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SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1911.
NUMBER 2.
VOL. XXVII.
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qnukc -!: ' .y a proper treatment of the kid
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. hoi Iv.rine and rcaluing pqin in passing it,
and vcrce:ncs t!:at unpleasant necessity
cf 1 ting compelled to go often through
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North Carolina.
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Halifax, North CsroSina.
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'th third Wedrissday of eadi month
''at the hotel to treat the diseases of
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furnishing any style of
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you may desire. Bring
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scription for satisfaction.
: Regular Schedules Doubled Will
Apply Until Jan. 18th at 8 P. M.
ND ONLY FOUR WEEKS OFF.
Many Changes in Position Likely to Occur
During That Time, as New Candidates are
Entering Almost Every Day.
Beginning Thursday January 12th
and ending Wednesday January 18th
at 8 p. m., the regular voting sched
u'e doubled will apply.
This is another good chance to
add to your total vote, and one
which no candidate who expects to
win should neglect.
The close of the contest is 'only
four weeks off and its to each can
didate's interest to secure as many
subscriptions as possible during
this offer.
Competition is strong in this con
test and if you let up for a single
day you are bound to drop a notch
toward the bottom.
Maybe you had a lead on the other
contestants last week. Maybe you
will lose that lead before another
24 hours have passed. You never
know that you are really ahead un
til the final roll has been called and
the judges have made their awards.
DON'T BE BLUFFED.
vhatever you do don't let the oth
er fellow slip something over on you
and induce you to give up the game
by some bluff story that she has a
few million votes in reserve, she is
e-oing to try and make you believe
this.
The contestants should go right
ahead, fight their own fights and
try to do it a little harder than any
or the ethers. Presistence tells the
story.
Maybe the other contestants saw
all their friends in a week. Maybe
you did. If that's the case get busy
and make some r.ew ones. Manu
facture them, for contest purposes.
What's the use of putting one
hand to a thing into which you can
just as easily throw your whole
forceful personality.
You now have another opportunity
to lay away as many votes as you
choose. That is why the present
bonus offer is the very best time for
those who neglected the past oppor
tunities. A good live wire type of
candidate need have no fears about
the start that any other candidate '
has or is reported to have. A few j
hours work during this bonus oppor-
tunity will fix that matter. A few i
! you will go to your, friends and tell
them that you are competing in The
Commonwealth's contest and that
you want them to subscribe for a
year or more and give the ballot,
which they will receive for subscrip
tion, to 'yea'- T:& prizes are so
liberal that they should not be
overlooked.
NEW SUBSCRIBERS TAKE NOTICR.
Now is the time to subscribe and
secure votes for your favorite cond
idate., You're ad e to help tnem
more than ever now and can turn
over many vote3 to them. They
will be needed. The race is just
fairly on and all your subscriptions
would enable your favorite to win
the piano or one ofj the other prizes.
Send tfcs cnsidyfiii to Scliccl
STANDING GF CONTESTANTS.
DISTRICT NO. 1.
Embracing Scotland Neck town
and township.
SCOTLAND NECK.
Miss Will Andrews 82,300 j
Gertrude Wmtehead..
" Alene Pope
" Nannie Lamb
" Margaret Bowers. ,
" Lena Cherry
" Estelle House
" Lillie Butts, 1
76,875
72,550
69,100
Kathleen Tillery....;... 62,900
RINGWOOD.
MissPattie Williams 62,500
ROSEMARY.
Miss Margaret Speight 51,500
" Fannie Hart 49,800
Mrs. Willie Froelich 50,250
SPRING HILL.
79,375 Miss Irene Parks 42700
78,850 HALIFAX.
7?'2Z ! Miss Mary Norman 60,300
Mary H. Smith
Mrs. G. W. Bryan..
61,400
Annie Belle Dickens.
Leona Shaw
Alice Hale
AURELIAN SPRINGS.
55,200
51,600
39,800
GOOD NEWS.
Every Sufferer From Catarrh, loughs,
Colds and Sore Throat Should
Read It.
J. H. Allsbrook 69,100
ri'if ' Miss Alice Pepper
If you have a neighbor who does
not read, urge him to keep his child-1
ren in school every day he possibly
i can. ui course men and women
who can read and take newspapers
are too much alive to the needs of
I their children to keep them out of
I school for even a day short as our
moiic scnooi term is u tney can
1 f?nt
DISTPvICT NO. 2.
Embracing all territory outside of
Scotland Neck township.
SCOTLAND NECK R. F. D.
Miss Fannie S. Joyner, 2....
" Annie House, 2
" Lyclia House, 2
" Leiia House, 2
" Lila Whitehead, 2
" Bertie Dickens, 1
Fannie Nevvsom, 1
" Cattie Barnhill, 1
ENFIELD R. F. D.
Miss Marv Barnhill, 1
" Virginia Whitfield, 1..
" SalHe Barkley, 1
" Leiia Weeks, 1
HOBGOOD.
Miss Kate Jovner
41,200
38,200
Annie Cook
LITTLETON R. F. D.
Miss Maude Isles 43,000
PALMYRA.
So many hundreds of catarrh vic
tims who have taken the HYOMEI
treatment, have written us letters
thanking us for publishing our meth
od of taking the HYOMEI vapor
I treatment in connection with the in
haler that we gladly publish it again.
The vapor treatment is especially
recommended in stubborn cases of
chronic catarrh of long standing, but
remember that the inhaler should be
used daily as usual.
This is the simple vapor treatment
and only takes five minutes of your
Miss Olivia Early 46,275 1 time before going to bed. Pour a
75,000
73.375
72,4o Miss Mabel Taylor
72J75i " Annie Smith
65,000
56,250 1
57,400
45,125
48,300
47,200
Hattie Everett 42,500
Sallie Eaker 29,600
ROANOKE RAPIDS.
41,600
39,400
37,400
37,000
31,200
54,500
49,800
45,050
A8.600
Kainey
' Nellie Price
' Gertrude Wicker.....
ENFIELD.
Miss Ka4.erine Matthews.
" Kate Condrev
" Beatrice Whitehead.
KELFORD.
43.500 :
41 800 ! Miss Fannie Boome
uavo ul uiri.ic:.3iv. cuiiiou v vi i vvui : ....
, . J.. , , . i possiolv have tnem 1:1 scnooi
so that anyone can enter the contest
at this stage and be practically on
equal footing with those who enter
ed early, but did not push their
campaign vigorously.
ADVERTISE YOUR CAMPAIGN.
The wise and winning candidate
is the one who knows how to adver
tise her campaign. This is as true
of a voting contest as it is of a poli
tical campaign's.
Take Bryan, for instance. He got
to be the candidate for president in
95 because he pulled off a specta-
Never
have
better chance to use
them. You need their help right
at this thne to win one of the prem
ium ballots.
TIME FOR EARNEST EFFORTS.
If you have not accomplished any
thing yet now is the time for you to
put forth most earnest efforts, and
right now is where the steady, syste
matic, consistent worker will count.
It will be the strong, self reliant,
purposeful candidate who will carry
off the honors. Don't dally with
your purpose. The one safe, ser
viceable, remunerative quality in
every person is the quality of atten
tion to that one purpose. It is the
men and women who plod along,
totling determinedly over the rough
places who ultimately win success.
The votes obtained during the
double vote offer may be a decided
factor in determining the final re
sults of the contest. There should
be no let-up by the busy contestants,
for the few hours that you might
have been securing subscriptions
but did not, may be fatal to your
hopes.
Scrofula disfigures and
causes life-long misery.
j Children become
strong and lively when
M given small doses of ,
Succetsore to Tucker, Hall & Co.
? Opticians of The Best Sort
53 Granby Street,
NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE.
ssirs uston
every day. The starred
body is fed; the swollen
glands healed, and the
tainted fclcod vitalized.
Good feed, fresh air and
Sccli's Emulsion con
quer' scrofula and many
oilier blood diseases. (
FOR SAI.E BY AU, DRUGGISTS
Send 10c., name of paper and this ad. for
our beautiful Savings Bank and Child's
Sketch-Book. Each bank contains a
Good Iuck Pennjr. ,
SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Paul SL.N.Y.
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Doodle Voles, as shown
' here and there is a man who has no
i education himself, who can hardly
read, who says that his children do
not need more schooling than he
got. Do your best or such a neigh
bor for his children's sake. Until
the law gets in behind such a man
and makes him send his children to
school as it wiil do before a great
j many more years come and go use
your best efforts at .persuading hirn
to send his children to school at
least four months daring the year.
Monroe Enquirer.
When buvinir a cough medicine
.r;tTort:uicr g.t tne start 1 ior cm .area wear .in minu mac
of the campaign. His "Cress of moenains wn ne.neay is
, , , ... .... , most efiectual for coles, croup and
Gold speech put him on the political v,hoopinff cou?h and that it coatains
map in bright colors. Without it no harmful drug. Sold by all dealers.
he would have slipped quietly into ; .
Lilts puui ux uuiiviun :iu cue vuin- , i7ajKjtfff'"pf.?&
llJUUtjr wuuiu ucvci uovc uccu muic
than a country newspaper. j
Sameway with this contest. If
folks don't know it they can't help
you, no matter now gooa tneirw:u
toward you may be. Mental tele-1
pathy has not yet reached more
than a crudely experimental stage, j
and you can't rely upon that means :
or telling your friends that you j
depend upon them for support. i
A good way to let your friend s 1
know that you are in the contest is
to call on them at once. Take your
receipt book along and get them in
terested in your campaign during
the "Great Offer" which ends Jan.
18lh at 8 p. m.
Many of your friends say, "I will
help you the last week of the con
test. You need their help now
when it counts the most, for each
week the offer will decrease.
Each day brings the end nearer,
and the fact that the time is grow
ing shorter should be an additional
incentive for each candidate to work
harder.
There are always some candidates
who figure on waiting until the last
week before they put forth any ef
fort in their own behalf. They jol
ly themselves into believing that
they will have to compete with only
certain candidates so that by wait
ing to find out whom they are may
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crastination but whatever it is they j jS
will be irretrievably lost, as far a3 1 K
the contest is concerned, if they j g
pass up this, the best offer remain-;
ing for some of these who are alive ! Lv
from the start will get good and jflj
busy during this week and get such .
a voting start that there will be no &
use of try ing to overtake them when b
nrnrlr nnrl rlnPars count for far less. ff
In order to give the out-of-city M
candidates an even chance with ;
those in the city, all mail bearing
postmark before 8 p. m. Jan. 18th
will be counted in on this extra offer, j
A GREAT CONTEST. j
Everyone realizes that The Com-;
monwealth's Contest is making a
big hit in this vicinity. j
"How can they afford to do it?" j
"It certainly will be an honor to
win one of the prizes." j
"Won't it be a grand thing to win
that Piano?" " !
."I am out for a Diamond Ring." i
"A gold watch for mine." j
These are a few expressions heard
daily about the contest. j
It is not difficult to get votes if
... 70,925
Marian White 70,275
Hazel Armstrong 31,200
1,500
Ella Taylor 41,200
" Myrtie Cox.
speed.
Miss Margaret Knight
' Ailene Allsbrook
" Willie Dickens
VHITAKERS.
Miss Lula Weaver
" Ruth Bell
" Irma Carlisle
DRINKLEYVILLE.
Miss Hattie Boyd
" Nellie Boseman
TILLERY.
Miss Jennie Seawell
" Julia C. Rhem
" Bessie Parks
WELDON.
Miss Pearl Harris
" May Cheek
" Emma Purnell
" Ruth Barkley ...
" Mary Mabry
" Johnson
" Bessie Dixon
5H
42,80;) 1
Judy Harrell
" Ethel Stephenson...
" Amanda Browne 32,000
HAuIILTON
Miss Eulala Perkins
OAK CITY.
750 1 Miss Hettie Johnston...
43,100
39,800
74,675
68,250
TARBORO.
41,200 : Miss Laura Powell 57t2oo
Gussie Harrell
61.S00! LITTLETON.
55,200 Miss Kate Maguire 51,200
5i,6C0: Ellen Mitchell
" Carrie Helen Moore...
j ' Sadie Underwood
62,4001 " Margaret Lewis
61,975 i " MarySpruill
j " Ruby Vinson
Mrs. Bunn
61,200: W. G. Coppersmith....
o4,WO , . :
51,250 j Kany Iiildren sre Sickly.
53,750
47,600
42,100
41,700
39,400
38,250
31,400
28,600
30,975
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for
60,200 ; Children Break up Colds in 24 hours,
5cS,7G0 rer.eve r everushness. Headache,
56,500 : Stomach Troulbes, Teething Disor
o ,i) ' uei a, oim lycocioy vv orns.
49.2C0 ! druggists, 25c. Sample mailed free.
47,350 j Address, Allen S. Olmstead, Le Roy,
41,275 N. Y.
teaspoonful of HYOMEI into a bowl
with towel and breathe for several
minutes the vapor that arises.
You will be surprised at the result
of this treatment; it make3 the head
feel fine and clear; you will sleep
better, and that stuffed up feeling
in the head will gradually disappear.
This same method will break up
the worst cold in the head or chest
in one night.
A bottle of HYOMEI costs 50 cents
at E. T. Whitehead Company's, who
guarantee it. If you want the com
plete outfit, which includes the little
hard rubber pocket inhaler, the
price is $1.00.
No stomach dosing; just breathe
HYOMEI and cure catarrh and all
diseases of the breathing organs.
You can't always measure a mans
brain by the length of his hair.
Arc You A Woman?
Baltimore, Md. Mrs. W. II. Ison,
at 1419 East Madison street, writea,
"For several years, I suffered off
and on, from womanly troubles, un
til finally I was taken down and
could do nothing. The pains I ex
perienced, I shall never forget. I
lost weight until I was only skin and
bones. I believe I would be in my
grave if I had not tried Cardui."
Are you like Mrs. Ison, weak and
discouraged because of some pain
ful ailment? Cardui will help you.
Try it today. Any druggist will be
glad to sell you a bottle.
is if
schedule below, will be awarded
m subscriptions between
9
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AT 8:00 O'CLOCK P. M.
Pinal
)iltS'
at 9
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A Grand Opportunity.
This1 is another grand opportunity for candidates in the Great
Prize and Popularity Contest to increase their total number of
votes, and no opportunity to secure another subscription should be
overlooked. If, at the final count, your standing is lowered for
want of one mere subscription, do not have it to reproach your
self with that you lost it through neglect or carelessness.
The Vote Schedule.
Time. Price. Votes.
One Year, ?L00 3.7E0
Two Years $2.00 9,000
Three Years ' $3.00 16.650
Four Yeat s $4.00 26,874
Five Years $5.00 40,000
E PRIZES MUST GO TO EACH DISTRICT.
NOMINATION BLANK.
The Commonwealth Popularity Contest.
Good for One Thousand Votes.
Contest Manager, The Commonwealth,
Scotland Neck, N. C.
I hereby nominate as a Candidate in your Contest :
Miss or Mrs
Address
District No Telephone No
Name of Nominator -
Address
Only one nomination will be credited to each Contestant.
The Commonwealth Popularity Contest.
Good for One Hundred Votes.
Candidate
s
Address
District No
This Coupon, when neatly clipped out, name and address proper
ly filled in and brought or sent to the Contest Department of The
Commonwealth, will count as 100 votes in The Commonwealth
Popularity Contest. The first one of these Coupons received for
any young lady will place her in nomination and will count for
1,000 votes. This Coupon not good after January 12, 1911.
ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS TO
The Commonwealth, Scotland Neck, IN. C.
g Contest Manager,
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