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The Prescott daily news., 1918-03-22

The w. c. T. U. will appreciate all orders for plants, roses, bulbs, etc. Confer with Mrs. A. H. Sykes or Mrs. John M. Pittman.
The Prescott daily news., 1918-03-22
This space donated to the War Savings Committee by
Prescott Mercantile Co.
 07e R C v Store
Report of Condition of
 BANK OF PRESCOTT Prescott. Nevada Co. Ark.

at the close of business March 4, 1918
 RESOURCES
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
CITY SCHOOLS OPENED
White and Colored Schools
Opened Last Monday.
White Enrolment
$50. Colored 80.

The City Schools opened Mon.
day morning with appropriate
exercises. A short but enthusi.
astic talk was made by w. N.
Everett, Chairman of the School
Board, after devotional exercises
had been conducted by Rev. Z.
". Robertson.
About $50 children were pres
ent for the opening and new en-
rollments are being made each
day. The enrolment in the High
School was90, with several others
to enter next week. This is very
gratifying when the scarcity of
labor, the new registration, ETC.,
are taken into consideration. The
18th grade has an enrolment of
IL.
1t is thought that a splendid
faculty has been gathered to-
gether and a fine years work is
looked for. Children of school
age should be enrolled without
further delay. Steps will be
taken next week to enforce the
compulsory attendance law in
all cases of children 8-14 years
of age who have not enrolled,
and cases will be brought against
the parents of such children.
The teachers homes here as
follows: Miss Kate Finley at E.
B. Terly's; Misses Vernon and
Turner at Hotel Rockingham;
Misses Merrill Groves, Isabel
Arrowwood, MaryW ortham, Mary
caves, Anne Watkins and Alma
Black with Mrs. B. F. Reynolds;
Misses Ethel Brock and Lillian
Rose with Mrs. J. B. O'Brien;
Misses Flora Cooper and Georgia
Faison with Mrs. H. c. Dockery;
Miss Sailie Boddie with Mrs. A.
c. Everett. &.
For the present month the
first grade will be taught by Miss
Bernice Turner from 9 to 1890
o'clock. The advanced first grade
will be taught by Miss Annie
Watkins from 1890 to 4 o'clock.
Parents should take notice of this
arrangement, which is the best
that can be done under the cir.
cumstances, and send the pupils
at these hours, respectively.
The enrolment in the Colored
School was 80. After the cotton
picking is over this will be in
creased to more than 200.
j.. Bell
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
Flour.

1t is very probable that within
a short period practically all the
-four sold throughout this Coun-
try will be ready mixed, so that
the housewife will not be incon-
venienced to the extent of having
to mix her 20 per cent of corn
meal or other substitutes with
-four. Until the mixed fours are
obtainable it is very earnestly de-
sired that every patriotic Ameri-
can housewife will not make any
bread, cake or other wheat pro-
duct without incorporating with
it one pound of corn meal or
other cereal substitute for each
four pounds of flour. Necessarily
this mixing will have to be done
in the home until the mills are
prepared to turn out mixed flour
in large quantities.
w. N. Everett,
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

THE interest in the ten counties
between Charlotte and Whining
ton in a concrete military high
way will manifest itself in large
gathering at Rockingham Tues
day, Sept. Oath. Charlotte alone
is expected to send by auto a DEL
egation of 200 enthusiasts, and
the adjacent counties will be no
less backward in seeing what
possibilities the proposed plan
contains. The visitors will be
heartily welcomed to our city.
The chairman of the local Com
mittee on Arrangements, W. N.
Everett, has appointed the follow
ing gentlemen as a Reception
Committee, and these gentleme n
are requested to meet at the
Opera House at 10 o'clock the
morning of the oath:
ROCKINGHAM---W. E. McNair, Mayor;
E. A. Allen, President of Chamber of
Commerce; w. B. Cole, T. c. Leak, Geo.
P Entwistle, M. W. McRae, Leake S.
Covington, l. S. London, DR.. A. c. Ever
EFT, W. L. Parsons, A. G. Corpening, E.
B. Lilies, A. Arenson, J. L. Everett, F. w.
Leak, Geo. S. Steele B. T. Payne, ]. w.
Jenkins, John c. Dockery, w. E. Thomas,
J. A. McAulay, H. S. Ledbetter.
HAMLET----E. A. Lackey, T. M. Rose,
W. R. Land J. P. Gibbons.
HOFFMAN----Roger A. Derby, ]. w.
Butler, Franklin Gates, C. H. league.
ROBERDEL----J. w. Culberson, Will
Mckenzie, T. B. Baxley, G. G. Terry.
LEDBETTER--.-Do Culberson.
ELLERBE----Jas. R. Bennett, B. B.
Farlow.
COVINGTON----David Parsons, Alfred
Baldwin.
STEELES----Jas. L. Baldwin, R. R.
Little, A. J. Little, w. A. Smith.
WOLF PITT. M. Dockery, ]. F.
Diggs, Henry Harrington, D. F. Garris
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
DEATHS

ADAMS-Frances Grace, 10
months-old child of A. J. Adams,
of Roberdel No. 2,died Sept. 10th.
Interment at Zion.
HENRY-William F., aged As,
died at Norfolk hospital Sept. 9th,
Of erysipelas of the face. The
remains were brought here the
18th, and interment at Zion. Mr.
Henry was a deputy sheriff Of
Richmond county for many years
and for some months had beer
at work in and near Norfolk.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

OFFICERS charged with the
duty of taking auto numbers had
practically nothing to do in that
line during Rockingham's second
gasless Sunday. There were
fewer cars on the streets than on
any one day in years. Bad
weather doubtless had a little to
do with the absence of some of
the machines, but the bulk of
them were kept in because of
the request Of the fuel admins
tration, and the desire of the re-
trainers to be patriotic; their
selfdenial was voluntary.
Sunday before last (the first
gasless Sunday the Chief of
Police counted l59 cars on the
streets and passing through the
city. Last Sunday he found but
% cars, and each one rendered a
satisfactory excuse. This evil
dences a remarkable acquiesence
on the part of our people, and
their patriotism cannot be too
strongly commended.
The Chief of Police will again
take the numbers next Sunday,
and will publish the names of
those. found PLEASURE RID
ING.
1t is to be hoped the response
next Sunday will be as unani-
nous as tnat of last Sunday.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

Mr.. Page states as his opinion
that if the people give our armies
and our Allies the backing they
deserve we will win the war in
1919; otherwise it may continue
for several years. And if our
people are to do their part. they
must strip to the bone, consider
the war as their most important
business individually and be
guided in every action by the
influence of such action upon the
winning of the war. Our people
have not yet realize what real
war strain is; we have not yet
had even a taste of real sacrifice.
During the present fiscal year
we must export to our Allies
100000 tons of foodstuffs as
against 100000 tons which we
exported last year; and in adj
dition to this, we must lay up a
reserve against any possible crop
shortage of next year.
And so it behooves every indi-
vidual to rigidly follow the Food
Administrations MOTIF" Buy less;
eat less; waste nothing" while
the producer must add to this
produce more"
And not only in foodstuffs, but
we must also economic in labor.
Non-essential industries must go.
IN France IS per cent of the
farming work is being done by
women and children, and the
other 5 per cent by old men and
wounded men. Think of that!
We shall not approach such a
condition as that, but patriotic
women must volunteer for such
positions as they can fill.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

THE ginning figures made pub
lie this week show the largest
amount of cotton ginned to Sept.
LIST ever known. The amount
ginned was 1,O39,62O, as against
614,787 to same date last year,
and 850,668 to same date two
years ago.
In Richmond county the num-
Der of bales ginned to Sept. LIST
was 228, as against II ginned to
Sept. LIST, 1917.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
Sugar.

The sugar situation is I'M
changed. The October allotment
will be the same as the September
allotment, and it is not likely that
there will be Any change in the
sugar ration until next summer.
But there will be further restric-
tons on the use of sugar for the
less essential.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

Miss Jeanette Rankin, of Mon
tana, the only woman Congress-
man, ran for the United States
Senate from that State in the
Republican primary two weeks
ago and was defeated.
The official vote in the recent
South Carolina primary for
United States Senate was Blease
40,456, Dial 65,064, Rice 5,317.
Dials majority over Blease was
24,608.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
Kaiser's Face.

J.C. Stubs says whenit comes
to freak eggs, his frizzled hen is
egg-sactly on the job. He brought
the ost-Dispatch an egg Satur-
day, on one side of which with a
little imagination one could see
the outlines of the Kaiser's face,
event to the protruding horns.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

w. P. Pollock, of Cheraw, was
nominated for the short term.
Senate, in the second South Car.
DINA primary Tuesday, over
Thos. H. Peoples, by approx.
mately $4,000. Only $4,000 votes
were cast, out of a normal vote
Of 100000.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
Marriage Licenses.

Monday was another red-letter
day in the issuance of marriage
licenses, three colored couples
securing such.
During the past week the fol-
lowing secured license:
Oscar Page and Kathleen Giles
pie, COL, issued 9th.
Edgar Kellock and Tobitha
Polk, colored, 9TH.
Will Jackson and Dora Lock
hart, COL, 9th.
Adam Stanback and Daisy Stan
back, COL, 9th.
Ernest Hammond and Lizzie
Mcqueen, COL, 9th.
William McSween and Marti-
tia Graham, col, 18th.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12

The Director for Richmond
county, U. S. Public Service Re
serve, is I. S. Covington.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
Weekly Casualties Review.
Killed, Wounded, Prisoners and
Missing as officially announced
during the past week for North
Carolina and Richmond County.

The almost uninterrupted ad-
vance OF the Allied forces since
July 18th, has in the past few
days been slowed down almost
to a standstill; due to two causes:
1st, the Intervention of the au-
tumnal eqinox with hard rains;
and, End, the fact that the Germ
ans have finally been forced
back to their original linden.
burg line and are here making a
stand backed by a marvellous
amount of artillery.
The Hindenburg Notifications,
which now become the heart of
the whole front, is not a single
trench, a narrow line of con.
crete defenses, but are a series
of strongholds in places as much
as 10 miles deep. These lines
are a most elaborate series of
defenses. And sjust here it
seems the Germans will remain
until the Big Push is started by
the Allies next Spring with
Americas 100000 soldiers.
True, the British have broken a
frontal part of this line, at the
northern end, to width of 10
miles, but the main line itself
seems for the present mistaken
However, heavy fighting before
winter sets in has by no means
ended. The consensus of opin.
ion is chat the main Hindenbure
line will not be attacked front
ally, but the ends, in Flanders or
the north, and Lorraine, on the
south. will be attacked in an eff
fort to flank, and in that way
force a retirement to the German
defenses nearer the Belgian Dor
der. And if this flank attack
happens, it will bring into the
fight hundreds of thousands Of
American troops, the great ma.
jority of whom are with the
British General Plummer in
Flanders, and the French Gen.
eral CASTELAR, in Lorraine.
The total American casualties,
wounded, killed and prisoners,
to date number 28,500, of which
the Marines have lost $3.50.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
Killed in Action.

Don F. Sutton, Lumberton. died
wounds.
SGT. Chas. S, Wyke, Andrews
Cpl Chambers Bunting Asheville.
Cpl John 7. Ring. Kemersville.
Wounded in Action.
Ii. Harold Perry, Wilmington.
CPL Shell B. Williams, Benaja.
John K. Benton, Evergreen.
Carries Garland, Ewart.
SCI. Joel Brown, Cresmont.
j. M. Montague, Elm City.
Clarence Burleson, Bakersville.
Carter Roberts, Creedmore.
VeSter L. Andrews, Piney Creek.
Ira E. Kiser, Gastonia.
Robt. A. Harrington, Wilmington.
Thomas LeetS, Wise.
CPL Jas. B Anderson, Wilson.
Cpl. VIM. +. Jones, Dunn.
Walter C. Thompson, Norwood.
James |, Jenret, Ashe.
Frederick P. Vinson, Gneiss.
It. Hurley B. CASTOR, Lowell.
Robt Batson, Vista.
John Midget, Lowland.
Cpl. Carl A. Jackson, Salisbury,
Cpl. JAS M. Pike, Alexander,
Vann W. Flynn, Asheville.
John E. Young, Cleveland.
Hillary F. Mcclure, Waynesvine.
Victor S. Rice, Asheville.
,pl Henry A. Moore, Charlotte.
Walter E. Burnett, Champion.
'om B. Chalmers, Raleigh.
Iohn ". Moody, Harvard.
Ilsey Shahine, Raleigh.
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1918-09-12
RICHMOND COUNTY.

Corporal Edward C. Hudson, severely
wounded in action July 1St Son Of Mrs.
Della McKeithan, and grandson Of Mrs.
Clint Robbins
Cpl. Willie W. Shankle, Rham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
THE PASSING OF PUCK

From the New York Herald.
 9NNUCK drew it's last breath few days
 IN ago. The news of its final passing S will stir the memories of an elder generation of Americans who knew it in it's prime.
 Puck was born before the commercial. :. zation of literature had begun. Con- ceived of brains, reared by parents Of courage and high principle, it lived to be come one of the most powerful influences in this country. It's earlier years, like those of many a great man, were Q struggle for life, but they served to stim-
 ulate, not t( embitter. Indeed, some Of it's most striking cartoons were printed when it seemed to those interested that each issue might be it's last.
 It is not easy to apportion to each one of the men whose talents contributed to the making of this great journal of satira
 and humor the exact mead of credit due.
 Joseph Kepp!er may be said to have cre- ated a schoo, of cartooning that was at least new to this country. The keen wit
 and literary gifts of H. c. Burner served to lift the paper above the standard set by it's predecessors in the field of humo- J. A. Wales Frederic B. Opper, R. K. Munkittrick, Brander Matthews, A. E. Watrous w. J. Henderson, Ernest liar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24

vier and Car, Hauser were among those whose talents contributed to the ultimate success of Puck during it's period Of struggle.
 for mere clowning, but were instruments
 intended to serve serious and worthy purpose, and therein lay the secret or their success. The making of cartoons was business that enlisted the talents of the entire staff, each member offering unreserved criticism and the best ideas
 his brain could evolve. The brains of fully half a dozen experts went into tho famous cartoon of the "rattooed Man
 which proved powerful influence in the
 election of Grover Cleveland to the pres idency.
 With the passing of those who had
 made it, Puck entered upon the mournful Iperiod of it's decline The decay of a
 great mind from vigor to senility is al ways sad thing to contemplate, and
 Puck's end was as pitiful as that of liar per's Weekly, also a power for good In it's day. Passed from one incompetent
 hand to another, becoming first foolish and then senile, it drew its last breath in literary ''knackers yard" unheedsd
 and unwept by generation that knew 1 it not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24

German newspapers have at last ac- kDowledged that there are more than handful of American soldiers in France They've made a noise like several mil lion.
 < # x
 The felt campaign hat of the United States army will be used in France tc make felt soles for hospital slippers There's a sharp lesson in efficiency for you!
 The Kaiser granted six months vacation" to Crown Prince Frederick William much in the same way that a youngster is granted dose of castor oil.
 The bolsheviki might declare war on America three times a day for the next six months without causing Uncle Sam to shake in his boots.
 % # < A German officer with wooden arm was recently captured by the 10sth in fantry. There are many German officers with wooden heads
 + !. j.
 'I am the happiest man in the world, 7 said Caruso, just after he had married a beautiful young woman in New York. Old stuff, Enrico. It may possibly be true that grand fathers are fighting side-by-side with their grandchildren in the Kaisers de- pleted armies. Judging from the animated weeklies, crowned heads are doing a great deal of handshalSing these days-with mili- tary men. The new draft law will cause a rapid disa ppearance of the man about town and his fellow in idleness the well known clubman' Can there be such intrepid heroes on the battlefield as we see nightly perform ing deeds of valor on the motion picture screen? $ E < Officers would be a hardworked lot if they didn't do anything more than return the salutes of the enlisted men. x # # Tools rush in where angels fear to tread" particularly in discussing the strategy of Foch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
# # % Cotton Will Bring High Prices This Fall

THE continued deterioration in
 0 growing cotton accounts for the great jump in the market The price advanced Si2.50 a bale yester- day and there will probably be a further advance before the end of the month.
 Conservative cotton statisticians arc now estimating the crop at little more than twelve million bales. The world is hungry for the southern staple. A fourteen million-bale crop was needed, and with such a yield a 3o-c cent market might have been ex- pected. With the drop from the gov |ernment's June estimate of fifteen million three hundred thousand to twelve million or twelve million five hundred thousand bales an exception ally bullish market will be in order right along.
 If the farmers dispose of their cot ton gradually instead of rushing 1t to market there is good reason to believe that they will receive prices ranging from 35 to 40 cents. It is a safe prediction that the spot market will be strong at 40 cents before Christ mas.
 While there has been some deterl- oration in Alabama and other states in the southeastern group, Texas and Oklahoma, where bumper crops were in fine condition in the early sum- mer, have suffered greatly. The crop in Texas instead of being one of the largest ever grown in that state will be one of the smallest. , Alabama did not increase its cotton acreage this year more than 20 pel cent as compared with 1917, but uE to this time indications point to higf
 record production per acre. This
 state will probably pick seven hun ldred thousand bales, and if the price
 averages 35 cents the total value o1
 the crcp will go far above any pas
 rce orc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
Baltimore American Is 145 Years Old

CONGRATULATIONS to tn e W Baltimore American, which has just celebrated it's 145th anniversary! A newspaper published in a town of historic associations, in it's files may be read the narrative of every event. full happening on this continent from colonial times to the present.
 If we are not mistaken, for more than fifty years Gen. Felix Agnus, editor and publisher of the American, has been associated with the paper, beginning in the business office and later assuming the dual responsibili- ties which he has borne with distinc- tion for many years. The American has weathered its own storms and passed through many national crisis, but has continued to march forward and has always lived up to it's motto, "We Build"
 Housed in one of the most impos- ing skyscrapers in Baltimore, the American building, the American of today bears little resemblance to the paper George Washington used as an advertising medium, yet it retains the same high principles it had in the days when the nation was young.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

It is easy for a thin girl to look soul full But corn fed girl merely looks lazy when she tries it.
 Once in a while you meet a man who is such a perfect lady that you would like to bet that he is wearing insertion on his underwear.
 Never hold a woman accountable fol the remarks she makes. She talks SC much that she hasn't time to listen te half she says.
 The old-fashioned woman who usec to confine herself to white lies now has a daughter who can lie in all the fash ionable shades.
 Love is blind. But that isn't the req son why your wife can't see that there are holes in your socks and buttons of your clothes.
 When it comes to running people down, an elevator man isn't in 1t witf T gossip.
 It takes some men life, time to dis cover that working for living IS th' only easy way to obtain one
 A woman looks better in the hat sh' buys than a man looks in the hat h, buys because a man has to buy ha to fit his head. He can't buy a hat tt fit his face and then arrange his hail to make it fit the hat.
 The lamentations of Job were mer' jazz songs of jay compared to th' monologue of the sport who has jus had set of fours beaten in pokel game.
 It seems to us that it must be kint of embarrassing to go into smal town and start new undertaking busi ness when the town already has an un dertaker It looks as though you hat hopes that something unpleasant woult happen to the natives. It was good thing for the Mormon church that it 'wasn't started whel grocery prices are what they are il 1918. Any man who Is trying to supper one wife wonders what g Mormon wants with two. Tho trouble with having enemies fl that you are liable to let hating then interfere with your regular work | Some men get theft hell in the mex world But the man who answers { matrimonial ad and grabs off a mai order wife doesn't have to wait tha long.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
As Long as Life Lasts
 Success May Be Won

TIT is not uncommon for man to 0 succeed after reaching middle age. The annals of business are filled with accounts of men who have re- couped their fortunes, not once but several times, at period of life when resourcefulness and energy are SUD- posed to be on the wane.
 Yet, such cases are always inter- esting and never fail to draw news paper comment. So many of us give up the struggle too soon that there should be an inspiration in the ca reers of those who achieved success after they had become comparatively old. James Douglas, a mining en- gineer, died recently in New York, leaving an estate of $20,000, ,000, amassed since he was 40 years old Curiously enough, his father had oeen
 
 ruined by fake mining schemes.
 MT. Douglas, at one time manager of an insane asylum, took up, when 40 years old, the study of mining en- gineering. He operated in the United States, Canada and Mexico. He was regarded as an expert in copper. Ht gave away large sums to philan' thropic work and there were severa bequests of this kind mentioned in his will.
 Senator Csllinger, who died ths other day, at : ripe age. did not "fine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
TEARS OF THE HoHENzoLLERN

TEARS OF THE HOHENZOLLERN Edith M. Thomas, in the New York Times.
 c'Be your tears wet?"-King Lear.) Who weeps, who weeps? The Hohenzol-
 Tern weeps. See how all vantage for himself he He nothing to the wretched victim For now the luxury of tears he thieves! Who weeps. who weeps? The Hohenzol-
 Tern weeps- The Kaiser-at those fields his servant
 reaps.
 Death plays at servant to this over- Shall he repay Death with his iron
 award?) Who weeps. who weeps? The Hohenzol-
 Tern weeps- The Kaiserin along in mourning Too late. Tears had become you long But now they cannot "suage the worlds
 vast woe! Who weeps. who weeps? The Hohenzol- Tern weeps- But what? This Is no crying from tho deeps! The world demands. "Be your tears wetr'-Ah, no, But days are coming when they shall bs so!
 whc weeps. who weeps7 The Hohenzoa- Tern weeps- Rash Prince. who see your own ip ] slaughtered heaps, Does fresh and joyous battle" tempt | you yet? | tweep-- for yourself! Tour tears. in faith.
 arc wet!