VOLUME XXIII
(Tuesday)
WARRENTON. N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918
(Friday)
Number 62.
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53 COLORED MEN
WILLIAM T. FELTS, JR.
WAR LESSONS OF
APPOINTS LABOR
RESERVE HEADS
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After Two Weeks of Hard Fighting
On Rheims-Soissons Battle Front
Allies Advance Line And Retain New
New Ground In Face German
Counter-Attacks.
PARIS, July 30. Northeast of Fere
En Tardenois the Allied troops in
local fighting Tuesday advanced their
line and also retained the ground cap
tured in the region of Sergy, notwith
standing several German counter-attacks,
according to tte French official
communication issued this evening..
Attempts by the Germans to re-take
the village of St. Eupraise, southwest
of Rheims, failed, although the enemy
made a slight advance to the west of
the village.
Australian Success Southwest of
Ypres.
LONDON, July 30. Australian
troops have captured the village of
Merris, southwest of Ypres, according
to Field Marshal Haig's report from
British headquarters tonight.
Germans Claim Repulse of Attacks
by Allies.
BERLIN, Via, London, July 30.
The German official communication of
today, dealing with the fighting north
of the Ourcq and southwest of Rheims
Monday, says the Allied forces, in
cluding French, British and Americans
attacked in strength, but were thrown
back with the heaviest of losses over
the entire battle line.
The communication says the heav
iest of attacks were launched against
the Hartenness-Fere-En-Tardeners
front, but that the assaulting waves
broke down at or before the German
lines and sometimes under counter-attacks.
From Fere-En-Tardenois east
ward the Allied thrusts likewise were
unsuccessful, while repeated attacks
southwest of Rheims were everywhere
repulsed with heavy losses.
BERLIN, July 30. After his defeat
of yesterday the enemy has remained
quiet," says the German official com
munication issued this evening.
Americans Cut Divisions of
Germany's Picked Troops to
Pieces and Hold Sergy Against
Desperate Counter-Attacks.
American troops fighting north of
the Ourca river in the Soissons-
Rheims salient have enlarged their
brilliant victory of Monday at Sergy,
where they cut to pieces divisions of
Germanv'k nicked troons and took '
and held the villae-e ae-ainst counter- j
attacks.
Notwithstand continued heavy op- '
position by guns, machine guns and
large numbers of the enemy, soldiers
from the Middle Western and Eastern
states drove their lines northward
from Sergy Tuesday for a distance of
about two miles and were resting at
night on the slopes approaching the
woods beyond the town of Nesles.
Where they stood at last accounts, the
Americans formed the apex of the
Jng line running across the salient.
French Also Made Material Progress.
While the bitter fighting was in
Progress between the Americans and
Germans, the French troops on both
Slles of the fighting front also moved
forward for goodly gains northeast of
1 ere En Tardenois and east of Sergy
iciiueauis ana east ujl oeig.
In the Nesles forest the Germans
holding strong positions, from
vnich they are shelling, but thus far
mecectively, the menacing allied line
before them.
S. Troops Whip Prussians Again.
Prussian guards and Bavarians were
J the thick of the fighting throughout
Tuesday, but again they were -out-maneuvered
and out-fought by the
mencans and again sucered heavy
casualties.
AWvhe Frnt' J-ly 31' Wednesday
Whether as a result of wearness af-
b6er two weeks of incessant fighting or
cause of the greatly increased
-length
in man power, and positions
f the
enemy forces before them, the
allied
arm loo j-i o - ti ;
have noticeable decreased their
1
efforts to clear the salient of Ger
mans. If the pause in the offensive is at
tributable to wearness the armies of
the German Crown Prince also must
be worn out by the pressure they have
been under for the fortnight for, not
withstanding the fact that huge rein
forcements were sent to them in their
hour of dire peril, they have lacked
the hardiness to endeavor to throw
back their antagonists and recoup
their losses.
The fourteenth day of the great al
lied offensive which has resulted in
driving back the Germans from the
Marne region northward across the
Ourcq river and in matetrially bend
ing in the eastern and western side
of the great pocket wich its mouth
running cross country 36 miles from
Soissons to Rheims saw little activity
on the part of either of the contending
forces except in the nature of re
ciprocal bombardments.
Violent Attempts By Germans.
Tuesday night witnessed violent at
tempts by the Germans to expel the
Americans and French from the valu
able positions they hold north of the
Ourcq in the region of Fere-En-Tardenois
and along the western side of the
salient near Oulchy Le Chateau where
Scottish troops are holding with the
French the wedge that has been driv
en eastward into the enemy line.
Thase efforts were entirely fruitless.
A watchful eye is being kept by the
Germans on the Americans standing
at the apex of the , battle, line-, near .
Fere-en-Tardenois, and the . enemy j
guns are showering their positions
with great quantities of high explos
ives and gas shells. The enemy also
continues jealously to guard with
huge effectives the extreme eastern
and western flanks of the salient to
ward off surprise attacks.
W.S.S.
Six White Men Who
Entrain August 8th
The Local Board announces the fol
lowing men who are to report here
next Thursday, August 8th, and en
train for Camp Wadswcrth, Spartan
burg, S. C:
Thomas Samuel Walker, Vaughan.
Lucious O'neil, Elberon.
George Leon Aycock, Elberon.
Willie King, Warren Plains.
H&ywood Morton Ayscue, Manson.
Percy Reid, Grove Hill.
These men come from the class of
1918 class I, the white men of Class
I of the 1917 registration having been
eshausted.
-W.S.S.-
Colored Institute Here Monday
The colored Teachers Institute con
venes here Monday for a two-week
sezsion. Prof. P. W. Moore, princi
pal of Elizabeth City Normal School
in charge.
W.S.S.
Marines Fire Youthful Hatred
Cincinnati, O., Aug. 1 Exit the
Boche daschund from the society of
Cincinnati dogdom.
No longer1 will the lengthy canines
which tradition has associated with
linV sausages find company with de-
TT pnrnl.
cent fidoes. A. U. S Marine Corps
poster was response
i o;ii viotnisp here.
man aoggie bu-. -
The poster depicts an American bull
dog chasing a German daschund with
the words, "Teufel Hunden (Devil
Dogs), German nickname for U. S.
Marines." .
Since the appearance of the Marine
poster, the local daschunds, of which
there are a great number, have led a
miserable existence, as small boys
have "sicced" bulldogs, terriers
hounds and every other breed of
canine upon the poor "Fritzes," until
at last they have been practically
driven off the streets of Cincinnati.
W.S.S.
The cost' of the U. S. Food Admin
istration for its first year's work
was less than 2-cents per capita.
LEFT WEDNESDAY IN BEST
SPIRITS TO DO THEIR BIT
Final Instructions Given Regis
trants By Chairman Ward At
Centre Warehouse; Numbers
bers of Friends Here.
With Salmon P. Thornton, of War
renton, in charge the following color
ed registrants entrained for Camp
Greene, Charlotte, here Wednesday:
Frank Jones, Littleton.
Lewis Boyd Jr., Elberon.
Matthew Thomas, Washington, D. C.
John Wesley Stamper, Inez.
Jack Jones, Manson, Route 1.
James Williams, Elberon.
Fred Williams, Grove Hill.
Alphonza Davis, Littleton.
John W. Alston, Inez.
Jesse Somerville, Macon.
Pryor James Williams, Embro.
George Johnston, Littleton.
Henry Davis, Inez.
Colonel Walter Goode, Macon, Rl.
Ollie Harrison, Merchant, Va.
Willie Gus Williams, Alston.
Clarence Kearney, Henderson, R2.
Emmett Davis, Manson, Rl.
Philip Aikins, Macon.
Frederick D. Branch, Elberon.
King Perry, Warrenton.
Sam Edmund Alston, Inez.
George Twitty, Warrenton.
Morris Pettiford, Warrenton.
Salmon P. Thornton, Warrenton.
Doctor JEsax Jones, Manson.
Henry Wiley Richardson, Essex, Rl.
Alsey Dunston, Inez.
Theopilus H. Hawkins, Manson, Rl.
George F. Davis, Elberon.
William Henry Shearin, Macon, Ra.
Lively Richardson, Essex.
Whitty Hicks, a Littleton. , .s...il,.'v
Junius Bullock, Ridgeway,
Johnnie Gregory, Littleton.
John Henry Hunter, Henny Coat, Va.
Walter Boyd, Macon.
Arome Boyd, Macon.
Brinel Alston, Inez.
George Daniel, Warrenton.
Blake Yellity, Littleton, R4.
Alonzo Bowles, Henderson, R6.
Henry Davis, Macon, Rl.
Robert Williams, Afton.
Nathaniel W. Davis, Elberon.
Charlie L. Davis, , Ridgeway.
Nelson Williams, Areola.
Samuel -Boyd, Elberon.
Boyd Richardson, Ridgeway.
John Williams, Warrenton.
Thomas Thrower, Elams.
Edward Davis, Elberon.
Seneca Dent, Inez.
David Kearney Williams, Alston.
William Meade, Littleton.
Charles Hayes, Henderson.
Lewis Green Jefferson, Ridgeway.
Henderson Williams, Inez.
Before entrainment the new soldier:-
gathered in the Centre Warehouse for
final instructions from Chairman V.
F. Ward. Here also Red Cross com
fort bags were distributed and sever
al short talks made by colored citi
zens of town and county. The men
were in good spirits and left deter
mined to "get the kaiser!"
W.S.S.
PLANS FOR NEW
LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN
Washington, Aug 1 Plans for the
em i 1 n t t -i
campaign lor tne iourtn liberty
Loan today began to take definite
form following announcement by Sec
retary McAdoo that $he campaign
will open September 28 and continue
three weeks, ending October 19t. Pre
vious campaigns have extended over
a period of four weeks, but it is be
lieved by treasury officials that a
shorter campaign will bring forth a
more intensified effort with even more
satisfactory results.
Posters and advertising for the new
loan will be issued shortly, it was
learned today.
Official announcement as to the size
of the fourth loan has not yet been
made, but it has been indicated that
the government will attempt to raise
$6,000,000,000 by the sale of bonds
which will bear four and a fourth
per cent interest.
W.S.S.
COTTON CROP FORECAST
OF 13,619,000 BALES
Washington August 1 A coton
crop of 13,619,000 equivalent 500
pound bales was forecast today by
the Department of Agriculture bas
ing its estimate on the condition of
he crop July 25 which was 73.6 per
l cent of normal.
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Felts,
of Warren Plains. He volunteered
as Railway Firemen and left May the
17th for Fort Benjamin Harrison, In
dia no po is, where he is now in train
ing, lie is LL years old and will do
his duty wherever placed.
58 Colored Men To
Leave Here Saturday
The Warren County Local Board
has received orders to entrain under
Call 1012 for Camp Greene. Char
lotte, the following men who are or
dered to appear here Saturday, Au
gust 3rd:
Manuel Andrews, Ridgeway, Rl.
John Shearin, Macon, R3.
Mansfield Alston, Inez.
Benj. Arthur Williams, Areola.
Robert Lee Williams, Areola.
John Baptist Arrington, Marmaduke.
Albert Taylor, Littleton.
John' Williams, "Littleton, R5. "
Frank Fitts, Littleton. f
Walter James Perry, Marmaduke.
Stephen Davis, Macon, R3.
Harley Mosley, Manson.
Isaiah Hicks, Littleton.
Plummer Williams, Inez.
Roy Williams, Shocco,
Roy Branch, Alston.
Joe Bazemore Williams, Areola.
Ervin Carr Kearney, Afton.
Alston Coplin, Areola.
McKinley Hedgepeth, Elams.
James Rudd, Afton.
Jim Towns, Macon, Rl.
Joseph Roger Stark, Elams.
Elijah Davis, Elberon.
Henry Lee Hilliard, Ridgeway.
Robert Stovall, Littleton, R4.
Moses Marshal, Manson, R2.
Howard Monroe Fitts, Littleton.
Vernon Jones, Afton.
Peter K. Davis, Afton.
Sividous Vaden Stark, Elams.
Peter Dortch, - Ridgeway.
Nathaniel Cheek, New Haven, Conn.
Thaddeus Carter, Littleton, R3.
Ernest Richardson, Essex.
Jessie Seward, Ridgeway, Rl.
John Peet, Macon.
George Kearney, Alston.
Jonas Davis, Jr., Alston. ,
Sandy Williams, Inez.
William S. Hudgins, Macon.
Frank Lewis Alston, Creek.
Charlie Midder, Norlina.
George Carter, Littleton.
Joe Falcon, Littleton.
Jake Town?, Elberon.
Tommie Williams, Littleton, R5.
Samuel Jack Nicholson, Alston.
Burrell Harris, Essex, Rl.
Swep Richardson, Areola.
Osborn Boyd, Afton. .
Plummer Wortham Harris, Essex.
Henry Green, Littleton.
Milton Jeffreys, Warrenton.
Joseph Davis, Shocco.
Washington Williams, Inez.
Christopher Columbus Bullock, Afton.
Dew Tealie Brown, Shocco.
Robert Drake, Littleton, R2.
Henry- Alston, Warrenton.
Horace Whitty Brown, Macon, R3.
David Carroll, Manson, Rl.
John H. Nicholson, Embro.
Sandy Davis, Elberon.
Benj. Adams Harrison, Elams.
Alston Harris, Macon.
George Williams, Elberon.
James N. Alston, Inez.
W.S.S.
Farmers Loan Association To Meet
On the 10th day of August at 10
o'clock a. m. at the Court House in
Warrenton the Farm Loan Associa
tion for Warren county will meet. All
who desire loans will please be pres
ent. F. B. NEWELL,
Secretary and Treasurer.,
AMERICA CAN LEARN MUCH
FROM COMMANDMENTS
As Given Out By Patriotic So
ciety and Endorsed By Feder
al Reserve Bank; Learn A Les
son Here.
PARIS, July 21. The economic and
social section of the League of Pa
triots, with headquarters in Paris, 4
Rue Ste. Anne, has distributed a leaf
let, urging the French to endure with
out complaint the restrictions imposed
upon them in the interest of their
country. The following is a copy:
(1), Do not forget that we are
at war. In your smallest expenditures
never lose sight of the interests of the
native land.
(2). Economize on the products
necessary Jl or the life of the country:
coal, bread, meat, milk,, sugar, wine,
butter, beans, cloths, leather, oil. Ac
cept rations. Ration yourself as to
food, clothing, amusements.
"(3). Save the products of French
soil, lest some day you deprive your
Father, your son, your husband, who
are shedding their blood to defend you.
"(4). Save the products that
France must buy from foreign coun
tries. Lo not dram reserves of gold,
which are indispensable to victory.
"(5). Waste nothing. All waste
is a crime which imperils the national
defense prolongs the war.
"(6). Buy only according to your
needs. Do not hoard provisions; your
selfishness raises prices and deprives
those, of smaller means of thine-s in-
in
dispensable to existence.
"(7). Do not travel unnecessarily.
Reflect that om-, trains i are, before all
destined for the transportation of the
troops, the feeding of the population,
the needs of our national production.
"8). Do not remain idle. Accord
ing to your age and your ability, work
for your country. Do not consume
without producing. Idleness is de
sertion. "(9). Accept without murmuring
the privations which are imposed upon
you. Reflect upon the sucerings of
those who are fighting for you, upon
the martyrdom of the population
whose hearths have been devastated
by the enemy.
"(10): Remember that victory be
longs to those who can hold out a
quarter of an hour the longest.
"That France may live, she must
be victorious."
: Federal Reserve Bank, Richmond.
-W.S.S.-
REMIDIES FOR RED
SPIDER ON COTTON
Raleigh, N. C, July 29. Damage
in cotton by Red Spider is more wide
spread in the State this year than at
any time since the establishment of
the Division of Entomology!; accord
ing to Mr. Franklin Shearmin, Chief
in Entomology. Nearly a hundred
specific complaints have been answer
ed by the Division, these coming by
letters, telegraph, telephone, and per
sonal callers.
The area of the worst infestation
extends directly across the middle of
our cotton belt, extending almost to
the northwestern limit of cotton cul
ture, but not entirely to the. coast.
The measures recommended for the
control of this pest are as follows:
To prevent itts start in cotton by
destruction of weeds around edges of
ootton fields, especially the pokeweed,
as this often starts it.
Destroy the first stalk affected
while in small area, and prevent
spread lengthwise the rows by taking
out a few stalks ahead of its spread
in each row, making a gap which it
cannot easily cross.
Gather visibly affected leaves from
stalks slightly infested, placing them
in an oil-soaked sack, and burn.
Then, if practicable, spray the
slightly infested plants, and a few
beyond, with the ready-made lime-sulphur
solution which is used on fruit
trees, using it at the rats of one gal
lon to fifty gallons of water.
Mr. Sherman has assurance that
many are putting one or more of these
measures into effect. As a matter of
information, he adds that r airly weath
er has a strong tendency to check out-
breaks of this insect.
HON. T. O. RODWELL NAMES
AIDS IN THIS WORK
Labor of Nation To Be Classified
and Every County To Have
Labor Committee; Farm La
bor Not To Suffer By Ruling.
Hon. T. O. Rodwell, chairman Fed
eral Labor Reserve for Warren, has
appointed the following representa
tive citizens to the membership of the
County's labor reserve recently form
ed over America:
Hawtree .C. W. Perkinson
Six Pound. ; j. t. Haithcock
River- T. J. Miles
Smith Creek W. C. Mabry
Nutbush ,. .j. w. Dowlim?
Sandy Creek... T. H. Aycock
Warrenton N. M. Palmer
Shocco J. W. Burroughs
ork W. E. Davis
Fishing Creek... .R. L. Capps
Judkins J. v. Shearin
Roanoke . . ., H. L. Wall
This organization reflects in War
ren the action of the Government to
place the Nation's labor problem un
der regulations. In each county of
America 'there is to be a Labor Re
serve Board of three men and it is to
confer with this Board, Judge Rod
well, chairman, and to function in the
working of the Committee's plan that'
these gentlemen are appointed.
At a later date these township rep
resentatives will be called here for .
conference and the' "most drastic and
far reaching plan since the draft law"
will receive their intelligent attention.
W.S.S.
News Happenings
From Areola Section
Crops are looking well and the nice
rains are helpfuu.
Miss Nolley, of Norfolk, Va., is
spending some time with her friend,
Miss Lizzie Davis.
Mrs. Bobbie Shearine and children,
of Rocky Mount, recently visited her
people here.
Mrs. Tom Tharrington and daughter
Miss Sallie Vel, visited relatives here
and attended the meeting at Bethle
hem M. E. church.
Miss Mary Tharrington, of near
Rocky Mount, is visiting relatives here
Mrs. Reuben Clark and brother Mr.
Edgar Wood, of Macon, attended the
meeting here and visited relatives.
They were accompanied by Miss Em
ma Mae Daniel who visited her friend
Miss Ethel King.
Mrs. S. W. Duke and son Roy have
leturned from a business and pleasure
trip to Norfolk and Petersburg.
Mrs. Joe Hunter is expected home
this week from a hospital in Rocky
Mount where she successfully under
went an operation some time ago.
Misses Lucy Perry Burt, of Louis
burg, Rebecca Cooper and Master
Thomas Cooper, of Rocky Mount, are
spending the summer with their people
here. ,
Mr. Bruce King, of Petersburg, Va.,
is on a visit here, he will return this
week taking his parents and their
family to make Petersburg their home.
Miss Lizzie Warren has returned
from a visit to Rocky Mount.
Mr. Walter Duke anddaughters?
Misses Eva and Emma; Mr. and Mrs.
Roy Duke, Mrs. S. W. Duke and
daughter, IMiss Myrtle; Messrs. R.
Robert Rarford, R. L. Capps, W. T.
and Willie Robertson attended the
funeral of Rev. G. M. Duke, brother
of Mr. Walter Duke, last week.
Misses Mamie and Camilla Alston
have returned from a delightful visit
to ttheir grandfather Chapells, near
Nashville.
Miss Hattie King spent the past
week-end with Miss Myrtle Duke.
Miss Alma Scull is taking treat
ment under a specialist in Rocky Mt.
Miss Agnes Hunter is with Miss
Scull and Mrs. Hunter.
Little Edna Radford is slowly re
covering from a severe illness.
Rev. Mr. Pattishall did some sound,
forceful, gospel preaching during the
meeting here. Good results are visi-
ble. We shall be glad to have him
among us again.
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