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VOL. XVI. No. 249 KINSTON, N. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1914 PRICE TWO CENTS
TOBACCO SALES
IN KINSTON ARE
STILL GROWING
SEASON BIDS FAIR TO EQUAL
ANY PREVIOUS RECORDS
NOT EXCEPTING ,913.
G.V.
DUPLIN EXTENSION
GAINS FAVOR OF
R. R. OFFICIALS
FARMERS SHOWING
TO OSTEND IN ANTICIPATION OF FALL
OF ANTWERP, WHICH SEEMS INEVITABLE
NON-COMBATANTS GIVEN TWO HOURS TO'FLEE FROM ANTWERP
BEFORE ACTUAL SHELLING OF THE CITY BEGINS
MANY LEFT IN WILD PANIC.
OF DOVER ISTHE
INTEREST IN THE
LIVE STOCK PLAN
FIRST PRESIDENT
GERMANS REGAINING LOST
Russians Work Ruse Successfully to Get Enemy in Open German Avia
tors Drop Bombs in Vicinity of Paris Bombardment of Kiao Chow
Stopped and Starvation Plan to Be Worked More Than
Million and Half Men Before Antwerp.
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 8.8 Belgian
Minister Havenith today announced
that he has been officially notified that
the capital of Belgium has been mov
ed to Ostend.
GERMANS SAY ANTWERP
IS ABOUT TO FALL.
Berlin, Oct. 8. It is officially an
nounced that the bombardment of
Antwerp continues, with most of the
outer fortifications reduced. The sit
uation along the battle lines in the
north of France is little changed. The
German right wing is making prog
GERMANS POUND
AWAY AT ANTWERP
Amsterdam, Oct. 8. The Antwerp
fortifications were still intact at noon
The German bombarding both lines of
fortifications of the city. Shells drop
ping in the city are evidently "over
shots." Lierre and Contich have been
destroyed. The shells ell rapidly
about Hove Horssel, and Vieneus-
Dien suffered greatly.
RUSSIANS DECOY
ENEMY OUT TO FIGHT
Petrograd, Oct. 8. It is stated that
the Austrian-German forces are oc
cupying strongly entrenched posi
tions expending from Kieloe, through
Sorgucin to Neu Sandee. The Rus
sians advanced to these positions, but
finding that they could be taken only
with a great sacrifice of men owing
to their strength, withdrew to entice
the enemy from the trenches. The
ruse worked, bringing the enemy into
open country, where new battle lines
have been formed much more favor
able to the Russians.
GERMAN NIGHT
ATTACK REPULSED,
Paris, Oct. 8. The Allies frustrat
ed a night attempt by the Germans to
cut the main line of communication
to the north. The raiding forces were
under command of Crown Prince Rup
perchti of Bavaria. Reserve forces
are being rushed to the front at
Comp-a-Mousson. The French con
tinue to gain ground toward Tas-de-
Calais and Nord. German outflank
ing movements have failed, due to aid
given by British air scouts.
POPULACE FLEEING
FROM DOOMED ANTWERP
The Hague, Oct. 8. The Germans
claim to have taken four batteries
with fifty-two field guns at Methe.
People are fleeing from Antwerp on
account of the German commander
having given non-combatants two
hours to get out before opening fire
on the city. The procession started
orderly, but the booming of big guns
put the crowd in such a panic that it
rushed madly ahead. The roads are
littered with personal effects dropped
by people in the flight. The mud is
ankle deep. It is understood that
King Albert remained in the city.
The war office say German forces
engaged consjit-iof twenty-three divi
sions of the first line and eighteen
reserve corps, with a division of the
Landstrum, totalling 1,640,000 men.
BOMBARDMENT OF KIAO CHOWr
WATER FORTS UNNECESSARY.
Tokio, Oct. 8. The war office says
the situation at Kiao Chow is improv
d. The German artillery fire has
lessened and this is believed to be
an indication that their ammunition
a running short. . Japanese have de
stroyed two German airships engaged
in dropping bombs. It is believed
Kiao Chow cannot hold out more than
a week or ten days. The commanders
of the Allied fleet refuse to assault
the fortified positions because they
GROUND ON FRENCH SOIL
consider that they will be forced to
surrender soon.
GERMAN. AIRMEN DROP
BOMBS NEAR PARIS
Paris, Oct. 8. German aeroplanes
dropped bombs near Paris during the
night. One fell at Vincennes, doing
no damage. A second fell at Argen
teuil, wounding three persons. The
aviators escaped.
KAISER'S MEN RETAKE
LOST POSITIONS
Paris, Oct. 8. The war office ad
mits that German cavalry have ad
vanced so that their lines extend
north of Arras and almost to the
North Sea. Most of their positions
lost early in the week have been re
taken. There is no change in the
Woevre region.
DEFENDERS OF KAIO
CHOW FACE FAMINE
Pekin, Oct. 8. The Japanese are
confident Kiao Chow will be taken
soon. Three-fourths of the outer for
tifications have been reduced. The
food supply is running short in the
garrison. However, the commander
still refuses all suggestions of sur
render.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY
OPENS-SESSIONS TODAY
(By the United Press.)
Oxford, Oct. 8. Oxford opened as
usual today, despite a great decrease
in attendance due to a big part of the
student body having joined England's
army. The total enrollment at the
school is not expected to exceed 1,000,
The students absent on military
service Will suffer no loss in their
standings as a result, it was announc
ed. The time spent in serving their
country will count as time in resid
ence at Oxford if the undergraduates
so desire.
American students entering Oxford
for the first time are expected to re
ceive a great deal more attention this
year. They are expected to be more
of a force in the school. All students
will spend each' day in drilling for
military service.
METHODIST PREACHERS
HOLDING CONFERENCE.
(By the United Press.)
New York, Oct. 8. The National
Association of Local Preachers a
Methodist organization, is scheduled
to open its 57th annual conference
here tonight. Many preachers arriv
ed yesterday and last night for the
sessions, and a large attendance is
expected at the opening meeting to
night. The sessions all are to be held
in the Old John Street church, the
first Methodist church in America,
founded by Philip Embury in 1776.
Mayor Mitchell expects to welcome
the visiting preachers tonight. Other
addresses will be made by Frank
Moss, Dr. Frank B. Upham and oth
ers.
GOVT APPROPRIATES
FOR NEUSE RIYER
The allotment of the $20,000,000
DDropriated by Congress for river
and harbor improvement this year
was made by the board oi engineers
Wednesday and announced that eve-
;ne Amonir the score or more of
North Carolina items was $25,000 for
the Neuse river. It cannot be yet
learned if any improvement in the
vicinity of Kinston is contemplated.
Two thousand dollars were allotted
for channel work in Contentnea creek.
1,200,000 LBS. THIS WEEK
Good Prices Prevailing and Farmers
Getting More Than They Antici
pated in More Cases Than the
Reverse 4 Acres SI, 024.99
More than 1,200,000 pounds of to
bacco have been sold in Kinston since
Monday morning. Great breaks have
been handled every day this week ex
cept on Tuesday, when the sales were
over by n6on.
Today around 425,000 pounds were
sold, at prices up to the average and
with grades very good. On Monday
surprising breaks for that day were
sold, and probably a quarter of a
million pounds was taken off the
planter's hands. Wednesday a hun
dred thousand pounds in excess of
Monday's sales were handled.
There is satisfaction on every hand
now with the prices, and the buyers
express their approval of the quality.
Much of the best weed is just begin
ning to come to market, it is said, and
in many ways the market is proving
that the season will not compare bad
ly with 1913, in spite of the depres
sion in some lines. One farmer here
this week, it is reported, brought a
load of fine leaf which he expected
to bring around 30 cents, and was
agreeably surprised when it brought
an average of over 40 cents a pound.
FOUR ACRES OF TOBACCO SOLD
TODAY FOR MORE THAN $l,0fo
Mr. Richard King of Lenoir county
sold on the Central Warehouse floor
today his four-acre crop, approxim
ately 5,000 pounds, for $1,024.99. Mr.
King was highly pleased with the
sale, which averaged him more than
20 cents.
ONLY SECOND SECTION OF
TRAIN TO BE DROPPED
Corporation Commission Says the
Southern Will Arrange Schedule
of First Section So That Little
Inconvencience Will Be Felt,
(By the United Press.)
Raleigh, Oct. 8. The Corporation
Commission says it is understood
that changes in the Southern Rail
way's schedules on account of the
taking off of passenger trains, for
which permission was granted yes
terday will go in effect October 17,
and will work only slight if any, in
convenience to the public. The sec
ond sections of trains 37 and 38, from
Charlotte to Danville now run with
in a half hour of the first sections,
and this will be adjusted to accom
modate the travel from all stations
when the second sections are taken
off.
PISTOL DUEL ON
TANK SHIP AT SEA.
Beaufort, Oct. C. Two wounded
men of the crew of the tank steamer
City of Everett were brought ashore
at Beaufort today to be turned over
to local officials after a revolver duel
aboard the ship in which neither was
mortally wounded. It was charged
that Jacob Ross, a fireman, soon after
the steamer left Baltimore, fired on
the second engineer, H. Swanson.
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NEW BERN DISTRICT SUNDAY
SCHOOL AND AN EPWORTH
LEAGUE ORGANIZED.
MEETINGS IN CASWELL ST.
Mr. Y. T. Ormond of Kinston Elected
Superintendent of Teacher Train
ing Epworth League Section
In Session This Afternoon.
The New Bern District Sunday
School Conference, which has been in
session in Caswell Street church, ad
journed with this morning's session.
Wednesday afternoon a permanent
organization of the conference was
effected and regular meetings will be
held in future subject to the call of
the district board, which board is
composed of the officials elected, who
follow:
General Supervisor, Presiding El
der J. E. Underwood; President, G.
V. Richardson, Dover; Vice-President,
N. M. Farrow, Bridgeton; Sec
retary, Roger C. Hinson, Goldsboro;
Treasurer, C. E. Weatherby, Faison;
Superintendent of Organized Classes,
Rev. W. A. Cade, New Bern; Super
intendent of the Home Department,
Miss Annie Johnson, Goldsboro; Su
perintendent of Teacher Training
Classes, Y. T. Ormond, Kinston; Su
perintendent of Elementary Work,
Miss Love Rich, Oriental.
The Epworth League section of the
conference began its sessions this af
ternoon. An important feature fo the Sun
day school conference is the Sunday
schoolexhibit displayed by Mr. Brab
ham, field secretary of the North
Carolina Conference. It consists of
numerous books, periodicals and
charts that are furnished by the
Methodist Publishing House. The ex
hibit covers the wide range of Sun.
day school work and furnished inval
uable help in the work. The exhibit
will be removed this afternoon.
DR. DARST IS NEW
EPISCOPAL BISHOP
Elected at Diocesan Council Held In
Washington Today Succeeds the
Late Beloved Bilhop Strange
Richmond Rector.
(Special to The Free Press.)
Washington, N. C, Oct. 8. Dr.
Thomas C. Darst of Richmond, Va.,
was elected bishop of the Episcopal
Diocese of East Carolina by the dio
cesan council at 1 o'clock this after
noon, on the twentieth ballot.
Dr. Milton of Wilmington and Dr.
Harding of New York were the lead
ing "candidates" up to the election.
They ran"about even and it seemed
impossible to break the tie.
The council met in St. Peter's
church here yesterday.
Dr. Darst succeeds the late Bish
op Robert Strange.
BRITISH WARSHIPS TO
CO-OPERATE WITH TROOPS.
(By the United Press)
London, Oct. 8. It is believed cer
tain here that Antwerp must fall. To
strengthen the region of Ostend and
along the coast to protect the region
from the raids of German cavalry.
Great number osf people have fled in
to Holland to be taken care of until
the fighting is over.
CONFERENCE BEING HELD TO
DAY FOR ORGANIZATION OF
COUNTY ASSOCIATION.
EXPERTS LEND ASSISTANCE
The Association Will Be the First In
This Section and the Cattle Indus
try Will Be Greatly Bene
fited By Organization.
About a score of the most progres
sive farmers of the county are this
afternoon organizing a county live
stpck association at the court house.
Experts of the Federal Bureau of
Animal Industry are advising the
planters on various, points, and the
session preparatory to the election
of officers and arrangement of other
details connected with the organizing
was expected to last several hours
when the meeting was called to or
der about 1 o'clock.
The national bureau will assist the
Lenoir stock growers in every possi
ble way in the promotion of the in
dustry here. The experts here in the
interest of the tick eradication work
now under way will be of all the as
sistance they can until early in next
year when the quarantine is lifted
and they are sent elsewhere.
The local association will be the
first in this section to promote more
extensive and better cattle breeding.
The organizers will enlist every
farmer in the county who will join
the association, and hope to make it
a useful factor in the betterment of
the animal industry in this section.
PAJAMAS NOT WANTED,
RATHER HAVE SHIRTS
(By the United Press.)
London, Sept. 24. By mail to New
York.) Tommy Atkins wear paja
mas? Well, not if he can help it. And
he will help it unless he is sick or
wounded, and in that case he doesn't
care. Out on the firing line and in
camp, though, when he sleeps Tommy
Atkins is going to use his shirt as a
night garment. That's final, he
avers. Which is all in answer to a
rumpus that has been kicked because
the British Red Cross Society and
Queen Mary's Needlework Guild have
included such things as "pajamas"
and "men's dressing gowns" in their
requirements for the war. Tommy
Atkins sniffed disdainfully when told
that he was going to get pajamas.
More than that he laughed scornful
ly. Wear pajamas! Not he, if he
knew it. What did he want the
bloody things for. Might be all right
for the officers, but not for him.
Aroused by the criticism offered,
officials of the Red Cross Society and
Woman's Guild stated that the paja
mas were ordered for hospital ser
vice, and not for the soldiers in the
field. The pajamas, they said, could
be worn by the wounded while they
were confined in the hospital. One
COLT PLAYS A LITTLE
ROUGHLY WITH BABY
Earnest Jones of Grainger Station
Kicked and Painfully But Not Se
riously Hurt Brought Here
for Treatment.
Two-year-old Ernest Jones, the son
of Guy Jones, a Grainger planter,
was brought here lateWednesday for
treatment for a kick by a horse colt.
The colt was frollicking in the barn
yard, and Baby Ernest was toddling
about pushing a toy baby carriage.
The colt approached, and the young
ster inadvertently pushed the tiny
perambulator against its heels. The
horse baby planted one koof square
ly over the human baby's left eye.
The child's face was pitifully bruis
ed, but fortunately the eye itself was
not injured. The imprint of the tiny
hoof was left, only temporarily, the
doctor says, around the eye socket.
THE NORFOLK SOUTHERN WILL
PROBABLY START WORK
WHEN JUSTIFIED.
MAPLE HILL INTERESTED
Delegation Is Expected to Come Here
to Confer With Local Chamber
of Commerce Regarding Ex
tension to That Town.
Traffic Manager E. D. Kyle andT
General Passenger Agent H. S. Leard
of the Norfolk Southern Railroad
have informed General Superintend
ent William Hayes, of the Kinston
Carolina Railroad, that that line, sub
sidiary to the Norfolk Southern, is re
ceiving attention by the system's
heads, and that they anticipate ex
tending it from Pink Hill into Du
plin county as soon as financial con
ditions will permit. It is expected
that Chinquepin, 20 miles from Pink
Hill, where the road now ends, or Ma
ple Hill, 35 miles from Pink Hill, will
be made the terminus. People of Ma
ple Hill and the country between
there and Chinqueapin are expected
by the Kinston Chamber of Com
merce to come here to urge Maple
Hill as the terminus, when a meet
ing is held in a few days under the
chamber's auspices. The statement
by the Norfolk Southern men that
their company is seriously consider
ng the extension has been received
with much satisfaction by local bus
iness interests, and the planters and
emrchants in the upper part of Du
plin, who have recently been agitat
ing it with vigor. The Kinston-Caro-lina
road, it is said, will retain its
independent management, although
the Norfolk Southern is the controll
ing factor.
The extension from Pink Hill to
Chinqueapin will be by way of Beula
ville. Chinqueapin, Maple Hill and
Beulaville are substantial small towns
in what is generally regarded as one
of the most productive sections in
the State. They are surrounded by
rich, level lands adapted to the sta
ples, truck and fruit, capable of
growing more to the acre than any
land in this part of the State. Three
fourths of Duplin county will become
tributary solely to Kinston with the
lengthening of the Kinston-Carolina
road.
Messrs. Kyle and Leard have been
visiting various points along the Nor
folk Southern's Goldsboro-Beaufort
line, and express satisfaction at con
ditions. They see big possibilities in
the development of the section now
clamoring for the K.-C. extension.
SKULLS AND JAWS
TO FORM EXHIBIT.
San Francisco, Oct. 8. One of the
educational features of the hygiene
display in the social economy exhibit
of the Panama-Pacific International
Exposition will be the largest collec
tion of skulls and jaws of prehistoric
and modern races of men and of
skulls and plaster casts of the den
tal equipment of lower animals ever
exhibited. These skulls will demon
strate that the soft feeds of civilized
races and of domestic animals have
caused diseases from which many of
the barbarous races and all the wild
animals are immune. By means of
plaster casts and steropticon slides
the causes of diseases of the teeth
will be shown. There will be a large
display showing the comparatively
maxillary anatomy of various ani
mals, including man, and explaining
why wild animals and savages sel
dom have tootache. The display will
include a reproduction of the $2,500,
000 Forsythe Infirmary for children
in Boston, with its modern dental and
hygienic equipment, and of a model
hygienic dental office. It will occupy
600 square feet of space.
BULKLEY HAS BIRTHDAY.
(By the United Press.)
Washington, Oct. 8. Representa
tive Robert J. Bulkley of Cleveland,
Ohio, today received congratulations
upon his thirty-fourth birthday.