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"Will you greet the Fourth of July with a happy consciousness
of a gooa deed well done ?
.. June 28th has been set as National War Sayings Day. Your .
country expects you on that day to pledge every penny you can,
up to SI,OOO, toward the purchase of War Savings Stamps.
The price of American citizenship is no longer cheap. A new
hour has struck. The crash o( wai has ground all semblance
of cheapness out of being an American. We must pay the
price now.
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s| ' On June 28th, Your Country Asks You to
■ f ' Balance Your Patriotic Cash Account
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Every penny you withhold, that you are able to lend, extends
f ' aid ahd comfort to the enemy.
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I' No legal summons will compel payment. You are called to
payment by the higher, more chivalric summons to volunteer
your pledge to purchase this year every dollar's worth of War
I Savings Stamps you can. „ ...
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Every Family a Fighting Family !
The day of talking patriotism has passed---the time
has come to practice it. %
Your government has officially set
Friday* June 28th _) * ■ '
National War Sayings Day ~V
On June 28th every American is asked to enlist m
the great "army that stays at On that day every
loyal American will "sign the pledge " to invest a definite
Snount in War Savings Stumps each month during 1918. -
> very American family will then be a fighting family.
W. 9. S, Cost' $4.17 in June , s
Worth $5.00 Jan. 1, 1923
ESAi National War Savings Committee
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BERTIE AND MARTIN APPOINT i
HIGHWAY CBHIIWTTEt
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Enthusiastic Wetting Held in
•or Monday. Many From
Martin In Attendance
A meeting was held
'on Monday morning June 24'h
by Bertie people for the purpose
of securing for this section a
branch of the Trans-Continental
Highway. >Aboul flirty Martin
Coiinty people were present aid
appointed a committee to act
wilh similar v.ommitlees from
other countie's interested in st -
lecting a route andother business
as may be brought before /ft.
Bertie also appointed a
mi tee. Halifax and Beaufort
Counties had repnsentatives
there, but no marked action was
taken by them.
„ Col, Benehan Cameron, of the
Bankhead Highway Commission
was the principal speaker of the
occasion and placed before the
people the plans for the
highway and spoke interest
ingly in favor of the same from
an economical standpoint
Hon. H. S Ward, of Washing
ton, in his characteristic manner
spoke on the need of Rational
Highways and the obligation of
the Covernment in building
them.
The members of the Martin
County committee are, Dr. John
D. Biggs, J. G; Staton, W C.
Manning, R. W Salsbury, J. T.
Barnhill and J. H. lioberson.
Highway Spur, Norfolk To N. C.
A meeting of paramount im
portance to the business of Nor
folk has been called forJulv 2nd,
here in Norfolk, to consider plans
for the creation of a spur to the
Bankhead National Highway,
leading from North Carolina in
to Norfolk.
Several speakers have been in
vited, and the meeting will U
broadly advertised.
- Concerning the importance of
this proposition. President Lea
ner, of the Tidewater Automo
bile Association, has received a
letter from T. Gray Coburn, a
manufac
turer, butlming the reasons why
the Norfolk people should at this
time pay especial attention to
this problem of good roads with
the view of competing with other
cities. '-
The meeting called for the sec
ond will be devoted largely to
the consideration of the building
of a bridge across the Roanoke
river at WilliamSton, on the
route leading from North Caro
ijia into this city.
Amongst those invited to
11'*;«K ;t Colonel Bennehan
Cameron, a North Carolina road
commissioner, and F D,. Wins
ton and H. W, Stubbs.
Mr Leaner today appointed
the following committee to re
present the association in the
meeting: Dr. Southgate Leigtr* N
chairman; T. S Southgate, H.
0. Nichol, Douglas Gordon, Gen
eral C C. W Lu.l.vu I
Baldwin, L D. Starke. —Ledger
Dispatch.
Joined The Marine*
Monday, Charles Biggs, young
est son of Mrs. Rome Bitfgs,
left for Norfolk to enter the Ma
rine service of the tJnited States.
»He was one of the new regis
krants, and volunteered for ser
vice. Since leaving school, he
has been wilh his brothers in the
drug business, where he showed
an aptitude for the business,
and, no doubt, will make an
other strong tighter for the Ma
rines, who have done su?h good
Work "over there." »
Mrs- Sal lie Biggs, Pene
lope Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. War
ren Biggs, Mr. and Mrs. Rome
Biggs and Jack W. Biggs went
to Rocky Mdunt on hunday to
see Robert Bigg*, who was en
route from Camp McClellan to
Hoboken from whence it ia sup
posed that he will sail for France.
But the troop train passed Ry
Mt, at 1:80 that morning, and
they failed to see him.
Miss Penelope Biggs left Tues
day morning for New York, and
later will visit Mrs. Clinton Mun-,
dy at Newark, N. J. for several
I months.
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Paste him in ths ejw with a War Savings Stamp—then parte hire again and
again. Don't think that you have already done your duty. Perfhing's men "over
there" don't go home after their first battle—they go after the Huns again—thsy
keep on pasting the Kaiser.
Your government has officially set Friday, June 28th a*
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On that day every American is asked to "sign the pledge"—to Invest in a definite
amount of War Savings Stamps each month. Every real Afherican will prove his
patriotism by agrseing to regularly paste the Kaiser. ,
W. S. S. coat $4.17 in June
Worth $5.00 on Jan. ~J, 1923 \
Be ready to "sign the pledge" on June 2S.
Paste the Kaiser With War Savings Stamps. 4
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Provide the boys with the things they need
to make short work of him.
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Help the boys get guns, clothes, aircraft food,
munitions and the ships to get over with.
These are the things they need, and they
cost money—hunks of it
June 28th
National War Savings Day
Make a pledge to buy War Savln&m Stampa ,
' The more quickly our soldiers have all the
things they need, the more quickly the ships
will be bringing them victoriously back to us., *
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