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vver me l o me ureat War Story, V, : 11 Begin in lite. Courier Next Week ISSUED WEEKLY; PRINCIPLES, NOT? MEN $L50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE VOLUME XXXXIIL Asheboro, North Carolina, Thnrsday, February 28, 1918 NUMBER 9. . 1 r WHY AMERICA IS DfTHE WAR SENATOR KENYON, OF IOWA, EXPLAINS IN RINGING FASHION Democracy Cartnot Be Safe Over Here If Autocracy - Wins Supremacy' OverTnere. Senator William- S. Kenyon, Repub lican of Iowa, delivered in the senate a most remarkable speech on the war recently. He spent several weeks in Europe between the sessions of Con gress, and gathered facts and impres sions as he traveled'. - What he told the senate should interest every man, woman, and child in the United States. In a carefully prepared speech he gave the reasons for the part the United States is playing and will play in the war. He lauds the course of President Wilson and predicts final victory for democracy over autocracy. In part Mr. Kenyon said: In the last three and one-half years 10,000,000 men have' been killed in war. Forty million, at least, are now under arms. The war is costing the world $75,000,000 a day, and) in a few years the war debts of the world will run into trillions. It is not a time, however, for pes simism. Justice somewhat delayed is on its way to triumph. Ideals are holding their plaoe, and the world can rejoice that at least out of the turmoil of the past year one inspirational event has happened', viz., the capture of Jerusalem from the atrocity-Joving Turks, and there is a firm' resolve on the part of the civilized world that it , shall never be returned to them. Everyone had a right to disagree as to. the wisdom of entering the war before we entered it, and to talk, work, and vote against our participa tion therein; since we are in this war, the right does not now exist to say or do a single thing to make more diffi cult : the accomplishment of the na tional purpose. Oufpeople have come ,. cw?n..-T.. e " . r " pos of the warV however, and many now who honestly believed at the tim of our entfance therein that we might remain out, are convinced that they , were wrong, and whole-heartedly are determined that the matter shall be fought-through to a peace that will make future wrs impossible. Those who are now trying to help in bringing about a patched-up peace and lend their influence in that di rection are weakening the American forces, weakening' our preparation, and they had best remember that it will cost us more now to lose this war th:.n to win it. Some months ago a leading German statesman figured about $89,000,000, 000 as the amount that we shou'd con tribyte in indemnities. They will need a better collecting agency than yet de veloped to collect it. Possibly we could have remained out of the war for a few years; we could have indulged in our easy, money-making and selfish life a little longer, but eventually we would have been presented with the alternative of either going into war or submitting to a vassalage of Germany. Were we reaily to give up the Monroe doctrine ? If Germany conquered France and England and took a partof Canada, what would we do about the proposi tion? ' Were we ready to give up the .freedom of the seas? Are the. people f thi nation willing io give it up now; to acknowledge the right of Germany to say to us that we couia sena one boat a week on certain parts of the sea. provided it was" painted like a bar ' ber pole? Were we willing to rec ' ognize that "While the earth is the - Lord's and the fullness thereof" that ; : the sea is the kaiser's ? We would sink .;, below d second-rate power were we to give up the freedom of the seas. What " would become of our merchants, our " manufacturers, our farmers, if ono na i ' ' tion were to be ermitted . to dictate . the markets of the world by controi . ling the seas ? And from whom did . Ormanv ucur the riirht to control the sea 7 -. - ;,Clen Hands "Thank God we came with clean ' handsr into- this war. We saw Amer ican citizens go down la the Lusitanla; ii women and . children to - watery . Brave without a chance: we saw the ' promises Germany made as to the fu ture broken. We" behold the Sussex sinking beneath! the waters , by the 'villainous torpedoing. Plot upon plot ".was conceived in the office of, Bern storfT, the German ambassador. Spiel Invaded our land Von Zimmermann -plotted against us in Mexico and tried to arouse the Mcxicann by promloes of giving them portions of our "country. How mudh longer could we have stood this relgn.of Intrigue and trickery?-. Ye; wo c'buld have kept out on the me theory that a man can-keep out of a 'quarrel when another com into hi hnufle and slaps and Insults Ms wife. Ho can run out into the kitrhnn nn (I through tne window and out into the fiftltfu, hut that is hot the American spirit. We had ono artcmii ! vi! pionrntd to us, "fight or run." '. ' n Amrrimn riation found Itoelf. It rot t"o proud to ff litr for rijrht- -. j t I" t1"W it 11 too win tO PATRIOTIC MEETING Capt. David Fallon, British Soldier to Speak in Asheboro Nest Wednesday March 6th Under Auspices of War Savings Stamp CommiUee Capt David Fallon, an Australian soldier, who served three years with' the British forces on the battlefrontsl from Gallipoli peninsula to the Somme front will speak to the people of i;an- While a large number have been tvar.s dolph county on next Wednesday atlfc-nvd to other tamps others hav eleven o'clock at the court house.ltu;;. n their places The aviation f!ah Pallnn ... 1 1 . , ..I .... i- .... ,. ., . " ittcnnj, tunic wrKn;u:i oegan LO 1111 Up a K'Vi- weCKM America from the trenches in France j ago and it now has' four thousand and Belgium and will tell the people men in can-p. A large quartermas the story of the world war as seen byltr's waiviiou.se is boms? constiucU-i! one who has been through it, suffered! and will bs us.-d as a store house for fifteen wounds and is a cripple for lire. apt. raiion instead ot return ing to his Australian home has come to America to inform tne people the true prospects and conditions of the war as well as what is expected of civilians and soldiers in this country. W,hile in North Carolina Capt. Fallon will speak in the interest of War Sav ings Stamps. He tells of his actual experiences with the Huns. One ex perience he gives is that of havincr spent three days and nights in a shell noie in jno Man s Land which was filled with muck and water. County chairman of War Savings Stamps E. L. Moffltt has called the War Savings Stamps committees together on the 6th at 2 p. m. following CaDt. Fallon's speech in order to perfect plans and organization for the War Savings campaign in the county. Capt. Fallon is the first returned soldier to address the citizens of the county and it is hoped that a large crowd will be in Asheboro on Wednesday to hear him Mr. J. F. Pickett, Prominent Citizen of Liberty Dies in Asheboro Mr. James Filmore Pickett, of Lib erty, died at the Ashlyn hotel in Ashe boro on last Sunday morning follow ing an attact of acute indigestion. Mr. .Pickett accompanied his son to Asheboro on Friday where he appear ed -before the local exemption board. While his son was undergoing the physical examination, Mr. Pickett was talking to Dr. R. L. Caviness, chair man of the board when he "was sudden ly taken very ill. He was removed to the Ashlyn hotel where he died. Chatham county-October 3, 1854, md IVI f slm nrnn L-i ,-v .- ,m r- "S T"s itrr. T . r. sdiwof J. P. Brower Pickett. Mr. Pickett married Janie Wrightsell more than 30 years ago; they have 5 children living, four dancers and ono nn turn rhildrpn.lils. l"u l- y 'i "B i " a va d k k u: ' wife n snrvivpa lrm On dnuH,- a o,o a ti,i. ML UIVUIUUI lllillllOl VI lilt X.. llMivit I" Ron and live in Wilmington T C. Margaret who married Dr. J. J. Ham lin and lives in Hiph Point; Flossie is a music teacher at P.onh'e; Lyd'a is in school at Guilford College. P.irls tho only Jiving son is at home and is connected with the Liberty Fickcr Stiek Company. He has one broth rr Alfred Shcllv 'T'ickeU, a merchant :'t Liberty; and twfj sisters, Mrs. Callie Garn-'t, wid ow of Jacob Garrett, of Liberty, and Mrs. Ellen Coble, widow of G. W. Co ble, also of Liberty. Mr. Pickett was a prominent nnd a leading citizen of this sect-on of the State and has held a number of posi tions of trust and honor. At the t'me of hfe death he was a member of the cronprnl nssfmhlv hpvino- hpnn oWtoH to the House of Representatives at the olliur occurred at Camp Sevier Sat last general election. He was past urclay whcn birsi Lieutenant George master at Liberty for several years, iw- Strieby, of Davenport, Iowa, died held different positions in connection flom acute laryngitis. Of the 230 or with the town government of Liberty. more deaths there Lieut. Strieby is He was a leading member of Liberty the first commissioned officer to die. M P. church. He was private secretary to one or In 'the industrial life of the com- -he Cabinet officers, before enlisting munity he was most active, being one and his body was shipped to Washmg of the most progressive business men ton where it will lie in state for a of Liberty. For nearly forty years he few days before being shipped to was one of the most prominent ctti-' Iowa. Impressive service with military zens of his community, and looked up-! honors marked the funeral service and on ad one of the founders of the town the battalion of which he was heuten of Liberty. ant, the regimental band and several His first business connection ' was 'officers accompanied the body to the with the mercantile firm of Brower & station. Pickett He was vice president ami Two alien enemies were arrested at director of the Bank of Liberty; vice! the camp last week, one a native of president-and; director of the Liberty Austria- and the other a native of Picker Stick Company7; a member of Germany, and were imprisoned at the school board or L,ibertv crarted and high school. At the time of his death he was con nccted with Dr. G. A, Foster in the real estate business. . Gremans Within Ehjht Honrs of Petrograd American Ambassador Leaves Petrograd Although the Russians bave accept ed Germany's peace proposals, the Germans are continuing their inroads and have gotten within eight hours march of Petrograd Into Russia. Pet rograd baa called upon the people to rally to the cause of Russia if the Bo sheviki government is to be -saved. American - Ambassador Francis has Joined the Japanene and Chinpse diplo mats n4 left Petrograd. The aban donment of Russia is construed as m indication that the ambaftsador re tards the BelihcvikD government is hopeless. . ' - T ' , No Peace In Stores for Russians In ' . ; - ' Future . .. . . . t The Germsn cha'ncf Hot has told the Reichstag that the Bolnheviki govern' ment of Rusa has aecfntcd Germa ny's peaee terms and that-peace must ensue shortly. But apparently no poare is immediately In store for the liusrdan. ' ' v .' -- r.ivrnimi'tit f-imrnntfd d rr1c 1 " I'r- of - ) . ,-,t it r - ! ! t CAMP SEVIER NEWS HISTORY OF CONSTRUCTION WORK WASHINGTON'S BIRTH DA V FITTINGLY OFSEP.vrO ALIFN i-ALMIES" ARKEsfUjj. Th' re are more than thirty thou- liay, str nd oili3r feed stuffs for horses and mules. These foods have formerly been stacked in largs heaps ana covered' with canvass lor pro tection in bad weather. The roads leading to the camp are very much improved during the past few days and work on the concrete road will be re sumed and will probably be completed in the near future. The quarantine was lifted in the city on last Friday and as it was Washington's birthday and a general holiday for the camp, a large per cent of the boys came to town. A light flurry of snow fell in the morrijng but melted as soon as.jt struck the ground. The moving pic ture shows and places of business were opened and as usual were large ly patronized. Entertainments were held at the army Y. M. C. A. buildings at the camp. A patriotic celebration was observed at the Knights of Co lumbus Hall. The central event was an. address on "Patriotism" by Hon. Charles W. Darr, a prominent attorney of. Wash ington, D. C. In a speech filled with the loftiest sentiments of devotion to the United States and to the cause of tho allies, Mr J Darr outlined the causes' which iiad brought the nation into war with Germany and told of the hard and earnest struggle which lay ahead oetore the final victory is reached. He denounced particularly the "slacker," street-corner strategists and admims- tratives, who, he said, are worse titan I the slackers. But with the entrance of the United States into the war, Mr. Darr declared, the time draws near when "a peace will be made that.wilW last longer than any child born in Ger- Tffif isoldiers takmi? insurance. CamD Se country in the percent age of men who have taken war insur ance to Feb. 12 the date originally set j i i. .1 u:nu ... . : uj- l. tak.-n. . Ihe 120 mfantiy is well in and every member of Co. IV IS 'carrying insurance I t. , l it On Saturday a regimental parade was given on the arm grounds, alter which inspection was held. Company K has the reputation of being the best company and according to the Kan dolun witnesses the Co. sustained its reputation. Major Phillips, of Lc mirton, inspects our company. He took us to the divisional hospital ..here we enquired for tho Co. K boy.s. i-ra i Bulla is recovering from mumps and was able to come to the dcor ami speak to us. Tliu men arc ail busy, each one being responsible for sonic duty. They arc taught the use or r.and grenades, the bayonet, the rifle, trench warfare and many ol them are becoming experts in defending them- solves against gas attacks by tne use oi gas masks. Ihe first death of an - ureciivnie. me luimei - u iiiem- ber of the base hospital corps, the latter, a member of the ammunition train. They say they did not know each othar and deny they have been disloVal to the U. S. government Private Bryant V. Mangum, who has recently been transferred to Co. , K 120 infantry was convicted of felini' ously representing himself to be a corporal of military police and that his name was Bryant V. Adcock, and of passing a worthless check for $10 at Wharton's Military Store, Camp Sevier, has been, sentenced to dishon orable discharge and to five years' imprisonment. The sentence of dis cbarge has been suspendod by 4hc commanding general until tho com pletion of his term of imprisonment. Thc-disciplinary barracks at Fort Jay', N. have been designated as the place of confinement . lYlvato Mangum did not enjoy a good i eputation and had only been, with Co. K a fcW'days. -. a Major Alex C.'DoyJe, - who built CamD Se"ief. has recently been sent to Camp Wheeler, Macon, GaZ , i Major Doylq arrived on the site on Julv 21. 1917. and'on December 8 all authorized construction- was practi cally complcWd. In spite, of the fact that almofet the entire site was orig inally heavily wooded, within Six weeks' after the comm""w"',"t' of work 17,000 troops were housed. "At t'-nt time thTe wrri more tronpi at ' - o .''"vi'-r tV'rt pt nrr; of'" r i f 1! " mob: ( BARNWELL COUNTY 4. S. C, SWINGS UP NEGRO Walter I Pest Lynched for Killing White-Man Slayer of W illiam Wil son Taken From Sheriff and Hang ed to Tree For shooting to death William Wil son at i'air'ax, S. C, February 'ii, Walter Be.-'., a' negro, was taken from Sheriff Jt I: Mm-.x '.nA l..nlit! .1 h'. Grubb Ad John B. KoSs by a mob of 100 .metf ono mile from Fairfax and his body hanged to a tree alongside the public ro.-d and ruiuled v.iiii uui- lets. J "the c i.icers-hud cwn' to l air fax to'$Bkc the negro to cue county jail in Iirn- ell. Waltei L-.st came to Wilson's shop with aji'&Ktomobiie tire and demanded that it fce repaired free ox chaise, claiming that J. T. Wilson, Jr., who is a soldier at Camp Jackson, had re paired tfhe tire some time ago anl guaranteed it. J. T. Wilson, Sr., dis- claimed-jresponsibility and refused to renaar the tire without being paid for the work, whereupon Best used some insulting language ana Mr. wiison or dered him to leavevthe shop, but he refused, to go and young Wilson step ped between J. T. Wilson, who is in feeble health, and the negro and or dered the latter to leave the premises.-'"Instead of doing so Best drew a pistol from his hip pocket and fired at young Wilson at close range with fatal effect. V Alter? shooting young Wilson the negro 'ran away, but was soon cap tured by officer Sullivan and lodged in the town truard house and sheriff Mor- rja- of Barnwell was notified to come after him, which he did promptly but the sheriff and deputies J. F. Grubb and. John B. Ross were overpowered at Duck Branch Bridge, a mile from Fairfax, bv 100 or more men and the negro was hung to a tree and his body riddled-with bullets. Import or Export of Any Commodity Now Requires License No commodities may now be expDrt ed'from the United States nor im ported,: .witnout" license. According to a statement by the War Trade Board the ulilitary and tonnage situation haveN-made increasingly apparent the necessity of instituting a complete and" thorough-going control of all ex nortstsnd imports. -'"fccwweRrthe-export or importf com, bullion, currency, evidences .of debt or of ownership of property and transfers of credit will be issued by the Treasury Department; licenses for all other exports and imports, includ ing merchandise, bunkers, ships' sup plies, etc., will be issued by the War Trade Board. Secretary McAdoo, director general of railroads, last Tuesday authorized tho us-.' of the port of Wilmington, N (' i;i f'nril it:n it" til.' movement nf ivou.! uales of ittoii from Tennessee, Miss.iipi and Lour iai'.a Lngla-id millij. to Jewi the ;ht of ac t'. if i -s V anu h. .itember are! tile 1 cat weekly, payroll was for $08,000. Tht-;v were used in the construe tion u; equipment of the hundreds oflAflivd, partial service, appealed ; buildings about the camp enoimous! Parks Wrightsell Pickett, partial ser quantities of the most varied articles, vice; William R. Brown, qua.iiied, There were used 16,7tf2,'247 board fect(aPPued) ; Jidward 1- razier, Jr., qual of lumljor, 5,395 doors, t,40(i window sashes, 205,088 square feet of wall board, i!,842 kegs of nails, 12,386 bar rels of cement, 31,016 feet of terra cotta pipe, 80,006 feet of cast iron pipe, 116,727 feet of steel supply pipe, 68 distributor-transformers (electric al), 244 . miles of wire, 2 wooden tanks, with an aggregate capacity of 400,000 gallons, 16 hose carts, 544 fire extinguishers, 8,000 feet of tire hose, 95 fire hydrants, 125 hand pump tanks, 2,300 fire pails, 177 garbage incinera tors, 4,778 shower bath heads, 391 urinal Irouirhs. 137 tank heaters, and tanks. f22 toeatine- boilers. 776 cannon stoves, 97 room heaters, and 233 re- frigerators. In addition to the above there were 107 sheet Iron temporary heaters, 4,384 pounds of wire not included in above, 200 rolls of wire screen, 6,824 rolls of roofing paper, and 89 rolls or building paper. All surplus. stock was turn.d over to the camp quartermaster including approximately 200,000 board feet of lumber. - . , Leases -on the site of the present camp, 1,963 acres in all, were secured by a committee of citizens, and the site laid out by Capt. John C. H. Lee, Corps of Engineers, an aide to Major General Leonard Waod, then in com mand of the Southeastern Depart ment Capt ftc;e was materially as sisted in this work by J. E. Sirrine, consulting , engineer for the camp whose services have been of the great est Value throughout The rifle range, which has since been leased, forms an an nrlrl,) innnl nrAn rif A (flfl fti roa Vitif this Is li.-mdlcd separately. ot ,tMat timn- Iat September while Ths'cmnp'la reckoned by I urge fig-larninga young man to fly his ncr iiiTM fn n nnv Rtnndnoint.. I-'eedini 1 "Pjanp choked and became unmanago- l.h unl.lii-in ia a lrrr.r-..Io.:!: nrnnnsi - d.era In til t'on. i the mer.s lull for lh- com ndidmeala are sen el as finny hj inve si ! nd -ted 'in a former HUj-. On aMvmtay we amen nt Mo oi.rs' mess hall nud t'i following menu vTaa rerv cd: Beef stew, mashed potatoes, rice, pink beran, peach pio mnd coffee. The food was splendidly prepared but no better 'than the food nt Company K's meM "he. U, .Messrs. Frank Cameron, T.' W. Mitchell, Earl Vnrncr, Dnckrry Carroll and 3. E. Smith, of Denton, were spending the week end at ,camp with Chartea Cntneron who Is a scr gennt in Company E.-1 They all enjoy pering people from home and hearing from nom-o fol'.i. They fee) they rp r- i r-"mtinT 1 ' " t f'-jil" st homo in tlii"! i x--r,r r I' i- I M -. i dined nt the of. -s' menu 'EXAMINATIONS: LAST WEEK A NUMBER OF RANDOLPH COUN TRY REGISTRANTS TAKE THE PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Examined Feb. 20 Daniel X. Burrow, Jr., partial ser vice: Hiry Tracv Lane, (col.) quati- !!; Thomas Hughes, qualified; Wade Workman Way, disqualified; Stephen Girard Richardson, qualified; John licnry Davis, partial service; Harri-ifine non Harris, (col.) qualified; (appealed) John Leslie Strickland, qualified ; Clar ence Monroe Macon, disqualified; Al bert Herman Hill, disqualified; Thom as Iheouore Rush, quaulied; benjamin Lee Pierce, qualified; Charlie Milton Staley, qualified; Jordan Benjamin Stevens, (col.) qualified); June Clar ence Frazier, qualified, (appealed); Jesse Guv Lane, (col.) Qualified: Ste phen Baxter Deaton, partial service; William Hoover, qualified; Jay Wil liams, qualified; Charles Edward Wal ker, partial service; George Wesley Thompson, qualified:" Moses Harvey Adams, qualified, (appealed); Cephas Harris, qualified; Walter Glenn Mof fltt, qualified; Willie E. Richardson, qualified; Lacy Lee Parks, qualified, (appealed); Ottie Mofhtt, qualified; John Wright, qualified, ( appealed); Arlie Carson Hancock, qualified; Bax ter Eugene Snider, qualified; Baxter H. Rush, qualified; Claude Franklin Tobms, disqualified; Lester Hill, qual ified; Tom Lamar, qualified, (appeal ed); John Wistar Moffltt, qualified, (appealed); Henry Clyde Holt, qua! ified; Calvin Earl Bulla, qualified; Pearl Balfour, qualified; Thomas Nix on, qualified; Lee Johnson, qualified; Noah Galloway. Stevens, (col.) qual ified; William C Burgess, qualified; Will Lyghts, qualified; Millard ill- more Talbert,, disqualified; Arlie Hall, qualified; Gaither Lindo Freeman, (col.) qualified; H. H. Cranford, qual ified; Robert Clyde Marsh, partial Service; Carl Gjlmer Davidson, qual ified; Ernest Lee Summey, qualified, (appealed ) ; Franklin' Clark Bumey qualified; Henry Allen Mitchell, qual ified. Examined Feb. 21 Carl Bascom Jones, qualified; Troy Lee Doisett, qualified Charles Lee Lane,4col.). qi8qilaliiM;...,JiapioiMUfc..wv.-J----'-z -r------ Parks, disqualified; Tine Keck, qual ified; Harris Lassiter, qualified, (ap pealed); Thomas Hockctt, qualified; Hall Hoover, qualified; Wm. irank lin Ashworth. ctisqualified; Robert Col on Hamlin, qualified"-- (appealed); John lhomas Kidd, qualified, (ap pealed); Carl Bidwell Richardson, disqualified; George Henry Trogdon, disqualified; Gurney Lester Auman, qualified; Edward Lee White, qualifi ed; Charles Herbert Craven, disquali fied; i;. Allen Steele, qualified; Guy Gerald Routh, qualified; Joshua O. Brown, i::quahli'.-(l; Pearl Ciaven, qualified, (appealed); Barney Clay tcottin, partial s'ervice, (appealed); ni- Aueust;Rol't C. Spinks, ii-:;!iucd; Wm. Mi-! c--.jaa jJinKarn, qiudtiied; 'wiiliam icotrtrt l.tu.'ion, (ju.i.ifii-u; iL'iiry wai ter liro'wii, (lualified, (appealed); Carl lied; John Farris Black, qualified; Ed Allen Lymvqualilicd; Earl Allied, partial service, (appealed); Franklin Karl Bulla, qualified; James William Giover, qualified; James F. Redwihc, qualified, (appealed); Hurley M. Wil liamson, disqualified; James Braxton Overton, qualified; Arthur Wad-Iell, partial service; Abijah C. Harvell, dis qualified; Carson Leonard, qualified, (appealed); Jesse Alexander McKen- zje, qualiefid, (appealed); Ernest Washington Lewallcn, qualified; Jonah Dallas Lucas, qualified; Aster Bynum Oagle, qualified; 1-red Douglasa '.New i berry", qualified; Robert Everett York, qualified, (appealed); Lewis Elmei J Jones, disqualified; Charlie Emcxyi Uore, qualified Mr. Weedoit to Return to France Mr. L. W. Weedon, of High Point, passed through Asheboro going south tor his health Monday. Mr. Weedon before the United Sfkt2s entered the war was in the ser vice of the French government andim"n- while fighting in I- ranee was injured in a gaa attack (and by the way will draw a pension from the French gov ernment for life.) After recuperating for about one year he entered the ser vice for the United States and was sent to Rantous, Illinois, to train men for the aviation service. He was an expert in .that line nnd classed as first lieutenant. He hns flown as higli as thirteen thousand two hundred feet from the ground which lacked only three hundred feet of being the record ' "'' llft-en hundred feet in the air .nnd' - i . n'i,liv ki.i- Fri!. 11 ,c,nK svera! days before he rc- i.a'nji ii com cn-iiin -ss, nn is now cm a lurl'-iigh .".nI says an soon well enough he intciids to i strvice and fly again. hn j'nt.i erni r tho CartooninUs' Work -Will Boost Third Liberty Loan The work of the foremost cartoon ists or the country will be used during the sale of Third Liberty loan bonds. Drawings will be used in a wordless booklet una a daily cartoon service. Tie booklet, containing all of thel cf.rtoons, will, be distributed by mil lions. It will consist only of drawings. Th" cartoons will also he divided rven- 1 v l.-i-'r -n nfu-rpo' n i'" I i .-.- RAMSEUR NEWS Hon. W. C Hammer Speaks on Thrift Book Club Elects Olficers Social Events Other News of Ramseur. Ramseur, N. C, February 25. Hon. W. C. Hammer made a very earnest appeal to the ycung people especially at the Ramseur graded school audito rium last Friday evening on War Sav ings and Thrift Stamps. His address was forceful and enlightening on the conditions that faces us today as a A TT. . . i. on country, no gave tne ioiks some verv instructions on what to do now I that we may be in better circum stances later on. His appeal for thrift met a hearty response with the littie loiks. ihe sehool expects to do its part in this work. One of the most enjoyable social events of the season was held at the Hotel Ramseur Friday night last in . celebrating the birth of the 'Father of our country." The meeting was under the auspices of the book club. Guess ing contests and hatchet contests Were the prominent f eatures of the evening. The winning contestant in the hatchet contest was Mrs. Egbert Baldwin, prize a nice jan of cherries. Miss Edyth Scott won the prize in the guessing contest, prize a silk hand kerchief. A delightful course of re freshments was served by the hostess es Misses Nellie and Hazel Spoon. The Bachelor Maid's Book Club met Thursday night with Miss Jesse itehead. Officers for the ensuing yBr were elected as follows: Miss Jesse Whitehead, president; Miss Pau line Allred, vice president; Miss Ecyth Scott, secretary; Miss Hazel Spoon, corresponding secretary. Social com mittee: Misses Mary Tate, Beulah and C'ara Whitehead. Afur th business session the club was entertained with games and mu sic on victrola. Ice cream and cake were served by the hostess. Mr. J. S. Wylie spent Sunday with his family here. , Mr. I. D. Wagger was in town' Sun day. Miss Hattie Burgess is spending a few days with her sister, Mrs. Ernest Eulass, at Liberty. Messrs. J. A. Martin, C. H..Thcmas, and J. G. Coward, of Liberty, were hero Sunday. m:..,, Yiru:.i 1 tit: c ,, vi, j t.t.. pJi...u t went to Greenshoro shonnino last. Mrs. V. H. Ballard visited her moth er at Greensboro last week. Mr. and Mrs. Wade Marley spent Sunday at Greensboro visiting Mr. Marley's parents. Mr. M. C. Free and Mr. W. E. Free made a business trip to Greensboro Saturday evening. Mr. J. E. Covington spent the week end at home. Mr. S. Dalton Scott, of Greensboro, one of our home boys spent Saturday and Sunday here with Ins friends and relatives. Mr. Wm. McBride, of Camp Jack sen, is spending a lev.' days "with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank McBride. Banker I. F. Craven had a little mis hap with his 'Joan Henry' last Friday evening while- meeting a car unex pectedly as he was driving behind an other car, he swerved into the ditch turning his car on its side damaging it right much but injuring no one. Randolph County Sends Thirty-Two Men to Camp Jackson Randolph county's Local Board will send thirtu-two more men to Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C. On tomor row March the first the following sev enteen will leave in charge of Urban C. Trogdon, of Worthville; June Langley, Staley, R. 1, Max Vuncannon, Worthville, James Lee Black, Trinity, R. 1. Parker Holmes Laughlin, Randle man, R. 2. Claude Edgar Williamson, Frank linvillo. Jonah Andrew Johnson, New Hope Academy William William Poole, Franklinville, Robert Bruister Prevo, Franklin ville. i Urban Seymore Trogdon, Worthville Thomas R. Allred, Cedar Falls. Fred Payne, Trinity. John Sampson Ashworth, Scagrove. Cicero Lamb, Frank! feivillc. William Henderson Coble, Randlc- Ernest Fate Coward. RamscUT. John F. Hancock, Franklinville Jhmos Vernon Siler, Ramseur. On Tuesday March the fifth t'lie foK lowing fifteen men will leave: William Frank Ingram, Trinity. Thomas Theodore Rush, Asheboro. Benjamin Lee Pierce, Farmer. Henry Frederick Lewallen, Ashe- boro, R. 3. Claud Homer Varner, Asheboro. William McKinley Brady, Ore Hill, Alfred Reid Kcarns, Farmer. emmio Hndley Cox, Spoknne. William Hoover, Asheboro, R. .1 Douglass Phelps, Staley. V,'1P.--.tti lVnn Konrns, Moffltt. " .Th'- Williams, Ulah. 'I lioma'i Marion Pugh, Liberty. - , (in-rul Mofiltt. Trinity.-' i)a!Us l.H-ter Redding' llandlomun. County Dead - Mr. Vcd Hnmpton Dorsett, aged , 22 ycura, died nt tho home of iiis par cnU, about thrco miles from Greona- boro one dny lastAieck. (The deceased is survived by his father nnd mother, ' ' and four bHcb, Mrs. ,W. O. Cox, of Ramsiuf Mrs. Vfince- Yrk, of I,ib rrty; Mrs. A, R. Sharp, nnd Mi An nio Dorsrtt ot Gii?entorr, nnd four brother. W. M. end (',. C, li "( Pami'Mir. r-n ! C ' (' '