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VOLUME XXXIIL FUtB AMERICANS PUSH THEIR LINE AHEAD Brilliant Oper ition in. V View of ibe Determined Count ering by Germans, h he American Army on the ."oMarne Front, July SO, (By the reined press. Through a bar os deadlv as any the Germans we Hid d0a on any SeCtr fr -Iulvc . ; r.nlrlicrc! r nin months prising th0 AiUei ICtlil ouiuiio, -vi" ,nPa from middle west and j , thpir line fnr- -?!;rern stau?&, - a little more today, and tonight it "forms the apex of the long allied trout 'rorV of Fight Tlirillir rne story of the fight for the pos-e-7cVo ileurcy farm will long be f-e-eribered in the history of the di vion The Germans, on their with aVal, left behind a strong force of vhin'e gunners and infantry. The t-ericans moved forward through rellow wheat fields, which were Inrtv-ed and tern by bullets. But they Advanced as though on a drill ground "urv Americans guns laid down a Yervv artillery fire, but notwithstand many of the uermans re vrnen it comes to hand-to- r 0 ti-. c mainec v.nd fighting. In a group ci laim . i a . i- s:s the enemy nau. set uy a strong defense Here the Germans to their guns, and the Ameri .UCli cans rushed them and killed the gun ners at their posts. It was a little battle without mer er, and typical of similar engage ments occurring along the whole line The Prussian guards and Bavarians everywhere fought in accordance with their training discipline and tra ditiens, but were outwitted and out fought. To the north cf the farm, up the long slopes leading to the woods, the Americans encountered the fiercest exhibition of Germany's war science. The Germans, too, laid down a bar rage which, it is said, was as heavy as had ever been employed. The American guns replied heavily. Directly Through Barrage. The order for the advance came, and the line moved forward across the grain fields directly through the barrage. On a nearby hillside the chief staff officers watched the ope ration. They saw shells fall, in some places leaving long gaps in the line, but the trccps never halted. On through the barrage the Amer icans went into the German positions attacking fiercely the machine gun and infantry detachments. The bar rage died away, the Germans leaving i the work of resistance to the men they had failed to protect with their heavy guns. The Germans were "mopped up" and the Americans held their new line lust 03 st nf thP fnrPt TMnt mnT . . " -toners were taken, but here and tnere a few were rounded up and brought in. Sergeant Louis Loetz of Sicnx City contributed 14. He at tacked 18 Germans who had become separated from their command, kill ing four of them and capturinsr the others. Avful execution was dene by j --e Americans. Eight captured guard said they were all that remained of a company of 8 6. 1 Yesterday their number had been reduced to 30 and a hetitenant. Today the lieutenant aaa all except they were killed. IT MIGHT BE WORSE. Stand By the Home Town In All Kinds of Weather. We: heard a citizen say the other fiay that Oxford is the hottest town side of it makes no difference here. The assertion is hardly in !Cord Jth the facts. Few men who ve visited the inferno regions are Privileged to return to earth and speak of the toridity of that zone, but th e are thnsp nmnncr -riii ! testify that Oxford on a hot day i seems Ilk a cool grove on the banks j 'Ji a running brook rnmnnrpd to i comnared some other tm-j-na ti-.Tr noa froni here. IMPEUIAL PLANT BUSY. Tw Hundred Hands Xow On the Tobacco from the South Carolina consigned to the Imperial i oba co Company, has begun to ar- rive m train load lots, and the local bout t company has placed a- TVho hundred stemmers to work. theeQftbe markets in this section of ant Pens the ImPerial wiU at least seven hundred hands. PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY-TOWN AND OXFOBD, NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY AUGUST A SERVICE FLAG HUNG IN ST. STEPHEN'S CHURCH Twenty-oight Stars Arranged In the Form of a Cross. Last Sunday a beautiful red Ser vice Flag was hung on the walls of St. Stephen's Church to commemo rate in the house of God the voung men from the parish, who in the service of their country, are "jeopard ! ing their lives unto death in the high Places of the field "In the white cen tre of the flag twenty-eight stars are arranged in the form of a cross with its base or cavalry. Each star repre sents an actual member of the church with the exception of a few non-resident members. In the Army. R. C. M. CALVERT. ELLIOTT T. COOPER. EDWIN C. CLINGMAN. AUGUSTINE W. GRAHAM, JR. GORDON HUNT. AUGUSTUS LANDIS. WILLIAM T. LANDIS. MARK A. LANDIS. JOSEPH D. LASSITER. MARSHALL O. PINNIX. CHAS. G. POWELL. WILLIAM HILL POWELL. ALBERT H. TAYLOR. CHAS. A. TAYLOR. HENRY A. TAYLOR. H. LINDSEY TAYLOR. R. KENNON TAYLOR. C. BUXTON TAYLOR. LONIE THARP. JOEL B. WETMORE. HAL. S. WETMORE. JOHN D. WILLIAMS. In the Navy. JAMES L. BOOTH. ASHBURNE CAPEHART. HENRY G. COOPER. ARTHUR LANDIS. THOMAS H. LANDIS. E. WINFIELD TAYLOR. A BRAVE, FEARLESS OFFICER IS DEPUTY HUTCHKVS Picks Up Three Disorderly Charac ters In Less Than a Quarter of An Hour. There are a whole lot of people in Granville county who have very little use for Deputy Sheriff Hutehins. There is a reason he is strictly on the job all the time, and there is not a sleuth this side of Chicago that can scent crime quicker. There was quite a crowd of people here Wednesday and Hutehins bob bed around like a cork in a whirl pool. Seeing him in the public square, a man who is addicted to call ing upon the Alchemy spirits to hear his evening prayer, remarked that "If it had not been for Hutehins, Hobgood would have been elected." While all of this was going on, Hutehins sprang upon the running bCar(1 Ct an auiomooiie aim i. i nA o t.o r-nr nut nf n rtesrroes BLU1 rt a x . " . poet He arrested the man ana took into the court house and placed him in charge of the sheriff, and then returned to the public square and jumped on the running board of an other auto and snatched a pint oli- QUOr out of a negro's insiae puc-. et. He marched tne liquor negiu iu to the sheriff's office and returned to the street and tapped a white man gently on the shoulder and said: Hello, Bill, how do you do? I have a federal .warrant in my pocket for you; let us go in and see about it." And off he went with his man, mak ing all three of the arrests in less than a quarter of an hour.. WAR TELEGRAMS ' Posted Daily In the Window at Hall's Drug Store. Three or four skeleton telegrams are daily posted iij window at Hall's drug store. They are very brief, but the whoH world expects snmpthirte to happen at any moment something that means the down fall and utter collapse of the German forces on the western front. Just such a thing will happen one of these days, and then we expect to see men throw their hats into the air and say: "Didn't I tell you so!" MAKING DRIVE FOR MORE MEN FOR 3IARINE CORPS Can Enlist at Raleigh, Durham or Richmond. , Marine recruiting stations in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia are waging a vigorous cam paign for more recruits to help fill up the recently authorized quota of 75,000 men. , COUNTY OFFER nTTT GENERAL MARCH SAYS i THE DEATH GRAPPLE j IS NOW AT HAND! The Allies and Kuns Are Bent On 1 Destroying Each Other This Is i the One Object In View. The fourteenth day of the great allied offensive which has resulted in driving back the Germans f rom-the Marne reg ion northward; across the Ourcq river, and in materially benfl iijg in the eastern and western side of the great pocket, with its mouth running Gross-country 36 miles" from Soissons to Rheims, saw little activity on the part of either of the contending forc es. All hope of bagging great nam bers ot Germans in the pocket formed a few days ago by the line running from Soissons to Rheims, dipping down close to Chateau Thierry, has bsen.adan doned. The German resistance in holding apart the jaws form ing the mouth of the pocket was too great. During the last two weeks the enemy has had ample time, and seems to have made good use of it, to perfect his de fensive positions along the flat tened front now established, ac cording to the War Department's interpretation of the situation. Whatever may have been the objectives hesretofore aimed at by the contesting forces on the Soissons Rheims salient, these have been set aside or submerg ed in the greater struggle, in which the object of each side is the destruction of the other, in the view of GeneKd. March. It is a lif e-and-death struggle that has developed, according to Gen eral March's interpretation, and the world will watch with- keen interest and with suspense its outcome. -v . .' - -ENTIRE ELBOW BLOTTED OUT Washington, Aug. 1. After a short period of relative calm on the Soissons Rheims salient the central and western sections of the battle making the line a straight one from Fere to Hart ennes and giving the Allies much better ground over-which to work in further out -Hanking Soissons on the southeast and for pressing on toward Fismes in conjunction with the troops, particularly the Americans now . holding strategic positions north and northeast of Fere. In this fighting the Allied troops drove out the Germans who ad been tenaciously hold ing positions between Plessier Huleu and the river and took the high ground north of Grand Rozoy, pressed on past the vil lage of Beugneux and arrived before the villages of Cramoi selle and Cramaill-. -The gener al advance was about two miles, and six hundred Germans were made prisoner. ARMY TRUCKS PASS HERE. Seventy-two Soldiers Spend the Night In Oxford. Enroute from New York City to j Camp Jackson, Columbia, S. C fifty- four army trucks and seventy-two men arrived in Oxford Thursday af ternoon and struck camp in the grad ed school grounds. They made the trip from New York to Oxford in five days. They left Oxford at six o'clock this Friday morning and will spend the night in Greensboro, reaching Charlotte Saturday night. Through the activity of the local Chanter of the American Red Cross, all of the men were invited to homes in Oxford for supper. The men were highly pleased with the hospitality and kindness shown them while m Oxford. Mr. Sam Knott Hiwt. The many friends of Mr. Sam Knott will be pained to learn that a mule on Thursday kicked him on the leg and broke the bone a couple o inches above the ankle Mr. Knott is a highly esteemed citizen of the county and on account of his advanc ed age the wound will be slow to heal. Brass'Band Will Be There See the announcement elsewhere in this paper of the sale of lots at Bucknorn lithia Springs at, anearly date. OPPORTUNITIES ALL HOME 3, 1918 TWO YOUNG LADIESOT OXFORD JOIN THE COLORS j Others of the County Will Answer The Call. The appeal from the Government to the young women of America to enroll for service in one of the Stan dard Nurse Reserve training schools, is a powerful one. The Government is calling for 25,000 Student nurses now. Granville county's quota must be raised before the 11th of August. The recruiting station is in Mr. J. Robt. Wood's store and is in charge of Miss May White. Though the enrollment so. far has not been as prompt and as larea as we had hoped, we believe that the young women of Granville county will net fail in their duty and oppor tunity for so great a service. Up to the present moment two young ladies of Oxford have definitely decided to offer themselves for this service, and three others have it under serious consideration. The Committee in charge of the enrollment will be pleased to have others in Oxford and Granville coun ty who are interest call at the re cruiting station and receive informa tion in regard to requirements. Here is just a part of the message of this great physician, world-famous because of his great ability and his devotion to duty, to the women of the country between the ages of -19 and 35: "If I were a young woman and wanted to do my country the greatest service in my honor, I should go at once, to the nearest recruiting station of the Woman's Committee of the Council of National Defense and en roll in the United States Student Nurse Reserve. This enrollment would at once make me a candidate for the Army Nursing School or for one of the civilian training schools for nurses. I cannot conceive of a more valuable.seryice,a more woman ly service. I can give every girl who enrolls in the reserve my personal assuranee that she is making herself count, and I should be ashamed of any woman who did not long with all her heart and soul to make herself count in the defeat of Germany. These are ringing words. We have no fear that they will not brinfj a quick response from the women of North Carolina. UNCLE SAM IS SENDING S. . S. FOR CHAPLAINS Men Wanted Who Care More For Men's Welfare Than for Creed Distinction, Says Bulletin. The United States army is sending out hurry calls for chaplains. It needs one man for every 1,200 men. "The army," an official bulletin says, "is in need of chaplains; a sturdy, upstanding brotherly man, be tween the ages of 21 and 45, who cares a good deal more about the wel fare of soldiers than about distinc tions in creeds." ' THE SUGAR SITUATION "Can As Much Fruit As Possible With out Sugar. The allowance of sugar for each person has been reduced from three to two pounds per month per person and the allotments to merchants will be based on that figure. Owing to the sugar scarcity it is r.nnciriirPfi n.fl visahie to issue cer- tificates for preserving and canning w""'""."- and the Food Administrator will not issue further certificates for Oxford and vicinity for'the present. The people are urged to can as much fruit as possible without sugar. It has been shown that fruit will keep as well without the sugar, as the sugar used in the canning process Jias no preservative value. August 1st, 1918. B. W. PARHAM. County Food Administrator. Dr. Horsefield Out of Town. No service in St. Stephen's church on Sunday. The rector has been, call ed to Goldsboro to solemnize the mar riage of a former parishiner on Sat urday afternoon. The ringing of the church bell will give notice during the following week, of the resump tion of the usual week-day service. Lecture Postponed. Mrs. Kate Brew Vaughn who was scheduled to lecture at 10:30 this Friday at Oxford College, will lecture this afternoon at 3 o'clock instead. PRINT. NUMBER 61 SAYS FIGHTING VALUE OF AMERICANS SHOULD NOT BE UNDERESTIMATED Berlin Correspondent Gives His Views of Yankees and Consensus of Opinion Among German Troops. Amsterdam, August 1.- The Ber lin Vorwaerts correspondent at the front, telegraphs the following under date of July 27: "In the battle between the Oisne and the Marne, the entente for the first time threw American forces in to there. As a result of personal inquiries among the divisions of Gen erals Von Etzel and Von Watter in the center of the German front, I ' am able to state the following "The Americans fought partly in I veJried divisions, parry incorporated in the French forces. Of the regi ments now in the battle, most have been over a year in France; the oth erswere only superficially trained in America and on the continent. Their equipment is excellent throughout. "The new American army, like the French, has a number of negro di visions, but these have not yet been thrown into the battle. "Among, the American prisoners a suprisingly large per centage bear German names. They say men of German descent are prominent a mong the American army leaders. "The consensus of opinion among our front troops is that-the fighting value of the American soldiers should in no wise be underrated. Boastful of their American superiority and high spirits, owing to the fulsome" flattery of the French public, they rush into the fire with naive reck lessness, but as yet they have not learned to fight in extended order and how to protect themselves skilfully from artillery fire, their losses are immensely heavier than the other. "The piles of American dead, for instance, fronting Monthiers hill is only comparable, with the Russian corpse-strewn fields at the time of Brussiloff's offensive. "Keen as the Americans are in at tack, they are clumsy enough in de fense. All the German counter thrusts, even by the smallest detach ments, have so far been successful when directed against the Americans. "From July 21, when the German counter-action set in, the Americans suffered casualties, which officers who participated, rlace between 50 and 75 per cent. The result was that several American divisions had to be relieved after they had been no more than five days' fighting." INSPECTING HIGHWAY Winslow and Lashley Spend Day in Granville. ' Capt. D. H. Winslow, State High way Commission, with headquarters in Raleigh, and Mr. J. T. Lashley, District Maintenance Supervisor, with headquarters in Durham, were in specting the State Highway through Granville county Thursday. Capt. Winslow has ordered th2 patrolmen to restore the National colors along the Highway. He states that the Highway is to be known a3 the "National Highway," and not "State Highway." They spoke in glowing terms of the work of Patrolman Rcyster, on the northern end and Sanderford of the southern end of Granville as ' being well equipped road men. LIQUOR CAUSED THE TROUBLE. : -m- i t-t M j m a. i-t - j jy j -nn T m Shot. At the "Philadelphia House" about 9 o'clock Wednesday night, John Hin ton, colored, fired upon John Henry Austin, also eolored. Liquor seemed to have caused the trouble. Two shots were fired, each one passing through the leg of Austin and lodged in the ether leg. John Hinton, who fired the shot, disappeared in the darkness and his whereabouts is unknown to the pub lic. He was in thw --nployof the Lyon-Winston Company. John Hen ry Austin is a Durham negro. Dr. Thomas dressed his wounds. Quartette Will Sing. One of the interesting features scheduled for next Sunday morningat Oxford Baptist Baraca Class is a song by the class quartette, composed of Prof. Buchanon, Messrs. J. F. Mea dows, M. P. Chamblee and B. F. Tay lor. Judge Deyin will expound the International lesson and a good time is in store for all who attend. il i ;: 1. no !' -' . i''-: --'41 Si:!-' 4sss : ; : , -.I
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