The News and Observer from Raleigh, North Carolina • 8

GET YOUR GARDEN READY- THE NEWS AND OBSERVER STAMP, STAMP, STAMP BUY A THRIFT STAMPPLANT, PLANT, PLANT THOUSAND DOLLAR CAMPAIGN NEXT Begins March 4 To Enlist Large War Savers in The Limit Club WAKE WILL ENROLL 650 MEMBERS IN IT Every County in State Will Soon Have Complete Working Basis The thousand dollar campaign for War Savings begins in every county in the State on March 4 and continues through March 9. During this week county in the State in expected every, enlist one per cent of its population as members of the "Thousand War Savings Club." members will pledge themselves to save and invest $1,000 in War Savings Stamps during the year of 1918. This club is also called the Limit Club, for the reason that $1,000 is the limit of the amount of War Savings Stamps allowed to one person. According to the percentages made out for the various counties, burg will be expected to enroll 680 members the "Thousand Dollar Club." Wake 630, Guilford 610, Robeson 520, Buncombe 500, Forsyth 430, Johnston 420, Gaston, Halifax, Rowan and Pitt 360, Cumberland, Durham, Iredell. Nash, Rockingham and Wayne more.

Reports from the field organizers indicate that county organizations are rapidly being completed and that nearevery county in the State will soon bave a comparatively complete, working basis. Many counties War Savings Institutes similar to the one held in Raleigh to acquaint their people with the War Savings problem that is now before them. Seaboard Bank Leads. The Farmers Bank of Seabonrd and the Wachovia Bunk and Trust Comof lead all the hanks in Winston Salem, number of War Savings Stomps they have purfrom the Federal Reserve Bank chased. district.

During the months of December, January and February the Farmers Bank of Senboard $24,000 in Thrift and War Stamps and the Wachovin Bank and Trust Company purchased $35,535. This is according to a report of the sales to North Carolina banks made by the Federal Reserve Bank Richmond. The First National Bank and the Sevings Bank and Trust Company of Elizabeth City together purchased $18,050. The amount purchased by the 50 or 60 North Carolina banks during these three months is $216,199.75. However, this amount does not represent ail the purchases of stamps that have been made by the banks in the State, as many have bought Thrift and War Savings Stamps from the postoffices.

As to the plan of buying War Savings Stamps from postolices, Col. I. Fries, State director. advises the hanks to buy from Federal Reserve Banks as Liberty bonds or other colInteral will be accepted, whereas to Yo from postoflices requires a cash investment. DEMONSTRATION AGENT TO ADDRESS NEGROES Mrs.

M. M. Davis, City Demonstration Agent for Raleigh, will address the congregation of the A. M. E.

Zion Church Sunday night on the subject of Proper Foods for Body," and give suggestions for carrying out the request of the U. S. Food Commission for the saving of wheat, meat, fat and sugar. Mrs. Davis spoke to the colored mothers of Raleigh at the First Colored Baptist Church recently and gave most valuable suggestions for the "Proper Food for Children." All the colored people of Raleigh are cordially invited to be present Sunday night to hear Mrs.

Davis' address. Will Conserve Tomatoes. State Food Administrator Henry A. Page issued the following telegraphie instructions from "Under the President's proclamation of Jan. 10 manufacturers of tomato, catsup and soup should have license prior to February 15.

Special regulations governing them have just been promulgated and are being mailed to manufacturers who should inform themselves before contracting for new material, or making sales. Please give publicity to the trade." It's all right to speak well of the dead, hut it's better to speak well of the living. The dead really don't need it. WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Trains Leave Raleigh Union Depot SEABOARD AIR LINE Going North Going South 1:00 5:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m..

6:10 p.m. 2:85 a.m.. 8:45 a.m. 12.03 4:20 p.m 4:40 p.m....• 8:45 R.EN SOUTHERN RAILWAY Going East Going West 4:30 2:80 m. 11:86 a.

8:52 7:25 p. :05 p.m. NORFOLK SOUTHERN Going South Arrive Raleigh 7:40 n. 110:50 a. m.

8:80 1:20 p. p. m. 1:20 p. 5:20 4:40 p.

m. Goltis Rest Arrive Raleigh 6:00 $12:05 7:06 m. mo. 2:05 p. p.

9:20 p. 7:46 p. m. except Sunday, 18v.o. day only.

In and About the City Acting As Secretary. During the temporary absence from the city of Secretary M. R. Beaman, Dr. George J.

Ramsey is acting as secretary of the Raleigh Chamber of Commerce. Returns To Camp. Mr. Harvey Woods, who has visiting his mother, E. E.

Woods, has returned to the training camp at Battle Creek, Mich. Mr. Woods is a member of Ambulance Company 810, Sanitary Train. Released On Bond. Charles Ammond, who was arrested several weeks ago by Federal officers in Fayetteville upon a charge of ating a United States officer at Four Oaks, has been released on $200 bail.

He has been in the county jail after being brought to this city from Baltimore, Goes to Alabama. Rev. R. L. Davis left yesterday afternoon for Alabama where he will be for five weeks participating in a prohibition campaign.

Mr. Davis opens his itinerary tomorrow in Decatur. He will speak in Birmingham on two Sun- days of the campaign. Attending Veterinary Meeting. United States Court.

Dr. G. A. Roberts, of the State College of Agriculture and Engineering, has gone to Auburn, the meeting of the Alabame. Veterinary Medical Association.

Dr. Roberts will read a paper before the Alabama sociation on "Internal Parasites of Cattle and Sheep." The regular March term of the United States District Court will convene on Monday morning with Judge Henry G. Connor, of Wilson, presiding. The calendar a arranged for the term is a short one. Only civil matters will be heard, and there are no jury cases to be tried at this term.

Rooms Are Wanted. A large attendance from all sections of the State is expected for the Social Service Conference which will be held in the city next week. Raleigh people who can furnish accommodations to the notify the Commerce at visitors and delegates, are asked to once. Telephone 1381. Senator Person Confident.

State Senator M. Person, of Louisburg, who is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Superior Court judge in this judicial district, spent yesterday in the city on business. Senator Person says that Mr. Ben Holden, also of Franklin county. will not be a candidate for the nomination.

4: Social Service Committee. The following citizens of the city have been seleeted to compose the speeinl committee on local arrangements for the Social Service Conference which is to be held here on Tuesday and Wednesday of next week: Mrs. B. H. Griffin, Mrs.

Thomas W. Bickett, Julian Timberlake, Dr. W. S. Rankin, Dr.

George W. Lay and Mr. J. M. Broughton.

New Pastor at St. Saviour's. Rey. Charles G. Kelsey this month takes charge of the parish of St.

Saviour's church, succeeding Rev. C. P. Willeox, who gOOS to Cedartown, Ga. Mr.

Kelsey will conduct the services nt the church on Sunday. His home is at 805 Glenwood avenue. The new rector requests that all sick persons in the perish notify him ns early as possiblo in order that he may visit them. Luncheon For Mr. Page.

Hon. Robert N. Page, former representative in Congress from the Seventh North Carolina district, will be the guest today at a luncheon in the assembly room of the Chamber of Commerce. About seventy-five of the representative business men of the city have been invited to be present and hear Mr. Page on a matter of vital interest and importance.

The luncheon will be served at one o'clock. Seven Schools Enter Contest. Seven of the Wake county schools have entered debating teams for the annual State-wide contest under the auspices of the University of North Carolina. The preliminary debates will be held on March 29, the winning teams going to Chapel Hill for the final contesta for the Ayeoek Memorial Cup on April 11 and 12. The question for the debate this year is that compulsory arbitration should be provided for industrial disputes.

Internal Revenue Collections. The internal revenue collections for the month of February for the eastern North Carolina district amounted to $1,261,045.93, necording to figures given out from the office of Collector J. W. Bailey yesterday. This is 2.11 increase of $623,913.61 over February, 1917, when the collections for the distriet totaled $637,132.32, and is the largest amount ever collected in single month by the Raleigh office.

Dr. Bruner Tomorrow. Dr. Weston Bruner, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church will preach at both morning and evening services tomorrow. His subject in the morning "When the Mists Have Rolled Away," and in the evening, "The Tragedy of the Wicked Queen." Dr.

Bruner will leave on Monday for Washington City where he will be ten days, 88- sisting in a follow- up campaign of the Billy Sunday revival. Dr. Bruner will be at the Centennial Baptist Church in Washington. Lewis Society Elects Officers. regular weekly Friday night.

The Lewis Literary, Society hold its The query for debate was, Resolved, That school hours in the Raleigh public schools should be lengthened. The affirmative upheld by Messrs. Speight Barnes and Joe Kimbrough won over the negative upheld by Mesars. Meredith Moseley and Warren Caviness. There was a declamation by Lee Davis and two extemporaneous speeches by Messrs.

William Johnson and John Gordon. After the regular program the election of officers took place. Tom Allen WAS president, William Johnson president, Mike Bradshaw secretary and treasurer, John Gordon monitor and William Harding press reporter. Two new members, Messes. Azro Cheney and James Goodwin, took the oath of membership.

WILL OPEN COAL MINE AT CUMNOCK Deposits of Coal To Be Worked Under Approved Modern Methods ARE LOCATED IN COUNTY OF MOORE Mines Deserted Since Fatal Explosion Eighteen Years Ago The Cumnoek Coal Alining Company, of Cumnock, has notified the Department of Labor and Printing that preparations are now going forwurd for the reopening of this coal deposit, one of the largest in the United States outside of what is generally considered the coal fields of the country in the Appalachian mountains. Mr. W. W. Brewer is the general manager of the company, which plans to again mine North Carolina coal for the market.

In his letter to the department he states that it will probably be some time yet before the ations, 118 ready, considerable prelimicompany is to begin actual opernary work to be done, but that the operations are to be carried forward under the most approved modern methods when the work of netually raising coal shall begin. The Cumnock mines are located in Moore county, and many years ago were worked extensively, "Egypt" coal, as it was then called, being a familiar commodity in North Carolina. On May 29, 1900, an explosion in the mines caused number of fatalities, and since that time the mines have been practically closed. The accident resulted in the death of 21 men, including the mine superintendent, and the serious injuring of five others. An investigation of the explosion failed to discover the exact cause, though the ignition of gas in the mine by means of a broken headlamp used by one of the miners was generally necepted at the time as having been the immediate cause.

The deposit of coal in the section is said to be very extensive, traces of the deposit having been found across a wide stretch of territory. The coal is of fair quality, and the mines are now located on the lines of the Norfolk Southern Railroad between Raleigh and Charlotte. GOVERNOR NAMES MANY DELEGATES Eighty-five Appointed For Good Roads Association at Little Rock, Ark. Governor Bickett yesterday appointed eighty-five delegates from North Carolina to attend the sixth annual session of the United States Good Roads Association which will be in Little Rock, Arkansas, April 15-19. The delegates are: Hon.

E. Y. Webb, Shelby; W. A. Manney, Kings Mountain; L.

Stowe, Belmont; A. G. Mangum, Gastonia; A. M. MeDonald, Charlotte; Col.

A. Charlotte; Thos. H. Webb, Concord; Hon. J.

P. Cook, Concord; Hon. Archibald Boyden, Salisbury; E. E. Grey, China Grove; W.

E. Holt, Lexington; G. W. Monteastle, Lexington; Lambeth, Thomasville; C. M.

Van Story, Greensboro; Clem Wright, Greensboro; Robert Brockett, High Point; A. Harper, Elon College; Ernest Holt, Burlington; R. L. Holt, Graham: W. Crawford, Mebane; Shepherd Strudwick, Hillsboro; Paul C.

Collins, Hillsboro; S. W. Andrews, Chapel Hill: E. Buggs, Durham; Sprunt Hill, Durham; J. M.

Broughton, Raleigh; E. C. Duncan, Raleigh; R. B. White, Wake Forest: J.

M. Allen, Louisburg: H. G. Cooper, Oxford; R. S.

McCoin, Henderson: J. M. Deaton, Statesville; Hon. W. D.

Turner, Statesville; Yount, Newton; J. D. Elliott, Hickory; J. H. Pearson, Morganton: J.

Ernest Erwin, Morganton; W. 8. Butler, Glen Alpine; P. H. Washburn, Old Fort; N.

Buckner, Asheville; W. E. Johnson, Asheville; C. P. Ambler, Asheville; C.

E. Chambers, Asheville; Gallatin Roberts, Asheville: Plato Ebbs, Marshall; Guy V. Roberts, Marshall; E. Rumbough, Hot Springs: T. L.

Gwyn, Canton: Kelly T. Bennett, Bryson City; S. W. Black, Bryson City: T. C.

Bowie, Jefferson; Gov. R. L. Doughton, Sparta; Chatham, Elkin; Meriweather Lewis, Mt. Airy; Senator J.

L. Nelson, Lenoir; Mayodan; R. L. Mitchell, Yanceyville; Dr. E.

J. Tucker, Roxboro: Tasker Polk, Warrenton; Lunsford Long, Roanoke Rapids; Frank Wood, Edenton; Francis D. Winston, Winsdor: T. L. Bland, Rocky Mount; C.

M. Parks, Tarboro: J. D. Biggs, Williamston; Lindsay Washington; D. Clark, Greenville; C.

D. Bradham, New Bern: P. M. Pearsall, New Bern: D. Kinston; Nathan O'Berry, A.

Goldsboro; Wm. Hill, Warsaw; W. MeGirt, Wilmington; J. D. McNeill, Fayetteville; T.

Y. McAllister, Fayetteville: Samuel Strange, Fayetteville; Leonard Tufts, Pineburst; H. E. Stacy, Lumberton; W. N.

Everett, Rockingham; W. S. Fallis, Raleigh; Alfred McLean, Lillington; Walter Woodard, Wilson; J. W. MeQueen, Pinehurst; P.

H. Hanes, Winston-Salem; W. D. McMillan, Wilmington. WILL RAISE FLAG AT RALEIGH IRON WORKS The flag raising at the Raleigh Iron Works, postponed from time to time on account of unfavorable weather conditions, will be held this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the plant on the corner of West and Hargett streets.

The address on the occasion will be delivered by State Treasurer B. R. Lacy. The flag is a handsome emblem secured by the employes and will be raised to symbolize their loyalty to the ernment. WHOOPING COUGH CAUSING DEATHS, State Board of Health Finds Bad Condition in Columbus FIVE CHILDREN WERE VICTIMS OF EPIDEMIC Parents Seemed To Have Paid Little Attention To Danger Whooping cough laid a heavy hand on Columbus county this winter.

From the vital statistics records just completed for November, it appears that dive little children have died from this preventable disease in this one county in one month. According to the State Epidemiologist this probably resents from 150 to 200 cases or even more. Official reports for Columbus show that of all these cases only 19 were actually reported to the county quarantine officer during this time. Official investigation developed the following interesting facts. None of the five little children who died whooping cough were attended by physician during their last illness.

In practically none of the cases of whooping cough was any attempt made by parents to have a physician alleviate the suffering of the children, nor was any public effort made to control the epidemic; the county quarantine officer could do but little as he did not even know that an epidemic was raging. He had no knowledge of the five deaths that had occurred until advised by the State department. The parents and ad publie generally considered whooping cough lightly. Many thought it child's disease and that the sooner their children had it the better. tively few parents appreciate tance or the fact that the law requires parents to report whooping cough to the county quarantine officer.

In commenting on the situation, Dr. Crouch, State Epidemiologist stated that "the outstanding feature of this whole tragedy is that the parents seemed to regard whooping cough and measles as of no consequence or necessary part of child life and not only made little or no effort to alleviate their childrens' suffering, but made even less effort to keep the disease from spreading to others. When parents learn," said Dr. Crouch, "the true danger from whooping cough and measles, that they are unnecessary, that the longer they can be put off the better, and that State law requires parents to report every case and every suspected case to the county quarantine officer, many little lives will be spared and much deafness, heart trouble, defective eye-sight and other ailments of later life will be prevented." MORE COUNTY MEN READY FOR SERVICE Wake Board Will Send Twenty White Registrants To Camp Next Week The Wake Exemption Board vanced nearer its examination goal yesterday when 63 additional registrants were qualified for service and eight rejected after the day's work of applying the physical tests. The board will endeavor to end its examinations with the last class today and the tests will start early.

All registrants called for examination and who failed to report have been requested to respond today. The board wishes to complete part of its work in order to prepare the occupational cards. Twenty county men who have been qualified will be sent to Camp Jackson during the latter part of next week. All these will be white men and comprise the remainder of the first quota. Those sent will not embrace registrants whose order numbers are above 650.

The county board still has the negro registrants of the first quota to send to camp. The following were qualified yesterday: Tom Stuart, Apex; Arthur Hall, Wendell 1: H. L. Mangum, Raleigh Henry W. Betts, Walthall; Averett Hunter, Raleigh 3: Edfus Lee, Jesse Hall, Wendell Hubert Scott, Apex Otis Morris Jones, Wakefield Willie Moore, Wendell; Carlet Umphrey, Apex Mottry Brown, Auburn; Nelson Hayes, Zebulon; Sidney Baker, Wakefield; Elias Allen, Garner; Arthur Cooper, Wendell; Carmal Dozia, Neuse D.

Edward Jones, Auburn; Dennis Oakley, Raleigh William Boyd, Cary; Otis T. Alston, Wake Forest Mallie Rogers, Apex Dexter Bobbitt, Wake Forest: W. Badger, McCullers Willie L. Yates, McCullers; Walter R. Smith, McCullers Clyde Whitley, Zebulon; Primus Page, Raleigh Alex Cooper, McCullers; Willie Jones, Knightdale C.

M. Hooker, Willow Springs; William Segraves, New Hill; Dennis Upchurch, Youngsville Charley Dunn, Neuse 2: John Gillis, Raleigh Schofield Myatt, Garner; George Jackson, Wake Forest: Fred Merritt, Wendell 2: Charlie Preddy, Wake Forest; Highromus Jiffrus, Wake Forest Zollio Dunn, Neuse William A. Amis, McCullers 1: Edward Chavis, Raleigh Edwin W. Kency, Neuse Willie Ray, Raleigh Charlie Eves, Wendell; Jim Allen, Neuse Elvis Oakley, Raleigh Basil Taylor, Wake Forest: Hay Harris, Wake Forest John Brown, Wake Forest Ernest Morgan, Wendell; Blannie Edwards, MeCullers Robert Fearibo, Raleigh Arthur Burrell, Wendell Donnie Harris, Morrisville Lester' Webster, Raleigh 7. Lieutenant Connell Home.

Lieutenant S. M. Connell, aviator R. S. whose home is in Warrenton and who was formerly a student at the State College of Agriculture Engineering, was in Raleigh yesterday, on his way home from Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, where he is a flying instructor.

He is on a ten-day leave of absence and has already consumed three days of it in his trip home. PACE ASKS FOR ELECTION AT ONCE Mayor Johnson Requests Action Be Deferred Until Meeting Today COMMISSIONERS MAY GET TOGETHER try On Minute Book Relaters On Minute Book Relative To Filling Vacancy The first entry in the minute book of the City Commissioners indicating action looking toward the election of a successor to the late E. M. Uzzell, missioner of Public Safety, was made yesterday in the record of a motion by Commissioner E. R.

Pace that the Board of Commissioners gO into an election to All the vacancy which has now ed for three months. Upon the recommendation of Mayor Johnson, which he put in the a direct request, it was decided that action on the motion be deferred until the meeting today. In the brief exchange of comments on the situntion thus brought up in open meeting, Mr. Pacheir Mayor Johnson both indicated belief that they have delayed sufficiently long in the matter. Mayor Johnson, however, stated his dislike to wrangle over the tion of a commissioner for an hour or so in open meeting and get no where by the argument.

He based his suggestion for deferred action until today, upon this point, stating that it would be uselees to argue back and forth unless they could get nearer a common ground than they have yet reached such discussion would be futile. Following the meeting yesterday Mayor Johnson reiterated his desire settlement of the question of successor to Mr. E. M. Uzzell, stating that it not fair to expect him to continue the additional work entailed in looking after the affairs of the public safety department.

Mr. Pace, likewise, has indiented his desire to proeced to an election his move in that direction yesterday was the first yet made in open meeting. With the two commissioners united in their desire to elect, as soon as possible, and with the wheels definitely started in that direction, it is generally believed that Raleigh will not be without a distinet Commissioner of Public Safe- ty long. MEETING HELD TO START CAMP FUND Need For Wholesome Environment For Soldiers Explained By Speakers At a meeting of interested citizens held yesterday afternoon in the Chamber of Commerce the merits of the War Camp Community Service Fund were explained by Dr. D.

H. Hill, chairman of the State Council of Defense; Mr, 8. L. Postlethwait, Campaign Director for North Carolina; Dr. Charles Lee Smith, Dr.

T. P. Harrison and others. All the speakers emphasized the fact that, the benefit of proposal the to soldier raise when a on fund leave for from camp had the endorsement of the of the most worthy of The government and was undoubtedly, one aims of the fund were, it was explained, to protect the soldier from social vice and rum both efforts to reduce those evils and by providing wholesome diversion for the soldiers. Dr.

Hill, who called the meeting and who acted as its chairman, was authorized to name a committee to make a canvass of patriotic people in Raleigh with the purpose of securing Raleigh's allotment. The sum of $130 was subscribed at the meeting yesterday in sums ranging from $10 to $25. REVENUE MEN REPORT CAPTURE OF 3 STILLS Deputy Collectors E. G. Richardson and R.

W. Morris, returning yesterday to the city from a trip in Johnston county, reported the capture and destruction of three illicit stills, two in Johnston and one in Harnett county. During the trip, the officers also arrested Elbert Stephens, charged with violation of the liquor law in this State and South Carolina. The still located in Harnett county was found near the home of Ben Benson, who admitted, according to the officers, that he was operating it. C.

M. Benson, his son, was found in possession of a keg of blockade whiskey which, it is said, was distilled at the plant near his father's home. Stephens was given a hearing before Commissioner E. F. Young at Dunn and bound over to Federal Court under $1,000 bond.

LIFE IN QUART CUP IS SUNDAY Y.M.C.A. SUBJECT afternoon. Rev. Mr. Craig to Columbia.

"Life in a Quart Cup," will be the subject of an address at the Y. M. C. A. Sunday afternoon by Mr.

R. F. Be Basley, State Commissioner of Public Welfare. Mr. Beasley's deep interest in men and social conditions, his experience as a newspaper man, and his work during the past year as Commissioner of Publie Welfare, an office created by last Legislature when it widened the scope of activity of the State Board of Public Charities, make his address at this time particularly interesting.

The service will begin at 3:30 Sunday Rev. W. Marshall Craig, of Kinston, who stopped over here with friends, left last night for Columbia, 8. where he will officiate at the marriage of Miss Ethel Cullom and Mr. J.

B. Hurtley, both of that city. People who live in the past usually remember the good old days and forget the bad old days Kline Lazarus Department Stores "The Bargain Center" 16 E. Hargett -206-8-10 S. Wilmington St.

Table Damask JUST ARRIVED Heavy quality in unusually attractive patterns and at VERY LOW PRICES 72-inch Damask, per yard $1.00 64-inch Damask, per yard 58-inch Damask, per yard RED TABLE W.S.S. CLOTHS WAR SAVINGS STAMPS Cut, and Hemmed or Fringed SUBUED BY UNITED STATES $1.75 and $2.48 cach. GOVERNMENT 139 REGISTRANTS FAIL TO SHOW UP Craven County Will Make It Hot For Slackers; Other News Notes New Bern, March the twentyfive hundred registrants in Craven county, 139 have failed to fill out and return their questionnaires to the local tion board. as required by the selective service These men have been put down as deserters officers by the board instructed and State and Federal are to arrest any of the registrants and deliver them to the draft board. Several Craven county slackers have been arrested during the past two weeks the authorities have been lenient with them.

However, it is expected that more severe punishment will be meted out to those who fail to comply with the law in the future, and there is even talk in official quarters, members of the local board state, of trying them before a court martial and shooting those who willfully defy the draft law. The advice of the board is for all whose names appear on the following list to report at once. Rev. A. A.

Walker, of Water Valley, Mississippi, who recently accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist church, of this city, and who was to have taken up his work here March 1st, will not arrive until about the seventh of the month. Mr. Walker is engaged in a revival in Mississippi and asked to be allowed to remain until the close of the meeting, which will delay him in getting to New Bern. Mr. Walker is one of the leading Baptist ministers of the South, and the deacons and membership of the church consider themselves very fortunate in securing him as their pastor.

In fact the salary paid by the local church was not sufficiently large as to justify him to come here and members of the board of deacons made personal contributions to his salary. Mr. Seth Gaskins, of Stonewall, leading citizen of Pamlico county, died in a local hospital yesterday morning after suffering for only a few days with typhoid pneumonia. The deceased was forty-eight years of age. The body was carried to Stonewall on the morning train yesterday and interred in the family graveyard yesterday' afternoon.

Mr. Gaskins is survived by one daughter, Miss Lela and one son, Hugh. According to a statement made by a traveling salesman in New Bern yesterday the negroes at a logging camp neur Belhaven have found a "new licker" and it is nothing more than predigested beef. The salesman said he called on the commissary keeper who gave him a very large order for predigested beef. The order aroused the suspicion of the salesman and he asked the man what he did with such large quantities of this product of the cow.

Then he told the salesman that it contained fourteen per cent alcohol and that the negroes paid $1.25 per pint and drank it for whiskey. Now the supply has been NEW WHEAT PRICE BENEFITS FARMER Estimated It Will Bring Two Million Dollars Additional To State North Carolina farmers will be benefited to the extent of probably more than $2,000,000 by President Wilson's proclamation fixing of the 1918 crop of wheat at $2.20 Chicago basis instead of the $2.00 guaranteed by Congress. The larger mills of North Carolina are allowed to pay more than the Wilmington or Newport News price of wheat minus freight, but the mills of less than 75 barrels capacity are not restricted as to the fu price they shall pay, and these mills, comprising probably 90 per cent of the flour mills of the State, are maintaining a price for wheat in North Carolina at least equal the Newport News or Wilmington price plus freight so that the price of wheat in North Carolina today averages not less than $2.35. With the increased acreage planted in wheat during the past season it is estimated that the difference in the value bot North Carolina's wheat crop will considerably in excess of 000,000. This increase in price will justify and encourage increased use of fertilizer on wheat.

On average land an application of 100 pounds of nitrate of soda or a good top dresser should increase the yield of wheat by four or five bushels. One hundred pounds of top dresser should cost not more than four or five dollars 80 that the investment should return a profit of at least 100 per cent. Many farmers are utilizing wood mold, forest leaves and stable manure on wheat also. All in all, seasons from now on, North Carolina will produce its record crop of probably not less than 6,000,000 bushels. limited to one pint per week to each man.

Mr. William J. Paul died at his home last night at the age of forty years. The funeral service was condueted from the residence this afternoon by Rev. Floyd Cartwright, acting rector of Christ Episcopal church, and the interment was made in Cedar Grove cemetery.

The deceased is survived by his widow and one son, Mack Paul. Also surviving are his mother, Mrs. E. W. Paul, one sister, Mrs.

Carrie Scott, and two brothers, Messrs. Charles and Edward Paul. Mr. James D. Sutton and bride, nee Miss Thelma Dudley, who were married here last Saturday morning, have re turned from their honeymoon, which they spent in Washington, Baltimore and New York.

They will leave here Sunday for Southport where they will make their home. Lieutenant Rogers Promoted. Lieutenant Gaston Wilder Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H.

Rogers, of Raleigh, has been promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain. He is now with the aviation recruiting station at Birmingham, Ala. Irish Potatoes Our Government Wants You To Eat More of Them and Save the Wheats and Meats The Irish Potato is rich in food value, so rich in fact that our government makes them the largest part of every meal of our army and navy boy's. Our local market is well supplied with Irish Potatoes and they can be easily and tastily prepared for breakfast, dinner and supper. Order A Supply Today.

W. L. Brogden CAR LOT DISTRIBUTORS. Raleigh North Carolina.