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1 i s . 7s. Jfc . ";.V tz. i. - OUR ti R E Eft VjL L E -Y OwR S I F YOU C Oil E TfreWeatherReport 7" i f . v a- Showers tonight nearsoiast, Wednesday folder. - ' ' 1 7' VOLUME II. CE S GREEK Ti'iOOP (By The United tPrSssl London The Serbian offensive continues with success it is officially announced. The Bulgarian Iron t lias been pierced at a depth of over five miles on a front of over twelve miles. Ovor three thousand prisoners and twenty-four guns have been captured. The French and Serbian casualties are small. The remainder of the village Gradisnitza has been taken and important ridges of Sokol, Tor r an ska, Rovovska and Phrazdaata are now in AlbVd hands. A Jugoslav division has reached Kizian. Bulgarian Losses Heavy. Athens Sent. 16fh (Delayed) Greek troops aHvpnoed from two to three miles on a nineteen, milp front in the St Puma sector on theardar riv?r from Salonijd. 1 The attack was a complete .r osp. r''vo rtrppVs lost onlv two ojBeers and fn men while the Bulgarian losses were extreme- Ivhesvy. m?i v - ' D (By .The United Press i Washington An estimate of seven billion, four hundred and thirty-seven millio, seven hundred and twentv-seven thousand, six hundred and two dollfiTs ad thirty-two cents to carry out the en larged srmv proorram under the eighteen to forty f:vp draft law has been submitted to congress by the War Department- This came as a supplement to the President's answer to the Teuton peace maneuver. The new estimates if they are left uncut by Cor ?res, brinsrs the total appropriation for the f s years of nineteen eighteen and nineteen to over thirty-six and one-half billions of -dollars. Hf mm gpicQ c DISCLOSED B Y (By The United Press) Jacksonville Federal authorities here declare that they have-disclosed secret methods used by Oi nian spies to communicate with submarines WU iny off the Atlantic coast. This announce-n-".--;- followed the arrest of Charles Fink, Louis r: nss alleged German agents in a seluded house " hf. beach located about twenty miles from JaH :-.onvil.le. 1 1 Vails regarding the secret communicating system has not been revealed by the authorities. T.U WAREHI SE Dl LLETIN 1 !'' will lie no tobacco sales Wed y. :;i i.ti-mlicr ixtn. and Friday, ' ''!) h ,,f this week and Mon- l!l- ,1 S.-,;t h "II Si;n Ui:. "l nct week. Sales will be held nil- . Sentember 19th. The felii.ii.-e will have the 1st scc ' "i, Thursday. After nert -i! s w ill be held every day I'm Hut notice is given. "I lodny nearly :-i(M).(X)0 pounds ' t'i, laigest sale the Star ' Ii id. all of which was farm- ''!' In!, As slated before we are mi: iiny tobacco on other mar I i" filing it on the Star Ware tl' "i . All of our space is for t- liaeco SMITH & SUGG. IK .11 , fnnin-1 BULGARIAN TH OVER FIVE MILES ADVANCE 3 MILES ARMY PROGRAM EGRET METHODS !J. S. AUTHORITIES MRS. LULA S. MAYO DEADX Mrs. Lula S. Mayo, wife of L. A. Mayo, passed away at her home about three miles from Greenville yesterday morning at 11 :37 o'clock after an ill- l ness of aboirt three weeks. The de j ceased was fifty-six years of age and was -a woman noieu wi spect walk. While quite a girl she connected herself with the Christian Church and was true 'to her chris tian obligations until the last. She leaves besides a broken-hearted hus band, five children to mourn their loss, they being, William L. Mayo", Lewis A. Mayo, Jr., R. E. Mayo. Jordan Mayo and Mayone Mayo. The funeral was conducted from the residence this aft ernoon at 5 o'clock by the Rev. John E. Ayscue of Greenville and the inter ment was in the family burying ground. Full Telegraphic Reports fthe GreenviUe, N. C, Tuesday Afternoon, Sepe$bi7, 1918. Another Boy On Firing Line Is Optimistic Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hill of this city, We just In receipt of a letter from their brother, WiWani Hill, a Pitt county boy, now on the "firing linea France. Voung Hill volunteered last Septem ber in Raleigh and was sent to Camp Sevier and after remaining tere for some little "time was ordered overseas where he is now fighting for his coun try, f In his letter he says : "I ould have written you before now but we, were on the firing line and we have had a J tiara time as you doubtless think, but now I am out of it and located in the camp for a while. We will' have to go back soon, however, and I trust that we will come out again all o k if God so wills. I don't believe that the Ger mans are going to last long. As things appear to me I believe that the war wilt" be over before Christmas, as least inside of the next two months and I Itelieve that we all will be together 'gain shortly. f hope so anyway." Senat&s-Wa Protest Against Price (By United Press Washington A delegation of. seven senators and represqptatives will dis cuss the government's cotton program with President Wilson late to-day. LSenatpj- Smitjijf South Carolina heads .the delegation. The others whom aw expected to accompany him are Sena tors Simmons, Underwood, Mansfiell and Smith of Georgia. They will pro test against the pric fixing on cotton. 14-Year-Old-Boy Kills Instantly 18-YeaM)ld-Girl Durham, X. C. Wesley Vickers. a fourteen-year-old boy shot Miss Lena Strayhorn, age eighteen, last night with a thirty-eight calibre pistol. The boy was playing with the pistol belong ing to a policeman who didn't know that the weapon "was loaded. The ball struck the young lady in the forehead find she died in a hospital here at two o'clock this morning. One Killed and Two Are Injured Id Auto Wreck Durham, N. C. Horace Mangum, manager of a local garage here, was ftlllUFP! lunia in i.f " i " - i ' ' - - - , ning. a traveling salesma n and Grover , Martin, a ehant'feur, mor or less se riously injured when a speeding auto mobile irr which they were riding-turned turtle as they were attempting to round a curve shortly after mtdcught this morning. - U. S. Troops Are Within One Mile Hun Frontier: (By United vPress.) Paris American troops have reached Vandieres which is within one mile and a half of the German frontier the La liberte announces, Candieyes isxin the Mosele valley three miles north of the Port-a-Moubon. British Nearer . St. Quentin Is HaigDistpatch (By United Press.) London Further progress has been made towards St. Quentin, Field Mar shal Haig wires the British'war office. The British have also improved their positions in Flanders and north of Lens r Sip' bmm W 4 . 1 I X IX I I f -Yviison aaus io 10 A ..4t; . . : No VacManM University For r Period of War Chapel Hill, Sept. 17. The Uuiver sity of Xorth Carolina is undergoing many changes along almost eveiy line 4 just now as the result of the establish ment of a unit of the student army training corps here this year. The buildings, equipment, in face the whole campus will be put in the ftands of th government with the signing of the pro posedcontract by the T'nversity officials at an early date. What was two yean iigo a peaceful college campus will soon be transformed into virtually a mili tary camp. A specially apjpointed faculty com mittee has been hard at work this week mapping out courses to suit, the needs of the new training requirements. Several courses have been discarded new courses with a distinct bearing on the war being introduced as substi tutes. Other courses have been modi fied. The instructor in the courses being thus temporarily dropped from the curriculum will either enter other de- . . . m parrmeiirs or go mn 'm- man m . , . rn' servij-e. TtevfiHi lai-nui iuniiwi. !esiles those already in the service, have recently indicated a desire to pur sue the latter course. From the 25th of September, the first day -of registration, until the end of the war the University will remain in continuous session -no vacation, ac cording to the authorities. All members of the student army training corps will room in barracks, and eat in the mess hall, all those- IS and physie illy fit -beng in this class enlist in the S. A. T. C, will be taken of eligibles. Those not eligible to care of in the private homes and hoard ing houses near, the eampus. Students willprobably be inducted into the S. if. T. C. about October 1st. Through the recent purchase by the University of the Stephen B. Wooks Collection of North Carolina, an ac quisition the, extent and completeness of which is nowhere Vqualled in the State, not only can the investigatdin of anyv subject of North Carolina history be profitably undertaken but the story of the State's life until now imperfect Iv told can be set forth in all its truth and completeness. The Weeks t'ollection of North Caro lina comprises 10,000 books pamphlets bound and unbound periodicals, bound ind unbound newspapers, maps, reports United Press ustria War Board to Restrict MTg Of Furniture (l?v United Press.) t Washington An order restricting 'he manufacture of furniture has beer issued-ly the conservation division of 'he war industries board. U.S. Marines And Bandits Fought Sept. 7th and 8th (By United Press) Washington- Fights between United states M. lines and Dominion bandits x-cuiied September 7th and 9fh it is mnounced from Marine headquarters There were no Marine casualties. "Monkey Riim" Ford Car and Negro Nabbed Sheriff Joe McLawhorn and Deputy Sheriff W. L. Patrick, this afternoon made a rich houl on the Greenville bridge crossing Tar river this after noon. The- officers were on their way to the country and while going over !iie' bridge mt a suspicious looking ford automobile. The driver was told to stop and when the car was searched Hie re was found seven gallons of 'Monkey Rum." The rum, car and negio were all brought to Greenville for safe keeping. of State's officers and State institu tions, the legislature, State laws, etc.. all of which distinctly relate to the lift", government, history and literature of North Carolna. Arrangements for the Purchase and removal "bt the col lection to tlie"""University were com pleted by Dr. L. Ii. Wilson and W. F. M. Weks several days ago, and the University Library shelves are now being filled with the rich collection. 8UB SCRIBE TO THE DAILX NBW " NUMBER 80 ' -''"j WILSON'S PEACE REPLY STUPID ANtlVILL MOTBE LODGE DlulAHES IN A SPEECH (By The tTnited Press) Washington President Wilson's prompt curt refusal of the Austro-Hungarian peace bait will go far toward&jnaking the German people under stand that the American people mean to have complete victory, declared Senator Cabot Lodge the Republican senate leader and ranking Repub lican member of the senate foreign relaons com mittee in a speech today on Austria's note to the Allies suggesting unbindi discussions. . Sena tor Lodge stated that he was sure the President's reply was stupid and that it would not meet uni versal approval. Will Speak For Allies. London President Wilson speaks for the Allies declared Lord Northclif fe in writing in the.Even ing News relative to the reply to Austria's peace "voDosal. The only question here is how the re eil should be couched. Said he, "the small timid minority and fears of a flat refusal will drive Austria back into arms with Germany but the fact ,s Austria has never left them. NO TOBACCO SALE BUT 0HELO0M THURSDAY SAL FRIDAY Fall Millinery ' Opening Thurs. Of This Week On next Thursday. September 19th,: i he ladies -f Greenville and Pitt eoun ty will have the opportunity of view ing the latest styles and fads in fall ind wjnter millinery at the emporiums f C. Herher Forbes, W. A. Bowen and Mrs. I. F. Iee. This announcement will doubtless lriiift pleasure to the ladies who are -'xprcting to wear dame fashion's lat est word. It is said that the styles for this season are nobby and "more h in inviting. All three of the milinery stores extend a cordial invitation to, !he ladies to their guests all day Thursday when it will le a pleasure to show one of the most elaborate lines rer hrought to this city. , Banking & Trust Co. Statement . Shows Growth Attention, is called to the statement of th Greenville Banking & Trut Com pany, in this issue at the close of its business August 30th 1918. This show ing on the part of this strong and grow ing banking institution should be a source of pride by every stockholder, director and officer. '" This bank stands among the first in North Carolina as -a fiinancial institution aJid grows more iu popularity daily. Its officers are k meii of fine business judgement and due to them has the Greenville Banking Tru -t Company, madejtheapid growth it has during the past few years. "The work of remodling theterior of their bankipg fimne is now -practically com pleted making it one of the most in- vitii'g and attractive to be round in the -tate. No financial institution anv viting ;snd attractive - to be found in wht i-ehas ben a more important factor towards- building up the" community in which it lives tharr this- bank. It will pay any reader of this paper toread the statement to be found else! 5 whe re In this edition. . 7 -r.--Vll W Ill gun. lBrap OR N The Greesville TODtfcco oBard of Trade held a very important meeting in the office of the presitlest, E. B. FlckMn, last night for the parpose of wrestling with the tobacco problem as it sow confronts this market as well as the other markets in Eastern Caio Una. Thirteen members of the BoaTd;?'' of Trade out of fourteen were present. The meeting was called to order by the president and Mr. B. B. Sugg was re quested to act as secretary. Before liking up the tpbacco problem the board unanimously voted to donate $100 to the Red Cross society. The main ob.Vct of the meeting was hen takes up and discussed at some length, viz the flooding of the market and the scarciey of labor with which to hasdle same. All the warerousement. are more than anxious to sell the tobacco, the buyers want to buy it, but inasmuch as tobaoeo i being rushed to this market by the fa rniers, Although they have Jhh'u advised through this paper not to ilo.so but they (the buyers) state fhat they cannot-handle the product in their factories dne to the scarcity of lalor and the rushing of tobacco. After fully discussing the situation, as it now exists in Greenville, the same thing confronts the other markets, the hoard decided to adopt the following schedule for sales this week : There will lie sales on Monday, Tues day and Thursday of this week, skip-, ping Wednesday and Friday. There will be no sale ext Monady, hut a sale Will take place on next .Tuesday. The board further decided that tobacco placed on the floors of the warehouses by 5 o'clock p. m. Tuesday sale, and not soli on Tuesday, will be sold Wednes day and tobacco placed on the floor b$ 5 o'elock p. m. for sale Thurs day sale and nojt sold , will be sold on Friday. Beyond sext Tuesday, which will be the first sale ot next tftek, the board took no action, they ony acting on this week schedule. TlAis it will be seen that there will be so -sale on this market tomorrow bjit one will be held Thursday. No sale -ojj Friday or Mon day but sale on "Tufeedftjr of next week. By adopting thisschedule the warehousemen and bjayfflS" think that they can unravel thcongestion and thus beseflttlng JS6 farmer, whose ln- 1 terest they, itodrio pro protect at all times. - 1 l i it -rrtf I '-I . '-I - i ; ii i f : 'ae-V. a: r . i v
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