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VOL. XXII
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WARRENTON, N. C , TUESDASri NOVEMBER 13TH,1917
(FRIDAY)
Number 122
$1.50 A YEAR
A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERfiSts OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
3c A COPY
TO RAISE OUR PART
OF THE $35,000,000
people Who Are Asked To Make
This Week A Beneficial One
For Y. M. C. A. Cause.
SCHO OL CHILDREN
TO RAISE FUNDS
THE SCHOOL OB
SERVE ARBOR DAY
TO MAKE A PER
SONAL CANVASS
t if i mil Oi
. . : 1
The County Committee for the pur
ple of raising Warren county's part
cf the $35,000,000 for Y. M. C. A.
work in the army and navy has ap
pointed the following ladies and gen
tlemen at the various community cen
ters, and urge that they go to- work
at once. The committee believes "that
a few minutes reflection will be all
that is necessary to make our citizens
enthusiastically support this worthy
ca ?e.
One thousand dollars is what we
3 re asked for. Warren county has al
ways dene its duty and the County
Committee believes that it will not
fail now.
The men at the front have given up
everr comfort and will give up life
itself that you men and ;the women
and children of America may here
after have lasting peace. Shall we
withhold the pittance asked to assure
them that the men and women of War
ren county love and sympathize and
sustain them in this hour of physi
cal and moral trial? . i;
Give, give until it hurts to give and
yet you have not begun to give what
your brother or sweetheart or son has
given when he placed himself between
you and pressing danger.- Rally men
to this great cause. Your wives, your
children,your County asks you to give
Committees for: Warrenton given
elsewhere.
Norlina J. L. Overby, R. S. Regis
ter, R. O. Rodwell, Mrs. A. C. Bizzelle
and Mrs. Woodley Merritt.
Manson John W. Dowling, Mrs.
Sam Satterwhite. -
' EidgewyM: - -.""Hawkins, Miss
Asia Collins.
Wise Mrs. M. H. Hayes, Mrs. T. J.
Holt and C. W. Perkinson.
Macon Mrs. J, S. Nowell, Mrs. Ar
thur Nicholson.
Vaughan W. W. Pegram, W. R.
Vaug'han.
Churchill J. J. Nicholson, Mrs. W.
G. Coleman, Hawkins Gilliland.
Littleton W. B. Myrick, John L.
Skinner, Mrs. M. J. Grant.
Areola Mrs. Beaufort Scull, R. L.
Capps.
Oakville Herman Rodwell, Miss
Daisy Yancey, Mrs. Howard Palmer.
Merry Mount Mrs. Wallace Pas
chall. Axtelle Miss Eula Allen, Miss Hat
tie Palmer.
Vicksboro W. H. Stewart, Mrs.
Sidney Pritchard, Mrs. Ed Turner.
Afton J. William Limer, Mij.
Hugh P. Reams.
Elberon J. L. Aycock, Mrs. Foster
Jones.
Inez Miss Jennie Alston, Mrs. Thos
Cheek.
Roanoke Township H. L. Wall and
Mrs. A. R. Delbridge.
Warren Plains Mrs. W. S. Terreil,
Miss Lucy Webb.
Embro Grover Harris.
Aspen C. N. Hardy.
Mountain View Rev. C. N. Riggan.
Creek Mrs. Wiley Pridgen, Mrs.
Ben Tharrington.
Send your cash and pledges to How
ard F Jones, secretary, on or before
Saturday November 17th.
G. H. MACON, Chairman,
NATHAN PALMER, V-chm.
C. R. RODWELL, Treasurer
HOWARD F. JONES, Sec'ty
County Committee.
"MRS. BRIGG'S OF THE POUL
TRY YARD TO BE REPRODUCED
This amateur play by the young peo
ple of Hebron community will be giv-
vviltlllUlliJ f AAA Jkv
en at Middloh
4t
O Plftrtlr ' ,1 1 . ... . I-
wvva in tne scnool auditorium, rro
eeds fr benefit of Hebron church
good play for a good cause and
;or of the patronage of Middle
bur? People.
DRAMATIC CLUB OF WISE
To PRESENT ATTRACTIVE PLAY
jj.6 Dramatic Club of Wise High
Sch i 01 wil1 Presen "The District
eve at Blueberry Corners," Friday
. mg at 8:00 o'clock. Admission
Sri, afd fifteen cents. Wise High
'chol Auditorium. -
Supt. Jones Asks For Donations
;From Warren's School Chil
dren for Y. M. C. A.
To the Teachers and Pupils of the
Public Schoolsvpf Warren County:
For "the
purpose of doing "our part" in raising
a fund allotted us by the Governor of
North Carolina f or the Young Men's
Christian Association it becomes nec
essary for Warren county to raise not
less than onethousand dollars this
week. - ' '
It is not necessary for me to tell
you that the Y. .M. C. A. has pledged
the Government to "Keep the home
fires burning" in the hearts of our
soldier boys. It is not necessary for
me to tell you that this fund is to be
used to. provide "warm, cheerful cen
ters of friendliness where the soldiers
find pleasant social recreation, and res-
lief from the hard, cold, camp -life;
"Wherever American soldiers gath
er, and among" French, Russian and
Italian soldiers and in prisoner : of
War Camps the Red Triangle of the
Y. M C. A. goes to help safeguard
the home ideals. For the gravest dan
ger of, this war is that our boys may
not keep true to these home ideals."
As head of the public schools ,of tins
County, I ask each of you that you
and your pupils pledge your school to
raise or pledge an amount equal to
ten cents for each pupil. For in
stance, if Norlina has 135 pupils en
rolled I ask that Norlina pledge and
pay 13.50; if Areola has 45 pupils
then Areola will pledge and pay $4.50
and each school in the County in like
manner.
This money is to be used to give
the men some of the comforts they
are giving "up when they left their
firesides for yoti and Tor me. Send in
your money and pledge this week to
Howard F. Jones, Secretary and I will
turn it over to Mr. Charles Rodwell,
Treasurer.
I will ask the editor of the Warren
Record, and the editors of the Head
light and News Reporter to publish
the amount each school has given to
this great cause.
General Pershing says: "The Y. M
C. A. welcomes the soldier. It gives
him the opportunity of improving him
self physically, mentally, morally.
Strong muscles, clear brains, high
ideals in the soldier increases his fight
ing efficiency."
The teachers and young men and
women of Warren county will not fail
to stand behind the American army,
for in the language of a soldier "Over--there",
the Y. M. C. A. "is the last
evidence that anybody cares."
HOWARD F. JONES,
Supt. Public Schools Warren Co.
NEWS GATHERED
AROUND 0INE
Farmers Busy At Oine; Mention
of Some of Those Who Have
Come, stayed and Gone
Mr. W. J. Mayfield, of Camden, is
at home for a day or twu.
Miss Nannie J. Robinson has taken
charge of a school in Vance county
near Henderson.
Mr Shirley Owen and Miss Texas
Ragland, of Vance, visited in the home
of Mr. W. E. Mulchi Saturday night
and Sunday. ' "...
Mr. T. W. Eastman has planted nis
saw mill cn Mr. W. J. Mayneld's land.
There is right much demand now ioi
cotton pickers and tobacco strippers
and the cotton and tobacco are being
put on the market as fast as re cm
be.
Tf all the reports are true, we ex
pect to have some marriages to re
port before very long.
nrorS. R. I.. W. E. and John Mul
chi went to Henderson this week.
STORES IN MACON TO
OBSERVE THANKSGIViJNU.
All stores in Macon, we are inform
Ai , -J.-. tip closed
ed bv a worthy cinze,
on Thanksgiving Day.
Little
Incidents Slifiwing the Value
the Work Among the Soldiers
Arid
Their
App
The - following article from Maude
Radford Warren gives us an insight'
f rpm her personal contact of the' value
of Y. M. C. A. work" to the soldier.
Read it:
Last winter I was walking up a grey
London street just off Tottenham road
grey buildings, grey sky,, but on the
pavernent,a stream of glorious dusky
gold the uniform of men in khakis
A group of them stopped suddenly in
front of a tall building on which wasjt
the sign of the red triangle. They
pulled off their caps, swung them in a
wide circle, and shouted: : 1 c i
; ;"Good old Y. M! Good old Y7 M I :
Their , young faces, a moment' be-
fore masked with that stoic surface
born of trench life, now spoke, elo
quently their appreciation, their grat
itude. They gave that grey Y.- M, C
A. building the look a man gives liis
home.
"Well, it is the nearest thing to home
we have out there,' one lad replied,
when I said something of the , sort to
him.
We discovered that we had been born
within a hundred miles of each other,
and then he spoke to me freely as sol
dier boys back from the front often
do speak to people whom they do not
expect to see again.
"These blessed little huts follow our
war lines wherever they go.v . They
come up under shell fire just" as close
as the -war office wiirieMTtfteTrtT " Ican
never forget the first time I got into
support trenches. It was pretty hard
tc sit there under fire the first time,
and when our seventy-two hours were
over I staggered out of the communi
cation trench half stupefied. The first
thing I saw in a meadow just up by
the road was a Young Men's Christian
Association field kitchen all. ready
with hot coffee."
The soldier's eyes filmed over in mi",
ty reminiscence, and I guessed they
must have known real tears when he
saw the Y. M. C. A. worker quietly
dipping up hot coffee and handing out
sandwiches. That peaceful normal oc
cupation must have helped bridge for
him the chasm between the abnormal
ities of war and the normalities of ci
vilian life.
"Yes, Ma'am," he continued, "Good
old Y. M. is about the last thing we
see going into the trenches and the
first thing we see coming out. Where
can a fellow be sure of hot food ? The
Y. M. Where can he see a cinema to
take his mind off the trenches. Lots
of the Y. M. huts have them. Where
can he hear a little music? Good old
Y. M. has phonographs. Biggest dis
appointment some of us had once was
coming back to a hut near billets to
find that a shell had gone through
the phonograph. Does a fellow want
a quiet- hour? He gets it in the Y.
M. Does he want some one to talk to ?
Y. M. provides. I'm not pi but 1 do
say Lord bless 'em."
JThis young soldier was quite evi
dently not pious,-as he said, but his
look showed that out there in the
tienclies he had been thinking of the
deep things of life. There were little
thoughtful lines, fresh-made, grooved
in his face. Therefore, it was not hard
to get himj;pspeak further of what
the Y. M. C. A. had meant to him.
"I used to kind of shrink from a Y.
M. C. A. man before the war, l mean.
I had a silly idea they'd want to talk
to me about going to church, and ask
if I drank and smoked and swore and
if my feet otherwise took hold on
hell. But they never taiK religion to
you unless you start it first. What
they do for you is give you friendship
and comfort. These Y. M.-(J. A. work
ers that go to France seem to be
choosen with a view to their influence
over the boys. Well, they nave it all
right. They seem to know just what
to say and do for us. I've known a
couple of fellows that turned relig
ious just because of the goodness-of
these Y. M. C. A. people.
"Sometimes," he went on slowly,"we
wonder if the people at home under
stand just how hard it is for us out
here. It isn't that I want to grouse;
reciation
J
; w Jfellows have our bit to do: we
'know what it is and how to do it. But
we-ieed every reminder we can get
of iibme. We need letters and parcels
from our friends and we need these i .
M.-C. .A. huts and refreshments and
amusements to bring home over here
to us and to remind us that the civil
mns-are thinking of us. Well, when
I hear some woman, of "an exempted
mair saying, 'But I gave money to the
YrM. C. A. last year.' I feel like sav-
ing,:, 'Well, I gave.you my blood last
yea?, as this little gold stripe on my
sleeve shows, and I'll probably give
it again this year, if I don't give my
hfeJ If you saw us fellows crowding
mto?the huts and those that can't gv
inside gaping in through the window,
you'd know we haven't enough of those
hut$ and that we appreciate to the
full those we have. Lots of us feel
like- saluting that red triangle almost
as .we salute the flag. That's why we
pull off our caps and yell 'Good old Y.
scarcely a week aiterwaras, one
Monday afternoon I was walking from
one little country village in Kent to
another when I fell in with a mechan
CI 1 1 i t i i
ic's wife. She had just returned from
doing a day's washing for a farm
er's wife in the neighborhood.
"I .never worked out for anyone be
fore' she said, "for I always 'ad all I
could do at 'ome .But my eldest,
VsA"n France, and it's what he wrote
me made me say to meself I'd get up
'alf past twelve Monday morning and
do my own wash and then do Mrs.
Williams' and give the pay I earn to
the Y. M. Q. A. Because my boy, 'e
wrote and said I never cloud know
what the Y. M. C- A. 'ad dnne for 'im
out there. 'Mother,' 'e wrote, 'if you
can think what a comfort prayer meet
ing was to Grandmother, and whiskey
to Grandfather, and the Trade union
is to Father, and the Dorcas society is
to you, then you can have just a little
idea of what the Y. M. C- A. is to me.
Do you remember,' 'he says, 'that time
I got lost when I was a little fellow
and ran home crying, and you were
(Continued On Last Page)
MADE, Y. M. C. A.
ADDRESSES HERE
In Court House, County Organi
zation Perfected; A Strong
Talk by Dr. Smith.
Dr. Smith an Mr. Carroll of Ral
eigh were in town Sunday afternoon
and addressed a gathering of Warren
and Warrenton citizens at the Court
House upon the needs of the Y. M. C.
A., and upon the great work it was
doing among the soldiers.
Warren county is asked to raise
only a thousand dollars of the thirty
five million being raised throughout
the nation this week. The organiza
tion of the county to push this work
was perfected with the following of
ficers: G. H. Macon, president; N. M.
Palmer, vice-president; H. F. Jones,
secretary; and C. R. Rodwell, treas
urer. -
These gentlemen met and appointed
working committees for each section
of the county this morning, and those
appointed will find their names in ano
ther column.
WARRENTON RED CROSS CHAP
TER RECEIVES LOAD OF WOOD
The Warrenton Red Cross Chapter
is indebted to Mr. J. A. Hudgins for
a load of wood, which was needed and
which is appreciated by every mem
ber.
The Red Cross workers may come
out in numbers Thursday morning,and
may rest assured of a comfortable
work room at the Academy.
Arbor Day Observed By Appro
priate Exercises at Norlina
High School On Friday.
Arbor Day was observed by : the
Norlina Public School last Friday with
appropriate exercises in the school au
ditorium, and by planting sixteen
shade trees on the school ground.
Seven of the sixteen trees were pre
sented to the school by the pupils of
the different rooms, the graduating
class of 1918, and the Edgar Allen
Poe Literary Society.
- Pupils from the different grades as
sisted in preparing the soil for plant
ing the trees, which were set out b
the pupils with the assistance of Mi.
John H. Fleming, Mr. R. S. Register
and Captain H. W. Draffin. Each tree
as it was set out was named and ded
icated by the pupils presenting it.
In addition to the Arbor Day pro
gram, a large new United States Flag
was raised, with patriotic exercises.
A large number of the patrons and
friends of the school were present at
the exercises.
Below is the Arbor Day program
as presented in the School auditorium:
Tree Planting Song. School
History of Arbor Day. Henry Packard
Plant a Tree Five Pupils
A Little Sermon to Boys ...........
Frank Banzet
Arbor Day Alphabet
Twenty-Six Pupiis
October's Party.. Ethel Merritt
Arbor Day Message Ruby Draffin
What the Trees Teach Us
Fourteen JPupi'
N, C.'s Historic - Oaks. .M. Cawthorn
Trees of the Fragrant Forest
. Seven Pupils
Arbor Day. .High School
Object of Bird Day Observance . . . . .
. . :. . . . . . . . ,T7 . . Harvie Bawsel
A Tree James Bawsel
Mt. Mitchell .7 Annie Forrest
The Forest Pleaders Six Pupils
What the Little Bird Said..
Ruth Burchet
The Heart of the Tree. . . .Alma Tate
Flag Raising Exercises
Columbia .... School
Pledge to the Flag T School
Star Spangled Banner School
Tree Planting.
NORLINA GIRLS
WIN OVER WISE
Girl's Basketball Team Wins By
18 to 3 Score Over the Wise
State High School Team
Friday afternoon, November 9th, the
Girls' Basketball team of the Norlisa
High School defeated the Wise team
in an interesting game of basketball
at Norlina. The score was 18 to 3.
While both teams played a good
game, the Wise girlswere unable o
successfully interfere with the team
work of the Norlina girls. The game
was particularly free from any star
playing, every member of each team
playing well.
Sadie Perkinson scored the only field
goal made by Wise, and Susie Gooch
one toui goal. J? or JNorhna. Kubv
Draffin scored five field goals; Alma
Tate three field goals and two foul
goals.
Referee Miss Hodges, of Wise.
Time of halves fifteen minutes.
HOME GUARD MET
MONDAY NIGHT
In Dameron Building Armory on
Monday Night and Perfect
Plans of Meeting, Etc.
The Warren County Home Guard
pursuant to a call of Captain Polk
met in the armory at eight o'cIock
Monday night.
It was agreed to setaside the se
cond Tuesday night in each month as
a time of meeting and drill.
The county commissioners are to be
asked to equip these men. This is n
practice being observed in other of
the State's counties.
Town Divided Among Following
Who Are To. Make Personal
Canvass For Y. M. C. A.
H. A. Moseley, J. G. Ellis, C. R.
Rodwell and John Graham were de
signated as a committee to wait upon
the business men of the town.
Miss Lou Brown and Mrs. Tom Rose
from Mr. Lou Brown's to Hudgins.
From Miss Lou Brown's to Dameron
Block, Miss Mary Russell Burrougus
and Mrs. George Scoggin.
From R. T. Watson's to Johnny
Williams': Mrs. N. M. Palmer, Mrs.
Jeff Palmer, Miss Sallie Palmer and
Brodie Jones.
From Mr. Will Davis' to Old Eaton
Place including new town: Mrs. M.
P. Burwell and Mrs. W. C. Fagg.
From Stuart Wortham's to colored
Graded school: William Burroughs.
From Jules Harris' to Graham
High School: Mrs. Gillam.
Frorn Mrs. R. T. Watson's to "Fif
th Avenue" Mrs. R. T. Watson and
Mrs. Lizzie Tarwater.
From Strickland's Garage to Mr. T.
D. Peck's: Mrs. W. R. Strickland, and
Misses Alice Rooker and Jennie Jack
son. Cotton Mill Hill: Mr. Mullin, Mrs.
G. H. Macon, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Peck.
From Mr. Peck's to J. J. Tarwater's
Mary E. Grant, Mrs. T. V. Allen and
Mrs. H. A. Moseley.
Baptist Hill: Mrs. Tom Gardner.
Ridgeway Street: Mrs. C R Rod
well, Mrs. M. C- McGuire and Mrs.
Norwood Boyd.
Fifth avenue: Miss Lilly Arringtoa.
From Davis Peck's ao main street
going north and including territory
in rear of Mr. Eugene Allen's: Mrs.
Palmer Scoggin and Mrs. C- C. Hun
ter. At Pridgen Manufacturing Co: Mr.
and Mrs. S. J. Williams.
The above named are requested to
meet at the Court House Wednesday
morning at ten thirty where pledge
cards may be secured. It is desired
that you bring paper and pencil in
order that a record may be kept of
each donation.
BRODIE JONES,Sect'y Town Com.
COUNTY TEACHERS
HOLD MEETING
Teachers Hold First County
Association and Elect Offi-
cers
Here Saturday.
The first teachers' meeting of the
school year 1917-18 was' held in the
Warrenton State High School build
ing on Saturday, November 10th. The
meeting was opened by a short pray
er by Supt. H. F. Jones.
The object of the meeting was the
reorganization of the teachers Asso
ciation as was stated by Supt. Jones.
He, in turn, requested Prof. J. Ed
ward Allen to act as temporary chair
man and Miss Mary Chauncey as tem
porary secretary.
Nominations were then in order for
permanent officers. Prof Allen was
unanimously elected chairman, Miss
Chauncey reelected secretary and Mrs.
B. D. Scull re-elected treasurer.
Supt. Jones made a tew remarKs
impressing upon the teachers the great
responsibility which is resting upon
them and that they must awaken to
the fact that the State of North Caro
lina should obtain a higher and more
thoroughly competent corps of teach
ers, and that in order to accomplish
this each teacher must stay at the
highest state of efficiency. He advis
ed all the teachers to obtain the Read
ing Circle books which they are re
quired to read and study these for
the next four months. A large num
ber responded and gave Supt. Jones
orders for necessary books.
Prof. Allen was requested to outline
the work for the next meeting and let
the teachers know what they would be
expected to do, through the Warren
Record.
The teachers were urged to be more
prompt in attending these meetings,
and if they were not, they would be
reported byUie County Superintendent
There being no further business the
meeting adjourned to meet the second
Saturday in December.
MARY E. CHAUNCEY,
Secretary.