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IMPORTANT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
Happenings of This and Other Nations
For Seven Days Are
Given.
THE NEWS OF THE SOUTH
What It Taking Place in the South
land Will Be Found in
Brief Paragraphs.
Domestic.
Mffk McGill, 35, postmaster of Hick
ory Grove, S. C., and Carson Latti
more, 28, policeman of Hickory Grove,
have been committed to the York
county jail charged with complicity
in the lynching of W. TANARUS, Sims, a
negro preacher, in York county, on Au
gust 24.
Machinery for the $2,000,000 govern
ment nitrate plant has already been
ordered and construction will begin as
soon as a site in southwestern Vir
ginia has been definitely selected-,
probably within a month.
Apportionment of $14,550,000 by the
United States to the states from gov
ernment funds to aid in the construc
' Tien and maintenance of rural post
roads in accordance with the federal
aid roads law has been announced by
secretary of Agriculture Houston.
The American Alliance for Labor
and Democracy, organized three weeks
ago, with the stamp of approval by
President Wilson, has concluded its
big loyalty conference at Minneapolis,
Minn., with the election of Samual
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of I>abor, as its leader.
Wild scenes followed quickly on the
heels of a strike of Chattanooga,
Tenn., street car men, and as a re
sult of rioting at least ten men are
suffering from serious injuries and
many others show scars of battle. The
street car company has announced, as
a result of the affair, that it will not
use strike-breakers.
From hundreds of homes in three
Southern states the first selectmen for
the new national army went trooping
into the camps of the southeastern di
vision. In groups of twenty-five and
fifty from the large centers, and in
pairs and singles from the smaller and
distant counties, they reported at the
lfttle raw pine shacks at the entrance
if the soldier cities, and responded
the call to colors.
Control of the sugar industry in the
United States has been voluntarily
placed in the hands of the food admin
istration by the representatives of the
refineries, who have agreed to import
all raw sugar through a committee to
be named by Herbert Hoover.
It is stated that all sugar recently
bought in a raw state will be appor
tioned among all American refineries.
Progress in the work of improving
and constructing roads in the eight
states included in the route of the
Dixie highway between Savannah, Ga.,
and Los Angeles, Cal., is reported by
the Dixie Overland Highway associa
tion, in session at Meridian, Miss.
European.
Another air raid on England has
taken place. The English coast was
shelled as well as the London district.
This is the third raid in one week. In
one raid 107 persons were killed and
86 wounded at Chatham. This is the
official announcement. The victims
were “naval ratings,” but one civilian
being killed in the three raids.
Chatham, the scene of the latest Ger
man air raid on England, is on the east
bank of the Medway, thirty miles to
the southeast of London. It is the
seat of immense military and naval es
tablishments, including a vast dock
yard, an arsenal and extensive bar
racks.
In the last air raid on England,
it is reported that a vastly different
and superior machine was used by the
Germans. It was a much noisier ma
chine than has been used heretofore,
but English anti-aircraft ships and
guns were powerless to stop its mad
rampage.
Brazilian newspapers deny that they
will send soldiers to Europe to fight
the central powers.
Brazil, it is semi-officially announc
ed, will not lease requisitioned German
ships to the entente allies.
Irishmen are reported to have at
tacked American sailors who were
strolling along the Cork quay with
their sweethearts. Reports are to the
effect that the young American sailors
gave a good account of themselves.
The batteries of Field Marshal Haig
are still pouring an incessant fire
against the German trenches in Flan
ders, but as yet the anticipated new
dash by his men to capture them has
not yet started.
In the Austro-italian theater the
Italians have made further progress <m
the Bainsizza plateau and in the Bres
tovizza valley and at various points
along the line have repulsed fresh
counter attacks launched by the Aus
trians
A London dispatch says the Ger
mans made an aerial attack upon the
American hospitals occupied by St.
Louis and Harvard contingents, sit
uated in a coast village, killing one
officer and wounding three others se
verely. Two others of the rank and
file were killed and sixteen wounded,
five of the latter being Americans.
Heavy fighting for the possession of
Monte San Gabriele and other import
ant positions northeast of Gorizia is
in progress, but the Italians are press
ing home their attacks, despite desper
ate resistance.
In the drive commencing several
weeks ago, the Italians have so far
taken thirty thousand prisoners, and
the total losses of the Austrians are
estimated at 120,000.
German cavalry lias been engaged
with Russian rear guards at Zegevold,
40 miles east of Riga, but the German
advance, acccording to official reports,
has been checked.
Around Friedriehsdt, about fifty
miles southeast of Riga, fm the Dvina
river, the retiring Russians have set
fire to several villages.
Loans of one hundred million dollars
each to Great Britain and France have
been made by the United States gov
ernment. This brings the total ad
vanced to the allies up to $2,266,-
400,000.
A London dispatch says that British
merchant ships sunk by mine or sub
marine in the past week numbered 20
of more than 1,600 tons and three un
der 1,600 tons.
The Russians continue their flight
before the Germans in the region of
Riga.
The Italians, after a few 7 days of
comparative idleness, have again start
ed their great offensive against the
Austrians on the Bainsizza plateau
and to the northeast of Gorizia.
From the Brestovizza valley to the
Adriatic sea, the Italians have been
compelled to withstand violent coun
ter attacks by the Austrians, who are
seeking to break through Cadorna’s
lines.
Some military authorities incline to
the opinion that the retreat of the
Russians from Riga without giving
battle is more or less in the nature of
a move to impress the Russian people
with the necessity of Russia remaining
in the war to the end. It is pointed
out that 90 per cent of the Russian
army is loyal to the colors, and that
reports to the contrary are the result
of a well-conducted German propa
ganda.
Washington.
Provost Marshal General Crowder?'
in issuing new rulings concerning the
execution of the selective draft law,
reiterated that no date has been set
for a second call for men for the na
tional army, and that, so far as is now
known, no second call is contemplated
by President Wilson.
On the eve of a report to President
Wilson by Chief Justice Covington of
the supreme court of the District of
Columbia, who was designated recent
ly by the president to investigate the
labor situation in the West, the gov
ernment took drastic action to end the
anti-war propaganda and activities
conducted in the name of the Indus
trial Workers of the World, the So
cialist party and other organizations
throughout the United States. In the
Northwest twenty-seven leaders of the
I. W. W. were arrested by the Idaho
National Guardsmen the day before the
time set for a general strike in Wash
ington, Montana and Idaho.
The senate’s bitter fight over war
profits taxation virtually ended with
the adoption of the finance commit
tee’s compromise provisions for a total
levy of 1,286,000,000, or about one-third
of this year’s war and normal excess
profits. This is an increase of 1,060,-
000,000 over present taxes. The high
tax advocates failed to secure adop
tion of a single amendment. The vote,
on the adoption of the finance commit
tee’s draft was 72 to 7.
In the army conscript parade Pres
ident Wilson led the parade, walking
like a trained soldier.
It is stated in Washington that color
. lines will be entirely ignored in the
training camps. One regiment of ne
gro soldiers will be trained at each
of the sixteen cantonments, it is an
nounced.
Notwithstanding the protests that
have been made from certain parts of
the South against the training of ne
gro troops, no modification whatever
has been made in the original plans
for training negro soldiers.
Charging with fixed bayonets, F.
company, Ninth Illinois infantry, dis
persed. a mob of more than a thousand
strike sympathizers which attacked
the headquarters of the Springfield,
111., street railway company, after
wrecking four street cars. Only one
man was seriously injured.
Speaking at Newport News, Va., at
the Labor Day celebration, Secretary
of War Baker declared that the war
with Germany will end “when we win
it.” He paid a high tribute to Samuel
Gompers, president of the American
Federation of Labor, and to labor and
laboring men generally, because, after
all, for the most part, laboring men
not only furnish the money to fight
the war, but the men.
THE NORTH GEORGIAN, CUMMING, GEORGIA.
PROBING SERVICE
TO GEORGIA CAMPS
Railroad Commission Will Be Able To Act
Promptly On Transportation Problems
In Case Of Emergency
ARE MAKINGJNVESTIQATION
Have Made Personal Inspection Of
Facilities In Course Of Construc
tion Around Camps
Atlanta —
The state railroad commission, an
ticipating the possibility of action be
ing brought before this boaiu affecting
the transportation facilities between
the city of Atlanta and Camp Gordon,
or between other cities and camps in
Georgia, is proceeding with an inves
tigation of present and planned trans
portation services at each of the three
camps located at Atlanta, Macon and
Augusta.
Chairman C. M. Candler and Judge
George Hillyer, as a committee rep
resenting the commission, recently
made a personal inspection of the fa
cilities in course of construction and
in operation between Atlanta and
Camp Gordon, so as to have them
selves fortified with first-hand infor
mation should any of the questions
of transportation which have been agi
tated in Atlanta be brought before it.
These members of the commission
also conferred with Preston Ark
wright, presideqt of the Georgia Rail
way and Power company, which is
constructing a double-track electric
trolley line to the camp, and with H.
W. Miller, vice president of the South
ern railway, which has been asked by
the public safety committee of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce to install
a shuttle-train service between At
lanta and Camp Gordon.
The object of the commission in
making these investigations is to arm
itself with full information at first
hand, in event any action should be
brought before it relating to transpor
tation facilities between any of these
camps and the principal cities near
which they are located.
Coal Miners Not Reducing Prices
That the coal mines, at least those
frn*#ftvhom Hie Georgia retail dealers
purchase their supply, have no inten
tion of observing the schedule of
prices laid down by President Wilson,
is a charge made by the state bureau
of markets, in complaint filed with
the federal trade commission.
Acting under the authority laid
down in the state law creating the
state bureau, Director L. B. Jackson
has forwarded to Chairman W. J. Har
ris in Washington, formal complaint.
In his letter he makes the direct
charge that the information he con
veys to the federal commission ,is
based on “positive evidence” in hand
by the state bureau, and asks that the
federal trade commission immediately
take up and properly dispose of the
complaint.
Georgia's Select Men Enthusiastic
From every section of the state
come reports of the enthusiastic re
sponse of the first 5 per cent quotas
from the various counties called for
the national army. Almost every train
arriving now is bringing in some of
the boys destined for the national ser
vice.
In almost every locality farewell re
ceptions and barbecues have been
tendered the select men by their home
people before they embark on their
new career.
While alternates have been desig
nated to take the place of any of those
originally drawn who failed to show
up, this precaution has been found un
necessary, as in practically every case
the first draft men have appeared at
their exemption board headquarters
on time.
Slate Appointed Game Commissioner
Governor Dorsey announces the ap
pointment of Sam J. Slate of Muskogee
county to the post of state fish and
game commissioner, to succeed Hon.
C. S. Arnow, who has held the post
for the past two years.
Mr. Slate has been a resident of the
state of Georgia for the past twenty
years, coming here from his native
state, Virginia, where he first took
an interest in fish and game conserva
tion He has resided in Muscogee
county for the past twelve years, and
was formerly connected with the Cor
bitt Motor company.
Railroads Ask To Run Sunday Freights
Petitions from the Southern, the
Gainesville Midland and the Georgia,
Florida and Alabama railroads were
filed with the Georgia railroad com
mission, asking authority to disregard
those sections of the state penal code
prohibiting the operation of freight
train on Sunday during the exigencies
of the war.
OFFICIAL ORDER CHANGES
STATUS OF STATE TROOPS
First, Second And Fifth Regiments Of
Georgia Troops Receive
New Designations
Atlanta—
Maj. Gen. F. J. Kernan issued the
order at Macon which fixed the official
designation of the Georgia National
Guard troops.
The second regiment becomes the
ope hundred and twenty-third infantry,
the fifth regiment will be the one hun
dred and twenty-fourth infantry and
the first regiment goes out of the in
fantry classification entirely, becom
ing the one hundred and eighteenth
field artillery.
Battery B of Atlanta and battery C
of Savannah, together with the Geor
gia squadron of cavalry, including the
Governor’s Horse Guard of Atlanta,
become the one hundred and sixteenth
field artillery. Battery Aof Savannah
merges with the Alabama cavalry into
the one hundred and seventeenth field
artillery. Separate Troop A of the
Georgia cavalry, the Savannah troops,
will be reserved by the division as its
headquarters troop. The machine
gun company of the first regiment will
be the nucleus of anew machine gun
battalion.
Company A of the Georgia engi
neers will form part of a battalion of
engineers, and has already been or
dered to Camp Wheeler. The separate
infantry companies now at Winder,
Hartwell and Elberton will be consoli
dated with the second regiment into
the one hundred and twenty-third in
fantry, replacing the three Bacon
companies now with the rainbow di
vision.
Between fifty and sixty officers of
the reserve corps arrived at Camp Har
ris for assignment to companies of
the second and fifth regiments. They
came from Camp Jackson, Columbia,
S. C., as a part of two hundred who
were ordered to Camp Wheeler for
duty. No definite data has been an
nounced for the removal to Camp
Wheeler of the troops now at Camp
Harris.
Seek Foodstuff Data
Federal and state food inspectors
are cooperating in a campaign to find
out exactly how much foodstuff Geor
gia has in stock. The information
has been asked for by Herbert C.
Hoover, the new national food admin
istrator, and will be used in the na
tional food conservation plan.
The national government has sent
Inspector McManus to Georgia to rep
resent the department of agriculture,
and he is now in Americus, Ga., taking
an inventory of the foodstuffs there, in
company with P. A. Methvin of At
lanta, who is the chief food inspector
of the state department of agriculture.
Twenty cities in this state will be
visited and an accurate record made
of the foodstuffs on hand in each place.
Every food-manufacturing establish
ment, every storage warehouse, whole
sale and retail establishments will be
visited and asked to tell exactly how
many pounds of butter, how many
bushels and pounds and gallons of ev
ery sort of foodstuff they have on
hand.
From the figures obtained in these
places a summary w T ill be made of the
approximate amount of foodstuffs in
the entire state, and this information
will be forwarded to Mr. Hoover’s de
partment in Washington. The big es
tablishments in Atlanta have been
asked to make personal inventories for
the government and a number of them
have already forwarded the figures.
At the same time the inspectors are
collecting the foodstuffs data they are
urging food dealers to conserve their
supplies as much as possible, and
through the dealers they are reaching
the householders in an effort to hold
down food consumption to the lowest
possible point.
Fulton Tax Rate To Remain The Same
The tax rate for Fulton county for
the new year will be fixed by the coun
ty commissioners. It is the opinion of
various county officials that the exist
ing rate of 75 cents on the SIOO will
remain in effect.
Year before last a reduction in the
tax rate was made from 85 cents to
75 cents, this being made possible by
the completion of payment for the mil
lion and a quarter court house. It
had been hoped by the commissioners
earlier in the year that a decrease
would be possible Tor the coming year,
but it is thought now that conditions
do not warrant a reduction. It is
considered certain that no increase
will be voted.
Corporations Pay $238,245.78 In Taxes
Approximately $238,245.78 in corpo
ration taxes for 1917 had been return
ed. to Comptroller General Wright up
to date. An additional $12,539.86 was
paid in by the Georgia Railway and
Banking company as its income tax.
The Central of Georgia headed the
corporation tax list with payments of
$118,394.21. This compares with $115,-
669.42 for 1916. The Southern railway
main line system paid $97,481.58.
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Apply a few drops then lift
corns or calluses off with
fingers—no pain.
Just think 1 You can lift
off any corn or callus
Ctj® without pain or soreness.
VfJM A Cincinnati man discov
%• m ered this ether compound
Yll and named it freezone. Any
druggist will sell a tiny bot
|i tie of freezone, like here
|| shown, for very little cost.
|| You apply a few drops dl
w rectly upon n tender corn
or callus. Instantly the
soreness disappears, then
rojSfl shortly you will find the
Sjff corn or callus so loose that
Hi .you can lift It right off.
\ Freezone Is wonderful. It
In dries instantly. It doesn’t
| ! eat away the corn or cal-
I lus, hut shrivels it up with
| j|P,j out even irritating the sur
-11 jP i ! rounding skin.
I|l J| ! Hard, soft or corns be-
I | i t"'een the toes, as well as
painful calluses, lift right
off. There Is no pain be
fore or afterwards. If your druggist
hasn't freezone, tell him to order a
small bottle for you from his whole*
sale drug house. —adv. 1 *
No Hardship for Him.
“Why do you think lie’ll feel at
home in the trenches?”
“He’s a suburbanite.” —Life.
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gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
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ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
The wise guy and the fool's money
soon get together.
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here. D. F. JAMISON, Summerville, S. C.
The Murray School Supply Cos., Hirminh>iii. Ala.
Desks, beaters, shades. crayon, erasers, blackboards,
everything. Special discounts on mail business.
Cabbage Plants, $1.25 per thousand. C. A.
Browning, 1935 Hubbard St.,Jacksonville,Fla.
Malaria suffering unnecessary, $2 treatment.
88 yrs. old. P. O. Box US, Falrburn, Ga.