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BUY LIBERTY BONDS To Prohibit Public Gatherings In State Dr. Rankin Advises Health Officers To Take This Step To Combat Influenza EIGHT THOUSAND CASES ARE REPORTED Governor Bickett Addresses Appeal To Medical and Nursing Professions Urging Vol. unteers in Emergency; Dr. Rankin Goes To Conference of Health Officers in Atlanta In the face of the rapid advance of the epidemic of Spanish influenza in North Carolina, Dr, W. 8.

Rankin, Seeretary of the State Board of Health, instructed all county health officers in North Carolina yesterday that, appearance of grippe or Spanish influenza in any city, town, village, or thickly settled community, steps should he taken to prohibit schools, moving pieture shows, fairs, eireuses, and other public gatherings, including church services and Sunday schools under Chapter 62, Public Laws of 1911, 9, 10, 14, and 15. In addition. Governor Bickett has issued an appeal for doctors and nurses to aid in relief work. To date approximately eight thousand cases of Spanish influenze have been reported in North Carolina, with known deaths resulting from pneumonia following the influenza exceeding fifty. situation continues acute in ern portions of the State, with the epidemie steadily advaneing into new territory.

Approximately six thousand cases have oceurred in the city of Wilmington, and the territory in the immediate vicinity of that eity has suffered worse than any other section 80 far. It was on necount of the unprecedented epidemic and the rapid work which it has involved a large per centage of the population, making it impossible for local medjeal and nursing professions to render the necessary aid to the sick, that S. Rankin, State Health Officer, recalled the official advice given two days ago to the effect that schools, moving picture shows, fairs and other public assemblages should not be closed or prohibited. Dr. Rankin's Instructions.

In recalling this advice, Dr. Rankin sent the following instructions to the health officers of every county of the State: "After conference and with the hearty approval Governor Bickett, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Dr. J. Y. Joyner; the man of the State Council Defense, Dr.

D. H. Hill, and Major Kinyoun, of the United States Army, I now strongly advise that on the appearance of grippe Spanish influenza in any city, town, village, or thickly settled rural section, schools, moving picture shows, fairs, and other public gatherings, including, church prohibited services under and chools, be Laws of 1911, Sections 9, Chapter 10, 62, 14 and 15. "It is urged by the State Superintendent, of Public Instruction account that where schools are closed on of the epidemic, or where the schools have, not opened, teachers can render a vital service bv volunteering as lay nurses. "Move promptly.

Human life is at stake." Two members of the staff of the State Board of niemen'are now in the field directing relief work in the sections most in need. Surgeon General Blue, of the United States Publie Health Service, has been asked to send at once four experts from his department to assist. A number of nurses have been furnished by the Southern division of the Red Cross and a number of volunteer physicians in the State have been assigned to stricken districts and are now on the job. Governor Asks Volunteers. There is, however, need for additional volunteers of both doctors and nurses.

In addition local units of the Red Cross are being asked to the members who have taken the course in first aid and hygiene to serve as 98- sistant nurses. eases every member of families have been stricken and have suffered from lack of proper food and ordinary attention. "Our State is in the throes of the worst epidemic we have had for more than a generation. Spanish influenza has rendered several of our eastern counties helpless. Many communities and thousands of patients are unable to seeuro doctors or nurses, and the aim asking volunteers from the situation is rapidly, growing worse.

medical and nursing professions to render aid, in our, serious emergency. Any doctor or nurse who can possibly be spared from his or her community, even for only a few days, can do valsable service. for If the State in this notify time great you can serve, the State Board of Health by wire, giving the date and length of time for which you will be available. Traveling expenses and salary at fifteen dollars per day will be provided for each doctor, and the usual compensation for nurses. I earnestly urge you to respond for this patriotic, work." Dr.

W. S. last night for Atlanta where today there will be conference of health officers of the Southern States, together with the southern division of the Red Cross, to devise ways and means of affording the greatest possible amount of aid in relief work during the emergency. The State Sanatorium for the tubercular, at Sanatorium, N. has announced that it would be closed to visitors until the epidemic of influenza has subsided.

There are several hundred patients there being treated for tuberculosis. No cases of influenza has developed at the institution yet. W. C. T.

U. Convention Called Off. Mrs. T. Adelaide Goodno, president of the North Carolina Woman's Christian Temperance Union, announced yesterday that the State convention of the W.

C. T. U. which was to have been held next week in Charlotte, had been called off on account of the epidemic of Spanish influenza. THE NEWS BUILDING AT CAMP TO START MONDAY Holliday Creuse, of Greensboro, Have The Contract A ABOUT 3,000 MEN WILL BE ENGAGED Major Lang Wants Housing Accommodations Outside Raleigh Construction work on Camp Polk will begin Monday with the arrival of large force of workmen who have been employed to build the tank training school here.

An announcement made yesterday afternoon by Maj. Louis M. Lang, construction quartermaster, was to the effect that work would begin Monday and go forward as rapidly as accommodations could be provided for workmen. Huts will be built between the camp borders and the railroad, between Raleigh and Cary, to accommodate white workmen, while arrangements have been made to care for the colored workmen the population nt Method. Between two and three hundred men, in addition to the enlisted labor, will arrive Monday.

The contract for building Camp Polk is held by Holliday and Creuse Company of Greensboro, and their equipment has arrived here for the job. As three thousand men already, will be employed on the work and they will arrive just 0.8 8001 2.9 housing facilities can be arranged. Major Lang last night expressed the hope that accommodations for some of the number could be had in the smaller towns near Raleigh, in which event he would arrange for special trains to bring them to and carry them from work. contractors have assured the camp authorities that the labor question will not be one to worry with. Carpenters can be had in any number almost, they have stated, and there is every indication that the work will he pushed as rapidly as it is possible.

Construction will start on a basis of providing accommodations for 7,500 men within the camp. The field engineers have staked around the entire 16,000 acres and the committee from the Chamber of Commerce has announced that there will be 110 difficulty in consummating the blanket lease between the government and the holding company that covers the camp area. It has been estimated that fifty per cent of the cotton crop within the camp area can be saved. Appraisers have been named by the Chamber of Commerce to pass upon the value of those crops in the sections that building will begin on before harvest settlement will be made for the crops government. MORE POWER PLANNED FOR CAROLINAS SOON Power Companies Asking War Industries Board For Authority To Proceed The City Commissioners yesterday endorsed the proposal of the Carolina Power and Light Company, the Yadkin River Power Company, the Carolina Gas and Electric Company, and the Palmetto Power and Light Company for the construction of electric transmission system connecting the existing transmission system with the new bydro-electric plant of the Wateree Power Company on the Wateree river, near Camden, S.

and these concerns are making application to the War Industries Board for permission to proceed with the work, and asked the endorsement of the city of Raleigh to this end. The object of the proposed work, according to representations of the power companies, is to distribute approximately 20,000 horsepower in the companies. The proposal involves the construetion of eighty-two miles of 100,000 volt, double current, steel tower transmission line from Laurinburg to Wateree, near Camden; -five miles of 22,000 volt, wood pole, distribution lines for the purpose of connecting Laurinburg, N. with McColl, and Burnsville, S. and the Wateree plant; a number of short distribution lines approximately from ten to twenty miles connecting the prospective consumers; the construction of transforming, switching and distributing sub-stations at Hartsville, Florence, Marion, Darlington and Timmonsville, Camden, McColl, Bennettsville, S.

and Laurinburg, N. C. It is estimated that with the 20,000 additional horsepower will mean a saving in the territory involved of not less than 150,000 tons coal annually and the release of 3,000 coal cars annually which have been in service hauling coal. More than half million dollars has already been spent on this LATE Mr. L.

P. CHILD OF CHICAGO BURIED HERE. The remains of the late Mr. L. P.

Childs of Chicago were brought to Raleigh for interment yesterday morning. Mr. Child was a resident here for many vears and married Miss Lena Stitt of this city, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Buckner D.

Stitt, who survives him. Mrs. Child is a sister of Mrs. William Bailey of this city. Funeral services had been held in Chicago and the commitment services in Oakwood Cemetery were condueted by Rev.

C. A. Ashby, rector Church of the Good Shepherd. Mr. Child was eduented nt St.

Paul's school, Concord, N. and was an earnest communicant of the Episcopal Church. The pall-bearers were Judge W. A. Hoke, W.

J. Andrews, Ed: Chambers Smith, M. Rosenthal, Edgar Haywood, S. Brown Shepherd, Chas. Root, F.

P. Haywood, Edwin McKee. Among the out of town relatives here for the interment were Mrs. Lewis P. Child and Miss Child of New Canaan, Mr.

H. D. Childs of Asheville. AND SAYS COUNTY JAILS ARE UNSANITARY Inspectors of State Board of Health Make Report On Twelve Institutions NONE IS OBSERVING REGULATIONS IS CLAIM Bunoombe Jail Stands Highest In List With Score of Eighty- five and Half Inspectors of the State Board of Health have just completed the inspection of the county jails of the State, I and in the report made public by the State Board of Health yesterday it shown that not one was found which is observing the health regulations The names of twelve counties appear in the present report, the others having appeared in a list made public during the summer. Of the twelve in the present list Buncombe county stands highest with a score of 85 1-2, while the county jail of Beaufort, located at Washington, ranks lowest, its score being 58 1-2.

Nearly all the reports show that prisoners are not examined physically when committed to jail. This examination is part of the duties of the county health officer. Many take no precautions against vermin, while others tali, to provide necessary bedding and clothes and bathing facilities. There are still jails in the State where there are 110 protective measures taken against flies and mosquitoes, the prisoners being subjected to the danger being infected with the numerous diseases which are spread by these insects. The inspections, which were made during the month of August, show a total of seventy-two prisoners confined in the twelve counties.

Three of the counties had no prisoners at all, and two of them had only one each. The names of the counties and the scores of the jails of each follows: Buncombe, 85 1-2; Sampson, 81; Bladen, 80 1-2; Columbus, 77 1-2; Greene, 76 1-2; Rutherford, 73; Martin, 71 1-2; Washington, 71. 1-2; Robeson, 68; Craven, 63; Madison, 61 1-2; Beaufort, 58 1-2. INSTRUCTION BOARDS HEAR AUGUSTUS NASH Representatives of Organizations in This Part of State Meet Here Mr. Augustus Nash, of Cleveland, Ohio, representing the Provost Marshal General's Department, yesterday laid before representatives of boards of instruction recently appointed throughout the State to aid and pre-inductedregistrants, plans which may bring the best results and make the registrants more fit to progress with their training after having been sent to camp.

This was the second meeting of representatives of such boards held in the State, the other having taken place at Greensboro when a large number of board members in that section of the State were present. Among those here yesterday for the conference were: Messrs. Jones Fuller, Durham; A. B. Clark, Anson: E.

F. Young, Harnett; K. Johnson, Wake No. Russell Bartholomew, Nash: D. G.

McKinnon, Craven: A. M. Maupin, Raleigh; B. B. Williams, Warren: C.

L. Blackwell, Vance; R. Mattock, Green; N. C. Duncan, Halifax: A.

J. Wilcox, Wayne; F. P. Strong. Lee; W.

A. Stanbury, Wilson; J. H. Reade, Tyrrell; C. C.

Winston, Franklin; E. F. Murray, Scotland; J. B. Atwater, Chatham; J.

L. Reade, Chowan; H. G. Waring, Moore; Captain Bennett Nooe, Chatham; Euclid Me Whorter, Orange; B. B.

Adams, Johnston. NO CHANGE TO BE MADE IN COTTON SEED PRICES Later Analysis of Cotton Seed Show Content Much Higher Than First Samples State Food Administrator Henry A. Page yesterday afernoon announced that no change will be made in the price of cotton seed in Union, Anson, Richmond, Scotland, Robeson and Hoke and Moore counties, the seed from which were recently reported to be bringing a phenomenally low yield of oil. The crushers of that territory had appealed to Mr. Page for relief, claiming a difference of approximately five dollars per ton between the basis upon which the present price of seed had been figured and the value of the actual product of a ton of seed.

Reports from chemists received yesterday, the by first Mr. seed Page were indicated quite low that in cil content, the later seed are measuring up approximately to the standard of former years, and a continued improvement in oil content is shown. The only change of price in cotton seed that Mr. Page will consider will be to go upon a basis of seed analysis taken semi-monthly in accordance with which the price will be revised upward or downward as often as the seed contents may warrant. DR.

EDWIN B. FEREBEE NOW IN RICHMOND, VA. Associated With Dr. J. Allison Hodges at Hygeia Hospital and Sanatorium Dr.

Edwin B. Ferebee of Raleigh, who was given an honorable from the military service following a severe attack of pneumonia while he was on duty at Fort Oglethorpe, has since that time been doing advanced work at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania, and now associate professor of nervous disous diseases in the Medical College of Virginia. In addition, having entirely recovered from the illness which nearly proved fatal, he is now associated with Dr. J. Allison Hodges in Riehmond, at the Hygeia Hospital and Sanatorium.

BUY LIBERTY BONDS NEW CALL ISSUED FOR TECHNICIANS Includes 200 White and 280 Colored Registrants of This State WHITE MEN GO TO UNIVERSITY VIRGINIA Colored Registrants Will Report To Agricultural and Technical College son, 6. MANAGER UPCHURCH CANCELS FOUR SHOWS Closed Academy 2 Days Ago, He States; Also Delays Opening of Strand The Adjutant General yesterday announced a call to the local boards of the State for 200 white men and 280 colored men of grammar school eduention and special aptitude for mechanical work to receive training as technicians for army service. The white registrants, who will receive training at the University of Virginia, entrained us on auto mechanics, and The will colored bal registrants will receive training as carpenters, horseshoers and truck drivers and will entrain the same date ror the Negro Agricultural and Technocat College, Greensboro, N. C. men selected for this, service," says the bulletin from Selective Service Bureau, Adjutant General's Department, to the local boards of the State, "will receive a course of training at government expense fitting them to serve in any positions both at the front and behind the lines.

The men will be assigned to that kind of mechanical training for which greatest need exists at the time of the call. At the end of the course, they will be assigned to various branches service in accordance with the needs of the army. They are to receive 110 surance of assignment to any particular branch of the service. This is an exceptional opportunity for qualified men." County Allotments. The allotment of the two hundred white men among the boards under tins call follows: Anson, Beaufort, Blane, Buncombe No.

1, Buncombe No. 2, Cabarrus, Carteret, Catawba, Cleveland, Columbus, Craven, Cumberland, Davidson, Duplin, Durham, Winston-Salem, Forsyth, Gaston, Granville, Guilford No. 1, Guilford No. 2, Gullford No. 3, Halifax, Harnett, Haywood, Hertford, Iredell, Lincoln, Macon, Madison, Martin, Mecklenburg, 10; Charlotte, 12; Montgomery, Moore, Nash, Northampton, Pamlico, Person, Pitt, Randolph, Richmond, Robeson No.

1, Robeson No. 2, Rockingham, Rowan, Rutherford, Sampson, Scotland, Stanly, Surry, Union, Vance, Wake No. 1, Wake No. 2, Watauga, Wayne, Wilson, 2. 'Allotment 'Colored Men.

The allotment of the 280 colored men under this call follows: Aamance, Anson, Bladen, Brunswick, Buncombe No. 2, 8: Chatham, Craven, 13; Cumberland, Duplin, Durham, WinstonSalem, 30; Franklin, Gaston, 14; Granville, Greene, Guilford No. 2, Guilford No. 3, Halifax, 20; Hoke, Macklenburg, 25; Charlotte, Nash, 18; Northampton, Pitt, 10; Richmond, Robeson No. 2, Stanly, 15; Vance, Wake No.

1, 13; Wake No. 9, Warren, Wayne, Wit- Manager Sherwood Upchurch, of the Academy of Music, yesterday announced that two days ago he closed the theater during the epidemic of influenza by cancelling four attractions and also postponing the opening of the Strand Theater, a new vaudeville house, which was scheduled to open next Monday. The shows which were cancelled are "What Is Your Husband Doing," which featured Fred Bowers; "The Love Mill," a musical comedy booked for two night performances; and "Business Before Pleasure," a farce comedy with a cast of 24 people. Simultaneously with the closing of the Academy, he stated that wired the booking offices in New York of his cancellation of the four shows and also a delay in the opening of the Strand Theater. If the epidemic is checked sufficiently by October 14 Mr.

Upchurch plans to open the vaudeville house 011 October 14 or 21. "I did not announce the closing of the Academy before the action of the commissioners because I did not want to jeopardize the other show houses in the city," he said yesterday. Even bread and butter and jam don't tempt me, says Bobby as long as I can have POST TOASTIES MADE OF CORN) CLOSING ORDER IN EFFECT IN RALEIGH Commissioners Stop Schools, Churches, Theatres and Motion Picture Shows INFLUENZA CONTINUES TO SPREAD IN CITY Situation Still Improving at State College and St. Mary's School AlL public gatherings, churches, schools, motion picture shows and theaters of Raleigh were ordered closed until further notice by the city commissioners yesterday as a means of combating the influenza epidemic now developing in this city. The order, however, provides that colleges and schools may remain open to students residing on the premises but closed to students living in the city.

The order was passed shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon and went itno effect immediately, motion picture shows elosing their doors about an hour afterwards. The edict of the commissioners closes the churches of the city for the first time in Raleigh's history as a result of an epidemic but schools have been suspended several times in the past on this account. In issuing their order the commissioners characterize the situation as one seriously threatening the city with an epidemic. According to physicians, the disease has already reached an epidemic stage. New eases are being reported every day over the city and health officials point out that many cases are not being reported through the proper channels.

So far, only about 150 cases have been reported. officially in the city but it is estimated that there are at least 300 cases in Raleigh. The disease gradually moving cast from West Raleigh, while a large number of people from Petersburg and have been stricken since arriving here. One student from Trinity College was taken ill in the city yesterday while en route to his home in Elizabeth City. Improvement at State College.

The situation at State College and St. Mary's School where influenza first became epidemic is improving each day, and at the former institution the spread of the disease apparently has been checked. Only three news cases were reported yesterday while number of eases have been discharged. President Riddick stated last night that there Are about 100 cases in college and some of them are serious; but the situation is improving very satisfactorily. A large number of students at St.

Mary's, who were ill with influenza, have resumed their studies, while still others are convalescent. The number of eases is gradual decreasing. cases were reported at the state" School for the Colored Blind and Deaf and new 102 students at the institution have influenza. The demie has reached its most serious stage at the school, and Dr. Plummer has the city to aid in sick.

again called upon colored, women of Meredith College, Peace Institute and the Soldiers' Home are three institutions in Raleigh which have 80 escaped the epidemic. Not a case has been repotred from one of these places. All the veterans at the Soldiers' Home are under strict quarantine. Closing Resolutions. The resolutions, providing for the closing of gatherings, school, churches, are as follows: "Whereas, the city of Raleigh, in common with other cities of the State, is seriously threatened with an epidemic of la grippe or influenza, and for the purpose of taking every precautionary measure to prevent this as far as possible; now, therefore, be it, Resolved by the commisisoners of the city of Raleigh, That until further notice, all gatherings, including schools, moving, picture shows, theaters, churches, be ordered closed; provided, colleges and schools of the city whose students reside on the premises will only be required to close to those students who do not reside on the premises, and as this ordinance is for the public good, that same go into effect at once." In and About the City Liberty Bond Meeting.

Mr. Sanford Martin and Mr. J. M. Broughton will speak at Mount Moriah School house tonight at 8 o'clock in the interest of the Fourth Liberty Bond issue.

Leave For Greenwood. Mr. W. Furman Betts, evangelistic singer, left last night for Greenwood, S. where he will have charge of the singing at a revival to be conducted by Dr.

J. R. Jester. New Patrolman Elected. Mr.

J. M. Boyd, a former policeman, yesterday was elected a member of the Raleigh police department, to succeed Patrolman A. L. Foster, resigned.

Mr. Foster has quit the department to enter other lines of work. He has been on the force for about three years. Lieutenant Carr Promoted. Lieut.

Wm. L. Carr, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.

H. Carr of Maryland, has returned from France, where he has been for 'the past nine months. Lieutenant Carr was in the battle of Chateau Thierry during the second battle of the Marne. Since his return to America he has been promoted to first lieutenant and assigned to duty in 49th field artillery at Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, Texas. Organizing Safety Leagues.

Mrs. W. R. Hollowell of the State In- surance Department has just completed travels through Cherokee, Swain, Macon and Haywood counties, visiting schools and organizing among the school children North Carolina safety leagues. Her work in these counties was most successful, the school children and the school authorities falling in line readily for this organized safety first and fire prevention effort.

Kline Lazarus Raleigh's Thrift Store-5 Big Departments Men's Sunday SUITS $15.00 to $30.00 If you are one of the fellows who think you must pay a great big price for your new Fall suit spend about five minutes of your time around here looking over our new Fall clothes. You'll be paid well for your time and you'll get a suit that will please you and your pocket book too. Come in and let us show you what beauty $20.00 will buy. And say fathers, bring your boy with you. We are headquarters for boys' clothes.

WOMEN WORKING ON JOB AT HAND Demonstration Agents in Wilmington Aiding Fight Against Influenza The women home demonstration agents of the Agricultural Extenison Service are showing their patriotism and ability by giving their entire time and attention to the job at hand. As the canning season drops off, many of them are now busy teaching lessons of conservation and better home making by means of community, fairs, and by work with the It is their job to aid people of North Carolina, states Mrs. Jane S. McKimmon, the State agent, and none are proving this more successfully than are Miss Bennett and Mrs. Grant, the city and county home demostration agents of Wilmington and New Hanover county.

these two enregetic ladies are devoting their entire time in establishing, benefit soup of kitchens the over victims the of city the epidemic of Spanish influenza. From 200 to 300 gallons of soup are being prepared in these kitchens each day. By this means the ladies are showing that a good knowledge of foods is of valuable practical assistnce in time of need. Other agents all over the State are holding community and county fairs, and reports show that there is a strict conformity in exhibits to the conservation ideas promoted by the Agricultural Extension Service and the Food Administration. of the agents report to Mrs.

McKimmon that there is noticeable absence of layer cakes and icings in this day of sugar shortage, and in the place of these there appears the "old reliable" ginger breads molassex cookies. Corn bread and muffins take the place of white loaves, and where big booths used to display all kinds of fine fancy work there is now Red Cross flag hanging over this in which women in uniforms are making bandages, pads and hosiptal garments. The agents report that there is a real desire to conform to the government's request, and the communities in most every section are showing just what they are doing in conservation, and how they are measuring up in patriotism. At many of the community fairs a Liberty Loan speaker is asked for, and these gatherings are proving to be the ideal place for calling the attention of the people to the government's war aims. The Governor at Shelby.

Governor Bickett's speaking appointment at Shelby is Oct. 28, and not 21, as stated in yesterday's paper. MAKE PROGRESS ON REGISTRATION Ten Local Boards Complete Registration From 19 To 36 Years Ten local boards in North Carolina have completed the classification of the September 19 registrants between the ages of nineteen and thirty-six, according to reports received by the Adjutant General's department. Eight have completed one-third of the classification and ten have completed thirds. Those boards showing one hundred per cent classification are: Catawba, Cherokee, Greene, Guilford No.

3, Lee, Wilson, Caldwell, Martin, Pasquotank Vance. Those boards which have completed two-thirds of the classification are: Chowan, Columbus, Craven, Forsyth, Franklin, Granville, Guilford No. 2, Lenoir, McDowell, Orange. Those completing one-third of the classification are Beaufort, Buncombe, Cabarrus, Davie, Henderson, Mitchell, Rowan. All the local boards in the State have been called upon to furnish weekly ports to the Adjutant General's Department on the progress of the classt, fication, which, according to schedele of the Provost Marshal General, entirely completed by the first of January for the September 12 registration.

FUNERAL THOS. W. PARK CONDUCTED YESTERDAY The funeral services of the late Mr. Thomas W. Park, were held at noon Friday at his late residence in the Woman's Club, conducted by Dr.

W. MeC. White, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of which Mr. Park Was a member. The remains were taken yesterday to Jamesburg, N.

and were accompanied by his widow, mother and father. The burial will be in the family lot there. Mr. and Mrs. Park had made their home in Raleigh for the past three years and made many friends, here.

Numerous nad beautiful designs attested the esteem in which Mr. Park was held. The pall bearers, were: Messrs. E. B.

Crow, V. Cloud, L. A. Shirley, T. L.

Creekmore, F. R. Perdue, J. H. Paylor, Robert Wyatt, J.

M. Sherwood, James Holbrook and James Briggs, Sr. Death of Mrs. Victor Wood. A message was received here yester day telling of the death in Norfolk yes.

terday of Mrs. Victor Wood, who formerly lived in Raleigh. Her death fol. lowed an operation at St. Vincent hos pital.

FOR HEADACHES (Also Aches in Back and Limbs) A CAPUDINE The Liquid Remedy--Easy to Take-Quicker Relief No Acetanilide to Depress the Heart. Trial bottle of 2 doses 10c-Family size 30c and 60c- and by dose at Drug Store Fountains. Now Is The Time To Begin FALL HOUSE CLEANING Everything in Polish Wax Brushes, Paints and Enamels Ask the ManHe will tell you the best way THOMAS H. BRIGGS SONS The Big Hardware Men Raleigh, N. C..

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