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The Wajrmen jrecoirf--" - - . - , I - 1 ' VOL. XXII (TUESDAY) WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, JULY 20TH, 1917 (FRIDAY) Number 90 $1.50 A YEAR A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OP WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY 3c. A COPY OLD TIMES By Dr. T. In these piping times of war, when nen and women, and, perhaps, women more than men, are giving themselves to the defense of our Country and Country's institutions and rights vmigbt be well to hark back to the Uing days of the sixties, when war nnd suffering abounded everywhere, and men and women and children were engaged in the great struggle. In these days of Red Cross activi ties it is a good time to review the ast and for our encouragement see h.Vthe women cf a past generation unselfishly wrought for our suffering soldiers; therefore for the next three weeks "Old Times In Warren" space will be filled with the story of those times copied from the Charleston News and Courier, and as you read remember that what was being done in South Carolina was being ' done with equal earnestness in every state the Confederacy. 1. J. 1- SOUTHERN WOMEN TOILED FOR CONFEDERATE TROOPS Stirring Narrative of Work Done in The Sixties, and An Urgent Call on People to Do Their Full Duty By American Red Cross Activities To those who "worked for the sol diers" in the days of this country's own great war, today comes home with terrible significance. To those who remember the terri ble, tragical days of 1863 and 1864 no further incentive than that memory is needed to devote their every energy to the noble charity of the National American Red Cross. The suffering cf those days, and the efforts made to relieve 4t with utter ly insufficient and inadequate means, make a page of unswerving and de voted loyalty and of perseverance in incredible difficulty that shall never, and should never, be forgotten whil-s stories of patient heroism and uncom plaining self-sacrifice are upon men's lips, or are told to children to stimu late them to nobleness, or to men and women of mature years to recall to them their duty to the heroic spirits who soon now are to lay down life itself, or walk forever with shattered limbs, maimed, disfigured, broken, for their sakes, that we may have peace. The South" and the North alike were unprepared; and the South insufficient ly supplied with material for manufac- tme and manufactories. The ensuing struggle was all the more bitter. The pinch of the Federal blockade bore heavily upon Confederate supplies of all kinds for the sick, the wounded, and the destitute. By 1863 the Mississippi was block aded, the Gulf and the entire Soum Atlantic coast; the great actions of j ie remaining struggle were in this territory. The need to relieve the soldiery of the struggling and heroic army was therefore doubly great. Soldiers' relief and hospital associa tions and societies were formed by women's courage and devotion, every. where throughout the Southern State to supply in some measure, so far as tteans afforded, the terrible needs of the men. There were strong and loyal soldiers relief societies in Greenville, Winnsl boro, Orangeburg, Pendleton, Beaufort Georgetown, Society Hill, Spartanburg Newberry, Darlington, Rich Hill, Co mbia, Pomaria, Marlboro, Sumter, Walterboro, Anderson, Pineville,Kings ee, Edisto Forks, Black Oak, Wild ,at' Abbeville and a hundred other Places. The Charleston Soldiers' Relief As sociation was the first formed and eJ ceased its persevering work for ne day, in the face of almost insuper. ab e obstacles, to the end. jj established the Soliders' Relief firgSpltal in Trapman street during the ' year 0f the war; and, to meet sid tat need' Pened a soldiers' way at B in the old American Hotel , tragg and George streets, to give and"! m the sufficient hospitals, 1p destitute soldiers, here home- 5S and dan-uj. reuge to women, sisters, CWi . ' W1V" motners come into ra iTT-:. .i . fiends, unknown and without seeking in the thronged hos- foil sons, brothers, husbands, miners. At 4.1. dressed Wayside nrne wounds were ea' food and lodging furnished IN WARREN J Taylor. and in ten months shelter given to no less than 39,000 men. The place now filled by the National Red Cross was filled in part by noble men and women who gave their means, their strength, and often their lives, in the service of the soldier and the sailor. The Rev. R. W. Barnwell, for one, gave up his pulpit to devote himself to the relief of the sick and wounded men in the Confederate hospitals at the front, and died of typhoid fever, contracted in Virginia; his death being followed immediately by that of his wife and infant child; they lie buried in Columbia side by side. Organized for work, devoted women collected old linen for bandages,, scraped lint, begged nourishment for the sick, and gathered garments for the sick, the wounded and the desti tute invalids of whom there were many. In 1861 flannel, linsey, homespun, woolens, then still tp be had, were fashioned into garments and sent to the front in Virginia, mainly to the hospital for South Carolina soldiery at Charlottesville. By the close of that year flannel was already very scarce, and with heavy woolen socks, was badly needed by the men, both in the ranks and in the hospitals. By 1863-1864 the able-bodied male population between the ages of eigh teen and forty-five was, in the service, in army or navy. The families of 800 needy soldiers were supplied with food at a free market in Charleston. Women visited the hospitals daily and begged for public aid; the South was reduced to straits which seem to us almost incredible; that this bound, less, generous land should know such need, such bitterness. A great and ever-increasing want of flannel, woolen goods and blankets existed everywhere; there was now great private and governmental lack of funds. Bed clothing was very dif ficult to obtain. The linen closets of the rich and affluent were soon strip ped and emptied; their great blanket presses followed. Silks? Silks were gene long since, and torn with shot, and often wet with blood, had flown over a hundred desperate battlefields, as banners and guidons. Linen clos ets, blanket presses were emptied ev erywhere until nothing was left. Thread-bare blankets were repaired and their poor warmth increased by sheets of paper stitched upon them, 'while sheets of paper were still to be had; and thin sheets of linen and cot ton with heavy paper stitched upon them wrere used in place of the unob tainable woolen blankets and coverlets to cover the sick and wounded. The carpets and pew cushions of churches were begged by the associa tion in December 1863, to make beds and covering for the wounded and sick exposed without cover to the stress of weather. Mrs. Daniel Lelesne sent her pow cushions and carpets to be used for beds and blankets. The navy, a heroic remnant, was now in direct need of clothing, shoes and foot gear, which the government could not supply. There were bu, a few yarn mills in the Confederate States, and those :rnall. and pushed to their vtmost to supply yarns of any tensile strength for the warp of home weavers. Put up in five-pound packages, this yarn was worth almost its weight in coin; it was used as warp," and homespun yarns for the welt or "filling." Women gave all their time, as they had already given their money. They spun, warped the threads, wove the cloth, and made it into garments and blankets- and when the wool for blan kets was gone tore up carpets and made them into coverlids: by ravelled ragged carpet lengths and spun the ravellings over. Spinning wheels, long since disused, were brought out, looms set up, and women knit, and spun, and wove, and dyed and cut, and sewed, with cease less energy. Miss Anna Geiger, of Richland, wove twenty yards or home spun cloth in one day, spurred by the bitter need of the men. They knitted socks, scarfs, and hel mets, wove and dyed cotton and wool en cloth, and made it into all kinds of garments, cut in three measures to fit the average man. Thov dved stuffs as their grand mothers had dyed them, with barks, galls, nuts and copperas, walnut hulls, LITTLETON NEWS - I ' mm Miss Virginia Bishop, after spend--ing a few days here, the guest of Mrs, J. H. Eancom, has returned to her home at Weldon. Mr. and Mrs: W. G. Coppersmith attended the Chautauqua at Roanoke Rapids last week. Mrs. Pattie Thornton, after spending a few days among friends here, has returned to her home at Nashville. Rev. J. M. Millard went to Oxford last Friday to conduct the funeral of Mr. Garland Crews. Mr. Ben Johnson, of Rocky Mount, was in town on business last Friday, Mrs. Charlie Worthington, of Nor folk, who attended the funeral of her brother-in-law, Mr. Garland Crews, at Oxford last Friday, stopped over here to visit her mother, Mrs. Marian John ston, for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Hinton Pritchard and Master George Pritchard, of Rober sonville, were pleasant week-end vis itors at the home of Mrs. Dora Vin son. Miss Carrie Matthews and brother, Mr. Wiley Matthews, of Portsmouth, spent a short time here last week, the guests of Mrs. V. F. Harrison and Mrs. Irma Ryder. Mr. Ellis Joyner, who is employed at Hopewell, was a week-end visitor at the home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Francis Joyner. Mr. B. A. Pope, of Weldon, was in town on business Saturday. Mr. and Mis. V. F. Harrison, Miss Urtie Harrison, Mr. Willie Harrison, Dr. and Mrs. Neill MacRae, Miss Mar tha and Mr. Bennett Latham, Mr. S. J. Stallings, Mrs. Frances Joyner, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Thornton and quite a number of others from here attended some of the Chautauqua en tertainments at Roanoke Rapids last week. Mrs. W. Albert Johnson and little daughter, of Baltimore, Md., are visit ing Mrs. Johnson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Boyce. Mrs. Carl Stallings, of Enfield,spent last week at the home of her uncle, Dr. E. A. Perry. Mr. John Picot is taking a vacation and spending a few days at the Caro lina Beach, Wrightsville. Misses Mary Anderson and Foster Shaw, of Weldon, have been the guests of Mrs. T. J. Miles for several days. Mr. and Mrs. Will Harris, of Wake Forest, spent Sunday here at the home of Mr. Harris' father, Mr. Henry Harris. Mr. J. M. Leggett, of Sedley, Va., who spent Sunday here, was accom panied home on Monday by Mrs. Leg gett and baby, who had been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Hart. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Johnston and daughter made a week-end visit to relatives in Durham, returning home Monday. Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Tyer and Mr. John Tyer left Tuesday for an auto mobile trip to Winston-Salem, Greens boro and . several points in Western North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. M. Nelson left Wed nesday for Raleigh, where they joined Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Fetter, the four leaving Thursday in .Mr. Fetter's car for a trip to Asheville. Miss Carrie Heptinstall, of Route 2, visited relatives in town the first of the week. Mr. Edward Joyner, of Halifax, spent Sunday with relatives and friends here. Mrs. Marion Johnston attended the funeral of her son-in-law, Mr. Garland Crews, at Oxford last Friday. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Crews and son, of Norlina, who are spending a few days with Mrs. Johnston. red oak and bay leaves, sumac ber ries and roofs. Walking, driving or sitting at home even in the church vestibule, the knit ting needles flew; no woman ever sat idle; even the children knitted socks at school. The school children knitted during recess at the Scotch Cross Acad emy near Abbeville. When the wool gave out on one Edgefield plantation the cattle were sheared, the hair carded and spun with cotton, and woven into a cloth of a peculiarly wiry and enduring strength. The fur of every rabbit trapped upon the plantation was card ed with the cotton or the treasured remnant of wool to further eke it out. Mrs. Elizabeth W. Wardlaw had a twelve-year-old child that knit a sock a day. How many can do so now? Can any? More to follow. MUSICALE TONIGHT Jupiter Pluvius was unrelenting and unabating Tuesday night, and the Red Cross Musicale was not presented. From early afternoon to late night, the rain came in torrents making a rendition of the well prepared pro gram but of the question. However, the program will be ren dered Friday night at 8:30 in the Opera House In addition; to the Musical program, a motion picture presenting "Training and Life in the United States Navy," will be shown. This picture is one of the 2,000 touring the country, under direction of the Naval Recruiting stations, and this fifteen minute picture will add ma terially to the program. The admission prices will remain the same. We again submit the nro- gram to our readers: Chorus .America Instrumental Solo. .Miss Isabel Broom Vocal Solo Miss Hilah Tarwater Reading Miss Olivia Burwell Poor Butterfly" Miss Lulie Price and chorus of fifteen. Reading Miss Crichton Thorne Chorus , Marseillaise Instrumental Solo. . . .Elizabeth Tarry Quartette. . . .Messrs. Tarwater, Bax ter, Harris and Dameron. Reading... Miss Crichton Thorne Instrumental Solo.. Mr. J. R. Rodwell Vocal Solo Mr. John Harris Chorus Star Spangled Banner Mr. B. H. Browning, who is taking a vacation this week, left Sunday with Mrs. Browning and children to spend several days at Ocean View. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Cree, after spending a few days at Ocean View, have returned home. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Thornton and children spent the first of the -week with relatives at Halifax. Mrs. P. B. Skundburg and daugh ters, of Vaughan, were shopping in town. Friday. im . RefeWR. .Cullom;. cf -Wake 'For est,' preached an interesting sermon in the Baptist Church Sunday morning. Messrs. I. L. Zukerman, Roger Craw ley, J ohn Swain and Dalmar Jones vis ited friends in Durham Sunday, re turning home Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Grant and child ren, of Andrews, S. C, are the guests of Mrs. Grant's mother, Mrs. Marion Johnston. , Mr. Henry Sessoms, who has been teaching Music in Los Angeles, Cali fornia, is spending some time among friends here and with his mother, Mrs. Alia Johnston, on Route 4. Miss Dollie Daniel and neice, Miss Elizabeth Burton, after spending a few days with relatives in Warrenfon, returned home Monday. Mr. J. A. Meeder, of Ridgeway, was in town on business Tuesday. . Mr. William Boyce, of Greenville, S. C, attended the Dance at Panacea on Saturday night, and spent Sunday and Monday with friends and relatives here. Dr. and Mrs. W. E. Swain left Fri day for Greensboro, going from there to Pinnacle, N. C, where Dr. Swain is assisting in a Revival meeting. They are making the trip in automobile, and will visit several places of inter est in Western North Carolina before returning. Miss Katherine Maguire, 'of Green ville, attended the Dance at Panacea Saturday night and spent Sunday here with her friend, Miss Edna Tyer. ' Mr. E. B. Williams, of Raleigh, is here on a visit to her mother, Mrs. Marion Johnston. ' - Mr. W. H. Nicholson left Monday to spent the week at Morehead City, and enjoy the fishing. 'Messrs. Garland Daniel and Edward Harrison motored to Enfield Monday afternoon. Misses Sadie Vinson, Sallie Boyce, Carrie Myrick, Bettie Cooper and Jose phine Johnston and Messrs. W. R. Parsons, Tommie and Louis Harrison, Clyde and. Paul Johnston and John Swain attended a Dance at Enfield Monday night. Mr. Julian Johnston, of Petersburg, attended the funeral of his brother-in-law, Mr. Garland Crews, at Oxford last Friday, and stopped over here to visit his mother, Mrs. Marion John ston, before returning home. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Kreichbaum and baby have returned from a pleasant automobile trip by way of Washing ton, D. C, to Chambersburg, Pa., where they visited Mr. Kreichbaum's relatives. The return trip was made bv way of Baltimore and Norfolk. They were accompanied home by Mr. Robert Kreichbaum, of Chambersburg. THE UNWRITTEN DUTIES By Dr. J. Y. Joyner. In looking over some old papers the other day, we came across the follow ing article from the pen of Supt. J. Y. Joyner under date of August 31, 1912. It is of such high worth that We are reprinting it: "The letter killeth, the spirit mak eth alive." The whole duty of the teacher, in fact, the most far-reaching and influential part of a teacher's du ties cannot be prescribed by statute, and that is no true teacher who does no more than the law prescribes. The legal duties of the teacher are impor tant, but the intellectual, moral and spiritual are even more important. Of some, of these latter I wish briefly to write. The written law does not require it, but no true teacher can be indifferent to the irregular attendance and ab senteeism of the children. The heart of the true teacher will yearn after the absent children as the heart of a true shepherd yearns after the miss ing lambs of the flock. And the good teacher, like the good shepherd, will go out into the byways and the hedg es and seek and find the missing ones and bring them in. How a teacher can strengthen her hold upon the pa rent and the child by manifesting thru tactful inquiry and well-timed visits to the home a personal interest in an absent child How a teacher can strengthen the bond of sympathy be tween the school and home by a note or visit tp a sick child! "It is not nominated in the bond," but surely a teacher, with the proper conception of a teacher's high mission, will feel tne irresistible call of a higher law to seek and find the illiterate children of illiterate parents and use every ef fort to bring them into the school that these' childrenjof darkness may learn how sweet it is to dwell in the light and have a chance to be somebody and do Something in the woild. It is the privilege and duty of the teacher "to cultivate and to manifest personal sympathy and interest in the pupils, in tneir tasks and tastes, m their sports and games, in all the happen ings of their school life, remembering that education is "life, not mere prep aration for life, and that children are human beings, not mere chessmen upon the class board, to be moved hither and thither, according to the hard and fast rules of the school game prescribed by school curricula and age-old customs. Knowledge is power, and the acqui sition and impartation of this is im portant and valuable, but infinitely more important and valuable is the acquisition and impartation of life. "I came that men might have life Mr. and. Mrs. Percy Ashby and baby are spending some time at Spray, N. C, where Mr. Ashby's work is located at present. Miss Sadie Vinson left Wednesday to accompany a party of friends on a trip to Waynesville and Asheville. Mrs. Jack Bobbitt and children, of Warrenton and Mrs. C. T. Driver and daughter, Miss Hattie Driver, of Dur ham, are visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Jones in West Littleton. Master Cromwell Daniel has been in Smithfield for the past few days, visiting his friends, Solon and Ingram Cotton and Edgar Watsonfi who are expecting to accompany him home this week. Messrs. Joe Grant, Lee Grant and wife, Will Tennille and wife, Paul and Dermot Tennille, of Jackson, N. C; Mr. and Mrs. Tom Grant, of Ridge way; and Rev. R. H. Black, of Gran ville county, have been here this week to visit Mrs. Kate Black, who con tinues very ill at her home on Mosby Avenue. Mr. J. B. Kittrell, of Greenvile, N. C, was in the city on business Tues day. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Whitehead and baby, Mr. Henry Whitehead and Miss Bernice Squire lef Wednesday in Mr. Whitehead's car for a few days stay at Norfolk and Ocean iVew. Misses Delon and Helen Cooper and Mr. Charlie Cooper, of Rocky Mount, are'. (he guest of their cousin, Miss Bettie Coopciy at her home on v Mosby Avenue. Mrs. John Edwards and three chil dren, of Greenville, N. C, after a few days at the home of Mrs. Edward's father, Mr. J. B. Boyce, returned home Tuesday. Mr. A. Wilkms, of Thelma, was in the city on business Tuesday- and have it more abundantly," once spook He who spoke as never man spake, the great Teacher. The high est mission of the true teacher is to breathe the breath of life into the clay of the children that they may become living souls, to open the eyes, the ears, all the avenues of their senses for the reception of the daily life about them in all its fulness and beauty. HoW shall the teacher breathe this breath of life into the children unless she herself be filled with it Who doubts, then, the duty of the teacher to feed constantly her intel lectual, moral and spiritual life by drinking constantly from the foun tains of life to be found in nature, society, the great books of the world, constituting the literature of the world? The teacher will stagnate, the very fountains of her life will dry up unless they be constantly ted from these God-ordained fountains. It is the moral and spiritual duty of the teacher to keep intellectually, spirit ually and physically alive through the utilization of all the means at hand. The teacher should be an active and sympathetic participant in all the life of the community, civic, social and religious, a potent factor in it all, not a mere "onlooker in Venice." A human bath is as essential to the health of a teacher's soul as a water bath to the health of the teacher's body. In a word, to teach citizenship, which is the chief end of all teaching, to breathe the spirit of good citizen ship into the children and to create an atmosphere of good citizenship about the children, the teacher must by constant participation in the duties of good citizenship become a good citizen, be filled with the breath of the life of good citizenship. It is the priv ilege and the duty of every teacher to utilize every means of intellectual, spiritual, professional, social and civic improvement and development. To secure the co-operation of these in all movements for the improvement of the school and the welfare of the children, the teacher should cultivate .social and sympathetic relations with the committeemen and the patrons of the school. The communitv naturallv looks to the teacher to suggest and lead in all such movements. By mak ing friends with the committeemen and winning their confidence and es-. teem, the teacher can frequently use them to help in leading the whole community in all forward educational movements. It is not written in the law, but what conscientious teacher will shirk responsibility for the health of tne children, for the sanitation, ventila tion, the lighting, the cleanliness and the general care of the school build ings and grounds? What teacher, whose eye is trained to beauty, whose soul is responsive to the beautiful, whose nature has been touched by culture and refinement, can be content to dwell or let the children dwell in bareness and ugliness, can fail to give .some attention to beautifying the school room and school ground and to interesting others in this important part of the educative invironment of the child? AN ARMS COLLECTOR Washington, July The fighting equipment of Uncle Sam has been aug mented by the enlistment of two "Win chesters" who joined the U. S. Marines today. Their names will be added to the roster along with Rem ington, Colt, Mauser, Savage, Steph ens, Marlin, Smith and Wesson, and other potential sharpshooters who re cently joined the "Soldiers of the Sea." Almost every firearm and rifle man ufacturer is represented by a name sake in the Marine Corps. Oddly enough, "Springfield," the rifle with which the U. S. military forces are equipped, has, as yet, no namesake in the ranks of the fighting sea-soldiers. NOTICE TEACHERS Wanted Teachers for Oine White and Colored Schools. It is necessary that one of the teachers of White School should teach music. Applications must be filed with Co. Supt. Jones on or before 28th of July, as Committee will meet at Oine school building on that day to elect teachers. ' A. G. HAYES, Secty, Norlina, N. C.
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