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The Commonwealth, superintendent wilsons ... ... j POINTMENT. AP- H E. HILLIARD Editor Published Evc-iv Thursday. Entcrod at the postodiro ;it Scotland Neck, X. C, as Second-CIaiss Matter. Thursday, April, 4, 1907. As will be seen in another item in this issue. Superintendent ('. V. Wilson, of the Scotland Neck graded school, has been appointed one of the trustees of the Eastern Carolina Training School. Hu term is for ; six years. While this is quite a com- H A LI FAX COUNTY'S BANKING ff-;pliment to Prof. Wiison, it is also, CILITIES. ! good for the institution which is to j ; be established, for Prof. Wilson 'is! Until 1891 the people of Halifax , one the foremost educators in the I county had no banking privileges : State and hc wi give hU best and conveniences amongst them, but ;thought to discharging the duties! did their banking business through , that the appointment imposes up0n banks m Norfolk, Baltimore, Rich mond, Wilmington, Raleigh, and other places. The first bank in the county was . . , ,, ,, ,, , In a recent article in a magazine i opened by Mess. A. McDowell and o , i. u i 4l i J i Carl bynder says that during the ; F. P. Shields in 1891, which con-j past 19 years since statistics have j tinued to be the only bank in the j been tabulated by the Inter-State i county for some time. But the ! Commerce Commission, deaths on i bankimr facilities of the countv now : the railroad have been 144,000, per- j , . . , . . sonal injuries over 1,000,000. J. L. are second to those in no county in , . . ' ' . ' , . . i Lewis in the Pittsburg Dispatch this part of the State; and indeed luotes these figureg and addg. . we doubt if any county in the State j "If tombstones were erected for has better banking facilities, accord- those killed along the line it would ).:. ;; U s-i ,- Leva I 7 ' -VV J7 -' dOW . in the soil puts corn on the stalk and money in the bank The natural process of plant growth is simply one of chemical conversion. Potash, the raw material, is cheap; but when converted by nature into corn, it is valuable. The use of Potash is not an expense, but an investment. Write to-day for our free booklet "Plant Food.,r OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOQOGGCSr, MWT (GET IE M GERMAN KALI WORKS New York 93 Nasseu Street, or Atlanta. Ga 1224 Candler Building mm. 744,000 TOMBSTONES. m -a n News Afloat. ing to the amount of business done. There are now eight banks in Hal ifax countyone in Scotland Neck, two in Weldon, two in Enfield, one There are 13,000 life and fire in surance agents in North Carolina. An old colored woman was found dead in the track of a forest fire near Kinston. It was supposed she was burned while fighting the fire near her home. take 144,000 tombstones, nearly one tor every mile, and if a tablet were also placed along the line for those injure 1 it would take 1,144,000 tab lets, or one to less than every 1,000 in Littleton, one in Roanoke Rapids Jeet of railroad. and one in Halifax; and a handsome "The worst of it is that the per- new buildintr is nearine- comnletion , -e"tage of injury is increasing. In 1 - rr 1 1 1 in Scotland Neck, in which another ! was Ti.u aangerous to j fruit and truck, especially strawber- bank will be ooened verv soon r . for the railwav com- j ries, about Mount Olive. Doubtless bank will be opened very soon paimes as lt wa3 in 1895; theincrease , it fa . .ured and the Perhaps in no other branch of bus- of risk is over 10 percent, per an- j turity delayed, iness or industry has Halifax county num." News and Observer. i ' U1C xjsituie ui iNorin N c die(1 Jn W-iaimston Sunday, The people of Dunn voted on dis pensary or prohibition last week and the dispensary vote had a majority of somethingover a dozen as we re member it was 14. The extrem.eb' cold weather the irst of this weak greatly threatened THE PLPULAR COMPANY.. made such improvement and devel- The Union Central Life Insurance Company, of Cincinnati, is the pop ular company, and one reason for its great popularity is found in the exceptionally large dividends to policy holders. Note these dividends: Wm. E. Barnes, St. Louis, Mo. Policy for $1,000 issued 1894, prem ium $32.47. Cash dividends as fol lows: 1893 $4.42 1897 $5.07 1898- $5.76 1899 -$6.48 1900 - $7.21 1901 $7.87 1932-$7.99 1903 $8.46 1904 --$8.95 1905 -$9.15 1906 -$9.37 years the dividends cut o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o It is true that you see "a lot full" of Deere Cultivators on our lot, but they are all sold but four. Place your order now so that we will save them for you till you are ready for them. If you wait till you need it you may have to wait till we can get another shipment from the factory. Don't neglect this. You will not have to settle for them till you get them opment in the last decade as in its Carolina and all the other States : says the Greenville Rejector. Mr. I In 12 banking facilities. This shows that that have passed railroad laws Shaw was a well known piano tuner '. down the premium from $32.47 to the financial dondition of the people or discussed railroad reductions and Wil1 be remembered by many in 5i2o.lO, nearly one-third. in the county is good, and that there ' have laid great stress on the reduc- Scotland Neck. No company gives better results. If V is general prosperity. tion of passenger rates instead of; Arrangements have been made for finhe jer th Tn rLZ No class of nersons in ihP ,irKr laa-islatino- for mo Mf.t a ' a goou exniDit by the negroes of) ... - r , j ... v...J ...v . J.J.vJ twill UC L- -IT ,1 , . , has done more indirectly towards Iter service, and reduction in freight ! rSSit' tL wmlhX bringing about this improved condi- rates. : location and doubtless their exhibit tion than the farmers of the county. This paper has contended all the ; will be creditable to them. To be sure, the merchants do the . time that the best legislation con-1 Easter was a chilly day and the most business through the banks, ; cerning railroads is reduction of , new bonnets and new dresses for but there must always be a back-: freight rates and safer travel and I tne season v'ere hardly in keeping ground for the merchant's business: , better service on rsav n i WRn the v'ind an;I- weather. Rich y ; - - fHwvwv O . and you will have to look quite care fully to. find as good. E. E. HlLLIARD, Special Agent. Scotland Neck, N. C. The Alaska Packers Association have liberated from their Hatcheries in Alaska, up to 1906, over three o o Josey Hardware Com The Pioneer Hardware Dealers, g Scotland Neck, North Carolina oooooooooooooooooooo oooocoooooocoeeoG 2ind the products of the farms in The little difference of half cent a mond had a real snow storm and : hundred and fifty-one million (351,- news from Asheville Monday said 4Ln i 1 l t i . . uieLOU,ay ndve Deen assolia sup- mile in passenger rates cuts a small ; that the surrounding mountains were port as the merchants have had from figure alongside the heavy freight j snow-capped. anf SUrCe- 1 rates that consumers have to pay, Dr. John D. Biggs, of Williamston, It is true that the various manu- ; for the consumerpays all the charges I has been chosen to fill several im f acturing industries of the county ; in the end. And as to the reduction portant places made vacant by the have furnished fine business for the in passenger fares, we have yet to death of his brother, Mr. Dennis S. banks; but the farmers of the countv I hear more nsonl pvnr. o Aa,; ' Bigff3- He has bs2n made P'-esident have done much towards vw for it n , : of the Denn5s Simmons Lumber Co., I tl. , t"v"-v"'""" "" ana also hai b 000,000.) young salmon. Their Fort mann hatchery is the laargest in the world. "Pneumonia's Deadly Work Market Up-to-Date Having opened a Stall in Scotland Neck Mar ket, I shall supply custo mers with Fresh Meats and Fish every day. RICHMOND BEEF A SPECIALTY Also Ice Through the Season Send me your orders and you shall have the best. Goods delivered promptly at all times. Phone 42. R. V. KITCHIN. 4-4-tf een made president of The Farmers & Merchants Bank. this improved condition possible. safer travel All told, Halifax county is to be congratulated on its fine banking inues, ana tne people rind great The following item of new. mVM N. C, died some days r.rro YEAR FOR BOLL WEEVILS. Mr. E. S. Simmons, the well known and able blind lawyer in Waihington. Besides h:id m (.seriously aHW'tod my right lun, " j writes Mis. F;mnio Connor, of Rural! Koute 1. !eOi-gi"tovn, Teijn., "that I j c iirr!i(l con;i;uuiisIv m-M nml 1.V ! lcijlihors' ln-ediction conniiii.. i - ... . Dr. Bank Statement. convenience in having so many of a bad showing for the prospects of : heing an able lawyer he was a good these helpful institutions just at cotton growers in the boll weevil dis- "vriter, and some years ago achieved their doors. tricts: ; some renown from writing and pub- ; Baton Rouge, La., March 29. The ' hshing a splendid book on the ra-e MR. SMALL'S EFFORTS BEARING i cotton boll weevil will be unusually ; Question- Many of the people in FRUIT. " ' numerous and destructive this year Scotland Neck will remember him . i according to a report by Dr. W. D. and ns hook. It is well known that Hon. John : Hunter, in charge of the boll weevil Judge E. B. Jones created a little H. Small, congressman from the 1 1jJve3tlatlon for the United States sensation in Wake Superior court third district, has labored incessant-1 D!?tment Agriculture. He says: j some days ago. Two Raleigh lawyers ly sinre his first election to ! J tcon1dlt,ons througout the became dissatisfied with Judee Jones f or Tnlnll , hf e been because he would not continue a case for an inland waterway from Nor- 1 vorable for the hibernation of the ! in which they appeared for defend folk -to Beaufort Inlet. Mainly b.n weevil. The two critical condi- I ants. They returned their fees to through his efforts congress hasap- ti0nsforsuccessfulhibernationtem-i their clients and walked out of the priated $550,000 forth work Perature and dryness, have been as court room. Judge Jones sent for A meeting of the Inland Water- be " Wi" ! em to -retu. law to a , , . tnem and told them thev were in the Avay Association was held in Charles-; "The mild winter and spring is hay- I case and must sec it through ton, S. C, March 29th. iag the offects of causing an unusu- i n , . - tu. a -.l- , .. allv oaviu nma " liev- Livmgstog Johnston, secre- xuc .n.&toi;i;iuon, inrouern its nrp- J -"-j ciiiagaiic. , - . . . E s pres : "Tu;fw;.ti. iT of the State Mission Board of Carolina Baptist State tion .-vii:t inevitable, until my bus- hand lrou-!it homo a bottle of ivmu, s ,v Discovery, whk-h in my case proved to he the only heal couh cure and restorer ,,f woak, sore lungs?" V'lienall other reined W utterly fai!,you may siiil win in the battle against king and tlin.at troubles witli Xew Discov yry, the ke.u. enre. Cnarantee.l hv E. i". liitekea.d t Co., druggists. r0c and JSI.OO. Trial bottle free or tne Scotland Neck Bank, at Scot land Neck, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business March 22nd, 1907. RESOURCES Loans and discounts $97,974.57 Overdrafts 2,837.91 Stocks, bonds, mortgages 8,500.00 Furniture and fixtures 1,025.00 Due from banks & bankers 48,688.46 Cash items 3,241.65 Gold coin 1,000.00 Silver coin, etc. 3.268.91 in ! Nat'l hanL-nnfoa II S rwioe K CV j ioi- me vear ihot t x fV.-, ii-. -it ' ! iiivesLineni, account iuiiuwiug- lanas: Be Sure To Read This At the Harrell Grocery Company's Store this week you will find some rare bargains in canned goods, confectioneries, pickles, prunes, tuces, extracts, crockery lamp supplies, flower i pots, jardinieres, tin watversets, tinware, brooms and heavy groceries. Land Sale for Taxes. I shall sell to the highest bidder at the court house in Halifax on Monaay, May 6, 1007, for taxes ilaliia: ident, J. H. Estill, of Savannah, sent i '"f, !,!ndf at that the Norlh ii.-j.ii ... mo viiiiucunusua vit un anr. n rno: UIC ""wing telegram to President rnttnn fi,H a.,i . i -nvention, nas recently visited 7 viu,:iiagt ' -7 isKJ PALMYRA TOWNSHIP. Allen Mabry, Jr. 72 acres tax and cost $7.04. Harry Spruill 85 acres tax and cost $6.75. Crawley Spruill 25 acres tax and cost $4.22. Ed. Webb $2.52. Currency account Total LIABILITIES. Surplus fund Undivided profits Dividends unpaid Certificates of deposit 1.000,00 30.00 $173,216.50 7 acres tax and cost! Roosevelt: I 1T...1 , . . . beexnected. So mriH fn; ! riyue coy; ana here is how the - -',- flVili". J V 1 111- "VT - -. Charleston. S. C. March 9 1 stance drv weather dnrino- .lno iNews and Observer quotes Mr, . v . . v C.I 1U Ihe President, Washington, D. C. j Jly after the cotton plants are well - tuiiiHHuw oi rne I tcu may sci vt to cnecK tne m miana Waterway Association in ses-, sect. sion to-day in this city, directs me , to congratulate you upon the per sonnel and the purposes of the com mission appointed by you to consid er the vital subject of the improve ment of our waterways. "I am also directed to call your attention and through you to the commission, to. the importance of the construction and maintenance by the United States of the chain of in land waterways along the Atlantic seaboard from Boston to Florida, and the Gulf, particularly the water way from Norfolk, Va., to Beaufort Inlet, N. C, which will avoid the dangers at Cape Hatteras and Dia mond shoals. J. H. Estill, "President." says.is EASTERN TRAINING SCHOOL Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children, Successfully used W Mother Gray, nurse in the Childr s Home is New York, Cure Feveris) ess, Bad Stom ach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all Druggists, 25c Sample FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. 4-4-4t ARRO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO ARGO Johnston: "Hyde county, Mr. Johston i a land of wonder to a man who sees j it for the first time. It is the Egypt : of North Carolina. The most fertile ! and consequently the most wealthy The State Board of Education has and most highly developed portion of named as the Board of Trustees for j tne county, is the country bordering the East Carolina Teachers and Train- ; on and surrounding Mattamuskett ing School, established by the Legis- ! Lake, which is seven miles wide lature of 1907, the following to hold I and twenty-one miles long. This office from the 15th of March 1907: i section grows more corn to the acre For six years: Ex-Governor T. J. ! than any Fart of North Carolina. Jarvis, of Greenville; C.W.Wilson, of I The soil is ricn and those who own Scotland Neck; John C. Parker, of I ifc arc prosperous. There is a fine Trenton. For four years: J. B. Leigh, j road that surrounds the lake a short of Elizabeth City; Y. T. Ormond, of i distance from the shore and the Kinston; J. R. Bannerman, of Ban- ! residences are built on the farther nerman. For two years: L. T. Tnr- I side of the lake and overlooking it. lington, of Smithfield; T. H. Battle, j Tne farms of teeming fertility lie of Rocky Mount; J. C. Carr, Wilming- j back of these residences, many of ton. j them are quite handsome, Mr. John ston says. "These farms are on a ridge a Turner 40 acres tax and SCOTLAND NECX TOWNSHIP. Lon Wilson 1 acre tax and cost $1.15. Charles cost $2.87 C. C. Baker 12 acres tax and cost $2.20. J. W. Clark 1 town lot tax and cost $6.43. Weldon C. Smith 3-4 town lot tax and cost $3.55 $24,700.00 7,918.48 240.00 17,587.40 Deposits subject to check 121,604,62 Cashier's ch'ks outstand'g 1,053.50 Bend tax 112.50 Tt t il $173,216.50 Njrth Carolina Halifax County, ss I, Frank P. Shields, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and be lief. Correct Attest: tt. ivi. jonnson, M. B. Josey, A. McDowell, Directors. JEWELRY 'i?V niAMnunc WATCHES n stm isur Stock Was never so large, and for variety it is unexcell ed. It also includes other Precious Stones in combination with the Diamonds, making OUR STOCK the most attrac tive we have ever placed before our customers. An up-to-date line of Cut Glass, Silverware, etc., ex hibited the year round. E. T. Whitehead & Co., Wanted. Cotton Seed! "Best in the World." $2 PER BUSHEL. Makes 3 Bales Acre Will not sell more than two bushels to one pa son. Experiment Sta tions given one bushel free to report result?. 100 Pounds Seed Cotton Yields 40 Pounds of Lint. Hands leave other fields to pi "Best in the World," for six bolls make a pound. Try it, and if not satisfied mew refunded. W. H. JOSEY, Ten men in ouch Kin to r,iv.i "uw wimpies i our jrHils and tack sitriis. n unr ksi. m . . .. auriun 1 acre tax and cost . owum u Deiore M"-1 Uiv .r i'xien.ses. SArxnKKs Tom E1 IS Imp. this Sflth rloir rt-P Hff U inAf. I ANY". 1 Wivi i-t tnUnl I x- ... . pj-.i-j. ' - "vw.. ua; ui marcn iu. I !'" nv ., o. -to .iacKson Ask for Allen's Foot-Ease, A Powder. It makes walking easy. Cures Corns, Bunions, Ingrowing Nails, bwollen and Sweeting feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c Don't accept any substitutes. Sample Free. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. 4.4t . i Argo Red Salmon is sold in one-! Jhe A1sk Packers Association, pound TALL cans, because only the I ThXre ?-!?Red SKImn' has tat i , , tne largest neet in number of anv c?nsarue SIed by machinery .shipping firm sailing under the Flat and one-half pound cans are fill- American flag. It owns 55 i steaml ed by hand Hand work in factories and 15 sailing vesse l and dhSrtSJ is crude and antiquated, i many more. barters mile or two in width that borders the lake, and beyond it the land-is lower and not so fertile. Mr. John ston was well pleased with what he saw in Hyde and especially with her fine citizenship." Lena Hill 1 town lot tax and cost ! Anderson Johnson 10 acres tax and cost $2.99. CONOCONARA TOWNSHIP. Fred Dawson 25 acres Baker land 1 tax and cost $1.93. j John Epps 30 acre3 residence tax i and cost $5.40. i John Fenner estate 180 acres tax ' and cost $7.83. ' .' Gee Tillery 1 acre Pope land tax ! Cornelius Howard 60 and cost $7.74. Malisin Alston 30 acres tax and W. B. Harris 51 acres Harris land I tax and cost $2.99. r A. Fitzpatrick . 133 and cost $3.79. J. H. Alexander, Jr. Notary Public. Boulevard, Chicago, 111. l-3-3in 4-4-3t Scotland Neck, N. C. acres tax acres tax i 4-4-4t. C W. Dunn, lax Collector. A New; Daintr Rosette Wafers If you can imagine a tephw mixed with and a little powdered sur. and fried on a sunbeam-you may get me MeV of fcow a Rosette Wafer looks and taste? tw?J J. make rt3r Rosette a Well sell you a full set of Rosette Irons. Kfk neatly boxed, for "C Illustrated I Rosette Recipe Book c i j L REE on request. Sold by Mrs. LaurJ J. Apple whitc, Scotland Neck, N. . 4-4-at ATY RISERS The famous little pills. Plant Wood's Garden Seeds FOR SUPERIOR VEGE TABLES & FLOWERS. Twenty-eight years experience our own seed farms, trial grounds and large warehouse capacity give us an equipment tnat is unsurpassed anywhere for supplying the best seeds obtainable. Our trade in seeds both for tha Garden anh Pftrm one of the largest in this country. We are headquarters for Grass and Clover Seeds, Seed Oats, Seed Potatoes, Cow Peas, Soja Beans and other Farm Seeds. Wood's Descrlntiuk - JV?.S fulr an'1 m complete info matlon aboat both Garden and Farm Seeds than any other almllaTpnbli SS?" ln th,s country. PMa41ed free on request. Write for iL "auea T.W.Wood&Sons, Seedsmen, mwnmwnu, - VA. Notice of Land iSale. By virtue of a decree of . Su!" ior Court of Halifax county. vv.h ed on the fifth day of Mar !-. ' in the cause entitled A. L. !': Clara Pope and others. Kx 1'ar-.' the same being a proceed ' ' land for partition, we will : below describetl tract of i;i!:l. : ( cash, at public auction, t tin- est bidder at the Court H. ;- ,: .in Halifax at 12 o'clock on the j day of May, 1907, it beinj' t1-'- ; '" Monday in May. That tract of land in C !i"iv .; township, Halifax county. N,: Carolina, and known as thr ' . Pope" land, containing tliret- r : dred and sixty-five acres v.vw less, and bounded bv the lanl'';.. W. Land, Kelly Weeks, .1. K. Patrick, J. J. Barnes, Tl ' Carolina Lumber Company. -others. This tract of land wil! Ivcuj - into six shares, and will he. cordine to the survey of said which survey and plot will 1"' l'Y ited at Court House on day f u This22nd day of March. 1!'"' J. II. Kkrk. A. 1'. KiTi'H; Cotnmi.!rt': 3-28-4 1 Oi'l - Z- Hil )
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