WEATHER REPORT : Fair and slightly cooler tonight, and Wednesday ; Moderate N E winds on the
coast.
AFTERNOON DAILY
OUR LIBERTY LOAN SLOGAN FOR TODAY FOR POCH AND FREEDOM ! BUY BONDS' ALL YO'
rb THEN MORE!
JMB FIVE
AFTERNOON DAILY
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TELEGRAPH SERVICE.
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PASSED BY TROOPS
BRITISH FORCES NERRING ST. QUENTIN
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Lomlou Oct 1. Fighting was
resumed on the Cambrai-St Quen
tiu front this morning announces
Field I a rslial Uaig. .4 ,
The English and Canadian sol
;;.-rs wove closing ill upon Cambrai
vestenlay and captured Proville
! nh of strong resistance from
J1A 1
!it enemy.
The British have captured Ver
; M-Mch is five miles north and
slightly east of St Quentin.
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RTH LIBERTY
OAN DRIVE '
10 & 11
RAY BOYETTE'S
BURGLARIZED
LAST NIGHT
FOU
CT
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A large meeting of business men
of Scotland Neck met with the or
eanized committee last night at
8:30 o'clock in the directors room.
of the Scotland Neck Bank ahcl de
tided to have the intensive drive
tn laise Scotland Neck's quota, of
th eSLx Billion DollarFourth Lib j
erty Loan on Wednesday and Thur
sday of next week October 10 and
11. - ' mJF
' The meiiibers took into consid
eration the fact that this is Rocky
Mount Fair week and many. people
whom they would wish to see will
uaturally be at the fair also that
the subscription blanks are not all
to hand so next week was- de
cided upon.
$93,800 is the sum that Scotland
Xeck has to raise as its part of this
bond issue and there is a distinct
feature that make the desire most
intense. A ship will be named for
the county who does it part best
and if Scotland Neck leads the
way and raises its quota quickly
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A bold robbery took place in
town last night that makes the
citizens begin to think this morn
mg.
During the dim dark hours of
the night a well planned and com
pletely executed burglary took
place in Mr, Ray Boyette's store
the financial loss not having been
yet computed but was considerable
The thieves got in at the'tran
som window at the back door un-l
barred the bank door and thenj
helped themselves to the choicest
tailor-made suits silk shirts silk
socks ties of extravagant hue
and quality and finally stole some
cheap jewelry. . . "-
There are 'evidences that may
DRAFT LOTTERY
TOOK 20 HOURS
(By United Press)
Washington Oct 1 Breaking
all records for speed the American
third and greatest draft; lottery
ended at eight o'clock this morn
ing after proceeding without
a pause for twenty four hours.
DAMASCUS CITY
READY TO FALL
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(By Vnited Press)
Paris Oct 1. British troops arc
within a mile and a half of Dam
acus and the tail ot the city is
expected momentarily the Echo
de Paris declares.
At the same time French caval
ry is advancing on Beirut.
Damacus is the principal rail
way and commercial center in
Palestine sixty miles northeast of
the sea of Galilee. .
The Briiilsh troops were last
reported at Toberus oi the west
chore of that body of water.
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EN
ATE REPUBS
REOPEN PEACE
PROPAGANDA
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(By United Press)
Washington Oct 1. Senate rep
ublic.ans in caucus today unani
mously adopted a resolution urg
ing' immediate congressional aetion
on the peace prepardness-meas
ure -
NG FERDINAND
NOW IN AUSTRIA
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IPITftTMin nPHTTlP A TTh nnvTTITn
ffWUUH UlfllH AKUINNfi
IN THREE DAYS FRENCH HAVE TAKEN THIRTEEN THOUS
AND PRISONERS AND ItlUCH WAS MATERIAL
AMERICANS ALIKE UNSUCCESSFUL IN CAPTURES
ALLIES MAKING FURTHER ADVANCES
iTATE HIGHWAY
ENGINEER HERE
RUSSIA MAY
BE REVIVED
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(By Umted Press,.
Copenhagen Oct 1. King Fer
dinand of Bulgaria has arrived at
Essenthal Castle on the outskirts
of Vienna according to the Frank
futer Zeitung.
Riots are reported to be in Con
stantinople.
Washington . Oct 1. Czar Fer
dinand' exodus from Sofia is view
ed as a virtual abdication by well
informed diplomatic circles. ,
MaUnoff is understood to have ! n
forced Ferdinand to leave the coun
trv fearing German influence on
j Ferdinand.
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Mr. W. S. Fallis engineer of the
State Highwoy Commission toge
ther with the resident engineer
Mr R E Snowden and the construe
tion engineer Mr George F Syme
arrived in town in time to meet
with a large gathering of local
men and discuss the best location
of the Roanoke river bridge.
Mr Fallis called upon the cit
izens to give their views of the
two locations Norfleets and Ed
wards Ferry sites each of which
e wth his assistants had visited
as he stated he wanted to take
nto consideratian all local desir
es before he decided the location
(By Unhed' Press)
-Par.. Oct 1. The' ''Germans ar
reported to' "beVithdrawing from
between the VTesle and Aisne west
of; Rhekns where General BoH-h.
oldt's left wing is understood to
be in action.
General Gourard's army is at
tacking in Champagne on Berth-''
oldt's right and progressing sat
isfactorily and is expected to rea
cli all objective by night.
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Wa.shipigtOn Oct 1. Russian
and Rumanian diplomats here fore
Whether Ferdinand will be per'o tne bridge.
mitted 'to return to Bulgaria and; H stated that the. crossing at
remain without that influence or
whether he will be forced to re
tire to his entensiye estates in Hun
lead to conviction and when the ' see a
rJlbddhoulSs belonging to Mr Ni
chols of Raleigh arrive they may
take up the scent.
At the present time it looks like
Edarwds Ferry would mean a con
siderable saving in construction es
nftoallv. if tViA material which is at
, complete relapse of Ger- j gary will depend lipon the attitude T hand coukPW- obtained from Mr
xr Mnlinnff and his cabinet n aiv
taavii ktj w.u' w-. , y y A1UC1 ISUil niiuuuu v,w.ju '
it is said. this was the best road materiol he
had found anywhere in this sec
many's policy in the Balkans and
in the east.
The signing of an-armistace by
Bulgaria Jn terms laid down by the
a well planned robbery -by those .allies is interpreted by oiicials of
who had studied the situation and! the Russian embassy as a resump
knew exactly how to work it and
What to take.
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LEAGUE MEETING
SMALL NATIONS
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(By United Press)
Washington Oct 1. Represen
tatives of sixty miliion oppressed
peoples of Europe will meet here
the rest of Halifax will fall in line 'or an infortaaUdiscussion of the
so that. "TTnlHW mav be the ! ague ux "PF
Word from Charlie Dunn who is ton i
at the front states that the boys! The f0nowmg local men discuss
in the front lines and elsewhere fh(i rrfmosition wth Mr Falli
tiiv -' i ' - J J. I - - X t
tion of power in Bulgaria by the j n France think more of their mail afiter which he promised to gve
RlssophiJe group ot 5ulganan tnan tney ao oi ineii- pay. ahi. the best result oi. nis lnvestganor
statesmen repreented by Premier shiuld encourage our people to an(j na;me the location n a
Malinoff. write more regularly to the boys days
This it was declared would who look forward so anxiously t Those that spoke were: Messrs
future a. most "letter from home". a p Kifphni Stuart Smith: L J
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ipowerfu stimulant to efforts of; q Baker : W H White ; W H Josey ; 11
1 revoutionary democracy of Rus- By this time-you have probably
sia and restore Russia's unity j decided that you never did like
and dependence. 1 sugar in your coffee anyhow.
name that one of these United
States naval ships will bear.
Our m.srbrs. should not pass
over the two full page advertise
mmts in this and later issues that
patriotic citizens are navinsr for
LEADING ONE OF THE FRENCH ARMIES
on Thursday it was learned offi
cially.
Jugo-Slavs; Czecho-Slovaks ;Rou
manians; LithuanLans and other
people will;be represented.
Officials of the state depart-
, QTirl ollinii nmlnTnats Will St
in order that the people may oei" -
apprised of the need for all to buy '
these bonds during the time of ouri It is proposed to build a bar
eountrv's distress and each n.amejrier of these shall nations across
. rtUvnnir'o QQcoTn trnTi. and unite
should be treasured as part ot Scot "CiVlfl: w"
land Neck's history as these r men theni; - ,
are sacrificing their time and mon U Thes pians for a greater lea j
ey that this country may be made ;gme of these nations at the end o, j
safe for you vour wife and. your tne warv
little ones. " . Nnew. yqrkers. x
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While Secretary Baker is in T11T VADTfllDQ
France studying the aircraft ques- JljiVv - K URlVEfllU
tion it is hoped that he will not?
ish to take a flight in an Amer- j
ican plane. He might have some
difficulty in finding one.
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Jan
Mar
May
COTTON MARKET
Open' High
33.66
32.88
32.69
32.60
32.58
3366
32.88
32.66
32.60
32.50
Low at 2 :40
33.40. 33.40
32.70
32.66
32.60
32.50
HOLD SECURE i
H1NDENBURG LINE
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Bjr Ldwell Mellett
32 70 x? ranee uci -f. t
tfwiav are securely holding !
S -Sel Genesral Humbert, wbose iSll
32.58 Jj:ii'tw 4C of thP rpat generals of France whom Marshal- ocn de-
t - r -, . ot t. Thev sent DarK an autuuuuai -j o . . .
Local Market 31 cents f &en ,, ' ds on to pusb the Germans totheir own border.
Cotton Seed $1.05 Bushel prisoners last night. penes y '
P Byrd ; W E Smith ; J B Edwards
and S A Dunn.
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One of, the institutions of the
array in France is the traveling
bathroom An outfit that requires
three trucks to carry it is rolled
up to the lines as the boys leave
the trenches' and provides bathing
facilities for five hundred men an
hour. '
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Paris Oct 1 French forces have
rotsumed th eir ad1a.nce between
the Aisne and the Vesle the war
ofricp announces.
In champagne over thirteen tho
irsand prisoners and hundreds of
guns have been taken since Sep
t ember 28.
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With the American armies in
Lorraine Oct 1. The Germans are
frantically rushing reinforcements
into the Argonne region in an ef
fort, to block the American ad
vance. 1 ne eiemy was apparont.--
ly determined" to make a poi ina-"
nent stand on its present Ymv. ra,
ther than fall back to the Brun
hilde Stellung defenses.
Intense fighting continues with
the American artillery and in fan
try on the aggressive.
Heavy counter attacks by the
enemv slightlv delaved the Amer
icans in their advance.
The Germans were armed almost
entirely in their assaults with light.
machine guns. Their artillery
I ltro - uKwt in roQc mo 1 1 1 MMtivioiPuu
and a irreat ouantitv of y:as was
used
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UNLUCKY NO. 13
N. C. LOSSES
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Washington Oct 1.- Out of u to
tal of .ns casualties in two army
lists issued by the war department
toibn' North Carolina's :-.havwas
Uhirteen names. 5
Sergeant William G. Hewitt of
Southern Plnos and Privates Linde
Remember that we at homeS K; of Winston SmIciu Rob
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An Army cannot march nor fight
Tirifliont its home sunDort. Think
of what the army is doing in Fran
ce.
are its supfHirt and subscribe to
your liimit for the Fourth Liberty
Loan.
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SUFFRAGE
L A PROBLEM
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I (By United Press)
! Wash in e-ton Oct 1. Wheu the
, ,
' senate today entered the fifth
day of its debate on Woman suf
frage the effect of President Wil
son's plain talk was undetermined
and nobody knew today whether
the President has succeeded in
j swinging the necessary votes ex
eept' the men on yhom the deci?
icn rests.- -
These -meii; arj Simmons and
Overman of North Carolina; Guio
of Louisiana; Woleott and Salsblt
ry of Deleware; of the president's
own party and Bacid of New Jer
isey republican.
ert A. McPhail of Jonesboro Dan
iel 0. Poplin of Charlotte Ike J.
Rigsbce of Durham and Luther W
Russell of Osborne were all kill
ed in action.
Corporals Charles F. Brown of
M'i Shorn and Privates Tonnon
Hughes of Summerfield Jonah E
Nichols of Cagles Mill Arthur Et
ters of Kings Mountain -lames R
Holcombe of Marshall Daniel W
Williams of Edeuton and Isaac E
Winfrey of Winston Salem were
all wounded severely.
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The two tarts show that 124
were killed m action; 13 missing
in action; 237 wounded severely;
10 died of wounds; 3 died of ac
cident and other causes: 4 were
wounded to a degree undetermin
ed; 3 wounded slightly and four
prisoners.
The Kaiser's hair has grown sin
ce the war.began.Probably in the
same proportion in which his pros
pects have grown dark.