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1 ft- F. - - 1 S A LI 3 W AND" V ROWAN COUHTY LOCBLS Eleven young meu left Salisbury yesterday for Van couver barracks in Washing ton wher they will be con nected with the Spruce Pro duction division of the avia tion corps, getting out spruce timber for the wo d parts of aeroplane?. These men are in the ; draft and have been, placed in thin work where workmen are Deeded. An interesting mtetMig was held in St John's Luthv eran church lat Sunday night when a numh-r of talks were made in reference to the $750,000 being raised by that denomination for personal work among the the soldiers and sailors of that faith now in the armv camps. AH Snider plate chairman of the campaign committee, thinks this State's apportionireut wil' be 10,500, will be over sub scribed. Mr and Mrs Jam R of Gold Bill No 1, were -ii, Salisbury yestrdav. John H Bringle of 1)n' Mulberry school neighbor hood was in Salisbury Mm day. Preparatory to wid nil; the highway 1 etween Salit bury and Spencer, trnnr poles etc., are being remover! on each side. It is under &oi the county chaiu gang will rebuild and widen th road. Another branch of the Red Cross was organized last Thursday afternoon, "this be ing at Union church with a membership of sixteen. The officers elected are as follows. W A Agner chairman Mis Mary Birri tiger, secretary aud Miss Lottie Kerns treat uer. A M -alter "of- Wayne county, who has been living at Spencer for several year- , has purchased the farm o! the late O N Brown adjoin ing the Mulberry school. Mr Garter expects to improve the place aud make it his home. Bury Victim of Wreck in Town of Kannapolls Garab M Petbnl, the Kan . - i napous youog man Kiuea in the wreck of Nos. 42 and 18 near Columbia Monday afte noon when others met death in the collision, was a neph ew of Postmaster W D PttUe) of Spencer, and also of Mr (Jhas. A Weant, living near town Ihe body was brought to the home of the mother of the young man, Tupday afternoon. His father did neveral years ag A mes sage summoned the Spen cer relatives to the funeral at Kannapolis. When You Have a Cold. It is when 3ou have a severe cold that you appreciate the good qualities of Chamherlain's Cougfh Kerned v. . Mrs. Prank Crocker Pana, 111., writes: "Our five- year old son Paul caught a severe cold last winter that settled on his lunys Snd he had terrible coughing spells. We were great ly worried about him as the med icine we gave him did not help him in the least. A neighbor spokesohi.yofamterlams Cough Remedy that I got a bot- tie of it. The first.dose benefited him so much that I continued irivincr it to him until he was cured." " J Hurpliy Trick. ; . Seeing that Mr. Mnrbhv had practically chargedThim with responsibility for the anon yinbue circular attacking Murphy's record, it was nec essary for Congressman Dous gliton to make a statemeut, but his denial was not nec essary to assure his friends, or inde-d auy'one who knows th man, that he had no knowledge of it. Congress man Donghtou isn't the type of m "ii who makes attacks like t hat and if he were he hp's too much political sense to make an attack so pbviously in Murphy's interest. In fact the circular is so strongly ca Iculated to help Murphy as to suggest the thought that some friend of' the Rowan man planned the thing with he idea of helping Murphy by putting him in the martyr o!e. Slatesville Landmark Tar Reel Blacks Slay Go to Camp Jackson. Camp Jackson, S. C, Feb. 26. There is a pesistent rumor about ihe recruiting office, at Camp Jackson to the effect that the negroes of North Carolina and Florida are to be sent :o Camp Jackson. With the exception of about 20 negro s froui Florida and a ' very few from North Carolina, the ne groes from these states have not been, mobilized, The rumor, how ever, (h as no confirmation. About 1,00 drafted men, mostly negroes from South Caro- ina, with a scattering of white nen from the three states,-have reported at Camo Jackson in the last two or three days They are of the first' draft Of the first draft Florida now owes only 90 white men. However, she is due 4.000 negroes. North Carolina is due 1,500 whites and 6 000 ne irroes. South Carolina is due 350 whites and 3,000 negroes. There is also a constant rumor at the camp to the effect thai thousands of soldiers are to be transferred to this camp within the next few days. This, too, is unconfirmed. As'ievilla Spartanburg Trains in Serious Wreck Columbia, S C, Feb id. The toll of. dead from the wreck at Prost on the Southern Railway, about five miles west of Colum bia, yesterday afternoon when passenerer train No 42 crashed into the rear of passenger train No. 18, stood at 12 this morning and reports from Columbia hos pitals indicate that all of the 37 most seriously injured were rest ing well. A, coroner's inquest to place the responsibility for the wreck covened at noon. There appears to be three reas ons advanced as the cause of the wreck. One is that the flagman on No. 18 failed to leave a . torpedo on the tracte to warn No. 42; another is that the operator at Bookman, the nearest stop to Frost did not hold No. 42 the required ten minutes, and the thrci is that No. 42 was traveling at an excessive rate of speed. A ritrirl in vpsti (ration intn lhf .... cause ot tne aisaster is promisea by the authorities. Amoni; the dead was Garah M Pethel, Kannapolis. New Pastor for Spencer. Spencer is to have another new minister in tne person cf Rev John S Wood who has accepted a call to the pastorate ( f the Presbyterian church. He will enter upon his duties here April 21. Rv Wood, who comes from Forrest Citv. is a man-Df wide ' experience aud i a splendid e t Beveral , dajs there last month with tfa congregation, and will be e .given a welcome on his arrival National QdYement to Eiimioate Disseasif Chicago, Feb 21. Wtn HTafft Governor Frank O Lowden,;? Stan wood Meken and hundrsdjs of other delegates, representing every state in the union, tofd Clyde Li vingood, eon of opened a national movement s make every American citizen iaaj active war supporter and eliuj nate dissensionists, at the firt sessions of the congress of nation al service, held under the auspicis of the national security league.!!' "The time is coming, andi might as well prepare to face lir? declared former President Tafte "when the seeds of discontent; will be sown, when we meet dis- aster, when, with hellish melfg-? nity, the Germans will suggest for fools among us a trap of jtb-f conclusive peace. We must have; our people educated to, stand up' against that and teach the Gei; mans that a moral people like nsi i. will die sooner than give up our high ideals. We ask no territory;, no money, no indemniy, no addi-r tional power. We are fighting for humanity, for the most sacred cause since history began." To Cure a Cold in One Day. Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine. It stop the Cough and Headache and works off the Cold. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. It. W. GROVE'S signature on each box.' 30c. War-Time Bread and Victory Bread. Raleiffh, Feb. 25.C B WiM Hams, Chiet of the Division of Agronomy, states that recently he had an opportunity to try out some bread in which meal, was used, and found it to be of excel lent quality. This was made by. using the foiling recipe: 4 pound of soybean meal." Y-2 pound of corn meal. Y pound of graham flour. pound of molasses, pound of buttermilk. j r 1 y puunu ox raisons. i pound of nuts 2 teaspoonfuls common sail. ; 2 teaspoonfuls soda. - ' i As reported by the Office bf Home Economics of the Federal Department of Agriculture, this bread has a caloric, or enerev', producing value, of 1200 calories per pound, which is far above all vegetables and equal to most meats. There is no s-tandard recipe for 'victory bread," the only requie- ment being that it must contain not more than 80 per cent of wheav flour, the remaining 20 per cent being composed of corn meal or corn flour, rice, potato flour, or other cereals recommend ed by the Food Administration ''Victory" pics and doughnuts, which contain not less than one. third nonwheat flour, may be sold 0n wheatless days if the, same recvpes are used throughout the week. Express Messengers Get Pink Slip From Nevt York. A shaking up !among the messengers of the Southern Expreds company in this sec tion has jarred some score" or more of men from their jobs. The firiuer was done from th Uew York headquarters and the cause was said to be "un satisfactory service," hut' the men who got fired are of th opinion that they lost out oufvotion of the farmers of account of a recent atteniD to'i organize themselves into - a union. Several men with runs out from Salisbury are among the number who have lost their positions. At least some of these have loner " . years of satisfactory service' to the compauy to their creds it. ' ' Sam DQKOtt Boys Meat Market, 1 A new business head in Spenceris Sam Dorsett whoa 5 - few days ago c'osed a deal for tne purchase ot tut? R A Shu ping & Sons market Fifth street He has goK ten iutobuiness on his own account and will conti w nue the market at the old stand. MARRSAGES aBaasSBsssssasaBasaBasaHs9 f r Miss Mildred Huff, daugb- ler of Mr and Hira W H Hnff Mr aud Mrs H S Livingood Vere united in the bonds of rnatrimonv Friday evening, jrbe ceremony took place at the parsonage of , the First Methodist church, Rev W A ambeth officiating. The marriage of Miss Effie, y FijM.. n li Tx l fTL XV Olll VCB UJ. XlUpOWtJU, V a, .6ok place at the home of he bride Sunday afternoon. Jhey will make their home at' Hope well, Va, PRESIDENT TO THE FARMERS. ihericao Farmers Lead tea World in Enter- prise and Production Per Wan Power. -President Wilson in his mes sage to the farmers of the Unit States, of January 31, voices astrong faith in their loyalty aid makes a strong call for their cooperation in winning the war. Lt has been- the fashion of many writers to compare the reduction per acre of European farmers with-that of American farmers to the detriment of the American. The President, how eer? maks the assertion that tke farmers of this ceuntry are a efficient a9 any other farmers iijthe world, and that while the.v d4 not produce more per acre itirts not only not necessary that trley snould do so, but perhaps it wpuld be bad economy for them toattemp it. The real test is they d!j procure by two or three ttines more per man per unit of .Tarbor and capital than the f aK'mers of any European country thjy are more alert and use ir)re labor saving devices than at)? other farmers in the world. ffThe response of the farmers ss Wilson to the demands othe present emergency has thAn in everv wav rerarlrfl.bla. ad he quotes figures in proof of tfye assertion. These achieve ments, he urges, should be re peated and even exceeded. fThe President denies .that the (government has sought to fix tpe price of foodstuffs and not sought to fix other prices which determine the expense of the farmer, stating that the Govern liy"t)nt has successfully regulated te prices of many materials un rlying all tne interests of the country, and such regulation was not only for the purchases ojihe Government but the pur chases of the public, and lh fix mg the prices of foodstuffs the Qovernment his tried sincerely W&eep the interests of the farm Lerlas much in mind as the inter ets of others. Recallmg the historic action of ihe farmers at . Lexington wJhen they "fired the shot that was heard around the world,' President Wilson says that the "toll, the intelligence, the energy, tKe foresight, the sacrifices, and Aoierica will bring to a triumph r E j i j 1 ; a . i a api conclusion mis greai lasi wdtr for the emancipation of m a from the control of arbitrary government and the . selfishness class legislation. - V MR' RUB OUT PAIN vWith ffood oil liniment. Thata ?the surest way to stop them. ihe best rubbing liniment is uu Good for the Ailments of t.Horses, Mtdes, Cattle, Etc Qood for your own A ches. Pains, Rheumatism, Sprains, Cute, Burns, Etc 25c 50c $1. At all Dealers. M 11 S f II W tSHSaHB Prof. Geo B Wet more, one of the county's leading citizens; died at his home at Woodleaf from the effects of pneumonia Saturday Feb? ruary 16th. Prof: Wetmore was a native of Fayettville and was 64 years old. He rnnoliT Qhrwtl -for mnhv VAnra in this county with success, he being principal of the Woodleaf high school at the time of his death. He is survived by a wife, one daughter, Miss Mary and three sons, Hal, Battle and Dare. Prof Wetmore had many good qualities ana many friends who will regret to learn of his death. The interment was in St Andrew's cemetery at Woodleaf. A Sechler Correll, an old Confederate soldier, died at his home near Landis Satur day from the effects of can cer. The funeral was , held from the Landis Methodist church Sunday, Dr J 0 Rowe the presiding elder of the! Salisbury district officiating, and the interment was in (xreen Lawn Cemetery, Ohina Grove. Mr Correll tftas a splendid citizen and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. He was sev enty odd years old and leaves a large number of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. Mrs Margaret E Kesler aged 87 years and 6 months lied at the home of her niece, vlrs E L Heilig, on West Council Street, Salisbury, fhursday levening. The funeral was held from the First Baptist church Friday, tiev 0 AG Thomas officiate mg ne interment was in chestnut Hill Cemetery. William Trexler, a lormer blacksmith of Salisbury, well known by many of our peo ple, died at the home of his on, Louis Trexler, in Ash- ville last Thursday evening, lis wife having died in Salis oury several years ago. His remain? were brought to Salisbury and the funeral was held from St John'? Lutheran church Saturday, Rev M M Kinard officiating. Plans for aerial mail routes between Washington, Phila ielphia, and New Yorfe con template the use of machines capable of carrying 300 pounds of mail a distance of 200 miles without stop, A special postage rate would be charged not exceeding 25 ent8 an ounce. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable.- Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constant ly failing to cure with local treat merit, pronounced it incurable Catarrh is a local disease greatly influenced by constitutional con ditions and therefore requires a constitutional treatment, flail's Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F J Cheney & Co., Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is taken internally and acts through th Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. One Hundred dol lars reward for any case that Hall's Catarrh Medicine fails to jure. Send for circulars a testimonials. PJ Cheny & Co.. Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Fills for consti pation. ' V '-y Esssbir M$M To test s SiEfc Londoh, Fb. 26f. AFetro grad dispatcfi to the Exohangd Telegraph company dated Monlay says: "That resistance to Germ an advance ia growing U shown by the reports of fighting which continues in the vicinity of Pskov. Thi town has changed hands eev era! times. The German de- tachments which first entered Pskov were very small, bat they have since been rein forced. 4 'There is a general belief that the Germans are moving forward hastily because sup plies of amunition worth 400. 000,000 rubles are concentra ted in the neighbooghood of Pskov. The Russians, how ever, are taking measures to guard the railway and are sending more soviet troops to Pskov v ; Latter advices say that the soviet armies are now everyv where resisting the invaders. At Narva the garrison and workmen have formed an army of 10.000 and gone to Reval. There are similar re ports from Walk. Great activ ty is manifested at the BoN 'he vie headquarters in Petrc rad and arms and ammu ation are being distributed. Piles Cured Jn 6 to 14 Days 7onr drnsrrltt will refund mosey if TAZO OINTMENT falls to cur any cue of Itching, Blind , Bleeding or Protruding Files ia 6 to 14day, The first application give Base and Best. SOc ill T. H. Lh The Literary Digest, in its issue of January 19, devotes a column to the subject, "Protestant Soldiers at Mass." Camp Dix, Wrightstowu, S, J , is the scene, the MonN tor, a Catholic jornal New ark', N. J. is the source of authority mentioned. The explanation, attributed to Cardinal Gibbons, begins as follows.' 'Ten masses are said every Sunday in the YJM O A and K of C buildings the Y M C A permit the use of their building The buildings are overflowed at each mass. The men kneel in the aisle on the doorsteps, and even on the ground." The question has already been asked, Why are, the Knights of Columbus per- mitted the privilege, of our army camps, when other sec ret organizations are barred out? It has never been satis factorily answered. Another question is perti nent, do the Knights of Cols umbns lend - their halls to the Y MO A and other Protv estant societies for religious services? And still another question: Why does the Y M (' A permit the Catholic church to eay. mass in Its buildings? r We have editorially and otherwise, supported the Y MCA drives, and we are in hearty accord with the great work the Y M C A is doing in the camps. It is our " im pression, however, hat thous ande ot people will demand an explanation of the Cath blic propaganda in the camps to which according to the literary Digest report, the Y M C A has contributed the use of buildings before they enthuse over the next trian gle r1 rive .Christian Stand a T nrr mio Drives Out Malaria. Botlds Up System The Old Standard central strengthening tonic, GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drive 0t HalarianxftliM the blondtnUdMrnthear.
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