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WE ARE PROUD
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SUCCESS
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MEANS5UDCESS. SOAT
PEOPLE ARETOOLISH
ENOUGH T6THINK
that Success is an
ACCIDENT VECtoT
OURS BLOWING GOOD
WE ARE CONDUCTING A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
AND WE KNOW WHY. WE ARE ON THE JOB.
WHEN WE BUY, WE BUY THE GOODS OUR CUSTO
MERS WANT. WHEN WE SELL, WE CHARGE THE
PRICE OUR CUSTOMERS WANT. WE TRY OUR
BEST TO BE PREPARED FOR ANY NEED oF OUR
PATRONS. THAT'S WHY WE ARE SUCCESSFUL.
WE ARE RUNNING OUR BUSINESS, IT IS NOT
RUNNING ITSELF. WE ARE PROUD or OUR BUSI
NESS AND OUR PATRONS. >
PLANTERS TRADING CO.
SEABOARD
AIR LINE RAILWAY
THE PROGRESSIVE RAILWAY OK THE SOUTH
Schedule Effective April 16th.
Train* Leaving Laurinburg
No/19—8:25 A. M. Local for Hamlet, Charlotte and all in
termediate pointa-Through Sleeper Wilmington to
Charlotte. Open for paaeengen at Wilmington at 10 P. M.
No. 18—7:27 P. M. Local for Hamlet, Charlotte, and all In
termediate pointa,—Connecting at Hamlet for all points
North. South and South West Pullma® Parlor Car WQ
mington to Charlotte.
No. 20—8:35 P. M. Local for Wilmington and all intermediate
points.—Through Sleeper Charlotte to Wilmington.
Passengers may remain in Sleeper until 7 A. M.
No. 14—9:07 A. H. Local for Wilmington and ail intermediate
points,-Pullman Parlor Car Charlotte to Wilmington.
For additional Information, as to rates, schedules, or re
servations, call on local agent or write the undersigned:
J. Watson, Agent H. E. Pleasants, T. P. A.
Laurinburg, N. C. Wilmington, N. C.
John T. West, D. P. A.
Raleigh, N. C.
Mogul 8-16 Price Announcement
The Real Kerosene Tractor
i
made and bona fide orders taken tip to April xnt will
be filkJ at the present price of $67$ cash f. o. b. Chicago.
*» Pp« y°« »hcad of time on the coming change.
jyj?1 G-13. wrou know i* the famous tractor that has
cut fee! costs s^uarciyln half—operates on cheap, common
*enjM<..« or c«*l ofl—doesn’t bavo to be the highest grade
mtber. U r«ev-o Jor itself in the saving over gasolines That
| is why the rir-o in price —necessary because cost of nnr
aaatcr^fc nrerhen So high —is of minor importance. .
■sor'd *1 o fa caving eod malting profit on thousands of
fam* oi a!1 my.'A. It will do much more for yon than your
borne- can, Ciot H ;-oor order bow—be ready for spring
1 work, boe the Ufcu«r who sells the Mogad bis.
fctera-^c^ JarvyUrCampaby of bwki
a <l**"**"
TSsSC.rul S-1S harasses trssSsr Is ssli tg.
JNO. F. McNAtR. Lnurinburg, N. C.
Z. V. PATS, Laurel Hill. N. C. end Ol son, N. G.
J. T. JOHNS CO.. Johns. N. C.
TUB WIDE WORLD.
Happening* Throughout tbs World
Teld ta Brief.
Garaan military experts aatiaata
that there ar* 800,000 milrs of barbed
wire entanglements on 1,800 milos of
battle front in Europe.
The revenue from the famous hobo
hotel In Palo Alto, Cal., this winter
excoadwl $500. 11m guests in the hut el
raised potatoes and chopped wood for
their daily bread and lodging.
Louis C. Walltek gave a dinner In
the presidential suite of the BeW
mors hotel in New York city in honor
of John H. E. Bowman and Jid other
hotel men at which each plats cost
*150.
Mrs. Msry Hsberaan, of Portland,
Ora., stormed ths courts with a bat
tery of nino lawyers to recover an old
ben and II chickens from John Hart
of fores him U pay *10. lisrt was
defended by two lawyer* and loat.
Georgs W. Peek, author, editor and
formerly governor of Wisconsin, is
dead in Milwaukee. Mr. Peek mads
himself famous with “Peck’s Bad
Boy.” He was 76 yean of aga and'
was prominent as a sportsman.
The Turkish government has an
nounced that one of her submarines
torpedoed the Russian hospital ship
Portugal In tha Black aaa last month.
The Turkish commander, it is stated,
mistook ths Portugal for aa army
transport.
Yoddl* Schwartz, aged M years,
and lira. Sarah GanDont, agad 58,
wara united in starring* three weak*
aftar the death ot his first wife.
Schwarts is s Jew and declare* that
his religion would not allow him to
spend th* Passover without a wife.
Pedometers worn by the senior girts
in tbs domestic seisoee department of
the Kan**. State Agricultural col
lage is the latest plan of tb* depart
ment to determine bow many -twitis
aery steps th* girls Uk* in th* kitch
en while preparing meals. Th* girl*
who serve in th* dining room alto
will woar pedometers
In Munich, Germany, the police
have been authoriaad to act as censors
of women’s dress, and have been or
dered to arrest all women who are
dressed loo conspicuously. The first
victim of those instructions was a
young girl who eras on her way to
meet an officer. She was taken to a
police station snd compelled, accord
ing to reports, to wipe the powder
and rouge from her face.
While Chariee Brown, a boy of
Weflahoro, Pa., was fishing near town,
he found something on the and of his
book that looked like a Ussard.' H#
pulled in Ms line for further exami
nation and found a tightly rolled gen
uine $1 bill. Since that time th* bank
below the Iron bridge where this
specimen of piscatorial long grew
waa fished out has been lined with
boys daily, trying their luck.
John Melin, the Swedish Innkeeper
st Sleepy Hollow, N. Y.. who owned s
plot across from the entrance to John
D. Rockefeller's estate and reftmed to
sell to the oil magnate, died fat tb*
almshouse at Tnrrytown. Hia prop
erty and business dwindled sway after
he opened his fight. Rockefeller 1*.
suing an order forbidding his tenant*
to frequent Helm’s tavern. Compell
ed to sell hi* place, H waa purchased
by a* agent who subsequently dis
posed of it to Rockefeller
John D. Rockefeller Is a God-fsar
Ing man, according to the Rev. BUly
Sunday, who, in an address at Balti
■*°**» MtL, characterised Job as the
Vanderbilt, Rockefeller *nd Carnegie
of hie day. “I have aever asst John
D. Rockefeller,” he said, -but I have
always admired the way ha stood
•qunrUy by Jesus and that’s a lot
mors than other rich ducks can say
for themselves. John D. has never
wanted anything from me, and I don’t
want anything from him, but my hat
is off to him because, rich aa he is, he
has always done the right thing by
God.”
Tea Um Of tooeet TaU.
Here arc ten Um which are often
heard, ^wording to the amiable Mr.
Annanlax, of the Universe:
Vee, we’re out, but we’re foot order
ed a lot.
I didn’t care anythin* about the
"oney—It wae the principle of the
thin*
I’d Juet liked to hare been Hi hie
place. I’d have xhowa ’em.
If I had that woman for a little
while I’d toaeh her a fow thing*.
• If I’d catch a kid of mine at a thine
like that I’d blietor him.
if I Juet bad a little money I know
where 1 could go out and make a pile.
I never would care to be rich; Juet
comfortably Axed.
My wife and I have ooror exchang
ed a crone word.
If you deal think it’s a Rood thin*
for you, I don't want yen to do It
rre never earn such weather be
fore.—Exchange.
FRKAK NEWS.
OU mad Curl mm Happmdag Thrac*h
•ut the Couatry.
Ufa and death cam* hand hi hand
the other day me the home at John
Gsbrfih, at Shamokia, Pa., when John
• three-year-old ami, died at the same
momeat a baby girt wr. born
William Coaler declared that bia
wife wan too affectionate following
hi* arroat in New Brunswick. N. J„
un a charge at deserting hit wife and
fkpiug with Mn. Alice Monroe, of
M*w Karen, Conn.
I*at Plnming, of Wcbbaboroi^h,
Gt-, taya ho has the BMt aceorap
■ Irhad mole In the country. Ha de
clares hie mule ean unlock the corn
crib door, taka the lock clasp oat of
tbs staple, open the door «nd fhttfk I
die corn for dinner.
A 40-mile gala that recently swept
ocar Baltimore, Md., and Chesapeake
bey, blew Sophia Dover, tea years old, i
and bar younger titter, Lillies, who
»»ro roller skating, Into an autoeao
Ml* Sophia’s neck was broken and
her slater was badly hurt.
O. P. Millard, manager of the lew*
Railway and Ught company, at Mea.
taur, la., fall (men a pale wbaa he re
ceived a shock at 88,000 volts of elec
tricity and will live. His wife, who
waa standing nearby watching him
work, dropped dead when aha saw bar
husband fall, believing that ho had
baa* killed.
Owning a drink, Richard Noah, a
maehhuat at tfaa Baltin ora »nd Ohio
«hopa la Cotmallivllle, Pm, recently
clinbad into an angina aad ran It half
a mile, aklr-.wiping a freight ear cn
»«•, to a point near a saloon. Than
ha ordered Ida drink. Shortly after
ward ha waa placed under arrest for
"malieieas injury to u railroad.”
Twenty-four hat. a year was the
record aetahliihrd by Mrs. Pauline
Pfingateo, of Milwaukee, during the j
let* years of bar hueband'a prosperity,
according to Uetiaooy given by John.
H. POngeten, in hia Jivorce action.
Whan ho objected to paying $06 for
f*« h**. h* #«id, «he retorted by til
ing Mm that it coat no more than one
motor ear tire.
Raymond Pearl, biologist at the
Maine Agricultural Expert station,
baa completed a scries at experiments
which Indicate that "stewed” hens
produce more eggs then thorn who do
not rowel in the delights of alcohol.
Pearl further claims that the eggs I
from nUbbolic hene yielded better
chicks when hatched than did those of
chair more seriate coop —e»«
jUP hiring 992,000 alimony to hie
wiK-.in U years, William 8 Lhrteg.
•ton, 80 years old, of New York city,
isa asked the Supreme court to light*
wi the annual burden of $4300. Liv
ingston has re-married sad has sev
»rr children. "Last year," he mid
“my income wsa $6300, and after pay’
my farmer writ $4300 1 hod bat
left with which to support my.
•elf and my second family."
Two-year-old Samoa! Wsndoaff re
cently fall four stories to the yard of
Us Naw York city home, breaking
•rrsral clotheslines on his way sod
landing on the turf as lightly sa a
dress acrobat. His mother, who mw
Um tumble from the window, fainted.
Upon being revived, Mrs. Wandou9
beard a physician remark that he
MuUnt find anything the matter with
Barnaul bat a few scratches, sad ttom
wure several days old.
Pmnds Short and Elsie Reineskin,
» pair of midget* with a Mg eircue,
wure united in marriage in New Yerk
city. A giant six dmm the sise of
the bridegroom Was bait man and tha
btidacnm* only to tha knee of tha
brMsaomM, a gientam Tha witaaas
was the douhlo-hodied man who walks
on on* pair of legs. Clam eaten,
•word swallowers, long-whiskered
naan, bearded ladies, Circassian girts,
ways and a few undistinguished
by unusual physical characteristics
oongratulated tbs newlywed*. Tha
ftoem ia a 72 pounder and the bride
weighs 09.
**»*eond Watkins and a friend
w*f* Wh| on a comer fat Honnilh,
Pa . whan Watkins bat 91 that ha
woald kiaa tha first girt that paaaad
•dm. A few minutes later K»
trfla Etanten, 19 and a nsgress, tarn
>d tha forner. using sideways iota
*• *daaat. Watkins made good his
hot bp seising tha girl and planting a
kies on her cheek. HiJt Estolla did
not propose to 1st tha matter rest.
Bbe called a oop, canted tha ament of
Wattoa and healed him before Alder
man Hahn. The facta were explained
•• th* judge, who saw tha humor of
iho lacideak and lot Watkins off far
M M so that he was Just W.60 behind
s/tor estloeting the bet.
Mora than 100 rats aro bring used
ha Use Agricultural college of the
ITnivsrattp of Wisconsla bp Prof. E.
V. McCollum to discover the Meal food
that will make paeplo live tha meat
•AoMat Uvea and grow at the beat
paactleal rata. Da hat bean at wark
* the experiment for seven pears acM
has discovered tha pesfeet food, with
the axe apt lan of two unknown tew
poxnda (
Re»v * *n {mrortant fart: nor .half ©r all the mm
on American M<rhw*v« are Ford* Because Ford
E^'f^” t*. berfnnlo*
Ercry F, rd owner fa. . F.*d hooker. for the car
^necfa'fon. CnnaMer the
record of the Ford first and rou won't look further
when Too hoy Runs boot *890; Toorlne Car 8440
Coupelet *6J*0; Town Cer 4640; Sedan 1740. All
pncca 1. o. b. Detroit. Oa aaic at
Mercantile A Machine Company
- Uurel Hill. N. C.
• ■" *• »•••* v - *.*'£$
A Bank With The Strength Of
Tempered Steel
The soundness of thin tank it enhanced by the eon
servtdve policy porauad by ita officers la the —frfrtg
of loans. It therefore becomes the safest of ad
plaees for the care of your ssrings, upoo which U
pays interest at the rats of 4 per cent per «■»««■»
This beak invites yon to become one of its rapidly
growing family of patrons, and offers you every
facility consistent with safe, sound and conservative
banking.
SCOTLAND COUNTY SAVINGS BANK
Laurinburg, North Carolina
DO YOU PAY
YOUR BILLS BY CHECK?
And thus have a record of each and every
amooat expended together with a receipt for
the amount paid ?
If not, yoo need a cheeking account with
this bank. It is the safest way. the mo*
convenient and aatfafietory method of trans
acting an business payments.
Ws will be pleased to have you make this
beak your place of deposit.
Respectfully,
First National Bank
Iduirinbui; N. C.
Money Loaned On Farms
I make long time loans oa Improved Farm
lands la Hoke and Scotland Counties to respon
sible parties.
Write and get nqr rates and tanas bates
placing your loan. ,
No application rn—Irtered for lass than
Mooo. oe.
A. T. McLEAN, Manager
_LUMBERTON, N. C.
I FOR SALE
8 One vertical or upright 6 horse pom Steam En
gine. One 2 hone pom Gasoline Engine.
We also furnish wagon teams for Pubtk Hire.
W. P. EVANS
TImm 12-J and M Wood .nd God Y.rd Ofllce.