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VOL. 2
ELIZABETH CITY1, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 14. 1917
NO.17
KAISER HAS ABDICATED
IS RUMORED TO-DAY
Report Reaching Here Early This
Morning But Still Unconfirmed
When Paper Went to Press Says
Kaiser Has Given Up Reins of
Government to Son Joachim.
(By United Press)
Washington, July 11 .Unconfirmed rumors are current
In official circles here that the Kaiser has abdicated in favor of
V; his son Joachim. , , . iifi ,
" v Officials will make no comment but their attitude seems
.to be that while the growing tension as a result of the political
4ritna.ti.An in ftermanv is regarded as becominc more serious, it
r ' is not regarded yet to have reached the stage where the throne
L - - SUMMONED FROM THE FRONT
CONGRESSMEN'S WIVES
SEWING FOR SOLDIERS
(By United Press)
Washington, July 14. Of Wash
ington's ballrooms, cuilt for terpsl
chorean affairs, there's at least one
that isn't being danced in right now.
A rattle-tat-buz sings in the ear as
the door to the ballroom of the Con
gresseional Club is approached, and
the creak of rocking chairs is heard.
A peak through the doorway disclos
es matrons and maids, portly and
slender sleevs bared to the elbow,
bending busily over sewing machines
or humming as they rock back and
forth, deftly jabbing and pulling
needles through yards of cloth.
They are daughters and wives of
United States Senators and Repre
sentatives, making countless artcles
YOUNG EDITOR
PASSED ARMY EXAM.
Joseph Peele, associate editor of
The Advance, who left here Friday
for a visit to Raleigh andClarks
rille, Va, sends the followng tele
gram today en route from Raleigh
to Clarksvllle:
"Passed army examination at Ra
leigh. Go to Fort Thomas, Kentucky
Tuesday. May possibly be rejected
there, of course.'
This enthusiastic warrior went to
Raleigh for examination a few
months ago and lost out because he
coudn't tip the scales to suit Uncle
Sara. For the past two weeks he has
been eating in Currituck and it
seems to have had the much desir
ed effect. Anxious to enter the army
as a volunteer he took the opportun-
r
for Uuccle Sam's gay young war-dogs lty of .his visit to try again before the
land, sea and air. nuie capsules are shaken up at
The women are working under di-i Washington,
rection of the Red Cross. What they .
Hfl i u nrhof fa tuanfarl Ttiafw nm.! i '
real, downright, back-bending work
Copenhagen, July 14. Von Hindenburg and General
with a capital W.
A visitor, incidentally gets very
little attention in this reconstructed
ball-room not even, strange to say,
a newspaper reporteress. Mrs. Tow
ner, wife of the Iowa Rep. and Mrs.
Padgett, wife of the House naval com
mittee chairman, did get up from
thier sewing machines long enough to
FARMERS DIED
T.iidpnrinrf hnvft arrived at Berlin and becrun a conference with
tiiA "Kaiser and crown mince, sa v dispatches received here to
day. This is the second time this week that Von Hindenberg and ive a few two-and-three-word an
Ludendorf have been summoned from the front on the Kaiser's 8We,R t0 reported questions.
Orders ( However, they wouldn't have got up
NEWSPAPER SUPPRESSED lt,le"' if Mrs Towner's cloth hadn't
Amsterdam, July 14. The Berlin Lokal Anzieger has;eiven out if Mrs Padgett s ma-
V.. oY.ao0nH Ktt tVio'flormriTi (rnvprtimpnt. rvresnmaJilv fnr its thine didn't need oiling. (Mrs. Pad-
fVankness in discussing peace and the parliamentary situation " confessed, ,i,n. m an aside that i. w. w. activities m
in a recent issue ;sl,H J,lst ha(l ,n s,raiIlll('n ollt n '"LlM'''s1'
HOLLWEG'S RESIGNATION ACCEPTED killks in her ,m k and ro" llpr Rl(eves ver one hundred have already ea-
niv,r, T1 11 WnWo-'a rasicmntinn hau hpn iP again. '' " battalion formed to pro-
.P ' m T 1 1 T J-l Mn T
accepted says the Berlin newspaper, iajf liicne nunascnau.
SPANISH WAR VKTERAXS WILL
ASSIST IN CURBING ACTIVI
TIES OF ORGANIZED LABOR IN
I A It WEST
(Wv United Press)
Portland. Oregon. July 14 Span
ish American war veterans will as-
NAVY WILL BUILD
AIRSHIPS FOR ARi-
Daniels Announces That New Ai:
plane Factory Will Gfo Up
Probably Near Detroit.
STATENURMALTU
y
PLAN TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE
EQUIPMENT AND BEGIN WORK
PUTTING THIS IN AT ONCE
k 9
STRIKE III BRAZIL
STOPS IflOUSTRY
WHEELS OP TRADE SKOTCHED
AND BLOODY RIOTS A(XX)M
PANY PARALYZATION OF PRODUCTION
GERMANY MAKES
(By United Press)
Sao Paulo, Brazil. July 14. A
general strike, attended by rioting,
and many casualties paralyzed all in
dustries today.
All transportation has stopped. Five
hundred agitators have been arrest -'
Anarchists are believed to have
been active In bringing abuot the
strike and they are now playing an
important role in making it el'i'c--tlve.
A TRENCH TALE
Mrs. Towner explained she couldn't tect the farmerB against the methods
talk long, as "the girls' had to finish of tne Wookers.
eleven suits of pajamas the same day. ' Farnprs throughout the Yakima
k tho lon-f oil th.. nr.o.,Dnii Valley are armed. One of them nniii
FORMAL APOLOGY, club lB dolng Tney nave 8ent out today in referring to the Workers.
I thousands of copies of the Red Cross "Ty'11 et H from us if they come
(By Unite Press ' I directors of chapters, to women all here'
Christiana. July 14.-Germany has over the country urglJlft thm tQ Jo,a,
made formal apology to Norway for the,r nearegt chapter and enter gy8, SIXTEEN SUFFRAGETTES
Iimis uiacuveieu nnf 111 1110 miosi (pmatipo ,, v lnt war rollof worlr
I Then, too, these women receive
i every day thousands of letters asking
all sorts of questions relating to just
By United Press ,
Washington, July 14.--A mill!
dollar airplane factory will be bu!
by the navy, Secretary Daniels a
nounced today. i
The plant will probably be local
near Detroit, It la said. .
American aerial experts are no
abroad studying foreign aircraft tl
they may be prepared to recommer.
what types shall be bu'lt here,
INCREASE FOR JUNE
IN COTTON OONSUHI
The trustees of the Elizabeth City
Colored State Normal met Friday
morning and enthuslastlcaHy adopted
a plan for the maintenance of an in
dustrial department in the work of
this Institution.
Ii bus been the Idea of some of
the trustees of the State Normal fori year, the Census bureau reports
the colored race here that this school
in failing to educi'e I i e negro Indus
trially Is missing the chief end for
whlj'h it was established and giving
i he students who have attended it
training thnt has been of but doubt
ful value to them in making them
li'ire useful menuvs of society nrd
' fitting them t.) wet the problem)
of life.
of Baron Rautenfield whose bag-
' gage contained infernal machines su-
posedly to desrtoy Norwegian shipping.
Some time ago this school secured
an appropriation from the General
Education Board of New York of
$3,000 a year. It is planned to put in
a workshon and laundrv and to snend
ARE ARRESTED TODAY'
part of this money for their equlp-
jment.
The school also has forty ono
m
is
MATTEROFHQURS
such work as they are doing. All let- Washington, July 14 ine pome a(Tog of tmable land and lt wa8 the
ters are answered, no matter what arrested sixteen mnuani suiirageiis impression of the beard of trustees
their nature Is. picketing the White House
Taken, altogether, these women, was 110 disturbance,
from a reporteress's viewpoint, get
more real work done, In less time
than their husband's do "On the
Hill.
I
Buenos Aires. July 14. Argen
inc's formal rupture of diplomatic
'minus with Germany Is only a
matter of hours, according to the
highest authorities here. The govern
ment has practically decided on this
ClllilSI'
BRITISH TRANSPORT
SUNK BY SUBMARINE
activity nu
l il'Ulllll wis
L i nnniu! rnniiT1
mho r n it FR t MUNI
I
"I got it in both legs before wr-:
reached the German lines," a youth
ful Australian was relating his ex
perience at Vimy Ridge, 'but, Glory
be to God. 1 fell Into a shell-hole and
, , ., nlonao n I tl O II 11 Cell t'ldllV.
ly oown as siiuk i'"
clever place. I lay there for hours ami
I heard great roarin- noise com in"
near roe. 1 knew it was a tank anil
Iprayed it would not come near me.
me beln' hid in ttu shell-hole. But I
heard lt go roarin' past quite near
and then it got stuck, and I could
bear It flghtln' and strugglin' to get
clear. I never saw It.
"Later n tbe day, a lad I knew
came by, slightly wounded. 'Hullo.
Peter,' says he, when he saw me In
the hole. "For God's sake have you
a wattr bottle with you?' says I, 'mft
legs is both broke and I can't move
to get a grip of mine!' He threw me
down hi3 water boUle and it bein"
full of rum and water, it kept me
goln'. Then it began to rain, and an
other lad passing by, saw me and
threw me down a water-proof sheet.
Late nt right the stretcher-bearers
got me. So they were all Good Sama
ritans, th way they helped, them
that saw me lyin' by the wayside."
( I'.y I'liit-il l'rcsa
London. July 14.-- The British
transport. Armadale. has been sunk
bv n submarine, thn admiralty an-
Six were killed and
live are niiss'iig, but none of military
rank.
DEPT. Ill FEED
1. 1 WORKERS
mm guns
i:i:my s aktillf.rv ci n: nu:
( tC!:TtUTKI i wofyrk
STOPPF.I) BY llHi a K OF TIIK
FRKNCH
( By I'nlted I'l'-ss';
London, July 14. German forces
I he Belgian front are .showing
great a'T'vity against the British,
Field Marshal Ilaig reports todav.
South of l.omliartzyde last night
the Germans attacked after heavy
artillering. but were repulsed. The
. British took a number of German
July 14. The violence or priiotiers
h counter artillery stonned
German concentration of
the Wocvre district this
LLOYD GEORGE
SENDS MESSAGE
4V
(By United Press)
i London, July 14, 'There can be
' no lasting peace until the responsi
bility of the governments to their
reople is clearly 'established from
one end of Furopo to' tfie f 'Vr.J'-'Je-
Hermanos. New Mexico, July 14.
On cattle cars the 1.200 Industrial
Workers of the World deported from
Blsbee were started to Columbus to
day where the War Department will
feed them until they can be arrang
ed for.
i a n
Hip I ic,:cl
the heavy
KiMifii'e in
morniiu'.
i";.e lilhcjal statement declares
that German aviators bombing over
Nanvv todav Killed two women and
,ic c hild
'i'lie I-r i in today carried out a
sic(f- fui miii west of the Navarin
farm in the Chnpagne.
, TRKNCH TA1.F
I Bv I'nlted Press)
"I've seen a Bocbe who really un
derstands the war." declared an Kng
There ,jlat tnj9 Bfould be put to some use
The suggestion was made that there
t was just about enough ground for a
good dairy farm, and the inadequacy
of the city's present rr II l supply, soon
to he agirrevated by putting dailies
in the city out of business, was
pointed out. The fact that the color-
led A. & M. at. Greensboro operates
'n successful dairy was also cited and
the hoard took enthusiastically to
the suggestion.
One difficulty presented Itself: the
In. I. of equipment. The $.00:) pro
vided by Grand Board Is Inadequate
to meet all this expense. It was de
cided to attempt to raise In addition
enough money to build the necessary
barn and stables -about $l,f00. The
matter was put before the summer
school students of the school this
morning and they agreed to try to
raise half this amount. One hundred
and fifty six dollars was Immediate
ly subscribed. The white people of
KIKnbeth City are asked to contri
bute the remainder. W. L. Cohoon,
(By United Press) " " -Washington,'
July 14.' . Cottovj
consumed during June JL817 amounts
to 675,000 hales against 5 T 0,0 00 las!
IRFOIK FACES
filth
I
(By United Press) ., -Richmond,
July 14. Word comei
here from Norfolk indicating that
the street railway employees threaten
to strike unless their demands, for
thirty cents an hour and a ten hour
day Is granted. The genreal officers
here say that the men are now" re
ceiving from 25 to 30 cents an hour.
CLARKE McCAIN
Mr. Robert Polk Clarke and Miss
Avery Kathleen McCain,' both' of
Newport News, V$., were married
Friday night by Justice of the Peace
J. w. Mumlen at his residence on
Selden Street. ' ' '
KITE
ORDER
IS
kntiui:
FORK
PCBLICAN
CONTROL
CHINEHK MONAKCHUL
HI KRKNUER8 AND RE
GOVERNMENT - IN
' 9 , :
1. . . . . 1. ,. , .. ,1 f twiainna
liih officer, recovering from a bit of
. . , ., , ... . began this morning the work of soll-
ihraii in a field hospital. I was
, . . . ctlng the contributions and met with
wounded when wo captured him and
frrollfvlnir roannnnn
enrried me for half n mile. "This ' "
AUGUST COSMOPOLITAN
Tho big feature in August Cosmo-
hi
i was Is the greatest crime the world
hps ever known' "Yes sir," the of-
NOTICE TO MILK
CONSUMERS
Owing to the recent action of the
City Aldermen, forbidding the keep
ing of cows in the City, we regret to
have to advise our patrons that we
will not furnish any milk or cream
on and after July 17th, 1917.
We wish to thank you and assure
you of our appreciation of your cus
tom. Mrs. J. C. Commander,
W. W, Keaton,
P. C. Harris,
' Frank Albertson,
J'eras ' '
It Is believed that the $1600 ex
pected will be raised promptly and
fleer Insisted, 'that, is what the Boche wthout great dfflculty and that the
snid.' The crimes of the beasts who matter of building the stables will go
are running German ytoday are un-'fnr,j r(i at once.
poiiian is Konert w (hampers' new pPak!,hlp XnPV WPre thieves and
novel, The Restless Sex.' brigands when they started the war
AnoMier great story Is "Blue Aloes' hnt nnw tnPv'rR the bloodiest mur
by Cynthia Stockley. Iprers bv wholesale, the world ever
Other great wr ters and artists In j pro(,urP(, ThPV know perfectly well
this number are: Llllie Langtry.Her- j tnpy.VP )ngt ,he war but they are
bert Kaufman, KUa Wheeler Wilcox, frllrbtene,l out of their miserable
Jack London, John Galsworthy. Sam-,RkIn(, t0 admlt ,t and ca, R halt;and
because thev are frightened of what
the people might do when they learn j "
the truth, they keep the thing going (Ry lInUed preB9)'
and sacrlflc many thousands of Ger-j rionhl,rv rnnn ,, uTtin f.
mans every slngl day. Just to shield ! iia nnh'rv ., Pn.fi w. t
uel Merwln, C. N. and A. M. William-
HATTRES US
IS SETTIED
l.iii;
I
A.arj R'jbcrta Itinehart, George
,Ade, Arthur Reeve, Howard Chan
dler Christy. G. Patrick Nelson. Will
Foster W. D. 8tevens, George Gibbs,
Anton Otto Kkher, James Montgom
ery Klagg. John T. McC'utcheon and
W. T. Benda.
TIME EXTENDED
FOR APPLICATIONS
: Greensboro, July 14. Time for
fling application blanks of those
wishing to enter the second officers
-"'ri'fT rntrri et' Fore Os;leihorpB,
(By United PressK ?
Washington, July )4. A; cable
gram received by the Chinese em
bassy announces that General Chan;
Ilsun, the military leader behind the
attempt to restore th monarchy, and
the entire monarchial force' sur
rendered in the Chinese capital on
Thursday. t
Complete order now prevalls.There
has been little bloodshed. No deaths
are reported and but a few have
been wounded. "
RUSSIAN
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101
Ef.
the reputations of a handful of
nrtnees and politicians. Here on this
front our people are being killed
like files. Your artillery kills them in
bunches. Our men would gladly give
themselves up to end It but you know
they cr.nnot. When there seems a
chance, there Is always an officer of
rN. C. O.'s about. It Is not only your
guns, that kill. Manr Germans fall
each day with German bullets . In
tVr t" " pro, ( v'" d"'
tied today and the homes of 141
hatters saved from auction when D.
K. Loewe signed a release freeing de
fendants from all claims.
The amount of money Involved has
not been publicly stated but the law
yer for the Union said "The Loewe
Company squeezed the United Hat
ters to the last cent ,
"IN.,,.
(By united Pfess) 4;
Petrograd, July 1'. After, hard
fighting the Russian troops J today
forced their way into the village of
Novlea, southwest of Kalusch t and
occupied the town. ' ', '
IN POLICE COURT
Joe Swindell was fined $1.95 for
operating an automobile without dis
playing the proper lights. t
WEATHEIt