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The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Wears Gas Mask
Over Cook Stove

but she huns, under her breath, at
her work.
Even before the hot chocolate is
quite ready, the boys begin to arrive.
They come in tin hats with gas masks
hanging at their sides. Her own he'll
met and mask are on the shelf behind
her.
"Hot chocolate ready?' the first one
asks.
"All ready" she says, as she stirs
it with her long spoon. She fills one
Of the tin cups from the mantelpiece.
"Um-m-m!" says the youngster.
''That's good and thick. Give us a
package of cookies"
He takes his tin cup and his cookies
to an empty packing box in the cor
ner, sits down, and feasts slowly and
luxuriously. Another boy is ut the
board that serves as a counter.
Gives the Horne Touch.
Some Of the boys stop to gossip,
when the edge is taken off their
thirsts and hungers.
h6IleIllDcI Dill JOHliSOu. lhcy dSA
Mrs. Simmons. She does. He was
the boy who always took three cups
Of chocolate.
"He won't any more for awhile"
they tell her. stopped one in the leg
last night. - ~ .'..
"Oh, that's too bad!" she says, just
the way she would say it at home If
she heard that Johnnie had the
measles.
That's the thing about Mrs. Sim
mons and such women. She brings
to the boys a constant reminder of
the women they have left behind, Of
their mothers and their sisters and
their wives. She talks in the most
casual American way about things
that are neither casual nor American.
After the last of her soldiers has
put on his tin hat and gone down
the hill into the valleys from which
they start for their outposts, she be-
gins talking very simply about hey
work.
There is not mother or wife or
sister Of any one Tof these boys who
wouldn't give all she has to be where
am today" she says. "Just think
what privilege it is to talk to them.
and to see that they are we'll and
happy, and that their clothes are
whole. Women, you know, worry
most about their uncertainties. If
could only tell the people who are
worrying about these boys how husky
and cheerful their youngsters arei
That's what would make them happy.
Every time get tired, I just think
how many thousands of women would
be the happiest persons on earth if
they could be where am. Oh, it's
great!"
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
BY ROY s. DURsTINE.

Paris.-Some day the story of what
American women have done over here
In France will be written. People
will hear, then, about the women who
are cooking and baking for the Amer
lean boys with their helmets and gas
masks on the shelf, next the baking
powder can. They will learn of the
casual heroines who see nothing re-
markable in making hot chocolate in
shacks where the rain and the snow
come in on them through fresh shell
holes In the roof.
One of the women people will hear
about will be Mrs. Clara Simmons.
She is as close to the front line
here as any woman is permitted to
go. For many days, during the active
fighting just over the hill from her,
she was the only woman in the entire
area. That didn't bother her at all.
The boys wanted hot chocolate, and
she could make 1t. So there you are.
And there she was.
She Is little bit Of America, of
American womanhood, dropped right
down in the middle of the fighting
zone. She looks more like home to
the boys than anything in the world,
except a letter. She has no pic
turesque ideas about carrying culture
and uplift to the soldiers. She's
there to work for them.
She works with huge mixing bowl
full of pulverized chocolate, and seven
or eight open cans Of condensed milk
on the table. On the rickety stove
where the old fireplace used to be, a
great kettle of hot water is simmer
ing. She stirs and pours, and pours
and stirs, till the air Of the little
shack is as fragrant as that of q
candy store ut home.
A convoy Of camions rumbles past
her door. They are almost at the end
of their journey. German territory
isn't half a dozen kilometers away.
Mrs. Simmons knows that, of course,
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Worth Money.

A Buffalo man stopped newsboy in
New York. saying: "See here, son, I
want to find the Blank National bank.
I'll give you half dollar if you direct
me to It," With grin the boy replied /:
"All right, come along" and he led the
man to building half block away.
Ihe man paid the promised fee, re-
marking, however, "That was a half
dollar easily earned" "Surew re-
sponded the lad. "But you mustn't fer
git that bank directors is paid high in
Moo Yawk."
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Green Tomatoes.

When the first hard frost leaves you
with a large supply Of green tomatoes
on hand you will make some Of them
into pickle-but do you know how
good they are to use as vegetable?
They are very good sliced and fried.
Slice In one-half inch slices, sprinkle
with salt and fry until tender in a lit
tie fat. IF you wish them Drowned, dip
the slices in -four or bread crumbs or
first dip in eggs and then in crumbs be-
fore frying.
n you are fond Of fried apple and
onions, you will also like the follow
ing. Slice onion and green toma-
toes and fry together. Serve at din
ner or as relish for supper.
They are very good, too, .stewed
much as you stew the ripe ones.
Stewed Green Tomatoes.
large green toma- tablespoonful su-
toes gar
'H teaspoonful pep tablespoonfuls
Y teaspoonful salt Y teaspoonfui onion
tablespoonful but Juice '
Scald tomatoes and remove skins,
cut into quarters, bon until tender |;
season and thicken with crumbs.
They give a distinctive flavor to
cream soup, and are worth trying.
Cream Of Green Tomato Soup.
6 green tomatoes cupful milk
u teaspoonful soda Y teaspoonful salt -
Q tablespoonfuls but y teaspoonful pep.
ter per
Boil the tomatoes until tender and
put through strainer. Make cream
sauce of butter and flour, to which is
added milk, salt and pepper. Add
pulp to which soda has been added.
Allow to cook ten minutes in double
boiler.
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
They Don't Like the Marine
Brand of Fighting.
"Devii Dog" Tells In Letter Home OF
Some Wonderful Cases OF
Gameness.

ChicagO.-Word has been received
from Dana B. Thrasher, with the Sixth
regiment of the United States ma
rines, telling Of the fighting on the
west front in France, in which his
regiment took part. The young ma
rine expresses deep admiration for his
fellow fighters and advises a. blow In
the nose for the man who calls the Y.
M. G. A. men slackers.
7"I have seen some wonderful cases
of gameness. We were lying in a
ravine one day when the Germ was
Smelling. An American fell down on
top Of us with both legs shot off. All
he said was: I'm sorry to bother you
guys Can you beat It?
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Cottage Cheese with Fruits.

At this season Of the year when the
supply Of fruits is at its highest and
large quantities have been made into
preserves. the combined use Of pre-
served fruits and cottage cheese as a
food-saving system should not be over
looked. The United States depart
ment Of agriculture points out that
cottage cheese with fruit preserves,
such as strawberries, figs or cherries
poured over 1t, and served with bread
or crackers. makes most appetizing
and sustaining dish. If preferred, cot
tage cheese balls may be served sep
arately or eaten with the preserves.
A more attractive dish may be made
by dropping bit Of jelly into a nest
Of the cottage cheese.
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
DEMAND FOR HONEY

The present honey crop Of the
United States barely exceeds
250,000,000 pounds. That the
country produces even this much
is unknown to most people, it is
stated; for while honey was the
chief form Of sugar used in an
cient times, the ease Of getting
cane or beet sugar has placed
honey In the background. Now
that our sugar supply is reduced
by reason Of supplying the al
lies with part Of the sugar they
need, the demand for honey has
increased not only domestically
but also for export.
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Chaplain Would
EXterminate Foe

4 Baltimore, Md.-Rev. George A.
Griffin. Baltimore Protestant Episco-
pal clergyman serving as chaplain
4 with the Fifth field artillery, the regi-
ment that fred Americas first shot in
the war, has written a letter to DR..
Henry Barton Jacobs, prominent Bal
timorean, which was printed in full in
Record, in which he discusses at length
cruelties inflicted by the Germans upon
civilians and soldiers.
II feel" he says, "that express the
sentiment Of those who have seen and
heard over here, when say that were
in America today, priest as am, I
should do my best to have put to death
any Boche in America or any so-caiied
American who would apologize in any
way for what the Boche has done.
"All that you have heard in America
about them does not approximate the
truth. There are little children right
here in France with their little stumps
Of hands; there were some not far from
my last camp, and young men with all
the fingers Of their right hand cut off.
The other day British officer and
three TOmmies told me that a short
time ago they went as an advance
party into little village from which
the Boche had been driven back, and in
a large room there were four young
Canadians crucified, one on each wall
0f the room.
Torture Young Girls.
"Also, when was with the British
they told me the Boches had taken
young Belgian and French girls into
their first line trenches and tortured
them until their screams made the
Scotch and the Canadians so crazed
they would 60 over into the machine
gun nests which the Boche had set up,
using the women's screams as decoy.
"And have 1t on the word of Brit
ish officer that they have stood (the
Officers) with guns leveled at their men
to keep them from going over when the
women scream, and being needlessly
slaughtered. I cannot tell you what
the TOmmies told me they found when
they drove these hell-fiends out of these
positions; 1t Is too awful even to think
about. also have it on the word of
one Of the greatest French abbes that
the Boche were especially instructed to
destroy cOnvents-and kill or outrage
the nuns-and he says that all through
France and Belgium are ruined con-
vents, and that the nuns were given to
the soldiers to be outraged In camps.
"These are not isolated cases nor alb
normal conditions which prevail here
and there where troops were drunk or
without restraint. Go along the French
or British front, and the only conclu-
sion you arrive at is that they are
just the ground principle Of BOche eff
iciency In action.
1T is American blood that is flowing
now, and God grant it may give Amer
lea some strength to realize what we
are up against. To talk Of terms until
the Boche is exterminated Is to league
with Satan for corner in hell. Priva-
tions, sacrifices! What can you do at
home to compare with what these men
of ours are doing over here? Meatless
days, wheatless days, sugarless days,
good women knitting, benefits for the
Red Cross-or all your social diver
sions with a charitable object sand
wiched in!
"When you are out on shell-swept |
hill and the shells are going by like
bats out of hell, as the soldiers say,
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Thirsty Thieves BUSY.

Asheville, N. C.-Despite a watch.
man and triple-locked safety" door,
thirsty thieves recently obtained rs
pint TASKS of contraband whisky from
the steel storage cage in the United
States marshal's Office here, leaving
no clew.
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
FLIP OF COIN LEADS TO
DEATH OVER THERE

Wheeling, w. Va.--Edward f.
Bowman, nineteen, is dead In
France as the result of a flip of
coin. Bowman enlisted in the
army in May. 1917, after he and
a friend had tossed a nickel TO
determine which one would en-
ter the service. Bowman called
the turn and was a soldier a
few days later.
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14

In the base Of new electric hand
lantern Is a generator that is driven
by clock work so that it may receive
current away from a regular source
Of supply.
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
City Adopts War Orphan.

Carbondale, nl.-The city of Car
bondale has adopted French war
orphan. 1t will be provided for from
city funds. 1t is believed to be the
first adoption of Its kind in illinois,
The Twin City star., 1918-09-14
Keen on SmiIino

Don't growl, the dog can do that:
dont scold' the hen is good ut that;
uont scream, the parrot excels in that.
just smile; mankind has q monopoly
On that
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
Rosemary Baptist Church
Rev. A. G. Carter, Pastor

Sunday school 1000 A. M. G.
S. Gregg, Supt.
Service at 11:00A. M, and 7:30
P. M.
B. Y. P. u Monday evening
at 7::30.
Prayer Meeting Wednesday
evening 7::S0.
At our regular Church con-
ference last Wednesday evening
we elected the following officers
for the Sunday school and church
for next twelve months. For
Sunday school: G. s. Gregg,
Supt. s. H. Jordan assistant
Supt. Miss Mary Matthews
Secretary and Treasurer. For
Church: S. D. Brown Clerk. A.
C. Overton Treasurer.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
FREE DENTAL
WORK FOR SOLDIERS

All registrants who have been
placed in Glass One (1) by the
trial board, examined and found
physically fit for first line service
can have necessary Dental work
done free by applying to the
following Dentists in the County:
At Enfield, DR.. Highsmith, at
Littleton, DR.. Perry, at Scotland
Neck, DR.. Keel, at Roanoke
Rapids, DR.. Fields, at Weldon,
DR.. Ward.
Each registrant should apply
to the office nearest his place of
residence.
DR.. W. ]. Ward, DR.. E. A.
Perry, DR.. Highsmith, Committee
for Halifax County.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08

cluding more greens, fruits,
vegetables, roughness and even
water. The trouble in many cases
is that our winter store of last
summers canned fruits and
vegetables has about given out
and the new supply has not yet
arrived.
Spring tonics, purgatives and
a course of medicine? No, moth
ing of that kind. Such things are
no more necessary than a period
ic debauch, spree or wife beat
ing contest. One is about as
sensible as the other. The whole
secret is to regulate the diet,
clothing, and living habits to
suit the season, to eat less, espec-
tally of heavy constipating foods,
and use more green's" and
salads, to dress lighter and live
nationally.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
WITH THE CHURCHES


Preaching on Saturday and
Sunday at II A. M. at Smiths
Church by Rev. E. M. Snipes,
presiding Elder of Warrenton
District.
Business Session of Quarterly
Conference at 2P. M. Saturday
at Smiths.
Preaching by Bro. Snipes, at
3P. M. at New Hope Church
Sunday.
Preaching at Rosemary Sunday
night, at 7:30 P. M. by pastor.
The public generally are invit-
ed to all these services.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
EDWARD EVERETT
HALE'S MASTER.
PIECE REVIVED
MAN Without A Country" Brings
Universal Appeal

'The Man Without a Country"
is founded upon Edward Everett
Hale's story, "The Man Without
a Country" written in 1868 and
intended, as the author said, to
"a contribution, however humble,
toward the formation Of a just
and true national sentiment of
love to the Nation. :" The univer-
sal appeal of this classic is shown
by the fact that the lesson in
tended in the story has been in
use in other times, under other
circumstances than those which
surround this country in 1863.
When in 1883, Peru found her.
self hard pressed by Chile in the
war between these nations the
patriots of Peru translated this
story into the Spanish language.
At the outset of the war with
Spain the publishers of the "Out-
look" reprinted it, in their wish
that the Nation should not shrink
from the duties of the nation.
Jewel Productions, Inc, will
bring the timely feature into the
Peoples and Rosemary Theatre,
on Monday March, II. 1t was
made by the Thanhouser Film
Corporation. Florence La Badie
and H. E. Herbert head the all
star cast, which includes George
Mario, Ernest Howard, Carey L.
Hastings, Charles DUNCAN and
]. H. Gilmour.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
Cotton Today 81 So
Boy Scouts

February activities in Scout
Craft have shown an improve
ment over January. The Flaming
Arrows win honors with 1857
points, the Foxes winners for
January 767 points and the Beav-
ers $50 points out of possible 1880.
The Flaming Arrows and Beavers
improved their record while the
Foxes fell about 16% short of
their January score.
Scout Joseph Lipscomb of the
Foxes, and who tied with Earl
Daughtry for highest individual
honors for January wins again
in February with 172 points with
Walter Wafford of the Flaming
Arrows a elise second with 1863
points out of possibly 1856.
Joe Wafford completed his
Tadpole service last Friday and
qualified as candidate for Tender
foot.
Hal Bain's application was ac-
cepted and he is now serving his
Tadpole requirements with the
Beavers.
A summary record of February
can be seen in the window of the
Herald Publishing Company
office.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
CAPT. DAVID FALLON
STIRS BIG AUDIENCE
Over Thirty Thousand Dollars Of
War Savings Stamps Subscrib-
ed After His Talks in
Weldon and Roa-
noke Rapids
AN INSPIRATION TO SERVICE

Bruised and battered and
MANNED in the giant inferno Of
destruction along the Western
Front, but with spirit still un-
daunted and fighting blood at
fever heat, Capt David Fallon,
of the British Army, electrified
his audience at the Graded School
Auditorium on last Saturday
afternoon, with his passionate
plea for the support of the
Government in its war against
the Hun by every man, woman
and child.
Capt. Fallon briefly described
some vivid personal experiences
at Messines Wood and Vimy
Ridge. He spoke of the fiendish
atrocities committed by the ex-
ponents of German Kultur and
concluded with an appeal for
cooperation on the part Of every
citizen in the stupendous task of
financing the war.
The sincerity and forcefulness
apparent in every word he utter
ed was testified in actions more
striking than words. In less than
ten minutes after he had con-
cluded his brief speech, his
audience had pledged themselves
to buy War Savings Stamps in
excesslof twenty three thousands
of dollars.
Capt. Fallon was entertained
during his stay in the county by
Mr.. S. F. Patterson. He delivered
a brief address in Weldon Satur-
day morning at eleven o'clock
and another in Scotland Neck
later in the afternoon after his
address in Roanoke Rapids. Near
ly eight thousand dollars were
pledged in Weldon by the very
small audience who were able to
be present at that hour of the
day.
Capt. Fallon is doing the
strenuous work of making four
or five speeches a day without
pay other than the remuneration
he would receive anyway from
the British Government and
without attempting to disparage
in anyway his services rendered
on the battlefront, it is very
probable that he is doing more
damage to the cause of the Hun
to-day in America than he has
ever done in France. Certainly
it is that no American who loves
his country could have failed to
have been moved to do more
effective service toward helping
win the war by hearing Capt.
David Fallon.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
FARMERS MUSTN'T
WASTE COTTONSEED
Composing with Manure a Viola.
lion Of the Food Control Act
and a Senseless Waste
Of Precious Fats

Raleigh, March 9Th The at
tention of the Food Administra-
tion has been called to the fact
that in spite of the high price of
cottonseed during the past two
or three years there are farmers
in North Carolina who persist in
the once profitable custom Of
composing cottonseed with their
manure. Farmers who pursue
this course this year may be
stirring up trouble for them
selves in addition to refusing to
hear the cries for food from
famished millions abroad.
The situation is this: cottonseed
may be exchanged for cotton
seed meal of three times their
value for fertilizer purposes.
Cottonseedc contains approximate
ly 320 pounds of fats per ton.
This fat or oil is absolutely
worthless as fertilizer while it is
desperately needed as fats by
our armies and by millions of
people who are famishing for
fats and other food products in
Europe. The Food Administration
holds that a person composing
cottonseed would be wilfully
wasting the fats contained there
in and by such action would
make themselves guilty of a
violation of Sec. 3 of the Food
Control Act passed by Congress
August 10th.
State Food Administrator
Henry A. Page refuses to believe
that any North Carolina farmer
would pursue such a foolish and
selfish policy at a time like this
but if there are any such he
would like to have information
regarding them.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
All Saints Church
EpiscopaD
Rev. Lewis N. Taylor, Rector
Roanoke Avenue

Next Sunday is the Fourth
Sunday in Lent.
7::3O A. M. Holy Communion.
9:45 Sunday School and Mems
Bible Class, 7. W. Mullen, Supt.
II Morning prayer and sermon.
7:30 Evening prayer and sermon,
Rev. N. C. Duncan.
Lenten services Tuesday after
noon at 4-Friday night at 8.
Monday nightthe Girls Friend
ly Society meets at the residence
of Mrs. 7. W. M. Long.
Womans' Auxiliary Tuesday 3
P. M. at the Church. Cottage
service Thursday night.
The public is most cordially in
vited.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08
Advertised Mail

The following list of mail re-
mains unclaimed in this office.
Same will be held ten days
and if unclaimed will be sent to
the Division of dead letters,
Washington, D. G.
William G. Bass,
Postmaster.
Miss Bessie Watkins, G. M.
Morris, Mrs. Henry Moore, Mr..
Jake Jones, Miss Laura Harris,
Otis Buffaloe, (2) Sudie Rook,
Mr.. ]. L. Matthew, Elic Lassiter,
Mr.. In Jackson, Mrs. Mollie Gay,
J. ]. Smallwood.
When calling for the above
list please mention advertised.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-03-08

thousand in attendance, (due
greatly to our state prohibition
laws). The Red Cross sold sand
wiches and stew, the booth being
in charge of Matilda Hargrave
(colored) also sold a few Red
Cross tags, the result was $50. so
realized.
The D. A. RS held their Feb
ruary meeting in the home of
Mrs. Annie Gowan. Refresh
ments were served after the
business.
A demonstration on cottage
cheese making was given at the
Court House this week by County
Agent, Mrs. Cornelia Morris
and Mr.. Winter Meyer, Govern
ment Agent.
The Red Cross held its month
ly meeting at the Court House
the past week.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Methodist Church gave their
Anniversary Silver Tea on Fri
day of the past week in the home
of Mrs. Annie Gowan. The house
was crowded with guests who
enjoyed an interesting program.
Little Edna Campbell and master
Howerton Gowan dressed as
Martha and George Washington
received the silver at the door.
The program consisted of solos
and duets, both vocal and instru-
mental by Misses Mildred Camp
bell, Eugenia Warren, Josephine
Gowan, Mabel Jennings, Eliza
beth Applewhite, Mrs. N. L.
Steadman and Mrs. Joe Butts.
Recitations were given by little
Dorthy Campbell, Elizabeth Sted-
man and Evelyn Brown Butts.
The program ended with a solo
america First" illustrated by
Martha and George Washington
carrying tremendous American
flag with little 10 Jr." Butts
dressed as Uncle SAM, Dot
Campbell as Columbia, Undine
Hux as an American Sailor and
Leonidas Hux as an American
Soldier.
The guests were served sher-
bert and cakes in the dining
room, while hot chocolate was
sold by Mrs. Ben Jennings. About
500. 90 was realized and a delight
full evening enjoyed by all.