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VOL. XL.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, AUGUST 8, 1917.
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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
WE NEWS J1FJKE SOUTH
Lhat is Taking Place in the South
land Will tse rouna in
Brief Paragraphs.
(Domestic.
After a quarrel over me uusiuuy ui
four year-old child, John L. De
faults, former United States minis-
er to Uruguay was shot and killed
!t bis borne at Roslyn, L. L, by bis
ivorced wife, who was Miss Blanquit
i Errazuriz of Santiago, Chile.
Chairman Kitchin, congressman
rom North Carolina, told the ways
ind means committee that "intolerable
nequalities" in favor of the more pros
perous have been written into the war
ax bill by the senate nnance com
nittee. He declared the poor are al
eady taxed to the limit, and that the
rich must be forced to pay the tur
ner burdens of the war.
Fighting between draft rioters and
ifficers is reported to be going on
Jwenty-five miles north of Ada, Oklah
oma.
Governor Williams of Oklahoma
as received information at the Okla
homa City, the capital city that bands
If negroes, tenant farmers and Indians
lave banded themselves together to
lefeat the selective service law in Ok-
ahoma, and have spread a reign of
error in the central counties of the
tate.
The government is undecided whit
curse to pursue in the Oklahoma re
istance to the operation of the con
scription law, but it seems possible
uat civilian companies, familiar with
fce country, which is rugged and chok-
J with underbrush, will be organized
hd sent to settle the disturbance.
A Butte, Mont., telegram says that
frank Little, a member of the exec
utive board of the L W. W., who refer-
fed to United States troops as "Un
le Sam's scabs in uniform," was hang-
p to a trestle in the outskirts of that
Ity, and so far it is not known who
pe murderers are. Little was an out
poken labor leader.
America, great reservoir of fresh
Jtrength -men, money and materials
-will turn the war tide, is the grati-
fring news flashed from the allied
cipitals to the big centers in the Unit
id States.
Federal Judge F. A. Youmans, in a
tecision at Fort Smith, Ark., held
tat the present standard form of
kntraot used on the New York and
ew Orleans cotton exchanges does
ot comply with the provisions of the
fnited States cotton futures act and,
erefor, is illegal.
An ingenious American must again
e given credit for another revolu-
onary invention, this time one which
i calculated to upset the whole the-
17 of artillery battles. The invention
ust be kept secret for obvious mili-
ry reasons.
R. R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee
Istitute, told two thousand negro em
ioyees of the Newport News (Va)
upbuilding ad Dry Docks company
fiat thy have the opportunity which
ill make them soldiers as well as
ose on shins at sea or those in the
tnches in Europe. He said that the
Wgro is loyal; in fact, that's his his-
(nc nature, well proven by his loyal-
to the southern people in the Civil
ar.
(The seventeen thousand men at the
Seers' training camps who will not
(ceive commissions or be selected
P" further training at the second se
p of camps are to be offered ap
lintments as non-commissioned offi-
ps in the national army, with the
ance of promotion later to commis-
pned officers.
uropean .
A majority of the positions, to a
fPth at some points of two miles,
pen by the allies in the advance in
fender? have been held by the Teu-
ps since they first invaded Belgium.
jJchn Annan Bryce, referring, in the
itish house . of commons to the re
nt statement of Lord Robert Cecil,
mister of blockade, that the dis
anberment of Austria was not one
Great Britain's war aims, said that
F st . ".ement would create difficulties
:au.e Great Britain's engagements
h her allies could not be continued
y-r Austrian empire was to be main
Indeed, said he, Italy, on the
fcr content merely with a rear-
il
pgement of the Trentino region.
he German emperor says that se-
e trials may await the German peo-
P but th
.r" and
T - allh
they will be met with grave
an amplitude of faith.
ed losses In the advance in
inders from Dixmude to south of
res around Warneton has been very
all.
gn Secretary A. J. Balfour of
eat Britain says this is no time for
finite announcements as to what
p happen in Europe regarding cap
Tpd territory by the allied powers,
jjcause every ministerial statement
I 'he past has been treated as a
fri?e, it is dangerous to accede to
.guests for definite announcements.
French troops operating along the
fcne front have put down strong
-acks by the German crown prince
Hurtebise and Cerny. In fact, the
r-nch have assumed the offensive,
!d have advanced at some points.
P been noticeably retarded.
Germany had nossessinn nt a...
ultimatum to Serbia fourteen hours be
fore it was delivered to Belgrade ia
the positive information which has
reached Washington officials, and is
now made public for the first time
Representative Thomas J. Heflin of
Alabama fairly blistered obstruction
ists to war measures in the senate
in a speech in the house of represen
tatives. His speech was so bitter that
the speaker held he had transgressed
the rules of parliamentary law forbid
ding a member to impugn unworthy
and criticize a
member of another house. He called no
names, but it was generally under
stood he referred to Tom Hardwick
and Hoke Smith .of Georgia.
The German emperor, issuing a proc
lamation to the German people, begs
the people to stand by him, and de
clares he is not fighting for conquest.
"The enemy is stretching out his
hands towards German territory, but
he shall never have it. New nations
continue to enter into the war against
us, but that does not frighten us. We
know our strength and we are deter
mined to make use of it." These sen
tences are excerpts from the German
emperor's recent proclamation.
The great assault of the entente al
lies, for which the big guns had been
preparing for three weeks in bom
bardments of unprecedented violence,
has begun in Flanders along a front
of about twenty miles, from the re
gion of Dixmude to south of Ypres
around Warneton.
Because the Russo-Roumanian forces
in the Putna sector havr struck the
Germans with such violence, the ad
vance of the Germans on the retreat
ing Russian in the Tarnopol region
Washington.
With apparently no let-up in the Rus
sian retreat along the line from Tarno
pol to the Roumanian border, there
come advices of a new political crisis
in Petrograd Premier and War Min
ister Keren3ky and his fellow cabinet
members, except one, resigned, but
later, with the exception of M. Terest
chenko, the foreign minister, with
drew their resignations.
General Erdelli, recently appointed
military governor of Petrograd, is re
ported to have been assassinated.
The line of the river Zbrocz at its
confluence with the Dniester, has been
given up at several places by the Rus
sians, but the Russians fought stub
bornly to hold back the Austro-Ger-mans.
Between the Dniester and the Pruth
the Germans have not halted in their
retreat toward the border.
Bukowina. is almost entirely recap
tured by the Teutonic forces. The
Russian seems about to lose an open
sesame to the Black sea, and if they
don't turn and hold the Teutons in
check, the great port, Odessa, may
fall into the hands of the central ar
mies. German officers captured in the bat
tle of Flanders discuss quite freely
both the military and political situa
tion in Germany, and admit that Ger
many's man-power loss is a serious
factor in the war.
A resolution for submission to the
states of a prohibition amendment to
the Federal Constitution was adopted
by the senate. It now goes to the
house, and there is little doubt of its
early passage.
Senator Smith of Georgia voted for
the prohibition amendment; Senator
Hardwick voted against it.
The prohibition amendment propos
ed to the Federal Constitution recites:
"The manufacture, sale or transporta
tion of intoxicating liquors within, the
importation thereof into, or the ex
portation thereof from the United
States and all territory subject to the
jurisdiction thereof for beverage pur
poses is hereby prohibited."
Both steel and wooden ships must
be built very quickly. "We are in this
war far more seriously than a vast
majority of people realize," is the first
public utterance of Admiral Capps
since taking charge of the shipbuild
ing work for the government.
The United States asks England to
be more strict with her censorship in
so far at least as it concerns American
military movements.
The great heat wave that holds the
country in its grip has claimed nearly
three hundred victims, and caused hun
dreds of prostrations. This is the in
formation compiled in Washington and
telegraphed to the health boards.
Exemptions have been further re
stricted. Medical students will not he
exempted on the ground that they are
medical students. Men serving in the
Red Cross will not be exempted. Agri
cultural workers will have to prove
themselves indispensable to the farm.
No "city farmers" will be exempt.
It is also probable that young men
studying in theological seminaries will
have to take their chances along with
other men. The fellows who escape
via the exemption route will be few
and far between.
It is rumored in diplomatic circles
that trouble is brewing in the British
cabinet, induced by Arthur Henderson,
who is a member of the war council,
having made a trip to Paris with a
pacifist mission.
Needles, Cal., with the thermometer
at 104 in the shade, is the hottest
place so far reported by the weather
bureau.
The second class of 755,700 men reg
istered under the selective service law
will be called up for examination ear-
The peace interview of German
Chancellor Michaelis is regarded at
the state department as another at
tempt to bolster up public opinion at
home, appeal to the peace sentiment
in enemy and neutral countries and
to create' dissension between the allies.
kerensFisIgain
reigning in russia
TAKES UP HEAVY TASK IN THIS
CRISIS AT REQUEST OF THE
PEOPLE.
WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO REFUSE
Many Changes Are Forecast as Pre
mier Intends to Conduct a Strong
Government to Carry Out Old Prin
ciples Thought Best.
Petrograd. Premier Kerensky has
returned to Petrograd and withdrawn
his resignation. He attended a min
isterial meeting and afterwards con
ferred with various political leaders.
M. Kerensey has issued a manifesto
in which he declares that he con
siders it impossible when the country
is threatened with defeat without and
disintegration within to refuse the
heavy task again entrusted to him,
which he regards as an express order
from the country to construct a strong
revolutionary government to carry out
the nrin ip?es i.'ready laid down.
"At the same time," says the man
ifesto, "I consider It inevitable to
introduce changes in the order and
distribution of government work with
out allowing myself to be influenced
by the throught that these changes
will increase my responsibility in the
supreme direction of the affairs of
state."
SLIGHT GAIN IN FLANDERS
IS MADE BY ANGLO-FRENCH.
Canadians Slowly Tighten Pinchers
Forcing Germans From Lens.
Infantry fighting although not on
an extremely heavy scale, began in
Flanders on Sunday and in two en
gagements the Anglo-French troops
were victorious.
The weather moderating. Crown
Prince Rupprecht, after an all-night
bombardment sent his troops aaginst
the British positions at Hollebeke, on
the Ypres-Comines Canal, between
Yures and Warnton and, charging
forward on both sides of the canal
the Germans gained a footing in the
village of Hollebeke. The success
was only momentary as the British
drove them out by an immediate
counter-attack and took some prison
ers. Other German attacks in this
area also were checked.
Northwest of Bixschoote, which lies
to the north of Ypres, the French are
following up their successes of last
week. In an attack against the Ger
man lines Sunday they made further
progress.
The pinchers with which the Ca
nadians are slowly forcing the Ger
mans out of Lens, again has been
tightened slightly. In an advance in
the Oite du Moulin the Canadians
have pushed forward their line on a
front of one thousand yards to a depth
of two hundred yards. The Canadians
consolidated the position which is
within a thousand yards of the cen
ter of Lens on the western front of
the town. Southeast of Arras Ger
man raids against the British lines on
Sunday met with failure.
German attacks on the Aisne front
have been withstood successfully by
the French. Against the Casemates
plateau the Germans made two at
tacks which were repulsed. South of
Juvincourt the German crown prince
threw strong forces against the
French lines early Sunday. The
French were driven from a small ele
ment, but Iter ejected the Germans
and held their line intact.
HOLLAND-AMERICAN
STEAMER HITS MINE
Amsterdam. The Holland-American
line steamship Noordam, homeward
bound ran upon a mine the westward
of the island of Texel. There were no
casualties. The ship is still affoat.
GERMAN PLANE LANDS
IN NETHERLANDS LIMITS
Amsterdam. A German airplane
landed on the island of Ameland on
account of motor trouble. The occu
pants of the machine were interned.
CABLE FAR EAST IS
BROKEN IN MID-PACIFIC
New York. Communication with
the Phillippines and China including
Hong Kong by way of San Francisco
over the commercial Pacific cable has
been interrupted, the Commercial Ca
ble Company announced here and
cablegrams "can be forwarded only
via Europe." It was explained that
the cable broke somewheres between
Guam and the Philippines and that a
ship would have to be sent out to
pick up the line and repair it.
RUSSIAN LEADERS VOTE
CONFIDENCE IN KERENSKY
Petrograd. By a vote of 147 to 46
a joint meeting of the executives of the
workmen's and soldiers and peasants'
councils confirmed the decision of the
all-night political conference of con
tinued confidence in Premier Keren
sky. The Maximilists strongly pro
tested and forty-two of the members
of this party abstained from voting.
The duma committee also has con
firmed the vote of confidence in M.
Kerensky.
WAR TAX MEASURE
PUT IN FINAL FORM
REVISED BILL IS REPORTED TO
THE SENATE Bl FINANCE COM
MITTEE. NO PROVISION FOR BONDS
Reported Bill Provides For Approxi
mately $2,000,004000 For War Ex
penses. Increase Taxes on Liquors,
Beer, Wines, Profits, Etc.
Washington. The war tax bill, un
der revision since May 24, was put
into final form for report to the Sen
ate by the finance committee. It pro
vides for approximately $2,000,000,000
in taxes to meet war expenses, but
makes no provision for further bond
authorizations. The bill was increas
ed $133,000,000 over the total as it
passed the House. About $327,000,000
was added during the last week be
cause of the latest war estimates.
Senators LaFollette, Gore and Thom
as plan a seperate report advocating
higher tax levies.
The new increase of $327,000,000
over the committee's original draft is
distributed approximately among the
following additional leves :
On corporate incomes, $162,000,000.
Additional sur-taxes on individual
incomes of $15,000 and over, $27,500,
000. Distilled spirits, $95,000,000.
Beer, $12,500,000.
Wines, $17,000,000.
War excess profits, $5,000,000.
Bank checks, $2,000,000.
Floor, or stock, taxes on sugar, cof
fee, tea and cocoa, $6,000,000.
Total $327,000,000.
The additional levy on incomes of
corporations applies also to partner
ships, joint stock companies and es
sociations, including life insurance
companies. Their normal income tax
is increased to six per cent, four per
cent more than the present law, and
two per cent above the oringinal
House and committee program.
The increased surtaxes fall entirely
on individuals having incomes of $15,
000 or above.
FEW EXEMPTIONS FOR
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYES
Postal Carriers, Clerks or Laborers
Not to be Exempted.
Washington. A ruling by the post
office department shows that the de
partment officials will make few re
quests for exemption from military
service. Postmasters are instructed
not to ask for exempiton for carriers or
laborers or for clerks in second class
offices below the $1,000 grade, clerks
in first class offices below the $1,100
grade, or any above these grades un
less they are qualified distributors of
mail.
The ruling is the first formal action
by an executive department in com
pliance with President Wilson's order
directing that department officials in
icadet exemptions and that the re
quirement of indispensability be rig
idly enforced. As generally con
strued the postal ruling shows the
purpose of the administration ot make
the government departments leaders
in freeing valuable employes for war
service.
The entre mail carrier force, num
bering thousands of men, of whom a
considerable percentage are within
! the draft age limits, is excluded from
exemption unless for physical reasons
or because they have' dependent fam
ilies. Every portion of the country
is reached by the ruling, as even the
rural carriers are included.
The department's ruling in regard
to clerks, leaves railway mail clerks
within the exemption class, as they
are highly specialized distributors.
Provost Marshall General Crowder
took steps to reduce the number of
exemptions because of dependent fam-.
ilies. Instructions were sent to the
governors of all states pointing out
that the minimum pay of soldiers is
now $30 a month and that local boards
must consider whether a man's de
pendents could not be supported on
that amount.
U. S. POSTAL AGENCY
ESTABLISHED IN FRANCE
Washington. American soldiers at
the front no ware receiving their mail
without interruption, as a result of
the establishment of the United States
postal agency in France, Postmaster
General Burleson announced. A corps
of experienced workers, under the di
rection of Marcus H. Bunn, is hand
ling mail matter at the base post
office and at branches established at
Paris, the training camps, and at th6
American port of debarkation.
OKLAHOMANS ARM TO
RESIST CONSCRIPTION DRAFT
Shawnee, Okla. One hundred antf
fifty men said to have gathered with
the intention of resisting the selective
draft were reported here to have gath
ered at Rock Crossing on the South
Canadian river, on the boundary be
tween Seminole and Hughes counties.
This point was selected to be the re
sisters' base of operations. Roy Crane,
a socialis tagitator, was arrested at
Holdehsville. He carried a grip filled
with ammunition.
ASK NEUTRALS OF
THEIR FOOD NEEDS
INQUIRIES FROM WASHINGTON
TO EUROPEAN NEUTRALS
SEEK FULL INFORMATION.
A NEW PLAN OF RATIONING
Laying Foundation For Plan
ning Neutrals Which Will
torts From Finally Reach
ing Germany.
Washington. Full information con
cerning food conditions in the north
ern European neutral countries has
been asked of the neutrals by the
United States in notes handed to their
diplomatic representatives.
The American government's plan
for rationing the neutrals through its j
control of exports will be finally de
termined on after replies are receiv
ed. The information sought concerns
the exact food needs of those coun
tries, their food production capacity
and details of their export and import
trade of the last few years- The in
tenton of the United States is to hold
exports to the enutrals to the barest
necesities to prevent American food
stuffs or food they replace from
reaching Germany. Only actual food
deficiencies will be made up from
America and assurances will be de
manded that no American-produced
food is re-exported or used to sup
plant food that is exported.
Quick responses to the notes are
looked for, since at present no ship
ments to the neutrals are permitted
to leave American ports and some of
the countries are badly in need of
grains.
MARRIAGE AFTER CALL
NO GROUND FOR EXEMPTION.
Provost Marshal General Cautions
Local Boards.
Washington Local boards were for
mally instructed by Provost Marshal
General Crowder that they may well
hold that a marriage recently con
summated, especially by a registrant
after he has been called for examina
tion, does not create a status of de
pendency justifying immunity from
conscription.
"The selective draft service law,"
read the instructions, "does not re
quire discharges in all cases of techni
cal legal dependency, but only per
mits discharges where in view of de
pendency a discharge is advisable.
Local boards may well hold that a
marriage hastily consummated re
cently, and especially one consum
mated by a person after he has been
called to present himself for exami
nation to determine his fitness for mil
itar yservice, does not create a status
of dependency in which it is advisable
to grant a discharge.
"It is to be expected that local
boards will exercise this full discre
tion in cases where they are con
vinced that unscrupulous persons have
thus violated the principles of the
selective service law in hope of es
caping duty!"
PROHIBITION CUT OUT OF
PROGRAM BY HOUSE.
Washington. National prohibition
by constitutional amendment was
hung up in the House by the prohi
bition leaders themselves.
The resolution to submit the pro
posal to the states, passed by the
Senate, was put out of the program
for the present session and will not
come up until the regular session in
December.
Representative Randall of Califor
nia, the prohibition party's only rep
resentative in Congress, issued a state
ment declaring that "the friends of na
tional prohibition have been flim
flammed by the liquor lobby in the
constitutional amendment adopted in
the Senate." He added that "a great
jollification" was heid by liquor repre
sentatives in a Washington hotel and
that a well defined rumor had sprung
up htat the six-year clause added on
Senator Harding's motion was really
written by the brewers' attorneys.
"The joker is not in the six-year
handicap itself," said Mr. Randall,
"though that is without a single prece
dent in history. The Harding clause
provides that 'this article shall be In
operative unless ratified within six
years-' The impression is that the
prohibition amendment would not be
come a part of the constitution un
less so ratified. The fact is, it will
become a part of the constitution if
ratified after the time limit but will
be inoperative. The whole cam
paign to secure ratification by the
states will be clouded by this uncer
tain language."
REGISTRATION LIST
IS REPORTED STOLEN.
Indianapolis, Ind- The official list
of registrants in Marion county, out
side of Indianapolis, containing 2,691
names, disappeared from the office of
Hugh McK. Landon, chairman of the
exemption board for that divison. He
reported the theft of the numbers and
ames to the federal authorities here
and to Jese E. Schabach, state con
scription officer. Copies of the offi
cial list had been made sometime ago.
jr..
SOME CHANGES IN
CENSORSHIP ROLES
NEW LIST OF REGULATIONS FOR
THE GUIDANCE OF THE
PRESS.
ENFORCEMENT UP TO PRESS
Repeated Violations Which Were Ex
cused on the Score of Misunder
standing CauseNew Rules and Re
quest for Their Observance.
Washington. A new list of press
regulations making material changes
In the voluntary censorships rules un
der which American newspapers have
been operating was promulgated by
the committee on public information.
The new regulations contain the
first general request that there be no
published mention of the arrival of
American troops at European ports,
replacing in that respect an express
authorization in the old rules for use
of any cable dispatches passed by the
European censors. ,
The old regulations are made more
severe by specific stipulations in place
of the more general language em-
oyed in the rules in fore until now.
Information which the government
considers might reveal military move
ments or policies is described in great
detail.
In the statement announcing the
new regulations, George Creel, chair
man of the committee, says that "re
peated and serious violations of the
voluntary censorship have been at
tempted to be excused on the score
of "misunderstanding," and that a
"re-statement" is made with the ide.
that hereafter there shall be no room
for doubt as to the committee's de
sires. The instances in which the most
serious charges of violation have
been made, however, have not result
ed from misunderstanding of the com
mitee's rules, but from following them
implicitly. These instances have in
volved publication of dispatches pass
ed by the European censors, announc
ing the arrival of American military
units in Europe.
PROMPT, EFFICIENT WORK
BY EXEMPTION BOARD
Procedure Has Been Stripped of AM
"Red Tape."
Washington. Prompt and efficient
work by district oxemption boards
is expected by government officials as
a result of stripping all red tape from
the procedure of the tribunals.
President Wilson's executive order
outlining the principles to govern ex
emptions, coupled with instructions to
the boards from Provost Marshal
General Crowder are regarded here
as setting in motion the last phase
of the selection process with a mini
mum of confusion and delay.
The object of the instructions is to
impress the boards with the view
that their primary purpose is to se
lect the personnel for the national
army in the shortest possible time.
To that end they have been informed
that no legal precedents will bind
them, and that there need be no ad
herence to rules of evidence or other
technicalities of court procedure.
Attorney General Gregory set in
motion further machinery to increase
the size of the registration reservoir
from which 687,000 men Of the first
call are to be drawn. Thousands of
men failed to register for one cause
or another. Through the district at
torneys, the department of justice is
rounding up these men and when
found they will be assigned numbers
which will insure their being called
up for examination at an" early date.
The first reports of the local
boards on physical examination are
beginning to appear. As yet they
are not complete enough to make any
logical deduction a3 to the probable
average of rejection for reason. The
draft statistics of the civil war which
showed between twenty-five and thit
ty per cent rejected on this ground,
till are the best guide on the ques
tion. CONSTITUTIONALITY OF
DRAFT TO BE TESTED
Athens, Ga. Opponents of the se
lective draft, attending a mass meet
ing at Bold's Springs, jeered loyal
citizens who sought to warn them
against unpatriotic actions. The
meeting was one of a series of de
monstrations in Georgia against the
law. The presence of a United States
commissioner with a squad or depu
ties probably prevented violence. A
fund of $1,200 being raised to test
the constitutionality of the law.
MORE THAN 70000
APPLICATIONS RECEIVED
Washington. For the 16,000 places
in the second officers' training camps
to open August 27, a total of 72,914
men haveapplied and the war depart
ment is considering accepting several
thousand more than was originally in
tended. Preliminary examinations
given the applicants by civilian physi
cians indicate 51,838 are physically
satisfactory. In most states the num
ber of applicants is from three to
five times the state's auota.
FARMERS PLANNING
GREAT CONVENTION
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING
OF FARMERS AND FARM
WOMEN.
AT RALEIGH, AUGUST 28-30
It is Expected That Not Less Than
1,000 Farmers and Farm Women
Will Attend Convention.
Raleigh, August. Arrangements
are rapidly being completed for the
fifteenth annual Farmers' and Farm
Women's State Convention, which will
be held at the State College of Agri
culture and Engineering, beginning.
Tuesday morning, August 28th, at 8
o'clock and continuing until Thurs
day noon, August 30th. It is expected
that not less than 1,000 farmers and
farm women will attend the conven
tion this year. The attendance last
year was more than 700-
The Convention, always a source of
inspiration and instruction and attend
ed by earnest men and women from
all sections of the State, will this year
be more of a working proposition even
than usual. Because of the critical
food situation throughout the Nation
and the world, the central idea at the
Convention will be food production
and conservation and the farmers of
the State from the Coastal Plains to
the Blue Ridge will have anopport unity
to learn by lecture and demonstration
the why and how of the production of
all food and feed crops suitable for
their respective sections.
The morning.5 will be devoted to
sectional meetings for the men in
which actual class room instruction
and laboratory instructions will be
given. This is something of a depart
ure from the custom of the past but
will no doubt be worth much more to
those who come to the Convention to
learn. On the afternoons of Tuesday
and Wednesday there will be joint ses
sions o fthe Men's and Women's Con
vention at which time some of the
best speakers obtainable will address
those present upon vital topics bear
ing directly upon the part of North
Carolina men and women and the pro
auction and conservation of food and
feed- The evening sessions will be
given over to one l"ci ore each evening
and to motion pictures.
The Convention this year will par
take considerably more of the nature
of a short course of agriculture and
live stock instruction than has been
the custom heretofore. The farmer
will be given an opportunity to get
authorative information on any farm
problem and to witness actual demon
strations in mrny instances. There
will be several sections going all
hours of the morning so that the farm
er will be able to get the information
he desires on a particular subject with
out listening ;o other subjects whlca
might not interest him. Among tlie
subjects for instruction and demonstra
tion will be: Swine, beef cattle, dairy
cattle ad poultry, seed selection, pre
paring seed, etc.
All the railroads are giving special
rates for the Convention good from
August 26th to September 2nd. The
expense of the Convention to those
who attend will be very small the
college provides dormitory room
without charge and meals at a cost
of only 25c. each- All who attend,
however, will be required to bring
their own bed sheets, pillows, towels
and necessary toilet articles.
Not only the attendance but the
helpfulness of the Convention has been
increased yearly and especially be
cause of the necessity for the very
best farming at this time, the offi
cials of the Convention are confident
all previous records will be smashed.
Work For Soldier Insurance.
Washington, D- C Representative
Pou is urging the importance of legis
lation providing for life and accident
insurance for the soldiers and sailors
who may be killed or injured in the
war, which Secretary McAdoo for
some weeks, has had under considera
tion. Mr. Pou said that Congress
should not adjourn without enacting
some legislation of this character. He
will work to secure its passage.
Mitchell Disbursing Officer.
Raleigh. Mr- J. Frank Mitchell, who
has been traveling pasenger agont of
the Norfolk Southern, will be Federal
disbursing officers for the selective
draft in North Carolina. The resigna
tion of Mr. A. L. Fletcher to become
captain of the Supply Company, Field
Artillery, left the position open, and
Mr. Joe Mackey was appointed to it.
He having declined to serve, left the
office again open, and Mr. Mitchell
was recommended. Mr. Mitchell is a
railroad man of wide experience, and
will bring fine abilities into play.
Sending Out Premium Lists.
Lenior Caldwell County's Fair as
sociation has issued the premium lists,
which are being mailed out, and many
substantial prizes are offered for the
different classes of exhibits. The fair
will be held this year October 3, 4
and 5. On account of the flood con
ditions there was no fair held last
year and this year it is hoped by the
association that the good people of
this county will outstrip themselres.
The first fair of the association was
held in 1915 and, proved a decided
success -from every standpoint.
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