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- .! THE WEATHER Fait Tonifht and Wednesday ' Full Telegraphic Reports the United Press VOLUME I. "r:.:j - - GREENVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 21, 1917. NUMBER 58 ': '''W'tK 1E1WILILE MLY ; 7 ' ; EDITION f 0 f . - . . A MI! BATTLE W I II Greenville ENGLISH AND FRENCH LAUNCH ATTACKS0N430 ILEFR0NT BY HENRY WOOD, (United Press Staff Correspondent) WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES AFIELD. The greatest battle of the world is being fought today from the seacoast to the Swiss frontier, over j a distance of more than four hundred and thirty-; five miles. The Allies are fighting in a practically continu ous offensive, and France's great assault at Ver dun, which is still driving on, completes the huge chain of battles that have welded the forces of war into one gigantic action of unparalelled and un precedented extent. The great battle started with the Anglo-French offensive in Flanders and extended to the British offensive at Lens, thence to the French attacks around St. Quentin, then to the French offensive at Chemin des Dames, and concluded with tremen dous fighting at Moronvilliers and Verdun, with heavy artillery fightin -i- ,10? Lorraine down tn the borders M Swii ud. " JN ever before in the history the worjg'has there been such an extensive battle, nor has the superiority of the Allies been everywhere so- clearly demonstrated. With three months' mWe fighting weather be fore the winter comes, Germany's hold on the Western front may yet become precarious before the year is gone. AGAINST ETHEL LEE'S VERDICT The members f the Department of nvio ami Social Service of the Wo-! mans' (lul wish publicly to protest' acahit the flagrant miscarriage of jus tire in our rminty Court last week. An effort bail been made to rid Green ville f some of its vice and of some : "f the influences which are working fnr the debasement of our community and lowering of the moral standards in our homes. In Hn face of convicting evidence the offenders were declared not guilty. We voice the feelings of disappoint ment, of disgust and disgrace of the 'oinrnmiity. We have no voice in the making of laws, no power in the en f'Tcnieiit. We are dependent upon the uprightness and fidelity of men to make for the uplift of the commun ity, tin- morality of our men and boys, ami the sanctity of our homes. We di'iiend upon the good men who must ,,' in this city and county to see that Hiis verdict does not stand unchalleng ed. MRS. H. E. AUSTIN. ' h'ni Uepts.. Civics and Social Service. The Gun Fund is Steadily Increasing The fund for the Home Guards' Sj:mi to s:;t;:!. The contributors to this 'n'lipnient has been increased from addition will be published in tomor '"" s Daily News. Tin r- will be a drill of the Home nanls tomorrow night. Mayor's Court Herbert Jones, assault. Fined $5.00 and the rusts. JbitMit Anderson. Will Hanrahan, I;ir P.an-o. Landroii Clark. Henry 1 'mtprbriilfcre anl Fred Tucker, gamb r.mind over to t he county court. Hm.v stnbbs. speeding auto. $1.00 and Hit' rusts. PROGRAM White's Theatre TONIGHT Baroness Yalyrien DeWitz, pre mier Danseuse of the Danish Bal let. (Denmark) in "HIDDEN VALLEY" (Five Reels) Tobacco Officers Nab Crap Shooters The city officers Saturday uight tabled a negro crap game that was ieelv in the basement i of hte Proctor Hotel, and as a result eight of them were up m court . .f them were UP in court tuis t iUn ti.-iarrrk rf IfUfTlh. Hug. The back door to the basement ; had been undone, and they were having a quiet game, feeling sure that there , was no danger in such a secluded and j secure place, when in walked the offi- reis and landed them all in jail where , they cooled their heels until this morn- ing. They were uouna over Mavor to the county court. bv the Gas Tank Wrecked by Run-a-Ways ; The gasoline tank belonging to the ; orfjanizo(, labor iu war work, ! Johnson Grocery Co., on Dickinson , wm rec0fnlize the t.lrtims ! Avenue was completely demolished , that the increawed cost of livinf? war. , this morning when a team of horses be- , & hjgher wnge sca,e The fiual ! longing to Tucker & Clark ran away. (UH.ision wi be left to a committee of They were pulling a load of building j three to be appointed bv President Wil ; stone when they became unmanageable, 1 m Sampel Gompers and the Ship- I and when the wagon strucK tne taun i one of the heavy pieces of stone struck it and smashed it to the ground. ! I The negro driver jumped and escaped injury. No other damage was done. British Seaplanes Active at Zeebruge fRv Unitel Press) LONDON Many tons of botnbs have been dropped upon the Ghent railway oem unw" v ,,. ..,( i ami thP in-eat isrueges by British seaplanes, the Admiralty announces today. Much damage was dohe. POWERFUL GE! ATTACKS ARE THROWN BACK (By United Press) LONDON. The most powerful of all German counter-attacks to regain the ground captured by the British south of Epehy,.was thrown back by Tjrff'iofc f ivA parlv today, according to General Sir Doublas Haig's report to Market RUSH WORK ON Carpenters working on new hangars at one of the aviation training school "somewhere in the United States." Each day as more men Join the air servlc the need for greater training camps becomes pressing. Every camp is being nlarged fof the great corps of flyers Uncle Sam is training. GERMANY WILLING TO GRANT AUTONOMY TO ALSACE-LORRAINE (By United Press) ZURICH, Switz. The German Chancellor, Dr. Michaelis, will announce grant autonomy to Alsoce-Lorraine this after noop at a sessjpa of the main ReichsteggCommit tee, according to a special agency dispatch receiv ed here. DRAFT LAW IS CONSTITUTIONAL SAYS UDGE SPIER OF GEORGIA (By United Press) WASHINGTON. The Draft Law has been held constitutional by Federal Judge Emory B. Gnipr nf f-ftp Hoilt.hPm HistHpt. Pit (-rPOrP-ia. aWirri- mg to official word received here. Uncle Sam Grants Increase in Wages to the Strikers (By United Press) WASHINGTON A nation - wide strike in the steel ship yards working on government contracts will be pre vented by a wage increase to be paid ii- thu riivcriinitiit. Tn his first clash ping Board. Youth Claims to be Sec. Daniels' Son (By United Press) ! WASHINGTON. The Secret Ser vice force is on- the trial of a youth representing himself as hte son of Seeretarv Daniels, who obtained $250 from Dr. Hutcnmsoi , m ,r,-rtondpnt of the Edison plant. uu.v - The imposker is described as o ft. 7 niches tall, and about 135 pounds in weight, with blue eyes and wavy hair. the War Office. RM AN COUNTER Opens With Greatest Sale En History AVIATION GAMS Germany's decision to j SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE GUN FUND Amount previously reported $'J03.00 Reported by V. E. Staton: M. (I. Moye (country) $1.00 N. S. Stocks (country) 1.00 S. G. Worthington (country) .. 1.00 G. H. House (country) 1.00 Ed Moore (country) 1.00 J. P. Allen (country) ..: 1.00 W. H. Dail 1.00 T. R. Andrews, Bethel 1.00 Alex Blow 1.00 W. A. Tucker (country) 1.00 M. J. Moye (country) 2.00 j A. T. Moore 1.00 1 Greenville Wholesale Co 5.00 j.T. E. Warren (country) 2.00 J. Key Brown 5.00 II. L. Nichols (country) 1.00 Dr. J. E. Nobles 1.00 Cash 1.00 J. It. Allen (country) 1.00 W. H. Smith 2.00 Taft & Vandyke 2.00 E. Carson (country) 1.00 D. A. Tucker (country) 1.00 Rov E. Davenport (country) .. 1.00 Paul G. Balafas 1.00 ! Reported by Snowdie Smith: Ernest Jones 100 J. H. Whitfield 1.00 R. A, Worthington (country) .. 2.00 F. "E. Tripp (country) 1.00 S. A. Stocks, Chicod 1.00 Mrs. E. O. Smith (country) 1.00 S. V. & J. E. Joyner, Arthur . . 1.00 J. Lee Wilkerson, Arthur 50 W. M. Peel, Bruce 50 K. R. Wooten, Falkland 1.00 J. F. Warren 1.00 Reported by J. H. Mobley: J. R, Smith & Bro., Ayden 2.00 Josh W. Smith (country) .... 1.00 Reported by Leggett: Dr. J. W. Perkins 1.00 J. B. Johnston 1.00 J..E. Caldwell 1.00 R. L. Davis, Farmville 1.00 More Exemption Granted The following men1 Have "been e empted from military service by the Pitt County Exemption Board for other than physical deficiency : 29.39 Sandy Peele, Greenville, dure. Tump. Adams, Grimesland, ' dpc." Charley Carmen, Wiutervllie, dwc. T. W. McBride, Aydeu, dwc. Zeno Daniels, Ayden, dwc. Geo. R. Godley, Grimesland, dwc. Ananias demons, Stokes, dwc. J. H. A. Bryant, W inter villi, dwc. Jarvis AVhichard. Stokes, dwc. Jas. Wilson, Greenville, dp. Lloyd Mayo, Greenville, dwc. Joe Fleming, Greenville, dwc. Geo T; Corbitt, Greenville, dvvc. Jas. Coward, Winterville, dwc. Luther Luusford, Greenville Jwc. Will O. Ford, Greenville, dwc. A. D. McLawhorn, Winterville, dwc. Guy R. Lanier. Greenville, dp. Wm. G. Craft, Greenville, dwc. Frank Perkins, Bethel, dp. Ed Flowers, Greenville, dwc. Chas. Dancey, Grifton, dwc. T. C. Sutton, Chicod, dwc. Frank Floyd, Pactolus, dwc. Geo. Tyson, Grifton, dwc. Garland Judd, Bethel, dp. W. F. Langley, Greenville, dp. A. A. Phillips, Farmville, dwc. Wm. Little, Stokes, dwc. M. R. Harris, Greenville, dwc. Will Jones, Bethel, dp. Ed - Johnson, Greenville, dwc. Oliver Joyner, Greenville, dwc. Zeno Whitfield, Stokes, dwc. A. G. Harris, Birmingham, Ala minister. A. C. Jordan, Greenville, dwc. 2178 861 2704 3316 1258 3141 3370 829 2344 1933 1011 2S8 712 2794 2815 1050 230a 2810 2072. A. Johnson, Farmville, dwc. 2397" A. DT McTSftgen, Ayden dp. ' 2306 581 935 929 211 191 C. J. Harris, Greenville, dp. J. L. Harris, Greenville, dwc. F. A. Nelson, Parmele, dwc. Jas. A. Manning, Parmele, dp. G. H. Worthington, Winterville, dwc. C. G. Tripp, Ayden, dwc. New Industries Chartered for N. C. (By United Press) RALEIGH. The East Carolina Packing Company of New Bern, has been chartered for the meat packing business, with a capital autnonzea 01 $100,000, $75,900 of which has already been subscribed. The incorporators are W. F. Abernethy, W. L. Hand, O. W. Love and others. The Stanley county Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company has been chartered for the mutual insurance of farm property. J. R. Davis, Farmville 1.00 D. Wakam, Farmville 1.00 Farris Bros., Farmville 1.00 J. W. Holmes, Farmville 1.00 W. M. Lang & Co., Farmville. .1,00 C. R. Townsend, Farmville 1.00 W. J. Turnage, Farmville 1.00 Bank of Farmville 1.00 W. C. Askew, Farmville 1.00 McD. Horton, Farmville 1.00 W. M. Ballard, 1.00 Reported by Felix Labaki: Everett Stroud 50 P. M. Johnston 1.00 Y. E. Touma 1.00 David Hatem 1.00 J. Saieed 1.00 Total to dat,e ............ $363.50 There will be a drill of the Guards tonight.' Every member is urged to be on time, and a cordial invitation is extended to those who have been certified to the army and candidates for Oglethorpe. STAR WAREHOUSE DAILY MAR KET REPORT: One of the largest and most satisfac tory sales ever held in Greenville was held at the Star Warehouse today. Our sale of about 150,000 pounds averaged from 26 to 27 1-2 cents, including about one hours' sale of damaged and scrap tobacco. We regret that several hundred of our customers were not able to get their tobacco on our floor on account of our entire floor space, in cluding the new addition, being filled up. We do not look for another rush for some time. We would advise our patrons and friends to market their tobacco in good condition and 'do not sell when the market is glutted. Bring your tobacco to us. and we. will make you the highest sale you have ever made. SMITH & SUGG. 8 21 It lpc THREE-QUARTERS POUNDSOFl'JEED IS MARKETED With miles of automobiles lining the streets of the city, with the largest crowd that ever attend ed a tobacco sale in Greenville, with jthe largest amount of tobacco ever seen here in one day, and with the highest prices ever paid for the weed in the history of tobacco, the Greenville Tobacco Market opened the 1917-18 season in a blaze of glory today. All yesterday afternoon and far into the night countless wagons loaded with Pitt's golden crop rolled steadily into town swelling the total amount until every nook and cranny of tobacco town was filled to overflowing. It looked last night as if all of it was already in town, but the rush that came this morning made last night's amount look like a small portion. With the coming of day light hundreds of automobiles and buggies came j in an unbroken stream lined up two deep on every main street of the whole town. All during the night throngs of farmers and workmen lined the streets so that Greenville seemed to have waked from her summer slumber 111 i m I I f i !vj: v; Greenville's First and to have been turned overnight into a rushing, roaring, mining town. Five miles of autos and 3, 000 people is a conservative estimate of conditions in Greenville today, and eight hundred thousand pounds is approximately the amount of tobacco on the floors. In addition, many loads were haul ed back to the farms after their owners saw the conditions that confronted them on the opening sale. Promptly at nine o'clock the auctioneers of the Star and Centre Brick warehouses cried the first bids and the season was on. Prices were carried skyward on every pile until the like have never be fore been seen on a warehouse floor. All the buy ers bidding, the warehousemen starting the sales, the auctioneers' shrill cries, the whoops of the farmers, all joined into a bedlam chorus to give the opening a proper send-off After the first rush of the beginning had sub sided, the men settled down to the grim task of handling the largest sale that the market ever 1 :?. i Greenville's Tobacco Town in 1903 1& had, and the efficiency of the tobacco town organ!- -zations was strikingly shown by the facility with which every detail of the sales moved off. No misunderstanding, no unnecessary confusion, no. delays, but the steady handle the tobacco to Every house was full to its capacity, and in spite of the increase in the rate of selling there will be (Continued on Page Four) OF A MILLION to town until they were- Tobacco Warehouse grind that is necessary, to the best advantage. Vis - t A'
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