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VOL. XVIII.-NO. 97
' i FIRST EDITION
KINSTON.N.O, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916
FOUR PAGES TODAY
PK1CE TWO CENTS ' ,
FIVE, CENTS ON TIIAINS
CULLEN COMMITTED
iru mum it
FOR FINE
TO CIVE ;CIIARITIE8 BETTING IS TEN TO
FRANCE WILL MAKE
WILL HAVE AN EASY TO ASYLUM; MAY BE
GIVES THE ORDERS
PAGEANT TO START
FAIR OFF TUESDAY
NEW LEASE ON LIFE
SEVEN IN G. 0. P.
CANDIDATE'S FAVOR
WINTER UNPLEAS'NT
FOR GERMAN ARrtllFS -
TIME IN ELECTION HOPELESSLY CRAZY
TO ATHENS POLICE
AT MEETING SUNDAY
CONFIDENT
nrnlinninnr
IWUMU
Democratic Leaders Pre
dict Landslide; President
Himself Satisfied
PENNSY WAS AGREEABLE
Crowds In the Republican
Stronghold Gave Execu
tive, Glad Hand Two
Strenuous Weeks Ahead
of Campaigners
(By the United Press)
Shadow Lawn, Oct. 21. Back after
what ho regard Bah the "most sue
cessful trip" of his campaign, Presi
w;lann tnHsv DreDared to
WCIIb ll tw v
launch his nrost vigorous efforts du
ring the two remaining weeks before
election .
Wednesday he leaves for Cincin
nati, returning Saturday.
Democratic leaders no longer mere
believe the President will "carry the
election." They are predicting an ab
solute "landslide." They are a very
confident group. They believe the
ovations from crowds at every sta
tion in rock-ribbed Republican Penn
sylvania indicated the "way of the
tide." The President is confident the
verdict of the voters 'will be favor
able to him.
teGAHET MASON'S
WEEKLY TRAVELOGUE
First Lyceum Attraction Was High'
ly Satisfactory Miss Harris, Read
r. and Miss Lawrence, Harpist
Representative and Appreciative
Audience
By MARGARET MASON,
(Written for the United Press)
All the bugs are full of tricks
Down in Rio Bay
Folks are also full of ticks
On their jungle way.
Then to nearly drive 'em frantic
As they start to flea
Ant and tick cut up an antic
Ere they let 'em bee.
JC
Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 20. (By
Mail) -Brazil abounds in bugs hu
man and otherwise. Joyous little
; fleas leap lightly from limb to lim j.
, You may flee your bed but youH not
flee the flea. Strange as it may seem
you won't find a tick in your bed,
though. The festive tick nests rath
er in the jungle. When you go moun
tain climbing, or orchid hunting or
, butterfly chasing you'd better watch
cut for ticks for you're sure to be
covered with them. If you keep a
watch on your wrist you's find as
manias aixty tifks a minute, I know
a man personally who made this
, ticklish.
Brazil is the happy hunting
ground of the ant, relatively speak
ing. There are all sorts and condi
tions of ants, big and little, red,
brown and black. A" young American
engineer told me of an ' ant experi
We h eonce had in the interior , of
the country,; He stopped his horse to
wt lender a huge tree, and when the
.torse samped and pranced around he
investigated. : The whole ground ap
peared to.fce moving, with, a vast "ar
ray of ants while up in the tree was
Wother , -mess of ,thsm .cutting the
, in .half .and .dropping, .them
,Swn to the ants below, who carried
,them away.' The young engineer
..said when he came -back over , this
r''"ttt 4 in a couple .of hours tor
..tree was stripped absolutely bare. ,
As an readily be seen, ants are
, wither rough on vegetation and when
ey Mt in -- an orange grove they
trP !t single night. . "V ,
; t'P in the interior the natives gev
ith the Wg fat'smtOy eat"
n them. They roast them till they
;P. This i considered a great dl
f'' and longh I sever tried any
. style iVe h,a vera! amaO !
Mte served in my aoup.' .
A meek UttU bug U one that sart
(By the United Press)
Pittsburg; Oct 21. Richard Cul-
len, the youth who yesterday per
sisteptly attempted to reach Presi
dent "Wilson during the executive's
automobile tour of the city, may
spend the remainder of his line in an
asylum. Jie was committed to Mar
shall's asylum today following an
Investigation iy physicians.
Cullen maintains that he only
wanted to interview the President in
regard to his foreign policies. The
Cullen family physician reported that
he treated Cullen Thursday for acute
mental disorders.
in ai me iaoi 10 get a we noui on
life. It burrows in under your toe
nail and proceeds to lay ejrjrs and
establish a cozy little home in toto.
An ingenuous young Yankee who de
cided to .leave one nesting in hi toe
till he got back to the U. S. A
where his doctor brother could do
some research work only lost three
of his toes as an outcome of his sci
entific enthusiasm.
,A natlty little gnat swarms around
the lights down in the town until it
gets tired.''kThen it shed3 its wins
and proceeds to cat up all the wood
en furniture and household fixtures
in sight. Native wood is just pie for
A dining room suite is only a
light lunch. That is why wood for
finishing houses and making furni
ture is mostly imported here. This
little insect has a great literary bent
also and has been known to go
through a complete set of Shakes
peare in a single night
Any thing in spiders from a teeny
weeny ne to a tarantula can lie spied
around Rio and (there is an insect
jike, our cricketjonly three times as
large, triat serenades you madly in a
great chorus when the night begins
to fall. It is tobacco brown in color
with a blunt head and has been chris
tened "Cigaro" because by a wild
stretch of the imaginati'on, i(;jnay be
said to resemble a cigar .tutt.". Three
opal like jewels are setVfn its fore
head. Other jeweled bugs are the
many irridescent beetles that abound
here. Of the legion of gorgeous but
terflies one of black and scairlut is
especially odd with a perfect figure
88 on each rear wing.
And yet with this great array of
insect life f which I have only cited
a paltry portion, Rio doesn't need
screens in its windows. It lacks tht
two greatest insect pests of the U.
S. A., the house-fly and the mosqui
to. Not but what it was formerly
filthy with this pernicious pair but
the government got busy. They es
tablished a department of sanitary
police who spend their time tracking
m$S( uitos to their lair and swatting
flies. All water supplies are regu
larly personally inspected and no
pools of till waiter allowed to col
lect anywhere hereabouts.
I saw a squad of these sanitary po
lice in a paitrol wagon the other day
on the Avenida Rio Dronco. They
were all heavily equipped with guns
and cartridge belts. I suppose they
were going out to hunt mosquitos.
FANNIE WARD .
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Admiral Appointed "Chief
Inspector" by Ministry-
Maintains Discipline Ne
gotiations Temporarily
Hatted J
(By the United Press)
London,, Oct. 21. Vice Admiral
Dufotiniett, commanding the Allied
fleet in Greek waters, has assumed
control of the situation at Athens,
and taken drastic steps to prevent
further rioting.
ureek police and gendarmes now
pot form their duties under the eye
'f tlv.' French commander, who ap
Proves all police orders. He receiv.
"1 those powers through appoint
ment hv the Greek ministry as chie
insR'c'or.
Athens dispatches report that tbe
new arrangement has brought calm
(o the Greek capital, though negotia
tions with the Allies aro temporarily
uspended.
THIS STUFF WILL GO
FINE AS A SORT OF
SONG-STORY, MAYBE
A "hymn of love" has been com
posed hy "Col. T. a. Asntora, a
well-known staunch old Democratic
enlhusias tcf the city. The Colonel
has been down with an attack of rheu
matism, and lyinjr in bed he hit upon
the following, which he hopes to have
adopted by the County Executive
committee and su ng by a quartet
comprised by Assembly Nominee
Henry Brothers, basso; Register of
Deeds Carl Fridgen, tenor; Sheriff A.
V. Taylor, baritone, and Treasurer
John Dawson, high tenor;
"Come humble radical in whose breast
All .political tricks doth lie;
Come with your guilt, your fears
suppress.
And vote the( Democratic ticket
without a sigh.
Thtn upon your path will shine
Stars of triumph bye and bye."
A courthi:use critic who passed up
'on the composition Saturday morning
said there was something familiar
about the general trend of the thing;
it seemed to him that he heard some
thing of the sort the time he went to
church several years ago. The words
do not run as smoothly as they should
in one-or two places, and Col. 'Ash-
ford is not certain that his sentence
construction i; correct. Ail defects
can be overcome by the quartet, how
ever, he says; 'hey can smooth over
the bad place- with variations. The
one stanza i- .uflicicnt, ha asserts,
because it's n the Republican's na
ture to be . . picion, and it won't do
to sing to him too much at a time.
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Parade Two Miles Lonjf
With Many Spectacular
Features Promised
MANY MOUNTED MARSHL'S
Three Hundred Expected to
Ride at Head of Massed
Array of Section's Com
nirrcial, Infflistrial, Edu
cational Forces
Cliie-f Marshal Harvey C. Hines and
assistant chief marshals at a meet
ing late Friday afterifoon outlined the
plans for the big parade, on Tuesday
which will open the annual Ton-Coun-
ly-Biight Leaf Tobacco Belt Fair'
The big processional spectacle is
scheduled to move at 10 a. m. The
various sections will assemble and
march in the parade as follows: ,
Mounted marshals, directed by Dr.
Lunsford Abbott and Dr. W. C.
Knox, on King street, between Queen
and McLewoan. There are expected
to be at least 300 of these, including
about 250 from out of the city.
Decorated automobiles for guests
of honor who will include honorary
vice-presidents of the Fair Associa
tion from out of town and others
and other decorajted cars, on King
street, between SlcLewean and Inde
pendent. J. J. Stevenson will di
rect the section reserved for the use
of the honor guests, and L. K. Ih-
Roque the others.
Fire department.
Commercial floats, directed by T.
V. Moseley, on McLewean between
King and 'Bright,
Agricultural floats, O. F. McCra-
y director, on muopenoent setween
King and Bright.
Educational section, directed by E.
D. Lewis, on McLewean between
King and Gordon.
The line of march will be up Queen
o Vernon avenue, thence out. Vernon
and the Central highway. Rcturn-
ng, the units of the procession will
urn io Rhem and Pollock streots
from the Highway, thence back d'own
town via Lenoir avenue. Mayor Sut
ton and Police Chief Skinner aidad
n arranging the routes.
The Educational section will be
what is described as a "pageant,"
and promises to be quite spectacular.
Its units will be in this order:. Two,
horsemen bearintr a banner, inscrib
ed "Education," floats devoted to
work in the public schools, the city
grammar school, athletics, music, the
school nurse (medical inspection),
the home demonstration work and
canning clubs, farm demonstration
work and pig and corn clubs, and
"America." The last-named float
will be a beautiful affair, it is said.
The whole parade is expected to be
two miles long.
Rome, Oct. 20. Ffld Marshal Fal
kenhayne, fonrndr chief of the general
staff of the German army, has been
wounded in a leg and forced to re
linquish ermmand of the Teutonic
armies in Transylvania, according to
a Zurich dispatch.
Scene in' "Robin Hood
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Organization ; Which Re
cently Had But 7 Cents
In Treasury to Get Boost
At Interdenominational
Conference Sunday
The congregations of white people
in the city aro to meet together in
Gordon Street Christian church Sun
day night to give the Ignited Chari
ties a start for th? winter. This is
something that concerns everybody in
town, and all citizens are invited to
lo present. Every church that can
possibly do so is asked to forego its
own evening service and contribute
its attendance to this union meeting.
Captain M. . Vendevillo of the Sal
vation Army will make a 'brief talk
and Rev. Marshall Craig, the new
and popular pastor of the First Bap
tist church, will make an address.
Singers of the city's churches will
load the congregation fai familiar
songs.
"This will he a great meeting. The
people of Kins-ton love to got to
gether and they are interested in the
care of their unfortunate neighbors,"
says Mr. B. P. Smith, pastor of
Gordon Street church.
THREE ADS CUT OUT
FOR STOCK BROKERS
PREY OF THE POLICE
Johnny Oliver, Joe Oliver and Alex.
Jones, young boya, were arrested Fri
day night foir the alleged larceny of
$150 from J. W. Tilghman, a Greene
county planter. The police aay the
trio of urchins were extraordinarily
accommodating in assisting Tilghmaa
to hitch up his horse at a tobacco
warehouse, and believe they "copped"
the money when thus benevolently
engaged. Patrolman George Rouse
recovered between $70 and $75 from
the Oliver boys when he took them
into custody at the home of their
mother in East Kinston. They ac
cused Jones of having the remainder
of themoney; ho asserted .that such
was not the case. The three were
locked up in the county jail.
GOOD LOT SPEAKING
TALENT AT WALLER'S
Hon. N. J. Rouse was4he princi
pal speaker at, tho Democratic rally
;it. Waller's schoolhouse Friday. Mr.
Mr. Roiua discussed national, State
and local .uffii's, and paid a hl'jh
compliment to conditions in nl' three
administrations.
Other orators were Joseph Daw
son, Esq., Sheriff Taylor, Register of
Deeds IVidgen, Nominee for Repre
sentative Brothers, Tre-nuw John
Dawson and Chairman of Commis
sioners Churchill.
Four pigs were consumed. The
barbecue which is an established cus
tom at political meetings in the
county was no small part of the pro
gram at Waller's schoolhouse.
" famous opera ta
(By the United Prossl
New York, Oct. 26. Forty
thousand dollars in election bets
has been placed, mostly for Mr.
Hughes at the rate of ten to seven.
LOWERY-LAWRENCE TEAM
GAVE PLEASING PROGRAM
Fashion Expert's Still In Rio Na
tives Take Uevonge on Insects In
Brazil Interior Charming Capital
Doesn't Need Screens, Though
Sanitary Perfection,
An evening of delightful diversion
was afford.Ki by the Lowery-Livwrcnco
enteitainera of the Piedmont Lyceum
Association in the first of the lyceum
attractions, which have been arrang
ed for, Kinston this season. Miss
Francis La wirenco, harpist, and Miss
Mario Harris, reader, composed tho
team, and they rendered a most
pleasing program of music and ire-
citation, a happy blending of the se
rious with the buoyant
. The entertainment was given in
ihi Sunday school auditorium of the
K-st uapiut cnurcn, tne acousucs ot j
which aro very good, Friday night at'
8:30 o'clock. The pastor, Rev. W.
Marshall Craig, welcomed the audi
ence most cordially and happily jyre
scnted Misses Lawrence and Harrif.
Mis3 Lawrenco opened the program
with two selection from the opera
MLuc?t,'; the "Souvenir" pnd the
"Sextette" being most capably rend
ered. She explained the development
of the harp, calling attention to the
fact'-' that it was one of the oldest of
musical instruments, antedating the
Bible cl.'o!g4wt.--At"fiT8t' shg-ettidl
the harp had but seven strings, but
the one. she performed with Friday
night, had forty-sevein A repertoire
of patriotic song3 so pleasingly play
ed by the harpist was greatly appre
ciated by the audience. "Old Black
Joe" and "Aux Italliep.s" rounded out
heir most satisfactory program.
Miss Harris' readings included
Kipling's "If," "My White Rose,"
"The Street Car." "The Little Rebel"
and musical readings, accompanied
by Miss Lawrence. Particularly
amusing was the "take-off" of tho
conversation, often overheard on
atreet car andvthe heavier and path- will be succeeded at Washington by V
ctic "Littlest Rebel" was translated Luis Cftbrera, present head of Mexi
most impressively. , can Peace Commissioners, it is" re-.
. The series of lyceum attractions ported. .'
consisting of five numbers, are being !" - . : . ;
given under tho auspices of the M-otn-- IH rriir nil u '
ers' Ciuib. The net proceeds will go VARIETY IN THE BILL .' '
to swell the playground f,u.il. 'fhi
next attraction will be given on the
evening of November 9th.
STARTS SOLVING THE
DYE SHORTAGE PROBLEM
.
(By tho United Press)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. ti. (By j
Mail) An aniline dye' factnry has ;
been established at Juiz de Fora; '
State of Minas Geraee. From its .
initial work excellent results have!
been obtained: Dritish repre-scnta-'
tives are trying to learn whether it j
has German backing. Ostensibly it
is of local ownership. j
4 wsJ'
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be presented at the Grand Theatre Tcr::'-t
Intends, to Harrass Enemy,
Throughout Cold Season; ;
Foes Nervous i'
GALLANT SERBS GAINING
Marching Against .Bulgar
Position Barring, Way to
Konastir Stiff Fighting
in Dobrudja, Petrograd
Reports
By WILLIAM PHILLIP SIMMS,
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Paris, Oct. 21.- The Germans ap
parently are trying to regain the in-
Riotive in the Somme fighting. Re-,
peated terrific countir attacks have
Veen delivered by the Teutons, espe
cially north of the river, the past few
days, preceded by a heavy expendi
ture of ammunition, , Each .of these
blows, according to French headquar-
rs, g been shattered one aner
nnother. Germans 1 invariably
,., ,.., flpfl 6v ' VAejtIlt
ground, wasting bhells lavishly, lth-
it because-of bad directing toy their
rwmtors or nervousness of the com-'
I mandurs, ; fearini unexpected -at-
; . - :; , ' t.
Pi anos is determined to continue .
battering the German lines, all win-'
tor, despite rain antf snow, maintain-:
inff be initiative nd demoralizing .
the' enemy, and preventing the trans- v.-.-,
f ir cf tfuopn to other, front!. ;; The
pLn ia'to keep France's own troops i
as ccm'torUhTa as possible during the
winter, r,a the German troops' as
uncomfortable e posjible.
flRREDONDO WILL BE; ;
RECALLED FR0MU.S.
(By the United Press).
JVt.xico City, Oct. 21. Eliseo Ar- '
cdondor ambassador, designate at
Washington, will return to 'Mexico to
absume a place in th eCarranra cab- ;
a ini, it is authoritatively learned. He ,
RECORDER'S PUTTING UP
j The following were named defend
I ants in Saturday morning's " Police
i
Court (rocket: Mac Sparrow, charged 1
vkh transporting whisky; Frank
' Smi'h, accused of throwing roeks' on
I ptrceU; Libby Harper, alleged to
j hive struck and abused Frank Smith;
Corina Bunting, stated to have . used
profane language and assaulted
George Arthur while under the infill-.
c-nce of spirits; Walter Eaton, ar- .
rested on an all-ombracing warrant
on a charge of having liquor for sale,
and Alex. Jones, Joe Oliver and John
Oliver, accused of having robbed a
planter of $150. ' j '
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