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WMM WI. LOUI8BCBG, if. C.( FSIl'AY, AUGUST 31MT, 191J. ? . i" .' ? . NUMBER 29
OPENING SALE
NEXT WEDNESDAY
T i hKK WAREHOUSES FOB LOUIS
_ BURU THIS YEAR.
A Full Corps of Buyers will be on
. nd?Indications Point to High
Trlccs?Warehouses In Good Shape
f(i Opening Sale.
Liulsburg Tobacco Market will ob
serve its opening snle on next Wed
nesday, September 5th ana arrange
ments are being made at all three
warehouses for the accommodation
of large amounts of the weed. This
year Loulsburg will have three ware
hiuses to accommodate the tobacco
growers who Bell on this market and
a full corps of buyers, representing
all the largest concerns. The Amer
ican Tobacco Co. will be represented
by Mr. S. T. Wilder, the C. B. Chea
tham Co. by Maj. J. B. Thomas, the
Imperial by Mr. H. A. Carlton, ths
R. J. Reynolds Co. by Mr. R. G.
Vullandingham, the Export Co. by
Mr. R. C. Cassell. The J. P. Tay
lor Co. and Leggett-Meyers Co. will
also be represented. Our people al
ready know most of these buyers to b*
excellent judges of the weed and will
ing to pay fair prices and the new
cues come especially well recommen
ded as buyers of high standing in the
tobacco business. ,
The Planters Warehouse will be in
cbrtrge of Messrs. W. H. Allen and
t. jj. Ford. Mr. Allen is well known
by cur people as Franklin's rormer
sliri.1' and of good business judgment.
Mr. Fcrd is well known in the ware
house business having conducted a
warehouse here several years with
much success.
The Riverside Warehouse will be
conducted by ?>ij3srs. S. S. Meadows
and Jno. N. Harris, the pioneer ware
housmen of Louisburg and who for a
long number of years operated this
same warehouse. They, are both
D>?n of ripe experlnce and are well
known to the people of tills section.
They will be assisted by Messrs. G.
C. Harris and M. H. Epps, bookkeep
ers, B. H. Saunders, auctioneer and
J. E. Thomas, floor manager, which
composes a strong and efficient force.
The Farmers Union will be operat
ed as heretofore with Mr. W. H.
Jenkins manager, and a full corpse
of assistants to be announced later.
They have made a splendid showing
the past few years and the manage
ment promises better for the coming
season:-' Mr. Jenkins is an expert
warehouseman.
All who are connected with the
Loulsburg market this year are loud,
ic their declarations that tliey are de
termined to make this the best mar
ket In this part of the State this year
and will not rest until they have con
vinced the public. Try Loulsburg
market this season and give our ware
housemen a chance to get you the high
est price for your tobacco you have
ever had.
From all indication^ the prices on
all grades; especially the cheaper on
es. are higher than before in many
years.
Come to Loulsburg next Wednes
day.
II England Were Starved to Submis
sion America Would be Entirely
at Germany's Mercy.
If through our failure to build ships
rapidly enough to offset the terrific
destruction of the submarines, En
gland should be starved into submis
sion?
IP, through our failure to build with
the utmost possible speed steel and
wooden ships, regardless of the cost,
iuftead of frittering away priceless
time on petty details we should be
unable to feed and munition onr own
army In France?
Here are two vital lfs. Unfortu
nately, there are possibilities of evil
in them so great as to fairly stagger
the mind.
We know that submarines are des
troying the world's shipping at a rate
that 1b startling, endangering the abil
ity of England to feed its people. It
Bhould be remembered that England
1? compelled to Import nearly all of
Its foodstuffs. It has a population of
about 45,000,000 concentrated In a
limited area, given largely to Indus
trial operat'tins rather than to agri
culture. This Island cmpii'e Is being
t hreatened as never before In Its his
tory. "The destruction of shipping, if
it goes on apace as for the last few
months, will mean that the world will
be too bare of shipping to permit En
gland to import the foodstuffs and the
munitions absolutely needed for war.
Our Armies Isolated.
We may throw into France a large
army, but If the submarines destroy
ships faster than we are building them
we might find our army without food,
without munitions and absolutely
helpless, doomed to destruction. These
are not idle vaporlngs. They are the
facts, well known to Washington and
to all Allies, and likewise as well
known to Germany; and to the accom
pllfliment of this purpose Germany Is
bending every power of its existence.
If England, by reason of starvation
should be compelled to give up, It is
veil known that one of the indemni
ties demanded by Germany would be
the surrender ot the British and
French fleets and another would be
the surrender to Germany ot Canada,
stretching for ?,000 miles across our
northern border, and with an area
equal to that of the United States.
How do we kncpw that these wduld
be part of the indemnities required?
Washington Aware of It.
In the same way that we have
known for the last two and one-halt
years some of the forces that were
moving the world In this fearful con
flict. You need not expect the Inside
diplomatic sources in Washington to
admit these facts; nevertheless, they
aro facts, and their reality Is fully Ap
preciated In Washington as well as
elsewhere.
It might be said that before surren
dering its fleet England would sink
I'. In the ocean; but this she would not
dare to do, for the reprisal upon her
people would be so fearful that Bel
gium's destruction would seem as
c'llld's play as compared with the de
struction that would prevail through
cut England.
If Germany held in its power the
British and French fleets, all of our
naval building would be in vain, for
we would not have an hour's show
against such a combination.
A Powerless America.
If Germany has possessed Itself of
Canada It would Immediately have un
der its control the Soo Canal, through
vhtch pass the Lake ores that feed tli-j
furnaces and steel works of the Uni
ted States: and it.wmild be.but a few
dayr before it had under Its control
the entire ore supply of the Lake Su
perior district. It would then be Im
possible for us to fight. With 90 per
cent of the steel output of the United
States dependent upon these ores and
t.iis supply cut off, the vast Iron and
steel enterprises that stretch from the
Lake region to the Atlantic would In
stantly shut down and with these
plants Idle there would be no possibil
ity of making any fight against Ger
many, for we would be without war
making mAerlals, since it would take
years under the-best conditions to-de
velop Iron and steel making in other
sections to an extent sufficient to en
able us even to begin to light.
During the Liberty Loan campaign
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo in
a public speech stated that If the Ar
llc8 were defeated .Germany would
demand an Indemnity of at least one
half of our total wealth, or $120.000
000.000; and that, Instead of subscrib
ing for Liberty Lp&n bonds, we would
have to subscribe for indemnity
bonds.
Simple Statement of Facts.
We have presented a simple state
ment of fa:cts, known to the army and
navy officers, known to the govern
ment. They should be known to ev
ery man and woman in this country in
order to arouse us to the desperate
fight that Is before us. Wo shall con
quer, but it will be through much
bloodshed and at a terrlfflc cost of
money; but the latter counts not in
comparison with human lives that
must bo lost, and to a large extent lost
because of our failure during the'
last three years to understand the sit
uation and to prepare for It.
j We must now build ships with the
j utmost power of men and money. Ev
ery day's delay Is threatening, and
dangerously threatening our ability to
keep England from starving; and
should England starve, the world goes
down with a crash and we wlthlt.
But We Shall Win.
We shall win because our people,
f'ow to wake up, will sooner or la
ter throw into the building of ships the
full power of the nation's life.
We must build ships to take care of
the coastwise traffic and relieve 1 the
pressure upon the railroads, In oKler
that the railroads may handle the war
freight and the war travel which will
be thrown upon them. -
'We must build ships for the Pacific
coast trade, and also for the Lake
trade in order to provide ore to run
the furnaces now hampered by the
shortage of ore.
We must build ships suitable for all
oi these Interests, and at the same
t>me ships for the trans-Atlantic trade
?ships of wood and Bhlps of steel?
and build them with all speed i that
the utmost stretch of our power in
men and money can provide.
No time Is to be lost. Every 1 tour's
delay endangers our very exlsl ince.
Priceless time has already been
ti own away, and the whole sit latlon
has been muddled by that mo*t un
v, lse speech made to steel men against
wooden ships about the "birds destine
In the trees." The steel meq
full well that It Is not pobsI le for
them to provide the steel
know
msary
to construct the ships that are needed
They are eager to see?at leastjbroad
mlued ones are?wooden ships built
as well as steel ships. And on^e more
the Manufacturers Record would urge
with all 'the energy It can command
that the nation build ships, and build
them now, and keep on building them;
for this Is not a matter of on? year or
two years, but for many years.
Ships and More Ships.
So great is the destruction iof the
world's shipping, so great Is; the de
preciation of the shipping that has not
yet been sunk, that for years to come
It will be difficult to supply the worlds
need for shipping even long after the
war has ceased.
Build ships, build more shtpB, and |
still more ships'.
Let the whole energy of the nation
which can be concentrated In ship
building be put Into the construction
of wooden and steel ships, for ships
for every purpose, coastwise, and for
cfgnTTn this way only will it'be possi
ble to prevent a fate of which the hls
tcrians of the future would have to
write In regard to America:
. ."If the United States had only built
ships rapidly enough the world could
huve been saTed."?Manufacturers
Record.
List of Letters.
Hie following Is a lls? of letters re
maining In the post office at Louis
burg, N. C. not called for August 31,
1917.
Mrs. Delia dell, Miss TeflBle Hart,
Mrs. Leona Hawkins, Mrs. May Eliza
Horsey. J. Ellis Jaynes, Miss Jodia
}><tcbeli, Mrs. Katie Oakley, Mr. Geo.
R. Smith.
Persons calling for any of the above
letters will please state that they saw
t. m advertised.
R. H. DAVIS, P. M.
AI TO TURJiS Tl'HTLE,
One Toung Lady Hurt?Other Seven
Passengers Only Shaken I'p.
Sunday afternoon near Justice, ten
miles east of this place, a seven-pas
benger car driven by Paul Cone, of
?ebulon turned turtle twice while try
ing to make a short curve at a high
rate of speed.
There were four young men anl four
young ladles in the car. While all
v.ere badly shaken up, It was a mlr
ace that none but Miss Minnie Gay,
of Seven Paths was srlously urt. It
Is thought that she will recover. The
car was badly damaged.
Young Cone was an Inexperienced
driver, having had the car only about
a week, and evidently did not know
that he could not turn a sharp curve
going 60 miles an hour.
CO. I) LEAYE8.
I ?trained Yesterday Afternoon for
GrenvOle, 8. C.
Capt. S. P. Boddte received order?
from tha Adjutant General Wednesday
afternoon for Company D, Loulsburg
Rides, to entrain for Greenville, S.
C.,*on Thursday aftrnoon at 5 o'clock
The hoys all left yesterday afternoon
In good spirits and amid numerous
expressions and demonstrations of
hearty good wishes. This community
fjels confident that In any emergency
the boys will do credit to themselves
and their home. ?
THE MOVING PEOPLE.
SOME YOU KNOW, SOME YOU DO
NOT KNOW.
Many on Business. Many on Plcasare,
Others to be Going, Bnt All Going or
Coming.
Messrs. W. H. Allen and J. A.
Turner visited Goldsboro Monday.
Mr. L. N. Williams, ot Klnston.
was a visitor to Loulsburg the past
week.
Messrs. ?. S. Meadows, G. C. Har
ris, H. C. Williams and J. E. Thomas
returned home the past week from
Oianta, S. C., where they have been
ccnncted with the,.tobacco market of
that place. *
Miss Willie Emma Hawthorne, ot
near Kenbridge, Va., who has been
visiting her aunt, Mrs. W. W6. Webb
returned home Tuesday.
Miss Mary Scarboro, of Wendell,
vho has been visiting Mrs. E. F.
Thomas and Miss Louise Thomas has
returned home.
Mrs. Julia Pleasants Scott left
Tuesday for New York to purchase
her fall stock of ladies millinery.
Lieut. E. B. Webb left Tuesday for
Columbia, S. C., to report for duty
in the Army.
Misses Claire Henley and Annie
Belle Harris, of Greensooro are visit
ing Miss Jesse Taylor Harris.
Mrs. O. J. Hale and Misses Louise
Thomas and Adelaide Johnson spent
Tuesday in Raleigh.
Mrs. J. M. Allen and Miss Beulah
Tucker visited Raleigh Monday.
Mr. Ellas Beasley spent Monday in
Kaleigh.
Mrs. J. B. Cheatham with children
Master Ballard and Miss Elizabeth
Cheatham, of Nashville, Tenn., who
have been visiting Mrs. R. F. Yar
borough returned to Franklinton Sat
urday.
Misses Besse Lee Alston and Gussie
Foster, of Epsom, and Estelle Wil
liams, of Inez, are guests or Mrs. W.
H. Pleasants, Jr., this weeK.
Mrs. W\ T. Alston and W. F. Al
ston, of Warrenton, and Miss Ida
Jackson, of Stovall, spent the day in
Louisburg Monday guests of Mrs. W.
If. Pleasants, Jr.
Mrs. Lelia Williamson, Mrs. B. N.
Wiliamson and sons, Napier and John,
ard Master George Ford, are visiting
relatives at Wilon's Mills this week.
Mr. M. S. Clifton visited Tarboro
the past week.
Miss Maude Holmes, of Sanford, is
visiting her sister,'Mrs. M. S. Davis,
Jr.
Mrs. Frank Whiteside, of Wilson is
\isiting her brother Mr. F. N. Eger
ton.
Messrs. John Neal, of Annapilis,
and William itfeal are visiting their
people here.
Mr. N. B. Allsbrook returned Wed
nesday from a visit to his people at j
Scotland Neck.
Mr. T. K. Allen left Tuesday for
Ycrk, Pa.^to purchase the machinery
for his machine shop.
Mr. B. B. Jeffreys and wife, of
Hamlet, visited Mr. W. F. Beasloy
the past'week.
Miss Clara Aycocke, accompanied
by Misses Pattie Aycocke and Cath
erine Aycocke, left the past week for
Ne* York.
Presentation of Comfort Bags.
News of the telegram Wednesday
afternoon calling our soldier boys to
Ureenvlle Thursday afternoon spread
quickly over the town, nringlng sad
ness with the message.
Having anticipated the call for them
almost any day, the ladles of the
Cross Society made a great effort this
%veek to complete te comfort bags,
and it was a source of pleasure to
tnom? the town folk and the county,
tnat they could present to the boys ,
on the day of their departure these ?
tokens of their thought of thctn.
At Camp Thomas, 9 o'clock Thurs- i
day morning a lafge crowd gathered '
io witness the presentation of the
bags.
Following an eloquent and fervent
prayer for the protection and well
fare of the gallant and heroic soldier
boys, Rev. N. H. D. Wilson address
ed them in fitting and appropriate
words expressing a deep sympathy for
them in the noble call which is theirs
ona voicing the love and pentimont of
the people for them in tho presenta
tion* of the bags.
First Lot Ordered to Entrain.
Chairman W. H. Ruffin informs us
he has complied with orders from
Washington and ordered the following
eight men to entrain for mobilization
Camp on September 5th, which rep- '
resents 5 per cent of the total quota.
The order was for all white and of
military experience if possible. The
last two names are alternates and
will not go unless some of the flrrft
eight fall to Bhow up. The names
fellow:
30?1495 William Obadiah Pruitt,
North Wilkesboro, N. C.
34?1237 Willie Glenn Macon, Louis
burg R 5.
39?1546 Cornelius Riddle, Youngs
ville.
42?616 John, Harvey Faulk, Spring
Hope, R 2.
45?1266 William Henry Strother,
Louisburg, R. F. D.
63?1264 Tommy Murphy, Alert.
65? 924 James Irvin Inscoe, Louis
burg R 4.
85?1922 Lawrence Lionel Wilder,
Franklinton.
97? 601 Thomas Fratier, Youngs
ville R 1.
109?1099 Herbert Clarence Layton
Castalia R 2.
The above names were taken in the
order in which they were drawn in
Washington and passed examinations
before the local Board.
Four Minute Men.
Senator W. M. Person has been re
cently appointed by State Chairman
E. E. Britton, as Chairman of the
local Four Minute Men Committee to
p-?vide speakers for patriotic occas
ions in Franklin county, whose allot
ted time is four minutes. He has se
| lected as his assistants Mr. K. K.
I Allen and Editor A. F. Johnson. The
I committee will meet soon a!nd it is
expected that a programme will be
arranged for at least one speech a
week at the Star Theatre.
Franklin Superior Court.
The regular August term of Frank
lin Superior Court for the trial of Ci
vil cases only, convened in Louisburg
on Monday morning with His HInor
Judge C. C Lyon, of Elizabethtown,
presiding. Judge Lyon has very fa
vorably impressed our people In his
fail and business-like methods of
handling the courts. There were no
cases of importance before the court
up until we went to press. This be
?ng a tw/> weeks term, court will pro
bably last through the coming week.
Meeting U. I). C.
Mrs. W. E. White will entertain
the Jos. J. Davis Chapter V. D. C.
Tuesday afternoon Sept. 4th at 4
o'clock. Members will plea:;e notify
the hostess if they will attend.
Mrs. W. E. White, Pres.
Mre. J. L. Palmer, Sec'y.
Bunn HIcrh School Notes.
The formal opening of Bunn High
I School will occurr Monlay morning \
at 9:00 o'cock, Sept 3. The patrons
and friends of the school are cordially
invited to attend this meeting. There
will be a program in which all may
participate. We want the patron3
! there for we want some expressions
frcm them as to the school hours and
the like.
We are hoping that all the pupils
nill enter the first day, and attend
every day. Remember that when you
miss the first day, you miss something
thi you can never get.
We feel confident that this will be
a good year for us. We are made
cad because of the death of one of our
pupils Mr. Shelton Pearce and the in
jury of another Miss Minnie Gay.
Friends patrons, pupils come to our
c Monday morning.
ncrt&lna at Dinner.
on, Aug. 30.?The dining
-e family with Mr. and
".?Hard on Tuesday oven
?eresting and happy oc
c. m.
f ;t were Mr. and Mrs.
B,. rd, Mr. W. J. Ballard,
Mi? Hard, Mr. and Mrs. W.
F. ... Us8 Nell Ballard Joyner,
Mat-ter Julius Joyner, Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Cheatham, of Nashville, Tenn.,
Master Ballard Cheatham, Miss Eliz*
abcth Cheatham, Dr. and Mrs. R. P.
Yarborough, of Loulaburg, Misses Na
na and Rie Parker, of Warrenton.,
HEALTH RECORD IMPROVES.
Claimed No Exemption on Thurs
day of Last Week.
In the examination of tho one hun
dred and eight men on the second call
for the first quota, held In Loulsburg
on Thursday of last week It was
found that only ten were rejectod on
account of physical unfitness and
that only six failed to answer to the
call. There were eighteen examined
hore who made no claim for exemp
tion and four others who were exam
ined at other places failed to claim
exemption making a total of 22.
Mr. Bennie Cifton Ray, who was in
Ihe first call but could not answer
cwlng to an accident In which he lost
his toes on his right foot, tfrbsented
himself to the Board for Inspection.
A Ust of those accepted and rejected
appears below:
lJst of._Eersons Called and Exempted
or Discharged from tbe Service
of the United tates.
437 1214 James Melton Maplevllle.
424 1851 Henry Andrew Williams
Youngsville.
42? 1517 Jack Pearce Franklin ton.
409 4347 Willie Patterson Maple
vllle R 1.
386 1510 Arthur Perry Loulsburg.
S70 1234 Talmadge Owen Moses
Spring Hope R 2.
c.66 738 Willie Harris Youngsville
R 2
364 1175 Henderson Mitchell Louls
burg.
357 1010 Henry Lee Johnson Frank
lin ton.
346 707 Jerry West Gales Frank
lin ton R 2.
40 1563 Bunnle Clifton Ray Zeb
ulon.
255 950 Herbert Rowland John
son Loulsburg R 5.
439 305 Zollle Nicholson Culpep
per Maplevillo.
?19 638 Tollle Foster Louisburg R
5.
i41 1673 James Carl Strowd Wood.
82 797 Frank Williford Higgins
Wakefield.
311 392 James Davis Maplevllle R1
204 1580 Eugene Rufiin Loulsburg.
203 350 Edw. Blackmail Cox Ma
plevllle .
38 107 Richard Boothe Maplevllle
Exempted?In Military Service.
202 5 Edward Allen Raleigh.
2E6 1709 Jas. Alfred Handling Fra
nklinton R 3.
44 1676 John Hazel Smith Louis
burg R 4.
21 S 549 Auburn W. Fowler Frank
llnton.
181 1848 Maylon E. Watklns Youn
gsville.
List of Persons Called Into the Ser.
vice of the United States Not
Exempted or Discharged.
137 194 Percy Hammond Blouut
Loulsburg.
74 1031 Elmas Vann Kearney
Frankllnton.
34 1237 Willie Glenn Macon Lou
isburg R 5.
!10 '1455 William 0. Pruitt Frank
llnton .
447 585 James Foster Kearney.
446 622 Henry P. Finch Louisburg
R 5.
445 1798 Herbert Forrest Wiggs
Maplevllle R 1.
431 1357 Robert Benjamin Pearce
Youngsville R 2. ?
426 1139 Perry Ming Loulsburg R 4
422 532 Gralir.m Burwell Egerton
Lou i j burg.
421 1172 Paytou Howard Massey
Wakefield" R. F. D.
419 524. Courtney David Kgerton
Greensboro.
417 1622 James Lee Strickland
Spring Hope. R 2.
395 191 Joseph Clyde Branch Lou
lsburg R 1.
383 504 Alex Wheless Edwards
Gupton.
379 1414 Darling Perry Louisburg
R 1.
361 1919 Julian Earle Wilder Frau
kliaron.
421? 1952 Clover Scott Winstead
Bunn.
356 926 Isaac Moses Inscoe Louls
burg R 4.
354 320 Ezekiel Clemmons Wake
field R 1.
35L 974 Baldy Johnson Louisburg
R 4.
228 335 Clyde Franklin Collier
Louisburg.
112 223 Peyton J. Brown Louis
burg.
39 1546 Cornelius Riddle Youngs
ville.
110 1955 Moody WMlllams "Louls
burg.
)u~> 982 John Johnson Loulsburg
R 4.
258 112 Arthur Blacknall Frank
llnton R 3.
332 642 H. Robert Gilliam Louls
burg R 1.
289 1102 Charlie Lankford Franklin
ton R 3.
23 1679 Arthur Arrlngton Shearln
Wood.
Local Board for the County of Frank
lin, State of North Carolina. Louls
burg, N. C.
WM. H. RUFFIN,
Chairman. ?
A. 8. Joyner, Clerk.
Date of posting, Aug. 24, 1917? ,