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iMBMM COLLECTION
A Home Newspaper Published in the Interest of the People and for. Honesty in Governmental Affairs;
SALISBURY, N. C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6TH, 1915.
VOL. XI, NO. 42 FOURTH SERIES
Wm. H. STEWART, ED. iUHIEIOP
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tortab1! Hou.ed.
British Headquarters in
France, Sunday, Oct. 3, via
London Oct 4. The scene of
the British attacks in the
Lens region is a flat mining
country slag heaps, mine
pitti, ruined buildings, splint
ered and felled trees and
earth works churned by ex
plosions, with slightly rising
ground toward Loos and
Lens.
Kothing is visible except
the", soft puffs of shrapnel
bursting and volumes of black
smoke from British and Ger
man high explosive shells,
marking positions where the
British troops are oiganizing
their gains and the Germans
are preparing a new defensive
line.
It is with infinite satisfac
tion to the British, who had
lojttg looked at the eye-sore
twiti towers of the mining
workB at Loos, that they now
halve in their possession this
German position. The chnrch
attLo.s, which had been used
as an observation post, is a
heap of stone as the result of
the bombardment preceding
the attack.
The normal population at
Loos is 10,000 miners and
thefr families Three hun
dred of these remained dur
in& the battle, taking shelter
in; the cellars of their wrecked
mjeerable homes.
'As the skirmish line ap
proached the town, it saw six
women ard a child coming
, toward it in the midst of the
battle. Some of the British
soldiers tried to rescue them,
rut before they could get the
-tromea to a shelter two or
three were wounded.
The elaborateness and per
tnanency of the German
trenches indicated the appar
ent conviction of the Ger
mans in the security of their
line. Dugouts, often 30 feet
deep, were cemented and con
tained electric lights and arm
chairs Some of them were
impenetrable even to high ex
plosive shells of big caliber
The British bombardment
cut the wire in front of the
German trenches to bits and
battered the firing trenches
and traverses into irregular
piles of earth . Under such
a flailing of shells it was sui
cidal for the Germans to at
tempt to remaiu outside the
dugouts or to try to man their
machine guns, or use their
rifles.
When the artillery work
was perfected the British in
fantry sprang over the para
pets at a given moment.
Sprinting toward the German
trench they arrived almost
without opposition. Then
the German trench was theirs
with the Germans who ware
alive htfddled in their caves.
Some of the dugouts had
their openings blown in by
shell explosions, and their oc
cupants were either buried or
(Suffocated.
Where a dugout had reeu
unharmed the British sol
diers, with bayonets fixei or
bombs in hand, appeared at
the entrance to find the Ger
mans still inside or perhaps
just starting out. All in the
dugout might surrender, or
on the other hand, if a Brit
ish soldier started to enter or
even showed himself he was
received with a f usilade. In
case of refusal to surrender
-bombs wre thrown into the
dugouts. The Germans sur
viving the explosion usually
gave in, though not always
for some of them died to the
last man.
Some incidents had a hu
ffiioroup as well as a tragic
uiue. in rnese suaaen en
counters at close quarters
where the charging Briton
Eiet'a German emerging from
s is dugout the bayonet,
J)omba and' even fists were
Sometimes brought into play
$n the ensuing melee.
Vf Que4 difficulty was the
gathtring and guarding of
,,$ri -oners in such a confined
j apace as, the irregular wreck
ed trenches. With rifles and
111 Hate. Yiriii'a Dry
Both Sides Seem Ts Win! to UtkelTheLiw
Effective.
Washington Dispatch to Balti
more Sam
Temperance leaders of Virginia
have proposed a novel plan to en
force State-wide prohibition in
that State when it becomes ef
fective in 1916. The plan em1
braces the creation b?4he General
Assembly of a superintendent of
prohibition, whose day iV shall
be to enforce the temperance laws,
make investigation of its viola
tion and assist the legal authori
ties in prosecutions.
The purpose of this plan ii to
bring about the enforcement of
the prohibition law in the Virgin
ia cities and "wet" counties where
public sentiment-is not strong for
the abolition of he saloon. Un
der Bush a plan, it is contended,
the authorities will not dare to
wink" at violations of the law,
is is now done iu Southern cities
where State-wide prohibition pre
vails The police and the State's'
attorney, it is declared, will knew
that behind them is an official
who intends to enforce the law at
all costs
The Virginia General Assembly
next winter will be called upon to
pass laws for the enforcement of
State-wide prohibition. The pro
hibitionists will control the L-)gls-
ature. They favor drsstio laws
because they wish to repudiate the
many assertions that "prohibition
does not prohibit." The "wet
forces favor similar legislation
because they want the State to
have a genuine period of thirst,
believing actual prohibition will
go a long way toward making
-nany Virginians change rhair
minds on the subject.
Oue of the issues in the prohi
bition oampaign in Virginia last
year was that the anti-liqaor laws
in Georgia and other Southern
"dry'' States were not enforced
in the big cities. As a result of
these charges the prohibition
forces promised a draatio enforce
ment of the law in county and
city.
Chronic Constipation.
"About two years ago when I
began nsmg Chamberlain' Tab
lets I had ben goffering for some
time with stomach, trouble and
chronic coustipation. My condi
tion improved rapidly through the
use of these tablets. Since taking
four or five bottles of them my
health has been flue," writes Mrs.
John Newton, Irving, N. Y. Ob
tainable everywhere.
bombs lying about the Ger
man even -after capitulating
were likely to seize them and
rush to the cover of a traverse
trench or into a shell crater
and reuew the fight.
. The British are keeping to
the tactical plan undertaken
by them to gain a certain
amount of ground with each
attack.
The Germans fought des
perately and the viciousness
oi xneir counterstittacKs ap
parently was due to rage over
the loss of their comfortable
dugouts, and the unpleasant
prospect of a Winter in the
mud, building new caves.
The rear of the army dur
A 1 A A -n
ing tne action presented a
wondrous varied scene, which
was the more concentrated
because of the narrow front
of the operations. There
were the slightly wounded
walking back, the steady
tramp of fresh regiments go
ing forward, processions of
swift motor ambulances
whose burdens would be back
in England in 24 hours, long-
1 er and seemingly endless pro
cessions of motor-trucks load
ed with shells to feed the
ever-thundering unseen guns
troops ot the reserves in the
fields or beside the -orged
roads waiting their call, while
the French population stood
in'theird oorways ' and asked
for the latest news from of -
hcers and men who knew
nothing jxcejt concerning
their own parts in the big
scheme of things.
Aiiolier Bbss furls People
Stiti Bcird of Heal himplofs Piosecatof
tod Will see that the People Obey.
The Barman cf Vital Statistics
of tire State Board of Health
closed a coniraot today with J. A.
Mcl ityre, cf Mount Olive, whare-
iu the latter becomes prosecuting
agent for the Vital Statistics Bu
reau in North Carolina . Mr.
Mclutyre is ex deputy sheriff f
Wayne County, a former looal
registrar, and a young man tally
equipped for this partioalar work.
He starts on his first trip Monday,
October 4, to visit those counties
where incomplete registration is
suspected. His ltiueary will be
arranged altogether by the Bu
reau of Vital Statistics in accord
ance with those counties report
ing low' death rates, that is to
say, those counties that rest under
suspicion of incomplete registra
tion. Mr. Mclutyre will travel
by motor cycle, whioh will enable
him not only, to hold down travel
ing exper. b is, but to reaoh the re
mote districts of the State.
The State Board of Health is
determined to enforce the State
registration law," deo'ared the
ecretarycf the board today. Mr.
Mclntyre a oontinuanoe in cmoe
will be basejl on his ability to
find infringement of this law and
to secure convictions. In addi
tion to knowing where people are
dying-aud th relative importance
of the various causes of their
deaths, the Board proposes to se
cure good standing with the Un
ited Slates Bureau of the Census
and to be admitted as a 'registra
tion state. To this end the Bu
reau wi'l emply county and dis
trict agents in addition to the
State agent, to find a ad prosecute
violators of the vital statistics
law. State Hea'th Bulletin.
This gives you an idea of wher
and how- the rule of the people is
gradually slipping through their
fingers and how the government
is being centralized and added to
without the least show of a gen
eral demand for such legislation.
This, at one time called czarism,
is uow termed Democraoy,
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Coughs Tb it are Stopped 1
Careful people see that they are
stopped. Dr. King's New Dis
covery. is a remedy of tried merit.
It has held its own on the market
for 46 years. Youth and old age
tetify to its sjothiugand healing
qualities Pneumonia and long
troubles are often caused by dlay
of treatment. Dr. King's New
Discovery stops those hacking
coughs aud relieves 1 grippe ten
dencies. Money back if it fails.
50a. aud $1.09.
Wireless Telephony 4.600 Miles.
The most important scientific
discovery of an age was made
when the officials of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany telephoned without wires the
other day from Washington to
Hawaii, a distance of 4,600 miles,
and from New York to the Mare
Island Navy Yard in San Fanoisco
Bay, a distance of nearly 8,000
miles.
Experiments i n telephoning
across the Atlantic have been
made, hut have not yet proved
successful. The telephone offici
als said only, conditions due to the
war have made this use of the
wirelesB 'phone impossible up to
this time, for the difficulties of
sending word across the Atlantic
are not so great as telephoning
without wires aoross the United
States.
Facts For Sufferers.
Pain results from inj try or con
jestion. Be it neuralgia, rheuma
tism, lumbago, neuritis, tooth
ache, sprain, bruise, sore stiff
musoles or whatever pain you have
yields to Slrans Liniment brings
new fresh blood, dissolves the con
gestion, relieves the injury, the
circulation is free and your pain
leaves m if by magic. The nature
of its qualities penetrate immedi
ately to the sore spot. Don't
keep on suffering G"t a bottle of
Sloan's Liniment. Use it. It
means instant relief. Prioe 25o
and.fjQo,:.. $1 00 bottle holds six
time s-meo ha 4he 55a size,
North Carolina Stale Fair
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Don'l Seem to be Afraid to Ts 1 1 in Advance
What Ilw Will Haie
A communicatioii from the cab
I icity c mmittee of she Staie Fair,
to be held iu Raleigh, says:
Ootober 18 S3 Mark the dates
down in your memory as foar gala
days of festivities, v'he week of the
Great State Fair atRaleigh.
Sdres upon scores of woudorfujishe openly break with the Central'
events are awaitiug, you in the
Capital City, marvelous attrac
tions that have never been ffered
at any previous fair. The agricul
tural and industrial exhibitions
are interesting and instructive,
(he midway, one great line of un
usual attractions, and the free at
tractions the most marvelous ever
shown at a tioath Atlantic fair.
Headiug them all Is the thril
ling aeroplane spectacle copied
from the actual destruction of a
German fort by a Freuoh aviator
on the European battle front.
Daring Captain Worden, in his
monoplane, 2,000 feet in the air,
drops bomb after bomb on a solid
fort below, the fort returning the
fire with sham ehatpnel shells,
which burst around the aeroplane,
high in the air, For f many min
utes the battle rages until the
fort is destroyed iu a cloud of dust
and smoke by a bemb from the
aeroplane. 4 .v
Of the soores of othfer free at
tractions there are the human
loop the-loop, the skutiug bear,
the ohair balancing a eft, Cotton's
C;medy, donkey aud many others,
Famous Miss Collier, from 100
foot ladder, will dive in a shallqw
tank of water. '
For those who are interested in
the agricultural welfare; of the
State, ther re ihe AndstpoX.
judging ooutests,he tomato clubs
and competitively county exhibits,
bys' corn clubs, pig clubs, boys'
aud girls' poultry clubs, free nao
tiou pictures of all diseases of
poultry and cattle, perfect types
of cattle and many other interest
ing and instructive thiugs.
This year will be another inno
vatiou that b.du fair to eolipge any
feature of the fair, and one that
should interest every town in the
Sa e. This new feature is a
monster fl. ral aud industrial pa
rade of the agricultural and in
dustrial resources of the State.
Th Be interested in a float in this
p.rade shuuid wire or write M W.
Tyree, Riieigh, N C, chairman
f the Arrangement oommitt9e.
This parade will include fl at
from busiuess houses, mauufao
turers, towiiB, schools, oollegts,
etc- Iu addition to this there will
oe tne msrenai9 paraae aud a
grat.d review of the National
Gutrd by General Young aud
staff
O.i to Raleigh. Begin to plan
your trip now and stay all of the
eek, October 18-13.
All persons interested iu secur
ing space, will cemmuuicate with
Col. Jos E. Pogue, secretary,
Rleigh, N. C.
For Indigestion.
Never take pepsin and prepara
tions oontaiuiug pepsin or other
digestive ferments for indigestion,
as tne more yu cage cne mere
you will have to take. What is
needed is a tonic like Ohamber
.'aiu's Tablets that will enable the
stomach to perform its functions
uaturally. Obtainable every.
where.
. Weather Fosecas for October.
From 1st to 8tb, oool showers
and some wind.
From 8th to 15th, chaogeableto
cool, with slight rains.,
n 4 w . l a. Lin . Jl m
f rom lain to zzna, rair and
oool, if wind is southwest slight
showers, and, if wind is northeast
at from 6 to 8 a, m., on the 15th,
look for heavy irost, inside of
these seven days.
From 22ud to BUto, rain and
wind, some stormy like aud cool
m a" a l tll
mis inontQ win buuw up some
warm, cold and uncertain weather
as this is the change month be
tween summer and autumn and
lotB of wind this month.
Hksry Rbid.
Route Ho. 8,vStaiibnj7t,lvarl
Rossiai ffarsMj! off PprI ef Vana
Events In Balkans Moving Swiftly With
Probacy a New Battle Line.
Oct. 4. Allied troops have
landed at Saloniki, Greece, and
two powerful Russian squadrons
have appeared off the .Bulgarian
portot Varna, on the Blaok Sea.
Whether Bulgaria has complied
with the Russian ultimatum that
Powers and dismiss the German
and Austrian officers with her
army is not known, but her failure
to do so is considered certain to
result in the creation of yet an
other zone in the world war.
While unofficial reports in Lon
don are that the Greek Govern
ment has protested against viola
tation of her teraitory, dispaohes
emanating from Athens assert the
Greek people received news of the
landing calmly, realizing that if
the worst should come the Allied
troops would aid them in repelling
Teutonic aggression. The. Greek
Minister in London has. declined
to either affi rm or deny that G raece
has formerly protested.
Bulgaria, it is reported, has an
aounoed that she will immediate
y reply to the last note of the
Entente Powers concerning Ser
bia's offer to bulgaria of compen
sation fcr Bulgarian neutrality.
An Anthens dispatch Sunday said
the powers of the Eutente had
withdrawn their offer of conces
sions of Macedonian territory to
Bulgaria.
Heavy fighting continues in the
Artois region of France and bom
bardments are going on in the
Ohampagoe regioo-andin the Vos
ges mountains. The fighting . in
Artcis has beeu trenoh warfare of
xjttat,chaBte;ThG
mans are on the offensive, but ac
cording to Par if, the? have been
everywhere repulsed exoept louth
of Givenchy, where they re-took
from the Frenoh the crossing cf
hve roads, whioh the earlier
French effnial communication
had recorded as being occupied by
tne French.
A Brit'sh report from Field
Marshal Sir John Frenoh says the
Germans noithweit of Hnllneh
nave recaptured the great portion
o: the Hoheuzollern redoubt which
was taken from them last week.
Numerous other attacks made
over the open against the British
treuches between the quarries and
Saimedes-Hulluch road were re
pulsed with severe losses.
According to the German com
munioation on the progress of the
oampaign in the east the Russians
advanced to the attack in dense
masses in central sector to the
east of Velna, bus were repulsed
with uuusuaily heavy losses. Pet-
rograd admits the capture of
trenches by the Germans in the
regiou of Dviusk, but declares
that iu a counter-attack the
trenches were recaptured.
The Auglo-French bond issue of
$500,000,000 already has been
over subscribed. The amount of
the over subscription, it is esti
mated will reaoh $50,000,000.
When Baby Has the Craop.
When a mother is awakened
from sound sleep to find her child
who has gone to bed apparently in
the bist of health struggling for
breath, she is naturally alarmed.
Yet if she can keep her presence
of miud aud give Chsml erlain's
Cough Remedy every ten minutes
until vomiting is prcdaoed, quick
relief will follow and the child
will drop to sleep to awaken in
the morning as well as ever. This
remedy has been in use for many
years with uniform success, Ob
tainable everywhere.
Snow in Northwest.
St. Paul, Minn , Oct. 4 The
first snow of the season fell here
today, the light flurry continuing
only a few minutes.
Dadwood. south Dakota, re
ports a seowfall of from three to
six inches throughout the Blaok
Hills last night, the first general
fall o? the season.
Suras Old Sores, Other Remedies Won't Curs.
rh worst cases, no mattetpf bow lone standing-.
re Caxtxi vr Va ronJttol, pld -jsllaMe Dt,
eUinar.;Oit.- ft tttteve
Tie People Fair
The Agricultural Exhibits Wen Eicellini,
Fire Works and Free Acts Good.
The People's Fair held here last
week, though the weather was
contrary and the financial loss
considerable, was a success in
many respects nevertheless. The
attendance was small during the
five days. Saturday havinir been
added, and of course the receipts
were limited, Friday and Satur
day the gate fee being reduced to
25 cents. We have not vet heard
any one speak of the exhibits,
especially those of the f aimers,
sxoept in terms of praise, and,
this is wherein good ib done for
this entire section; they were
edifying, instinctive, educational
and worth the efforts of the pro
moters of the fair and the farmers
ooucerned. The rain spoiled the
track and stopped the races, whioh
oy the way, were not indispensi-
le, merely being a feature for the
amusement of some and offering
in opportunity for those so in
clined to gamble.
It would take considerabl)
more spaoe and time than we have
do spare to give a detailed de
scription of the many splendid
exhibits in the various depart
ments. They were all good and
no doubt the judges were often at
a loss to determine which deserved I
the first premium or the blue rib
bon.
The exhibition of stook was not
arge but what, was lacking in
quantity was made up iu quality.
The fireworks and free acts be
fore the grand stand were good
and quite entertaining.
We understand the receipts
amounted to about 10 per cent
iheicFiulB
er Iobs than last year, but the
management anhounoe thsir in
tention to pay every bill in full,
thus indioatiug a very fine spirit,
one that will go far toward the
snocess of any future fair that
may materialize.
Friday morning the directors
decided to oall off the races, ow
ing to the bad condition of the
track and probably to save as
much expense as possible and ex
tended the time to include Satur
day, which was a fine day. R. J.
Holmes who had entered a horse,
like the ethers, had gone to some
expense to prepare for the races,"
thought the extension should in
clude the race program also, but
as this was not to be, he had some
oirculars grinted with the follow
ing wording: "No raoss Satur
day. A fair without races is like
an egg without salt." Of course
this stirred the boys up a little
and Saturday morning oirculars
were issued stating that there
would be races, etc Mr. Holmes
then thoughtlessly offered to en
ter his horse, but was refused .
Canal Blocked for at Least a Month.
Washington, Oct. 8 The War
Department to-night announced
that there was little prospect of
reopening the Panama Canal be
fore November 1 . Since the
channel was blccked by a slide
from the east bank north of Gold
Hill September 20, the movement
has continued steadily, pouring
earth and rock into the waterway
while the dredges worked away in
a vain effort to keep it open.
Hundreds of vessels will be held
up by the closing of the canal for
40 days or more, causing the first
very serious interruption of traf
fio through the isthmus since it
waS opened in August 1914.
War Department officials said
tonight they oould give no deh
nite assurance that the canal
oonld be onened November 1. It
waB explained, iiowever, that
brsing an estimate upon the man
ner in which the earth . was mov
ing and the amount of earth and
rock already deposited, it was be
lieved that another month should
serve to dear the channel.
The present slide began .when
the canal bad been open just 10
davs after a slide which blocked
ir' for a week.
Read Th Watohtsux and Rxcord
Sofia 6iien24' Hears Id W.irt to Stud
6enan8fflcertl!irsr."
Oot. 8. The crisis in the Bal
kan situation has been reaohed .
Russia's ultimatum to Bulgaria
has gone forth. King Ferdinand 's
Government, it says, must openly
break off. relations with the Cen
tal Powers and dismiss thft Ger
man and Austrian officers with its
rmy, or the Russian Minuter
and Consuls will be withdrawn
from Bulgaria.
The note lent by Russia to Bul
garia sets forth that the presence
f German and Austrian officers
in Bnlgaria, the concentration of
troops on the Serbian border and
ihe acceptance of financial sup
port by Bulgaria from the Teu
tonic Allies, leave no doubt as to
the object of Bulgaria's military
preparations and dsolaret thai
3u8sia therefore cannot sanction
y the presence of that country
f her Minister "preparations for
ratrioidal aggression against a
3 lav and Allied people.'
While the Bulgarian Premier is
e ported in a semi-official sfcate
oeut as saying that Bulgaria is
tot threatening any of her neigh
ors and still hopes for a pacific
9ttlement whvwill taka iher
iuterbsts into account," an Athens
lispatch reports that the Qua
druple Entente Powers have :witb
drawn their proffered concessions
of Macedonian territory to tBajt-
aria add that an Anglo-French ,
expedition is about to be, landed v
it Saloniki with the approval of ;
Greece. . t-r"
It is reported from MikMfiX-,
the, chief :oftheataian,
jUfthsoJte
rn
u.'uti aiiute&BfB Wi
)nce to a possible Italian expedi
tion to Balkana.1 sufficient troops
for which are concentrated at
Bdindisi.
Ou the western front from the
fioith Ssa to the Vosges Moun
tains there have , been artillery
oombardments, infantry attacks,
fighting by means of bombs and
grenades and aerial raids by both
sides .
The only claims ofja capture of
territory is made by Paris, whioh
asserts that in Artois the French
have taken a German blockhouse
and entrenchment to the south of
the Givenohy wood. Berlin ac
knowledges the loss of a few yards
of trenches to the French near
Neuville, but declares that a Brit
ish atta;k' uorth of Los was re
pulsed with heavy casualties and
that the French offensives east of
Souchez aud in Champagne were
beaten back.
Allied aeroplanes have bom
barded the station, railroad bridge
and military buildings at Luxem
burg. Berlin says the Frenoh
dirigible airship "Alsace" has
been foroed to make a landing
uear Retyel and that its crew was
captured by the Germans .
Along the Eastern the Germans
and Austrians Soill claim that they
are making progress against the
Russians but no great engage
ments have ooourred anywhere in
this region.
Switzerland has ordered the as
sembling of several squadrons of
cavalry which will be stationed
along the German frontier.
Morgan Retnrns the Will.
J. P. Morgan of New York has
sent without cost to justice James
Keith, president of the Virginia
Court of Appeals, to be disposed
of by him at his own discretion,
the will of Mrs. Martha Washing
ton, taken from the records of
Fairfax Court House by a Federal
soldier during the Civil War, and
bought, by the late Pierpont Mor
gan for his library.
Fairfax Harrison, president of
the Southern Railway, was the
mediator between Mr. Morgan
and Governor Stuart of Virginia,
and Justice Keith. Morgan had
refused repeated reqaests to re
turn the will and suit had been
brought for its recovery. It is
said that the will, by oonsept,
will probably be placed in a fire
proof vault at Mt. Vernon.
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