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''':! VOL. XXVIII. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY MAY 31, 1917. NO. 36. T "ft .'I .,5 '4 '.if 1 PERSHING TO LEAD TROOPS III FRANCE . . i i i ,' AMERICAN GENERAL WILL COM MAND EXPEDITION ACR08S . 4 WATER3. REGULARS TO GO AT ONCE Amcrloa'a Aniwer to France'a Appeal. Treepa Qo at Earliest Practicable Data Pershing to Precede Soldiers. Washington. President Wilson or raerad thai a dlvbfon tit QOmiBAIldAd hv M1 flan Tnhn I i v w. wwuh m rerahlng, be tent to Franco at the truest practicable date. This Is the answer nf Amnrlr. In France'! plea that the stars and Stripes be carried to the fighting front iwitnout delay to hearten the soldiers battling there with concrete evidence that a powerful Ally has come to their leupport Against German aggression. ! Announcement of the order follow led algninf of the selective draft war kmr bill by the President and the lleauanc of a statement that under the 'advice 'of military experts on both Idea of the water, . the President could not employ volunteers nor avail utmaeM of the "fine vigor and enthu elaam" of former President Roosevelt for the expedition. The army law provides for an ulti mata force of approximately 2,000,000 men to back up the first troops to go to the front When the bill had been signed, the President affixed his name to a proclamation celling upon all men Id the country between the agea of 21 and 30, inclusive, to register them elves for military service on June 5, aext, The proclamation sets in mo tion Immediately machinery that will enroll and sift 10,000,000 men and pave the way for the selection of the first 600,000 young, efficient soldiers with out crippling the industries or com merce of the nation or bringing hard blp to those at home. Orders For Guard. Even before the bill waa signed, the War Department announced that jthe full strength of the National Guard would be drafted Into the United States Army beginning July 15 and concluding August 6.- Orders to bring the regiments to full war strength im mediately accompanied the notifica tion sent to all governors. A mini mum of 229,000 fighting men will be brought to the colors under those or ders, supplementing the 293,000 regu lars who will be under arms by June M. Tha vlrainla. North rWnlfim South Carolina and Tennessee euardi will be mobilized July 25. It Is from these forces that the first mlea to loin General Pershing at line front will be drawn to be followed within a few months by recurrina waves from the selective draft armies, the first 600,000 of whom will be mob ilised September 1. COL. R008EVELT WON'T tE PERMITTED TO GO Washington. Colonel Roosevelt will Bot be permitted to raise his volunteer expedition to carry the American flag lagainst the Germans In France. On loignlng the war army bill, President k Wilson Issued a statement saying that, ting under expert advice from both lea of the water, he would be un ele te avail himself at the present tag of the war of the authorisation to organise volunteer divisions. There waa talk in army circles of tha posaUMHty that a way would be (Mod te use the former president's eervfoea In another way, but official comment on the subject waa lacking. Had Trouble Four or Fiv Years. ' Many people suffer from blad der trouble when they can be uicklv relieved W J Fury, 8. lem. Mo , write: ' I whs bother ed witb bladder trouble (our or Ave yearn, Iti pave roe a grot deal of paiu, I took different med icines, but nothiDg did me any good uotil I got Foley Kidney Pills." HOME RULE FOR IRELAND 13 PUT UP TO IRISHMEN I London. For the first time In mod ern htatory, the destinies of Ireland are to be placed In the hands of the Irishmen alone. The British prime mmlater, David Lloyd-George, an ounced to the House of Commons that tke government wlU can a eon vewttoa of Irishmen to frame a con stitution for Ireland, and If Irishmen Ve able to agree upon any scheme for 4b administration of their country, will attempt to enact R Into legislation. A Barkeeper's Opioioa tf Bill Sunday. Concord Times, From day to day the New York Worldlprints in a prominent place an article from various persons, many of them of considerable prominence on "What I Think of Billy Sunday." In its issue of Tuesday there is presented the opinion of a man who for more than 15 years has sold liquor o ver bars in New York, and who attended the Sunday Tabernacle expressly for the purpose of hear iug a temperance sermon. Be cause he is still in the liquor bus iness, bis name is not printed, but the World vouches for the fact he is sincere in what he says. The man signs himself "A Veter an Bar tender," and here is what he says: "I oughtn't knock ray own game, maybe, or try to give a black eye to the business that keeps me in food and clothes and a roof over my head, but, take it from me, there's an awful lot in what this fellow Billy Sunday says. I know! I have been back of the bar for a whole lotof years, and I've seen drinking men come and go, but I never saw one ot them leave the saloon a better man than he was when he came in it. "Bill's argument 'It don'tget you anything' is about the best I know. I wish I had a dollar for every young fellow I've seen star ting out to drink and winding up in trouble. The may have a good time with a couple of cocktails before dinner and a half dozen high-balls before turning in for the night, but they're not having any fun when they sneak up to the bar in l he bar in the morn ing and get an absinthe frappe to straighten them out and say to the barthder,'HojvdoIlo jk. Pharley? All right? Do'you think I can face the boss in the office?' "And they're not very gay when they ask the bartender as they 'often do to slip them a dollar to see them through the day. And many a one does that young fellows with good jobs and fine chances in life. "A man's a boob, a sucker, to get started in the drinkinggame, I don t know whether Billy Sun day's statistics are right or not about the increased prosperity of a town, and all that, when it's dry. But I do know from what I've seen with ray own eves that for the individual man the booze game is all wrong. It takes hit money away from him; it takes his job away from him; it takes his health away from him. Ma ny and many a time in the 1 a s t few years I've put on a black tie and followed some eood fellow's coffin to the grave yard. Maybe he wasn t a souse or a very hard drinker, but the old stuff got him through some disease or weaken ing that whiskey brought on. "There's Jnot a bar-tender in New York who has been on t b e job for a few years but what could tell you all sorts of stories about what happened to the good fellows, and through nothl ing else than booze. I gave up the stun myself long ago because I saw what it did to other peo ple. And. I think you'll find most bartenders and most saloon men, too-hither do not touch it or else go very light with it They're wise to what it does. Billy Sunday is right about booze. It would be a good thing for the country if the President or Congress would stop it, for the time of the war, anyhow. And I think if it was stopped that long, it would never come back : ' ' "I don't know how many men In New York Bill will get on the water wagon, but I kuow he has put a lot there already. The more the merrier. The end. of MARINE CORPS TO WITH PERSHING ALL THREE ARMS OF AMERICAN , FIGHTING FORCE3 TO THE I , rininu kins. ; APPROXIMATELY 40,000 MEN American Destroyers Already Combat Ing U-Boat Making Preparations For a Military Census. New Forces to be Called. Washington. AU three arms of America's fighting forces, the army, navy and marine corps, soon will be represented in the war cones. , WRh American destroyers already combating the U-boat menace in Eu ropean waters, and army regulars cor centratlng to carry tho flog to the bat tie lines in Belgium and France, i regiment of marines waa designated today to join the expeditionary fore and round out the nation's representa tion In the field. ,. The marines will be attached to the army division under General Pershnig, which le under orders tc proceed abroad as soon aa practicable Although details are not being made public, it was calculated that with the marine regiment, the total American force now designated for land service in Europe is close to 40,000. An army division at war strength comprises about 25,000 men, and upwards ot It 000 are expected to be in the nine volunteer regiments of engineers now being recruited. The forestry regl ment and the marine regiment each wilt number more than 1,000. The strength of the naval force In Euro pean waters has not been revealed. General Pershing and his staff will sail for Europe ahead of the troopa, aa there le much to be done on the other aide to pave the way for final training of the force and for the huge army the United States is preparing to pour across the seaa after it aa rapidly as men can be trained and equipped. For obvious reasons, no In formation as to the time of the Amerl' can commander's departure or his destination will be made public. In all parte of the country state officials redoubled their efforts at re cruttlng the National Guard to war strength. Authorization reached them almost simultaneously with the sign ing of the array bill. The war de partment unfolded new elements of its plans for the guard, disclosing the department In which each division will be trained. Geographical Distribution. A similar table of geographical dfn trlbutlon of divisions for the new se lectlve army also was given out. It follows closely the lines of the Na tional Guard division. Distribution of the country by states into the areas that will provide the sixteen divisions of the selective draft army, aa announced by the war department, include: Fifth division New Jersey, Dela ware, Maryland, Virginia, Eastern Department Sixth division Tennessee, North Carolina, South Sarollna. Southeast ern Department. Seventh dlvialonAGeorgla, Florida, Alabama.. Southeastern Department. Eighth dlvison West Virginia, Central Department Twelfth division Arkansas, Louis iana, Mississippi. Southeastern De partment RITISH SUFFER IN NAVAL BATTLE IN THE ADRIATIC Cruiser Damaged and Fourteen Drift ers Are 8unk. London. The British admiralty in. nounced that 14 drifters had been sunk 1n a raid by Austrian light cruisers In the Adriatic Sea and that the British light cruiser Dartmouth was tor pedoed in a subeeauent numMt with the Austrian warships, but reach ed port safely. The text of the statement reads: "The , admiralty announces that from reports received from the rear admiral commanding the Adriatic squadron, supplemented by the Ital ian official communication, It ap pears that early Tuesday morning aa Austrian force consisting ot light cruisers, subsequently reinforced by destroyers, raided the AUied drifter line and succeeded In einkln 14 nrit. tsh drifters from which, according to ue Austrian communications. ?x prisoners were taken.' the booze game is in sight any. how, with Prohibition and Local Option Laws being passed every. where, and, for my part, I'm go ing to duck out of the business qs soon as I get a chance." List Year's Forest Fires in Watauga Co. The reports on forest fires dur ing 1916 for the various town ships of Watauga county have recently been received and com piled by the State 1? oreater. Twenty correspondents replied from 10 township, no reported 17 fires which burned over 1,027 acres. It is estimated that 115,. 000 feet of merchantable timber were destroyed, valued at $545; that 500 acres of young growth were burned over, valued at $1, 040. Other products aud im provements destroyed by thena fires, such as cordwood, lumber, fences, barns, etc., amounted to $10,525. The total estimated Iocs reported from these fires was 112,315. It is estimated that $205 was spent in an effort to extinguish these tires. A study of the causes of these fires show that 7 were set by burning brush, 8 by hunters, 2 by lumbering camps, 8 were of unknown origin, and 2 not speci fied. The people of Watauga county cannot be indifferent to such Iocs es, esjjecially when those best in formed upon tho matter claim that most of these fires could have been prevented by propel measures. When it is realize. that one of the State's chief assets is her for. ests and thafi many of her prin cipal industries are dependent upon the products olthe forests. The jeopardizing not only of our present timber supply but also ol our future supplies becomes a very serious matter. The estab lishment of an effective system o' forest fire patrol by the Stat would do much toward elimina ting the waste, and, in view ol the fact that fires do not recog nize county or township lines, such a system should be undei State supervision. It is hoped that the people of Watauga coun ty will become aroused to thic situation and sec to it that theit Representatives in the next Leg islature are alive to the impor tance of this question. Get Rid Ol Your Rheumatism. Now is the time to get rid o your rheumatism. You will find Jhamberlain's Liniment a great help. The relief which it afford.' s alone worth many times itt- cosr. AIRCRAFT POLICY IS FORMALLY ANNOUNCED. Washington. Formal announce ment of the Government's policy as to all types of aircraft except Zeppelins was made by the Council of National Defense through Howard E. Coffin, member ot the council's advisory com mission and head of the aircraft pro duction board, recently created. The object aimed at for the first year, according to Mr. Coffin, Is the production of a minimum of 3,S00 training and battle aeroplanes; the education of from 5.000 to 6.000 avia tors and .the doubling or more of the producing capacity during the second year. Other plans Include the establish ment of nine aviation training fields, three of which already have been selaoted by the War Department and construction work on which will be gin at once. Each will provide for two aero squadrons ot 150 men each and have hangars and shop equip ment for 72 machines. It will cost approximately $1,000,000 to equip each field. Six American colleges are to give cadet courses by July 1. The first classes opened May 10 and Prof. Hiram Bingham, of Yale University, U assigned at the War Department In charge of this Instruction. CLASH BETWEEN FRENCH AND GERMAN FLOTILLAS. Paris. French torpedo-boats had encounter with a German flotilla. An official statement saya: "A patrol of tour French torpedo-boats about 1 o'clock in the morning encuntered a flotilla of German destroyers making toward port. After a brief engage ment, the enemy flotilla at full speed In the djveetlon of Its baso. Our four torpedo-boats returned. One of than tuff ired. some damag," DESTRUCTIVE FIRE VISITS ATLANTA THOUSANDS ARE MADE HOME LESS WHEN FLAMES 8WEEP RESIDENTIAL 8ECTION. SEVENTY FIVE BLOCKS BURN Estimates on Loss Vary Between Two and Three Million Dollars. Soldlen I Guard Stricken Section. Dynsmlti Won Fight Atlanta, Oa. Fire that swept through a large section of Atlanta from Decatur street north and north east cutting a clean swath of vary ing wldtha, finally was brought undoi control Just before it reached the At lanta baseball park. The city Is virtually under martial law admlnlHterod by hundreds of sol diers who have been training at Fort McPhorson or National Guardwnen In camp here acting under tho direction of Col. Charlea R. Noyes, U. S. A., who officially Is under the guidance of the Chief of Police. Thousands of homeless persons were being fed and housed in ths Auditorium Armory, the Negro Odd Fellows' hall and In hundreds of pri vate homes. The moat of them sa.vd only what they could carry, as house- noid goods piled in the streets In ad vance of the flames were devoured In the rush of the conflagration. For six hours dynamite waa resort ed to and It Anally won the fight. Fire fighting apparatus sent from other cltlee was of some aid and will be of more as acre after acre of smoldering ruins await water to make them safe Only one death has been reported Mrs. Hodges died ot shock after her home burned. Sixty injured persons were taken to hospitals, but It was re ported, none waa seriously hurt. Approximately 75 blocks were de vastated, but the aroa cannot be cor rectly estimated by blocks as after the fight at Ponce de Leon avenue the flamos skirled that thoroughfare on the south elde of the street for soma distance. Officials would not hazard a guess at the monetary loss. The destroyed buildings ranged all the way from shacks occupied by negroes to homes up to f 6,000 or $8,000. Some estimate were between $2,000,000 .or $3,000,000, but they . were neither from author! Uve sources nor baaed on calculations to give them weight. The blaze started In the Skinner Storage and Warehouse Plant' near Decatur street, Just east of Fort street, from a cause not determined. It quickly spread to tho small houses nearby which were dry from lack of rain and driven by a high wind, start ed to rapidly eat Its way north and northeastward. GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF THE COAL INDUSTRY Proposed to Congress By Federal Trade Commission. Washington Government regulation of the coal Industry, Including the fix Ing of prices, was proposed by the Federal Trade Commission in a reporti to Congress charging producers and brokers with exacting exorbitant prof its, and blaming the present coal shortage at consumption points on In adequate transportation facilities. "The price of bituminous coal, which Is a necessity, should be fixed," said the report, according to the fame general principle which has been es tablished In the conduct of public util ities. At a time like the present, ex ceeelve profits should not be permitted to be extorted from the public by pro ducers and distributors of any prime necessity of life." In line with the Trade Commission's statements concerning transportation, the supreme court handed down a de cision upholding the power of the In terstate Commerce Commission to compel railroads to furnish a reason ably adequate sitoply of coal ' cars to handle normal and seasonable de mands for interstate commerce origi nating at mines along their lines, and to award reparetkm to shippers for failure to supply cars. SHARP CONTE8T IN HOUSE OVER REVENUE BILL Washington. Two sharp contests during consideration of the war reve nue bltl In the house resulted in South ern members killing a proposed tax of $2.60 a bale on raw cotton, and rep resentatives from automobile manufac turing district limiting the five per cent levy on automobiles, motorcycles and their, tires to plants paying an nual profits above $5,000 and eight per cent on capital Invested. FOLEY KIDNEY PILLS tM IMKAQHI KIQJIYI AM IUO0U a Clear Away The Waste. Bowel regularity is the secret, of (rood health, hripht ovpb. Msnr complexions, and Dr. King's New Line nus are a miia and gentle, laxative that regulates the con gested intestines by removing the accumulated wastes without gripme. Take a pill before re tiring and that heavy head, that dull spring fever feeling disea pears. At your druggist, 25c. PROFESSIONAL. E. Glenn Salmons, Kesident Dentist. BOONE, N. C. Office at Critcher Hotel. OFFICE HOURS: 9:00 ton a. iu; 1:00 to 4:00 p. m, Dr. G. M. Pearler, Treats Diseases of tb Eye, Ear Nose and Throat BRISTOL. TENN., U5'141y, Dr. Nat. T. Dulancy -SPECIALIST- ti, xar; itobr, throat and oust BTKS BXAMINBD VOIlj OLAISBS FOURTH STREET Bristol, Tenn.-Va. EOTUJND JONE8 LAWYER LENOllt, N. ;,- Will Practice Regularly in the Courts ot Watvupa, L. d. rows kauner Elk, N. C. T. 1. LOVK, PtiMola, M, 0. LOWE & LOVE , " lATTORNElS-AT-LAYV. Fractice in the courts of Avery and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-6-12. F. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, S'BOONE, N. C. Willoractice in Jthe courts ol Watauga and adjoining coun ties. 8-1 -ISM. VETERINARY SURGERY. Wlwn in need of vet erinary surgery call, on or write to G. H. Hayes Veterinary Svrgeon, Vi las, N. C. 6-15-16. K F.:Lov111. W. R.IovU Lovill 8c Lovill -Attorneys At Law BOONE, N. C Special attention irivfn frt all; business entrusted to their care. . . T. E. Bingham, Lawyer BOONE, . ..... . . . " Prompt attention civen to ill marieis of a leual nature Collection a specialty. OrHcH with Solicitor F. A. LIo- ney O.ly. pd. DR. R, D. JENNINGS HEHIDENT4UENTIST ' BannehbJEi.k,N. C. tar At BoOne on first Monday of every month for 4 or 5 days and every court w-ek. Office t the Blackburn Hotel. fil8HDUGHTVRlNTl , .". v;l.,i;;V." "u-
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