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: v T ' .' V V R HI VOL XXIX. BOONE WATAUGA COUNTY, N. C, THURSDAY , JUNE 13, 1918. NO. 37. V J A " ' A. . J A. .A. A. . Av A. . iff I ill 4 A A. A.' . . Ay A . A ' M ( aiirarinririmT usk! oa mm inn. It is now certain that men with in the draft age will not be per mitted to engage in nonessen tial work and retain their civil ian status. Uuder the plan as ' outlined by. General Crowder, men who have been deferred and are engaged in unessential labor such as runuing elevators, wait ers in hotels and other kinds of work described in General Crow der's statement, which was pub lished in all the newspapers, will be called into service by the lo cal boards, regardless of the class ; to which they have been assign ed, unless, such registrants pro core employment in essential la - bor in Buch essential enterprise. The local boards of the state will have a hard task before them in determining what men are so engaged ih non-essential work. If the spirit of the regulations is to Jbe effectively carried out, it becomes necssary that the local .boards have the full co-operation of all the business men in the state and all enterprises ra the state, whether essential or non essential. It is believed that the citizenship of this state, in view of the great labor needs, will give 'all the assistance that lies within their power to the local boards in locatiug these men. Each local board will be expect ed to check over'its list of regis trants in order that it may have a complete list available at all times of this unessential labor. All business men and industrial enterprises of every character whatsoever are called upon to render to thegovernmentagreat patriotic service by furnishing to their respective local boards a list of their employes who are within the draft age and who fall withiu the definition of those deemed by the provost marshal general to be deemed by the pro vost marshal general to be nou. esseutfal within the spirit of the regulations. These lists can be fui-niabed to the local boards wit in twenty-four hours, The lists should give the names of thn em ployer, name of registrant and character of employment. It would be a great thing for the State of North Carolina if the governor of the State could within one week's time report to the president the complete co-operation on the pHrt of every em ployer in North Carolina, and would l-stablish a precedent of service that would be gratifying to the war department. JOfLN L. LANSING. Maj Inf. U. S. R. Special Aide to the Governor. Crop Sitiatioi Abroad While Americans have been token up with their own efforts to increaso the supply of food for the world and are making a great headway in that direction, it will eucourage them to know that those to whom we have de voted our surplus are doing their utmost to help themselves. Par ticularly is this ti ue of the Unit eJ Kingdom, where agri ulture U being carried on atthe highest pitch ever attained. In England the acreage sown to winter wheat ii 56 per cent greater than two yaars ago, while the prospect for the crop is better than in many years. Other plantings are equ ally good in prospect.' Scotland returns a simiiar report, the spring sowing there exceeding f jrmer years, both in extent and condition. Weather conditions have been especially favorable for farm work of all kinds. Ire land is not reported on in detail, but the disturbances over there have had the singular effect of stimulating agricultural effort and more land is being tilled than Scvti Carloads if tenia Propacasda Intercepted. (By Charles H. Newell, Editor of tue Dallas Dispatch.) Seven carloads oi German pro- paganda destined for distribu tion in Mexico have been caught at San Antonio in the mail cen- lorship and burned iuce Feb. 1. More information of vital im portance in catching German spies in this and other countries has been caught in the same net unearthed in New York, for the Alamo city baa been and still is to some extent the great relay point in this country for spy messages. Establishment of the bureau in which mail to and from Mexi co has been censored since Feb. , was recommended by Post master George D. Armistead of San Antonio the first of lastSep- :ember. Artnistead is a former newspaper man, -as well posted as anyone along the border. about Mexican affairs. The censorship bureau is not administered by him, though its expense is charged to his office. Two hundred clerks work in the bureau, which is boused in a build ing all its own near the postofflce. More than 2o,000 pieces of mail are handled through the bureau daily, and it has branches in the border towns which handle mail 'or Mexico that originates in those towns or between San An tonio and the border. The enormous amount of Ger man propaganda caught in the San Antonio censorship net ac counts for the declining power of linn propagandists in Mexico to paralyze Mexican official cir cles. More than 38,000 names of disloyal persons and firms in this and other countries are on a nig list that is used in the cen sorship bureau. Many of those names were gathered as a direct result of the work of that bureau. Others came from similarcensor- ship bureaus elsewhere. Letter mail read there has re sulted in the governmen's learn ing the names of German and other enemy agents in this coun try as well as in Mexico, and ac counts for the effective way in which many ambitious plans of the kaiser ban miscarried. Two months ago telephone wires across the Uio Grande were cut in many border towns. This was done at the direction of one of the officials of the censorship bureau and did not meet with the approval of the army authorities Col. Durfee, chief of staff, had tel ephone communication across th" border restored as soon as he could. The wires were cut to avoid transmission of spy messages, but a more effective method of dealing with them than by cut ting telephone wires has been de vised and is working satisfBcto- Tbe Hun propaganda so far has been consisted of newspa per, book and magazine matter published in Spanish and Ger man. It came to San Antonia from Spain, Cuba and Argentina Try This For Sour Stomach. Eat slowlv. mast irate vour food thoroughly. Eat but littir meat i.ud none at all at sunpee. if you are still troubled with a sour stomach take one of Cham berlaiu'sT'ibtets before goinn to bed. Ady. was used last rear. Frahce will have a better wheat yield, ac-1 cording to the present outlook, ' although tbe sown acreage -is 8 till smaller because of the scar city of help. Italy has not nep.' lected planting, but suffers as does France, by reason of short age of farm labor. Omala Bee. .test tkiFimttf Tie Twelve. Durham Daily San. Who sajs June is not the fin est month of the whole twelve? No one, of course. Who is it that could say there was some thing butter than the balmy breeze that blows across hill aud dale, rustling the leaves, making the crystal waters a merrier and more musical sound as they dash and splash down the old mountain side of our Stat? In the mountains of this old State are many wonders of Moth er Nature, beauty spots where one can study Nature, the handi work of God. The fragrant per fume of the grand old forests seems to help one to know bow big God is. One can find peace surely one could find it peace and strength. What beautiful mornings! One can wish thwir neighbor a "good' morning'' aud be sure of their getting one. When a summer morning dawns the grass and leaves are dripping wet with the dewjof heaven; vapor is thick and one can barely see the bills, but as the rosy-fingered dawn draws back the curtain of night and the Sun God shines in, ma king the dew-drops sparkle like diamonds, so much so that one might fancy they were the stars of heaven which had been drop ped to deck Mother Earth's bos om. The mists that have riseu during the night slowly but sure ly clear away to the higher moun tains aud wrap them around in a farewell embrace, then, slowly disappear in the far-away blue. The sun still climbs higher and higher in the heavens, the birds sing, the crickets chirp, bees drone flying from flower to flower, gath ering the sweetest of honey; then the sun sinks nearer the moun tains on the western horizon and slowly drops behind the hills, seuding back ruys of light aud leaving tho clouds a burnished gold or like a bed of burning rose petals; night wraps the earth in twilight. For Luna pushes her way up the leafy screen of the mountain wall into the starry dome of heaven until her rays fall on the drifting mists that again raising from the river that winds like a silver chain through the "Happy Valley" below until the scene is supernatural: Forgot What He Needed. From the ltepublican, Mt Gil iad, Ohio. The editor bad an in terestiug experience Koine time ago, wbn a young gentleman came to this office ami asked for a copy of the Morrow County lie publican. He scrutinized it core fully when a cony was handed him, aud then said: 'Now Ik.iow.' "What is it you are looking lor," we enquired. "My wife hp ut in nfter a bottle uf C minbfrlainV Cough Itemed.?, and I forgot the name. I went to several stores and the clerks named everything in the line on the shelf except 'chamberlain's. I'll try again, and 1 11 never go home without Chamberlain's Cough Remedy." the Republican would suggest to the proprietors of stores that they post their clerks, and never let them substitute. Customer lose laith in stoees where substi tuting is permitted, to eap noth ing of tbe injustice, to makers o good goods and the disappoint ment oi customers. Adv. WHICH CAMPf America today ( ilvldad tat twa camps Amarrcans and Alias Unsay. Tiosa who art not for Amarica art ailnit sr tnamlai all. Thota who ara ldla, lalflah or ttra indtffsrsat ara AUena alian to American IntaraaL Oalr tha workara, "comrades la thia sraat aatarpriia." baar tho honorad nams Americans. Is Kit For Yobd Soldiers. VFroui the" appeals that are being made for soldier tobacco funds one is likely to get the idea that no man can tight until he has had his tobacco ration," re marked J. J. Hughes, of Clove- and. "It should be emphasized that tobacco is for the soldier who has acquired the habit before going over, to him a necessity, and General Pershing has recognized this fact and and ordered tobac co rations. There are young re cruits who never touched tobac co rations. There are young re cruits who uever touched tobac co in their lives, have no craving or it and, in fact, would find diff iculty iu forming the habit. . "Now teaching of tho tobacco habit is not part tf the military curriculum, but'if the use of to bacco grows no boy of draft age will think he can be a good sol dier unl il be gets a cigarette in his mouth.' Smoking is not a ne cessity to all men. . "I am not preaching against the tobacco habit for I use the weed myself, but I do not believe that it is a necessity for the effi ciency of the young men in my office, and 1 do not bolieveyoung men should be tempted to take up the habit just becausa they are going into the military ser vice. Washington Post. Mutinous German Prisoners. Deputy United States Marshal John Y. Jordan has taken to Fort Oglethorps seven mutinous Germans from tho Hut Springs internment camp, the Germans beiug taken to the military camp atjthe fort, where they will be placed under etrict guard. They had refused to allow their finger prints to bo taken and tounnwor questions in regard to their past histoiy, and it was deemed best to (move them to the mititury camy. Since the announcement that the Germans at Hot Springs were to be moved to other internment camps in brdor to allow the Hoi Springe camp to be turned into a hospital the Germans have shown signs of dissatisfaction in regard to the order, apparently liking the splendid mountain re sort in which they were quarter ed ami loath to leave. With a view to keep a better system of identification, iu case any of theGermansshould decide to escn)e, the officials decided to have nil the interned prwonei photographe I and their Kngei prints taken, making a complete record oi each man aud thus mi king it more easy to identify him in case of e.scap ). This work has been in progress- for some time, and was practi cally completed, but seven of the interned subjects of tha kaiser re fused to have their finger prints taken and otherwise mutinied n-gain-t the new rule. As a result the fficials decided to send them to the military camp to Fort 0 ilethoi p Asheville Citizen. For a Bad Cold. Take Chamberlain's Cough Rem tdy. It has stood the test of time and can be depended upon Sapolio doing its tor u.s.narine Join Now! APPLY AT ANY POST OFFICE' NMM MOMAira mm ca for SERVICE TbePrisidilt's WarSaviaisPriclaiatiei This war is one of Nations, not of armies, and all of our one hun dred million people must be eco nomically aud industrially ad justed to war conditions if this Nation is to play its full part in the cou flict. The problem before us is not primarily a financial problem, but rather a problem of increased production of war i seentials and the saving of the materials and the labor neces sary for the support and equip ment of our Array and Navy. Thoughtless expenditure of mon ey for non-essentials uses up the labor of men, the products of the farm, mines and factories, and overburdeus transportation, all of which must be used to the ut most and at their best for war purposes. The great results which we seek can be obtained only by the par ticipation of every member ot the Nation, young and old, in a Nat ional concerted Thrift movement. I therefore urge that our people every where pledge themselves as suggested by the Secretary of the Treasury to the practice of Thrift, to serve the Government to their utmost in increasing production in all fields necessary to the winning of the war, tocon serve food and fuel, aud useful materials of every kind, to de vote thoir labor only to the most necessary tasks, and to buy only those things which are essential to individual health arfd efficien y, and that the people as evi dence of their loyalty invest all that they can save in Lib erty Bouds and War Savings SlampH. The securities - wsued by the Treasury Department are so many of them within the reach of every one that tho door of op portunity in this matter is wide open to nil of us. To practice Thrift iu eace times is a virtue, inu bringH great benefit to the individual at all times. With the desperate need of the individual at all times. With the desperate need of the civilize! world today for materials and labor with which to end the war, the pract ice of individual Thrift is a pat riotic duty and a necessity. Apical to all who own either Liberty or War Savings Stamps to continue to practice economy and thrift, and appeal to all who lo not own Government 6ecuii ties to do likewise and purchase them to the ex ten tor their means. The man who buys Government seeii ritis transfers the purchasing power of his money to the Unite d States Government uujil after this war, and to that same de cree does not buy in competition with the Government. 1 earnestly appeal to every mnn woman and child to pledge them selves on or before the 28 th of June to save constantly and to buy as regularly as posssible the securities of the Government and to do tbis as far as possible through membership in War Sa vings societies, the twenty -eighth of June ends this special period of enlistment in the great volun teer army of production and sa ving here at home. May there be none nnenlisted on that day. (Signed) W00DK0W W1DS0N: work. Scouring lorps recruus. UNDER THIS EMBLEM JkmL' "f" WMf fjOQpgi tmWen fiS' MARINES PROFESSIONAL E. Glenn Salmons, Kesident Dentist. V b6one,n . ; . Office at ditcher Hotel. . OFFICE HOURS: . 9:00 to 13 a. iu; 1:00 to 4:00 p. m.' ED7UJND JONES hr LAWYER LENOIK, N. C,- Will Practice Regularly id the Courts ot Watauga. 6-1 n L. D. LOWIt Burner Elk, N. C. T. 1 OVK, Piueuli, N. C LOWE & LOVE lATTORNEYS-AT-LAW;! Practice in the'eourts of Averv and surrounding counties. Care ful attention given to all matters of a legal nature. 7-0-12. P. A. LINNEY, -ATTORNEY AT LAW, BOONE, n. c. Will'practiee in the couite o Watauga and adjoining coun ties. 3-11-1911. VETERINARY SURGERY. Wfonlitfneedof vet erinary surgery call on or write to G. H. Hayes Veterinary Svrgeon, Vi las, N. C. 6-15-16. 8. P. Lovlll. W.1B. Lovll Lovill & Lovill ' -Attorneys AtLaw -BOONE, N. C m Special attention given to all business entrusted to tneir care. , T.E. Bingham, Lawyer BOOXE, N.kC iPromptu Mention given to all matters of a legal nature Collections a specialty. OHJee with Solicitor F. A.JLio ny 9. ly. pd, OR, R, D, JENNINGS RESIDENT DENTIST Banners Elk,;N. C. At Hoono on first Monday of every month for 4 or fi ilnvs and every court wmk. Office vt tbe Ulackburri Hotel. John h. Brown Lawyer. ' LBOONE, ... n.c. Prompt attention given to all mattersjofa legal nature. Col lections a specialty. Office with Lovill JclLovill, done at this shop under a positive gu&rautee & a material used U ?:uaranteed to be genuine. Estimate! urnished on all mail orders. Satis (action guaranteed in every respect on all railroad watches. Office near the Watauga Co. Bank. .T.W.BRY-AN Giedcale .Tivelrcd Wate! irtk BOOUE,N,(J, . ..... 4t.iiiii.iii';iihiiii'i.4''i ii""" ' . . ..-'.'V: .4' ..Vlt.'- -.-I I
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