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I n I Do you know that you fAf) f can save Big Money by JlVy reading Every line of the ads in the Revie We guarantee this to you. It's upf 0 ju to mate mgL fL - J" -? y xegu uuppTeciaieatu that Lf. 13. No. 42 HITTING THE BULL'S EYE. W. H. DUGDALE. At the nresent time in the hist of our nation the eyes of the wh are intently fixed upon i There exists a feeling of security un der the folds of the Stars and Stripes, that no nation, ancient or modern has ever experienced. It practicaHy uts the whole situation up to us. la Irderto succeed we must hit the hull's eye, to get a prize. Will we do it? We as a nation have done ft before. Dewey did it at Manilla, Schley did it at Cuba, Washington Sid it at Yorktown; and as we have not deteriorated in efficiency, why not do it in Europe ? Of course en vironments make a lot of difference ia getting results, but American in tenuity has been developed to a ooint of proficiency where it will be a difficult matter for any concen trated plan worked out by a foreign oower to cope successfully against. It requires no mean skill to properly shoot a rifle, and at these times of war and preparation people have their minds and attention turned to these matters more closelynfhan in times of peace. Poor shooting comes from lack of practice. Preparedness at our training camps remedy this. Properly holding a rifle and correct ly aiming it at the moment of dis charge is essential, and all go to carry the missile to the buds eye. Our training camps do this. Discip line and obedience make good sol diers, and under tire careful and ef ficient management ot Uncle Sam,!: virv voung man taking a part in the war game can hit the bull s eye,-; Ymi can t bit the bull's . eye if you hold a gun like a bachelor would hold a baby. You can't stand awkwardly and clumsily point the gun at the target. The breecn sight must not be away below the line of vision, and don t yank the trigger- hke a fight weight demist would yank on a deep rooted mnlar. Then the farmer in the ad- joining property won Keiy lose a valuable cow. to hit the b the way if in a standing posit ce the left foot, inc'.'ning t y for- ward and lacing t iaght so a in be nearly edft ttf "the target. Bring the gun up with a mm, sure movement, swing the muzzle hori zontally until in line with the mark and then raise it until the target is in exact line with both sights. With practice all this can be done much more quickly than one would sup pose. The trick is in holding the gun in this position while discharg ing it. Do not shut both eyes and yank the trigger; keep your peepers wide open and look straight at the target in line with the rights. The j trigger should be squeezea not pulled, the hand should be closed on itself as you would squeeze a sponge. The forefinger wbicJ);Jfchara in the movement, should b Jced so tar around the trigger atofress it with the second joint of the finger. By observing these rules it is possi ble to attain a fair degree of marks manship after a little practice. Tar g ts that stay put give one plenty of time. It is the other kind of targets our boys are after, the kind that whoop and holler and keep on the move. That calls for skill. Some can never attain it while others seem to have little or no trouble to become good marksmen and can hit the bull s eye without much appar ent effort. But all need practice, and because one cannot be the best shot in the world is no reason he stiould be a dub who could not hit the side of a barn with a shotgun. Our boys are about to enter a field of usefulness, which is in a class by itself. It takes brains and muscle to do it, and it takes practice and experience to hit the bull's eye. And our German friends will wake up some day in the near future to dis cover that every man from the good old U. S. A. is a star and can hit the bull's eye, and it is doubtful if they are at all anxious to be the bulls eye and will be willing to stand from under." And remem ber, Uncle Sam is taking no unnec essary chances of having his bois nt home legless and armless. Heretofore the bulk of the fatalities t& war hospitals came from infec tion settling after the wounds had been sustained. In cases where in fection had actually set in the only hoice lay betweeu amputation and Jting to the carative powers of joe human body itself. As it is now the very best that money can pro- w"ne ir skil,ed surgery can render JJJU be available to our boys, with the very best equipped hospital ne cessities that can be procured will e on hand in abundance to meet every requirement. Ur- Carroll, a noted French spe- eways The . cialist, has come all the way from France to instruct American sur geons in the art of using an anti septic solution, with a hose to clean out shrapnel as one would use a hose to clean off the sidewalk. All the great surgeon does is to clean out the wound and let nature do the healing. He hits the bulls eye. Please note the fact that every ef fort made by Uncle Sam is to hit the bull's eye that's what the training camps are for, that's why we have naval target practice, that's why the allies want our help, be cause we can and do hit the bull's eye. ROADS F0& HOTEL MAN; WORK HOUSE FOR WOMAN. Eugene Lanier, a white man, one of the proprietors of the old Belle vue Hotel, was given a 30 day road sentence in Recorder's Court Thurs day afternoon for keeping a disor derly house and Clara Dean, a white woman boarder, was given 30 days in the-work house. Both took an appeal. Lanier gave his bond to the amount of $250. IMPROVED POOL ROOM. The new pool room of the Holder- Moser & Co., in the rear of the bar ber shop on North Main street, is a dandy. The very latest pool tables are in use with the return ball fea ture, suck as are used in the best pool and billiard rooms in the larger cities. The walls of the room are handsomely papered with several fine pictures, reproductions of Swiss scenes from oil paintings of the mas terpieces, producing a most pleasing effect. Everything is new and nifty, and the company has played a win ning band for the best patronage and. can't fall to make good. Suc cess? gentlemen: ; NEW FACTORY. P. A. Thomas is operating a man tle factory on Commerce street and has a promising business. The fac tory is three stories, 45x125 feet. Office and store furniture will also he manufactured Th factor v h a rjreter caDacitv of 250 mantels a iontE.sides the other &xtugTTm&sm. o tcets, manufactured. SHIFTER VICTIM OF ITS OWN FIRE. Early Sunday morning the shift ing engine No. 1676 caught on fire and was badly damaged before the flames were subdued. The firemen arrived on the scene and fought the fire as best they could. Most of the woodwork on the engine was de stroyed by the fire as well as the delicate guages aod other ap- Dliances oi a liKe nature, ine en gine had been left standing near the High Point Furniture Co.'s plant over Sunday with fires banked and it is quite probable some one opened the door and the draft caused the fire to .kindle and the flames to spread out to the woodwork of the engine. It was quite an unusual sight to see a fire department fight ing fire on a steam engine. The loss will amount to several hundreds of dollars. AUXILIARY ORGANIZED. An auxiliary of the Red Cross was organized Sunday afternoon at Mor ris' Chapel M. E. church, colored, with the assistance of Rev. G. T. Rowe and Miss Clara Cox. Some 100 negroes joiaed at the meeting. Dr. G. A. Gerran was made chair man; Carrie Davis, vice-chairman and Prof. E. E. Curtright, sec. and treas. THE WORKING MAN'S FRIEND. 'A new series of the Mutual Build ing and Loan Association will be opened Aug. 15th and thus an at tractive proposition is offered the person who wants to build or save. The Building and Loans of High Point have worked wonders for the individual and the city at large. Hundreds of homes have been made possible hy such af plan and peace and contentment dwell therein to sing the praises of the Building and Loan Associations. It's positively the best way to build a home with rent money. Secretary Crowsoir of the Mutual wants to help you to own a home of your own jr save for the rainy day. Go the first op portunity and take several shares with the Mutual. See ad. SHOE SALE NOW ON. All $3.50 and $3 Shoes at $2.50; all $2.50 at $198 White Slippers for ladies, price $1.50, for $1, $1 Rubber Sole Slippers for 75c. H. A. Moffitt. ki larse bodu of teotle wh High Point, N. The Review Presents An Extraordinary Feature I This Week. J The various daily newspapers, big and little, throughout the country have been"tooting their horn" about the way they handled the draft num bers for their townships and locali ties, but we are informed that n daily carried the entire 10,500 nurn bers, representing every person in the United States who registered under the selective conscription June 5th. Each number drawn renresent- ed 43,000 persons as there were that urnuy ..regisirauon districts in tire United States and the numbers were the same for each district. The ReHay which begins Saturday and view is this week presenting the ens ure list ana was only apie to do so by being a member of a syndicate which covers such features. The list should be preserved for all time. It means much to the present genera tion and will be valued by future generations. . AN APPEAL FOR THE ROADS. The writer has always been an advocate of good schools and good roads, and seeing the school system in such good she not only in Guil ford cQuntvJjHin the whole State. i m uowpy samsnea out ver wish to speak and of the ban county of this section, which I lieve is Guilford. It is one thing to build good roads that has and is fmlt ing done to perfection, but there another feature of mm matter th wish to speak of arWthat is the servation of our roads; and here where I wish to appeal to every woman, boy and girl of the cou Let s each one help to do this of preserving or caring for our lie roads. Having had the upke working of the roads probably caused me to take more n the way we treat them. We as it were, a dumping-ground them. The observer will notice in the roads and side-ditches all sorts of things from a doll dress to the running works of a wagon, old plank, brickbats, rocks, briars, bushes, baby -carriages and dozens of other things, besides plowing and throwing the dirt in the side-ditches. Now let us remedy this evil by taking thought and making amends and thereby preserve our roads. And last but not least, I wish to appeal to our good county commis sioners and road boards , and ask if we have any laws to protect our roads and if so ask that they be ex ecuted, and punish the guilty par ties, if it gets this writer. Yeurs truly for good roads, J. W Fouts. BOIL YOUR Drinking water until further no tice. The rainy weather has caused a bad report. Then there is a case of typhoid fever on the water shed, at the Jamestown bridge. Mrs. Lewis, mother of Clay Lewis of Allen Bros., died at her home in Graham Thursday night and the funeral 5ervices were held Tuesday near the old home in Chatham coun ty, where the remains were interred. Thursday last was the most mo mentous day in the history of High Point in many respects, for on this day the United States government was picking thousands of men from the selective conscription ranks to fight the common foe. The publish ing of the names Friday afternoon, of course, created considerable in terest. "Some will b called and others will not" but the proposition is fair as could be made and there's no use to kick. "Steve" ClarK is without doubt one of the most versatile ad. writers in this section of the country. It is a pleasure to read his ads. which are more interesting than most of the classics in literature in the ordi nary news column. Such ads. can not fail to reach the spot and pro duce the best results for the effort put fortb. If all ads. were as full of good, "wholesome meat'1 touched off with the necessary "pep," the ad vertiser and the newspaper would produce far greater results and the profession would be one grand, sweet song of mutual contentment. Jake Beronsky, the South Mais street tailor, who was in court last Thursday for an assault on Miss Eva Nash, a Salvation Army worker, was fined $50 and costs. It will be remembered from last week's ac count that Beronsky kissed the girl after she had sold him a tag and pinned it on his coat on Salvation Army tag day. - is all man, epor . i nas otice or it a make, of including PC rim A- J'ifi lLrV W B ourfifths of the C , Thursday, July 26 THINGS PERSONAL AND OF A GENERAL NATURE MollieCranford, a white woman of good appearance, hailing from Ran dolph county, was before Recorder A Austin Tuesday charged with the theft of a $70 diamond ring and 75 in cash from one Curtis Wel feorn in June, 1916. She was held in bond to the amount of $500 for the next term of court. 1 An attempt is -being made to get silk flag and staff for Company M. Melp the ladies; you owe it to Com pany M. The Moffitt Furnishing Co. an- nounce an interesting summer clear- lasts through Monday and Tuesday following, three days of real value giving. Look over the list of spe cials in ad. on last page and be sure to attend this sale. The city council is considering building an addition to the city jail so as to segregate the male and fe male specie. Died Monday morning, infant of Mr. and Mrs. J. B; Wardell, on Ken nedy street. Funeral services were held from the home Tuesday after noon, conducted by Rev. G.T. Rowe Mrs. Frank Armfield and children of Monroe are visiting at the home of W. J. Armfield. f'city now has the automobile who have paid plates' for all those license fee. The plates are red wun nign roioc, n. u, in wmte. An arrow runs through the name. The plates will serve a two-fold purpose, that of advertising High Point and incidentally showing the officers just who have paid their license fee. American officers returning from France say that we have a man's job on our hands to lick Germany with present tactics. It is good news that volunteers will help the examining doctors in the physical and mental tests for militaty service so that it won't be easy for favored classes to get out of the service any more than the poorer-classes, through various meth ods or possible graft m same in stances. Every man subject to draft is a little bit nervous until the matter is settled, but none, we hope and be lieve, are the least bit scared that's not the stuff Americans are made of. Chief A. B. Horney left Monday night for Morehead City to attend the Firemen's Tournament. Accom panying him were W. H. Long, W. W. Harrington, David T. Yow, T. W. Stoner, John Leonard and R. V. Curtis. The Piedmont Baptist Association is in session here this week. Rev. James A. Clark preaches a mission ary sermon at Green Street Baptist church tonight, where the sessions are being held. Just suppose the United States puts one million men in France and then the Germans sink all the Eng lish boats or continue to sink so many of them .where are the rations coming from? No, this isn't any puzzle,a simple bdsiness.proposition. You know it is claimed that Ger many is sinking far more tonnage than the combined fighting forces can put on the market. Mrs. Harry Gamble and daughters, Misses Ruth and Helen, of Rich mond, Va., are at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Stamey, arriving yes terday morning. Mrs. Gamble is a niece of Mrs. W. L. Stamey and W. L. Smith, being the daughter of the late M. A. Smith and granddaughter of Alex Smith. Married Monday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Long, on South Main , Miss Emma Redmond of Spray and Will Hayworth, the ceremony being performed by Rev. H. H. Robbins of Main Street M. E. church. The marriage came as a surprise to their friends. Wm- George Matton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Matton of this city, is visiting in the city. The friends oi George, Jr., will be glad to learn that he has been promoted to the general managership of the British American Tobacco Co. in South America with headquarters in Pan ama City. He will assume his du ties next month. This is a very flat tering position and a rapid promo tion for Mr. Matton. Den't forget that the big sale of H. Harris & Bro. begins today and continues for only 15 days, during which time good values will be given to one and all. This is the company's annual sale and is well up to the average of the successful sales of the past Read ad. elsewhere. i wwuw goods sold in High Point the laboring peoph , 191 7 Doings of City Council. Tuesday night's session of the city council was one of the most impor tant in the city's history, because it had to do with making possible im portant improvements of various kinds within the city and the financ ing of same by bond issues. The bond expert was present and presented the facts and figures in re gard to taking care of the improve ments already made and are to be made in the future It will require $299,000 for the items in sight. The bonds will run eleven years, to cover the city's cost and the cost to the property owners who are given ten years in which to pay their part of the costs, so in addition to paying 1 ti m m . mm ms part ot tne streets and six p r cent interest during the ten years Uf cash is not paid) he will be pay ing his part of the bond issue during that time through an increased tax rate, etc. This makes nearly one-half mil lion dollars in bonds ordered within the past month. CENTENNIAL AND WASHINGTON STREETS. The matter of finishing Centen nial avenue and that part of East Washington street to the railroad was brought up and some plain talk was directed at those in charge. That part already laid on East Wash ington street was not at all satisfac tory aid the contractor was given until the next council meeting to show a sample of just what could be done, before doing any further work on Centennial avenue. CONGESTION OF STREETS. Fred N. Tate appeared before the council in regard to the unnecessary obstruction of the streets and the haphazard way the work was being carried on, and the city manager and engineer were instructed to see that the matter was remedied at once. The contract allows only two blocks to be obstructed at once. CITY WATER REPORT. A report on the city water showed that it was not what it should be and the manager was instructed to notify the people at once to boil their drinking crater nntil further notice. GAS MACHINE ORDERED. The council directed that an im proved gas sterilizing tank be or dered to kill the germs in the water, said tank to be located at the reser voir in the city. STREET IMPROVEMENTS. A number of petitions were incor porated in the proposed street bond issue and each will be passed upon separately. GASOLINE RESERVOIR. The Southern Harness Co. was given privilege to locate an under ground gasoline reservoir on North Main street. BOARD OF HEALTH. Mayor Ragan appointed the fol lowing Board of Health: Drs. H.W. McCain, C. S. Grayson, T. M Stan ton, I. Thurman Mann and W. L. Jackson. DEATH OF AGED LADY Mrs James C. Martin died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs J. P Redding on W. Broad St. Deceased was born in Milton, Conn., Aug. 2.1,1829 and located in High Point ic"1875. Only one child sur vives, Mrs J. P. Redding. Services tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock, conducted by Archdeacon Hardin, of Salisbury, assisted by Rev. G. T. Rowe. Mrs Martin was an Episco palian. The pall bearers will be: J. W. Harris, H. C. Pitts, A. J. Owen, J. H. Petty, E. T. Parker and L. C. Sinclair. Interment follows in Oak wood. INFANT SHOES SALS. One lot of 75c to $1 Children's Slippers for 48c pair; 12 Yt and 15c Dress Ginghams for 10c a yd.; 75c Children's Gingham Dresses and white for 39c. H. A. Moffitt. COLORED LAWNS SALE. 1,000 yds. of 15c colored Lawn for j luc. Ail ouc Doys' straw nats at 39c.; all 25c for 19c. H. A. Moffitt. Very few motorists on the Greens boro road heed the State injunction to dim the lights on their autos. No. 37, No. 34, No- 36, No. 28, No. 18 , all failed to dim their lights Sunday night. We only give the first two numbers of the four and five figures on each car. The next time we may print the num bers in full. The law should be obeyed. Safety first is the best method. The Red Cross workers start to morrow on another campaign for money. Heed their call. i - Pages this week, well worth your care ful attention Tfa ads point you. to the "Road of Bi tmivw me igu obb arrive saiejy 8 Pages Ed Justice Dead. Edwin J. Justice, lawyer, rjoliti- cian and statesman, died suddenly in San Francisco yesterday after noon. The death is a shock to has numerous friends and acquaint ances. At the time of his death he was representing the government in the recovery of valuable oil lands amounting to something hke a bil lion dollars. The remains will prob ably be brought back to North Car olina for interment. He was a na tive of Rutherfordton and went to Greensboro from Marion where he began to climb rapidly on the lad der of fame. Soldier Boys Ready to Hove Company M mobilized yesterday preparatory to leaving for the can tonment at Greenville, S. O, about Aug. 5th. The company is still shy of some men and would like mighty well to have its full war strength be fore leaving. It will be good busi ness policy for the young men to join the company and be with home folks. First Lieutenant James W. Welch has been promoted to tire captaincy of the company, of whom every sol dier is proud. Chas. Kephart is first lieutenant; Franz C. Nelson, second; Henry C. Horney, first sergeant; Jas. A. Welch, second; John C. Leonard, mess sergeant; John E. Raper, Jas. C. Everhart, Chas. E. Loving and Harden Glidewell are the sergeants. Corporals, Joe B. Prevost, Claude A. Hughes, John R. Carroll, Grady H. Burke, Emery M. Burns, Chas. I. Boger, Vernie Archer, James A. Par- ton, Isom W. Cook, Archie Ingram and Flear Embler. Cooks, Walter G. Barton, Clyde R. Ellison. Buglers, Perry F. Smith and Everett Proc tor. Mechanic, Marvin A. Tysinger. From now until further notice the company is living upon Uncle Sam and receiving full pay. BIGGEST NEWS EVER. The drawing of the numbers for the selective draft army at Washing am Friday, July 20, was one of the big eents tof modern times. The drawing surpassed in interest the registration or even the declaration of war. The Review is always on the job when it comes to handling big news. In this issue of The Re view will be found a list of the num bers just as they were drawn in Washington. It is likely that all those called at this time will come from the first 2,000 numbers drawn. MILLINERY SALE. All ladies' and children's Trimmed Hats at one half price. Lots of hats at less than one-half price. We sell everything cheap. H. A. Moffitt. GOOD WOMAN DEAD. Mrs. Mary C, wife of C. H. Thacker, died Sunday morning at her home four miles northeast of the city after a lingering illness. Deceased was 67 years of age, was well and favorably known, and her passing is deplored. Surviving are husband, C H. Thacker, three sons, Messrs. W. Marshall and J. W Thacker of High Point, W . B. Thacker of Greensboro; three daugh ters. Miss Lula Thacker, Mrs. V. Fol well and Mrs. Ruth Thacker, all of this city, who were present when the end came. The remains were carried to Milton Monday night and the funeral services were held next morning from the New Hope church, conducted by Rev- J. H. Bamhardt, presiding elder of the Greensboro district. BIG REDUCTION SALE. J. A. Clinard announces a big re duction sale, commencing yester day, when staple goods will be offer ed for sale at a big saving. Espe cially low priced are some water damaged goods and a lot of dress ginghams, mull, bleaching and sheet ing at 10c. Mr. Clinard tells you that goods are getting higher all the time and for you to be wise and take advantage of the opportunity pre sented. See ad. elsewhere. THRIFT AND PERSONAL EFFI CIENCY. New York, July 24. -America will be the first nation in the world to rewrite her textbooks so that the children of this country will be taught thrift in the school room. Ac cording to an anaouncement made by the Thrift Education Committee of the National Education Assoc ia tionjadical innovations in the Amer ican school curricula are about to take place. The fives of James J. Hill, Mar shall Field. John Wannamaker and other great American business men will be studied in the schools, and text books on arithmetic, history, : S