THE COMMONWEALTH.
Published Every Thursday
BY
J. C. HARDY, Editor and Proprietor.
Entered at the postoffice at Scotland
Neck, N. C. , as Second-Class Matter.
Thursday, October 23, 1913.
GOVERNOR SULZER IMPEACHED.
The hieher court of impeachment
rendered a decision Thursday of last
week finding Governor William Sul
zer, of New York, guilty of three of
the articles preferred and he was
removed from office Saturday. The
articles under which he was found
guilty do not disqualify him from
holding office in the State of New
York. This fact looks to us like the
men after him were just after get
ting him out of office and nothing
more.
IT SHOULD BE DONE.
There is talk now of erecting a
building on the lot near the new
postoffice building to be known as
the town hall and to contain the
market stalls, mayor's office, fire
department and a nice hall or opera
house.
We would like the best in the
world to see this enterprise put
forth right away. The town is
fully able to erect this building and
it ought to be done. Let us take
this forward step then and go on to
higher and better things. Give us
the municipal building.
Why find fault with your town
why not put your shoulder to the
wheel and roll it along?
And the legislature adjourned
without selling the State's stock in
the Old Mullet railroad.
We are told that the railroads of
the United States use about 150,
000,000 wooden ties each year.
Matters in the Thaw case have
been quiet the past several weeks.
We would be satisfied if it should
never be heard of again.
Oak City Iteos.
Oak City, Oct 21. The death of
Charlie Council which occurred Sun
day morning, October 19th, has
thrown a cloud of sorrow over the
whole community.
Hp w? the son of Mr. Bate Coun
cil, a well known farmer, near here.
He was married about eleven monina
m? ni;..;o Tai-lv Mr.
ago 10 IVliss vnviti j.
Council was well known throughout
Martin county and every gathering
our citizens may have, his familiar
figure will be sadly missed.
He leaves a wife and nuie ooy
111 J n J e
about six weeks ;oia, iwu
ters, Miss Lou Council and Mrs.
Frank Haislip, of Hamilton, also a
brother, Robert Council, and his
father.
He was buried Monday evening
in the old family cemetery by tne
Woodmen of the World.
Rev. Silvester Hassell, of vvn-
liamston, officiated. The ceremony
of the W. O. W. was very impres
sive. There was a very large gath
ering of relatives and friends tnai;
followed his body to the grave. All
sympathize with the bereaved ones
in their sorrow. The floral tributes
were many and beautiful.
Mrs. Ricky Burnett and daugh
ter were here Sunday.
Mr. Van Tayler, Jr., and Miss
Julia Salisbury, of Hassel, were in
town Sunday.
Miss York left Monday for RocKy
Mount. ,
Miss Smith, of Washington, iett
for her home Sunday morning.
Miss Annie Mae Dautridge, who
is attending Winterville school, is
home for a few days.
Rev. Sylvester Hassell, of Wil-
liamston. was in town Monday.
Misses Malissa and Mary Worsley
are in Raleigh this week.
Misses Nannie House and Mary
Johnson, also Prof. Whi taker at
tended the teachers meeting at Wil
liamston Saturday.
M. L. Burnett spent a couple of
days last week in Washington.
Misses Susie and Lillie Mae Bur
nett were in town Saturday.
Jim Hobbs spent Sunday in Oak
City.
Honor Roll.
Coming Soon.
The Big Circus Coming.
The Governor of Iowa has set
aside a fire-prevention day, urging
that the citizens discuss conditions
and create a sentiment against for
estfirc a.-.(! other conflagrations.
The dt) s set apart by Governor
Locke Craig and endorsed by our
County Commissioners for working
the roads are Wednesday and
Thursday, November 5th and
6th. The plan is to have every
man in North Carolina work on the
roads the-e two days. This little
work will hurt no one and will do a
great deal towards bettering the
condition of !our roads. We hope
everybody will get busy and work
on the days named.
The
State WUi P.i" $450,000 Income
lax.
Washington, Oct. 13. The income
tax, it is estimated, will yield about
$80,500,000 North Carolina's share
that is somowhere in the neighbor
hood of $450,000. The sum of 800,
000 has been provided for the collec
tion of the tax. About $3,500 of
this will go to North Carolina which
will be used by Collectors Watte and
Bailey in the employment of addi
tional help.
Charlotte or Winston-Salem the
experts have not decided which
will pay I; e prreatest sum of any
Tar Heel community to the income
tax collectors.
The income tax will cover every
State in the Union, Hawaii, Porto
Rico, and the Philippines.
The corporation tax, which was
first collected for the fiscal year
ending December 31, 1910, has re
sulted in the following collections:
For 1S10 28,000.000; 1911, $33,511,
525, and 1912, $28,583,559. The in
come trx will produce more than
three times as much.
New York State will pay almost
twice as much as any other State in
income taxes. Pennsylvania will
come next, and Illinois, Ohio, and
Massachusetts in the order named.
The responsibility for the collec
tion of the income tax rests directly
upon Col. W. H. Osborne, Commis
sioner of Internal Revenue.
One of the pleasant things for a
newsprper is the announcement of a
first class circus coming and this we
have the pleasure of doing for the
Number One Advance Car of the
Downie & Wheeler Shows was in
the city Tuesday and the smail army
of men in white overalls and jump
ers pasted on every billboard board
wall and available barn in and about
the town with flaring posters of
wild animals, petite laddies, high
spirited horses wonderful trained
ponies athletic men ana gooaness
knows what all. The "kiddies" are
thrilled with joy and the 'grownups'
gaze at the pictures and remember
the happiest moments of their hap
py childhood days, .baseball is a
national sport but the circus i3 the
national amusement and it will
never grow wearisome as long as
managers and special agents scour
every corner of the globe for new
and strange beasts and snappy death
defying acts.
The Downie and Wheeler Shows
have grown large through sheer
merit and the everlasting diligence
of the management. Every act
must stand the critical test and each
performer, musician, official or at
tache must be a lady or gentleman
under all circumstances or seek oth
er employment eisewnere. This is
an iron clad rule with the Downie
and Wheeler Shows and to this fea
ture they attribute the greatest
part of there wonderful success.
We will publish f uther details and
all we care to say now is for the
"kiddies" to save their pennies and
for the "grownups" to arrange to
go to the show aud make the man
agement prove that the statement
'there's nothing new under the sun'
is untrue. The date for the exhibi
tion here is Saturday Nov. 1st. Be
a child again and enjoy the day
from the of the first gaudy train to
the loading of the last baggage
horse at night for circuses do not
come every day and a good one like
this is not to be missed.
The following pupils have had per
fect attendance the first month of
the Scotland Neck Graded school:
First Grade.
Miss Mi die Pl-elphs, Teacher;
Ethel Allbbrook, Percy Allsbrook,
Elma Anderson, Ella Britt, Mattie
Britton, Helen Brown, Marshall
Herring, Myrtle Johnson, Robert
Ivey Jones, Beneva Leicester, Idonia
Leicester, James Madry, William
Kitchin McDowell, Mary Hayes Mc
Dowell, Ruby Minton, Sallie New
some, Herman Perry, Virginia
Perry, Marion Price, Joseph Sellars,
Edna Staton, Clio Sumrell, Doris
Walston, Irma Wommack.
Second Grade.
Miss Eleanor Smith, Teacher t
Hermam Allsbrook, Roland Alls-
brook, Luther Britt, Joe Norman
Everett, Buck Kitchin, T. Van Land
ingham, W. Van Landingham, Irving
Walston, Etta Dunn, Valera Moore,
Ruth Newell, Ruth Vaughan.
Third Grade.
Miss Louise Josey. Teacher, Revah
Biitt. Dilliard Bunch, Blanche Han
cock, Bettie Hopkins, Juliette Smith,
Lois Speed, Norma Staton, Paul
Tillery.
Fourth Grade.
Miss Cornelia Josey, Teacher;
Edna Allsbrook, Louise Askew, Mary
Bailey, Nannie Co!eaon, Myrtle
Howard, Elizabeth Josey, Martha B.
Madry, Gladys Madry, Ludley
Parks, Elsie Vaughan, Leroy Alls
brook, Joseph Allsbrook, Danford
Burroughs, Balfour Dunn, Vernon
Hancock, Claude Kitchin, Thurman
Madrv. Luther Mills. Maurice
Moore, William Newell, Lonnie Reg
ister, Raymond Walston.
Fifth Grade.
Miss Bessie Helien, Teacher; Mary
Powell Josey, Lester Sumrell, Ger
tie McDowell, Irene Hardy, Edward
Smith, Reba Cherry, Ruth Han
cock, Lonnie Bryant, Richard Sta
ton.
- Sixth Grade,
Miss Pearl Lea, Teacher; Ola
Allsbrook, Cecil Cotten, Nellie Fu-
trell, Waverly Hancock, Mary Josey,
Francis Lewis, Jeraldine Moore,
Philip Purrington, Addie Lee Parks,
Nellie Russell, Ellen Speed, Jessie
Overton, Dorris Tillery.
Seventh Grade.
Miss Annie Dunn, Teacher; Ger
tie Dunn, Hattie May Downing,
Gertie May Hopkins, Ollie Moore,
Ruby Overton, Mary Shields, Vivian
Wilkinson. Eimyra Wommack, Jack
McDowell, Paul Speed.
Eighth Grade.
Miss Mary E. Petty, Teacher; Er
nestine Rasberry, Luther Purrington,
Bennie Woodard, Leslie Jones, Snow-
die Lowe, lone Kitchin, Eugene
White, Uldine Allsbrook, Julian
Bunch.
Ninth Grade.
Miss Helen Billiard, Teacher;
Claudie Harrison, Teresa Hopkins,
Annie McDowell, Lillian Purvis,
Lola Strickland.
Tenth Grade.
It will net be long now until the
SA'eating dappled horses will drag
the rumdling vans loaded with heavy
circus paraphernalia from the rail
yard to the lot of exhibition at Scot
land Neck. The Dow me and Wheel
er Shows will make the place hum
and the town will be filled with
eager good natured people who
want to see a spanking good parade
and show that will chill their blood
by daring feats one moment con
vulse them with laughter at an army
of clowns the next and fill them
with wonder the next. This they
will get for the newspapers at other
places where the Downie and Wheel
er Shows have been are filled with
glowing accounts of the superb per
formance given in tr
'Big Top'
They say the show is just as adver
tised and better. The show will be
here Saturday Nov. 1st.
$100 Reward, $100.
The readers of this paper will be
pleased to Icarn that there is at least
one d resided 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 offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that it
fails ta cure. Send for list of testimo
nials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co.,
Toledo, O. Sold by druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
5 f'
Scarlet Fever
or Diphiheri
Office of Board of Health,
Halifax, N. C, Oct. 16, 1913.
Be it resolved by the Sanataryi
Board of the County of Halifax that
any householder of attending physic
ian knowing or suspecting that Scar
let Fever or Diphtheria exists in said
family shall within twenty four
hours take the facts to the County
Quarantine Officer or Deputy Quar
antine Officer of the Township, who
shall inspect said parties and upon
determining the existance of the!
aforesaid d'sease proper quarntinej
ehall be immediately enforced.
Any physician or householder fail
ing to comply with the above lav;
shall be fined not less than rive
($5.00) dollars and not move than
twenty-five ($('25. ) dollars, or im
prisoned not less than ten (10) days
and not more than twenty-five (25)
days.
Be it further resolved that the
above resolutions be printed and a
copy thereof be mailed to each phy
sician in Halifax county.
Upon the death or recovery of all
parties infected with rhe aforesaid
disease, the premises shall be thor
oughly disinfected under the direc
tion of the quarantine officer.
J. H. Norman,
Clerk,
HOE
We have all sizes to fit the
the baby and the grown-ups.
Before buying your winter J
SHOES t
drop in and see the bargains
we have to show you. We
i have the Wear-Well Stock-
0 V
. i .1 1 x
injjs to go with them also.
$ Hats and Caps.
0 Yes, we have them, too.
Sheeting, Shirting, Overalls,
x and Clothing. Don't forget
these different lines, all new
this fall, and the prices so
low, that is the main thing.
Wilson Allsbrook.
CHAIR appropriate for every use
and in styles to conform with your
already installed furnishings or to con-
y trast beautifully.
And these chairs have been designed
for comfort, as well as beauty, and made
to last a lifetime.
Handsome overstuffed Morris
Rockers, Mission Rockers,
Large, Easy Lounging Chairs,
Turkish Rockers, chairs tor the
Library, Parlor, Hal!, Dining
or Bed Rooms and Kitchen.
All Marked at Quick Selling Prices
Tiik Home oppcrk Diivgs"
WEDDING
Miss Stella Blount, Teacher; Ber
tha Albertson, Ennis Bryan, Mildred
Futrell, Ruby Lowe, Hubert Rid
dick, Annie Wilkinson.
Eleventh Grade.
Miss Stella Blount, Teacher; Jen
nie Dunn, ClarraPope, Verla Strick
land.
Coy Scouts on a Hike.
A Veteran in Service.
CASTOR I A
For Infanta and Children.
Tfei fhi Yea Hava Always Bssght
Bears the
Signature of
Among those in attendance at the
meeting of the Roanoke Baptist As
sociation last week was Rev. A. G.
Willcox, of Brinkleyville. Mr. Will
cox is yet feeble from his hospital
experience last summer and a severe
spell of fever after he returned
from the hospital, but is improving
slowly, we are glad to say.
Mr. Willcox told us that he had
very recently attended the annual
session of the Tar River Association
for the 44th time and that he has
served the Association 84 years as
its secretary and treasurer. This is
a good record and we doubt if it is
surpassed in the State. We hope he
may be spared many years to come
to work and labor for his Lord.
Brother Willcox is truly a veteran
in service. ,
Troop No. 1 of the Boy Scouts of
America took a very enjoyable hike
on Friday afternoon to an oyster
supper given by Mr. C. J. Shields,
our Scout-master at his home, Mar
atoc. near Rornoke River.
The Bear and Leopard Patrols as
sembled at the office of our Scout
master Dr. A. D. Morgan and at four
oclockwe set out our six mile hike
After marching about a mile the
troop broke ranks for observation
and nature study.
Reaching Maratoc about dark we
were all prepareb to do iustice to
the most excellent supper which
awaited us.
Uncle Billie Whitmore was master
of ceremonies so it is needless to say
his humor and jolly companionship
added flavor to the feast.
After we had partaken almost too
freely we felt in better condition to
start on our journey homeward
After expressing our thanks for the
gracious entertainment, we started
on the hike toward town. -
adoui a mne irom maratoc we
came upon a wagon which had been
sent ahead to carry us home. Al
though we did not mind the hike
home it was a pleasant surprise.
We will ever remember Mr. and
Mrs. Shields for the delightful ei
tertainment they gave.
A Scout
A Small Fire.
The stables
Paui Kitchin
fire Monday
o'clock. The
and barn of Mr. A
were destroyed by
evening about five
loss amounts to sev
eral hundred dollars.
i
Why worry what to give?
Just telephone us and say
what you want it to cost, and
we will select something that
will be appreciated and ad
mired for its beauty and qual
ity, also pack it free of cost.
We carry a full line of the
famous L. E. Waterman
Fountain Pens. Also a full
line of his new f tyles.
E. T. Whitehead Comp'y,
DliUQQISTS,
WE DO !T RIGHT AND QUICK
Telephone Seventy-Five.
;0YS ! GIRLS !
Are you at the head ?
of your class or do
you stand second, third
or possibly last?
If not with the leaders, why?
Are your eyes right?
If eyestrain is holding you
back, wouldn't you appreciate
glasses that would remove the
eyestrain?
Why not suggest this to your
parents?
Successor to TUCKER, KALL & CO.
Opticians of The Best Sort
1 146 Granby Street,
1 Norfolk. Ricbmoad. Lynchburg.
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tPSSZhBSW A cold house in the morning.
ss r r i i I . l -
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and chilly.
Next thing the doctor.
Why take this chance?
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Burns soft coal lignite hard coal
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The fire is never out from fall till
spring in this great heater and fuel saver.
It will cut your fuel bill in half.
Come in and see it. It is worth
your while.
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See the name "Cole's" on the feed door
of each stove. None genuine without it
If you want to buy FURNITUHK for ('At
us before buying. A car load of furiiitun
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