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' -if Mr. T. W. Bickett Will Speak in Salisbury Monday, Wk LOCAL WEATHER FORECAST:- FAIR WEATHER. NORMAL TEAL PKRATl RK. THE POST RECEIVES IN ITS OFFICE DAILY LEASED WIRE REPORTS OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEWS SOURCES ARE NOT EXCELLED BY ANY NEWS PAPER IN NORTH CAROLINA. SPEAK OUTI LET POST WANT ( ti.ua AV.I A9 IUUH BnJIViWJ- MAN WHEN YOU WANT HELP, WANT TO 8ELL, OR WANT TO BUY.' THEY CO HOME. , VOL. 12. NO. 212. SALISBURY. NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY. SEIT. 9. 191fi. PRICE TWO CENTS r: Tl i 4. MAY CALL A BIG STRIKE Labor Leaders Threaten to Tie Up All Industries in Greater New York City. UNIFORM RANK, W. 0. W. HOUSED AT FAIR GROUNDS. LONDON NAVAL ATTACHE, SAM. GOMPERS RECEIVES HURRY CALL TO N. Y. Representatives of Car Company Employes Say Many Lines are Now Tied Up. (Ky Associated Pros-s.) Ntw York, Sept. 9. Union labor leaders of State and National prom inence were called into New York transit situation today with the an nouncement by local organizers that in 24 hours a conference will be held Military OrganTzation of Woodmen in North and South Caro lina Housed Under Canvas Here Colonel Mather, Cen cral Lewis, Captain Ladd, U. S. A., and Other High Officials Here-Thursday the Big Day. The joint meeting of the local camps of the Woodimn of the World la.'t nitfht was a most interesting one, and the business transacted was not only of interest to the members of the fraternity but the general public of Salisbury at this time especially. The meeting: was presided over by Gen eral E. B. Lewis, of the Uniform Rank, one of the Sovereign managers of the order in the Unitsd States, who is here fjr the encampment. Present on the rostum with General Lewis was Colonel E. G. Sigfher, of Lumnerton. an 1 Colonel V. E. Grant, here, the outcome of which might le 0f H; ndersortville, and Captain Ladd, a tieu.p of all industries employing j also of Henderson vi lie, the latter ice men affiliated with the American Fed-! in an attache of the United States . , i , a . i i, I Army who has been granted a leave eration of Labor. A telegram nasi ' I of absence by the War Department on been sent to Samuel Gompers, pres- request of Senator Overman in order ident of the latter organization, who i that he may be here next week to in- ig on a vacation in Maine, asking him ' sped the Woodmen troops. to hurry here and the Central Feder ated Union announces after an all night meeting that a committee has be'.n empowere to call a general sympathectic strike in all trades, that this action will be necessary to help the employes of the rapid transit com panies in New York win their fight 'for annullment of the contract bind ing the men not to ask for a wage in crease in two years. Meanwhile it is announced on be half of 'the Interborough that it will apply for a court injunction to re sttain labor leaders from preventing the men working. Police reports indicate that under guard the elevated service was nor mal and the situation on surface lines effected is considerably improved. La bor leaders claim on the other 5iand that surface roads- are badly affected. Disorders of a minor character con tinued throughout the day and thete were 18 arrests. General Lewis gave much informa tion relative to the encamument of the Uniform Rank, W. O. W, to be held at the fair grounds in this city next week. Among other things .he remin ed the Woodmen that this was IN UNIVERSITY AT 14. AN IMPORTANT SESSION THINKS CLAUDE K ITCH IN "iMore Constructive Legislation En acted Than at Any Other Session," He Says. Washington, Sept. 8. Without the customary songs, shouting and hand shaking, the first session of the 64th Congress adjourned at 10 o'clock to day and tonight there is hardly a handful of senators and congressmen iji the city. Speaker Champ Clark came into the house this niorning -nth his wide brimmed hat rn' his hand. It lay on the speaker's desk during the few minutes that body was in session to 4ay and within 10 minutes after he had adjourned the house he was on a Pennsylvania train speeding to Mex ico, Mo. i With the exception of Senator Sim mons, who keeps a home in Cleveland park, none of the North Carolina dele gatipn are here today. Representa tives Page and Webb left by automo bile early today and Majority Leader Claude Kitchin caught a noon train for home. Senator Overman left at midnight last night and the rest of them are on their way home. ' Majority Leader Kitchin considers the Congress just adjourned one of the most important, so far as enacted constructive legislation is concerned, In the history of the country. With his hat in one hand and hia grip in the other, he told newspapermen on the way to the station today that he was entirely satisfied with the work accomplished by his party. " "We have put through more con structive legislation than any other session of Congress," said Mr. Kitch in. It has . been accomplished with pood feeling all the way : through There has been less , bitterness and tesv 'filibustering than in any other session that I recall. We have had fSnited action on the Democratic side, aitnougn our margin was less than heretofore." p. 2 ' '" '. 0 '- .. ; , 11 ",4V 1 fc the only organization in the country using tne regulation J. S. Army uni form, and although a recent act of Congress prohibits the use of this uni form by other than U. S. Army men President Wilson had granted a spec ial dispensation allowing the Wood men of the World to continue to use this uniform until November 1st of the present year. There are now 20, 000 Woodmen in North Carolina, and it may be of interest to know that the first camp in this State was organiz ed in Salisbury., Hickory camp No. 49, now having a large and influential membership, its roll containing the names of men hiph up councils cf the nation and many local business men and mechanics. Two - thousand five hundred new members were enrolled during the past year in this State an-i 110.000 new men were added to the list in the Tnited States in the past ytar, ana lira.uw ag paid out in death claims in this State last year, more than all other fraternal orders combined. There are 114 degree com panies in North and South Carol). .a (Continued on page 4.) z ' , i vr,- f ! ; i Vvrr. I I I SERBIANS TAK E THE OFFENSIVE t After Violent Enrairement Last Night They Capture a Heighth West of Lake Ostrovo. I'l B1.1SHEK K)U DEFENSE. GERMANS AND TURKS . .IN FIERCE BATTLE Uf GOES BREAD ' , FOR BIRMINGHAM. (By Associated! Press.) Birmingham, Ala, Sept. I. Begin ning the 11th 24 'ounces of loaf bread will be sold for ten cents, an increase of five cents a loaf, according to announcement made today fcy local bakers. The advance' is attributed to the high cost of flour and other in- jrredienees. I Senator Overman, Mayor Woodson and local officials of the W. O. W. Hve been invited to be present at the .opening Monday. A full pro irram of the daily routine will be pub lished Monday afternoon for the in formation of the public. - Theodore S,teinman, fourteen-year-old son of Alfred Steinman, a mer chant of San Diego, Cal, has reg istered as a student in the University of California. He js the youngeat pu pil ever to apply for admittance. He has fifty six entrance units to his cred it. The requirement is only forty five. He attended grammer schools of San Die?b up to the sith grade and entered the San Diego Army and Navy Academy. When Steinman completes his seven year medical course he will be twenty-one years j old, a. graduate physician at the age of the average junior class student at Berkley. PRESIDENT AT SHADOWS LAWN. PRESIDENT PLEASED WOMEN DELEGATES The Speech Which the President Delivered Before the Conven tion Well Received. PREDICTED EARLY VICTORY FOR THE WOMEN'S CAUSE When He Entered His Machine This Morning to go to Shadow Lawn President Was Cheered. Mr. Wilson Motored Over from' At lantic City and Was Quietly Re ceived by the Citizens. (By Associated Press.) Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 9. Presi dent Wilson arrived at Shadow Lawn the summer capital today after an uneventful trip by automobile from Atlantic City. A small crowd greet ed him. The President plans to apend the most of his time here until after the election. .- ' ; ; , HOLDING EGGS IN STORAGE. Many Thousands of Eggs Being Held in Storage by Few Firm. (By Associated Press.) Washington; Sept. . Two hundred and twenty firms are holding nearly Ave million cases of eggs, or about 143 million t'ozeiv 'in cold storage according to the latest reports to the department of agriculture. The re port shows the amount ten per cent less than a month ago.' (By Associated Press.) Atlantic City, Sept. 9. iDelegates to the Woman's Suffrage convention are apparently pleased with the ad dress of President Wilson of last night, and today bcan working on the closing sessions of the convention with the expectation of completing their work tonight. 'What specially pleased the dele gates was the statement of Mr. Wil son that he had ome to Atlantic City "to fight with someone," which the suffragists took to mean that he was enrolling himself under their banner'. They, were also elated with his decla ration that they would e triumphant. The President predicted that the cause would triumph in a little while. I have come here to fight with vou." the President declared. Im mediately the 4.000 women present stood and cheered. A few minutes latter Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, hon orary president of the Association, with Mr. Wilson still present, clared : "We have waited long enough to get the vote. We want it now, want it to come during your adminis-' tration." Again the great au:'ience of ?women.' stood and cheered, wav ing handkerchiefs. The President's pledge of support to the suffrage Association caused Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the organization to say in a speech soon after he closed: Won Their Fealty. "You touched our hearts and won our fealty when you said you had come here to fight with us. The President did not sneak on the method by which he wouI5. bring about woman suffrage, but said "we shall" not quarrel in the long run ai to the method,"'-;.. The women in their speeches also failed to mention the question ' of method. . Cheered Along the Route. Atlantic City, Sept. 9. President Wilson, who spoke to the Suffrage convention here last night, left the city this morning hy automobile for Long Branch, to make an extended stay at Shadow Lawn. A large crowd along the board walks and the streets of the dry cheered as he entered Ma automobile and daring his progress along the city. In the crowds that cheered the President were many Celejrates to the convention which be - addressed last night , . . . 1 ; f Captain W. H. McDougall, lormerly of the President's yacht Mayflower, his been appaointed American naval attache at London. He is a son of tne Tate General Clinton McDougall, cr.ee a member of congress from New York. DAVIDSON COLLEuE OPENS WITH 350 MEN. .Davidsoi. College, Sept. 8.- At the present the prospects look for the biggest and best year that has ever been in the history of Davidson Col lege. Up to Wednesday night a to tal enrollment of 350 men had been registered. Out of these 150 are new men, 141 being Freshmen. On the same rate, of last year, there was a ber just about crowds the college to total enrollment of 301. This num its fullest capacity, Loth in class room and dormitories. It is expect ed that there will probacy be thir ty or forty more enrolled within, the next few days. There are two new additions to the faculty of the college this year, Prof. A. W- Withers, who will be one of the instructors in French and English. Prof; S. Macon Reed, thi other new man, will teach Greek, Latin and Mathematics. 'UGH POINT BUSINESS MAN FOUND UNCONSCIOUS, High Point, Sept. 8. Lewis Wood son, proprietor of the Elmwood Ho tel, 'was found unconscious on the road near his ifarm, aruS at first the physicians pronounced it a case of oaialysis. For several hours he lay in a helpless condition. Today he has rallied and now has the use of his limbs. The attack was caused by the in tense heat He had been busy, about ithe farm all afternoon. Wlhen he got into his bugigy to return home; he was strioken. The horse, having free rein, came : . ., ' s. Ti r i n on to tne city. ir. vY.oouun found alone the road by citizens com ing to town. In falling, he suffered a cut across his face. , Germany Invites Greece to Quit w 1 Fiorina Where Greek Admin istration Will Be Suppressed. (By Associated Press.) IHoth the French and Hritinh took the offensive on the Somme front last night in relatively small areas. The French r.'port the capture cf a small wood eai-t of Belby and says 7,700 Germans have een captured since Sopterrner 3 and a great number of Get man dead found on the field and in trenches a'te- an unsuccessful coun ter attack of the Germans yester day. The attack of the British was made in the vicinity of Highwood wher? London announces a trench was captured and heavy losses Inflicted On the Verdun front the Germans renewed the counter attacks but the French war office announces they were repulsed. The Russians have again instituted a violent effort to break over the mountain barrier which separate them from the Hungarian plains Jn the direction of Hallcz in Cal i- cia below Lemberg heavy fighting continues. The Russian statement says counter attacks by Tuiks and Teutons were repvbed. Tress dispatches from Berlin re port that the Bulgarians and Ger mans have beaten down all opposition in eastern Rumania, having alredy advanced 50 miles north of the Bul garian frontier along the Black sea coast. i VVtfo i YADKIN AN IDEA L SITE FOR TOWN New Eowan Town U Ideal Place Beautifully Located With Ideal Surrounding. FINISHING PLANT ON THE BANKS 07 YADKIN SATISFACTORY- CONCLUSION REACHED. Sending Americans mail for China and other Oriental countries on ar my transports will give it a pretty certain guarantee of reaching its des tination without seizure or delay. New York World. COnON AND STOCKS Infantile Paralysis Epidemic (By Associated Prese.) , ' New York, Sept 9. There was a slight increase in the infantile para lysis epidemic and a orop In the num ber of deaths as announced here to day by the health authorities. . The! Little Mfsa Louise Tradea who has new cases numbered 55, . seven more been visiting in Salisbury this week than -. yesterday, and there were 10 returned to her home in Greensboro deaths, a crrease of five. - .. today. ; '' ' New York Stock Market. New York, Sept. 9. Unite-! States Steel '.reached a new high record of 1.02 on the stock exchange this morn ing and over night gain of more than two points and exceeding the previous record by almost a point. Other in dustrial issues were very strong also copper ndi Wading rails. Wheat Shows Weakness. Chicago. Sept 9. Wheat showed some weakness today largely because of the bearish construction which many traders placed on the govern ment crop report. The opening which ranged from 1 1-8 lower to 1-4 ad vance was followed by moderate ad ditional losses and then a fair rally. New York, Sept 9. The cotton market opened steady as follows: October 15.12 . December 15.27 January ..15.39 March 15.52 May 15.70 Market Opened Steady at Advance. New York, Sept 9. The cotton market opened steady at an advance of f to 8 points today and sold 14 to 18 points net higher during early trading. The close was irregular. October , . ..,..14.9(1 December , Januiry . 'March .. May ...... ..1543 ...15.21 .. 15J6 ...15.55 London, Serpt. 9. Satisfactory con elusion was reached at a series of conferences held this week betwten the French and British ministry of war and the ministers f munitions, says a British official statement is sued this afternoon, regarding the most effective employment of the joint military resources of France and Great Britain. Serbians Take Offensive. Paris, Sept. 9. Th Serbian on the Macedonian front took the offen sive last night in the region Of lake Ostrovo. The war office announces that after violent engagements they captured a heighth west of the lake. French Make Further Gains. Parw, Sept. 9. Renewing their as sault on the Somme front last night the French made further gains. The capture of a small wooded area i reported toc'ay by the war office. German attacks in the Verdun sector also were repulsed. Germans and Turks Battle. Petrograd via London, Sept. 9. German and Turkish troops engaged in a stuaoorn ngni witn itussian forces in Galicia on the river Naraiu- vka in the direction of Halicz, accord ing to an official statement issued by the Russian war department A counter attack made by the Turks and Teutons, the statement adds, was re pulsed by the Russians. Invite Greeks to Quit Fiorina. Paris, Sept. 9, A dispatch to the Ilavns agency from, Athens dated Friday says the German comisat has invited the Greek authorities to quit Florins where the Greek administra tion will be suppressed. Fiorina is on the railway in north western Greece and about 15 miles southeast of Monastir, Serbia. Russian Pressure Effective. Berlin, via London, Sept 9. Forces of the central powers in the Carpath ian mountains west of Kapul, says to day's official report issued by the German general staff, yielded yester day before the pressure exerted by the Russians. Advance of Fifty Miles. Berlin, by wireless to Saville, Sept 9. Correspondents with the Bul garian and German forces which have invaded Rumania report along the Black Sea coast an advance of about 60 miles beyond the frontier already made. They express the opinion that the progress of the invaders who have occupied several important positions on the coast and elsewhere in Borud ka explains the comparative inactivity of the Rumanian forces. Fighting on Rumanian SoiL London, Sept 8. Rumania which entered the European War less than two weeks ago, now is the scene of a great battle between Russo-Hungar-ian forces and armies at the Central Powers. The southern part of Dobra t !!.jojfc prt coir y j 1 Joseph H. Coit, president of the publishing house of Moffat, Yard & Company, has beceleeted chairman of the board of trustees of the Ameri can Defense Society. ' Engineer Enloe and Fireman Pitta Meet Death When Their Train Is Struck By a Runaway String of Cars Loaded With Coal. Asheville, Sept., 8. Ben Enloe, en gineer, and Irvin Pitta, flagman, were instantly killed at Fairview crossing, just beyond Biltmore station, tonight when their train, backing In toward Biltmore was struck by a runaway string of cars, leaded with coal, which had broken loose at Buena Vista hill, Mill On One Side of the Highway and a Town on the Other ii What is Coming. Yadkin is a ibusy place. Between fifty ani a hundred, men are working constantly at the new town site at the river. The mill building is being, built a ide track is being graded and other activities are keeping pace with the rising walls of the big mercerising plant close by Salisbury and Spencer. ' ' Hardly had the announcement been made that a mill was to be bulk at this site than work waa fcegun, and before the public became familiar with the location, the foundation walls wei being built and well laid plana were working out the realities of a new manufacturing canter for the state. ' it is doubtful if tnera la a more beautiful manufacturing lite in the State. On the high hill overlooking the Yadkin, with the Southern main line one one side and the great Wash inston to Atlanta highway on the oth 1 er the second largut such ftniahing , plant in America will indeed com mand a most excellent site. Far above the waters of the Yadkin, a half hun dred feet above all danger marks and commanding a splendid view of each aide of the majestic Yadkin the new ; mill will rise for a long and useful carreer. - v'--s-'.y,, ''';" This Is a finishing ttll, as has been said ftefore. It. will receive the hew ly msxle cotton goods' and putting, them through a process of finishing will lend theni on to market a finish ed product This 'wW b cond only . three and a half mile, further on. En! jf iLiLS gineer Enloe was backing a work train n ln 'SS.nT into Biltmore and Flagman Pitts was on the engine with him when the run away cars caught up with and smash ed into their train on a small bridge. Engineer Enloe was buried beneath an avalanche of coal and his body has not yet been recovered. Flagman Pitts was found shortly after the wrecking crew arrived. The triack will hardly be cleared before some time tomorrow morning. Two other men were slightly injured. sea to the Daunfoe along a front of about 70 miles. Bulgarian and Turkish troops, ad vancing along the Black sea coast, have occupied Maltjik, and two other seaports Sofia reports, and the for tress of Dobritch, or Bazardjik, fifty miles southeast of Bucharest his been taken by a combined Bulgar- German force. The armies of the Central Powers have not yet crossed the Danuge, all reports agree. The Rumanians continue their of fensive in Eastern Transylvania and also have occupied the important town of Orsova, on the Danube, above the ; Iron Gate. , Advancing from Csik Szereda, in Transylvania, north of Kronstadt, the Rumanians are drivanians are- driving westward and Vienna - admit the withdrawal of Austrian - forces before attack aga'inst Hergitta. 1 The Russians on the northern en i of Ttheir line near Riga have com menced a new undertaking and have crossed' the Dvina north of Dvinsk. Repeated efforts by the Germans to dislodge them, Perograd declares, have been unsuccessful. - In eastern Galicia, .' the Austro Germans are fighting desperately to hold back the Russians advancing on Halicr., southeast of Leeburg. Perto grad says the Austro-German forces have fallen back to western bank of the Gnita Lrpa, while Vienna asserts that the troops of the Central Powers are holding their own in the heavy fighting that is going on. Russian at tacks against German positions on the Zlots Li pa, southeast of Brie rs ny, failed with heavy losses, Berlin reports. On the Somme front in France the violent bombardment continues along almost the tntire line. The only in fantry engagements have taken place south of the river. The French re port a further advance for their troops in. the village Of Verman c'ovillers. In the Berny-En-Senterre and Chaulnes sector, where the fight ing was particularly vicious both the Germans and the French claim suc cesses for their armies in the repulse of attacks. . ' - There, hac been no infantry ae- facturins connection which will fur- nish the goods to be finished before marketing. :.'' ;",:,: ':. Located on the right of the rood- the great highway, the mill will atand Just this aide the toll bridge, the com- ; pany promoting the mill awning large land on either side of the road. " The mill will be on story only, ' It is to be S30 feet by 140 feet and will us many, thousand of gallons of water daily, and this latter fact explain the location by the Yadkin, for th water will be pumpi from the river into a large filtering basin and then carried on into the mill vat and used lit the process of mercerizing the thousand of yard of goods brought to its doors from many other mill pf the South. The mill is being built close by the main line of the Southern, Just a,, short distance from the point of ' crossing the Yadkin. From the main : line a spur track is being built that car may be loaded and unloaded In front while another track is being planned to skirt the mill to th south to connect with the boiler and engine rooms between the mill and the river. t Across the roaA the highway, is on of th moat beautiful building site to b found anywhere in North Carolina. Th aite of the town of Yadkin is her, on this high hill with nenfect lo0e and drainage. Eighty acres are reserved for th home site, , townaite, and wilt overlook the road, . the river 4k'niU and the surround- , ing country, a pic t urest u e site,-, admir able home site. It le planned; to lay; this eirhty acres off in kU and with modern conveniences mk it into an Ideal community. v'7.":v'1 V t A gas plant will be installed for the local supply, while .water, and swr age will be In every houe. At the foot of the 'WU ndlong the main , thoroughfare will be located business . houses, plans having already been made and lota bought for stores and other place necesary to ,a well or-, ,, dered town. ' ,v . 1 - ' ' ' Yacftin is certainly fortunate for location. It seems an ideal rit for a town, and it is believed that a large development i beginning at this point that it will onlyt be a short while until . other- manurractunng plant will be located there. Plenty of water, ideal railway facilities and a naturally beautiful location combine to mak thi an ideal home and manu facturing point and it is clearly indi cated that town of large magnitude is beginnnig on the Rowan side of the Yadkin. -v .. ' ""':,--. tieh on the front in Greek Macedonia dja. or eastern Rumania has become but the artillery. dude have continued a lighting ground anC the opposing along the Struma and in th region armies are engaged from the Black of Lake Doiran. 5o you dont think much of that Tonn man? Why. he' an efficiency expert Great at locating th waste." "1 didnt find him so," said the sum mer girl. - Kansaa' City Journal. Tell a girl she is a vision of lovll ness, but never say she is s sight to behold. Detroit Journal. i -
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