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WELDON, N. C, TIIUKSDAY, OCTOKEU II), 1021.
NO. 21
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All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but
Sxperiments 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 CASTORIA
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
been 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 sleet.
The Children's Comfort The Mother's Friend.
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We are not boasting. We are only stating a f;ici and what hundreds
of satisfied patrons say about us. Besides excell a of goods, we also
lay claim to promptness and carefulness in the fiiim ol all orders. "
I sell groceries as cheap for cash as any one in n.wi', and will deliver
same FREE Or CHAKCjts.
L. E. HULL,
Nir Batcbelor's Opera House.l
THE BANK OF HALIFAX,
ORGANIZED 19061
Capital and Surplus $65,000.
Conducted under strict Banking principles and the Mine elrkieni
management which has marked its success in the past Your bus
iness is respectfully solicited, which will have our careful attention.
Qutntln Oreforyl,
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The Citizens Bank
HAI IFAX.
W B Invlts the people of Halifax
ronizs tnis bank, why not have a checking account t It Is
necessary la tbese times. It saves you money, anal 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
Th smallest account receives as
wlto us.
W pay 4 per cent. Compounded Quarterly on Savings.
Casse ta anal talk It aver wit its. iVa aped nn, ran mu4 ua.)
. and has been made under bis per
sonal supervision since its Infancy.
Allow no one to deceive vou in this.
Signature of
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WELDON. N C 8
WELDON. N.C
Oary.
Hreeideot.
f. 11 firetrnry
Oasblcr.
N. C.
and surrounding country to pat
open an account with us.
much attentlonjias the .argest
Red Crosi Qlves $1,871,000 Re
lief When 65,000 Families
' Are Made Homeless.
Forty-three (Haunter, resulting In
th death Id the I lilted States of 850
persons and tin Injury uf 2,900 called
for es)ergeni7 relief meusures Hnd
the expenditure of 11,871,000 by the
Aiiierlcun Hod (Tom during th fiscal
yeur ending June HO, 1K!1, uy an
announcement based upon the forth
coming minimi rqwrt of the Ited Cross.
These illastir caused property dum
ikb estimated at $:to,ooo,000, affected
slty-Kovon communities and rendered
ft",000 famlllen homeless.
The yeur' disasters were of vary
ing typed, Including several which pre
viously had sever been thought of
as tailing within that classifies
tlon. The Ited Cross furnished
relief In seventeen Urea of magnitude,
five floods, seven tornadoes or cy
clones, on devastating storm, three
explosions, Including tb one In Wall
street; one building accident, tw
typhoid epidemics, th most serious be
ing that at Salem, Ohio, which af
fected 9 per cent of th population;
one smallpox epidemic, In the republic
of Haiti; one train wreck, th rac riot
at Tulsa, Okla. ; th famine In China,
emergency relief In famine amoog th
Indians of Alaska, th grasshopper
plagu In North Dakota and an earth
quake In Italy.
Publ Most 6rlou
By far the most svre of th dis
asters In the United 8tats during th
period covered by th Bed Cross re
port was th Pueblo flood early in
June, 1921. Tt rehabilitation prob
lem confronting th Bed Cross In
Pueblo "was on of th most difficult
In recent years. Whan th first nwj
of th horror was flashed throughout
th country, tb American Red Cross
National Headquarters responded with
S grant of Slfln.OOO for relief work.
Governor Bhoup of Colorado, appre
ciating th long and successful eiparl-
ence of th Red Cross In organising
disaster relief work, placed th en
tire responsibility for th administra
tion of relief la Its hands.
In response to appeals from Prat-
dent Harding, Governor Shoup and
other governors of western ststes and
through local chapters , of the Red
Cross and other community organiza
tions, public-spirited ettlsens brought
the total contributed for Pueblo's re
habilitation t more tban 3,0OO.
The terrible havoc wrought by the
flood waters Is a matter of record.
More than 2,31)0 homes wert affected
and 7,331 persons were left homeless.
Estimates of ifflOO.OOO as aa absolute
minimum for rehabilitation war made
by Red Cross officials In charge of tb
relief work. ,
Fast Work In Wall Street
The Wall street explosion was nota
ble In that relief workers of the Ited
Cross were on the scene twenty min
utes after the disaster occurred. The
race riot at Tulsa also was unique In
disaster relief annals In that outside
of a small emergency relief fund con
tributed by the Red Cross, the only
relief measures outside the city con
sisted of the service of social work
ers, nurses and a trained executive
whose object was t assist local force
In directing their own efforts.
In decided contrast with the pre
vious year, only one tornado assumed
the proportions of a major disaster.
This occurred on April 15, In the bor
der sections of Texan and Arkunaas
with th city of 'IVxarkuna ns th
center. The significant feature of this
disaster relief work was Hie fact that
It covered so much rural territory as
t make necessary a large number of
relief workers.
The famine in China, necessitating
relief expenditures totalling more than
11,0000110 by the Amerlcmi Ited Cross
was by far the most serious of the
foreign disinters In which the Red
Cross gav .ild.
Builds Up Its Machinery
In connection with the administra
tion of disaster relief measures, an In
creasing effectiveness on the part of
the Red Cross to deal with emergen
cies waa manifested during the past
year. In 828 Chapters of th Ameri
can Red Cross there have been formed
special committees to survey the re.
sources of their respective communi
ties and to be prepared In case of
disaster. In others of the 8,402 actlv
Chapters, a network of communication
has been formed through which Instan
taneous relief may be dispatched to
any part of th United States.
That Its work In thla Held may b
continued with ever greater effective
ness, th American Red Cross la ap
pealing for widespread renewal of
membership during Its Annual Roll
Call, to be conducted this year from
November 11 to 24.
LIFE SAVING CORPS
ENROLLMENT 10,000
Orowtb of tied Cross Lire Having
Carp throughout th country con
tinned unabated, during th last fiscal
year, a summary of the year's
acbievementa by that Red Cross Serv
lc shows. Tbr are now 180 Corps
with a total membership of more than
10,000 members, of which 1,2T ere
sufficiently skilled In the work to act
as examiners. Among the outstanding
achievements of the Ited Cross tu this
field during the last year wti the or
ganisation at the United Slates Naval
Acadtn y, Annapolis, of what Is per
haps the largeat life saving corps la
th world.
How Better Than Pills?
Tlie question has been asked: ta
what wajr areiChamberlain's Tablets su
perior to the ordinary cathartic and
lirer pills? Our answer iaj thejr are
easier and more pleaaant to take and
their effect so gentle that one hardly
realisea that is produced by a medicine.
Then, they not only more the bowels
but improve the appetite and strength-
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"The Birth of a Nation" bringing forward David W. Griffith's rare art of musical spectacle, opens an
engagement of two nights, Wednesday and Thursday, October 12th and 13th, at the Weldon Opera
House. The first half of the great picture exhibits the salient events of the "Civil war.which come to a close
at Appomattox jusi fifty years ago Lincoln's call for troops, Sherman's march, the Battle of Petersburg,
Lee's surrender to Grant and the awful tragedy at Ford's Theatre live before the spectator of the Griffith
drama. In the second half the Souih's "second uprising," this time against the carpetbag regime, is shown
in a thrilling story of reconstruction days. The romance of ihe ''little Confederate colonel" Ben Cameron
with the Northerner Elsie Stoneman, and thai of the Unionist Captain Phil Stonrman with Margaret Cam
eron, the South Carolina lassie, maintains two threads of continuous love-interest throughout the story.
The fun and frolic of plantation days, as well as the heartache and paihos of the stricken South are shown.
The. great out-of-doors is Mr. Griffith's special field. Great battle scenes and the rides of the clan are
staged with the thousands of participants. There are 5,000 scenes in the spectacle and (it is estfmated) no
less than 200,000 interesting historical details. On the musical side Mr. Griffith attempted something pre
viously unheard of in conneciion with motion pictures. This waa the synchronizing of a complete sym
phonic score with the appearance of the important characters and the enactment of the principal scenes.
This instrumental music is played by a large orchestra, and supplemented by part-singing behind the
scenes. Somehow the old war-time tunes, thus themaiically treated, make the "counterfeit presenti
ments," of long ago seem irresistibly real. Among the leading players in what was probably the largest
theatric cast ever assembled may be mentioned Joseph Henabery as President Lincoln, Donald Crisp and
Howard Gaye as Generals Grant and Lee; Mae Marsh as Flora Cameron; Henry B. Walthall, Lillian Gish,
Elmer Clifton, Miriam Cooper as the quartet of lovers; Ralph Lewis as Congressman Stoneman; Spottis
woode Aiken and Josephine Crowell as the elder Camerons and George Seigman as Lynch.
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i -Ten Million Dollars a'Year
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4:to help the ex-service man V
3 : Jatid his family ;
wlnnualRoH Coll 'JVoiur-idJou v
To bring bafort th country In visual form the vast problem It It helping
to solve., the Amsrlean Rod Cross has prepared for Its Annual Roll Call,
Nov. 11 to 24, a poster showing how rather than diminishing the total of
World War veterans entitled to Federal aid continues to grow. Red Cross
Service to these men Is costing $10,000,000 a year.
President Harding
Now Heads Red Cross
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Sucoeedlng former Prsldsnt Wilson, President Harding was recsntly
elected president of the American Red Cross. He Is her sn accepting th
office. From left to right: MaJ. Gen. Merrltte W. Ireland, Surgeon General,
U. 8. A.; Dr. Livingston Farrsnd, chairman Central Committee of th Rtd
Croea; th President; Asst. Secretary f th Treasury Eliot Wadswortli)
Rear Admiral Idward R. Stltt, Surgeon General, U. S. N. Mi
There are still a few good old
fashioned women who dislike to
see their names in ihe papers.
OhildreiivCry
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And ii will soon be lime to begin
to wonder if Mr. Bryan will run
for president again.
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FOR FLETCHER'S
CAS.HOLR.IA
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Red Cross Gives
$310,000 to Aid
'Clean-Up' Drive
An nppiHtn-lntlnii of ,i 10,001) fur
Hfil ("rims win-It in ciinnei'tlun with tho
"fleiiii-up" nuii.iilii liistlliilftl by t!i(
iuniiiii'nt In Ix'Iiik the I'litiins ,f hII
(Umitilt'il service men win, ure eiitiilt'd
to Keilernl it id before tlie prnper kuv
eriiinent bureiui for nctlon, tins been
mmie by the American Hed 1'rnss.
The Kxecuttve ('(ininlttee uf the
Ainei-lriin Red Crons In muktiiK the
iiiiruritil inn Hiitlmi'l.ed the upproprl
utiuii uf $:Ci,ttilO uf ttiti sum to the
Anierituu I.tvimi to deCmy Die ex
pense of the Lej;inn representittlves
iiKsUned t the vurlous districts uf
the Velcrun Itnreiiu.
The reimilniier of the appropriation
whh nullioH.ed for Hpporthiiiinent
ftninn I lie several Divisions of the
Ited Cross for curryiiiK on that part
of the "cleHM-iip'' v-rk that falls di
rectly upon the Ked Cross ortfitnlzutiou.
Young America
j Sends Vast Relief
To Needy Abroad
Various relief projects of the JunPtr
American Hed Cross fn Kiirnpeaa
un tries resulted In helping 'J:;7,imhi
destitute children during the last fis
cal yeur, arcorrilng tu the annual re
port of the American Ked Cross for
that period. The growth of the actlvU
ties of the Juniors abroad is mani
fested by a compHrlson which shows
this figure Is L'OO.OOO larger than that
of the preous fiscal year.
The National Children's Fund raised
by school children, members of the
Junior American Hed Cross, wal
drawn upon for $420,557 for these proj
ects. Receipts for the National Chil
dren'! Fund during the last fiscal yti
tettlltd I159.81T.
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Many persons, otherwise
Tlrorous and healthy, are
bothered occasionally with
Indigestion. The effects of a
disordered stomach on the
system are dangerous, and
prompt treatment of Indiges
tion la Important. "The only
medicine 1 have ne1ed has
been euiuttiiiiuH Iw aid
11 un and clean th liver,"
writes Mr. Fred Ashbjr, a
Mc Kinney. Texas, Jarmer.
"My medicine Is
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THE BIRTH OF A NATION COMING.
D. W. Griffith's historical spectacle "The Binh of a Nation" will
come to the Weldon Opera House next Wednesday and Thursday,
October 12th and I3ih. The "Birth of a Nation" is one of the most
widely discussed topics in ihe country. It established an absolutely
new an in ihe reslm of the theatre the art of pantomimic screen
wilh music. It also created a tremendous sensation because of lis vas
ter and more forceful treatment of the same theme as Thomas Dixon's
"The Clancman." The consequences of ihe Civil War in Southern
reconstruction are fully deali with, and ihe nation reborn is apotheo
sized. Mr. Griffith, pioneer among directors, managed the stupendous
achievement without ihe aid of dialogue or speech, for motion pictures,
accompanying music and effects tell the coherent, logical and moving
story.
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Weldon Opera House, Oct. 12-13.