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VOLUME XXIII
(Tuesday)
WARRENTON, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1918
(Friday)
Number 64
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GAS WAVES Aft
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French Troops Had Already
Gained Positions On The
American Left.
GERMAN CASUALTIES
WERE VERY HEAVY
Paricipation of the Americans
Landing Greeted Enthusias
tically By Russians
in
Kandalaska, Sunday, August 4th
American troops participated in the
landing of the Allied forces at Arch
angel last week. The first detach
ment of the international forces in-
eluded members of the Russian
ficers' league.
The participation of the Americans
in the landing has been greeted en
thusiastically in Northern Russia.
The people consider that the United
States is absolutely without selfish
interests as regards Russia and look
upon the Americans as a guarantee of
the friendliness of the Allies toward
Russia.
Paris, August 6th "Aside from ar
tillery activity east of Soissons and
on the Vesle river there is nothing
to report from the whole of the front,"
says the French official communication
issued this evening.
The remainder of the communication
follows:
"Army of the East, Aug,-5 There
has been artillery, activity on the
Struma, Vardar and the Cerna bend
imd to the north of Monastir.
,;In Anbania, the enemy has not re
newed his attacks.
"British aviators have
brought j
down an enemy airplane and also have
bombarded enemy depots in the Stru-
ma valley"
American Success
w,tfc Arin Armv on the
Aisne-Marne Front, August 6th Am
erican machine gunners, protecting a
location on the Vesle, west of Fismes,
wiped out an entire battalion of Ger
man infantrymen and machine gun
ners today. The Germans, at the time
were getting into position to attack a
group of American bridge builders
who were approaching the location.
The War Story, August 6th
Conditions on the battle front along
the Vesle river between Soissons and
Rheims remain unchanged, and, rela
tively speaking there have been no de
velopments of outstanding importance
on the line running from the region
of Montdidier toward the English
Channel. In both regions however,
ihere is a tenseness which seems to
forecast the approaching dawn of big
events.
The bad weather heavy rainfalls,
the swollen river and the resultant
wretched condition of the terrain with
which the allied troops along the
Vesle now have to contend, ot to men
tion the necessity of bringing up guns,
ammunition and supplies which were
left far behind in the rapid advance
doubtless having more to do with the
holding it leash of Marshal Foch's
troops than the opposition of the Ger
mans are throwing in their way.
The Germans have been shelling
heavily the American and French sol
diers who have made their way across
to the northern bank of the Vesle or
delivering heavy counter-attacks
against them, but everywhere they
have met with a stonewall of resis
tance, that has not permitted them
to counter-balance their losses of
ground
With the American Army on the
Aisne-Marne Front, Aug. .7 Under
an inferno of shrapnel and machine
:un fire and waves of gas the Amer
cans forced their way over the Vesle
liver last night and early this morn
ing, while rain, varying at times from
a drizzle to a downpour, drenched the
battlefield.
French troops already have gained
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on the American left and
point movement has strengthened
cut the line from a point west of Bazo
thes to Fismes. The Germans lost
considerably in casualties and also .
few prisoners, whose stories tendel
to corroborate the expressed opinion
of those previously taken that the
Germans expect to continue their re
treat until the bank of the Aisne. is
reached.
The attack began between four and
ft've o'clock Tuesday afternoon. By
midnight those men on the right had
reached theVr objectives, the jnain
j highway east and west extending long
the foothills that rise north of the
river and become a series of terraces
to the Aisne. '
The left wing was delayed, but it
also reached the line shortly before
eight o'clock this morning. Artillery
of both sides are still fighting duels
over the captured positions and the
of-'Germans also have colliimied sman
arm resistance. But with every hour
the positions of both the French and
Americans have been rendered more
secure.
Dash Across River.
The attack by the infantry was pre
ceded by artillery preparation. Un
der cover of a barrage the engineers
completed the work of throwing light
bridges over the stream, while the
officers chosen to lead the sh across
the river placed their men in position,
working them downward toward the
points where the bridges were known
to be. The challenges were accepted
immediately by the German artillery
imd in. a few. minutes the intermittent
reports of the guns which had been
heard all day were merged into one
great roar.
The clouds, which had lifted slightly,
reappeared iust before the attack was
launched and therefore the action was
conducted without much advantage in
observation by aircrait.
When the order for their advance
was given the men, for the most part
swept forward m open formation, but
fVio nprmnns wpre readv with a de
fence, and even more. They had pre
pared, although apparently hastily,,
a counter-attack which they launched
without success later in the engage
ment. The men on the American rightf
fought their way along the chosen
routes. Some of tthem floundered
across through the water while others
used the bridges that were still stand
ing. One detachment of Germans some
what more than a company, moved
forward into the open. Here the
American machine guns caught them
and, sweeping them with bullets, de
stroyed them almost totally. The
Germans also attempted to strike the
Americans a disconcerting counter
blow with a considerable force by
plunging down a ravine leading to
the rivr. Their path had been clear
ed by their artillery and thy might
have succeeded in reaching the Amer
icans but the movement had been re
ported to the artillery stations south
of the Vesle and from them there
swept into the advancing column such
a mass of shells that the formation
was quickly broken.
At another point a detachment of
Germans stood until the Americans
were upon them. The nit became a
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hand-to-hand conflict, tne oniy one ox
the kind during the battle. In the
mud and in darkness where the com
batants were barely able to distin
guish each other they fought it out.
The Americans won.
The Americans on the left failed
to reach their objectives until they
had called for a second barrage. Un-.
der its cover they rallied and strug
gled forward to the chosen positions.
The Germans, in attempting to re
pulse the attack, used guns of 77 and
,b calibre and Minnenwerfers. They
- .d them orr the higher ground, con
siderably to the rear of the battle
line The American guns did excel
lent work not only in covering the ad
vance, but in breaking up formations
especially one large assemblage of
infantry.
Second Drive Com
mences August 19
Before the war we used everything
to cater to our own private heeds.
Now, about one-half of all that we
can produce must be put aside for
war purposes. If that is to be done
and it must be done if we are going
to win everybody must do their bit.
We cannot eat our cake and have it,
too. We cannot insist upon eating
and dressing and having a good time
as before, and expect our Government
to put up a winning fight. When we
save, we stop competing with Uncle
Sam and that means with the boys
in the trenches.
Better still, when we save and put
our savings in War Savings Stamps,
we are saying to our boys in the
trenches, "Here, fellows, count on me.
Here is food and clothing and medi
cine. If this is not enough, I'll do
even better'
Monday August 19th will see the
launching of the second war savings
drive in Warren to carry over the
county. In the first drive 60 per cent
of the $445,000 was subscribed and
it remains for the County to pledge
the remaining 45 percent during Au
gust. The men of Warren county are in
the fight to the finish and it is the
belief of those who know the heart of
the County that its citizens will sup
port these men thru every agency
which tends to winning the war and
of these the War Savings Campaign
is rressdnc and important.
W.S.S.
THE VOLUNTEER
Sez I: My Country calls? Well, et
it call.
I grins perlitely and declines wiv
thanks.
Go, let 'em plaster every blighted wall,
'Ere's one they don't stampede into
the ranks.
Them politcians with their greasy
ways ;
Them empire-grabbers fight for 'em ?
No fear!
I've seen this mess a-comin' from, the.
days
Of Algyserious and Aggydear:
I've felt me passion rise and swell
But wot the 'ell, Bll? Wot
the 'ell?
Sez I: My Country? Mine? I likes
their cheek.
Me mud-bespattered by the cars they
drive,
Wot makes my measly thirty bob a
week,
And sweats red blood to keep meself
alive!
Fight for the right to slave that they
may spend,
Them in their mansions, me 'ere in
my slum?
No, let 'em fight wot's something to
defend:
But me, I've nothin' let the Kaiser
come.
And so I cusses 'ard and well,
But .... wot the 'ell, Bill? Wot
che 'ell?
Sez I: If they would do the decent
thing,
And shield th missis and the little
'vms,
Why, e'en i might shout "God save
the King,"
And face the chances of them 'ungry
guns.
But we've got three, another on the
way;
It's that wot makes me snarl and set
me jor:
The wife and nippers, wot of 'em, I
say,
If I gets knocked out in this blasted
war ?
Gets proper busted by a shell,
But wot the 'ell,, Bill? Wot
the 'ell?
Ay, wot the 'ell's the use of all th-s
talk?
To-day some boys in blue was passin'
me,
And some of 'em they 'ad no legs to
walk,
And some of 'em they 'ad no eyes to
see.
And well, I couldn't look 'em in the
face,
And so I'm goin', goin' to declare
I'm under forty-one and take me place
To face the music with the bunch out
there.
A fool, i you say! Maybe you're
right.
I'll 'ave no peace unless I fight.
I've ceased to think; I only know
I've gotta go, Bill, gotta go.
Robert W. Service, Ryhmes of a
Red Cross Man.
JSXSJSk IHOUQ
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17. S. Food Administration.
Jist ez de buckwheat cake got
flop over on his face, Br'er Bacon
rin' dance 'roun' en say, sezee:
"One good tu'n desarves en nuth
er," sezee. Meanln dat ef de
sojer boys go en do de fightin' f er
us, de leas' we alls kin do is ter
sen' 'em all de wheat en eat
buckwheat instid. Co'n meal, rye
en barley flour fer us will he'p a
lot too.
W.S.S.
List Of Jurors For
September Court
The Jury list for the September
term of Court was drawn here Mon
day and the following citizens will
oe present here as jurors for the Sep
tember term of Court:
First Week R H. Frazier, John D.
Ellis, W. C. Fleming, W. T. Hardy, F,
H. Neal, F. B. Newell, John H. Flem
ing, R. P. Perkinson, J. H Thompson,
Sr., S. G. Wilson, W. H. Riggan, S.
W. Neal, J. H. Olsen, James A. Shaw,
J. A. Daniel, F. M. Overby, S W.
Oneal, H. P. Read, J. C. Jones, Ed
mund White, J. E. Miles, J. A. Hud
gins, T. A. Cheek, E. D. Collins, W.
C. Curtis. J. T. Loyd,'C. A. Haithcock,
J. W. Rose, M. T. Mustian, W. E.
Pratt, W. W. Haithcock, J. L. Aycock,
Malcom Stewart, Fate Weaver, W. E.
Twitty, A. -A. Wood.
Second Week J. B. Massenburg,
W. J. Bishop, H: W. Carter, col'd, F.
M. Overby, T. J. Grissom, S. T. Wil
son, H. F. Jones, W. W. Oneal, Geo.
L. Bender, Frank Serls, John H. Cole,
W. C. Burroughs, J. P. Nevill, John
Cawthorne, Jr., C. J. Tucker, C. W.
Perkins,. N.. J. Robinson, ...and,.; J D
Newell, jr.
W.S.S.
A Family Reunion At
Methodist Parsonage
A sort of re-union of the family was
held at the parsonage occupied by
Rev. and Mrs. J. A. Hornaday last
Sunday. Prof. C. L. Hornaday, of the
faculty of Trinity College, who has
been teaching in the summer school
at the A. and E. College in Raleigh
this summer, and his wife, Mrs. Bes
sie Hornaday; J. A. Hornaday, Jr.,
who hold a position in the Bank of
Warren, and his wife, Mrs. Sunie
Belle Hornaday; Latimer Hornaday,
who holds a position in the railroad
service in Weldon; Miss Bernice Horn
aday, a member of the faculty of the
Mount Airy graded school; Mr. Geo
D. Stephenson, cashier in the office of
the Southern Methodist Publishing
House in Richmond, and his wife,
Mrs. Dora Hornaday Stephenson, and
their two interesting little girls, Mary
Ellen and Ruth Lee, composed the
group that gathered about the board
on Sunday. The youngest son, Leslie
Black, was the only member of the
family who was absent, and he was
in the service of our country.
W.S.S.
HE CHEWED DOWN ON CANDY
AND NOW CANNOT FIGHT BILL
Dubuque, la., Aug 6 A piece of
brown molasses candy has prevented
Richard Pasewater, of Manson, Iowa,
frcm ighting the Huns under the col
ors of the U. S. Marines.
Pasewater was extremely anxious
to join the Marines, but his sweet
tooth proved his undoing.
Pasewater started in on a big piece
of brown molasses candy. He bit
hard. There was a peculiar sound in
his mouth and two teeth fell out upon
the sidewalk. The examing physician
declared that Pasewater would have
passed but for the absence of the two
teeth.
: -W.S.S. '
Maidens like moths are ever caught
. by glare
Mammon wins his way where seraphs
might despair.
Thus wrote Byron years ago. His
thought lives for thus we heard it
put the other day, "Twenty century
chickens fa'l for a big wad of dough."
Hot Weather And
Dave Halls Mule
Talking about this 'ere hot weather
Dave HalV Esq;, illustrates pretty
well the thermometers trying to go
over the top by the following story:
'Dave had a mighty fme mule, one
you saddle up and ride out to inter- 1
view your gal on Sunday's with o,
boy that's some pestle. Sad to tell
Dave's mule is no more he has taken
upon himself a pair of wings and is
flitting up above in the mazes of blue
and eternal mule Heaven. The depart
ure of the animal was tragic in the
extreme and occured on the second
night of the hot spell which has hell
Warrenton in its grasp for three days,
sweating like we did it for fun. Dave's
mule was resting in the Hall barn on
his place near here, and there was
also a large amount of old pop corn
stacked within the same barn. The
barn like everything else was hot, o
gracious, Tuesday night one of these
tin roof affairs. Long about ten
thirty a pop-pop-ppoppty-pop came
from the barn, Dave looked from his
window and lo the barn top arose and
fell to the side and as the pop-pop pop
kept up a white cloud went into the
sky. Somewhat perturbed Dave went
out to investigate a little later, the
white flakes had stopped falling and
were two or three inches deep within
and out of the barn, and the mule, who
was very susceptible to cold, had
frozen to death, thinking the pop-corn
flakes exploded by the heat within the
barn were snow flakes. Colic remedy
and horse medicine rushed fromiVeti-
naries did no good and the faithful
animule breathed its last."
But really it has been just a? little
bit inclined to be warm and V-shaped
shirt fronts are in style for the men
now a stiff collar doesn't stand any
more chance than a celluloid one, and
shirts are suffering heavy casualties
"Discretion is the better part of valor'
so palm beaches, no coats, v-shaped
shirts are the order of the day.
If it gets so you notice the heat
very much just remember that it
snowed Jast winder, but. don't let the
thermometer slip any cold weather
camouflage over on you and make
you exit after the manner of Dave's
mule We don't know the tempera
ture of the other country yet.
Moral: After all its only as hot as
you make it..
W.S.S.
Can All You Can,
But Save Sugar
Sugar is not needed as a preserva
tive if fruit is properly sterilized and
sealed. By canning, we can get along
without the use of heavy syrups and
thus save sugar.
Fruit Juice
Fruit juices can be bottled without
sugar and used as fruit drinks, in jelly
desserts, puddiner sauces, and ice
cream.
Direction for making fruit juices :-
Prepare fruit, cook until soft and
strain. Boil the strained juice for
five minutes and pour it into jars or
glass bottles that have been sterilized
by boiling for 15 minutes, filling the
jars to overflowing. Seal the jars im
mediately. Stopper the bottles with
corks sterilized in the same manner as
the bottles, and make air-tight sea
by dipping the cork and the lip of the
bottle into hot paraffin. When sugar
is more plentiful, fruit juices may be
made into jelly.
Sugar Substitutes
Extensive and conclusive tests have
shown that corn sugar, corn syrup
cane syrup, and sorghum syrup may
be used in making preserves and mar
malades which do not suffer in com
parison witn tne same products in
which sugar is used. Use Substitutes
Write to John Paul Lucas, Conser
vation Director, Food Administration
Raleigh, N. C, for leaflet containing
formulae, receipes and suggestions
for the use of sugar substitutes.
SLOW ON SUGAR, WHY? Because
1. German submarines sunk sugar
2. German submarines sunk sugar
boats
3. Boats have been released to help
feed Belgium v
4. Germans have rendered useless su
gar beet factories of Northern
France
Our own crop of sugar is smaller
than anticipated.
THE HEAT WAVE
BREAKS RECORD
THERMOMETERS MOUNT
BEYOND HUNDRED MARK
Tuesday Was Warmest Day Re
corded Since Weather Bureau
Was Established In This part
of Country; Registering 99 in
Raleigh; Washington, 106; In
Pittsburg, 104; Richmond, 103
Washington, Aug 6 High tempera-
ure records that have marked the
imits of heat waves during ally the
eriod of official observation in the
northeastern quarter of the United
States were broken today. Washing
ton and Baltimore, by Weather Bu
reau thermometers, experienced a tern
perature of 106 degrees, a point not
even approached by the mercury since
1881, and not reached then. In De
troit, Michigan, Harrisburg, Pa., and
Toledo, Ohio, with temperatures of
104, new records were established, as
did Scranton, Pa., and Cleveland, Ohio
which each officially registered 100.
114 Degrees
These were the findings of the in
struments in the Weather Bureau's
minarets. Instruments set closer to
the baking pavements of city streets
everywhere showed th mercury mount
ing to heights officially" unbelievable.
and impossible. On Pennsylvania Ave
nue in the National Capital one of
the Weather Bureau's instruments dur
ing the day marked 114 degrees.
Lynchburg, Va, Aug 6 The temper
ature here tonight at seven o'clock
reached 105, the highest since the Wea
ther Bureau was established here in
1881, the highest previous tempera
ture being 101.8 in 1887. No heat
prostrations hpe been reported so
far.
Danville, Va, August 6 The high
est temperature in years was record
ed here today. A government self-
registering thermometer recorded a
maxinuim of 107 and at sunset the
temperature was 96. No prostrations
were reported
: - W.S.S. - .. '
New World Record
In Ship Construction
Washington, August 6th With the
launching of 123 vessels, totalling 631,
944 deadweight tons, and the delivery
of forty-one others of 203,025 dead
weight tons, new world shipbuildling
records were established in July by
American 'shipyards, the Shipping
Board tonight announced. The July
lauchings alone were greater than
those of any single year in the past.
In addition to the forty-one complet
ed ships the American merchant ma
rine was further increased by the de
livery of two steel vessels of 15,855
tons by Japanese yards in accordance
with the recent agreement.
Thirty-six of the completed vessels
were of steel with a deadweight ton
nage of 217,025 and the other five
were of wood, their deadweight ton
nage being 18,000..
The launching included sixty-seven
steel vessels of 433,244 deadweight
tons; fifty-three wood ships of 187,700
deadweight tons, and three composite
ships of 11,000 tons.
The total tonnage launched this year
is 1,719,536.
W.S.S.
WANTED TO CUSS GERMANS
Salt Lake City, Aug. 8 When the
U. S. Marine march into Berlin there
is going to be one Salt Lake repre
sentative peculiarly fitted to tell one
William Hohenzollern just what Zion
thainks of him.
For Cavendish W Cannon, of this
city, has enlisted in the Marine Corps.
For several months prior to his en
listment, Cannon was studying Ger
manbut he insisted that his teacher
school him in only one branch of the
German language profanity.
"I want to learn how to cuss fluent
ly in German," said Cannon when
questioned concerning his Pecuhar
studies, "so that I can tell Kaiser Bill
and the rest of his gang just what 1
v nf them. If I don't know all
the words in the German cuss die
tion'ary,' how could I do it?"
W.S.S.
An old bachelor commenting upon
the ring cure for rheumatism said
that wedding rings have been used to
,rp love for ages. xi. Dispaicn.
f Nobody would object to two hea..
less Mondays. Exchange.
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