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The Commonwealth. E, E. HHiLIABD, Editor Published Every Thursday. Entered at th Post-Office at Scotland Neck ,N C as Second Class Matter. JUST ONE POUND. STATE MEETING IN RALEIGH. It has been said over and over again that the Southern Cotton Association is a great and important organization. Cuch a conclusion is beyond doubt by any one who has kept posted on the work oi the Association since its organ ization two years ago. The prime object, Indeed the sole aim of the Association, Is to bring the price of cotton to a reasonable figure and hold it there. When the Associa tion was organized in New Orleans two vears ago cotton was selling for about seven cents, and since that time it has sold as high as fifteen cents, and throughout the present season the price has been fairly good, averaging ten cents. All this is gratifying to those who have labored for the success of the Association and those who have kept sympathy with its work. As already said in this article, the aim and end of the Association is to hold tbe price of cotton to a reasonable figure ; but this can not be done with out some money. The first plan of raising funds for the support of the work was by a levy of ten cents on every bale of cotton produced by members of the Association, together with initia tion fee of twenty-five cents and quar terly dues of the same amount. Prom some quarters there have come objections to the bale levy of ten cents, but this Is most unreasonable in any one, whether a member of the Associa tion or not. Just think how small a contribution it is. It is only one pound of cotton from each bale. And taking it ttut cotton might have re mained at eeven or eight cents until now had not the Southern Cotton As sociation been organized, tha increased value of cotton has been an average ol $10.00 a bale. Then who is so foolish as to object to taking one pound from eacn bale of cotton to make it bring $10.00 more than it would have done had there been no Southern Cotton Association ? Why, the cotton buyer digs nearly that much out of every bale when he samples it. It Is a very small thing to pay the bale levy, and yet the ten cents per bale on all cotton produced in the South would support the Association. If Halifax county produced say 16,000 bales of cotton and eyery farmer should pay his ten cents per bale the amount would be $1,600, ample for meeting every need for this county's share in supporting the Association. It is too small a thing to quibble over, and surely every farmer who loves the Interests of tbe South and cares for its welfare v. ill gladly pay the little ten cents per bale and thus do bis small part in supporting the Association. Remember that it is only one pound of cotton from eyery bale. BIG CONVENTION IN BIRMING HAM. it The annual convention of the Southern Association to be held in Birmingham, Ala., January 15 to 19tb promises to be the biggest thing of the kind ever held in the South. A gentleman of extended observa tion and keen intetest in the Southern Cotton Association said in Raleigh last week that heretofore there has not baen a great deal of attention paid tbe meetings of the Association by the people where tbe conventions have bsen held. But tbe organization has now assumed such importance before the world that the people are begin ning to realize something of what means. Birmingham will do great things for the Convention next week. From five to seven tnousana visitors are expected and the city will be theirs for the time. The business men of Blr mlngbam are mindiui ot tneir own interests and apportunities and they will make all who go glad that they did so. Great strides will be made by tbe Southern Cotton Association in that Convention and It will have a strong er hold than ever upon the Southern farmers, and through them upon tb world. The North Carolina division of the Southern Cotton Association held an nual meeting in Raleigh January 2nd-. There was not a large gathering but tbe meeting was interesting and those in attendance were enthusiastic. Sev enteen counties were represented, and the representatives were quite substan tial men. Mr. C. C. Moore, o! Charlotte, was reelected president, and tbe office of State secretary was left off, it being de cided that president Moore could do the work of both president and secre tary from his office in-Charlotte. Mr. J. B. Davis of Warren county, was elected vice-pretident. A new executive committee was el ected as follows 1 A. J. McKinnon, of Robeson, J. H. Currie of Cumberland, and J. T. W. Broone, oi Union. At an after meeting tbe retiring executive committee were appointed an auxiliary committee. They are Col. H. C. Dickey of Richmond, Dr. R- H. Speight of Edgecombe, Mess. Ashley Horne of Johnson, H. C. Brown of Columbus and A. C. Green of Wake. The work of the auxiliary committee will be to keep the interest ol the Southern Cotton Association before the farmers ot the State by a weekly atter through the daily press, with the request that county papers which are In sympathy with the Southern Cot ton Association will reprint them. The repoftTof president Moore and tha executive committee showed that the Associarion is in debt some for sal aries to the president and secretary and contribution to the National treasury. There was general hopefulness and confidence for the further development of the Association and the meeting in- plred those who attended with a de termination to stand to the principles of the organization and make it great er all the while. President Moore received the hearty endorsement of the Association, and his reelection will inspire confidence throughout the State. The good work of the executive com mittee was recognize! and it will be a source of gratification that these gen tlemen retain their connection with tha Association as an auxiliary com mittee. TO SAFEGUARD GINNR8' REPORT. Mr. Ransom Hinton, of Wake, offered the following resolution which was adopted : Resolved, that the members of the Southern Cotton Association and other farmers' organizations be requested to use their influence to baye a law pass ed in each of the cotton growing States requiring the ginners to report to the commissioner of agriculture of the State In which they live on the first and fifteenth of esch month dur ing ginning season the number of bales of cotton they have ginned and also the average weight of the bales. That the commissioner ot agriculture shall keep this information as a State se cret until ten o'clock a. m. of the day on which the government report Is Is sued at Washington D. C. At ten o'clock a. m. the commissioner of ag- riculture in each State shall wire by a secret cipher code the total number of bales ginned in his State to the sec retar.v of agriculture at Washington D. C, who shall be requested to im mediately add together the number of biles ginned in all of the States and wire it back to the commissioners of agriculture of the cotton States. The commissioner of agriculture shall be requiied to immediately report by tele phone the unmber of bales ginned to the secretaries of the farmers' organi zations end the president ot the Na tional Ginners' Association and the As sociated Press. The words used in the secret cipher code shall be printed, but the figures shall be written by the Secretary of Agriculture. The word3 of the code shall be changed for each report, nev er using tbe same word more than once The Commissioner of Agriculture snail be required atter using tne se cret code to immediately put it in an envelope and eeal it up and write his name across the seal and put the official seal of his department in wax so as to securely fasten the envelope and lock it up in his safe until wanted to rratfrthe next report. That the delegates to the Briming ham convention are instructed to in troduce this resolution and do all they can to have it passed by the Birming ham convention. That the Secretary be Instructed to send a copy of this re solution' to the president of. the Farm ers' Union and the president of the .Na tional Ginners' Association and each of the Commissioners of Agricul ture of tbe cotton growing States That this law shall be effective after a similar law is passed by each of the cotton growing States, and not before COUNTY MEETING OF THE SOUTHERN COTrON ASSOCIATION. When tbe cold winds dry and crack tbe ekin a box oi salve can savo much discomfort. In buying , salve look for tbe name on the box tQ avoid any imitations, and be sure you get tbe original DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve Sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co. The Halifax county branch of the Southern Cotton Association held reg ular meeting In the court house at Halifax Monday, January 7th. President E. E. Hilliard called the meeting to order. A call of townships showed that all the townships were rep resented but Littleton and Palmyra. Tbe president made a brief report in which he urged the Association to stand firmly by the prmciplsa of the organisation and mak9 all possible ef fort to make the work for 1907 a suc cess. The following collections by town ships were reported from the bale levy : Conoconara by J. H. Pope $9.00. Enfield by M. Shields 4.00. Faucetts by T. H. Dickens 1 50. Palmyra by W. T. Ruffin 1 io. Scotrd Neck by F. P. Shields 1.00. Also quarterly dues were paid by F. P. Shields for 1905 and 1906 2.0o. A. A. White for 1906 1.00. President Hilliard read a letter from State president C. C. Moore, urging a full collection of the bale leVy and a remittance to him by January 10th. The name sof W. H. Gregory and W. . Pittman were enrolled as new mem bers from Faucetts township, J. H. Pope offered his resignation as collector for Conoconara townBhipi which was accepted and Mr. B. F. Parks Was appointed collector for that township. Mr. J. C. Butts resigned as collectot for Halifax township and Mr.. W. T. Eure wa3 appointed collector n,r that township. Mr. L. T. Garner was appointed col- ector for Weldon township in the place oi G. W. fulgbum, who a!sed to be relieved Motion by F. P. Shields that the county treasurer be instructed to send the State president the proper propor tion of the funds collected. Mr. P. N. Stainback, of Weldon, made some interesting remarks of en couragement for the Asaociatioon. A resolution was adopted instructing the secretary to write to all the town- hip collectors urging them to collect the bale levy at once and the quarterly dues tor 19C6. President Hilliard asked for a rising vote by all who will be loyal to the As sociation this year. Every member present stood up and thus pledged to do everything possible for the further development of the Association. THE LEGISLATURE OF 1907. rne News ana UDserver, wnicn now goes daily to over 11,000 subscribers. will give fuller and better reports than ever of the proceedings of the Genera Assembly. It is on the spot and can and will get and print all tbe new?, One dollar will get you the daily every day during the session of sixty days Address Josephus Daniels, Editor, Raleigh, N. C. he knows and must realise the ulti mate outcome pnd what naturally fol lows the sale of strong drink in Scot land Neck. May God enlighten his conscience if he Has any. J. D. Ray. oooooooooooooooooooo oooaosoa Good News for Scotland Neck. Science at Last Discovers a Real Cure For Rheumatism. After years ot experiments a new sci entific remedy has been found that not only relieves, but absolutely cures Rbeumatisn and kindred diseases, to stay cured. Rheumatism is caused by an excess ot poisonous acids in tbe blood. The new discovery RHEUMA ClDE, though purely vegetable, and acting through nature's channels, neu tralizes these acids and sweeps all pois ons and harmful germs out of the blood. At the same time it tones up the stomach anl regulates the liver and kidneys. BHEUM AC I DE therefore, cures the disease permaneQtly.becauso it removes the cause. It has cured hundreds of cases after the most noted doctors and hospitals have failed. RHEUMA CIDE cured James Willies, of Dillon, 3. C, after he had been Le!d in bed by rheumatism tor three 3 ears and his feet were drawn un almost to nis oacK. o o o o o o 0 o (J o o o o o o o o o a o o o o ...IMP.ORTRNT... To:People Who Are Movin ? t J 9 If you are going to use wood as fuel, be sure to buy a Wilson Airtight li eater. For they consume just half the wood that other Heaters consume. O '9 3 Come to Our Store and Look at Them. r$ If you are going to use coal for fuel, then get a WILSON HO V BLAST. They consume just half the amount of coal This U only one of the many marvelous A that Other Coal HeaterS COllSUme. At LZedEamfEuCMAciTEa'ruK present prices of wood and coal and the scarcity of both, this is very important. A Vital Point consider "when buying heater la the draft. Kxnaustivetcsis prove that the dohrtt draft as it is . developed In the celebrated r) many cases of Rheumatism, Sciatica, lumbago, gcut kidney trouble, indiges tion and constipation, right in this community to-day. Because it bas cured so many others we believe it will cure you. All tbe leading drupg sts in this place sell and recommend RHEUMACIDE. O A BURGLARY IS EAR TILLERY. Ehfidid Ledger. On Saturday night before Christmas a burglar entered the residence oi JMr. J. W. King, near Tiliery. Mr. King, and one of his sons hearine a noise in a room took a gun and went to investi gate vhGn the burglar escaped through a back door. They did not get a sight of hirn and don't know whether he was white or colored. He had gone through a bureau darwor but took nothing. It id thought he was in search of money which he supposed to be in the house. We bought Cook Stoves before the advance in price and are selling them at old prices. O Don't forget to call on us--we will make it to your advantage to trade with us. Josey Hardware Company, X a v ,3 vy pa tea r Wilson Hot Blast Bonn DraSI r& 51 , f5 aHeaiergj Q 0 The Pioneer Hardware Dealers, Scotland Neck, N. G. All Stoves sold in town delivered and set up FREE OF CHARGE. dray and give prompt service. lo the only form tnat t liisuroa perfect com bustion at a mliil imunot f uul expenao. 1'umirtie twice tha hu&t from half tha amount of coal utod, bocaneo all rtu gen erated la burned. In otLor t!cat':NI it uacapoi Into tUs cLii'incy. We run our own -3 o o o OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 0QQ00800Q00QQ&GQd BUSINESS GOOD IN SCOTLAND NECK, A PROHIBITION TOWN. to Correspondence to The Commonwealth. Short crops and the big drop in the price of cotton a few weeks before Christmas, did not hold trade down in Scotland Neck this season. Most of the merchants say they had a finer Christmas trade and some of them say they had by far the best trade they ever bad. So it does not look like prohibition kills a town or hurts busi ness in Scotland Neck. How many vacant houses can you find in town now? All are occupied and more houses are needed to accommodate fif teen families who would like to live in Scotland Neck, a prohibition town. Does this look like prohibition kills a town or hurts the business In Scot land Neck? We all know that prora tion is the right thing, tbe good book bears it out uncompromisingly. And I want to er.y unhesitatingly that I do not believe that prohibition kills a town or hurts business in Scotland Neck. But I do believe that it makes business better, beside helping the town morally and in otber wavs. We certainly have better order on the streets now than we did when we had saloons in town. I will admit that prohibition does not make business better for the town lock-up. Perhaps that is what some people mean when thay say that it hurts business in Scot land Neck. Somebody says we get all the whis key we need now, and I do not doubt it ; and they Bay it Is better whiskey and cheaper whiskey. And yet they say the need of whiskey hurts business and kills the town. I think the mer chants ougbt to be the best judges as to its hurting business. Ask them about it. It is a wonder to ma that business men, property owners and everybody in town don't get together on this whiskey question and say we cannot afford to have it sold in town, because it hurts business and the town in a general way. I believe they will come' to it yet. Well, then, why do some people want it sold in town again? 1 want to Bay tnat 11 some poor women and children will have to suffer and have their pleasure, comfort and happiness destroyed, and sometimes lose their life, in order that my taxes may be less and give us a little extra money to improve the looks of the town, I say let the grass and weeds grow higher in the future than in the past and the taxes stay high and it necessary go higher. Better have high taxes In Scotland Neck than do any thing that may or will cause the poor, weak and unfortunate to be deprived of the things which morally belong to them. if any man wants to bring whiseey back again in Scotland Neck to make his taxes less,! am sorry for him, when 9 Every Two Minutes Physicians tell us that all the blood in a healthy human body passes through the heart once in every two minutes. If this action be comes irregular the whole body suffers. Poor health follows poor blood ; Scott's Emulsion makes the blood pure. One reason why SCOTT EMULSION is such a great aid is because it passes so quickly into the blood. It is partly di gested before it enters the stomach ; a double advan tage in" this. Less work for the stomach ; quicker and more direct benefits. To get the greatest amount of good with the least pos sible effort is the desire of everyone in poor health. Scott's Emulsion does just that. A change for the better takes place even be fore you expect it. We will send you a sample free. - Be sure that this picture in the form of a label is on the wrap per of every bottle of Emulsion you buy. Scott & Bowne Chemists 4C9 Pearl St., N. Y. 50 cents 2nd x. oo AH druggists iLI o Mr fsh ill Ctfe SOME FINE MULES! We have just received the Finest Load of Mules we have ever bought. It was said of them when they left St. Louis that they were the finest Mules ever shipped east from that market. . . Call Early and Get Your Pick. A- N. Prince & Company Scotland N eck, North Carolina. Some Extra Good Horses For Sale. To sufferers from Kid ney, Liver and Blad- FREE der troubles! Other manufac turers say "buy a bottle and if it doesn t cure we will rerund your money." We say "take a full 1 size FREE bottle of UVA SOL and if it benefits you, then use UVA SOL until cured." This advertisement entitles you to a bottle of UVA SOL at. E. T. Whithehead & Co.'s, Scot land Neck, N. C. Only limited number of bot tles given away. 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