. O. Everett, of Durham, who declined to serve a second term. The society had a lengthy discission concerning general re-orgonization of the fair through converting it into a stock com pany with proper safeguards that wouM prevent any special exploita tion for other than the general public benefit. s use'more corn use morejtfh &e?n; use just enough w use syrups and serve the causf? of freedom ' h "OI I1MHV1 Ifiv North Carolina Day on December 14. North Carolina Day will be celebrat- e dthls year in the schools of the state nn Dftrpmber 14. the second Friday in Ithe month. More elaborate perhaps than any previous" year's celebrations will be the program this year. The exercises and speeches will be worked out with the purpose of making the day a fit ting olimax to the patriotic, thrift and conservation activities of the" past sev eral months. At every public school bouse in Ncrth Carolina the day will be observed on a bigger scope than ever before, according to ' forecasts from the-office of Superintendent Joy ner. ' Dr. Joyner and the state department of education are hard at work on the program. New things are to be in cluded, novel features are to be added and from the mountain? to the sea tbe day is going to be one especally set aside for the stimulation of thrift, con servation and patrotlsm. Assisting Dr. Joyner in the preparation of the pro gram are Dr. D. II. Hill, chairman of the State Council of Defense; Mr. R. D. W. Connor, secretary of the state Historical Commiss'on and Mr. Henry Pago, food administrator for North Carolina. More than ever, too, it will be a com mu'xi'y event. Since its first observ ance in the State, North Carolina Day has established itself in the hearts of school patrons and interest in the an nual celebration has grown with each passing year. As an institution this year, those directing the plans for NTnrth Carolina Day on December 14 are considering above -everything else the importance of making the day one for the dissemination of information about state and national movements. Llnney and Bickett to Speak. To prove that politics has no place in North Carolina's part in the conduct t v.o war with Germany. Governor T. W. Bickett and his recent Republi- can opponent m me euui""u'" omr.aftrn Hon. Frank Linney, will vuui O ' meet on the stump 1n Wilkes county this week. They win spean. " aeainst one another, but together for a solid front against Kalserism. Tf onvthincr will nrove that there is W.. 0 Democrats and Re- UU Ai&AAV n..Ki.ana whpn it fome sto the war, JJUUU1.U11U " " r ntfifPtt nn'd in a talk to the .sheriffs of the state, "this will demon strate it." Governor Bickett and Mr. Linney will speak to the mountain people who come from the hills and the coves of western North Carolina, where rumor has it, a great deal of misinformation has been strewn about-the war and the cause of It. Governor Bickett has already assertedr following a recent visit to the" hill country,' that the pa triotism of the mountain people of North Carolina is a hundred per cent pure. Not during the entire state campaign At A nAofnnF mefcett and Mr. Linney, the opposing candidates, meet In Joint discussion. or me uroi u v.. ..minoinn wMr led to the electi-ch of Governor Bickett over Mr. Linney, they will meet and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt -hat a united state stands ready to give its best for the cause. Liberty" Bond Day October 24. Governor Bickett issued a proclama tion proclaiming October 29 as Liberty bond day In North Carolina in line with the recent proclamation of Pres ident Wilson setting apart this day for the entire country. The day is to be a legal holiday. He earnestly requests all places and conditions of citizens to devote their energies on that day to the sale of liberty bonds, especially the mayors of all incorporated towns to perfect plans to make a thorough canvass of the communities in en effort to sell bonds of small denominations. The sheriffs of the state have un dertaken to canvass the rural pre sets and the governor urges tho mayors to see to it that the matter of sale of liberty bonds and their at tractiveness as investment is clearly set before all the people in all the towns of the state. Shortage of School Teachers. The statement was made at the de partment of education that there Is the greatest scarcity , of teachers for the schools throughout the state this session ever known. It Is estimated that as many as 100 teachers could be nlared within two hours if they were only aval'able. Some are offering fair j ' . ..... i salaries, but an too many are paying something like $45 or $50 per month and then charging the-teacher $20 or more for board. So many other and more profitable avenues of work ro opened up EVERY NOOK AND CORNER IN NORTH CAROLINA REPORT IN CREASING INTEREST. 300,000 CARDS DISTRIBUTED Indications Are That All. Will Be Sign and and More Needed in Many Counties. Raleigh. Reports being received by the Food Administration from every nook and corner of North Carolina in dicate that the extra week granted for preparation for the Food Pledge Campaign, Oct. 27th to Nov. 4th, is going to result in tens of thousands of additional signatures to"the food pledge cards. The extra time allowed by the postponement from the original dats was heartily welcomed by the 100 county food administrators who would not otherwise have had time to perfect the county organizations. A total or 300,000 pledge cards and kitchen instruction cards and more than 200,000 membership cards have been apportioned among the counties and already many county administra tors are calling for additional cards. It is not unlikely that, if the present supply should prove insufficient dur ing the campaign ,an additional order will be placed arid cards sent to those counties which can use them. The great idea of the campaign is to bring the individual households of the entire country into intimate rela tionship with the Food Administration and with the government not only is the active co-operation of every fam ily and every individual desired in the conservation of food to the end that more wheat, beef, pork, fats and sugar may be supplied to the armies and ci vilian population of dur Allies, but that in all things the whole people of the country may back the boys in the trenches and render every possible ser vice at home which may tend toward shortening the duration of the war and saving the blcod and lives of the. brave boys who are baring their breasts in defense of the rights of this country and of humanity. Record Wheat. Crop in Hertford. Hertford If any considerable num ber, of North Carolina wheat growers would follow the example of Mr. Tfhos. Nixon, a farmer located on It. F. D.. No. 3. near this place, there would be no question about a vastly increased wheat crop for North Carolina next "summer. Mr. Nixon planted five acres last year as an experiment. He har vested 201 bushels, or more than 40 bushels per acre. Mr. Nixon has had 50 bushels ground into 10 barrels of flour, the amount re quired by his family for one year. anl has distributed the remaining 15(1 bushels among the farmers in his com munity who desire to plant wheat this fall. ' At Elizabeth City, the First National Bank has purchased 1.000 bushela ot seed wheat for distribution among tho farmers of Pasquotank county, and at other eastern North Carolina points also a considerable quantity of seed wheat has -been broughtin and. a very considerable acreage of wheat is beln? planted In northeastern North Caro lina this year. Our people are advised that the stiff clayey ' land of this section is well adapted to wheat, although our farm era are warned against planting it rn light sandy soil. Carload of Tobacco Tags. Reidsville. The firsf carload of ex press ever forwarded from Reidsville was sent by the American Tobacco Company to Baltimore. It was a" ship ment of 45,000 tins used for stamping brands on tobacco plugs. They are be ing rushed to a stamping factory to have changes made in them by reason of the changes in the interna) reve nue taxes. The express charges on the car was $640. To Improve Robeson rtoads. Lumberton. Five roads in Robeson county leading out from Lumberton will at once be taken over by the state highway commission. The roads will be improved and maintained un der the supervision of M. E. Miller, mairtenance supervisor of the com mission. The roads are: Fayetteville, Whiteville, Elizabethtown. Raeford and Rockinsham. The work will be financed by the Robeson county auto tax fund, 70 per cent of which is to be spent in the county. Big Red Cross Society. Rocky Mount The Rocky Mount Red Cross chapter and its auxiliaries now have a membership of over one thousand. This shows the result of some wonderful work, as the chapter was chartered only four months agi. Over $1,200 had been exnended by the chapter and the auxiliaries in making supplies for the soldiers and sailors and a great quantity will be sent from here within the next month. The chap tet has also spent $250 in gifts to the drafted men as they have left for the cantonment X- huy H with thought 2- cook itVifh care 3 use less wheat 6meat 4-buy local foods $ serve juctenoiigh v 6 use what is left dortf waste it 1 tttnni.i mk TABULATION OF II. G. UNITS Shows Old Names and New Designa tion of Units at Camp Sevier New Organization. Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. For reference the following tabulation of the North Carolina units are given showing the old names and the new designation under the national army organization Sixtieth infantry brigade headquar ters, was headquarters" first infantry brigade North Carolina. One hundred and fifth was first battalion North Carolina engineers, and sanitary detachment and first battalion, less company A, first in- fantry. ' Company C, one hundred and thir teenth machine gun battalion, was machine gun company, first infantry. Fourth training battalion was sec ond battalion, first North Carolina in fantry. ' Fifth training battalion was third battalion, first North Carolina infan try. ' One hundred and nineteenth infan try wa-s second North Carolina infan try. One hundred and twentieth was third North Carolina infantry. One hundred, and fifth train head quarters and military police contains troops A and D, first seperate squad ron cavalry, as companies 1 and 2 respectively, M. P. One hundred and fifteenth machine gun battalion was rest of squadron (troops B end C machine gun troops). One hundred and thirteenth field artillery was first North Carolina field artillery. One hundred and fifth field signal battalion contains radio company, North Carolina sigi'.al corps and two other companies just organized. ' Durham Gets First County Prize. Raleigh. During the awarding of prizes at the state fair there was the keenest interest in the awards. In the county exhibit division, the first prize went to Durham county, which was installed under the super vision of H. V. Ulmstead. It is a fine "xhibit embracing 165 different prcd utcs, all agricultural. The second priez went to Swain county, the third to Caswell and the fourth to Ala mance. In the horticultural exhibit the dis play was more, than three times as large as ever before and the apples were especially fine. Tha Sparger or chards, Mount Airy, came in for the sweepstakes -prize.-j In the poultry division the prize for rh heat 10 birds went to B. H. Ken- !dal, Shelby; that fo rthe best pen of birds to George N. Cowan, Apex; the best display to Ray C. Brown, New York; the best display of water fowls .o Olselic farms, New York, also that for the largest exhibit. NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. Guilford county has sold $250,000 worth of courthoue bonds. Erlaner Cotton Mills Company at .Lexington, have subscribed $20,500 to the Second Liberty Loan: Children of the Maxton public school have 'purchased a liberty bond. This is the first public school to subscribe for a bond. 1 Spencer is soon to have a public playground. North Carolina's largest banking in stitution, the Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, subscribed for its own ac count a quarter of million in Liberty bonds, this subscription being in addi tion to the (individual subscription, evidences its belief that every bank should rally to the support of the gov ernment by uot only sellng bonds to its customers buf subscribing liber aly for itself as a patriotic duty. John Carpenter, a young man of Bes semer City, was a member of the crew of the American teamer Lewis Luck- , enback, reported in disp.rhes as sunk off the coast of France. j It is probable that an artillery range will be located neai Gastonia. The new Methodkt church at Bur lington was dedicated last Sunday. J. A. Robinson, widely identified as "Old Hurrygraph" and Durham's be loved newspaper man, has returr.ed from Hendersonvil'- and the - moun tainous country of '""stern North Car olina. He boosted the region and en joyed some of the allurements himself. He likewise assembled data for news paper and magazine stories. 7orth Carolina troops are making an excellent record in the Liberty bond campaign at Camp Sevier. PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL AN NOUNCES PLAN WHICH IS AP PROVED BY PRESIDENT. LESS WORK FOR LOCAL BOARD Complicated Machinery of the First Act Will Be Done Away With. Reg istrants to be Classed According to Liability. Washington. A sweeping change in the machinery of the selective draft, based on division of the 9,000,000 re maining registrants into five classes in order of their eligibility for mili tary service, was announced by Pro vost Marshal General Crowder. De tails of the plan, which have been ap proved by President Wilson, are not disclosed. It is calculated, however, to do away with virtually all the compli cated machinery of the first draft and to make the operations of the local boards hereafter little more than rub ber stamp proceedings. The plan was worked out at con ferences with local and district board officials and approved by the various state authorities. Its chief features are that every registered man will know his exact position and be able to arrange his affairs accordingly, and that no man deemed necessary in any important industry or needed at home to support his family will be called to . the colors unless the mili tary situation Is desperate. Crowders Statement. Provost Marshal General Crowder issued this statement: "With the completion of the draft of the first army of 687,000 men a new system will be Installed for the creation of succeeding armies, which will greatly lessen the labors of the local and district boards. So far has this been accomplished that it is be lieved that under the new system 80 per cent of the work will be eliminat ed while the forms to be used will not exceed 20 in number as compared with approximately 182 forms whicn the present system requires. "Along with the reduction of labor there will be provided a system which will classify each one of the nine mil lions of men who have not yet bein inducted into military service, and each man will have been given his place in the national scheme of de fense. "To do this It has been determined to obtain from each man complete information of a character which will definitely fix his economic worth as compared with his fellow registrant, and from the information thus ob tained, to place him in one ot five classes each to be called in turn aa the need arises. "The method of obtaining this in formation is through a 'questionable' series of questions calculated to pro duce the information required. This document will be mailed to every registrant not yet in service, on a day to be fixed, seven days being given to each registrant to complete and registetr the same. Assigned by Classes. "The local boards will then examine each questionaire and assign each reg istrant to one ot five classes. "These classes will be based upon every conceivable condition, from the family or occupational standpoint, that should properly be advanced Dy a man desiring to be excused from military duty. Class one will be the first called for physical examination and service, and when it Is exhausted, class two will follow, and thus each man registered will- ultimately take his place if needed. "Every opportunity for appeal from such classification by the local board has been retained and perfected, but proceedings have been greatly simpli fied. "The tedious work of the local boards has been practically eliminat ed by the production of a form to be known as No. 1000, which will be the foundation stone of the new system Through its use all the laborious work of. making and posting lists has been eliminated. All of the old docket sheets and records will be made un necessary and by the arrangement of Its columns the work of the local board will be reduced to a minimum "On this new form the complete history of each man's case will ap pear at a glance, beginning with his order number and ending with his Induction into a military camp, while at the close of each day's work the local board is enabled to complete in a few minutes with a rubber stamp what has hitherto taken hours to complete. The system is such that it will present each cae almost auto matically to the local board. "The completion of the new sys tem will solve problems which have confronted the pro'-ost marshal gen eral and caused him much conqv "One of the mos' serious has been keepin together V organization of the local an(i?ict boards which from a numerical view point is of the strength of an army division; many of these officials have been clamoring for relief on . jcount of the drain on their time, and the new system will make it easily pos sible for "them to continue their duties for which they have proven them elves eminently fitted. Philadelphia, Pa. "One year ago I was very sick and I suffered with pain in my side and bacr until I nearly went crazy. I went to diff erentdoctors and they all said I had female trouble and would not get any relief until I would be operated on. - I had suffered for four years before una time, but I kept get ting worse the mors medicine I took. Every month since I was a young girl I had suffered with cramps in my sides at periods and was never regular. I saw your advertise ment in the newspaper and the picture of a woman who had been saved from an operation and this picture was im pressed on my mind. The doctor had given me only two more days to make up my mind so I sent my husband to the drug store at once for a bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and believe me, I soon noticed a change and when I had finished the third bottle I was cured and never felt better. I grant you the privilege to publish my letter and am only too glad to let other women knowot my cure." Mrs. THOS-McGON-1GAL, 8432 Hartville Street, Phila., Pa. for Lameness Keep a bottle of Yager's Liniment in your stable for spavin, curb, splint or any enlargement, for shoulder dip or sweeny, wounds, galls, scratches, collar or shoe boils, sprains and any lameness. It absorbs swellings and en largements, and dispels pain and 6tiffness very quickly. 35c Per Bottle At All Dealers Each bottle con tains more than the usual 50c bottle of liniment. 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