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SCOTLAND CMIlALOUPg! OIILY FOUBIH OF CROP ' 'V- - - V Fanners: Were Afraid of Trans portation Facilities, r HIND REST HOUSES FOR TROOPS III FRANCE GOLUMBUS OFFICERS CAPTURE 6STH STILL Bed Cross Has Established Com fortable Stations. Getting Ready For Tobacco Sea son in Columbus. Hudson Super-Six Touring Limousine "Gee! Tala Looks Like Home!" Ex claim a Soldier, Which Indi cate How Comfortable the Station Are. Young Man Arrested for Failure to Register Jane 5 Kew Flour Mill Establihed Near White vUle Volunteer ' Nurse. Growers Planted for Only About -. 25 Per Cent of NormalSeason . Be gins la Three Weeks Laurinburg News. WMe Season' BnlMe' Car Glimpses into the railroad rest sta tions for American troops in. France established by the American Red Cross and a reflection of some of the happi ness of- -the soldiers served in those stations are given in letters received from the Red Cross agents in France. "Gee, this looks almost like home," is the common expression of the travel wearied soldiers as they settle down and relax in some pretty rest station where they have obtained a hot show er bath, and a good meal after hours of journeying in crowded trains. These places seem more like home to the soldiers because they are waited upon by American girls. Here, they- often pause to write a letter home to , moth er or sweetheart as well as to enjoy milk, butter, jams and deserts "just like those mother use to make.". One of the most interesting letters comes to the Red Cross from Mrs. Bel mont Tiffany, a New York social lead er who has been engaged in the or ganization of these railway rest sta tions, which is distinct from the Red Cross work for civilian relief in France. "I started in a rest station at B- , which consists of an Infirmary of ten beds ,a canteen recreation room, res taurant and splendid hot shower baths and fumigating- plant," wrote Mrs, Tiffany.- "The men here were of the' signal corps, the Bell telephone men, laying American telephone wires through France. They were a splendid lot and, though they have dug post holes till their backs were lame, they always come to play the piano and sing and write their letters in - 'the evenings. Because they believe rightly that a rest station roust be homelike cheerful and restful ; the construction department built charm ing brick buildings with well plaster ed walls and ceilings and I was allow ed to decorate and furnish them as I thought best. "If the women at home and the men too could see how their boys appreci ate It all, how they love the cleanli ness and the colpr and the gaiety, how glad they are for every pretty thing you do for them, if you could see their poor tired faces relax when they settle down you would realize what this side of it means. War is such an ugly thing, such a dirty, sor did thing; at best there are so many hateful unaccustomed things our" men here have to do that at least we can give them warmth and cleanliness and color wherever we can . "Picture to yourself 50 dirty, tired men falling out of a cattle train where they have been, cooped up two or three days with a detachment of mules eat ing and sleeping with them. They have a couple of hours to wait so they take a hot shower with plenty of soap and towels given to them and. then have a good meal waited upon by such cheerful, kindly American girls, play the piano a bit, write a letter home and go. Those people who have given us the money to do this with would be so very glad, so very grateful if they only could see! About the letter writing, by the way, the lieutenant of the signal corps came to me and said, 'Mrs. Tiffany, I have a grudge against you. I have to censor all our mail and the men's let ters home have more than trebled since you opened the recreation room' I believe if I do nothing else in France T shall V.a .-1 J - iu ui mai; you see, I know what it means when I see my boys writing. "The whole rest station when fur nished is extremely efficient and most attractive. The infirmary is so fresh and clean with its white enamel paint and muslin curtains; the other rooms are as gay and bright and full of col or as paint and curtains and plants and flowers can make them. There are such good beds and mattresses In the dormitory, such warm flren nn cold days, such quantities of electric lights and tables for writing with un limited stationery, games, playing cards and newspapers and magazines of all kinds. "I.n the canteen Proper the girls in their blue and white uniforms look so nice and the food is so good. Tou can't think what it means to them. .. uiuucjr iney pay a nominal price; simply to keep them vui, Vi njiucniei reany four cents for a huge cup of coffee or cocoa and cor responding prices for everything else. I have arranged for an unlimited supply of the best fresh milk, butter J Bjrrupo, ana puaaings and des serts and I must say they are more than popular. One big fair boy at "B drank four cups of milk one after the other and I may tell you that three of our cups make a quart and when he was flnfatiAY a V. a . i i i i . . '"e uimigiy saia, I wisn mama cniiin hava . . t . ' occu me ao that,' and I wished- she could too. xne,.snower Datns are as popular as the canteen or the recreation room and there are always men in the dor- mnory ana m Doys in the nflrmarv Up td now It has seen a bowcnmtt... down' iwlth mumps, or pneumonia or grnppe, Dut never any wounded are coming. Dack, . ..' .'-.J h- : BOTHA'S LAND ACT. AdjnJnUrratlon Will ' Be ' Remembered Beeanae of Thin Effort. London, June 15. In the future his tory, of South Africa, the Both govern ment -may be longest remembered as The measure is the greatest experiment that. has ever been made in the admin istration of a mixed people. - .'The land act commission appointed "to review the division of lan dunder the act.'.between natives and whites, de cided that the whites .have bee ngiven an undue share. The native population of the country is about 3,500,000. The lands set apart for natives" under the act amounted to 40,000,0 acres out of 300.000,000. All the remainder was al lotted to a white population of less than 1,500.000. . . - . t As the object or tne act was ro pro vide for the development of the native peoples under suitable; conditions, the commission ..has decided that .the na tives must' have -a larger "share. , tl remains now for the South Afrl can parliament to confirm the decision after which various other reforms will be put . Into' effect, among them the creation of native councils .the" substi tution of a avstcm of paid agricultural labor for irregular'squatting. and the extension of. ti franchise anq or ea- ucatlon.' "' ,' ... '.v (Special Star Correspondence). Whiteville, June 15. Victor Sibbitt, a laborer at the Whiteville Lumber company's mill, was hauled up by Chief Baldwin yesterday before the local board of this county. Sibbitt is charged with having failed to regiscer Jun 5, and it is alleged that he 's well above the age of 21. The chair man of the local board has begun an investigation, and as soon as Sibbitt's age is determined he will be dealt with according to, the dictates of the law. Rural Policeman Morry Stanley yes terday captured his 65th still in Co lumbus county. Accompanied by Sher iff Amnions, Policeman Stanley went up to Fair Bluff, where it had been reported that a monkey rum still was in operation. After about 25 miles walking and several hours searching they came upon the still In the thick woods. iThe worm was not found, but the remainder of the still discovered was made of the costly copper, worth over 1 30. The moonshiner in posses sion was M. M. jBullard. He had in his employ his wife, a neighbor and his son to help him carry on his ex tensive business. The three men and the woman were put under a hundred dollar bond each for their appearance in court at an early date. It looks like tobacco season is draw ing near to see J. A. Wilson and H. G. Lea. the two tobacco men who have the warehouse here in charge, arrive In town. They have come early in or def that everything may be in full readiness for the opening of the mar ket on Tuesday, the 16th of July. 'Ad ditions have been made to both ware houses of wooden structure. With the newbrick warehouse now under con struction and the two old one- there should be no trouble in handling the tobacco that may be brought in. An up-to-date flour mill has been Installed at Watkins mill pond one mile from the court house, by Chess Wat kins. Mr. Watkins has also purchas ed a thresther; so the people of Colum bus will not be troubled this year by having to go over into South Carolina for these conveniences. Miss Fay Memory, who volunteered some weeks ago as a Red Cross nurse to go overseas with the Stuart Mc Guire unit, has been called to Camp Dick, N. J. Miss Memory has been located at Winston-Salem for the past year where she went directly after she was graduated from Memorial hospi tal in Richmond, Va. She is the sec ond of the Memory sisters to leave for the old country, as she has a sister, Mrs. Hud McMillan, who is a mission ary in China. Ensign Ralph Pridgen, formerly of Tabor, in this, county, arrived in town yesterday from Charleston, S. C. En sign Pridgen -volunteered as a second class seaman three months ago and was sent to Charleston. A week ago he received his commission as an en sign. He is the first Columbus boy to receive a commission in the navy since America's entrance into ' the war. The people of Whiteville learned with interest of the marriage of Sergt. E. G. Brown last week to Miss Bren- dall, of Advance N. C. Sergeant Brown was an attorney at Chadbourn in this county up to the time he went into the service. In March he left here with a small contingent of drafted men for Camp Jackson. Since then he has been promoted to sergeant, and sent to a northern camp. Stephen Smith left this morning for Charleston, S. C, where he reported for service in the naval reserve force. This is the third son of Mrs. C. J. Smith to leave' for service during the past month. Privates Albert Clemens and Coy Barefoot, both of Camp Jackson, are at home on a short furlough. R. Ellis Powell ,who Is in the em ploy of the News and Observer, of Ral eigh, is in town visiting his mother, Mrs. Lee Powell. - Dr. W. P. Windly, of. Belhaven, who was formerly a practicing physician here, is visiting friends in town. H. L. Lyon, Esq., and and J. B. Schul ken, Esq., have left for Jackson Spring where they will spend two weeks at the resort. PROPAGANDA NOT SUCCESS. a German Papea Scores Foreign A sent Work of the Government. New York, June 1. Germany's prop aganda abroad is scored in a political review published in the Berlin Tage blatt, which says: "Those who have some view of the situation have noticed with deep sur prise the astonishingly large number of persons who have been working abroad in the interest of Germany since the beginning of the war. It will be exceedingly interesting at some later date to learn some details regarding the number of these energetic workers sent abroad. "Wherj the war broke out the. con viction spread here' that Germany had done too little for the moral conquest of the world, that our means were In adequate and our methods too obso lete. Grasping the spirit of the time and the occasion, personages of every standing imbued by a spirit of -sacrifice immediately offered to remedy con ditions and every one who claimed to have relations with foreign ocuntries was sent out on a mission. , . "Adventurous plans were accepted with thanks and furthered and that propaganda was taken up which was to gain us the hearts of others and which most effectively spoiled every thing that was left to be spoiled." War Reduces Birth Rate. London, June 15. The. first three years of war reduced .by over two mil lion the number of . babies .who would have been born in Germany had peace prevailed, says a report of the British local government board. Some 40 per cent fewer German babies were born in 1916 than In 1913. The infant death rate, which rose to an abnormal height for a time after the outbreak of the war, appears to have gradually return ed to the pre-war rate. The food dif ficulties have not led to " an excessive number of babies dying, at least up to the end of 1916. In the towns r where the food shortage wis most acute, the dsAth rate tended to -fall. - By W. S. WISHART. C Laurinburg, June 15. The canta loupe season will be open about three weeks from now in .this section, and a conservative estimate, it is said puts the acreage at 25 per cent of a normal crop. The big planters. did -not like the appearance of shipping facilities at planting time and substituted other crops, so that the cantaloupe business is left almost entirely with the smaller panters. Good prices are expected to prevail and bring rich reward to those who had the nerve to take the risk. There has never been many watermel ons shipped from this immediate lo cality and shipments, if any at all, will be light this season. Mr. James B. Redfern, for the past year with the Seaboard here, has re signed his position and will leave on the 20th for Hartsville, S. C, where he has accepted a responsible position. Mr. Redfern will be succeeded by W. J. Cashvelle, who formerly resided here, holding the same .position to which he returns. It, is said that Mr. Cashwell was and is one of the most capable and popular men that the Sea board has ever had in Laurinburg. A. L. Helderman has closed his elec trical business in Rockingham and moved his supplies here, he having ac cepted the position of chief electrician with the Laurinburg Electric , Service company. Mr. Helderman expects to bring his family here in the near fu ture. "V At a called meeting of the town com missioners Thursday afternoon the salary of the superintendent of lights was increased from. $!0(f to: $120 per month, and the salary of the fire truck driver from $75 to $90. No other em ployees asked for. an. increase. Notwithstanding the warm weather the Gem theatre continues , to ,show "big" pictures, two of the blgest of the season being advertised for the coming week, "The Whip" on Tuesday, and "The Conqueror," featuring Wil liam Farnum, on Wednesday. Laurin burg has as good pictures as the .large cities. Ensign W. E. Clayton, who has been spending a few days here wth rela tives, will leave tomorrow. Mr. Clay ton is a son of the late W. E. Clayton, for several years a popular " engineer on the Seaboard. Mrs. George W. Neal, mother of for mer Judge Walter H. Neal. who was critically ill for several days", is very much improved and strong hopes for her early recovery are now entertain ed. Mrs. Neal is 85 years old, but still possesses all her mental faculties, and is of a bright and sunny disposition. The cold drink proposition is re ceiving attention and is causing many guesses. Coca-Cola seems to be a drink of the past, and while the habit may be hard for some to cut off per haps they will be as well off. It does not seem, so far, that ice cream is to be curtailed, which is a consolation to the little folks at least. One dealer stated yesterday that 90 per cent of his business was ice cream and that his milk bill for last week was about $75. Everybody seems to have all the milk they need at present, and-the question is what disposition would be made of the milk used for cream pur poses If that luxury should be discon tinued. - While coming down stairs in the State Bank building last night J. T. Bostick in some way lost his balance and fell several steps, suffering bad bruises. A defective step in the stair way is said to have been the cause. ALLIED SURGEONS ABE PERFORMING MARVELS Repairing; Crippled Men to Be Service able After Wounds Which Ordi narily Mean Death. ' French Front. May 30.. (Correspond ence of the Associated Press). Marvels are being performed by the surgeons attached to tbr various, entente, armies. By exercising their-skill they have re stored to the 'fighting strength of the allied nations each year since the be ginning of the war whole divisions; of men who in other wards would have died of their wounds or would .have been cripple'd for life. ' The recent'; gigantic battles, as the result of which more wounded men than ever before have received surgi cal treatment in a short space of time, have demonstrated the immense strides made not only -in surgery, but in the methods of removing the wounded from the battlefields and transporting them to hospitals'. . So effective is the co-operation, between surgeons and physi cians at the front, and those at the hos pitals in the rear that an immensely larger proportion of the wounded re cover than was the case at tho begin ning of the war. r r Men whoWeVlegs "or arms have been fractured by . shells now are restored to their Tegimnts 'in a 'minimum of time. This is due mostly to the fact that they J, receive , prompt , antiseptic treatment and surgical attention .which prevents blood poisoning and. the stif fening of articulation. ' Their -recovery is rapid in the hospitals behind the lines where they can 'be, treated under comfortable conditions far, from the nerve wracking sound of the guns. " Soldiers have been inspired with con fidence in the. army surgebns in. the great battles around Verdun and in the great German offensive whica began In March. . . ; Promptness in the treatment of wounded men has . been obtained by segregating' them in "classes according to the nature -of their : wounds. This was not generally, done at the begin ning of the war. The plan then In vogue was to erect large hospitals as near the fighting lines as possible, say ten pr ..twelve, miles from the front, and to send ail classes there for treat ment. r ',':''' ' , V ,; When-big battles occurred these hos pitals were overcrowded owing to the delay in operating there were many cases of gangrene, tetany and , other infections that resulted , fatally. The enemy did . not hesitate to bom bard, the hospitals either, with tht Ar tillery or from .airplanes.,; Sotnetifnes a tralnload of wounded men would arrive only to- find all toads occupied and S new model answers every requirement - I of the owner who drives and who on occasion i wishes to use it as a formal limousine. But more important than the exclusiveness of its body design :s its independence from the present scarcity of expert automobile repairmen. The best mechanics out of every important repair shop have' been enlisted to look after the motors of the army.. They are needed to keep the aeroplanes, motor trucks, automobiles and ambulanes in run ning order. Those who are left don't know so much about automobiles. Every shop is at lower efficiency. Cars which call for constant service attention simply won't be as satisfactory as they have been. There will be no one to give them the needed attention. The car that satisfies this year must be so built that it will stand upon its own design- Its con struction as turned out by its builder must be final. It is not a time when the buyer can safely rely upon the mechanical organization of the local dealer, however efficient and willing he has been in the past. 50, 000 Super-Sixes Prove Their Reliability No one doubts the position of the Hudson Super Six. There are 50,000 in service. For two years it has far outsold any other fine car. Motorists-are familiar with the character and number of its records made in every field that calls for super-endurance. Those tests did reveal limits, though far beyond those of the average car. They enabled Hudson engineers to extend the endurance of this new series. The report from thousands of earlier cars, as made by private owners, also helped in showing what was necessary to make the Super-Six what we believe the present series to be the most enduring car in the world. W. D. MacMJLLAN, Jr. 108-114 North Second St., Wilmington, N. C. THE MOTOR COMPANY Winston-Salem, X. C. Distributors. IJ'.UhJP'' v ' 1 Li H as in I at - that they, must move on to another hospital. Most of this difficulty now has been overcome. When wounded men reach the first dressing station or field am bulance they are divided into catego ries. ' Those slightly wounded are rap idly dressed and sent to convalescent hospitals. Those crippled are sent to cripple depots. Men who have been gassed go to special hospitals and those most ; dangerously wounded are transferred to hospitals nearby to re main until they recover or die. Those sutfering from severe but not dangerous wounds receive prompt treatment in the advanced ambulances where operations are performed and wounds disinfected before the men are sent to permanent hospitals. By these divisions of the wounded in to classes, it Is asserted, that great rapidity oZ surgical , intervention is achieved , as each specialist deal only with, cases needing his kind of skill. Then the patient is removed to t.h hospital at a distance of not more tnan a journey, of ten or twelve hours, where he. receives attention from an other specialist - working in close co operation with his colleague in the ad vanced ambulance. . This system of segregation of woun ded and co-operation of doctors is said to have produced marvelous results. HUGE AUSTRIAN SEAPLANES. Italians Have Brought Down Three of the Monsters. . Headquarters Italian Army, May 30. Three of tne monster type Austrian hy droplanes recently have been brought down almost imact, and with their oc cupants are' now behind the Italian lines. They are called the K-211, K-3S3 and K-388. All of these K-type of ma chines are enormous structures with three motors of 400 horsepjwsr. carry ing three men and thousands of pounds of bombs. " The K-388 Twasthe last to be capi tured after it had made an early morn ing flight of observation near Venice. Crossing the Plave lines just - back of Venice, the big car scattered bombs on the camps and sprayed its machine gun on the men below. .But' a fortunate shot from an" anti-aircraft gun put a hole through the motor of the machine. It immediately-struck out to sea, but In its -wounded condition it struck the water with a crash, and capsized. In the obscurity the wreck floated for some time without being located, but the cries for help from the drown ing aviators at last brought a rescue party from the Italian lines. , All of the operators were wounded, two of them seriously. t The big machine was tow ed in to the naval base where it Joined the - growing collection of trophies of war. - v. ; ; --".., - ..T" .1'.. Save -Coal.-.London, June 15.An order has been Issued v requiring an street railway ;companies in Great, Britain to reduce their coal consumption by 15 per cent as compared with1 that last year. Sev eral street. railways,, Including those of Liverpool and Manchester,, have decid ed to adopt the American precedent of running "skip-stop' cars, which omit about halX of v the oustomajry stops. v Canning: Will Be Tanjcat. More than 1,000 persons will teach latest canning methods in the south this summer. "A . tremendous canning campaign is to be started in all the 15 southern states as soon as school is out," said Ml3s Agnes Helen Haris, home demon stration agent for the states relation service, -south, United 'States depart ment of agriculture. "There are now 1,060 home demon stration agents in tha 15 southern states, 107 of whom are' colored. ' This number is daily increasing and millions of women- are coming under their in struction. By June 1 we hope to have either as a paid worker or as a volun teer every home economics teacher and every home economics graduate, who is available to assist the home demon stration agents. Community canneries are being es- tablished throughout the entire south, j Women are taught before the canning I season ho wto ca nand how to dry fruit i and vegetables. They are taught how SELF DEFENSE DEFEAT BACKACHE AND KIDNEY TROUBLE WITH ANURIC. Many people in this section, as else where, have suffered from rheumatism and kidney trouble and have found Anuric to be the most successful remedy to overcome these painful and danger ous ailments. suffered, but who are now well because xncy neeaea nature's warning signal in time to correct their trouble with that WOndarflll tiav diiuvwArv rt TW TlAnaia I called An-u-ric You should promptly ww mi do a will ui Lit a, some oi which are dizzy spells, backache, irregularity of the urine or the painful twinges of rheuma tism, sciatica or lumbago. To delay may make possible the dangerous forms ol kidney disease, such as stone in the bladder. To overcome these distressing condi tions you should take plenty of exercise ln-the open air, avoid a heavy meat diet, arinlc freely of water and at each-meal take Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets (double strength). You will, in a short time, find that you are one of the firm indorsers of Anuric, as are many of your neighbors. You can obtain a trial package of Anuric by sending. 10 cents to Dr. V. M. Pierce, Invalids Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y. Whttakers, N. 0. I stiffered from DacKacne, frequent, scant urine, rheu matic pains and a worn-out feeling, also had spells with my heart and swelling of feet and ankles. I learned of Doctor Pierce's Anuric and tued a sample pack- a full-size package. This relieved ma and I gained considerably ; it also re lieved me of headache from which I suf fered very much. I think Anuric fine for tne kidntrvs hn fhm i . - . nuvi itnctia jl ucicix Here you see the Super-Six Tovrtnz Umoxtwie in me either, as a smart Sedan which the woman owner eon drive or as a Enmtsxne in which th liveried chauffeur sits at the wheeL When used as a Smousine, a dividing glass sepa rates toe driver s compartment from the passengers. 9 to prepare fruits ana vegetables for canning, then in the canning season they can bring their materials to the canning center and do the work there. "The department of agriculture has sent to Baltimore a model equipment for canning and drying. It will be In stalled in the office of the gas com pany, end all summer canning and dry ing instruction will be given under the supervision of the urban home demon stration agents." Some fellows' idea of helping to win the rar is to sit down and hope that it won't last much longer. Solky's Suits $25 To most men all stars in the heavens look alike. But to the Astronomer almost every little star has a twinkle all its own. The' same with clothes. To many men all suits of Cheviot, or Serge, or unfinished yforsted are alike. They know nothing of tailoring, nor do they profess to know. ... ' - . .. ; , ' T . Solky 's suits at twenty-five dollars are so un usual in line, as1 to provide a surprise even for the most critical. In fact there's so much dif ference between suits in : our present selections and what most shops show at a popular price that you don't need to be an expert to tell the advant ages of one over the other Solky's Clothes are Kuppenheimer and Strouse - - . made. , Gents' Furnishings of Every Description. J. M." Solky & Comp'y 9 Badge ' of Courage. London, June 15. Men of the Brit ish mercantile marine who have been in torpedoed ships are to have a tangi ble' badge of courage awarded them by the government. It was announced in the house of commons that the new decoration will take the form of a tor pedo to be worn on the cuff of the left sleeve.' A bar will be added for the men who are torpedoed or mined a second time, and further bars for each subsequent occasion. Idealists will please step bark and make room for men of action. for Men N. Front St. I J - - -j - " ""V- wo WCiUk. UCj A
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