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VOLUME XLVII. LOEISBUBG, N. C? FKIDAY, SEPT. 18, 181H MSU1ER 80
VTnoMV WFATHFi? ON THF
WAR TRONT CONTINUES
British Commander Reports Further Progress
Near Neuve Chapelteand Armentieres.
ENEMY HASTENS HIS EFFORTS O.N
HEAR LINE EAST OF THE
RIVER LYS.
British Attacked Epehy Wood Tues
day Where l!ard Fighting is He
ported; But (ieiierally the British
Troops Were Not Active Yesterday,
Partly Owing to Afud a?d Ooze Which
Made Progress Difficult; Civilians
Driven From Home, Property Con
fiscated. j
London, Sept. 10.*---Further slight
progress lor tiie* uritisn near .\euvo
Chnpelle and Armentleres, and local
engagements in the center of the line
in the vicinity of Epehy and Gouzeau
cpurt. southwest of Cambrai, are re
ported by Field Marshal Haig in his
communication of tonigt. The com*
mivncatfcn follows:
'l-'xcept for local figlr.ing in the
Epi-hy and Gouzeaucourt sectors in
which we secured prisoners, there is
nothing of especial interest to report
from, the battle~~Trdut south of the
v:\rpo.
On tho Lys front cur patrols have
do alight p'ogress northeast of
. ? .'ve Chapelle and west of Armen
.'3.
' o orvny weal i r oont'.nu
With the British army in France,
Sept. 10.?The most important news
from the north today is direct corro
batiou of the fact that the Germans
aio working with jill haste in the
preparation of their rear linej east of
the river Lys and that tney are being
reinforced with concrete machine gun
nests In considerable numbers.
&*-ttleU?H Covered With Mud.
Although the resistance from enemy
rear c'-iards has increased all along
ti e lino, especially in the ccnter areas,
w/.ero a much greater volume of ma
chine gun and artillery Are is being
encountered, the British troops have
made further progress. Rain ha*
fallen incessantly and the battlefield
in many places now is covered with
soft mud. and the shell craters are
filled with ooze, .which makes rapid
progress difficult.
"On the Lys front our patrols have
tieres.
Stormy weather continues/'
With the British army In tVancc,
Sept 10. The most important news from
t*he north is direct cor.robation of the
fact that the Germans areworking
with all haste in the preparation of
thels rear lines east of the river Lys
and that they are being reinforced
with concrete machine gun nests In
considerable numbers.
Kattlofleld Covered With Mud.
Although the resistance from enemy
rear guards has increased all along
the line, especially in the center areas,
where a much greater volume of ma
chine gun and artillery fire is being
encountered, the Britlsn troops have
made further progress. Rain has fall
en incessantly and *:ie Tianlefleld in
many places i.4 covcred with soft
mu(V and the shell craters are filled
with ooze, which makes rapid progress
difficult.
Generally the armies are still at a
pause and what forward movements
hoVe been carried out have been more
in the nature of line straightening
and for the suppression of active Ger
man positions.
Hard Fight In? at Fpetay Wood.
Epehy Wood has been the scene of
hard fighting. The British attacked it
today, but details are lacking.
Fronj a number of tellable sources it
is learned that the enemy is evacuating
thecivilians from numerous villages
and towns in his rear and is exhibiting
his customary methods whilo doing it.
The civilians, in most cases old men,
women and children, are being forced
frortl their homes with only a handful
of their posesslons; their property Is
cither being confiscated by the German
authorities or being tarried ofT by the
troops.
Mntinous Spirit Anion? nermann.
Further confirmation of the mutin
ous' spirit in sections of the German
army has beeil received. Prisoners
who wore in the immediate vicinity of
an engagement r#n AtUg. 22. -say that
an infantry regiment of a Bavarian
division suddenly threw down their
arms. They retired declaring that
thoy absolutely refused to fight for
Prussia any longer.
In addition to other troubles which
seem to have been multtfrfylng of late,
the. German commanders now have
suddenly come to realize that their
system of defense with respect to
depth Is totally Inadequate under the
conditions encountered in continuous
fighting.
A captured seventeenth German ar
my order says:
"A new outpost zone cannot be tfeldc
ted dally and the troops jnust hold the
foren^st line:. The troops must u:
derstand this, or they will retire
against the wishes of the command and
describe the ground which they have
lost as an evacuated outpost zone.
This cannot be permitted Tor tactical
reasons and must not be allowed for
moral rasons."
Farmers Union Picnic.
The Farmers Union of Franklin
County will hold Us annual picnic Fri
day Sept. 20th at Prospect church
near Four Bridges.
This is to be an open meeting and
all farmers and friends of The Far
mers Union are invited. This will be
a bu.'kct picnic and a basket of good
"War Eats" will be in order. Dr. H.
Q. Alexander, President of State Far
jmers Union will be the speaker of the
j morning and Dr. B. W. Kilgore, State
j Chemist will, address the meeting in
Itho afternoon.
I J. C. JONES, Scc'y.
From Franci'.
The following letter from Mr. Willie
fitf eon Will be read with much inter
lest.
Somewhere In France,
"'Aug. 10,"l918.
|My dear Elizabeth: ?
Since writing you last we
I have served one turn in the trenches
I am not allowed to say how many |
days. The facilities for writing while I
in the trenches are not very good, but j
I'm going to try to make amends by j
telling you all the news I can think o(
in this letter. YqU needn't ever get'
uneasy because you d9n't hear from
me. for if I should happen to go down
on the casualty list you would be no
tified by wire, so bear this In mind.
"No news is good news."
Our Company was very lucky, we
? bad not a Gingle casualty. I'm glad to
say. 1 just feel that "Co- D." will be
lucky all through the war. 1 can't
begin to write you a description of
this war, if I could see and talk to
you 1 might give you a faint idea of
how things go while we are in the
i trenches*.. In the day time everything
is quiet. I mena so far as movement
of troops is concerned. Everybody
tries to be as still as possible for fear
of being seen by a German tnipor, if
"wi iteroi'iM'uiL iiire
a sill
iences to your comrades or home
folks. Just to s'.iow you what tl*ey
-frfn Hn i will relate this experience.
One o* o0*"1* IMllUll uH his
to comb his head (to scratch his head)
and unthoughtedly laid his helmet on
top of the parapet. It very promptly
came rolling back in the trench with
a German bullet mark onlt. Of course
we are doing the same thing to them,
for there are just as good marksmen
in our army as anywhere else. When
it begins to get dark old Fritz begin?
sending up his flares to light up no
man's land, and from then until day
break it is almost a continual flare.
The lights and flares are beautiful if
'one could forget their significance.
(There is hardly a second during the
day or night that you can't hear shell*
whistling through the air or bursting
Jin your own sector. Shells of all sizes
from a 303 cartridge (r:Jle) on up,
fc'ome of them pretty near as tall as a
man. \ylten these big shells hit the
ground and burst they throw earth,
rockfcl, brick etc.. up in the air per
haps a 100 ft or more. Then there
are shrapnel shell* which explode in
he air, if one of those happens to
burst near you its a miracle n you
ever get to tell the tale to anybody.
Not very long ago a shrapnel shell
buhHled about fifty feet from where I
was standing, the broken pieces of
shell whizzed past me. but fortunately
I wasn't hit, in about two seconds I
heard another coming, 1 flattened out
on the ground immediately, maybe a
little quicker than that. The prayers
of the good people at home took care
of me In this case for the shell failed
to explode and hit in the path I had
just come over about ten rfteps behind
me, it buried in the ground. I can't
say how deep for I didn't stay there
long enough to investigate. Do you
blamo me? The fuse In the next shell
wasn't timed exactly right, it hit the
ground about fifteen feet from me
and "Brush" and threw mud etc., all
over us. We were so close to It that
it failed to hurt us. You see It is this
way when the shells lilt the ground
they bury about 5 or 6 feet deep and
when they burst they don't do vefy
much damage right near whore they
.hit for the flying pieces go up then
fall back in.a radius of from 20 to 200
feet. "Brush" and I have been out on
No Man's Land for a short way. we
couldn't see anything alarming. The
Boche muBt have known who wan out
man hunting (1) We have rather
thrilling experiences sometimes, but
the boys are all.cheerful and we have
our fun and Jokes In the trenches just
as we do when we are in camp. When
we are frr _(Jn camp too) wo are
well* fetl an5 clothelT, Tm-4Uck_.coming
from any of the boys. We are In lt~fo
n-the Quifh and we are going to win
.president and wife at first hog island launching
-v
rue nrst snip fabricated nt the Hog Island yard was launched In the presence of President Wilson and other I
government officials. The vessel, one of 110 Identical 7.500-ton, ll*?-knot cargo carriers to be built at the biggest ,
shipyard In the world, was christened the Qulstconck by Mrs. Wilson, that having been the name by which the ?
Indians knew Hog Island. I
I cv.p't say when for there is n hr.nd
greater than man'3 tUat guidus live
destinies of nations as well ;u hidl
vlduals. We can't have a^flre while
we are in line for old Fritz doesn't
seem to like the color of the smohe io
the government issue? un little c.ck
jers composed of alcohol uud eon??
other compound, with it we can wt-jm
our food and even boil coffee in our
?lugouts, they don't make any .
whatever. Trench life isn't so bad i t
ter all. Now, after rending this ?le '?
cet to worrying about us. for it won't
do one bit of good. I haven't tM*
slightest feeling whatever t::at I'm t?r
,ing to get hurt. There are so "r
prayers from so many gooJ p ool ?
oari; iiomc thai I feel ihey will U : .
None of you can ever hope t,. *u.a.
mine and "Brush's record Vaw-e w?
arts-r&sular globe trpttcrs. We don't
I it "I I Hin uu??l*unrfi?re_ with our
!: ovela, we go right aherd jus!
there was no war at all.
August 4th was the fourth anniver
sary of this gre it war. let us all hou*
that before the 5th anniversary all the
boys will be-back home enjoying pros
perity as they were before the war
j began. This afternoon we had ser
vicen by our chaplain. Mr. Jim Turner
of Wake Forest. He made a splendid
talk from John 3-16. 1 think all the
boys liked his talked very much. They
all like him too for he is so very con?
i genial with the boys.
Our mail comes about once a week,
there'll no regularity to it. but Hid is
abou the average, sometimes its more
than a week, and sometimes less. I
haven't failed to hear from you but
{twice since we have been getting mail.
You all can never know the pleasure
it gives a fellow over here to hear
from home. Brush isn't much of a
letter writer he lets me tell all the j
news, and of course when yon Jiear
from me it is just the same as hearing
from him, for usually he and 1 are
r'i\ t together. You know my twin
riru/ii is the best boy in the world.
Yjiurday, 1 was a little Ack and he
nt>kod the Lieutenant to lot him stay '
in with me to wait on me. I don't !
It nov.' how I'd pet along were it not'
frrr him. Guc-fs I have told you all
? i\t? nqws except war news and you
????* *ha\ erer dr.;> in the papera. With
liuch love to all cf y u home people.
Devotedly,
WILLIf; GLENN MACON. .
Co# D. 120th I oft. 30th Div.
,Ameri< an E. Forces, France.
Mr*..Tom Knott Entertains.
On -Thrrvifnv evening' sast Mr Tom
eu.cf a t cd a large* number of
?nee Is by tivinj a delightful barhe
?losfurper :it the home or Mrs. W. H.
Those present spent an enjoyable
evening., various games were played.
Supper Was served, including barbe- j
rue chicken and cake.
The guebU WUH1 lib lull6WA!
Mattie, Louie and Maude Rhodes, of
Wendell. Lottie Noblin, Durham, Ag
nes, Bessie Doub. Jesse Gladys Lassa
jter. Bertha Mez Horton, Bessie Knott,
Mary and Lizzie M.ie Wall, -Maltie Ful
ler. Leslie Mount icell. Dewey Wall,
Ewcll Haithcock. Hester. Ivan Lass li
ter. Garry Wall. Lee Knott. Tom Kaon,
-Ralph Noblin. Jarvis Kriott. Graham
, Knott. Braxton Lassater and 1-ula Ful
ler. Mr. and Mrs. Horton. Mrs. Wall. |
iV.r. and Mrs Bridge.*. -I
|Lieut. Jn?. Wilder TortiHnson Killed'
San Antonio. Tex.. Sept. 11.?Second j
! Lieutenant John Wilder Tomlinson. 2??, j
I son of John S. Tomlinson. Washington,
| D. C., was killed instantly in a side'
slip fall of his airplane near Brooks
j Flying Field here today.
Mrs. Tomlinson. the mother of Lieiw
tenant Tomlinson, is a native of Louts
burg. N. C? and before marriage was j
Mi.*s Nellie Wilder and is a first cousin '
of Mr. R. G Allen, of this city.
I'lUCES STILL HMiH
On Loulshurg Market and the Sales
Are Increasing us the Sea
son Advances.
The warehousemen are proving their
assertions to the many farmers who
visit Louisburg Tobncco Market that
they expect to make tills market the
best in the State when the many re
mgrkai "that its the highest I have
n" is being freely used by mau>
who visit all markets and the exper
sion.' of the many farmers speak the
satisfaction they feel as bus been done
so general on the local market thL
week. The soles are increasing in bulk
as the season advances ftnd the price
seem tr> be holding on better that) wi?s
cxpected The l etter grades are s-.*6\v
in? an advance and the demand i
ro?d All Companies are representei
11 \ ,1 iii,
shown. Make a visit to Louisourg.
You are welcomed at aU times. ?
? Wnritu ffyj
Roxboro, Sept. S.?An event of much i
interest fliruushout the State occurred
on last Saturday afternoon when Mrs. |
I3r*lle Wagstaff gave in marriage her
danghfer. Vera. 10 TVtr. Grover O. Hnr- \
ri.\ of Louisburg. The ceremony we-?
very simple, with only near relatives i
of the. coupTj present. Hev. J. A. D*l-:
ly grive the impressive vows, while
Miss ilulda! L. Hester presided at the
piano.
Mrs. Harris is a graduate of Louis
burg College and for several years i
he s been a suc^es^ful teacher. She'
has many friend.) who will wish her ,
much happiness.
Mr. Harris is a popular warehouse
man" and is well known In the business
world.
"After a few days honeymoon Mr.
and Mrs. Harris will be at home to
i Heir f riends in Louisburg.
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BELGIAN ARMY HONPRS THE AMERICAN FLAG
"Old Glory" has boon honored repeatedly throughout Belgium In gratitude for American generosity In helping
that nation "luring Its darkest days. Jn tlie photograph are shown oflieera of tho Belgian army together with thrtr
'troops marching post the American Oog Id booor to the nation. ' , .
REVIVAL AT METHODIST CHURCH
Rev. F. S. Love to Preach Sunday?Rev.
? n. Til milium ir m jimi.it ii'lin j
Revival.
Revival services will be held at tho
Methodist church beginning the fourth
Sunday. Rev. A. L. Stanfcrd of Wades
boro, X. C., will assist the pastor. Mr.
Sta-nford is perhaps the most success
ful pastor-evangelist in the Methodist
church in North Carolina and his com
ing to Louisburg will be a groat op-?
portunity to the people here.
Rev. p. S. Love, President of Louis
burg College will preach at the Meth
odist cchurch at the eleven o'clock
hour Sunday. The pastor will preach
at 8:30 P. M.
(; riff In-Smith.
Mrs. Jo!^n U. Smith, of this city yes
terday announced t lie marriage of her
daughter, Miss Frances Knight Smith
to Mr. Graham Ford Griffin, Tuesday
afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Raleigh, X.
C; The marriage took place at the
parsonage of the First Baptist Church
and^the ceremony was performed by
Dr. *T. W. O'Kelly. the pgstor. The
bride is an attractive young woman
of this city. The. groom is a native of
Louisburg, but is now a resident of
this city.
MRS. .1. R. CHEATHAM READ.
Was on a Visit at the Home of Her
rather, 3Ir. R. W. Rallard.
Franklinton, Sept. 8,?This place is
bowed under a weight of sorrow today
At 4:30 this morning Mrs. J. B. Cheat
am. nee Miss Xena Ballard, died at the
home of her father, Mr. B. W# Ballard,
whom she was visiting. No one in the
place, not even her nearest relatives,
were prepared for the news, and it
was a complete surprifc as well as
a shock to the entire community when
the word was passed fro m lip to lip
that thii4 popular and well beloved wo
man had died. She came here from
her home in Nashville, Tenn., about a
month ago to visit her parents, and
she was in fine health so far as her
friends knew. About a week ago it
was1 announced that siie was not well
t*nd had decided to remain over for a
few days when her husband left for
his home. No one was aware at any
time that Mrs. Cheatham's condition
was even considered dangerous till a
few minutes before death came to her.
Her husband had been wired to come
and arrived on a belated train lust 15
iqinutes after his wife died.
Mrs. Cheatham wa?1 a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Ballard, who are
among the most prominent people of
Franklin County, and she, during her
young womanhood days, was one of
Franklin's most popular young ladies.
She was a member of the Methodist
Episcopal Church.? South, and lived
true to the obligations she assumed
when she became a member. She was
possessed of a g weet disposition which
always drew friends to her.
?
ried to Mr. J. B. Cheatham, of this
place, and she leaves with him two
little children, a boy and a girl. Her
fhthtr. r"rl"tr ''tcc
brother survive. Her sisters are Mrs.
William Joyner and. Mrs. Yarboro,
formerly of Louisburg,. but now of
Oglethorpe. Ga., where her husband is
in training for overseas service. Mr.
Walter BaTTard. who now lives irr
Tennessee, is her only brother.
The funeral services will be held
some'time Monday afternoon and the
remains deposited in the family bury
ing plot at the city cemetery.
Hiipimilmrs Around Dickens.
' Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Simpson went to
Centrevtlle Thursday on a business
trip.
Superintendent of Greenlief-Johnson
{Lumber Co., Mr. R. H. Holland,is im
proving from the fall he got from bis
I horse a few days ago. ?
Mr. Ben Williamson, of Louisburg,
was on our streets Tuesday.
Mr. T. H. Dickens and some young
' parties went to Louisburg Tuesday.
I Mr. Morris Griffin and sister, Miss
i Lossie, were visitors in our town Sun
day evening.
i How about scraping the road? It
I has a few holes and bumps in it.
i Cotton crops are right much short.
Some say 400 pounds of seed cotton
? per acre will be the average in this
[section.
| Mr. T., H. Dickens and J. G. Murphy
j ent to Louisburg the 29th to the open"
ing sale of the tobacco warehouses.
' Mr. Willie Brewer brought a oweet
'potato? to Mr. Dickens' Eto.ro last Fri
day and it weigher 3 pounds and 2
ounces. He is a champion ho? and
potatoe raiser.
Mr .T. H. Dickens has purchased a
new Ford truck to do his hauling with.
('apt. J. R. Collins carried a load of
tobacco to Louisburg Monday. We
beleve^he is a good farmer as well as a
good mechanic.
Dr. W. B. Morton filled his regular
appointment Saturday and Sjtiday at
White Level. He preached a most in
teresting sermon to the people of this
community.
Mr. F. G. Enton spent. Sunday at
Buies Creek with his people.
Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Smith were visit
ors in our town Sunday .
BLUE BELL.
?Rov. X. H. D. Wilson will fill hi?
appointment at Katesvill? Sunday af
ternoon next. ??
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