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f TOT U JL Tite Largest Circulation 2ALTBL The Largest Circulation OF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. OF ANY ! Halifax County Newspaper. COMMGNWl c .j.;dV, CUiJor and Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. . , " i ii n iiiiii - - "VOL. XXVII. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1911. NUMBER 49. Hsn m Made Miserable 9 t . tm t ly Klilasy anoBiacaer lrooDio. r;jpcy trouble preys upon the mind, i r.',rj."S an J. lessensambition ; beauty, ness soon disappear when the kidneys are out of order or dis eased. Kidney trouble has T yi UCLOUlc so prevalent ;V. AJ that i4 is not tmcom tfKvW&AS? mon for a child to be VvM )!;- born afflicted with veak kidneys. If the child urinates too often, if the urine scalds he tiesls. or if, v. hen the child reaches an , e w?jeu it should be able to control the oo-'e. it is vet afflicted with bed-wet-iinWepe:idu"ion it, the cause of the diffi culty is kidney trouble, and the first Vp s1J'l!'kI 'oe '-ovrartk the treatment of ttee important organs. This unpleasant trouble is due to a diseased condition of the kidiievs and bladder and not to a 1: bif as iuobt people suppose. Vomeu as well as men are made miser able with kidney and bladder trouble, and both need the same great remedy. The mild and the immediate effect of ;airinRoot is soomealized. It issold hv druireists, in fifty- j cent and one-dollar Vn-i t'i:v i cunnle DOttle I! hv mail free, also a rimpalet telling alls; about hVJinp-KOOt, Home of Sirunp-Root. including many of the thousands of testi monial letters' received from sufferers v.lio found Swamp-Root to be just the remedv needed. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.! Einsrhamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. Don't make any mistake, but remember the name, Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the address, Biaghamtou, 2s. Y., on every bottle. PAL'L KSTCHIN, Attorney at Law, Scotland Neck, N. C. Practices Anywhere. Albion Dunn Lawyer Practices here whenever his services shall be required. S. A. Dt'NX. Scotland Neck, N. C. R. C. DUNN. Enfield, N. V. R. C. DTJXX, Attorneys t Lav Scotland Neck, North Carolina. Practice together in all matters except those pertaining to railroad practice. Money loaned on approv ed security. Asiiby Dunn Attorney and Counselor at Scotland Neck, N. C. Law Practices wherever his required. services are H. I. Clark. M. D. Phone X... 1. Thurman D. Kitchin, M.D. Phone No. 131. Clark & Ivitciiin Physicians and Surgeons Offices in Brick Hotel Oif.ce Phone No. 21. F. A. RIFF, OPTICIAN Scotland Neck, N.- C. Eyes examined free. Broken lenses matched and frames repaired. All glasses strictly cash. 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. P. WIMBERLEY, Physician and Surgeon, Scotland Neck, N. C. Ofiice on Depot Street. Dr. O. f. Smith Physician and Surgeon Oftce in Planters & Commercial Bank Building Scotland Neck, N. C. . A. C. LiVERffON, DENTIST. Office tip stairs in White head Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock and 2 to 5 o'clock. E. MARKS & BRO. Scotland Neck. N. C. We do all kinds of lathe and ma chine work, repair engines and boil ersand run a general repair shop nurse-shoeing a specialty. sLJY IN THE SOUTH nl see the South grow, keep your mon- y at home where it will benefit you and uur city. 1 he Business Magazine S,0utli'8 fading Business Journal telli those who handle same. 3 It also contain. 1.. f Southeri Merchant, articles whict 'u'la UD on V,,,.: J 1-- e. jljj wa hum u Llw mC Iatesl. bes News in the Busl world, condensed fe the busy man. I Sd $1.00 for year's subscription. Business Magazine Co, Jnoxville, Tenn. m ts Wo SSS3 BIRTH OF THE EARTH. Chicago Aslroncmer Says it Was Born In a Solar Storm. According to a Chicago dispatch to a New York paper, Prof. F. R. Moulton, associate professor of as tronomy in the University of Chica go, declares that the earth was born in a solar storm. "Storms so ter rific that the human mind is unable to comprehend their force are com mon on the sun," says Professor Moulton. "Matter is sometimes thrown out 275,000 miles. The at traction of the sun usually draws this nebula back, but when the world was formed another sun with a counter-pull of gravity drew the material out into space, and this mass solidified and tormed the earth." The Montgomery Advertiser thinks Professor Moulton ''certainly has a good memory," but the chances are that his memory is not so good as his imagination is vivid. We do not envy those persons who are ready to accept the Moulton theory of the birth of the earth, for it is likely to lead them into a field of unsatisfac tory and unprofitable speculation. They may next want to know wheth er the moon and the stars were like wise born of the sun and how. in fact the sun itself came to be. The Biblical theory is slightly op posed to that of Professor Moulton. It holds that in the beginning God created the heaven and the earth; that the earth was without form and void, but that He gave it form and filled it with living things; that darkness was upon the face of the deep, but that He commanded light and it came; that He divided the light from the darkness, calling the one day and the other night, and that He made the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night. That theory is good enough for most of us. The average man likes to believe, in his saner moments, that there is a God Al mighty; that He made the earth just as the Bible says He did, and that in Ilia own aood tliiie lie will uetaroy it, but that He has prepared for those of us who deserve it another and a better country in which to dwell always a country of peace and plenty, where nothing can en ter to give us pain or make us afraid; where there will be no politics and where the cost of living is not so high that any of us will have to work t . .1 ft n n : over time. cristoi neram-ouner. Cursed God and Has Been Helpless . Ever Since. Mr. Henry Sherrill, of the Iron Station community, while on a visit to relatives here last week, told an interesting story concerning one of his neighbors, Abe Hester, a man of 50 years and a well to do farmer. He said that in June Hester, who had evidently worried about the drouth and the loss of crops until he became unbalanced although up to the moment he appeared sane en oughgot out in his yard one day and fnrspd the Almichty to all the variations of profanity he could muster, because no ram tell to re- ieve the crops. Following this says Mr. Sherrill, he got out his shotgun and discharged it three times in the air as a token of his feelings toward Deity. All at once he collapsed, and from that day to this has lain help less on his bed, unable to move or sneak, recognizing no one. Physi cians called in found him complete ly paralyzed. Hickory Democrat. IS THE BEST IN WORLD- THE because it is made of the purest and best in gredients, because it contains more healing, strengthening and up building material than any other Emulsion, and because it is a perfect product of a scientific ally perfect process. Doctors the world over recognize Scott's Emulsion as the Standard prepa ration of Cod Liver Oil , AW. DRUGGISTS IIS!! THANKSGIVING. For the sunshine and the rain, For the dew and for the shower, For the yellow, ripened grain, And the golden harvest hour, We bless Thee, oh, our God! For the heat and the shade, For the gladness and the grief, For the tender, sprouting blade, And for the nodding sheaf, We bless Thee, oh, our Godl For the hope and for the fear, For the storm and for the peace, For the trembling and the cheer, And for the glad increase, We bless Thee, oh, our God! Our hands have tilled the sod, And the torpid seed have sown; But the quickening was of God, And the praise be His alone. We bless Thee, oh, our God. Selected. The State's Best Frieod. The great body of North Carolin ians who love their state and its good name, who believe in justice and mercy, who are not satisfied with a careless administration of jus tice which looks only to the dollar that is involved, have in Judge Allen an exponent and leader of whom they may well be proud. Coupled with his great judicial mind and long experience, he has within him a great heart, a combination that makes him the man, the Nort Caro linian that he is. His charge to the grand jury in this county recently, in which he called for certain refor mations in convict camps and other institutions in the state, shows the love he has for the commonwealth, and the sentiment expressed is so far above that which comes from the sordid as well as cruel policy that has been in vogue in some lo calities, we may well pause to re joice in the helpful innovation. We believe that the few words that Judge Allen casually let fall from his lips will be taken up and will re sult in a great change in the system that now prevails. For 50 years North Carolina has arisen no higher than the "self-sustaining" policy in dealing with of- a K yTT flof i3 olmnof f I C gracetul to a great, yet careless, people.--High Point Enterprise. Carolina 4, W. and L. 0. Chapel Hill, Nov. 20. Saturday afternoon, in a gale of wind at Nor folk, Va., the football team of the University of North Carolina de feated the strong team of Washing ton and Lee University by the score of 4 to 0. During the first three quarters of the game the ball was kept almost wholly in Washington and Lee's ter ritory. In the last quarter, Wash ington and Lee took on new strength and threatened Carolina's goal. Here a fumble by her opponents gave Carolina the ball, which Tillett bunted to safety. The two scores of the game were two "safeties" made in the first and second quarters. Each time a W. and L. man with the ball was tackled behind his own goal. Carolina team showed strength and used only the simplest plays of the season '. Her whole strength will be shown in the game with Virginia on Thanksgiving Day. Washington and Lee's particular star was Miles, who played an excellent game. For Carolina: Strange, L. Aber nathyand Applewhite played good ball. Final preparation for the Thanks giving game begins today. Coach Bocock will be assisted by Hodgson of V. P. I. and Mr. Doggie French ard, an older Carolina coach. Rules tor Women With Cash. First Six per cent is a liberal re turn for the use of money. Second The higher the interest return the less safe the investment. Third Before buying a security find out what vou could sell it for if you owned it. Fourth Stock extravagantly ad vertised should never be sought. Fifth The personal magnetism f q otnfk salfisman does not add one J A wrm.m. H cent to the value of the stock. Sixth Investment, like medicine, is a science practiced by experts. Seventh Get expert advice con cerning investment. You can affoi d to pay for it, if necessary. Eighth The successful banker is the best adviser when he will ad vise. Ninth Get information about se curities from as many sources as possible before buying. Tenth Don't invest hurriedly. Woman's Home Companion. "Was it a case of love at first i urn vr. r,nnrA cirrVif Th first. signii a, ov"-"-- iSSw ""U" 67 YEARS IN THE POOR BOUSE. The Strange Life-Story of Lynn An- (terson. There is in the county home a wo man who has been its inmate since its establishment aboit 67 years ago. Her name is Lynn Anderson. Lynn's mother was the wife of Jack Ander- son, wno naa neen in tne aays oi nis youth a sailor and was known in the Grassy Creek neighborhood in the northern part of the county where he lived, as Sailor J&ck Auderson. After the death of Sailor Jack" his wife, being penniless and unable to make a living for herself and two daughters, Margaret and Lynn, took them and went to the county home, which had just been built on what is now Mr. G. S. Lee's farm three miles southeast of Monroe, and they were the first inmates of the "coun ty poor house," as it was then call ed. The late Mrs. Lucinda Simpson, mother of Esquire C. N. Simpson, said that she well remembered see ing Mrs. Anderson and her two lit tle daughters passing her house on their way to the "poor house." When Lynn entered the county home she was four years old. Her mother and sister died many years ago. Lynn is now over 70 years old and she knows no other home than the one provided by the county and has not in all the long years since she entered it spent a night from under its roof and she has never, in all these years, been more than half a mile from its walls, except when she made the trip more than fifty years ago from the site out in the country to Monroe when the county home was moved to town. Lynn is a re markably strong woman and has done an immense amount of hard work. She has drawn and carried enough water from the well out in the yard at the county home, before water works was put in, to float a gunboat, and if all the wood she has carried in her arms from woodpile to house could be put intone stack it would be higher than the court house. Lynn has been during all her life a very strong, healthy per son and has never had but one at- t tack of illness and that was a slight one. She is sun aoie to ao worK ana is a willing worker. She is dull of intellect what is known as a half witted person and can do the rough est kind of work only. But the drudgery the hard, knotty hands nf poor old Lynn have done! The county has spent many a dollar on Lynn's keep, but if she had been eriven credit for the work she has done the county would in all proba bility owe her something. The new county home, two miles west of town, will be completed in a few days, and Lynn will go out to it and make the second journey she has made since as a little four-year-old girl she trudged by her mother's side over the long road from the humble cabin home on Grassy creek to the poorhouse and the last jour nev she will ever make until she goes into that undiscovered country from which there is no returning and then well, the good God wil take care of Lvnn MonroeEnquirer CAN YOU ASK MORE? Your Money Back for the Asking. You Promise Nothing. We are so confident that we can furnish relief for indigestion and dyspepsia that we promise to sup ply the medicine free of all cost to every one who uses it accorning to directions who is not perfectly satis - find with the results. We exact no promise and put no one under any obligation whatever. Surely noth ing could be fairer. We are located right here where you live, and our reputation should be sufficiene as surance of the genuineness of our offer. We want every one who is troubl ed with indigestion or dyspepsia in any form to come to our store and buy a box of Rexall Dyspepsia Tab lets. Take them home and give them a reasonable trial, according to di rections. If they don't please you tell us and we will quickly return your money, but positive with which They have a very mild action upon the organs i thev come in contact, apparently acting as a regulative i the relaxed muscular tome upon coat of the bowel, thus overcoming weakness, and aiding to restore the bowels to more vigorous and healthy rctivity. Three sizes, 23c, 50c, and $1 00. Remember, you can obtain c-roii Rerr.pdies only at our store The Rexall Store Company. E. T. Whitehead mu , thinff so e-ood for a sore J throat as Dr. TnjJj-... Pr saIe by ' rwps it n 1 Pain in any par. u ic COTTON PICKING MACHINE TESTED. Spectators Who Watched it Operate Declare Work Perfect. The Charlotte (N. C.) News says: Here for the first time in the world's history is a thoroughly prac tical and successful mechanical cot ton picker. It picks the cotton and it picks it clean and in better condi tion than the hand picker. The machine is almost human in its selectiveness. Without injury to the plant, the green boll or the few scattering leaves the worms have overlooked, the picking fingers of this truly wonderful , machine take the lint out of the open burrs and leave them bare. After the machine has passed, the plant is there, erect, uninjured and only the cotton has disappeared. It is almost magic. Think what this machine means to the cotton belt yes, and to the world at large, far more than ever before in the world's history cotton is king. To have a cotton picker that will work six days in the week, every week; that will not get drunk or move over night to the other fellow's arm for 10 cents more a hundred, and that will even pick at night if you want to mount a searchlight in front of the driver's seat! It is a dream come true. It is marvelous. but is very real. The machine was stopped a? the crowd gathered around, and the cas ings of the picking mechanism oper ated. Within were tapering steel fingers hundreds of them each with very small teeth or barbs cut the full length of the fingers on one of its sides, and all the fingers in serted in revolving steal tubes or casings. As the machine travels for ward astride a row of cotton, these little fingers are thurst into the plant from either side, and, revolv ing rapidly, catca the open lock, and wind it quickly with cotton cease to revolve as they are drawn out of the plant and pass through the stationary stripping bars from which the cotton drops to the car- 14. . til 1 rier oeits, passes tnrougn me clean ing chambers, where dirt and trash are blown out of it, and it drops in to the baskets in the rear of the machine ready to start on its jour ney to the gin. And all this takes far less time to do than it does to tell about. A Gift With a Ihougbt in it. What other Christmas present costs so little and means so much as a subscription to The Youth's Com panion 52 weeks Jor $1.75? It is a gift which benefits not only the one who receives it, but every member of the same household. With many Christmas presents the sense of novelty wears off by the -week's end, but The Youth's Com panion is as new and sought after the fifty-second week of the year as the first. It is elastic in its adapt ability, too; for it does not matter whether the present is for a boy or a girl, young married people, sedate couples, grandparents there never was one yet who did not set store by The Youth's Companion. You can not make a mistake if you give The Companion and it is only $1.75 a year now. On January 1, 1912, the price will be advanced to $2.00. The one to whom you give the subscription will receive free the Companion's Calendar for 1912, lith ographed in ten colors and gold, and you, too, as giver of the subscrip tion, will receive a copy of the cal endar. The Youth's Companion, ; 144 Berkeley St., Boston Mass. New subscriblions received this office. Why Stars TwinSln. The twinkling of the stirs is chief ly an effect produced in the atmos phere upon the waves of light. It is due to currents and strata of air of different densities intermingling and floating past each ether, through which the light passes to the eye. It is seen much more in cold than in warm weather and nearer t!u hori- i zonmore than overhead. The same I effect may be seen by looking out of a window over a hot radiator or a candle held on the other side of a hot stove, so that vou have to look through a body ot heateu air at tne candle flame. The flame will be seen to waver and quiver. In other words the various layers affairs are at dif ferent densities and in motion, hence the "twinkle." Exchange. ' "I am pleased to recommend Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best thing I know of and the safest remedy for cough3, colds, and bron Ma trnnhles." writes Mrs. L. B. I Arnold, of Denver, Colo. "We have 1-orllv and it. has never ! n j..i j ail ueciici c. 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An appeal ! was taken to the suoreme court; : and now our highest court affirms the decision, declaring thit a loan . 1 of whiskey was a sale ana this whether the offender be street cor ner loafers of the colored persuasion or a gentleman of the upper ten who belongs to clubs and things. Kinston Free Press. CHILDREN INJURED. Ordinary Cathartics, andPills ard Harsh Physic Cause Distressing Complaint. You cannot be over-careful in the selection of medicine for children. Only the very gentlest bowel medi cine should ever be given, except in emergency cases. Ordinary pills, ca thartics and purgatives are apt to do more harm than good. They may cause griping, nausea and other distressing after-effects that aie frequently health-destroying. We personally recommend and guarantee Rexall On'erlie.s v. the safest and most depei tUble remedy, which we know, for constipation pnd associate bowel disordt rs. We have such absolute faith in the virtures of this remedy that we sell it on our guarantee of money back in every instance where it fails to give entire satisfaction, and we urge all in need of such mt dieir.e to try it at our risk. Il"X?.ll Orderlies are eaten just like cj'.n.ly, are particularly prompt and agreeable inaction, may be tak en at any time, day or night; do not cause diarrhoea, nausea, griping, excessive looseness, or other unde sirable efftcts. They have a very mild but positive action upon the organs with whic'i they come in con tact, apparently acting as a regula tive tonic upon the relaxed muscii lar eo.it of the bowel, thus over coming weak nes, and aiding to re store the b..we!.s to more vigorous and healthy activity. Rexall Orderlies commonly com nletelv relieve constipation, except of course when of a surgical char acter. They also tend to overcome the necessity of constantly taking laxatives to keep the bowels in nor mal condition. Three sizes or pacK ages, 10 cents, 25 cents, and 50 cents. Remember, you can obtain Rexall Remedies in Scotland Neck only at our store The Rexall Store. E.T. Whitehead Company. Torturing eczema spreads its burning area" every day. Doan's Ointment quickly stops its spreading, instantly relieves the itching, cures it permanently. At any drug store. Hookworm Dispensaries. Raleigh, N. ('., Nov. 13. Fiv counties have provided the fund necepsary to have free dispensaries fr.r the tree examination for and treatment of hookwoim disease fiucii November First. These are the counties of Wake, Vance, Beau fort, Bertie and Edgecombe. Prior to November First, nineteen counties had made provision for them, mak ing a total now of twenty-four coun- ( ties. The work ha3 been finished in , ten counties and is now in progress in Pitt, Brunswick, Pender, Harnett j and Hertford. i : WHAT AILS YOU? MI-O-NA Stomach TaV.tt aie guaranteed by E.T. 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Our facilities are unequalled for this work and we invite your inspection at all times. Every Style of glsf.s made is furnished by us and we can satisfy your eve ry want. It is no trouble to show you anything and we are always glad to bo of service. We Satisfy You Saccestorc to TUCKER. HALL k CO. Opticians of The Best Sort 53 Granby Street, NORFOLK. RICHMOND. ROANOKE.
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