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WELDOX, N.
Organized Under the Laws of the State of North Carolina,
Stale of North Carolina Deposiiory.
Halifax County Depository.
Town of Weldon Deposiiory.
Capital and Surplus, $55,000.
For over 21 years thin institution hu provided banking fttcilitiuH lor
this section. Itn'stockholders and officii are identiiied with the busi
ness interests of Halifax and Northampton counties.
A Savings Department is maintained for the benefit of all who desire
to deposit iu a Savmfrs Hank, lu this Department intend is allowed as
follows:
For Deposits allowed toremuin three months 01 longer, per cent. Hu
months or longer, 3 percent Twelve months or longer. 4 percent.
Anv information will be furnished on application in the I'residentorl'ashiei
When ih : sun sets in a sea of
glory, thai is, when the sunsei sky
is red, you may expect clear weath
er on ihe following day.
Ai night, when the moon is
clear and shows clean edges, with
no halo or ring around it, ihere is
little danger of rain.
When the wind blows steadily
from the west, the weather will
continue fair; it very rarely rains
in our eastern States with the-wind
in the west.
Watch the smoke from a chim
ney or from your campfire it is a
good barometer. If the smoke
rises high, it means clear weather.
The smoke will also show from
which direction the wind is blow
ing; so will a flag on an upright
flagstag.
A gray early morning, not a
heavy, cloudy one, promises a fair
day.
A heavy dew at night is seldom
followed by rain the next day.
Think of it this way: Wet feet,
dry head.
Animals are said often to show
by their actions what the weather
will be, and there is reason for
this. Some of them certainly have
a knowledge of coming storms.
We are told that spiders are es
pecially sensitive to weather
changes, and when they make new
webs the weather will be fair; if
they continue spinning during a
shower, it will soon clear off.
Adelia B. Beard, in St. Nicholas.
Some sings of the lily, and daisy and rose,
And the pansies and pinks that the summertime throws
In the green grassy lap of the medder that lays
Blinkin' up at the skies through the sunshiny days;
But what is the lily and all of the rest
Of the flowers to a man with a heart in his breast
That was dipped brimniin' full of the honey and dew
Of the sweet clover blossoms his babyhood knew ?
I never set eyes on a clover field now,
Er fool round a stable, er climb in the mow,
But my childhood comes back jest as clear and as plane
As the smell of the clover I'm sniffin' again;
And I wunder away in a barefooted dream,
Whare I tangle my toes in the blossoms that gleam
With the dew of the dawn of the morning of love
Ere it 'vept o'er the graves that I'm weepin' above.
And so I love clover it seems like a part
Of the sacredest sorrows and joys of my hart;
And wherever it blossoms, oh, there let me bow
And thank the good God as I'm lhankin' Him now;
And 1 pray to Him still for the stren'th when I die,
To go out in the clover and tell it goodbye,
And lovin'ly nestle my face to its bloom
While my soul slips away on a brethof perfume.
LUKE MCCLURE SAYS.
Every Man
Ulrl and
Kind.
Admires
Marries
a Sensible
the Other
CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.
Address of Irvin Cobb, a Son of the Confeder
acy, at the Reunion In Birmingham, Ala.,
June 16, 1916.
MISTAKEN IDENTITY.
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Pat and Mike were walking
through a rather wild section when
they spied a wild cat up in a tree
top. I hey mistook the wild cat
for a rather large domesticated cat,
and Mike said: "Begorra, that
sure is a foine cat up there. 1 be
lieve if we could catch him and
take him to the nixt village we
could get a lot o' money for him."
Accordingly Mike climbed the
tree and after considerable effort
succeeded in turning the cat loose.
It fell almost at Hat s leel, and i'at
immediately jumped on ii. Mike,
judging from the sounds that all
was not well with Pal, peered
down lo behold a rolling, twisting
mass on the ground that seemed
to be most Pat and wild cat.
"Do ye want me to come down
and hilp ye to hold him?" called
Mike.
No," answered Pat between
gasps, but tor the love o Satni
Pathrick come down and hilp me
leggo av him."
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A young woman who thought
she was losing her husband's af
fection went to a seventh daughter
of a seventh daughter for a love
powder. The mystery woman
told her:
Get a raw piece ot beef, cut
flat, about an inch thick. Slice an
onion in two and rub the meal on
both sides ot it. Put on pepper
mid salt, and toast it on each side,
over a red coal hre. Drop on it
The feature of the evening session of Tuesday was the Re-union ad
dress by Irvin Cobb, of Kentucky, the famous war correspondent and
leading humorist of America, who is the son of a Confederate soldier
as well as otherwise largely connected with the veteran soldiery of the
South. As he walked out upon the stage the audience rose as one
man and cheeredand following his introduction by General Young the
band softly played "My Old Kentucky Home," while the sweet voices
of sponsors and maids took up the strain. At the conclusion of his
speech the band played "Dixie" amidst thunderous applause and the
high notes of the Rebel yell, which proclaimed the thorough apprecia
lion of that patriotic audience. Mr. Cobb's address had the touch of
humor lor which he is noted, but more largely was the strain of pathos
and his references to the veterans of the Confederacy made each one
present feel that he was being referred to individually. Apart of his
address is here given :
"I do not remember the Confederate soldier with the gleam of battle
in his eye. I have known him as a man of peace, and to my mind the
typical picture of the Southern soldier is not a man in soldier straps. I
picture him as he is pictured as ihe central character in a little story I
shall now relate.
Alter the war this man returned to his home in a little country
town and began the practice of medicine. Because of his unkept and
meager condition, the well to do's had small need of his services. But
the needy knew and loved him because they realized that behind the
gnarled hands that fought throughout the war was ability, and that be
neath ihe tousled and twisted head was a skilled brain.
"This doctor, being of small means, could not afford a nice office
so he fixed himself up a little musty stand over a stable, and down be
low he placed a board on the old hitching post, reading, 'Dr. Brown
upstairs. But one riiorning his comrades looked for him in vain. They
sought him in his office, and they found that the wrinkled hands had
ceased to pick the coverlet, and the head was hi rest on the pillow.
"Those who loved him were not wealthy people, but they buried
him with honor and searched for funds to build a monument to him
The funds were not to be found among them, however. And them
one of them had an inspiration. It was to take the old hitching post
from the front of the stable and put it over the grave. This was done.
and until the rain obliterated and the sun drew away the letters the
monument stood there, 'Dr. Brown, upstairs.' And that is the way
I think of every Confederate soldier who has gone before. They're
all upstairs.
"And I want to tell you thai you were not fighting for a lost cause
When you bared your breasts and marched bravely to war to fight
triple and sometimes quadruple your number, were you fighting for i
lost cause ?' When you accepted the conditions forced upon you by
tne might of numbers and returned to your homes, salted by the bones
of your forefathers and sanctified by the tears of your women, 10 build
upon the charred embers a new South, were you fighting for a lost
cause'?
'And when up yonder, where the Southern Cross blazes, when the
Confederate army files through the alabaster gates, past the Command-
What has become of the old
fashioned man who used 10 wear
a yard of crepe on his hat ?
There was a time when a wo
man had four or five pots simmer
ing on the stove all the time and
the man of the house got three
squares a day. But now-a-days
if the average housekeeper lost
the can-opener her husband would
have to go hungry.
A girl is loo modest to parade
the street wearing a wet bathing
suit. But she will wear a thin
silk waist that leaves nothing to
the imagination and will think noth
ing of it.
We may believe everything else
a man says. But we never believe
him when he explains how he got
that black eye.
The average conversation is
merely a ten-minute space wasted
by a listener who has 10 be courte
ous to a talker.
Even after a man has let a girl
compel him to ask her to marry
him, ihe boob will go around and
tell you that there ain't no such
animal as Hypnotism.
Somehow or other there were
not half as many bill collectors em
ployed in the old days when the
average man wore a paper collar.
The reason Woman Suffrage
isn't general is because the right
sort of women haven't time to
bother with politics. You can bet
that if the Mothers of this country
wanted the vote ihey would be
voting by this time next year.
The average man can't see why
he should worry about laying up
something for a rainy day as long
as he owns a dollar umbrella.
Every time a man asks a fat wo
man how much she weighs he is
deliberately adding to the number
of lies recorded in the Big Book.
A Small Amount
Deposited Now
And Systematically added to, is the
only sure way of attaining independence
ill
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WELDON, N. C.
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A LIQUID EVIDENCE.
A publican was prosecuted for
selling a bottle of whiskey during
prohibited hours. A bottle of whis
key was produced as evidence.
The jury heard the evidence
and retired to the jury room.
They presently returned.
"My lord," said the foreman,
"the jury is quite satisfied as to the
sale of the bottle, but they are not
sure of its contents. May they have
the bottle to satisfy themselves ?"
"Certainly," declared the judge.
After a brief period the jury filed
into the box again.
"Well, gentlemen, have you
reached a decision?" asked the
judge.
"No case, my lord," said the
foreman. "There was not enough
evidence to go round." London
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mem book the Supreme Arbiter of all earthly affairs is going to pu
yours down as a cause that is lost, or will he write it down as a cause
that won ?
I he present war in burope brought home to me what I know must
have happened in our own war. When I saw thai great German ar
my, I thought of another army which for four years, outnumbered and
outflanked, but never, thank God, outgeneraled, fought lor a cause in
finitely nobler than thai which sent uermany to war. And when l
saw little Belgium trying to check the onslaught of that army, I thought
of thai same linle army which fifty years ago set the example to Bd-
"Where did you lose ii?" asked 8ium DV lls resistance oi tne noraes ot tnvaaers trom tne twin, wnen
' I ... ...... nnM.4,,n,arl l.tt Mi.palap lif lalonhnn. nrr ki, tal.AMnt, I
1 Saw war tunuucitu vy winnow, ujr iniyiiuiii, nuu uy ititgi aciu, I
thought of you men, who often hand-to-hand 'engaged the foe and
and feared not. When I saw the lines of consenptionists, and when I
heard those bands playing, endeavoring to create a patriotic sentiment,
I thanked God that I belong to America and to that part of the country
which sent men to war, not because they had to fight, but because they
wanted to fight.
Mind you, 1 am not trying to glortty you in what 1 say; pen ana
toneue are incompetent for that task. The angels in heaven have been
attending to that for fifty years. And what I have said goes also to the
women, and especially to tne women ot tne uia soutn.
"And when I saw ihat war and what may happen to our country
kent unoreoared. and when 1 considered the fate of Belgium and re
alized that under similar conditions our people who would suffer what
those oeoole had suffered, it was then that 1, who am the son of a sol
dier and the grandson of a soldier, came home cured of a delusion
that war under certain conditions could be beautiful. But I also came
home with the firm conviction that America should not remain unpre
oared. And because I believe that the Providence which has been
iookine after the affairs of fools, drunkards, idiots and cripples, and
the United States of America may not always do so; because I believe
that the best insurance for peace is preparedness for the other thing
oecause ot tnese wings i wain 10 see an ot my country, anu especially
yf the South, equipped with the strongest army, ihe best navy, and sup
plied with the best coast defenses money can buy and manhood can
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I ve lost a wallet containing
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'How much reward shall I offer
for its return?"
the friend
"In New York city
"Well, if you want it back," said
the friend, "you'll have to offer at
least $700 reward." New Haven
Post.
Sometime ago. before motoring
became as popular as it is today,
a man was driving a big car
through a country section several
miles from a town when he sud
denly saw a man standing in the
middle of the road.
"Hold on there, mister!" cried
ihe man, wildly waving his arms
as the car approached. "I want
to talk to ye !"
"What's the matter with you
country constables r angrtiy
shouted the autoisi, bringing his
machine to a standstill. "I wasn't
going at the rate of twenty miles
an hour!"
"I ain't no country constable,
mister, was tne man s answer.
'My wife's been invited to a wed-
din', an I wanted to know if you
would let me have a little gasoline
to clean her white gloves."
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