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THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance ttmA THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions - $1.50 One Square, one month - - $2.50 Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. VOL. XXXIX. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, JULY 11, 1917. NO. 49. to L I IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER Happenings of This and Other Nations For Seven Days Are Given. THE NEWS MTHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place in the South land Will Be Found in Brief Paragraphs. Domestic - muel Gmpers and Theodore velt had a wordy tilt at a gath Xew York City when it ap to Mr. Gompers that Colonel Roosevelt was charging responsibility for the East St. Louis riot to the la bor unions. Mr. Gompers wanted the to wait until he had investi j. I before he charged responsibil ity set of men. The colonel "I'll answer now when murder be answered," after he had stat ed that he was willing to go any for American labor. Th tilt between Colonel Roosevelt and Samuel Gompers in New York City was brought about by Mr. Gom pers charging employers with respon ty for the East St. Louis riot, basing his statement, he said, upon i gat ions made by competent men i by the Federation of Labor of Illinois. Selection day for the new national army is approaching rapidly as the lo cal exemption boards in the. various stat - complete their organization. Strict silence is maitnained by the !r - ration officials as to what method will be pursued in the selec-! tive conscription to be conducted in a week or ten days. New? from the national capital is to the effect that whiskey is doomed. The senate by a vote of 52 to 34 killed the so-called "bone dry" amendment. The house has already acted on this question, and the measure will go to ' a conference committee from both house? soon. The lobby and the reception room, the "palm court" and the smoking room of the Waldorf hotel in London, England. July 1, seemed to be full of bright-eyed dark-blue clad women, all smiling, wearing Red Crosses, em phasizing its significance upon a white background. London says they made an eloquent chapter in history. Washington It is announced that additional loans of $100,000,000 to Great Britain and $60,000,000 to Italy have brought the total war loans of the United States, j to the allies to $1,203,000,000. This does not, however, include Russia's quota, which, -hough it has not been formal ly accepted, has been placed to her credir, and is awaiting the call of the J de facfo government. Immediate necessity for smashing the German spy menace has caused the government to order quick organi- , zation of an entirely new secret police j system, the national intelligence serv- j ice, which is composed of operatives j of the state, war, navy and justice de- j partments, and a few other emploves not mentioned. is announced that the treasury secret service men will continue to work individually on counterfeit cases. Germany has placed a screen of sub marines more than a hundred miles out in the Atlantic in an effort to cut the United States' communication lines, is the news given out by the naw department. A German submarine is reported to have shelled Ponta Delgada, a city in the Azores, 800 miles from the ' mainland of the United States. It is probable that Mexico will de- I clare war on Germany within the next thirty davs. accordine to disDatches , reaching Washington from El Paso. Even the northern part of Mexico, which erstwhile has been pro-German, aid to be wavering and the senti E;( ;i! against the Teutons is growing hourly. R warding exemptions, It is pointed out that this feature will be entirely in the hands of the exemption boards. Controversy in the senate over the food control bill and its prohibition feature has reached such an acute that formal steps have been taken by administration leaders to lim it debate and force a final vote. "Drys" opposed to eliminating beers and wines entirely from the "prohibi tion" amendment to the food control bill wn the first round in the senate fight. A London dispatch says that Gen eral Chang Hsun has informed Presi dent Li Yuan Tung th.at he must re tire bocause the Manchu emperor, Hsuan Tung, has been restored to the throne. Evidence that Germany is obtain ing vast quantities of food from Euro pean neutral countries has been pre sented to the state department by Great Britain. The present difficulties in China, it is reported, arose over the refusal of the president to uphold the decision to break with Germany, it having been reported that he is opposed to the entry of China into the war. A Pekin dispatch announces that Hsuan Tung issued a mandate June 30 announcing his succession to the throne of China. War department officials will go no lurtner than to say that General Per king s khaki clad men will be aug lnted as rapidly as expedient by a considerable contingent of other rained troops. News reaching Washington from London recites that all hope that may have existed in Germany for conclud ing a separate peace in Germany have vanished, and that a new declaration that will serve as a basis for peace ne gotiations will be made by the Ger man chancellor before the reichstag shortly. News from China is to the effect that civil war is impending and that already one fight has taken place 35 miles from the city of Pekin between the troops of the monarchy and the republican forces. There is no doubt of the seriousness of the situation in the Chinese capital Trains are filled with fleeing Chinese. Hotels are full of foreigners. United States and Japanese sojdiers are en deavoring to reach Pekin, but it is stated that their arrival will probably be delayed. Should Mexico enter the world-war she probably would not lend any fight ing strength, but, but the Tampico oil fields would be made safe for the oil supplies of the allied "fleet, the smelters and mills reopened at once to produce munition metals for the allies and the moral effect would be tremendous aids to those now engaged in subduing the common enemy. Belief in Washington anent the Chi nese situation is that the coup d'etat of the Manchu dynasty is doomed to short life. An emergency republican government has been set up at Nan kin, and it i sprobable that siege will be laid to Pekin. News reaching Washington is to the effect that the new government in China can put up a big fight, but that it cannot hope to be successful. The monarchists could not foresee that the militarists would adhere to the repub lican ranks, and it is believed that Chang far overplayed his hand, and his cards must inevitably be thrown into the discard. The unsuccessful attack on the ships of the United States expeditionary force to France has revived the rumor that German spies are operating in Washington. The government will very probably mete out the death sen tence to future capture spies. Relief and gratification of officials over the safe arrival of the last units of the United States expedition to France is unbounded, but it is noticed that there is a feeling of great indig nation that the German admiralty is so familiar with the plans of the navy. A semi-official German statement says that food riots have occurred not only in Stettin and Dusseldorf, buf also in two Silesian cities, Gleowitz and Hindenburg. Troops put down the riot without firing a gun. Secretary Daniels announced on the night of July Fourth the safe arrival at a French port of the last ships of the first American overseas expedi tion. The Americans did not lose a man, a ship nor an animal. Twice on the way across the Atlantic German submarines attacked in force and were fought off, and the secretary is in formed that at least one of the under sea enemies was destroyed. Newton D. Baker, secretary of war, speaking in New York City on the Fourth, said that "we must fight for democracy here at home as our armies will fight for democracy abroad." By order of the king of England the Stars and Stripes floated over the city of London on the Fourth. Private buildings were bedecked with flags as never before. The premier took an active part in the celebrations. Regulations to govern the next step toward selecting a national war army for the military registered service on June 5 have been issued at the direc tion of the president. The order of liability of the men registered is to be determined later. Brigadier General Crowder, provost marshal general, will set a date in the near future for the organization of the exemption boards. Citizenship sermons, at the behest of the department of labor, were de livered Sunday, July 1. The depart ment is gratified at the unanimity of the response. European War Copenhagen, Denmark, hears that there is much dissatisfaction among the Saxon soldiers. They are loyal, but outspoken in their aims. They freely admit that they are fighting for love of the fatherland and the mon archical principle, but not for the house of Hohenzollern. On the western front the British continue to advance, and the French artillery is active from north of the Aisne to the Meuse. Artillerv activity has increased on the entire Austro-Italian front, and a big engagement may be in progress. Greater activity is reported on the Roumanian front, which has been si lent, so far as the outside world knows, for quite a spell. The Germans are reported to have taken the offensive in a small Macedo nian 'sector. Two of the German machines that took part in the air raid on Harwich were brouhgt dow nablaze by the Brit ish naval craft and a third machine was damaged. Eight persons were killed and twenty-four injured. Only slight material damage was inflicted. The Russians are holding their re cent gains in Galicia, and it was not a grandstand play, as Germany would have the world believe. Add to this the fact that stronger activity is re ported all over "the Russian theater of war, and the outlook is hopeful that Russia will be in at the "killing." The British navy is now firmly con vinced that the German submarine campaign will result in failure. Pur suit of submarines has become so live ly that a U-boat which shows its peri scope in channel waters does so with the greatest risk. IS RAIDED BY AIRMEN OFFICIAL REPORT SHOWS THAT, THIRTY-SEVEN WERE KILLED AND 141 WOUNDED. THREE RAIDERS SHOT DOWN Most Daring Raid Yet Made by Ger man Airmen Contingent Larger and Descended Lower Than on Any Previous Raid. London. The second descent upon London by -a squadron of airplanes was made between nine and ten o'clock in the morning, when the business section of the metropolis was most crowded. It was officially an nounced that thirty-seven persons were killed and 141 injured by the raiders. Although the German contingent was larger, more daring, more delib erative in its methods and descended much lower than on the visit of June 13, the number of killed and wounded was, according to the first official roll, roughly, one-third the previous casual ty list. This destruction of property may have been greater, but that it is impossible to estimate. The flight of the Germans over Lon don lasted about twenty minutes. Eng lish airmen engaged the enemy for several minutes over the metropolis, and anti-aircraft guns were firing briskly, but without destroying any of the twenty or more invading machines. The admiralty was able to report however, that naval airmen who fol lowed them to sea brought down three machines. A British squadron sent up from Dunkirk to intercept the return ing raiders did not encounter them because they had taken a more north erly route, but the British airmen met and destroyed seven other German machines. WILSON ORDERS EXPORT PROVISION INTO OPERATION. Becomes Effective July 15. Complete Embargo of Foodstuffs Considered. Washington. Government control of American exports authorized in a provision of the espionage act, was or dered put into operation July 15 by President Wilson in a proclamation putting under license shipments to all countries of the most important ex port commodities. In a statement accompanying the proclamation, the President declared the government's policy will be first to give consideration to American needs; next, to meet as far as pos sible the requirements of the allies, and lastly to supply the neutral coun tries wherever practicable. It is made clear that every effort will be made to see that no supplies reach the central powers. The commodities named in the list put under control are coal, coke, fuel, oils, kerosene and gasoline, including bunkers, food grains, flour and meal, fodder and feeds, meats and fats, pfe iron, steel billets, ship plates and structural shapes, scrap iron and scrap steel; ferro manganese fertilizers, arms, ammunition and evplosives. The inclusion of foodstuffs in the proclamation lends color to statements that the administration is considering the advisability of a complete embar go for sixty days on all food ship ments to give the country time to as cribe the amounts of its supplies and to give allied and neutral countries opportunity to present a full program o ftheir requirements. CHINESE REPUBLIC IS REPORTED RE-ESTABLISHED. Washington. Official dispatches to the Chinese legation here said the republic had been firmly re-established at Nanking with Feng Kue-Chang, the former vice president, as president of the new provisional government. Re publican troops were reported con verged toward Peking to drive out the Manchu forces remaining in posses sion there in the name of the imper ialists. GERMAN DOES NOT KNOW WHERE TO GO Richmond, Va. Asserting that he does not know where to go, and that he does not want to go to Mexico, E. K. Vietor, erstwhile German consul here, could not tell what he would do as a result of the report from Washington, requesting those who were in charge of German consulates in this country to leave the United States. He recently disposed of his tobacco warehouse property for $100, D00. WILL NOT TOLERATE ROWDYISM BY SOLDIERS New York. Soldiers who interfere with free speech, free press or the right peaceably to assemble and peti tion the government, break the law, according to a statement of Secretary of War Baker. The secretary's com munication was in response to a re quest against soldiers and mili tiamen "breaking up meetings, arrest ing citizens, raiding rooms and head quarters depsite the protests of citi zens to the police." LONDON AGAIN AMERICAN VESSEL E FOUR MEMBERS OF THE CREW WERE LOST WHEN THE SHIP WENT DOWN. ARMED NAVAL GUARD SAVED The State Department Announced the Sinking of the U. S. Steamship Orleans, But Withheld the Place and Time of Attack. Washington. The American steam ship Orleans, of the Oriental Naviga tion company, has been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine. Four of the crew were drowned, but all members of the armed naval guard were saved. The state department, announcing the sinking, withheld the place and the time of the attack. New York. The Orleans, a vessel of 2,808 tons gross, left here June 18 with a cargo for France, commanded by Capt. Allen D. Tucker. Of her crew of thirty-six, ten were American citizens. After Germany announced unre stricted submarine warfare, the Or leans was the first American steam ship to reach France from an Ameri can port. She was formerly the Avel laneda and later the Menaptha, under the Argentine flag. SELECTION OF NEW ARMY NEAR AT HAND. Officials Are Silent But Drawings Will Likely Take Place This Week. Washington. Selection day for the new national army is approaching rap idly as the local exemption boards in the various states complete their or ganization, give serial numbers to the registration cards and forward certi fied copies to Provost Marshal Gen eral Crowder. Indications are that the drawing will be held this week, but no official statment has been made as to the war department's plans. Administration officials still main tain strict silence as to the method to be followed, but the recent statement by Secretary Baker that the drawing would be held in' Washington, coupled with the stres laid upon the serial numbering of registration cards, indi cates the general outline of the plan. It is understood that it is proposed tp place in a single jury wheel in Wash ington one complete set of numbers. When a number is taken from the wheel, the man in each exemption district whose card bears that serial number will be drafted. Thus as each number is drawn, approximately 30,000 men will be drafted, or one in each exemption district. If 1,200,000 men are to be called before the ex emption boards in the first selection, which seems highly probable, only forty numbers would need to be drawn. There are numerous complications which must arise and the method of solving them can be known only when the plan in detail is made. For in stance, the number of registered in dividuals in each district who are lia ble for military service will certainly not be the same. Aliens are regis tered, but not liable for duty. INDUSTRIAL WORKERS PLOT TO DESTROY CROPS. Soux Falls, S. D. Regular army of ficers in South Dakota claim to have reliable information that Industrial Workers of the World leaders in the state have maps of the agricultural districts of the state, and have men stationed throughout the state who will make simultaneous attempts to burn this season's crops. Federal officers have been ap praised of the plot,, and every effort will be made to apprehend those con nected with it, it was said. The reve lations were made public as a warn ing to the farmers of the state to guard against the activities of the plot ters. WORKING OF SPIES DISCLOSED BY NORTHCLIFFF. Washington. Lord Northcliffe, head of the British mission in this country, authorized publication of parts of a confidential speech on spies and cen sorship made to the National Press club July 4. He described the work of spies in England and the flood of fatal information that pours over the cables through neutral countries to Germany, and spoke of the dangers of any except technical military and naval censorship of the press. How Many Do You Eat? An expert In statistics has calculated that a woman marrying at twenty, and caring for a family' of four children until she is forty-five, will peel no fewer than 83,000 potatoes for home use. True. "This thing of being so much in love that yon can't eat," observed the man who knows, "is not infrequently caused by the high price of flowers and theater tickets." Widow. SUNK BY SUBMARIH MORE COOPERATION IN HUNT EOR SPIES PERPLEXING PROBLEMS. THAT MUST BE MET IN STAMPING OUT EVIL. REPRESENTATIVES OF ALLIES Have Come to America in Effort to Run Down German Agents. Many Schemes Set on Foot by Detectives. Washington. More complete and efficient co-operation of United States secret service agents with those of its European allies is recognized as the great problem that must be met In stamping out the spy evil. While it was stated that operatives of the state, war, navy, and justice departments are co-operating with good results in running down active alien enemies, it was strongly Indicat ed that much remained to be accom plished in relationships with the ser vices of foreign countries. Representatives of the allies al ready are in this country, it is under stood, and are working to bring about the desired co-operative action. This work, for obvious reasons, could not be considered seriously before the United States entered the war, and the working out of the ramifications of a co-ordination scheme require un usual discussion, as well as time for setting the actual machinery in mo tion. The secret service of the United States was confronted at the entrance of America into the war with a pro gram of discouraging magnitude. The machinery of the departments, built up almost entirely for the handling of domestic problems, was suddenly required to shoulder the immense bur dent of coping with thousands of plot ters and spies. Many schemes set on foot by enemy plotters have been thwarted and it is said that the archives of the depart ments contain records of activities, which would, if made known, be of startling nature. That the attacks upon American transports were the result of the work of spies is accepted generally in Washington without surprise. The sailing of transports, although not mentioned by the newspapers, was known to a large number of persons, who witnesed the transfer of troops from points in the United States and their departure. MAJOR GENERAL WOOD INSPECTS CHARLOTTE SITES. During One Day's Stay He Visits Three Sites and Delivers Two Addresses. Charlotte. Geeneral Leonard Wood, commander of the United States army, department c-f the southeast, spent Thursday, July 5, in Charlotte, and it was a busy day for the distinguished soldier and citizen. In addition to inspecting three pos sible sites for an army camp which It is hoped will be located at Char lotte, he found time to deliver two addresses, one to an audience of thousands on the First Presbyterian church lawn at six o'clock in the evening, and' the other following the banquet served at the Selwyn hotel in his honor at 8:30 o'clock. For no matter how busy the general is; and in these stirring times of preparation that America may do her part in the world-struggle for democracy no man is busier, he always finds time to preach the "doctrine of preparedness" and never loses an opportunity to say a word, wherever he may be, that will help to stir the American public to a realization of the gravity of the crisis with which the American nation is confronted. In his rather blunt, but direct and soldierly way, General Wood told North Carolinians a good many things they had probably not heard or thought of before, and it is not to be questioned that he went away from Charlotte leaving the people of this city a deeper sense of duty and obli gation that falls upon every citizen in this time of national peril. WASHINGTON GRATIFIED OVER NEWS FROM CHINA. Washington. Belief here that the monarchial coup d-etat in China is de stined to failure, was increased by each new item of news which came to the attention of the state depart ment. Minister Reinsch reported that several, at least some of the northern military leaders, who are felt to hold the country's destiny in their hands, have taken the field in opposition to Gneral Chang Hsun's attempt to de stroy republicanism in China. Mexico About to Get in Line. El Paso, Texas. Since the pro-ally campaign in Mexico startel by El Universal in Mexico City, the senti ment favoring the allies has reached northern Mexico, and during the past thirty days a well-defined movement favoring an open break with Germany and the alignment of Mexico on the side of the entente allies has devel oped. This has been in spite of the pro-German sentiments published daily in Chihuahua City and in other pa pers eelieved to be subsidized by th Germans in the north. AMERICAN TROOPS ALL SAFE IN FRANCE GERMAN UNDERSEA BOATS MADE ATTACK ON THE TRANS PORTS. ONE SUBMARINE IS SUNK Last Units of the American Expedi tionary Forces Have Arrived in France. Not a Life Was Lost Dur ing the Transportation. Washington. American destroyers convoying transports with troops for France fought off two submarine at tacks. The first news of the fights was given out by the committee on public information, with formal an nouncement of the safe arrival of the is r. o tlie transports with their con voys. At least one submarine was sunk Both of the attacks were made in force, showing that the Germans had information of the coming of the transports and planned to get them. This announcement was issued: "The navy department at five o'clock this afternoon received word of the safe arrival at a French port I of the last contingent of General Pershing's expeditionary force. At the same time information was released .that the transports were twice attack ed by submarines on the way across. "No ship was hit, not an American life was lost, and while the navy gun ners report the sinking of one sub marine only there is reason to believe that others were destroyed in the first night attack." FRANCE AND ENGLAND CELEBRATES FOURTH OF JULY. United States Soldiers Center of Cele bration In France. American Independence day was cel ebrated enthusiastically in England and France as well as on the battle fronts. In Paris, a battalion of the first American expeditionary force on its way to the front was the center of the celebration. The soldiers of revolutionary Russia maintained their attempts fo break through the Aus-tro-German lines in eastern Galicia. Cheered by the results of the fighting during the first three days of July, General Brussiloff's men continue their efforts, especially In the region of Brzezany and are throwing fresh forces against the Teuton positions. During Sunday ana Monday the first two days of the new drive, the Rusians captured 300 officers and 18,000 men, and on Tuesday and Wed nesday probably added several more thousands to the total. Twenty-nine guns and thirty-three machine guns were taken from the Austro-Germans. Violent artillery duels have been in progress on the Konluchk-Ziochoff sector, on the Stokhod, in Volhynia and at Brody, on the Galician-Vol-hynian border. In the Champagne on the western front the German crown prince has made another desperate and fruit less effort to break the French lines northwest of Rheims. Attacking in force along an eleven-mile front, the Germans made especially strong ef forts around Cerny and Ailles and against the California-Plateou. The French repulsed all attacks with losses. After checking the Germans the French took the iniative in a strate gic operation east of Cerny and cap tured a strong German salient. Ger man attacks on the left bank of the Meuse were repulsed. Raids and patrol engagements have occupied the German and British fur ther north. Several Austrian attacks on the Carso south of Gorizia were checked by the Italians, Rome reports. Chinese President Flees. 1 tin, Tien, China. Li Yuan Hung, the Chinese president, with two atten lants, escaped from the palace and sought refuge in the Japanese lega tion. PERR CAPITA WEALTH IN UNITED STATES NOW $45.86. Washington. The average man in the United States Is $11.51 richer than he was three years ago. Total money in circulation, shown in a chart In the July federal reserve bulletin, has risen from $3,480,000,000 on June 1, 1914, to $4,742,000,000 on June 1, 1917. The circulation wealtn per capita in 1914 was $34.35; in 1915 $35.44; in 1916 $39.29 and in June 1917 was over $45.86. INVESTIGATION OF RACE RIOTS IN EAST ST. LOUIS, East St. Louis, 111. A federal inves tigation of race riots here in which thirty-three negroes and four whites were killed and approximately 310 negro homes were burned was begun by Col. George H. Hunter, chief quar termaster of the central division of the United States army. Colonel Hunter is under instructions to make a full report of the trouble to Maj. Gen Thomas H. Barry at Chicago, com mandant of the central department. PREDICTS THE END OF WAR NEXT TEAR GOVERNOR BICKETT SPEAKS TO BAPTISTS MEETING AT WRIGHT SViLLE BEACH. PROSSIANISM TO SCRAP-HEAP Makes Masterly Address on Subject of "Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind." Wilmington. Predicting that the end of the world war will come not later than autumn of next year and that Prussian militarism is on the way to -the scrap-heap; that the "di vine rights" of kings is tottering, and that the close of the war will see the organization of a tribunal where rep resentation of the governments, puri fied by suffering, will sit together set tling all differences by diplomacy and logic and not with the sword and fire, Governor Bickett in speaking before the closing session of the Baptist Sea side assembly in the Harbor Island auditorium at Wrightsvjlle beach, de livered a patriotic address that swept his audience completely off its feet and sent his hearers out into the sun light with a new feeling surging in their breasts. It was a masterly address. The gov ernor was at his very best and held his audience spellbound until he con cluded with the ringing statement that North Carolina would continue to do her part in every way. Young People Attend Conference. Montreat. The first young people's conference ever held at Montreat has been largely attended, the personnel of the attendance being among the representative young people of the Presbyterian church U. S. The courses in Bible study, home and for eign mission study along with meth ods of practical efficiency are con ducted during the forenoon by Dr. W. W. Moore of Richmond, Va., John L. Alexander of Chicago, Dr. Gilbert Glass and Mesdames Winsborough, E. C. Crook, S. N. Burts and Miss A. B. Binford. Sunday, July 1, Dr. W. W. Moore addressed the conference on the three fold need of spiritual, mental and phy sical culture. It was a most helpful and pointed statement of the necessity of symmetrical development and training. On Monday, July 2, the ad dress was given by Dr. James Lewis Howe of Washington and Lee univer sity. During the present week the splendid gathering of young people will hear addresses by Dr. James I. Vance of Nashville, Tenn., and Dr. John S. Lyons of Atlanta. Charles M. Alexander, a world-renowned con ductor of music is on the ground with his abte corps of assistants and has entire charge of the music. The afternoons are spent in swim ming, boating, tennis and "hiking." On Saturday at the hour for the even ing meal at the door of the Alba ho tel a package of lunch was handed to each one of the young men and girls, who forthwith, under the leader ship of Richard Crozier, the director of sports, took the trail to Lookout Mountain, where they ate supper in sight of a glorious mountain rhododen dron. Later they returned, making the mountains echo with songs of patriotism and youthful glee. Call Out Ambulance Company. Greensboro. The Greensboro Ambu lance Company, which has enlisted its full quota of men, will be called out about July 15, according to the tele gram received by Henry Foust, the or ganizer, from Major Jeunemann. This information was not so cheerfully re ceived by members of the company, who had been expecting to leave ear lier. For several days the men have been kept in expectation of being call ed out, and it was not thought that the company would remain in Greensboro anything like so long as it will. The concentration camp for Red Cross am bulance companies at Allentown, Pa., Is over-crowded and until more room has been provided new companies can not be provided for. Outing for Club Boys. Asheville. The corn club boys In Buncombe county are going to have a week of fun, instruction and recrea tion beginning July 23 and continuing through the 27th. Under the care of County Agent E. B. Weaver, the boys are going to encamp near Asheville, possibly on the' Biltmore estate. The outing for the 260 members of Bun combe county's corn clubs has been made posible through the courtesy and co-operation of the Asheville Board of Trade, of which Mr. N. Bucker is sec retary. Has Many Men In Service. Cherryville. The town of Cherry vllle and Cherryville township have been getting more or less criticism during the past few weeks on account of the lack of enlisting In the Gas tonia guards. The town has been priding helself upon the men furnish ed. She has a number of .young men, perhaps more than any section of the county, now In actual service on French soil. They come from good families and the town Is proud of them. The town and township are well represented In every department
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