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N'ASIIYILLE, North Caroling August 15th, 1918.
NO. 32. ,
Progressive Merchants
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Back' or This bank's
' .Success
ha always prevailed hard' and
conscientious work on the part of
tea Officers and Director wjl
ingneas to aid and advise with Its
depositors, .also he , necessary
principle of - SAFETY each
transaction. Vj? "f
If without a banking .. ' f
' home, we'll welcome. 7 -"-,
yonr accoupt .' y , ,
The- first National Bank
s' ; Rocky Mount, N.C. ,'; :
-.Safest For Savins-
the; national bank
OF ROCKY MOUNT
ROCKYMOUNTt N. C.
v Capital and Surplus
$200.000,boS-
Compounded Quarterly On
" Savings. 'WV"
Your Business Solicited;
- Thos. H. Battle, President.'
. R. H. Ricks, - . Vice President'
S. L. Arrington, , -" Vice'-Preslde,nt
Frank P. FWan. ' .' -;;'-Cashier
W. G; Robbing, " Asst. Ja-hier
Visitors-FromlNashville
When in Roclfy Mount -
Stop at the 4 ,
JAMESON HOTEL
. AND CAFE
For Ladies and Gentlemen,
v" v- European Plan. ,
.. .: i ' HOMEICOOK1NG. ';
, ;. GOOD. SERVICE. " ,
-'m SMain St. ' -
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Central Location. Steam Heat and
J Running Water in Every Room.
Save Fertilizer Dilk, in.
crease crop productive-:
, nets, and make the best
of Summer forage crops.
; WiU Impiwe land wonderfully,'
eren after using- crop foe-forage
or ' grazing purpoak. Can be
grown to excellent advantage in
your Corn cron. innvaain. wlaM
of Cora and making a wonderful
improvement m ne sou. .. .:
. WrINt fnr nrtram anil KWrknTVtt
CROP SPECIAL," giving inform,
(ion about air Seasonable Seed a.
Mailed free on request.
T.17.700D&S0i;SI
Seedsmen, Richisni Yl
To The
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Cow Peas B
1 AND!;
Velvet Beiaris
It gives me great
m- - V
yrY
36,000 PRISONERS
:.TAKEfl IN PICARDY
IN ESTIMATES OF CAPTURED ARI
f' 1.009 OFFICERS FROM GEN. '
ERAL TO CORPORAL,
ever soo mm IN SPOIL
Knamy- R4atnce 1 la ttlffanlng
Against Advanoa f Alljpal Dae
perata Stand Eypected.
. The number of prisoners taken ao
far la the allied offensive In Heard r
la oow estimated at 38,000, Including
more than 1,000 officers. More than
600 guns have been captured, accord
ing to the lateat advices.
The pivot of the German resistance
at thia state of the battle, it now P-f Unrveraity 'ef Wlaeoniln, lc 4re
Pfars, la the town of Noyon, about I h flr woman to. b applntd a
midway between Montdidler and Sols-' mln1 under the federal trade com. -sons.
" The' enemy la throwing in re- nileelen. She Is doing roaaareh work !
serves from this base in an effort to ' e9re'!alona Jlbrary, Inveatl
prevehti regardless of cost, the allies ,et "bout the manufacture f j
from gaining control of the Noyon
Ham road, which is choked with ma
terial, guns and troops. ';' .
The ermans are expected to make
a deaperat atand on the Jloye-Noyon
to permit ' the. columns which are re
treating lo the direction of Neele and
Mam td reach .safely." . ' ' .v ' '
The resistance of the fJermani Is
stiffening amat" the fourth British
ariny nn4er General Rawllnaos?. They
are reacting violently in the region of
Llhons, which changed hands twice
during the night "but which was firmly
held -by the British.. .r ' v -;
All the bridges aetoss'the Somme
between jPeronne: ana" Ham,' a atretch
of about 15 miles,' have been destroy
ed by allied aviators. . The Germans
have been attempting -to throw teas.
porarv bridges across the stream and
the allied airmen are now systematic--
ally bombing these Improvised atrao-
tures. .'
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All IHRMln. MilAH. .lift W m
carfn..wtt. enemy fe
in" their , precipitate retreat, : -i
Among the orlsonera Aken are ten.
orals, colonels and officers of alt other
grades, pieven diviulona of Generals
von. Hutles and Von Marwlt have
been identified bpriwneri "taken. ,
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GERMANS DIGGING. IN . : !
. . ' ALONG THE.VESLij RIVER j
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With the Americait ArmK on the
Vesle. Allied aviators have reported '
that the Germans r dleainc in onno. '
site the Franco-American line along i
the Vesle. The observers also have re-
ported that the enemy is stringing
barbed wire along the hills northwest
of Flames. Allied officers express the
belief that the Germans will not give
ground here unless they are deliber
ately pushed off the plateaus, 'i
The Americans 'earned from Ger
man prisoners that the enemy was
using an old rock quarry cave. in the
region of LonguTfcl, large enough to
conceal, two regiments. He employed
11 as a refuge tor troops to rest. The
"Franco-American heavy artillery shell-l
ed the cave all , day and the Germans
wcie finally compelled .to abandon. It
as a hiding, place.- i . , ' ,
"The guns of the Franco-Americans
got the range of the; ehtranee,. to the
cave and' kept up a'-continuous ,'Jre
all 'lay. Observers reported that the
cave had been considerably damaged,
and was rendered very untenable.
The Germans are digging trenches
along the line west and east of Loncu-
vsl and also In the valley r of ' the
Perles.'i.V3W:s;:;'f'?;:.,-"',
COAL SHORTAGE 18 -r :i. .V-:
: - SOURCE OF DANGER
" Washlngton.-7-Coal miners and oper
ators were called upon in a proclama
tion by President Wilson to give their
maximum effort to the production ol
coal to the end that the threatened
shortage next winter may be averted.
The- president asked miners partlcr
larly to work full time and urgdB these
who are essential to the industry t
accep deferred classification - In the
draft.
Tobacco
" THE P.OCilY
pleasure to announce that 1 will operate botfi of my Warehouses and am in better position to take care" of my
friends and patrons. Tobacco prices will ppen high and the outlook for high prices for this crop ..
1 : is the brightest in the history of the tobacco business. . . '
. Ready' ' and ' -Es On ; Qur Openinn: gcilo l
MISS MARION DAVIES
Mis Marion L. Davlaa,' a graduate
variowa article.
mm LOSS'S. ME HEM
ALONQ , BATTLE .FROfltt CONDI
TIONS UNCHANGED' BUT AN- '
t TICIFATION RUNS RIOT. .
Thirty-Five- Tbouaand Prisoners " lir
- Addition to Supplies and 700 Can
non . Fair t Allies.
Conditions on the battlefront' along
the Voile river etwen' Soissons and
RJielms remain unchanged, and, rela-
tively. speaking, there have been no
Mnnm ' ' antntndiria- imoort.
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ance on me line running irum ids rw
I" of Montdidler tow.rfl. the Eng.
a channel. U botft regions, jjow-
ever, there la a tenseness which Seems
, to forecast tho"appwachlng dawa of
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, :.-!LlJLSL!llLtll riliiiLL
f 1tw; br ahalUng
j heavily the American and French, sof-
I diara who hava made their wav across
iha northarn hank of t&e.Veale or
dellveriag f . heavy counter-attacks
agalnat- them, but everywhere-they
have net with a atonewal'of resist;
wee that Us" not permitted them' to
counter-balance their losses ox ground.
But tit Germans have not "'been)
permitted by the
allies to have
monopoly of the
, initiative. Where
they have thrown shells against the
Americans In the Hemes sector, Amer
ican missiles have been returned with
added Interest. This particular sec
tor has boon a veritable Inferno, Gag
against the .Americans, who, , with,
their gas-masks adjusted, .; were -vir
tually unharmed by. the noxious fumes.
A kindly switch in the wind at one
time even turned back the gas against
the enemy, i Ttia. French also have an
swered the1 Germans la kind: .
"Thirty-five thousand prisoners 'and
700 cannon, have been captured," said
the premier who added that Paris no
lenger was in danger, that' Soissons
and Chateau-Thierry have been recon
quered and -that 209 villages had. been
delivered through the formidable
thrust of Fpch'i men through the
Soissons-Rhelms allent. .
FINE RECORD IS MADE - -
BY AMERICAN SHIP BUILDERS
Washington. With the launching of
13 vessels', totaling 631,844 dead.
weight tons, and the delivery Of 41'
others of 235,025 deadweight tons, new
world' shipbuilding records Were es
tablished In July by American ship
yards" the ' shipping board'; announc
ed. The July launchlngs alone were
greater than those of any single year
in the past.
The launching Included . (7 . steel
vessels of 43,24 deadweight- ' .tons;
63 wood ships of 187,70 deadweight
tons, and three . composite' ship .of-.,
11,000 tons.
Farmers
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STILL SWEPT BACK
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TANKS, CARS, CAVALRY j -AND
HNFANJTRY ALi COMBINE .TO
OVERWHELM FOB,
Alllea Capture 17,000 Frlsoners,Mere
Thari Two Hundred Cannon and
' Other War Munitions.
inltlons. f
Over a curving front of mere than
10 mile the British and . French
troops are continuing to sweep; back
the Germans eastward. aerose the
north of the Somme east of Iforlaa
court to the eastern bank of the Avre
nortlrwest of Montdidler. '
As on' the first day of the offensive,
material progress was made over the
eatlre" battle front. Many additional
villages were - captured the bag of
prisoners was largely Increased; nil
merous guns and great quantities of
war stores were taken, ana heavy
casualties were Inflicted on the enemy
by tanks, armored motor caff, the
cavalrymen and the infantry. The
losses sustained by the AngldPrench
forces are declared: to be rfcatlvely
": T6 the ' allied forces the have
fallen, 17,000 German prisonsls and
between J0 and 300 guns, itany of
'.if thanr of heavy caliber and finumer-
able machine guns, trench Inortars
end' kindred amaf weapons. " f
Already having penetrated the
Fieardy salient to a depth dt nearly
W miles In (he center toward the
vicinity of the- important' "railroad
junction of Chanlnej. and ' Str other
points along the' arc, pushed forward
betwen five and seven miles, the
northern and- southern flanks of the
battle front where tin Germans ha
1-pcn resisting desperately, gave way
before the pressure - respectively of
the British and French. ;.,
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A, CORRESPONDENT SAYS
- GERMANY IS SCARED WHITE
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London, England. Germany li scar-
.Whitf.--. ..-.- . J
- Abe's scare;TMt -St"! 0wr tke
turn of things on -the west front; over
the thousands of Americans Yegularly
Outfighting her; over the hundreds of
thousands of Americans waiting to
fct into Ilnef over the millions of
o.her Americans "on the way."..-,.
: This Information comes from an al
lied source' whose buslaess It is to
know conditions In the enemy cofin-
trles. . ' x ;--v
; She's' frightened about Austria. She
doesn't know , what moment Austria
may blow up. Sh knows what is
known and conceded In official allied
sources that tlie .Austrian economic
situation is worse now than 4 it has
b.een since the opening of the war and
the people are bolder. - lr f
: She's frightened about Russia. AJ.
lied warBhtpa and American ? troops
uO north have, pulled out her -hone
of getting her hands bn the hundreds
of thousands? of 'tons of military
stores at Archangel there since the
revolution; she -can't take a step to
ward Petrograd or the northern rail
way leat these . allies forces swoop
south; and for all she knoivs -they
may be going to swoop south-without
waiting for that menace : , she can't
spare men from the west front. V ,f'
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GOVERNMENT, NOT DRAFEC, 1
" .WILL DO THE SELECTING
Washington New draft regulations
under - which the government 'Lwould
do the selecting rather than' leaving
it to the registrant, are Under consid
eration by the war department
The war secretary . made, It plain
that he is' not sattfled with the pres
ent system - under- which the regis
trant must claim deferred classifica
tion, as many men with - dependents
hesitate for patriotic reasons to. make
such. a claim. In this connection, Mr.
Baker said, he was Inclined to the
opinion . ; that the marriage rela-
tion will In Itself constitute deferred
classification.
of Nash
AI1L1IS
ULII
EREAT NUMBER OF PRISONERS
ALONZO E. TAYLOR
A new photograph of Dr. Alonro K.
Taylor, a member of the war trade
board and also of the House mis
sion to Europe. He was In charge
of the feeding of French and English
In Germany before the United Statee
entered the war. In private life he
ranks as one of the loading food chain
lets and- biologists In ths world. -
IS PRAISED BY LLOYD BEORGE
ALL POSITIONS. PREVIOUSLY
GAINED STEADILY HELD?
. w By'sTIFF FIGHTING.
British Premier PraJaoe Part Taken
In Preaent Offenalve by' the
" American Troopa.
The alljed. armies have obtained
further successes over the Germans
in fighting in ' the Soissons-Rhelms
sector and to the north in the Monl
dldler region and still further north
in Flanders between the Lawe and
Clarence .rivers.. 1
East of the town of Bralsne on the
Vesle River, midway between . Sols-
sons and Rhelms, American andi
French 'troops after the stillest kind
of fighting have crossed the river and
held all -the positions gained. In ad
dition all the positions previously
gained, by the allied troops through-
out the entitle. Rhelme-Solssons salient
have been solidly held, notwithstand
ing counter-etackS and the heavy ar
tillery fire the enemy . has poured
down from the heights north of the
Vesle upon their antagonists. Near
where the. Vesle enters ; the Aisne
east of Soissons the French have over-
come the resistance of the enemy aad
taken the village of Ciry-Salsogae,
. In the Montdidler sector the French
south and southeast of the town have
further advanced .their line on ' this
important sector which represents the
Junction point of the armies of the
German crown prince and of Crown
Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. : -
It remained for the Britsh, how
ever to deliver the hardest blow
against the tlermans. Following up
a previous advance In the famous Lys
sector northwest-' of, VLaBasse, Field
Marshal Halg'e men pushed forward
their line over a front of nearly five
miles to, a depth ot a thousand yards.
'- David Lloyd-George, the Brltsih
prime minister, addressing the house
.of commons, spoke optimistically of
the status of the war from the allied
standpoint. He ' characterized the
-present offensive on ihte AlBne-Marne
front as the) most brilliant in the an
nals of the war. and praised he part
takea in it by the American troops.
TO HURL ENTIRE STRENGTH V
AMERICAN ARMY ON GERMANS
Washlngon. Backd by a reservoir
of 5,000,000 American troops, Field
Marshal Foch, supreme comander of
the American and ailed armies, Is pre
paring to harl the entire united mili
tary strength of France, Great Brit
ain and the United States against the
Germans on the' western front in time
to bring the war to a victorious con
clusion in the. shortest possible time.
Next, spring will see the terrific con
flict,1 already in progress en the
Aisne-Marne line, in full swing
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and Adjoining Counties?
SURPRISE ATTACK
dc in
RETREAT
Id
FOCH'S NEW OFFENSIVE GIVES
PROMI8E OF SERIOUS MEN.
ACE TO GERMAN FRONT.
CIK PORTS NOW SAFE
Evident That Rupprecht Must Defer
Campaign to Cut Off the Crose- ,
Channel Servlee. '
The historic battle ground between
Amiens and Montdidler again is the
scene of a mighty contest This time
the British and French are the ag
gressors and under their fierce on
slaughts in the first day's battle they
have penetrated deeply into the Ger
man positions over a front of more
than 20 miles, reaching from the re
gion of Braches to the neighborhood
of Morlan court. '
Following short but intensive artil
lery preparation and aided by misty
weather, the allied attack took the
Germans completely by surprise and
they fled almost everywhere pell mell
before the tanks, motor machine gun
batteries, cavalry and infantry sent
against them. Al the objectives set for
the Australians,, anadians, English
men and Frenchmen were attained in
remarkably quick time, and at last ao
-counts the allied forces were still mak
ing progress. Wherever the enemy
turned to give battle he was decisive
ly defeated.
Thousands of Germans were made
prisoner. Large numbers of guns
were captured, great quantities of war
materials were taken and a score or
more of villages and hamlets were re-
occupied. In addition, heavy casual
ties were Inflicted on the enemy
At Its deepest point the penetration
of the German line was about seven
Anil ft tinlf mtlAl MMtvnH from Vft.
lers-Bretonneux to Framerville, while
from two to five miles were gained
all along the front from northwest of
Montdidler to the region around Mor-
lancourt. The fighting extended north
of Morlancourt to the Albert sector,
but no official details concerning It
have been received.
Well out on the plains and press-
Jjpr forward, seemingly with great rap
idity, the rW6TrriTeietv-r4lie;
French and Britsh gives promise of
seriously menacing the entire Ger
man 'front from near the sea to
Rheims. If the drive should proceed
eastward to any great depth it cannot
but affect the armies of the German
crown prince now fighting betwen the
Atsne and the Vesle and possibly make
Impracticable a stand by them even
north of the Alsne. -
Under the pressure of the offen
sive the menace to the channel ports
also seems for the moment at least,
to vanish. Already there have, been
signs to the northward from the post
lions' where Crown Prince Rpprecht
had formf d his men for a drive toward
the channel that a retrograde move
ment by the Germans was not lmprob
able.- It is apparent that Rupprecht
will have to defer his campaign to cut
off the cross-chanel serlvce. :
GOVERNMENT TO TAKE. OVER '
COLD STORAGE PLANTS, ETC.
Washington. Investigation of the
packing Industry of the country by
the federal trade commission culml
nated in an announcement that . the
commission ' had recommended . to
President Wilson that the government
commandeer and Operate for the pub
lic : benefit stockyards, cold storage
plants, warehouses and refrigerator
and cattle cars.
Monopolistic control of the essen
tial food supply not only of the United
States and Us army and navy, but also
ot the entente countries was charged
by the commission agalnat -the five
great packing companies Swift, Ar
mour, Morris, Cudahy and Wilson. The
last named company, the committee's
report said. Is controlled by three of
the strongest1 banking groups in the
United States Kuhn, Loeb ft Co.,
Guaranty Trust Co. and Chase Na
tional bank.
IIUIL,
FIGHTING inEUROPE
SELF PliESERVA HON as well n-
pairi"tiHm uVmiiii'j-t 1 mil. our far
men shall plentifully et. our fight
ers. '. f
When Germiny nrncitiimpd the apni
closed to American nifrchant vessel
and entered upon her projrratn of
wholesale ocenn tnntuge destruc
tion, she was aim it a blow directlv
at the American Kin m ?r.
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For lack or prnpt r marketinjr and
shipping: facilities Australia todav,
has three crops unsold and millinn'i.
pf tons of grain spoiled or destroyed
either by weather or rodents.
Upon our success in this war de
pends not only life nd liberty but
livelihood.
1'! Bank
Rocky Mount, N. C.
Every Citizen of Nash
County is Invited
to Visit
Nash county's'
New
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Has recently installed its
new fixtures and awaits with
gleasure to show you its
ofnplete Banking Equipment.-
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Farmers Merchants
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Rocky
TT. Thorne,
M. O. Blount,
TV A. A VERA,
W. W, A VERA,
TVlount.
President.
- " , Vice-Pres.
Vice-Pres,
- Cashier.
AFlKCB
; Wilson, -
Lmox T. Vapohas
Nasbvillc
FINCH 4 VAUGHAN.
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Prompt attention n'iven to all matters
entrusted to our care. Office in
, New La Buildinsr.
DR. J. I. WEEKS,
VETERINARY SURGEON
Rocky Mount, N. C. " .'
Office at Kentucky Horse & Mule
Exchange. C
Prompt attention given to all Calls.
T. O. C0PPED6E
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Grand Jury Building
PHONE U '
" Nashville, NC. .
3. F. Austin . : U L. Omwmn
AUSTIN & DAVENPORT
LAWYERS'
Prompt attention given to ail matter
Not associoted in any r
Recorder's Court Practice, ; v
T. T. ROSS, Dentist,
Spring Hopw.KC.
Office In New Finch Standing
Thurfday. Friday and Saturday -.of
each week. ,
Nashville Offlco at Residence
Monday.Tuesdav and Wednesday
' of each week.
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