Lutherans Plan Roanoke Meeting With Southwide Speakers
High Point Lutherans look to the biennial Laymen movement convention in Roanoke Virginia March 14 and 16 with over a thousand expected attendees. Delegates from nearly all southern states, railroads offering open round trip rates, and speakers from church missions and home missions will headline the program.
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High Point
South
Roanoke
Lb. C. Cronk
Chamber of Commerce
John Wood
North
Middle West
Virginia
Wennessee
South Carolina
Columbia
S. C
Lutheran Church
Interdenominational Ministerial Association
N. B. Wolf
Baltimore
Board of Foreign Missions
General Synod
George B. Cromer
Wherry
S&s
Walter £.Huette
Colwinhia
John
Immerman
Springfield
Ohio
R. Patterson
Charlotte
N. C
Board At Home Missions
W. A. Grant'c
Gellyvsare
Penn
Seegers
Vo Tmla
Board of Home Missions
Hejime
hCadelphia
Word of Home Missions
General Coucil
W. EE
Douchty
New York
Laymen’s Missionary Movement of
United States
Canada
John W. Horine
Olamba
Lutheran Church Visitor
August Miller
Philadelphia
Luther League of America
von. Kennth Baker
Creenwood
Laymen’s Missionary Movement
W. K. Aberly
New Bern
J. Henry Harma
Newberry
Newberry College
S. P. Lone
Mansfield, C
W. T. Ellis
Swarthmore
Treorge Innes
Imof Ceorge Innes and Company
Amnos
Herring
Pittsburgh
Pittshburch
O. J. Epting
Forten Missions
John Nelson Mills
Washington
J. Bk. Cooper
Winchester
A. H. Snider
Salisbury
C. W Polvogt
Wilmington
W. Bk. Norman
Boehmond
Captured Germans Describe Heavy Losses at Verdun
Prisoners from Verdun say their battalion suffered two thirds casualties since February 21 with heavy artillery and machine gun fire. One soldier recalls marching into Verdun hard fighting and many deaths as the attempt faltered. Another officer describes nights under shelling and the sense the Verdun objective would have to restart.
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Verdun
Fort Douaumont
Leoti Baptist Church Won’t Call New Pastor
The Leoti Kansas Baptist church will not call a new pastor after another church raised the ante. Leoti residents refuse the raise and will stay out to draw another pastor.
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Kansas
Baptist Church
Leoti
Boy of Nineteen Rises by Merit to Rank of Major
Henry Pattinson of Ruskington Lincolnshire rises from private in a schoolboy battalion to major in the British army. He was at Haileybury. after two rejections he joined as second lieutenant in September 1914, became captain in June, led in France after Loos, then promoted to major for outstanding conduct in command of his regiment.
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Associated Press
London
Henry Pattinson
Ruskington
Lincolnshire
Pattinson
Haileybury School
France
Loos
Limeelf
Morocco's Moroccan labor aids French war effort and reform
General Layautey reports public works in Morocco form a key support to French supremacy and war needs. He cites 72 million francs sought for irrigation, sewers, hospitals, and communications as troops are redeployed to France. Morocco also supplies grain and livestock while potential mineral deposits await exploitation.
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France
Layautey
Territorials
Morocco
Montenegro
Europe
General Laantey
General Gallieni
Tonkin
Madagascar
South Oran
Algeria
Lawatey
Casablanca
Martitia Gregson of Randolph Dead in Spero
Mrs. Martitia Dicks Gregson wife of Rev Amos Gregson died at her home in Spero on Sunday and was buried at St Pauls Raodleman. Born in Randleman in 1866, she lived near that area all her life and married Rev Amos Gregson in 1965. Survived by son W J Gregson of Spero son C Gregson of Siler City daughter Mrs N Steel of Rock Hill SC and other relatives. Known for kindness and domestic devotion, she aided the distressed and less fortunate.
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Ashibore
Martitia Dicks
Repson
Commission warns railroads over car deliveries
The commission on car shortage of the American Railway association notified eastern railroads and said it would impose penalties on those that continued to disregard the commission's suggestions for delivering box cars to western roads to ease the present car shortage in the West.
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Washington
Commission On
The
American Railway Association
American consul saved after Principe de Asturias wreck
Washington reports American Consul Carl Frederick Deichman of St. Louis was aboard the Spanish steamer Principe de Asturias when it struck a submerged rock off the Brazil coast, with 400 lives lost. Deichman was saved and the embassy in Rio telegraphed that Keith reported to his post at Santos.
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Washington
Carl Frederick Deichman
St. Louis
Bombay
Santos
Brazil
Principe de Asturias
Gasoline Prices Jump Amid War Demand Forecasts
Washington reports another gasoline price surge with wholesale at 255 cents and consumer levels around 24 to 27 cents. Experts predict prices may rise further toward 40 cents by war’s end, unsettling automobilists and motorboat owners alike. Government economists and industry leaders foresee continued hikes.
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Washington
Hune
Horrid. Teacher of the Old School Debates Courtship phrase
A snappy dialogue notes a clash between traditional schooling and modern habits with a quip about courting and divorce court, highlighting social shifts and witty sarcasm.
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Kavautey
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Randolph
Principe
Blanche Sweet
Jesse L. Lasky
Photoplay Star
Ragamuffin
Paramount
the Broadway
Skeyscraying
William
Faversham
Sir Gilbert
Parker
Tion
Inston Auditorium
D. W. Griffith
W. Griffith
Sherman
Abrahan Lincoln
Petersburg
Sterling Smith
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
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