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Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain deed of trust
from William and Laura Sledge to Geo.
c. Green, Trustee, dated the 18th dav
of January, 1917, recorded in book $50.
page 9, securing certain Indebtedness
therein set out, default having been
made in the payment Of said indebted
ness, and being requested by the holder
of the Indebtedness thereby secured,
the undersigned will, on the Ord day
Of March, 1918, at u o'clock NJ. at the
Post Office Door in the town of Rose
mary, n. G. sell for cash those certain
lots Nos 2, 3 and I. in Block F., as
shown on plot book |, page IS, Regis
ter's Office for HALIFAX County. 80
This the 18th day of February. 1918.
GEO C. GREEN, TRUSTEE.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

Under and by virtue of the power of
sale contained in a certain deed of trust
from j. j. Smalwood to Geo. C. Green.
Trustee, dated the 18th day of January
1917 and recorded in book 27s, page
800, securing certain indebtedness there
in set out, default having been made in
the payment of said Indebtedness, and
being requested by the holder of the
indebtedness thereby secured, the I'M
dersigned will on the 2nd day of March,
1918. at II O'Clock NJ. at the Post Office
Door in the Town of Rosemary. N. c.,
sell for cash that certain lot of land in
Roanoke Rapids Township, Halifax
County. N. c., known as lot No. 7.
block c. and lots Nos. . and 7. block B.,
as shown on plot book |, page SO.
Registers office for Halifax County.
This, the 18th pay Of February. 1918.
GEO. c. GREEN, TRUSTEE.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
AND NOW THEY ARE COOKING
TOBACCO TO MAKE 1T BETTER

For good many years The American
Tobacco Company have been conducting a
series of experiments having as their
object the Improvement of smoking
tobaccos.
And it Is interesting to know that one
Of the greatest of their discoveries was one
Of the simplest and that was, that cooking
or toasting tobacco improved 1t in every
way, just as cooking most foods improves
them.
They took real Burley tobacco, grown
in this country; toasted it as you would
toast bread; moistened 1t to replace the
natural moisture driven off by toasting;
made 1t into cigarettes, called them
LUCKY STRIKE, the toasted cigarette"
and offered them to the public.
Theresult has been the greatest demand
ever created for any tobacco product in a
similar length of time.
The change produced by toasting is not
only most wholesome, but the favor IL
greatly improved, justas cooking improves
meat for example.
adult
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

Under and by virtue of the powers
conferred on the undersigned in a deed
OF trust dated the 10th day of January,
1917, from c. NJ. Dickens and wife to
n. c. Hughes, Jr., Trustee, the under
signed will, on the 9th day of March,
1918, at IL o'clock M. at the Post Office
Door in the Town of Rosemary, N. C.
sell for cash to the highest bidder that
certain lot or parcel Of land situate in
Roanoke Rapids Township, Halifax
County, North Carolina and described
as follows: it being lot No. 1914 on the
plot of Roanoke Rapids Power Company
on the east side of Roanoke Avenue,
and fronting rs feet thereon and extend
ing back in parallel lines lao feet.
N. c. Hughes, Jr., Trustee.
febS-l5-22m1
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

While the government studies
itself into a headache over a way
to meet the submarine situation
this spring, the naval strategy
board does not want to forget
the invention Of Editor Howard
Jones of the Warrenton Record,
by which we would pump the
ocean dry and leave the sumner
sible stranded, advises the
Greensboro Daily News.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
NOTICE

WHEREAS, default has been made
in the payment of the note secured by a
deed Of trust executed by C. M. Dickens
and wife, on the second day of Decem-
Der, 1915, to the undersigned trustee.
which said deed of trust Is of record in
the office of the Register of Deeds of
Halifax County, North Carolina, in
book 278, at page l6l.
NOW THEREFORE, in accordance
with the terms of the said deed of trust
the undersigned trustee will sell at
public auction, for cash, at the Court
house door, in the town of Halifax. N.
g, at twelve o'clock noon, March 4,
1918, lot No. 1898 Twelve Hundred and
rhirtyeight) fronting twenty-five (25)
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear There 10
only one way to cure catarrhal Der mess,
and that is by a constitutional remedy.
catarrhal Deafness lie caused by an In
famed condition OF the mucous lining OF
the Eustachian Tube When this tube 10
Unnamed you have a rumbling sound or i'm
perfect hearing, and when II 10 entirely
closed Deafness Is the result Unless the
restored to Its normal condition. hearing
VIII be destroyed forever. Many cases OF
DEAFNESS are caused by catarrh, which In
an inhamed condition of the mucous sur
races Hairs Catarrh Medicine acts thru
the blood on the mucous surfaces az the
system
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case OF Catarrhal Deafness that cannot
De cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine Cir.
culars free. All Druggists 75c
+. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. q.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
ADDRESS TO AMERICA
Walt Whitman

AS a strong bird on pinions free,
Joyous, the amplest spaces heav.
onward cleaving,
One song, America, before | go,
I'd sing, Ger all the rest, with
trumpet sound,
For thee, the Future.
Sail sail thy best. Ship of De-
mocracy.
Of value is thy freight It's not
the Present only,
The Past is also stored in thee!
Thou holdest not the venture of
thyself alone
Not of thy western continent
alone.
Earth's resume entire floats on
thy keel, 0 Ship
Is steadied by thy spars.
With thee Time voyages in trust,
The antecedent nations sink or
swim. with thee;
With all their ancient struggles,
martyrs, heroes, epics, wars,
Thou bears't the other continents;
Theirs, theirsas much as thine, the
destination-port triumphant;
Steer, steerwith, good strong hand
and wary eye,
helmsman 80 thou carryest great
companions, -
Ienerable, priestly Asia sails
this day with thee,
md royal, feudal Europe sails
with thee.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

The South is the poorest part
of the Anglo-Saxon world, North
Carolina is next to the poorest
State in the South, said Mr..
Gilbert T. Stephenson, Director
of Service for the War Savings
Committee, at the Graded School
Auditorium on last Friday eve
ming. Mr.. Stephenson, didn't say
it, but its true nevertheless, that
the poorest specimens of human
ity in this town are those who
won't buy War Saving Stamps.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

feet on the east side of Roanoke Avenue,
near the town of Roanoke Rapids, N. C.
and running back the same width be-
tween parallel lines at right angles to
said Avenue one hundred and forty (l40)
feet to an alley. There is good resi-
dence situate upon this lot.
This the 22nd day of January 1918.
W. L. LONG,
Trustee.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

The latest of the Blu l-shiviki
stunts is to appoint John Reed
an American socialist, badly
wanted by the Department of
Justice as Consul General TO New
York City. We're thinking he'll
be a poor Reed to lean on this
new Consul of the More Demand.
full.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

The South must raise its own
foodstuffs this year Or go hungry
in the opinion of the Department
of Agriculture and the Director
General of Railways. Start that
garden.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

Germany's attitude in the
Russian peace matter is very
much like that of the man who
had hold of the bears tail
they're afraid to let 60.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

Those striking saipbWiders
evidently knew an immoyable
object when they met it in the
road.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

1t is a matter Of course that
there should be a bad odor in
connection with the Hog Island
Shipyard construction.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
Subscription $l.5o Year in Advance

All cards of thanks, resolutions of re-
spect, etc, etc. will be charged for at
the rate of one cent per word Cash
must accompany article in all cases ex-
cept here customer has u regular ac-
count. No insertions made for less
than rs cents.
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

Russia went to pieces before
peace came to her
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22

There may be a lot Of Ight
left in Col. Winter yet
Roanoke Rapids herald. [volume] (Roanoke Rapids, N.C.) 1914-192?, 1918-02-22
Friday, February %, 1918

Did you buy a few Wss to-day?
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
NEW AMBASSADOR FROM BRITISH US.
 REACHES ]. s.
Lord Reading Pays Tribute to American Soldiers
 Lost With Tuscania.

An Atlantic Port, Feb. 9.-A tribute to American soldiers lost in the sink ing Of the Tuscania as gallant men who have made the supreme sacrifice for their cOuntry's sake" was paid by Earl Reading, former lord chief Jus tice of England, who arrived here to- day as high commissioner extraOrdi- nary and plenitpotentiary on special mission to the United States. He will assume the duties of Sir Cecil Spring Rice, British ambassador at Washing ton who has been recalled.
 Earl Reading, who was accompan- jed by the countess of Reading and a suite of military and naval aides To night remained aboard the British steamship on which he made the voy- age. Tomorrow with his official par ty he will go to Washington.
 Assurances that the British people are prepared to endure whatever sui fering or sacrifice may be necessary ito obtain the only possible conclu- sion of this war" were given by Earl Reading in a statement issued upon his arrival.
 '"rhat the American people are equally prepared to make every e1ort to bring about this result is the surest guarantee that the cause Is just and the aim righteous" the statement con- cluued,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
RAILROAD STRIKE AND MANY RIOTS
 IN ARGENTINA
Expected Walkout Occurs and Men Make Wild
 Demonstrations.

Buenos Aires, Feb. 9.-A general railroad strike was called today thru out Argentine. Immediately upon quitting work the strikers began a wild demonstration turnout the coun- try Trains were wrecked, tracks destroyed, cars laden with wheat burned anf wires cut. Many passen5 ger and cereal trains are stalled at various points. Troops are being rushed to points of greatest disorder in Central. Argentine.
 The largest yards in the outskirts og Buenos Aires, which cover z2 blocks, were set afire by the strikers, who fought firemen. Exploding tank cars added to the flames.
 The strike is a fresh outbreak of labor troubles, dormant since Octo Der.
 In the riots destruction of propertj in the city of BuenosAiresalone' am- ounted to 100000 pesos. Fully one half Of this was wheat. corn, and linseed burned at the suburb of San Martin.
 Efforts are being made to spread the strike. to all classes Of workmen.
 Great uneasinesEs is felt because of danger to hundreds of tons of wheat at country stations awaiting shipment to the entente allies.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
Labor Probe Recommends Eiqflt
 Hour Day and Better Relations
Presidents Mediation Commission Suggests Remedies Tor Unrest of Workers-Say Capital Misunder-
 stands Labor and Plan for Better Relations

Washington, Feb. 9.-Elimination of profiteering, the eight hour day, less inconsistency between "our democratic purposes in this war abroad and the conduct of some of those guiding in dustry at home. and the recognition of some form of collective relationship between capital and labor as princi- pie in a national labor policy, are the principal recommendations of Presi- dent Wilson's mediation commission which just has finished a survey of slppl River, which the government considered most menacing to success full prosecution of the war.
 In return for this the commission holds, labor should surrender all practices which tend to restrict maxi mum efficiency" when it assured of sound conditions adn effective means for just redress of grievances.
 The commission headed by Secre- tary Wilson of the Department If La bor, went west principally to look into the copper strikes in the Arizona district and the I. w. w. activities in the lumber districts of the Pacific Northwest. It included in it's :nvesti gation, however, the dispute in the California oil fields, the threatened strike of Pacific Coast Telephone OF. orators the threatened strike of pack. ing house workers in Chicago, and the street railway trouble in Mime apolis and St. Paul.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
YANKEE GUNNfRS EXCEL FRENCH
 WITH THE '75'
French Artillery Officer
 Says Americans Work Excites Admiration.

Washington, Feb. 9.-Warm praise of the state of efficiency reached by Amerlcan gunners With the famous French 75 guns was received today from a French artillery officer, just k1rived in Washington to join an official mission. He said many of the American batteries have exceeded the best records made by French gunners, who have been using the 75 since that weapon was adopted.
 The officer described the work of one squad, which several times fired 30 rounds minute, as causing admir- ing comment thru the French armies. Four men. composed this squad, and so perfect was the movement of the each, the. French officer declared, that it was impossible to distinguish the slightest variation in intervals be- tween each shot for several minutes.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
Teuton Statement Reports Taking of More U. s.
 Troops By Boches.
SIGNED WITH UKRAINE BERLIN SAYS PEACE
Representative 0s Rada Settle Diner. encns with Hune.-Rada's Con trOl of Ukraine Is
 Doubtful
Associated Press Summary)

While only routine item in the German official statement of Satur- day, the few words in which the head quarters staff announces an operation in Lorraine held American interest to a greater degree than other war news. They carried news of raid upon American lines and capture of Amer ican soldiers by Germans. North west of Toul," said the statement au- thorized by the American censor as to location of the sector now held by the United States army, and it was near a town northwest of Toul that the Germans announced having taken "some American prisoners. The town IS Xivaly, and it is ten miles east of St. Mihiel, indicating that the Amer clans are holding a line along the southerly edge of the famous St. Mihiel salient in French Lorraine, southeast of Verdun. This raid was but one of several conducted on the western front, the most important of which apparently was carried out in Lorraine, but by the French, near Dioncourt. The French penetrated a German po- sltion, cleared out the trenches and brought back 30 prisoners and a ma chine gun.
 Report Ukraine Peace.
 While these activities were going on in the west, the central powers were busy with manifold peace negotiations on the eastern front and announced having come to peace agreement with the Ukraine, signed at two o'clock Sat urdav morning. The announcement, marking the first peace concluded by any belligerent, may turn out to be of importance. It has been largely dis counted, however, by apparent anxiety manifested by representatives of the Ukrainian rada at Brest-Litovsk to
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
SIMS EXPLAINS HOUSE RAILROAD
 RATE MEASURE
Says I. c. c. Without Power to Make Such Changes
 As War Demands.

Washington, Feb.9.-In reporting the administration railroad bill to the house today, Chairman Sims said the house interstate commerce committee had amended the bill so as to vest final rate-malling authority in the president because under the present law the interstate commerce commis- sion could not make such necessary changes in rates as war control de- mands.
 The bill, as amanded, gives ship Ipers and consignees all protection they now have, the report continued, as the interstate commerce commis- sion, upon complaint, shall hold hear ings to discuss the justice Of any rate in the light of war conditions. Af- ter these hearings tae commission will report conclusions to the presi- dent for whatever action ya mlay deem necessary.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
WAR DEPARTMENT ASKS
 FOR $ll,295,O00 MORE
This Amount Needed, in Addition tC Billion And-a-Half, for Arms,
 and ArsenalS.

Washington, Feb. 9.-While the house appropriation committee was putting the finishing touches today on the billion and-a-half dollar defi- ency appropriation bill for the army and the navy, it received an addition al request from the war department for an immediate appropriation of $11, ,295, ,000 Six million is for manu- featuring, repairing, procuring and issuing arms, five million for termin- al storage facilities, and small sums for improvements at the WatertOwn and Rock Island arsenals.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
NEW ORLEANS TO CELEBRATE

New Orleans. Feb. 9.-A flag re- gently adopted for the city of New Or leans was raised over the city hall to- day in commemoration of the 200th an- niversary of the founding of the city, It was originally nlanned to observe the bicentennial with elaborate festiv- ities and exercises at this time, but these features have been postponed un- til April At that time the corner stone will be laid for a large bronze statute of Chevalier Bienville, the his toric Frenchman who was the founder of New Orleans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
nrlv Thousand Names Re- ceived Up to Midnight
 Over Crowded Cables.
IT $. OFFICIAL FIGURES STILL DIFFER ON LCsS
War Departments Reports Still Show 91O Missing. 113 Americans.
 British Miss 1G6, l47 '2 Americans.

Washington, Feb. 9.-At midnight S6 hours after the, troop ship Tus c' snia had been tOrredoed ard sun by t German submarine, a little moro than 1000 names of survivors had been announced here by the com mittee on public information. A few more names were in possession of l tae war department. but will not be arranged for publication before to- morrow, by which time it is eXpsct- ! ed the remainder will have come ov- CT the cables from England. All day l long steady stream of names flow l cd in over cables and telegraph wires, and was given right of Way over all except urgent business. Despite this, more than 150 names out of the first thousand arrived in such jumbled form that they meant practically nothing, and it will be necessary 10 check back before they can be sraightened out. The large force of clerks wil be at work again tomoI- row morning, if the names continue CVhlC III. by ouIiudy 1lSllt IL IS
 expected a full list of the missing l will be available, by checking the list l of survivors against official list of those who sailed on the ,Tuscania. Only Partial List Published.
 Partial lists of survivors were tsle- sraphed to many cities, and were
 anxiously scanned by thousands. Those who failed to find the name | they sought may be treasured to the extent of knowing that lists pub lkhed today were about one quarter l Of the total of all known to have been
 saved and the fact that a name does not appear in the list does not neces- sarlly indicate a loss.
 There were no new official figures | on losses available tonight, and the war departmenYs figures continue l @ ollfer from those of the British hd-
 miralty The war department esti- mates 2lO persons missing, 113 of eaem American soldiers, while the British admiralty figures put the loss |at l66 missing, 147 of them Ameri can officers and enlisted men.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
NEW US TRANSPORTS USNKABLE NA0N SOLVES THE UBAT PROBLEM
.Pickanniny, 6, Slays Playmate,
 Aged 7 Years
Detected Dragging Body to Cotton Patch After
 Shooting.

Morris Sheppard, not the Texas senator, but negro boy of seven years of age, was shot and instantly killed yesterday afternoon by Frank James Matthews, another pickannlny who but recently attained his sixth year, and whose aim, despite his youth, seems as unerring as that of the once noted bandit for whom ap- parently he was named.
 Morris and Frank were left togeth- CT m farm house about eight miles north of Pine, Bluff, while the other members of the family were in the field. The youngsters quarreled. and Frank went into the house, dragged out a single-barreled shotgun, cooked sent charge of shot into Morris head.
 A white man, passing the place a short while later, observed Frank dragging an object toward the cotton patch A closer scrutiny disclosed that the object left a trail of blood Investigation disclosed that the object was boys body, and that Frank was dragging il by the heels.
 Deputies Sheriff J. l.. McBurnett and Wallace Bryan made an 1nvesti- gation, obtaining the information re- lated in the foregoing.
 "I won't do it any morc," Frank told Mir. 'McBulnett, who says he can not understand "how that little nigger could cock and point that gun-he ism; but little bit of a fellow, not more than this high,' explained the deputy sheriff, holding his band about three feet from the floor. Because of his youth, Frank was not arreteu.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-02-10
Arkansas Men On Board.

Little Rock, Feb. 9.-According to ,alormatlon which has been sent out py the war department, 15 Arkan- sahs' one officer and IA enlisted Ieh' were aboard the Tuscania when ele was torpedoed by German sub llaFlhe The list of survivors has not ". Deen announced.
 rrsollowlng rs is the list of Arkansans: r,rst Lieut.. John H. Sutton Jr., Alnle Rock, Tooth Aero SGuad.
 rIlVate William E. Bennett, Rogers, ,es Set. Thomas NJ. Clanon, Tyronza, lSla Aero Squad.
 eo., rnvate William E. Moore, Hope, 1Vta Engineers.
 Engineers. ''N A'0"' ~ei''e' AV'n Engineers. 'e'0een' A0'" e0t, to1p T Russell II. Rowe, Lepanto, ,Da,a alvate James R. ,Politto, Hunt 'uSson, 10th Engineers.
 c.r t'"ase al John Richardson. Junction S'H, 70 Engineers.
 l9nsa ue'; Max w. Friend. Fort Smith. Iv,a Engineers.
 90,h 0Mhrlvate Grover c. Edington- Miner -''a Engineers. N,a Engineers, ''e''''e'''' Engineers. ''''"e 'ox' Rebelh 2oth do '.Ma1e 9N,a James L. Carter, Fl Dora bov 'lea1e saat Edward L. Anderson, Bige- IVY, Tsa soth }, Engineers.
 cf Lii iiant mst does not include the names Quean, ,u. shelby NJ. Saunders of De- don en a, and Private vielvin R. Hern- |vsre M ., .Lewisville, who previously ruse.ns;esp e reported to have been on the portsd s1ia; s;. Lieutenant Saunders re, eeivsS ssS his rescue in a cIablegram re- Mrs. F 1ere M u Thursday by his sister,
 w. Hamilton, 521 Palm street Ashsrm.aalnlzser mans Will be manufactures by ton. nsIeade s . F, Pringle. Inc, Charles
 o'' With s2OO,ooo capital.