Pae Eleven EXPECT MARKET VALUE OF LIB ERTY BONDS TO INCREASE Steady increase in the market value of Liberty bonds and the main tenance of an interest rate not great er than 4Vi per cent on future is sues of government certificates are expected in treasury circles to result from the excellent conditions of the government's fiscal program. With the rate on new government securi ties being reduced Liberty bonds, paying a higher return, began to mountain price, the advance being helped by Secretary Glass' recent statement that the turn in war financing has come. Since Liberty bonds in many cases can be bought so as to pay 5 per cent on the in vestment, purchases have increased materially, leading to the belief that they have reached their lowest levels and will enhance in price from now on. TIN rrtrr: -iff-'iV x.w.m J The New Place for your convenience FAIR HEADQUARTERS v. LENOIR NEWS-TOPIC, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1919 REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL PAR TIES URGE RATIFICATION Two hundred and fifty Republi cans. Democrats and Socialists of na tional prominence, representing forty States, have signed an address to the United tates Senate urging ratifica tio nof the peace treaty "without amendment or delay." The address was made public by the league to enforce peace, after a copy had been sent to every Senator. The s:gners includ former President Taft, George W. Wickersham, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard; Sam uel Gompers, president of the Ameri can Federation of Labor; Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, president of the American Woman Suffrage Associa tion; Heber J. Grant, president of the Mormon Church, and John Spargo, leader of the group of Socialists who supported the war. UNCLE SAM WILL HOLD MEXICO RESPONSIBLE Advised that the Mexican govern ment has instructed its consuls to re fuse to vise passports of American ; citizens going to certain districts oi Mexico unless these Americans waive the responsibility of the Mexican gov ernment for any physical injury which might result, the state depart ment telegraphed to the American consul at Tampico that any such waiver would not operate to inter fere in the slightest with the obliga tion of the United States to protect its citizens under international law. Acting Secretary Phillips made plain in the message that Americans com plying with the waiver requirements would in no way lose for them the protection fo this government. TOURNAMENT SCENE. FIRST CALDWELL COUNTY FAIR NEW STATE SANITARY LAW IN EFFECT OCT. 1 The following is a sample of the placards now beinjj posted through out the State regarding the sanitary privy law: "Chapter 71, Sec. 2, Public Laws of 1919, reads as follows: "No person shall maintain or use a residence within three hundred yards of another residence that is not provided with sewerage, with sep tic tanks approved by the North Car olina State boar,dof health, or with a sanitary privy which complies in con struction and maintenance with the rec . -emertts of this act." ' It vou live within three hundred yard. .' anyone else you must have a sani ; ry privy by Oct. i, 1919. This notice as it up to you The law will be '"forced with energy. Be preparei ror information regard1 : privies i. . ' special privy b"''.t . furnished ir- by No-". : -..;. State board vf 1th. "We have Vi"i . d t ,. i .no peo ple will take the y, ,,1 vaccine and have sanitary pi:.. we can practi cally abolish the dreaded filth disease typhoid fever, as well as other dis eases, such as dysentery." INTERNED GERMAN SAILORS START FOR FATHERLAND More than 1,300 German sailors in terned since the United States enter ed the war, at Fort McPherson, near Atlanta, started Monday on the first leg of their trip home. The Germans, chiefly merchant sailors, will go first to Hoboken and were, to sail from there yesterday. Of the 1,384 Ger mans at Fort McPherson about 200 have applied for citizenship papers. The applications have been forward ed to Washington, but as far as can be learned no action has been taken there. THE DEATH LIST AT CORPUS CHRISTI CROWS STEADILY Recovery of additional bodies along the north shore of Nueces bay brought the known dead as a result of the storm at Corpus Christi, Tex., to over 400, and caused fears that the total death roll might reach double that number. The property damage will exceed $20,000,000, ac cording to estimates. News filtering in from the surrounding country, with the partial resumption of wire communication, continues to empha size the magnitude of the catastrophe. The Dutch minister in Paris has been advised, according to the Libre Belgique of Brussels, that Holland within two weeks will receive a de mand for the extradition of former Emperor William on behalf of the allies, according to a dispatch from Paris. LEAGUE OF NATIONS USED AS SWINDLING SCHEME A unique stock swindling scheme has just been unearthed. Stock is be ing sold in the league of nations. A prominent woman reported to the po lice in Birmingham, Ala., that she had bought two shares of stock in the league of nations "without reserva tions." A woman came to her home saying her name was Sarah Benson of Chicago. She claimed that Presi dent Wilson and ex-President Taft were backing the league of nations, a company organized for the purpose of buying all material used in war by different nations and would make it over into farm implements. The agent quoted the Bible about beating swords into plowshares. The prominent lady agreed to take two mit- The saleslady took her name, 'ling that stock wtih reserva tions was $60 a share; that without reservations was $64.50. When the purchaser's husband came home he was first amazed and then burst into a laugh. He explained the league of nations and then reported the matter to the police. EX-KAISER'S KITCHEN GOES TO SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE To the collection of war trophies which the Smithsonian Institution is now gathering will be added shortly the field kitchen of William Hohen zollern, late kaiser of Germany. Ger man prisoners of war last week load ed the kitchen which is said to be a most elaborate affair of the kind aboard a transport at St. Nazaire, France, and it is on its wy to Wash ington with a large collection of war materials of different kinds. The kitchen followed the kaiser all over Europe while the war was on, to all of the fighting fronts which he vis ited, but shows no signs of damage, which is taken to indicate that it kept as far to the rear as did its imperial owner. The Alabama house of representa tives Wednesday afternoon specifical ly rejected the Susan B. Anthony suf frage amendment by a vote of 60 to 31. a 5E5?HS25HSES2S25H52S2525Z5HSH5H5E5e5H!i: Your Wants Supplied All kinds of Books Stationery Fountain Pens Kodaks Kodak Supplied School and Office Supplies PICTURE a THE WAT YOU WANT IT WHEN YOU WANT IT. 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