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THE REVIEW COVERS ROCKINGHAM LIKE THE MORNING DEW AND SURROUNDING COUNTIES LIKE THE SUNSHINE ON A CLEAR DAY i it; ikt . rtii riv 11 11 11 rf7 ir 11 11 11 11 z. fi 11 11 11 r s i , mm m m m m m m m m m mm mm mm- mm mm -ak mm m m mm mm mmr mm m m j m j REIDSVILLE, H. C FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1917 ISSUED. TUESDAYS AND FRIDAY VOLUME XXX No. 29. A ILL ATJ.EAKSVILLE ONE NEARING COMPLETION NAME OF THE NEW MARSHALL FIELD TOWN IS CHANGED TO FIELD OTHER NEWS FROM LEAKSVILLE-SPRAY. The contract for another mill at Leaksvtlle was. let a few days ago to the Jones Construction Company, of Charlotte, the same firm having prac tically all the Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mill Company work on the LeakBVtlle mill site. The first mill now In the course of construction is gearing completion. These new enterprises will mean much to Leaksville and this section. The Carolina Cotton and Woolen Mills company, represnteing Marshall Field and company In this territory announced Wednesday that the name of the new textile town they are to build near Martinsville, Ya., at which Immense cotton mills, are to be built, has been changed from Pieldale as at first announced, to the shorter namo of Field, Va. George W. Fraker, who Is at the head of this large industry, returned to Spray last night from New York Washington and other points North, where he has been the past week. Field is to be equipped with schools churches, and young men and women Christian Associations. It will be connected with Martinsville and the surrounding county by the Franklin County Telephone Company's line. A new up-to-date Post Office la to be built and Field will also be quipped with a new union depot to be used by both the Norfolk and Western and Danville & Western. Mr. A. Auman has sold the Leaks--vllle Inn to Mr. J. P. Crenshaw, of Crystal Kill, Va., and left here Mon- dajt' for1: Goldsboro, NfO.Yte'tke 'Charge of The Commercial at that place. Mr. Auman took his family with him. SOME QUEER ONES Baby saving has been undertaken by the Massachusetts health department to meet possible war loss. . The daughter of a University of Wis consin professor is to work in a New York pea cannery for $6 a week. Unable to serve his country because be Is in jail, a Connecticut convict will buy $1,500 worth of liberty bonds. When a prisoner In the Torkvllle (N. T.) court was asked his occupation he replied, "People call me a nut" Ohio railroad conductor worked so hard planting 27 cents' worth of seeds he couldn't go out on his run and lost $i7. ;v ,. Pictured in a philanthropic society's book as a tough boy, though his name was not used, a New York lad has been awarded $500. A foreigner who refused to register In Racine, Wis., was forced by 300 fel low employees to crawl to an American flag and kiss it, then enroll. Having located at Camden, Ind., a man has sent to his former home InJ York, Pa., for the coffin and tomb stone he has had made for himself. Exemption from draft claimed by Waterbury (Conn.) man because he has a wife and two children here and a wife and three children in Russia. LAND SALE AND BARBECUE AT THE J. V. PRICE FARM On Wednesday, June 27th, the fine 900 acre farm of J. V. Price, four miles Southeast of Madison, will be sold at auction. This farm has been subdivided into nine tracts of from 20 to 200 acres each. Each tract will be a complete home, ready to move into without the expenditure of a dol lar. In connection with the land sale an old time Barbecue and Brunswick stew dinner will be served. A splendid brass band will be in at tendance. There will be contests' to entertain the crowd. Lay all business aside for this day and attend the sale of this fine farm. -ENGLAND REALTY & AUCTION CO. Greensboro, N. C. Has a Good Opinion of Chamberlain's Tablets "Chamberlain's Tablets are a won der. I never sold anyihing that beat them, writes F. B. Tressy, Richmond, Kjr. When troubled with Indigestion or constipation give theca -a trial. CONTRACT m OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0 SHERIFF ARRESTED THE WRONG MAN O o o o o o e o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o 0 A good Joke is told on W:. N. Daniel, a traveling salesman who makes his headquarters in Greensboro. He was driving in his small automobile jiaster day from GreenBboro to Reids ville and when about 10 miles out he saw standing on the side of the road John A. Rick's large touring car, which was stolen from in front of a Ipcal theatre Monday night. There was an item In the Daily News yesterday morning about the car of Mr. Ricks having been stolen. Mr. Daniel is said to have poured gasoline from his own to Mr. Ricks' car and got In the latter car and drove on to Reidsville, leaving his own car on thie side of the road where he found Mr. Ricks' car. He was dismayed, so the story goes, upon his arrival at Reidsville when an officer accosted him and placed him under arrest. It is said he endeavoited to explain to the officer, who would not take his word for it, but a hurried long distance telephone message to Greensboro, explained the situ ation to Mr. Ricks, who -directed that Mr. Daniels be reteas-, ed, which was done, and he drove Mr. Ricks' car back to (Greensboro, according to the story told a"reporter of the Daily News last night. Greensboro News. o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o Q o o o o o THE NEWS IN BRIEF SINCE OUR LAST ISSUE An additional government loan of $25,00,000 to Great Britain brings the total British loan up to $50,000,00 and the total for all the allies up to $948,- 000,000. Since the beginning of the war with Germanr, 66,248 men have enlisted in th6 vy'The totaf 'now ia 120,823, recruiting Monday and Tuesday bring ing a net gain in enlistment of 1,203. One of the "Jokers" in the Conscrip tion bill was that exemption might bie claimed on the grounds of being morally deficient, but out of the mil lions registered the only man to regie- ter this claim was a Socialist of Mil waukee, The man is Frank Raguse, former State Senator, who was exptell ed from the Legislature because of un. patriotic remarks. He wrote on his card "morally unfit." Throughout Germany, according to reports, all valuable grain crops are burning up as they did in 1915, in an unprcedentej heat wave. The pro longed drought has not been broken since early in May. Berlin on Sun day experienced the hottest June 17 on record in' the 70 years' experience of the weather bureau. Tropical temperatures were also reported ev erywhere west of the Oder river. The German casualties as reported in the German official casualty lists in the month of May follow: Killed I and died of wounds or sickness, 22,000 prisoners and missing, 26,562; wound ed 52,394. Total 110,956. These cas ualties added to those previously re ported give the following totals since the beginning of the war: Killed and died of wounds or sickness 1,068,127; prisoners and missing, 557,410; wound ed 2,731,223. The weekly report of losses to Brit ish shipping which were sunk by sub marines has again reached alarming proportions. It shows an incease over the reports of the past six weeks to tonnage destroyed . The latest figure, 27 vessels of oyer 1,600 tons and five under 1,600 tons, place the losses in the first category higher, except during the weeks ending April 21 and April 28, than during any sim ilar periods since Germany's intensi fied submarine campaign began. Dur ing the latter weeks 40 and 38 mer chantmen, respectively, were sent to the bottom. Cotton futures touched 27 cents a pound on the cotton exchange, this week, the highest figure since 1871. Cotton has advancd over $100 a bale since the beginning of the war. There was practically no speculation on the exchange because of the enormous margins now required. The buying came from the spinners or from Eu ropean interests. .The stocks of American cotton in Liverpool or on the Atlantic are only about 40,000 bales. It Is said that 4,000,000 bales constitute the reserve stock of the world. The new crop has made a bad start and a yield of only 11.000,000 or 12,000.000 bales is expected. GREENSBORO PEOPLE m NVESTIGATION WANT TO KNOW -HOW COME" THEY ARE COMPELLED TO PUT UP WITH THE MISERABLE POW ER SERVICE DISHED OUT BY THE SOUTHERN POWER CO. AUXILIARY PLANT BADLY NEEDED It is a dally occurrence to read a "kick" against the electric service the people have forced on them by the Southern Power Co. or one of Its sub sidiaries. Tuesday's Greensboro News carried the following editorial; The suggestion that there ought to be a public investigation of the frequent failures of toe electric current is one that the Daily News applauds because of its importance to the consuming public, and then applauds again with fervor and feeling. j We could a tale unfold of what has been suffered by this newepav per, in actual losses and in wear and tear upon the nerves in the various departments. The news paper is not wont to dwell upon its personal grievances as upon those that affect the community, and this thing has bulked so large to our people as a personal matter that we have inclined to lose sight of its1 broader aspects. The Daily News has no disposi tion to harry the Southern Power Company or the local corpora tion which distributes its pro duct . We do not assert that these frequent failures of light and power are reasonably preventable But, in common with other citi zens and concerns who are mak ing it known that they, too, have been put to no end of both incon venience and loss, we yearn to know the answer. to the .QuepUt- I8.it necessary for us to contin u to.be subjected to these ces sations of current, without warn ing, or can it be prevented? In the summer season every cloud at supper time, every dis tant flash of lightning, is indeed a warning of a sort; but merely a warning that we may expect the , lights to go down at any minute, that it may endure for a moment or that we may miss an entire edition with a resulting loss in dollars and cents that cannot be calculated. Let us have an investigation. Let us at least know the worst so that we can govern "ourselves ac cordingly. Commenting on what this paper said in its last issue The News on Wednesday had the following: ' "Rotten service about states the case. And it is evident that those citizens of Reidsville who favor turning over to the Public Utilities company, a subsidiary of the Southern Power company, it's municipal owned lighting plant are not very well Informed concern ing the sort of;, service which towns and cities using current supplied by the Southern Power are forced to endure. If Reidsville now has an effi cient lighting system which can be depended upon in fair weather and foul it had better stick to it unless, perchance, the people want "lightiess" nights and fre quent interruption of industry; Then they might try the South ern Power company and if thrw happen to be on the same circuit with Greensboro they are not likely to b disappointed. American Harrows Alto Usod by Jw With Good Results. A report from the government's Arab bureau on the subject of agricul ture in Palestine says: "In the neighborhood of Jerusalem a good deal of scientific dry farming is being carried on, the ground being kept loose by continual tillage. The Arabs do not use harrows,, but the Jewish colonists have introduced the harrow and the American 'pulverizer' with ex cellent results. The plows chiegy in use in Palestine are the primitive Arab plow and the German plow used throughout the Jewish and German colonies. British plows are said to b too heavy and the shape unsuitable. In the ornnperles and other plantations American plows are used exclusively, as also are American slgzag harrows.'" The engagement of Miss Marion Cleveland, youngest daughter of the late President Cleveland, Is announ ced. She is to marry William Stan ley DeL an editorial writer on the New York Evening Sun. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO o o O PROF. J. H. ALLEN HEADS O O THE REIDSVILLE SCHOOLS O O O O . The Reidsville school board O O met Tuesday night and unani- O O mously elected Prof. J. H. Al- O O len to succeed Supt. T. W. O O Andrews, resigned, as superln- O O tendent of. the Reidsville Grad- O O ed School. O O The selection was made af- O O ter members of the board had O O looked thoroughly Into Xhe mat- O O ter and were convinced that O O Prof. Allen was the man to O O continue the schools under O O the high standard maintained O O in the past. Prof. Allen has O O been principal of the Reidsville O O schools the last two years. He O O Is inn every way familiar with O O the work here and will, we feel O O sure, prove worthy of the hon- O O or bestowed upon him. He Is O O fully eauipned to hold down O I O th nnaiHnn unit the nrhnnlft Ci O will continue to make great O O progress under his leadership, O O The committeemen are get- O O ting together a splendid corps O O assistants who will heartily O O co-operate with Supt. Allen. O O We know that his selection O O is satisfactory to the general O j O public. O O Prof. McRae of Asheboro has O O been elected principal of the O O city colored schools. O BO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPENINGS IN THE OLD NORTH STATE Seventeen men from one township in Buncombe county plead guilty in Uuncombe Superior Court of compli city in manufacturing liquor. Judge Shaw landed eight of them on the roads and let the other nine go with fines tinder suspened sentences. In advance of the opening of the market some Craven county farmers sold their crop of potatoes to commis sion men at $3 to $3.60 per barrel. Now the same potatoes are selling, at $9 per barrel. , Like the cotton farm ers who sell in advance and get stuck The Baptist Seaside Assembly at Wrlghtsville Beach is an event to Bap tists of the State, June 27 to July 4. A number of prominent members of the denomination will discuss the va rious phases of church work and Gov. Bickett will deliver a patriotic address on the 4th. The North Carolina Bankers Asso ciation In 21st annual session at Wrlghtsville Beach voted unanimously to contribute $2,000 for the purchase operation and maintenance of a Red Cross ambulance in France for a year. This action was taken on motion of Col. John F. Burton, of Wilson, member of the Federal Reserve Board. Gudney Meredith, a young white man of High Point, was arraigned be fore United States Commissioner Warren G. Brown under a charge of failing to register on Tuesday, June for the selective draft. Meredith pleaded that he did not know he was old enough. Evidence tended to show that he was 23 years old, and he was placed under a $1,000 bond for hie ap pearance at the December term of United States court at Greensboro A daring attempt to rob the Farm ers" and Merchants' bank at Mocks ville was made Tuesday when an un known negro entered the bank and handing the cashier, B. O. Morris, a paper, requested him to read it for him The cashier started to do so when the negro suddenly struck him across the head with an Iron bar he had concealed on his peison. The blow stunned Mr. Morris for anin stant, cutting a deep gash in his head' He managed to reach bis desk and got his pistol, firing several shots at the negro who was attempting to get away. , Mr. Morris could not tell whether any If the shots took effect. President I Told Force of 25,000 Will Be Available In 10 Months. A force of 25,000 Filipino troops, wherever they may be needed, was of fered to President Wilson by Manuel Quezon, former Philippine delegate In congress and now president of the Phil ippine senate. v Mr. Quezon said the force was being organized and could be made ready In ten months. After his call at the White House Mr. Quezon issued a statement saying the Filipino people were ready to stand on "the democratic principle that he who la unwilling to serve his country In the hour of need as a soldier is un worthy to help govern his country as a citizen. "There are no slackera in the Philip pines. We have more volunteers than we shall possibly be able to use." j A GENEROUS GIF! 10 THE LOCAL RED CROSS AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY GIVES $2,000.00 MAYODAN MILL MAN WILL DO HIS PART TO WARD HELPING THE CAUSE- CAMPAIGN NOW ON. THIS TOWN IS ASSESSED $5,000 The American Tobacco Company wired its local manager, Mr. T. J. McCann, on Wednesday a contribution to the Reidsville branch of the Red Cross of $2,000. Mr. McCann turned over a check to Mayor Cumraings yes terday. Reidsville's contribution to the one hundred million dollar Red Cross fund now being -raised in the United States, has been assessed at $5,000. This $2,000 contribution from the A. T. Company is a liberal start and it is hoped the other 13,000 can be easily raised here. This has been designated as , Red Cross week all over the country. The Review is in receipt of a letter from Mr. D. A. Ricks of Mayodan Mills, asking us to put him in touch with the head of the Reidsville Red, Cross chapter. Mr. Ricks says he is anxious to do his "bit" in this impor tant work, and thinks he might en courage the people of Mayodan to make monthly contributions to the cause. .' : In this connection we want to state that the people of Reidsville t and Rockingham county are urged to con tribute to the war fund. Mrs. J. C Mills is president of the local chapter of the Red Cross, In the campaign to raise $100,000,000) and gives some in dication of what the people of, tba United States must do and of the sac rifices they must .make. Hundreds of American doctors and nurses are already at the front.. 1 A larg4orce ..qf ., 12,000 Amerlcanengl neers will sonn be rebuilding the rail roads of France. Upwards of 25,000 American men are now on the battle fields of Europe, fighting as volun teers in the allied armies; soon 25, 000' American regulars will be added to their number. AH our National Guard is to be mobilized, our regular army Is to be recruited to full war strength, and 500,000 other men are shortly to be called to the colors. Within a few months we should and will have in service an army of 1,000, 000 and a navy of 150,000 men. These men must have our best, To prepare against their needs in ad vance will be a stupendous task which the Red Cross must undertake. Doc tors, nurses, ambulances, must be ready. Vast quantities of hospital stores, linen, bandages and supplies of every kind must be prepared, and at once. If ww wait, it may be too late. When we ask our own sons and brothers to fight for liberty, 3, 000 miles from home in a country al ready sore and afflicted, surely we, cannot do less than prepare to take care of them in their day of suffering. Gallant Canada from 8,000,000 popu lation raised an army of 450,000 men. Eight thousand are dead or injured, and Canada has raised in value $16,- 000,000 or the Red Cross to relieve her sick and wounded. Her Red Cross, thus vitalized by the sacrifice of those at home, has been able to save thousands from death or misery. ALICE WHITE - " VK : t IS ' 4 4' i MUSICAL DIRECTOR OF "THE CHIMES OF NORMANDY1 Al CHAUTAUQUA. Read the paper regularly. OOOOOOOOOOOOO NEW OFFICE BUILDING FOR A. T. COMPANY 0 o 6 o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o The F. R. Penn Branch of the A. T. Company will soon build a handsome office build ing on North Scales street, im mediately west of the new cig arette factory now under con struction. The office building will be 36x67 feet, two stories and and . will cost $15,000 or $20,000. Work on the foundation of the new cigarette factory is be ing pushed. The iron water tank and the concrete reservoir will be moved off the site the the latter part of this week. , It 1 is planned to move them in tact. o OOOOOOOOOOOOO COMING AND GOING Of THE PASSING THRONG Mr. R. L. Watt spent yesterday la Winston-Salem. ; , Mr. Kent Price is quite 111, we re gret to know. Rev. E. N. Johnson is spending a few days at Enfield. " Mrs. L. J. Sands is visiting rela tives in Chatham, Va. Mr. Richard Blackwell is out again after his recent illness. ; 1 "', Mrs. T, It. Gardner is visiting friends in Greensboro. v Mrs. Robt. R. Mobley of Danville spent Tuesday in Reidsville. Rev. W. E. Abernethr and son. visited relatives in Danville this week. Mrs. Kate H. Balsleey has returned; from an extended vis't to relatives in Baltimore. "" ' Miss Kathleen Terry has returned from spending her vacation in North ern cities. " ". Miss Hunter IrvTn has gone to Chi cago to enter theuniversity for the, summer session. Mrs. R. I. Mayo and baby and Mrs. Dora 'Mitchell have gone to Spray to reside. s - . Mrsv y?E, Abemethy and daugh ter have gone to Chautauqua, N. Y., to spend the summer, Mrs. R.. S. Galloway of Winston Salem is critically ill, her many friends here regret to learn. Misses Bettie Ambler and Frances Hitchcock of Winston-Salem are the guests of Miss Kathleen Terry. Miss Annie Reveley of Greensboro, a Red Cross nurse, well known here, has gone to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for special duty. Mrs. R, L, Mauney and son, Robert L. Mauney. Jr.. of Salisbury are vis- lting Mr. and Mrs. P. H. William son on Lawsonville Avenue. Mrs. Moulten Avery will leave to day for Reidsville, where "she will be the guest of Miss RJeld. - She will be : accompanied by three childreen. Greensboro News. Mrs. J. E. Amos, who undrwent an operation at St. Leo's hospital, la . making a satisfactory! recovery and , hopes to be able to return to Reidsville within a few days. Mr. J. T. Robertson, editor of the ; Madison Messenger, was here Friday and honored this office with a visit.! He says considerable building activi ' ty is going on in his good town. Mr. Jas R. Gunn, atf employee at the local postoffice for some time past, has gone to Norfolk to accept a position as boat electrician. Hl3 family will follow him August 1. W. F. Warren, formerly principal of the Greensboro high School was here yesterday. Mr. Warren, who has many friends in Greensboro, 13 now principal of the high school of Columbia, S. C. Greensboro News. In Wilmington canning clubs, have been organized among church socio- ties and high school girls for th) purr pose of saving the surplus of perish able vegetables and fruits from the gardens of the city and truck farms of New Hanover County. Members ! of the boy scouts and other boys of working age have been mobilized to assist in the garden work and the harvesting of the vegetables on the farms, which, in many Instance, are purchased in the field and harvests! by the beys and taken by thm to the. various canning clubs in the city.. These canning clubs are taking tor ttacts from housewives of the city to mi their emrty Jars with vegptabl-i and fruits. They are also using thou T.4ad3 of cans which will be sold en, i he general n:a;kt t later. Brig. Gen. W. A. White of the British army has come to the United States to take charge of the recruit ng of British subjects in this country. It is said that there are 500.000 men of military age In America who owe th. ir allegiance to King George. O O o 0 O o o o o o o o o 0 o o o o o o o o 1 o o
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