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Number 27.
A SOI E-WEEKLY NEWS PAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTEBEST3 TOP, WARRfeNTON AND WARREN COUNTY
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u ARD, GRAHAM, MRS. AR
LINGTON MRS. CONNELL
H Burroughs and W. Brodie
Tones Form Executive Com
mittee To Shape Mammoth
Soldier Celebration-
The committee on arrangements for
Warren county submit the following
report:
To Hon. Tasker Polk, '
County Chairman Soldier
Welcome Home Committee:
At a meeting of the citizens of
Warrenton held at the Court House
several weeks ago,t he following com-
o r--o n crfi mpnts for a - tre-
mittee on &
mendous soldier welcome were ap
pointed: W. Brodie Jones, chm., T. D.
Peck, H. N. Walters, Misses Amma D.
Graham and Julia Dameron. This
committee appointed the following
township representatives: Warrenton
V. F. Ward; Shocco J. W. Bur
roughs; Nutbush A. E. Paschall;
Fishing Creek A. L. Capps; Sandy
Creek T. H. Aycock; Roanoke H. L.
Wall; River A. L. Pope; Sixpound
J. M- Coleman; Fork R. E. Davis;
Judkins Walter Vaughan; Smith
Creek-A. G. Hayes; ..orlina R. S.
Register; Hawtree-7-M. H. Hayes.
Members of these committees, after
two sessions, submitted the following
organization to a Mass meeting held
in Warrenton, April 5th, 1919, and the
organization was approved in every
instance:
County Chairman Hon. Tasker
Polk with power to select all neces
sary committees. The following nam
ed forming the Executive committee:
Committee on Finance Prof. J ohn
Graham.
Committee on Entertainment Mr.
V. F. Ward. ' ; .
Committee on BanquetMrsT W. A.
CormeU ' ;" V"-'' ' :
Committee on . Parade -Mr. W. H.
Burroughs
Committee on Decoration Mrs.
Kate P. Arrington
Committee on Publicity W. Brodie
Jones
With power vested in each commit
tee head to appoint assistants.
The trend of the meeting was for a
huge county celebration its date and
other matters arising was left in the
discretion of the County Chairman
and his Executive committee of the
five above appointed and the chairman
of Finance.
The following resolution was adopt
ed unanimously: v
Whereas steps have already been
taken by the colored citizens of ttie
County to welcome the returned col
wed soldiers on Easter Monday, and
Whereas, these colored soldiers are
worthy of being thus honored, there
fore, be it resolved:
That we heartily endorse the move
went and that we hereby request the
Commissioners of the county of War
ren (as have the Commissioners of the
town of Warrenton) to make a liberal
donation to t.hi-S canea ir. nrvlar hr
the
ed.
occasion may be fittingly observ-
Vfc7 111 VAV1.
After general discussion, a motion
Rev. T. J. Taylor "That the work
J the Committee on Arrangements
having been accepted, said committee
w discharged" was seconded and ear
ned and the functions of said commit
tee ceased. Respectfully submitted,
W. BRODIE JONES
Chm. Arrangements Committee.
w V. F. WARD, Sec'ty.
rrenton, April 5th, 1919.
KEAL CHURCH SPIRIT.
5 The Methodist Episcopal Church,
Which wil1 conduct a drive for
5,000,ooo May 18-25, has in advance
vari dnVe made alltments to the
ruf churches affiliated with the
enomination. The spirit of one of
agin ches is Particularly encour
in isf the committee headquarters
cWi I ille" The allotment for the
CL1"18'000' but tarily the
000 raised this quota to $50-
liker1868 and ani2ations are
those ,mdividuals who make up
The e.n.erPrises and organizations,
lunt!!? f the congre&ation that
shows fh Faised its own allotment
aueht they as a people have
of thp Vlsion of the real meaning
Centenary Moveme.
Mr. "Kimball
Is eaippoiiited
Member of County Board of Ed
ucation To Next General
Assembly Meeting In , 1921
The Board of ' Education found it
self with a legal vacancy yeste day,
and the remaining members proceed
ed to fill it as directed to do by law.
This condition of affairs was brought
about by a failure of our Representa
tives to carry out the law under which
our citizens voted for members of the
Board to qualify April 1st. This they
could easily have done by excepting
Warren from th General Law. Mr.
Kimball was re -appointed.
Whereas the General Assembly of
1917 appointed John D Newell a
member of the County Board of Edu
cation for a term of six years, and
whereas section" three of Chapter 291
of the Acts of the General Assembly
of 1917 directs "that all appointments
under this Act shall expire on first
Monday of April;" and whereas John
D. Newell, the appointee under the
Act, did resign cn the first Monday in
April, 1918, and whereas the County
Board of Education did .appoint his
successor, Mr. I. A. Kimball to the
vacancy until the meeting of the
General Assembly of 1919, and where
as the General Assembly failed to
name a member of the County Board
of Education to fill the vacancy treat
ed on the first Monday in April, 1919,
and whereas the County Board of Ed
ucation is directed by law to fill " all
vacancies on the Board until the next
regular session of the General Assem
bly.' '
Therefore, be it resolved :
'1st.. That a vacancy occurs on the
County Board of Education this day
according to law:
2nd. That th. remaining members
of this Board proceed to fill said va
cancy. On motion of W. T. Davis seconded
by r T. L7Sk"irine.r, 'this resolution- was 1
adopted. Jiessr3. i&Kinner ana yavis
voting aye. '
Therefore, on motion of Mr. Davis,
seconded by Mr. Skinner, Mr. J. A.
Kimball was nominated and elected' as
member Warren County Board of Ed
ucation to fill a vacancy created by
law, until the next regular session of
the General Ass embly.
Mr. Skinner and Mr. Davis voting
aye.
News From
County Agents
Home Demonstration Club Or
ganized at Vaughan; Demon
stration At Weldon's Apr. 9
(By Home and Farm Dem. Agents)
There will be dainage demonstra
tion given on Mr. T. B. Weldon's farm
near Wise, on Wednesday, April 9th.
Mr. Frank O. Boitel of the Dept. of
Agriculture will be here to conduct
the demonstration. All farmers in
terested in terracing are urged to be
on hand.
Now that farmers are to plant less
cotton this year, it is very likely that
'there will oe an increase in other
crops to offset this reduced cotton
acreage. One of these crops to take
the place of cotton will be sweet po
tatoes. An increase , in the sweet po
tato crop will mean the construction
of potato houses to take care-of the
crop. '
The Department of Agriculture
wants farmers to know they have a
year, for the construction of potato
houses. The house recommended by
the Department is very simple and
cheaply constructed and requires only
ordinary care to make it a success.
There is 110 reason , why farmers
should spend money for plans and
specifications when the Department
will furnish them Free of, Cost.
- For plans and specifications for the
house recommended by the ' Depart
ment of Agriculture write to the U.
S. Bureau of Markets, Washington, D.
C, or to , the Bureau of Markets, 319
Connally Building, Atlanta, ua.
Either of these offices will be glad to
furnish information "on the method of
operation.
Th ladies of Vausrhan organized a
Home Demonstration club; last Wed-
(Coh7u O; Fourth PaSe)
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Absence of Happy Youngesters and
Lack of Merriment Among
Naturally Vivacious Peo
ple Marks Tragic Pass
ing of the German
From France.
Trip
From Chateau Thierry
Chalons Where American
Boys Brought Prus
sians to Stop.
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(By W. W. Pinson)
Our road lay through scenes that
were constant and ghastly reminders
of war, more numerous and more
marqked than we had seen before.
There were vast networks of trenches
and dug-outs and bomb-proof and
barbed-wire entanglements: long
stretches of ingenious camouflage
elaborately woven of reeds and r
grasB33qi?d V wine,"
and trenches; the eartlf plowed and
churned by shells and habitations laid
waste, met the eye at every turn.
That which brought the war and its
cruelty home to us with greatest em
phasis was the. rows of new-made
graves with their crude crosses
standing as solemn sentinels above
the soldier boys who had so recently
paid the great price.
Once, just as the west was fading
into the dull tints of twilight, we be
held alrow of those black crosses sil
houetted against the horizon, accen
tuating the loneliness with their mute
but eloquent protest against the mon
strough anachronism of war. The grey
hush and solemn silence of the twi
light hour seemed to join in the pro
test, and something tightened about
the heart and set the throat aching
with a mighty desire to cry out
against such idiotic cruelty.
Scarcely less solemn and impressive
were the ruined and deserted viUages
through which we passed. Iiv France
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tnewawiewiiu .. w-a .passed from these scenes of desola
try people live m villages of such 1 jize 1. gtreets .rf chaJons
and solidty that we would call them llV , f flTw1 Pfhc with hnsv lif.
towns. We passed through a num
ber of these villages during our auto
ride of thirty miles. Their streets
HHCK1E SAYS
- IF PEOPtE'O JfcST 5TOP
T THINK. THAT AOMEaTSm
IS Thc newspaper nvs
STOCK IN fRADE, THEN0
never -raw -ro err it
nothnVuvce they do
SOMETIMES , MO NOttE
TMAM -THEVO A SVC THErf
oaocea feh a free
SACK OF FLOUR- 1
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Be optimistic and. smiley life is a
glorious privileire. Enjoy it. ;
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were as silent and drear as cemeteries.
Man's-utmost fury of destruction had
jcruhed, and strangled them. No lights
nickered from their shattered win
dows no voices broke the stillness of
their desolation. Stark and motionless
as. a corpse. they gave us no' welcome
nor farewell.
It was easy to picture these streets
full of happy children and these
ruined homes resonant with the irre
pressible merriment of this vivacious
people." Where is all this life and
color and happiness? It is dead smit
ten: by the shells, quenched by the
harsh; thunder and frozen in the artic
horror of this martial madness.
The absence of children is " oppres
sive." Men and women now and then,
grave and sad amid their ruins, but
rarely children.: 1 remembered two
secretmg-roadyt, , - , - - T
spent a large part of the day in
Rheims without seeing the face of a
child. Think of Nashville or Mem
phis without a child in the streets!
War aims its crudest blow at the
heart of childhood. Herod was a true
type of militarist. He was the original
Hun. Every cross that keeps guard
above one of the graves stands for
the crucification of childhood. Orphan
age, poverty and ignorance, are per
manent successors to the immediate
agonies, terrors and 1 heartbreaking
sorrows that befall them. Curses on
the hands that willingly worked this
havoc and blessed be the hands that
heal these ghastly wounds of unre
sisting innocence.
It was a comforting thought amid
all this that we were there as fore
runners of the Methodist Centenary
Movement, which sets for itself the
expending of thirty-five million dol
in reconstruction and healing
; ministries of the Prince of Peace,
welcome change when we
with light and athrong with busy life.
It was like coming into a new world.
The' Germans occupied this city early
in the war, but for some , unaccount
able reason left it about as theylfound
j it. Later the battle lines swung round
We had passed that day through the
scenes of the most historic battles of
the, world. The Marne River has been
the dead line of European civilization.
No less than five decisive battles have
been fought here. It was here, the
progenitors of the, Germans swarm
in & out of the Northern forests to
j overrun Southern Europe were met by
the Romans and routed with a slaugh
ter of 300,000. It was at Chalons on
the Marne that Attila, "the scourge of
God," was defeated by the Romans in
, 450 A. D. in a battle that cost, the
Huns 250,000 men. This battle is
known as the "Battle of Chalons," It
was on the .Marne that Charles Martel
defeated the Moors in the eight cen
tury, and saved the Christian civiliza
tion of Europe. In 1914 Joffre defeated
the modern Huns and again saved the
civilization of Europe, andin 191S
(Foch turned the tide of battle and slav
ed the civilization of the world.
- We started in the morning from
Chateau - Thierry, where'., . our brave
boys helped to stay the rush of the
invading -'Huns, and slept at night
wltere Christian civilization was .sav
ed fromhe Hun invasion 1500 years
(Continued On Fourth Page)
ganizatioii
HbaT Tasker Polk Accepts Chair
manship ; Representative Or
ganization To Make It Go
Warren county will see an intensive
campaign for the Fifth Liberty Loan
launched on April .20 to May 10th by
an organization perfected this morn
ing in the office of County Chairman
Tasker- Polk, and every nook and
cranny of - th6 county will . hear f rotii
the workers appointed "this morning
and those already lined up by Mrs. A.
C.' Bizzell, of Norlina, Woman's chair
man for Wjarreri, the duty upon every
American to measure to the mark and
go to the limit on this final drive to
bring the boys home and clinch the
greatest victory ever won by forti
tude, intrepidity and courage , of
American manhood. It is in the dis-
charge of this duty to the blood of its.
heroes that tie people of America
will answer the Loan.
; Last night Major L. P. . McLendon,
of the llvt Field Artillery, as a
representative from the State War
Loan organization met with a num
ber of Warren gentlemen in the Court
House in reference to the part War
ren was to play in the coming drive.
He made a very interesting talk of
several minutes focussing attention
upon the glorious record made across
and at home and the duty to measure
to the full in discharging the obliga
tions incurred by our Government.
Following his talk, Hon. Tasker
Polk upon nomination of Mr. M. P.
Burwell, second of Mr. V. F. ' Ward
was unanimously made County Chair
man. The eentlemen. nresent and
other war workers were invited to Mr.
Polk's office " at ten this morning
where a system of organization - was
perfected by appointing the follow
ing men members of the central com
mittee and three men in each town
ship,, other than l;i Warrenton, ih
charge of the VPaigTJhecen.tral..
orormttee will -canvass the town and
townships and various : members, of
this committee have been assigned to
each township to supplement the work
of the township chairman.
Central Committee V. F. Ward, J.
G. Ellis, B. B. Williams, W. G. Rogers,
J. B. Palmer, T. D. Peck, M. P. Bur
well, J. M. Gardner, John Graham, C.
E. Jackson, H. A. Mosley, R. B. Boyd,
R. T. Watson, W.: H. Burroughs, W.
H. Dameron, .W. H. Alston, H. L.
Falkener, C. R. Rodwell, W; N. Boyd,
J. E. Rooker, Edmund White, M. C.
McGuire,
Town of NorlinaR. S. Register,
J. L. Overby, H. C. Fleming.
Smith Creek W. E. Mulchi, R. M.
White, A. G. Hayes.
Hawtree Coley Perkinson, M.
Hayei, W. W. Cawthorne.
Nutbush W. W. Kimball, J.
Brauer, A. E. Paschall. ; .
, Sandy Creek Robert Stewart,
H.
C.
J.
K. Pinnell and T. H. Aycock.
Shocco F.r F. Limer, J. W. Bur
roughs, James : Montgomery.
0 Fork R. E, Williams, L. A. Fowl
er, Stanley Powell.
Fishing Creek W. T. Davis, R. L.
Capps, W. T. Hardy.
Judkins D. L. Ryder, W. H. Fishel,
W. E. B. Harris.
River J. P. Pippin, R. D. Fleming,
D. A. Fishel.
Six Poundi J. S. Nowell, J. M.
Coleman, Jesse Gardner.
Roanoke H. L.. Wall, J. T. Del
bridge L. W. Kidd.
The Publicity campaign is enlisting
the co-operation of ; the preachers and
editors of Warren county to thorough
ly acquaint the people with the truth
that this war is not over until every
American soldier has gone home to
mother, that the duty' is here to play
square by paying the bill made in the
discharge of a glorious duty, that this
is net the tima for pessimism and a
general let down but that every indi
vidual must stand to the rack and ac
quit himself as a man, a citizen of
America, and a component part of a
greater world. Every : minister in
Warren county is a member of this
committee as are Editors Zi C. Hardy?
of "the Norlina Headlight, tod T.R.
Walker, of the News Reporter Town
ship; representatives are tbwoirk in
close : alliance withi the t preachers T of
their churches and withthe-pdblicity
committee. Reostffor.:: speakers,
preferably at churches on Sunday,
will be , gladly . filled ;and i-in addition
everyi minister tof theGounty is , aak
edto preach on "The .Duty to Meet
.(Continued On Fourth Page)
MESSRS. POLK, PASCHALL
AND WIGGINS ELECTED
Large Crowd of Good Road En
thusiast Crowd Town ; Con-
victs Go Back to Vance; Equip
ment To Be Sold at Auction.
The township road commissioners
and other progressive gentlemen in
pursuance of the County Road law
passed by the last General Assembly
met here yesterday and talked good
roads and pinned crepe and criticism
on the fruits of the Highway Com
mission. . '". '
The meeting was held in the Court
Room and was presided over by Dr. (
L. J, Picot, who wouldn't allow any
caucasing, and invited . nomination
from the floor for the "three men of
the County to represent its people on
the State and Federal Aid Commis
sion. To this, important post were
nominated and elected without oppo
sition: Hon. Tasker Polk, Warren
ton township; . Mr. Walter Wiggins,
River township; Mr. Wallace Pas
chall, Hawtree township.
I Because there was no money in the
townships which wanted the Convicts
and because those that had the cash
didn't want them, the gathering de
cided to sell at public auction the
equipment of the Gang. The con
victs, employed .by the Highway 4 com
mission, were all from Vance, and will ,
go back to that county. In the future,
the County Commissioners ruled yes
terday to hire to Northampton War
ren convicts which from time to time
may be put upon the roads.
The interest was. manifest by
good representation from .every town
ship and it is expected that the men
appointed in the townships, represen-,
tatives of a high" class of citizenship,
wththeop
sible" of the appointed t committee of
three ' will build a county system of
good , roads surpassing the previous
record of Warren.
; In this connection we give the pro
ceedings of the County Board of Com
missioners: W. J. Pinnell and. Ed Tur
ner were appointed to fill vacancies
in Sandy Creek under the new Road
law. -' ,
Ordered that the fmancial Agent
pay the' accounto f the Highway Com
mission out of ten per cent, as used ,
heretofore by said Highway Commis
sion.' Ordered that the Financial Agent
pay $828.50 out of River township
road fund to the Highway Commis
sion to be paid out of the 1918 taxes.
Ordered that the Financial Agent
pay to the Highway Commission for
Roanoke township $500.00 to be paid
for 1918 road taxes. .
Ordered that $100.00 be given to en
tertain the Colored Soldiers.
Ordered that . Financial Agent pay
Judkins township $75.44 to be paid '
out of taxes for roads 1918.
. Dr. J. H. Harrison and Mr. Boyd
White were appointed township ap
praisers for the 1920 tax list.
The following gentlemen were ap
pointed list takers for 1919: River
Tom C. Alston; Sixpound W. A.
Shaw; Hawtree John W. King;
Smith Creek H. H. Grant; Nutbush
L. N. Kimball; Sandy Creek S. J.
Pritchard; Shocco R . E. Aycock;
Fishing Creek D. L. Robinson;
Judkins J. J. Stallings; Warrenton
J, C. Hardy; Fork W. E. Davis ;
Roanoke H. L. Wall. -
WARRENTON WINS OVER
' rWISE IN BASKETBALL
The Warrenton State High School
girl basket ball team won on the local
court; over Wise High School by a fif
teen to four score. The game was
featured by the good work of the
Warrenton team which held the jump
on theirrivals from the first whistle
to "Time out! The visitors played
hard. - " -" -
A good crowd of noise booster were
barking away continuously and were
iriid to the locals. The line up fol-
lows:
"Warrenton Forwards Wise
Hattie Connell 2 2 2 Sadie Perkinson 2
Mary Burwell 1 Zela Newman 2
Martha Reynolds Price 2 2 2 2
'..:. ' Center- '
Ella B. Jonejs Melissa Coleman
r " . Guards '
kate Macon ' .."i ' -.: "' Aza Gooch
Emily Hilliard , . Agnes Paschall