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Vol. lvi
WELDON, N. C, TIIUKSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1921.
NO. 22
THE LAND HE HAS GONE TO.
THAT ODD BOY.
Do Not Disparage the Boy Who
Seems Dull.
Do not discourage that boy of
yours because he is odd, because
he does not get the highest grade,
because his card shows he is dull
Children Cry for Flete' V3
Beautiful Words By the Late
Robert J. Burdette.
The Kind You Have Always Bought, nd which has beeu
In use for over thirty years, has borne the signature of
ff and has been made under his per-
71 ional supervision since its infancy.
VAtfrVX UCMl Allow no one t0 deceive you in this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
Never attempt to relieve your baby with a
remedy that you would use for yourself.
What is OASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric
Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children's Comfort The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
yBears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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I wsich the sunset as I look out
over ihe rim of the blue Pacific,
and there is no mystery beyond
the horizon line, because I know
what is over there. I have been
there. I have journeyed in those
lands. Ovir there where the sun
is just sinking is Japan. That,star
is rising over China. In that di
rection lie the Philippines. I know
all that. Well, there is another
land that I look toward as I watch
the sunset. I have never seen it.
I have never seen any one who
h.is been there, but it has a more
abiding reality than any of these
lands which I know, This land
beyond the sunset this land of im
mortality, this fair and blessed
country of the soul why, this
heaven of ours is the one thing in
the world which I know with ab
solute, unshaken, unchangeable
certainty. This I know with a
knowledge that is never shadowed
by a passing cloud of doubt. I
may not always be certain about
this world; my geographical loca
tion may sometimes become con
fused, but the world that I know.
And as the afternoon sun sinks
lower, faith shines more clearly
and hope, lifting her voice in a
higher key, sings the voice of frui
tion. My work is about ended, I
think. The best of it I have done
poorly; any of it I might have done
better, but I have done it. And in
a fairer land, with finer material
and a better working light, I will
do better work.
FREE AND EASY.
A youth from the backwoods
section had been invited to a dance
and was frankly horrified at the
up-to-date ways of the young wo
men. His partner, after spending
half of one dance in agony over
his awkwardness, suggested that
they sit out the other half and led
him to the verando. There she
drew out a gold cigarette case and
remarked:
"Of course, you don't mind girls
smoking."
But the young man was deter
mined to be just as modern as she.
"Lady," he retorted earnestly,
"I don't give a hoot if you chaw."
SOUVENIR.
We are not boasting. We are only stating a fact anJ what hundreds
of satisfied patrons say about us. Besides excellence of goods, we also
ay claim to promptness and carefulness in the filling of all orders.
I sell groceries as cheap for cash as any one in tu n. and will deliver
same FREE OF CHARGE.
L. E. HULL,
Ntsr Betchelor's Opera House.l WELDON. N C
THE UK OF HALIFAX,
ORGANIZED I906i
Capital and Surplus $65,000.
Conducted under strict Banking principles and the same efficient
management which has marked its success in the past. Your bus
iness is respectfully solicited, which will have our careful attention.
Qutntln QregoryJ
Pmidtnt
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HA! IFAX. N. C.
W E Invite the people ot Halifax and surrounding country to pat
ronite this Bank. Why not have a checking account? It is
necessary la these times. It saves you money, and you have a re
ceipt against payments to your creditors. Besides It gives you a
standing In your community. We have every facility known for
Sound Banking, and Invite you to open an account with us.
The smallest account receives as much attentlonjias the .argest
with us.
We pay 4 per cent. Compounded Quarterly on Savings.
Cms la ma talk It ever with us, IVa ami ya, you td as.
A returned soldier found a pret
ty looking card in France and
brought it home to have his wife
hang in the parlor. It read :
"lei on parle Francais."
"What's the idea?" she de
manded. "That means 'French
spoken here' and you know you
don't."
"Well, I'll be darned)" ejacula
ted the ex-soldier disgustedly.
"The guy that sold it to me said it
meant 'Cud nlcss our home,' "
WHY JIMMY BALKED.
Mrs. Jones was at a loss at first
to understand why her son, Jim
my, aged ten, was unable 10 endure
the society of his Aunt Clara.
"Why, my son," said the moth
er, finally, "she is always so nice
to you always patting you on the
head !,'
"Yes," said Jimmy, "with her
knuckles."
FAMILIAR WITH SCRIPTURE
The Squire (to his gardenerj 1
wonder, John, that you don't get
married. You know that the first
gardener who ever lived had
wife.
John Yes, sir, but you'll re
member that he did not keep his
job long after he had her.
oiiE Is.
"How do you and your wife get
along so nicely, Joe?"
"1 always let her think she is
having her own way."
"But how do you manage to de
lude her?
"I don't."
TOO MUCH.
She: "Have I too much rouge
on my face?
He: "Not more than the other
eirls."
She: "Gracious! I'll rub some
off."
Silk shirts are almost as cheap
as cotton ones, but who wants to
wear a silk shirt?
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
OASTORIA
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THE SUMMONS,
BY NANCY BYRD TURNER.
Why, that may be one of the signs
that he is great, but not in the line
exactly of the books crammed inio
his hands for him to cram into his
head. Recall that Beecher said
that he got more discipline out of
inventing excuses why he could
not get his lessons in mathematics
than he ever did from the books.
Longfellow has expressed our
thought :
Perhaps there lives some dreary
boy, untaught
In schools, some graduate of the
field or street,
Who shall become a master of the
art,
An admiral sailing the high seas of
thought
Fearless and first, and steering
with his fleet
For lands not yet laid down in any
chart.
Do not disparage the boy who
seems dull. It may be his way.
One of the things of which our col
leges boast is one of the things of
which they ought to be most
ashamed : namely, they will
send a student home if his remarks
on examination are not up to per
centages. Forsooth. That is some
thing to shame a school. Let the
student get what he can assimilate.
He will get a lot out of association
and effort and encouragement
Why brand htm as a fool because
certain studies do not wedge them
selves into his brain just .exactly as
in the texts? Education should be
democratic. Some would gear it
simply to the intellectual aristocrats.
Moreover, read again those lines
of Longfellow. They have often
come true.
THE DIPLOMAT.
"No, I shall marry only a brave
man," said the maiden firmly.
"But you must admit that it
takes bravery for a poor mut like
me to propose to such a beautiful
and talented girl," countinued the
suitor.
So they lived happily, etc.
CHANCE OF A LIFETIME.
I want to go back to a place my heart remembers, I
An old square house on the top of a sentinel hill
Where slow Time loiters along however it will
Blue Junes and gray Novembers.
There spring returns with the music of whippoorwills calling
And sudden violets where a slope is green
And smoke adrift on a south wind spicy and keen
When the slow, damp dusk is falling.
There autumn comes with a click of frost in the night,
And a hickory log and a lump of lightwood pine
Flame on the hearth and set the gloom ashine
With a riot of ruddy light.
An unkept, ragged old guardian wall incloses
An arbor purple with grapes and a lone pear tree
And borders of mignonette and savory
And ranks of crimson roses.
There's a stream near by, where mellow-bugs dart and skip,
That chuckles aloud and talks in cheery tones
And brims a cool deep basin among the stones
Where dusty feet can dip.
The doors stand wide in the tranquil house on the hill,
And the wind walks down the hall and stirs a curtain
The wind or spirit, never I could be certain
And the rooms are sweet and still.
Ripe acorns rain on the roof, a fairy din,
And wake me deep in the nightime over and over;
At many a dawn a cow gets into the clover
And rings the sunrise in.
A curly path through a field, a sagging rail,
A hole in a hedge, a mark on a sassafras tree;
The way that my boyhood went is blazed for me
In signs that cannot fail.
Nothing will hush this crying, whether or no!
My heart is fain for the miracle it remembers,
The beauty of old sweet Aprils and Septembers;
I cannot choose but go.
The long highways of the world are seven times seven;
Though a man should travel them all from shore to shore
And yet at the last find one old trail no more,
He has missed the road to heaven.
I will turn my back on the noisy markets of men.
0 roses, wait in the sun by the garden wall;
0 Angel, touch the curtains in the hall
I am coming home again I
ORIGINALITY.
"Our new minister is just won
derful. He brings things home 10
you that you never saw before."
"Huh! I've got a taundryman
who dors the very same thing."
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
The occupants of the parlor car
of the Limited were startled by the
abrupt entrance of two masked
bandits.
"Throw up your hands," com
manded the bigger of the two.
"We're going to rob all the gents
and kiss all the girls."
"No, pardner," remonstrated
the smaller one gallantly. "We'll
rob the gents but we'll leave the
ladies alone."
"Mind your own business, young
fellow," snapped a female passen
ger of uncertain age. 'The big
man is robbing this train."
BEYOND CONCEPTION.
"George said if I refused to mar
ry him he would take a drink."
"Well?" .
"I told him if he was wealthy
enough for that 1 might reconsider
my refusal."
. LIKE THE CLIMATE.
"When your wife gets angry
does she cry?"
"Yes," said Mr. Meekton. "It
isn't the warmth of her temper I
fear so much as the humidity."
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
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A Tonic H
For Women
"I was hardly abls to drag, I
was so weakened," writes Mrs.
W. P. Ray, ot Eatley, S. C.
"The doctor tretted me for sbout
two months, Still I didn't get
Sny better. I had I larg s fam
ily snd felt I Surely must do
SuffiUu.g ts assblt ma te S!:9
cars ol my Utile ones. I hid
heard ol
CARDU
Tiia Wesso's Tesk
"I decided to try It," con
tinues Mrs. Rsy . . , i took
eight bottles In all ... I re
gained my strength and hive
had no more trouble with wo
manly weakness. I have tea
children and am abls to do all
my housework and a lot out.
doors . . . I caa sure recom
end CarduL"
Take Cardul today,
be ust what you need.
At iD druggUts.
It may
EH
SEAL
Make 10 lbs. of Soap
and Save $1.00
THE cleansing power in any soap or cleanser you
buy is lye. Soap is tallow (grease) mixed with
lye and water. You can make it yourself and save
a great deal of money. It will suit your needs better,
too, for you can make just the kind of soap you want,
either hard or soft.
Simply take S'2 pounds of clean grease (lard or
tallow) free from salt. Melt it down. Then set aside
to cool.
Take a large can of Red Seal Lye and dissolve it in
V2 pints of cold water. Bring this to about Summer
heat and pour it slowly into the melted grease. Stir
until the mixture becomes uniformly thick and pour
Into a mould. Cover up and set in a warm place until
next day. Then you can cut it into pieces and you'll
have 10 lbs. of the finest cleansing soap you ever used
and will have saved about $1.00.
Isn't that well worth while? You bet it is I And
then just remember these other fine uses for Red Seal
Lye: It is a water softener, saving a great deal of
soap. It kills all disagreeable odors, purifies and dis
infects at the same time. Dissolve a spoonful of it in
a quart of water and you have a wonderful cleaning
solution for helping lighten your work in washing
dishes, doors, floors, woodwork everything about
the house. A little of it sifted into the sink cleans
out the pipes and prevents them from becoming
stopped up.
But make sure the lye you buy is Red Seal Lye.
This pure lye is granulated and packed in cans that
are easy and convenient to use. Always ask your
storekeeper for, and be sure to get, the old reliable
Red Seal Granulated Lye.
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THE BEST FRIEND
YOU will ever have is your bank book. In case of trouble
or sickness he is a good fellow to have around. When
an opportunity conies for investment where you can better
yourself and you need some money quickly, HE won't turn
YOU down if YOU have cnltivated him properly. Why not
start that account today and be prepared to laugh at adversity?
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