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VQIf XVIII. No. 83
FIRST EDITION
KENSTON, N. THURSDAY; SEI
TE;MBER 21, 1916
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PRESIDEFff
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Bulbars Claim to Be Getting Best of Fiorina
. v British Advance in West
mans Back in Heavy CounterFrench Take Credit for
Big Gain On Balkan Front Bulgars. Capture Village
and Lose It Again Serbs Still Covering Selves With
Glory Activity Throughout Near Eastern Theater
Austrians and Germans Reported to , Have Cleared
Transylvania of Roumanians and Started Ne,w Inva
sion ,
. ' s 4 ' . (By tfi
r ' Bucharest. Sent 21.
; the offensive along the whole
. officially.' ; :, : - ;
;, New. Invasion of Roumahia. c
Berlin; Sent. 21. The Austro-Germans are advanc
;or a new invasion of Roumanian on the northwestern
frontier, says an official statement The Teutonic forces
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nave occupiea ironuer neignis on uown siues ux, v uicm
Pass, south of Petroseny. .The Roumanians, who advanc-;
ed ten miles into Transylvania have been thrown back to
the frontier. In Dobruqja the battle is deadlocked.
; Admission Allied Staying Qualities- v
Sofi, Sept. 21. The Roumanians are maintaining the
"strongly fortified positions in Dobrudja in the face o
; heavy Bulgarian attacks, it
oatue is increasing in violence, uoin tsmes iiguung wun
great stubbornness. The battle around" Fiorina, Macedo
nia, is developing favorably for the Bulgars. Allied coun
tries have been repulsed with vgreat loss. t 1
British Gain In West. ' , '
London, 3ept.',21. The British advanced south of An-j
: ere last night despite fierce resistance, says General Haigi
e The Germans countered strongly against the New Zeal
anders,. but were 'driven off with heavy losses. - '
French Gain In West; Big-Advantage tj
; Earned In Near East. ' '
Paris, Sept. 21. Thfe French made -two successful vA
tacks northeast of Verdun last night, capturing trenches
? south of Thiaumont and advancing 100 yards in the Vaux
1 Chapitre Woods ft is officially reported- The Germans'
. made no .counters in the Somme sector because of s bad
'weather. j,., .,i.-BI . . ' j;j
; . The French in the Balkans have advanced three miles
upward hill 1550. and taken :fifty prisoners, it is reported,
officially. : r ' r . , t ,
The French made a considerable gain near the frori-
tier, southwest ofMbnastir, the Bulgars the while deliv-i
ering most vicious.ctAinters against advancing Strbs. But4
gars entered Boresnica village, but were. driven out' 'by
' I Serbs.: In violent fighting east of the Cerna river the JBul-'
gars countered strongly against the Allies, in the:nM!-
tains captured by the Serbs early in the .weekUt. were
v driven off. -
JlW AND JEFF IN
THEIR BEST GET-UP ;
y YET IN COMING SHOW
- )n ain, the 1 mertyJmftking
Mutt rtd Jeflf b with 8. Th
- -a9n f ghter is nbout to begin.
.MuttXidJ'ff in a (brand new dresa
Is s.t(y theGrand Theater next
AlWdayth -jigger and 'setter
tn'ow tha)a,w.ppeared before
flitt and. 'jkk w .and sunerior
ffs -can" lire to aWn-lur or'die a$
ad'as V door "nailjfa 'JffiMijfc. f
)iHoed to ;dV;'.but .it'jiV decidedly
the Intereslof both Bud FiaW
nd Gus HUlto aee them, Ijve ' for
jicars innumerable, which they will
d j hn$ as Fisher la able" to fur
nish new dope and up-to-the-minute
comdy situations . and as long as
pus Hill, famishes a tiew and accept-
tole ;Thicle for their stage work.
ofh of ihese gentlemen "seem ta be
successfuljy-keeping'upHheir pace"ai
we present writuyf, Jlluttaod Jeff's
Riding will repcesent the Iasbword
n wusftal comedy production, erery
th ng being-new ,but the name. - The
American public- never wanted to
a'Jeh more than they do at this
. rr.e. They seek comedy even in
jr'picbjres. Gus Hill's mission
;s entry into the theatrical
broduction .eachlsaccMiwyear is an
hit of dipkma(Wn tifevpart of Gus
', ilill; . Bnd PishM'VCVirlc.charac-
Battle
New Zealanders Drive Ger-
United Press)
The Roumanians have , taken
Dobrudja front, it is stated
is officially' admitted. The
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Twenty-six balea of cotton ha
been sold here Thursday by 3:15 Ii-
t : , r .!
clock. Th etaple brought good
prices, ranging from 143-4 to 16 1-2
cents. !
-; New Yrk futures quotations were
January .. . . .,. .' . .11.60 . .164
March 16.17
May ,. .... 16.37
October.. ,.,.'..t.. ...15.94
December . . .15.99
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158
16.15
FAIR BREAKS AND GOOD
PRICES TQ3ACC0 r.IARKEt
? TOWNS -AND COUNTIES
Abou 275,000-pounds of tobacco ik
estimated to have been sold here t
day. The breaks, were rather ilgh
compard with the prices, which"
mained high. - The average was ve:
satisfactory. The gsneral quality tif
the weed was good. There was notic
ing spectacular about the sales. HesJ.
ier breaks are expected Friday,
I
1
producing game, has been .to make
people faugh. Jle is thev-ackBowledg-ed
dean of cartoon comedy produc
tion, never having offered a ?Iay cif
this sort that did not prove a fud-.
cess. '
Subscribe to The Free rress.
T t ,
Will Talk to Grain Dealers
t Mfho Have Much at Stake
' Gets to Work-on Address
Several Days Ahead , of
Time. '
By ROBERT J. BENDER,
( United Press Staff Correspondent)
Asbtfry Park. ' N. J.,' Sept 2L
Great importance is 1 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 oh that occasion , and the re
ecption accorded the speech, they be-
TOve.-wllI have a strong influence in
Rome of he most important voting
strongholds of the country. :
'The' grain det'ers are la intimate
touch with the-farmers, and also ara
aniongihe foremost shippers of the
country, who the railroads say - will
have to "pay the freight as a re
suit of the President's eight-iour leg
islation through Congress. - ,
c Appreciains the importance of th
address,' the President adready has
begun work on it. It is expected to
open up a counter attack for Abe first
time on Hughes on the eight-hour is
sue. Mr. Wilson will leave Balti
more immediately after the speech -
AUSTRALIA ADOPTS -
ARMY CONSTRUCTION
(By the United Press) ""-
' Melbourne, Sept.. 2L The Austra
lian House of ' Representatives ' today
adopted conscription by a vote of 47
to 12. '
The wives and mothers of Austra
lia will go to the polls in few weeks
to. decide whether or not they shall
sertd their husbands and sons to the
war. It will be p.-obably the first
time in the history of the world that
women of any large country have
been permitted to make such a choice.
The conscription measure which pass
ed the House is certf n to pass, Qm.
enateand wiH be submitted -to the
referendum., The general belief is
that the women will. vote for con
scription, t ,
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Of BijIars Pilqd in, JJalkan1
wavmvrJinrce : , Hundred
Reduced to Skeletons-4
Gstiy Sight.That Greet
ed Advancing Serbs -
v (By the United Plress)
, 'London, Sept. 21. Jackals and
hyenas creeping down the mountains
along the Serbian frontier aire feast
in? on bedf of Bulgars and Serbs!
slain in. the5 fierce fighting northeast
oi.Lake Ostrovo. Three hundred
co.rpse pQ in a neap in one ra
vine haven found stripped of
neh by jackals, hyenas and thous
attds of vultures that hovered ovei
the-battlefield tn daytams. .
Th Bulgars had been mowed down
by machine guns. The advancing)
Serbs, found only skeletons, and. bits'
of torn ftnlfdnms.-
Colder weather :k; aiding Serbian
operations on -the Balkan front.
fl (44s.. bemfw. . -v
DEMOCRATIC ORATORS
i (Special ito The Free Press)
RaMgh, Sept. 21. Democrat
campaign orators put in a good, ful)
day in the State Wednesday, purii-.g
the' day am! at night spellbinder
held forth 1 -... follows: , I.; i
At Lincolnton, ExGovernor Ri' Bj
Glenn. At Lenoir, Congressman' R.
Doughton, ist joint debate with
H. iS. Williams, Republican. HAt
E'argaw. Cameron Morrison. fjAi
Morganton, Hon. T, W. Bickett,
nominee for Governor. ' Many lesse:
lights spoke in places in all sectioh
of the State.-
CMDER SEEMS TO IRVE
: NOMINATION SEWED U?
NewYorki Sept. 20. Wdth i rel
turns missing from only about 35p
districts- 4n 1 the Stated inost of them
in .remote rural .sec lions, t'.Wm.jM,
Calder had a lead fqiitgit of approx
imately ?,0(() TOtesJover, Roberts Ba
con, his rhral fo the nomination for
his rhral for.the nomination
United States Senator in the tRepu
lican primary 'yesterday. Indicaj
tions were that the relative stand
ing of the two candidate would not
be materially changed by the com
plete returns. , v' ;;':. v.
ENDORSE BIG ENDOWMENT
FOR METHODIST COLLEGE
GreensborOi fieot. 20. At a Decial
meeting of. the Educatuonai Boards
' tihe two North Carolina Mcthcidist
Cpnferencss here, yesterday the pri-
i position of raising,: $150,000. to oe
used '4 an endowment" fund and f 6r
inrr pavements ito , Jhe buildings 'j- of
GifecisboTo Cjlkge fo Women was
endorsed., if. 'This inst itutton 1 is'sub
ported by-the ' two . conferericea, ' the
f-erfher institution" of tiie two bodierf
ingTrviAi College, at' Ducham.t !
GpifipRtSliS
IKE'
ROUBLE; THE
OF ENGLAND
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A (By the U.-jited Press) ; ;
London, Sept. 21. 43erman propa
gandists re attempting to stir ip
bad "feeling ; between the United
States" and Great iBrif iin' by circula
tion.. of, 'false charges' regarding the
British censorship,' the E'ritish For
eign office today "told the ' United
J. Press. . . ,
, "A certain German wireless news
agency, , and indeed, the whole sys
tem 'of the propaganda, loses ,no op
T r.rtui'y to endeavor to create ill
feeling l-etween Great Britain and
her f;:
said the Foreign C.T.ce,
Government .Demonstration
Agents 'Would Set Up a
Place for "Fair Visitors
From Country With Even
Kitchen In It ,
Miss Grace I. Shaeffer of the Ex
tension service start at Kaieigh, a
specialist, in home domonstration
work, was here Wednesday confer
ring with Miss Adna Edwards, the
enterprising 'local ajrenVon the su"
Jecfof a rest room for country wo
men in the cfty and other phases of
the service. Interest of the Cham
ber of Commerce in the test 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 for women visitros from out of
the city, and has had the entertain
ment to some decree of these women
as a factor of its business policy.
Misses Shaeffer and "Edwards pro
pose to install in! the rest 'room a' kit-
then ' The kitchen would enable the
latter - young woman, whose business
it 13 to be anxious to assist members
of .fter sex in .Lenoir, county "in, , all.
possible ways in, which business, by
the way, she "seems greatly inter-ested-frequently
to ; demonstrate
some new stunt in the culinary art,
especially in the way "of canning and
pickling etc., to her sisters who have
not been 'schooled 1n the ' fashion
which" the "Government requlref its
agents- te- be wheeled in when they
go -forth to teach and preach conser-
vation,g'sneral 'economy and domes
tic science in general. , On days when
there were: nuite a bunch of ladies
'making.' headquarters" atvthe. re3t
room, which would be just like home
if horns happens to be what it ought
to be after the Government stand
ard 'Miss' EdVards 'would "pitch in
and use1 the kttchea : tb-ldemorfstrate
some vt the things Jft her lin.r That
ktcheijtwpvJd; be;jiothins-flensLtioiial,
but,--,well just? Jike , hrae.f
GINNING PROGRESSES
IN COHON BELT;. TOO
COOL, IN CAROLINAS
(Washington, Sept. 20. Ool wea
ther in North Carolina and parts of
South Carolina jhas caused, some dam
age ta, cot ton, but jickingand gin
ning is' proceeding under favorable
circumstances fh mosi of the South
era States, according to the weekly
crop1, bulletin" issued by tte weather
bureau 'todayr The- bTulletiri"""edds -fhalf
mJttf th tobacco rpp- in Vfr
glrel Kontucky Arid'TennesrVe"! hasi
hitfa housed ,and is baing cared.
''ThejWeatherwss'too op? for cot
ton in North, and South Carolina,"
says tha-report, "and progress In the
first named St&ia was .unsatisfacto
ry, there being complaints of boll ro
and '-. other deterioration, although
some pecking was in progress. ': The
weather.favored picking and ginning
almost everywhere and the work;is
central : South' ' Carolina,1 Southern
Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis
sissippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla
homa, Texas and Arizona-' . .1 ,
"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
pec ted, owing ton boll weevil. Cot
ton is reported as being made in the
greater portion of Arkansas." ' .
MIERICA LIBERAL IN '
GIFTS TO EUROPEANS
. Washington, Sept. 20, American
gifts to the sixty principal war .re
lief societies' are estimated at $28,
896,277.35 by the new year book of
the Carnegie endowment for interna-
tional peace Leinjr distributed today.
Nor, a,Peg Toward ItMore
" Rumors New - Bern , to
' 'Have a Treat, Sometime.
Second Awaits Very Big
Things From Kinston
(Spjcial to Tho Free Press)
Camp Glenn, Sept. 21. This morn
ing Camp Glenn looked just like it
has all the time, except for a lot of
surplus rolling stock along the rail
road. There was, His true, a little
happier look on mo&t faces than, there
was this tims last -week, for .; the
whole brigade has ben paid off by
new,. . Na 'man knew when he got up
ptvreveille just when he would get
away for the bqrder, however. It
se;ms that the War Department is
insisting that winter-weight uniforms
be issued before the troops get out.
Part of ; the necessary cold . weather
fclothin.g ita already at hand, and' af
ter all, the department may let the
brigade run along and be issued tlio
remainder -it Fort Bliss.
Jew Bern - will ; get the full treat
.of , the ..movement. Every train and
every, one of thei 3,200" soldiers will
gq through that place, and there will
sart the business: of separating, part
heading for Wilmington, pan iok
Goldsboro Bnd 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 the1 enlisted men whj
spring it and no one ever heeds it.
-, Only, there is the difficutly of sep
arating, it jfrcim the real article, such
as . officers carry, around in their
blouse pockets. (..,.,. .
Personals: Lep Kornegay, Head
quarters company. Second, came back
from Kinston thia morning, i Says :he
fias a whole hamj and extras coming
from home. The whole regiment Is
on' edge 'with expectancy. Jim Me-
heg:an, band leader, says someone else
has-told him the Second's band'is the
best,,in,.tfce .countryi Where is "there
a, regiment ,that hasn't been told un
officially that it ' is ,the best in the
service,? A stable detail man has been
caught sleeping with the "horse s.Dre-
sumabfy to keep ivarm. His confede
rates in crime aver that he rightful
Jy. belongs with tne jassassesV "
LA GRANGE 13 TO SELL
;3:ifiRSTBtes shortly
(Special to. The Free Press)
LaGrapge, Sep. 21. 'Bids are sex?
pected 'tobeopeiied on September 21
for'the sale of bond issues totalling
factory sale is anticipated. The work
fuO.OOO 'for street, water and Iijhi
and' sewerage ' improvements here.
The market is good now, and a satas-win-be
commenced during the Fall,
i: is expected. - For the first time in
its history LaG."ange will have a
bonded indebtedness.
MIORD'S GOING CRACK
A i STONE FOR A WHILE
Richmond, Va., Sept . 20. Convict
ed on a charge of , bigamyi ; P. C.
Blake, a self-styled English Lord, of
E'randy Station, Va was sentenced
to, three years in t'je penitentiary in
Hanover county, yesterday, i ' Blake
admits ' that he has three . wives in
Virginia, all living, and 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 'EM.
London, Sept. 21. "I am
a bloodthirsty man, but I
that shooting is . too good
them," declared the Bishop
not
say
for
of
London, denouncing white slavers
in a speech on public morals to
da?.
OUEEraiEETJ i
FEW VEEKS,-: COASTS
Chamber -Com mcrccrLcc
retary , Points'.tcr Another
Indication That Jiinston's
Growing -AU First-Class
Stores ; w ;''"J
'. Nineteen fourteen and 1915' were
years of big building in Winston.
This is a year of big business," Sect
retary Fred. Sutton of the Chamber
of Commerce this morning' pointed ,
out the fact, that no Jess 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 ttreet. . ;, , -
.It. is assumed that. nearly 100,000
will be represented in the stocks of
these stores. Included are dry goods,
ladies furnishing, grocery, jewelry,
furniture and 1 other1 iinds Jofrbusin
esses". tJThe hew -enterprises- wiH "em
ploy .'thirty- orfwtyt;'-p?s'on,id
most of these -are coming from other
places; laar haver'.thprpHetbrs?Ior
the most part.' ..The. Chamberof J3ooV
merce has been. asked for Jjformation
by several other "prospector'', and
the chance is .,that still, nore4 shops
will be started up. The increase in
population does not amount to much,
it may be said, but the Chamber is
inclined to take the view that "every
little "helps. It was by accumulat
ing little by little of wealth and pop
ulation'! that '.the; .namifluftiy ""1ia8
reached its 'presehttstatcmf prosper
ity, and -that. the. impetus was attain
edr which-ew ia,,earryimj -Xmston
forward by leaps, and. bounds. Dur
ing the 1900-1910 decade the city out
grew "'aH' of 'its' neighbors'-' 1 except
Rocky- Mount'and Ne Bern. Dur
ing this decade- it rapidjy ontstrip.
ping everythjng inthe. Easteiji part
of the State, and will' after 'the census
of 1920 rank second only to Wilming
ton.' 1 "' ':J,: "r:'a -
GREAfliiS
TO BE INAlinultATED
NEW YORK .TONIGHT
Neither Owners "lor Car
men Show, Sign of AVeak-
,3 eninglQrg.YioJeAce, .
Half Million Sympathize
ers May Walk Out
(By the United Press) '
New -York,HSepi- 21-The protract
ed traction strike situation today ap
proached a crisis. The ultimatum of
the labor" leaders - expires " ionfght.
There are no signs of waverinir - on
either side, violence is increasing,
A sympathetic strike of half a mil
lion workers s threatened to support
the carmen.' . it
ARUIY WILLING BUT K3T
: ANXIOUS FOR TR0C2LE
St. Louis. Mo, Sept 20. Secreta
ry of. 'War Efeker, in an address be
fore the Business Men's League here
today, said i that as Secretary ; of
Wtfr he discovered that the army does
nrt desire war. -
' "As a civilian," he said, I thiev
ed that a standing army was si men
ace to free Institutions, and tl.t the
professional soldier desired war. Djt
I want to make a confession to y-u.
I have found as Secretary ct V.'ar
that the entire army of the I' .!'.ej
States from the commanding p 'il
to the last enlisted private d n:l
desire wr. I know of no b cf.
men who hav a more s'rr.'s- -tron
to duty than t!.e tr-y,
body of men who wou'J te r
irqr to lay --- f t !' : '
ccur-try, h