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r ONIA H ROBES N ESTABLISHED 1870. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. COUNTRY. GOD AND TRUTH $1.."0 A YEAR. DUE IX ADVANCE. " 1 1 1 VOL. XLV. LUMBERTON, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1914. NUMBER 63 t. THESE WILL BUY A BALE. Postmaster D D French and Messrs. Wh to r.mitrh Will BUT a uaie i .. n a I of "Distress' Cotton at 10 Cents Cotton Must Belong to a Widow Who Is Unable To Hold-Who Will Join This Movement? Postmaster D. D. French and Mr. A, E. White of the firm of White & Gough, authorize The Robesonian to state that they will buy at 10 cents per pound a bale of cotton from some widow who is unable to hold her cot ton. Mr. French will purchase a bale for himself and probably will put it in front of the postoffice with a label "I Have Bought a Bale at 10 Cents. Have You?" and the firm of White & Gough will do the same thing. The first bale of cotton tendered either Mr. French or Messrs. White & Gough that meets the conditions nam ed above will be purchased, and the cotton will be held until the price goes to 10 cents. Who will join this movement? The Robesonian will be glad to publish the names of any individuals or firms that will agree to purchase one bale or any number of bales at 10 cents the pound. This plan is very popu lar all over the country and it will help boost the market Every mer chant who can get a Northern creditor to purchase a bale will also help. Farmers & Merchants Bank Buys a Ral Committee. Soliciting. , . oince -' vne mwy tiw j r Mr. K. M. Barnes has advised The Robesonian that he has purchased a bale of "distress" cotton for the Far mers & Merchants Bank from J. W. Davis. The bale is setting in front of the bank. Messrs. Dennis W. Biggs and Postmaster D. D. French had a paper drawn up this morning and are making a canvass to induce men and business concerns to buy a bale within the next two weeks. It is very likely that The Robesonian will be able to publish in Monday's issue a long list of those who will buy a bale. VILLA STARTS SOMETHING Disavows Carranza As First Chief Will Not Participate in Constitu tional Convention. Washington Dispatch, 23d. General Villa has telegraphed Gen eral Carranza disavowing the latter as first chief of the Constitutionalist ar my in charge of executive power in Mexico. This was announced in a telegram from General Carranza to night to the Constitutionalist agency. General Villa announced at the same time that neither he nor hia delegates would participate in the Na tional Convention called for October 1 at Mexico City to designate a pro visional president. The exchange of telegrams resulted from General Carranza's order to sus pend railroad communication between Augus Calientes and Torreon until he could learn whether or not General Obregon, commander of the division of the Northeast, was held under ar rest by Villa. Dog Tried To Eat Baby. A neighbor's dog had apparently made up his mind to eat the 2-months-old baby at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Spivey, who live 5 miles from Lumberton on Fairmont road, Tues day, when Mr. and Mrs. Spivey, who were picking cotton right at the house, were warned by the cries of the infant and arrived on the scene in time to scare the dog away before much damage was done. When Mr. and Mrs. 'Spivey Tushed fnjto the house the dog was dragging the baby from its crip by a leg. There were scratches on the baby's face made by the dog's teeth, indicating, apparent, ly, that the dog had tasted and found that the helpless young thing was soft and sweet and had decided to pull him out and finish him. The father of the baby is a brother of Mr. A. E. Spivey of Lumberton. Millinery Openings. Millinry openings of unusual inter est to the ladies of Lumberton and near-by towns are being held in Lum berton this week. Tuesday day, the first day of Miss Josephine Breece's opening, her exclusive milli nery store was crowded all day with enthusiastic customers and ladies have been flocking to her store every day since. Her opening will continue all this week. Miss Amelia Linkhauer, whn has charge or the millinery de partment of Messrs. R.' D. Caldwell & Son's department store, is having her opening today and tomorrow, and this stoi e is also the mecca of the ladies. The hats, aside from the beauty of shapes and materials, are both large and small, and unusually, becoming. The smart military effects are very prominent. Pheasant tails, mercury wing. gold and silver roses and rib bons, .Roman stripes and persiahs are especially good. The promising shades for the season lean strongly toward black and white, paris, brown and rreen, and midnight blue. Who said "War?"; THE WAR SITUATION. ! status a Warfare On Long Line in France Remains Unchanged Allies Continue Attacks Upon Strongly Entrenched Positions of Germans Single Submarine Sunk British Cruisers. Again the status of warfare on the long lino in France remains unchang ed, according to the official report of the French war office. The battle has developed into a war of assault, with the Allies in the role of attackers against the strongly en. trenched positions of the Germans, which are fortified with large and small artillery pieces and hedged about with barbed wire entangle ments. The French report says in these circumstances progress necessa rily must be slow must be slow. In the eastern war zone the Rus sians report that they are still pur. suing the retreating. Austrians in Galacia, while on the German frontier the German and Russian armies are in close contact, but no engagement has occurred. A press despatch says the Servians have retaken Liubovia from the Au strians and that in the fighting the losses were heavy. A news agency dispatch is authority for the statement that the Germans have entrenched and mined approaches to Brussels and also are fortifying the, region arqijnd Ath northwest of on the Germans sljpuld a. retreat be forced. In reply to German's protest against China's violation of neutrality of neu trality by permitting Japanese troops to, land on her soil, China said she was unable to defend her neutrality. A German official report says the Russians lost in the battles near Tan. nenburg 150,000 men killed andd 90, 000 captured. Another German report says that a single German submarine sank the three British cruisers lost in the North Sea Tuesday. While the location of this daring torpedo attack has not been established definitely, it is as sumed the attack took place off the mouth of the Kiel canal. This deduc tion was made from one of the survi- ' vors of the British ships, who said the vessels went down "thirty miles off the new waterway." The latet esti mate of casualties in the district gives tbout 1,400 of the 2,100 officers and men on boars the three wasships as lost. British aeroplanes have invaied Germany and dropped bombs on a Zeppelin airship hangar at Dussel dorf. The Germans ciaim no damage was done by the aerial attack. An official statement issued in Brr lin says the Germant art commission for Belgium reports that all art works and monumental buildings in Louvain and Liege were saved during the re- German bombardments. The town hall of Louvain, the report says, was not damaged by the German shell fire. A Vienna despatch says the Hunga rian minister of the interior reports there has been nine cases of Asiatic cholera among the wounded in Hun gary. According to a despatch from Paris a Russian drniser has sunk a German cruiser and two German torpedo boats in the Baltic. McAdoo Will Coerce National Banks. Washington Dispatch, 23d. Secretary McAdoo tonight adopted stringent measures to urge National banks to extend legitimate credit and charge normal interest rates on loans. He telegraphed to ten national banks in the four reserve cities in the South that their requests for additional crop moving funds from the Federal gov ernment would not be granted at this time, and made it clear that his action was taken in connection with reports of excessive interest rates and restric. tions of credits. In a statement made public with the telegram, Mr. McAdoo declared there was an extraordinary hoarding of money by banks throughout the country and piling up of reserves without occasion. The German Emperor has taken up his quarters in Luxemburg according to a Paris dispatch to the Exchange Company. Thousands of troops ara stationed around the legation where he resides. To guard again possible raids by French aviators, a squad ron of aeroplanes is in constant read iness to beat off attacks. The Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America announced at New York Tuesday night it was prepar ing papers for a suit in the Federal courts to determine whether the United States Government has the right and power to close its plants for not observing the naval neutrality regulations. Secretary aDniels says that he does not propose to allow court litigation to interfere with the enforcement of neutrality at all wire less stations. . IMPROVED CONDITION'S SOON i when Federal Reserve Act Gets Operation Next Month Southern Banks Will Be Able to Get More Money A.W. McLean Explains why Southern Banks Cannot Get Much Money Under Aldrich-Vreeland Act, Which He Says is a Delusion and a Snare No Further Aid Need Be Expected From Government. Mr. A. W. McLean returned Tues day night from Washington, where he attended Monday a conference on the cotton ssituation. He was also a member of the committee that waited en Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo Tuesday. Mr. McLean thinks the financial situation will be very mater. ially improved next month when the new Federal Reserve System is put into operation and he was not at all surprised when Secretary McAdoo told him and the other members of the committee that, the Federal Gov ernment can do nothing more to re lieve the situation that confronts cot. ton farmers. A month ago when he returned from one of the first con ferences on .cotton held at Washing ton he said he was satisfied that no relief could come from the aNtional Government And the plan lie advanced then was pronounced at the conference in Washington Monday as the most feasible plan that had been advanced, the only 'objection - urged boing a doubt as to whether the Legislatures the issue of the necessary bonds. Among the North Carolina dele gatesto the meeting Monday were Governor Craig,, Attorney General Bickett, Dr. Clarence Poe of Raleigh, Dr. H. Q. Alexander president of the "State Farmers' Union, and other members of the Union. The Gover nors of Alabama and Mississippi were also there. They attended a hearing on the Henry bill before. the committee on banking and currency of. the House of Congress., This bill provides for the United States Government to pur chase one-half the cotton crop at 12 cents per pound and hold it, and also provides some law to prevent planting next year mora than 50 per cent of the acreage this year It is the gen eral opinion that this bill will not pass. North Carolina Congressmen say it is impossible to got Congress men from other sections to vote for this bill because they would want other products to be included and for for the further reason that the Gov ernment could not provide the money because Government receipts have beean greatly d'minished by the fall ing off in customs duties on account of the shortage of imports caused by the European var. Mr. McLean suggested that Gov. Craig and the Governors of other Southern States should adopt his plan, which provides for a system of State licensed and bonded warehouses and lending money on warehouse receipts at 8 cents a pound to take off the mar ket about one-half the crop, when a satisfactory price could be obtained for cotton. Governor Craig and some of the Members of Congress admitted that Mr. McLean's scheme was the best that had been proposed, but Gov ernor Craig and Gov. O'Neal of Ala bama said they did not think their Legislatures would pass such a bill and that they would not call a session for that purpose. Mr. McLean insisted that the pro visions of the Aldrich-Vreeland bill should be extended to State banks and that the severe restrictions being imposed in regard to bonding ware houses and commercial pa per should be eliminated, because un der the present conditions none of the banks in the South have the class of commercial paper required to any "great extent, most of their loans being to merchants and farmers on accommodation paper, with endors ers or collateral.. The class of commercial paper re quired is that class ,of paper produc ed by drawing against existing values; for instance, if a farmer schould sell cotton to a merchant or a mill and get a note or accepted draft in pay ment for the cotton in 90 days or 4 months, that would be commercial paper. Southern farmers and mer chants do not do business on that plan, hence the paper held by Southern banks docs not come within the rule. Mr. McLean stated that this is the main reason why the banks cf the South have not been able to get any large amount of currency un der the Aldrich-Vreeland bill, which bill he declared is a delusion and a snare so far as meeting, present con ditions is concerned. It was passed by a Republican Congress in 1908 and framed for the special benefit of large banks in New York and other financial centers North. As soon as the Democratic measure known as the Federal Reserve act gets in operation Mr. McLean believes conditions will be much better. Senator Overman, who was chair man of the rmeting held Monday ap pointed Representatives H. L. Godwin, E. Y. Webb and E. W. Pou, Senator Simmons, Drs. Alexander and Poe, FARMERS' BONDED WAREHOUSE ,, , farmers and others to-operat.ng to Get Farmers Bonded Warehouse in Operation in Lumberton Commit, j tee Appointed to Have Wartthouse j Company Bonded - Arrangements j Progressing Satisfactorily. Arrangements for getting the Farmers' Bonded Warehouse Co., of Lumberton in working shape are pro gressing satisfactorily and will be completed, it is confidently expected in a few days. At a meeting Tuesday of the committee appointed recently by the county Farmers Union to make arrangements to operate the Lumber ton tobacco warehouse, which was tendered for the use of farmers free of rent, Messrs. K. M. Barnes and W. P. Barker of Lumberton were appoint, ed a committee to have the warehouse bonded, and this committee is busy and will be ready to report in a day or so. The Farmers' Union committe that has had this matter in charge and that has held several meetings late ly is composed ofMr. D. H. Britt, president of the county Union, Messrs M. Shepherd, Ira F. Townsend, Jno. E. Carlyle and Jno. T. Singletary. Every member of this committee ex cept Mr. Carlyle has agreed to sign the necessary bond to put the ware-, house in operation as a bonded ware, hoifse, and the following have agreed to sign with them : ' Messrs Evander breth, N. A. Townsend, W. P. Bar ker, K. M. Barnes, Geo. L.. Thompson, L. H. Townsend. It is expected that enough others will agree to sign with these to bring the total number to twenty or twenty-five. That is the sort of co-operation that counts. When the farmers make up their minds to work together like that something is bound to be ac complished. VIRGINIA VOTES DRY. State-Wide Prohibition Won at Polls in Virginia. . The State-wide prohibition forces won a sweeping victory at the polls in Virginia today, returns at mid night showing that they had won by a majority of 32,825. This figure will be increased largely in favor of the c'rys when further returns are receiv ed fom counties which tonight are inaccessible. With complete returns from all the cities and 44 of the counties and with scattering returns from other coun ties, the total vote is 121,763. It is estimated that tl e final total vote will reach 150,000. Of this vote the drys received 77,. 453 as against 44,618 for the local op tionists. The cities which were ex. pected to roll up a majority for the local optionists, sprung a surprise by giving 1,315 for the drys. Only four cities Norfolk, Williams burg, Alexandria and Richmond re turned majorities for the wets. The total votes cast in these cities was 40,997 of which the drys got 20,146. Plans to issue postage stamps bear ing the American and British flags tc commemorate the one-hundredth an niversary of peace between the two countries have been deferred indefi nitely. It is thought that it would be injudicious to issue such a series dur. ing the war. The American Peace Society has approved the postpone, ment. Attorney General Bickett and Mr. Mc Lean a committee, Mr. Overman also being a member of the committee, to call Tuesday upon Sec. McAdoo, who told them he had done ah he could do. He said he thought con ditions would rapidly improve, that transportation to Europe soon would be resumed and a good deal of cot ton would be exported. The Federal Reserv Systm would be ready, he said to bgin business by October 15, and a good deal of money could be had by Southern banks under the provis. ions of that system. Mr. McAdoo called attention to the fact that in 1911, when there was no war and business conditions were nor mal, and the cotton crop about the same size as the crop this year, that cotton was selling at this time of year at 8 and 8 1-2 cents, and he de clared that one of the great troubles is Southerners are expecting to get a great deal more for their cotton j will take ro further steps either to than they would be getting if there i sound the tjelngrets or otherwise was no war. He said that the crop is j press the offer of the American gov so large that those who would or- j ernment to mediate. The president dinarily purchase would not be wil- j indicated that he was studying the ling to pay what they paid last year best method and most opportune time when the crop was 2 or 3 million j for the Unit?! States to exert its in hales less than the present crop, fluence for a cessation of the cor.. After the conference with Mr. Mc Adoo Tusday Governor Craig issued a statement in which he said that hope that the Federal Government would issue millions of dollars of currency on cotton or on State bonds with which-to buy cotton might, as well be abandoned, but that conditions are rapidly improving, that the farmers are holding cotton and are going to hold it bntil the prices improve. ! ALLEGED BLOCK ADER CAUGHT. Officer Found a Still in Operation in Howe llsville Township and Arrest ed W. B. Smith Hearing This Af. ternoon. Deputy Marshal Austin Smith, Sheriff R. E. Lewis, Deputies A. H. Frevatt and Wm. Freeman, and Ru ral Policemen Eli Phillips, Willis Britt and L. H. Townsend yesterday afternoon raided the place of William B. Smith, in Howellsville township, 6 1-2 miles north-east of Lumberton, and captured Smith at a whiskey still which was running full blast. It was a crude affair made of something like an oil tank. Beer amounting to about 350 gallons and a small quan tity of whiskey were destroyed. Smith objected to the destruction of the juice claiming that it belonged to another man. He was placed in jail las night and is being given a hear ing before United States Commission er W. H. KJnlaw. Smith told the officers last night that he could lead them to two other stills in the same neighborhood and this morning the officers named above. with eputy Marshal Leak Smith, went out with Smith, but they failed to find a sign of stills where Smith said they would be found. They brought back Geo. Allen on the charge of Detailing. but having.no evidence against him he was turned loose. Death of Miss Vick Paul. Personal Mention. Correspondence of The Robesonian. Buie, Sept. 23. Miss Blanche Mc Callum of Rowland spent a few days in the Philadnlphus community visit ing at the home of Misses Annie and. Janie Humphrey. Dr. W. A. Mc Phaul of Lumberton visited relatives at Bide-A-Wee farm in the Philadel phus . community last FViday. Miss Clelia Brftt visited friends .in th.2 Raft Swamp community Sunday. Misses R. D. Buie and Laura Jonas were Lumbertor. visitor Tuesday. Misses Mary Cattle Brown and Mat tie McGoogan and Mr. Robert Brown spent Wednesday at Jackson Springs Messrs. Walter McMillan and Pey ton McMillan and Mi. -Is Maria Mc Millan and the writer spent Monday evening in Fayettaville. Mr. I. P. Ray after spending several day.s with relatives at Laurinburg has returned home. Messrs. I. T. Brown and J. S. Brown spent Thursday in. Lumberton. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Brown of Fair mont ware visitors at Bide-a-Wee farm in the Philadelphus community last Tuesday. Mrs. Talmage Kenyon has returned to Washington after a very pleasant stay with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. John M. Brown and Miss Margaret Brown and their two boys and W. H. Brown spent Satur day in Fayetteville. Mr. Fred Brown and Kenyon Biggs were Lumberton visitors Monday. Messrs. Paisly McMillan, Walter McMillan, W. B. Malloy and J. B. Humphrey spent Monday in Barnesville. Mr. W. R. McNeill spent Monday in Lumberton. Mr. Walter McMillan and Miss Ma ria McMillan were Lumberton visitors Tuesday. Mr. Charlie McNeill was among the visitors in Lumberton Tuesday. Mr. John McLeod visited friend in the Antioch section Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Graham visited relatives near St. Pauls Sunday. Messrs. W. G. Britt and Sanford Britt were among the visitors in Lumberton Tuesday. We are sorry to report the death of Miss Vick Paul, which occurred last Saturday. She being in the bloom of life makes her death the sadder. WAR NOTES. The German cruiser Emden cap. tured six British merchant steamers in the Bay of Bengal in six days and sank five of them. The British government has placed an order at Richmond, Va., for 1,000 sets of artillery harness and 500 cav alry saddles to be ready for delivery in six weeks. It b understood caval ry and artillery mounts are also be ing bought in Virginia. President Wilson told his callers Monday that he Jwas "prayerfully working for peaca-in Europe," but it is is known that for the present he flict. The general view mor:jg Ad ministration officials is that none of the belligrents in receptive as yet to a discussion of peace terms, and with a feeling of resignation, the progress of the opposing armies is awaited. The German Government denias that peace negotiation.? are going f orward zt Washington, according to a New York dispatch of the 21st. WATCH -Watch the labH on your ' Ppt if rt-newals are not in hv date on iah., nan(,P in . ' BRIEF ITEMS OF LOCAL NEWS Born, to Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Wal ker, a boy, on Monday night. License has been issued for the marriage of Arsenio Campos and Re becca C. Smith, I. p. Ivey and Emma Bullard. As will be seen from her advertise ment elsewhere in today's paper, Miss Lorena Lewis of Fairmont will have her millinery opening October 1 and A charter has been issued for the Maxton Drug Co., Maxton, capital $10,000 authorized and 13.000 lnK scribed by G. R. Patterson and oth ers. Mr. F. J. Thomas, who has been sick for some tim, is undergoing treatment at the Gladman hospital at Southern Pines. He has been there for the past week. , Mr. D. H. Britt of Broad Ridge passed through town Monday evening en route to Madison, Wig., where be has accepted a position with the Wisconsin Southern R. JR. Co, Mrs. J. A. P. Conoly of Lum ber Bridge was among the shoppers in town Monday. Mrs. Conoly is a ed arbun-and "made ' her label read right. .-. ' Frank. W. Bankhead, represent. ing a Baltimore house, was before As sistant Recorder E. M. Johnson Tues day on the charge of distributing free samples of medicine over town. He was found not guilty. . Mr. C. V. Brown, cashier of the National Bank of Lumberton, will go tonight to Raleigh to see about pull, ing down a bi-nch of money from the tightwads that rule the distribu tion of the currency in the State just now. Mr. M. N. Folger is having erect ed a 6-room cottage on Eighth street, just east o Cedar. Mr. D. P. Walters, who has the contract, began work this week and it is expected that the resi dence will be completed by the first of November. Miss Rosamond Waddcll spend Sunday in Charlotte with her sister Mrs. W. L. Burkheimer of Wilming ton, who is very sick at the home of her sister-in-law Mrs. JI. D. Burkheimer of Charlotte. She became sick while on a visit and has not been able to return home. -r-Mrs. J. S. McDonald and infant daughter, Margaret Elmore, arrived Tuesday night from Bryson City, where at the home of Mrs. McDon ald's parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. II. Elmore, the baby was born 7 weeks ago. Mr. McDonald met them Mon day night in Raleigh, where they stayed until Tuesday afternoon art the home of his parents. Miss Lillian Proctor will leave to morrow morning for Spartanburg, S. C, to enter upon her second year as a student at Converse College. Miss Evelyn Whaley will leave Thusday of next week for Hendersonville, where she will enter Fasslfern school. She will be accompanied by her mother, Mrs. L. E. Whaley, who will spend a week at Hendersonville at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Dr. and Mrs. A. C. Tebeau. Dr. R. S. Beam wil leave tomor row evening for Philadelphia, Pa, where, as stated recently in The Robe sonian, he will take a special course in diseases of the eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Beam has been located in Lumberton for the past 10 months and has built up a good practice here, but he has decided to give up general practice and specialize. He expects to return to Lumberton about the first of the year and take up his special work. Mr. E. Hood, ,oanager of the. lo cal telephone exchange, received a telegram yesterday advising him that his father, Mr. A. E. Hood, was very sick at his home at Blenheim, S. C, and today at noon another wire stated that there was no hops for his recovery. Mrs. C. O. Roger;, a daughter of Mr. A. F, . Hood, and Mr. E. H. Hood another son, left last evening for Blenheim, and upon receipt of the second telegram an other daughter, Mrs. V . K. Horn, ;tnd her husband left in auto. Mr. E. Hood will go to Blenheim tonight. Void Kippur N'eM Week. The Jews of I.umbirton observed the Jewi.-h New Year, Roh Hashan- liiti, which begt.r :it sundown Sunday -:.d cb'Scd at sundown Monday, both Monday and Tuesday by closing their places of business and worshipping tt their synagogue. Many out-of-town Jews were here during the two days. Yf m Kippur, -Day of Atonement, be gins at sundown, Tuesday, Sept. 29, and lasts until sundown the following day. This day is observed as a dly of prayer and fasting.
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