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OUR PREMIUM OFFER. ONCE MORE, LET US SAY. Mr. Yaugban to Washington. Dr. Ctillo.u Sunday. The Commonwealth. JX E. IIILLIAKD Editor Tubli.lied Every Thursday. Entered at the postoffice at Scotland Neck, X. C, as Second-Class Matter. Thursday, January 2, 1908. Publisher's Announcement. It i a settled point in newspaper ethics that ditors and publishers are not responsible for the views of correspondents, and the publication of a communication does not mean that the editor or publisher endorses the communication. Thk Commonwealth adheres to these general prici ples. SUITABLE NEW YEAR PRAYER. (Robert Louis Stevenson.) We beseech thee, Lord, to be hold us with favor, weak men and women, subsisting under the covert of Thy patience. Be patient still. Suffer us yet a while longer with our broken promises of good, with our idle endeavor against evil; suf fer us a while longer to endure, and if it may be, help us to do better. Bless to us our extraordi nary mercies; if the day come when they must be taken, have us play the man under affliction. Be with our friends; be with ourselves. Go with each of us to rest; if any awake, temper to them the dark hours of watching; and when the day returns to us our sun and comforter call us with morning faces, eager to be happy if happi ness shall be our portion, and if the day be marked to sorrow, strong to endure it. AGAIN AT THE 'DESK. The editor of The Comkox "wealth again greets his read ers with the work of this week's paper with a keen appreciation of restoration to his place and with thanks to Mr. "W. L. Vaughan for his good work during our absence from the office. The best wishes of the sea Bon to all. THE MEETING MONDAY. Let the farmers of the county remember the meeting in Hali fax next Monday, January Gth, of the Halifax county branch of the Southern Cotton Associ tion. It will be a meeting of great importance, and every farmer in the county who can do so should attend. And permit us to make a suggestion that the farmers who do go to Halifax Monday make it a point to go into the meeting when the court house bell rings. Do not say or think that the others will do the work all right without you; but see to it that your affairs are so ar ranged that you can go into the meeting and stay until it adjourns. THE NEW YEAR. Just naturally we feel in clined to say some things about the closing of the old year and the opening of the new; but so many things have transpired during the time since our last publication, December 19th, space is crowded. Let us say that we desire to greet all our readers with the sincere wish for happiness and prosperity during the year 1908. No matter what the gratifi cations for achievements, or regrets for disappointments of the old year, there is to most people something exhilarating and inspiring in the coming of a new year. New resolutions, new purposes, new hopes and new efforts lead one expectant across the line which divides the old from the new. In this country, and in this particular region, most people at first thought feel like saying that the new year holds out little hope; for the money strin gency has cut short every one's expectations. But, good friends, the money view is not the only view that belongs to the new year. There are a thousand and one things of more moment than money or money's power. Let us, then, all look for the best that may come during the new year and forget the pangs and disappointments of the old. A happy new year to all. Stops itching instantly. Cures pile?, eczema, salt rheum, tetter, itch, hives, herpes, scabies Doan's Ointment. At tiny drug store. Instead of raising the price of The Commonwealth in keep ing with the prices in other things we propose to give cash paying subscribers more than ever for their money. Look out for our premium of fer next week. We have some thing nice for cash subscribers, but there is no space to state it this week. "A QUIET CHRISTMAS." So says almost every one who remarks about it at all. The absence of drunkenness was noted by many. ' Two ladies who rode to the cemetery in the late afternoon before Christmas, on their return met many people, white and color ed, going out of town; and one of the ladies remarked that when there were saloons in Scotland Neck such crowds would not have observed such perfect order as prevailed with them this Christmas. The bus iness men of the town said that trade was not good, owing to the short cotton crop and the low price of peanuts. There is less money in this community than there has been at this season in years. The panic has struck this region, of course, but the chief reason for the lack of money is the short cotton crop and the low price of peauuts, together with the great quantity of peanuts still in the fields. The weather has been unfavorable for cleaning peanuts, and those who have threshed their crops are slow to sell them at the present price. One often hears a farm er say, "I have not sold any part of my crop yet." RALEIGH'S PROHIBITION. The temperance advocates throughout the State rejoice at the prohibition victory in Ral eigh Dec. 2Gth. There were 1,31 1 votes cast in the election, 928 for prohibition, 381 for dis pensary and 2 for saloons, giv ing prohibition a majority of 547 over the dispensary. Raleigh has had the dispen sary four years, the sales of liquor under the system amounting to $250,000, with profits of about $75,000, accord ing to the Raleigh correspond ent to the Norfolk Landmark. The profits from the dispensary were divided between school and road funds. It is a credit to the people of Raleigh that, while the dispen sary profits reduced taxes, they preferred to pay more taxes and be rid of the evil effects of the dispensary system. Looking calmly at the tem perance situation in North Car olina, those Avho are not advo cates of prohibition will admit that it looks like the State will be under prohibition in a short while. And the same con clusion may be safely drawn for the entire South. Saloon and dispensary advocates may as well direct their energies in some other direction other than trying to hinder the prohibi tion wave that is sweeping on. TO THE FARMERS OF HALIFAX COUNTY. The Southern Cotton Associ ation is no longer an experi ment. During the few years of its activity it has brought the world to acknowledge the justness on which its principles are based and the power which it wields in helping control the cotton marked. The achievements already ac complished are somewhat re markable and the manipulators and manufacturers of cotton the world over realize full well that they must reckon with this organization of Southern farmers in handling and pric ing the cotton crop. And every farmer, and business man as well, in the South should pay good heed to the opportunity which the Southern Cotton As sociation presents to him for securing and maintaining reas onable prices for their cotton. The South produces 70 per cent, of the world's supply of cotton, which is simply anoth er way of saying that Provi dence has placed in the hands of the Southern farmers the greatest monoply ever given to any people, and it is no abuse of this monoply for the farmers into whose hands it has been Many and many. times have we insisted that all correspond ents to this paper sendheir names with their contributions. If they do not the contribu tions are consigned to the waste basket. We do not especially desire to publish the name if the writer prefers otherwise, but we must know the author of every communication. Two interesting communica tions have been received for this issue of The Common wealth, one signed "J. M.", the other signed "X. Y. Z."; but we could not publish them. The writer's name should ac company the communication on a slip if he does not wish it published. If "X. Y. Z." will let us know his or her real name in time we will publish the communi cation next week. Death el Mr. H. k. Pittisaa. After a short illness, at about two o'clock a. m. Saturday, Dec. 28th, 1907, Mr. Henry Allen Pittman, at his home a few miles from Scotland Neck, passed away into the world of mystery, and of things eternal. Mr. Pittman was about sixty-three years old, one of the old soldiers of the Confederacy, and a member of the Buck Kitchin Camp. He was the second one of the camp to die in Christmas week, the other being Mr. Ben Drew, who, Tuesday morning Dec. 24th was found to have quietly passed away at some time during the night. Mr. Pittman has left four sons and two daughters to mourn the loss of a dear and affectionate fath er. His wife died June 20th, 1907. His presence will b much missed by his many friends and neighbors. On Saturday, Dec. 28, 1907, be tween three and four o'clock p. m the aged, tired and worn out body was laid to rest in the Episcopal cemetery, Scotland Neck. The burial was well attended. The people were very quiet, serious and reverential during the performance of the last offices. O, what a solemn thing is death, and to see those whom we have known and loved ' and cherished long, pass within the veil, to be seen no more with mortal eyes! G. W. P. A Sflidsy Marriage. There was a marriage at the Bap tist parsonage Sunday, Dec. 22, that was a bit romantic. As Rev. G. T. Lumpkin returned from church Mr Norman Barr called and asked if he would mary him. Mr. Lumpkin answered in the affirmative, where upon Mr. Barr handed Mr. Lump kin the marriage license, and went away for the girl who was to be come his bride. When they return- and Mr. Lumpkin learned the girl's name he found that it did not cor respond to the name on the license He hesitated to perform the cere mony under the circumstances, and this somewhat discomfited the would-be bride and groom, for it was a runaway match. Mr. Lump kin telephoned to Register of Deeds T. W. Fenner at Halifax and inform ed him of the matter. Mr. Fenner gave him authority to put the cor rect name on the license, and Mr. Lumpkin finally performed the cere mony and the bride and groom went away happy. placed to make a fair and hon est use of it. Indeed not to do so is to prove false to the inter ests of their own homes and firesides, and recreant to the duty that God imposes upon every man to guard diligently the welfare of his home and to provide proper comforts for his family. The Halifax County branch of the Southern Cotton Associ ation will meet in the court house in Halifax on Monday, January C, 1908, to consider plans and work for next year. At that meeting officers will be elected for the ensuing year, the various committees will be appointed and the general in terest of the Association will be discussed. Let every farmer in Halifax county consider himself a del egate to that meeting and let there be a large attendance on that day. Let us come together in a large number and start the new year with new enthusiasm for the great work that lies about us and which will bring us rich results if we do it well. E. E. Milliard, Pres. Halifax Co. S. C. A. Mr. W. L. Vaughon, who for nearly three months has had editorial con trol of The Commonwealth, left Monday for Washington, N. C, where he goes to enter upon his chosen profession, the law. When the editor of this paper was taken sick in September, Mr. Vaugh an assumed tha duties of editor and reporter, and through the editor's long illness he did his work with a thoroughness which illustrated his distinguished and conspicuous ability as a newspaper man. Mr. Vaughan, after graduating at Wake Forest, taught at Wakefield and Raleigh, and then filled an important place in Wake Forest a3 instructor in Eng lish. He studied law and obtained license before the Supreme Court last September. He brought his fine literary attainments into his work on this paper and it evoked for him high praise from its readers who knew him, as well as from those who did not know horn. He is a young man of rare accomplishments and we commend him to the very highest considerations of the good people of the good town of Washington where he proposes to make his home. His host of friends here in hi3 home town would have been delighted for him to remain in Scotland Neck; but his choice lay otherwise and we all wish him the abundant success he so rich ly merits. Obituary. (Cor. to The Comm.imeaUh.) On the morning of December 17, 1907, the death angel entered the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Barne3, near Dawsons, and took therefrom its light and joy. It was little Claude their infant son, aged seventeen months. He was sick only a few hours with something like dyptheria and though his suffering was severe it was of short duration as the angel soon wafted his little spirit to its heavenly home. It is so sad to give him up but oh how comfortiag to know God doeth all things well and has taken him from a world of sin and transplanted him in a world of bliss. There to wait inside the pearly gates to welcome papa and mama in the sweet bye and bye. Darling bady thou has left us, . And we long for thee in vain, But we know that thou art free f rem All thy earthly care and pain; Free from suffering the spirit And in peace rest thy soul; Dearest baby, thou has entered In the blessed heavenly goal. And to be resigned we are trying, For we know God deemed it best, And thy face, so calm and peaceful, Told us thou has found sweet rest, And we would not call thee back here To this world of pain and woe, When the perfect joy of heaven Thou forever shall know. A Friend. AilsiHTOk-Jackssn. (Reported to The Commonwealth.) At the residence of Elder W. B. Strickland Dec. 18, 1907 at 5:30 o'clock, p. m., Mr. J. H. Allsbrook was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss Augusta Jackson. The ceremony was performed by Elder W. B. Strickland. From there the happy couple went to the home of the groom where a most delicious supper was served and a delightful hour was spent with their relatives. The bride is a popular young lady of Bsaufort county near Washington, N. C. She has many friends around her home. She also has lots of friends in Scotland Neck for the short time she remained here before her marriage. The groom is well known in Scotland Jseck and sur rounding country. Epworth Hews. (Cor. to The Commonwealth.) Mr. Thomas Carlisle died Wednes day, Dec. 18th. He was taken sick Sunday, Dec. 15th, with black jaun dice. He leaves a wife and one child, one sister and one brother. Mr. D. A. Week's wife is right sick with rheumatism. Mr. Willie Whitehead will move to Farmville about the first of Jan., 1908. P. H. Pittman hns rented his farm. Dr. Earl Weeks and wife came up from Farmville to spend Christmas with his father, G. W. Weeks. The tournament at Leggetts was a success. They had a large crowd and cleared forty dollars. Alpheus Vaughan Pardoned. (Charlotte News Dec. 24.) Raleigh, M. C. Dec. 24. Governor Glenn grants a Christmas pardon to Alpheus Vaughan, former manager of the Singer Sewing Machine office at Raleigh, who has served two years and four months of a five years' sen tence for embezzling $2,700. Vaughan has a wife and three children and has been a model pris oner. A Ring's Dyspepsia Tablet after each meal overcomes indigestion, dyspepsia and other stomach ills. Two days' treatment free.. Ask our dealer. Sold by E. T. Whitehead Sc Co. Last Sunday Dr. W. R. Cullom, of Wake Forest, filled the Baptist pulpit here morning and evening. At 11 o'clock he preached a strong sermon from Isiah 32:2: "A man shall be p.s an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as river3 of waters in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land." His theme was "God's mean3 of doing good." He said that God might have chosen other means and methods for bring ing things to pass in the world, but he chose to make man the medium of great and good works. Emphasis was laid upon the fact that the world needs real, true men who are faithful to their mission to do great things for humanity. Strong and striking illustrations were given from the Bible and some from the world's history outside of the Bible showing the use to which God has put man as a medium of good. At night Dr. Cullom preached from 2 Cor. 5:7: "If any man be in Christ he is a new creature.'-' He said that when one accepts Jesu3 Christ as his Savior he i3 new from four view-points. (1) He ha3 a new standing with God and with men; (2) he has a new motive; (3) he has a new view of Christ himself; (3) he has a new mission in the world. Dr. Cullom's sermons were 3trong and forceful and scholarly. Having spent the summer here some years ago he is a favorite with Scotland Neck people, and hi3 congregations greatly enjoyed his sermons Sunday. He is one of the brightest and best of the men who have gone from Hali fax county, and his splendid attain ments as a scholar, a philosopher and a preacher are something of which the people of the county should be proud. He is doing a great work at Wake Forest in the School of the Bible, and in his work as a preacher of great power. Rsrlli Carollsa Day. On Dec. 20th the Scotland Neck graded school observed North Caro lina Day. Following is the pro gramme f the interesting exercises of the day: NORTH CAROLINA DAY PROGRAM. Song. Ho! For Carolina. School. Reading. Origin of the Scotch Irish Their Character. Loui;e Fut rell. Reading. The Scotch-Irish in Orange County. Part (1) Laura Clark, Part (2) Mattia Josey. Piano Solo. Reading. The Regulators. Part (1) Katherine Kitchin, Part (2) Lee Cutchin. Piano Duet. Reading. The Regulators. Part (3) John Edwards, Part (1) William McDowell. Chorus. By pupils from 7ht, 8th, and 9th grades. Reading. Wm. Alexander Gra ham. Part (1) Mary Bryant, Part (2) Thad Mangum. Piano Duet. Story of the Black Boys of Cabar rus. By Superintendent. Chorus. By pupils from 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. AFTERNOON. Song. America. By School. Reading. James K. Polk. Hattie Whitehurst. Chorus. By pupils from 7th, 8th, and 9lh grades. Reading. Andrew Jackson. Part (1) Margaret Braswell, Part (2) Estelle House. Song. The Old North State. Py School. Address. General View of the Scoteh-Iriah in North Carolina. By Mr. Stuart H. Smith. Patriotic Medley. By pupils from 7th, 8th, and 9th grades. Vocal Solo. By Mrs. Bond. Death of Mr. Bsa Drew. (Cor. to The Commonwealth.) Mr. Ben Drew was taken from time to eternity on the night of December 23rd. His death was sudden. His youngest son was with him and he told him thatif he should be called to leave him to take charge of what he had. On Christmas af ternoon his remains were laid to rest in the family burying ground. Sev eral old soldiers were present to pay their last tribute of respect. He wa3 faithful to duty as a soldier from '61 to 'G5. May many bless ings rest upon his loved ones and all lovers of truth over the good old state of North Carolina. T. E. Ausbon, BADLY MIXED UP. Abraham Brown, of Winterton, X. Y., had a very remarkable experience; he says: "Doctors got badly mixed up over me; one said heart d incase; two called it kidney trouble; the fourth, blood poison ; and the fifth stomach and liver trouble ; but none of them helped me; so my wife advised trying Electric Bitters, which are restoring me to per fect health. One bottle did me more good than all the five doctors prescrib ed." Guaranteed to cure blood poison, weakness and all stomach, liver and kidney complaints, by E. T. White head & Co., druggist, 50c. Gr June 1st (opening) August 1st October 1st December 2d (Monday) 30,755.73 A growth during the most stringent peri od of recent years. We Solicit Your Account, Large or Small. 4 Per Cent. Interest, Compounded Quarterly, Allowed ia SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. PLANTERS & COMMERCIAL BANK, Scotland Neck, North Carolina. 12-12-2t Tho Frteads asd CDinrates. (To The Commonwealth.) Some time ago my iriend and comrada in the Enfield Blues, broth er John T. Applewhite.departed this life leaving a good wife and several daughters and sons to perpetuate his good name, and now another comrade and dear friend for fifty years or more, brother James II. Lawrence, has fallen asleep so quiet ly, without any pain or struggle fulfilling the promisa, "No good thing will He withold from tlim that walk uprightly." And how good it is to depart a3 he did. Since he has lived in Scotland Neck he told me whenever I came there to make his house my home and I have enjoy ed being in his delightful home many times and I never heard him utter an unkind or ugly word. I have not saen him in several years, but would think of and inquiie after him and hoped I would get to see him again, but it will not be very long before I will have to go too and I hope to meet the friends and loved ones gone before in those mansions above. The families of these dear friends have had my deepest sympathy in their sorrow and distress and I trust they have looked to our Father in Heaven who alone can comfort them. T. L. Whitaker, Veteran of the Confederate War. Enfield, N. C, Dec. 23, 1907. arke I am prepared to serve f my old customers and the J' public generally with the very best of fresh Beef, Pork, Sausage, &c. All orders filled promptly, and every customer's wants regarded. J. I. HILL, Main St., next to Prince's Stables l-2-tf Instructive. Interesting. "Correct English- How to Use It " A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Use of English. Josephine Turck Baker, Editor. partial contents. Queries and Answers. The Art of Conversation. Shall and Will: Should and Would: How to Use Them. Pronunciations (Century Dic tionary). Correct English in the Home. Correct English in tne School. What to Say and What Not to Say. Course in Grammar. Course in Letter Writing and Punctuation. Business English for the Bus iness Man. Compound Words: How to Write Them. Studies in English Literature. Agents Wanted. $1.00 a Year. Send 10c. for sample copy. CORRECT ENGLISH, Evanston, 111. Sj repair or remodel tr.y kind cF ijildira, T Send lor cur mialuck r ounoinq malaria's, sasn. eoors. blinds, hardwire, mantels, faints, tiua. qm a electric futures tc. FRANSl T. CLARK COin ! Es'ablLshediea. KCftrGlH.Vfl WlanZan Pile Remedy ntisc, ru trracv vtn.n ra. New M wti Deposits. $ 5,685.93 1 7,028.35 24,551.07 Total Resources. $20,821.97 32.767.66 40,856.50 45,560.30 Bersard AUsbrcoL. R7 Coyi-tlc. Alisbrook & Boyeite Fire Insurance Agency. Our companies arc reliable a ad wc guarantee to please, and will appreciate any business entrusted to us. 12-5-It Buggies, Wagons, Carts, Manufactured and For Sale Ly W. A. BRANTLE1 Scotland Neck, N. C. Best of Workmen Employed and Satisfaction Guaranteed. Repairing of All Kinds Done on Short Notice. Lumber Notice. AH persons are hereby warned against taking any lumber at all from my saw mill near the cemetery a'ld from my mill in town, unless I am present or some authorized agent of mine to make note of the lumber taken away. S. B. Kitc:iin 11-28-Ct Notice Land Sale. By virtue of power vested in us by that deed of trust duly execute.! and recorded in the Office of the Reen ter of Deeds for Halifax County in Book 183 at page 1G1, we shall sell for cash to the highest bidder tit Public Auction in the Town of Scot land Neck on the 18th day of Jan uary, 1908, at 12 O'clock Noon, the following described trct of real es tate, lying, being, and situated in the county of Halifax and State of North Carolina, to wit: That land which was conveyed by C. Minshew to D. Edmond.son by deed of record in Halifax County, and devised by D. Edmonson to Min nie Taylor, and by the said Minnie Taylor conveyed to Jno. Gardner, and beginning at a Post-oak in the old Dickens line, thence N 41 1-2 E 138 pole3 to Cow Hall Swamp, thence down said Swamp to the Dickens and Smith Corner, thence along the Dick ens lineN 67 1-2 W32poles,thencc N 27 W 41 poles, thence N 52 W 27 pole3, thence N 73 W 73 poles to the beginning, and containing one hun dred and two and one-half acres, more or less. This December 17th, 1907. S. A. & Albion Dunn, Trustees. 12-19-4t Its virtues have, been known for year."., and thousands of people have Keen made happy and well by taking Hoi ks ter s Kocky Mountain Tea. .Keeps you well and makes yon weller. Sou Tea or Tablets. E. T. Whitehead & Co.
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