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Volume XL Not 16.
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Scotland Neck, N, Gi, Friday, Sept. 3, 1920
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MR. ROBERT
ft VERY INTERESTING LETTER
Giving A Description of The Battlefields In
France And Bel- V
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BOTTOM OF OCEAN
THE
LATEST
TELEGRAPH
DESPATCHES
THE SCENES MOST TOUCHING
ated By A Buzzer De- gathered from all parts
vice Released Bv OF the world
- The Crew
J&UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK P. M.
STREETS
RECEIVING ATTENTION
SURELY IS APPRECIATED
Mr.
Harper Alexander
Help To The
ject
Is Lending
Pro-
RINOS A GONG
.'GMeagc,. Sept. 4. Charley P.
A ' . ' . ; - PhUadelphia, Sept. 4. The of- Ghristensen, the farmer-labor pres
ports 111 you see a German ; tank that was . : . idfintial candidate t.ndaxr rofl8M
- . iiccis auu urew ui me suuinarine . " .u
Europe ana taiKing. witn man) ttoppea oetore the .trench trench-
After seeing
several
SCRAPER IS DOING FINE WORK
o
ROAD INSPECTOR
CHASED BY ADTD
Harding and Cox, both publishers
other Americans who have bo-m andthere you. see the remam,- two days located tojgrant a column a day to the
jomned on the Continent for a of an ammunition train, whiehu t dis.lbu.(1 Vl.SS(., bc'1Ieath th, national committees of each par
time, long or short as the case , was Mown into nothingness when . in South Ca ty.:
may be, one conclusion has become ( Struck by shells. TT 1 h . , .
furcingly lodged in my mmd THOSE LEFT BEHIND i ' .They "Were taken-aboard the' Vndon, Sept. 4. Mayor Mac He Was Finally Caught and Run
namely, that Europe is ahead of One of the most : impressive 2a aii, ,i,;i, jj Sweenev shows ma of sinking
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America in only one; way. That is, sights are the numerous French, fr the Deleware breakwater with rapidly. Visitorssaid that mem
in ait. It lias its numerous and British, American and German tlie submarine in tow with small bers of the family said the end
magnificent art treasures , which ; cemeteries which dot the battle- buoy develpment in war with buz- was not far.
have been handed down from cen-ifields. These burying grounds zer device which has released and . ' -
tury to century, and whieh are are well eared for by the French. fioaed above the disabled craft ' 1 Enroute with Cox SePt- 4- i
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being added to ail the time, men, jun many graves there are fresh
too, one finds a sort of artistic flowers. "The sentiment is voiced
atmosphere almost everywhere, e.s- dver here by many that the Ameri
pecially in the hotels. The clerk? can fathers and mothers of those
may not be able to give you a 'left behind in French soil would
Over
HIS ANKLE BROKEN
i Mr. Harper Alexander, the Scot
land Neck Bank's hustling and
clever cashier took the initiative
yesterday and set the pace in
street improvement by putting a
road scraper with a powerful trac
tor attached and put Tenth ot
Depot street in first class shape,
smoothing off the bumps and mak
ing traT'" over this- important
t 6nfare a pleasure rather
jff clian something akin to torture.
room with running water and pri- lbe quite comforted and satisfied
vate bath, but you can bet that to let the remains rest here if thev
' la chambre ' ' will have artistic-; knew how the French were caring
ally decorated walls, and eeilings, J for the graves. A wooden slab
too, perhaps. Even the stairways j with the name and rank and dates
and hallways have
and vari-colored etchings and
paintings
, . , .. . , Western awino- of t.hft Dpmnnrfltif. ' Tcnio v a, i as it has been on this street and
ringing a gong, which attracted " r .
attention to the'spot candidate opened with a before seph Geary, Jr., a superintendent ls stlU on most o the otliers- Auto
' . breakfast platform address today, of State highway construction, smashers if not quite that exceed-
. J He said he was in the fight to had a thrilling race for his life in tryin on them to sa3r the ,
Los Angeles, bept 4. A slight and featured the" League of toda with an automobile. While least. "But thanks to the powers
earthquake m outlying parts oi .. n i -ic i i.: ; i that be, they are continuing the
I Isnran- forward, and Geary, to es- ood work and improving Main
L 1,, vnn nvr harl n vnr, street. We dislike to tell it, but
the city, but no damage'was re
ported.
London, Sept. 4. A Moscow
; statement says the Bolsheviki has jn f roxlt) of the automobile With streets stand a poor compari-
- "V ART.ISCa brighter than saJs the Crimean fighting is.he fell and the machine passed year money for street
tnW with alternating sue- his body. It .was at -first - have, been available
. . x- a ' :i j! :x. n i ' : 1 x . , . , . -, . CeSS. I 4. t, -,nn 1- i 11 - ,1 r 4- U iinr? tlint -rcoilltr o n
restaurant happens to be crowded.
From 1- until 2 o'clock everyday
nair and -0 to other parts of afvaneed UP to the town of Brest" ! desperate speed the race proceed- 8011 with the highways leading in-
their many! markes the resting place of each. France to start life anew but a few ovs,i ana occupying a number eddown a steep declivity on Green 10 Tne Piaee-
WAR TORN FRANCE 0f the more sturdy and brave 01 wmTres' 11 admits th-e roles. wood jjill, this city, until Geary! No doubt the commissioners
Those wo were in the midst of whoSP fir of love for - the old u ? "ViVtlIu 111 coujd no longer keep ahead, when thought at the beginning of the
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bonds would
before this,
thought he was killed, but at the and that? possibly accounts for the
Pottsville Hospital it is said his present deplorable condition of
most serious injury is a broken the streets of our little burg.
ankle' ! It is learned that the parties
who have been doing the work
FIRST. OPEN COTTON have been given a contract to im-
SEEN AT -THIS OFFICE prove all of the streets of Scot
""" land .Neck. This work should noto
H. I. Clark gave us two OTllv ho tWmiK w Q
finish.
's:terificcd manv of our American tails of it all, but one has only to tprpd ruins decide to makf the
conveniences and comforts for the see the numerous towns and vil- best out of a deplorable situation, j yarsaw gep7 4 The Poles
.sake of art, for everything ap- lages that were completely de- and these are the ones who are I entered suwalki aiid were enthu
pears to move slowly, you enter a jstroyed to understnd the untold slowly but surely starting the ' f - w , d f
Cafe and are lucky if you are able J suffering that must have been en- work of rehabitation. When one ficial statement Budenny the
to get a meal served in less timedured. Ypres is said to be the thinks of the emmensity of their iTlo1l-, rtC1.TolT,Tr i,,,
than an hour
low vourself eighty minutes if the
emmensny ux men .Bolshevik cavalrv leader is ranid-.
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iou nau oener ai- uiosi uueriy rumea town m tne task, however, and countless num-! i,r
' , i J X C Li. CCl tlllg.
war area, but it would be hard to ber of years envolved he cannot
imagine any towns that are more help but wonder how the process 1 Nashville. SeDt 4 Lorenzo Dr
' iiiii.i.i
; completely demolished than Rhe- of reconstruction will ever be Young, a nero was electrocuted open D011s ot cotton tnis morllin
all of the main places of business j bus and Soissons. To see these completed, and its' not several here for the murder of policeman We failed to enQuire of the doc- j
in France are closed and indus
try is practically at a standstill,
and one of the greatest things of
all is that you cannot get break
last in a Cafe. It is the French
custom to serve bereakfast or
"petite dejemny" as they call it,
in your room when you arise. It
towns, which had a population of towns fc thathave been literally in Memphis,
about 200,000 each before the war, wiped off the map in this manner, '
tor from whose farm they were'
taken. Most cotton is late in this
The section on account of the 'back-
The cotton looks
alas The poor plumb-
is enough to make one hatfc Ger- nraeticallv all of those inthe war Philadelphia, Sept. 4
man militarism and Hun brutality area in northern France.' One can I wireless failed to say how the res- ward spring, ine cotton iooks rp nrMKIinp JQ ( n ay
with all the hate a heart can pour ride for miles and miles and find ;cue was effected but declared that god to ns. 'This with the Sept- j ULlVIHIlUO 111 H Ufl I
out. It is enough to give ustmhtm nothing but ruined towns and bat-; none on the submarine were in-mDer calendar reminds us that j
to cause us to wonder why intelli- j tlef ields. The task of restoration jured. The first man was removed morion picKing is an nana ana me
gent human beings should ever en- seems impossible, but of course it 'at one o'clock and Lieutenant money that will be put m circu-,
onsists of bread, butter, confi-! gage in an art so far utterly fool-! will eventually be "accomplished. Commander Cook left two hours latln-by this and other. crops are .
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lure, 'and chocolate or coffee. This ish war. It is enough to make j The French government is al-: later. This was the first test of soon 0 Iollow- wim reports irom
would be a rather light meal to! your heart sink with despair as j ready aiding the farmers by hav-'the buzzer device. .every neighborhood around Scot
start the dav with for many Ameri you -realize the great number of ; ing the fields cleared of shells and I land Necki that crops are unusu-
I I T 3 o 4. a ii r n i :
tans, especially Scotland Neck years that will be required for the other war debris and then plowed, j pi. . George uav-dnv pi uniting, uumu nu uo..i
V i 1-V n O .1 -m-m -m -m "11 1. 11 it 1.1"
)eople, but one soon gets accus-, restoration of these towns to their
Jomed to it and feels no need for former grandeur and magnificence
further nourishment until de
44-Hour Week and Ten Holi-
days a" Year'
ULTIMATUM BOSSES
.jeuner or lunch which comes at
12 o'clock:
RECOVERY FROWWAR
The French people are fast re
covering from the disastrous ef
i'.'cts of the war. There is ample
Tv n ii tt "l -r ' t ;n i l l i j. 1 l ii '
IN GERMANY ,an iuny me so-caiiea Irish re-,wui reacu us neigiiest levei tins
Fron France I went to Switzer- Public amassador to France has fall and winter. This gives all New York, Aug. 31. A 44-hour
REHABITATION land a most b-antifnl mdte and een given hours by the drench much to be tnanimu tor. a good wee, a uay minimum, iu noli-
In most of the ruined cities it peaceful little country, and then government to leave France was tarmer said the other day that uays a year, ana tne curtailment
is hard to find a house that has
not been shelled. Only the brick
walls and parts of the roof are
left to give evidence of the com-
ifortable homes that formerly exis-
' 1 n j
after much trouble with passport "ny uimuoneea.
officials and consuls, I got into ' , T . . 7 .
, . . ! New York, Sept. 4. Former
Germany, and am now writing A, , T -
. ; Ambassador James W. Gerard ac-
rrom iserim. jno one is supposed
P.entprl flip nnst nf pliairmnn nf
to come here unless strictly ur- A. ,T t. ,
Trip lomAnratin orinna W'l-nanrta
evidence ot the untold sutterng .ted. I gent busmes necessitates it, es- commiee
winch they endured during those ine world s iamous and magnii , peciany Americans, tor tecnmcai
iive long years. The most glaring jicant Cathedral at Rheims wasly we are still at war with Ger
and sticking examples of which , not completely destroyed, but theimany. I was anxious to see post-
are to be found on the battlefields wreckage wrought by Hun shells: war conditions as compared to
and ruined towns. I visited many make it a pitable' sight to behold, j France and the cotrast is quite in
of the towns in the war area and as is the Cathedral at Soissons. 'teresting. There are a few other
you can go for miles and miles Before the Germans entered or ! Americans, English and French
without seeing practically any- shelled a French town they were here and the German people in
thing except trenches, dug-outs, supposed to warn the population general show no visible signs of
barbed wire entanglements and to evacuate. But it is said there ; animosity toward their former
demolished villages. Here and were many who refused to leave enemies. But personally, I'm too
'there are strewn shells still load- their homes in the vain hope that prejudiced to grow enthusiastic
!, as well as hand grenades that the tide of victory would turn anJ about the country or its people,
was announced here
and he will supervise the collec
tion f Democvratic funds.
the cultivation of crops this year ot overtime to urgent necessity,
had been quite easy. That some were demands made by plumbers
farmers had good crops to which here today in an ultimatum to
they bad done;Very little.Thatl the their bosses. The plumbers demand
All Mighty God had tended it for as holidays Lincoln's and Wash
them. ington's birthdays, international
- Labor Day on May 1 and election
collieries throughout anthracite day in addition to those usually
regions are still idle today due to designated. b
workers remaining away as a pro-;
Washington, Sept. 4. Food- test against the wage board. !
stuffs inported into the U. S. for
the seven months ending with
the
Lithuanian Foreign
misister
New York. Sent. 4. The Feder-
July have increased more than a al Sugar Refining Co. has an- " 77
billion and a dollars, while ex- nouneed a new reduction of one 1 Y, the withdrawT of the Pole,
ports decreased a half billion dol- cent a pound making the price of f rom Lithuaman terntory He
lors he department of commerce fine granulated sugar 15 cents less the Pole. ; have attacked the
n nn. Lithuanians while the boundry ne-
reports. two per cent. . .
; ' gotiations were pending.
Mexico City, Sept. 4. The ban-
Washington, Sept. 4. A mes- Chicago, Sept, 4. A freight
ill not stand for much tampering who therefore suffered ruthless However, I think that a new Ger- sage to the Navv Department savs train was seizd by men believed
i --k r 4- ii rw r r 4-r. "mrY TW. "D TffTTTT?.TTTTTfi STTWRT?.!!? S mnn fsnirit is fast orinvin tr smntiff ! t : a c .i.rn r Xa. of -r-ili-n - otx-i-fvli mun f nun 1
, i -vt . ! r -n -ni --I. it, dit Zamora, threatens to execute
Viands off. But there is always at consequences. the people. Not one German in floated while making a crHSir dive near Bensonville, 111., with the American and British subjects
' ast one man in the party who The process of relrabitation is fifty with whom I have talked and that boat can be salvaged. The throttle open but 21 loaded cars e nless the ransom is
threatens the life of the whole slow. Those who were forced to shows the slightest desire to see crew is reported in bad shape untouched. It was run down for 1 naPPe aeeovd'm to flie
crowd, simply because he must leave their homes now return -to thqj Kaiser or his military party but recovering. ' lack of steam. dis atches from military" head-
Je able to tell his friends what find them a mass of ruins. Such restored, but of this and the con-j j .- . lsp r nadaia;ara
"those war shells feel like. Here sights cause the majority to des- ditions here I shall write later. ' Scranton, Pa. Sept ' 4: Many f Berlin, Sept. 4. A statement Dy quarters at