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The Weather Today's New Today" . -r- ' VOL. XVIII. No. 27 SECOND EDITION KINSTON, N". C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, I9iq WUB PACES TQDA ' " EK?SSMmg BENT I PEACE, PROSPERITY, WITHDRAWAL, JOINT' SPLENDID MEETING VILLA BEGINS NEW LABOR ip DECLIi WW. GOVERN.! iGOITY TEACHERS IIIUI ROAD IN LENOIR CO'Y & FAIR FROM 000 TO CROSS BOUNDARY ! ASSfiC'N SATURDAY AT GHIHIMP. CITY EMBARRASS PRESET ON OWN M X lXyatf I.ValWf ON Mm EVERX NOBLE iPlENT PATROL RIGHT ATTACK ON TREViNO TAKE ACTION Mm WAR AGAINST SOFIA ' Chamber of Commerce Wil Carry JJig Bond Issue During the Winter 7 SAY PEOPLE AKL KtADi n m a w w y To Support Movement Every Mile of Principa Hie-hwavs Would Be j-i . Overhauled Limited to Quarter Million Dollars Lenoir county vill in all probabil ily spend a quarter million dollars on its main roads in 1917 and 1918. At a special meeting of the directorate of the Chamber ot Commerce Friday evening it was decided to ask the Rnnrrl of Commissioners to call a bond issue election for the third Tnpsilav in next February. There was 'no dissenting voice. Officials and directors of the Chamber believe ie county will not iturn down this proposition that that influential organization has fostered for years past. The Tobacco Board of Trade also is committed Ito better roads. The two bodies can command a great following in the county. The individual commissioners are all eith er outspoken in favor of road im provements by means of a bond issue or are believed to be favorable. The machinery for the election has l been available since an act was passed by the Legislature allowing the conn ty to soli bonds to the maximum of $250,000. This sum. Chamber of Commerce officials say, would, (to gether with what has already been expended by the county, modernize practically 200 miles, or every mile of main highway in the county. During the three weeks beginning December 1 the Chamber will have a membership campaign on. At a ses sion to celebrate what success may attend this, at its conclusion, the Chamber will select its bravest an 1 best to siari the war in the cause of roads, if a war the movement is necessary to be. Members, however, are inclined to minimize the opposi tion. The dead-set antognism that has been a bugbear also has been a fiction, some think. The committee named will go before the County Commis sioners on the first day of January and ask that the election be called, thereby "properly presenting," as the law exacts, a demnnd fdr such action. Tlie Commissioners, it is thought in some quarters, may re quest a petition signed by a certain proportion of the voting population, "to be on the safe side." Between now and the last of De cember, probably, the Chamber will call a meeting to consider, possihly orgaiiize for, the proposed Kinston Swaflsboro highway.' This road will traverse Lenoir, Jones and Onslow counties, and .the meeting will be held at Trenlbn or Maygville, about midway between this city and Swans-1 of boro. It may be that the conference will not be requested until afteir the bond issue commjttee is appointed, so that the same commjttee that will look lout for the Chamber's interest In that mater can represent it in the business of the intercounty highway. A big committee will be named to wage the campaign for the bond issu in the county. BRIEFS IN TH5 NfWS NEIGHB021NjG TOWNS Greenville is to organize an As sociated Charities. Rev. H. N. Blanchard . of Green ville, Baptist, has been instructed to report for examination for a diap k'ny in the Army." Ife was given he Ppointment some timo ago. One Newr Bern tobacco warehouse ended the aTe teamn Friday. I1 ew Bern Chamber of fem merce af an early meeting will dis ws the proposed boat lin between nd thaf ciry. : V Things to Be Thankful for . This Year, Says Governor In Proclamation "Sped Fell Upon Good Ground; Harvest Plenteous" A proclamation by the Governor," calling upon the people of North Carolina to keep properly Thanksgiv ing: day, next Thursday, has b.-en is sued from the executive office at Ra leigh. It follows: "The seed fell upon good ground. The harvest is plenteous. In the mants of commerc?, In field and in factory industry has been rewarded with a bountiful hand. A prosperity never known before has come to all conditions and classes of men. Our material achievement leads to social advancement, and a higher social or der. Aitruism is militant for the uni versal welfare. Our government is. controlled by a noble purpose, and i . responsive to the demands of the age. As never m any country, no; n any ag?, ha3 equity to a!! men een remembered in the higV-t place f authority. Opportunity has been auchsafed greater than ever before. nd to th? genius and energy of the American people the future unfolds in sublime revelation. "In wealth, in progress, in freedom r.d hope to the people, our P.epuh'.ie is the first of all nations. Sh' has indicated the rights of he- citizens in every land, and has maintained the law of civilization and humanity up on the seas. "In diplomacy and in dealings with all nations, great end small, she has been firm, considerate anil just; tit: simple rule of right is the -tan Ian! that she has sot and steadfastly maintained. Her demands have been conceded, and her rights have been respected when armed nations are ra vaged by war. "Above all, we have peace, the earth has besn consumed conflagration of desolation, i'hc'itly war still sf.rike-.; vr r. hated fury and reaps hit: !" harvest of death and wne. w While by the while .h n ( '(' teen spared to work out th- h't-h purpose of God. "Now, therefore, I, Locke Ct :i". Governor of the State of North Car olina, i" obedience to the custom es tablished by our fathers, and hi cord with the proclamation of tse resident of th? United States, do proclaim Thursday, the 30th day of November, a day of thanksgiving. "And I do call upon the people of .'orth Carolina to meet on th.-.t day in their places of worship and in i'c- vcut gra'titude and humility ren:-rn-ber our abundant blessings. And kt us pray that the power if truth may be quickened ;and our c -n-sciences awakened to know and to do the Will of our Father, that his King dom may come upon earth; that peace may be restored to all the world; that tho Light and 'tha Spirit $.he Prince ot Peace' may again to the peoples wrho drink cup of trembling in the horror of great darkness. "Let us not forget our neighbors and the people of our State who may be humble and in need, nor the wid ow and the orphan in distress, no DABING ATTEMPT BYi GERMAN D'STROY'OSj FOILED BV PATROL! Ma (By the United Press) London, Nov. 23. An attempt by a Ormait' destroyer flotilla on Thursday night to approach the Downs, was f rostrated by patrol vessels, says the Admiralty. Six German destroyers ' wwe fa the squadron. They were slrhted by patrol vessel, when the enemy fired twelve rounds and steamed away. Agreed Upon In Protocol by i Almost Perfect Attendance American-Mexican Cora- iiccorded Messrs. Bros missioners Must Be Bat- j dtn, Taylwr, Wilson and ified By the Two Govern-j Holder Made Interesting ments Atlantic City, Nov. 21. A protocol oviding for the conditional with '.iwal of the American troops now ' Chihuahua", Mexico, and for 'he i rnilitan,- control of the border, st with th? suppVmental stlptila- n that Unite! States troops shall ' sept into .Mexico in pursuit -f r:.!fs vt any time necessary, was "tied here today by the membars o'' Mexican-American joint commls "' If tha protocol is ratified by the ' v. i governments the commission will ! convene again on December 8 to re- - imu the discussion of other questions j artoeCiiig tno (W0 countries, esp?cial those related to the protection of i'fe and property of Americans and 'Vr foreigners in Mexico. If rat i . -it'on by oith?r government is with- M (he work of the conference will d, rl.ared at an end. After the proton 1 w:t? signed. Sec- 'r.v Lane i.-s j .1 a st:t'me!t do- I ! ' eg to a certain eie:st f h.? policy I ' le United t-'ta'o j gov-. rnment io- ' ''1 Mexico. H( stated that hs be- ' v ! (ien.-ra! C: r;a:r a a str.;tigl a at'd that he -hoa!,I be givtvi a '''il ihance." aililin-: -thai "Mexico ''11 e 'eer do right without our holn i Willi it. This is he- choice." :'0MBSTONE FAI LS ON ' HIM, VICTIM DIES A Averv, 'VI, son of A. W. : of Cnve City, dictl in St. Luke's pita!, N:w Bern. Friday night as ?v -tilt of Injury sustained some . ago when a tom'.-'on? foil out i cart on him. Avery was taking '":te to the grave of an aunt, he funeral will be hc-M a! Cove .' i-' r iiay afternoon at - o'clock. . i 1 conducted by IJ.-v. R. K. ' '!'!;- V." odnien of th" World, order A very was, a member, i 1 I a service at the same timj. V. 'o.lni' :i in th':. ;ja:t of the ore invited to be nr:sont. ies his father .Mr. Art , ivod by four sLsiter-s and ry is three umilm umi inn, W WIT!! LOT Om i ... 'D TORPfOO'Bi,';' .'!;.- the United Press) l.'na'iiii. .Nov. 25. The Even ing Shir's Athens correspondent fr:!.:v declared thn.-. the British hos-siHl hi Braemer Castle, : link j es'.erdiiy, was torpedoed, v, hili carrying four hundred Bri tish wounded. G iso v. h. 'i.-astc-. r-'idelicil -ay g, '' have been overtaken by May our sympathies be r.iid strengthened that we in the grace of Charity I toward the realization of the :herhood of men. On this day let our gifts, be gen- w in accordance with our good one, and let us beseech Almighty ' C 1 to give us that due sense of all i mercies that our hearts may be ' . "i i;rnedly thankful, and that wo; -r.v.v forth his praise not only with . r lips, but in cur lives, by giving i ourselves o his s;rviee. and by vv . king before him in holiness and i .rhtoasnesa all our days. "Done in our City of Raleigh, on this the twentieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand j nine hundred and sixteen, and in the one hundred and forty-first year of our American independence. "LOCKE CRAIG, Governor. "By tho Governor: "MAY F. JONES, v "Private Secretary." i t-!!v The Lenoir n hod County .ichers As- a m inte sting r in tho nvei-i iJo'i Street Ch ty morning. It 01 rooms of s'iiti church vas the se ! general meeting n! the countv .,:( i-s tor lite present .ch -el venr .! seventy-one of th" seventy-three ..elv rs were preseti'. of he 8 '.u; renters were iep:eser,ted iiy ! the teachers and they were o .iii'. In recognition of the perfect oi lance and punctuality the Coun ' Boar.! of Education presented :h if the six. group centers with f.iet !' the books to be used in the at'.; reading circle cuurse. '"'tie gi'iisip ee!'(v.; thus honored te: Croup No. 1 Graingers; N.. A'ry Cove; No. H Farm Valley; 4 Mo.: I.'." 7 I'oahorr.a Pink Hill Tavlor of i'ir ( jiiouis and .Mr. C. . ::e 1 lepnrtnti it; ' ef Kast .';! . i 01 ill! T ainim .r the will ; hcre.oil, out eading circle ost the local year in car ;i lively new the Lenoir .0 lan 1 . Ihey ; ' .'irougiioui il', I :!l"f it as . boo! An on this coolpai of the work in association was organ the fallowing officers: Robinson of the Moss ;ci;:al M :!! Jiittrt Il-.olw'i- r'nool, president; Miss E! i' the Lawscn sdiool, first n'; M:si Eunice Albrit l'irny Grove school, sec-e'-'hiit, and Miss Allen Grainger, secretary and ,..o :et I ne i 1 Vice-; G ir-i:ie.- o 1 1 easuri r. The I. a C. A. Br. i-cho-l w:;- Sonool Ii.ttr ment As d. Mrs. Gra'ngcr.s nt; Mrs. also I'.e-i'ec; iv ay of the tt'-l ii.'sid D . q a h i" the Sharon school, mil Miss Myra Out ii'i school, s-'fere'ary-I lei. fftrular niceioig .i.':-.;ion will tie he'd i 'rml'or !. ;i! of the Airy Grove !' : t"e K''oti ci-oi " i.oinceil t he date-; aid the Lc Mis.-. A!'. C-lOol, 1 . j.i cache) . .,-i-rgrnm f. Piinrin.:! liil high I n. year s meetings. . B. Holder of the Pink "ol made an interesting . '. administration, .and o;; Ion, Slat'.e Ag.al ('or s of the Department or i tier,, conducted a mast .feience on gradation ti'.n of the schools, if the Ler.oir Apsecia- ol 'nt, Miss Ida Ether M,ss Hill school, vice Annie Vause of Shut-rotary. Miss Mamie ice's school. They prc- o;i re L. C. 1 S'ch:, :1 ar Tho , in ar i., e of j .-;!. . ion, a" ,M: idin of W'r led at th..- si-:s:on batuulay. lllU. SAVED DIG BUILDING The ti- men Situ:dnv at noon ex- tinguished a blaze on tile reef tof the e Will Baptist College, colored i :'1 i Lincoln Ci; y ' after a mil. ' blowi:. S h only ot) damage, m. A stiff breeze was caused tile blaze, of frame construe- The bui" iing tion. Around a hundred bales vf cotton vere marketed here Saturday. Prices ranged from lf to 20 1-8. New York futures quotations were: Open Close January .. , 2G62 20.97 March 20.90 21.10 May 21.05 21.31 July ,20.99 2L29 October . .18.74 19.11 December f. 20.65 20.87 Tr inii to Exhaust Ammu nit ion of Defense by Spasmodic Detached At tacks Had Been Report ed Defeated (By the United Press) Paso. Nov. 2.'. 9 concerted- i: a.-,.- tt'.lt was begun upon Clilhua huii Cily from three sides sdiorlly ni'Jcr il.r. il-rl.) by Vil'istn bandits, accoidittg to reports reaching .gnvcriu.: cot :ionts here. Small r.iidii-g :;tro,s moved upon the Tit'WMt i;l anced trenches dur ing i lie i,t'l.t to draw the defend ers lire, and !iaL" e General Tret, ino'.s limited supply of um muni! ion. Chihuahua City, Nov. LU, via El Put. Junction--Another attack by the Villa bandits upon this city from the east wa? begun at (! a. m. today and was i ptil.-ed, as were the previ- s attacks by th bandits, with ivy losses to the attacking forces, 'he machine guns again did deadly oci:tiun in 'the ranks of the bandits. MAIR POWHATAN ON FIRE EN ROOT RF8 (By the Unit.el Pres) Ncv; York, Nov. 25. Tho stenm- I'.'V.vh.;: an, en route from Boston NY folk, to,!: Til-- caught fire off Block y, a wireless message ' vessel is said to carry and freight. She is own Merchants and Miners Coast guard cutters are tinny. i losing r.t the fir, nee. coo Ii oik iv ported at 9:15 w; s morning. Yv , Mir!, N . s so 7 the 2"..--Win less ro-un-for what an (i re is tore is no need onl rol and i,h ilir i- assistance. OVERTON CONFESSES HE KILLED LAWLER; SELF-DEFENSE, SAYS iluntsville. Ala., Nov. 24. Probate Judge William T. Lawler, wlwse deaih was lohowrd by the suicides of : JLin:.-ii!o attorney and a sheriff of Madison counly who believed they vore his d done e !;! . i. hi. ii in-i !g. st:-ie ! in connection with aih. was killed thn night of 11. oy David I). Overton, hif al rival, Overton testified hers in los trial on a charge of hav ordi'ie.l the jtti is'. The killing occurred en was in seltYlt 1. lie sr.id h ta Whitesburg use, Overman was attacked a., ! y Lowlor with a knife when he ro r.: to join Lawler in a plan to de lay a leport of tlu1 Ma lison county "ram! jury which then was in ses- si. 11. OvrW.n dec'.." retl he drovfc Lawlar l n the Whitesburg bridge in his bug--y at the lat'.f's suggestion, to dis i -ss political diflieul-'ies which they ni p:d to settle. I!e informed - i.''f Robert Phil lips the tr-i-r dy :l:e night it oc curred, he said, and when ht saw Phillips the next day, the sheriff told him the body "nad not been brought to town and thai: no one would find it." Sheriff Phillips kilhd himself the week after the discovery of Law lor's body, leaving word he could not bear the suspicion he believed was directed against him. Three daya be fore Shelby Pleasants, a Iluntsville attorney, committed suicide. ; BOY, PLEASE PAGE ADAM. London, Nov. 25. The Garden of Edn is the same old garden. A To ronto army surgeon reported that his surgical kit was stolen, one night as he slept in the cradle of Origjpal Sin. Will Not Qo On Record. As Opposed to Short Day Through Legislation May Be Several Weeks Af ter New Year's Before Supreme Curt Renders Opinion Up to Highest Tribunal Now (By the United Press) l.'altimore, Nov. 25. The American Federation of Labor today refused to go on record agajnst efforts to obtain he eight-hour Jaw through legisla Jon. Thfc desire not to embarrass President Wilson becauso of his work in forcing the eight-hour law for railroaders was tho apparent cause of the convention's action. 's Up to Supreme Court Now. Washington, Nov. 25. The ques i-n of the constitutionality of the t lamsan eight-hour law is up to the nited States Supreme Court with he fcrmal filing of papers expected Monday a: Tuesday. Whether the highs st tribunal is willing to speed up its proverbially slow-moving ju licial machinery in order to dispose -f tthe case by January 1, remains a l-iestian, although it is believed tlrongly that it will be several weekj after New Year's before a decision is naa. PJTil w IL ARRIVE Dlf WEEK (By the tlnited Press) Now York, Nov. 25. Another it ream of British fiold, totaling fif- tv million dollars, will begin to pair into the Unj'.cd States Monday to offset the new British loan being sought here. Four hundred and sev enty millions of gold have come to' the United States in 'the last four mouths. MULE HID TO BE PUT TO DEATH AFTER BAD RUNAWAY QUEEN STREET A mule of a pair drawing a truck had to be killed after the team, run ning away, collidrd with a telephone polo at North and Queen streots Saturday morning about 8 o'clock. The animal had a broken leg. One cf three hegsheads of tobacco on (he truck rolled off upon the mule. The mule was owned by Copeland Bros, and the tobacco by the Export Loaf Company. The to'tal damage to the outfit including the loss of the animal, valued at SHOO, Was about IK". $.150. A milk wagon from the Tull dairy was smashed up to some extent when the runaway team ran into it. The runaway was exciting. It started at the Export Company's place in Norh Kinston when flying paper, is is suposed, blew around the mule's hoves. There followed a wild dash down Queen street. Tho colored driver jumped off when the reins parted. The mules, it is thought, were making for the stables on North street in their panic. SCATTER LONDON'S ASHES IN BELOVED 'VALLEY OF MOON' (By the United Press) Santa Rosa, Cal, Nov. 25. The ashes of Jack London were taken td Glen Elen, where tomorrow they will be scattered "to the four winds to find their last resting place in "the ralley of the' moon," ; mm in Creefc Provisional Govern ment Formally Declares, Athens Reports Teuton Drive On Roumani an Capital Seems to Have Started In Great Rattle In the Bfijk ans Before Long (By the United Preas) Athens, Nov. 25; The Greek pro visional government, headed by ex IVemier Venizelos, has declared wax on 'Bulgaria. Ormaug Advance On Bucharest. f, London, Nov." 261 'the $arinn drive on Bucharest has apparently If. started. The reported crossing of the Danube by Teutons at Simnitia -V Sf,!''1-'" and Von Macken-sen's reported arosa- . f S . ' no - i i.ng in Dobrudja and ihe reforming of the Roumanian lines in the Atl valley, all lead military expert to btdleve the forces are being depwn" up for one of the greatest etrutfgles :. the Balkan campaign. Rains In West London, Nov. 25. Heavy ' rlina h 've iimgeded operations " in the Somme region, 'General 9adg xeporW. ' " 'U;?, Berlin, iNov. $5. The .puccesful c -ossing of " tlie Dahube and teetVer ir.y"of a foothold on Rounlahian" ioil aeai Rpcovite is officially reported. i'elrogrud Gives Bad News. .'i?; PetrogTad, NoV"l Z3l Admieslpn tnat the Teutons have creased' -tae Danubs near Slmnitza and 'Uiat the Roumanians ha'' been pushed '-tack in the Atl valley is maderaftho wr office. MEMORIAL SERVICE E I 0N9R FRANZ JOSEF (By the UnitetJ Preas) Washington, Nov. '25. The Presi dent, Mrs. Wilson, members of the United States Supreme iCourt, lead ers ot congress, anu au arnassa- dors and ministers of the nations al lied with the Cemtral Powers ;and' neutral nations, wilf attend elaborate memorial service in honor of the late Emperor Faanz Josef W,edmwday. Cardinal Gibbons will preside. HAVE ClARGE SCp'L INSPEGTIQM SERVICE Miss Fannie G. Stokerr of WIaiing ton will report here December jl; to take charge of the medical inspect ion wiitk in the City School j. was Information givan out by Stten tcnueit K. R. Curtis Saturday, ftiss Stolter is now in Durham, ta-in a school inspection work, ghe J Re puted to be a well-qualified Pgrpoo f.c the work- ;' BIG NAVAL BILL TO B FIRST TO HI PIITON W ab.lngtojn, 2$a.: 24 The ,4fl8 naval apprpprJatjon bill probably ylll readjr for eonsideratjoo the P ipse when Congress 'convenes next V'uth, J despite the fact 4hat"tt Will ctrrj a total of nearly ? 400,00,000.'
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