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THE COMMONWEALTH. Published Every Thursday J. C. Hakdy, Editor. Entered at the postofiicc at Scotland Neck, X. C, a.:, Second-Class Matter. Thursday, August 12, 1909. Publisher's Announcement. It is a settled point in newspaper ethics that editors .itiJ 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. The Commonwealth adheres to these general prici ples. Since the tariff bill passed it is said that the broad smile again appeared on President Taft's face. We cannot build up Scotland Neck as long as we complain at every thing that is done. "Work, talk and get down and push for the town. The Daily News is the name of the afternoon paper publish ed at Washington, N. C, by J. L. Mayo. The News starts out well and we wish it much suc cess. Mr. Charles M. Busbee, a prominent lawyer of Raleigh, died at his home in that city early Saturday morning. In the death of Mr. Busbee the State loses a useful citizen. We can do a great deal more for our community than we are doing if we would only try. Let us get to work and help build up our town and county. By helping others you help yourself. The first issue of The State Democrat, edited at Raleigh by Mr. J. C. Caddell, is on our table. It is a very neat and at tractive paper. We welcome Mr. Caddoll's return to editor ial work and wish him well in his new venture. The Senate has adopted the conference report on the tariff bill and now it is all over so far as Congress is concerned. The President signed the bill with out hesitating. Senator Aid rich knew just how to make the fight in order to get Mr. Taft's signature. We hope that this new tariff law will benefit the people as a whole but it is seri ously doubted. The Durham Sun asks the following questions : ''Under prohibition laws which prohib it intoxicants, if it is right, to license near-beer saloons, why is it not right to license near whiskey, and near-wine sa loons? If near-beer produces drunks, we do not see why it should be sold under a license, and other intoxicants prohib ited. Have the authorities any right to license it under the prohibition law?" President Taft says that since Congress and the tariff ques tion are out of his way he is going to turn his attention to making some needed changes in the departments ot the gov ernment, and especially in the civil service commission. There are many beneficial changes he could and ught to make, but if he is not going to accomplish any more than he did in reduc ing the tariff his time would be just as well spent in playing golf. WHEAT GROWING. All together for a Scotland Neck Wheat Growers' Associ ation. "We believe wheat rais ing could be made profitable in this section and The Common wealth stands ready and will ing to help our farmers get started in raising this crop. Touching upon the financial end of this wheat raising the Charlotte News says: "The wheat farmers of Min nesota and the two Dakotas are prosperous this year. They are raising 235,000,000 bushels, worth to $313,000,000 as against $148,000,000 for their last year's crop. The Southern farmer has just as great an opportunity to get rich out of cotton as the northwestern farmer out of wheat. The southern farmer has a natural monoply in cot ton. If he would only raise his foodstuffs for man and beast on his farmj and hold his cot ton crop for highest prices, he would be the richest farmer on earth. It is the amazing mys tery of American history that he does not see it this way." GOOD ROADS PAY. In every section of this coun try where good roads have been built there has been a marked increase in the value of farm ing lands. This fact alone ought to encourage the people of Hal ifax county to begin the mak ing of permanent roads. With good roads it would be an easy matter to attract desirable pur chasers for our surplus lands and by this means build up our county and state. We need a thicker settled population and when we get the people all our waste places will be built up and made prosperous. We have the climate and our lands will produce more varieties of crops than can be grown in other sections of this country. Showing the value of good roads over bad ones the Char lotte Observer says: "It is said that in Jackson county, Alabama, the price of farm lands has risen from six to fifteen dollars an acre and in Bradley county, Tennessee, it has doubled since the building of good roads in those localities. Men seeking farms prefer those that are located on good roads and will pay higher prices for them. With the progress that is being made in the establish ment of good roads and in the knowledge of their advantage to the owners of farms the time will soon come when it will be difficult to find purchasers, at any decent price for farms which are not so located. In tensive farming, the greatest yield possible per acre, is the order of the day with intelli gent farmers, and it is spread ing so rapidly that in the neat future the man who does not follow this plan will be left so far behind that he will not be considered in the class of pro ducers. Hand in hand with these new farming methods go easy access to markets and cheaper transportation of farm products to centres of trade These can be secured by those farms only which have access to good roads. Great highways between widely separated sec tions of the country over which there can be easy and rapid travel is a condition greatly to be desired, but such roads will not add nearly so much to any section of the country through which they pass as will a num ber of well-made roads leading from the centres of trade into the surrounding farming territory.- The latter are the roads which will build up the towns and add to the prosperity of the rural districts.'' Big Suit to bs Argued. Mr. James H. Pou, of this city. left yesterday afternoon for Ashe ville, where he will take part in the suit of the Roanoke Rapids Power Company against the Roanoke Navi gation and Water Power Company, which will be heard before Judge Guion. The case has been moved to Asheville by consent and will be tried without a jury. Hon. Claude Kitchin and Hon. Walter E. Daniel will appear for the plaintiffs, Mor decai and Gadsden, of Charleston, S. C, Hon. E. L. Travis, of Halifax, Mr. tleo. Green, of Weldon, and Mr. James H. Pou, of this city, will represent the defendants. This suit involves the title to the big water power at the falls of the Roanoke, near Weldon, and will begin Tues day. Raleigh Nevs & Observer, 8th inst. Pool Rooms. The average pool room in the aver age town is a den of sorriness. They are good time killers, they are cor rupters of good morals because they are seductive; and the average one is doing more harm than did the sa loon which properly has been driven from the State. Recently this writer visited one of the most modernly equipped pool rooms in the State. At eleven o'clock there were twenty eight persons in the room. Most of them dressed like the average dude, inhaling his cigarette and belching up his occasional oath, while a few more were indulging themselves in a bet on two "crack players." At three o'clock the very same pool room had 31 visitors. Several of them were the husbands of young wives, who are working at various jobs for a living. July Uplift. Cultivated Her Garden Wito Her Hands. "Aunt" Elizabeth Crane, whose home is out on Route Two from this place, has set an example of indus try which younger and more favor ed people might well follow. Mrs. Crane is nearly blind and draws a small sum from the county, which she supplements by her own efforts. This summer sfce has a garden, and not being able to see how to use a hoe, she cultivated it with her bare hands. Its a good garden, too, with the best cabbage and potatoes to be found in that neighborhood. Wilkes boro Patriot. Halifax News. Halifax, N. C, August 10th, 1909. E. N. Sater spent last Friday in Rocky Mount at the ball game. Hon. Claude Kitchin was a visitor here a few hours on Sunday. Mrs. Savage, and her daughter. Miss Floyd, of Roanoke Rapids, have been visiting the Misses Stephenson near Halifax for some days. Mrs. W. F. Coppedge and master William went down to Scotland Neck Sunday to visit Mrs. Stanton near that place. Mrs. Talbott and Miss Annie Tal bot, of Richmond,Va.,have been vis iting at Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stephen son's for the past week. Mrs. W. A. Moore, and Misses Isa bel and Mildred, went down to Dar dans Sunday to see their people, and will be gone two or three weeks. Mrs. C. H. Hale, Misses Alice, Liz zie and Mary Hale and Mildred Campbell spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Hale at their farm four miles below here. Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Vaughan spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Z. W. Story, at Thelma. The Misses Lottie and Bessie Eure, and Ethel and Nannie Stephenson were in town on Monday. Miss Nell Nelson left last Friday for Norfolk, where she will spend some time with friends. Mrs. Plummer and daughter, Miss Ida, of Petersburg, have been spend ing some days with Mrs. J. H. Fen ner. Mrs. Eustis Norfleet who has been spending some time with Mrs. N. L. Stedman, left for her home in Wil mington Monday. The Rev. P. N. Stainback preach ed here in the Methodist Church, filling the appointment of the pas tor, Rev. J. E. Holden, on Sunday morning. Mr. Holden went up to Spencer, Va., last week to try and get his wife who has been very sick for some time, to their home in En field. The health of our town is excel lent. At present there is not a single individual of the place at all sick. We are having a good time eating mel lons and peaches, and who of us cares much about the ''tariff" and the "wolf" and high-priced Hour, and the price of cotton and peanuts next fall, so long as these things last. Many of us would no doubt rid our selves of a great many of the "cares and worries" of life perhaps, if we were more like the old darky, who said : Ttik kere niggers, I don't kere at all, dere'll be plenty 'possums and 'tatersdis fall." W. F. Coppedge. A Start lor the Penitentiary. If you want to give a little boy from 6 to 10 years old a start to the penitentiary, just allow him the pri vilege of running on the streets un til late bedtime. It is there he learns his first crime. It is there he gets his first lesson in vulgar, obscene language and his start for prison is made. LaGrange Sentinel. $100 Reward, 1G9. The readers of this paper -will le pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca tarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby de stroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assist ing nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they oiler One Hundred Dollars for any case Hint it fails ta cure. Send for list of testimo nials. Address, F. J. Cheney it Co., Toledo, (). Sold by druggists, 7oc. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. LADY WANTED! To introduce our large and complete Fall line of beautiful wool dress goods, silks and fancy waistings. The latest up to date New York City pat terns. Handsomest line of materials on the market. Dealing direct with the mills you will find our prices low. Profits $10.00 to $30.00 weekly. Samples and full instructions packed in a neat sample case, shipped ex press prepaid. No money required. Exclusive territory. Write for par ticulars. Be first to apply. STANDARD DRESS GOODS CO., Dept. F 8 Binghampton, N. Y. 8-12-3t Adminstrator's Notice. Having this day administered on the estate of Louisa Cotton, deceased, this is to notify all persons having claims against said estate, to pre sent them to me or my attorney on or before August 6th. 1910, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery.- All persons indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate settlement. This the 6th. day of Aug., 1009. Peter Anthony, Admr. S. A. Dunn, Atty. 8-10-6t i i 'THE PIANO WITH A SWEET TONE. For Next Christmas. Not t;o early to prepare for it, si mi the one thing above all oth ers that would add most to your home and its happiness is a Stieff Player-Piano, that greatest of all instruments that makes every member of the family a musician. Let us fU'-rgest a plan for put" 5 tmg one in your home at least by next CHRISTMAS if not before. We make it easy for you to buy one from maker to home. Write for Particulars. CHAS. M. STIEFF L. C. STEELE, Mgr., 114 Granby St., Norfolk, Va. R. I. JONES, Representative. Scotland Neck, North Carolina. I'lease mention this paper. The Official Piano Jamestown Exposition. Notice. Having qualified as administrator of the estate of Minnie D. Prince, deceased, late of Halifax County, mis is to nouiy an persons hiubulcu . to said estate to make immediate cottlomont nf aiH in f1phtpdnp?;? tn mn AnH nil nprsnn? hnvinf rlairns'l:? against said estate will present them i i - f i :ii: j rn mp mi v vpnnp 1. vvii.nm Lweivti ... ' j... 1 .Li.- i-A ...i-u: montns irorn ims uaie, or un notice will be pleaded in bar of their recov- ' ery. This Aucr. 4th. 1909. Minnie D. Prince, Deceased. Kitchin & Smith, Attorneys. "8-5-Ct. nunTTe pjDniiTcn imztpu u7Ci V tm. For Piles, Burns, Sores. ; Our entire '4rT ,-tj.- i hi 1j is. ixi 3 if ii lb I, ' t r "Vl? xM -V XLS' .5-' tfES3ai2l MB kM S-'4 VJT. ijm Ljm X AT Men's Low Cot SSioes, Fancy Linens, Light Ladies' Ready Neckwear, Laces, Hambergs, 10,000 yards Up-to-Date 5,000 yards Hanibcr, at cost. 2,000 yards of 12-ceiit 00 yards of Figured Lawns at 4 cents. 1,000 yards Li-lit Figured Percales at cost. 500 yards Table Linens at cost. 500 yards Dress Linensnt cost, v3ii 500 yards Shirt Waistings at cost. '- i Ii:.J. i .1 . cm ii .)U mini uiaue rcnirc perte g And will continue Cash Sale. sfV. ---- 7GF Scotland Neck, 1 id YnaaSee uur Aflver i snis I Then look over a few I did not mean what we said. 2-Quart Wonder Ice Cream :j-Qtiart Wonder lee Cream rM 4-Qunrt Wonder Tee Cream G-Quart Wonder lee Cream NS 8-Ouart Wonder Tee Cream l$j :,r,-lb. ice capacity Odorless fi&j Keen Kutter Axes, Keen Kutter Handled Ax $ 2.25 Screen Poors 1.00 -"0 Screen Windows 1.50 Screen Doors 1.05 .05 Screen Windows. 1.00 Screen Doors 85 55.00 Duties 1.25 Screen Doors 01) 00.00 Pike Axle Puggi. s.. 2.50 Double Screen Doors... 1.05 07.50 Dike Axle Pnggie-. .GO Screen Windows 12 70.00 Top Unties. 5.n .05 Screen Windows -10 2.50 Carpet Sweepers These are just a few 'IK? . .. 3. c i flftOuS SOiu 31 TlieSC opvcltii 51 Is soW at these Special M take advantage of our Special Prices. ira j lH Vffi Josey The Pioneer Hardware Dealers, - - - Scotland Neck, North T?? ;S -J--c COST slock of Ladies' Percales, White - to - Wear Shirt Laces in this 8ak at cost. IMino-s and Embroideries Fancy Lawns at 7 cents. aists, your choice for 1.00. . . . during the whole month Monday, j Come early and avoid the rush. ' -so -J of our Special Prices Mentioned; Below, w;: They will convince you. Freezers,.. 81.15. 1 .7.). 2.0 Freezers,.. Freezers,.. Freezers,.. Freezers,. :.!(). Refrigerator 7.0N ' 1.00. of the Special Prices that we are making at Prices MU! r M1KT P CAIh FHH TUP TACII If ihIII I'l ILco IIUjI UL OULI7 lUii iiiu urvju. ii vnn , Hardware Company w-rfcAA icrmc CASH ! Slippers, Children's Slipr Lawns, Dress liROiieffe for Waists, Belts. Edgings. Embroideries. 1,000 yards White LinoneU for Lndit H cents. 200 fifty-cent Ca)s for (Jirls and Iinvsai Our entire Stock of Silks. and Pelts at cost. 200 pairs Ladies Slippers at cost. 150 pairs Children's Slippers at cost. 100 Folding Canvas Cots at 50 mils. 100 iron Pedsteads at 1.25. 100 lied Springs to match at Si, 00.. Aypst of Au.-ust Don't forget this A big opportunit' mp y9 w jy. aft. 12 .J v. 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