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NEWS WITH
PEACE EMVOY
PRESIDENT WILSON AND
PARTY RETURN TO PARIS
tfter Visit To Rome; Great Wel
come By Italians; Preliminar
ies About Over For Worldwide
Peace Meeting at Versailles.
Paris, Jan. 8. Many important ques
tions since the arrangement of the pro
gram for the peace conference which
have been in process of solution, prob
ably will soon be adjusted as a result
0 President Wilson's return here.
The president has personal knowl
edge of the views of some of the
premiers on these subjects and he has
supplemented it by his observation
during his trip to Italy.
The President while in England and
Italy kept in close touch with the
American peace delegation and it is
evident from the expression of offic
ials that the settlement of various
matters will progress more rapidly
from now on.
The President's informal talk with
Col. House Tuesday dealt with the at
titude of Premier Clemenceau and
lord Robert Cecil regarding a league
of nations. The conference gave the
President fresh information concern
ing their views and today Col. House
find Secretary Lansing conferred with
Lord Robert, who is the British au
thority on a League of Nations. So
it may be regarded as certain the
program is making progress and that
in a few days matters will be in shape
for the first steps of the conference.
Paris, Jan. 6. President Wilson' is
due back in Paris at 8 o'clock tomor
row morning. There will be no form
alities over his arrival and he will pro
ceed to the Murat residence for a, se
ries bl conferences which will " begin
to give concrete form to the work of
the peace congress.
Lord Robert Cecil, British authority
on a league of nations, will be one of
the early arrivals in Paris after the
President. Premier Lloyd George is
expected toward the end of the week
and Foreign Secretary Balfour is
ready to come from Cannes.
Lord Robert Cecil, it is understood
is ready to present a definite plan giv
ing the British viewpoint of a society
of nations. Leon Burgeois also is
prepared to outline the French plan,
hile the American delegates have
teen engaged actively in putting their
views in definite shape.
Outlook for Busy Week.
Others likely to see the President are
Senator Owen of Oklahoma; Premier
Tenizelos, of Greece, and a Zionist del
egation for a discussion of questions
concerning Palestine, Syria and Ar
menia. Parts of the Polish, Czecho
slovak and Serbian delegations have
arrived and are seeking interviews
with the President.
The outlook is for a busy week pre
paratory to the assembling of the inter-allied
conference next week.
Profit on Mill Feed
Still Under Control
Raleigh, January 9. Profiteering in
miU feeds will be punished just as se
verely hereafter as it was before the
, nite margins were removed some
ys ago. The definite margins were
oved because under some circum
nces they did not give dealers a
asonable margin on their invest
ments since the basic price of feeds ad
anced a few weeks agot The gener
al Provision of the Food Control Act
hch forbids the exaction of more
a reasonable profit on food or
products is still in force and also
fecial regulations which prohibt the
6 er making a margin of more than
Per cent annually on the sales of
v class of feeds. The highest mar-
allowed on any feed is 15 per cent
. a"y merchant who exceeds 10 to
. fr cent mergin on mill feed will
e to diseinlinp.
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ne definite margins of profit on
flou
were likewise remove, but profi
teeri
ts on floour will not be allowed.
Th
le sevpMi t i j. -ii? .
the T? . illBpwiors travelling irom
byjj eign office have been directed
r. Page to report promptly every
ASEMI-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THEINTEBESTS OF WARRENTON AND WARREN COUNTY
DURELL B. GARTER
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A Warren county boy by adoption
came to .Areola some ten or more
years ago, being a motherless boy
seeking a home and friends. Here he
found both. He soon joined Sunday
School and church and made friends
by his clean life. He has been in
France, but is now in Ireland in the
U. S. Naval Air Service.
instance of profiteering ai d Mr. Page
is dealing rather drastically with mer
chants who have shown an inclination
to presume that since tlia War is end
ed the food emergency is at an end.
REGULAR COMMUNICATION
A regular communication of Johns
ton Caswell Lodge A. F. & A. M. will
be held in its Hall on Monday night
January 20th. Election of . officers
under special dispensation of the
Grand Master. Brethren will attend
if possible.
A. C. BLALOCK, W. M.
HOWARD F. JONES, Secty.
Warren Farmers To
Procure Nitrate Soda
The Department of Agriculture has
made arrangements to procure nitrate
of soda for sale to farmers at cost
during the spring and summer of 1919.
The price will be $81.00 per ton at the
loading point. In addition the farm
er will pay the freight to his shipping
point.
Applications must be in the hands
of the County Agent by Saturday,
January 25, 1919.
Points where applications may be
made and dates will be published in
the next issue.
A CARD OF THANKS
I wish to express my thanks to all
my friends and neighbors for thei?
kindness to us during the sickness of
my family and death of my oldest son
end also our family Physican for his
kind and skillful attention. May God
bless each and every one of them is
the prayers of their mother and wife.
MRS. ESSIE WILLIAMS, ;
ANNIE T. MOSELEY.
FAR LOAN ASSOCIA
TION TO MEET 14TH.
The Farm Loan Association for War
ren County will meet on January the
14th at 11 o. 'clock a. m., at B. B. Wil
liams, Atty.s' office. Those who wish
to borrow money at 5 1-2 per cent, in
terest for 34 years will please be pres
ent. F. B. NEWELL,
Secty-Treas. N. F. L. A.
A POINTER TO SQUIRREL
HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN
Old "Nell" Ellington takes the prize
when it comes to squirrel hunting.
'Nell' is the town telephone service
man, but he likes to hunt as well as
sleep, and he does both well. ' He was
out hunting the other day with Messrs.
Hugh White and Anthony Harris, Jr.;
and instead of a shotgun he took an
ax and his climbers. Whenever a nest
of hollow leeked promising, friend
"Nell' would cimb the tree, pull the
ax from his belt, stir the hollow with
the helve, and reach in and pull the
tree rats out by the tail, as soon as
the neck came in view, down went the
ax with the precision of a guillotine,
and he would toss the game to the
sportsmen telow with a contempt for
Hercules powder and new f angled shot
euns. We haven't heard yet how he
hunts birds or rabbits. ' '
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Brother of Mrs. John Daieron of this City
and Son of Mr. W.fitts, Well Known
In This Section, flaspffilling and Inter
esting Experiences Oiir There.
With the first batallion of Amer
ican troops to cross the Belgian bor
der, Lieut. William Fitts, well "known
Knoxville boy, had some interesting
experiences. When later transferred
to the 117 infantry, he helped break
the Hindenburg line, being in com
mand of Company L. A thrilling ex
perience in which his company, sup
ported by others, was ordered to go
into a village held ly the huns, how
with a squad of men he crept into a
shell hole to feel out the position, and
how after only a few of the men were
left in the squad, a tank came to their
rescue and even came near mistaking
them for Germans and mowing down
all, is interestinly described in a letter
which Lieut. Fitts has written to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. "Fitts,
Dameron avenue.
"I am still herein Winchester. This
is the oldest city in England and is
interesting for that fact alone. It ka
the dullest place I have ever seen as
a city.
"Ine is never quite sure what is what
and so this letter may be held up, but
I understand that we are permitted to
tell where we have been so I am going
to try it. v .
"We left New York May 11, and
aside from a mild storm and two col
lissions the trip was uneventful. We
arrived at Liverpool May 24, and af
ter marchiiig; across the city. entrained,
for Dover. My main recollection of
this place is the great hill we climbed
to the camp on Dover Heights. Here
we ran into the 58th infantry which
had been torpedoed the day before.
The fellows had very little clothing or
equipment after being taken from the
water. We embarked that morning
for Calais. After a few days in a
"rest camp' (twelve men to a tent
about the size of our dining room) we
left for a little place called La Rou
ville, near St. Omer. I was made first
sergeant there. We spent a month in
training at this place and it was here
that we had our first air raid (the day
after we left Calais our whole camp
was blown up by air bombs,
was blown up by air bombs.;
Air Raids at "Railroads
"These raids were directed on the
railroads, etc., near us and were very
interesting to watch. We used to turn
out to look at them at first, but we
soon got tired of that. The noise of
a Jerry overhead is like a big bumble
bee a kind of drone and the whole
sky is covered with search lights play
ing first in one place and then trying
to spot the invaders. The bursting
shrapnel from the anti-aircraft looks'
like an immense drove of fire flies over
head.
First Americans in Belgium.
"We left for the trenches on the
second of July. At the end of the
first day we had lost thirty-six men
from exhaustion. It was a very hard
hike. On July 1 we entered Belgium.
Ours was the first battalion of Amer
ican troops to cross the border and we
were' regarded with great curiosity.
I'll never forget one little incident that
goes to show how small the world is
after all. We were resting by the road
when a crippled Belgian came out of
a little house with an .accordian. We
asked him if he knew any American
songs. No, but he knew some English
ones. We said they would be good
enough so he started playing 'Back
Home in Tennessee.' He Could play
nearly any of our popular songs, but
thought they were English. The next
day we arrived at Tunneling Camp.
The great sausages, or observation
balloons hung about this place and
when we had . nothing else to do we
used to wath Jerry trying to shoot
them. .
On about the fifteenth we left for
the 'lines.' I had already been up on
an observation trip and had my 'bap
tism of fire' but most of the company
had not. We were going up on a light
railway and I was wondering what the
effect of the first shell would be when
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suddenly . it hit Boom! about 100
yards; to UT right. - I was laughing tit
the way some of the men looked when
I noticed. that every one was. rather
still "I looked around. 'Man hit,', said
one ol the sergeants, and sure enough
one of "the men had blood all over his
face.' He only had a piece knocked out
of his hose, but it looked bad. I've al
ways thought that it was funny that
the first shell should have hit some
bcdy,;; . ,
; Dined in Duke's Castle.
"We. went into reserve that night
and rather- enjoyed it. Had nice
trenches and nothing but a few shells
to worry us. I remember a beautiful
chateau just back of our trenches. It
was : partially demolshed, but still
showed how -beautifulu it had been.
J These chateau, most of them with a
always interesting. I rember taking
dinner in one that had belonged to the
Due de Orleans. It is near: the coast
of Eu -and has been expensive and
luxurious 5 beyond imagination. In ..
little church on a hill near by Napoleon
was married to Josephine.
"From this reserve position we went
into line' in the salient above Ypres.
Bookat could and undoubtedly will be
written about Ypres. The place defies
description, however. No one could
possibly v imagine -it without having
lsee4 TheBr4tish-lon--iost--over
1,000,000 men holding' it. It is the'
hardest fought for spot on the whole
front. Imagine a city about twice the
sze of Knoxville with not a single
building standing in the whole place.,
It had world- famous buildings, includ
ing the 'Cloth Hall'' but one could only
tell where they had been by using a
map. The hill beyond had been wood
ed, but not a single tree now stands.
Just blasted trunks with not a green
le3f showing. In around our position
are the world famous 'Shrapnel Corn
er, 'Mount Kemmel, and that terrible
Paschendale Ridge,' where to fall off
the duck board meant to drown in the
mud, unless times were quiet enough
for some one to help you out.
Patrol in No Man's Land.
"I spent three hours out in No Man's
Land on patrol here one night. Most
of it was fun, though when a flare sud
denly bursts and makes things as
bright as day while you have to stand
perfectly still in order to be mistaken
for a stump or post, machine gun bul
lets sound pretty spiteful. Jerry used
to put up some pretty fire works. He
has a profusion of signal rockets and
keeps them going up all night.
"Red, green, orange and white balls
of "fire in different combinations. In
the day time things were quieter and
one, could sleep some. We used to
spend lots of time watching airplanes
fVght, etc. "I have seen one German
plane stand off five Allied planes in
a running fight for about two hours
and. then get away. It is quite inter
esting watching them dive from cloud
to cloud and then circle, trying to
get the 'drop' on one another.
Promoted to Lieutenant.
"When we got but of -the. line I was
sent to the officers' training camp. We
went by way of Calais, Bolounge,
Rouen and Paris to Langres. The
school, which lasted two months, was
hard but not tedious. I was commis
sioned on October 1, and started back
to the Thirtieth division in charge of
eighteen other second lieutenants. We
stopped in Paris and It was six days
before I could get them rounded up
ann away again. We had to go way
up the coast to Eu and Etaples, back
to Amiens to Peronne. From there
one, no one knew where the division
was and we started out to find it. We
got to see the most interesting sight
a road behind a push. Endless streams
of traffic in both directions, of every
description.
Breaking Hindenburg Line.
"We soon crossed the Hindenburg
line where our boys ' had busted
through on a few days before. We
JOHN WESLEY HUDSON
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Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hudson.
of Littleton, who has returned home
after service since June 3rd, 1918 in
the Merchant Marine. Friends wel
come his safe return.
went through Bellecourt where tue
famous tunnel canal was. It was
here that the big boiler was found in
which the Boche rendered , the bodies
of his dead. They had a stack of
them there, some already cut up and
in the boilers. .Remains of tanks, air
planes, etc., were scattered all around
and a little further on we began to
pass bodies. They were about five
days behind with the burying, altho
everything else was on time. I final
ly found headquarters and reported to
Major General Lewis .He seemed glad
to see us and was very pleasant. I
was assigned to the 117th and on re
porting there was given ; command of
L. company. It had a fighting strength
of 100 men. They lived in holes dug
in the side of a muddy bank it always
rains during an advance.) We moved
up on the sixteenth and got orders to
go over in the morning. I -got my
company out at two the next' morning
and moved off through the mud and
darkness to a map reference a couple
of miles away. I was in brigade re
eAye No- sooner had - we "gotten dug
in there than I was ordered to report
to headquarters and was put in regi
mental reserve. We advanced all day
under heavy shell fire. Gas and smoke
made the air so thick that you could
hardly see. for ten yards and of course
could hardly hear for the intense bar
rage that was going on. We finally
ended up in the front line. The bar
rage had stopped and we were under
only a little artillery and blots of ma
chine gun fire.
"We were just behind the crest of
a hill, and behind another hill about
1,000 yards away was Jerry. I was
ordered to take my company and go
into the village. Two companies were
to support me. I got over the other
side of the hill and got my men into
some hedges and took a Lewis Gun
squad into a shell hole on the left of
the hedge to feel out the position. We
were at this time under an intense ma
chine gun fire. The hedge was being
cut down all around us and some of
the men were hit. -
Tank Comes to Rescue
"I located three of the machine guns
and we put one of them out of action
with our Lewis gun. By now I had
only a few men left and my support
had not shown up, so I sent a message
to the major on the other side of the
hill asking if I could get a tank. I
had come in behind the hedge and as i
did not receive an answer to my mes
sage was lying watching, the machine
gun bullets digging a little trench in
the side of the shell hole where I had
left the Lewis gun team when some
thing cut a big hole in the hedge just
over my head and got two men right
by me. I saw that it came from be
hind and looking around saw the tank
that I had sent for coming right at us
blazing from both its six round can
non. The sergeant in charge thought
we were the Boche and was determined
to clean us up. He had to be stopped
or he would have killed all of my men,
so I stopped him. I incidentally got
shot though I did not know it at the
time. A few minutes later my sup
port came up but one officer was hit
and another killed so the men had to
withdraw. I was out of it for I had
lost quite a lot of blood. There was
only one officer left with four compa
nies so the advance was given up for
that day. .
London Went "Wild"
"I went back to our first aid station
and was sent by ambulance. through
two more stations and finally taken to
the train to the base hospitalatRouen.
I stayed there for two days and then
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MO WO
HME IS Oil
BANKHEAD HIGHWAY WINS
FURTHER RECOGNITION
Movement To Be Given Further
Boost At Third Annual Meet
ing of the Association At Min
eral Wells, Texas, In April.
Birmingham, Ala. January 2nd.
Col T. S. Plowman, President Bank
head National Highway Association,
has returned from Chicago, where he
attended the meetings of the Highway
Industries Association and of the
Good Roads Conference.
While there he interested these two
organizations in the building of the
Bankhead National Highway and also
introduced a resolution endorsing tha
Bankhead Federal Aid Bill appropriat
ing $100,000,000 annually for the nex;
five years for the building of good
roads. President Plowman was most
cordially received at these conventions.
He met many people from the States
of Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina
and South Carolina, and the West who
are interested in the BANKHEAD
NATIONAL HIGHWAY. They are
all enthusiastic in regard to the same.
President Plowman and Secretary J.
A. Rountree, with the Executive Co- -mittee
of the Bankhead National
Highway Association will hold a con
ference early in January and discuss
plans for making the third annual
meeting of the Association, which will
convene at Mineral Wells, Texas,
April 15-19, 1919, 'one of the greatest
highway conventions that has ' eve?
been held.
The officials of the BANKHEAD
NATIONAL HIGHWAY are arrang
ing a great automobile tour from Bal
timore, via Washington, Richmond,
Raleigh, N. C.t Charlotte,,N. C, Green
vffle,:l3.
Tupelo and Holly Springs, Miss., Mem
phis, Little Rock, Hot Springs, Tex
arkana, Dallas, Ft. Worth to Mineral
Wells. f Secretary Rountree has al
ready received a number of letters
from interesting parties stating that
they are organizing ; parties fro,
their respective towns to take the trip.
Col. Bennehan Cameron, Stagville,
N. C, is Chairman of the Tour Com
mittee from Washington to Memphis.
He has already commenced to organ
ize the tour and has the promise of a
large number who are quite anxious
to go from the states of Virginia, N.
C, S. C. and Georgia to Texas in
April. Every indication points' to a
successful four and that the joint
meetings of the United States Good
Roads Association and the Bankhead
National Highway Association will be
the greatest good roads gathering ever
held in the United States.
Mr. Clary Also Rais
es Some Big Pigs.
Ebony, Va.,
Jan. 1, 1918.
The Editor of the Warren Record
. Warrenton, N. C.
Der Sir; '
I am sending you the weights
of my four hogs ; I killed this year, a
I saw the weights of one the Barber
killed.
The weights are as follows: 318 341,
346, and 354 lbs., a total of 1369 lbs
and an average of 342 1-4 pounds.
I think this is hard to beat so corns
with the next. I am going to give you
weight of one I sold a widow, Mrs.
Stark, that she has killed and gave me
the weight. "The pig was born the
(29) twenty-ninth day of March, 1918
and was killed on the (14) fourteenth
day- of December, 1918 and weighed
264 which was 8 months, 17. days old
when killed. This is very good too at
that age.
Please publish when you get this to
let Mr. Barber know that other people
can raise hogs too.
Yours truly,
G. G. CLARY.
P. S. If my postoffice is Ebony, Va.,
I do not live in Va. I live in N. C.r
near Roanoke River.
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