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THE MORNING 3TAR. WILMINGTON, H. CT SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1918. 1- pilll!li!!lilllllSlllillll''lllll!llllll!lllllllllllllllllini)llllinilllllllllllllllllll The A. D. BROWN ose Furnishing Stock Sacrificed by The C W. POLVOGT CO. A FTC AL1 The A. D. BROWN House Furnishing Stock . Sacrificed The C. W. POLVOGT CO. 'A -OF II t Purchased from Estate of A. D. Brown V Who Will Discontinue This Department and Devote the Space to Enlarge Their Dry Goods and Ready-to-Wear We Have Had a Busy Week With the Two Combined Stocks of $25000,00. We are Still Prepared to Offer Time Exceptional Bargains in House Furnishings. TERMS CASH: An Opportunity You Should Not Let Go By. Below Wfe Give a Partial List of the ';' . . Beach Property Owners Would Do Well to Invest During This Week. Departments. for a Lirnitedl Many Bars . r : f- ams. Il.s. Art Squares and Rugs at a Big Sacrifice. You could afford to lay aside until next season at these prices. 30e ....45e Crex Rugs with green, blue, brown or red borders sold below mar ket value. 1 " 27x54 Strav Matting Rugs; Sacrifice price .. 26x34 Straw Matting Rugs; Sacrifice price ... Sxl2 Crex Rugs; priced special . SxlO Crex Rugs; priced special . 5x9 Crex Rugs; priced special .. 54x20 inches; priced special .'6x72 inches; pricer special ...... 15x36 inches; priced special . .$8.75 .90.00 , . 94.75 93;0O .$1-13 . v.35e Wool and Fiber Rugs suitable for Living and Bed Rooms, in a va riety of patterns. 9x12; Priced, for special sale rxl0; Priced for special sale Gx9; Priced for special sale .;.. 9 Congoleums for bath and kitchen floors, light nd dark patterns; iwq jaras wiae, and priced for sale at. per yard OSc ? 11. SO .99.00 . . .96.25 Lace Curtains and Nets - Never before in tlie history of Wilmington has there been assem bled such an assortment of Lace Curtains. Scrim Curtains and Nets as we are showing at our Sacrifice Sale. SPECIAL 100 pairs of Colored Bordered Scrim, ready-made cur tains, suitable for bed rooms and cottages, worth $1.00 a pair priced special for sacrifice sale, a pair 59c Erown's $2.50 Lace Curtains in white, cream and ecru color; priced special .92.00 Brown's $2.00 Lace Curtains in white, cream and ecrue color; priced special . , 91.65 The assortment represents nearly $2000.00 worth of Curtains from $1.00 to $8.00 a pair; every pair has a sacrifice price. 75c Sunfast Draperies in all shades. 36-in. wide; special sale, per yard KSc Cretones Stock that would do credit to a New York store, will be found on our shelves. 75c French and Linen Cretones, 36 Inches wide; prices special at, per yard .' ... ................. 60c 60o French and Fancy Cretones, 36 inches wide; priced special at, per yard .45c 50c Fancy Cretones for Bags or Draperies; priced special at, per yard 42c 35c Fancy Cretones and Ticking; priced at, per yard ............... .25c Can you use one odd pair of Lace Curtains? We have from Bbwrn's stock about seventy-five pairs of odd Lace Curtains in one pair lots; worth $1.50 to $6.00 a pair. We have' marked them one-half their value for this sale. . Furniture Tapestry Covering Never again will this opportunity be offered you to have your furniture re-covered as now. We have priced Brown's and our own stock at one-fourth to one-th)lrd off regular price. Blankets and Comforts A' few broken lots of these at Sacrifice prices, to close out during our Sacrifice Sale. Trunks and Bags and Suit Cases a complete stock and you will find the reduction from twenty to twenty-five per cent lower than the regular price. " te ill p This Sale Is a Money Saving Event. With the Advancing Prices and the Sacrifice Prices We are Making on Stock Purchased; 1 From the Estate of A. D. Brown Should Atttract Every House Keeper irr Wilmington and Surrounding Country. 1 MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED Brown's Stock House Furnishings Sacrificed - THE 9 -v-.' C w. POI VOGT COMP'Y Brown's Stock House Furnishings "Sacrificed illiiijiiiiiilillijllillliliM iu.ecii mm is OSS ORGANIZED Total of 386 ! Members Enrolled i . Friday Evening ited this section in a long time raged ' K. Bethune. A part of the property here throughout last night. Early in ! -sold belonged to Mr. A. T. McLean, the night rain and summer-time thun-' while the other was a part, of the es der and lightning accompanied the ! tate of the late S. A. Edmund. wind. Many of the telephone wires! Jewelry Businciia Chamr. I ! were pu out of commission and the! Mr. A. J. Holmes, of Dunn, has pur-1 j town was in larkness most . of the! chased the jewelry business of Mest..i night. No serious damage has been re- Bell & Jordan and will continue the (ported this morning. business.- Mr. Holmes formerly lived; j Two thousand of the 2.068 army reg- hre and has 'many friends who were I istrants in Robeson had filled out their j pleased at his decision to return to BRITISH DESTROY AND ER AIL HANDS LOST iirtl.iy ICiKh.! School Re-oens THMday Other Xews of I umtiprton. . Bt F. G RQVER BR ITT questionnaires last night. ' High School Difficulties. On. account of the cold weather and fuel shortage the date for the open ing of the LUmberton graded andhigh I r " " T JXZ - Bf.T,nni w t, fr-nr,, t5To,. Holman is giving splendid j of this week to Tuesday of next weeK. j.Tanuary 15. It looked at one time as jif.it would be impossible to secure! j teachers for the high school, thre j the teachers having offered l.iuauu... , XV. II. f Hoot, 0W0 tn rolrn 1,, The Racoon Foundered Wednes day Off Irish Coast Lumberton to live. Mr. Jno. S. Holman. manager of the Lorraine hotel, reports business good. ; and, judging from the remarks heara ! iivw inuoc; biui)jih ai me noiei, MX. i service. lTiviiiT.Tri ltn1lA. Tin -n KaVn Roonv. S. Srltt has returned from I ' .... ' rrra i ue i mri nas duiii in mvv and Xormnlly Carried a Crew ot 105 Men. Mr. W Rock Hill, S. C. where he spent some i time with Mrs. Britt. who is sick in the 1 ee of ' Fenne11 Infirmary at that place. Mrs. : Bsitt was taken sick while visiting ia ' r j relatives at Kershaw. S. C, and has5 j Taylor, principal of the hierh school,! ! 9 crrpfil to oome hac.lf fnr a whilp nmi Rural Policemen wton. Jan. 12. A Red Cross arran(rements have been made to sun-! At their regular monthlv meetine-. th V lir Jb members was organ-j ply the number of teachers needed in -:u iitie jasr evening. In spite of the radnr- storm a large number of people sathereii at thej court house andlper teited the organization. " The following oi'i.-ers were elected: Chairman, A. E. Wiite; vice-chairman, Mrs. R. D. Cald we!1 secretary,! Mrs. N. A. Thompson: the high ' school department and both the graded and high schools will open Tuesday morning, i , Farmers' Union 'Meriting. At a meeting of the Robeson division board of county commissioners em ployed the following as rural police men for Robeson: Lumberton district. A. H. Prevatt; Fairmont district, W. C. Britt; Rowland district, J. II. Carper; of the Farmers' union held here T7ed-! Red Springs district. W. A. Smith; Max- nesday the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, D. II. Britt. Sr.; vice-president, W. P. teisurer; fioodwin PTemitivft ! TiorVoT- csir(it!irv.trpasiir(r v fimvpT i Mrs. Chos. Stcrm. the last of those "ommitiee, Mrs.! A. H. McAllister, Mrs. "Witt; chaplain, W. K. Culbreth; door- hurt in the fatal automobile wreck at -. a. inoTiiPi-on, Mrs. E. L. Holloway,k j. (-,.awell. J. J. Goodwin. A. iPatt M. Jones and H. H. Stanley. -'loLean. Stephen Mclntyre, W. II. fumpjirey, J. a. Sharpe. Committees the various branches of the chapu-. j Members of the.ilnion made applica tion for around one nunarea tons oi ni trate of soda to be furnished by the government. Theiunion also made ap lnl1 1,(5 anbointed at once. V'C n!ep"in? was called by Mr. A. W. -'Lcan. temporary chairman, and it exner fhat Hon. J. W. Barley, of would be present to make an '"u ,u ac'unt of a late train. u"1 V'- Jr-t here. However, Mr. London, Jan. 1-. British destroyer Racoon struck rocks off Irish coast Wednesday and foundered, it is an nounced officially.. All those on board the Racoon when the. vessel sun were lost. Nine of the crew were left behind at the last port of call and those are the sole sur vivors. , Seventeen bodies have been picked up by patrol craft and five more bodies were washed ashore. The statement issued by the admir alty says: H. M. S. Racoon, Lieutenant George the and ot rtiinnntc tV,o ofrt evit f v - O ClOCK 111 Hie IllUllllUg Oil VVCUUCS Mrs. Colonel Hester, both of whom died I da durins a snow storm and subse- as a result of their injuries. i lIut?"uy i win" . Keiv Coiitngioon fnnen ton district, W. W. Smith; St. Paul's district, C. L. Beard. The policemen are paid 375 each the month. ritt; chaplain, w . k.. cuinretn; aoor-' "uu in me iaui auiumyune wtr:k ai' ; r; T T. . eeper. E. C. Watson: conductor, Sandy i Richardson Christmas day to leave fliei . H- M. &. Racoon, Lieutenant G atterson; executive committee. Dr. G.i hospital, went home Friday. Mrs. j Na-peler m command, struck on . Pate, N. A. Townsend, Spurgeon i Storm was the worst hurt of any of the c ? 0 "orth cost of Irlaj Only 13 cases of contagious diseases plication to the state department or were reported, to Dr. W. A. McPhauT "Nine of the crew had been left be hind at her last port of call and these are the sole survivors. Seventeen bod ies have, been picked up by patrol ;nr);!? r-iaf1'-- short addresses noso v.-ho rp'.ke besides Mr ere A. ! Mr. a-.-;-. T're i Among esides Mr. McLea.i ' H- A. Grantham, Rev. I. P. ' Rev a Chas. L. Greaves, Rev. e :- r. ,H h. I-Iayor Jas. D. Proc. T r, Johnson. Mr. R. D. Cald- ;; --i-.sr jwas most harmonious i -r I'-'C.-il chapter will react Rgnc-uiturc i-x l and are being buried at Rath- for Robeson. The board of county com- of December. Of tma number - to m bodj wasn. missioners made an appropriation for ! were t t?!, " 1 anfrP ,pT i ashore, and they are being buried this work, and no demonstrator has ; diphtheria, eight measles and one cere- tern in Laurinburg. Fifteen boxes will be put in. It is our pleasure this week to meet Mr. D. M. Tedder of Charlotte, who with Mrs; Tedder is spending some time here with their daughter, Mrs. R. E. L. Carrell. Mr. Tedder is an old time Seaboard engineer but has not run any for several years.- He is well past his. three score and ten and is very feeble. Minnie Harnett, whose name ap peared in The Star this week in con nection with the white slave case story, arrived here Monday night and stopped at a leading boarding house but disappeared next day as sudden-' ly as she came. From what we have seen and heard I of the hard freezing weather ofvthe past several ,weeks it does not seem to have injured to any great extent the winter turnips and collards. If in dications hold good, there will be plen ty of spring greens. Why Hasn't Town Free Delivery? The government census of 1910 gave Laurimburg about 100 more population than Lumberton. For the past four r five years Lumberton has had free mail delivery but Laurinburg has not reached that point yet. We can guess why, but not so as to be heard. A railroad official told your corre spondent yesterday that hundreds of dollars were paid out here monthly in demurrage, partly on account of labor shortage and then on consignees not having sufficient storage room, two good reasons. The Crystal cafe, Luke John, pro prietor, will open for business Wed nesday the 16th. On the opening day the proprietor will give to the SPRIXG HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE f ' ON COMPULSORY EDUCATION Over 3SO Hielt Schools 'ow in tTnlver iiity Debating Union, (Special Star Correspondence.) Chapel Hill, Jan. 12. More than ZTifr high schools over the state have r now enrolled in the high school debating union for 1916, declared Mr. E. IL Ran kin, secretary of the union. Hand books are being mailedout this week to all the member schools, giving a full treatment of the query for tne spring "Resolved, that congress should enact a law providing fo rthe compulsory arbitration of industrial disputes." This booklet contains 84 pages of helpful discussion, pro and con. Sta tistical tables, briefs on both sides of be held on next Tuesday. Special! ex aminations will be also . held for ! the officers' positions in the battalion. Reg ular drill has j gone on without inter ruption this week. After the examina tion period specialized training will ba provided in military engineering, mus ketry and firing on the range, bombing," bayonet righting, trench relief and at tacks, field . maneuvers and signalling," in addition tao the usual drill. Tha attendance i nthe military course haa kept up remarkably well, Capt. Allen thinks. The twelve hours a week of training will ;"e continued throughout the remainder of the year. Dr. Edwin Greenlaw has just return ed from Washington, where he met with the educational section of the Red Cross council.!! Dr. Greenlaw in on n j of the important committees. The Red tTiA niiMtinn. nndpp'iM niihllo Tofil ments and editorial comments are all t cfos.s educational work will make us given for the guidances .of the discus sion. The debating union for Alabama has ordered 2f)0 copies of the booklet to use with its high school debaters. The University News Letter is plan ning to issue several war-time specials ! VIOLENT ARTILLERY ACTIONS of the ideas of the Lafayette associa tion, announced some time ago, and special educational features will ba later announced. during the coming months. Some of the special numbers will be as follows: (1) Food and Fuel; (2) War Taxes; (3) The Army Y. M. C. A.; (4) The Red Cross; (5) Liberty Bonds and Savinfir Certificates; (G) American Democracy; (7) Our Allies a a special number each to France, England and Canada, (8) What women are ping to win tnc war.' Thex News Lett Was been mail ing out about TS.OOO copies weekly to readers thr6ughout the state and na tion. . Capt. J. Stuart Allen announced today Red j that the military examinations would l it" I 1 AS.. 11..' Mrs open - . m -1 ti 1- m i. r nj I LOnS. -Messrs. luwiciiu muiurrH. ahp uuua- I been furnished by the department'. Mr. L. E. Blanchard, former demonstrator, was drafted into jthe army some two months ago. j ' "Keep Well" Campaign. Dr. W. A. McPhaul. county health of ficer, and Dr. A. I J. Ellington, of the state, hoard of health, are meeting with pearance encouragement in their "keep well"! The condition of Mrs. J. C. Maxwell, campaign in the county. Quite a. num-'who recently underwent on operation The chapter will take ' ber of people are taking advantage of ;at tne ex nospitai, itaieign. is report- tV.o onnortnnitv to undergo the irca-eu as irajiiuniig. , uhvsical examination and no-doubt thei Mr. J. F. Flowers has returned from f L. C. Townsend is preparing ti u,,-, mm oi, t,. - iV The Racoon was built in 1910. She up business in .he store building. iQ! oft(! faat. Ulc, nTlH aa sir. She was armed with one 4-inch ing is being: remodeled and a new front put in. which will add much to its ap- ! and three 3-inch guns and two torpe- I do tubes. Her normal complement was 105 men. W-V t t-'' r ;i vi He, . Proctorville, Ma J fie ,;r "v'ni('-, Fo Wr.rV - ;ionar special a society; ca wher.;he underwentn P- Fen a. Deep , in LAURINBURG SLOWLY . GETTING OVER FREEZE " HO ili b.'t , stale. A- r.... Tell, has be"en doing splendid lii ji:f1fKe into the Red Cross ?-"'i hile ; Lumberton has beeu Oi-tfrrnizing a Red Cross chapter, of the county generally. Annual Bank Meetings Annual meetings of the stockholders and directors of! Lumberton's three siip "ne oreanizert last nisht (banks The National Bank of Lumber- 'he most active in the! ton, The First National Bank and the 'Planter's Bank &; Trust Co. have been -uteri :--;;on "of Mr. R. D. Cald- : held this week. The reports of tn i'i'r-o;;s vnto thonVo a ! o Mi fRpiai' showed that last year ia?3iHs of the na r.f. i operation for appendicitis at Johns ' Hopkins, hospital just after Christmas i Mr. Williamson Beasley. of Apex, has accepted a, position as salesman in" the Pope drug store. Miss Mamie Jones of Route 1, from Ground Installing Fire Box Sys temTown in Darkness.' thanks was j active officials showed that last year ational spe-! was the best in their history. Deposits vv ork they have done i in the banks have increased around 100 : . . . 1 . . . i l ifSTi v ind ma Tier r.eoT. auriim iuc ... people now have money in the' bank as . --v'jjion was periectca that a large crowd f or T. W.-Bickett here jf iMuary 19. This Is the ! '- annual meeting of 1 1 - ope. Confederate vet- ' !! " (i ( lutn.,1 4-V.nl. . 1. r ' -.jrKK lltdL &w 1, :A. "ln.R if,. By W. S. WISHART. Laurinburg, Jan. 12. This section is Lumberton. has accepted a position as'. slowly recovering from the recent stenographer in the office of the La- j freeze, but the indications are that it Fayette Mutual Life Insnrance Co. f ! will he soma time before thp'niumhers succeed- in restoring wa.tier - conven ience's, though they are at work night and day. 'It is said that in many places itj-rri-- Miss Ruth . James, o" Clinton, this state, has accepted a position in tho office of the county board of health.'; For several winters past a number that never had a bank account before, j of farmers have copiplained that their the ground was frozen a foot deep, and A creat deal of the money belongs to j pork , spoil on account or wm;r?w water pipes escaped bursting. Fuel . ' 'weather. However, no such "complaint seems to be sufficient to supply the de- Miss Mary Snead, who seven weeks From the. badly disfigured appear ago underwent an operation at thej'an'cesof; .a whiskey still' in one of. the Cumberland general hospital, Fayett-( large windows . of the McLaurin & ville, has returned to the home of e'r i Shaw Grocery company. It. Is plain 'to brother-in-law fnd sister, Mr, and Mrs. j ie'seen that somebody's playhouse has L. R. Varser. here. , - Sheen Invaded, and at leaet a part of , . j the equipment taken away. Neither Mr. N. Baxley. rf 71 4 Grace street. the still nor worm would hold Just Cross everything above actual ex penses. Laurinburg, it seems, is now to have an up-to-date cafe. Storm Put Out Lights. Laurinburg was visited last night by a severe wind and rain storm the wind at times almost reaching. the pro portions of a cyclone. There was a very little thunder but the lightning was fierce. The electric lights failed about S:30 and for several hours the tmwn wrs. in darkness. The ' wind is blowing a stiff gale this morning and J while late yesterday evening fires j u-prn hot necessary to comfort, this I morning the ground is frozen and ice is plentiful in exposed places. Not in many years have we seen so many robbins as we saw this morning from 7 to S o'clock and hundreds of these once numerous birds were fight ing their way through the wind go ing .in a westerly direction. We had no idea there were so many robblr.s in the state as we saw this morning. As It is now against the federal laws to kill these birds, perhaps their pro tection for the past year or so explains their numbers. : TAKE PLACE ON VERDUN FRONT Paris, Jan.! 12. Violent artillery fighting on the Verdun front is report- r M . .. ed by the war office; ; The . announce ment follows:! . ;'.' ,: ji! I'jj '-I. "The night wan marked by violent activity of the artillery in the s;co between Beaumont an fJeaonvaux (Verdun front). Southeast of Bezbn vaux, the ; Frenfelv made a raid lani brought back prisoners. L ; "Everywhere else the night waa calm. , ! . ' ' i ; I SAYS WILSON IS GREATEST HYPOCRITE IN ALL HISTORY Practically all the old officer were re-elected. " 4 ' Sale of Lot. '' A successful sale of business lots was Lumberton Wednesday Tf-aV; on thi nrosent w a T" I fnn d net ed in sobs tr , i''.?':eiieraljv will be am- when a number of choice lots were nu Kavor'p3 h!rn - ' on West Fourth street. Jpme of the men of thTl"r br,s asked"the business 1 property brought around ?65 a front '"iswJ , t0'' 'o rlosc their places of ! foot. Those who purchased the loth aarM J 10:3 a- m- till after the were Mesfs. H. B. Jennings. P. C. Crich- tnn. Jr. V. tiray. t . u. ueese To IT n 'R Darkness 'Qt&t wind storm that ha vis- Robesonian Publishing Co. , The sale was conducted by Mr. w. was summoned to St. Paul. yes-! plain water or anything else now, terdav afternoon to be M. the , bedside of his brother. Mr. IT. L- Baxley. v,-ho Is critically 111 and not expected to live. Fire Box System . Being Placed. A force of men is now engaged t in installing the Game well' fire alarm, sya- Petrograd, Friday, Jan. 11. The Bol shevik newspaper, Pravda, in comment ing on President Wilson's address .to congress, describes the president as the head of a rapacious American-Imperialism and as the greatest hypocrite history has ever known. German Subject ArreatedV Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 12. E O. Sig mond, said to be a German subject, is under, arrest here charged with being an enemy alien. Tie was arrested on information furnished from Santa Rosa county. 3igmond is said-to have been employed recently as a structural iron worker at Birmingham. Announcing First Carge Showing of Y jfctoanced Spring Millinery Satin and Jiratf Jfafs featuring All Colors and Black Prices $3.75 to 4 0. 00 mite Goods Sale Continues (lAetrpofst.-) Phone 2500 Til; I- I 'i i'-, :; ' ; , . m fii' - if ' t ' K ! - m ; i : h 1 - EH; u -t ,i ; III. .: , ' ' i . it I' . i ; - ; ' i : r. . I I , J 3 T i fir i v' i . ' i 4 i i: I - J"-.--v'