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V0L iXlX ...- SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1913. NUMBER 45.
:t to
Sidney Troubles
say that I have been a
u'vr with severe pains
was on the verge of
ration resulting from
i . i i other corcmlica-
I bcr: t "
my b;v '
"lf''i) o. mine recom-
nded
fc.v ii'-ess troubles.
nr. "a a m. ...
j ii I began to im-
1 cotinued
5 use unui i
1'es and con-
ral
u,.'it,jin.)roj ui:i-i I was com
t v:i. 1 am happy to say
I a- v. eil as any woman on
h -to- hav" beenf--r the past
r:'..tn thanks to Dr. Kilmer's
vsicp-Kool, an
I eheenu!
who suffer
re-
I 11.,
, mn:'.
Vpi-v trulv yours,
MRS. ALVA BAXTER
-rvi"-e St., u range, j. ex as
, '. or Jav of March. 1912.
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Notary Public.
Letter to
)r. K;ber & Co,
H. Y.
wamp-Root Will Do For You.
Kilmer & Comnanv.
'rave
Waal :
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eceive a oooKiet 01
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telling ail
lUt rhe kidneys and blacloer.
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tn. lieguiut iiLiy-
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atal! drug- stores
A.N. DUBOIS
Analytical
Cbenvlst.
( oos KT
Textile and
Office and
Oth St.,
an:
U'iI.VIaGTOX, K, C.
of anything', particular
. T7i-riiliZ'ar?, Cotton Seed
S---e.i 0;t Products. Well
. ;':, :.!.d Mineral Water,
! F voi Products, Dairy Pro-Ui'i-.c-
and Em-Ui, etc.
hov.U have their Well
t:amir.& 1 at least once a year,
thf.t part cf their land that
rw-r crops, analyzed to find
'm:?2;.n-' so it can be added
v: i-mi 10 maKe it goou a:ia
my prtce ot analysis, wnicn
hih, and mav save you lots
Pivvv.-its i.n r f, lunar.
its.? to l.H
hi.
LIVRr!0N,
DENTIST.
in White
head Building.
cehoar from 9 to 1 o'clock
and 2 to 5 o'clock.
i. nUORGAN
Physician and Surgeon
Scotland Nec
k, N. C.
the building formerly
ibyDr
P. Wimberley.
-IIA. L,. Staton,
Stfftrr.ey-at-Lav,
Scotland Neck, N. C.
ctieos wherever his services are
required.
ASIIBY i)UNN
faey gr.d Counselor at Low
Scotland Neck, N. C.
-Ciices wherever his services are
required.
'-J to loan on approved security.
I L SAVAOE
OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
i be i
' .Scotland Neck, N. C
on
month
ing
Hotel to treat the diseases of
e, Lar, Nose, Throat, and fit
1
Smith
tt... .
rimm sr,(i Surgeon
Wl7ho Crescent Pharmacy, Inc
a.
a. Neck, N. C.
1 1 i-
f forest Mcllier.
jjther Gray's Sweet Povders for
relieve Feverishness, Head-
Stomach, Teething Disor
'lf;,'a and regulate the Bowels
"uy worms.
? ln 24 hours.
They break up
Used by moth
nJA7ears- A11 Druggists, 25c.
K'c ' KEE
Address, A. S. Olms-
L--"i i i v.-err 5
I he Ci
real;
Now Rapidly Drawing to a Close.
Candidates will Soon be Coming Down the "Home Stretch." Like Phil Sheridan Many are "Turning Back to Vic-
rory." Are You Going to Give Your Favorite That Promised Subscription?
MANY CHANGES
Delays and Inactivity are Most Dangerous at This Stage of
(E. k. langham.) j
You have our positive wy-.-I fr,r 1
it that this oifer will not be re-:
psated or extender?. ' j
The moral of this is jret oat and
-jret oat and
the close of
hustle from now until
There ar. sorre five years' ?i.;L
scriptions to be had isi avevy district.
Ssk: if you are not the one whom
they seem intended. j
There's no way of telling who will
be in the lead after the big vote, but back with the result thac when
it's safer to predict that it will be the dry was done, from a dire de
scmeone who is net wasting time st ea sweet victory was snatched
tl. id particular moment. : forth. And at Winchester, Va.,
Some who began rather fain'-! that day, some forty years ago, the
hearted have become entbusias- j Union triumphed, because enthusi-
tic and their work proves that thc-y
ai e in until the fir
is'i, too.
h and a fine fin-
Lost time never c c-ir.es; back. !
D :n't lose it improve it. j
Let every one turn in at bast one ;
five year subscriber on the Double'
Vote Offer. j
The vote list clipped from yourj
district and mailed to soma of your I
friends may be the means of gain-
mA" your suoscriptions.
D.-n't let the thought ihat some!
ore
have
is head discourage you. They
come from the bottom of the i
list and just the same way that you j
can come up if you show energy and
perseverance.
This is the day of great things
and every one connected with The
Commonwealth's Great Auto and
Prize Contest next Tuesday should
show that they are in the spirit cf
the times.
What's a good pace for a candidate?
Well, we should say one subscrip
tion every ten minutes up to next
Tuesday night at 9 o'clock.
THE BIG HUSTLE THIS WEEK.
This is the week of the big hustle
and all contestants are out working
for subscriptions. They realize tha t
securing several of the double vote
ballots means much toward a final
victory on November 25th.
"Turn, boys, turn! We're going
back."
There was quite a difference be
tween "Sheridan twenty miles
away." and the dashing Phil right
on the job.
And we can imagine Phil Sheri
dan racing along the firing line,
facing his retreating troopers, his
horse dripping with foam after a
race of twenty miles (for in those
days they did not have autos to take
generals here and there, and der
ricks to lift them in as they did for
General Shaf ter during the Spanish
American fracas), but General Sher
idan had come twenty miles" rid
straight out of the south to-
c "tt's inf.
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r.j are usually thin ana
easily worried, sleep does not
refresh and the system gradu
ally weakens trom insumcieui
nourishment.
Scoii's Emulsion corrects
nervousness by its force of con
centrated medical nourisnment
it restores the healthy action
of body cells, enriches trie
blood, sharpens tne appetite,,
aad feeds the nerve centres
by distributing energy and
power all ever the body.
Don't resort to alcoholic
mixtures or drug concoctions
that stimulate and stupy.
Get a
Unfile fit JCOU
or
Emulsion for your
nerves nothing
equals or compares
with it, but insist
on Scott's
EVERY DRUGIST HAS IT
13-78
Auto and
IN THE STANDING OF THE CANDIDATES IN LIST PUBLISHED TO-DAY.
a Winner if You Will.
wards his men, for he knew his men.
He knew thf y could fight, he knew
they would fight, but they needed
inspiration.
"Turn boys,
turn! We're going
back."
The little general, dashing down
the front, waving his sabre, and
shouting "Turn boys, turn!" was in
spiration personified.
Those wavering lines in blue re
gained their nerve and they turned
srn came when needed.
Some
of the candidate have been
shooting the chutes and sliding from
the attic down the bannister until
they have pbout hit the second sub-
celler.
"Turn, candidates, turn!" you're
ffoing back.
Back toward the top.
Back to the top,
Back back back.
The reason the Federals won-
-was
because Sheridan got there
The reason they were losing was
because the leader was absent
Be
right on the job every minute and
like Sheridan you can snatch victory
from defeat.
THE IRON HOT.
The time is "ripe" for results
now. The iron is hot. The con
testants should lose no time "strik
ing" their friends and acquaint
ances for subscriptions and votes.
Everybody in Halifax county and
vicinity is willing to help the candi
dates secure one of the beautiful
prizes that will be given away. . But
in order to get this assistance, which
is here for the asking, the candi
dates must let their friends know
they want it. People are glad to
help them that help yourself. If
the candidates want the "golden ap
ple," they must go after it.
The Double Vote period, the great
special offer which is announced to
dsy is now cn, and end at 9 p. m.,
Tuesday, November.llth.
HANG ON.
Hang
on!
Cling on! No matter
what they say;
Push on! Strive on! Things will come
your way.
Sitting down and whining never
helps a bit;
The best way to get there is by keep
ing up your grit.
A WORD TO CANDIDATES.
Nothing has been left undone to
assure the greatest fairness in con
nection with competitive merit;
those who do the most successful
work will win.
Candidates are asked to remem
ber that when they turn in a sub
scription they are not at that time
given credit for the votes m the pub
lished list. But certificates good
for the number of votes to which
they are entitled on each subscrip
tion are mailed to them. These cer
tificates are to be held until the can
didates desire to increase their
score in the paper. So when an er
ror ii apparent in a published score,
do not include any votes to which
you are entitled on subscriptions,
unless you have first received the
certificate from this office and then
mailed it back to be voted. Th;3
will save lots of tiresome corres
pondence. Bear in mind that it usually takes
the Contest Manager a few days to
get votes to you after the subscrip
tions have been mailed in. Every
subscription must go through a cer
tain prescribed course. No varia
tion can be made. Altogether this
requires only a few days and votes
are not sent to candidates until
each subscription has been through
Neither are extra
votes credited in this office at the time
Prize Contest is
The Race. Many Surprises
Get Out and Hustler, be a "Worker" and Not a "Waiter."
subscriptions are received. Certifi
cates for these extra votes are is
sued and mailed to the winners at
once. Attention to these things will
obviate much worry, trouble and
annoyance, both for contestants and
the Contest Department.
These votes can be held till No
vember 25 before they need to be
counted and ket-p your actual vote
to yourself. Don't even tell your
best friend for she would spoil ev
erything if she should happen to let
a word drop. Remember the Lord
gave you two ears and one tongue
that you might hear twice as
much as you talk. It is the reserve
vote that will count in the end.
A QUESTION FOR CANDIDATE.
A question for all candidates to
ask themselves at the close of each
day is: "Did I do all that was pos
sible to gain votes today?" If you
cannot honestly answer the affirma
tive, then you are not doing enough,
and you should decide firmly to im
prove tomorrow.
INTENSE INTEREST.
Tntprpsf. in t.hp rrmteet. is intense,
Everybody is watching the paper to
see how the candidate stand from
day to day. All are apparently will
ing to help one another of the can
didates with their subscription if
their favorite candidates were to re
quest their assistance.
Candidates will find it an easy
matter to secure subscriptions and
thousands of votes this week if
they go around to see their friends
and acquaintances and ask them to
help them with a subscription. The
friends of the candidates realize that
they can do more for their candi
dates by subscribing now than they
will be able to :do at any other time
of the contest. In consequence they
are more than willing to give what
assistance they can.
never too late ro mend.
If your standing is not all you
would wish it to be, remember the
saying that it i3 never too late to
mend. If you start systematically
to build up your vote you will be
surprised to see how quickly it will
begin to "look good to you." When
it looks good to you, it will look
good to the public, and you will find
that they become more willing to
help you as you advance.
gettieg nervous.
This is the critical period when
the nerves of the candidates are apt
to get what a woman calls "jumpy."
Some who felt secure are beginning
to wonder if after all they are so
sure that the person just below them
may not be holding back enough
votes to be just above them in the
final count.
workers and waiters.
The contestants are now divided
into two classes. They are the work
ers and the waiters. You can tell
the difference in them. The work
ers get an early start and by person
al solicitation are securing subscrip
tions of their friends. The waiters
are those who are content in think
ing that their friends will turn in
the subscriptions either to them
selves or to the Contest Department.
The workers are the ones who will
win. The waiters are the ones who
will remain behind. In so far as the
number of votes are concerned there
is not such a difference in the stand
ing of the waiters and workers now.
So'the waiters by good hard work,
and seeing their friends at once,
might be able to secure a prize
which they never will secure unless
they get out of the waiting class.
For those who are working are
rapidly increasing the distance be
tween them. .
ANOTHER WAY.
Then another way in which you
n Ko Hiffprence between the
. r v,o liters is that the
wXs'do aireat deal of Ulking'Miss Grace Browning......... 7,375
are Sure to Develop During the
about what they are going to do in
the closing days of the contest while
the workers somehow or other suc
ceed in securing your subscription
to-day when you didn't intend to
give it to them until the last day of
the contest.
Here is the schedule of votes that
will prevail during the remaining
days of the contest.
DOUBLE VOTES
From November 5th to Novem
ber 11th.
Term:
Ten years,
Nine years,
Eight years,
Seven year?,
Six"years,
Five years,
Four vears,
Three years.
Two years,
One year.
Price:
$10.00
$ 9.00
$ 8.00
$ 7.00
$ 6.00
$ 5.C0
$ 4.00
$ 3.00
Votes:
300,000
248,000
200,000
160,000
128,000
100,000
80,000
58,000
28,000
10,000
$ 2.00
$ 1.00
REGULAR VOTES
From November 12thto November
25th Close of Contest.
Term:
Price:
$10.00
$ 9.00
$ 8.00
$ 7.00
$ 6.00
$ 5.00
$ 4.00
$ 3.00
$ 2.00
Votes:
150,000
124,000
100,000
80,000
64,000
50,000
40,000
29,000
14,000
5,000
i Ten years
' JJ.m years
lght years
Seven years,
Six years,
Five years,
Four years,
Three years,
Two years,
One year,
$ 1.00
OPEN EVENINGS.
The Contest Department is open
every evening until 8 o'clock.
Contestants and Their Standing.
district no. 1.
(All of the township of Scotland
Neck One $65 Diamond Ring. One
$25 Gold Watch and two Dinner
Sets are sure to be awrarded to this
district. The Ford touring car can
be awarded to a contestant in either
district..
Miss Ida Staten 28,800
Miss Ellia Williams 12,700
Mildred Wright 19,675
Dr. A. D. Morgan 9,250
E. L. Brown 8,700
Claude Jackson 2,175
J. E. Perry : 10,850
district no. 2.
(All territory outside of Scotland
Neck) one $85 Diamond Ring, one
$25 Gold Watch are sure to be
awarded to this district. The Ford
Touring car can be awarded to a
contestant in either district.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, R. F. D.
Miss Bearly Barnhill 3,075
Rupert Allsbrook 8,950
Mrs. Enoch Simmons 38,375
Willie Dunn 32,075
ROANOKE RAPIDS, N. C.
Mrs. W. S. Saunders 18,675
R.M.James 1,750
HOBGOOD, n. C.
Ermon Edmondson 34,8Zo
PALMYRA.
Miss MaryAusbon 7,500
OAK CITY, N. C.
T. W. Davenport 35, M
speed, n. c.
Mis3 Jessie Parker 3,t0
HAMILTON, N. C
Miss Martha Council 16,725
Miss Fannie Mathews 1.17G
ESSEX, N. C.
Ivey Crawley 10,500
L. E. Williams 1,000
J. L. Alston 18,875
VAUGHN, N. C.
Mrs. W. E. Doxey.... 15,725
AURELIAN SPRINGS, N. C.
J. E. Warren 18,850
LITTLETON, N. C, R. D.
Walter Keeter 10,550
ringwood, n. c.
M. E. Cousins Jr 9,250
I C. A. Williams, Jr
1,175
Remaining Days. You Can be
Mrs. J. E. Whitehurst 19,720
BRINKLEYVILLE, N. C.
Mrs. J. E. Pritchard 28,275
Miss Kate Mathews 20,050
heathsville, n. c.
Miss Eunice Crews 18,800
ENFIELD, N. C, R. F. D.
Jesse Lawrence Holiday 45,450
ENFIELD, N. C.
Miss Pearl Knight 42,750
Miss Etta Brasswell 40,375
S. B. Brown 7,250
HALIFAX, N. C.
Miss Essie Howerton 5,375
whitakers, n. c.
Sarah Taylor 2,375
spring hill, n. c.
Miss Selma Twisdale 42,750
"Says Will Go Swimming."
It is to the good Scout training of
Mr. Gerald R. Simpson, scout mas
ter in Billings. Mont., that young
Duncan Tompson is alive. Simpson
jumped into Yellowstone river,
which has a very strong current and
undertow, and rescued the boy, v. ho
had gone down three times, and was
taken out in an unconscious condi
tion. With the assistance of Horace
Wood, one the Scouts, first aid was
adminstered and the boy resuscitat
ed. Secratary Adele, of the Y. M.
C. A., was a witness to the rescue
and made the following statement:
"I have always been strongly in
f favor of tha Boy Scout Movement,
but my experence of Saturday after
noon makes me more enthuastic
than ever over the possibilities of
Scoutcraft, which it is theaching
the boys. They all learned a lot, as
there was no joking about it, Satur
day, and every boy paid strictest at
tention and saw the result.
"Boys will go swimming, with or
without the consent of their parents
and our experience of Saturcay af
ternoon seems mo to to be a strong
argument in favor of allowing them
to go off on their hike3 under the
care and instruction of men who
know how to meet such emer
gencies." Iporscce aad Bliss.
Very newly wed they were. They
were also very happy, quite inex
perienced and somewhat silly. Be
sides, they had a new home and a
truck patch.
"Susie, honey," he said, "I've
been in the garden and I ,saw some
asparagus ready for cooking. You
shall have the pleasure of gathering
the first fruit of the season."
She would love to, but she was
an expert in horticulture and didn't
want to let on. If she went alone
she might commit some egregious
blunder.
"I tell you what, Edwin, exclaim
ed the girl-wife, enthusiastiealy,
we'll go out togather. You pluck
it and I will hold the ladder." New
York Globe.
A GounomptiTe Cure.
A cough that bothers you contin
ually is one of the danger signals
which warns of consumption. Dr.
Dr. King's New Dvery stop the
cough Dr. King s Nev Discovery .
stoD the cough, loosen the ches
banish fever and let yoa sleep peace
fully. Tha first dose checks the
symptoms and give3 prompt relief.
Ivjrs. A. F. Metz, of Glen E'.lyn,
Iowa, write: "Dr. king's New
Discovery cured a i '-.- c-bcrn cough
after six weeks' cloct.v m failed to
help." Try U , as it W;ii do the same
for you. Best medicine lor cou.chs,
colds, throat and lu.ig troubles.
Money back if it fails. Price 50c
and $1.00. All druggists, by mail,
H. E. Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or
St. Louis.
For Weakness and Loss of Appetite
The Old Standard greneral strengthening tonic,
GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC, drirea out
Malaria ar.J builds up the system. A true toti:c
and cure Appetizer. For adults and children. SOc
THE NEW POSIOFFiCE
Some Business Dsns end Facts Relat
Ing (a Old Office.
' ' '
The postoffice was rc moved to
its new quarters Friday evening,
and the change calls to mind a bit of
history that may be of interest just
at this time. The new postoffice is
well ! -cated on Main street next to
the I ' mters & Commercial Bank, in
anc-v building erected by A. Paul
Kitchin for the purpose. The fur
nishings are all of the very latest de
sign and is as complete as any post
office in the State regardless of the
size of the town. The building is a
two story one with a store room ad
joining the postoffice.
For more than a quarter of a cen
tury the postoffice had been located
in its building just vacated. When '
the office was first placed in this
building Mr. J. P. Ware, now an
aged citizen of this place, was the
postmaster. The receipts of the
office were not much more than a
trifle, as the town was nothing more
than a country village with only two
or three hundred citizens. Some
time in the 90's the late R. H. Smith,
who was succeeded by Thomas
Shields, colored, wa3 appointed by
President McKinley. In 1902 the
late Captain A. B. Hill wa3 appoint
ed postmaster, who died in February,
1906, and his daughter, Mis3 Eliza
beth Hill, the present postmistress,
was appointed to succeed her father.
During the first year of Captain
Hill's administration the receipts of
the office were $3,015.09 and for the
year closing July 1, 1913, the re
ceipts amounted to $5,757.13, a gain
of $3,712.01, in a little mure than a
decade.
During Miss Hill's incumbency in
office she has given universal satis
faction, and every patron of the of
fice has been accorded the same
prompt and courteous attention.
Her assistants, Messrs. Carlton
Walston and Phillip Pittman, are
among the town's most popular
young men.
ftsles Trcia tfrs I'cIvcrsKy.
Chapel Hill, Oct. 27. The regis
tration number at the Slate Univer-
y si ty has now reached S77, exceeding
by 40 the tofal nun ber of students
ever registered in the whole of any
year. There are over 100 more stu
dents here now than at any previous
time in the history of the institu
tion, and with the exception of the
University of Texas, which is co
educational, the number of students
matriculated exceeds the number of
any other Southern college in the
academic department. It is note
worthy that more than 90 per cent
of this large student body are son
of North Carolina, coining from 89
counties in the State.
"Resolved, That the Cor-stitution
ot North Carolina should be so
amended as to allow the initiative
and referendum a State -wide legis
lation," is the query selected by the
High School Debating Union of
North Carolina to be discussed by
the secondary and high schools in
the State having membership in the
debating union. A pamphlet con
taining arguments on both sides of
the question 13 being prepared in
Chapel Hill and will be ready for
distribution to all the schools in the
debating union by the first of No
vember. The phenomenal success
of the debating union last year, in
which 360 student debators in North
Carolina discussed the question of
"Woman Suffrage," is reason for a
bright forecast cf the work of the
debating union in the State this year.
Active work ha3 begun in the con
struction of the $50,000 dining hall
of the University, the structure go
ing up on the sitj cf the old Gore
residence. The ter. ring away of
the Gore residence removed from
Chape! Hill one of the residences o"
primitive Chapel Hill more than a
centuary tgo. The first presiding
professor made his home in this
dwelling house and the building
g
a up
the entire student body.
Five games yet remain on Caro
lina's 1913 footbJl schaduKj. The
datrs and where to be played are:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at
Winston-Salem October 25th; Uni
versity of Georgia, at Athens, G.,
November 1; Washington and Lee
University, at Lynchburg, Va., No
vember 8th. and Virginia, at Rich
mond, Thanksgiving.
A lazy liver leads to chronic
dyspepsia and constipation. weak
en the whole system. Donn'sReg
ulets (25c per box) act mildly on the
liver and bowels. At all drug stores.
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