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We,ter EcpHh Carolina: Probably tonight Saturda.. Fresh N. W. winds. A I 1 I H M LOMMOMWF. A I .TM - -p- -V I 1 r 1 V II r MX II II ' - WW J fc- T V Y - - AFTF.RNnriM h A 11 v SLOGAN: "EVERY ONE FOB EACH OTHER AND ALL TOGETHER FOR SCOTLAND NECK. VOLUME TWO , AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1917 "SLBGRAPH SERVICE NUMBER 88 &m lewt 'i I That TOBACCO WAREHOUSE PRES!DENT AT 'GR moe ii t; a a jl m bl r &r jl is 11 isa f i a ii i j - m at il w Bt s s h es s r k e re k la . w vii -Laa vail (By United Press.) Petrograd,, Oct. 19. Todav . (By United Press ) Zurich, Oct. 19. Former King Constantine, of Greece is report- RECEIVE REPORTS AND FORM PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. PTNAL MEETING ARRANGED FOR WEDNESDAY NEXT , Premier Kerenskv returned from grand headquarters, recovered ea to .De m a crltlcal condition, SpURI0S VERSENK THE NAFE GIVEN LATEST RUTH from his recent attack of influ. ! following an operation as the re-; P117a ,i aa " -i suit ot .the re-opemng of an old! ijm& uijjja riKAUY OPERATING HUNDREDS lis ministers. wu,mu 111 ms sme- TOBACCO BOARD OF TRADE LIKELY o- The final meeting of farmers tol complete the plans for the estab lishment of tobacco warehouses for Scotland Neck for next year will be held Wednesday after noon next, October 24, at 3:30 o'clock in the Mayor's office. Two committees are hard at work obtaining the figures that will be given to the meeting next week, and then the temporary or ganization will be made perman ent and the new industry will be an assured fact. The farmers are a necessary ad innet to the success ofi these ware houses, both in point of view of supply, but also as an , integral part of the organization scheme, ior it is to be essentially a mut: ual feature and farmers are ask-; ed to come in and take a special part. AVhen the permanent organiza tion is effected directors and of ficers will be elected and here too the farmer will be represented. Likewise it is expected that -a Tobacco Board of Trade will be organized on "Wednesday next, so that Wednesday will be a busy day for farmers and merchants together. Every farmer whether he L! DAY TYBOf WEDKES& V I (By United Press.) Raleigh, Oct. 19 October 24, Wednesday next, will be Liberty Bond day in North Carolina. A proclamation setting aside this day has been issued by- Gov ernor Bickett, at the same time the governor appeals to "all classes of the citizens of the state' to devote the day to the sale of these bonds, and especially urges Mayors of incorporated towns to . wage a Community can vas in connection with rural can vasses by all the sheriffs of the state. AUSTRIAN REG- TR IMENT GIVE UP INS :ATi OF MILES FROM COAST OF BRITAIN 15.000 TON SUBMARINES WORK IN PAIRS I MI! (BY UNITED PBESS) Washington, Oct. 19. One en-1 tire regiment of Austrians, with their officers at. its head, and carrying their own arms, has sur rendered to the Rumanian troops along the Russian-Rumanian frontier, cables received here an-1 nounce. s tBY UNITFP ISSA MUST FR. Biitiii os Aires, Oct. 19. For the fir : time in twenty four days some irains are running in Ar gentine marking the governments successful step in combating a general strike. All these trains are being or erateil under heavy militar guardr SYMPATHIES (BY UNITED TRESS) Amsterdam, Oct. 19. "We want democracy, self administra tion and constitutional freedom ' "nt in ruthless (By United Press fiOinlon, Oct. 19. GkiTnnny 7 giant jilratf I '-boats :-ire now '-ob-lvAl- fo'-bins of ibcii oai'imos ana stowing 1; submarine held, thir unfortunate victims. Spurios' Versenk, the name t hat is given to this newest develop- undersea war- 1 - VT tb''v. tho rilllg LABOR EM RE NEW LOAN JFRAi (By United Press.) Washington, Oct. 19. Treasury department has nounced a loan o $20,000,00 France; bringing France 's total loan up to $770,000,000, and the grand total to all alliea'to $2,731,-400,000. SUBSCfl TP W 1 ri The after the war. ex- w (By UNITED PRESS) London, Oct. 19. Will Thorn, one of the most prominent labor members of the House of Com- pects to growT much tobacco next mons, recently refused the new year or not. Whether he is in Order of the -British Empire, a ihis immediate vicinity or fifteen number of which were bestowred miles away, is expected to be pres- by King George. it, for this warehouse plan is one j Thorn gave as his excuse for ''f the big things and should in- refusing the honor "personal rea- terest every farmer. i sons, Come one and all. You will be , that a few davs later W. C. An entertained. i derson, M. P., in an address to en- i gineers of Woolwich Arsenal, I stigmatised the British govern- J : ments awards of honor to labor as ' attempts to influence the work ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN (By UNITED VHE8S Washington, Oct. 19. The sec ond liberty loan is developing a momentum that is necessary for a sYtiashing success. Although only one third of, the five billions of dollars, the maxi mum to be subscribed the nation nan TASinli fliiQ shinpiirlnnc tvnal if r j (Bv United Fress. it keeps on accelerating its pace Petrograd; 0ct i9.Two t0r as in the last few days. - pe(o boatg weM suRk bv mnQ t From now on subscriptions !fi vestprdav it was officiallv must pour in at the rate of J00,-ranllollllCed. j 000,000 daily, practically twenty ; times what it was in the first week. within the empire, when Ave will , according to eontideiutal not wage wars for Flanders or embassy reports to hand, any other territories, but we will The Germans are using new fight for world's sympathies' de 1500 ton vessels, apparently in. clared Philip Scheidermann at pairs, and operating off the beat Wursburg, at a majority social- en track, several hundred miles ists conference, dispatches report, outside the old danger zone Scheid erman further predicted around Great Britain and. France, that a socialist demorcaey par-; The newer U-boats are suffic ty" would obtain political power iently large to permit the stowage j of large portions of captured car- go- T7 (By UNITED KESS) Washington, Oct. 19. Hon. A. ! Mitchell Palmer, former congress- Mr. Camilas Best and family, man from Pennsylvania, has been Gf the. Littleton section, spent a named by President Wilson as fftW hours in town vpsfprrlav th but it may be significant ; alien property custodian under quests of Mr. and Mrs. G. C. the enemy trading act. 'Weeks. IRA! SUGAR SHORTAG! PE mgmen. Wash inert on. Oct. 19. Com- a 7 t pared with America's average' consumption of ninety pounds of sujrar per person a year, England . and France are almost Tins commodity. The ""English j person, who in pro-wa times consumes his ninety three and "a $7,000,000. R R TIIWNPI lit. a ITJlJLfJLS (BY UNITET. PRESH Washington, Oct. 19.- -Two LIKELY FATAL Ncw York, Oct. 19 "Fitz can put up a mighty battle even unto death," stated former world's ! pugilistic champion, James J. ! Corbett, when informed of the 'i i serious condition of Bob Fitzsim- mons. Old Bob Fitzsimmons, the great- ' est boxer of all time, is on the I verge of a knockout in the big- gest fight of his -career a battle ! with death. The old ring hero is. slowly taking the count trom - pneumonia. All hope has been QVQ mm a ICE (By UNITE ') PltESSr Denver, Oct. 19. Construction' REPORTED EVACUATION OF RE VAL ONE OF-THE THREE GREAT NAVAL STATIONS ; PROTECTING PETBOTtEAD. announced. The public will be asked not DTTCCIANC CPARQ FKPMV'Q T.RPAT PI PFT'J" V" l"::: to grow hysterical over the ad- !, i A,.1; mittedly serious coal she New England youths decided aballdonetl some time ago that the united. States needed a free radio school i to train wireless operators for ! 1 I our new merchant fleet. And so, JT ! without making much fuss about I it, they went ahead and estab j lished the school without cost to ! the government. if i Tori a v thpsfv voiinsr men are "J r, p ; 1 regard to coal, as with food, will' : training a class ot iorty in the te ' . . m ! - e tii . he necessarv this winter fuel ad j mysteries of the Hertzian waves. ,n-i i e fr.c,a aw mmistrator is reported as having i months course are all pledged to ioin -America's mercantile torees Washington, Oct. 19. Patriot sacrifices by the public, with of Commerce Redfield, traveling shortage in v third pounds a year, -is now al-of a $7,000,000 tunnel under ; lowed one half pound a week. In James Peak a dream of years of Franco tho niwr, v 0;.i ' railroad construction engineers , ennormds a vtr I probably will be realizzed in the Petroarad, Oct. 19. The eva- than its .victory so far indicated, through Aew England on ms a- ei1 '15 fr a.rar. J - ... .'. - - i : ,i;,.,.v.n,l ' ' Y.O. oHc Qllf! ' " rr..v .y,M. VA J RpVflJ 1C Tcf ftf TlQVfl hflCOa UailUIl UlSCUVCACi-l 1CIUO , domestic ana war emergency needs. tedly many cities. 'PI , . . . i i. Z 1 , 4m e-nm-i-w-C. 1 1 . 1 , 1 T : iUn X 1 i.1 H 4. 1 1 1ic JJritlsh government has neanuiure, n piana iu occuic caution oy tne .Russians ui xvevat is uie nrsi oi uavai uasea m domestic W careful tn nrvn h it! vestment of $5,000,000 of eastern navai base, Reval, was begun on an hostile fleet, whose intent on.as commenaea tnem m an onic- cannot guarantee that even the alf-rtOn r( . SlilnwornQ nan 1-vn rV tained 'capital, negotiations for which Tuesday, according to the news- penetrating the Gulf of Finland ,ia report. are now under way iln New York, naners. Novo v. Veremad and would encounter. It is only 200 Arthur Batch ell er, a radio in- and a sugar card for a are consummated. Vrema. iamily is issued onlv for thP nnm - Twvi millions of capital-toward i The withdrawal of the Rus her of persons sleeping in the the seven millions required to-sian forces, necessitated by the uouse. Suar is Iniles from Petrgrad. 1 spector in Boston, and Walter J. son In a public restaurant, if construct the tunnel, rehabilitate operations of the German fleet in 'Vio ani T-pmnvA th receiver- the Gulf of Risra, features a Ull VCICOIO) tllC jJCi i 1XAJ i v iiv j - i Three great naval stations com- Butterworth, a clerk in the same ' maud the Gulf of Finland, and office, were working for the Nav- constitute the defence of Petro- igating Bureau of the Commerce; grad, Reval, Vibrog and Kron-. Department when the national i. I .1 nist do without sweetening 'diip under which it is now being '"threatening naval campaign j stadt. The evacuation of Reval crusade for a huge merchant ma- Dec in his c offer Tt i tpd and rdae.fi it on a Davins: asrainst the Gulf of Finland. mary for a lady, invited out to 'basis, is assured by Colorado " The evacuation of Reval, ii) J;a to take her sugar with her. bondholders, , provided the re-! confirmed, would appear to indi ' 'he is also expected to bring her quired additional five millions is cat e an even, greater menace to cake. secured. ' Russia by the German battler! eet "If we need thous- Jan. indicated a realization of the rme began. great strength of the attacking ahds of ships, we will need thous-: Mar. fleet, and a fear of a flanking at- ancls of ' operators, " said Batch- May tack bv landing German troops -eller. "How are we going to get ' July opposite to Moon-island. ; V them" Local Market o o o Open High Low Close 27.61 27.Q1 27M 27 .? 27.15 27.15 27.10 27.13 26.82 26.91 26.75 291 26.81 26.85 26.75 2S.S3 26.59 2G 59 ' 26.52 2G.C s
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