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WELDON, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 15)18.
NO. 12
Children Cry for Fletcher's
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A LIBERTY BOND.
Tha Kind You Have Always Bought, and which but been
la UM (or oyer over 39 yean, ha: :. -r.ie the signature of
and has been m ule under his per
gonal supervision since its infancy.
Allow no one to deceive vou In this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health ot
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment.
r What is CASTOR I A
j Castoria is a harmless substitute fur Castor Oil, Paregoric,
i Drops and Soothing SyTups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
gs Is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
fjeen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverisbness arising
herefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
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In Use For Over 30 Years
Th Kind You Have Always Bought
C NT Attn COM PA
V vomk eitv.
Get The Habit
CBuy for Cash. Save
Cthe pennies by buy
ing at
W. T. PARKER & CO.,
Wholesale Cash Store
WELOON, N. C.
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for when you eat your meals amid pleasant
surroundings you do much to aid digestion.
And good digestion means health.
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interested, call at this office.
That Liberty Bond He Brought
Home Stands lor Freedom In a
Double Sense.
"Curious things happen these
days," snid Mrs. Eaion, who was
rciuming the cupful of sugar she
hud borrowed. "We were speak
ing not lung ago of your brother-in-law's
contribution to the Red
Cross. 1 want to tell you now,
something full as surprising about
a relative of my own by marriage.
"It's old Joe Dingley, over at
(he Falls. He isn't a brother-in-law,
hut only a cousin-in-law,
which is about as near as I ever
cured to have the relationship. We
all fell that it was quite a come
down when Cousin Claribel mar
ried him. His father had some
means, and Joe was allowed to
grow up in idleness. What linle
money he inherited went pretty
quick, but the idleness remained.
I've "lien thought that if Claribel
hadn't been a good dressmaker
they'd been on the town long ago.
"What I'm going to tell you 1
got From Claribel herself. It seems
that one day their little boy, Sam
my, came to dinner kind of down
in the mouth, and asked if he
couldn't skip school that after
noon. The teacher had been tell
ing how that it was everyone's
duty to buy a Liberty bond in or
der to help the country. Finally,
she asked all the children to talk
the matter up at home and try to
gel their fathers to invest. In the
afternoon she would ask them
how they had succeeded.
"I some doubt if that was wise,
but 1 suppose she was full of zeal
to do missionary work. At any rate,
Sammy took it very seriously, and
said he was most sure that all the
other children would be ready to
raise their hands when the teacher
asked how many belonged to a
Liberty-Loan fami y. So couldn't
he stay at home?
"Joe wasn't there at the time,
but Claribel told Sammy that the
country needed brave boys as well
as brave men, and that it would
not be brave to stay away from the
place where duty called him just
because he couldn't raise his hand
when others did. She admitted,
though, thai ii made her heartache
lo see him kind of swallowing to
keep back the tears when he star
ted for school.
"But he was all smiles when he
came running into the house at
night. 'I did raise my hand, after
all,' says the little fellow, 'and the
teacher put father's name on the
blackboard with all the others that
are going to help save the country
by getting Liberty bonds.'
" 'Why, Sammy!' says Claribel.
'You oughi not to have done that !'
All this time Joe was in the
next room, but the boy didn't
know it. "Of course you don't be
lieve that pa can get one,' says
Sammy, 'and I shouldn't if I hadn't
seen something that you haven't.'
Then he went on to tell what he
had seen on his way to school.
"It was a handbill that Ike Rem
ick, who runs the bowling alley at
the Falls, had put out, offering a
fifty-dollar Liberty bond as a prize
for the one who should make the
hiiihcst total score at his place du
ring the next month. 'Pa's jusi
the same as got that bond if he
makes a try for it.' says Sammy.
'That's one thing he can do, he
can bowl with the best of 'em
and he's always in practice,' says
Sammy. 'It will be just fun for
him, helping his country.'
"Then Sammy ran off to play,
and pretty soon Joe came out of
the silting room. "I guess it's up
to me io bring home that bond,"
says he. Then he got him a bite
from the cupboard and went off,
and didn't get back home till past
midnight.
"After that,' says Claribel in
telling the story, 'Joe never miss
ed being out late a single night.'
Then she stopped, and I saw
thai I was same as invited lo put in
a word.
" 'Well, I suppose he won the
prize.'
" 'Well, you suppose wrong,'
says Claribel, with thai kind of
droll slant to her eyes that I re
member when she was a girl. 'Life
Perry beat 'em all way out of sight,
and carried off the bond.'
"But she was particular for me
to understand that Joe could have
won; and the reason thai he didn't
was because he never went near
thai bowling alley at all.
: "'1 never supposed I was much
fa hero to grown up people,'
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If Swift & Company
Made No Profit
Tie cattle raiser would receive only
V& ceit a pound more for his cattle
So imall is Swift & Company's
profit on any single transaction
that if it were turned over to the
cattle raisers of the country, they
would receive only Vs cent a
pound more for cattle than they
receive now.
Swift & Company pays for live cattle
about 90 of the amount received for
dressed meat and by-products. The
remaining 10 pays for packing-house
expense, freight to market, operation
of distributing houses and profit. Swift
& Company's actual figures per head
for 1917 on over two million cattle
were as follows:
Receipts
From 'K'lHtiM
fcVproducts
409
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for
From Uvt
Meat Csttlt
Ttl Total
ItlO 910
This not profit of $1.29 per head
avorafM V ctnt a pound lire weight.
And out of this small net profit divi
dends must be paid to shareholders.
Year Book of interesting and
instructive facts sent on request.
Address Swift ft Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
Swift & Company, U.S.A.
THIS MOTHER GAVE HER ALL
Touching Incident of Sacrifice on
the Altar ot Her Country's
Need.
Joe says to Claribel, 'but when 1
found my own boy taking it for
granted that the only way I could
serve my country was by winning
a bowling match, it did me a kind
of wrench."
"What Joe did was to go look
ing and seeking for work. Of
course the nice, genteel jobs were
all taken; but he found that there
was a chance for another man to
work nights at Cooper's mill, and
he went for it. He's been at it
already long enough to earn a fifty
dollar bond, and, what's more, he
seems determined to stick. He
tells Claribel that he had been a
slave to laziness all his life, and he
says thai to him that Liberty bond
he brought home stands for free
dom in a double sense."
Proper Pood tor Weak Stomachs
The proper food for one man may be
ill wrong for another. Every one should
adupt a diet suited to his age and occu
pation. Those who have weak stom
achs need to be especially careful and
should eat slowly and masticate their
food thoroughly. It is also important
that they keep their bowels regular.
When they become constipated orwhen
they feel dull or stupid after eating, they
should take Chamberlain's Talets to
strenKthen the stomach and iuove the
bowels. They are easy to take and
pleanaut iu effect.
JUST JCSiiiNO.
"Josh Billings auid lie wan
an honest man because jail life
didn't agree with him."
"That wan frank, wasn't it?"
"No. it was Josh, Never
heard of Frank Billinga."
Boston Transcript.
Best Remedy for Whooping Cough
"Last winter when my little boy had
the whooping cough I gave him Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy," writes Mrs.
J. H. Roberta, East St. Louis. III. "It
kept his cough loose and relieved him
of those dreadful coughing- spells. It is
the only eough medicine t keep in the
house because I have the moat conn
deuce in it." This remedy is also good
mr cougn ana oroup.
Some milk is sterilized and some
is water cured.
THE PICNIC TRAIN IS COMIN.
The picnic train is comin', the
whistle's on the blow; git them
wild flowers out the way and clear
the track of snow! The weather
man's the engineer, (I wonder
will the train get here?) The picnic
train is comin', your sweetheart's
dressed in blue; she dressed up so
to make you know her springtime
love is true. (0 blizzard! It you
blow today, please blow the picnic
train this way!) We're ready for
the picnic, we've heard the honey
bees; 0 weather man, play out
out your han', for flowers or for
freeze! We know you are the en
gineer, an' wonder: "Will the
train get here?"
THE BAD LOSER
Harold Bell Wright, the author,
said at a dinner in Chicago:
"The Germans are bad losers,
and when the Kaiser's entourage
of militarists begin at last io gel it
in ihe neck a most terrific howl
will go up Irom the German peo
ple. After that the war will soon
be over.
"Yes, the Germans are very bad
losers. I once knew a young Ger
man who prorwwfrj to a rich o!d
maid some twenty years his senior.
" 'No,' the old maid said gently,
'No, Heinrich, I can't tccept your
chivalrous offer, but I will be a
sister io you.'
"Heinrich ground his teeth.
"'1 got plenty of sisters,' he
said, "it vos a mother I vos look-
in' for, ma'am.' "
WHY, THE BRUTE I
One of the touching incidents of
General Lyons' inarch to Wilson
creek was that of a Tennessee
mother bringing her little boy to
the captain's tent and offering him
for the service of his country. The
boy's father had been killed in
battle and the mother and boy were
alone in the world. The bright
eyes and alert bearing of the little
little chap, for he was scarcely
thirteen years of age, caught the
eye of the captain and he asked
what the boy could do. "1 can
drur," he said proudly stretch
ing himself to his full height. And
he could as the lifer soon found
out as he played "The Flowers of
Kdinborough," a most difficult
piece to follow with the drum.
"Madam, I'll lake the boy," said
the captain. The mother kissed
her boy and turning to the captain
said : "Bring him back, captain,"
and to Ihe boy she said as she
placed her hand on his eager little
head, "God bless you, my boy.
You're all I have left, but I give
you to my country, and drum right
bravely for the boys." During
the heavy fatiguing marching from
Rolla to Springfield it was amusing
to see the long-legged fifer wading
through the mud with our little
drummer hero mounted on his
back. During the right at Wilson
creek the cheery fife and brave
drum beat time for the soldier boys
in battle. The fight led down into
a deep ravine and it was not long
before our drummer boy was in
the midst of the fray. That night
the detail on guard duty near the
ravine thought he heard faintly the
sound of a drum. He listened in
the moonlight and when the relief
came he asked permission io go in
search of the little drummer lad.
He followed the sound of the drum
and soon found our hero seated on
the ground with his back against a
tree and his faithful drum hanging
on a bush. He dropped his drum
slicks as the guard came up and
exclaimed . "Oh, corporal, I am
so glad to see you. Give me a
drink," and as he turned to go to
get him water, he pleaded : "Oh,
don'i go and leave me. 1 can't
walk." His little legs had been cut
off at the knees. Looking closer
he discovered a dead soldier lying
in the grass, but evidently before
he died he had put a turmquet
about the stumps of the little legs.
The brave lad was carried into
camp and given surgical attention,
but the brave little spirit went out
into the brightness and glory of a
duty well done and a country
served even unto death.
Road to Happiness.
lie amiable, cheerful and good ua
tured and you are much more likely to
be happy. You will rind this dillicult,
if not impposible, howevor, when you
are constantly troubled with constipa
tion. Take Chamberlain's Tablets and
get rid of that and it will be cany.Thee
tablets not only move the bowels, but
improve the appetite and strengthen
the digestion.
OET YOUR FULL SHARE.
Are you getting your full share
of good out of the things around
you? A sunset will make an artist
happy, and a poet will draw from
a common wayside flower thoughts
that lie too deep for tears." Do
not be one of the people who hav
ing ears hear not. Remember that
all things have good in them, and
that a share of it is yours.
"Oh, have you lost your Iik?'
exclaimed the visitor Bviinia
tit,, oiij , . uy, & uiuu ii ncc
anything about it in the Most
"No," replied Mrs. Leonidaa
W. Van Quentin, "My hus
band put it among the cards of
thanks." Kansas City Star.
In Ye Olde Daves
rojkes Knew uoode Coffee
TTHEN (rood fellows of Ion ago gathered about
ye festive board for a snack and mack, thty
damanded that coffee be ye very best in ye land.
That's the kind yoo Ret today when yon drink
Luzianne. Just try It 1) it doesn't taste better than
any othor coffee, you've Rot a real "ltick"comin)f to yon,
am' your grocer will refund every penny you paid for it
Gut in line with the thousands of good people who
drink Luzianne regularly, buy soma today, in the
air-tight, sanitary can.
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COFFEE
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NASTY CALOMEL
Starts your lira- without making
yon tick and can not
saliraU.
Ery Jiuggial in town your
druggist and everybody's druggist
has noticed a groat falling-oil in tha
sale of calomel. They all give tba
same reason. Dodson's Lirer Tone
it taking its place.
"Calomel is dangerous and people
know it, while Dodson's 1 jver Tone
is perfectly safe and gives better re
sults," said a prominent local drug
gist. Podson s Lirer Tone is per
sonally guaranteed by every drug
gist who sells it A large bottle
costs but a few cents, and if it fails to
give easy relief in every case of liver
sluggishness and constipation, you
bare only to ask for your money
back.
Dodson's Lirer Tone is a pleasant
tasting, purely vegetable remedy,
harmless to both children and adults.
Take a spoonful at night and wake
up feeling fine; no biliousness, tick
-headache, acid stomach or consti
pated bowels. It doesn't gripe or
0Bs inconvenience all tie next
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