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ECORD ESTABLISHED SEPT. 19, 1378. PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C,.' JUNE 5, 1918 VOL, XL. NO. 44. JL ini In : IMPORTANT NEWS THE WORLD OVER IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS OF THIS AND OTHER NATIONS FOR SEVEN DAYS GIVEN Iffi NEWS JFJfHE SOUTH What Is Taking Place In The South land Will Be Found In. Brief Paragraphs tomestic private Frank Wormkee, alias Frank Woods, ' testifying at the trial of 112 Industrial Workers of the World, that he was asked by mem bers of the organization to teach sab otage in the American array. This sabotage, he said he was informed, could include placing a foreign sub stance in food to cause illness and tie cutting up of clothing. Declaring that the navy is doing no ble work in keeping open the road to France for the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers already there. Secretary Daniels, in an impromptu address at Wilkesbarre, Pa., declared flat troop movement will reach the Eillion mark in a few weeks; that in 4 few months the two million mark irill have been reached and that ten million or more men will be sent if needed to win the war. Theodore Roosevelt, in delivering an address at Detroit, said: "America does not want to win this war on points; we want a knock-out." "If we don't carry it through now we will be forced to fight it out here later, and without allies." The Democratic convention of the First congressional district of Virginia broke a deadlock when they nominated S. 0. Bland of Newport News as the Democratic candidate for the unexpir ed term of the late-William A. Jones. Mrs. Grace Lusk was found guilty of second degree murder by the jury which tried her for killing Mrs. Mary Newman Roberts, at Wauwesha, Wis. When the jury retired Miss Luak col lapsed and it toot half an hour to pre pare her to be brought to court to hear the verdict. One union express company for the United States was created by agree ment between Director General Mc Adoo and the Adams, American, Wells Fargo and Southern companies, whose transportation business will be merged under a new private corporation with a capital of more than thirty million dollars, to be known probably as the Federal Express company. George C. Tyler, new president of the American, will be head of the concern. Major General Leonard Wood, for mer chief of staff, whose detachment from command of the national army division he trained for service in the war "over there'' became known re cently, called at the white house, but it is not yet known with what re sult. General Wood has many friends Tho want him sent to Europe. Dr. Lemuel Jbhnson, a young dentist of Middlesex, N. C, who has been on trial in the Husting court at Richmond, Va., for the past ten days on a charge ot having poisoned his bride of three months, last December, was found not guilty. Four men were killed and several others scalded and burned when a toiler at the Hammer Lumber plant near Little river, fifty-five miles from Wilmington, N. C, blew up. Washington. A party of fifty Mexican editors, pro ally in sentiment, will make a torn of ihe United Startes to make a study of the resources, industrial, military and financial, of the United States at war, and will U3e the. data thus com pi.ed in educational work in Mexico. Loss of the homeward bound Amer ican transport President Lincoln is announced in a dispatch from "Vice Ad miral Sims. There are no details. Senator Borah of Idaho demands, in a resolution introduced In the senate, that profiteering in the United States cease, and calls profiteers "miserable scavengers and blood-sucking tarantu las, trafficking at the expense of the United States government." The largest annual army appropria tion bill in history, carrying $12,041, "2,000, and authorizing the president to call into military service , all men can be trained and equipped, has teen passed by the house and sent to the senate. j - Railroad employees are reminded by Sector General McAdoo that they are employees of the United States in time at and that a strike means a blow their own government and the ham nng of transportation essential to JWect the Hundreds of thousands of jaerlcaa boys fighting on the battle DsIds of Europe.' Memorial Day found America's roll honor for the great war to date to Ulllng 6,463. To save material and labor for nec "sary war purposes President Wilson PPeals to all Americans "to buy only "ose thingsw hich are essential to , dividual health and efficiency" JiQ tn volunteer on or before June 28, Rational Thrift Day, to invest system ica.iy in war savings and thrift tiesmpS r other government securi ty?'!1'1111 airmen deliberately drop l,f bombs on hospitals in which there of rKvSCreS of Americans and hundred ho? enCh Sick and wounaed- The t 1 is in a town many miles in lfie rear of the front. Important restrictions in the opera tion of cotton mills, which will vitally affect the American cotton industry, have been imposed by th British cot ton control board. Spinning mills will be licensed when engaged on Ameri can cotton up to 50 of total spin dles forty hours per week. President Wilson says that "this war is one of nations not of armies, and all of our hundred million people must be economically and industrially adjusted to war conditions if this na tion is to play its full part in the con flict." The securities issued by the. treas ury department are so many of them within the reach of everyone that the door of opportunity to assist in win ning the war is wide open to all of us. The man who buys government se curities transfers the purchasing pow er of his money to the United States government until after the war, and to that same degree does not buy in com petition with the government. A maximum basic price of 33 cents a pound for aluminum In lots of fifty tons or more of the ingot 98 to 99 grade, was fixed by President Wilson, under an agreement between produc ers and war industries board. The price became effective June 1. A special committee of cotton goods manufacturers met the price fixing oommittee of the war industries board to present preliminary cost figures to facilitate the work of the price-fixing committee in arriving at a fair basis It is intimated that the government may take over the control of cotton goods as it did in the case of wool, and may name John Scott of Chicago as textile administrator. In attacks against Americans in France the Germans suffered severely both in killed and prisoners left be hind. European. More than fifteen hundred Germai and Bulgarian prisoners, among them thirty-three officers and a large quan tity of war materials have been cap tured by Greek troops on the Macedo nian front according- to - official com munication, received in London from Saloniki. Casualties in the British ranks re ported during the month of May reach ed a total of 166,802. Killed or died of wounds officers, 1,536; men, 20, 518; wounded or missing officers, 6, 182; men, 138,566. The total reported during April was 52,745. Plots and internal disorders of all kinds are increasing in Bohemia. A Vienna newspaper says that what is happening in Bohemia resembles the Lombard! and Venetian uprisings in 1848, except that the empire is ham pered by her engagements in a war from which she does not see a way to escape. At Chozen, Bohemia, crowds, exas perated by police brutality, set fire to the barracks and to the city hall, where the mounted police were lodged. Eight of the officers were burned to death. Plunging southward, the German war machine in France has driven its wedge into the allied lines along the front until its apex has reached the Marne river, south of Fere-en-Tard-i-nois, near the place from which they retreated two years ago, when General Joffre threatened to exterminate them. The desperate efforts of the French and British to stem the tide against the invaders have served" only to slow down the rate 'of speed of the German advance on the western front; the de fenders of the heights north pf the Marne seem to have been swept aside in the rush of the Germans ostensibly with Paris as the objective. Aside from the flying drive of the German armies southward, two other significant incidents of the tremen dous battle are noted. One is that the Germans have extended their'attack to the northwest along the Ailette river; the 1 other is that the battle has ex tended to the east of Rheims. It is feared that the city. of Rhe'rns is doomed to fall in the hands of the onrushing Germans, but the allies are still hopeful of stopping the German machine before it gets close enough to fell it with their big guns. The occupation by the Germans of Chateau Thiery marks the beginning of the expected turning movement to ward Paris. If the town is taken the Germans may be expected to move down the Marne. To do this they must drive a wedge into the French lines south of Soissons. But the Ger mans claim that they- have already done this, and the next few days will be anxious ones. Eighteen women and children were trampled to death and a number of persons were injured in a pan:c which followed an aerial raid alarm sounded at midday in Mannheim, Switzerland. The streets were crowded when the alarm was given. It developed that the warning signals were caused, by the sighting of a squadron of German aviators returning to their base near Mannheim. Sixty-nine persons were arrested and deported from Ireland in' connection w"th the recent revolutionary plot. The transport ship Leasowe Castle hc.3 been sunk by an enemy submarine and one hundred and one persons were drowned, the British admiralty an nounces. The vessel was sunk in the Mediterranean on May 26.. The Lea sowe Castle was built in 1917 at Bir kenhead and was owned by the Union Castle Mail Steamship company of London. Internal disorder in Austria-Hungary has paralyzed the projected Austrian offensive against Italy. Seriour, riots have' broken out again at Laibach and Gratz, where Slavs and Ju go-Slavs at tacked Austrian troops. ESTERN UNION DECLINES TERMS TELEGRAPH COMPANY WILL NOT YIELD TO LABOR BOARD'S RECOMMENDATIONS. HEAD SAYS IT MEANS STRIKE Taft-Walsh Board Renders Decision' in Controversy With the Operators. New York. The Western Union Tel egraph Company has declined to sub mit to the jurisdiction of the national war labor board which sought to ad just the differences between the com pany and those of its employes who are members of the Commercial Teleg raphers' Union of America. The Western Union's decision be came known when the report of the executiv session of the war board, was made public. It embodied a report by W. H. Taft and Frank P. Walsh, joint chairman of the board, who con ferred with Newcomb Carlton, presi dent of the Western Union, in an effort to compose the differences between the company and those of its em ployes who had ben discahrged, it was charged, because they joinel the Com mercial Telegraphers' Union of America. Complaint against the company's action was taken to the war board and Mr. Taft and Mr. Walsh made an in vestigation. They then ' submitted a proposition in the nature of a com promise based on the principles un derlying the work of the war board. This platform recognizes the right of men to organize and holds they should not be discharged for membership in trades unions or for legitimate trade union activities. "The Western Union is not seeking to deprive any one of his inalienable rights," said Mr. Carlton in a state ment issued, 'but it recognizes that its employes must chose employment with it pr membership in the C. T. U. of A., with employment in the many other telegraph positions open to them for the Western Union employs less than 20 per cent of the total telegra phers in the United States. " 'If you desire to join the C. T. XJ. of A., then we must part. So long as you retain your position with the com pany you will have every protection and a full right of appeal, but we can not agree that you shall join any or ganization which imperils the contin uity of the telegraph service which this company is expected to provide for the government and public of the United States.' " Mr. Taft and Mr. Walsh, their re port showed, recommended to Mr. Carlton that the Western Union re ceive a committee of its own men only, who desired to present requests for better working conditions dr compen sation, an dif an agreement could not be reached, the matter should be re ferred to the war board and the ques tion disposed of according to its rules. MAGNIFICENT OPPOSITION IS BEING IMPOSED The strength of General Foch's re serves has been felt by the armies of the German crown prince in the "bat tle for Paris." East of the line running from Sois sons to Chateau-Thierry where the Germans in a continuation of their mighty strokes gained several addi tional villages and then attempted to proceed further westward, magnificent opposition was imposed by the newly strengthened lines and, with terrific smashes, the French forces recaptured Long ont, Corey, Favorellees and Tro esnes, vantage points in the center of the line leading to the forest of Villers Cotterets, which seems to be the pres ent objective here of the enemy. The Germans, however, still have In their possession the villages of Vau revis, lying to the west of Soissons. and further south of Saconin Et Breuil, Chaudun, Licy and Bouresches, the last named directly west of Cha teau Thierry. . A little to the south west of Chateau Thierry the enemy has reached the Marne. . NO HOPE ENTERTAINED FOR 7AIR BANK'S RECOVERY Indianapojis. Charles W. Fair banks, formor vice president, who is ill at his home here, lost ground con tinuously during the day and no hope is now entertained for his recovery by his chief physician, Dr. J. A. McDon ald Dr. McDonald said that the for mer vice president's condition is nore critical than at any, time during his illness. Mr. Fairbanks has been seriously ill for about four weeks. MERCY FUND CLIMBS TO UNPRECEDENTED HEIGHTS Washing' on. The American Red Cross second war mercy fund now to tals $166,439,291 with indications that when all reports from the drive of a week ago are tabulated a $70,000,000 over-subscription of the $100 000,000 goal will be shown. In announcing these figures, Henry P. Davidson, chairman of the Red Cross war coun cil, said the returns show that more hafl.the total population of America try contributed. REACH ON 10 - MILE FRONT RATE OF SPEED OF THE ADVANCE IS, HOWEVER, SLOWED DOWN SOME RHEIMS LOST. CHATEAU THEIRY IS OCCUPIED Allied Forces VastlyOutmimbered; Reserves Have Nowhere as Yet Been-Brought Into .Action. Plunging southward, with its mo mentum still unspent, the German war machine has driven its wedge into the allleJ lines along the front until its apex has reached the Marne river south of Fere-en-Tardenois. The des perate effeorts of the French and Brit ish to stem the tide against the in vaders have served only to slow down the rate of speed of the German ad vance; the defenders of the heights north of the Marne seem to have been swept aside in the rush of thte enemy toward the road to Paris. Aside from the movement of the German armies southward, two other significant incidents of thetremendoui battle have occurred. One is that the Germans have extended their attack to the northwest, along the Ailette river, from which the French have fallen back for some distance. The other is that' the battle has extended to the east of Rheims, which city, during the first few days of the battle formed the extreme eastern end of the line of battle. Along the sides of the salient form ed by the rapid German advance to the Marne the French and British have been holding their positions gal lantly. South of Soissons, the French have defended their line with such vigor that the Germans have not made much impression upon it. On the oth er side of the battle area, the British aie still holding the forts of Rheims and positions just west of that war stricken city. Between the extreme sides of the salient the. front sags, toward the south, the line from Rheims to the Marne running to the southwest at a gentle angle, while the French are holding a front at right angles to the direction of the German advance. GERMAN AIRMEN BOMB BIG CANADIAN HOSPITAL German airmen have bombed another hospital this time a Canadian insti tution and exacted a considerable toll of casualties. Amoag those killed by the explosion of flames was an Amer ican medical officer who was admin istering an anaesthetic to a British officer in the operating room when that part of the hospital was demolish ed. The raid occurred at 12:30 o'clock in the morning. The hospital attacked was a large one. It had been in existence since the early day. of the war and was marked by huge Red Cross signs. The German airmen, working partly by the light of the moon, dropped four bombs near the hospital and then not apparently able to see exactly where they were hitting, lighted a brilliant liare which was let fall to illuminate the surroundings. As the place was lighted up by the flare, they released another bomb or two which dropped squarely on a large wing of the hospital. In the wing there were thre floors, on the bot tom one of which was the operating room. On the story above were the office and patients' room and above them were members of the hospital personnel. Part of the wing was de molished by the terrific explosion and many unfortunate persons were killed and wounded when the building col lapsed and buried them. The surgeons were just about to operate on an aviation officer and the American medical officer was stand ing by with the anaesthetic when the crash came. All those in that room were buried under an avalanche of brick and woodwork. The demolished wing caught .fire and burned fiercely with many victims still pinned In the wreckage. ATTACKS ON FRENCH POSITIONS REPULSED Paris. German atacks on French positions on the right bank of the Ailette river have been repulsed. The Germans have reached the Marne, light detachments having pen ertated as far as the river between Charteves- and Jaugonne. ' On the right flank of the battle he situation is unchanged which also is the condition west- and north of Rheims, according to the official state ment issued by the war-office- TO FACILITATE SHIPMENT OF COTTON TO ITALY Washington. To facilitate the ship ment of raw cotton to Italy and to strengthen the Italian government's control of imports, the war trade board has advanced by 20 days the effective date on -which individual li censes for cotton exports now in ef fect to Italy wil be required. Special licenses now in effect will be with drawn June 10 instead of June 30, after .which individual licenses will be PLUNGE OE GERMAN S BEING HALTED FRENCH HAVE STOOD THEIR GROUND IN VICINITY OF SOIS SONS AND ELSEWHERE. FORTS H UEHIS FILL? Germans Claim to Have Captured More Than 35,000 Prisoners During New Drive Slowly but surely the plunge of the German crown prince's armies is be ing halted by French and British ar mies. While the momentum of the German masses has not as yet spent itself, there has been a notable slack ening in its advance during the past day. The chief efforts of the Germans now seem to be devoted to the widen ing of the gap they have torn In the positions of the allies between -Pinon and Brimont. This work seems to be progressing slowly against the des perate resistance of the allied forces. The French having fallen back from the limits of the city of Soissons, have stood their ground against the at tacks of the enemy and the German official statement fails to show mate rial advances there during the day's fighting. The French are here fighting on fa miliar ground which has been made historic by numerous battles some of which are named among the decisive combats of history. On the eastern end of the fighting line some of the forts before Rheims are said to have fallen, which was to be expected from the fact that they have been outflanked by the tide of invasion that has swept far to the south of the city. The fighting has taken on the fa miliar aspect of the first invasion ot France in 1914, the advance of von Mackensen along tha Dunajeo and the fighting in iPcardy in March. After breaking the French and British de fense positions, but not breaking the allied line, the Germans are again moving their forces out in a fan shaped figure, fighting hardest on the flanks of the extreme front of their advance. Serious But Not Critical. The situation, while apparently ex tremely serious, has not assumed the critical aspect of the fighting late in March. The allies are resisting the enemy's attacks stubbornly, giving ground when ovei powered, and al ways maintaining a solid front. NATION OFFERS PRAYERS FOR THOSE FIGHTING Washington. The American people paid homage to the memory of the na tion's defenders who have fallen in battle and prayed for the success of those who are fighting overseas. Added solemnity was given this memorial day by the great battle rag ing on the fields of France, where American soldiers are standing, with the allied troops abreast the charg ing German armies. For the ultimate victory of these Americans and the thousands who are to follow them, President Wilson, iii response to a resolution by Congress, had asked the people to make of Memorial day a day of fasting and .supplication. The President and Mrs. Wilson at tended services this morning at the Central Presbyterian church and in the afternoon went to Arlington na tional cemetery, where annual me morial exercises were held by the Grand Army of the Republic. The presidential party was escorted through the grounds to the speakers' stand by a troops of cavalry and a company of engineers. Secretary Ba ker occupied a seat on the stand. Senator Curtis, of Kansas, delivered the Memorial day oration and Rev. Mr. Couden, the blind chaplain of the house of representatives, recited Lincoln's Gettysburg address. MORE TROOPS WENT OVER IN MAY THAN EVER BEFORE Easton, Pa. In a speech here to night accepting a Jeweled sword pre sented to him by the people of Easton, his birthplace, Gen. Peyton C. March, chief of staff of the United States ar mies, declared more American troops were taken to France in May than were there when he left in Wbruary. No figures were given. Other accom nllshments of the war department were described. The sword was pre sented by the city of Easton. LONDON PAPER PRAISES AMERICAN FIGHTERS London.: Commenting on the cap ture of Cantigny by .the Americans, The Evening News says: "Bravo! The young Americans! Nothing in today's, battle narrative from the front is more exhilarating than the account of their fight at Cantigny. It was clean-cut from be ginning to end, liki one of their coun trymen's short stories and the short story of Cantigny is going to expand nto a fijll length novel.. BRITISH AND FRENCH ARE GIVING GROUND GREAT GERMAN MILITARY MA CHINE IS IN ACTION ALONG 20-MILE FRONT IN AISNE. ALLIES GREATLY OUTNUMBER!) Some Unofficial Estimates Place Num ber of German Shock '-Troop at 25 Divisions. The great German military machine is in full motion along the 25-mile front in the Aisne river sector be tween Vailly and Berry Au Bac, and, greatly outnumbered, the British and French everywhere are giving ground. According to the German official communications, numerous towns and villages in the fighting zone .have been taken by the enemy and 15,000 allied troops already have been made prisoner. At last accounts the Germans were endeavoring to press back the defend ers upon the Vesle river, which runs parallel with the Aisne, and at several points had reached positions dominat ing the Vesle valley. The offensive is being carried out with the greatest rapidity for the German high command evidently is well aware of the fact that General Foch's reserves have been reported to be coming up rapidly- to reinforce the hard pressed British and French, who are fighting valiantly against the ter- rlble odds and making wave upon ! wave of the enemy pay dearly in cas ualties for every foot of ground they obtain. Notwithstanding the rapidity of the drive and the large number of the enemy pressing it some unofficial estimates place the number of shock 300,000 picked men the allied front nowhere has been piereced, but under the onslaugh'ts has bent back in per fect liaison, and all the time giving battle. With such precision has the retire ment been conducted that both the British and the French have been able to carry back with them all of their supplies and guns or to destroy those they were not able to handle. Although the Germans, for the mo ment at least, seem'ngly are having their own way on the southern part of the line in- France, on the sectors around Montdidier and southwest of Ypres they are being sorely harrassed by the American and British and French. . AMERICAN TROOPS CAPTURE THEIR FIRST VILLAGE Fighting in the vicinity of'Mondidier will mark an epoch in the war, so far as American troops are concerned. Here in an attack they captured their first village Cantigny which lies a short distance northwest of Montdidi er. They also took severalx other ob jectives and held all of them in the face of counter-attacks. The Germans suffered severe losses in men killed or wounded and in addition left behind them 200 men made prisoner, among them two officers. The American cas ualties were relatively small. The Ger man official report announcs the tak ing of American prisoners. The re port from American headquarters, however, shows only two missing, one in Picardy and the other in the Luna ville sector. Try to Wreck Hospital. What was apparently a deliberate attempt to wreck American hospitals in the rear of the American lines in Picardy occurred Sunday afternoon when the Germans hurled high explos ives and gas shells within a few hun dred yards of two hospitals. Fortun ately no damage was done. Capture Two Lone Americans. With the American Army in France Two lone Americans gave the Ger mans an opportunity to mention the capture of prisoners from American regiments in the German official com munication. 1,000 JEWISH REFUGEES PERISH WHEN SHIP SINKS New York. One thousand persons, all Jewish refugees from Batum, were drowned when the steamship Oriole, carrying a passenger list of 1,500, was recently sunk in the Caspian sea, ac cording to a cablegram received and printed here by the Jewish Day, from its correspondent at Harbin. The ca blegram stated that the ship was on her way to Astrakhan. No details of the sinking were given. NO MORE OLIVE DRAB AND KHAKI FOR CIVILIANS New York. Olive drab and khaki colore cloth will not be manufactur ed hereafter for civilian use, the Amer ican Association of Woolen and Worst ed Manufacturers announced after a meeting here. The restriction was decided upon at the request of the war department, which pointed out that the olive drab and khaki have been consecrated to the use of United States troops an dthat the commercial use of the colors is improper. BAYLUS GADE DIES PHLADELPHA INVENTOR OF TYPESETTING MA. CHINE PASSES AWAY BEFORE MANUFACTURE BEGINS. WAS A PROMINENT MINISTER Held- Many Charges In the. State and Served as, Governor Russell's ' Private Secretary. Raleigh. Rev. Baylus Cade, inven :orcof the Cade typesetting machine and who, for years, has been a promi nent figure in. the Baptist State Con vention of North Carolina, both while he was in and out of the ministry, died in Philadelphia, according to a tele gram received by son-in-law, Mr. Er nest Martin, here. Details of the last illness of the well-known minister and Inventor are lacking, but the funeral was conduct ed In Loulsburg, where his wife and daughter now live.' Rev. A. M. Slmms of Raleigh conducted the services. Rev. Baylus Cade was about 75 years of age and had lived In North I Carolina, before his recent removal to Philadelphia, for twenty-five yearB. He came to the State from West Vir ginia, with his wife and family thirty years ago and became pastor at Louis burg and Franklinton. He resigned the ministry at the beginning of the. administration of Governor Russell to become private secretary to the Gov ernor, explaining at the time that his large family made it impossible for him to educate his children properly upon the meager income of the minis try. The appointment as private sec retary came unsought. His brethren In the Baptist denomination, minis ters and laymen as well, understood the circumstances and motives and maintained their high respect for him and appreciation of his worth. Dr. Johnson Not Guilty. .Special from Richmond, Va. Dr. Lemuel Johnson acquitted of the charge of murder by jury ten minutes after their retirement. The attorneys for the state bitterly arraigned Dr. Johnson in making their arguments to the. Jury. "He tries to fool this jury as he did Alice Knight, cried Attorney A. H. Hopkins, for the state. Attorney Smith, representing .Dr. Johnson, declared: "If Dr. Johnson' wanted poison for criminal purposes, he would not have ordered it on his professional station ery, nor would he have gone to the drug store where he is known and obtained it" Referring to the love letters writtea to Miss Ollie White, Zebulon, N. C, music teacher, Mr. Smith said: "Johnson was guilty of procrastina tion, and perhaps cowardice, in not telling Miss White of his marriage to Miss Knight, but nowhere has the state shown that Johnson gave or seat his wife the poison which they charge caused her death, -to get rid of her and marry Miss White. He loved his wife and she loved him." Airplane at Charlotte Charlotte Whether or not there will be any flying at Camp Greene has hot been announced; but one thing is certain, an airplane has ar rived there, minus an .engine it was learned. It Is probable that the new Liberty motor will be installed in the mach ines that are sent here.. The third Motor Mechanics' regiment, Colonel Kirtland commanding, will be brok en up into areo squadrons and sent to various airplane factories, where ' they will learn how the machines are built and there Dy gain rirst-nana in formation as. to how to patch them up when they are shot up by Huns. It could not be learned what unit brought tLe air machine, nor whether j or not there will be others, though ' announcements of some time ago In dicated that there would be many such : machines in Charlotte during the summer. Visiting Relative Stole Money. Kinston. Mrs. Louis Garvey, an East Kinston woman, is being held in bail for trial in superior court on the charge of larceny of $75 from Rev. C. F. Noble, a minister to whom she is related, while visiting at his home. With the money was a $5 gold piece. One of her children gave such a coin to an ice cream vendor for a penny. The man returned the $5 to Mrs. Gar vey, who said she had never seen any t Told money before. She explained that t had been given to her in change by a negro merchant. Refuse a Division. Plttsboro. The executive commit tee of the Democratic party in Chat ham county has declined a proposi tion of the Republican committee for a division of the offices in the county, giving the Republicans .the member of the General 'Assembly; one of the fol lowing three offices: Clerk of the court, sheriff or register of deeds, one member of the board of commission- ers and one member of the board of education. There ! little feeling in Chatham as a whole, in politics, every energy being directed toward the war. ! 1 i i ! ir' II: It necessary. tl
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