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t'Af & \ \ f t * f CAPE FEAR LANCE —Issued Every Friday-i— D. I, Hood, - - Publisher. One year.66 cents ■ Z*. . ! Six months .. 35 cents j .* • ■ ! I Three months...... . . .20 ’cents Subscriptions cash. Advertising rates on application. FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1899. ■ —|————4-■— -)—( WHITES SHOP. | f [A friend ha,acted in the following letter Sunday weeek, and atiniu was found iu coat pocket Sunday/ This is prima facie evidence that a paper man has only one coat.] • : ! " :l " ix .- 1 l| ‘ I . ;j We’re having lots of rain. Farm ers are getting a move osf’em. Some are done setting out tobacco. We havent all completed our tobacco ■! • : !- 1 •: Li ■ j ■ ; ' ' j • .' barns yet. Quite a number of peopie attend the Sunday school at Sandy Grove church. Some leading farmers have plowed out corn and tobaooo. ftlict Willie Hester of Bladenboro, is visiting relatives hereabout. Miss Vemiie Edwards of Browns Creeks it visiting relatives in this sec tion. ’’ Mrs. Moliviu Cashwell of Oak Grove, is visiting her daughter, Sally, j; j ; - Pruit, hereabout. S. H. Brinson of Dublin, was in this » ■ V vicinity this week looking after cat tle. Will some one tell us through the Lance how to get rid of grasshoppers? ! Some of our mercantile friends as sert that advertising doesn’t pay. Well, if that is so there are a lot of fools in this country that spend a lot of money in advertising. Strange that some of the heaviest and most persist i ' ent advertisers are making the most money and still continue the foolish non-paying practice. To show that advertising does pay it is only neces sary to stop and think a moment of the men you know who are doing the business of the county, and in nearly every case you’ll find them heavy ad vertisers. The merchant that sits in bis store all day long with |an old stock waiting for trade to come to him is going to lie left iu the deal and lost in the general shuffle; Mark these words.—Douglas (Ga.) Breeze. CARVERS CREEK. (Continued from 1st page.) summer, and I had to take two bush els of corn on a horse and £0 to White* Creek to Billy McKay’s mill (11 miles; three times a week. I re member the first horse cart we ever some We had. We had ox carts, but once Mr. Robinson owed Jack Westbrook money.i and Jack sued him. children thought it awful, and talked with bated breath, and in whispers would mention that Jack Westbrook has sued Mr. Robeson. Simon Bright was constable, and served papers all over Columbus and Bladen, and he r.T; r ‘ * •1 ■ • levied on Mr. Robeson’s horse apd cart to get the money. ; Mr. Robeson got stubborn and said they would have to get it by law since they start ed to get itt that way. And he would not pay it, though could have done so at any time he. wanted to, and the cart was sold and father bought it, and the next day I took it and went to McKay’s mill with the whole week’s ration of com . gm “We had a that would cottOn a day, to reel the th when you tu and show how off on the ree own cloth and Y .■;[]'■'! Mj raised our o I I • ;• ]. j • ..]■'! . . * hogs, and oti i keys, and mi , 4] ■ i j made dur ow own aheep an of everything did not owe a pay our taxes company whe And I reokon going. I’ve er than I exp little hand cotton gin about live pounds of and we had a clock reel read on that would click mod it so many times many yards was wound And we made <pir our own shoes, and wn corn and our own own chickens and tur ked our own cows and n butter, and had our d lambs, and had plenty i necessary to live on add nybody a cent and could when due and entertain jr | u they came to see us. • r ■ i • •] it’s about time to be sit here and talked loug njsctcd to. Good day.’' For Rubber Stamps and line Job Printing of the highest grade, write to Wilmington Stamp Works, Wilmington. N, C. • POWELL HOUSE, 109 Grace street, WILMINGTON, N. C. Board by the day, week or month. Transient rates $1. per day. Mrs. 1). W. POWELL. Proprietress. Yours to please. i . tightening down on we Silver Cricket^ of the South and ; West, !. . j | .-1 And we are feeling th e pressure of the saw ifl • j. i '-j 1i; • - | :r. ’ jj! | | j ■. :;f | !■’. this part of our cnmmon arid beloved pouqtry. We Silver Crickets mu yUso here is the p ; ii I \ j \ ■ FACT that the Lanoe st open oup eye* to facts. aee to open, your eyes to will take anything/ dt the handle in. exchange for subscriptions. It will take ' i-' M I , I S' • ’. j .i ■ 'll; ■ if! j ; !■'•:> Peas, Corn, Potatoes, fresh and salt IVfeqfs, Chickens. Eggs or Butter. The Lance has adopted the , <• Jd 11 j k i. • . »5 . v Ji | k| j money of India, that's all. rtir i'4 ' THJ£ CAPE PEAK LANCE It; Mir Ilf Only 65 cents a year. We know the paper is not large but the price -Y small; and then if you will notice there is no “patent outside,'1 both sides being printed here in Elizabethtown. sidered, the price is very reasonable. a§ nothing L A l , is All things con as an educator You *ean’t afford to do without your home paper among, your family without doing an injustice to yourself, ' I:! . «f;’ ? 'j , I ;j,./\ • ■ f 1st; keeps them so. much in touch -with home affairs f
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