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VOL. XXXVII.
PITTSB0R0, CHATHAM CO UNTY, N. C, OCTOBER 7, 1914.
NO. 9.
3E
The War
SUMMARY OF THE
EUROPEAN WAR
FOR ONE WEEK READ AT A GLANCE
M
September 27. Fierce fighting be
tween the allies and the German army
is reported from the front, but neither
side seems to hare won in a decisive
manner The French claim progress,
the Germans are satisfied, while the
British are silent.
Germany seems to have entered on
a bomb-throwing expedition, and in
addition to frightening the people, has
wrought some havoc by bombs drop
ped from air craft.
The movement of vast bodies of
German troops into Russia from the
east is reported.
An unconfirmed rumor says that an
attack on Antwerp, the temporary
capital of Belgium, is impending.
Emperor William is ill due to the
exposure with his army in the
trenches last week.
Reports from Paris state that the
Germans are continuing their night
and day assaults on the columns of
the allies, the ' attacks being of un
precedented violence but have so far
been unsuccessful.
Petrograd reports that the Russians
have shelled the heights along
Przemysl and that the Germans are
retreating in confusion.
An official list given out from Ber
lin shows the dead, wounded, and
missing from the German army is
104,589.
It is officially announced that the
Japanese have defeated the Germans
in a four-hour battle on the outskirts
of Tsin-Tau.
Berlins reports by wireless from
Sayville, L. I., that ' the advanced
French divisions have been repulsed
by the kaiser's army, and that in the
center of the battle front slight gains
have been made. The forts of the al
lies under bombardment-south of Ver
dun have withdrawn their fire and the
German artillery is now engaged with
the forces of the allies brought up on
the west bank of the Meuse.
A German aviator flew over Paris
Sunday dropping four bombs. One
man was killed, a girl injured, and a
number of houses damaked. It is
thought that the bombs were intend
ed for the wireless station on the Eif
fell tower and the army stores in
buildings nearby.
September 28. The Germans have
gained no ground, and the French
have advanced here and there.
The right wing of the Austrians
have been driven back beyond the
Carpathians into Hungary, where
they are being pursued by the Rus
sians. The Austrians debacle is com
plete and they have lost all their
artillery.
Operations of His Majesty's naval
forces on the west coast of Africa
have resulted In the unconditional sur
render of Duala, the capital of Kama
run, and of Bonabori, to an Anglo
French force.
There is nothing new to report on
the general situation. Relative calm
prevails along a portion of the front.
Nevertheless, at certain points, notab
ly between the river Aisne and the Ar
gonne district, the enemy has deliver
ed further violent attacks, which how
ever, have been repulsed.
An official dispatch from Petrograd
says that Przemycl, in Galicia, is en
tirely invested by the Russians, and
that the main Austrian army is retir
ing behind the Carpathans.
September 29. The French claim
Blight progress an indication that
they are making heavy attacks to
compel the Germans to withdraw from
St. Mihiel where they might bend, if
they do not break the Trench front.
The Germans already li&ve strength
ened their right at the expense of the
rest of their line, and many more men.
to assist them will have to be sent
from Germany or Belgium.
Having invested Przemysl, the Rus
sians are reported to be making their
way not only through the Carpa
thians to sweep across the plains in
northern Hungary, but, in strength,
toward Cracow, which they may reach
before the week is out, unless the
Austrian field army checks the ad
vance. '
Following the example of Irishmen
prominent Welshmen, headed by the
Earl of Plymouth and David Lloyd
George, Chancellor ol the Exchequer,
have set out to raise a Welsh army
corps for service on the continent.
Chinese troops today blew up and
destroyed the railroad bridge at Tayu
Ho, six miles west of Wei Hsien.
, The British Admiralty announces
that the German cruiser Emden, dur
ing the past few days, has captured
and sunk in the Indian Ocean the
British steamers Tumeric," King Lud
Riberta, and Foyle and captured the
collier Bursk.
September 30. The German wings
appear to be folding back on the cen
ter, leaving the sole loophole for a
backward movement by way of
Bethel.
The Germans are even busier than
the Russians, for besides' the battles
In France and Russia, they have be
gun an attack on the puter forts of
Antwerp. For - two days they have
bee nshelling forts Waelhem and
V."ayre-St. Cathraines, which cover
the road Malines to Antwerp.
The sowing of floating mines by the
Austrians to harass the French and
English warships in the Adriatic, has
in
Brief
resulted in the sinking of an Italian
fishing boat, and the Italian govern
ment has entered a protest at Vienna.
Semlin, the important Austrian town
opposite Belgrade, which the Servians
captured several weeks ago, but evac
uated when the Austrians threatened
them in another quarter again has
fallen into Servian hands.
The official report of casualties
among British officers in dispatches
under date of September 24 and 26
from general headquarters includes
five killed, sixteen wounded, one died
of wounds and two missing.
Factorie sare working night and day
to finish cannon for the Italian army.
An order has been issued to hasten
the preparation of provisions and am
munition for the troops.
October 1 Both sides appear confi
dent. The Germans, bringing up re
inforcements to meet the attempts to
outflank them, are in what appears to
be almost impregnable positions and
are fighting sternly.
A call has been issued for British
railway men to go to France and as
sist in working the railroads there.
While the German attack on the
outer fortifications on Antwerp, again
Belgium has become the scene of se
rious operations. The invaders, so
far, have confined their attack to the
forts protecting the river crossings
between Malines and Antwerp. A Ger
man report says two forts have been
silenced but the Belgians deny this.
The Russians in the North, accord
ing to Petrograd accounts, have check
ed the Germans advance and driven
them back 30 miles to the region of
Suvalki and Miriampol.
A quietus has been given reports
that the relations between the allies
and Turkey are critical, both the Brit
ish foreign office and the Turkish em
bassy issuing denials.
A fresh outcry has arisen against
the severe censorship. It is pointed
out that the Germans have allowed
German, American and Dutch corre
spondents to visit the front, while not
a single British correspondent is with
Field Marshal French's army.
On the allies' right, " in Southern
Woevre where progress also is report
ed, the French have been fighting to
compel the Germans, who crossed the
Meuse at St. Mihiel, to return to the
Eastern side of the river.
The statement that the French had
occupied Seicheprey, and Rupt De
Mad, suggested that this already had
been accomplished, but it has not
been officially announced.
October 2 Telegrams from Petro
grad, The Central News corespondent
at Rome says, declare that the Ger
mans have lost 30,000 men in killed
and wounded and 20,000 taken prison
ers in Roland.
The Russian troops have continued
to repulse the enemy from the boun
daries of the governments of Suvalki
and Lomza. The engagement has
been very fierce west of Symno. .
The German troops that were at
tacking Ossowetz are retreating has
tily to the north. Considerable forces
of the enemy, of which the bulk ar
rives from the west are concentrating
in the districts west of the govern
ments of Piontrkow and Kielce.
On the French left wing the battle
continues with terriffic fighting, no
tably in th region of Roye, where the
Germans appear to have concentrated
Important reinforcements. The. action
extends more and more toward the
North.
The front of the French battle line
is now extended into he region to the
south of Arras. Upon the Meuse the
Germans attempted at night to throw
a bridge across the river near St.
Mihiel. The bridge was destroyed hv
French guns.
In the Woever district French of
ensive continues and progresses
step by step notably in the region be
tween Apremont and St. Mihiel. On
the remainder of the front there have
been attempted only artial operations
here and there.
A special dispatch from Panama
September 15 said that heavy fighting
was heard off Colon and that it was
believed two British cruisers had en
gaged the German cruiser Dresden.
The Germans, who are supposed
to have the assistance of heavy Aus
trian guns, apparently have failed
in their first atempt to pierce the
outer -line of forts at Antwerp.
Stubborn resistance is being offered
by the Germans in the vicinity of
Roye where earlier in the battle they
occupied heights which they were
forced to abandon.
The battle which promises to be
the greatest and most important of
the eastern campaign has commenced
near Cracow, Galicia, where the Aus-tro-German
army, estimated to num
ber 800,000 men, is ' endeavoring to
check the Russian advance.
More heavy fighting is taking place
at Augustowo, '140 miles northeast xf
Warsaw in the province of Suvalki
where the Germans have received re
inforcements and are taking the of.
fensiv.
Th Japanese government has re
quested China to remove the Chinese
soldiers from the railway that con
nects TsingTau with Tsi-Nan.
LIE QUARTER MILE
FRO
ENTRENCHED IN COMPARATIVE
SAFETY, FORCES AWAIT AT
TACKS OF ALLIES.
POINT HAS BEEN GAINED
British and French Feel That Victory
ls Certain Since March on Paris
Has Been Stayed.
On the battle front,, via Paris. A
thrill was in the air all along the ex
tended allied lines today. The French
and British troops who. for more than
a fortnight have been in closest con
tact with the Germans, felt they had
accomplished their hard task of pre
venting the Germans from breaking
through the human barrier erected be
tween them and Paris, their main ob
jective, and that this meant eventual
victory for the allies.
The lines of trenches made the bat
tle front appear like deeply scarred
fields. The allies, who quick learned
the lesson of burrowing, face the Ger
mans within quarter of mile at some
places. Their field entrenchments of
fer admirable shelter from the Ger
man artillery which consequently re
duces their casualties and permits the
allies to await In comparative safety
the Germans attacks which must be
made across the open and often at
terrible cost.
The fury of the German onslaught
was unabated today, especially on the
western wing, but their every effort
was met with vigor by the allies, who
seemed to vie with each other in using
all their strength and courage against
the attackers.
The scene of the most violent at
tacks changes day by day. The Ger
mans finding it impossible to pene
trate the allied lines in the vicinity
of Rheims and Soissons, quickly trans
ported many of their divisions further
northwest and hurled them against
Roye.
The allies' great turning movement
continued today and their western
wing extended toward Arras. Reports
from the other end of the line on
the allies to be slow but sure. Hun
dreds of German prisoners fell into
the hands of the allies at every point
and it was remarked that the majority
were Bavarians who seem to have
been prominent in the front of the
German attack.
Spies are so numerous along the
front that orders have been issued
stating that any German in civilian
dress encountered will be considered
a spy and those furnishing him with
clothes will be regarded as accom
plices. ALLIES' EFFFORTS REPULSED.
Attempts of French to Break Through
German Lines Have Been
Evaded.
Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, L. I.
According to announcement made
here the great battle in France is still
undecided. The Germans are describ
ed as hammering the French positions
at numerous points by their heavy ar
tillery. .
The attempts of the allies to break
through the German lines are said to
have been repulsed. The heaviest
losses have been in the Argonne re
gion. The Germans' are asserted to
be making steady progress.
In the fighting before Antwerp the
German artillery is reported as hav
ing silenced two of the Belgian forts.
German troops are said to have cap
tured 30 aeroplanes sent from France
to Belgium.
In the eastern arena of the war
the Russian offensive movement from
the Niemen river against the Germans
in the province of Suvalki is declared
to have failed. It is officially report
ed that the Russian fortress at Osso
wetz, in Russian Poland, ' was bom
barded by the Germans until Septem
ber 25.
The fighting in France, the ., siege
of Antwerp and the offensive opera
tions under General von Hindenberg,
all going on at the same time, are
taken in Berlin to indicate that the
German army is not lacking in men.
Germans Lose in Poland.-
London. A dispatch to The Central
News from Rome says: "The Rus
sian embassy here has Issued a com
munication announcing that the Ger
mans have suffered a terrible defeat
in the provinces of Lodz and Suwalki,
Russian Poland. The Germans were
attacked with extreme violence and
compelled to flee from Suvalki, ' Ostro
will and other towns, leaving behind
great quantities of transports and
guns. Their troops threw away rifles
and baggage. Numerous cannon were
abandoned.
Dresden Reported Sunk.
New York. A rumor that the Ger
man cruiser. Dresden had been sunk
by the British cruisers Glasgow and
Good Hope was brought here by pas
sengers on the steamer Japanese
Prince which arrived from South
American ports. This rumor, the pas
sengers said, was current in Pernam
buc.o on September 17. Fifteen Ger
man vessels, it was said, are in Per
nambuco harbor, fearing to venture
out because of the reported presence
of British cruisers outside the harbor.
1 GERM LINE
COTTON CROP WILL
BE SECOND III SIZE
FORECAST FROM GOVERNMENT
FIGURES OF SEPT; 25 IS 15,-
300,000 BALES.
GIN NEARLY 3,000,000 BALES
From September 1 to 25, Bringing
Total For Season up to 3,381,863.
, Next to the Record. ,
Washington A forecast of 15,300,
000 five-hundred-pound bales of cotton
as the 1914 crop was made by the
Department of Agriculture's crop re
porting board in the season's final re
porting, which showed a condition on
September 23 of 73.5 per cent of nor
mal. That quantity of cotton makes
this year's crop second in point of
size ever grown in the United States.
The record is 15,693,000 bales grown
in. 1911. Last year 14,156,000 bales
were grown and in 1912 there were
13,702,000 bales.
The September 25 condition indi
cates a yield of about 200 pounds of
lint per acre, which applied to the
estimated area planted, 36,960,000
acres, would produce 15,463,000 bales.
An average of one per cent of the
acreage is abandoned each year. Al
lowing for that the condition of the
crop indicates a total production of
15,300,000 bales. ,
Cotton ginning was active from
September 1 to 25, a total of 2,901,556
bales having been turned out. That
brought the aggregate ginnings for
the year to 3,381,863 bales, according
to the Census Bureau's report, an
nounced. The period's ginnings were
second' only to those of the record
crop year of 1911, being less than
4,000 bales lower.
In Alabama, Arkansas, Florida,
Georgia and Louisiana, the ginnings
to September 25 exceeded those to
that date in any of the past seven
years.
Sea Island cotton ginnings exceed
ed those of any year in the past seven,
while the number of round bales gin
ned showed a great decrease.
The second cotton ginning report
of the season, compiled from reports
of Census Bureau correspondents and
agents throughout the cotton belt and
issued at 10 a. m., announced that
3,381,863 bales of cotton, counting
round as half bales, of the growth
of 1914 has been ginned prior to Sep
tember 25. This compares with 3,246,
655 bales, or 23.2 per cent of the en
tire crop, ginned prior to September
25 last year. 3,007,271 bales or 22.3
per cent in 1912 and 3,679,594 bales
or 23.6 per cent in 1911.
REDUCE GASOLINE TAX 1 CENT.
Automobile to Be Taxed 50 Cents
Per Horsepower at Time
of Sale.
Washington. Reduction of the pro
posed tax on gasoline in the war rev
enue bill from two cents to one cent
a gallon and imposition of a tax of
60 cents per horsepower on automo
bile sales were agreed to by Demo
crats of the Senate Finance Commit
tee. The committee will have before it
a subcommittee recommendation that
the proposed tax of $2 a thousand on
bank capital and surplus be eliminat
ed and that there be substituted a
stamp tax on checks, drafts, certi
ficates of deposit and other negotia
ble paper. The tax on checks, drafts,
etc., would be two cents and on certi
ficates of deposit, etc., two cents for
each $100. From this it is estimated
that the revenue would be about $10,
000,000 a year. It was also agreed to
retain the proposed increase tax of
50 cents a barrel on beer in the House
bill with the understanding, however,
that a further increase of 25 cents
might be made should the committee
find it necessary to raise more rev
enue after it has completed consider
ation of all sections of the bill.
The proposed tax of 20 cents a
gallon on sweet domestic wines and
12 cents on dry wines, the committee
agfeed to revise, retaining the House
rate on sweet wines, but reducemg
the dry wine tax to 8 cents. '
Will Wear Cotton.
New York. A movement to aid
Southern planters by popularizing
cotton evening gowns was started
here recently when Miss Florence
Guernsey, president of the New York
City Federation of . Women's Clubs,
issued an appeal to 100,000 members
of the federation to purchase such a
gown and wear it at peace demonstra
tion to be held during the week of
October. Miss Guernsey announced
she would offer resolution at the New
York State Federation of Women's
Clubs convention.
Peace For Mexico.
Washington. An outline of what
the imemdiate outcome of the conven
tion at Mexico City and Agnes Calien
tes probably will be, was received by
Mexican Constitutionalist agents. Ac
cording to the dispatches, delegates
of General Carranza's faction, now in
convention at Mexico City, probably,
will adjourn soon to meet in joint
session October 5 with the Agnes
Calientes peace conference attended
by representatives of General. Villa
and General Zapata, as well as the
Carranza faction.
TELLS
FACED
London. The official press bureau
issued a report from Field Marshal Sir
John French's headquarters on the
British operations in France. The
text follows:
"The enemy is still maintaining him
self along the whole front and in order
to do so is throwing into the fight de
tachments composed of units from the
different formations, the active army,
reserve, and landwehr, as is shown by
the uniforms of the prisoners recently
captured.
"Our progress, although slow on ac
count of the strength of the defensive
position against which we are pressing,
has in certain directions been continu
ous, but the present battle may well
last for some days more before a de
cision is reached, since it now ap
proximates nearly to siege warfare.
"The Germans are making use of
searchlights. This fact, coupled with
their great strength in heavy artillery,
leads to the supposition that they are
employing material which may have
been collected for the siege of Paris.
Confident of the Result.
"The nature of the general situation
after the operations of the eighteenth,
nineteenth and twentieth, cannot be
better summarized than as expressed
recently in a neighboring French com
mander to his corps: 'Having repulsed
repeated and violent counter attacks
made by the enemy, we have a feeling
that we have been victorious.'
"So far as the British are concerned,
the course of events during these three
days can be described in a few words.
During Friday, eighteenth, artillery
fire was kept-up intermittently by both
sides during daylight. At night the
Germans counter-attacked certain por
tions of our line, supporting the ad
vance of their infantry as always by
a heavy bombardment. But the strokes
were not delivered with great vigor
and ceased about 2 a. m. During the
day's fighting an air-craft gun of the
Third army corps succeeded in bring
ing down a German aeroplane.
"News was received also that a body
of French cavalry had demolished part
of the railway to the north, cutting, at
least temporarily, one line of communi
cation which is of particular import
ance to the enemy.
German Attack Stopped.
"On Saturday, the nineteenth, the
bombardment was resumed by the Ger
mans at an early hour and continued
intermittently under reply from our
guns. Some of their infantry advanced
from cover, apparently with the inten
tion of attacking, but on coming under
fire they retired. Otherwise the day
was uneventful, except for the activity
of the artillery, which is a matter of
normal routine rather than an event.
"Another hostile aeroplane was
brought down by us, and one of our
aviators succeeded in dropping several
bombs over the German line, one in
cendiary bomb falling-with consider
able effect on a transport park near
La Fere.
"A buried store of the enemy's
ammunitions of war also was found not
far from the Aisne, ten wagon loads
of live shells and two wagons of cable
being dug up. Traces were discovered
of large quantities of stores having
been burned all tending to show that
as far back as the Aisnev the German
retirement was hurried. -
"There was a strong wind during
the day, accompanied by a driving
rain. This militated against the aerial
reconnaissance.
Several German Attacks Fail.
"On Sunday, the twentieth, nothing
of importance occurred until the after
noon, when there was a break in the
clouds and an interval of feeble sun
shine, which was hardly powerful
enough to warm the soaking troops.
The Germans took advantage of this
brief spell of fine weather to make
several attacks against different points.
These were all repulsed with loss to
the enemy, but the casualties incurred
by us were by no means light.
"In one section of our firing line the
occupants of the trenches were under
the impression that they heard a mili
taryband in the enemy's line just be
fore the attack developed. It is now
known that the German infantry
started their advance with bands play
ing. "The offensive against one or two
points was renewed at dusk, with no
greater success. The brunt of the re
sistance naturally has fallen on the in
fantry. In spite of the fact that they
have been drenched to the skin for
some days and their trenches have
been deep in mud water, and in spite
of the incessant night alarms and the
almost continuous bombardment to
which they have been subjected, they
have on every occasion been ready for
the enemy's infantry when the latter
attempted to assault, and they have
beaten them back with great loss. In
deed, the sight of troops coming up has
been a positive relief after long, trying
hours of inaction under shell fire.
German Cannon Fire Fails.
"The object of the great proportion
of artillery the Germans employ is
to beat down the resistance of their
enemy by concentrated and prolonged
fire to shatter their nerve with high
explosives before the infantry attack
is launched. They seem to have re
lied on doing this with us, but they
have not done so, though it has taken
them several costly experiments to
discover this fact.
"From statements of prisoners it ap
pears that they have been greatly dis
appointed by the moral effect xpro
duced by their heavy guns, which, de
spite the actual losses inflicted, has
not been at all commensurate with the
EN
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RAVE
TONS
GIANT GERMAN GUNS
colossal expenditure of ammunition
which has been wasted.
"By this it is not implied that their
artillery fire is not good. It is more
than good it is excellent. But the
British soldier ie a difficult person to
impress or depress, even by immense
shells filled with a high explosive,
which detonate with terrific violence
and form craters large, enough to act
as graves for five horses.
Scoff it German Shells.
"The German howitzer shells are
from- eight to nine inches in caliber,
and on impac they send up columns
of greasy bla ;k smoke. On account
of this they are Irreverently dubbed
'coal boxes,' 'black Marias,' or 'Jack
Johnsons' by the soldiers.
"Men who tke things in this spirit
are, It seems, likely to throw out the
calculations based on loss of morale
so carefully framed by the German
military philosophers.
"A considerable amount of informa
tion has been gleaned from prisoners.
It has been gathered that our bom
bardment on the fifteenth produced a
great impression. The opinion also Is
reported that our infantry makes such
good use of the ground that the Ger
man companies are decimated by our
rifle fire before the soldier can be
seen.
"From an official diary captured by
the First army corps it appears that
one of the German corps contains an
extraordinary mixture of units. If the
composition of the other corps is sim
ilar it may be assumed that the pres
ent efficiency of the enemy's forces is
in no way comparable with what it
was when the war commenced.
Germans Lose Many Officers.
"The losses in officers are noted as
having been especially severe. A bri
gade is stated to be commanded by a
major; some companies of foot guards
by one-year volunteers, while after the
battle of Montmirail one regiment lost
fifty-five out of sixty officers.
"The prisoners recently "Captured ap
preciate the fact that the march on
Paris has failed, and that their forces
are retreating, bat state that the .ob
ject of this movement is explained
by the officers as being to withdraw
Into closer touch with the supports
which have stayed too far in the rear.
"The officers are also endeavoring
to encourage the troops by telling
them that they will be at home by
Christmas. A large number of the
men believe that they are beaten.
"Among the items of news are the
following: Recently a pilot and ob
server of the Royal Flying corps were
forced by a breakage in their aero
plane to descend in the enemy's lines.
The pilot managed to pancake his ma
chine down to earth and. the two es
caped into some thick undergrowth in
the woods.
"The enemy came up and seized and
smashed the machine, but did not
search for our men with much zeal.
The latter lay hid till dark and then
found their way to the Aisne, across
which they swam, reaching camp in
safety but barefooted.
"Numerous floating bridges have by
now been thrown across the Aisne and
some of the permanent bridges have
been repaired under fire. , On the
twentieth Lieutenant (name deleted)
of Third signal corps, Royal Engineers,
was unfortunately, drowned while at
tempting to swim across the river
with a cable in order to open up fresh
telegraph communication on the north.
Telephone Aid to' Spies.
"Espionage is still carried on by the
enemy to a considerable extent. Re
cently the suspicions of some of the
French troops were aroused by com
ing across a farm from which the
horses had been removed. After some
search they discovered a telephone
which was connected by an under
ground cable with the German lines,
and the owner of the farm paid the
penalty In the usual way in war for
his treachery.
"After some cases of village fight
ing, which occurred earlier in the war,
it was reported by some of our offi
cers that the Germans had attempted
to approach to close quarters by forc
ing prisoners to march in front of
them. The Germans have recently re
peated the same trick on a larger
scale against the French, as is shown
by the copy of an order issued by the
French officials. It is therein referred
to as a ruse, but if that term can be
accepted it is a distinctly illegal ruse
Charges Tricks to Germans.
" 'During a recent night attack,' the
order reads, 'the Germans drove a col
umn of French prisoners in front of
them. This action is to be brought to
the notice of all our troops, (1) in
order to put them on their guard
against such a dastardly ruse, (2) in
order that every soldier may know
how the Germans treat their prison
ers. Our troops must not forget that
if they allow themselves to be taken
prisoners the Germans will not fail
to expose them to French bullets.' "
"Further evidence has now been col
lected of the misuse of the white flag
and other signs of surrender.
"During recent . fighting, also, Ger
man ambulance wagons advanced in
order to collect the wounded. An or
der to cease fire was consequently giv
en: to our guns, which were firing on
this particular sectfon of ground. The
German battery commanders at once
took advantage of the lull in the ac
tion to climb up their observation lad
ders and on to a haystack to locate
our guns, which soon afterwards
came under a far more accurate fire
than any to which they had been sub
jected up to that time."
ROW BR
STATE ITEMS
OF INTEREST TO ALL NORTH
CAROLINA PEOPLE.
Assure Movement of Success.
Preparation is in fult swing now for '
the best-possible observance of North
Carolina Community Service Week,
December 3, 4 and 5, and, with the
most thorough co-operation between
the agricultural, educational and oth
er interests in communities through
out the state assured, there is no doubt
of a high degree of success attending
the movement. The plan as hereto
fore outlined Includes days specially
devoted respectively to public roads,
grounds and buildings, school and
neighborhood improvement and coun
ty progress, these being respectively
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
Community Service .Week.
Tar Heels at Front In Congress.-
North Carolina has played an inter
esting part in shaping legislation in
Washington since the Democrats
came in in 1913. Of course the state
has a little more than the ordinary in
terest in the president, first, because
he is a Scotch-Irishman, and second,
that he resided in the state for a time.
The North Carolina congressmen
have been busy, and, generally, to
some real purpose.
NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS.
H. E. Nissen is the new paid chief
of the Winston-Salem fire department.
Large crowds attended the celebra
tion of the 25th anniversary of the
A. & M. College.
The Senior class at Wake Forest
has joined the buy-a-bale movement
Citizens of Columbus are trying to
establish a county farm.
J. A. Ebbs, aged 56, for 25 years em
ployed at the Southern yards at Ashe
ville, met death under the wheels of
a Pullman recently.
Ninetyfive per cent of the 1,000
school children of Hickory under 13
years of age are in school.
The chief free attraction of. the
State Fair this year will be DeLoyd
Thompson, who will loop-the-loop in
an air ship.
About 275 bales of cotton were burn
ed on the cotton platform at Raeford
recently.
The main building of the Winyah
Sanitarium, the handsome structure
at Asheville, used by Dr. Karl von.
Ruckas a hospital for the treatment
of tubercular patients, was practically
destroyed by fire one morning recent
ly wit ha loss of between $50,00 and
$75,000.
"Buck" King of Trentjtownship, Le
noir county, brought to Kinston a to
bacco leaf, of fair grade, which meas
ures 24 inches wide and is three full
feet in length.
Thousands of people attended the
Home Coming at Concord.
Governor Craig went to Chase City,
Va., and delivered an address at the
opening of the Mecklenburg County
(Va.) Fair.
The United States Marine hospital
will not be removed from Wilmington
as was feared.
The repair work on the busts of
Graham, Johnson and Ransom in the
capitol building has been completed.
Raleigh's splendid new city market
was formally thrown open to the
public a few days ago with special
ceremonies. r
Educational exhibits at the coming
State Fair will be a special feature
and will surpass any heretofore made.
North Carolina receives from the
Federal Treasury Department $455,
250 of the crop moving money.
Among the 3,000 people who listened
W. J. Bryan at Asheville was Mrs.
Josephine Nixon who was his school
teacher when he was 14 years of age.
Wilmington ha sa total of 407 auto
mobiles in actual operation according
to State Secretary Lacy.
Citizens of North Buncombe recent
ly gave a picnic dinner to the convicts
wroking on the road In that section.
The new Federal building at Hen
dersonville will be completed about
the first of the year.
Mr. Sol. Weil of the firm of H. Well
& Bros., Goldsboro, died recently
while in Sabyms, N. H.
The church building of Holmes Me
morial Methodist congreation as Salis
bury has been condemned.
Among the several commercial at
taches appointed by Secretary Redfield
is E. W. Thompson of Charlotte, who
goes to Berlin. The position pays
$5,000.
Southern Railway officials have ask
ed the corporation commission for the
privilege to take off sections of trains
Nos. 37 and 38, also a train on . the
Danville division.
Police Justice McConnell of Con
cord is fining each offender charged
with drunkenness $30.
Huckleberries in Duplin county net
ted the farmers nearly $250,000 this
season.
Richard L. Chandler, aged 67, was
Instantly killed and two others, all of
Winston-Salem, were injured when a
15-foot scaffold on which they were
working fell.
A great crowd attended the annual
fall meeting of the Iredell Singing
Association at Statesville recently.
Freeman, . the .two-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Morris, of Lum
berton, was burned to death a few
days ago.
Rev. Henry T. Ellinwood, aged 46,
pastor of the Presbyterian church at
Hamlet, died of heart failure a few
days ago.
With peanuts selling for $1 a bushel,
the peop'e of Halifax county will not
experience the dire calamity some of
the mor j panic-stricken population predict