A Grippe Epidemic
Every winter Health Boards
warn against this weakening
disease which often strikes
those who are least prepared
to resist it You should strengthen
yourself against grippe by taking
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which is the cream of cod liver oil,
leftned, purified and so skilfully
prepared that it enriches the blood
streams, creates reserve strength
and fortifies the lungs and throat
Don't delay It may mean much.
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A weekly Pemocratic journal devoted
o the material, educational, political
and agricultural ialeretttH of Halifax and
surrounding counties.
Advertising rated reasonable and fur
nished on application.
SOME noOD FROM WAR.
With all its evils, and their name
is legion, war is forcing upon mil
lions of our people a few things
thai are for our good. The most
of us are learning to live either
without meat or to eat but little of
it. Multitudes will doubtless be
surprised that their health is all the
better for this experience. There
are few who are not denying them
selves a score of things once hard
ly deemed luxuries, but which look
quite unnecessary now in the light
of their cost today. In addition to
this who shall measure the sacri
fices that have been made to share
with suffering men and women
across the sea, the unselfish ser
vice that has been called forth by
the demand for the soldiers' needs,
the heroism awakened in the hearts
of those who have answered their
country's call, or who have given
their sons and daughters, their hus
bands, their brothers, to what they
have felt was a great cause. Alas
that su many lessons we seem able
to learn only out of bitterness and
sorrow!
(10 TO WORK OR 00 TO JAIL.
"The best way to draft farm la
bor," Assistant Secretary of Agri
cultura Clarence Ousley said not
long ago in an address before the
Texas legislature, "is to amend
your vagrancy law so as to include
within its terms every able-bodied
man who does not do six days'
work each week as a rule."
In many Slates of the Union,
either by State legislation or local
action, steps have been taken or
plans are under way to require
idle men to go to work. Farmers
know they cannot increase their
food crop production unless they
have more labor. Townspeople
know they will suffer inconveni
ence or want and have to pay very
high prices for the reduced rations
they are able to buy, if the farmers
do not increase production. And
both farmers and townspeople
know, as all ihe world knows, that
we can't win the war unless we
have ample food. So, Slates and
counties and the towns the coun
try over are determining that this
is not a time, nor theirs a place.for
the toleration of idlers.
For instance, a weeks ago the
sheriff of Grayson county, Texas,
a thickly settled and highly pro
ductive agricultural section, an
nounced in ihe Sherman papers
and by posted proclamations lhal
every man must go to work." This
sheriff didn't wait for the Stale
legislature to enact new laws. The
old ones are strong enough to suii
him. "Go to work or go to jail,
he said crisply. "No man will be
allowed to lout around this town
or in this county, because we are
at a point where every man's labor
is seriously needed for the farms."
What about your couniy? What
ab ui your Stale ? Are you re
quiring loafers to become produ
cers? While your sons tight in
France will you permit husky men
to remain idle in your community,
when you know their labor will
produce food without which we
can't win the war without which
your sons fight in vain?
Some people are disagreeable
because they are unable to attract
attention any other way.
A wife is called ihe husband's
belter half and some husbands
are so mean that they don't care
how the other half lives.
A man's good intentions seldom
add lo his income.
THE RED CROSS DRIVE,
Weldon Goes Over The
Top Again By Doubling
Her Quota.
The Red Cross drive was suc
cessfully launched in U'elJon on
Sunday night, May 19, when an
immense mass meeting and joint
service of ihe different churches of
the lown was held at the Graded
Schonl Audiiorium. This was
opened hy reading Scripture selec
tion by Rev. F. M. Shamburger
and prayer by Rev. J. G. Blalock
which .ds proceeded by several
fine and beautiful selections played
by ihe orchestra of the U. S. re
ceiving ship Richmond, stationed
at Norfolk, Vu.
Hon. G. C. tireen introduced
the speaker ot ihe evening, Hon.
Tasker Polk, of Vl'arrenion, who
for nearly an hour charmed his
hearers wuh a forceful picture of
"The cause of the present war."
"Why we are at war and what it
will take towin ihe war." Hon.
VC'. I:. Daniel was called lo the
platform and in a short time ihe
sum of more than $5,000 was sub
scribed for the Red Cross relief
work. Vi'eldon's quota was a min-
imim of $3,500, and this subscrip
tion at the first meeiing prepared
the way for ihe magnificent results
which have followed so far.
The pageant and parade was
most successfully carried out on
Monday, May 20th, and never
has the town been so thoroughly
aroused and enthused as in the
last few days. In the parade be
sides school children, Farmerettes,
Band of Knitters, Boy Scouts, Red
Cross Nurses, automobiles con
taining veterans of the civil war,
and mothers of ihe boys now in
service, there were nine handsome
floats representing different feat
ures of the preseni eventful period.
One hundred dollars was offered
as a prize for the best float. This
was awarded io the one represent
ing a Red Cross Hospiial scene in
which wounded soldiers, Red Cross
nurses and physicians, actively at
work and oiher appointments
were most naturally carried out.
The second prize of $75 was given
to "The Mercy Car" or "Red
Cross work room." This repre
sented a sea of mercy with a living,
human Red Cross, and the angel
of mercy bearing aloft over all the
while cross of the religion of Christ
which teaches"Blessed are themer
ciful for ihey shall obtain mercy."
The human cross was formed by
young girls uf the high school who
beautifully sang ihe patrioiic songs
of the day. In ihe cemer of ihis
car was a Red Cross work room
which was also actively carried out
showing ihe different departments
of this work. The third prize of
$50 was given lo "come across"
a feature of Uncle Sam and the
Red Cross united in ar relief
work. The fourth prize of $25
was given to a lone Red Cross
nurse as "the best dressed woman
in the world." These were un
doubtedly very fine representations
of the Red Cross work but there
were other floats which greatly
deserve special mention and as ihe
subjects were given out by the
committee, and in these were ef
fectively carried out. it is no reflec
tion on the managers thai each car
did noi receive a prize. Of these
"America the land of plenty,"
America must feed the world,"
"The dawn of peace," The U. S.
Navy, A Red Cross Ambulance
and one which bore the legend
To those who serve and suffer
in silence 'over there,' " typifying
the faithful members of the medi
cal corps actively at work in France.
All these showed much care and
thought and while not so much
Red Cross were perfeci in the
minutest detail.
The judges were Mr. S. F. Pat
terson, of Roanoke Raoids. Mr.
S. M. Gary, of Halifax, and Major
Kooney.
The U. S. Marine Band added
much to the parade which ended
at the park where the crowd gath
ered ana listened lo an appeal for
ihe Red Cross trom Maior S. V
Rooney, field director of Camp
Sevier, of Greenville, S. C, and
additional subscriptions were taken.
On Monday evening the climax
was reached when after a most in
spiring concert by the band and
another address by Major Rooney
ai the school audiiorium, the sub
scription for Weldon was raised to
$7,000, double the minimum allot
ment. In this last subscription
there were none over $M) and
many from individual and groups
ol children.
At the conclusion Mayor Green
stated ihai he had never fell so
proud in his life and was glad to
be a citizen of weldon.
The Red Cross Committee wishes
io thank each and everyone who
contributed in any way by work
or subscription to this grand suc
cess and teel more encouraged
than ever before io continue to
"do or die" in the prosecution of
this Heaven appointed work.
Some women are kept so busy
deciding what men not to marry
that they have no time to marry at
ail.
Whoever chooses his wife for
the way she looks on the street
seldom makes a serious mistake.
TO CAMP
Call No. 374 for 160 White Men to
Be Entrained Here lor Columbia,
S. C, May 28th, 1918.
Jesse Thomas Jones,
Willie Harrison,
Hampton Bryant,
Orren M. Schlichter,
Charlie L. Shell,
John Buck Smith,
A. A. Hobgood,
James Moseley Ingram,
Billie Daniel,
Sam P. Jones,
Peier Franklin Norwood,
Herbert R. Pepper,
James Smith Hamill,
Claude Tatum Fleming.
Sam Merrill,
linoch Murvin Carier,
Winfield W. Warren,
Floyd B. Bell,
Geo. H. Kirkland,
Philip W. Human,
Marcus H. Wilson,
Early Lawrence DeBerry,
Robert Roy Cobb,
Lewis Bragg Jones,
George Cullom,
John Robert Harris,
Albert Leslie Lewis,
Willie E. Moody,
Harry R. Wilson,
Lester H. Freeman,
Charlie W. Johnson,
Eddie Taylor Nethery
Waller Jackson Kee,
Teddie A. Kitchin,
John O. Green,
Carlos E. Tadlock,
John Henry Salvage,
Floyd Carr Glenn,
John Robert Edmondson,
Jeter L. McDade.
Joe 0. Broadwell,
Richard 1. Pullen,
Mike Josephson,
William Josephson,
James R. Braswell,
John E. Pittard,
Ernest Kirkland,
Harvy Griffin,
Francis C. Smith,
Samuel H. Walleit,
Richard Bryan,
John W. Medlin,
Luther H. Spain,
Lewis S. Keeier,
Dudley Latimer Hornaday,
Ralph S. Cullom,
Edward L. Travis, Jr.
Robert L. Matthews,
Willie Gray Bobbin,
Guthrie Madry,
James Keeter,
Ernest Flyihe,
Bernard S. Holdford,
Joseph E. Collins,
Grover C. Eure,
Reuben A. Jordan,
John E. Medlin,
Charlie P. Newson,
Charlie M. Rice,
Andrew D. Williams,
Perry D. Brown,
William T. H. Brantley.
Robert Craig Friend Cornwall,
Bennie G. Hancock,
Robert N. Hedgepeth,
Maynard N. Moseley,
Willie A. Powers,
Carrie W, Ellington,
Charles G. Barnhill,
Richard Applewhite Lewis,
Charlotte R. Collier,
William W. Barnes,
Joseph Jordan,
Robert 0. B. Wiliiams,
James Moore,
David Perry Wike,
Loon Wright,
William B. Burch,
Marshall L. Whitehead,
Josiah Briggs,
Johnnie Wooten,
Thomas 1. Pepper,
Elbert F. Carr,
John Jordan,
Walter S. Griffin,
Hugh C. Fisher,
WHY WOMEN SUFFER.
Many Weldon Women Are Learn
ing the Cause.
Women often suffer, not know
ing the cause.
Backache, headache, dizziness,
nervousness.
Irregular urinary passage, weak
ness, languor-
Each a torture of itself.
Together hint at weakened kid
neys.
Strike at the root gel to to the
cause.
Quickly help the kidneys if they
need it.
No oihrr remMv rnorf h'h!y
endorsed than Doan's Kidney Pills.
Here s convincing testimony
from this locality,
Mrs. R. E. Bradshaw, No. 526
Washington St., Rocky Mount, N.
C, says: "My kidneys didn't act
right, were weak and I had rheu
matic pains in my back and hips.
Colds settled on my kidneys and
mornings 1 was sore and stiff. I
had headaches and dizzy spells and
my sight blurred. Doan's Kidney
Pills cured me of the rheumatic
pains and all other symptoms of
kidney trouble.
Price 60c. at all dealers.
Don't simply ask for a kidney
remedy get Doan's Kidney Pills
the same that Mrs. Bradshaw
had.
FOSTER-MlLBURNCO.,Man
ufacturers, Buffalo, N. Y.
JACKSON
Leonard Lewis,
Matthew R. Kilpatrick,
Jesse Fowler,
William G. Lang,
David Samuel Harris,
William L. Jenkins,
Walter T. Umhleit,
John F. Hamill,
Ernest L. Story,
Nathaniel Hayes,
Edgar Parker,
Henry Crady Ingram,
Guy Hillery Allran,
Nathaniel P. Daniel,
Milham S. Belman,
Lonnie G. Jenkins,
Ellis (i. Bond,
Thomas B. Cook,
Luther E. Williams,
Paul Boseman,
John S. Smith,
Thomas M. Faison,
Naitie J. Houston,
Geo. W. Register,
James Fisher,
Major Thomas Morris,
George W. Conard,
William T. Locke,
Charles W. King,
James D. Smith,
Henry Herbert,
Robert O. Mayes,
Dennis S. Keel,
Peier Arrington Spruill, Jr.
George Wiley Combs,
James Walter Norwood,
William Gurney Britt,
Russell L. Whitehead.
James W. Browning.
Wiley Frank Harvey.
Herbert Odom.
Wille Macon Andrews.
Thaddeus A. Buck.
Abraham Mordecai Norinsky.
Tom Boseman.
Leslie R. Harlow,
B. C. Burrus.
Cola Smith.
William S. Merrill.
Rodney H. Curganius,
Gid Wesley Love.
Joseph Monroe Tolar.
William F. Shull.
Joe Clark Coley.
Bushrod Hux.
Ervy Smith.
Gus Pappas.
James Edward Condrey, Jr.
John Joseph Smith.
Richard T. Mills.
William Sherman Lins.
Alva M. Shearin.
Robert Maynard Pope.
Charlie C. Dodge.
Thurston Mayo Edmondson.
Ernest Moody.
John William Pierce.
Milton Norman.
Royal C. Madry.
Willie W. Rook.
Ray Elmore Hudson.
Burton Price.
Willis Henry Turner.
Later A. Hudson.
ALTERNATES.
Ben W. Butt.
Charlie R. Brewer.
James Manning Smith, Jr.
Richard Boliver Hales.
Waverly Keeter.
Hedry C. Keeter.
Richard Adkins.
Herbert Siaton.
Charles Alexander Pepper.
Earl Edwin Siaton.
Jesse Robert Browning.
Ashley R. Love.
William A. Williams.
Willie T. Warren.
John Wesley Hawkins.
William Bennie Wynn.
If it is true thai male mosquitoes
do noi bite a good many of ihem
have been put out of business by
mistake.
Happiness is seldom found by
those who seek it in air castles.
Administratrix Notice
Having qualilled aliiiinialratrii
of Walter K. Gatling, decraafd, lain of
Halifax county, N.C. thia tsio polity all
persona having elaimi airainat thr e aiatp
of aaid deceased to exhibit aaul clainia
to the unilerairned on or before the 1st
day of May, 1H19, or thii notice will he
pleaded in bar of their recovery. All
peraona indebted to aaid estate will pleaae
make immediate payment.
This the fi rat day of May, 1918.
BETT1F. N. GATL1N0,
Administratrix Walter Uatunj, dee.
test.
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THE RECOMPENSE
JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE.
7 E never give, but giving,
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i nere is no ouruen inai we may noi rear
Our sweetest love is always sweetest pain
And yel the recompense, the recompense is there.
Who weeps, yet worships some sweet silent siar
E'en through his tears shall catch uplifting light
We grow to what our aspirations are
Look up, O Soul, and be a star tonight.
Who pours his heart oul to some flower rare
On scateless cliff above a sailless sea,
Shall drink iis perfume, if he linger there,
Until his very soul lhal (lower shall be.
Who bears his head where God's star-altars rise
And strives to probe wilh prayer iheir mystery.
Even wiih ihe act claims kindred whit the skies
We arc ihe Wish of all we will lo be.
Who loves his love through death and rifiless ruih
Yel ne'er shall clasp and kiss her in his leal
Shall wedded be in spirit and in truih
We are the Deed of all we think and feel.
We never give, but, giving, get again
There is no burden that we may not bear
Our sweetest love is always sweetest pain,
And yet the recompense, the recompense is there.
SHOE POLISHES
PRESERVE THE LEATHER
LIQUIDS AMD PASTES
fOR BLACK, WHITE, TAN, DARK BROWN OR OX BLOOD SHOIS.
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And Keep Warm
Next Wint er.
Lump Coal $7 Per Ton
All Lump, no Fine Coal.
IPTPUT YOUR ORDER IN BE
FORE THE PRICE GOEES UP.
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R. D. Trent, Supt.
Announcement!
We wish to announce to our Iriends and the public that we have
opened an up-to-date Steam Laundry at Weldon, N. C, opposite the
Weldon Motor Co. ' (Jarage. The very best ol materials used and
our workmen are all experts. Your patronage solicited All work
guaranteed. Parcel Post charges paid onewayon out ol town work
WHITE KTAU LAI NDHY-
The fundamental Service ol a Dank la the furnishing ol
Security.
Security of your fundi,
Security ol your valuable!,
Security ot your credit,
Security of your Investments.
Comult and Bank with us. We accept thla Responsibility.
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quality. 25c. to $1 the yard.
.In inch Taney Striped and plaid
Voiles. Itntlste mid Hoxons, .15
and 50c the yard.
27 Inch l-anty Voiles, Crepes
and l-'laxons. Itt and 35c yard.
J6 inch All Silk Marquisette
several patterns. 65c the yard.
M. FREID,
LADIl-S AND GENT'S OUTFITTER,
WELDON. N. C.
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