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i TT TT TT lnlE. VOLUME VIII-KO. 53. ruo o CLOCK EDITION " SCOTLAND HECK, k7c, FRIDAY, OCTOBEr"! r ni i n ii i i in ii in 1 1 iiimin rnn nnrni MEET TOMORROW AT MADRY'S Cotton Meeting At 2.30 To The Opera cussion COTTON VITAL TO ALL INTERESTS There is not a man in this see t Io7i who can say "I'm not inter ested in cotton' AVe all are. for that is our meat and bread, notwithstanding that many may raise their meat and bread. For months past plans have been formulating for some kind of protection to the cotton farm er in order to erradicate the ever enecooaehing speculator into the pockets of the producer of cot ton. Now there appears to be some feasible plan whereby the farmer can be protected, and heerin lies his interest in this meeting. Let every man shut up his store, leave his business for the hour, and let every farmer in rliis entire section leave his fields iind his crops and attend this meeting that mens so much to all of us. This is a matter of getting to gether, if we mean to do it. Don't let us stand back and have "(ieoruv do it." but come in and take your rightful share in safe guarding the present nd future crops of "King Cotton." he meetmsr starts promptly at ,r ' , H ii"m. ni .ua arys upera Mouse theiv iSSUING NEI NOTES I'-rlin. Oct. 10. The govern ment is issuing new fifty-mark nni.'s because of wholesale coun-H'l-ft-itinir of the present note and nv having them made in Vienna ''i Ik of preventing general '"'i'tt'iVitincv in Germanv in fu- IEATII RATE IN BALKANS HIGHEST IN THE WORLO !l 1 t, Oct. 10. The tuber- bath rate in the Balkans j i 'hest in the world, as- un-dical staff of the Red Cross headquar- Ai i : ' ' ! ' 1 ; , ' i T nis is based on re v ' -( 1 Cross worker in vi.-ia, Albania, and n if. s -H. ')h"!TO. distivssino- factor is that ountries are almost wholly ;'i sanitoriums for the nfiit of tuberculosis Red i'-licf is teni)orary and it I'isidered beyond its province md sanitoriums on' the scale ; -ii Id be needed. 1-. L Unto well left this moriin on business. COTTON MARKET. 32.90 33.12 UiVY -j'j.lO OO 1 GERMAN GOVERNMENT WEATHER : Par clou., tonight. local sWs. Will Draw The People House In Dis- KAISER MAKES OFFER FOR HIS PICTURES Two Dutchmen Took Negatives Last Saturday CONCEALED IN HAY Amerongjen Odt. 10i SJtrong efforts are being made to pre vent the publication 0f photo graphs of former Emperor Wil liam, taken last Saturday by two Dutch photographers who were concealed in a load of hay. Hohenzollern is reported to have offered a large sum for the negatives and all prints of them. An Associated correspondent has seen these pictures Vwljfich show the former Emperor beard ed and sturdy and appearing in harmv inooT wTiiIa tnilrin v.; lvlfe and General z - onscious oi the camera men FRENCH WERE WOUNDED AT SARRERUCK RIOT I Paris, Oct. 10. A French ma jor and three soldiers were wounded in a riot at Sarrebuck, in occupied Germany, on Tues day, according to a dispatch to the Petit Parisian. The riot is described as grow ing out of labor lemonstrations against the high cost of living in which the Spartieans joined. RUSSIAN SOVIET WANT PEACE DISCUSSIONS Helsingfors, Russian Soviet Oct. 10. The . government 1S willing to begin peace discus sions with representatives of the Ba ltic states at Dorpat, Livonia. The Bolsheviki Foreign Minis ter Chitcherin declares that he suggests October 12 as the date j for the discussion to begin. " YAKLDK IS DISABLED BEING TOWED TO PORT Oct. 10. The Shipping 'i'.aid steamer Yaklok, disabled, yesterday by a steering gear ac-; cident. was picked up today by the coast guard cutter Ossipee and is being towed into port. If Teddy the Second wants to follow in the footsteps of his dad of the Big Stick he will Cave to swing something more terrifvin than ?i toothpick. t-LARGESUMOFMONEY OMMQNWEA ESTABLISHED SINCE 1882 AFTERNOON DAILY ALL THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL." REDS, THE CHAMPIONS OFTHE BASEBALL WORLD Win Eighth Game Of Se ries By Score Of 10 To 5 A COMIC CONTEST Chicago, Oct. 10. The world's baseball championship pennant for 1919 will fly from Redland field, Cincinnati, next season. Pat Moran's athletes annexed yesterdy's game to the tune of 10 to 5 on the home grounds of their adversaries and pulled oft' a series of comic stunts that to say the least was not high grade baseball. White Sox fans claimed it was the sun that got in their eyes, but be that as it may be the Reds wolloped the ball all over the grounds, beat out Wil liams, James and Wilkinson to the tune of sixteen hits and noti even the rally of the White Sox with four Wis in the eighth in ning made the slightest dent in the impregnable masterful team. The remaikably good weather of the series was again in evi dence and 32,030 persons paid to see the massacre of the local idols. The attendance for the se ries was 236,928 and the receipts, exclusive of war tax( $722,414. Of this the players received fi260.349.70 of the amount taken in during the first five games. The winners' share is $117, 157.68, which will give $5,207.01 to the participating athletes. Thig is mode than the salaries of most of them, it is said. The sox play ers will distribute 24 shares of $3,24.36 each. ' DENT THAT AMERICA HAS ASKED APOLOGY Tokio, Oct. 10. Reports that an opology has been demanded by the American authorities in Siberia from Japanese officials, in that the Japanese threatened to support the Cossacks in the re cent eneounted an Iman, is de- Inied in a statement issued bv the general staff todav. Tokio, Oct. 10. A substitute denial of the Japanese that they j i threatened to back the Cossacks i gainst the Amerlan in the recent '- T T ,1, incident at iman, or mat an apology had been demanded b.y American official va lnarlo in a statement issued by the Japan ese sreneral staff. Omsk, Oct. 10. An American soldier at Vladivostok was shot and killed recently by a Russian officer, it was learned here. This and other incidents led to the demand from the allied com-1 manders at Vladivostok for the re-, jmoval of the Russian troops from Ithat city. ' A protest by the Omsk govern- ment, however, led to the with-' drawal of the demand, 1 cats or ot tne nag. and; leaders and generals snouid go it's the same old story of gouge, j also, h argues, citing suck streets The general public slipped up onjas Zieten, Bluecher, Gneisenau, buying most of the army food ; Seharnhorst Aloltke a;id others, supplies because wholesalers had -lie objects also to the naming of scooped them up and resold them j streets after the military, such as to the retail trade at enormous the Dragoner, (dragoon) and the profits. And our jails are still ' Jaeger, (cavalry) In these pipkig empty. days of revolution and republic. m i i rt . t t t ' ma "SYMPATHETIC STRIKES L- IMMORAL" So Declares Capital Side At Conference Today DERIDES BOYCOTTS Washington, Oct. 10. Oppo sition to collective bargaining and closed shops are among the twelve fundamental principles, outlined by a group representing capital, were presented today to the National Industrial Confer ence in session here. Sympathetic strikss,; blacklist and byocotts were declared ''in defensible, anti-social and im moral." VOTES AIR SERVICE ANOTHER SI 5.000.000 Washington, Oct. 10. The Sen ate Military Committee voted unanimously today to recommend an. additional appropriation of fif teen million dollars for "the army air craft construction so that the plans of the air service to estab lish routes to Panama, Alaska and even to Asia may be carried out. RY N ASSASSIN Berlin, pet. 10-Hugo Haas, independent socialist leader, who was wounded on Wednesday by an assassin, will not be able to leave his bed for four weeks, ac cording to the surgeons in atten dance. A Xew Orleans colored woman recently wrote to an Illinois sher iff to know if her husband had been "hung right." She naively remarked that she needed new clothing, and that it was time for her daughter t0 go to school, and that she wanted that insurance money. And the cuss was incon siderate enough to get himself sent to the pen for life! FORMER RUN MINISTER OBJECTTO ROYALTY Berlin, Oct. 10. Protest is en tered by Attorney Rosenfeld, for mer Prussian Minister of Justice, that despite the months that nave! j passed since the revolution, the j abdication of the Emperer andj the overthrowing of 30 or more j princes and princling kings and what-not, the streets of Berlin still bear in inordinatelv larce number the names of royalty. He cites a few, such as Kaiser Wilhelm Street, a Koenig, a JFriedrich, a Karl, Prince Louis and Princess Ferdinand, Prince street. The "ames of former military 1 i -i -til AhTSOCIA HUGO HAAS WOUNDED In TELEGRAPH SERVICE FALKENHAYN CLAIMS CREDIT FOR MOST GERMAN SUCCESSES Allied Somme Achievements, He Says, Were Due To Austrian Collapse And Draft On German Troops MILITARY PLOTTED DOWNFALL BULGARIA IS REP. TO OPPOSE BYfuHGE n OF TREATY Population Even Provided With Arms To Fight successes of the English and REPORT FROM ITALY French at the Somme, he claims, jwere possible only because of the Vienna, Oct. 10. The newspa- 'Austrian collapse which necessi per La Opoiha; according to So- tatod tlle dispatch of heavy rc fia advices, reported a movement ,inforcements to the eastern front, in Bulgaria and declared it to be; Von Falkenhayn declares the supported by the government toswt success of the Rumanian secure the refusal of Bulgaria to camPaiSn which he commanded sign the peace treaty and to op-!after his dismissal as chief of pose by force, if necessary, thestaff was due primarily to ex carrying out of the terms of the I haustive preparations of the treaty presented to the Bulgar-1 general staff before his retire ian delegates at Paris by the al-lment- Rumania's declaration of lies. The population, it is added, has been supplied with arms to this end. ACES MAKE PROGRESS COAST TO COAST FLIGHT Maynard, wh0is leading the west in ii ii n n vi rnrc hrnL'o th,. o diator of his plane while alighting 'yesterday at this point and will be .delayed until shortly" after lunch, it was announced this morning. Omha, Oct. 10. Capt. Lowell .Smith, of San Francisco, who is 'leading the western aviators ! across the country, arrived here !last night and left this morning for Des Moines. Chicago, 111., Oct, 10. Ash- burn Field, the central point jhere for the trans-continental I air race, has been ordered to I hold 11 racig airmen there. GERMAN TROOPS ATTACK SOME LETTISH FORCES Paris. Oct. 10. German troops attacked Lettish forces on Octo ber eighth, according to a pro test received by the Peace Con ference from the Lettish govern ment. PRES. WILSON IS NOW - TAKING HRISHMEf : day ago, soldered two bars of "Washington, Oct. 10. The Pres-: aluminum. Ther snapped under ident had another restful night j the weight of 800 pounds but the and his physicians were satisfied ! soldering succsfully resisted with the nourishment he is taking, pressure. Heretofore, aluminuw said the bulletin issued shortly be- had defied welding, the ProiV-s-fore noon. tor aid. Ini 3 PRICE TWO CENTO -i-iin, Oct. 10 In defense of nis administrative career as chief of staff of the German armies. General Erich von Falkenhayn denies that German losses at Ver dun were excessive. He declares they were under those of the enemy. ! German defensive operations at the Somme, he declares, were ! effective under his direction ; whereas only limited results pre ; viouslv had been achieved. The I war, ne states, was the external pretext for his retirement al though this move on his' part was primarily due to the machina tions of other persons in German J military circles who had been plotting his overthrow for a long ; time. MAIN STREET FAVORED I pjfj HOTEL SITE At noon a meeting vesterdav after- of the stockholders of the Scotland Neck Hotel Corporation held in the Mayor's office, it was decided by vote that the Woods property, on the corner of Ele venth and Alain streets, should be acquired by the option com mittee for the purpose of build ing and up to date and modern hotel. The vote was fourteen to ele ven in favor of the Alain street site over the Bell Property, on Tenth street, which was the only other option .vol ed upon. The building committee was not ready to report, so the meet ing stood adjourned to meet again at the call of the chairman. DISCOVER A SOLDER FOR ALUMINUM WEAR Geneva, Switzerland, Oct 10. A discovery which is expected to save housewives great expense has just been made by a Berne engineer, Charles Bingelli, who has invented a process for sol dering aluminum. Professor jSchule, of the Federal Institute !of Berne, in a test made a few
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