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ICKORY JE VOI-. II. NO. 2U HICKORY, N. CTIII KSDAY EVENING, JULY 19, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS i CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH IS AWAITED BY WORLD fCcen Interest in German Prl:- Michaelis and Crown etl in Galicia -French Ejecs Germans in Hindenburg Retreat Sector. i:y lite Associated Tress. 1hiU' the world today is awaiting v'.:U i.en interest the do.'laration nf (Ji'iinan policy which the- now im i, rial chain cllor. Dr Michaelis, is , .,l,cti'il to deliver in the rcichstag I,' military forces of the bclligcr , Cor the moment, are engaged in I!. mi nanir, especially in ua:i- .. ;, ports of tli.- lighting . :s, ! v of Xovica indicate in tile vi Ihat the r -'.: are ;it a standstill. Thi'i't has even been a recession -it ..",o p"int. where Austrian and Cor , an re serves hav. been thrown into the f ray to slop the rush which w:r : ;,i i-aieiiing to roll up the entire lino i thi- sector, as well as that in Ru- otherwise the French front In uiilurn l''rance presents the most '.aMo features of momentary in-M-t. 1'cw days pass without nnv !''.i N on the part of tlu Gorman - " it! back some of the ground sur i. :i !rivtl last spring by the Germans ' . the French. new field was ( hosen for an at -a.pt of this assault last night, th? r : shar attack in the field of the rra: 1 1 iiidmburg retreat. Tia' crown prince chose a f roti aiiy half a mile in extent where - French occupied a hillock to tin. .i-a of Guuchy. (ieneral Petain's ;' .' a - were taken back at first by the? ' n-ity of the drive ami yielded ii- positions in th first line. They later rallied and drove tlr German .it. Tiie situation in Pctro.evud contin e troublous, but the Petrograd : vernnient. has decided to take a : i r. hand and have it ou: with the M.M'.i-, who have b.'on making trouble (' r uo eminent. Meanwhile the cabinet council is ' ': -i dei -in g a proposal to remove the af of go ernment to Moscow from the scat of turmoil and i- a'-o announced that th? council I' th" -oldicrs and workmens' del- - ' will also be held in Moscow, 'I'll" .-:ii!.in",' of a (leriv.an subnia by a Russian destroyer in the i:..:;e is n ported from Petrograd. mi: IKiG TAX LAW in., how or other, the farmers vat hered the impression that if h-ted their dogs for taxes iu 'a. li, they would. have the same j muii ,,ri mem tnat they have , i! la ir hovs cows and other stock, j r. S. It. p. 'it, so thinking, listed j "I his at .!. each. the other ii' a n 'igii'mr caught one ot those ; n a trap ;uil next morning ; "'i it. .Mr. Ihitz came to sec a .', '' about it. The lawyer told i I." cu!d get no damage, because i ay,- r"(i.nres a man to keep h.s ' 'I 1 1 in his own yard,, or on own premise. Then. Mr. law- : ; nd if a man uoes in and kills. 'a!s hi.; dog, he can get dam- ef e. iiz is pu.zled. Ho said he would that much protection whether I ' p'l'd tax:'s on .his dogs or not, ' " on.-- would be allowed to go in yard and kill his dog, and if j" .-"o'e him. he could go and prove ii - !o'.' and e;et him by law, taxes or mo taves. I ''( says the law requiers him '" keep his stock, hogs, horses and "w, on his own premis?s. But in he turns them out or they break and net on his neighbors' crop, hi-i neighbor can't kill them, but ' 'ii put them up and keep them until i'itz iays all damages, and cxpen- ' f keeping them. And this is the only kind of pro- " "n Dcit. thought he would have on Ins dogs when he listed them for 7JIV(,C V., ,1 I,, ..i. 1 A U i. ."ii' i in; e.N ecicil lO riavo lo !' ',v all damages that they might do, '"id lie was and is willing to do that. According to IHt.'s story, if there ls such a law, it protects every body except the dog and the man :v," pays taxes on the dog. Deitz '' livht when he says, "it is a (logon law," and he is "done listing dogs '"'' taxes." j. i c. ir.NCLE SAM Philadelphia Press. Ib' i-f not exclusively our Uncle Kam any morn. He is getting to be about, everybody'. Uncle Sam ali "ver the world. Miss Wolff Entertains Miss Mary WolfT entertained the ""'"'hers of the Junior Sewing Club her home on Eleventh Avenue on Wednesday afternoon in honor of her '""-in. Miss Rachel W4 r of Rural Mali, . c. They sper some time ;n sewing and general conversation, 'hen piano selections were rendered by Missses Aileen Wlhitcncr. Eliza I' th Bark ley and Nita Mosteller. Miss l.ydia Whitfield gave a reading which was much enjoyed. Then Misses l.o.iiv Clint- and Elizabeth Barkley wan- "Prelty p.aby" very effectively !'' fre hmet were then served by Miss Mary Wnlfr. assisted by Miss J.uey Sb'de-f, and her cousin, Miss KHl:i wwfr. ..we-Russians Halt- GOOD RAINS FALL With the waterworks apparently disposed to operate all during the day and with .75 of an inch as a nucleus, there was the prospect today that one of the best rains in many years would fall in this section. The slow drizzls of yesterday, as has been said, was three-quarters of an inch, ami it came trickling down in a manner that none of it escaped, especially in fields that are in cul tivation. Outside of Hickory, however, the need for moisturu was not pro nounced. For several days in some sections the ground has been too wet to plow since Saturday, and what the correspondents use to refer to as General Green is moving on the fields in force. In Hickory and su burbs the situation is different. Very little rain has fallen in two months, and this came in the form of show ers at intervals. Garden truck and field crops were suffering. Persons who were in their gardens yesterday afternoon said today that in spite of the almost steady and generous fall, the soil was not satu rated. Squash and pumpkin vines, some gardeners said, were large en ough to shelter the ground, which was found to be dry. An inch and a half of rain in Hickory would not be too much, it is declared. There were indications in the fore noon that more rain was to come, the weather forecast indicating thunder showers. INCREASES TYPHOID CHANCES The state board of health is again urging people not to go on their va cation until they have taken the vac cine treatment against typhoid fever. The board urges this precaution on account of the many dangers of tak ing typhoid that are likely to be met on vacation trips, camping partus or outings of any kind. It says that there are many more chances of getting the infection when traveling and when eating and drinking at va rious places than at home, and that the best ami about the only snfeguam against such liabilities is the immu nity to the disease that is to be h; from the vaccine treatment The board says further in its note of warninir that often what is in tlu beginning a bright and joyous vaca- tion is at the end one of sickness on account of this ono nnhoedod nrocu- turn. Pupl2 don t altogether lg- nore this important feature of their preparation for vacation but thej netidect it until fmnllv for lack of time it is dismissed' as out of the question. "Then, too." saw theboard. "thera ;ir,. nnnnlo tho mountains, make tlhemselves think that there is little or no dan ger, and that their risk against it is only a minor one And there are those who think if they go to the good hotels and are caueful of where and what they eat and drink that they wiil not be "likely to meet the in fection. It is against the unsus p?cting nature of typhoid and against the uncontrolable means of spread ing the infection that make the vac cine treatment as a protection so val uable." WALLACE HEII) AT PASTIME The special attraction at the Pas- time this afternoon and tonight will be Wallace Reid and Anita King m p lj l l , r Th. following I t.v,i- thn tnrv A I " ' thrilling and novel western drama nresentinc a new stellar combina tion in the persons of Wallace Reid and Anita King. Mr. Reid is seen -A,ivw. -v I v ) n tv r n.frinifvQ'i W n C iTA I'"" " ; riT Ei- inrt,mn m: i o m. VrrU-nA sMmol l..'.:t.- A i ....MonitWiKf into th turmoil and excitement of a wes- i." 4. Tr, an mnDv wv-tpt, L. i : 4.-. i : ffi,iOM mlno i rr-tiirned to her and steel hand- puffs which bind her to the man she loves are turned into fetters of gold is brouiiht :Jout in a most dramat ic and gripping manner. FOR U. S. rttr iht Associated Pres. Whshinuton. July 19- The ad viorv eommittee for aeronautics has asked the secretaries of war, na w and the treasury and the congres sional, navy and military committees to consider the advisability ot insur ing aviators in the service. A general plan for insuring sailors and soldiers is being worked out by the treasury. IN HICKORY SECTION NSURANCE ASKED AVIATORS CHARGE AGAINS' IS Sf P.y the Associated Press. London, July 19. The correspondent of the Zurich Vienna Tages Zeitung, according to a dispatch, accuses the non-German element, in Austria-Hungary of being disloyal to the empire. "No Gt' ,n can doubt," says the correspondent, "but that, an alliancx or understanding exists between the Austrian Greeks, Poles and other non -Germans on the one ham! and Franco, Russia and Great Britain on th- other. The recent amnesty declared by the emperor was the first result of ths policy of blackmail and must be considered a victory for the arti German party.'' By the Associated Press. London, July 19. A Reuter dis patch from Petrograd says the num ber of killed or wounded in the two days' rioting totals 500. SIXTEF. By the Associated Tress. Washington, July 19. 'President Wjlson today issued pardons for the. 10 suffragists who are suffering a 00 days sentence to the workhouse for their picketing of the whita house Saturday. Secretary Tumulty said the pardon must speak for itself and that the white house would make no state ment of the pardon. All persons wrho have subscribed to the Red Cross war relief fund are urged by the central committee to make payment to the First National Bank immediately. The headquarters has called on the local committee for its subscriptions. The bank will furnish receipts MTHREATS 10 LYNCH NEGRO MURDERER t3y the Associated Press. Lynchburg, Va., July 19. Al fred Barrett, negro, and his 14 yeax old son, who are charged with th murder Monday of W. T. Roach, white farmer, near Red House Charlotte county, were captured by a mob of 250 men 15 miles from the scpnp of the murder today. The negroes have confessed, it is said. Jt is reported that threats have hoon made to Ivnch Barrett, his wife, son and daughter at Ret ri It is said that a military company cannot be rushed to KeU House in time to prevent a lynch ing FIVE ITALIAN VICTIMS Rome. July 19. One Italian n.er chant steamer and four small sailing vessels were sunk by submarines in the week ending July 15, according to the official statement. Arrivals at Italian ports for the wreek number ea oo, clearances yy RUSSIANS By the Associated Press. Petrograd, July 19 Russian troops have again driven into the Ga lician village of Novica, south of Kalusz, the war office announced to day. MANY KILLED OR WOUNDED IN R OTS WILSON PARDONS i f WIN RED GROSS FUNDS DUE IN WASHINGTON AnlAMOr IKI ! AUYflIM UN HAIIPIA unLium M WHAT CATAWBA COUNTY WILL (FURNISH By the Associated Pres3. Raleigh, July 19 The gross quota of men wheh counties in North Carolina will furnish for the draft ar my as tabulated here today includes: Catawba county, 277. Cabarrus county, 3G3. Rowan county, 410. Guilford district, No. 1, which is the city of Greensboro, 175. Guilford district No. 2, which in cludes the city of High Point, 397. Guilford district, No. 3, all outside of these cities, 207. From these figures will be deduct ed the number of men in the national guard and those who have enlisted in the regular army. Just hew many will be deducted is not known. WHERE CREDITS ARE MADE The county wll be given credit I" for those members of Co. A who are residents of the county and also for all men who have joined the guard or regular army since April 1. The quota of the county therefore should be considerably under 277. It prob ably will be less than 150. BETTER The condition of Mr. Uris Mc- Falls, who was severely injured Monday in a fall from a scaffold at the new Wjest school building, was reported as somewhat improved to- iv and Dr. H. C. Menzies, who is atteri ling him, is hopeful that liis recovery will be permanent. The shock of the fall from a 30-foot scaffold induced spinal concussion and it was feared that the young man would be permanently para- yzed. The accident wras the result of a caffold breaking tinder him. He dropped to the ground and fell in sitting posture, the snock being absorbed by his spinal column. The pain was terrific, but the young man is bearing his affliction with forti tude, lie was engaged in painting when the accident occurred. Mr. McFalls is a junior sergeant in Co. A, Hickory, and his comrades in the company, who know and love him, will be especially glad to learn hat his chances of recovery are better. He is married. CONFESSES 10 MURDER OF THREE PERSONS y the Associated Press. Johnstown, Pa., July 19 George C. Tompkins of Philacteipnia, held in connection with the shooting to death of Edward I. Humphries, prom inent coal operator, his wife, Mrs. Carrie Humphries, and their 1 year- old son, on a country road near Car- roltown, this county, last, Sunday, confessed to the three murders today, according to the police. Mrs. II. D. Abernethy's kinder garten class of 20 will present "A Summer Day at the Academy oi Music Tuesday night at 8 o clock. The children have been well drilled in this little play and they will give it by themselves. It promises to be a treat. MARKETS COTTON FUTURES By Associated Press. New York. July 19. With the ey- ception of a temporary advance of 10 points m September contracts, the cotton market opened rather easier today with prices six points lower. CHICAGO WHEAT The close was steady Open July 26.70 October 25.30 December 25.15 January , 25.12 March 25.25 to 14 Close 26.55 24.89 24.65 24.69 24.48 HICKORY MARKETS Cotton , 25c Wfieat '- $2.25 By the Associated Press. Chicago, July 19. Shorts in iirViont mrmi'-fpst.prl nnvipt.V Over dr" weather complaints from fvforth Da kota today. iSome reports said the ! state would not harvest half a crop. i After opening at 2.06 1-2 for Sep tember the market rallied. mmiiitiimsinniimnit THE WEATHER tnmtmaawttwmjamm - T?r.. XTV.,yVi Parnlina- Probably local - thundershowers tonight and Friday; gentle to moderate south winds. vCDfif AWT M EM v it FOUR K By the Associated Press. Raleigh, July 19. iMiss Lena Luther of Fayetteviile, fatally injur ed late yesterday when a Seaboard Air Line passenger train struck an automobile at Method, three miles west of here, died in a local hospi tal this morning. IMiss Elizabeth Harris of this city, the fifth member of the party, was seriously injured, but will recover. Those killed outright were M iss Alice Harris of Fayetteviile and E. B. Elam and IT. K. Harris of Raleigh, both Seaboard Air Line locomotiv? engineers on leave of absence. Mr. Harris will be buried here today beside his father, whose fu neral took place Tuesday. Miss Elizabeth Harris is a sister of H. K. Harris and Miss Luther came here for the funeral. By the Associated Press. Petrograd, July 19 An extraordi nary council is discussing the pro posal to transfer the capital to Mos cow. NEW YORI HAVE ORE PARADE By the Associated Press. N'ew York, July 19. News from Washington that the New York na tional guard might be in the trench es by November intensified the mus tering in today of the- 20,000 guards men. Plans for the entire guard of the state to participate in a great send-off parade were nearing com pletion today. The upstate regi ments it was said would probably be sent to Spartanburg by way of this city to take iiart in the greatest mil itary demonstration ever held here. El IN FOOD CONTROL Bv the Associated Press. Washington, July 19. Confine ment of government control legisla tion in the food bill to food, feed and fuel, including kerosene, was decided on today in what was said to be a test vote, the senate rejecting an amend ment to include other products. SUPPLY LIMITED By the Associated Press. Charlotte, July 19. Shipment of liquor into this city since tne new federal bone dry law went into effect TnW 1 has dwindled to such a small . T-i quantity tnat tne douih Company has abandoned its office at the depot. Wlhera hundreds ot packages 01 beer and liquors were delivered here daily prior to July 1 only 72 pack- ages "for medical purposes have been received this month. By the Associated Press. Washington, July 19. Counsel for in rrictc! coTOTiicp sentences au suuiflijico, o.t, - the District of Columbia worKnouse for picketing the white house, were preparing to make appeals today un less President Wlilson interfered with the sentences. Bv the Associated Press. Zurich, July 19. The munition factory of the Hungarian iron and roller mills near Budapest was Wnpd Sunday, according to word . . heve The Gntire plant was i 1 1 ,T A., The loss was one miUion crowns. j Fn N WAR DP AUTOMOBILE TO I i mm CM. TO MOSCOW WILL AT KEROSENE INCLUDED CHARLOTTE LIQUOR HUGE MUNITIONS PLANT IS BURNED 1 DRAW New National Army to the Morning and Will Double Number of by Each Mr. John A. Livingston of Raleigh, assistant superintendent of credit unions, passed through Hickory Wednesday afternoon en route east from Watauga county, where he had been on an inspection of the cheese factories in that section. Mr. Liv ingston, who is a former newspaper man of Wilmington, has been draft ed into the service of the stats, where his pwoers of ovservation arc given a larger opportunity. The Cove Creek factory, 10 miles west of Boone, is the largest plant in the mountains, and this summer it is turnnig out 300 pounds of cheese a day, the product being sold at wholesale for 22 cents a pound. Farmers receive 17 cents a gallon for their milk and one farmer with six cows is drawing $85 a month: Mr. James Bingham is president of the Cove Creek factory and is a big success. Jn a radius of 10 miles of Cove Creek there are seven other cheese factories, Mr. Livingston said, and they have an average of 150 pounds of cheese a day. What this means to the farmers, whose cows have fine blue grass to graze on, cannot be es timated in dollars and cents, although these e considerable in quantity. Seventeen cents a gallon for milk when all one has to do in summer is to milk the cows means something. There are a dozen factories in op eration in W)itauga and Ashe coun ties and others are being erected. It is estimated that an area of five square miles in the valley sections of il. . . Ml r 1 i.ne niouniams wnii support enougn cows to supply millc lor a iactorv with an output of 150 pounds a day, Air. Livingston was told, but there are not so many favored sections in the mountains. One gallon of milk makes a pound of cheese. In the winter the plants operate only a few days a week. They en deavor to pay a dividend of 10 per cent to the stockholders and all above- that is turned back to the suppliers of milk. The factories do not pay is well as creameries, like the big Catawba plant here, but they are remote from railroads and can han dle milk at practically little cost to tne farmers. UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL NEARS CLOSE Chapel Hill, July 19. Within 0112 week the session of the University summer school will be nearing an end. Examinations in the various courses come on July Zb and zo. ine present session has brought to Chap- e! tiiii a more serious Docly ot stu - uems than any former session Ihe enrollment to date has been 89u not including a few who have been attend- Hill a more serious body of stu- ing courses without registration. With the attendance of -the summer law- school of the university here, the to tal number of students is 918 Of those in attendance, 246 already hold degrees irom otner colleges. lllinn-. 4- l-i n VMir-f Timn I - 111? cTidnn I-f ' teachers' institutes. Most of these are high school principals, city and county superintendents and teachers . I in iiii.;ii turn titjiiitrii Lai y acauuis. .uaii special conferences and lectures have ke?ri arrano-ed, pertaining to the special problems of teaching The leading entertainment of the past week was the music festival on Wednesday and Thursday nights. I 1 1 OlliSSUJ. iiaL'lUIIlS CIKIIU HI I ') n tt ,1 r.t n voices, chosen from summer schooi students, and four special soloists: Miss Dicie Howell of Scotland Neck, miss ivatnerme Jonnson ot inom- , rwiM TWoll of ,v ail . .vork, delighted the audience with their Si-nL,;n. rt was th-e best musj eal entertainment ever given in Chap- el Hill. In the recent medical examinations in the state a university man, J. R. Latham of Belhaven, won highest honors. Mr. Latham finished his medical course here in 1915. The outlook for a large atten dance at the university for next year is very good at present. Many are writing for rooms. Miss Berty Hatch of Burlington is spending ten days as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Wihitener. S! HAS QUIT CABINET Cy the Associated Press. Petrograd, July 19. Another mem ber of the Russian government has resigned. The minister who resig ed ?s M. Pereveizeff, who held the portfolio of justice. WATAUGACHEESE FACTORIES . BUSY ANOTHER RUSSIAN ARTMENT READY NAMES FRIDAY be Selected at 9:30 in Take About an Hour Quota to be Called District. BY the Associated Prsa. Washington, July 19. At 9:30 to morrow morning in a committee room of the senate building the names for the new national army will bi drawn. Secretary Baker and other cabinet officers and members of the senate and house military committees wil be in attendance. Provost Marshal General Crow der counts on finishing in a little more than an hour the drawing o? the men for appearance before the local exemption boards of the several districts. Just how the drawing which is to be conducted to establish the order of liability to appear before the district exemption boards was dis closed for the first time today. There will be two drawings, one of numbers from one to 10, and an other from a cipher to 100. There are 4.557 exempton districts with an average of about 3,000 reg istrants each. The largest has mor1 than 10,000 registered, and the small est about 184. In each district the registrants have been given cards numbered in red ink. For districts of not more than 1. 000 registrants the numbers will b from 1 to 10. When a district has more than 1, 000, the master key will have to e applied. The master key will establish the order in which the S98 are added tc the 1,000, 2,000 and so on up to the largest number of thousands in the district shall be placed on the local list when the 898 men are drawn. Of the 10,000 men who registered. 687,000 men are wanted now. Each board will be directed to call double the number of its quota for examina tion in the order their numbers ap pear on the list of the district draw ing. Originally the master key was fix ed at the cipher nine on the assump tion that the largest district would have less than 10,000. Today re ports from Detroit showed that more than 10,000 had registered there and the key had to be changed. "PATRIA' AT PASTIME ON FRIDAY JULY 20th The following is a short synopsis of the 12th chapter of "Patria" featur ing Mrs. Vernon Castel, which wili be shown at the Pastime Friday af ternoon and night July 20th. Huroki and General Nogi assembl ed a force of troops in order to make an invasion of the country with thj assistance of the Mexicans. General Nogi demands a report of the prep arations made by Patria in order to resist such an invasion. At the same time Patria is en- 1 , . revicwlnf the troops which hag ize1 aml outfitted with ch j "Preparation" fund. All . , r, seems to be in fine shape for any con tingency, but they forgot to figure on the small unexpected raids made by the Mexicans. . "While Bess Morgan and her broth ers were at breakfast they were broken in upon by a band of marau ders. They put up a good fight, but the odds were against them. Their home was burned to the ground. Bess was captured and her oldest brother was the only ons: to escape to bring the news to Pa tria. Wlhile Bess made a daring but un successful attempt to escape her cap tors, her brother managed to reach Patria's ranch and there he related the horrifying tale to two listeners, Patria and Donald were sickened by the oftold tale of rampage and loot along the border and on her knees Patria asked for the answer. Since No. 21 has been operated by way of Greensboro and Winston Salem, instead of by way of Salis bury, the pouch mail has been elim inated, the train not making the connections. This will be of inter est to persons who usually receive mail on this train. It now comes on No. 35 and will be in the boxes at the postoffice next morning. MR. HUFFMAN TO RETURN HOME IN SEPTEMBER Friends of Mr. W. P. Huffman, manager of Hotel Huffry, will be in terested to learn that he plans to leave Davenport, Iowa, in a week to visit his two sons at Center ana Brookfield, Mo. From there he will go to Hot Springs to take treat ment and expects to return to Hickory about the first of September. Mr. Huffman, who has suffered from something similar to creeping paraly sis for some time, has not responded to treatment as satisfactorily as his family and friends had hoped, but it is believed the treatment at Hot Springs, coupled with the absence of business cares, will do much to re store him to health and they are ex pecting a big change in him on his re turn in the fall. ', '. i