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j. C. HARDY, Editor and Proprietor. 'Excelsior" is Our Motto. Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year VOL. XXX. SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1914. NUMBER 10. Retire:! Georgia Planter's Advice to Kidney Sufferers. : Regarding the wonderful curative m vi .s of your Swamp-Root, I can i or ?r.y to much. After suffering v i'h severe pairs caused by weak ! kidneys, was finally induced to try ; Swan p-Root through a testimonial I red in one of the nesvpc-rs. I j win in such a condition that. I was ;:1 such a condition thtl v,as obPsred M urife from mv bed six or eight times everv night. I purchased a lif'ty-cent bottle and before it was ud 1 felt so much relief that I pur r ! s?m1 a one-dollar ln-ttle and by t!: limp this was taken the old pains V:h1 left mv back and I could sleep t whole nivht through. I am a v: "Ted planter. 70 ears of fige and i ;r to T)r Ki mer's Swf mp-Roor, I ani in the best of health and feel like a boy. T am always glad to n-voinmerd Swamp-Root to those who are in need of it. Sincerelv vours, C E USSERY. Bowersviile. Ga. Peronallv appeared he? re ne. th:s Sth of' September. 1909, C. E. U.S'-ry, who subcrib-d the above s'atement and -made oath that the same is true in substance and in fact. T. H McLane, Notary Puhlic (Letter to Dr. Kil" er & Compa ny. B;n"hsmtn, N. Y. f.-ne What Swamp Root Will Do For You. S- thn cents to Dr. Kilmer & Company, Binsrhamton, N. Y., for a sa;;p'e size brittle. It will convince any one. You w-M also receive a b..k!et of valuable inform' ion, t-l'ing ab.uit the h'dnevs ar d hla'1 i'er. When writing-, be sure and tion The Con-men --vealth, S-'Otlm'' Xk-U, N C. Po pular fH'tv-cent aod liar size bo1. ties for sle at alt v.'Z stores Ciias. Staton, Altomey-at-Law, Scotland Nrck, N. C. r r notices wh -rever his services are required. 3u. A. O. AIoiiOAX Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, N. G. OiTi-e in the bui'dincr former': u-i bv Dr. J. p. v imoe rley 1 SAVA(i OF ROCKY MOUNT'. N. C. Will be in Scotland Neck. N. C, oj third Wed as -day of each montl at the hotel to treat the diseases of the Jve, Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit O. F1. Smith Piiyslci-ia end Surgeon O.aa in The Crescent Pharmacy, Inc Scotland Neck. N. C. . I. LSVERMON. DENTIST. " - ""15 Office upstairs in Whir. f r head Buildiny. VUce hour.0 from 9 to I o'ohe. and 2 to 5 o'clock. U IB. its'- -entiag the Metrop .htan Lift ura.'r.'vi Co., of New York uAND NGCK, , N. C. (i-: Y'ood's Productive i& "51 CI VV 7e offer all the best prize-win ning and profit-making varieties: Casey's Pure-bred, Bigg's Seven-eared, Collier's Excelsior, Boone County, Gold Standard, etc. Descriptions and information in Woo a s 19 14 Descriptive Catalog Yoa sao-ild surely read it before decid ing v-nat to plant for best results. Wood's Ensilage Corns arc tlic largest yielding fodder varieties in cultivation. Wood's Catalog tells all about tlisra, and all other Farm and Garden Seeds. Catalog mailed free. Write for it. T. W. WOOD & SONS, Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va.. m m Lj9 rC''Zk Is iJjft 3asl3 of &II Industry 1 13 13 the basis of all good farming. Write foi ! '.iftiit by t!, best authority in the United i-s on. Lime on the Farm, and get price ' liia purest lime. Don't buy earth, sand, ' '. i postal will give you reasons. POWHATAN LIME CO. f.:TitASEURG VIRGINIA -.... .j tixue.. JL ltd V .rirc?, 060 will break ol rSiktk Fovcr, Colds k vJz en the liver I..-; '.-J-'TLSi c a.c COCS UOl sicken. Price 2cc. i - For more than twentv-five year? the culture of peanuts h-is been one ?f th c,hU f gncultural industries i 1 Halifax county, and especially is this true of the lower end of the county, where, next to cotton, it is ,, . . , ?0 PrinPaJ mcney crop. Every farmer in the county almost en gages in the raising of peanuts, which are mostly of the Spanish va riety, although for the p-.st few years the Virginia, or large, pea have come into much prominence and are given more attention bv those who engage in their culture each succeeding year. Strange to say. while the peanut industry occupies so prominent a part in the agricultural pursuits of Halifax envmtv. th-e on'v one peanut 'factory, or' '"cleaner ,r in the countv and this is located in Enfield. ! During the past few months efforts j have heen made to have a factory j established at Scotland v i.-. I:.::i;;::5S:5;SK; - . : -. . , - - - 4 . s - great peanut centei Waiu- j ntt'e earlier, larce aress of peanut lina. but the success of these efforts j stacks can be seen throughout the sems very remote, and the chances ! peanut belt, and it is quite a curios vf tliPi-P win hA no fntorv estah-' itv to one not familiar with the lished here. Halifax county soil seems especial ly adapted -to the oucccicf u! -c-uiti su- tion of peanuts, and especially is this true of the Spani.-h, or small, pea, since for this variety a light, or medium light, soil is best, while for the larjre, or Virginia, pea a heavy, or medium heavy, soil is required. It takes but little cultivation to raise peanuts, and on reasonably good soil j hut little, if any, fertilizer, some I farmers getting splendid results by , using: practically no fertilizers. LUAbiKG has become of such vast importance in Halifax cou-ity, it is said by some of the largest buyers in the county that the average price paid per bushel can easily be estimated to be about $1.10. During the present 8 iorlares ol iiiiumatism STk'S b are aggravated during climatic changes be- cause tKe impure bleed is incapable cf resistance J. i. i -1 WA'UAABUXjr h seems "sdess but tbe I fame of Scott's Emulsion A w for relieving rheumatism is based on logical principles m and scientinc racts. 1 nis H oil-food promptly makes I U active, red, lite-sustaining ij blood corpuscles and its p body-building properties P regulate the functions to l expel poisonous acids. Sccft's Emulsion, with careful i diet for one month, will relieve the lame muscles and stiffened t? ioints and subdue the unbeara- M ble sharo rains when other h remedies fail. H Beware of alcoholic imitationm p smd insist on the purity of SCOTT'S. AT ALT- DRUGGISTS 13-82 pi r rr .v. . . .s- . v. - .-. ..V-.'.V.' ....v.v.'.- ,.,.v.v;.'. .'mwav.w 7 1 jf SC3TTS i USTRY OF HALIFAX COUNTY E. J. PROCTOR, IN fHE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER. season as high as $1.40 has been paid, the highest in the history of 'he peanut industry, and they are now selling at $125. Perhaps more han 200 car loads are shipped from t-'fc county annually. There being an average of 1,000 bushels per car, makes the total crop 200,000 bushels, and they are valued at more than $300,000, the cotton crop having the lead by a very small margin. Up to about fifteen years ago the peanuts were beaten from the vines by hand, but since that time peanut threshers have come into genera! use, these being of various types and inventions of recent years Many farmers make a business of threshing peanuts for their neigh bors who dr not own a threshpr r-.-. .HiREfrHlKGJEAMilb N D 1 REFAK1N G TH - alizmg a nice income from their in-, ve - tment m the machine, wh:ch, with the power to drive it, cost sev- eral hundred dollars. Hs season of the year, and a j scene to drive over the county and see thes great fields. Sometime Palmyra and noticed an in mens field of peanuts stacked for drvioe, the whole field containing 2 200 s'a ks, SH;d by many to have been the "larer sinule field of peanuts ever seen in that section. The average crop of peanuts pr acre is from 30 to 40 bushels, but in many cases where season and soil are favorable as hiah as 100 bushels ! have been made from a single acre j land f t ' wit'ifiii anv c v , .) iEISbJifc) ON WAGONS UN inL. fertilizing, and it is not at all un j usual to rase from 60 to 75 bushels, Pes nuts wi'h reasonably favorable I weather conditions and with some j fertilizer, can easily be made to yield j from 50 to 60 bushels per acre. Some years ago in the lower end of Halifax county many of the farm i ers engaged in the cultivation of tobacco, and while some of them i still raise more or less of the weed, the great majority have abandoned it, saying they find the cultivation ! of peanuts far easier and much more pi oiiLauie na.sausiacLory, kuic jlui tobacco it requires a great amoum f labor and attention and much t'erthizing, while for peanuts it is just the opposite but very little abor and practically no fertilizer. It has been said that in years gone bv Scotland Neck was the largest Snanish peanut market in the world, and it lays claim today of being among the largest, if not the larg- est in the world. Of course there krepr neanut markets, where both the Virginia and Spanish peas ' Whitehead Company, who will re botn tne virgu v d purchage prlcetoyou with- are marK.ei.eu, uui 1Ui FU neanut alone, there is but little Hnnht that. Scotland Neck has them Vluu - all beat. From the time the season opens to begin threshing peanuts, eariy in the fall, until the close late in the winter, great wagon trains may be seen coming from almost every di- ' rection, ...bringing the peanuts to I market. They are put up in sacks holding four bushels, and are thus shipped to their destination. Hard ly a day passes in the peanut belt at this season of the year one does not witness the marketing of great quantities. . While Halifax county is the great peanut county of the State and Scot land Neck the center of the peanut belt, there are large quantities rais t d in the upps-r section of Martin ai;d in Edgecombe, and in that s c uon of these counties adjoining the southern end of Halifax the peanut i-n-p ranks with c tton as a great m mey crop. Many farmers in both h-se counties as well es in Halifax county make enough from their pea nut crop alone to pay their year's exnopsp-s and hav th r--m dnder of FoU MARKET their crop cotton.Tcorn.Tgrain' and t he like as a pront. In working the buidirg and loan associations among the famers, the farmers who have money to loan would be the inventing shareholders, an 1 to those would be added the peo pie of the cities and towns who are willing to aid the associations, and at the same time get good invesments c" their mcney. The far.; crs who de sire to borrow should join, of course as the borrowing shareholders. Asso ciations of this character must have both kinds. Insurance Bulletin. The "name of W. C. Hammer has at last been sent in for the district attorneyship .4for Western North Carolina. Wonder what the Wash ington correspondents to the North Carolina papers will do now for q. nr Vii n o- t n-rip h-nt . - AW. J..V.". , AV. J V.V,VWWV.WW.-.V.V.-A'WW .V,1 X .v.v;';-:w:viv;v.s'.-.w....':''s-:'Xrjw:?: -A.V.'.V.1 iri.L,LC5. Brains Dulled by Constipation. Seme People Only Kalf Alive; Dodson's Liver Tone Cleans Yoa Ont and Wakes Ton Up. When constipation is having its evil effects on your body and brain, nature is doing her best to offset them and overcome the cause itself. But usually nature cannot do this unaided. In the past, many sufferers at such a time used to turn to dangerous calomel in hope of relief. For some people calomel does appear to give a temporary benext, but as a matter of fact it is a poison that proves to be injurious and even dangerous to many. If you have ever taken calo mel you probably have suffered from evil conditions following its use. : But nowadays great numbers of . people have learned how to feel bet ter, brighter and healthier by taking Dodson's Liver lone instead ot calo mel. Indeed, this harmless vegeta I ble liquid is recommended by E. T. out questlon if you are not complete jv salit.fied with it. Get a bottle of Dods?n's Liver , , . - Tone tor only ouc, ana learn ror yourself how easily and naturally it assists nature m getting ria ot ana correcting constipation and bilious ness. how it clears away the sick headache and coated tongue and sets vou rmht without ache or gripe without any interference with your regular habits. Fine tor the chil dren. They like to take it. R. W. COBB ELECTROCUTED. Wrote a Confession to Governor Craig Saying Some of toe Testimony Was Wrong But He Was Guilty. We take the following report of the electrocution of R. W. Cobb from the Raleigh Daily Times of Friday, the 6th: "Promptly at 10:30 this morning eighteen hundred volts of electric current were switched into the body of R. W. Cobb as he sat strapped in the death chair at the State's Pris on, and in about six seconds the in visible force wras . turned off and it was all over; the young white man who kiiled Thomas Shaw for his money was pronounced dead; he paid the penalty for murder in the first degree. "Befor going to his death thi3 morning the condemned man placed in the hands of Rev. W. McC. White, pastor of the Presbyterian church here, a letter to Governor Craig, in which he confessed that he had sh.ot Mr. Shaw, but said that he had not intended to kill him. "Cobb made no statement what ever in the desth chamber. He did not show any signs of breaking down and appeared composed. Dr. White, who has vibiitd him frequently dur iijg the past eight or ten days as his spiritual adviser, oid not accompany him to the chair. Some time 8go he made a profession of religion and told Dr. White that he was not afraid to die and that he hai hope for his soul. "Waiden Sale had invited forty persons to the electrocution, and about thirty-five of these were pres ent. In addition there were the of ficials, making the total in the room about forty. The physicians on hand were Dr. Jas. R Rogers, the prison physician, Drs. T.- M. Jordan, J. W. McGee, Joel Whitaker, R. S. McGeachy. "The body was turned over to the Brown undertaking establishment, and under the State law, if not claim ed by relatives within thirty-six hours, wih be given t- tr.r- i.tr anatomical board to be used in the advance of science. ".The young man's mother and nnancee were here this week to see him and left on Wednesday for theii humes in Norfolk, Va. The mothei stated while here that she did noi intend to claim the body." THE CONFESSION. Wednesday, March 4, 1914. Hon. Governor Locke Craig, Raleign, N. C. I, R. W. Cobb, do confess to the killing of Mr. Thomas Shaw on the . ight of May 3, 1912. Henry Gur kin end mjself left Rosemary, N. C, at b:zO p. m.. May 6, iyi5. lor trie puipor:e of robbing Mr. Thomas S;.aw, we arrived at his store some time later, I don't know the time, .ve went to the back of store and stayed theie until a few minutes be tore it was closed. Mr. Shaw's lit tle boy said, "I believe I will go to the house." His father said, "Waif on a minute and we will both go." Gurkin and I left the back of the store then, and went to the dwell ing (or between the two dwellings) Mr. Shaw's old and new home to consult as to the best way to hold him up. Gurkin said it would not do for him to do it, for Mr. Shaw knew him and would recognize his voice, so it was decided that I should do the holding up and Gurkin was to come up behind him and search him for his money. Gurkin gave me his revolver, 1 not having one. I then concealed myself in an angle of the porch of the new house. Gurkin some place about the old one. Pret ty soon Mr. Shaw and his son came up from the store. I waited until they were in 10 or 15 feet of me be fore I stepped out of the shadow of the porch. I told him to hold up his hands, he stopped, and then came toward me again, and said, "Stop your foolishness," I told him to stop, but he continued to advance, remov ing his hand from his pocket, I thought I saw the gleam of steel or some weapon. It frightened me, and in a frenzy of fear I shot. I had no idea of killing Mr. Shaw. I shot at his legs, but the gun being a cheap "Iver Johnson" jumped and causing the bullet to strik a mortal spot. I at once ran from the scene, by the lane which leads to the road, and down the road to the place where we had concealed the bicycles. Gur kin, by running across a field, ar rived at them first, and was gone before I could get the one I was rid ing, so I did not see him any more until Monday morning, May 6, 1913. tie then proposed that we should say that we went to Weldon, in case we BAKING POWDER. ! 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I only write this in reference to cir cumstantial evidence which shows how easily one can be mistaken, al though it convicted me of a crime of which I am guilty, it is always best to know positively, for Jesus says in John 3:11, "We speak that v have seen." Now I am not try :ng to exonerate myseif, for I am guilty, but I have great hopes of my soul being saved, even though my Mfc ie taken. I have had eight months and eighteen days confine ment in one little cell, which gave me much food for thought, and I have prayed to our Father in Heaven the forgiveness of my sins, not only mine, but those of my friends and enemies alike, and I hold no malice in my heart against anvone not even those who circulated the petition to have me electrocuted. I pray con stantly for the soul of the man whom I slew. Also for his wife and children. May God bless and be merciful to them all the days of their life. 1 can truthfully say I am fully as sorry to have deprived them of their dear husband and parent as they are of losing him, and I trust they will foreive me this great trespass upon their affection and love. It has been a long wait, but I have lost, as all evil doers are sure to do in the end. But our Lord and Sa viour gives us blessed consolence in Ri mans 10:9, "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved"; and in Matthew 6:14-15, "For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your Heaven ly Father will also forgive you: but if ye forgive not men their tres passes, neither will your Father for give your tresspasses," and thank God I have forgiven them every one. R. W. Cobb. Among those present from near the scene of the murder were J. D. Shearin, brother-in-law of Shaw, J. E. Dobbins and J. F. Stallings. Cobb was about 23 years old at the time of the crime and was living at Roanoke Rapids. He had been unemployed for about a year. Gerkin is being held under bond and the case against him will likely come ud for trial, at court next week. A very good history of the case was also given by the Times a few davs before the execution, and we produce it as follows: STORY OF THE CRIME The killing of Thomas Shaw, who ran a store about two miles from Roanoke Rapids, took place in May of last year. Mr. Shaw, who was a middle aged man with a wife and nine children, was in the habit of keeping the store open on Saturday nights until 10 or 11 o'clock, and carrying from the store to his home across the road and about a hund red yards away, the money taken in on Saturdays, usually between $400 and $500. Cobb, having learned of th's hab it, went to Shaw's residence one Saturday night about 10 o'clock and a secreted himself in a corner of the porch where it joined the house by the steps. About 15 minutes later Shaw came along with a shot bag containing about $400 or $500. H was accompanied by his little boy, about 11 years old. When he reach ed the steps of his residence, Cob'j rose up and presented a pistol, and commanded Shaw to hold up hia hands. Shaw stated before his death that he thought ?t was one of his neighbors fooling with him, and simply told Cobb to go on away and quit his foolishness and continued to walk toward the steps without raising his hands. Cobb again or dered him to hold up his hands, and about the same time fired, hitting his victim in the stomach. Shaw fell and cried out. His wife heard the cry and went to him, while the little boy i an down th road and overtook some men who had just left the store when Shaw closed it, and brought them to the scene. Cobb had Med by lb time Mrs. bhaw got to the porch steps. and she heard someone running im mediately after Shaw's outcrv. to ward an oat patch at the side of the house, surrounded by a wire fence. Many neighbors soon gathered. an d Shaw stated that he was un able to identify the person who had hot him, but he was sure it was a white man. The bag of money was found lying among some scattered bricks six or eight feet from where Shaw fell. Evidently Cobb had been too frightened to look for it, or had been unable to find it after it was dropped. FOLLOWING THE TRACK Tracks were found in the jamt of the porch where the murdertr had stood, and no one was allowed to step on them until bloodhound could be secured. S:me of the neighbors went in an automobile to the state farm 25 miles away to get t ie dogs, and they returned with the hounds about five in the morn ing. The dogs were put on the trae'e Continued on Second Page. 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