THE
NEWSHBBAUD.
ptblished by the Estate of T. G. Cobb.
The BMorganty SSSi Consolidated November 29, 1901.
SubscriDtion Price $1.50 per Year in Advance
VOL. XXXIV.
MORGANTON, N. C., OCTOBER 31, 1918.
NO. 22.
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prFIDENT ASKS NATION
RETAIN PARTY IN POWER
FLOOD CONDITIONS IN
THE MOUNTAIN REGION
-Chance Would Be Interpreted Toxaway Line Crippled; Slides
Abroad as Repudiation of My at Bryson City; High Water
Leadership" Republican j At Asheville.
Leaders Would Control, He
Says.
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Fvtsjdent Wilson rriaay issued an
to the people to return a Dem-
the November
, lections if they approve of his course
hi critical period.
ocrstic Congress
Reports from Asheville yesterday
said that heavy rains in the Hender
son vi lie and Lake Toxaway section
have raised the rivers and the Toxa-
jway division is out of commission
from Hendersonville to Toxaway.
Communication is also destroyed. The
French Broad was reported to be 18
Return of a Republican majority to ; feet high at Penrose, following a rain-
GERMANY HAS FORWARDED WAR WORK CAMPAIGN i MORGANTON BOY IN
ANOTHER NOTE TO U. S.
WILL NOT BE POSTPONED
THICK OF THE FIGHT
fall of over five inches in 24 hours.
At Asheville the river was about
i st fnnorrece tho Prp- -
,'lrt -aid. "would be certainly inter
preted on the other side of the water j seven feet Tuesday night and was
a a repudiation of my leadership." j not rising rapidly. Two years ago
The President said he would accept j the French Broad climbed 23 feet
the country's verdict without cavil, : above normal. Business establish
tut that if it was adverse the power merits along the water front kept
c administer the great trust assign-; watch on the river. The Han? lieer
ed c him would be seriously impaired. ! Tannery moved leather and much ma.
President's Statement. jchinery to the upper stories i.f its
The President's statement, which plant.
VK m-en out at the White House,! The Gloucester Lumber Company,
fciic-vvs: !a Rsman and the Carr Lumber Ccm-
lv Fellow Countrymen: The con- pany, of Pisgah Forest, lost practi-
gre??'on
.ain v in
I LUi i 1 1 I
ro ntrv has ever faced or is ever weeks. The work of 2,000 negro sol-
likely to
al elections are at hand. They cally all bridges on their logging
the most critical period our 'roads and are tired up for several
face in our time. If you diers engaged in cutting and shipping
l . & 1 J I- . J sttvH i -
ave approvea oi my leauersmp aim m j. isgau umun uummaij
:is stopped by the flood conditions.
Slides on the Murphy division of
ihe Southern, west of Bryson City,
caused the annullment of trains for a
time.
New Note Tells of Changes j United War Work Campaign to
Made Kaiser Stripped of; Be Carried On As Planned
Same Powers. j Week of Nov. 11-18.
Yesterday afternoon's dispatches j "The date of November 11-18 orig
?aid that another note from the Ger-jinally decided upon for the United
man government reached Washington j War Work Campaign will be adhered
yesterday. It supplements the last! to, inasmuch as country wide reports
brief communication, saying armis-( indicate that the 'flu" is waning."
lice terms were awaited, by reciting in This announcement was made by Mr.
detail governmental changes which p- H. King, director of the United
have taken place in Germany as eyi-iWar Work Campaign in the South
dence that the kaiser has been de-!eastern department, after he had con-
prived of all power of making war
and negotiating pea..
This time the Germans do not ad
dress President Wilson personally
but send the information to the Amer
ican government, apparently recogniz
ing that the stage of personal appeals
has passed with the transmission of
ferred with Dr. John R. Mott, direct
Has Low Opinion of Huns Hor
rible Tales Truer-Thinks War
Can't Last Long.
The following letters were received
this week from a young Morganton
officer and make mighty interesting
reading:
Somewhere in Belgium,
Sept. 5th, 1918.
Dear Sister:
Your letter was received a day -or
so ago, and I was mighty glad to hear
from you. There isn't much news to
or general of the United War Wo"rk i tel1 . you' 1 am hapPy as a lark and
Council. This decision was reached
after careful consideration, and con
sultation, and after a personal con
ference with President .Wilson, and
members of the War Department.
"The disadvantages of postponing
allies.
It reiterates that the actual powe
their armistice and peace plea to the i outweighed any apparent disadvan
tages which might come from such a
! delay," Dr. Mott stated.
and responsibility of government has Mr- KinS pointed out that altho
been transferred to the reichstag a;id health regulations might in some in-
describes the progress of the neces- stances perhaps prevent the holding of '
large mass meetings, the local lead
ers throughout the southeastern de-
5 i -t-N -X'- I i
CROPS WERE DAMAGED
BY HEAVY RAINFALL.
progress
cary constitutional changes.
The note probably will be forward
ed immediately to Paris, where the .partment may be depended upon to
supreme war council already'is report- j exercise their carefi, anC best judg
ed to have formulated terms upDn,ment and ingenuity in adopting
which the United States and the al-. plans to suit the changed conditions.
lies might permit a cessation of hos
tilities.
As word of the nv.
came, it was learned
German move
that President j
PEACE TALK GOES ON
AND ALLIES PUSH ON.
Wilson was .working on a reply to the 'In AH Battle Zones Are Continu-
having the best time in the world.
We are out of the front line, and I'm
pretty glad to be out. We do enough
work to make us eat and sleep hear
tily, and that's about all. We just
came out yesterday, and the boys are
and cleaning up in general. Tomor
row we start on a journey. I expect
that it is possible that we will have
an opportunity to take part in a big
show before long. I hope they push
them back to the Rhine this year. I
kind of feel sorry for the poor Ger
mans, they are getting their wind up.
Our outfit took part in a little show
the other day and they did themselves
proud. They aren't scared of any
thing on the tap side of the earth.
What we did took about two lines in
the Official Communique, but if you
had happened to be in it would take
a book. I was at the dressing station
Streams Were Greatly Swollen
and Many Smaller Bridges
Destroyed.
Almost continuous rainfall for six
days has caused all streams of the
county to be greatly swollen and
much bottom land to be flooded. Many j
farmers have sustained great loss to
crops in the field. While at no time
the river has anything like approached
the volume of the July flood of 1916
the steadiness of the rainfall has
nsprl much unpaciness. At no time
have the river bridges been threaten- SHE
ed. Thev highest the water came wasj
Jast note from Vienna in which tne j
Austrian government accepted allj
principles and conditions of the pre:-'
ident and asked for an armistice
INFLUENZA SITUATION
HAS GREATLY IMPROVED
New Cases Have Developed Dur
ing Week But Mostly in Fam
ilies Where Disease Has Been
Grace Hospital Used As
Emergency Hospital.
Those who are in a position to
know think that the influenza situa
tion in Morganton has greatly im
proved during the past week Red
Cross workers have made a house to
house canvas since Monday and,
though the reports are not yet all in,
from those which are in there is suf
ficient reason to believe that condi
tions are all the time improving. The
lists show a -comparatively small
number of new cases and. the major
ity of the reports are that the pa
tients are convalescent. Since Mon
day probably not more than three new
families have contracted the disease
and it is -thought that twenty-five
wouia cover tne number oi new
cases in the town. The number of,
cases in the country is said to be in
creasing. It is the general opinion that the
epidemic here is in a comparatively
mild form. The number of deaths as
compared to that of iner towns has
Been very small.
Through the generosity of the board
of directors Grace Hospital was of
fered as an emergency hospital and
many of the victims are receiving
treatment there. The hospital is be
ing used almost exclusively for the
treatment of influenza patients.
But for the fact that the epidemic
has been, of a less dangerous nature
when they brought our wounded in.
ing Without Mercy to Drive and everyone of them said the same
Fee Before Them in France thing, it was, "D Blighty, give me
German Line is Slowly Dis-! r- ci&a?:ette and tie this place so I can here the situation might have been
reace proposals ! integrating. I1'" UdC dALer Iur DVKUV' 11 wasivery desperate, since the town is
T, tj .1 . .-t . 1 " their first real fight and they take tojehort of Hnftors anH nnrw? nr
It was thought that the ren.y, WhiT oh Ge-manv and 4ntri vi . rm, w snori OI aoctors ana nurses. Dr.
ia u Z a v.r w . . ;. ue. many, ana Austria )lt hke veterans. They are "Fighting phifer was stricken with the disease
would probably be made public before are seekine- to ?ecurP a rp??atinn of e r t v j d m.- t. rillXKr Wdl str.Ken wmi me uiteas.e
. . . J A , : F . . ft'e fceemnt, 10 secure a cessation oi,sons 0f Guns." I heard a British of-Hact Wpp1c ?nH wViil not 5rion!lv ill
mght, and was expected to ,niorm he hostilities and Turkey also is reported flcer say that our spirit WSLS the ,ame 31 ke'pt t His SlTSS oi the
authonhes at Venna hat on the .,a-t0 be favorably disposed toward ,3 their Anzacs and Canadians. V.iSlOtht
sis of apfpntanre of all conditions. in-'-,ron tt,a a n: j x n .. .. . . . . . wuik. vuiy tinee uuctuib die ldt in
r ' . , 7' '-a "1C nucule aiiicu nuupa xju an; want to get m the tight and have it
eluding actual independence and no. the battle fronts are giving no heed;over wjth. The English spirit is dif
mere autonomy for subject national- ;to peace proposals, but are continuing ' erent. I don't know what it is, but
ities, their request has been referred without mercy to drive their foes be- this officer said it was. Nevertheless,
10 ine governraenis wnn wnicn ine ore them.
United States is associated.
the county to combat the epidemic
Dr. Riddle, Dr. Anderson and Dr.
Warlick.
vi;h me to continue to be your unem
w.rpn-1 abroad I earnestly be-that bridge, and it was possibly never with- Miss Bessie Roper Was Victim ern Italy the Austro-Hungarians are;
will exnress vourselves unmis- in ieei tn luc
There is sreneral relief that the
,they are fine soldiers, as are all of thelcriT.pad nf ti d?CpQCo hoon com.
And in all the battle zones the allies aiHes. One of our boys got six Huns'ingiy checked.
. . -iv. "...6 m zne snow, one Demtr an omcer. 1 1 -
uirij ir iwniii trance, the berman battle line is gUess that his wife is wondering why i
SERVICE I OR OI HERS slowly disintegrating under the vio- he hasn't written home lately. The!
ence- of the allies offensive; in north-1 American got a fine pair of field glass-!
and a watch, but the latter won't
of Influenza, Contracted While beinS forced back by the British, :un.
NMissinw Volunt-r- at State French and Italians with heavy losses i Our band is playing outside, one of
University.
ou will exDress yourselves uiiniit- " " - w-
w cfft hxr rptnrnino- a However, some of the creeks ana
ar rvWitv to both the Sen- branches have, for the most part, ris-i j,- in men killed, wounded or made pris- the most melancholy tunes, but I'm
?e '-nd the House of Representative en above what they did in 1916. j oner; near the shores of the Mediter-jin the highest spirits. A rag time
Tam our servant and will accept your Hunting creek was at least two feet! Another Morganton girl has given ranean in Albania the Italians are jWOUld suit me better.' Most of the
Judgment without cavil but my pow- higher, and both bridges across it be- her life as a sacrifice for others. Miss driving the Austrians toward Monte-men are out in the hop fields, helping
e- to administer the great trust as- tween here and Hickory were de-j Bessie Roper, who was born and rear- negro frontier, while in Asiatic Tur-.the women pick hops. I believe they'd
d b the Constitution would stroyed. !ed here but was moie recently of key, both in Syria and Mesopotamia, ! pick all of them if the women would
Eigne me y Tllp rfcnrA cf rainfall keDt bv the i Asheville and Chapel Hill, died at ; the British are fast clearing the Turks ;ust talk to them. I haven't heard
r.p spnn is v lmi a rwi miuuiu yuui . - . . . . ..... ...
J r . t 1o.t i i. o utni.J hflnp Hill Tuesdav nicht. Oct. zz. a from their former strongholds
dement be adverse, and 1 must .weamer oureau at m ': mLP .uJJ a.. . .l
BROTHER OF MR. C. L.
DAVIS DIED IN PANAMA.
jfrom mother m nearly three weeks.
victim of influenza-pneumonia. Miss Although the Germans in France . I've got three of the liveliest little
Roper contracted the disease while and Flanders still are strenuously re-
47 . r i? i j nr,3 i 'nnrsine-- umversitv ctuaents. navmer i sistine- tne allien attemDts to 'DreaK
x w i- j. i. ,,r.- i-n rains reran. 2111U euucauav mui iiiiiK. o o. -
C1CX. 0 SCrupie OI lasie muav in ' - - 1 ,
1 . I'f IIIIIII Ml
.i.i u,,ca o TYicnxr' showed 18 inches to have fallen
rntusl dpnnd imon vour ver- tween Thursday night, when
be
the
erim times like these be allowed to
stand in the
plain truth.
, volunteered her
services
c.
, . credulous voters . on this side of the ginning of the epide
Way OI Sp g wrtnll imnncn rtn no .'.TIP inct mno woolr hofoTO Yi&r dpntVl.
at the be
She was ill
For
Asks Undivided Support.
on the other side. It is well under-' several years she had been doing spe
stood there as well as here that the cial nursing at Chapel Hill. When the
I have no thought of suggesting, R bHcm lieaders desire ao'so much ' epidemic began its ravages in the
raf amr n-litiQ I rmvv IS TlJiramOlint " . . - ..
that any political party is paramount
matters of patriotism. I feel too
n
to support the President as to control j University the felt it her duty to go
him. The peoples of the alliou coun- where she was most needed, thus mak-c-
Vi wViom wp nrp a.?r.i i:iied ino- thp snnrpme sacrifice like the sol-
made in this war by all our citizen?,; .. fj,mii:nr j A-r wlin fnr v.:s nnnfrv. ThrPP
of elections. ; of her patients at the University m-
keenly the sacrifices which have been
irrespective of party affiliations, to
harbor such an idea. I mean only
that the difficulties and delicacies of
our Dresent task are of a sort that
wath the significance
They would find it very difficulty to
believe that the voters of the United
firmary, whose recovery was at one
time in serious doubt, recovered, their
States had chosen - to support Ihoir; lives saved by her ministrations.
makes it imperatively necessary that by electing to the Congress
the nation should give its undivided
support to the government under a
Besides her widowed mother, Mrs.
Cora Roper, of Asheville, among other
immediate relatives she is survived by
?j i 11J 1 .trim
a majority comroneu uy utuac
ot-o not in fact, in svmnathv with the
unified leadership, and that a ReP"b" attitude and acti0n of the administva- I three sisters, Mrs. E. Clodfelter and
lican Congress would divide the lead-.. !Mr m Beniamin. of Asheville. and
blVllt '
r 1. '
Sm. , , , ... xi. 1 I need not tell you, my fellow coun
The leaders of the minority m theit,.vrnpnthat j am asking yoUr sup
present Congress have unquestionably . - eau. nr. tnr the
- JJUrCt lUi lAijr viTit . v -r
sflko of a nolitical oarty. but for the
they
teen pro-war, but th.y have been anti
administration. .At almost every
turn, since we entered the war
have so
icy an
my hands and put it under the control
of instrumentalities of their own
cho
Mrs. Sid Berry of Moranton, and two
brothers, James Roper, in service in
France, and Odis Roper, of Colum
bus, O. The remains were brought
sake of the nation itself, m order; to Morganton Wednesday night and
that its inward unity of purpose may ' interment made Thursday. Many
ught to take the choice of pol- be evident to an the world. In ordi-! handsome floral designs attested the
the conduct of the war out ot nary times j would not feel at liberty , love and esteem in which she was held.
to make such an appeal to you. Inj Miss Roepr was a member of the
ordinary times divided counsels can be i Methodist church, Asheville, and was
osing. This is no time either for endured without permanent ."hurt to'a good church workc
divided counsel or for divided leader
ship. Unity of command is as neces
sary now in civil action as it is upon
the country. But these are not oral-; Accompanying tne remains to mor
nary times. If in these critical days'ganton were Mrs. M. Benjamin,
... i :iU ii! t: t :n 1 nr :
it is vour wish to sustain me wilii misses lizzie ieviiie aim ivxaggie
tne field of battle. If the control of undivided minds, I beg that you will Pickfind and Mr. Bernard Lazarus.
House and Senate should be tak
en away from the party now in power,
a opposing majority could assume
their line, they are
steadily under the force
tacks.
South of Valenciennes, in -France,
Field Marshal Haig's forces, notwith
standing stiff opposition, have ad
vanced their line in the general opera
tions which as in view the capture
of Valenciennes and pressing on to
ward Mons and Meubruge in the gen
eral converging movement that is go
ing on between Belgium and the re
gion onrth of Verdun.
In connection with this general
movement, the Americans northwest
of Verdun have begun an operation
which possibly may have important
results. For the first time since the
Americans entered the war they have
opened fire against the back lines of
the enemy and heavily bombing Lon
gyon, som 15 miles distant from the
American first line positions. It is
over the territory through which the
.American guns are throwing their
shells that the Germans have been re
inforcing their lines eastward, and
should the blasting process prove ef
fective in Jblazing a trail along the
Meuse for a quick advance by the
Americans it is not improbable that a
German retreat from the region east
of St. Quentin northward toward Lux
emburg will be necessitated.
pups you ever saw. They certainly do
raise cain. Their names are Shrap-
giving away.nel, Whizbang and Dud, quite appro-
of the at-:priate for pups that were born and
bred under shell fire. With love to all.
Body Will Be Brought to Char
lotte Home For Burial.
Mr. C. L. Davis received a message
Monday announcing the death after a
short illness of his brother, Mr. Ed
gar Davis, in Colon, Panama.
Mr. Davis was in government work.
He left Camp Meade for Panama two
weeks ago. His relatives knew noth
ing of his illness until a telegram
came to the Charlotte lodge of Elks,
from the lodge at Colon saying that
Mr. Davis had died there. A card
was found in his pocket by which it
was learned that he was an Elk. The
Charlotte lodge was at once commun
icated with, asking what disposition
to' make of the body. The Colon
lodge was directed to send the body
to Charlotte. It will probably be a
week or ten days before it reaches
that city.
control of legislation and oblige all the
sav so in a way which it will not be
possible to misunderstand either here A Pneumonia Victim
at home or among our associates on
otnpr side of the sea. I submit
Oct. 3, 1918.
Dear Father:
It has been quite a while since I
wrote home. We have been having
a pretty busy time lately and have
been on the go. I went for three
days and nights without any sleep and
without much to eat. The result is
that I am completely run down. I
expect to be all right tomorrow. Our
division put on a mighty big show the
other day and I. had the time of my
life. I have been under barrages and
have been through them and every
thing else. I'm out of the line how
and I don't expect to get very close to
it again soon, at least a week or two.
Those Huns are the dirtiest, lowest
down set of swine that ever disgraced
the top side of this earth. We cap
tured one of their boiling down plants
where they make the grease from
their dead. I saw it myself. Anoth
er thing I saw was a man chained to
his machine gun. I didn't believe
those things till I saw them. I'm off
of Germans forever. We took a lot
of Huns into the "Chamber of Hor
rors" where they render lard out of j when men have to chain their soldiers
the dead and they could hardly be-;to their postS) it looks as if they were
lieve their own eyes. I'll bet it madei licked. Maybe I'm; too optimistic,
democrats out of them. I was in dug-ih, t h pIipvp tTiat tliP waf will Vp nrot-
Died of Influenza.
Miss Corrie Estelle Epley, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Epley, of
near Glen Alpine, died on October 19th
at Norristown, Pa., of influenza. MissJ
Epley was a trained nurse and con
tracted the disease while caring for
a patient. She is survived by her
parents and several brothers and sis
ters, one brother a soldier in France.
The remains were brought to the
old home and the funeral and burial
services, conducted by Rev. C. L.
Rodgers, were held at Mt. Olivette
church. '-"1
The death is another of the trage
dies of the influenza epidemic, anoth
er young life taken when it gave prom
ise of such rich usefulness in the ser
vice of others, and given while minis
tering to the afflicted
Mrs. Bolick Died in Hickory
. i 4-:n i- j 1, c : . . ...
Marshall S. Lowman. of Connellv Mrs. M. E. Poteet was called to mat fu ' jty well over by Thanksgiving.
Springs, died Sunday morning, death I Hickory, Thursday to tne oeasiae oi
where old Fritz had been cooking. I
... , l "' ' OUIllIti, uicu jJUiiuav iiiuiiuug, ucam i iiiv.nu j, . j - m
a-iun to be taken amidst contest and difficulties and my hopes to you. regulti from influenza-pneumonia. her daughter, Mrs. Nettie Bolick. The ate : one of their aneals and relished it.
' tLiUCtT10n- , WOODROW WILSON: :Re . b his.mother, Mrs. E.jdeath angel visited the. Bolick home But that was before I saw their holi
days Leaders Would Control Him. T , "L v lif,, TWsdsv thP little daughter.. mg dwn pots. I could have had a
! Lowman. and one brother. Funeral
! services were held Monday morning at
Last Saturday Mr. Jim York, a re- 11 o'clock and interment was made in
ihe return of a Republican major- T)rowned in Mill.
to either House of the Congress
was drowned in nis mm wuc
7rt v rUhe high waters of the South Fork "Millions for morale" is the true
the Pi"-s from under and effective slogan of the United
CwJl ? to elect a Republican. hig gon were the onjWar Work campaign as expressed at
jr: UT.UpTZi , ones in the mill at the time. The a recent meeting of workers in Ken-
me x-resiaent, out even n mey i 7 . --ana
eIiomV 'vouncer man managed to escape
-"0JiG iri y,. -ay imp0se upon some younger
tucky.
twiVo ThnTsdav. the little daughter.
tvtoW ,0 11 dvin Thursdav andlwagon load of souvenirs but I didn't
the mother Thursday night. Both! want hem. I've a skin that will still
were buried in the same grave Fri-:hold water and that is enough for me.
day afternoon at Bethel church. Sur-
With lots of love to all the family.
viving are her husband, Mr. D. B.
Bolick, and three children, her mother,
four sisters and three brothers..
Buy more War Savings - Stamps.
1 have never heard whether you
have ever gotten my allotment of
$50.00 per month or my Liberty bonds.
Please let me know. Please also send
READING MATTER; I think IH be
coming home soon, but I don't know.
The seven great organizations
amalgamating for the United War
Work drive are working splendidly
together and the Red Cross in many
communities is co-operating. Relig
ious, racial and sectional feeling ' is
being obliterated, as witness the in
stance in Tupelo, Miss., when a Cath
olic priest secured a contribution of
a dollar from a Chinaman for the ben
efit of the Jewish Welfare Board.
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