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MO N WE A LTH WEATHER REPORT : Rain tonight. Colder in west portion. Wednesday much colder and generally fair. -To moderate fresh to S. E. -himg to the East and to the. West winds. AFTERNOON DAILY VOLUME VI AFTERNOON DAILY SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY DECEMBER 24 1918 TELEGRAPH SERVICE NUMBER 20 THE SEASON'S GREETINGS TO ALL THE READERS OF TH E COMMOIWE 1 I Jjj WILSON Willi REACH LONDON- THURSDAY HINDENBURG TO 'WILSON VISITS NED CLEMENCEAU HAS CHRISTMAS DINNER WITH AMERICAN TROOPS AT CHAUMONT EATING FROM THE SAME KIT AS THE SOLDIERS RETURNS TO PARIS NEW YEAR'S DAY (Bv Associated Press.) ! (By Associated Press.) Basle, Dec. 24. An agreement Par's, Dec. 24. President Wil- has been reached between the Ber-lson this morning visited Premier lin government and the German ! Clemenceau, but no information general staff by which Field Mar-1 was given; out as to the subject of shal Von Hindenburg and General; a rather lengthy discussion. Groener, chief quartermaster gen eral, shall retain their offices, ac cording to the Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin. Bv Associated Press j YKTVY ffl Paris, Dec. 24. The president's J h Wl I SA) i t.. -cie'. tine? American :. V1 ffllivrJ IHtlUS -"--. i xoi ii't, army headquarters at Chaumont and then proceeding to England are now complete. He will leave Paris tonight and not return until New Year's Day. The president will have Christ Bias dinner with the troops eating from the mess kit with the soldiers about him. He will have a formal dinner with Gerenal Pershing and his officers later. After reviewing the troops the president will deliver an address, and will leave Chaumont late in the afternoon of Christmas day for Calais, arriving there next morn ing. He will cross the English channel directly to Dover where a special man will carry him to Lon don. MEDALS SENT TO VOLUNTEER NURSES rT7- HOSPITAL COMMITTEE; FEELING DEEP SENSE OF GRATI TUDE FOR HEROIC WORK OF NURSES, HAVE PRE SENTED EACH WITH-LASTING REMEMBRANCE OCCUPY PULPIT By Associated Press Carlisle, England, Dec, 24. Rev Edward Booth, pastor of the Con gregational Church here, which was built by President Wilson's grandfather, and where his grand father was minister for fifteen years has invited the president to address the congregation during his visit here next Sunday. ilLUKOFF SENT OUT OF PARIS By Associated Press Paris, Dec 24 Paul N. Milukoff former Russian foreign min acused last July of being a Ger man, has been obliged to leave Paris, acording to Le Matin. His presence here was believed to be unneccesary. KAISERS WEALLH ESTIMATED AT (By Associated Press) Basle, JDee. 24. The seizure erf At the last full meeting of the Hospital Committee Mayor Shack COMMUNITY PROUD OF NOBLE SACRIFICE J is as follows One hardly ever looks for th-3 liAvnii in iho stab! pnmmnnal life,! of a smoll North Carolina town,p" i , expecting to find deeds of valor juurses be Psented with; medals. onlv upon the) battlefield or in the; im Phased Tlie iiimuiee so uio .ic;-s3 ' f5oi,i nt lehairman, Mrs. Charles Anderson, lukoffj property owned by the Hohenzol- ... w ww h i1( instructed the committee to select muster lerns WOuld produce immediately of our own town voiantari. the n Ilai T T 1 11 ,.l.i.J 1(1 nine hundred million inarki accord ing to figures complied by the Frankfort Nacrichten. medals to be engraved with NATIONAL ( BE EXTINGi: AMBASSADOR CALLED HOME (By Associated Press") Washington .Dec. 24. In the GERMANS HIDE NEWEST SHIP ALLIES WON'T INVADE RUSSIA . jBy AssociaLea Fress.) ly assume the dangerous task of tending ' their fellow-citizens, stricken with influenza, knowing full well the hozard, it is more full well the hazard, it is more in the highest degree. During the recent -epidemic elev en of our local young women de voted themselves to the care' of j the following inscription : Scotland Neck, N. C. for Volunteer Service in Emergency Hospital and the name of the nurse . i be engraved on the back of the medal It was intended that these met!-' seives 10 me tie oa , . . 'als be nresentpd to the nurses at a Paris'! 'fiec !24.-An "important sic-k in the temporary hospu-t mcetraff, bat, on account (By Associated Press? conference is being held today in ai i' A .w...v, of the .influenza, this could not be Dee. 24. The Germans'; an effort t6 find a ground for -the ladies tun(t? senerousij uo - the medals have been sent ! ,iAviiniotplv cimn iP(l with pn-nnrirati.rn hp.tween the allies muv-u . J . ViXV- tn tlio fn nmniv tiiirSftS: have not completely complied with I the elnu-e of the armistice provid- opinion of the Judge Advocate gen j ing for the delivery of their sub co-opeiation between the allies "tca uy xue uumu , to the following nurses : , .-. -,-r - n, x ... j.-,. . tnwn. -aui Herein a nirtre uumuen mm t n a i nirpf! riaies on me uulm1" 7 " eral's office, approved by Secre tary of War Baker, officers and marines, according to Le'Matin. The newspaper points out the By Associated Ptess Paris, Dec. 24. Ambassador Sharp has been called to America by the severe illness of his broth er, Elyria, Ohio. He leaves this citv tonight. enlistee! men of trie nat'frhal ' cruard 1 presence at Trondhjem, Norway, jllussiajembassy here according to Avill revert to civilian status when-, of the submarine cruiser U-loY. .newspaper reports, discharged from federal service, j This is a vessel of most recent type j The entente government's press The effect oz this ruling is prae-jlSOO tons burden and is credited ; accounts declare that they are ticallv to wine tut ot ..exisTanc- : wins naving maue a iuui ami .wmjjictci.v m tn.cwx u the notional uard as organized .half months cruise without making ; ;to undertake a vast military ex prior to the war. port. : ipedition into Russia. haiul and the patriotic element in were taKen care ox mm vc.i, ! .,-1. umiiAvail tn tllP.1T" Russia bn the other. 11IUU lu - . The 'meeting took place at thejhmes- " In token of the wonderful work done by these young'- ladies the hospital committee has had medals made and inscribed, which have! been sent to each of the ladies. The- resolution on the minutes of the hospital committee's books. WILSON AND WIFE GO SHOPPI SANTA S PRESENT TO THE WORLD FOR 1918 Miss Mary White. Miss Joyce Harris. Miss Claude Knight. Miss Berdyne Sumreil. Miss Bessie Dunn. Miss Editli-Ci'es.J. Miss Jennie Leggett. Miss Bessie Gray. Miss Fannie Gray. Mrs. A. McDowell. Mrs. R. C. Jos'ey Jr. 1 , NG , If 1 5 5 (By Assooiate.l Press. ; Paris. Hee. 24. l'resulent and Mrs. Wilson did their Christmas shopping yesterday, visiting many of, the principal shops during the two hour tour in the center of Par is. Both had been about Paris be fore but this was the first time they had ventured into the shop ping district together as they of ten do in Washington. Few Parisians recognized them. but all Americans, with whom the Renters of Paris teem, gave them greetings which the president and Mrs. Wilson returned with smiles and bows. GEN. RHODES IS IMPROVING II II .Jjd Lit iryaim fc " -A . nn A T! BM HS (D)lf iA(TUVa (By A?o'riated Press.) Paiis Dec. '24. The condition of Major General Charles Rhoads injured in an aeroplane fall at Lou j MONTANA DRY AFTER DEC. 30 By Associated Pr : -s Helena, Mont. Dec. 24. State wide prohibition goes into effect . x- . ... ir I in Montana at midmgiu Decern ber vres, nortncasT oi. t tins, un iU'm- j ; m-.t ,lav ,,ov,,,! (rroat improvement this year or m-xt iVi:r;i,v. ,ih the ni-ht. i"'" l'3"- "f t!'8 "" will disappear one oi iiie piciure.- institiitions f t lie 'e' The pilot (if the machine a bro ther officer was killed. Rhodes is head of the American Armistice Commisssion and was thr fn-st American ireneral of f i -1 cer to enter the German lines after the armistide terms were signed. He former! - commanded the "rain bow division.' jue institutions or tue cm. one time the saloon s e.u uapor taut" feature in the e'nil life of the hardy pioneers v.'i t'i'ie Thea.s ui'e state. COTTON MARKET OpO!i TTiC'li T.o'.v 'l(i; Docenibcr wl ! ! Jan via rv Halifax county must come to the Maid. . front on the Red Cross Christmas ; a y - .1 T..1-. RmII CiH . The record must oe v,,. made this week. i'0.e" 20fi- m.-) 2!t.6J 27.14 127. KJ 27.14 27.0 20.-53 27. l';.-I." J7.2-: Loral Market NOMINAL ncs Ilinito (Geirinmamiy Writing from Luxemburg under; Lorraine and into the Duchy of date of November 24, Lieutenant j Luxumburg, where we are rest-; Herman Bryan states that his di-'ing for another session tomorrow vision had been for eight long; when we cross the river into Ger days moving across the country to many. . . ward the Rhine. He writes in I "It has been hard going, often part as follows : all day without' nothing to eat un-, -Five davs after the armistice til night when we are billeted. It was signed" five crack American was quite a race to see which . divisions began to move up. All , would cross the frontier first. My of these are picket divisions that! battalion was wav up m have done most of the fighting. advance guard. We were I. i 1 1 " . . 1 V iniofi il Cf "We came across northern; two .nays uemim mc France through villages level j German army, and in one day we with the ground from shell-fire, j took 280 prisoners straggling be across "no man's land" and the hind. old German line, across the fron "The people of Lorraine weleom tier" to France, into and across ed us with great joy. The towns were all decorated in French and American colors and large steam ers bore the words'" Honneur a nos Allies" and "Viva la Ameri que." Everyone wore French col ors in their buttonholes and. one verv enthuiastic voung Lorrainian lady pinned her colors on me and kissed me before the -entire -company. T still have them as a sou venor and a ingoing to send them to me girl. ,"We billeted one night at one of the Kropp's mines in Lorraine and I had, a room in the managers home. Never have we been treat ed so royally. I signed the guest book twelve days behind a German Major general, in fart while they were there an Ameriran aviator dropped a bomb on the house, but it failed to go off. He showed me the bomb sixteen inches in diam eter. - ' - . "My host said that five minutes before the armistice went into ef fect American aviators were 1omb mir-a town near ucic, cum no n- !ed in the cellar for three Aveeks. "I went down into the mine while there and it was quite mod ern a .lid still running. They have most modern machinery, etc? and it looked exactly like one of ours in the States. This country is far ahead of France in that respect. France is still mediaval, while GermanyMS ' 1 , .-. A r. ... if more progressn j ana moutux thev are HUNr. "Metz has'1)een occupied by the French, and one squadron of Am erican cavalry, riding milk white horses, paraded there. My divis ion was far beyond at the time. acting as outpost for them. "The City of Luxumburg has also been occupied and b'y Yanks. Genera I Pershing and General IFoch reviewed them with the had a copy of Per- nrinted in German say, and the Queen delivered them the gates of the city. "1 have had chance- to get all kinds of souvenirs but have uj way of carrying them T.vith me. German helmets galore we 'e by the road ,and, I carried a Boche canteen full of water f two days lbut finally lost it early ; ne morn ing. , "I understand our destination is (oblenz, but am not s;in. If so it means another hns. lred miles 'hikinsr." "Christinas comes b-t once a Queen and I h lbut lost it. The people almost year," and very fortunately Chris. !went crazy over those Yanks, they Snas bills follow the same custom. r 11 ,
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