ATTENDANCE AT THE STATE CONVENTION GERMAN RESISTANCE
WILL LIGHT SCHOOL
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OF DISCIPLES OF CHRIST APPROWES
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Fine Spirit Prevails and Earnest and Impressive Sessions
Mark the Opening Meetings President Burnham of
the American Christian Missionary Society Featured
Program of Monday Night as Well as Tuesday Morn
ingMr. Hall, Former Pastor of Local Church Preach
ed Convention Sermon Program for Wednesday
(Daily Vrce Pre, Nov. 14)
The enrollment and assignment of delegates to the
State Convention of the Disciples of Christ, which con
vened here Monday night, has not been completed, and
the number already in attendance is not definitely known.
The estimates furnished are that between two hundred
and fifty and three hundred have already come, and in
coming trains are bringing many,, others.
The spacious auditorium of the Gordon Street Chris
tian church, where the sessions are being held, was well
filed Monday night and the addresses of Pastor P. B.
Hall of the New Bern church and F. W. Burnham, presi
dent of the American Christian Missionary Society, with
headquarters in Cincinnati, featured the night program.
Mr. Burnham spoke again this morning, and his splen
did pulpit ability,ftne delivery and wealth of words were
thoroughly appreciated.
Surprising Lack of Ginger
in Defense of Nearly Im
pregnable Works
GAIN WAS CONSIDERABLE
Monday night Pastor Bernard P,
Smith of the Gordon Street Chris
tian church welcomed the visitors.
Mr. Hall preached the convention
' " sermon; hit thame being .the "Un
used String of Our Wonuroux
Harp." He made a most forceful ap
peal for the ploa of his particular re
i ' ligious people. Mr. Burnham spoke
in behalf of American Missions, por
traying; most graphically the "open
door" of opportunity that faced the
Christian people of America and of
v the responsibility for using the op
portunities. Mr. Burnham said that
only one third of the churches of the
ft Disciple in America were supplied
with whole time pastors; thait anoth
er third had preaching every ether
week csf" given periods by preach
ers who had a string of churches to
can for or by ministerial students
and that the lost third had no regular
preaching service at all. He urged
the conservation of the evangelistic
' efforts of the church and said that the
churches which now tr,, without
pastoral .leadership, must be provided
nd thus conserved before other
churches were organized.
Tuesday morning the program was
slightly rearranged ito enable Mr.
Burnham to speak In behalf or the
Foreign Missionary Board and thtn go
to Goldsboro to make appointments
at other State conventions In the
South. He told of the number of
young men and women who were
rctdy and willing to offer their lives
to the servico of saving the world
but who were prevented from doing
so because of lark of moans to pro
vide adequate training facilities for
them and support on the foreign
liow. Be missionaries who went
abroad had to be capable of coping
with ancient (philosophies ' and to
master the languages of the peoples
to whom they were sent. He od of
she reception that the (kvtpel mes
tre was now being accorded in all
heathen lands, which had for so
many generations clonal the doors to
Christianity. Mi.saionni ios were be
ing besieged on all skip? hy those
who were r;gcr for the '.ruth and
thut those workers l:i th. field had
far more than they cmUl possibly do.
Mr. J. A. Saunders conducted a
most Impressive ijiet hour service in
opening the day's sessions. Presi
dent W. C. Manning delivered Prrsi-
-i7 dent's address, and outlined the prob
lems that confronted he work in the
State.
New preachers were introduced
and several were heard. Messrs. A.
J. Manning. C. H. Richard.. J. M.
Waters. S. W. Sumrell and C. B.
Marshhum spoke briefly on assigned
subjects.
An Interesting feature of the plans
for the entertainment of the conven
tion was carried out at the noon
hour. Dinner was served by the la
dits of the church In the recreation
! rooms. Thus the housekeepers were
- afforded the opportunity to take In
the convention 'without being detain-
4 at home to ear lor their del.
fates, f ' ; '
Tuesday fternootnfesro-Tof the
vf -" t v-j f:?en over to. eom
' t ' r ' -"- -e work of the
's Board of
College, and, opening the session, a
d ort devotional service led by Mr.
J R. Tingle. Dr. Martin substi
tuted for Ashley S. Johnson, the not
:d Tcnnesseean, scheduled to make
in address, who did not arrive.
In Ancre Brook Sector
Reserves Consolidating
Won Positions Further
Advance Will Endanger
Important Town
Held That Five Years of
Gratis. Illumination Have
Expired, But Circum
stances Cause Granting
of 25 Months Yet
COURT-MARTIAL FOR
SKIPPER OF MAN-0'-
WAR ON THE
Captain Beach of the Mem
phis Will Stand Trial
Probably as Result of
Board of Inquiry's Recommendation
(By the United Press)
Washington, Nov. -14. A court
mrrtial of Captain Edward,, Boach,
commander of the cruiser Memphis,
sunk In a storm in Sunto Domingo
harbor several weeks ago, is recom
mended by the Naval Bourcl of In
nuiry, Secretary Daniels Uwluv an
nounced. No attempt will be made to salvage
'.he vessel. It would c st between two
and three million dollars to save the
hull of the Memphis, and as the ship
wiw obsolete, the N.ivy Department
has decided to recover all the equip
ment possible but to mako no attempt
to raise the craft.
GETTING
RELIEF FROM THIS
NATION 'DESTITUTE'
(By the United Press)
London. Nov. 14. The battle of
Ancre LVook continued today. The
fighting on the northern edges of
Beaumont and Hamel and the north
bank, where the Germans are at
tempting to rally their forces, is in
creasing in intensity hourly, unofficial
reports from the ront say. On the
south bank, about the St. Piere divi
sion half a mile north of Thiepval,
the Germans are counter attacking j
and the fighting i- bitter. I
The British have rushed up re
serves at all three of the points tak
en In the lightning stroke that be
gan under cover of low-hanging mist
yesterday and continued In this sec
tor with surprising lack of German
resistance. The reserves are now
consolidating the gains made where
the Germans dug and ceme ted them
selves Into what hitherto was re
garded tt-i the most impregnable por
tion of the western line.
Military experts oxpeot a determin
ed resistance about Beaumont and
Hamel. since a further British ad
vance would seriously threaten Mir
aumont, on the road to coveted Ba-paumo.
German Confidence Unshaken.
Prince Ruprecht's Headquarters
Western Front, Nov. 14. Germany
believes the Somtne crisis has passed.
The belief Is based on the unshakable
opinion of the men 'ho have borne
the Allies' hammering, that tho En
'.onto can never pierce these lines of
sf el und cement above and below
ground. Furthermore, success in
ejecting the Germans from France
and L'olgium will make of the occu
pied sections of theso countries a
shambles and no man's land, through
tho Alii. d (helling. Confidently It is
believed that the Allied offensive is
wearing itself oufl. The crisis was
passed in July, it i,s bolieved, when
the combined Allied forces, with the
tanks, failed to pierce the German
lii.es in the daring initial dash. Hen'e
on the Somme France's greatest tra
ge ly occurred In expelling the in
vader, by destroying Frenchmen's
hemes.
While it was held thai, the city's
obligation to provide free illumina
tion for the Caswell Training School,
:he State institution for the feeble
minded near Kinston, f ir a period of
five years, expired last month, City
Council at a special session Monday
nij'ht voted to continue the gratis
service 25 months longer. A number
of members of the noted Committee
of Seventeen, who landed the Institu
tk:i for Kinston, officials of the
school and members of the adminis
tration in authority when the free
lighting promise was made, sat In
the meeting with the councilmen.
It was accepted that the munici
pality had fulfilled its obligation in
a way, since currunt was first turned
on in 1911. For about the first half
of the period, however, the only ser
vice rendered was in lighting the
heme of tho superintendent, and pos
sibly other small buildings, and full
illumination of the school was not
commenced until the middle of 1914
Also, it was recalled, tho city had
m;tde a Ufroral promise that should
tho necessity for a continuation of
tho free lighting present at the con
elusion of the five years it would
probably be granted. In view of all
th circumstances the continuation
w;is allowed at Monday nlght'3 ses
sion. The majority, if not all, of the
members of Council had sovoral weeks
apo declared willingness to "do ine
ri;:ht thing" by the school.
To The People of Lenoir and
Adjoining County,
JUST RECEIVED
M'CRARY TELLS HOW TO
THRESH VELVET BEANS
Civcs (iermany Excuse for
Wholesale Deportation
Citizens of the Stricken
Country Iabor In Teuton
Factories
DEGIN WORKING AT
COUNTRY CLUB SITE
ON ROADS, DUILD'GS
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(By 'he I'nitcd Press)
Washington. Nov. 15. -it is
Amerlca'.i relief of thp destitute
Helium will be seriously interf";d
with a a result of th' wholesale de
portation of Belgian! 10 Germary to
!abrr in industrial plants.
The State Department today ad
nutted that it has taken up th
irr iin ine vr?rman government, j ne
German policy is understood to So to
declare "destitute" any Bel.rUn re
ceiving relief supplies This, offi
cials fear, may result in the Alibi re
questing uie, united states to cea
giving rolief,,uice it obviously p
into the hand of the German
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Work is in progress at tho grounds
of the Country Club at Gray's Mill
p:eparatory to the construction of
the main club-house nnd other build
ings, while roadways are being con
structed on the property, one of!
which encircles the grounds. About i
!." men are being employed. Two
bath houses will be erected on the
shore of tho small lake on the prop
erty. The latter will be dredged out
and thoroughly ridded of all the re
fuse that may have accumulated in it
Tho roads being built will be of !
standard width for autos, will be well
u: faced and eventually will be con- J
cveted. Tho club building p'-'iper will j
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sic a nig irme ansir, containing a
dance room, a buffet, etc., and have
comfortable verandas. The grounds i
a.e to oe parsed, lennis courts arc '
now being laid off.
Atlantic City, Ttfov. 11 Pershin,
will be out of" Mexico soon, if the
present pnuia of tho American-Mexican
emmtesio materiallia, . With
J ' : s to th election passed, It ii
1 io reach a K-' r r c-
(NAVY SOON TO HAVE
V ITS FIRST DIRICffiLE
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(By O. F. McCrary.)
(Farm Demonstration Agent)
The following information is tak
en from Extension Farm News and
the Progressive Farmer. This in
formation should be of interest to
thjss who expect to grow velvet
beans next year.
The writers in the Progressive
rrrmer have the following to say
ab:ut threshing velvet beans:
"Last, spring I thrashed a.iout (it)
bu-ihels of speckled velvet beans and
a few of the Chinese velvet beans
with a star pea huller made at Che
ra.v, S. ('. The only change I
made was '.o put in a screen with
holes large enough for the beans to
pais tnrougn, and ir tne Deans are
well matured they shell nic:ly, but
if not, they have to be run through
a second time.
"Any pea thresher or wheat thresh
er will ?he!l them, and also soy
bo-in.s successfully by speeding the
cylinder not over 500 revolutions and
arranging the .screens to suit."
Another readCT says that ho has
tried several kinds and that he finds
the J. 1. Case threshing machine of I
Racine. Wis., tha finest and best he
ever tried. It is said to clean them
nicely.
The following is taken from Ex
tension Farm Kews:
1. Let the beans get thoroughly dry
stvl ripe before picking.
2. Let the frost kill all the leaves
and vines, so as to be able to get the
beans easily.
J S. Select a dry, sunahiny day to
i thresh, after the beans have thor
oughly dried.
I 4. Use a good, heavy stick, like a
mattock handle, to beat out the
beans.
5. Select a strong windy day far
I winnowing the hulrs from the beans.
If these suggestions are observed
closely, tha threshing of velvet beans
will be about M easy as that', of cow-
pia.
I consider the velvet bean to be the
best toil huilder we have for poor
sandy land. Fanners baring them
t the seed, as the demand
"in probably ' be strong
Th County Agent can
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LAND SALE BY MORTGAGE.
Under and by virtue of the power
of sale contained in that certain
mortgage deed executed to the Bank
of Pink Hill by J. C. Craft and
wife. Etta Craft, on April 23rd. 1915,
whick appears of record in Lenoir
county, in Book 47 at pa 490, de
fault bavin been made in the pay
ment of the indebtedness secured by
aid mortgage, the undersigned will,
on the 25th day of November, 1916,
at aboat 12 o'clock 1L, at the Court-
boos door in Kinston. N. C, offer
for sale to the highest bidder for
cash the following described tract of
land, which is that cooTevd by said
county, N. C, adjoining the Turner
lands, the Jones lands, and the lands
of others and is mora particularly
described as follow:
., Beginning at a stake at tha head
of the :ad ditch in the south prong
of Panther Swamp, oa ths west aide
of tha cart path, a corner of lot No.
1 in tha division of the lands of S.
S. Howard's estate, and nma north
ward with tha line of lot No. 1 to a
maple or gun in tha north prong of
Panther Branch in W. A. Jones Una,
thence with the ran Jones-line west.
ward U George Turner's 'line.
said branea to B. S. Pickett's cor
ner on said rnn, C'-'ee with Pickett's
ditch in tha south prong of Panther
Branch, thence up said ditch with R
M. Bryant's line to tha beginning,
containing 88 acres, mora or less.
The said land being part of Lot No. 5
in the dirision of S. S. Howard's
estate. v' ' 'Mk -
This 16th day of October, 1918.
. BANK OF PINK HILL,
V By G. S. WILLARD, Cashier.
. Oct 27-lawltiH Nov. 25.
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