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VOL. XXVlll. HO. 60 ESTABLISHED 1881 WADBSBORO, K. THURSDAY.

DECEMBER 12, 1918 CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS tit. Our line of high class goods for the holiday shoppers is now on display, and you are invited to come in and look it over. Notwithstanding the difficulty in procuring all kinds of goods, we are able to offer our customers a full and complete Hock in our lines. We offer nothing but substantial goods, and you can find here useful and necessary gifts for every member of the family. Below we offer a few suggestions.

If you do not see what you want, inquire for it at the store. We probably have it. FOR HER. Books, Hand Bags, Ivory and Sterling Silver Toilet Sets, Manicure Sets, Traveling Sets, Leather Lap Tablets, Sewing Sets, "Bridge Sets," Jewelry Sets, Stationery, Perfumes, Nunnally's Candy, Fountain Pens, Kodaks, FOR THE HOME WE HAVE Pictures, Service Trays, Coaster Sets, Bread Trays, Sandwich Trays, Vases, Fern Dishes, Cut Glass and China, Casseroles, Thermos Bottles, "Bridge Sets," Book Ends, Candle Sticks, Cake Plates. FOR HIM Smoking Stands, Smoking Sets, Pipes, Shaving Stands, Safety Razors, Flashlights, Military Brushes, Kodaks, Bill Books, Pocket Books, Traveling Sets and Fitall Traveling Cases, Clothes Sets, Knives, Cigars, Cigar Jars, Books.

The war is over, and this should be the most joyful Christmas we have ever had. Our Christmas gifts will help make it so. Come in and look them over. Besides articles for gifts there is a full line of cards and booklets, gift dressings, and other holiday accessories too numerous to mention in this 8pace. The government requests that you do your Christmas shopping early, and we also request it, for our stock is now complete, and it may be impossible to procure choicest articles later.

BOOKS A SPECIALTY--We have an excellent assortment of the LATEST NOVELS by well known authors, and a full, line of BOOKS for Children. PEE DEE TH ARM AC AGENTS: EASTMAN KODAKS, NUNNALLY CANDIES, VAN LINDLEY FLOWERS. U. S. HEALTTH SERVICE "It is encouraging to observe that TAXES HEAVY ON LARGE INCOMFS ISSUES WARNING people are beginning to learn that or.

dinary coughs and colds are highly Increase in AH Respiratory Diseases After the Influenza Epidemic Prob ning of a new era of taxation, commented Mr. Roper, because the bulk came from income and profits taxes rather than from liquor as in previous years. The report deals with the efforts of the bureau to suppress the illicit manufacture and sale of intoxicants catching' and are apead from person to person by means of droplets of Light on Great Majority of Those Under $3,000. Commissioner Roper, in Annual Report, Shows Much able Influenza Expected to Lurk Sec- ivioonsnimng in riedmont tion. for Months.

How to Guard Against Pneumonia. Common Colds Highly Catching Importance of Suitable Clothing Could Save 100,000 Lives. wounded first by several bullets, was dispatched with blows from the butt ends of rifles. The dead bodies were taken the same night from Ekaterinburg and burned 40 versts from the city The man servant found among their ashes diamonds which belonged to Grand Duchess Olga, which she had sown in her underclothing. Further details were established by the Siberian government.

Two professors of Temsk university, members of the Temsk-Ekarterinburg judicial bench, were on the commission. Next day the bolshevik announced the mur germ laden mucus. Such droplets are sprayed into the air when careless or ignorant people cough or sneeze without covering their mouth and nose. It is also good to know that people have learned something about the value of Washington, Dec. 6.

Direct taxes Washington D. With the sub fell heavily on corporations and only lightly on persons earning less than DETAILS OF MURDER OF-CZAR. OF RUSSIA AND HIS FAMILY Whole Family Locked in One Room With But One Bed For Weeks Before Being Shot to Death One at a Time. The Hague, Dec. 4.

A Berlin telegram dated December says the newspaper Golas Kiewe, states the following details have been published concerning the murder of the Czar and czaritza, the heir to the throne of Russia, and the four grand duchesses: Various members of the suite of the czar's family were also murdered. The czaritza's man servant was imprisoned by bolshevists shortly before and thereby escaped the fate of the czar's family. He succeeded in es $3,000 a year, it was shown today by fresh air. In summer when people sidence of the epidemic of influenza the attention of health officers is directed to pneumonia, bronchitis and other diseases of the respiratory system which regularly cause a large number of deaths, especially during are largely out of doors, the respiratory diseases (coughs, colds, pneumo- nia.etc.) are infrequent; ha the fall, the annual report of Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper for the year ending last June 30. Although 2,319,000 persons with incomes of or less in 1917 filed returns, including many heads of families having incomes ranging between $1,000 as people begin to remain indoors, the respiratory diseases increase; in the winter when people are prone to stay under the head of "conservation of manpower and war materials." Moonshine in Carolina.

"Illicit distilleries," the report continued, "numbering 2,238 were found, principally in the southeastern sections, long notorious for these seizures, 746, or exactly one-third, occurred within the single state of North Carolina. Ninety-five per cent of the illicit distilleries were seized within the six states of Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. Besides illicit distilleries seised, 1,849 illicit distilleries were seized and destroyed, of which half were discov the winter season. According to Rupert Blue, Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service, der of the ex-czar but kept secret that I other members of the family had also been killed. Traces of blood in the cellar were removed.

in badly ventilated overheated rooms, the respiratory disease become very these diseases will be especially prevalent this winter unless the people prevalent. caping by making an important dec are particularly careful to obey Grand Dukes John and Igor Con-stantine and Sorge Michailewitch were murdered at Wolepajowsk. Sympathize With the Under Dog but laration from which the following is taken about the occurrence: In the last weeks before their mur Not With a Mad Dog. and $2,000, which were reported but not taxable, they were assessed only $22,395,000 in the aggregate, or less than $10 each. On the other hand, 665,000 individuals with incomes of more than $3,000 were assessed Corporation excess profit taxes of $2,045,718,000 came from 117,000 concerns, while 218,000 corporations EUROPEAN RULERS TO VISIT UNITED STATES Zeb Green, in Mashrville Home.

der, the whole czar's family was locked up in one room where only one bed Acting on the principle that we ered in Gedreia and North Carolina. should sympathize with the under was at their disposal. The csaritza sleo in the bed, the other members During the past year "moonshiners" have been unusua active in the dog we occasionally hear somebody intimate that we should give heed to of the family being compelled to lie on the bare floor. A sentry of the red Will Follow Diplomatic Custom and Return Visit of President Wilson. New York, Dec.

7. The United States government will have as its guests in the near future, President Poincare, of France; King George, of health instructions. "The present epidemic," said geon General Blue, "has taught bitter experience how readily a condition beginning apparently as a slight cold may go on to pneumonia and death. Although the worst of the epidemic is over there will con tinue to be a large number of scattered cases, many of them mild and un recognized, which will be danger spots to be guarded against." The Surgeon General likened the present situation to that after a great Are, saying, "No fire chief who understands his business stops playing the hose on the charred debris as soon as the flames and visible fire- have disappeared. On the contrary, he continues for hours and even days, the Hun's cry for food.

It may be all right to sympathize with the under dog, but before we proceed to waste any sympathetic tears we'd better find guard was in the room day and night. The members of the czar's family were not left one moment without su were assessed income taxes of Other assessments by classes were as follows: Insurance companies income taxes, 2,100 returns, railroad companies income taxes, 4,096 returns, $29,878,000: individuals sub pervision. They were exposed to un. sneakable insults. They were fre- ttedmont section and in other localities-adjacent to the army camps and cantonments.

A special force of revenue officers has been employed to protect the camps from this demoralizing traffic. Squads of specially trained officers were sent to sections where unsatisfactory conditions were reported, and they have been largely sceessfW keeping the traffic in abeyance. out whether the under dog is a mad dog. It hasn't been but few weeks since Germany's 1918 crops were cmentlv awakened in the night and compelled to answer the most brutal gathered and a famine in Germany ject te excess profit tax, 31,000 returns, partnership excess profits tax, 37,500 returns, $93,. munition manufacturers, and shameless questions.

The grand so soon after the harvest season duchesses were exposed to the gross would be an economic phenomenon. This sudden and extended whine "in est insults. The man servant who gave this England; King Albert, of Belgium; King Victor Emmanuel, of Italy, and the heads of any other nations President Wilson may visit during his visit to Europe, Stephen E. Lauzanne, editor of The Paris Matin, declared today just before he sailed for France. M.

Lausanne has been in the United States several months on an official mission. "It has been a diplomatic custom from time immemorial," M. Lauzanne said, "that the head of one government who entertains the head of another, invariably repays the visit." While no official announcement of plans has been made, M. Lauzanne declared it was certain President Poincare would come to the United States within the next year. which German diplomats have utilized the voices of women and children" looks like another German offensive "a hunger offensive" designed to appeal to the loving-kindness of the victims of their militarism.

Says the Literary Digest "To many observers this propaganda is important, is the opening gun of Germany's fight for a A newspaper man recalls Wu Ting Fang's famous wheeze about the Chinaman who committed suicide by eating gold leaf. "But I don't see how that killed him how did it?" inquired a society man. "I suppose," said Wu, seriously, "that it was the consciousness of inward gih!" 248 returns, $9,418,000. Actual collection figures differed slightly from the assessments. From Internal Revenue.

Revised reports on collections show that $3,694,619,000 was collected from internal revenue, including from income and excess profits taxes, $317,558,000 from distilled spirits, $125,285,000 from fermented liquors, a total of from all liquors, and $156,188,000 from tobacco. The year 1918 marked the begin evidence before a commission of inquiry said death was a deliverance for the whole family. The execution occurred on the night of July 17. An agent named Andojeff informed the prisoners they were to be taken to the cellar, placed against the wall and shot. The ex-czar's last request was that he should be killed with his exhausted heir ir.

his arms. He was shot first and the Grand Duchess Tatiana, for he knows that there is danger of the fire rekindling from smoldering embers." "Then you fear another outbreak of influenza?" he was asked. "Not ne-sarily another large said the Surgeon General, "but unless the people learn to realize th seriousness af the danger they will be compelled to pay a heavy death toll from pneumonia and other respiratory diseases, Common Colds Highly Catching. victory at the peace table." OLD PAPERS FOR SALE AP- PLY AT THE M. I.

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