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The Commonwealth R. TL BILLIARD Editor Published Every Thursday. AN OTHER ORGANIZATION FOR FARMERS, Mr. Gilbert Stephenson contributes two-column article to the Rich I n nit mv Awrranlvn. Entered at th Post-Office at Scotland ximes auvucat.ug u I firm tmnnc the farmers for better . T . i. IT rt C 7 T. TVTnttem I - w I i 4 Iln nvivnaa i prices j or poauuia. "6 that The In vestigation into the terrible J farmers do not get what the peanuts railroad wreck near Hamlet Sunday are worth. He says ttiat a fliassacnu uight cannot be too thorough. Who- setts man told him that he pays fifteen ever is to blame tor the awful tragedy cents per pound for peanuts, while the ought to suffer for it. Those who farmer gets less than lour cents per have in their charge the safety of pound. human lives should be held to strict Mr. Stephenson thinks that such a account for all such occurrences. discrepancy between the price of Rev. J. C. Howe, pastor of the First Pnuts to the farmer in North Caro- una and the consumer m Maseacnui Methodist church in Salisbury, gently reproved a druuken man for profanity some davs aeo. and while the divine was not lookins the drunken man dealt him two heavy blows which knocked the victim heavily against soma store counters. . All of which goes to emphasize what every reason able man ought to know, that the less you have to say to a drunken man, the better It is for you and him. setts Is too great. We think his protest is well put and if organization amongst the farmers for better prices for this product will remedy the wrong, let them have the organization. NOT TOO EARLY. Two important questions wers set tled in Wake county last week. One was the contest in the primaries be tween H. C. Olive and J. C. Drewry, candidates for the State Senate. Drew ry came out ahead and will be Wake county's Senator. The other matter settled was the indictment, against M. T. Norris, a prominent business man of Raleigh, charged with burning a house which belonged to his wife. He was acquitted after a trial which last ed from Tuesday until Saturday night. The death of Rui3ell Sage at Law- There is always more or less differ ence of opinion amongst farmers about hew late to cultivate certain crops. Some think it best to lay by early and some think it best to cultivate later. This season the opinions of two good farmers in this community have differ ed very much concerning how late corn should be plowed. The agricultural editor of the Smith- deld Herald writes as follows : "At this season of the year when farmers have worked for a long time without any vacation it is but natural for them to want to get through with their crops and many of them get in too much hurry to lay them by. It always pays to work crops reasonably rence, L. I., last Sunday removed from iate but it Is more important this year the financial circles of the conntry per- than usual on account of the late cold hans one of the most striking charac- spring which made the crops slow in .. 4 . c j i starting and behind in their growth tare rhaf horn fiorirorl In rinnr in I even as late as this. We know some of this country for a century. He com- the begt farmera whfJ try tQ glye their menced life a poor boy, the son of poor cotton one plowing in August every parents who lived on a small rented year. A few limbs here and theie may farm, but died one of the richest men in the world,perhaps. The amount of his millions is said to be a mystery in Wall Street. Being asked in hla old age why he continued to work, though $D rich, he answered that he just bad o keep at it. He would have been SO or 90 years old August 4th. OUGHT TO WORK BOTH WAYS. get broken but it pays to plow U late. You want your cotton, to grow late and many a time it stops growing because the plow stops running. Of course the last two or three plowings should "be very shallow. Our rule is to give all cotton a plowing as late as the last week in July, and late planted cotton should be plowed one time in August Have you laid by your cotton ? If so it might be the b.-st thing you could do to give it one more plowing." AWFUL TRAIN WRECK. There was an awful train wreck one mile from Hamlet Sunday night about 8 o'clock, in which fifteen persons were killed, two whites and thirteen colored, and twenty-three injured. It waa perhaps the worst ditaster of the kind in the history of the Seaboard Air Line system. Train 44 from Char- otte to Wilmington collided with an extra freight. The responsibility seems to rest on the operator at Rockingham or the operator at Hamlet, but it has not been decided at this writing. The following concerning the acci dent is taken from the Raleigh Eve ning Times of Monday : According to the statement of R&l sigh people who were at Hamlet last night, the wreck on the Seaboard was expected before it happened, and there was a moment of fearful suspense and excitement in the telegraph office. In deed, orders were gent out for a wreck ing train before it was known that the fatality had occurred. Mr. Baxter Durham and others were waiting at Hamlet to return to Raleigh when it was noised around that there was danger ahead. The freight had left Hamlbt, bound south, and the pas senger, ISO. 44, naa Jen Kockingnam for Hamlet, a distance of six miles, with no station interyening. There are many sharp curves, and railroad men realized that nothing on earth could preyent a disaster. While the crowd around the station was watting the flagman from the freight came running back with the news, and hundreds of people started on foot for the scene. The trains met on the line between Hamlet and At lanta. "When I got to the wreck," said Mr Durham, "there was a sight the like of which I had never seen before. As the two locomotives jcame together the baggage car on th8 passenger reared up, telescoping the second-class coach which was literally crushed Into splint ers, and it appeared then that every person in the car had been killed. So far as I could ascertain no passengers in other cars were killed. Every per son in the second-class coach, however, was either killed or maimed. "There was prompt work in remov ing the dead and dying. Most of the victims were negroes, and among them were many women." Different reports were circulated as to the cause of the wreck and the re sponsibility. About the only thing certainjs that the freight was allowed to pass Hamlet and the passenger was sent from Rockingham, almost at the same time, when there was no way by which they could safely pass on the six miles of track. TEMPERANCE WHICH MEANS IT. To the man who does the desk work lor a newspaper reports happenings, records death, tells about marriages in which are always handsome grooms We have now been editor and pub . . ... . . , , .. usher of a newspaper nearly fifteen and beautiful brides, and also writes . . , . . years and no whiskey advertisements eauonais on imngs in generai-we say, haye ever appeared in our papers to the man who does all these things though many have been offered us and and many more, there seems to be we needed money. Roanoke Chowan great inconsistency on the part of his pfJwl"s readers The above declaration is by one of The public expect the newspaper the m09t conscientious editors in man to praise and say good words for Nortn Carolina, Mr. A. J. Conner, who certain things and nersone. and also tn publishes the Roanoke Chowan Times criticize certain other things and per sons. When he says good words for and praises certain persons and things it goes as a matter of course, and noth ing is said about it ; but if he criticizes certain other persons and things, he is eharged with being too censorious. v i t . . - jow, wny uo not tne readers ot a newspaper commend or condemn the newspaper man US freely as they ex A SIGNIFICANT LETTER. Chicago, June 1st, 1906. Mr. Edward A. Ferguson, Mgr. Union Centrat Life Ins. Co., Chicago, Illinois. Dear Sir : I am highly pleased with the annual dividends the Union Cen tral is paying on my $50,000 Ten Pay ment Life Policv. The cost has been reduced from $2,88150 in 1900 to $2,437 in 1906, showing large increas ing dividends each year. This excel lent result is what induced me to in crease my insurance in the Union Cen tral to your limit, and my only regret is that my entire line is not in your company, Very truly yours, Wm. Wrigley, Jr The foregoing letter by a large policy bolder in the Union Central Life In surance Company, emphasizes the fact that this company is outstripping other companies in large dividends. Mr Wrigley carrios large insurance and has all in the Union Central that the i : i - company win carry on any one ijie, and yet he says he regrets that his en tire line of Insurance is not in the Union Central. The more it Is studied the clearer it is that the Union Cen tral leads in fine dividends. If you wish a policy in this leading company I shall be glad to have you call on me or write me, and I will take pleasure in attending to it for you. . E. E. Hilliard, Agent, Scotland Neck, N. C. ED mm i&AAAAA A AAA A AAA AAA A AAAAAAftrB We Sell Jjllt ill litJi na uiuxiixx, u,u g Steel. Full Circle, Mounted or Un- To Place your for that Hay Press We sell the International, Order 2 mounted. We have them in Stock. r- ''U b'V'fr" -,a . 1 ' J--e i. iSr in -erf mii ! i 1 S If the grass gets the lead remem- Clean and Close. i Vs. Let us show you the Vertical g MAY MAKE OWN MAIL BOXES. WHITE HEN'S LONG RIDE. at Rich Square, N. C. The editor of The Commonwealth is glad to answer back to brother Con ner that since Dec. 23, 1887, the time the pv- t management commenced, neither has this paper printed anv whiskey advertisements, though "they have been offered us and we needed money." The Rich Square Times Is only one pect him to commend or condemn of a good,y number of secular news others? They may do it among them- PaPer8 in the State that will nDt pub selves, but they seldom go to the editor lish whiakey advertisements. They re- personally and commend hlra for what Iuse t0 TlDt them Dot because ot any fce says which they appreciate or tell unklnd feelings towards those who him what he has said which they do seek to Place the advertieements, but oecause tney believe the liquor traffic to be a great evil and therefore they will not aid the business though they could get good pay for doing so. And say what you may about the great spirit of temperance that has swept over North Carolina during the past few years, It cannot be denied that not appreciate. inis paper nas endeavored to say nice things for many people during the past twelve months, but seldom in deed has there been an expression to us editor oi commendation or con demnation. One thoughtful reader a few days ago commended us foi our Norfolk Landmark. Three hundred and sixty miles on the truck of a passenger car, running at the rate of about forty-five miles an hour, is an experience yet unheard of, but if chickens could talk there's one In this city to-day that could furnish enough reading matter to fill columns. That chicken reached Pinner's Point last night on the rear truck of the mail car on passenger train No. 48 over the Atlantic Coast Line from Wilmington, N. C. It is a white ben and it is none the worse for the trip. This venture some fowl is now the property of Cap tain Edgar Hart, who brought the train to this port, and he vouches for this story. Shortly after train 48 pulled out of Wilmington In the morning Captain lart's attention was called to the feathered hobo, roosting comfortably on the truck of the mall car. It was a sort of novelty and as there was no chance of collecting a fare from the pan-handler, the generous-hearted con ductor agreed to see how far the hen would ride. At every stop a peep was taken under the car and there still sat the bird. Passengers got out to look at her and station agents noted the novel sight, but the tramp chicken was ( not disturbed, and when Pinner's Point was reached permitted Captain Hart to lift her from her seemingly comfortable perch. "Not a feather was soiled," declared the captain, "and I am going to take this hobo back to Wilmington at my own expense." paragraph remark -about how the two ine PUDUC Pre89 oi tne btate has had dally papers in Raleigh are constantly much to do with creating and spread nagging at each other about things ing such sentiment. And in this The Which do not Pflnfirallv ennoftrn fhir COMMONWEALTH modestly claims its readftra. and we annrflftiatftd hi nm. snare in whateyer degree it has been i J TIT . menaauon. vve wouia appreciate a friendly criticism by any subscriber, or reader, if it were given in the spirit of trying to help us, or the public through us. now, neignDor, u you nave any commendation or ftondmntinn M li(luor traffic Will influential at all ; for it will soon be nineteen years since any whiskey ad vertisements appeared in Its columns. If the press of the State will keep up its work and live up to its precepts, like Editor Conner, the evil of the finally be' greatly this article, please be kind enough to curtailed' tnOQgQ 7 not be entire- onme to the editor with if firt. 'J "'P out What we mean to emphasize Is this That the public expect praise or con Try a little KODOL FOR DYSPEP SI A after your meals. See the effect demnation for persons cr things, as the by digesting your food and helping ease may be, but do not treat the news- 70ar stomach to get itself into shape Many stomachs are overworked to the point where they refuse to go further Koiol digests your food and gives your stomach the rest it needs, while 1 1 re- v oaive i oaive 1 1 spread tne salve, but constructive properties cet the stomach 1.. Ik U. D! i . . I ,e . - . - ii wj x me baiye. naiurea remeav i d&ck inio wormne oraer. Knrini r- piper man personally as they wish him to treat them. " . J " for cuts, burns, sores, eta. E. T. Whitehead & Co., Scotland Neck, Leggett 'e Drug Store, Hobgood. neves flatuence, sour stomach, palpi tation oi toe heart, belching etc. Sold by E. T. whitehead & Co. From the Windsor Ledger we clip the following item which will interest persons along rural mail routes Postmaster General Cortelyou has issued an order, to go into effect Au gust 1st, rescinding the regulation under which patrons of rural mail routes are compelled to purchase boxes from one of the 200 listed manufac turers, who hae put upon the market 300 different styles of boxes, approved bv the department, costing from 50 cents to $4 each. "Patrons of rural routes will be per m it ted to construct their own boxes, provided that in dolDg so they conform Having qualified as Executor of the to the requirements cf the department Estate of C. V. Gray deceased. This a Ar.Mm,r ejfv on(i nrft. is to notify all persons holding claims . . . . i i uufiuuoit earn jomi-o w piww" wuw tection from the inclemencies of the . antiat0A ,nr weatner. in oruer 10 maintain me on or before July 1st, 1UU7, or this no government protection of the mail tice will be plead in bar of recovery. nlnr-firi in rural hnxns the natron must All persons indebted to said estate will R. M. Johnson, Executor. Yours truly, Lift. 3? WW WW VWWW WW WW JOSET HARDWARE The Pioneer Hardware Dealers cohfantI Execntor's Notice. secure the spproval of the postmaster of the office which serves the route, and paint on the box, the words "Ap proved by the Po&tmaster General." July 1, 190G. 7-5-6t 1 Mother's Ear j ;J a woro in Morwrs's bari wmbh ( ,1 MUHSItta AH IN FB.lt T, AMD IH TH3T j MOMWa THAT COME BSFOKM THAT 3 tj TIMS, QCOTT'3 EMULSIOM I 3 BUPMJEB THS GXTPA STRENGTH A NO OUMSHMEr SO NECESSARY FOff THE HEALTH OF BOTH MOTHER AMO CHILD. SenJ for free sample. SCOTT & BOWXE, Chemists, 409-415 Pearl Street, Nw York. 50c. and f 1.00 ; all druggUts. Littleton High School BOYS AND YOUMG MEN L. W. BAGLEY. A. B. Z. P. BEACMBOARD, A. B. Principals. ADVANTAGES: 1. Faculty of Exixriencoil College Men 2. Health Conditions Unsurpassed. 3. Expenses Moderate No Extras. 4. Prepare? for College or Life. 5. Thorouirh Instruction. 6. Home Influences. 7. Graded System. Fall term begins September 4th, 1906. Spring term begins January 1st, 1907. For further information ddress Z. P. BEACHBOARD, Littleton, N. C. 7-26-21M WANT TO BRIDGE ROANOKE. Norfolk Landmark, 17th. Application was made yesterday to Major E. E. Wlnslow, United States Engineer, by the Halifax and South ampton Bridge Company, tor permis sion to bridge Roanoke river about two miles from Weldon. The plans as submitted call for a solid structure forty-five feet above mean low water. The bridge will be of the highway type. Major Winslow will hold the plana here for a week for inspection by any party interested. A TRAGIC FINISH. A watchman's neglect permitted a leak in the great North Sea dyke.which a ohild's finger could have stopped, to become a ruinous break, devastating an entire province of Holland. In like manner Kenneth Mclyer, of Vancebo ro, Me., permitted a little cold to go unnoticed until a tragic finish was on ly averted by Dr. King's New Discov ery. He writes : "Three doctors gave me up .to die of -lung inflammation, caused hy a neglected cold ; but Dr. King's New Discovery Baved my life' Guaranteed be3t cough and cold cure, at E. T. Whitehead & Co.'s drug store. 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle free. HITDSOITg , Englisli Kitchen, On American and European Plan. Established 1890. A nice Roast Beef Dinner ior 25c. Fish, Oysters arid Crabs in season. We also have a few nicely furnished rooms for our pa trons.' 347 Main Street, Norfolk, Va. SEED! over 5" inot rass " eecl Seed Oats, Ssed Rye . Wfjsat Etc. We make a specialty of High Grade Field Seeds, buy in large quanities, and are prepared to make low prices, quality con sidered. Write us when buy- ing. . " ,'' - H. R. SAY AOS k SON, GRAIN AND SEED MERCHANTS, RICHMOND. - VIRCINIA. HOLLISTER O Rocky Mountain Tea Nuggets A Busy Medicine for Busy People. Brings Qoldea Health and Renewed Vigor. A specific for Constipation, Inoifre'stion, T.ive Slid Kidney Troubles. Piinplos. Ecem-i. Impure lUood, Rid Breath, Rlurrirish Bowels, Healaelie ina uackacne. It's Rocky Mountain T0.1 in tac lt form, 35 cent a boi. Oenuiue nmdo by lIoIiLister Drub Company, Madison, fis GOLDEN NUGGETS FOR SALLCW PE0PI f- UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Baptist University for Women. High G-rade College for Women. Faculty of Eight Men and Twenty six women. SIX SEPARATE SCHOOLS: Arts, Philosophy, and Science; Music; Expression; Art; Business; Bible. Regular Normal Department ami Teas ers' Course. Laboratories Equipped for Teaching Cherlstiy, Biology and Physics. New Pianos, anfl'Larg Thiw-Manual Pijm Oi;:in j:it installed. Health and Comfort of Students looked afi.r by Lady Principal, Lady Physician, Matron and Nurs Exj)enses per session in the Literary Depart un'!.',. I $193.50; in the Club, 53 less. Address R. T. VANN, lni:s.. STUART McGUIRC. M. RICHMOND VIRGINIA P., Pbebidcht. This Colleso conforms to the Standards! fixed by law for Medical Education. Send for I Bulletin No. 11, which tells about it. Three tree catalogues Specify Department. PICINE - DENTISTRY - PHARMACY 7-12-4t TUR1TXP SEED. Just received the biggest shipment of loose Turnip and lluta Bega Seed we have ever purcnased which in cludes ALL OF THE BEST KINDS, Statistics show that we sell more seed than any house in town with one ex ception. Now- we certainly would appreciate your Seed Bus iness. CAN'T ,WE GET IT? Yours ready to serve, W. Allsbrook, Scotland eck, N. C. Notice of Land Sale. By virtue of power vested in me as Executor of W. A. Dunn by that Deed of Trust executed to the eaid W. A. Dunn by Irving Clark and wife Clara Clark, on the 17th day of February, 1888, of record in the office of the Register of Deeds for Halifax couoty, in Book 97 at page 371, and by virtue of the statute in such cases made and provided, I shall sell for cash to the highest bidder at public auction in The town of Scotland Neck, on the 4th day of August 1906, at 12 o'clock M., the following described tracts of real estate, lying, being and situate In the county ot Halifax and State of North Carolina, to wit : Beginning at a cypress of 'Smith's Will-Pond, thence S. 42 E. .79 poles, N. 85 E. 25$ poles, to the road lead ing to Scotland Neck, thence N. i E. 33 poles, thence N. 73 $ E. 19 poles M. 27 E. 16 poles, N. 6$ E. 12 poles to the Mlll-Pond, thence along the course of the Mill Pond to the beginning and containing 42 acres. . ' This July 5tb, 1906. Noah Biggs, Executor of W. A. Dunn, Trustee. Albion Duns, Attorney. 7-12-4t - 7-n-4t KAr.r.Kiii. n.c. PEANUTS PICKED WITA THE BENTMALL PICKER bring- hand picked prices. No stems, No trash. "Will not break the shell. Absolute success. We are BOOKING ORDERS MOW FOR FALL DELIVERY. JNo peanut raiser can afford to be without it Write for prices, etc. Benthall Machine Company, Suffolk, Virginia. 5-:il-6m . MON MINTS AND GRAVESTONES WE PAY THE FREIGHT, AND GUARANTEE SAFi: , KiiWsT KTnmr in Tin.1 s i Illustrated Catalogue Froc. THEOOUPIR MAEBHEWCRK (Established 1848.) 159, 161 and 163 Bank Street, NORFOLK. VA. The Scotland Neck Bank SOLICIT8 THE ACCOUNTS OF BOTH INDIVIDUALS ANO BUSINESS FIRMS A. McDowell, President P. C. Gregory, Vice-Preh. Frank P. Shields. : W. U. IIond Ass t. '.V SAVINGS DfcPAKTTJEHT m order to encourage those who wish to make s' ingsfrom their earnings, at their annual meetin- March 29, the Stockholders' decided to open a Savin. Department: Deposits from $1.00 up are solicited, nu i au who are. interested may learn particulars by in quiring at the Bank.
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