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Ladies Waists
Trope de Chene and Georget'a Cr-n
from $3.4S K JOT
Entirely new and exclusive stvlJ
no two alike.
Also a line of Lawn. Organdies an !
Voile Waists from .. 59e to $1.47
Buster Brown Collars and Ties for
bovs and girls 25 to 75e.
Ladies Collars to please the most fas
tidious. These will have to be seen 1 1
he appreciated, and the price ar
from 23c to $t.4
New Silk Hose in White. Grey. Nivy
and Chaiupaigne.
Mire and Better Dairy Cows.
To the Editor of The Journal:
HAYS OF FAKMKIt'S iLUANTE
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Go-operative Mercantile
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THE FAMILY STORE.
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We Are Prepared
to Save You Money
on Fancy Groceries, Country Pro
duce, Meal Oats, Corn, Mill Feed,
Sweet Feed, Dairy Feed,Cotton Seed
Meal, Hulls, Hay, Etc.
Our prices are right. Phone us your orders.
BEJTOffS CASH STORE
Pairvmea or the rank and file. who!z,b Several Huiihwwu Or.
see only the present and disregard the.' ims Ik-lutes War Will End
future, and inclined to get rid of their 1 S.n.
cows. bUieving they can market their MBv J- z GREEN, in Marshvtlle
grains and grasses to more profitable ! Hume. I
advantage as such than feeding them ' Kev.Biuc Benton, a native of this
to cows. :couaty, who has been pastor of the
' As a result, the most thoughtless; Hahtist church at Rockingham
on have- gotten rid of their cows f"r several years, is at New ork at
and even a larger number have dis- tending lectures at the Columbia I'm
posd of thWr young females. I doubt j versity and brushing up on his
if a greatnumber of good cows or! French Preparatory to go:ng to
good heifers have yet gone to the trance for Y. M. C. A. work. While
slaughier. The good have been large-1 i M'hool at I nionville, when Prof.
lv pickd up bv more thoughtful dairy-(O- C. Hamilton was at the head of
'1n ' that notable institution. Bruce rank-
Milk prices are adjusting them-i itn the best of them in debate
selves or being adjusted in various old classmates are- not sur-
sections of the country, and I am In-' flt his success ln the ministry,
dined to think that from now on the 'The Rockingham Post-Dispatch says
dairv cow is guin to prove herself f him: "Mr. Benton is one of the ab
to be the most profitable of farm ani-.lst ministers in the State. He has
mals under war conditions, wen as deep convictions concerning the right
she has been in peaceful times. More- j-eousness of this war against German
ever the slaughter of dairy cattle domination, and for many months
has been tremendous in all parts of has felt the call to go overseas and do
Europe. When the war is over there i h.s bit. Though over the draft age by
will be a tremendous demand fori a score of years, he imply could
good cows and good heifers, not only j not stay out of it. Many a Richmond
from Europe but from, all sections. county mother would feel better were
of this country and South America, jshe to know that Rev. Bruce Benton
If prices will adjust themselves in was near her boy."
a manner so that our best cows will
be conserved, our breeders and dairy-! John Tiee is a great believer In
men encouraged to use good sires, .buir clover as a soil-building crop,
breed up their herds and get rid or ! He. sold 5o bushels to Dr. Blair
the poor ones, the I nited States is "Now is the time to put in the seed,
destined to become a great exporting while cultivating the crop." says .Mr.
uation for dairv cattle. ! Tiee. With the wholesale price of
We have advanced further and other kinds of clover seed close to
more rapidlv in the development of thirty dollars a bushel, burr clover:
pood dairv "animals than any other j t which re-seeds itself) should come;
count rv. This of course refers to our : inn use more as a winter legume '
leading breeder, for Denmark far , crop. A late crop of corn may be
surpasses us from the standpoint of planted after the burr clover seeds
high production from dairying in gen-: mature, about the first of June. Per
eral. Denmaik has demonstrated haps the quickest and most econoiu
what the rank an I file of dairymen ical way tg get the land seeded to
can do. and the lni'ed States has1 burr clover is to sow a seed patch,
demonstrate I what leading breeders , in the garden. I gathered thirty-five
can accomplish. : bushels of seed from one-fourth of,
In a nut sh- i!. it sems to me that ; my g.irdt-n this year. !
Jto wipe Prussian militarism from the!o It runs. There Is active business
jface of the earth. H our optimism rivalry and competition here all the
.should cause any relasatiou of our time. "I know I ought to get more
effort to win a decisive victory we'd ' for this piece of goods." remarked
better leave the optimism off and vi
gorously prosecute our war plans.
another merchant, but others are sel
ling at this price and I've got to met
competition
Ll. Mark Austin was making a -We are selling a chair that
aimers Alliance speech back in the brought 75 cents whea cotton was
V T"8 ,0 s'r"?nSlho UP thej eUht t0 twelve cents for 11.25 now
,f i , nf'rs'i:p. Several, auJ this is much less advance than
tune he referred to the "doubting ! !ul bMt made in other lines." said
Thomases who were hindering the!Wade Bivens. of the Marshville Fur
cause. .VM Thomas came away from ' nitU(V company, who had been tryin?
the speaking in company with one ot get deliveries or some orders for
his neighbor. How did you like chairs for the past nix months. With
the speech? asked his neighbor. s?ven hundred chairs now in stock
. . f ,UIle PU8 ne font'nu-ithey ought to be able to meet de
ed: But what has Mark got against i mandj tor a while at least. But re
the ThomasesT "Why." said Nell, faring to airplane prices somebody
he hasnt anything against thelfai3 attention to the Tact that soda
Thomases. Haven t you heard of KB( conee are still selling at practi
ce douhtlng Thomas referred to ia!c,y before-the-war prices,
the BibleT" "No, I never heard ofi
nun. came the response. I also re-:
call another incident of that per-
lod. A county Farmers' Alliance'
W'liole tiorman t'oiiiHiny Killel
Hurling themselves at the tip or
meeting was belnit held at i:nh, ! the salient drhen into the allied lint)
Boh Lemmond was the orator of the! by the Germaus late In May. the
rorenoon. After holding the audi-; Aaierican and French have won im
ence away from a picnic dinner bvjportant ground near Chateau Tuier
prolonging the speech until one o;-iO. The attacks was local in char
clock. Mr. Lemmond looked at his'acter. but its successs may prove im
watch and then said. "Brethren. 1 1 P't taut in the future operations ia
must bring this discussion to a close j that part of the battle front nearest
it's dinner time." "That's a goo l j Paris.
idea!" responeded Mark Austia. wh')i The assault was aimed at the ham
was sitting over in the amen corner let of Vaux. which Is situated oa th
.fanning himself with a broad-brim ' south side of Chateau Thierry-ParrU
hat. The applause was spontaneous i road and on the northern slopes or
and Mr. Lemmond suddenlv closet; Hill 204. Vaux Is about two miles
his speench, agreeable to that "gMd.trom Chateau Thierry. This was car
idea." I tied by the. rush of the French and
! Americans, who also occupied two
. . .1 small patches of woods in the ltn-
.m.v iiiun. uiiiuin " i iiio.liatB vie In tv
The Germans ahnon immediately
you had last year?" The Home man
asked Will Purser. "Not much of
a aood crop this year," said he. With
about 25 bushels of red multiplying
onions spread out under his shade
trees to "cure out'' and more in the
garden not gathered I don't know
oean counter attacks In an attempt
to regain the- lost positions, hut their
effort failed in every instance. In
the Initial attack and In their i peit
el assaults against the new line hel '
jv the- allies, the Germans liav suf-
'The war news Is more in oar fa
vor." That is the substance of an
poor sire and then i expression made by fanners who have
diiippii' into The Home oihce iiur-
ns 'lie p.ist week. It is rather re
ia.ukaiiie tliat so luauy citizens of
iiCil districts keep well up with
dai-yi). n ;r.d hreivlers is tnat wnicn
will leu.l th-tn to sret rid of the loat
in ov and t!l
b-ied up their hot-1- in !ii;uity and
numbers, for I liuht not when the
war w'll have ended dairy cattle will
he as ui.d property as ort can pos
sess if th
property ;i
are not a-n
what Will would call a ' gooj r-op"!;:re(, Verv heavv l,.sss. at le-,st 500
,;a,0!1,3 'rom a P"1'"' ,l do:?:jpviso:.ei-s" having been takea by lh
V ; French and Americans. One entin
saiie amount of land unlesss it's th
German rcsiment is officialiv
are
good and as poor ' div,-!tpments along battle lines across .'
on cm possess if they , t
1 1. O. D. Hawn.
County TcailieiV i:iiiliiatiin
On Tut si'ap July ''th beginning not
.later than l' o'clock modern time an
examination for ail applicants lor
teachers' ertiti ates. whether for
Kleii'.enta'-y. G.-aiamar tirades. Pri
ie.:i:v, e.r ili.-h School, also for the
entrance t Vitr.imi! ons for A. and K.
Col'.e-'e. will !).' !uIil.
All attplicants sliotild provido them
selves with
tool. --cap
P"n and ink and either j .,, sailj
le;al crp paper. .j., ..j.j.,,. j
as. i.t course (une a good per
oi tanners in eat I'nion county
;(' (iailv papers, hut many farmers
,vi:o do not c.'t daily papers keep
well up with t lie war news. The ru
i il telephone is an important factoi
,. (iiseininalini! inloniuition .antl
I'nioiK oiin!y has more rural telephone.-
than any other county in the
State and perhaps than any other
county in the South.
I think tiie war will come to an
Marshville town-
veil enough to
r"lVa "-'""nil t:n;jJ to have ben-a virtually annihilate!
to have a variety of Irish potatoes b.lt,,t.
that produces a heavy yield of p.)-:' A' u.'mi air h.lUlt, iw,...n in
tat-es on the roots and also a h-avy; A,.lt,ril.an ai rplines an ! an cqul I
yie d of tomatoes on the potato we-Ml :,ni,(i,r o(. 0r.rmal, IIUch,nn( L,
Laho Leonard was giving in this; , , p cha,.,iU1 Thi(fny .w
intoriuation Saturday but I r.ulel to . A, Kast t!lr.,P German planen
get the name of the larmer who u tt.., .l.ov,,,!, An.cn
getttng Irish potatoes at one -mi and j .......hines hav,- failed to retir.i
tomatoes at the other end of the Htie;f el,e(.n,t.r.
plant. j
Tuesd ay ami Wednesday for white () in .,n ptiiistic frame of mind
teahors. and Thursday tor colored
teachers. Examination held at office
of f'ofnty Sperintendent. All appli
cants respectively, required to be pres
ent on !irt day of examination and
remain until they finish the work.
Voir respectfully
U. N. NISBET,
County Superintendent.
Thone 178. The Store That Appreciates Your Trade.
The morale of the Allied armies has
1 improved wonderfully since Ameri-i.-an
t loops, have been laniled in France .
in such croat numbers and their'
i fighting spirit is improving. While (
I the manpower of the Allies is,
j being rapidly increased by arrival
i of nun from the United State Ger-;
'manv's manpower Is weakening with;
no place to draw fresh troops from. '.
Arthur Peedin has confessed to the and as a result the Kaiser Is putting i
murder of Elisha Grice at Selnia,-the old men and abo sixteen-year-old
body of Grice being bu cried in a ne- boys into army sc-vice. But this does
gro grave yard. The two fell out not necessary mean an early endings
over a uanie of poker. Peedin says, of the war beore 1!U!. Yet. it is all
and he asserts that he Phot Grice in right to he optimistic if we will speed ,
seli-defeme. He is held without bail , along our preparations for five years ;
for trial. or more war if it requires that long
"Looks like there niisht he a cir- Thursday night v.h.le on a trail
cus in town," remarked a citizen -r i :s from Goldsboru to New Her;,,
Saturday afternoon. The .streets of: Miss Alice Patterson, traveling sale--M.irshville
were simply congested i:i! woman for Jeffries and Sons, of
daces, so much so that it was dif- 'C.aldsboro. was robbed of $ 100 b..'
ticult to get through. The volume of i another woman, who occupied a seat
luisiness here seems to be steadily i with Miss Patterson. Before tin
growing. "I bought some dry goid ' train reached Guldsdioro Miss Pa'
tn Marshville the other day at the , tr.Min discovered her loss, and after
old prices." t-aid a Monroe in i'i Frl-; making quiet search, became susp
da. and he was manifestly pleased i eious of the woman who had beei
with his purchases. In some insfni- her fellow passenger frofi New Bern,
ces there may be some "marking u;"( A description of the voi,i:;:i was giv-
to hedge against advancing price?. , fa to Chief of Police Edward Tow,
hut It is notable that merchants here! who ordered her arrest. She was
have been selling several line-s of
goods for much less than manufac
turers are now getting at the mills
for the same goods. Occasionally a
fellow comes along and wants to buy
out the entire lot In stork of cer
tain lines but when that happen
there's nothing doing." "We've got
a few bales or this goods stored
taken to police headquarters and gave
her name as Elize Conway, but later
was recognized by an acquaintance
who Informed the Chief Tew that her
correct name was Elizabeth Bell.
When the woman was searched the
money was found on her person and
was later turned over to Miss Pat-
'erson, who did not care to prosecute
bark." said a nierchnnt. "Ap.I re f tie? case, therefore Mayor Higgins
not trying to sell. Hut when a cu -1 informed her that she must leave tin
tonier calls for It we let him have I city by the first train goin? to her
It on a basis of first cost to us." An 1 alleged abode in New Bern.
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