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VOL. XXIII.
(TUESDAY)
WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1918
(FRIDAY)
Number 40
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A SEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OE WARRENTON AND W
ARREN COUNTY
3c A COPY
HAS BEEN DIVIDED
INTO FOUR TEAMS
MAJOR W. A. GRAHAM
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CORPORAL HERBERT MILES
FLYING SQUADRON
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purpose of -Campaign Managers
to Arouse Productive Rivalry
lor the Second Red Cross War
Fund Next Week
The colored people of the township
have been divided into four teams by
township chairman R, B. Boyd for the
Ked Cross drive May 20-27th. These
teams are to be active working bodies
during: next week.
Team Number One Otis M. Green,
dipt, Rev. J. H. Hudson, Mrs. Laura
Taylor, Mrs. Margaret Harris, Miss
Dora Williams, James Jordan, Hugh
Williams, Ed Balwin, Mrs. Sallie Wil
liams. Team Number Two J. i S. Grcen,
Capt, Rev. J. G. Lewis, Charlie H.
Branch, R. P. Green, J. H. Jones, J.
B. Plummer, J. F. Jenkins, George J.
Sommerville, Mrs. Willie P. Plummer,
Mrs. Sallie B. Joyner, Mrs. Pattie E.
Collins, Mrs. Alice B. Hendrick, Miss
Fannie M. Jenkins, Mrs. Amelia Bj
Hawkins, Miss E. C. Plummer.
Team Number Thiee Rev. J. K.
Ramsey, Captain, Mrs. J. K. Ramsey,
Mrs. C. A. Reavis, Mrs. Alice Stain
back, Mrs. James Green, Mrs. Nannie
llayley, Mis. Hattie Plummer, Mrs.
Julia Terrell, Mrs. Sallie Bet Thorn
ton, James S. Green, Burwell Thorn
ton, H. H. Reavis, D. Whit Kearney,
John Jenkins, Peter Collins.
Team Number Four M. F. Thorn
ton, Captain, Rev. C. H. Williamson,
Rev. Aaron Jones, W. W. Harris, Miss
Carrie Thornton, Mrs. Harriett Cros
san, Mrs. John Branch.
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WORTHY COLORED WOMAN
PASSES TO GREAT BEYOND
We regret to announce the death
cf cne of our dearly beloved mothers,
Mrs. Mary Powell, mother of Mr.
Bon Powell, of Grove Hill. She died
at his home on the second day -of April
cf LaGrippe at the age of eighty nine
or ninety years.
Mrs. Powell did not wait to seek
the Lord in her old age, but fearful
lest she might fail, she sought and
found him in her youth.
She was united with the Lovely Hiu
Baptist church for several years wheie
she made a great many friends, who
have endeavored in many ways to
show their respect, and love for her
and to offer - sympathy to the grief
stricken family. .
She has a clean record; her habits,
the best, and her disposition most
genial.
She leaves four daughters, two sons
and a large number of grand children.
Let us not forget to pray to meet
Mrs. Powell's smiling face, and ask
our Heavenly Father to comfort the
bereaved family.
Mrs. ENOLIA L STREETER.
W.S.S.
INVESTIGATION OF LIMESTONE
AND MARLS IN NORTH CAR.
The North Carolina Geological and
Economic Survey has under way i.n
'investigation of the limestones and
marls of the State. The results of
this investigation will be embodied in
a report which will deal largely with
the economic value of these deposits.
This is of especial interest at the
present time to the farmers and th
Portland cement manufacturers. Any
-ne owning a considerable body of
Hmestone or marl should communi
tate at once with the North Carolina
Geological and Economic Survey,
Chapel Hill, so that such deposits
can be thoroughly investigated.
-W.S.S.-
Patriotic Meeting at
Court House Monday
In answer to the call to raise War
den's quota of the $100,000,000 of the
Rod Cross War Fund, which is $5,000
there will be a patriotic meeting of
the Central Auxiliary of the Red Cross
at the Court House Monday, May 20
at 8:3Q p. m. ' '
Dr. -John A. Cotton, principal of
Henderson Normal Institute, a man
great ability and an able speaker
will deliver the address.
Everybody is invited and especially
ged to be present.
Mrs. P. F. HAYLEY, Chairman.
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Major Graham needs no introduction.
He is a son of Prof. John Graham, and
was for a number of years following
his graduation at Carolina , a teacher
in Warrenton High School. He went
into military life with the Kome Com
pany in 1913, and commanding H. Co.
on the Border. He was promoted to
Major in July 1917 and is now serving
with the Colors with the American
Expeditionary Force. A man of thor
oughness even in small things, and
a high toned christian gentleman he
ranks high among North Carolina offi
cers. W.S.S.
Acreage Increase
Is 45 Per Cent.
Washington, May 15 Acreage of
winter 'Wheat in England xand Wales
this year is increased 45 per cent over
1917, and shows a 56 per cent in
crease over the acreage for the ten
year period preceding the war. Nei
ther Scotland nor Ireland is included
in these figures.
Tho Committer on Agriculture de
cided early- last year . that it would
be wise as a national policy to rai
more cereals, and condemned 2,400,00
acres of grass and park land to
planted in grain. In addition,many
tractors have been .imported from the
Urited States and these were sent out
under govenmental supevision with
instructions tc see that no farming
land escaped plowing.
Weather conditions for the coming
crop have been ideal, and crop condi
tions are reported as being very good,.
W.S.S.
News Items From
The Afton Section
Mrs. S. J. Williams and family, of
Warrenton, visited his brother Mr. D.
C. Williams Tuesday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Pinnell and chil
dren and Miss Myrtle Pinnell spent
a short while with friends in Hen
derson Saturday.
Mrs. H. G. Limer and daughter Miss
Hazel visited her mother Mrs. L. L.
Fuller Tuesday.
Masters Oliver and Graham Reams
spent last week with their grand
mother Mrs. Elizabeth Overby near
Macon. r
Mr. H. B. Hunter spent Saturday
night and Sunday with relatives near
Macon.
Mrs. Humphlett and daughter little
Miss Catharine, of Warrenton, are
spending som&xlime with Mrs. D. C.
Williams.
Mr. Vernon Mabry and Miss Helen
Felts were happily married Sunday
afternoon at the Jiome of "Mr. D. P.
Limer. We wish them a long and
happy life.
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Williams spent
Saturday night and Sunday with her
brother Mr. Osbourne Limer.
Miss Katie Burroughs, of Warren
ton State High School, spent the week
end with home people here.
The weddnig bells are soon to ring
again in Afton.
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Memdrial Services At Areola
There will be Memorial services at
Areola M. E. church Sunday. Those
having- squares in the cemetery will
please have them cleaned up this
week.
Everybody may bring-flowers that
each grave may be decorated.
W.S.S.-
' Donate liberally to the call next
'week Give until you feel it!
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AN INCITE TO THE WORKINGS
OF THE BODY CN OTHER SIDE
Wh.it is the American Red Cross do
ing for the wounded soldier in
France?
The chief work of . the american
Red Cross in helping care for wounde-!
soldiers lies in its cc-operation with
the government in supplying an ef
ficient nursing service; in- assisting
thexArmy Medical Corps in cases of
emergency, and in furnishing mater
ials fc-3' hospitals. There, were oi
Maich 1, 1918, more than twenty-thre i
hundred American Red Cross nurses
employed in Base Hospitals and in
the French Military Hospitals through .
out Republic. The total number of
hospitals of various sorts in the
French Republic exceeds five thousand,
and more -than half of these are re
ceiving all' or part of their medical an i
susgical supplies fsom the American
Red Cross.
What are we doing for tbe permanent
ly r'.js"b'd sildier?
The rceduiation of mutilated sol
diers is being carried on jointly by
the French Government and the Amer
ican Red Cross. There are between
fifty and sixty schools of various kinus
for this work. The Red Cross ha
provided more than six hundred muti
lated soldiers with artificial legs of
the best type, and has established a
factory neaz Paris where artificial
limbs are manufactured. By arrang
ing for consultation between the sur
geon and the manufactuier, the Red
Cross has been able to secure the he--possible
treatment for each case. Tno
mutilated soldier must return to or
dinary community life, and should en
ter industry on a basis of competition
with able-bodied men. Cripples writ
have lost an arm or a leg. and at
first seem hopelsssly disable, can h ;
taught many processes of industry,,
auchas running a latfye, operating a
motor tractor, controlling a drill, and
even the use of farm machinery. Fo
the re-education of mutilated French
soldiers, a five-hundred acre farm
near. Tours has been obtained by the
Red Cross and placed under a compe
tent director.
What is the Red Cross doing for tht
civil population of France?
With the wanton destruction oJ
homes by the German Army 'and the
uprooting of the population in the
devastated regions, the home as an
institution in France is in peril. Re
alizing this condition, the Red Cress
i? endeavoring o keep "the soldiei's
homes -intact; to find homes for tlje
outcast children who have neither
homes nor parents, and to help the
lefugees and repatries to find a place
to live until they shall be able to re
build their homes.
How are we reaching the home of the
French soldier?
The most telling work of the Red
Cross in France, as far as helping to
win the war goes, is the car of the
families of the French soldiers. The
Red Cross is giving to the needy
families of thse French soldiers sup
plies and. :noney, , according tc- their
needs and its capacity. If impossiVe
to give supplies, it gives money. The
information which serves-as a .basis
cf distribution comes from the soldier
himself. The company officer secures
this information from the soldie:-,
transmits it to the French general,
and he in turn informs the Red Cross
Commission.
Who are the Refugees?
When the German Army invaded
Franca, hundreds of thousands of
French people were driven from their
homes and are now scattered through
out the republic. These people are
known as refugees. The number has
increased, of course, for various reas
ons until now there are more than
1,200,000, embracing all classes and
ages, except able-bodied men. There
are. approximately 500,000 refugees
in Paris alone.
The housing of these people is one
cf the greatest problems of the French
Governmtent. The American. Red
Cross is co-operating with the French
Government in this w.ork. In Pari.,
where housing is the crux of the refu
gee problem, the American Red Cross
ha& made an examination of alL un
finished apartment buildings and has
turned over nineteen of these, which
will house 2,800 persons to housing
organizations " for completion. The
Red Cross provides the"furnishing and
pays for them.
What is the Red Cross doing for, tho
'people living in the ruined villages?
One of the most pathetic , thing in
France -.today is the reluctance of the
French people to leave the ruined
villages; Practically every able-bodied
man is at war, or has fallen in battle ;
old men, women and children remain.
With husbands, fathers, sons given to
their country, the one thing left that
is dear to them is the old home. Now
it . is ruins. Though their homes are
in ruins, and ' under poisonous gas,
many' of these old men and women
and children rather than become refu
gees, cling to the place. They till
their fields fairly up to the battle line;
working mostly by night and staying
by day in cellars.
It is to help relieve such conditions
that the American Red Cross has lo
cated its relief warehouses just behind
the battle lines at strategic points;
and is shipping food, clothes, blankets,
beds, mattresses, stoves, kitchen uten
sils, garden tools and hundreds of
other articles of prime importance to
leople who were contented and pros
perous only four years ago! Today
there are more than six hundred ruin
ed towns in France.
How are we helping to save- the chil
dren, of France?
With the great reduction in births
and Hhe tremendous loss of life of
men Jn the war, it is imperative that
every child in France be saved, fo- in
saving the children we save France.
Thisproblem is. a grave one. There
are today five thousand childi'en under
the medical care of the American Rod
Cross,, and twenty thousand are aideo
by the Red Cross,, directly or .indi
rectlyv," ThlT French" Government has
issued an edict that no child under
seven years shall remain in the shelled
area. Such young children cannot be
taught to keep on their gas masks.
Wherever barracks can be found,
homes for the children are established;
homes" in which the Red Cross applies
to these French children American
standards of child-welfare. Medical
centers, traveling dispensaries, and
even traveling shower baths to caiv.
for the children in the devasted re
gions have been provided. The vil
lage of Toul was the first center es
tablished by the Red Cross for the
care and treatment of homeless chil
dren. Several other centers have
since been established, and shelter is
provided now by the Red Cross n sixty-three
towns and cries outside cf
Paris.
How is this work looked upon by the
French people?
This question can bes; be answered
by the following incident told by Mr
Henry J. Allen, editor of the Wichita
(Kansas) "Beacon," which illustrates
fost forcibly the implict faith of the
French people in the American Rto
Cross. Mr. Allen says : "At Toul I
met a wonderful little woman,
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Madame Tirrell, of gentle . birth and
formerly, used to all the comforts and
luxuries of life. Madame Tirrell is a
wonderful combination of quiet
strength and determination. He hus
band, is in the trenches and she is
working alone on her little farm,
twelve miles behind tlie firing line
If she tries to work in her fields in
the daytime the Germans drop a' shell
thereabouts and sht has to run .to
the shelter of her underground dug
out, where she lives day after day,
and then at night she goes out under
the stars alone, and with her gas
mask around her neck she has plowed
and sowed and reaped thirty acres of
wheat. And then last August she
took ten days vacation to give birvn
to her baby. - At the end of that time
she brought the baby to Toul, to turn
it over to your American Red Cross.
I endeavored to say what a heroine I
considered her to be, and she passes
it off as a matter of course. . She says
she had no hatred in her heart for
the German and for what they have
done to her, but she shed tears of
womanly vexation and anger only be
cause the Germans wouldn't let, her
work in the daytime in her fields when
she could accomplish so much more
than by working at night in the dark
ness. And when she left, she said,
21 year old son of Mrs. M. J. Miles
of this city who is serving with H. Co.
American Expeditionary Forces. He
has been a, member, of the Company
since 1914; he was with the Company
on the Border. While stationed at
Camp Sevier with the Company he
was made bayonet instructor for his
Battalion and woe to the Hun who
comes in close quarters with the bay
onet of Corporal Miles. Previous to
military service he attended school at
Warrenton High and worked for bus
iness houses here. His acquaintances
send all good luck!
'Good-bye, Mr. Allen, I know that
your American Red Cross is .going tc
take care of my baby, but I must gee
back to my little farm7 for Franc
needs my grain more than my baby
needs me.' "
How is the dependent population of
France constantly augmented?
By the Repatries?
Who are the Repatries? ;
They are the French and Belgian
people who were caught behind the
German line 'in the great drive of
1914 and have since been returned to
France. These people, hay e been livT
ihg in captivity in the parts of France
and Belgium occupied by the German
Army, and have been working possibly
on their own lands, at ther own
looms, in their own bakeries, for
Germany. In 1915 Germany began a
systematic repatriation of them tfuo
Switzerland. Up to January 1, 1918.
more than three hundred thousand
repatries had passed into " France
through Evian, a town near the Swiss"
frontier, and the stream continues Uii-
broken,- at the rate of more than a
thousand a day. There are yet hun
dreds of thousands to comer Those
whom Germany sends back are indus
trial discards of a nation efficiently
stripping itself of human encumbran-ces-children
under ten, women bur
dened with the care of two or moe
children, men past fifty, ,with now
and then a younger man, ill or crip
pled. "
What is the Red Cross doing for these
repatries?
Each arriving train, one in the
morning and one in' the evening, is
met by automobiles and ambulances
with Red Cross chauffeurs to help the
aged and infirm. The children are ex
amined and serious cases treated im
mediately at Evian. Children in need
of convalescent, care are sent to a Red
Cross hospital near Lyons; tubercul
ous repatries are referred to a Red
Cross hospital in Lyons; and the
thousands of homeless old men,
women and children are sent to
strange parts of France because their
own villages are devasted or in enemy
territory, to be met by American Red
Cross delegates who aid in re
establishing livable homes with some
fuel, furniture, clothing and fpod.
While many of these -4 people have
been united with their, families and
have found new homes in their native
lands, j yet because of this constant
pouring-in process, from thirty to
forty thousand are temporarily de
pendent upon the American Red Cross.
What assistance is the American Red
Cross giving the French authorities
toward preserving health?
The American Red Cross is filling
a certain definie role in a program, be
gun in the summer of 1917, under the
patronage and general direction of
the Rockefeller Foundation, to com
bat tuberculosis. This .work is car
ried on, not only in military hospitals,
but among the civil population as well:
Judging f ronTthe results .accomplished
thus far, those in authority there be
lieve that this program will be car
ried farther in France in four years
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CARS DECORATED AND ALL
CHM. TO BE INTERVIEWED
This Body of Red Cross Organi
zation Arousing People to Canr
paign and Bringini a Closer
Working Unity Into Existance
Did you see those cars Wednesday,
yes I mean those three automobiles all
diked up for the occasion with Red
Cross flags, United States flags, and
the flags of our Allies. If you didn't
don't worry they are coming your
way. Reverting to official lingo that
the Flying Squadron of the Second
Red Cross War Fund Campaign, and
a bunch of folks who want everyone
to know about the big drive in War.
r en May 20-27th.
The three iars left town Wednes
day afternoon for a trip to Macon,
Vaughan and Littleton and to post
illustrated window cards and distri
bute literature. Township chairmen
of both Judkins and River were inter
viewed as well as other prominent men
along the route.
It is the purpose of this flying Squa
dron to keep all parts of the county
aroused to the necessity of raising
this fund, and if possible every Coun
ty chairman, is to l?e visited "by this
body. The Squadron will go out to
day to Wise, Norlina, Ridgeway, and
other parts of the County. '
The following members of the Fly
ing Squadron were on the trip Wed
nesday: Mrs. Kate P. Arrington, chm
of County Drive; Stephen Burroughs,
member Executive Com; W. Brodie
Jones, Exec. Sec'ty and Publicity Man
ager; R. B. Boyd and J. Palmer Scog
gin, members of Transportation com
mittee; T. P. Peck, Captain East Side
Captain, and Mesdames Tom Peoples.
W. A. Graham, and W- B. Boyd, of
ie "Executive' committee." Others" on '
the trip yesterday were: W. H. Dam
eron, R. B. Boyd, Jr., Mrs. T. D. Peck,
Misses Mary Polk and Sue Burroughs
and Mrs. John G. Ellis, Secretary of
Warrenton chapter.
The Flying Squadron is expected to
procure numerable results by its ac
tivities' and its work of Wednesday
afternoon met with splendid results.
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Only Good Men--Physically
Qualified
The Local Board makes public this
letter to Adjutant General Young from
Washington, ii. C. Induction calls
upon your State are hereby announced
as follows:
".'all 504 under which your allott
mciit (North Carolina's) is 20 ra;'.
road brake-men, ' ugmen and conduc
tors to report to tire commanding offi
cer of Engineers, Camp Meade, Ad
miral, Maryland. Call 508 under which
your allottment is 12 locomotive en
g.: eers and firemen to report to Com
manding Officer of Engineers, Camp
Dix, Wrightstown, N. J. Call 538
under which your allotment is four
veterinarians to report to Command
ing Officer of Vsterinaiy iorps, Camp ,
Lee, Petersburg, Va."
Only white men and men physically
qualified for general military service
are to be inducted under thse calls.
"Cal 555 under which your allott
ment the State's allotment is 20
bricklayers to report tc Commanding
Officer of Signal Corps, Aviation Mo
bilization Camp, Fort Wayne, Michi
gan. Call 536 under which your al
lotment is 10 carpenters and helpers
to report to Commanding Officer of
Signal Corps, Aviation Mobilization
Camp, Fort Wayne, Michigan. Only
10 men are wanted under this call."
Only colored men and men physi
cally qualified for general military
service are to inducted under these
calls.
Local Boards are requested to wire
this office on May 19th, giving the
number of men who have volunteered
for each occupation mentioned in this
Bulletin. Upon receipt of reports this
office will immediately call for men
to-fill the above calls.
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Heme for the homeless, hope to the
I -pressed, 'ove to the downhearted,
food to the famished, medical science
.for pestilence, relief for disaster the
lRed Cross. Won't you help May 20-27?
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