Newspapers / The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, … / Oct. 24, 1917, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
THE CHATHAM RECORD Rates of Advertising One Square, one insertion - - $1.00 One Square, two insertions U60 One Square, one month - - $2.50 For Larger Advertisements Liberal Contracts will be made. THE CHATHAM RECORD H. A. London EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Terms of Subscription $1.50 PER YEAR Strictly in Advance IDte (Chatham Record VOL. XL. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNT x , ss. u., uuiud , i IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER ..obtaiMT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH What I s Taking Place In The South- Will Be Found In Brief Paragraphs stained in New York, City three because no ships have sailed , the United States to Holland, , bundred Holland subjects near of them women and children, h. petitioned the president of the United States to assist them in re .nraine to their native land. ' ," .:..,.,.. reticent is the German office in its latest official com . cation with regard to the opera tion of the German naval forces oper- the Hussian &ijuiui"u Some of the retailers .claim that they should be permitted to sell the stocks they bought at a higher price than the stocks they are now buying at the reduced rates, but the food ad j ministration points out that they have no. hesitancy in following quotations I and raising prices on stocks they ; bought at reduced prices. It's a poor lule which doesn't work both ways. Powerful influences appear to be drawing back to the southwestern part of the state of Georgia hundreds of negroes who left during the spring and early summer to seek their for tunes in the Northern and Middle Western states. One is the approach of winter and the other is the un precedented prosperity of Georgia farmers, both white and black Helaire Carriere was hanged in the Louisiana state penitentiary at Bat on Rouge for the murder, in July, 1916, of Marion L. Swords, sheriff of St. Landry parish. He died protesting his innocence, claiming the shot which killed the sheriff was fired by one of his deputies. Carriere was one of the most desperate characters of recent years in the Southern states. Chains of lakes hitherto unmapped, and rivers equally unknown, were tra BIG LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE IS STARTED BY GOV. BIGKETT HIGH SHERIFFS IN NORTH CARO LINA ARE CALLED IN MEETING. COUNTY APPORTIONMENT t-IBERTY BONDS. Alamance 254,940 Alexander Alleghany 41,720 17,080 Anson t'252 3f.700 23,240 291,620 168.840 47,320 28,560 ALL PLEDGE HEARTY SUPPORT Eighty-nine Sheriffs at Meeting Prom ise to Scour Counties for Subscrip tions of Small Amounts. Raleigh "Four-fifths of the civilized world is engaged in a concerted effort to arrest one William Hohenzollern, generally known as the Kaiser of the Ashe Avery .... Beaufort Bertie . . . Bladen Rrnnswipk Buncombe 861,600 Burke 129,?80 Cabarrus 352'Vf2 Caldwell "Z'iSS Camden 25,000 Carteret 93.020 Caswell 6.t'2 Catawba 322J Chatham ,!H Chowan 109.900 Clav 4,900 Cleveland ' '..'..".". 2IHI2 Columbus 8.780 Craven . 460.020 Cumberland 260'4!x Cherokee ;,!?22 Currituck Z?'22J! Dare o--'Inn Davidson 2i?-; Davie ilHJS Duplin 153.300 Durham 1'Hf'?22 Kdpeoombe -SJHtS Forsvth 2, 075.. SO Franklin 184.800 Gaston 619,780 iriatoa :il.DJU rt-i r-r rhiinirnif rtf-mi turn mill ZEPPELINS SHOT UKAri mmm uiha wttn will DOWN IN FRANCE HAS BEEN CHANGED GET MORE SIGNERS FOUR CAPTURED WERE RETURN ING FROM A BOMBING RAID OVER ENGLAND. PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL AN NOUNCES PLAN WHICH IS AP PROVED BY PRESIDENT. EVERY NOOK AND CORNER IN NORTH CAROLINA REPORT IN CREASING INTEREST. AIRMEN BURIED UNDER GRAFT LE8S W0RK F0R L0CftL B0ARD i 300'00C GARDS DISTRIBUTED .11. US, . , . KHloH which has been reuorcea iu ui in Moon sound, merely dealing v.itu naval battle which resulted in he sinking of the Russian dhukuuv S The most recent communication Tom Petrograd gives buV few details of the situation in the Gulf of Riga. Petrograd admits that the Germans have been landing troops on Dago Island after a bombardment, and that he German naval units engaged in he conquest of the three islands com prise at least ten of the newest dread naughfc ten cruisers, fifty torpedo boat destroyers and between eight and ;en submarines. Two German torpedo boats were de stroved while running through the rained fields in Moon sound, according r0 a dispatch from Petrograd. Reports are to the effect that the Russian government will be moved to -he ancient capital. Moscow, in the - Fntnra nnrioinatorv of a eiy ucoi iuiu" , - German movement towards Petrograd. Important papers were sent there ser ial months .ago. The civil population has evacuated Reval, one of the principal Russian oorts on the Gulf of Finland. The organizing committee of Stock holm, Sweden, has drawn up a mani festo which sets out, in plain language, that the war so far is a "dog fall," and holds out no hope for peace either in 1917 or in 191S. A Copenhagen dispatch says that Bulgarian agents have been endeavor ing to get in touch with the entente powers on the subject of peace and subsequent relations. Notwithstanding Bulgarian peace rait Kin? Ferdinand and Emperor William have been exchanging assur ances of unshakable loyalty to each other. A Russian aviator is reported to have made a flight of ten hours from Tifli? across the Caucasus mountains. The road is about sixty miles long and the highest point is 16.546 feet. British casualties reported in the last week amounted to 14,096, divided as follows: Killed or died of wounds officers, 277: men, 2,509: wounded or missing officers 837, men 10,473. ir, th intm-i- nf jihrador hv Imperial German government," Gov. IVIOUU A i.v xv -- Bickett told eighty-nine or tne one Hun dred sheriffs of the state meeting at his call in the senate chamber at the State Capitol. Accepting the challenge thrown down, tne snerms euiuu.-.. the exploring parties of representa tives of the National Geographical so ciety and the Carnegie museum of Pittsburg which has arrived at St. Johns, New Foundland Graham .000 Airplane's Superiority Dver Dirigible Is Again Proclaimed by French No Bombs Were Dropped by Raiders in France. Complicated Machinery of the First Act Will Be Done Away With. Reg istrants to be Classed According to Liability. . .. ...itv, flnvprnnr Rick- A passenger train on tne umcago, ticany compneu - Memphis and Gulf railroad was held ett's urgent request that they go into un at Miston. Tenn., about ten miles the highways and the from Dyersburg. The safe m tne ex press car was opened and the rob bers secured between $10,000 and $12, 000 and escaped. When the train hedges and . i bring in subscribers to tne seconu Libertv Loan Bond issue by which the hands of the Highwayman of the World mav be tied, and his depreda- stopped at Miston for water the two tions ended. bandits white, men, boarded it. The By mobilizing the sheriffs of tn robbers got away. ! State for Liberty Loan Bonds. Gov- Dr Frederick Cook, the Arctic "ex- ' ernor Bickett believes that the bta.e Plorer," and a crew of 19 sailors, were has taken a long step toward tne . . . . Uo nurnnse to dO Its among those marKea ior assassination achievement r hv the leaders directing the alleged full share in the war plot to foment a revolution in India to embarrass Great Britain during the war, according to testimony of a Hin du priest in Judge Landis court at Chicago. More than any other officials the sheriffs, he feels, come into contact with the men and women of tne counties, of the state who are able to take $50 bonds or $100 bonds, but whose torxune will not nranviilu - 3(M5,066 Greene , ,H12 Guilford ME-iSS Halifax I48.2MJ Harnett f'J?!? Haywood J iVSln genderson ertford Hoke Hyde Iredell Jackson Jones Johnston Lee Lenoir Lincoln McDowell Macon Madison Martin Mecklenburg . . Mitchell Montgomery Moore Nash New Hanover.. Northampton . . Onslow Orange Pamlico ,5j,nn Tasquotank oiiiX Perquimans Person Pitt Polk Randolph . Richmond Iintr?MJi ne- ert Rockingham 413,500 140.K49 14;j 340 4 "..0:0 20.020 247. 30 31.640 44 4 !0 2S1.S20 sr,S40 372.120 111.440 InO.lSO 43,fi'0 70.S40 23S.140 2,715.860 1! 320 IT.'.. 980 64.820 146. S60 2.46r.,fi0 l34.tr.O 75.880 77.420 41.020 r.9 640 .102.900 .-,04.140 24.920 IS t. 240 212.520 3S9.900 Washington.--A sweeping change in the machinery of the selective draft, based on division of the 9.000.000 re maining registrants into five classes in order of their eligibility for mili tary service, was announced by Pro- De- Paris. Although ata first it was be lievced that the visit of the Zeppelin fleet to France was an independent raid and the first step toward carrying out the threat tmade in a German wire less message which said it had been vost Marshal General Crowder decided to destroy Paris in reprisal for ; tails of the plan, which have been ap- French air raids on German towns, it I proved by President Wilson, are not now is generally believed that these j disclosed. It is calculated, however, to eight Zeppelins, four of which were de- j do away with virtually all the compli stroyd or captured, wre returning from j cated machinery of the first draft and nglar.d and had lost their bearings j to make the operations of the local owing to fog and probably had lost ; boards hereafter little more than rub touch with their wireless communica- ; ber stamp proceedings. tjons j The plan was worked out at con- The log book of the Zeppelin which ferences with local and district board ... ohc tht shP had been ; officials and approved by the various AtlUCiCU I 'till' l " J " - . t, 1 nPi,Aimro from jhrpp 1 state authorities l it r-jllgl-auii aim i.jw.iv . M H . , other airships confirm this. One of the men captured said it was the lack of gasoline that forced his Zeppelin to descend. The raid is widely proclaim ed by French observers as being defi nite nrnof of the suoeriority of the Its chief features are that every registered man will know his exact position and be able to arrange his affairs accordingly, and that no man deemed necessary In any important industry or needed at home to support his family will be called to the colors unless the mili- Authority for the purchase and sale tant greater investment. Many sheriffs to the people of food and fuel by the were ready to sign PitB. -city government has been asked of the make promises, but they were urg New York state food commission by to return to tneir um.ca. w the mayor of the city of New York. ; word of the intense neu. He asserts that an emergency exists get results. and onlv the sale of necessities by the Incidentally, the sheriffs coming citv can avert a calamity or at least from all parts or iNortn """' ThP hPad of the city ; eanized a Nortn uroium " intense suffering food commission inspired the mayor's request. Adolph Germer of Chicago, executive secretary of the National Socialist par ty, and ten other persons have been acquitted in the United States district court at Grand Rapids, Mich., of the charges of conspiracy against the se lective draft. All the men were So cialists, and it seems that not a scin tilla of real evidence was presented. Theodore Bilbo, at the Mississippi- Alabama fair at Meridian, Miss., made j the statement that Mississippi was a hoTbed of German spies, who were j there looking to the destruction of , shipbuilding on the coast. Two masked bandits entered the Cal honn (Minn.) State bank during the I noon hour, drove the cashier and two j bookkeepers into a rear room, gathered in the course Constance. Of the four Zeppelins lost, two were sociation. with dues of $2 annually, and with Sheriff R. H. Edwards, presi dent; Sheriff N. W. Wallace, Mecklen burg, first vice-president; Sheriff D. B. Stafford. Guilford, second vice-president, Sheriff Leon Lane. Chatham, third vice-president, and Sheriff J. H SeaTS. Wake county, secretary-treasurer. It was the first time in the history of the State that virtually an tne nigu sheriffs have been assembled in one place Thev came together upon the telegraphic request of Governor Bick ett. who simply notified them that mat ters of grave importance to the State and nation called for their -presence in Raleigh. From the coast to the moun tains they came, all eager to have a share in whatever the governor might mnnP for the best interest of the 1""'"'"" . , mv, l ne eieveu vyhu Rutherford-:::::: 52 RS Scotland Stanly Stokes Surry Swain Transylvania Tvrrell Union Vaiee Wake warren re ao i j f Ciotomn Woohinirtnn " ! neiEUUUl UUUU Ul Watauga eilla Alnes. The crews, after setting fire Ho KpnnpHn The. dav Of Zeppelin for bombardment one expert tary situation is desperate said is over The sudden resumption Crowders Statement of he usTof the German dirigibles is Provost Marshal General Growder explained by the theory that the raid- ! ion of the draft ing Zeppelins belonged to a new type , With the compl which lately had been reported to be I f e .t'u, . of construction at Lake "w w. ; creation of succeeding armies, which .200 6F..660 112.420 ..4.1IU I . . . . J A- 42.9S9 destroyed ana two were iui m u r,9 640 ; 3Centi. The two disabled ariships, un oin oon i Hp mttack hv aviators and anti-air "v."".""' V 3;h.J00 j defense posts, descended in the Saone , ed whUe the ormp to be used V.V.V. 5:SJ!0 i valley and were forced to land in the exceed 2o in number as c igton 1 neiguuuiuuuu .c.v, ga ' , i Alnes. The crews, after setting fire Wilkes .'.'.'.'.'....'..'.'.'.'."..'...'.'...:'. "123.40 to the airships, attempted to flee, but Wilson ::.: 59o'l?n ! were taken prisoners. tt ....... ' 1 " Yadkin Yancey F.9.640 of applause when he told them how, when he gave up his son to join the will greatly 1-ssen the labors of the local and district hoards. So far has this been accomplished that it is be lieved that under the new system 80 per cent of the work will be eliminat- wlll not compared with approximately 182 forms whicn the present system requires. "Along with the reduction of labor there will be provided a system which will classify each one of the nine mil lions of men who have not yet been inducted into military service, and Indications Are That All Will Be Sign and and More Needed in Many Counties. Raleigh. Reports being received by ;he Food Administration from every nook and corner of North Carolina in dicate that the extra week granted for preparation for the Food Pledge Campaign, Oct. 27th to Nov. 4th, is going to result in tens of thousands of additional signatures to the food pledge cards. The extra time allowed by the postponement from the original dats was heartily welcomed by the 100 county food administrators who would not otherwise have had time to perfect the county organizations. A total or 300,000 pledge cards and kitchen instruction cards and more than 200,000 membership cards have been apportioned among the countie and already many county administra tors are calling for additional cards. It is not unlikely that, if the present supply should prove insufficient dur ing the campaign ,an additional order will be placed and cards sent to those counties which can use them. The great idea of the campaign is to bring the individual households of the entire country into intimate rela tionship with the FoodAdministration and with the government not only is the active co-operation of every lam ily and every individual desired in the conservation of food to the end that more wheat, beef, pork, fats and susar may be supplied to the armies and ci vilian population of Our Allies, bu that in all things th whole people of the country may back the boys in tht trenches and render every possible ser vice at home which may tend toward shortening the duration of. the war and saving the blood and lives of the brave boys who are baring theii breasts in defense of the rights of this country and of humanity. London. Reuter's correspondent at nttoh 'hondrmflrters in France tele- v., tt tno four Zftnnftlins hrou&ht i each man will have been given his L I CV 111 0 L1IUI. 1-" r-x I , colors he felt that he was ready to j down in France were airships that had : place in the national scheme oi ae ivitt that when he said goou- ; ta nar in the raid on England. rense irui c. fcm. - - i - c . ,i MMUi in statP and nation. up $o,uuu m ine caga 4..u -o - - ,oi0,rams exmain- were not iie - bye he resolved to work harder than an automobile. Domestic. Pood Administrator Hoover has given notice to the public that "the corner ha? been turned" in high food prices and that most of the essential commodities should continue to show reductions between now and the end tint at thp same time. lie stated that retail prices are not gaged in war duty has been lost Washington. The American army transport Antil les, homeward bound under convoy, was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the war zone. About seventy men are missing and prob ably lost, The tragedy of the sea, the sinking of the Antilles, under convoy of seve ral American patrol vessels is the first in which an American ship en- goinz down in accord with wholesale reductions, and advises consumers to get behind retail dealers and coerce them into reducing prices. To aid the public in dealing with re tailers who continue to extort war profits, on specious grounds, the food administration is collecting wholesale prices of all staples in 700 cities and will publish them weekly for compar ison with retail figures. Housewives are advised by the food administration that cents a pound for sugar is the very highest price !hey should pay, because the retailer, at that price, is making a splendid jrofit. A Kansas City dispatch says that re ports that the fire which destroyed a large portion of the Kansas City stock yards and resulted in the death if approximately eleven thousand cat- fle and thirty-three hundred hogs was of incendiary origin, is persistent. What a different world of trade this vill be after the war was pictured to the Southern Commercial congress in New York City by Secretary Red rleld in an address telling of the cut ting of the threads of Germany's for eign commerce bv her own act, and of the awakening of America and her allies to the danger of having their industries dependent upon foreign and possibly unfriendly sources of sup- Without further authority from con gress the food administration is pow erless to control retail rs, except those doing a business of more than a hun dred thousand dollars a year. Con gress may amend the law so as to coyer all retailers; they are now on trial before the public and the gov ernment, and it is up to them to make good and show their patriotism. Beef is now selling m Chicago at cents a pound wholesale, and re tailers are selling round steak at 31 cents higher than beef soid in July, which was then 16 cents a pound wholesale. The loss of the Antilles brings home to the people of the United States the terrible rigors of the war in which they have engaged against Germany. It carries the largest casualty list of the war so far of American lives and marks the- first success of German submarine attacks on American trans ports. The government has set in motion the machinery to apprehend and pun ish pro-German workers who have started an organized campaign in more than a dozen states to defeat the Liberty Loan. An American destroyer on patrol duty in the war zone was torpedoed by an enemy submarine and had one man killed and five wounded. She managed to make port in spite of se vere damage. Loans of fifty million to Russia, twenty-five million to Great Britain, twenty million to France and three million dollars to Belgium bring the total credits of the United States to allied nations to $2,711,400,000. With no more than two millions of American manhood enlisted, the total military strength of the allies is thir-tv-three million men against a total of twenty million men of the central powers. A record crop of wheat in East In dia is reported in a dispatch to the department of agriculture. By next August, according to some estimates, the total cost to the world will have been one hundred and fifty five billion dollars. Already expendi tures have exceeded one hundred bil lion dollars. The developed national wealth of the allies is placed at six hundred billion dollars; that of the central powers is given as one hundred and thirty bil lion dollars. The total population of the allied na tions is one billion three hundred mil lion, against one hundred and fifty million in the central European nations. ... , J At ing their absence. Until ne mau in a statement in the senate chamber, ohortlv after 1 o'clock, not one of them knew the real significance of their visit to Raleigh. When they did know, they entered into the spirit of the campaign with a vim and went back to their homes after resolving to turn over in fifty and hundred dollar bonds, at le'ast half of the State's allotment. "Four-fifths of the world." Governor Bickett said in his opening remarks, trv Pneaeed in a concerted ef fort to arrest one William Hohenzol lern generally known as the Kaiser of the Imperial German Government. The Council of National Defense for the State of North Carolina, the com mitter that has in hand the sale of the Liberty Loan Bonds in this State, and vour governor, were all Of the opinion that one of the bestways to effect the arrest of this character that, has disturbed the peace of the world was to get the high sheriffs of the State of North Carolina deeply inter ested in this matter. Not a Streak of Yellow. "I am gratified beyond my power of words to express at the patriotic re . i. mimn tn this an- sponse that nas uwu - poal I have said repeatedly in public i speeches made throughout tne State i that after having sone through all the ! one hundred counties, there is not a I streav of vellow in North Carolina I from Cape Lookout to Slick Rock j Creek." r.antain Allen Speaks. Captain Stuart Allen, member of the famous Princess Pat regiment of Ca nadian troops which lost in one en gagement of the Battle of the Somme In " killed and wounded thirty of the thirty-four officers who entered it and cowr, hundred and sixty-five of the ever. " "Good-bye, boy," he had said, "while you are gone 111 be trying. I'll be here in the game and 111 be trying to keep the State as good as it can be. ' Mr. E. B. Crow, cashier of the Com mercial National Bank, then outlined the details of the Liberty Loan and the manner of subscribing. This done, the meeting was turned over to the sheriffs who voted a rousing approval nf the eovernor's proposal, pledged themselves to get to work, and then elected officers for a permanent or ganization. Sheriffs Who Were Here. The sheriffs here were: C D. Story, Alamance; R- A. Adams, Alexander: A. P. Reeves, Alleghany; T S. Clark. Anson; W. B. Windley, Beaufort; John W. Cooper, Bertie; J. M. Clark. Bladen; J. E. Robinson. Brunswick; E. M. Mitcnen, Bun combe; D. A. Johnston, Burke; H. W. Caldwell, Cabarrus; J. A. Triplett, Caldwell; J. B. Mitchell, Camden; T. M. Thomas. Jr., Carteret; T. N. Finch, p.as well: John A. Isenhour, Catawba; Leon T. Lane, Chatham; P. C. Gentry, Cherokee; G. W. Goodwin, Chowan; Ed. Kitchens, Clay; W. D. Lackey, Cleveland; J. O. Ammons, Columbus; R B Lane, Craven; N. H. McGeachy. Cumberland; R. E. Flora, Currituck; L D. Farrow, Dare; A. T. Delap, Da vidson; G. F. Winecoff, Davie; G. G. Best, Duplin; John F. Harward, Dur i, - t -p Wvatt. Edeecombe; G. W. Flynt. Forsyth; H. A. Kearney, Frank lin; W. N. Davis. Gaston; J. W. Brown. Gates; J- A. Ammons, Graham; S. C. Hnbsood. Granville; J. E. Herring, j Greene; D. B. Stafford. Guilford; J. A. House, Halifax; W. H. Turlington, Harnett- Allard Case, Henderson; A. f: Garrett Hertford; Edgar Hall, tt.i rr, r navis Kvde : M. P. Al exander, Iredell; W. F. Grimes, Johnston- John S. Hargett, Jones; D. E. Lasa'ter. Lee: A. W. Tj.ylor, Lenoir; Caney Ramsey, Madison; J. H. Page, Martin; J. A. Laughridge. McDowell; N. W. Wallace, Mecklenburg; L. F. Burleson. Mitchell; G. W. Stuart, Montgomery; D. Al Blue, Moore: N. C. Warren. Nash: George C. Jackson, New Hanover; H. L. Joyner. North Hampton: Elisha H. Walton, Onslow; rhoriad n Poap.mond. Orange: E. S. It is believed, adds the correspond ent, that the fifth Zeppelin was de stroyed at Bourbone lea Bains. (This nrobablv refers to the Zeppelin "To do this it has been determined to obtain from each man complete information of a character which will definitely fix his economic worth as fellow registrant, . . . , t, i nia rMr ! compared with his orougnt now, - . fom the information thus ob- the Alsatian border). "There were 11 Zeppelins in the original group that appeared over French territory, Rooter's correspond ent telegraphed later, and they scat tered over various parts of the coun try whn attacked after a general warn ing was sent out. They dropped no bombs in France. SENATOR HUSTINGS DIES FROM ACCIDENTAL SHOT Accident Occurred wmie orgmcn Were in Boat at Rush Lake, Wisconsin, Duck Hunting. Milwaukee, Wis. United States j Senator Paul O. Husting, of Wiscon sin, died at a farm house near Rush Lake. Wis., as the result or wounas accidentally inflicted upon him with a shotgun by his brother, Gustave, while hunting ducks. Senator Husting recently returned to his home at Mayville after the close of the extra session of Congress, where he was one of the leading sup porters of the administrations war program. With his brother he had gone on a hunting expedition to Rush Lake and the two were in a boat when the ac cident occurred. He had sighted a flock of ducks and called for his brother to fire and at the dischargo of the shotgun he rose slightly, re ceiving the full charge of the gun in his back. He was rushed to the farm house, where all efforts to save his life were unavailing. nine hundred and 3fty ien. was pre- , Pamiic0; Charles Reid. Pas sented by Govern?- Bickett. Captair l;,.' Robert t. Murray. Pender; Allen, who came home from the wa, Perouimans; Joseph Mc- ,-vf tin or lJ - . . shot to pieces, is now - oiawhorn Pitt: A. L. Hill, Polk; H. u By the courtesy of his government na is engaged now ir trainine tk? tu- I dents of the University of North Car olina in military fundamentals. Non-Parti?""! Fiaht. When he had co-nplet-d. Governor Bickett called attention to the non partisan attitude of all political par ties toward the conduct of the war, and Mr. Carl Duncan, one Oi. the prominent nepumxau i Watansra North Carolina, was presented. Mr. , Woonruff. Wilkes; H. M. Rows, Duncan said. In the beginning. that jwilson; o. W. PoindexUr, Yadkin; J he could not make a speech, but he v. Beimett Yancey, bromrht tht sheriffs to a solid round Glawhorn. Pitt; Baldwin, Richmond; R. E Lewis, Robeson ; T. L. Gardner. Rockingham; J. H. Krider. Rowan: C. E. Tanner. Rutherford; I. T. McLamb, Sampson; W D McLaurin. Scotland; G. D. Bla lock. Stanly; S. P Christian. Stokes; N. G Eelton. Surrv: Cos Paxton. Tran sylvania: J. V. Griffith. Union: J. H. Sears. Wake: R. E. Davis. Warren; J. E. Reid, Washington: W. P. Moody, R H. Edwards. Wayne; W. PAMPHLET OF PRESIDENT'S FLAG DAY SPEECH PRINTED Washington. President Wilson's flag day address, with annotations developing and explaining the Presi dent's references to Germany's world wide intrigue, the lust of the Teutonic military caste for conquest and Hs plans for throwing a belt of power across Europe into Asia, and the help lessness of the German people them selves, has been issued in a pam phlet form by the committee on pub lic information. RUSSIAN PEACE PLAN OUTLINED BY COMMITTEE Petrograd. The Russian peace pro gram, as drawn up by the central ex ecutive committee of the council of workmen's and soldiers' delegates in the form of instructions to M. Skobe leff. ex-minister of labor, its delegate to the Paris conference, consists of 15 articles covering the hole ground from Panama to Persia. Article XI demands the "neutralization" of the Panama canal and Article IX calls for the restitution of German colonies. tained. to place him in one oi nve classes each to be called in turn as the need arises. "The method of obtaining this in formation is through a 'questionable' series of questions calculated to pro duce the information required. This document will be mailed to every registrant not yet in service, on a day to be fixed, seven days being given to each registrant to complete and registetr the same. Assigned by Classes. "The local boards will then examine each questionslre and assign each reg istrant to one of five classes. "These classes will be based upon every conceivable condition, from the family or occupational standpoint, that should properly be advanced Dy a man desiring to be excused from military duty. Class one will be the first called for physical examination ! and service, and when it is exhausted, I class two will follow, and thus each I man registered will ultimately take 1 his olace if needed. "Every opportunity for appeal from such classification by the local board has been retained and perfected, but proceedings have been greatly simpli fied. "The tedious work of the local boards has been practically eliminat ed by the production of a form to be known as No. 1000, which will be the foundation stone of the new system. Through its use all the laborious work of making and posting lists has been eliminated. All of the old docket sheets and records Will be made un necessary and by the arrangement of its columns the work of the local board will be reduced to a minimum. "On this new form the complete history of each man's case will ap pear at a glance, beginning with his with his UIUC1 iiumu w I induction into a military camp, while at the close of each day's work the local board Is enabled to complete in a few minutes with a rubber stamp what has hitherto taken hours to complete. The system is such that It vill present each case almost auto matically to the local board. "The completion of the new sys tem will solve problems which have confronted the orovost marshal gen eral and caused him much concern. rv,0 nf thp mos serious of these 11V w - Record Wheat Crop in Hertford. Hertford. If any considerable num ber of North Carolina wheat growers would follow the example of Mr. Thos. Nixon, a farmer located on R. F. D. No. 3 near this place, there would be no question about a vastly increased wheat crop for North Carolina next summer. Mr. Nixon planted five acres last year as an experiment. He har vested 201 bushels, or more than 40 bushels per acre. Mr. Nixon has had 50 bushels ground into 10 barrels of flour, the amount re quired by his family for one year, and has distributed the remaining 150 bushels among the farmers In his com munity who desire to plant wheat this fall. At Elizabeth City, the First National Bank has purchased 1,000 bushels of seed wheat for distribution among tho farmers of Pasquotank county, and at other eastern North Carolina points also a considerable quantity of seed wheat has been brought in and a very considerable acreage of wheat is being planted in northeastern North Caro lina this year. Our people are advised that the stiff clayey land of this section is well adapted tg wheat, although our farm ers are warned against planting it on light sandy soil. Carload of Tobacco Tarj- Reidsville. The flrsf carload of ex press ever forwarded from Reidsville was sent by the American Tobacco Company to Baltimore. It was a ship ment of 45,000 tins used for stamping brands on tobacco plugs. They are be ing rushed to a stamping factory to have changes made in tlfem by reason of the changes in the internal reve nue taxes. The express charges on the -ar was $640. To Improve Robeson Roads. Lumberton. Five roads in Robeson county leading out from Lumberton will at once be taken over by the state highway commiion. The roads will be improved and maintained un th auoervislon of M. E. Miller. mairtenance supervisor of the com mission. The roads are: Fayetteville Whiteville, Elizabethtown, BMfpM and Rockingham. The work widl be financed by the Rob-son county auto tax fund, 70 per cent of which is to be spent in the county. Big Red Cross Society. Rocky Mount.-The Rocky Mount Red Cross chapter and its auxiliaries a membehip of over one now iia.c - ,. . . . .i -oi ' thm,cgnl This shows tne has been keeping togeuiei u" j . . . n, the chapter some wonuenui was chartered only four months ago lido UV-V-ll " x-' - organization of the local and district boards which . from a -m r ca, ' been expended by the point is oi me Buu6.." - - . auxp.,rjes n maKing Sivision; many of these officials have chapter and the auxl i n hee.n clamoring for relief on account of the drain on their time, and the new system will make It easily pos sible for them to continue their duties for which they have proven them selves eminently fitted. ..,lioa for the BOluieis o.-" and a great quantity will be sent from here within the next month The chap ter has also spent $250 in yifU to he drafted men as they have left for the cantonment.
The Chatham Record (Pittsboro, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 24, 1917, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75