t - -j T -- .... .r-r - ..r r A l 7 ' 77 7. : -7 - " ijjewi "Without ; , 77.7 . Bias -. ,; Views Without'. lice . ' .u: 7 i ! 1 . V.l ' ;777,- - .on .-' - 77, .'.n n "v .....Jr.-777i..,jt. N S 1 i . J The Only D;:::ccr:t:c . ' - . ! New p uper : i Published in Elizabeth ! .v.7.' City ; 7 . VdL7l;- ELIZABETH CITY, NORTH CAROLIIA; FltlDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 3. 1916 V ND 13) fr , ' -V 1 1111' . . BUT ITALIANS ARE rP8ESSINQ vUOANEO BY UNCLE . 8AM -TO fi S0101ERS ; FEATURE SHOW PAYS DIVIDENDS ffT3 Wwr tovnr of iht Union Pacific ' ano unocrwooo or DESPERATE OFFENSIVE A. GAINST TRIESTE " 7; V Ey Un!ted ProBil f lionllon. Not., 3. B erlitf claim labt outhwe8t of :Predeal the "fU- , ton $re -BtHl advancing In pursuit SHOW BUFFALO 1' " - 'H 'Uj ENCES ARMY LIFE t BILL ' AUDI- 1 , JUg Vv jiiuuoi ; iu-a uiui uiua , t Roumanian attacks by fire and tayonet on the Traniylvanian front ' re reported rrpulsed. On the whole the day has passed without slgni , iicant developments in the Balkans. Dispatches trpm Rame state that consecutive waves of. Italian infan try are ' crashing against the Aus trian lines south ot uorlxia. Tnis is one of the most powerful bios The life of the soldier,' to camp and Vgx ythe field of battle, is, It it announced, graphically portrayed' in the new mliiitar spectacle,'' '"Pre- of the fleeing Roumanians, captur- tparedaess.l wnlch ' Is Offered as th big feature' of the Buffalo BiiVWl Ranch Bhows this reason. Tbecom bincd shows are scheduled to ex hib't in Elizabeth City, Friday, Not 10th, and tjie event will have 'a stir ring interest (or the. public, not only because rt the realistic tnilltary play, but afco because it will again introduce Col. Wm. PvCody;XBjlfal6 Bill) as the real leader of America's scouts and roughriders.. The 'mere General Cardona has struqk since announcement that Buffalo BUI, the Italy entered the war'' jfjcVder"hefo-of two geharaiibna,1 la . Following up their successes ' again in the saddle,, will sead . a -aouthea'sfof Gbrizia'the Italians I r ppie of delight across the"contih- have occupied a section of t,he Gor- ont, Izla-Vogertko ra lway and are batt . lint ' on the. heightg near Kemper llace. Farther south they have ad vanced a mile cist of Oppacchlsalla .Austrian defenses have been pul verised by their Intense 'bombard- aent of the Italians. Attacking the fintry they roiiQded up great num beri 'if d lied soldiers In battle, ' thus '5ePelltln their southward Journey to the Adriatic. The Itai- lans are '': now. attacking ,. northwest of 6no; ad importanr TailWay cen- tar, considered by some as the key to j Trieste, and It it believed .that General1 Cadorna is preparing to irlle k death-blow on this place. diiii nnn -BOARDED i SAILED FOR .ENCOURAGED VOTERS MAYFLOWER AND SHADOW LAWN BY SPIRIT OF -JBy ROBERT. J. BENDER " Jtew York, Nov. 3 Inspired by "New Yorkj'a wild , welcome, Presi dent Wilson sailed from here on the Presidential yacht, Mayflower, this morning en route to Shadow. Xawn. .' The city fought, screamed, bellow ed, elbowed, roared", ani hip-hooray ed Its greeting. ' . Two of the me.t enormous crowds ever seen In the history of. New 'York fought and cursed their' way Into Madison' Square Garden arid 'Cooper Union to hear. the President on h1 first campaign, iislt to "the city.. .7 ,V - , ' The rear and bui of. the massive 'throng In the tmaigarden , drown ed o't the president's words while blatant band on the outside add-' d t, the din. , ' Thji police estimate the number of welcomers to the President alt'o tether at no less than 71,000 . t ' Trendies 'Teddy Storms Preparedness," the new military spectacle, ' la not merely a preach ment for adequate greparatlon , on the part of the people of the Unit ed States to toresta'.l . any possible aggression on the part of foreign nations, but it is also an exhibition of army life and .action, and color such as would scarcely bj possible without the cooperation of the' 'U. S. War Department. That this co operation baa ben-iorth-colng 1 evidenced- by the; fact that the soldiers Wnistd'ltf'Tirplayar "actuany United States regulars, and ' have been "loaned" by the Government in order to' bring home to the public the necessity for providing an army' adequate1 for "its defense.' ' The military maneuvers, it Is an nounced, are presented oa a most elaborate and realistic scale. There are reviews and marches, In which all the i various arm of the service are represented; theer are cavalry drills and charges; there Is mounted inhntry; there is field artillery in action, and filially there Is a battle with Indians in which. It is declar ed, there are more tbr'lls to the mln ute than ever before"" crowded Into an exhibition of this kind. Inciden tal features of the military display are evolutions by Russlon Cossacks. Arabs and Japanese cavalry, Illus trating the training as Veil as .the" wbllrw'nd riding of these Intrepid military troopers of the far East. X show, heided by Buffalo Blllfc wculd not be characteristic if it failed to picture something of the adventurous life of the ranch and prairie; and the Buffalo Bill-101 Ranch shows are said to have some thing especially interest'ng along' this line tb offer. A great company of fiowfjoys, cowgirls, old scouts and Indians, withthe famous old fchief Fly'ng Hawk, isyhtlllzed to visualize the strenuous life, of the frontier. There Is the itage-coach hold-up; ' buffalo nnnt, '"i&'jtXkw interesting horned cattle,- fuli of the Vim and ginger And narlig of the people of the untramelled Border land . ..... t, ;The two performances to Be . glv en la this' city at 2:16 anJT 8:Jf will be preceded, at 10:30 In the morn- ing by "mammoth tollltary. " and frontier day parade In which ' all the processional ' resources of '.' the big shoV will be In line. The re cru'tlng f. tent, where enlistments are dally received ior jervtce on. the Mexican, border, will Nbe opent on the grounds show day. - adv. y United. Press) v Buffalo, New ;Tork, - Nov. 8-M3oI-onel Roosevelt promises an entirely new speech Iwth a kick In It when he appears at Copper's Union to night.1. He. was particularly denun ciatory of Wilson, Brvan and Baker last njpht essaillncOhe President as t,m,d t0 o' Wm except , in Cn eveslve .third person. ."Why doesn't he name me?" , demanded the Colonel.. - r v ., WARNING 'f On and efter this date, November 3rd, 1911 the traffic Oordlnance will ce rlyldly enforced, especially fn to.. gardyto vehicles, turning properly at corners 'and In regard to too fre quent blowing of horns, .. J. b. Thomas, ' , ;.' N Chef of Police. ' 1777;7;:r7.'y .7-.r;v7; 3,.;:..;.;. ---.v; v. -.. 7--..',:v . r:-fr'A::c.-. M-7vvf7 .. . V: VS'.h ' --T ' I TH!3 . '"VXN. x - .. , ' , ; v' - V. s fi. H ifwr pur .r hk y' SIDE-TRACKED--- jiiE trie FLORA MacDONALD FOUND TH2 ROAD FROM BUCKFIELD TO BROADWAY A LONG HARD ON 3 Getting Ready Examines Mail 1 : For The Game Of Dpnt5ctaxia West Raleigh, Nov. 1 The con tract has been let and work Is now under way to complete five sections (By United Press) Waeh'ngton, Nov 3 Ambassador Bernstorff ' spent , todty" ploughing of concrete bleachers- on Rldd'Ct through eight hundred f pounds of Athletic FieU at the North Carolina mall which was brought to the tr. College of Agriculture had Mchan--bf the' submarine1 beiatechiand. fc Arta before. (Thanksgiving; The class of 1018 tarted work list spring by ereefng. this one section of concrete bleachers as. a class memorial. When it was learn rd that the annual Thanksgiving football game with Washington-Lee was to be played In Raleigh this year, the four classes now in Col lege each decided to have a, section of bleachers ready by that time. B ch set is to bear the numerals of (he class giving it. The Wake Coun ty A. and M. Alumni Association, upon hearing of they classes' under takings, voted to add still another section. With the section erected! last spring, this makes six sections ofvconcrete bleachers which will ba In use for the Thanksgiving game. The contract was awarded to W. T. flay of Raleigh at a total cost of 3,000 for the five sections, each 30 feet long. This will give 180 feet of concrete stands, with a seating capacity of 2,00. The ultimate plan 'a. to have a concrete stadium on R'ddlck Athletic Field by making additions eich year. HI. pirao tniE no: cisi ROYALISTS AND REVOLUTION'S jJSTS AT AHE9 jjfV FlTATe CrVIL WARWiRlfecr FIRST (NATIONAL BANK , 7 OPEN SATURDAY N'GHTB I ' " Owing to the large Increase of businest in our Savings. Depart ment, the First National Bank will be open to the public Saturday I nights from ix to eight o'clock. . . . This Bank, Which has served Its section for more than twenty-five years, allows .four per cent. Interest on savings account, snd their sav ings, department .has shown a won derful increase during the past few nronths. The resources of this Institution are now .considerably In excess of eleven hundred thousand dollars. r dv Miss Maud Lister is back at her home after an operation for appen dicitis, at the Elizabeth City Hos p'tal and Is' doing nicely. Mr. Vaughan Griffin has returned from a trip to New Bern. Says Charg es Have Been Refuted? By George Creel No Amer can Institution has es caped the lclous attlck of Charles E vasion Hushes, the 100 per cent candidate who' puts his office hun ger above patriotism. In no case, however, have his slander failed to be refuted by - some authoritative His ' assault upon the Navy ' was answered by Admiral Dewey, who stated flatly that the last three years had beeh "years tt -wonderful grow th for the Navy" that Josephus Dan- ' v (By United Pras' . London, NOV., S-A pitched battle between the Greek Royalists ' and Revolutionists Is imminent nhless the Allied troops, at Salonika inter eyene imediately. Four thousand Roya'lsts wpre' within thirty miles of Katerina when Venizelos'-. sol diers drove f 'tne' Royalists garrison from the town. - Athens dispatches report that King Constantino has ordered these troops to attack Immediately the Venizelos ,forc that took katerina., Ther are being reinforced from Sal-, oniki arid weU supplied with, artft :rf and it is believed that should a battle be fought at 'KaterlnV the re' auit would be to plunge Greece Into civil war. ' ' 'm Eli D S TO-niGHT The ugly falsehood 4hat American citizens were ' deaerted In an hour of dangef "at" Tamplco and; that A merlcan citizens were compelled to -seek refuge under a foreign flag, was met. by a circumstantial refuta tion frmo Admiral Mayo and Ad miral VletcherT' " ' j The "charge that Ambassador Her rick; irai recalled from France ' in the midst of the European war fa a lie on the records. Mr. Sharp was nominated to be' Ambassador to iels was an honest and efficient seer France' on June 12, 1914, waa coonf retary, and that the Navy Bill" wss "the nest ever' passed by any Con gress." ' . . -l finned June 19, and the war did not begin 'ontU August 2. was asked to remain MrHerrlck and lldTre-' 'iThe charge that the' Child 4Labor'. a!n for many weeks. r Kill had a "Joher7in it was denoun- ced by Senator Cummins of Iowa, and Owen Lose Joy, secretary of the National Child Labor1 Committee. The Hugh?s statement, that : he would have prevented the Lusitanla disaster, by a threat 'to break off 'dip lomat V relations la dishonest, be cause the vague notice, did not ap pear until the morning of the ship's The accusation " that' "President Wilson yielded to blackmail oa the Eight Hour proposition,' and that he !ltg, and nude no mention', what- pkyed politics." was a lie that Wf t the Lusitanla. y ;7 brought denial from President Un-, At tte time of the nomination of dorwood 'o fthe Er' and President , Justice Hughes, everyone exclaimed tovejoy, bf the 'Ufaion Pacific, who , "It will be a clean, 'decent campaign J nrfttsed the PresidsntV courage and As h matter of fact, he his dragged I trn;ss fa unso'Mted ; statements, ; It to the dog . catcher level. ; . " NEW YORK CITY SEES THE ENfJ OF, MOST NERVE RACKING v ' '' " i ORAL MARATHON IN HISTORY, 1 By PERRY ARNOLD Hudson. New York, Nov J When Charles E. - Hughes , reaches New, York ionlght, his ' tour 'for votes completed, , he will ' have traveled 30,000" tniles "and,1 It . is estimated, has been seen by one third of the voters in be country In the most nerve wracking, comprehensive ' oral miathon for votes that any presi dential candidate ever undertook. With the exception of five days the nominee has been continually stumping since August fifth, 'He has spoken In 31 states, going as; far north as Bangor, Maine, is, , far south as Nashville, Tennesse, while to the" West he has reached the Pacific! coast. : ' ' 'Mr. Hughes traveled, in the first campaign De Luxe Special" evef Introduced in Amerfcin politics and completes his tour in perfect physi cal (rim. .. . . ' '' -Mrs., C. C. Meads of Weeksviho was In the city Thursday. Born !"down East" in Buckfleld. Me., Miss Flora MacDonald, of The .Fall of a Nation" company,- early exhibited a tendency to act all over her father's farm. Almost before she was out of short skirts she was play -ing leading parts in amateur pro ductlons in vOdd- Fellows' HalLThea she began to reach put. She yearn ed for a larger , sphere' for her hi trlonic endeavors '- but the road from Buckfleld to . Broadway Is a. ong'one and only recently did pioneer railroad push . Its way thru the community' of Miss MasDonald' nativity. : , ; . ' :. " 7 At ' this point she did what many another ambitious girl in similar clr cumstances does. s Every Monday morning she drove several . miles ; across couhtry to the seat of a large ' normal school, where she remained until Friday. night7Thls' was a iarg er'sphe're hut not large' enough, end' veri! fatthef -from Brbad'wa ' than V Bucxfieid.'' A year latec she came s to' Hew';Tork.-6he didn't Wake v,"th- i St w)th thejitrical managort that 7", . e" was destined to ' maja'iater. d " : entered 'Nbrmiil College,1 there ' by following the easiest' pain . "that ' kuggesU4 ft,-f With her' dlplomil ' she started out (to5 teach,, and . for i three years , a m New Jersey tows t ,dfentij Nw. Tork-fU taught ' the young idea how to, ehoot. ' V During the daytime she struggled with small boyg and glrla. had : ftt- , night she read Shakespeare ariJ the ; Pworks .of modern playwrights. Often ' she visited the homes of her pupils ' many of whom were Italia na. '.Thla -r she felt was a duty she , owed , to them, but it seemed so useless "tort ', one who des'red to be a Julia Mar7" lowe. ' - 7:V. Now, here's where the worm - turns; only , a little way '-tie treev't Miss MacDonald obtained an oppor ; tunlty to '- spend her . summer Vaca " tion on tour. With a company ot out door players. That engagement reo v ommended her to the attention ' of 'Thomas Dixon when he waa assem- ' hllng h's compafly for "the Fall of a Nation." He 'assigned her to the role of Angela, wife of a Mulgerrf A Bend Italian, who fought with all ' the fervor of his Latin temperament , when the United States was' Invad '' ed by the Imperial Confederation. Before Miss MacDonald went to ' California with the " compahy she visited some of the homes where . she had been welcomed when she ' was teaching little Ialian children ' ' the r American, alphabet, ' From a collection of , costumes sufficient to . stock a store( she clothes for her role. Then came the rehearsals. At the! former, teacher got in deeper ' and deeper she began to see 'where thone three "years in the school room had prepared her tor her first f big part. She was able to get the tsJUnj angle and givh a faithful portrayal of thr role-'Eapecially' was th's true when she was called upon -to displsy the grief felt hy a Lalla mother at the death of a child. la New t Jersey she had ' frequenUt tern a) messenger of sympathy to an afflicted home. s ' - r - And this 1 Why Miss MacDonald says: "Everything always happena for the bestrWi ;7i::'" t good;" crowds". , 1 7;7 1 ' . attend 8peaking ; . 8enator' J.' S, McNider of - Hert- v ford, and Attorney J. Kenyon Wil son of thla city were heard by a -large and appreciative ; audience at; Oklsko Thursday night. Both speak ers made an - excellent Impression . pn "their hearers, and much enthu siasm for tba Democratic cause wf expressed. . ; ' - - Judge E. L. Sawyer who alno heard by a large crowd at Davis store In Providence. ' selected ' the i

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