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Vol. 16, No. 13.
Kings Mountain, North Carolina, Thursday, June 27, 1918. $1.50 A Year in Advance
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Washington, June 20. Presi
! dent Wilson today gave his ap
Iproval to the organization and
I training under the war depart
I went of a ' Slavic legion" to be
t composed of Slavs, Jugo-Slavs,
I Czecho Slovenes aad Poles in
Ibis country who are not subjsct
I to the draft and who volunteer
(or service. Tho legion would
serve with the American expe
ditionary force or with the allies'
forces as the President may de
termine. i Organization of units of tho
American army of men in Amer
ica belonging to the oppressed
races of tho Austro Hungarian
nil Germau Empires long has
been urged by Slav leaders In
tho United States. Keoentlv;
Senator Hitchcock, member of
tho sena'e military committee,
proposed an amendment ' to the
12,000 000,000 army appropri
lion bill providing for a "Slavic
gion," and aftor tne President
aI vrlftan It i in tfA a t amtMU
ng the plan the amendment was
ttacnea to tne mcasuie oy the
;j eunatu militiry sub committee.
l' .:'$ A force of sere:al thousand
I Slavs recruited iu this country
I and Canada under the direction
T of Iguace Jan Padercvie ki re
cently entored the fighting lino
ill France. Tho legion was or
ganized as a unit separate from
the armies of any of the nations
fighting the central powers and
Slav leaders have insisted that
insisted that many thousands of
Slavs and Poles in, America
J. would volunteer for service aga I
j ins their hereditary enemies if
E tho organization was ' made a
it part of America '8 fighting fore-
:v
I -I Senator Hitchcock, amend
- inent sets no limit to the sizo of
the force to be raised.' ,
d TUB HEELS II OHIO V
V Mr. E igene Neislcr and bis
friend, Mr. Lee. of Cleveland O.
visited Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Ware
Akron, Ohio Sunday.
' :. . . - - ;
! Little Miss Frances Ware is
spending this weekjwith her lit
tlo friend. Irne Gonder of Cleve-
BUMPER-CROP
III WESTERN N. G.
If we were given our choice
of taking a German rar corret
pondent over the mountain coun
ties of North Carolina, or taking
UjiteJ States Food Administra
tor Hoover over that particular
territory, we would decide in
favor of the correspondent.
What Hoover would see would
delight his heart and give assur-
rance that if crops in all other
sections of the country approx
mate what the mountain people
are produciug, enough for home
use and a ple'y for the allies is
certain. In tho case of the Ger
man correspondent, he would be
inclined to send word direct to
Kaiser to call oil the fight and
throw up his hands. He would
write of the people over here
raisidg mountains of foodstufi of
all sorts, harvesting the great
est crops of which there is any
record and piling up trouble' lor
for the railroads, auto trucks and
wagon transportation lines. The
piedmont and mountain farmers
aro this year indocd breaking
all records. Throughout Cataw
ba county the liar vested wheat
stands in the fields in fat shocks
and apparently more of them
to thn aero than has been known
in that county famed as a wheal
grower, and thestubuh is being
plowed under that the land may
be put to other crops. Catawba
is Dotting in a bumper crop of
sweet potatoes this year and in
the fall this contribution to the
country's food supply is going
to be a material item Editorial
in Charlotte Oba'-rrer.
RAILROJTO MANAGERS ItfOIITEl
Atlauta, Ga., June 20The ap
pointment of the following fed
eral managers for rat' roads is
the southern rjglon were an-'
nounced tonight by R. L. Win.
chel, regional director for the
south:
W. L. Ma pother, , Nashville,.
Chattanooga & St. Louis rail
way, Tennessee Central railway
Office, Louisville, Ky.
W. J. Harahan, Seaboard Air
Line railway, Office, NorfolkVa
E. T. Lamb, Atlanta, Birming
ham, A : Atlantic railway; At
lanta & West Point railway;
Mr. and Mrs. Forbes recently . Georgia railroad; Charleston &
moved frotri Cleye&od, Ohio, to Western Carolina railway; St.
Akron, where Mr. Forbes has a -Louis & SanFjran.cijco railway;
position with the AAerioan Hard (line lying east the Mississippi);
Ufibbef Co.' They formerly .lived Western Kail way of Alabama.
fn Shelby, "N. O.
I
The federal managers, the an-
Mr. .rid M:'M.rhall Hear, nonncement saw, will navt jo-
Iner and children spent Sunday 'Miction over all the depart-
uiuuw uu woir rupeuuyu lines,
reporting to the regional direct
or. The order is effective toinor
mor. ' ; ' -
m. with Mr.
and Mrs. . L.
1 1f you save to the utmost of
our capacity "anduy W. 6. S.
irid Liberty Bonds to the! limit
if your financial rssonrees yon
111 be as genuinely patriotic as
inyooe. . liut do not forget that
:hi means tjie, limit of your fi
nancial resources the limit Jea
ihed aftef downright, hard sayr
ng saying that represents sac
ifice. ' .
The White House
Washington, D. C.
, TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES:
I earnestly appeal to every man, woman and child to pled,
ge themselves on or before the 28th of June to save constant
ly and to buy as regularly as possible the securities of the Gov
ernment and to do this as far as possible through membership
in War Savings Societies, The 28th of June ends this special
period of enlistment in the great volunteer army of production
and saving here at Home, May there be none unenlisted on '
that day.
W00DR0W WILSON
President of the United States.
S. S. CONVENTION AT BETHLEHEM
The Sunday School Convention
of the Kings Mountain Baptist As
sociation will meet Saturday and
Sunday with Bethlehem church
southwest of Kings Mountain. .
A fine program has been prepar
ed and mailed out by Rev. Av. R.
Beach, chairman of program com
mittee. The sessionsbegins Saturday
morning at 10 o'clock and extends
well into the afternoon Sunday. We
publish the program in full below
SATURDAY AM,
10:00 Prayer and praise service, R. C. Campbell.
10:30 Enrollment of Delegates and their reports.
11:00 Sermon, A H. Sims, Alternate, D. F. Putnam,
DINNER
SATURDAY P.M.
1:30 Prayer and praise, L D. Harrell.
2:00 Christain Education, L W. Swope.
3:00 The million dollar campaign. Our part, J. W. Suttle.
SUNDAY AM.
9:30 Devotional Exercise, J. M. Goode.
10:01) Outline, of Sunday School lesson for the day, J. N. Barnett.
10:00 Our duty to the young men enlisted in army service. What are
we doing? J. H. Quinn and D. F. Putnam.
11:15 Sermon.
DINNER
Afternoon service to be arranged by the pastor of Bethlehem Church
. W. R. Beach, chairman of Committee'
lOWTOIIUTHEIESSimaT
Samuel Gomperssays: ('There
are still many to whom this world
cataclysm has so little meaning
tint they are still puisutng lux
uries and selfludalgence." Are
you one of these people, or do
you save to the utmost of your
ability and with your savings
bny War Savings Stamps f
Owing to an unusual abundan
ce of Hessian Fly in the stnbble
of tho present wheat crop, Mr
Franklin Sherman, Chief in En
tomology, advises and nrges
that all wheat fields which are
badly iutosted should be so treat
ed as to reduce the number of
flies t J emerge in the early aut
umn. . .
In case some other crop is al
ready sown in the wheat, one
must exercise his own best jud
gement as to whether it is best
to sacrifice it. If it is desired to
sow peas, and burning over the
stubble is not desirable, then the
wheat stubble should be plowed
under, covering it as deeply as
potsK-ta,-, . . .
"Bat the most thoroagb-going
procedure," states Mr. Sherman
"is to burn over the wheat stub
ble as promptly as- possible, af
ter the wheat is cut, and then
plow deeply in addition," If
this is done, and the wheat sown
next fall, within the fyod of
time which is deemed bclXhich
dates can be furnished byU ty
agents, or by Mr. Sherman cn
application, there Ik 'every- rea
son to expect that serious, JFIy.
njury to the next fcnopr-wiU be
avoided. W''-"' .
IS EFFECTIVE IN WIMNIIIS THE WAR
"We have tried out every
agency the war can devise again
nl the OLemy" rites a soidier
in France whose letter is quoted
by David Lawrence in the New
York Everlng Pont, "and wf
know now that we have one
weapon that will do the busi
ness. That weaoon is gas. "
Seventy-five per cent of the
time the wind in France is fav
ot able to the Allies, says this
soldier; and with its help a cloud
of gas can be blown over the
Germans for a distance of fron.
ten to fifteen miles back ol the
lines. Moreover, gas is not ex
pensive to manufacture 'or diffi
cult to transport. America can
make quantities of it, once her
factories are started to going.
ThaUhey have been started,
and that the output of gas will
presently be very large Mr.
Lawrence ts In a position to
state; though of course, the de
tails are military, secrets. He
finds' that the soldier whose tet
ter he quotes is by no means
alone in his opinion that gas will
do the busi ness.
Secretary Baker -save !KX),000
of our boys hare . gone ' to the
front. Help bring ' tbem back
quickly by saving to the- utmost
of your sWUtrsndr baying Wsr
SINGING CONVENTION
MEETS SUNDAY
The Union Sunday School Sine
ing Convention meets Sunday
with Mt. Buelah Baptist Church.
This is a comparatively new
church and js situated on the
Cherryville Dallas road. Mr.
W. C. Leadlord, superintendent
of Patterson Grove Sunday
School, is president of the Con
vention. This organization is
showing very material growth.
NITRATE IF SCO EIPEGTEl
MISS LUCY PLONK
MARRIED IN CHARLOTTE
Mr. A. P. Spake who has
charge of the dstiibution ot
go eminent nitratu of soda in
Cleveland county says 45 tons of
nitrate were shipped Saturday
to Cleveland from Wilmington.
Ho expects this to arrive in a
few days and those who have or
ders in can ascertain from their
telephone central office when the
soda reaches here for delivery as
Mr. Spake will phone all exchan
ges.
KEEP MORALE OF SOLDIERS IIP
Again - General Pershing is
emphasizing the import nice ol
keeping the soldiers' moral
strong through the good news
that comes from home. He
tells Wis soldiers that it is their
duty to write home often, that
neither they nor the home people
can keep iu the best of spirit un
less they keen in constant touch
with one another. He says:
'Duty to one's country does not
end on the parade ground nor
even on the battlefield, but con
sists in doing everything in one's
power to help win the war."
THE JOHNSTOIIIAI
'The Johnstonian," is the
name of a new weekly paper
which made it initial appear
ance last week, It is a four pace
seven column sheet published at
Selma, N. C. "In the heart of
Johnston County." From the sub
heading acd introduction notes
we learn that it is owned by a
group of enterprising business
men of the thrifty littV: town
whish gives its population as
3000 souls. The Company is
headed by N. E. Edgerton, Pres.
and Roger H. Burviss, editor
and manager. We welcome this
rousing contemporary to our ex
change and its promoters to the
r .aim of North Carolina journal
Pro. T. N. Carver, of Har
vard University, says: "Anyone
who, in these days of impending
doom, buys anything which he
does not need-for his health,
strength, or efficiency is hiring
some one to do something which
is unnecessary.. .He is hiring
some one to stay out of tho es
sential industries. He is compel
nv wfth the Government for
materials and man power which
it needs to wia the war ami pre
serve th- liberties of mankind.
We take the account below from
the Charlotte Observer of Tuesday
of last week of the marriage in that
city of Miss Lucy PlonkjKings Moun
tain. The Observer says:
Miss Lucv Maffatt Plonk and
Sergenat Frank R. Schell were
wedded last evening at lOo'clock
at Tenth Avenue Presbyterian
church, the pastor, Rev. J. S.
Sibley, officiating.
The wedding was very quiet,
beim; witnessed by leiatives and
a few close friends,
Miss Mary Plonk rendered
Mendelsohn's wedding march as
the bride aud bridegroom enter
ed the church, and the Missouri
waltz during the ceremony.
The biide wore a dark blue
tailored suit with gray accessor
ies and corsage of bride roses
and sweet peas. Sergeant Sthe'l
and bride will leave this morn
ing for Agusta, Georgia, where
they will be at home 420 Btoad
street.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.
M. L. Plonk, of KingsMountain
She was educated at the state
normal college, Greensboro, and
was afterwards graduated from
the Charlotte sanatorium train
ing school. For the past twoyears
she has been ono of the city's
mosts successful and popular
nurses.
She is bright and attractive and
possesses a winning personality.
Sergeant Schell is a sonol tbe
late Dr. Schell, of Asheville.
Prior to entering the service ho
was a member of the firm of Ko
ino Auto Supply Co. of this city .
and was achieving success when
he answered the call to service
Sergeant Schell has a wide cir
cle of friends in Charlotte and
Asheville and at Camp Hsncock,
Agusta, where he is stationed,
who will be interested in the an
nouncement of his marriage.
KelatWes of the bride in at
tendance at the wedJing were:
Mr. and Mr. Geo. V. Patterson
and little daughter, Miss Nancy
Leonora, and MUs Elizabeth
Love, of Gastonia; Mrs. M. L.
Plonk, Miss Eunice Plonk. Miss
Mary Plonk snd Miss Jett Plonk
of Kings Mountain. Mrs. Patter
son snd Miss Jett Plonk are sis
ters of the bride.
Some one has said: "If one of
our boys hesitated as long in go
ing over the top as some people
do in buying Liberty bonds or
War Savings Stamps, he would
be courtmartialed and shot for
cowardice. And if the same pun
ishment were meted out to non
combatants for financial coward
ice an awful lot of people would
be shot at dawa."
Lend your money as fteely as
our boys are giving ih em selves.
Samuel Gompera says: "We
can forego luxuries for a tint,
be content with tbe pr ne
cessities ol me, w or. save
for the future oar homage of
freedom and the things ot the
spirit"
W. S. S. will help bay liberty
and justice,