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VOL.5
ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING SEP TEMBER 1916
NO. 98
Big Armored Car Sheds
Gunlire As A
Has Appearance In Advanc
ing Like Tlat Of Huge
Land Battleship
FALL OF HOIK SEFJ.1S IMMINENT
t
K
AndJItalians Have Struck Through
To Third Line Of Austrian De
fense On Isonzo
London, September 18. The Brit
ish began closing la upon Thiepval
last night. After capturing the
strongly fortified position of Mo
quet farm the German resistance
was desperate. However the furor
of their counters failed to enable
them to check the British advance.
Thiepval Is the position which
lias obstructed the offensive of the
Britons along the Somme ever since
the movement was begun The loss
by the Germans cf Moquet farm is
Ijelteved to have made precarious
their position at Thiepval.
North of Martinpuieh Half's men
improved their positions during the
night whi'e a minor trench attack
cast of Courcelette was also success
ful. Heavy bombardment of newly
won British positions by Gorman ar
tillery, hovej'r, indicated prepar
ation for early and violent counter
attacks. German losses along the
Somme since tie beginning of the
British offensive are estimated at
40,000. 1
Fighting tn both banks of tbo
river was furious during nil the
night. The Germans clung desper-
ately to Denlcourt under a heavy
1 French "attack and made strong
counters against the positions of
Vermandov lliers and T'.erny, which
were occupied by the French in Sun
day's fighting.
North of "the' Somme the British
artillery checked attack after at
tack with storms of shrapnel, and
ore now bombarding Grnndcourt and
Leasra on the H:ip;i ume highway.
The allied successes have pro
foundly impmsd Berlin where the
press appears to be preparing tho
people for the evacuation of Per
onne and Combles. saying that re
tirement on the part of the Teu
tons may became advisable for strat
eglc reasons.
The French yesterday shifted
their attack to the South of the
Somme as a warning to the Ger
mans not to withdraw their forces
from that sector to relieve the hard
pressed forces to the north of the
river. The attack was completely
euccessful deepening the allied
wedge In the lines between Peronne
fft Combles.
Dispatches are full of reports of
the performances of the new armor
ed car, which Is said to resemble n
huge land battle-ship. The armored
surface of the car is said tn shed
machine gun fire as a duck does
water. '
ITALIANS SCORE SUCCESSES
The Italians have broken the
'Jtfiird line of Austrian defense In
the region of Monfalcone after
three days of fierce fitrhting. Alone
the f ho'e front from Co'lzia to th1
Fea th nrw Italian drive on Trieste
i- progressing and the advanced
lines are now within 13 miles of
their objective. A series of Aus
traln positions from Oppsociassella
southward - through Fietra" Rosa
Duck Water
Home Coming
Atlst Methodist
Next Sunday has been designated
as Home Coming Sunday at the
First Methodist church' of this city
and attractive invitations have been
issued to the special services of his
day.
A special program has been pre
pared , which includes excellent
musical numbers and many other
attractive features. All members
aie f specially urg'd to be present
and join i these Home Coming ex
ercises und friends are cordially in
vit"d to attend these services.
The day's services will lie Jin with
a great Sunday School Kally at half
past nine Sunday morning.
At eleven o'clock t ! i - theme of
tho fervlee will be "The Pastor's
Message." and at the evening ser
vice, 'The Congregation' (espouse. '
The eel-biat'on of Home Carning
Hay at' the First Methodist church
conies toward the close of the close
of tbr- present p-istor first year with
Khe church and marks' a climax In
the" Micccssful work which Rev. .T.
L. Cunningim has accomplished dur
ini his pastorate, lli.- work has
extended through the organization
of the church and Sunday School
mid has added larg" numbers to
the ranlis In each of thos-e branches
Son Of IPremier 7
Killed In Battle
CD-United PresM
London, Sept. 18 Kaymond As
quith, son of Prime Minister As
quith, has been killed In the recent
fighting in Frence according to news
received here, .,. - -
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fisher and
nephew, George Kymer. have re
turned to their home at Kane, Pa,.,
after attending the funeral of Mrs.
rFisher's mother, Mrs. Sam Fraley.
Miles Clark and Howard Flora
motored to Norfolk Saturday.
have been carried and th1 Aus-
j trlans driven back in the valleys.
j Despite heavy rainstorms the Ital
ian troops ctptured bills 141 ' and
;ns as well as several other domi
nating heiphts blocking progress n-
. 1 ng the Viilone.
; SER8S STILL IN FIGHTING
j Otlielal dispatches from Salon'k!
; re-wrt that tho Serbs h ive captured
first and second line positions at
Kama'kclialan, northwest of Lake
Os'rovo nrpr the Serbo-Orerk fron
tier. Ten machine guns were tnken
in the advance.
i
First Meeting in Pasquotank
To Be Held At Sweet
Gum Giove School At
Half Past Seven O'clock.
- Dr. F. D. Owen, -the United States
Inspector n charge cf the new cum
pai n ag.inst liog cho'.era to be un
cle, ta! en in the six countie s of this
neytheastetn section of the state, re
turned Saturday from Currituck
where he held a meeting at Nar
row Shore school in Poplar Branch
township on Friday. At this meet
ing the plan of work was outlined
and a very promising local hog
growers protective association was
formed, with a membership of about
fifty to begin on.
Ottioers chosen were as followe:
Presldsnt, Milton Overton; Vice
President, N. T. Aydlett, Secretary,
YV. H. Walker A committee com
posed of one member from each
school distr'ct, was also appointed
to constitute a sanitary committee
The members of this committee will
advise Dr. Owen of new outbreaks
of cholera and will assist him In
the location of centers of infection.
In order that they may be rapidly
brought under control.
The matter of an ofllciul serum ad
mln'strator wa left open until a
later meeting; it is expected to
have one or two men in this town
ship to administtr the serum simul
taneous method of innoculation a
gainst hog cholera.
Dr. I". D. Owen, expects to hold a
meeting at the Sweet Gum Grove,
or Up River school at ;?t P. M..
next Thursday the L'lst to Inaugu
rate the work in Pasquotank county
Dr. Owen has I em very success
ful In 'iiterestlu' the farmers of
these counties, in the work which
the I'nited States Department of
Agriculture has started In aWout 20
states in the country and feels very
much 1 ncouraged, and hopeful that
in a slut time bog cholera can be
bronchi under control, and finally
.eradicated.
The n meetks that tire now bv
li:g In id are for th- purpose of ex
plaining the me'hnds pf work, arid
enlisting ALL the fanners in the
cooperative movement to stamp ouf
this most costly of all animal dis
eases.
Also, it is imped that at this mcet
jnr at the Sweet Gum Grove school
some man can b'1 selected to pro
ceed to Raleigh, and .there learn
how to administer th" serum-simultaneous
treatment, r,ml thus bo a
local representative of the Federal
and State Departments of Agricul
ture in th's work.
Swe t Gum Grove School, Thuis
tlay. Sept.?lst, 7::io p.m.
Nominated For
Legislature
I. P. Davis of Wanchesc, who has
been on the staff of the Dally Press
at Hopewell parsed through the
city today en route to his old home.
Mr. Davis has just been nominat
ed on the Democratic ticket in Dare
county for representative in the
next session of the General Assem
bly. Mr. DavH expects' to look over
the political situation in Dare be
fore arriving at his decision about
accepting the nom'natlon, though
he stated here this morning that he
was rather of the opinion that he
will accept.
WANTED
Young man to work in office and
warehouse. N. O. Grundy & Co.,
foot Matthews St., city S IS, 19.20
..M. IL . jf'Mcher of Hayslde was In
the- city Saturday.
HURSOAY
PLANE LEADS IN
IHI8YAI1ACKATCIILUH.SC
Armored French Flyers
Swoop Low Over Ger
man Lines Raking
Trenches With Murder
ous Fire
By HENRY WOOD
(United Piess S aj' Correspond-.!. t )
Paris, September, 1 S For the
fitst time in history the aeroplane
now leads infantry attacks.
Twenty fast, armored planes, each
carrying tnree machine guns, charg
e-d the German trenches preceding
t lie Fieneh infantry charge.
Flying hiuh above the charging
battle planes French officers direct
ed the attack. i
The flyers swooped low over the
German 1 nes raking the trenches
with a jnurderous fire.
So successful were the new war
planes in their initial trial that It
Is expected they will be used often
in the future and that they will
play an important part in the future
operations of the allied armies.
I
E
Judge Whedbee Delivers
Charge To Jury This
Morning. One Case Dis
posed Of
Superior court convened here this
mottling wit j, Judge Harry Wheel
bee of Greenville in the bench.
The judge delivered a brief
charge saying that he did not be
lieve that In this day of newspapers
und of educational opportunity it
was any longer necessary to give
grand juries detailed instructions a
bont the hanges in the criminal
law of the State.
lie stressed the fact that the hold
inn of a criminal court is expensive
and charged the jurors P dispose
of matters coming 'before 't!om as
expeditiously as possible.
' Lazy and slow grand juries," he
said "sometimes cost a county,
when all items cf expense ate con
sidortd, as much as $l,0oo or Jl.tiim
in one week."
"it Is tualnst the law in North
Carolina to so'i anything that intox
icates, no matter what name it Is
sold under," said Jude Whedbee.
"He then went 'on to state that In
his opinion the man who sold a
chemical condition that would eat
the lining of a man's stomach he
served more punishment than one
selling straight beer or whiskey T"
'When you buy blind tiger liquor'
the Judge went on, 'you do not know
what you are getting. Several In
stances have come under, my ob
servation where the blind tiger stuff
contajned cocaine or some other
deadly dope. The man who drinks
this stuff takes ills life in bis own
hands."
In closing Judge Whedbee touch
ed upon the duty of "giving the
comforts of life" to the unfortunates
w-ho become Inmate of the County
Home and suggested that If the
erand Jury should find the Pasquo
tank County Home was not so equip
ped and managed as to give the
inmates these comforts they
make the necessary reeommenda
'fons to btlnq; a'leut he proper e
qn!pmrnt and management.
On'y one case was disposed of nt
this morning's session, that of the
State vs John Prown, colored, ac
cused of stealing cotton. The de
fendant was found not guilty.
SUPERIOR MB
III session e
1 SERVICE
Body of President's Sister
Now Laid to Rest Be
side that of Father and
"Mother
(By I'nited Press)
Columbia, S. C, Sept. J8 Presi
de nt Wilson brought to Columbia to
d;;y the body of his sister, .Mrs. An
nie K. Howe, who died at New Lon
don, Connecticut, Saturday, for Inter
ment in the church yard here where
for many years Iibvr rested the
bodi-s of his fath.r and mother."
The funeri 1 piity reached Colum
bia shortly before noon, but in obe
dience to the express request of the
family all public marks of sympa
thy have been refrained from.
The service will be simple and
entirely free from any unusual cer
emony. Governor Manning sent to the
the President's private secretary
the following message from Atlantic
City:
"Please convey in person to the
president my sympathy and that of
the people of South Carolina for
h'm in the death of his sister and
express my regrets that I can
not be there in person to pay our
tributs of respect and loyalty to
him."
Five thousand persons formed an
aisle L;r the assage of the funerul
party from tho station
TO BEJENFORGED
Superintendcntlsleyof Cur
rituck Gives Dates When
Attendance Becomes
Compulsory in Each Dis
trict. Currituck County Hoard of educa
tion has set the following dates lor
tho Compulsory, Attendance Law to
be-iiri hi the various towmhlpe of
Cm rituck county:
White schools of Poplar Pranch
Mranch township-October lull.
White schools of Mojoik town
ship Oetol er Pith.
White m'IiooIh of Atlantic town-.
ship- November lit'o.
White schools of Crawford town
ship November ilth.
.White ..cho;,U of Fruitville town
ship November T.th .--
Co'orel nc'.ico'.s of Crawford town
shi ; November bltln
Colored schools of Moyock town
shl November 13th.
Colored Schools of-Poplar Uranrh
township November irith.
Tsl law benins for the white
schools in Poplar Branch township
early than in the other townships
wh'ch is due to early opening of
schools.
Mr. Kd. Hautn, Kitty Hawk, N
C. Is attendance olhoer for Atlantic
township; Thos .1. Taylor, Currituck
N. C for Crawford; A. H. Water
man, Knotts Island, N. C, for Fruit.
vil'e; S. F, Aydb-tt. Moyock, N. C.
for Moyock; and Clyde Harco. Gran
ly, N. C. for pepiar Uranrh town
ship. F.ach e, r wi;i serve for
both races In his township. These
officers after taking oath have the
power under the sclicol law to en
force the CnmnnN'Tv Attendance
Law. The comm C' emen cf each
district in th eorntv are required
to send a copy of th" school censu-.
to the attendance officer In charge
la their township, This Is necessary
for the officers.
"All students" says Supt. Tt. V.
COMPULSORY LAW
NORTH 110
II
News Of Villa's Unsuc
cessful Attack On Chi
hauhua Wakens E n
thusiasm Of Old Follow
ers By WEBB MILLER
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
LI Paso, Sept. 18 Northern Mex
ico is excitfd by the reports of tha
attack by Villa iorces on Chlhauhua
City Saturday.
Four thousand Carranzistas have
been rushed to the city while two
columns of cavalry pursue the flee
ing bandits towards Santa Clara
canyon, accord ng to the official re
ports of General Gomez, Carran
zlsta commander at Juarez.
Despite the reports that Villa
was badly defeated, the effect of his
attack was to arouse enthusiasm a
mong the neemles of the Carranza
regime.
Strong forces of Mexican troops
are patrolling the streets of Juarei
to prevent an outbreak.
Distress Among Lower
Classes Reported Wide
spread On Account Of
Prohibitive Prices
l By United Press)
London, Sept. 1H Food disorders
aru said to have broken out in Vi
enna. A Geneva dispatch states
that 1 eef is now four dollars . per
pound and rue two dollars. Much
distress prevails unieing tho lower
edasses.
IMPORTANT MEETING
TUESDAY NIGHT
A joint moet'ng of the Hoard Of
Hcacou's and Hoard cf Hlrectora of
thu First KapUst church will be
held 'iu the parlors of the church
Tuesday nlj-'iit nt 7: I.").
Matters of importance will be
ak'n up at tils meeting and it Is
lieiped that every til'mler ef the
two boards will be present.
Mr. .I' lin Fraley wp.o has been in
the city to attend the funeral of
his mother, Mrs. Sam Fraley, has re
turm d to his home uL Tarhoro
Miss Olivo Wood left texlay for
Winston Sale-m to attend school.
Isle y, "both races between ages 8
to 12 for four months beginning at
above date are required to be In
school each day. Reasonable ex
cuses are allowed by this law, but
when the excuse is removed, the
child must enter school a-iain. The
teae hers at' the end of each week
shall serve written or printed no
tices upon parents notifying them
of the absenco of their child or
children and file' same notice with
attendance officer In charge. The
parents after receiving siieh notice
are requirce! by the law to render
to tho teaehers the reason for tho
absence eif their children. A failure
to r'tiile'r sue'h notice Is a violation
of this law. This period of compul
sory I'ttendance shall commence at
tho compulory attendance of lh
school fi'rm as sr'f nbove and near
est to the Sth birthday eif tho child
and shall cover four ctmsecutlve
school -yam 'thereafter;; This atten
dance shall continue for 4 months
of each year. ' '
FID DISORDERS
III CITY