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' Ca" P""" Suffering From "No Man's Land" Should Be Answered With Liberal ConJibutions to the Red Cross PUBLISHEID) SEW-WEEKLY tawn ALL POME PRMT VOLUME XXXIIL EWAL OF VAST TEUTON FL OFFENSIVE IN WEST IS EXPECTED THIS WEEK Allied Staffs Appear Convinced En cinv is Ready to Strike When the V.'-atliec1 Suits German Public Opinion Being Prepared by Von Hurtling for Renewed Fighting. Three weeks have passed since the German offensive, begun on Maxell 21, died down at its final ac tive point in futile assaults on the Flinders front. Every indication, rowever, points to the probability that the' coming week will witness its renewal. Americans are Ready. American troops are shoulder-to-shoulder with the French and Brit ish in Picardy, while . in Flanders, American units are training close behind the battle lines, ready to go in immediately if necessary. In both places the number of Americans is being increased at a rate not hoped for only a few months ago, and in the two American sectors farther south, the lines are being strength ened and extended daily. On the Firing Line. With more than '500,000 men ov er seas, the United States forces are occupying their full share of the fighting line. It was announced Sunday that the actual frontage held is third in extent at this time, hav ing exceeded the length of the Bel gian sector when American troops came into line with the French in Picardy. In Picardy and Flanders. officials here believe that the' German high command is so heav ily committeed to the Picardy and Flanders sectors in its offensive plans that no serious effort else where along the front is to be ex pected. It therefore appears cer tain that when the new blow is struck, Americans will share in in creasing numbers from month to month in the German defeat." " One Million Men. The rate at which troops - are be ing sent overseas is rising from week to week. Figures may not be published under thw rules of volun tary censorship, but Secretary Bak er's recent statement that 500,000 men had been dispatched is regard ed as already out of date. JAPAN AND CHINA REACH AN AGREEMENT Japan and China Agree to Preserve Peace in the Far East. (Washington Special) Of far reaching importance is the announcement that Japan and Chi na have at last signed a definite agreement "to preserve the peace of the far east" against German ag gression through Russia and Siber ia. . The purpose of the movement ac cording to a well informed reflec tion of entente sentiment is to de ter Russia from lending Germany man-power for use on the western front. The combination of these two countries is all that has been need ed for the heading off of the Ger mans in Sirberia. It is called an arrangement for "military co-operation." it is in fact the calling of the Japanese armies to the support of the Allies. It brings these two countries and their resources into the war. STORES TO CLOSE. Everybody Will See the Soldiers Leave Saturday. In order to give everybody a chance to see the , soldiers entrain here Saturday, all of the business houpep of Oxford will be closed from 11:30 to 12:30. ., The stores will be closed this Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock to wit ness the Red Cross parade. Every body win De governed according- THIUD LOAN IS ABOVE FOUR BILLION MARK. Inofficial reports to the Treasry indicated that the Third Liberty Loan total had gone above $4,000, Jft0,000 and might reach $4,250, 00 0.0 00. The exact total will be n"Lade known this week. Patriotic Odd Fellows. m i their meeting last week the tn , llows of Oxford donated $100 o h local Chapter of the Ameri can Tied Cross; $100 to the Odd aiows Home in War Savings -tamps and $100 in cash to the same institution. THE Its y PARADE TH 2 5 D (J R COURT HOUSE To the Peop The Prr 2 0-2 7 th., aa'W United States are asked to raise a Second Red Cross War Fund of one hundred million dollars for war relief among our soldiers and sailors and those of our allies. The amount to be raised in Granville County is a Large one, but we confidently believe that our people will give generouslv to this most worthy fund. The undersigned has been appointed by the Chairman of the Gran ville County Chapter of the American Red Cross as Chairman of the Committee for Granville County on the Red Cross War Fund. I have accordingly appointed a large number of citizens to act with me on this Committee. This being a call to service and to the kind of service that will at once appeal to your generosity, the Committee know that you will make their work easy by coming forward promptly and subscribing to this fund. It is not necessary to explain what the Red Cross is, you already know that our Government has committed to the Red Cross the care of the sick and wounded among our soldiers and sailors whereever and whenever they may need it. You realize that already a large number of Granville County men have entered the service to fight for human-liberty to fight for you. This is our opportunity to let our boys know that we are standing behind them. Think of what you can afford to give and then double it. WE MUST GO OVER THE TOP.' W. H. HUNT, Chapter War Fund Chairman. " Parade and Speaking. Chairman Hunt has arranged for this Tuesday to be Red Cross Day. This day will be dedicated to rais ing Granville County's allotment to the Second Red Cross War Fund. At five o'clock P. M. a parade will be formed and will traverse the principal streets of the town. At 8:30 o'clock P. M. a mass meeting will be held in the Court House, and Mr. I. W. Hughes of Henderson, N. C, will give an ad dress on Red Cross War Work. The people of the County are urged to be present at this meeting, for this is one way that you can let our boys know that you are thinking of them. Soliciting Teams. Mr. W. H. Hunt Chapter Wa? Fund Chairman, held a meeting of his Committee on Saturday night and planned for the Red Cross War Fund Campaign. In order to cover the entire town quickly and without confusion the following soliciting teams were named: Team No. 1 Mr. R. P. Taylor, DEPOT BRIGADE SYSTEM CORE OF NATIONAL ARMY Plan Most Comprehensive Scheme For Use of Man-Power. (Washington Special) Profiting by England's mistake, the war department has organized a depot brigade system which shall be the core of the national army, and wherein a classification of men will prevent useless sacrifice of those, available for industrial vice. Comprehensive Scheme. Details of the plan show ser- that there will be a depot brigade con sisting of 12 battalions of 1,000 men each, at each cantonment. The de pot brigade will be entirely sepa rate, however, from the divisions, except for supply. Every Man Will Pass Through. Every man called in the draft beginning May 25 will pass through the depot brigades. Personnel com panies are being organized at the camps to take care of the influx each company having a captain, two lieutenants and 79 men, mostly non-commissioned. When a drafted zier, Miss Grace Frazier, Miss Al ma n reaches camp one of his first iene Averett, Miss Eva Hobgood, steps will be to submit' to an exa- Miss Grace Currin, Miss Ruth Cur mination by the personnel officers rm Mrs. F. L. Currin, Mrs. Her to ascertain y his experience as a!man Currin, Mrs. C. D. Currin, Mrs. worker, business or prerssionai man. Men Will Be Tested. The army is not going to be sat isfied with a . man's statement that he is a carpenter. Trade will be conducted at each depot brigade to determine the degree of a man's ex periences in his given line of work. Three Month's Training. The average period of training in the depot brigades will be three months. Dollar Day. The Anchor Store in Henderson will have Dollar Day Wednesday, May 2 2d. Read the announcement in this paper and be on hand to get your share of the. bargains. - FORD, NORTH CAROLINA WEDNESDAY, OSS D 7? T 1 F V J iSDAY AFTERNOON AND MASS MEETING IN THE ! AT 8:30 P. M. ranville County: fof the United States has set aside the week of May CROSS WEEK", during: which the Dennis ' n . captain; Miss Mary Webb, Miss An nie Crews, Mr. D. K. Taylor. Team No. 2 Mr. S. M. Watkins, captain; Miss Esther Mitchell, Mrs. S. M. Watkins, Mrs. J. M. Farrish, Mr. J. M. Farrish. Team No. 3 Mr. J. S. King, cap tain; Mr. W. Z. Mitchell, Mrs. J. C. Robards, Miss Hixie White, Mr. J. W. Horner. Team No. 4 Mr. J. M. Baird, captain; Mrs. W. B. Ballou, Mrs. R. P. Taylor, Mrs. W. D. Bryan, C. S. Garman, M. P. Chamblee. Team No. 5 W. H. Fleming, captain; Mrs. J. F. Veasey, Miss Helen R oyster, Mrs. Mary C. Evins, B .. K." Lassiter. :; " Tj, y Team No. 6 Mr. . R. H. Lewis, captain; C. "O. Mainor, D. Fi Lan ier, W. H. Long. Team No. 7 at large Mr. Andrew Jamieson, captain; Mr. J. Robt. Wood, J. R. Hall, C D. Ray, I. W. Mangum. W. L. Mitchell, B. S. Roy ster, Mrs. T. Lanier, Mrs. S. H. Pritehard, Miss Margaret Capehart, Miss Lela Routon, Miss Estelle White, Miss Gray Yancey, L. F. Per kinson. The Campaign in the county will be largely covered by the Red Cross Auxiliaries. RED CROSS CALLS TO STATE'S PATRIOTS. General Pershing Sends the Follow ing Message to the American People. No other organization since the world began has ever done y such great constructive work the efficiency, dispatch, under standing, often under adverse circumstances, that has been done in France by the Ameri can Red Cross in the last six months. The Red Cross helped the American army to begin its bat tles for ideals and democracy, even before our machine guns and bursting shells have car ried the message. LOCAL RED CROSS NEWS. The following ladies - worked the past week for the Enon Red Cross Auxiliary: Mrs. T. Y. Cur- rin, Miss Mamie Daniel, Miss Bes sie Hester, Mrsfl Kathlene Hunt, Mrs. Norman Cole, Miss Marie Fra- , t. G. Currin. The Granville County Chapter acknowledges a donation of $1.00 from Buchanan school. The Chapter added the follow ing members last week: Mrs. C. L. WTheeler, Providence; Mrs. Lucy Powell, Miss Bettie Jordan, Mrs. El vin Parham. Gasoline and Cars. Elsewhere ni this paper it will be seen that the Blalock Motor Com pany has reduced the price of gaso line to 25c. They also announce the arrival of a car load of hand some cars this week. DON'T FORGET THAT pays the freight. DAVIS MAY 22, 1918 I THE XEW REGISTRATION WILL, rsr- titt ta TTTvii' rTii Men Who Have Reached 21 Since Last June 5 Must Register. Wednesday, June fifth, is the date fixed by Congress for the registra tion, for military service, cf all men who have reached the age of twenty-one since June 5, 1917. The .intentions and purposes of the registration is the same as that of June, 5th last, but it will be con ducted through the local boards of the State instead of through the precinct registrars. "7,. WU1J uiucicu iix tu fcinbt auu vv suauuu, fau iai cis its reach is concerned, is a matter of age. The same regulations that governed the first registration is ap plicable to the new one and every male resident of the United States who has attained the age of twenty one since June 5th last, or who will attain the age of twenty-one before the date., of registration must regis ter. Nearly One Million. Press dispatches state that nearly 800,000 men will become eligible for military duty after the registra tion. They will be placed at the foot- of class one and called into service before other classes, under the first registration, are touched. The Granville Boys. It is estimated that from seventy five to one hundred boys have reach ed the age of 21 years since June 5, 1917. CORINTH NEWS LETTER. Quite a large crowd attended services at Corinth church the past Sunday. Mr. John Hester of Ox ford, made a most informing and inspiring talk in behalf of the Red Cross work, and immediately fol lowing his talk a Red Cross Chapter was organized and something be tween, forty-five and fifty members were enrolled. y -There will be an ice cream par ty at Corinth School House next Saturday night, May 25th. The proceeds to go to pay off a small debt in the school and the rest to go to the Red Crosa. The public is invited. NOTES FROM LEWIS. (Correspondence Public Ledger) There was lots of tobacco planted in this section during the past few days. Commencement at Stovall High School closed Wednesday night, the program was fine. A large crowd attended. Miss Dovie Carl Tilliason re turned home Tuesday from Norfolk, Baltimore and Newport News, where she spent several weeks with her sister, Mrs. C. J. White.' Myrtle, the little daughter of Mr. Charlie Cole, who is in Rich mond hospital improves very slow ly. Several of the boys in this com munity will leave for camp the 25th. Miss Mary Beasley of Sun Set spent Sunday in this community. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Parrish spent Sunday with her father, Mr. W. H. Tillotson, of this place. LONG HOURS FOR FAR3D3RS. If They Worked Only Eight Hours a Day the World Would Staave. A good Granville county farmerf, who outs in about sixteen hours a day on the farm, remarked that he did not see where tne county anything to gain from an eigni- hour day for labor. When you come to think about it, can you imagine T7hat would hap pen if farmers should all limit their day's work to eight hours? If the diminished production did not ac tually cause starvation under the inexorable law of supply and de mand it would cause the prices of farm products to go so abnormally high as to be almost out of . the reach of the folks who contend for short hours of labor. ANNOUNCEMENT. On Thursday, July 4th, 1918, the Third Annual Picnic will be held at Caltolina Farm, East Person coun ty N C. Patriotism will be the main "object of the day with Lieut Gov. O. Max Gardener and General B S. Rovster as principal speakers. These are two of North Carolina's best speakers and patriots, and the public is cordially invited to hear them. NUMBER 40 jTWO DESERTERS FROM THE ARMY CAPTURED IN OXFO ARMY CAPTURED IN OXFORD I They Held Up Jolm Bentonfield and Rule Into Town m His Auo. ' James feurnes and John C. Mur phy, claiming" Massachussetts as their home, rolled into town last Firday evening in an auto belonging to John Bentonfield, of Raleigh. John occupied a prominent seat in the auto, but he was not permitted to talk under penalty of death. Bentonfield owner of the car, stated that the two young men, wearing the United States Army reg ulation uniforms, accosted him on , Fayetteville street in' Raleigh and asked him to drive them to Dur- ham. He invited the men to take a seat in the car, and all went well until they hove in sight of the tall smoke stacks and church spires of Durham, and then they flashed a pis ton in Bentonfield's face and told him that if he was not perfectly quiet while passing through the Bull city they would end his eter-. nal existence. Bentonfield stated that he saw a policeman on the street as they passed through Dur ham, but he was afraid to give an alarm. ' They spun along at a lively gate, said Bentonfield and after they passed Providence the men asked him how far it was to the next town, and complained of being hun gry. Bentonfield saw his chance and gave each one a dollar and when they arrived in Oxford the two men went in search of a restau rant leaving Bentonfield in the car. While inhaling the fresh air down on Hillsboro street Bentonfied saw Chief Hobgood approaching with "billy" in hand. "There they are," said Benton field, pointing to the two men, "they are deserters." Chief Hobgood made the arrest. They told the Chief that they left Houston Texas, two weeks ago, and claimed that their furlough papers were in Raleigh. Chief Hobgood got in communi cation with Adjutant General Young, who instructed the chief to take the men to Camp Lee as soon as possible and turn them over to the commanding officer. Chief Hobgood gets a' nice re ward for capturing the men, but he proposes to share it with Benton field. Cohn & Son's Sale. It is in times like these that you need a sale like Cohn & Son's. Promptly Friday morning they start a sale that bids fair to be the crown ing event of the store's career a master stroke of merchandising. Their one endeavor now is to sell their up-to-date spring and summer stocks as quickly as possible, so they cut prices with mighty little re gard to the jrofit or even cost. We advise you to spend a little and save a lot at Cohn & Son's sale. If you want to save money on your sum mer outfit make it a point to attend their sale and tell your friends, as you will be doing them a favor. Ev erything in their big stocks is now being reduced in price for quick ac tion. Read their ad on the last page of this paper. ad A Daughter of the Gods. Do you know that 1,000,000 one dollar bills if placed end . to end would reach from New York City to Hartford, Conn, a distance of 114. 43 miles? This will give some idea of the immense amount of money spent by William Fox in the making of "A Daughter of the Gods',, in which Annette Kellermann is star- , refJ . Thig beautiful woman wlu be j seen at tne Qrpheum Theatre Mon- j dayf May 27th. Williford School House The good people in the Williford school community manifest ; much interest in the Red Cross. There will be another enthusiastic meet ing there Thursday night. Geo. T. Tunstall will preach. Rev. Pulverized Glass in Bread. The report that pulverized glass was found in a loaf of bread sold in Oxford caused some concern here this week. The proper authorities are investigating the matter and a report will be made later. All the Gas You AVant. Automobile owners will be glad to see elsewhere in. this paper that Mr. E. H. Crenshaw is selling gas oline at 25c the gallon and there is plenty oXX'' as long as it lasts. One of Oxford's most popular young business men leaves today for the easlern part of the State to be joined in the holy bonds of mat rimony. He prefers that we say nothing about it until the knot is tied.
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