THE ROBESONIAN'
MONDAY, JULY 22, 1918
PAGE
For Values
OVER 90 PER CENT OF
PEOPLE BUYING STAMPS
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in
Seasonable
Goods at
Reasonable
Prices
See
Our
Stock Before
You
Buy
M. BIGGS
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Starting Tuesday, July 9th. j
Plenty of Money Found in State
People Ready and Willing to Buy
i Counties Realize Their Mistake.
Winston-Salem, July 19. Two of
the most surprising things learned
; from the War Savings drive recently
; conducted in the State were that so
many people were ready and willing
to buy stamps and willing to pledge
themselves to buy far in excess of
what they had been rated as able to
buy. It is estimated tnat far over
90 per cent of all the people are now
buying War Savings stamps. "The
old State is lousy with money", one
canvasser said: "I found enough in
the county I canvassed to raise For
syth's, Guilford's and Mecklenburg's
i quotas, and the astonishing fact to me
was , he said, "everybody had more
money than anybody knew they had
and were then and there ready to buy
stamps instead of pledging them
selves to buy later on."
It is these observations that have
led county chairmen and other war
Savings workers to realize that one
of the biggest mistakes made in the
recent drive was failure to rate their
citizens high enough. In other words,
they failed to pay the people the dou
ble compliment of having as much
patriotism and as much money as
they did have. Consequently, where
this was the case, counties fell far
?hnrt of their Quotas. Pledge cards
show, however, that a large and suf
ficient number contributed to the
cause but that their pledges were
small. This instance related by onei
of the county canvassers serves wellj
to show how easy it was, as well as
how fatal for counties to make thei
mistake of rating their sitizens too!
low.
"How much have you got me down
for?" a man asked the canvasser
when he was approached. "For about
$100 worth", he said on looking at his
orrl "T ha vp alreadv bought $200
worth and intended to buy $300 more ,
said the man, "but as long as you
have me down for only $100 in all 1
will take only $100 more". The
truth of the matter was the canvass
er did not know his subject. It is
evident that he was a $1,000 prospect
if he had only paid him that compli
ment in the beginning. .
Another mistake that county chair
men have realized they made in con-
Look For The Label !
'KEEP - KOOL'
The label Keep-Kool is to Summer Clothes for men and
young men what the Mint mark is to a gold dollar. It's a
guarantee of value. Also of style and comfort
The label Keep-Kool on a Suit means that the cloth was
"Made in U. S. A." and one of the most vital things you
can do is to lend your individual support to American in
dustries. The label Keep-Kcol represents the truest form of
national co-operation and national co-operation is essential
to broad national prosperity. Be guided by these words.
Americans who control their selection of Summer Clothing
by the Keep-Kool label are sure of supporting American
looms.
R. D. CALDWELL & SON, INC.
LUMBERTON S LEADING DEPARTMENT STORE.
LUMBERTON, N. C.
Opening date f our Fairmont tobacco market and, by the way,
best market in the State we shall offer the public some of the
greatest values in merchandise ever shown in Fairmont.
A large assortment of men's mohair, Palm Beach, and Cool
Cloth suits, all new stock, $7.00 to $12.00 $12.50 to $18.00 values
and actually less than wholesale price at this time.
Large stock of men's straw and felt hats. These must go
and you have only to inspect our stock to realize the values offered.
THE GREATEST VALUES OXFORDS, OXFORDS, OXFORDS.
A great variety of men's, women's and children's oxfords. In fact,
our entire stock of Oxfords we are offering at greatly reduced
prices. You will find among these all the latest styles and a large
assortment of leathers and lasts. Besides the special bargains in
Oxords, we will offer a number of shoes at greatly reduced prices.
Besides these special"reduction sale values, we have a complete
line of summer dress goods, voiles, organdies, lawns and silk at very
low prices. These we shall be glad for you to inspect.
REMEMBER
All goods sold at SPECIAL BARGAIN PRICES must be paid
cash.
After you have sold your tobacco on the Fairmont market and
purchased your goods at our store, figure on what you have saved
by the two transactions and invest this amount in War' Savings
Stamps on sale here at all times.
Your business is appreciated give us one trial and we will
make you our permanent customer.
J. D. McLean Co.
Fairmont's Leading Department Store.
Fairmont, -:- -:- -:- -:- North Carolina
noction with the War Savings drive i it is a fine place for young men. Of
was that of choosing men without i course, it seems hard to part from
jobs, or young boys and girls, who your friends but I hope we won't have
were not canable of knowing' what it to b ahpent vprv lonrr from Viomp T
required to make the War S
drive a success. The failure to secure1 neighbors and relatives, but I hope I
mature, purposeful men and women, nM u
as canvassers of the drive and to m- agam in peace and happiness. "Though j he Pssesses
sfi'i- wciu vv iiii uiic uigncss ixilix tlic
importance of the work has been fatal
to the success of the drive in every j
county where this was the case.
period of their organization and also
financing them after they were or
ganized. Men who are considered capable
judges and with whom Mr. McLean
has been closely associated, state that
a rare combination of
I walk through the valley of the the conservative but aggressive bus-
fear no evil, for,
I am glad te j
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
WIN GLORIOUS VICTORY
With Frenchmen Drive Enemy Back 4 to 6 Miles in First Day of
Strong Off ensive Captured 20 Villages and Large Stores of
Guns and Supplies and Killed Wounded and Captured Thou
sands of Germans.
snadow of death, I
Thou are with me
know that is true.
I give many sincere wishes to all
of my Robeson county friends, with
hopes we will be together again to
live in peace.
W. D. GODWIN,
23, Co. 156 D. B.
Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C.
July 8, 1918.
From the region west of Soissons
to the northwest of Chateau Thierr ,
American and French armies begar.
Thursday a strong offensive against
the Germans. Along the 25 miles the
French and American troops dashed
hrilliant fashion across
Mclean director war
finance corporation
, u u 4-v,o r.0r7Yiflns. killine. wound
ing or capturing thousands of the ene
my and taking towns, villages and
large quantities of guns and othei
war suuplies. ,
Six miles apparently was the deep
est point of penetration made by the
allied troops in the first day of fight
ing This was. at Buzancy, soutn of
Soissons, which they captureu
and passed through eastward. A.
several other points distances of
from four to five miles were reached
from the original parting line At
Soissons the Americans and French
men came to within a mileof the
. a u .nfhnr morp than 20 vil-
city VS. hands ol the
jSiciS and French all along the
i battle front. . , voo.
i t fno Americans aiune m e
a 11" . - C I III .11 I I..HIUiO v - 7 -- . I ' '
iuii , wnromateri-'nf mfantrv. but one oi the heaviest
, oners, ciu guns tuu V nf ori I lLia ,TOOr. ArnvmA th.
JSrZJETZJrV, bFtta shelST 'ffort tte Germans
auu v-.
was expected of them. The great,
lumbering engines rolled along in
front of the infantry driving the
Germans before them with streams of
bullets and clearing away many ob
structions that had escaped the artil
lery. "On the line south of Soissons the
American troops carried all their ob
jectives in the second attack with the
same dash as the first, even proceed
ing further than had been expected.
"The enemy was routed and for the
most part fled before the American
advance, abandoning even light guns
and ammunition. Only here and there
along the line was strong resistance
offered and at these points the Ger
mans were attacked with rifle and
bayonet, before which they retreated
steadily.
From French front, July 18:
When the Entente Allies' attack
began at dawn today the Germans)
were surmised and offered slight re
sistance in the advanced lines, many
immediately throwing up their arms!
and shouting "Kamerad."
The barrage fire preceded the waves j
The Southern Banker for June car
ries a cut of A. W. McLean and the
following article :
Angus W. McLean, president of
the National Bank of Lumberton, N.
C., and one of the most prominent
among the bankers and business men
in the South, has been named a direc
tor of the War Finance Corporation
f Washington, D. C. Mr. McLean has
had wide experience in the investment
business; also in the organization, con
struction, operation, maintenance and
financing of cotton mills, railroads
and other enterprises. He is thor
oughly familiar with standard sys-J
terns "of accounting of public service j
corporations, and also industrial, mer
eantile and financial concerns and the
analyzing of their financial and oper
ating statements. No man in the State j
is more familiar with the methods of
corporate financing, including the is
suing of common and preferred stocks
and bonds, than is Mr. McLean, and
for twenty years he was attorney for
many large corporations, during the
iness man and successful lawyer, and
he possesses administrative and exe
cutive ability of a high order. Mr.
McLean has been active in war work,
such as Red Cross, chairman of the
Liberty Loan committee, counsel iu
North Carolina for alien property cus
todian, etc., and holds the most re
sponsible office a layman can hold in
the Presbyterian church, that of rul
ing elder. As an evidence of the con
fidence of manifested in him by the
business men of his own State, at the
annual convention of the North Caro
lina Bankers' Association, held in
Raleigh recently, a resolution was
unanimously adopted commending the
President upon the appointment of
Mr. McLean, and expressing unquali
fied confidence in his character and
ability.
In his connection with education!
matters, Mr. McLean, for the past ten
years or more, has been a trustee of
the university of North Carolina and
chairman of the board of trustees of
the Flora Macdonald female college,
which is located at Red Springs, N. C.
MARK TWAIN.
Splendid edition. 25 volume, $29,
for a short time only. Payable $2 a
month. Address: J. T. Xorsworthy,
914 Austell Bldg., Atlanta, Ga.
110 "Y" Entertainers Overseas.
General Pershing has officially de
tailed to the American Y. M. C. A.
the entertaining of our soldiers in
France. There are now 110 profes
sionals giving vaudeville shows, con
certs ar.d entertainments overseas, of
ten under shell fire
tives
guns
cessities
ammunition and other war ne-
taken DV me xieuv.ii.
were
SEVENTEENTH SERIES
Robeson Braiding & Loan .Association
NOW OPEN
DO NOT PUT OFF UNTIL TOMORROW
What you ought to do today. Take stock
in this Series and begin to plant that NEW
HOME that YOU have wanted so long.
Build your home with rent money.
INFORMATION CHEERFULLY FURNISHED
3 ... l J.U A man.
" Before all the positions oy
i ! cans and the French their guns and
machine guns cut to Zh(ch
hordes of the enemy or bands which
endeavored to withstand the onrush.
French front
C. W. BAUCOM
had taken shelter in their dugouts
from the deluge and the Entente al
lied troops were among them with
grenades and bayonets before they had
time to turn around.
More than 20 villages have been re
captured by the French and American
troops in the oitensive Degun cms
morning, according to the war office
announcement tonight which reports
PEACE INSTITUTE, Raleigh, N.C.
FOPv THE EDUCATION AND CULTURE OF YOUNG WOMEN
SESSION BEGINS SEPTEMBER 12, 1918.
For catalogue and information address,
MISS MARY OWEN GRAHAM, President.
a riismatcli from the
"i attack along also the occupation of the plateau
1 I IIUL UVi- w
all
lines
ask tne rirst rnena iuu
Meet
And you will probably learn that he is a depositor
in this bank.
The personal attention given to every transaction,
regardless of its size, assures YOU satisfaction and
advantage by opening on account here.!
THE PEOPLE'S BANK & TRUST CO-
FAIRMONT, N. C.
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nn absolute surprise. Many Uer-
vco - . j rt -
man officers were capxureu wmi
sleep and numbers of men were token
rV,iio harvesting i ye. j-" :
I stuperfaction was createa aull&
i 1 AMAwtvr TTAilTI' 1111" WllV
at the suddenness of the attack. Pris
oners declare they had been ttU J
; a iK o Tor tne allies w -"- j
WitS uuinov . . - r
out any operation m me way
offensive for some ums. .
tack having been able to tato w tij
positions during tne hjhu.
which , ainr
with their French comrades in the as
..it j:j uniionf orork.
sauit,, uiu vtl"x. .
From a dispatcn oi juiy io
.
American . , r.:ori
mi. a rrnnns Mil loi .w
I ne AuicA iv" v t-- - j
?U btfoiejgem oy S.haVTavaTry To the Editorof The Robesonian:
naa prwceucu - . i , i
was thrown into the action. All tne pieage aUow me space m your yal-
American headquarters stau "Vr uable paper to express a tew tnougnib.
were wen insiue ;- A wlsn t0 speaK in regaiu w v-
S. armv. which I am a memDer oi.
the south-
west. The statement says:
After having broken the German
nffpnsiup nn the Chamnaene ana
Eheims mountain fronts on the 15th,
16th. and 17th, the French troops in1
conjunction with American forces, at-;
tacked the German positions on tne
18th between the Aisne and the Marne
on a tront oi 40 Kilometers vPF1UAl"
matelv 28 miles. The front compris
es Ambleny, lxmgpont, iroesnes ana
Bouresches.
LIKES ARMY LIFE FINE.
DELCOHGHT
Earm Efficiency
Smwm wmi labor Wogtk foernerfy done under poor
light and by bud can be done better aad in less time
with the aid of electric light sod power.
Robeson Soldiers Thinks Army
Place For Young Men.
Fine!
labor k elU acted to tbo farm Tbe 'back to the
farm" moTement is made pneticsl when, tbe conveniences
afforded by electric light aad power cm be bad m the
country.
Ktloboyirfflikothof.r
on the farm offsets city attractions. Valuable labor aad
valuable young manhood and womanhood arc saved to
the count y community.
the Germans held this morning.
u roY...: v,o affect, of splendid
v,o American troops went
tiauune, , . r.,
forward swittly ana ioub. J
7s.Trf hinor seemeQ W SlUM w r .
ricV frt cav thA nrmv llie IS uuitc uu-
fY..nf -Fvvn fho civilian lite. lne
XCiCIlb w. .
.im li-fa o -finp nnrl handsome lite.
and' a man becomes acquainted with
and uncie
c... - . j i. I UI1U it Illitll uc
in fh region OI OOlSSOns mu "Ylv, orA rami ntmns.
aAntfi of that city. Light ana . . . H t for a Gf
v,o,r-ir nieces were moved up as wv , . , T nt to say to the
troops advanced, and soon after eacti halance of drafted men that have
u,,.n, pnHpd. shells from the ahwji- . i;Q armv life, vou need
ican guns were deluging the enemy s t tr tQ ghirk from the army, for
rear areas, playing havoc with nis i . , . ; -7
i: ,v,Qn,or fbne in retreat or re- rhnrnfrlniVo Colic and Diarrhoea
lorces, w iicnn.. ... 1 ..--.-
jAnvnrinlf fr pnmP 11 0. RpltlCflV.
serves ciiucavuiing w r- . - - j - . . . r
Tf w!,s onen warfare with all the Now is the time to buy a bottle oi
tbrouerh the to he nreoared m
Ut Viooim cruris Jind infan-Qaa Viar- artv one of vour family
try the French cavalry dashed beat- should have an attack of colic or diar-
ine' down those in their path. Ter- rhoea during the summer months, it'
rific losses were inflicted at all points js WOrth a hundred times its cost when
on the enemy. The tanks did all that needed.
. Sottas tbo retired farmer ymbiem Electric light and
power make the farm home so attractive and comfortable
Sat the farmer and bis wife remain on the farm where
their advice, experience, and immediate interests ire oi
great practical value.
k lightens burden of the housewife Increased farm
work in war times means increased labor for tbe house
wife. Electricity offers the only practical means of taking
the drudgery of household tasks from her shoulders.
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counter bonw. SaWmakln. Air e.ei.d. Thick
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