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TT. . TI T . The Home Paper 'in i 5 7 he Weather Today' New Today : Fair Tonight VOL. XVIII. No. 83 , SECOND EDITION. KINSTON, No C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1916 FOUR PAGES TODAY; PRICE TWO CENTS fclANIANS TAKE OFFENSIVE ON WHOLE COBRUDJA FRONT, BUCIIAI1EST REIOIIT SAYS; TEUTONS ADMIT 'DEADLOCK THERE MUCILD'PENDS UPON WILD ANIMALS AND VULTURES TEAR THE FLESH FROM BODIES JUST LIKE HOME !S IDEA FOR PROPOSED REST ROOM IN CITY THE BOYS HAVE NOT MOVED A Bit AWAY FROII THE FRONTIER TEN NEW SHOPS FOR fuB STREETiN A FSlfflS,iASTS BALTIMORE OF THE PRESIDENT iiw HiiC0 1 Bulgars Claim to Be Getting Best of Fiorina Battle British Advance in West J mans Back in Heavy Counter French Take Credit for Big Gain On Balkan Front Bulgars Capture Village and Lose It Again Serbs Still Covering Selves .With Giory--Activity Throughout Near Eastern Theater Austrians and Germans Transylvania of Roumanians and Started New Inva- sion . ' - .- (Bv the United Frees) - - ; . Bucharest, Sept. 21. The Roumanians have .; taken the offensive along the whole Dobrudja front, it is stated inciany. - New Invasion of Roumania. Berlin,: Sept 21. The ror a new. invasion oi ttuumama uxi uic iiwumwwu frontier, says an official statement The Teutonic forces ... . t .. i. j. .. . .. i. . j - ' .2 have occupied ironuer neigms on uoui siues uj. v uian Pass, south of Petroseny. : The Roumanians who advanc ed terr miles into Transylvania have been thrown back to the. frontier. In Dobrudja the battle is cleacuocKea. v Admission Allied Staying Qualities- , Sdfia, Sept'21. The Roumanians are maintaining the strongly, fortified positions in Dobrudja in the face - of " heavy Bulgarian attacks; it is officially admitted.: The battle is increasing in violence, both" sides fighting with 1 irreat stubbornness. The battle around Fiorina, Macedo nia, is "developing favorably for the- Bulgars. Allied coun tries have been repulsed with great loss. " y " - , British Gain In West. . . t' v ' - London, Sept zLThe untish advanced soutn oi aji K ere last night despite fierce resistance, says General Haig, anders, but were driven off . with heavy losses. , French Gain fn West; Big Advantage , Earned In Near East. ., . , ; . ' t - ' Paris, Sept. 21. The French made two successful at . ' tacks northeast of Verdun last night, capturing trenches south of Thiaumont and advancing 100 yards in the Vaux . Chapitre 'Woods, it is officially reported- The Germans made' no counters in the Somme sector because of , bad weather. , - 1 ' ; , The French in the Balkans have advanced three miles toward hill 550 and taken fifty prisoners, it is reported t officially.'' ' . V The French made a considerable gain near tjie f ron tier, southwest of Monastic the Bulgars the while deliv- ering most vicious; counters against advancing Serbs. Bul gars entered Boresnica village, but were driven out by Serbs.' In violent fighting east of the Cerna river the Bui- gars countered strongly against the Allies, in the moun tains captured by the. Serbs early in the week, but were n driven off. ' ' 1 - : Getting away from pans water 'neath the bed, and such Better Babies Contest to Teach Mothers That Days I of Mid wives' Tomfoolery Is Over To Be Treat for Kmstonians From time immemorial the farmer has been studying ways and means to better the live stock on his farm bf putting what he has learned into practice, has secured cplendid results in making the stock bigger, better, healthier and therefore, more pro ductive of that whici is of benefit to Mankind Only recently, however, have mothers awakened to the fact that the proper feeding and care of taties is of far more importance than the proper eart and feeding of brutes, and babies, up to recent years, were reared on the advice of superstitious fcfannies, with no system at ah and in a haphazard fashion thftt no far ""er would dare pursue with the stock under his care for fear of n'ev r raising them. ' We have awakened at last, how c'v:r, to the fact that the young of New Zealanders Drive Ger Reported to Have Cleared . , - 1 ' , . i, Austro - Germans arevadvanc- the human species 'is of more impor-J tance and needs just -as careful, and cientifie attention' as the young of domestic animals, and mothers ' flow are anxious to learn all about - the matter in order to make their chil dren healthy 'and productive of the best of which they aire capable. ,. An important aid to this good work is the Better Babiea contest, .which is to be held during the Fair in - Octo- bejvaccording to the rules of the Woman's Home Companion, which is to furnish medals for the "prise ba bies and certificates for all, babies entered in the contest The1 entries will begin on October 9, ttld end Oc tober 18, instead " of on the 21st, as before statecL There .will be no charge nor entrance fee, and all mo thers who have . babies " from . six months to four year sold are. urged to enter them and secure the benefits accruing from thb contest te bdth mothers and babies. For information interested parties may write . '-tier phone Mrs. E. G. Barrett, Mrs. H G. Braxton or Mrs. R. F. Hill, all of Kinston. ' ' ' USE ASQITTH SPEECHES n. N CANNED FOR RECRUITING. . (By the' United Press) . Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sept. 21c Phonog-aphic record sof speeches by Premier Asquith and noted English laaders are being successfully nsed to rocruit soldiers here. The method so far has proven very effective.' Will Talk to Grain Dealers, Who Have Much at Stake. Gets to Work on Address , " Several Days ' Ahead ' of Time. ' By ROBERT J. BENDER,; (United Press Staff Correspondent) Asbury Park, ' N." J., Sept. 21. Great importance is attached - by Democrats to President Wilson's ad dresses on Monday before the ; Na tional Grain Dealers' Association at Baltimore.' What the President has to say on that occasion' and the re ecptiorv' accorded the speech, they be lieve, will have a atrong influence in some of the most important voting strongholds of the. country. ; . The grain dealers ' are in intimate touch with the farmers, and also sire among the foremost shippers of i the country,-who the railroads say' will have to: "pay the freight" as a re suit of the President's eight-hour leg islation through Congress. - . ' Appreciating the importance of this address, the President already ; has begun work on it. It is expected t open up a counter attack for the first time on Hughes on the eight-hour is Bue, Mr. Wilson will leave Balti more .immediately after the speech ..Twenty-iix , bales ..of cotteii -had IS o. been sold here Thursday by 3: clock. , Th" e staple brought prices, ranging from 143-4 to good 151-2 were: 16.24 16.38 16.60 15.98 i 16.15 Cents. 'J--'-':' tV:;ij':'k'if ' New York futures quotations January .V .11.60 March .. ,...16.17 ; May .........16.37 October ; . . . ; 15.94 j December 15.99 AUSTRALIA ADOPTS ARMY CONSCRIPTION (By the (Tnited Press) Melbourne, Sept - 21. The Austra- ian Houseof Representatives today adopted conscription by a vote 0147 to:12. . ' - ' - .' The wives and mothers cf Austra lia will go to the polls in a few weeks to decide whether or not they shall send their husbands and sons to the war. It will be probably; the first time in the history of the world that women of any large countfy have been permitted to make such a choice. The conscription measure which pass ed the House is certtfin to pass tv. Senate, and wiH be auhmitted. to the referendum. tI .The general 'belief, is that the women will. vote for con scription. ; y FAIR BREAKS AfD COOD, , MARKET About 275,000,'pounds of tobacco is estimated' to have been sold here to dav. The breaks' were rather J!'ght, comfarecl.'with the prkies, which re mained lugh. The Avarige wasiyery satisfactory.; The general quality of the weed was good There was tooth ing spectacular about the sales. Hea vier breaks are expected Friday. ; ALL HONOR- THE LOWLY BEAV; RISING IN. PRICE AND ESTEEM V -(By-the United Press) St. Paul, Minn. . Sept 2L The ecr:y beaa was honored today when peered into, dessicatd and analyzed by a lot of blgh-brow chemists and bewhiskered food experts working for the State Board of Control.) The board has to feed all the State institution patients and bar, once $2.60 a bushel, now 6cll for abou $7.60. The State board wants to know what's in the- lean anj what could be used as a s'a?uL!e su. it.'.u'.e. conopt Of Bulgars Piled in Balkan Ravine Three Hundred 'k Reduced ; to ( Skeletons Ghastly Sight That Greet ed Advancing Serbs (By the United Press) 'London, Sept 21,-Jackals and hyenas creeping down the mountains along the Serbian frontier are feast ing on bodies of Bulgars and Serbs, &din in the fierce fighting northeast of Lake . Ostrovo. Three hundred corpses piled in a neap in , one ra vine 1iavs been found stripped ; of flesh by jackals, hyenas and thous ands of vultures that hovwed over the battlefield in daytime. The Bulbars had. been mowed down by machine guns. The , advancing Serbs found only skeletons and. bits of torn uniforms Colder weather rs aUiing Serbian operations on the Balkan front : DlIOCRATICCRI'iTORS , IN STATE WEDNESDAY . (Special to The Free Press) Raleigh, Sept 21. Democratic campaign orators put in- a good, full day in the State Wednesday, ourlhg the day and at .;. night spellbinders held forth as follows: ' ' 1 At Lincolnton, Ex-Governor-R. B. Glenn, At Lenoir, Congressman R. L." Doughbon,;: in joint debate with H . S7 Williams; Republican, i' At Dargaw, . Cameron ' Morrison. At Morganton, Hon. T. W. Bickett, nominee for Governors Many lesser lights spoke in places in all sections of the State. . CANDLER SEEMS TO HAVE NOMINATION SEWED UP -New York, Sept 20. With re turns missing from only, about ,850 districts in the State, most of them in remote rural sections, Wm.il. Candler (had a lead tonight of approx imately 7,000 votes over Robert Ba con, his rival for the nomination; for United States Senator in the Repub lican . primary ' yesterday. i Indica tions were that the relative stand ing of the two candidates would not be materially changed by the com plete returns. . I ,t ENDORSE BIG ENDOWMENT FOR METHODIST COLLEGES .Greensboro, Sept. 20-At a special meeting of. the Educational Boards of tlbe tw North . CTolina Methodipt Ccnjerences here yesterday, the pro position of raising . $150,000 to . be used an endowment fund and for im.i-ovements to the buildings of Greensboro College for-Women was endorsed.- This inst Hution . is sup ported by the two conferences, the other Institution of the two bodies be ing Trinity College, at Durham, j '' IllKEtltlBLE, TllE CIIARiiEOyiLiND : (By the United Press) . ' London, . Sept 21. German propa gandists srs attempting to stir np bad feeling between- the United States, and Great Britain by circula tion, of false, charges regarding the British censorship,' -the LTitLsh For eign office today told the -United Press. "A certain German wireless news agency, and indeed, the whole sys tem of the propaganda, loses no op- T to endeavor to create VA I ' - ' '-veen Great Britain and 1. i- i ' ," fvA the Fc-re'-T C.T.ce, Government Demonstration Agents Would Set Up a Place for Fair Visitors Prom Country With Even Kitchen In It, Miss Grace I. Shaeffer of the Ex tension Service staff at Raleigh, a specialist in home demonstration work, was here Wednesday confer ring with ''Miss Adna Edwarda, "the enterprising local agent on the sub ject of a rest foom for country wo men in the city and other phases of the service. Interest of the Chcm ber of Commerce In the rest room proposition was assured the ladies; they were informed that already the Chamber had discussed the matter One Queen street concern has for some time maintained such a rest room foe women visitros from out of the city and has had the entertain ment to some degree 6t these women as a factor of its business policy. ''.Aliases Shaeffer and Edwards pro pose to install in the rest room a kit chen! ?The -kftchen would 'enable 'the latter young woman, whose business it is to be anxious to assist members of her oex in Lenoir county in ' all possible ways in which business, by the way, she seems greaUy inter estedfrequently to demonstrate some new stunt in the culinary art especially in the way 'of canning and pickling, etc.o her sisters who have not been schorjed . in the 'fashion which the 'Government 'requires its agents to be "schooled in When they go' forth to teach and preacb. conserr vatibn, general economy and domes tic science in general.. On idays when there were cuite a bunch of ladies "making headquarters" -at the rest rlom, which would be just like home if home happens to be whut it ought to be---after the' Government stand ard 'Miss : Edwards would pitch in and use the kitchen to demonstrate some of the things dn her line. That kitchen would be ndthing sensational, but welljust like home. ', GINNING PROGRESSES ' IH COTTON BET; TOO COOL IN CAROUNAS Washington,. Sept 20,-hCooI wea ther in North Carolina am. mparts of South Carolina has caused some dam age to cotton, tyit picking "and. gin ning is proceeding under favorable circumstances in'. most of .the South ern States,' according to the weekly crop bulletin issued by the .weather bureau today. I'The bulletin adds that mosti of the tobacco -crop In Vir ginia,'? Kentucky '-and Tennessee has been housed and is being cured. I "The weather 'Was too cool for cot ton in North and South Carolina," says the report "and progress In the first named State was unsatisfacto ry, there being complaints of toll ro and other deterioration, although some, pecking was. in progress. The weather favored picking and feinning almost everywhere and the work is central . South Carolina, ; Southern Georgia, . Tennessee, Alabama, Mis sissippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla homa, Texas and Arizona.; ;; ." '; "Rains delayed picking in Western Florida, and some lint was stained by rain. Cotton is beginning to need rain in Northern Alabama, and boll weevil continue numerous in infested areas. The top crop in Oklahoma is progressing slowly and in Louisiana and Texas little or no top crop is ex pected, owing to boll weevil. Cot ton is reported as being made in the greater portion of Arkansas." AMERICA; LIBERAL IN , GIFTS TO EUROPEANS .Washington, Sept 20. American gifts to the sixty1 principal war re lief societies are . estimated at ?-3,- 830,277.33 by the new year book of 'the Ornet-ie endowment for interr.a- t:,-r.:.l r-ice lelr; distributer t?y, Nor a Peg Toward It More RumorsNew , Bern . fc to Have a , Treaty Sometime. Second Awaits Very Big. Things From Kinston (Special to The Free Press) , Camp Glenn, Sopt' 21 This morn ing Camp Glenn looked just like it has all the time, except fox a lot of surplus rolling stock along the rail road. There was, 'tis truo, a little happier look on most faces than there was this time last - .week, lot ; tho whole brigade has been paid off by now. No man knew when h. ?ot up at revoillc just when he would (goi away for , the border, however, , It seems that the War' Department Is insisting that winter-weight uniforms be issued before the troops get out. Part of the necessary cold weather clothing fa already at hand, and af ter all, the department may let the brigade run along and be Issued the remainder at Fort Bliss. New Bern will get the full treat of the movement. Every train and every one of ;tho 3,200 soldiers will go through thBtplace, and there will start the business of separating, par heading fo'r Wilmington, parfc f ji Goldsboro and part for Chocowinity. Canteen news has it that the.First Infantry will pull out today, but can teen news Is supposed to originate in the minds of thor enlisted men who spring it and no one ever heeds it Only", thero is the difllcutly of sep. aratiiig it from the real article, such as - ouiccrs carry around , in .-incur blouse pockets. . r ' . Personals: Leo Korncgay, Head quarters company, Secondy came back from Kinston thh morning. Says he has a whole Ham and extras coming from home. The whole regiment is on edge with ; expectancy. . Jim Me- hegan, band leader, says someone else has told him the Second's band Is the best in the country. Where is there' a regiment that hasn't been told n- oflicially that Ht is the best in the service t A stable detail man has been caught sleeping with the horses, pre sumably to keep warm. His confede rates in crime aver that he rightful ly belongs with the jajsaases. , ,. . LA GRANGE IS TO SELL FIRST BONDS SHORTLY (Special to The Free Press) LaGrange, Sept 21. Bids are ex pected to be opened on Septembenr 21 for the sale of bond issues totalling factory sale is anticipated, The work $60,000 for street; water and light and sewerage! Improvements " here. The market is good now, and a satis- will be commenced during the Fall, it is expected. For the first time in its history LaGrange will have ; a bonded indebtedness.. . . . .. MIORD'S GOING CRACK STONE FOR A WHILE Richmond, Va,, Sept 20. Convict ed on a charge of bigamy, P. C Blake, a self-styled" English Lord, of EA-andy Station, Va., was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary in Hanover county, : yesterday. Blake admits that he has three wives in Virginia, all living, andr from none of whom has he been divorced or le gally separated. He claims to have been born in "Ballinacola House," Ireland, which he says he still owns. BULLETINS (By the United Press) ELECTROCUTE EJL London, Sept 2L "I am a bloodthirsty man, bat I that tthooting is too good them," declared the Bisliop not say for of London, denouncing white slaTers in a Fpeerh on public morals to- Chamber of Commerce Sec retary Points to Another ' Indication Tliat Kinston's ; Growing Afl ! First-Class Stores Nineteen fourteen and 1915 were years of . big building in Kinston. This is a year of big business. Sec retary Fred. Sutton of the Chamber of "Commerce this morning pointed out the fact that no less than eight or ten mercantile establishments, all of. the' first class, for a town of th size, have been opened within the past sixty days or, are about to be . opened, on Queen street-. . . It is assumed that nearly $100,000 will be (represented in the stocks of these stores. Included are dry goods, ladles' furnishing, ' grocery, 'Jewelry, furniture and other ciruls' of lusin eses. - The' new entcrprises-'will' em-, ploy thirty ' or forty ' persans," and most of these are coming from other places, as have the jfroprictoTa for the mosfpart The Chamber of Com merce has been -risked for information by several other "prospectors, , and the chance . is that still more shops will be started up. The increase in population does not amount to much. !t may be said, but the Chamber Is inclined to take" the view that "every little hlps." It was by accumulat ing little by little of wealth and pop ulation 'that' ' the community has reached its present state of prosper fty,'and"that tho"tmpetus was attain ed - which now is parrying Kinston forward by leaps and bounds. Dur ing the 1900-lirO decadd the city 'out-g-rew all of its melgKbors except Rooky- Mpunt and New Bern. -Dur ing this decade it is rapidly outstrip ping everything in the Eastern part of the' State, and will after the census . of 1920 rank second only to Wilming ton. GREAT STRiiiE APT TOlEINAUGi IW YORK TGNISIIT Neither Owners Nor 'Car- men ShowSign of Veak cning More ' Violence ' Half Million Sympathiz ers May Walk Oiit (By the United Press) New York, Sept. 21 The protract ed traction strike, situation today ap proached a crisis. The .ultimatum of the labor leaders expires tonight There are no signs of wavering on either aids, violence is increasing. A sympathetic strike of half a mil lion workers is threatened to support the carmen. -;-; . ARMY WILLING BUT DT ANXIOUS FOR TRCwDLE : - - H,.: St Louis, Mo., Sept 20.--Sc rota ry of -War Baker, in an address be fore the Business Men's League here today, said that as Secretary of War he discovered that the army d9 not desire war. ' ; ' j "As a civilian," he said," I -believed that a standing army was -a men ace to free institutions, and Cut the professional soldier desired wur. Eut I want to make a confession to you. I have found as Secretary , t f War that the entire army of the Usv!' I States from the commanding ntral to the last enlisted private . 3 r -t desire war. I know of no 1 'y r men who ha?e a more s J. t' tiou to duty t-han the arrry, ' body of men who"wou!J be r ing to lay dawn their " f r ; country, h.''.vevcr,''
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