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4 THE CHATHAM KJSUUKD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER TEAR Strictly in Advance ecorri THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - . $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - . $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXIX. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, APRIL 4, 1917 NO. 35. i i IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Natins for Seven Days Art Given. THE NEWS JJFJHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In the South land Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs. Domestic Tfc largest -single force which the vent has enrolled in its nation wid -P' hunt, with the possible excep tion pi the municipal police and detec tive force, is 'he army of postmasters, j whom have received instructions r no clew as to the identity of . - I mr ,4 1, o 1 is anri T Vi o i T- untiiri. ' great value in detecting spies op c in the country are the rural ielivery carriers and the city - a force all told of about three d thousand men. Vermont legislature has passed appropriating one million dol irs for equipping the National Guard state and organizing the home defense. ion for the burial in Arling Sational cemetery at Washington ;.; s Ezekiel, the Virginia sculp tor, who died recently in Rome, Italy, v. a- - anted by the secretary of war. extra session of the general as- of Georgia, called to enact try" legislation, has accomplish task, adjourned and gene home. The tii! is said to be the most drastic of any state in the Union, and the aor has already signed it. W man suffragists throughout the I d States are vitally interested in the question before the English t of commons, and freely predict . omen in the British empire will be given the right to vote in 90 days. 8( retary of Agriculture Houston has aled to the farmers of the United eg to join in agricultural prepared d - measures so that the country may handicapped by food shortage in effort to meet the international Cyclonic weather prevailed in Alba March 27. A small cyclone over that place in almost the track of one that struck the ten years ago, unroofing build- - demolishing chimneys and fences ying low some of the finest shade trees. Telephone; telegraph and electric companies have suffered severely rtorms in southwest Georgia. Moses Ezekiel, the American sculp tor, has crossed the great divide. In his will he asks to be buried in Ar lington cemetery among his old Con-:- : re comrades. After a statement had been admit t : in evidence that 250 shells for five bonjt- had been manufactured in 12 days on board a German merchant steamship tied up at Hoboken, N. J., the government closed its case against ' harfes ven Gleist and five oth er Germans on trial for conspiracy to destroy vessels carrying munitions ff m American ports to the entente The case is being heard in New York City. - announced from New York City that the Western Union Telegraph rnpany will, beginning May 1, this nut in operation the eight-hour day. Pauline Paul Parthenae, known as the rld's champion Holstein cow, is lead. She swallowed a darning nee 1 hich worked its way to the heart, and caused her death. Two years ago the cow produced 2,888 pounds of but ter in twelve months. The American liner St. Louis, the armed merchantman to defy the arines, has arrived safely at her destination, it is announced. Under the tonsor, her destination is not given to the press. While the dates of sailings of armed merchantmen and their destination will not be made public through the press, 'ho authorities of the navy depart- will notify the friends and rela of passengers on such vessels whe:her they arrive safely. Washington Rear Admiral James H. Oliver, the of naval intelligence, is named by rforretary Daniels as governor of the Danish West Indies which will be taken over by this country. Ir is stated that except for informa tion concerning German plots against American interests, the public in a general way knows as much as the government about everything directly affecting the present crisis. A The Hague telegram says it is re Ported from an absolutely authentic source that the German government w"l ask American officials and relief workers of the American commission for relief in Belgium to submit to a Period of "news quarantine," the time n'-' to exceed four weeks, in order to Prevent military information from leaking out. ' - A London dispatch announces that Premier Lloyd-George has told the t-nghsh house of commons that wom dn suffrage must be granted. Twelve federal reserve banks, it is announced, have made a 90-day loan to the government of- $505,000,000 at rate of 2 per cent per annum. 1 news nnarantino" fha Re glum relief work wnnlrt annlv equally to Brand Whitlock, the Ameri can minister to Belgium, and his staff, eh personally, in the case of Mr. 'in lock, the period of detention, as - matter of courtesy, might be short- It is positively stated that the ad ministrate branch of -he American government has determined definitely upon a course of action to meet the hostility of Germany. It is an open secret that President Wilson's advisers as well as official Washington generally have long ac cepted it as a fact that war actually is being waged against the United States. Virtually the entire fcrce of the fed eral government's civilian employees approximately 500,000 men and wom en, engaged in eveiy branch of serv ice, has been summoned to aid the bureau of invstigation and the secret service in the detection of spies and the apprehension of persons engaged in plots, intrigues or ether activities against the interests of the United States. A Havana, Cuba, dispatch says that virtually all the soldiers and civilians comprising the rebel forces of ftigo berto Fernandez in Oriente province, between 500 and 600 in number, nave sunenuereci to Colonel Varona at A Berlin dispatch brings the infor- mation that German chemists have discovered a new method of making a flour substitute out of linden and beech buds. The chemists sav that thP new discoverey has four times the fat i percentage of wheat flour. A dispatch from Chihuahua City, Mexico says that Francisco Villa, at the head of a cavalry force of 3,500 men, recently made a determined at tempt to capture the city, but was driv en back with the loss of 500 prisoners and 350 in killed and wounded. The United States government is steadily pushing preparations to pro tect American lives and property against German ruthlessness. The president has directed that two new military departments be created in the Atlantic coast region. General Leonard Wood will command the southeastern department, with head' ! quarters, at Charleston, S. C. European War The fight which the German raider Moewe had with the British. steamship Otaki was not the only one on the cruise. The raider also had a stub born fight with the armed British steamer Governor. The second offi cer of the Governor was killed and both arms of a gunner named Hud doth were shot off. The Governor was eventually sunk. More than forty Americans were among the prisoners taken to Germa ny by the German commerce raider Moewe, according to Jack Benson, an American seaman, who has arrived in Denmark. The Americans aFeheld as prisoners of war in Germany. They were nearly all horsemen on the Es meraldas, which was sunk by the raid er Moewe. The Austrian emperor is visiting Emperor Wilhelm somewhere in the German empire. The emperors of the tw"o principle central powers, it stated in a telegram from Switzerland, are conferring anent the most advisable step to take re garding the present international cri sis whether it is best to stop the sub marine warfare or go ahead and fight the United States. An early spring thaw on the Rus sian front has prevented the German drive with Petrograd as the objective. In Roumania fighting continues in the Uzul valley region, where the Ger mans are making notable success. The British continue to gain in the western zone, while the French are at a standstill. The British and French troops have made adidtional important gain against the Germans on the line running from Arras to Soissons. The allies operating on the western front have occupied the villages of Longavsnes, Lieramont and Equan court. The German war effice admits the capture by the British of the town of Roisel, about eleven miles northwest of St. Quentin, and the falling back of the German forces before the French at several points in the forest region south of La Fere. London reports that the British hos pital ship Asturias was torpedoed with out warning. Thirty-six persons are re ported killed and missing. An Amsterdam, Holland, dispatch made public in London, says that Ger many has offered to make separate peace with Russia. The bases are said to be complete autonomy for Poland, the internationalization of Constantino ple, the evacuation by Russia of Aus trian territory and a Russian protec torate over Armenia. Still another crossing of the Persian frontier into Turkey has been effected by the Russians, who have entered the Vilaqet of Mosul, through which flows the Tigris river, along which the Brit ish are still in pursuit of the Turks re treating from Bagdad. On the Turco-Persian frontier, near Khanikan, the Russians have captur ed the Turkish fortifications at Kalai chahin, and this places a further men ace in the way of the Turks making their way up the Diala river before the British. Apparently the Russian intention is to drive in behind the Turks as they retreat up the Tigris in the direction of Mosul. Von Mackensen, German field mar shal, is in Constantinople, and it is stated to be his purpose to reorganize the Ottoman forces. Three more villages are in the hands of the British and French troops oper ating between Arras and Sd-ssons in France. The campaign against the Turks by the British and Russians is being push ed, and notable gains are' reported. The last three places ,to fall into the hands of the allies " -operating in the western zone are Lajpiicourt, Fo iembray and La Feuillef. " PREPARING MIGHTY EFFORT TO WIN WAR GERMANY IS GATHERING TO THE COLORS EVERY AVAILABLE MAN. SUPREME TEST THIS YEAR Field Marshall Von Hindenburg Con siders it By -No Means Impossible to Attain Victory During 1917. Copenhagen. Germany, according to information reaching here from Berlin, now is gathering to the colors every available man for a supreme military effort to bring the war to a victorious conclusion in this year's campaign, a goal which Field Marshal von Hindenburg and his advisers con sider by no means impossible of at- tai"ment Without altering formally the law j of military service, the German auth j orities have in practice extended the i period of service beyond the forty 1 fifth year. The policy of the German War De i partment, as stated in the Reichstag j this week by a military representative, I is to withdraw those men over 45 from the front line after they have done six months of duty there, but military exigencies compel the holding of these over-age men for service in the so-called etape, or region behind the actual fighting front. For some time the German authpri- ties- in a grand coming out of men earlier pronounced unfit for service I have been mustering men on the very verge of the age limit, but up to the present they have announced that the necessity has not yet arisen for legis lation raising the age limit to 65 as has been done in Austria-Hungary. The operations of the labor service j law, now in full swing, are further i resleasing for service at the front every available man behind the lines j capable of carrying a rifle, so that the next two or three months should see the German armies at maximum size. Simultaneously with the draining of the dregs of human reservoirs of soldier material, Germanys industrial mobilization also is approaching a climax. A scheme for converting every available factory and employing every available machine on war work and manning them with labor obtain ed under the labor service law is con templated. The work is to be done in three stages, and the construction of a third group of munition plants is to begin immediately. The output of cannon munitions therefore should soon reach its maximum. RIOT BREAKS UP PEACE MEETING IN BALTIMORE. Waving Flags, Crowd Breaks Into Hall During Meeting. Many Fights. Baltimore. A mass-meeting held here under the auspices of the Ameri can League Against Militarism, ended in a riot. A counter-demonstration was organized on the pavement of the Academy of Music, in which Dr. David Starr Jordan was speaking. Finally the crowd took the matter into its own hands and, led by some militiamen, broke into the theater and marched down the aisles, waving a large Am erican flag. There was an audience of about 2,000 inside, and about that number tried to enter. Several fights started. The police department had sounded a riot call and police from every sec tion of the city soon arrived. Ejec tions started, the lights were dimmed and the meeting broke up Just as Doctor Jordan was reaching an impas sioned climax in his address. Men socially prominent led the throng of 4,000. College professors, students, bankers and lawyers were there. Carter G. Osburn, Jr., a bank er, was at the head waving a flag. A policeman clubbed him into uncon sciousness and a crowd which saw the flag disappear from his hand, leaped forward, swept the police aside and got into the theater. Twenty men were clubbed and four of them were taken to a hospital. A dozen others were arrested. EIGHT INJURED IN STORM AT MEMPHIS. Memphis,- Tenn. Eight persons were injured several buildings were wrecked and a score or more were un roofed or otherwise damaged in a windstorm that skirted this city and struck Binghamton, a suburb, with its full force. Three of the injured, who were caught under the falling timbers of the Christian Church at Bingham ton, one of the the buildings demol ished, were seriously hurt. All are ex pected to recover. - MUCH TONNOGE WAS DESTROYED DURING MARCH. Berlin, via Sayville. In addition to submarine successes already publish ed in the month of March, says an of ficial statement published the first of April by the German 'Admiralty, 34 steamers, two sailing vessels and 14 fishing craft, aggregating 90,000 gross tons, were sunk by German sub marines. Of the total 24 were British vessels, one of which was an auxiliary cruiser displacing atleast 8,000 tons. VILLA ATTEMPTS TO TJ BANDIT LEAD CAVALRY !N BOLD ATTACK ON CAPITAL OF CHIHUAHUA. DRIVEN BACK WITH LOSSES In Vain Effort to Capture City Villa Lost 350 Killed and Wounded and 500 Taken Prisoners. Also Horses and Saddles. Chihuahua City, Mexico. Francisco Villa, at the head of a cavalry force of 3,500 men, made a determined attempt to capture Chihuhua City, but was driven back with the loss of 500 pris oners and 350 in killed and wounded. The battery on Santa Rosa Hill, the key to the city which Villa took by a rush in his succesful attack last No vember opened fire on the attackers, aided by a battery at the Central Rail way station. General Hernandez by a flank movement, broke up an end of the Villa line and took 200 prisoners. Colonel Mora, entrenched in the old cemetery, repulsed three charges by the enemy troops. The Villa prison ers taken there raised the total to 500. More than 200 saddle horses, three machine guns and a quantity of arms were captured. From an order of the day found on a prisoner, Villa's expedition is shown to have numbered 3,500 men, all cav alry, which was only half the size of the defending Carranza forces whose losses in dead and wounded amounted to 120 men. The Carranza officers here do not assert that the victory was decisive. Villa was reported to be in per sonal command of the attacks. AERIAL COAST STATION IS GIVEN TO GOVERNMENT. Also Air Cruiser is Gift of Aero Club of America. New York. The fully equipped aerial coast patrol t-ion at Port Washington, N. Y., together with an air cruiser fitted with two 200-horse-power motors and an air-plane gun, were offered to the Government through the Aero Club of America by Rodman Wannamaker. Announcement of the gift was made at a dinner of the Aero Club of America, at which James W. Gerard, was one of the speakers, and which was attended by many men of prominence. Alan R. Hawley, president of the club, announced that the Collier tro phy offered annually for the greatest achievement in aviation in America had been awarded to Elmer A. Sperry and Lawrence B. Sperry for the de velopment of a drift indicator. He made public also the award of the Aero Club's medal of merit, which has been given to Miss Ruth Law for establishing the American distance record across country; to Philip Car roll for his patriotic work in train ing military aviators; to Floyd Smith for establishing American hydro-altitude records; to Corporal A. D. Smith, U. S. A., for the American hydro duration record; to CtR.pt. C. C. Cul ver, U. S. A., for wireless experimen tation, and to James V. Martin for the invention of the Aero Dynamic stablizer. FORTY AMERICANS BEING HELD PRISONER IN GERMANY. Copenhagen, via London. More than 40 Americans were among the prisoners taken to Germany by the German commerce raider Moewe, ac cording to Jack Benson, an American seaman, who has arrived here. The Americans, he says, are held as prison ers of war in Germany. Benson, who for a time was a fellow prisoner of the men held in Germany, says that nearly all of the 40 men were horsemen aboard the horse transport Esceraldas, which was sunk by the Moewe. The only exception whom Benson was able to mention was an American named Smith, who was aboard the British armed merchant man Brecknockshire. "TRADE TRIP" WILL BE PREPAREDNESS TOUR. Knoxville, Tenn. Press dispatches indicate President Wilson has accept ed offer of Knoxville Board of Com merce to make of its "trade trip" to be run week of April 9 a tour of applied fjfeparedness and patriotism. The of fer was made the Government owing to the serious situation now confront ing the nation. The trip will be made in strictly military style. A "colonel" will command the expedition, and will be in charge of "captiins." ESCAPED GERMANS MAY BE 'IN CHIHUAHUA. El Paso, Texas. Two Germans ap peared at the Chihuahua City Foreign Club as the guests of the German resi dents of hat city and were said by their hosts to have escaped from the Ger man raider Prinz Eitel Friedrich, in terned at Philadelphia, according to an American, who arrived from Cbl huahua City. The American said he saw the two Gernons and gave a de scription of them. K GH HUAHUA HOLLWEG DECLARES POLICY IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR DECLAR ED BEFORE DEICHSTAG POL ICY TOWARD U. S. "WARFARE FOR IFS DEFENSE" Offer No Excuse For Waging Sub marine Warfare. "Germany Feels Neither Hatred Nor Hostility For America," He Says. Berlin, via Sayville. Dr. von Beth-mann-Hollweg, the German Imperial Chancellor, In a speech in the Reich- j stag declared that Germany had un dertaken submarine warfare for its de- 1 fense, and added: "If the American Nation considers this a cause for which to declare war j against the German Nation with which it has lived in peace for more j than 100 years, if this warrants an increase of bloodshed, we shall not have to bear the burden of responsib ility for it." The Chancellor made important dec larations concerning Germany's pol icy toward the United States and Russia. "How did these things develop?" he asked, in speaking of the relations with the United States, and then pro ceeded to answer the question by re viewing the causes which led up to the German use of submarines in un restricted warfare. "Germany never had the slightest intention of attacking the United States of America and does not have such intention now. It never desired war against the United States of Am erica, and does not desire it today," was his declaration. The Chancellor, whose speech is re ported by the Overseas News Agency (the German Official News Bureau), said further: War or Peace. "Within the next few days the di rectors of the American Nation will be convened by President Wilson for an extraordinary session of Congress in order to decide the question of war or peace between the American and German nations. . "German: never had the slightest intention of attacking the United State of America and does not have such intention now. It never desired war against the United States of Am erica and does not denre it today." PRESIDENT HAS AUTHORITY TO RAISE ARMY OF 700,000. Senator Chamberlin Says This Power is Already the President's. Washington. Plans to forward fur ther preparedness measures for the army began to assume definite form. How an increased army force may be promptly secured for the present emergency as well as universal train ing as a national policy, were discuss ed by President Wilson with Senator Chamberalin, of Oregon, chairman of the Senate Military Committee. At the same time, Secretary Baker and Administraiton leader in Congress considered legislation needed immed iately for the military establishment. Senator Chamberlain told the Presi dent that he believed the Executive now has authority, without further action by Congress, to raise at onte an army of more than 700,000 men by increasing the regular army to war strength and calling out all of the National Guard at wor strength with co-operation from state executives. There was no intimation that the President was considering such a step immediately, but the whole field of measures necessary to secure a larger force was discussed. AMERICAN NEGROES WERE IN CREW. New Orleans. The Portuguese sail ing ship Argo, torpedoed and sunk while en route, with merchandise from New Orleans to London, according to a cable received from London by the ship's agents here, carried nine Am erican negroes in her crew of twenty six. AH the rest of the crew were Portuguese. LOAN OVER-SUBSCRIBED THIRTY-THREE PER CENT. Washington $50,000,000 borrowed by the Government for 90 days is dis tributed among the 12 Federal Reserve banks as follows: New York, $20,000,000; Boston, $3, 000,000; Philadelphia. $3,500,000f Richmond, $2,000,000; Atlanta, $1,500, 000; Chicago, $5,000,000; St. Louis, $2,500,000; Minneapolis, $2,000,000; Kansas City, $2,500,000; Dallas, $2, 000,000; San Francisco, $2,500,000. COMPULSORY MILITARY TRAINING IS URGED. New York. Universal compulsory military training, with the National Guard as a part of the Federal force, was recommended by the unanimous vote of the delegates to nhe National Defense Convention of the National Guard Association of the United States at its closing session. Members of the universal service committee of veter ans of the National Guard and Naval Militia, meeting later, went on record favoring universal training.. BIN OTHER GUARDSMEN ARE CALLED BACK NEW ORDER AFFECTS REGIMENTS THAT HAVE JUST BEEN MUS - TERED OUT. SOME OTHERS MAY BE CALLED Navy Department Buying Ordinance Supplies. Orders to Speed Building of Equipment and Big Fighting Ships. Washington. The number of Na tional Guardsmen called into the Fed eral service for policing industrial and ' other strAte?!"" nnints was hrmie-ht nn to 50,000 under orders issued. At the same time, the regular First Regiment of Engineers, scattered along the Mexican b' rder, was ordered back to its barracks at the Capital, the Navy took additional measures to hasten construction and equipment of fight ing ships and both the War and Navy Departments announced further pro visions to facilitate recruiting. The National Guard regiments or dered out ' for police purposes of pro tection" are the First West Virginia Infantry; the Seventy-fourth New York Infantry ; the Second Gonnecti- j cut Infantry and the Second New Jer t sey Infantry. Because of a misunderstanding as to j the number of troops affected by the j order issued stopping demobilization I of the guardsmen returning from bor der duty, the War Department also directed that all organizations which have been mustered out of the Feder al service, but have not left the state camps for home, be brought back un der arm3. The First Mississippi In fantry and Ambulance Company No. 1, Alabama, are affected by this pro vision. It is not improbable that similar supplemental orders may be neces sary in regard to other organizations partially, demobilized. The New York Shipbuilding Com pany, the Secretary also said,, has been requested to speed up construction of ths superdreadnaught Idaho, build ing at its plant. The Idaho was to be ready for launching by October, but a postponement has been neces sary. Builders .of the battleships Maryland, Colorado, West Virginia and Washington, also have been re quested to expedite construction work, and to induce more rapid work a special bonus has been suggested by the Department. RESERVE BANKS HAVE SUBSCRIBED TQ BIG LOAN. Government Borrows $50,000,000 For Ninety Days at Two Per Cent. Washington. The 12 reserve banks oversubscribed on 24 hours' notice a 90-day loan to the Government of $50, 000,000 at the rate of two per cent a year. The money was borrowed on 90 day treasury certificates of indebted ness to help tide over the Government till June, when the great stream of in come and internal revenue taxes will flow into the treasury. And $50,000, 000, it was announced, may be borrow ed in the same manner before the close of the fiscal year. Temporary financing of the Gov ernment in this manner was made necessary by the depleted condition of the balance in the general fund of the treasury, reduced to approximately $58,000,000 and fixing a further re duction of $25,000,000 Saturday when the Government will issue a -warrant for that amount in payment of the , Danish West Indies. PALMETTO CONGRESSMAN WILL RAISE BRIGADE. Greenville, S. C. Sam J. Nicholls, Congressman from the Fourth Dis trict of South Carolina, will raise and command a brigade in the event that war is declared upon Germany, it was authentically learned here. Congress man Nicholls' brother, Montague, Navy football star, was killed in France about a year ago while serv ing as a lieutenant in the Canadian army. GOVERNOR MANNING CONFERS WITH MANNING. Columbia, S. C. The South Caro lina National Guard will not be called into the service of the United States this week in the opinion of Governor Manning, who returned from Washing ton, where he held a conference with Secretary of War Baker. The Gov ernor thinks that the Guard will not be summoned until after ' Congress meets. Governor Manning and Gov ernor Stuart, of Virginia, saw the Secretary of War. FURTHER GAINS ARE MADE BY THE BRITISH. Further gains by the British over the Germans northwest of St. Quen tin and by the Germans over the French in the Champagne region of France are recorded In the latest Briitsh and French official communi cations. British cavalry have captur ed the villages of Villers-Faucon and Saulcourt, lying a few miles north of Roisel, and are virtually astride the St. Quentin-Cambral road, says the British war office. GUARDSMEN TO BE RELD IN SERVICE ORDER CAME AFTER THIRD IN FANTRY HAD BEEN MUSTER ED OUT. OTHERS HELD FOR SERVICE Second Infantry and Companies A. and B. Engineers Will Be Held For. Probable Police Duty. Raleigh. Within an hour after all the organizations of the Third North Carolina Infantry, National Guard, ex cept the supply company, had been mustered out of Federal service at Camp Bickett, orders were received from the War Department to suspend demobilization. It was too late to af fect this regiment, but in consequence of the order the Second Infantry, or dered into camp at Camp Royster, Goldsboro, and brigade headquarters ordered to Raleigh, will be held there under arms, as will Companies A and B, engineers, now at Charlotte and Wilmington. Troops A and B. cavalry, Asheville and Lincolnton; Field Hos pital No. 1, Asheville and Ambulance Company No. 1, Canton, have already been mustered out. Brigade headquarters, including General Laurence Young and staff, were previously ordered to Raleigh for muster out. It is believed that, under this order, headquarters will proceed to Raleigh to await muster out or fur ther service. In view of the orders given National Guard organizations in other states, it is expected that the North Carolina troops held in the service will be used, if necessary, for duties In the state. The supply company, with much property work to complete, will con tinue in camp here for several days. In the meanwhile, no orders have been received calling the demobilized regi ment back into the service, and while many of the officers, apparently are expecting this, no comment was made at the office of the Adjutant General. The men of the Third showed pleas ure in their release, now being enabled to visit their homes, many of them for the first time in nine months. Rous ing welcomes are in store for practi cally all of the companies at their home stations. But while this is so, it is declared that little difficulty will be encountered in getting the men mob ilized again, if the call comes. The few days spent at Camp Bickett were delightful compared to the sand storms, the excessive cold of the nights in Texas. Lieutenant Colonel Claud McGhee expressing the thanks of Colonel Minn and the regiment for the courtesies shown by Raleigh said' "In coming to Raleigh we felt that we were coming home and in our ar rival here we found that we were at home. "Particularly do we wish to thank the management of the State Fair grounds for the use of their buildings and grounds, and for the assistance given us and the manner in which they worked for our comfort. "We also wish to thank the manage ment of the Re Hospital for the ex-' cellent attention and medical aid giv en our sick. "We regret very much that we have not shown our appreciation by field ex ercises and parades but we have been so busy with detailed work that it has been impossible for us to do so." Asheville Adopts Belgian Babies. Asheville. That Asheville is thor oughly aroused on the subject of car ing for Belgian babies is indicated by the fact that the committee, which started out to "adopt" 500 of the young sters, is now planning to care for 1,000 babies. Already there is $572 in the fund, with enough in sight to make it $700, and the committee has taken on renewed activity in an ef fort to increase the amount to $1,000. The Bingham school boys have raised their donation to an even $100 and a number of other schools are expect ed to follow suit. Asheville may even tually increase the number to more than 1,000. Fears Potatoes Will Be Wasted. Salisbury. "Tell the people not to plant potatoes" is the request made to the newspapers by Mr. M. L. Jackson, a prominent citizen of Salisbury and large farmer. So many people are gardening this year who have never gardened before that Mr. Jackson fears many perfectly good potatoes are going to be wasted. "Plant only the eyes of the potato and eat the rest of it," says Mr. Jackson. This is, of course, no new doctrine, potato raisers knowing all along that this is the way to do it. Governor Speaks at Conference. Wilmington. The afternoon . session of the initial day of the state wide livestock conference and exposition was featured by an address by Gover nor Bickett, who warned farmers to prepare against the coming of the boll weevil. The session was presided oevr by Congressman John H. Small. Others to speak during the day were W. A. Graham, T. B. Parker, Dr. T. P. Yager, Editor L. A. Nlvens, Dr. W. K. Lewis, H. A. Southerland, Dr. Bradford Knapp, and Dr. B. W. 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