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ONLY ?1.60 FEB l'EAB IN ADVANCE The Franklin Times' a?-ah vebt i sing MEDIUM THAT BKIN68 BE SILTS A. F. Johnson, Editor and Manager. THE COUNTY, THE STATE, THE UNION VOLUME XLVII. Subscription S1.40 Per Te?r LOCISBUBG, N. C, FBIDAT, AUGUST IB, 1918 NUMBER M IMMEDIATE 11ESCLT8 OF THE BIG COIXTEB OFFENSIVE. In Tlirce Weeks General Foch's Strat-1 ctf) Huh Accomplished a Change fVlUch (or Kapldlty and Ex tent Has Rarely Been Ap i" fflii'trr WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN FRANCE, Aug. 13.?After the battle of the Avre, the situation of the bellig erents presents a change whl h for ra pidity ;'.nd extent hag rarely been ap proached in military history. Mar shall Foch's strategy and the masterly tactics of the generals commanding the armies und group* of armies under him have in three weeks wrested from the Germans what required four months for them to obtain at a cost variously estimated at from 700,000 to 1,000,000 men. The immediate results of the coun ter cc'cmive? which will have the greatest hearing on subsequent oper ations are the clearing of the Chteau Thierry pocket, endins the menace to Epernay and Paris; the liberation of Mcntdidier, ending the menace to Amiens; thj freeing of the important eastern railroad line from Paris to C:,.alons, and the equally important northern line from Paris* to Amiens restoring to the Allies means of com municatl^i which give them enorpous ly greater-ease In future movements of troops. So Longer Danger of Separation of Allies. These successes render impossible { any rupture of the line which could sep ' crate the French armies of the center ficni those to the east, or rupture of j the junction between the French and British. The most disastrous conse- | fjuence to the Germans aside from the 1 cavy losses they sustained in men : r.i materini is the collapse of their \v.i to 6 rive wedges into the Allied ' r.nd the substantial widening and ? '.iS wMch would have threatened ?r nl dislocation. 1 . .:inl Retirement Made More Dif ficult. Ma-' hell" Foch's strategy in redu cing the salient wedges wrested the initiative in operations from the Ger r:.an-5 at once obliging them either to order a ge neral retreat to a strong line ouch as tha ?omrce, or to engage re serves. The enemy adopted the sec ond alternative which, having failed, eventual re*ironi*?nt immensely more difi'lcult. Ti.e flrct phase ci the ">aUlo Ci i'vj Avrc r.nd s t Lic Frcnch with a f xVlnte ui'on Thiajecurt plateau, west cf ?.'cyon, which has vi'al importance i:? ?\i.ur? operation. The Csrmans rtu*: either recapture the position at t.Is'.i cost, if he c?v.:. or abandon Noy t n. which means t:,o fall of Koye and T.nssi?ny, vhich already are under im mir. ?nt menace of capture. ( iiiijT Because They Can't Kseape T'.:o disaster which menaced Gener al Von Hutier's army is averted for the moment -Tiie few narrow parages which now are open for the withdraw al or his stores are so harrassed by heavy artillery that prompt escape is impo.l?ible, rendering probable a des perate c.Tort by t'ic Germans to cling to their 1914 line. u ;k:i our boy:i come Home t;icy win be well up iu thg geography of France, it they are ask^d to nrme four French rivers it will-m>t take them long~to enumerate the Marne, the Aisne, the Oqfrrq and- the Vesle. English and Canadians in the United States who have always enjoyed our climate may begin this fall to feel the effects of the drafts. From Soldier Boys. The following letters, ono l'rom F ranee, and one from a colored sol dier in the United States, will be read with much pleasure by our readers': ; Somewhere in France, July 10, 1918. Dear Ecck:?How rtre you all these days? I have written to all but you, so while I have timo will say just a few words for I don't know when I'll have the chance to write again for we never know one day where we will be the j next. I am well and enjoying life very good. I have been going to a British Machine Gun School and have been away from my Company twenty days and they have left the place they were while I was with them so I don't know where they are and when I will find them. I am with the 114th Regiment for the present time and will be until I find where my Company is. Sure do wish I was with them, for I don't know any of the boya here, but they are real nice to me Just the same, but had rath er be with old friends. Ecck, the American boys on the 4th captured two thousand Germans, and for the last month have shot down one hundred thousand. Americans! Just look who we arq! You hear. Dut I was not there, but my Company might have been. Hope so for they will tell me all about it when I s?e them. Ecik you all must let me hear from you for am some lonely over here and and a lettor from home surely does lots of good you know. Kcck sure do wish you all could see some of tho places over here. It Is certainly worth while. I was near enough to one of the air raid<4 a few clays ago to count one hundred air planes. Ecck I have carried a pack on my back bo much that I tuid the boys when I ever did get back to America 1 was going to buy a thousand dollar stock of goods and put It on my back and get In the road. Ha! Ha! Well, I have no news, so tell all tc let me hear from thefri sometimes Excuse bad writing, I am about to forget how to write anyway. BROTHER TOM. Recruit Camp No. 2, Co., No. 7. Aug. 5, 1918. Camp Green, N. C. Dear Sir:?It is indeed a'pleasure for me to attempt to write you a few lines to let you hear from us. Wo had a very nice time and we suro did enjoy it. Our boysJ all behaved very nice. I cannot say too much to their praise We had the very best order that w >jb on the train. We did not have any whiskey in our Company at all. The boys from Henderson were on the car just ahead of us, and the Raleigh boys were behind us. and they were drink- | ling and gambling all the way to the 'camp. It was about 6:15 o'clock Sun day morning when we got to the camp j and we were met by the ofTicer about 6 o'clock and taken to pur tents where we have been staying ever since except what little time we have been drilling and we get r. plenty to eat. The only trouble we had was with Mr. Fuller, at Franklintor, and I thought once that the boys were going to whip him in spite of all I could do. Every time they got off the train he would try to make them get back on and he did not want the people to stand neap the trrain to talk to us. But except that we did not have any trouble. So the county of Franklin Is credited with sending the ' best troops of boys here on August the j 3rd. The boys are all liking fine. Some of them shy they ought to have been [here a year ago. What are the Ger mans doing now, still on the retreat? j I hope they are and will stay on. We don't get any war news down here. | We can't go up town yet. but the Cap ? tain says that we can go in a few days and then we will get the news so no I more. We would be delighted to hear i from you all and to get held of a j Franklin Times once in a while. Good - bye Yours to the colors. EDDIE LITTLEJOHX. i Volunteer Registrars for Tiew Draft Registration Called. j About Sept. 5.1918, n new registra tion for men fcr the National Army jtvIM be cellcd. The w?rk will be ap proximately one ana one third time? ins great rs vas t'.ie first registration June E, 1917, but all -"ill be accom* jpli^had in one day as heretofore and ;t!ie registration vili !:e r.t t "no ur.ua! | voting places ir. each totvn?h!r. Locpl :Boards are rrequired to asnv.me direc tion of the v:ork r.nc! v.e row c ill for all who can and will devoi? ~*.e day's jvork to the government in ;W*s great Ic.uie to let the Local Beard ' rvo the , names of all who will cc serve ' y .V*t. 36th. Whore no volunteer? ' *r free i service will be reefcived t' o I.o^i! ? Board will appoint registrar* rnd tVe jelorionn crvre e? liberty nil nun i kind and v.*e confidently e>:r*: ; vi/.nr. l??er service f:r Fra.>l:H?: . T.n-"1 j Hoards. Legal Advisory Hoard?. Gov l-rnniM-t Ar.:.n:?; Mi;! C.o;;n:r Councils of Defense have been rnd are now serving for a Hrsc pnrt'cf th^lr I valuable tini" free?purely ethers will elp for i ho United time aslcod. Local r?oard Krnni:!in Ooun'y, By Wm. II. KITFPIX, Chairman. A Hector ('tilled far St, PaulV Parish. | Hov. L?S*:h:jr H. r native ? cif ?.!??>r! ?Tvd. nov h* v*hr?r:;o of ?. j t'.;rrr:: : * r ; ? dhrr-t. ??.? ?. .!c.;oy., lias r ? :?: cm 11 loj' i nrV.;~* St.! Pr!:l's I.'. .i!:urg ai.?; Sc. Ja-vcr. Kit-j troll. ??nd will make hi ? rr ?.I-'cnce at; ?Let IsVur?r. He i?- c.*-,? * \ t.i arrive i in I.oui:V:n; on A . ? .-o as to j l: i:o' c.M?orc o:' hl.i ??? ' 3ept. lut. { These chi rcl.es h.'Vr 1" virio's: r. j rector to - -j yrr.r :.ad Mi-. N; rent roicitr a ;?; ??.?Iconic. Kov? Mr. *v?l?on Onpiuthm Successful. Our rc ..'lev. v.-!*| !-? Trntlfied le know that after skillful ? ".d r.vccRsfiil op eration rt t lir hand* of Dr. Dan'cls., of Goldsboro. Rev. N*. H. D. Wilson, pas tor of the Methodist church, is ?'eating and rapidly regaining his strength among friends' and kinfolks at. Chapel Hill. He will remain there until Just prior to the fourth Sunday, but expe-ts tri reach Louisburg in tlmo to occupy his pulpit that day. IKcmp I*. Hill, of Lonlshnrg, Is Adjudg ed Bankrupt. Kemp P. Hill, a general merchant of {Loulsbtirg, was adjudged bankrupt by Judge H. G. Connor. The liabilities of the firm were $240,538.54.?Raleigh Times. Barbecue at fonnty Home. The County Commissioners held a special meeting at fhe County Home on last Friday at which time Supt. J. J. Holdcn served a sumptuous barbecue dinner to many of their friends. The day was a most pleasant one and the dinner one of the best we have erver seen. It was grand and a plenty of it, and it was a great credit to the la dies who had charge of the serving. The occasion was greatly enjoyed by quite agoodnumber, who after having looked over the Qdjnity home were free in their expressions of the nice mnnnor in which Supt. Holden Is con-, ducting the home. A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT FOR A SEW RK(i ISTRATIO.N ON AUG. 24,181s. 1'nder n Presidential Proclama tion all men. white and color IUUI1IL IIUUIJI one years of age since June ?>, 1918, are required and com manded under penalty of law to present themselves at the oflice of tlie Local Board, First Nat ional Bank budding, Loulsbur# North Carolina, between the hours of seven o'clock a. uu and nine o'clock p. m? on Saturday, August 24th, 1918, and register for classification under seiec tive service regulations for mil itary service of the I'nlted Sta tes. This Is not to be confuscd With the proposed registration Sept. 5th, of men from IS to 45 years of age but Is intended for those attaining twenty-one years of age between lune 5th and August 24th, 19IS. Local Board, Franklin County North Carolina, by Vi. II. Iillffm.. Chairman. FAMILY REUNION. On the 12th of July at the oil home i.ear Centrevllie a family re union was held to which the children came in loving remembrance of the birth-day of the father, Mr. Wesley Radford, who had reached the age of 76 years. There were twelve children and Uf ty-three grand children present. On account of illness two of the children were not there, Mr. Robert R. Rad ford and family, of Areola, 'and Mrs. Joe Murphy and family of Piney Ridge Those present were p.s follows: Messrs. W. A.. J. H., D. E., J. W., H. iC., P. G., O. R., all living near Centre jville, C. A. and L. I. Radford, of Dur Ihr.m, Mrs. N. E. Joyner, of Rocky I Mount Mrs. Dock Murphy of White Level, Mr*. B. B. Burnett, of Wood. A very bountiful and delicious din |ner was served, after which Mr. L. I. ) Radford conducted a devotional ser jvice. The family and many visitors en IJoyed this, realizing the blessed spirit lin thanking our Heavenly Father for !His goodness and loving watchcare lover us. ! The time for departure came all too soon. They left wishing their father many more happy birthdays. The First Baptist Church, Colored* The usual large crowd which greets the workers of the B. Y. P. U.. each Sunday afternoon received the re ports of the two delegates sent from that body to the State Convention | which met at Salisbury during the past | week, last Sunday. Mrs. Bessie Hag wood, Vice-Pre.id ? dent of the local union was the lirst j to make her report. She told of 'he iraany practical lessons learned at the or to put them In practice here, as directress; of/the choir. l5r. J. II. Davis. President of the lo cal. the ssecond and last delegate, gave tt ih,Milili fl nr?lu rpnrt. of tlm nut I mi' at the State convention. He declared that 'the local union had the highest rating for attendance and money con tri hu flbd into the coffers of the State con vention of any similar union in the iRiaic. The covention woted to Rgive the union with the largest money con .tributiou a banner each year, ?a?l this year it belongs to the Lou i s bur g branch. The Vice-Preslder.t fromihis townwas elected fifth Vice-President of the convention, and the President was elected corresponding Secretdrv as well as a member of thhe Board of Directors of the State Sunday S convention. The average attendance for the nine sessions of the conven- I t Ion which held three days, was about j five thousand as' a total. The final i night ended with an excellent con cert. during which time a fine vocal solo was given by Mrs. Bessie Hag wood. and one of the principal address es was' given by Dr. J. B. Davis on "Health," fie being the only active prae tltioner of medicine in the whole con vention. This means a good deal for Louis burg and the patrons c f the local B V. P. U.. ought *o fee* or cud of tiiet? presj Ci t achievement nut! s.rive * d better their showing next year at Wilson The Sunday School also sent two del egates. Mr. Eutric Hazelwood and Mrs Mettle L. Hawkins. JL. DIKE MONUMENT FI NI). During the past week township corn mitttees for several townships have been organized. WJaen the list of com mittees is completed tiiey will ho pub !? lied. HoW'-voi-tho iVbscripMon book l.i now open and r "?r. t ri buttons contin ue to com'* hi. The f> ?*r now stn.it' ay folows: ^ Previously tcjirtii . .. ... 14 00 F. D. Cuipi-pper 1.00 G. C; Parrteh and wife 3.00 Franklin Times - 5.00 Total 26.00 Mrs. Woodrow Wilson christened the Qulstconck. the first ship launched from tho Hog Island SJilp Yards. She must have done so with some Inner dubitation unleM-?Ahe had been pre viously Informed "What is a Qulst conck?" cr ' Where Is Quistconck?" FOOD YIOLATOBS HELP HEI> I'KOSS. State Food Administrator Henry A. Face Allans Offenders to Make Contributions In Men of Moro Drastic Punishment. Cross and the closing of his store for two days with an appropriate sign pos ted on the door is the self-imposed pen alty on O. H. Harris, a well known merchant of Louisburg, in lieu of more drastic action by the Food Adminis tration for a mis-statement in the re port he filed with the Sugar Division of the Food Administration upon which sugar certificates were to be Issued, jffhe notice on Mr. Harris' door next Monday and Tuesday will explain that his store is closed by agreement with the Food Administration Because of ir < regularities in the handling of sugar. In addition to the self-imposed pen alty Mr. Harris gave up to the Food Administration approximately 700 lbs of sugar which he received above the allotment to. which he was entitled. Mr. Harris was given a hearing before the State Food Administrator Henry A. Page, at Raleigh on the 12, tne in vestigation beiug handled by County Food Administrator Mortimer Pleas ants. 'f* Bellamy & Co., of Enfield, has con tributed $100 to the Red Cross for selling sugar in too large quantities and not keeping proper records. Ira D. Wood, of Enfield, has contrib uted $50 to the Red Cross for selling sugar at retail and wholesale indis criminately. and having on hand too imuch sugar. Meyer Grocery Store of Enfield. | contributed $50 to the Red Cross for selling sugar at 10 cents when the maximum price was 9 l-2c. Peoples' Supply Co., of Wilmington, contributed $25 to the Red Cross for selling sugar in too large quantities. Thomas Grocery Company, of Wil mington, contributed $25 to the Red Cross for violating the sugar regula tions by celling sugar to boarding houses without certificates. F. M. Ross, of Wimington, con tributed $25 to the Red Cross for vio lating the sugar regulations by sell ing too much sugar to one party. Thos. F. Wood. Inc., of Wilmington, contributed $25 to the Red Cross for selling sugar to a Steamship without certificates. Can All the Fruit* Possible. I The following bulletin nas been is jsued by the Food Administration and 'should be read by even* housewife: I FULL STEAM AHEAD OX CANNING WHY? 'BECAUSE: H. Can:iinfg saves the crops |2. Canning save3 transportation 3. Canning saves labor 14. Canning builds up homes reserves !&. We can aiTord to waste nothing SLOW ON SUGAR WHY? BECAUSE: wlmiiiir ?i.in ? 12. German submarines trunk sugar I boats j 3. Boats have been released to help 1 feed Belgium ?4 ?hnvo pnntlfi'f'1 useless j sugar beet factories of Northrn France 15. Our own crop of sugar Is smaller than anticipated.. i Are you a "good provider" Mrs. I housekeeper? Then full steam ahead ;on canning. Never mind the shortage; 'of sugar. Take care of the fruit now 1 land the future will take care of itself ; j Who says you need sugar fr cannng? ! You don't' I ' SAVE SUGAR IX CANNING j Siipar is not needed as a preserva tive if fruit is properly sterilized and sealed. By canning we can get along without the use of heavy syrups and thus save sugar. j FRUIT JUICE. I Fruit juices can be bottled without sugar and used as fruit flrlnKs. :n jelly desserts, pudding sauces and ice cream Directions for making fruit juices: ? IzPrepare fruit, cook until soft and |strain. Roil the strained juice for five minutes and piur it into jars or glass bottles that have heen sterilized by boilin for 15 minutes, filling the jars to overflowing. Seal the jars imme diately. Stopper the bottles with c^rk sterilized in the same manner as the bottles, and make air-tight seal by dipping the cork and the lip of the bot tie into hot paraffin. When sugar is | more plentiful, fruit juices may be made into jelly. SUGAR SUBSTITUTES Extensive nnd conclusive te?tj have shown tha* cQrn sugar, corn syrup, cano syrup, and sorghum svrup may be used in making preserves and mar malades which do not suffer In com parison with the same products In which sugar is used. Use Substitutes! Write to John Paul Lucas. Cor.'*T vation Director, Food Admlnfstr?Uio.' Itaheigh. X. t\, for leaflet containing formulae, recipes and suggestions for, the use of sugar substitutes. Our Schools In War Times. During the past four years so many seemingly impossible things have hap pened thnt ii is difficult for us tn keep our bearings. Almost all of our bus iness calculations have called for re vision of our notions of personal free dom havo received many a rude shock; %ve can no longer do with our own as we please; we must consider the com mon good; our individualistic notions must be exchang?*! fo.-' a larger vision. Our standard of vuh:es havo undergone I very remarkable changes. tlveryiliinv seems to be abnormally scarcc and I high In prie*\ Unskilled labor Is re ceiving fabulyus remuneration. Even boys and girls are receiving higher wages than well educated, skilled peo Bkk As an outcome of the above condi tions thero is very great danger. There wil! be great temptation to parents to allow their cchildron to neglect their education.. The lure of easy dollars, short hours of work with high wages, will furnish an argument for allowing boys and girls to remain away from school. No more fatal blun der can be committed than this. We all know the war will end some time and with its close will .come a tremen dous readjustment of affairs here at home. The fal-u'oua prices will not be likely to continue, but It is likely that an era of sharp competition Will be usherrd in. It .is surfe to be a time calling for men and women of keen intellect and superior training. What, are wc going to do about it? Many of tho keenest thinkers of this country say that next to winning the v.ar the greatest duty of tile present hour is the education of the boys and girls. Dur ing the Civil War and for a unmber | of years after that unhappy conflict, our schools were closed to the largo majority of our people. We all know how our South-Land has sufTered in every w*y from this. Perhaps, the closing of our schools then"was una voidable; now ft Is a question of wheth er we think more of a few dollars than we do of the education of our child ren. It is not lack of money, but too 1 much easy money that threatens the education of the boys and girls of to day- the men and women of tomorrow. Parents, think about this' Your boy may easily conclude that a big salary with little responsibility, plenty of idle time, and plenty of money to spend on useless luxuries, are' to be preferred to the grind and confinement of the school room. If you agree with him, iit is quite likely that his education is ended. If he continues to work, he I may succeed, but the chances are that he will be a failure. In the past a goodly number of men have won high success with little ed ucation to help them, but you must not forget that they were competing with other men who had as little education as themselves. It will not bo so with your boy. lie will be pitted against mun who will have the education that t!;e schools can furnish. i Schools So Open. Supt. E. L. Uest has 'fSuetTtlia fnl I lowing letter to Sell nl * .cr imen: August 10, 191S. Dear Committeemen | The following dates have been se lected for the opening of the various schools in Franklin County. Please !notify your teachers and ask them to J be in the neighborhood several days j before the opening. I recommend that 'you try in some way to provide board ^Sys^^fofel^^^c!!^f^ftgt^^7Ms^ver^?, important that tliey be in the commun ity at least a week before school opena but we must remember that pay does m?t begin unifl i'W! ci^jju^ of school. If for any loeal rason you think It best for your school to open at a later or earlier date plensf>?take the , matter up with mc at once and wo can arrange a date to suit your community. 8 month schools?Soptcnibor 2nd. 7 month schools?September 30th. 6 month schools?October Hffir? 5 month schools?November 14th. Please attend to this at once. Cordially yours. E. L. BEST. POST OFFICE QUARTERS I Post Office Inspector R. \V. Hod jgln was in town the past week look ing over the post office premises and fixtures. We note from advertisements posted on the bulletin board proposals ?are invited for a period of five or ten [years for quarters properly equipped j from July 1.1 919. Owners of suitable i buildings can secure all necessary in formation at the po?t office. List of Letters. The following is a list of letters re maining in the post office at Louisburg, X. C\, not called for Aug. 16. 191S: Mrs. Reitie Holmes, Mr. R. L. Pat tc?rson. Miss ?. ?. Patterson. Mr. Green Pearce, Mr. Johnny Perry. Mr Genie Perry. Mrs. Edna Perry, Miss Lucy Perry. Mrs. Julia WilMams. Persons calling for any of the above letters will please state that they saw them advertised. R. H. DAVIS, P M. Free llentnl f'llnlc. All the DcntistV^tf Franklin County will hold free Dental Clinic for chlld ? y in their offices Saturday. August 7:li. from 10 to 5. All children from Franklimon find Youn-?" *!le town ships will report to Dr. S . Ford, in Franklinton. All c'llldrcr .rnn other sections of Ihe county wjT; rr| *t at the office of Dr. A. II. Flemi. ?; in Louisburg. where they will !>e nsu n ed to a Dontist who will do the v r k for them. The Clinic will be opon to tlie tire county, and children will no Woi ed for in the order iu which they re port. Mr. W. H. Allen s"pent several days at- Wilmhr'fin nv-t v?ek I Hi SON AL MEKTIOir. ?. ooUi) Wells, of Wilson, was a visitor 10 Louisburg Sunday. Hcv. A. <j. Wilcox, of Brlnkleyvllla, wcs u visitor to Louisburg Monday. ?Mr. J. C. Matthews, of Jpring Hope, Mars Hill, where he will attend school. Mr. an:l Mrs. M. C. Pleasant3 and Mr. J. D. Wei la wont to Raleigh Mon day. Mrs. D. C. High Is In Kalcigh spend ing some time with Iter daughter, Mrs. G. R. McGrady. Messrs. H. G. Candler and H. G. Mc Brayer are on the northern markets imrchasing their fall stocks. personal Miss Evelyn Mae Barnhil went to Rocky Mount Sunday where she wUl? nurse the little daughter of Mr. J. W. Davenport, who Is quite*.111. ' Messrs. J. A. Turner, D. C. High, B. X. Williamson. W. N. Fuller, J. E. Thomas and Kills Ramey attended the firemen's tournament at Wilmington this week. Miss Grace EatonrMr. Hugh Hayes, Misses Susie, Ernestine and Lucy Hayes have returned from a motpr trip to Denver, Blowing Rock and oth er places in western North Carolina. Mr. O. C. Hill, of Benaon, arrived in Louisburg Monday to take charge ot the light and water plant as Superin tendent to succeed Mr. H. Meredith, who has taken a like position in Clay ton. Misses Lillian High, Esther Alls brook, of Weldon, Margaret Cooke and | Mr. N. B. Allsbrook left Thursday by I automobile to visit friends la Norfolk. | They will Join another auto party at Emporia, Va. Dr. W. R. Basil left yesterday for his home at Middlesex, to make his ar rangements to enter the service of the United Spates army, having Just re clvd hi& commission as Lieutenant. He will be in Louisburg Saturday for his last day before going to Fort Ogle thorpe. Pickups From White LeveL Aa you haven't lieard anything from 'around the level" in some time I thought we would write and let you know we didn't quite "oeg" *it *hcm liot days. Rev. W. B. Morton, of Loulsburg, filled his regular appointment at White level Saturday and ?urtdav. The pro U rac ted meeting will begin the fourth '.Sunday in September. Mr. Jame.s Howard Aouse in res ponse to his call left Thursday for Camp Wadsworth. Spartanburg. S. C. Misses Beulah Stalllngs, Nona Bunn and Alma Hollingswortli, of Bunn, spent Inst Saturday night with Miss Beulah Sturdivant. Mr. D. N. Murphy, who returned last week -from the hospital is much 1m 1 proved. Dr. W. r. Simpson and wife went to Rocky Mount last Monday. Messrs Arthur Wilder ar.d Sion Grif I fin from near Seven Paths were in our i midst last Sunday. Ji&iULtt :ariy coiims, Buck Par TyT ollins, Iluck Collins and J. W. Bartholomew returned Monday night from a visit to Camp Jackson. The 'Tanners" of 'llir ^?"lninnfty are DftjHfinlng to illl their pantries with food products. Our newly organized Junior Baraca and Phi lat hen classes are progressing nicely, as well as the senior classes. We have a live prayer mjeeting at the church every Sunday night. The young taking a port as well as the old and we invite you to come out and help I us pray for the soldier boys. Bunn Items. Mr. and Mr*. Robt. White visited Ixnitfthurg Tuesday. Mr. J. Y. Medlln visited our to.vn Wednesday. The majority of the young people of Bufrn enjoyed a barbecue Tuesday P. M.. given by Mr. J. B. Harris in honor of his ?on. Jasper., who is now on a ten days vacation from the U. S. Navy. Montgomery & White has made con siderable changes in the firm within the last thirty day;:, to their advantage we hope. Mr. I. (\ Svkcs and Miss Louise Cur tis visited Raleigh Tuc3t!ay :>n busi ness. The Bunn Banking Co., has received a new Burroughs posting and lifting machine, which will be Installed within a few days. *0 We are glad %to note MMa Addle Montgomery is rapidly imprving af ter several weeks illness. Mr. P. M. Mullln Is now on his feet after several days of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Mann Tant and children spent tho week end at the home of her father Mr. Peyton Sykes. Beddlngfleld Bros., & Co., have re cently Installed a carbide light plant and tar.ve also agreed to furnlai. light for tho Bunn Banking Co. Mr. BenJ. B. Sykes and I. C. Sykes 1 took Miss Gladys Sledge and brothel back to Red Oak after spending sev eral days with their grand parents Mr. and Mrs. Peyton Sykes and friends. No August Court There will be no regular Court for Franklin County for the August terra 1918, for jury trials. No Jurors or wit nesses noed appear unless notified. Judge Calvert will be here either the flret or second week a few days to hear motions, and dispose of other business which does not require a Jury trlil. J. J. HARROW, CVR C. ??