, THE I. H. C. TOGGLE-JOINT HAY PRESS ? Is the highest draft, and makes the most ?j compact hale of any press sold. BAILEY SUPPLY CO.. SALES AGENTS. McKeel= - Richardson Hardware . ' . Company Blasting Fuse and Caps, ? Electric Fuses, Batteries,- . Blasting Machines and Dynamite or hand. The Lovliest Place You Ever Saw ? Washington Park Bargain in E. Main Street House . A. C. Hathaway . Leon Wuoil MEMBERS N. V . COTTON EXCHANGE Jamej W. Colt J. LEON WOOD & CO., BACKERS and BROKERS S I OCKS. BONDS. COTTON. GRAIN and PROVISIOVRT" p3 Pl.l'ME STREET. CARPKVI KR BUILDING. NORFOLK. VA. Private Wires to N. V. S'ock Exchange. N. Y. Cotton Exchange. Chicago Board of Trade and other Financial Centers. Correspondence respectfully solicited, Investment and Marginal accounts given careful attention. T H : KiLl' FIYB M1NITKH WITH PROGKR8S.] kind of a town Are you Living In? '' !'??' about I The slowest, ?Sleepiest old ! place TOn the face j itli the earth? % Does everybody ;Sit arbund i And talk about j Everybody else? I fs It composed [ Of a bunch of knockers? | Is there no business, . ? .No hustle. No real live, I Aggressive'. publlc-splrl^pd clttxens j Living there? ffcr-tfeere no civic pride? ? ' Do you heed | A few first-class funerals 'And a dozen Or more fires Before the town Will be like ? other towns? Are all Its doors of Oppo rlunlty Nailed, claiftped. chained Ajid pad-locked? Your answers to V These questions Will depend entirely Upon you ? To see that The old home town Gets its share. It should be a work Prompted by pride And love. And not by any Selfish motives. "Far fields may look green," "Distance may lend'enchantment," But I Don't forget thai old L JSt dry About the . Rainbow and the Bag of gold. \V. II. Madden in the. Merchant's Journal and Commerce. Not the town. * * ? ? -.They'll be prompted > ? 1 B> your civic "pride or ? * Lack of It. f--* , Not long Since The writer asked A eitizen of Knoxville, Tenn. ,\YUal iorl v.f a ttu&'ft His city is. His fa?e brightened, 111 ml wftk ? Enthusiasm, and his answer ? ' An unusual one ? Cracked like a whip. "It's the best town in all the world. .Ye#, sir. ,Be:<t in the world." And/fte said It In * way that Carried a ring of Ret) truth. J He firmly believed it. That man la Not onTy - *** .. | Popular Id nis - ? Community, But he's successful. Doesn't make much Difference Where one lives Nowadays. Upportunities are everywhere. They're right in Your town, Lota of, 'em" Good ones. And the best way rTti. To And them, ? Or rather y Have theiy find you, ^ Is to have ?*' m " Character and a Strong and ever firm * . Belief in" your Own town. Don't "knock It Any more thab You would "knock" Your empolyers' business ? Or your country ? * You're a 1 Just realize mat ? And the more You do to "boost" it The more the town Will do for you: Maybe there are A few old Narrow-minded. Dollar-holding, Short-sighted. Selfish ? .... ^ / "Dead ones." Maybe there are A few old Rattle-shack buildings That have been Eye-sores since Before the war. What If there are? Don't care where You go You'll fiml ? The same thing. ITo some extent at least, But I Try and forget The unpleasant side. J See and talk I Only? i The better things. [Get enthusiast U ? About your town. i Talk of it as tho.igh j You, personally, were ^Responsible for its future. | Show a willingness | To help | In any and every way 1 For the betterment Of the city ? And i!lf iJllblli1 ~go<?<!-.- - Do UUl. And you'll find it a better place In which to live. You'll soon tje a Mr. Somebody ?? ^ \ In* that town. The funcrala will come And men ? "live wire" men ? Will take the places Of the departed "dead ones." Fires will come And devour the shacks. And new and credKable Buildings rise in their stead. New opportunities Will open. Be ready for them. The whole country Is growing and thriving. Do your part WHY LOW RETURNS ARE REA LIZED FROM SOME FARMS. * Many a farmer failB to get ade quate returns from his farm because he stays at home too closely, puts in too many hours a day following the plow, and doeB not often enough visit ! good farmers in his neighborhood or other sections of the country where good farming is done. Furthermore, a man physically exhausted from a lonf. hard day's work is in no conai lion to follow and get much out of the literature of his business as re ported in -.farm papers, agricultural bulletins, reports, and books, and without the advantage of all the In formation available from every pos sible source he will And awkward sit uations when he romes to replan his farm for profit. Success in farming calls for the "very best, efforts in- a man along all lines. That best effort is called fot replannlng a farm for profit. The farmer w-ho is dissatisfied with his income from the farm needs to think seriously as to whether or not his farm is planned light for the largest "returns, remembering ? th*t ? good farming calls for keeping up the pro ductiveness ot-the farm while getting maximum crops economically- from the soil. ACC F.ITS POSITION. Mr. John F. Flynn has accepted n position with Sheriff George E. Ricks as tax coIlectorr He has al ready entered upon his duties.' WKICiHT BROS. IN THE HOME. ^ If you want a reliable remedy for eroup and pneumonia the mother's! ? itiv nfvpr and Goose Greese fori rheumatism and all arhen and pains Praised by thousands, and If you try it you will do the same. Manufac tured by the Goose Grease Liniment Company. For sale by Hardy's Drug Store. fAnd further, \\Then you come for your bat don't forget to take a T ? look at our W- Cmrkery 2nd Glassware. T. W. PHILLIPS & CO. " HELP IS OBTERF.n? WORTHY YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN. No MttM how limited your meaai of education, the GREAT AMERICAN SHORTHAND AND BUS1 i NESS COLLEGE, Durham, N. C.Ji re*dy and willing to help You lecure a high-grade Business Education . The ONLY Business College In the* Caro lina* presided over by an Incorporated Accountant and Auditor. A sui 1 clent guarantee of it* superiority. Enter no* on easy payment plan DEPARTMENTS; Bookkeeping, Obftithaqd, Typewriting, Telegraphy, Penmsnrtrip, CivU Service, English Branches, etc. Expert Faculty? Rail road Fare Paid? Positions Guaranteed. *.*.?? 1 REAL ESTATE WANTED I ! I have moved to Washington, N. C., from Van Wert, Ohio, where I was encaged in the Real Ed ) tate business for more than thirty years, and will , : engage in the same in Washington. N. C. I want farms and other lands for sale. If you want to . sell your farm or lands see me or 'phone IV. M. KEAR, ; " Washington, N. C. 'Phone 85. Office with C. D. Parker, Havens-Small Building.' THE UNION GROCERY GO'S. CAFE AVCTPD C served in all styles by the Noted Uiai LiIVO Chef- RICARD BONNER. ME ALS AT A^L HOURS ORDERS RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION? TRY US ?PHONE 327. Money saved is money made! A Welsbach Junior Lamp burns 2 feel 'of Gas per hour, and gives 50 Candle PowerNaJ Light, where an open tip burns 6 feet of Gas and givfetf 20Candle Pow er. How much do you save? WASHINGTON LIGHT ? ?- & WATER Welsbach Junior. COMPANY N nn ? . - - 1 > . - - Corn and Wheat Mill's Daily Capacity 1250 Bushels of Corn, 250 Bushels Wheat - I SELL: Corn Meal, ' Hominy, ? ? " All Kinjfe of Feeds, ~ ? Hay, Oats, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls COAL OF ALL KINDS ^ I UUii UQl Uiil). Huiiiiillsliiu,;'.!! ? ? lit ? * ' UfeUUll; 111 U? * ** ? > ? - ? - - ? . - /?.- : . ? ???-???-?.? ?

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