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Good Advertising Is to Business what Steam is to Machinery, that great propelling power. This paper gives results. COMM Good Advertisers Use these columns for result?. An advertisement in this paper will reach a good class of people. ONWEALTH. j. c. HARDY, Editor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Ycsr. VOL. XXVII. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1911. NUKBER 13. Dunn & Dunn Attorneys-at-Law, Scotland Neck, North Carolina. MONEY TO LOAN. Klxjott 13. Clark Attorney at Law Halifax, North Carolina. PAUL KITCHIN, Attorney at Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices Anywhere. S. A. DUNN. Scotland Neck, N. C. R. C. DUNN. Enfield. N. C S. A. & R. C. DUNN, Attormbys t Law Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Practice together in all matters except those pertaining to railroad practice. Money loaned on approv ed security. H. I. Clark. M. D. Fhone No. 1. Thurman D. Kitchin. M.D. Phone No. 84. Clark & Kitchin Physicians and Surgeons Offices in Brick Hotel Office Phone No. 21. pR. J. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Office on Depot Street. 13u. O. F. Smith Physician and Surgeon Office in Planters & Commercial Bank Building Scotland Neck, N. C. J)R. R. L. SAVAGE OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Will be in Scotland Neck, N. C, on the third Wednesday of each month at the hotel to treat the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit glasses. J)R. A. C. LIVERMON, DENTIST. Office up stairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. F. A. RIFF, oiticia Scotland Neck, N. C. Eyes examined free. Broken lenses matched and frames repaired. All glasses strictly cash. W. E. MARKS & BRO. Scotland Neck, N. C. We rln all kinds of lathe and ma chine work, repair engines and boil ers and run a general repair shop. Horse-shoeing a specialty. STOP and think how important it is to have your glasses fit correct ly. Investigate the reputation of your optician, for much de pends upon your eyes. We Invite Investigation. We have complete grinding plants at all our stores, and duplicate accurately and promptly the most difficult lexises. Remember, - all our men are experts and we absolutely guarantee you en tire satisfaction. "Make Us Your Opticians. Sncceitore to TUCKER, HALL & CO. Opticians of The Best Sort 53 Granby Street, NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE. CHICHESTER SPiiiO DIAMOND eTtCWwi BRAND LADIES I Ask rmr Draught for CHI-CHBS-T8R' Colo metallic boxes, sealed juddoii. 1AU NO OTHER. DrrnU an k r- r'111-T'M DIAMOND BRAND PILLS, for twenty-five years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. OLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS time rurnviuurnt worth tried tltni iintnu tested 2a ? A with BlueCOl Jij.tjrV HOW Tf 5TIDT. Superintendent J. B. Aiken Bakes Wise Suggestions to Parents and Pupils. The teachers of Halifax county are studying in their Inititute meet ings, Dr. McMurry book, "How to Study." But I shall not attempt to reproduce any of Dr. McMurry's methods in this paper. I wish to speak of three prime conditions for study that are necessary before Dr. McMurray's methods can be applied. 1. A regular time for study. 2. A regular place for study. 3. Some one to see that time and place are kept sacred for study. Parents sometimes fail to gen the results they desire in a public or graded school and find it necessary to send their sons and daughters to a boarding school. There are two principal reasons why parents are sometimes forced to go to the ex pense of sending to a boarding school when they have a good graded school at their very doors. First, it may be necessary to send a boy or girl away from home to school in order to get them away from certain associations. Second, it may seem necessary to send a boy or girl away from home to school in . v. JL w--, For the former there is no alterna tive, but as for the second, why can not the proper conditions for study be prescribed and enforced in the average home without sending our boys and girls away from the in fluence of the home until they are prepared for college. In the average preparatory school (I mean the High School for board ers) a regular time is prescribed by the teacher or principal and enforc ed by the same person. The hours prescribed are usually from 7 p. m. to 10 p. m., and pupils are either crowded into a study hall to study or are allowed to study in their rooms. In either case a teacher un dertakes to see to it that the time and place for study are kept sacred for that purpose. If a pupil in a school of this kind habitually attends classes unprepared or with poorly prepared lessons the teacher does not undertake to correct this evil entirely by punishment for missed lessons, but investigates to see if the pupil is using his study periods to advantage. In a graded school or city High School the teacher assigns the les sons and the pupil goes home to study, few study periods being possible during the day's session of the graded school of today with its crowded curriculum and varied in terests. In this case the teacher is powerless, not only to enforce the regulations for study at home, but Scrofula disfigures and causes life-long misery. Children become strong and lively when given small doses of , Scott's Emulsion every day. The starved body is fed; the swollen glands healed, and the tainted blood vitalized. Good food, fresh air and Scott's Emulsion con quer scrofula and many other blood diseases. . FOR SAX.E BY AU DRUGGISTS Send 10c., name of paper and this ad. for our beautiful Savings Bank and Child Sketch-Book. Each bank contains a Good Iiack Penny. SCOTT SOWNE, 4M Poarl Sfc. N. Y. 3& Jkfibr. idr 1 GRADED SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED SUNDAY even to prescribe any regulations for the pupil's study hours. If the ' pupil begins to get behind in his work the teacher investigates to find the reason and if be finds that the failure of the pupils to know his lessons is due to a failure to use his study hours properly there is noth- fag the teacher can do except to punish the pupil and try to get him of his own accord to use his study ' hours to better advantage unless the teacher can get some one in the home to see to it that the time and place for study are kept sacred for that purpose. It is absolutely necessary that there shall be a regular time for study if there is to be any systematic studying done. A regular place for study is just as necessary, for even the most studious boys and girls can not study to advantage in a room where the other members of the family are talking and telling the various experiences of the day. The writer remembers his fruitless efforts to study in the family living room with nine other children talk ing, playing or studying aloud. There was no time to get off by himself in the afternoon as the mornings and afternoons were con sumed in riding to and from school. He was given the privilige of mak ing a fire in his bed room and study ing there; but this was so much of an undertaking that he prefered to combat with the difficulties in the living room. I appeal to the patrons of the Scotland Neck Graded .School to ar range a comfortable and cheerful study room for their children. In the third place it is essential that some older person shall have control of the study hour and study room. A pupil means to be respon sible and may promise his teacher that he intends to study more, but the very next night a show comes to town, or some other boy whose par ents do not control him asks him to meet him down town and he breaks his resolutions. Or perhaps the boy or the girl goes to the study room and is tempted to finish reading a book or gets to talking with some of the others studying there and the hours for study pass by unimproved. This makes it necessary for the study room to ; be near the living room so that father or mother can hear what is going on in the study room and go in frequently to keep order, to encourage and perhaps to help with a knotty problem. Do not work the problems for your children. Just give them a suggestion and let them do the work themselves. Unwise help or doing the work for the children is worse than no help, as the pupil whose pa rents work all the hard problems for him may pass fairly on class but will fail nine times out of ten on exami nation. I appeal to you, parents, to help us make this school as effective as it can be made, as effective, perhaps, as a boarding school. Last Thurs day morning after the chapel exer cises we made an appeal to the chil dren to study more, and more than four fifths of them promised to spend not less than two and one half hours in good hard study out of school. Won't you help them carry out these resolutions? J. B. Aiken, Supt. The above was written before the fire occurred, and it is even more necessary for the pupils to study at home now that our class rooms are not equipped with desks. It is our desire that the work shall go right on for the remaining eight weeks in order that the grades may be advanced next fall, and much can ! be done to help us in this by both ! parents and pupils. Let us all work together to the end that we shall develop a better school spirit than we have ever had and our present disaster vmay event ually prove to be a blessing. J. B. A. MORNING. THE FARMERS' UNION. Reports Indidate a Marvelous Growth Throughout ibe State. The growth of the f armers' Union for the past two months in North Carolina has been marvelous, and it seems to indicate that Southern far mers have at last realized what sort of commercial conditions they are up against and are determined to meet organization with organization. The busiest place inCharlotte nowjs the official headquarters of the Farmers' Union'of North Carolina. Secretary E. C. Faires is working an extra force to keep up with the growing volume of business and it will be several weeks before he can get well up with the work. More than thir ty charters have been issued for new organizations during the past week and reports from organizers in the field are coming in every delivery of mail at the office. In many of the older organized counties new local unions are being organized and delinquents are being renewed to membership. And the most gratifying part of it is that hundreds of farmers who have been standing out of the Farmers' Union viewing it with a critical eye, are connecting themselves with the or ganization. The outlook for the Farmers' Union was never more en couraging, and its members have reason to rejoice in its healthy growth, development and progress. The commercial world realizes that it is a factor to be reckoned with and it is making history that no simi lar organization has ever made. Charlotte Observer, March 14th. The Implements tbe Farmer Needs. Few farmers need all farm imple ments. The man who has no cows does not need a separator; the man without live stock has no use for a manure spreader; the man who raises only cotton does not need a pea huller; the man with only one horse could not afford to buy a two-horse plow. We admit all this. What we wish to impress upon our readers is that it will pay a man to grow peas and save them for seed; that he should get two horses and then a two-horse plow will follow; that he can make money by keeping live stock, and that when he gets the live stock he can afford to buy manure spreaders and cream separators and build silos. In short, we wish to inspire him with high ideas, to make him ambitious to do better farming, to get more work stock and more machinery, and thus to make more money and live more comfortably than he possibly can while he works only one horse and uses only a few of the more in efficient tools. If we could only con vince our one-horse farmers, how ever, of the value to them of- three tools, we would be doing them a wonderful service. These, too, any energetic farmer can have; and if he will manage to have his land broken andJharrowed with good two-horse machinery, he can do just as good cultivating with them as anyone can do, although it will inevitably cost him more than it would with more team power. The implements we refer to are: (l)!a good planter, (2) a good weeder, (3) a good cultivator. The one-horse farmerjwho has these will soon be able to get two horses; the man who is without them should not rest until he gets them. Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. Old furniture. Mahogany and "Rose Wood needs simply washing and a coat of Var nish. The L. & M. Home Finish Varnish is the best. If painted wood, then wash it, and apply one coat of L. & M. Domestic Paint. Makes Furniture as good as new new at a cost of about 25 or 30 cents. Get it from Hardy Hardware Company. AND THEN BE LIVES. Ate Four Pounds ot Cheese, Drank a Quart of Vinegar. Four pounds of cheese and a quart of vinegar how is that for a lunch? And all eaten within the space of a very few minutes without a cracker or a particle of bread. And when the last hunk of the cheese had been devoured and the last drop of vinegar swallowed the young man perform ing the stunt walked out of the store and is living and doing well, although it has been nearly two days since the inroad was made on the big cheese in the store of Mr. W. C. Tise in this city Thursday afternoon. The young man performing the feat was Gilmer Lakey, a drayman, and the eating was witnessed by four of his companions, who chipped in and paid for the lunch to see Lakey eat the quantity of cheese with the aid of two pint cups of vinegar. Lakey had stated that he would eat four pounds of cheese if somebody would pay for it. And he ate it and when he had finished remarked that he could go some more, but guessed he would wait awhile as he hated for the fellows to pay for so much. Winston Journal. Modification of Southern Quarantine. Cattle Nearly 11,000 square miles of ad ditional territory has been released from the Federal quarantine for Texas fever or tick fever of cattle by an order of the Secretary of Ag riculture taking effect March 12. This action is taken as a result of good progress made during the past year in the extermination of cattle ticks which spread the disease. The total area released from quarantine since the eradication of the ticks was systematically undertaken in the summer of 1906 by co-operation between Federal, State and local authorities now amounts to nearly 140,000 square miles, and in cludes territory in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South, Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Mississippi. Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and California. The released territory exceeds in extent the combined earea of South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. The territory released by the re cent order is as follows: In Virginia, the counties of Fluv anna and Chesterfield. In North Carolina, the counties of Stanly, Montgomery, Randolph, Chatham, Wake and Franklin. In Tennessee, the county of Over ton and portions of the counties of Fentress, Polk, Lincoln, Lawrence, Benton and Madison. In Mississippi, portions of the counties of Marshall and Benton. In Oklahoma, the county of Kiowa and portions of the counties of Greer, Jackson. Swanson, Caddo, Cleveland, Pottawatomie, Lincoln and Pawnee. In Texas the county of Cottle and portions of the counties of Harde man, Howard and Mitchell. The order also prescribes regula tions for the territory remainiug in quarantine, which includes the en tire States of Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana, and parts of Virginia, North, Carolina, South Carolina Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, Ark ansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Cali fornia. Copies of this order may be obtained on application to the Bureau of Animal Industry, Depart ment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. HAIR HEALTH. If You Have Scalp or Hair Trouble, Take Advant age of This Offer. We could not afford to so strongly endorse Rexall "93" Hair Tonic and continue to sell it as we do, if it did not do all we claim it will. Should our enthusiasm carry us away, and Rexall "93" Hair Tonic not give en tire satisfaction to the users, they would lose faith in us and our state ments, and in consequence our busi ness prestige would suffer. We assure you that if your hair is beginning to naturally fall out or if you have any scalp trouble, Rexall "93" Hair Tonic will promptly eradi cate dandruff stimulate hair growth and prevent premature baldness. Our faith in Rexall "93" Hair Tonic is so strong that we ask you to try it on our positive guarantee that your money will be cheerfully refunded if it does not do as we claim. Two sizes, 50c and $1.00. Sold onlv at our store The Rexall Store. E. T. Whitehead Company. "Your teeth are like the stars" he said, The simile was right. He didn't know it, but, like stars. Her teeth came out at night. BtiDM nana Mm Homo Baking Easy n mm BUTTER MS And makes the cake more sightly, freedom Royal Cook Book 800 Receipts ROYAL BAKING POWDER Blessings in Disguise. High priced labor and scarcity of labor are blessings in disguise for the Southern farmer. Necessity will compel the farmer to put into practice intelligent methods and economic principles. He must get out of the old, stupid, careless and indifferent way. He must put life giving humus into his dead soil and deepen the soil until it will yield the highest return for the labor invest ed. He must realize that his soil is his capital stock and that any kind of business that does not show an increase in the capital stock (soil fertility) must stagnate and in the end result in failure. Carolina Union Farmer. To Mothers In This Town. . Children who are delicate, fever ish, and cross will get immediate re lief from Mother Gray's Sweet Pow ders for children. They cleanse the stomach, act on the liver, and are recommended for complaining child ren. A pleasant remedy for worms. At all druggists, 25c. Sample mail ed FREE. Address A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. Burroughs-Pittman-Wheeler Co. I (Successors to N. B. Josey Company's Undertaking Business.) t Coffins Caskets. A Complete Line of HEARSE SEP.VICE Burroughs-Piltman-Wheeler cvooo-co-o-o-(o-c I A New Year Treat ! I have a nice line of Busies finished and in show room, also a nice line of Harness just opened up, all for sale and for your comfort and pleasure. Looks, durability and style are all right, and Hilly guaranteed. Don't Pail to Come to See Me Before You Buy. W. A. BRANTLEY Scotland Neck North Carolina Monuments & Gravestones ft In all First Class "Varieties of Marble and Granite. Largest Stock in the South. Remember, we pay the freight and guarantee safe delivery. As we employ no Agents the item of commissions is not in cluded in our prices. This enables us to use a higher grade of material and to finish it better than otherwise. Is this lighter finer flavored, and insures Its from alum. Free. Send Nome ami AUma. CO.. NEW YORK. Caught A Ground Hog. Mr. S. J. Stewart captured an un- , usually large ground hog on the ! banks of the Catawba river, in Shiloh township, one day last week, and will keep the animal as a weather prophet. While ground hogs are hot unknown in this section, they are rare. Statesville Landmark. One thing is certain, and this is that the Southern farmers must as rapidly as possible substitute horse power and machinery for so much human labor. There are plenty of laborers if their labor was made more effective through the use of machinery as is done in the West. W. F. Massey, in Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. Do you know that all the minor ailments colds are by far the most dangerous? It is not the cold itself j that you need to fear, but the seri ous diseases that it often leads to. Most of these are known as germ diseases., Pneumonia and consump tion are among them. Why not take Chamberlain's Cough Remedy and cure your cold while you can? j For sale by all dealers. Burial Robes. Undertaker's Supplies. AT ANY TIME. J Co., Scotland Neck, N. C J ooooooooooooo OOOOOOOOOOOOO worth considering When in Norfolk call onus. You will find what you want ; see and knew what you are buying, and will get it quickly. The Couper Marble Works, . (Established 1848.) 159-163 Bank St., Norfolk.V.
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