9HE SOBKSOMIAN THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1917
; '
THE SEASON
FQR STRAWS -
The most delightful season of the
year is now here and it is time for
you to pull off that old felt hat and
put on a Straw.
We are showing some of the latest
styles and colors in Panama & Straw
hats for young men and boys. - The
prices are much lower than they are
in other towns.
Come in at Your Earliest
Convenience & take a Look
EC. M-. BIGGS
DEPARTMENT STORE
LUMfcERTON, . . . N. C.
PAGE SEVEN
iKAUNED RAILWAY MEN TO ADVERTISE LIRTTOTV t h a v
VVII.T. dp cuvt it-oaxt nu.wvuai, LlBJUtlY LOAN
First American Troops to be Sent to
France Will be 9 New Regiments of
Highly-Trained Railway Men The
New Forces Will be Volunteers
Washington Dispatch, May 7.
Nine new regiments of army en
gineers, to be composed exclusively of
highly trained railway men, will be
the first American troops to be 'sent
to France. They will go "at the earl
iest possible moment," the War De
partment announced today, for work
on communication lines, but specu
lation as to exactly when or to what
points they will be. sent is forbidden
because of the submarine menace.
me new iorces will be volunteers,
The Unfathomed Possibilities of the
United States Mail Are to be Dp
veloped to Bring Home to Every
Person in the Country the Need of
ouoscMDing to the Liberty: Loan
Washington Disoatch. Mnw 7
The unfathomed possibilities of the
United States mails as a medium of
governmental publicity are to be de
veloped to bring home to .every per
son in wie cuuntry tne need of sub
scribing to the Liberty Loan. Every
letter of the many millions that pass
daily through the mails soon is - to
bear . a special cancellation stamp of
striking design to notify all nersons
, receiving mail, that the nation is call-
raised at the nine great railway cenf or l"T$
ters of the country. Each regiment iue, me Dig Dona
will be commanded by an engineer, Every letter box of the hundreds
colonel of the regular army, aided by!0r thousands in the country in hi
an adjutant. AH other officials will ; placarded S&SSSl
beT?llWpT-ii0ff icialS' ft0 and the I for coSbutionl!
The expedition will have a total Everv nosofficp tn Hiei9w w
strength of between 11000 uA WSiSS
men, each regiment being composed 's t0 the issue v "ia"u"
LtW0 attalions of three companies Every one of the 60,000 vehicles op
each. Every branch of railway erated by the Postof f ce Department,
workers necessary to the building or, from the 0ne-horse buggy of the
operation of lines wiU be represented niral carrier to the powerful mail
in the ranks and the War Department tmrVs in th n,-nm-n.i "
expects a response to the call that
will permit a careful selection to be
exercised and insure a force already
n
nm twinyDii cat
PmtCTiows
Summer Colds Weaken
They are even more danromua tv
colds, for they hang on so long that they be
come chrome catarrh. Heat .and dust ag
gravate them, cause the infected surface to
spread, and fill the body with systemic cat-
rr. ixegiect costs neaitn and energy.
PERUNA EXPELS CATARRH
Jl?068 mre---t bufldsup the weakened system, regulates the diges
tion, removes the inflammation, overcomes the poisons of catarrh, and ml
Liquid or tablet form, whichever is the more convenient;
The Peruna Company, Commons, Ohio
proclaim in large type from posters'
on its siaes tnat the Liberty Loan
5 nnpn tn snhscrintimit! r-nA fVni. ;
the minulp, .an army of ;a At nf 0i.. ,-4-; .-u
to suDscnDe. livery letter carrier m
every city is to have a card to stick
in his cap. More than that, everv
letter carrier and everv free -delivery
trained to
experts in railway operation
Recruiting for the regiments and
the organization of each force will be
j directly under the colonel of each reg
military necessity fnr
food supply of the nation, I hereby
vuKe myseu to ao my bit as fol
lows: "I will use only those amounts
of food required for adequate nour
ishment. I will endeavor to control
the waste and to live simply. I will
begin now.' "
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iiiio. vuarence uonnson, tne new
president, and Mrs. Bickett, are thor
oughly in accord in this enterprise
and what they can do for Raleigh
win be a great deal. Mrs. Johnson
as the club head is expected to keep
tne state actively in sympathy with
I will begin
lmeiltv TheCruitie5 ?in.tS nVbe! carrier is to be a bureau of informa
New York, Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, tlon as to the termg of the isgue
Pittsburg, Detroit, Atlanta, San Fran
cisco and Philadelphia.
Brotherhoods to Co-operate
Officials believe the great railroad
brotherhoods will co-operate, throw
in? the steneth .of the unions be-
nma tne recruiting eiiorts. ine ran- featUres probably will be added lat
wav comnames already are so orean.l -. i
This part of the nationwide adver
tising campaign was decided upon to
day at a conference between Robert
W. Woolley, publicity director for the
issue, ond James B'akeslee. fourth as.
s'stant postmaster general. Other
Bullock Bros. Auto Livery
Double daily service between Lumberton and Fairmont'
SCHEDULE
Leave Lorraine Hotel Leave . Passenger Station
8:30 a. m. 10:15 a. m.
3 p. m. k 630 p. m.
Rotrnd trip $1 or 50 cents one way.
Repair Work & Auto Supplies
Phones 231-221-18-55
LUMBERTON, N. C.
ized under the Council of National
Defense that their vo-operation is. as
sured,
er. In the meantime, other methods
of bringing to every citizen of the
country a realization of the nation's
needs and his opportunity to help are
The decision to send the engineers! under consideration. Among these
is understood to have grown out on
conferences here between government
officials and members, of the French
and British war missions. One of the
and to live simply,
now."'
The Greensboro News remarks
that "it is a gluttonous waste,. this
eating of refreshments at off-hours;
and moreover it is a positive task
except for those piggish persons who
Pie always hungry and never happy
except in the act of deglutition. 'Re
fresh ments' should be at regular
feeding time or not at all." And
that's true, too. Eating the refresh
ments no matter how nice they are,
this movement and 4,000 of the most 153 ? positive burden to many people
energetic club women can do a creat
deal for the food problem.
uut of this movement will doubt
nd the amount of waste can hardly
be estimated. But it's the stvle
ard most society folks would rather
less grow a bisreer one. an enternrise be dead than out style each tries
tnat mav resn t m vmitina. f a me uuiw, anu so it, troes. n
large number of women from countrv '1 now becoming fashionable to leave
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anu town, uy organizing tnem in
every county by the hundreds it is
possible to make the food problem
felt in terms of millions and that's
what some of the Raleigh women have
in mind. The club women in fed
eration have taken the lead.
ave the uses to wh?ch electrical -ad
vfertising signs can be used.
In addition, Secretary McAdoo has
under consideration a speech-making
greatest problems of the war has been; tour in interest of &Tbiff issue
that of mabitaininff adequate supply
lines, and the railroads are the vital
element of the system that feeds men,
shells and food toward the lighting
front from channel ports and from
France.
America is pre-eminent in the field
of railway engineering and the best
talent and experience the nation can
nrovide in that line will eo into the
new regiments, each of which would
be able to undertake all or any part
of the work of building or operating
a whole railway system.
While the regular engineer troops
of the army are among the best drill
ed in the service, it is improbable that
the new regiments will be subjected
to any lengthy military, training. They
are only for the sake of greater mo
bility and efficiency.
The administration's action means
mr. mcaqoo nas received numerous
invitations recently to speak in the
Middle west.
Responses to the offer of the bie
issue have been extremely gratifying
thus far, Mr. McAdoo announced tonight.
GET OUT A' POLICY
and do it now. Fires are dis
astrous bnd delays ; are : dan
gerous. '
Yon can't bring back what
is consumed by fire. You can,
though,
BE REIMBURSED ON
YOUR FIRE LOSS
if it's one of our companies .
Premiums on doubtful policies
is money thrown away.
Be sure and insure with us.
Q. T. WILLIAMS
Lumberton, N. C.
4,000 Club Women of This State to
Enlist' in Food Conservation
Raleigh Cor. Greensboro Daily News.
The Raleigh club women returning
trom the federation m Durham
Saving the Waste
Statesville Landmark.
All over the State the society la
dies are cutting out refreshments at
their functions and curtailing other
unnecessary expense as a result of
the war. Club wamen in. many
towns Statesville among - others
are not only doing this, but some of
trem a club m Mooresville being
a notable instance are directing
the efforts of their clubs to some
profitable and practicable work in
connection with the war. Mrs. Bick-J
ett, the wife of the Governor, it is
said will leave off refreshments at
social gatherings at the Executive;
Mansion. At the meeting of the '.
State Federation of Women's Clubs!
off the refreshments and maybe this
latest lashion will be found so sen
sible that it will continue after the
war shall have ended.
Corns Loosen OK
With Magic "Sots-It"
2 Drops Do the Work, Painlessly.
"I tell you. before I heard of
'Gets-It' I used to try one thing after
another for corns. I still had them.
I used bandages and they made my
missionaries for food conservation in yumam, tms weeic tne ionowmg,
and they begin at once among their . Pieaf!re was circulated ior signa-;
400 members here in Ralekrh.
Two hundred and fifty women sign
ed the pledge Friday to reduce and to
xures : j
"In view of the pressing military!
Kpce.ssities of conserving the food
1 j-i x T 1 1 1 J
create rt the same ime. There are ? e . nereoy pieuge
4.000 rluh wnmor ;t, . sstatn 9nH myseu to ao my dii. i win use omy,
, - 1 . I r I thAca
for adequate aiourishment. I will
in
1 1 t 1 . ... . A . A At - 1 ? 1
on these r-,0 fall tT, worlr of rrrVJ "se amounts 01 looa as requireu
: t- . 1 AX. J4. J!
that. American troops carrying tne JT- nr. . ,
v "f!? SSfSr living. -The Iteration received from
American flag and m the uniform of w p w, n:.i.ii - i-.
French soil. If .lhereJs psychoiogi-
MONEY TO LOAN
On Improved Farm Lands Desirably I ocated.
EASY TERMS. WRITE OR CALL ON US.
THE MUTUAL LOAN & TRUST CO.
H. H McALLXSTEIL, IWdentTHOS. JOHNSON, Sec-Tre.
Annual Confederate Ve
erans Reunion
WASHINGTON, D. C. June 4-8th.
Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co.
-ANNOUNCES-
GREATLT REDUCED RATES FROM ALL POINTS ON ITS
, . .LINES
im from nbi of the principal points in -North Carolina and
sutk (Jaroiiaa as louows: -
Shelby ... - , .. o.vo
CharlotU 8-W
Aberdeen -.N8.2S
Sanford 7-65
Lumberton 8.90
Laurinburg .. 8.85
Apex .. .. T1"
Rftleigb .. 0-83
Dillon S C -15
Marion S C -50
FrankUnton 6.30
Norlina B70
oJsto, ,90
WKWboro no.
2?A .. .. '.. .. S.20
WQiniHUa 8.&0
urham :;:: :: :: S5S
Mullina S C 9 JO
Wales Tot t.10
Hewierson 695
cal value in such a movement, as both
French and British ; ., commissioners
have urged; it will show .itself with
the. arayaLin France of the first en
gineer regiment;
It will; not be necessary to equip
the engineers with the tools of
their craft. France and Britain can
supply whatever is" needed, probably
supplementea Dy an aaaitionai sup
I nlv. Recause of this, there will be
no need for delay in sending the en
gineer troops forward. They will
need little but their uniforms, arms
and personal equipment before they
can be sent .to the front.
President Authorized to Use War
Bound Vessels
The joint resolution, already
aHonfprl Tv the Senate, authorizing the
President to put into service vessels
of the enemy in American ports were
adopted by the House of Congress
without arecord vote after an all day
debate.
The measure gives legal sanction
to the administration's plan of util
w:.rr thA.9fi war-bound German mer
chantmen as government vessels and
putting them into the trans-Atlantic
trade as part of the great commercial
fleet i tiled on to break -.he , T
boat blockade. Confident that Con
gress would approve, the executive
branch of the government already has
begun repairing the damage .done to
the vessels by their German crews
and at least two are loaaing now at
Eastern ports. After the war Ger
many is expected to make the claim
that in taking over the vessels the
tt'tI coao vinintAd i celebrated
UlUbCU UW.g
treaty of 1828, but StateDepartment
officials believe there is no vauu
ground for such complaint.
Cashier Thomas Pardoned by Gover
nor . , .
TVinmaa Thomas, defaultme cashier
of the Bank of Beaufort, was par
doned Monday byGov.Bickett from the
2-y ears' sentence imposea Dy juuge
gun serving May 10. ine dooh.s uj.
the bank showed false entries that
covered shortages .aggregating $62,
nnn and Thomas entered a nolo con
tendere and gave very assistance in
straightening out- tne accounts, a
big delegation of the most prominent
.w.oud nf the Koairrorc . isecuou.
VlUAVOd "j. vw I
backed by petiions that represented
85 per cent oi the ciuzensmp oi vnc
ntv. urced tha nardon. Thomas
UotmI'W tb neoDle of his sec
tion' as a citizen of exemplary life,
and is said to nave prontea nowung
K -nv Hnllftp irivovled in the short
age, but made the entries in an ef
fort to adjust the affairs oi ms xawn-
er in his personal accounts ana
accounts as county treasurer.
ing 4he nowvfamous ietter of "a far
mr'.iv'ife".""itt:: which the worker in
the country asked-why society persist
in feeding- heavily n and expensively
people who are not hungry. The coun
try woman urged: society to abolish
this perfectly foolish and needless
waste of costly food.
Mrs. Bickett pledged herself to the
principle of simplicity and economy
in social affairs about the mansion.
And the federation put itself on re'
endeavor to control the waste in all
kinds of .materials in . the household
CUT . THIS OUT IT IS WORTH
! i- 3 Money ; f ?
DONT MISS; THIS. Cut on, this
slip, enclose with 5c to Foley & Co.
2835- Sheffieldj Ave., Chicago, 111.,
writing your name and address clear
ly. You will receive in return a trial
package containing Foley's Honey
Corns Drive You Mad? Try "Gets-It"
and They'll Peel Rlsht Off I
toe so big it was murder to put on
my shoe. I used salves and other
things that ate off more of the toe
than they, did the corn. TA cut and
digr with knives and scissor, but
now no more fooling for-me. TWO
drops pf Grets-It did all the work.
It makes fhe com shrivel and set so
loose that 'you can Just pick it right
off .with your fingers V! j
There has been nothing- new dis
covered for corns since "Gets-It"
was born. . ,Ifs the .new. way the
Common-sense, simple, sure way.
"Gets-It" is sold everywhere. 25c
a bottle, or sent on receipt -of price
by E. Iawrence & Co., Chicago. 111.
Sold m Lumberton and recommend.
cord thus: "In view of the pressing where,
and Tar Compound for. coughs, colds
and croup; Foley Kidney Pills, and ed as the World's best corn remedy
Foley Cathartic Tablets. Sold every- by Pope Drug Co., and J. D. McMil
lan & Sen.
aW?ck.eta m en sale or all trains scheduled to stop at
S Et?tions June 2nd to 7th limited to reach original starting
prior to mid-night of June 21st. Tickets can be extended
beWlyT Cth fcy depositing same with SPECIAL AGENT on or
5 i 2l8t and Payment of fifty cents (50 cents),
dresa detailed information call on any Seaboard Agent or ad-
J0HN T. WEST. Division Passeneer Agent,
5, sZ
"Chamberlain's Tablets Have Done
"T )ita htm a. sufferer from stom
ach trouble for a number of years,
T Tiava iised'a. irreat
CftUU 1W1AVs, . d
number of 'remedies recommended for
this complaint, Chamberlain's 'laoiets
is the first medicine . tnat nas given
anA lasting relief." writes
Mn Anna Tfadin. SnenJcernort, N.
Y. "Chamberlain's Tablets have done
wonders for me and I value tnem very
highly." Obtainable everywhere.
Ford Service for the owners of Ford cars is a fact courteous,
prompt, efficient. Service which covers the entire country, almost as a
blanket, to the end that Ford cars are kept in use every day. Drive
' where you will, here's a Ford Agent nearby to look after your Ford car.
The "Universal Car" will bring you universal service. Better buy yours
today. Touring Car $360, Runabout ?345, Coupelet $505, Town Car $595,
Sedan$645 all f.' o. b. Detroit. We sbcilit your order.
Robeson Auto Company
LUMBERTON. N. C
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. $3 so $50
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Fr SLENDER and AVERAGE FIGURES
Give Style, Comfort and perfectly fitting Gown1
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