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.drgest circulation cr ANY CoiriiV Newspaper. Commonwealth The Largest- Circulation CF ANY Halifax County Newspaper. I Tat' . : U;or aua Proprietor. "Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year. NUMBERS ,. .avu. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1911. lu!ij a i!t; Weened fcy 0? er-Werk. ,,,1,,.? i;iU?teys Slake Impure Blood. -- -- ; ;-:l:?,-iuIiy kidneys ere re '1' .- -"r i::ucl: sickness and suffering, . :'i therefore, it kidney trouble is permitted to continue, tenons re ulls ere most likely "yU to follow. Your other organs nay neea at tention, but your kid- i ::cys most, oecause J fncy do most and should have attention first. Therefore, when rc -rreak or out cf order, :?nd he-.v quickly your e fl ic a r.nd now every organ It' -Y YY miaraisii XT" !l feci badly," begin Kidney remedy, Dr. -.-Root. A trial will con sjre.it merit. d immediate effect of greit kidney and -. is soc:i realized. It l because its remarkable ; -properties have teen ; :-. Is ci the most distiess need a medicine you r i ! W Pra .'.'":C VC-'l i-yrrt ol amp-Rct. .:. otu )f you have kidney or - -'! -- Mention this paper t" jV. Kilmer & Co., , . V. 'Don't meke any mis . ihe iiame, Swamp- ; . let a t'ealer sell yea ... r 1 ;re or c---varrip-F.ooi if : i;:h:-:et at Law, ; 'rotlaxid Keek, X. C. . nv where. .iilON Duxx Lawyer ere whenever his services 13 11 be required. R. C. ri'NN. ;-. C. Er.firfd, N. C. R. C DUNN, North Carolina. 'Inn?y loaned on anprov- iiEY; HE little folks cf ail the vcrid do r.ot kesp Christmas a.3 th? children cf this coun- :ry do. In fact each land has its c-n peeuiiar v.-ays, and our people, being lra-Tx crigianUy from almost every lime, have lavroduecd iuio our cels i raiiou cf the day a bit of the Christ ra 3 feacurca brsr.g:bt froai mother :ouatrie3. Vv'a have the Dutch Santa 'him, the CHrraan Christmas tree, the ;I!r.Siis!i pluir pudding and carols and jar own peculiarly lavish gift mak-cg-. The t,oyz and girls of far distant ccunirPi3 are epsnding the day in such different v.ravs that it may prove of in terest to ycung and old to hear some chins cf the distinctive Christmas customs. HE English Christmas is not unlike ours, save that we do not have their pretty cus- .om of "bringing in the yule." In al most every family in England the boys and girl3 gather about the burning log on Christmas eve to sing carols and tell Christmas legends. Often the children who live in the country as sist at the dragging in of the huge log. An English child would not feel it was Christmas if there was not a bit of mistletoe hanging in the hall, under which the unwary are kissed soundly. Little and big eat the rich and blazing plum pudding, and all join in the sing ing of Christmas carols and church- Attorney end Counselor at Law Scotland Neck, N. C. Try '.:- v.h.--feve-r hi.? services are reauired. Cl i, Tlirtrt'-n D. Kitch'n, I.D. . ",. Phone No. 131. UK &K.ITCIIIN 'r'ns an i Surgeons in Brick Hotel ": Ph -ne No. 21. . A. MIFF, OPTICIAN ,-:ru Nek, N. C. f-ra-iine-l pres. Broken :. . l-.-.-l and frames repaired. cash. v-: t:-, IOCKY MOUNT, N. C. ...i'hti1 Neck. N. C, on i. oscisvof each month treat the diseases of , N Throat, and 'I.- .--T AI-TT) SUK'.JKON, 'cM-.I Neck, IT. C. - . n J)f:tot street. HPJSTMAS in Holland is the gala day of the year for the .children. Thv hava a pret.tr :ustom of ushering it in. Just at caidnighV on Christma;3 eve, the men and boys dressed in fancy costume, march through the streets in long pro cession, holdiDg aloft a brilliantly lighted star, as they chant the "Gloria in Excelsis." The little girls clad in white stand at the windows and bow to the star as it passes. ERHAPS the finest Christ mas cf alV if not the most ciren of Germanj'. It combines the Christ child which, we Americans are prone to forget and Santa Claus. The whole day is full of cheer; fam ilies feast and go to church; pres ents are simple, but in every home i.i a blazing tree hung with cakes, color en candles and gifts. It is a pretty s'rbt to see the children march in o Fee their tree, singing aa they go, "O, Tannen Baum" (O, Tir Tree), to th3 air of "Maryland, My Maryland.'' In many German towns just as the bells ring to usher in Christmas, every window in every house is quick ly lighted. Then the children are up bright and early, even the tiny babies, to e-o to sis o'clock church. Often each child bears a candle to illuminate tha ciiuroh. Tne German Kris'! Ting!e has on 3 aorrid La bit that our jolly old St. Nick would scorn. He generally leaves in the stockings' a bunch of switches in Dase they should be needed before his next call. " P i:-', -71 I mith rsicha on1 Surgeon i ::i :. ters ik Commercial j.tiiioing: iHANTme a rhyme of Christmas And tKoudh it is filed vith I if? A-j. Let it be rmrp ann 5rnnrt jr rtacwta hmtntrioH -!.n -- Wth the story of the day"" Of the echo of childish voices That will not die awsry;- And the timeless clatter and beat Of the drum that throbs to muster Squadrons of scampering feet. ButOJet your voice fall famter, Till, blent with a minor tone, "You temper your sondwith the beauty Of the pity Christ hath shown. And sincf one verse for the voiceless; Anayet, ere the song be done, A verse for the ears that hear not, And a verse for the sightless one. For fhoughit be time tor singing A merry Christmas jglee,. Let a low, sweet voice or pathos Run throuch the melody. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY- m i 'e",W,l, C- WiL MoMcni Christmas XT straignt young oaK, which he drags into the room where the family awaits him, saying as he does so: "Good even ing and a merry Christmas!" Then the children shout back: ' :May Rod grant both to thee and mayst thou have riches and honor." With this they shower their father with corn and the tree is thrown on the fire to burn until Christmas morn ing, when it is greeted with pistol shots. (Efri0tma0 Win? ani Walnuts have a tree. Sometimes they hang up slippers to be filled, instead of stockings, and there is great chanting of "Noel, Noel," the Christmas song. Like the Scandinavian children, lit tle French boys and girls never forget the birds, but instead of placing sheaves of grain on long poles, they are hung along the eaves of the houses. Wonderful Man. Decern Ginks had the most wondar iul -centre; of kte features of any man t ever knew. Eurr 1 understand he was a mar vel. Decern He was. Yvhy, I've even seen that man look pleased when he saw what his wife had bought him for Christmas. HE children of Belgium on Christmas Eve are dressed in gay colors and form a pro- Dession, which marches through the streets, led by an orchestra and sing ing carols. Each child holds aloft eith er a Chrifitchild in a manger or a crucifix. MERIOAN mothers find one day of Christmas merrymak ing distractiiig enough for their children, how v.oulJ they like to live in Russia, where work is often suspended for a fortiisbt, while all the In Advance. Mrs. Skinflint Oh. John! - Mary, the parlor maid, ha3 just swallowed a Quarter! What ever shall we do? Old Skinflint Do? Well. I suppose we'd better let her keep it. She'd havo expected a Christmas present, anyhow! Once Enough.. "Christmas comes but once a year, said the cheery citizen. i "No use in its coming twice a year," said the morose person. "Must give a man a chance to save a little money before he can spend it!" ;.r.d r N. C. HE Servian children have a strange custom. On Christ mas Eve the father of the family goes to the wood and cuts a f.R. II , in L UVSRIiON, DENTIST. o:.i; f : up stairs in White head Building. ftco hours from 9 to 1 o'clock "r'l '. to 5 o'clock. W. I E. HARKS & BRO. Scotland Neck, N. C. aU kinds of lathe and ma- c:n'; work, repiir engines and boil sanrj -;m a genera', repair shop. horo-$!io--inr a specialty. 1 -:.CIftnV! mi teaatifici ti .hftu. 1 " w. lc3tnri!t frowta. f 7.' rt-i . to J9 youthful Celor. J HAIR BALSAM 6sj neocle keen holiday. Even the poorest peasant has a tree and it is harvest time for beggars, for no one will refuse him anything. In some of the country districts tne boys dress as animals, and led by otn er boys as keepers, march through the streets headed by a band of boys mak ing dreadful music with harsh sound- nz instruments. These precessions go from door to door, pound until they are admitted, and all given food and drink, and two small pieces of money. Ail over Scandinavia a week is given to merrymaking. Every one goes to six o'clock church on the dark cnristmas morning-, and in the evening every homo in the land is illuminated. They have wonderful trees, around which grown people and children dance and sing. The Scandinavian child is very good to the poor on Christmas ana akes gifts and food to poor famines. Too Late. Highwayman Halt! Your money or votir life! Victim It's no go, stranger. My wife's in the same line of business at ways at Christmas time, and she's just finished with me. mi a mm Mictjft w Mm m b I ,s - ss asNs v-sj vw has helped countless thousands of thin, weak, delicate children made them strong, plump 3 i z.. ana ruvunf It creates an appetite, aids digestion, fills the 3 veins wuu blood. After illness or loss I of weight from any fi 1. i-U VOUQV) ' w and flesh quicker than anything else. ALL DRUGGISTS 1 Two Kinds. j There are friends and Christmas ! ires friends. The latter take all the presents they can get. and present vou with beautiful boughs. A MYSTERY. Bulgarian "Koleda." In Unlearia "Koleda." as Christians is called, is marked with many quaint ceremonies. One is called "Koledars," the name given to a band of boys, mostly", who go about proclaiming that the season of fasting is over, and her alding a reign of feasting and merri ment. Each Koleda party numbers seven the Old Man, the Old Woman, thA Crumb Picker (who collects toe presents and money, while the Old Man and Old Woman piay tne ioou, and Four Singers, who carol out the Christmas songs. The attire of the Koledars is most grotesque, and their procession is joined by a huge crowd of townspeople, who take a great de light in the antics of the jesters. JAMES WHITCOMB ITTLE Mandy and her Ma S poorest folks you ever saw! Lived in poorest house in town. Where the fence 'uz all tore down. And no front-door steps at all lat a' old box 'e'inst the wall: And no door-knob on the door Outside My! but they uz poor I Wuz no winder-shutters on, And some of the winders gone. And where they 'uz broke they'd pas'e 1st brown paper 'crost the place. Tell you! when it's winter there, And the snow ist ever'where, Little Mandy 's Ma she say 'Spec' they'll freeze to death some day. Wunst my Ma and Me when we Be'n to church, and's goin' to be Chris'mas purty soon, we went There like the Committee sent. And Sir! When we're in the door, Wus no carpet on the floor, And no fire and heels and head Little Mandy'8 tuck ed In bed. And her Ma telled my Ma she Got no coffee but ist tea, And fried mush and's all they had Bense her health broke down so bad. Nen Ma hug and hold me where Little Mandy's layin' there; And she kiss her, too, and nen Mandy kiss my Ma again. And my Ma she telled her we Goin' to have a Chris'mus-Tree At the Sunday School, 'at's fer All the children, and fer her. Little Mandy think nen she Say, "What is a Chris'mus-Tree?' Nen my Ma she gived her Ma Somepin' 'at I saw. And say she must take it, and She ist maked her keep her hand Wite close shut, and nen she kiss Her hand shut ist ike it is. Nen we corned away . . . And nen When its Chris'mus Eve again, And all of us chil- derns be At the Church and Chris'mus-Tree. And all git our toys and things 'At old Santy Claus he brings And puts on the Tree; wite where The big Tree 'us standin' there.- And the things 'uz all looked down, Atfd the childerns, all in town, Got their presents nen ve see They's a little Chrie'min-Tree. Wite behind the big Tree -so We can't see till nen, you know, And it's all ist loaded down With the artiest things lu town! 8 Burroughs-Pittman-Wheeler Co, EVERYBODY'S STORE. A IMF J AT 2:30 P. M., the drawing for the $100.00 ve are giv ing away will take place at our store. Be on hand and bring your tickets. until the drawing takes place you get on ticket for every fifty cents cash purchase made at our store. You still have a chance to get some of this $ico.oo. We have many useful and valuable articles suitable for Christmas presents, and we will appreciate your patronage. We wish EVERYBODY a Merrv Christmas. Burroughs-Pittman-Wheeler Co., Everybody's Store, Scot Send Keel:, N. ( ri At the Dinner. Last Christmas a certain minister was invited to a bis dinner at the house of one of the leading men in the town. At the dinner table he was placed opposite a goose. The lady of the house was placed on the minister's left. Seeing the goose he remarked: "Shall I sit so cloRe to the goose?" Finding his words a bit equivocal, he turned round to the lady, aud said, in a most inoffensive lone: "Excuse me, my lady; I meant the roast one." T.V3 Poir.ts of Vic a. On cne occrsion. rt a party glve:i by Sir Jolm MiMals. l-F.ity Halle roru to play 'he vto!!n. when to rer in tense cmu?e:v.cr.t the heard Lanslsttr exclaim: (jeort gracious! A wcsni an playir.s :tc lid tile!" On the otr.or hand, cn oNi-tasfctore J r.cl!:-;nar-. wfcen 1". a'.v a pen' Vninn fit flown t the rilr.nn. cc.'itenintu'iv.viy rorr.r.rl.v't: I "l wcr.c'r.r if ti e c-.3r.trr2 crn few!"' A Convenient Myth. "Why do you still keep up that ab surd Santa Claus myth?" asked tho cynic. "I should have thought you would have laughed at it" "Because," answered the man with a large family, "it is convenient to have some one to blame for presents that fail to please." A ric'i-r:! Cues'.icn. "Iliitby, Tin soics lr. ir.r Cue tiniple life n wldie." "AM r-;ht. it;y Hear." said Uubhy. f.s !u- roncci lor nu cheek l.rck. "Mow inrry g'w3 wit! rhut :e"ulr-.?" OPPORTUNE. George Ab, Lily, dear, this will b .he joliiest Christmas I've ever spent. Now that we're enjraged I think only of the future. Lily Do you? Well, at this time of the ear I think only of the present. Chri&tmas Thanks. When turkey's on the table laid, And good things I may scan, I'm thankful that I wasn't made A vegetarian. CATARRH DOCTOR. You Can Get the Rest Onv in tho World for $1.C0. .MM Melancholy Days. Thce are no melancholy days it we keep in tune with the bright and in teresting things of life. The secret (tea in being alive to what is going on about us. Don't miss the things that are worth wbiie. This bit of philosophy applies to our advertU--mouts. Don't let them go by un heeded. They may be the means of fMm tn the sum total o! your hap- Dudley Nobs Pa, there's one thing about .Santa Claus I never could un derstand. Mr. NobsWhat is that, my son? Dudley Nebs Why does Santa al ways Uave valuable present'? to rich folks' and cheap ores to poor people? Why don't he even things up? A Clean Sweep. Caroline I've been in the store all .lav Pauline So soon after Christmas, and ftill shopping? Caroline Shopping! 1 guess dot. I'm exchanging all my presents. Cackling. Mrf.. Gramercy She must have been surprised when her husband gave her such .r, expensive pres-ent for Chnst- Mrs. Park Not surprised, my dear, but suspicious. Poor Man. Mr Caller You surely don't give your husband a neoktie every Chnst- l0a3? T J I A. ,1 Mr Athoma Oh, ye3, I do! And the poor dear never seems to know that it is the same cce! 1 1 1 --.'is -iii in- And lite teachei, smile and say: 'This here Tree 'at'a hid away It's marked 'Little Mandy's Tree!' Little Mandy! Where is she?" Nen nobody say a word. Stillest uiace. you ever heard! Tili a man tiptoe up where teachers still a- waiting there. Trsubie and a Turkey. H rii vv n was boas-ting of the hue tnr key he had bought for Christmas. ' F.iggcSt bird I ever saw; coat me reven-fifty." "That's nolhlng to tbe turkey I bad last Christmas," said his friend Jones. "It cost me $150." "One hundred and fifty dollars!" positively sliiieked Brown, in his in credulity. T "Yes," said Jones, bitterly. "Turkeys." said Brown, looking him r.trzizht in the eye, "are generally to be bought for a quarter a pound. Say yours was n quarter, then it must have weighed rbout C30 pounds!" "It only weighed twenty pounds." said Jones, sjt'dv; "but I bought it "alive and tried lo kill it myself. It flew all over house first and did $150 worth 'f daaiase." Go to E. T. Whitehead Compary today. Say "I want a HYOMEI out fit,'' take it home with yon, c-pt-n the box and pour a few dmrs.-.f HYOMEI (pronounce it Ilifrh-o-tr.t.') into the little rubber inhaler. Then breathe pleasant. fO'thir;r, healing, germ killing HYOMEI over the raw, inflamed, perm ridden membrane for a few minutes rr.d relief is immediate. Stuffed up head vill veni-h. Kee p up the treatment four or five times a day for a few day J and bawkir.fr, spitting and forming of m-jfus in the ror.e and thrrat will ee.vo. HYOMEI h guarantewl t ci .l catarrh, eonpli?, cold.-, croup. sth ma, fihurhal dafr.e:-fi. or mcn y back. Complete outfit $1.00. f;ubf (juent I cities if needed ",0 cents ht E. T. Whitehead Company and drr :? gi.sts every v lie-re. Nen the man he whispers, so j 1st the Teacher hears, you know. ; Nen he tiptoe bank and go Out the big door ist as slow! j i Little Mandy, though she don't j Answer and Ma say "she won't Never, though each year they'll be Little Mandy's Ctris'mus-Tree !' Fer per 5 eu.Iuien" xu.y Ma say And Committee say they guess "Little Mandy's Tree" 'ull be Bigger than the other Tree' (Copyright, by BoSbs-MeniU Co.) Few of us live to learn: and fewer learn to live. Saved I'.is Wife's Life. "My wife would have bfen in her grave today," wviitsO. H. Brywn, c Muscfctfii,;?, Ab., "if it had not been for Dr. Kind's New Discovery. Sh? W3 down in her bed, not able to Ket up without help. She had a severe bronchial t rouble and a dread ful cough. I trot her a bottle of Dr. tcinrr'c Kpw riisenverv. and she soon Wan to mend, and was well in a .hort time." 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