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L MILLS KITCHIN, Editor andJPropietor.
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VOL. XXX.
The Greatest Kidney Remedy
on Earth," Says a Grate
ful Woman.
I want to tell you how much good
vour Swamp-Root did me. About
tour years ago I suffered from what
ij e doctors called fistula and for two
v.Jsrs of that time I endured what
no tongue can tell. I also had in
animation of the bladder and I
tried doctors' medicines without re
reivine any help. Someone told me
aliout Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root.
fter -riving it a thorough trial, I
r-feived relief, so kept on using it
' ncl today I am a strong and well
v-nrnnn. If I ever feel badly or out
(,f ports, I take Swamp-Root and it
-Uvavs straightens me out. I hon
est iv" believe that this medicine
would cure all troubles you recom
mend it for and it is a pleasure for
roe to send my testimony and photo
graph to you. I think Dr. Kilmer's
Swamp Root is one of the greatest
medicines on earth.
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. John Baily.
West Main St. Portland, Ind.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 12th day of July, 1909.
C. A. Bennett,
Notary Public.
Letter to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Prove What Swamp Root Will Do for Yon.
Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer &
Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sam
ple size bottle. It will convince any
one. You will also receive a book
let of valuable information, telling
about the kidneys and - bladder.
When writing, be sure and mention
the Scotland Neck Weekly Common
wealih. Regular fifty-cent and one
dollar size bottles for sale- at all
drug stores.
Oil AS. JL. Staton
fttorney-at-Law,
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Practices wherever his services are
required.
ASH BY W. DUNN
ATTORN E Y-AT-LAW
Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
Money to loan on approved security
lurman B.KHchin
X 9 M f.i
PHYSICIAN and SUKGEON
GOTLAND NECK, N. C.
Office in Post Office building over
North End Drug Store.
ce phone 10. Res. phone 34
Dii. A, 13. Morgan
Physldaa end Surgeon
Scotland Neck, N. C.
Office in the building formerly
used by Dr. J. P. Wimberley.
R iTSAV AGE
OF ROCKY MOUNT, N. C.
V ill be m Scotland Neck, JN. U., on
the third Wednesday of each month
at the hotel to treat the diseases of
the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, and fit
glasses.
j3r. O. F. Smith
Piiysicisn end Surgeon
Office in The Crescent Pharmacy, Inc
Scotland Neck, N. C.
5P
A. L LIVERNON,
DENTIST.
- Office up stairs in White
''''liljy head Building.
Office hours from 9 to 1 o'clock
and 2 to 5 o'clock.
C. Speed & Will H. Josey
Fire Insurance Agents
Scotland Neck, Nor. Car.
Will look after your interest, rep
senting the strongest and most lib
eral companies. All business ap
preciated.
II
H. Ailsbrook
UPC INSURANCE
Representing the Metropolitan Life
insurance Co., of New York
SCOTLAND NECK, , N. C.
6-13-14
M. T. W ALSTON
learns for Hire Prompt Attention
Quick service
Bowers & Jones -Stables
J. J. PITTMAN
FOR HIRE
AutomrsbiiCS and LlVerV Team
Tekpuone Number Seventy-Three
Alien Ailsbrook
i am now prepared to move any size
building in a little time.
If you are thinking of having a
house of any kind moved, see me at
fnee. Prices reasonable.
ideal Pressing Club
Main Street
Telephone 171 Quick Service
Prompt Attention
Chas. L. Staton Jno. T. Staton
Proprietor Manager
THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING.
Th a Work of Construction Commenced
This Week.
The bricks for the Municipal build
ing have at last been shipped and
Contractor Mauney is busy this week
with -his big crew of brick-layers
sending up the walls of the latest
building asset of Scotland Neck.
The contract for the building was
let some time ago and the excavation
work was done but the bricks could
not be obtained ' until this week
when the construction begun.
This building will have a white
brick front and will be a continuation
of the Post Office building, being
the same number of stories high.
On the bottom floor will be a mov
ing picture show, a barber shop and
the Mayor's office. The second floor
will be rented for offices.
The cost of this new building will
approximate six thousand dollars
and will be equipped with all the
modern conveniences, water works,
electric lights, and steam heat.
Mr. A. Paul Kitchin the owner
will not be held back on account of
the expense in making this an alto
gether modern and fireproof struc
ture. The contract calls for the
completion by the first day of Aug
ust and the probabilities are that it
will be finished several weeks before
the expiration of the contract if the
contractor is not laid off many days
on account of bad weather. This
will be the second building Mr.
Kitchin has had constructed in the
past three months, the postoffice be
ing completed about the first of
February.
It is rumored that the moving
picture show will be operated by
parties from Norfolk, Virginia, and
will be on the. best circuit of any
small town in the State, getting the
pictures running from Norfolk to
Raleigh.
Dawson Notes.
Dawson, May 5. Mr and Mrs.
J. Ij. Sirmons and little son, Luther
Ear old, of near Scotland Neck, spent j
the week end with relatives here.
Little Miss Pattelona Partine suf
fered quite a painful accident Sat
urday p. m. by stepping on a pitch
fork which pierced her foot about
two inches.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bell, of Norfolk,
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are visiting jvir. Jtiassei neu ana
family.
After attending school at Rose
Hill Miss Sarah Barnes has returned
home for her vacation.
Mrs. S. A. Partine spent a few
pleasant hours in Scotland Neck
Saturday with Mrs. M. W. Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lilley of
Spring Hill spent Sunday p. m. with
Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Partine here.
Our school at White's Cross Roads
taught by Miss Kate Joyner came
to a close Friday p. m. May 1st with
a social entertainment which will be
pleasantly remembered by tne pu-
nils and patrons. Cream and cake
were served and several hours spent
in social converse; various games,
music and innocent amusements
were enjoyed by the "younger set."
More I ban Even.
A certain lady suspected her hus
band was in the habit of kissing the
cook, a pretty German girl, and re
solved to detect him in the act. Af
ter watching lour days she heard
mm come in one evening and gently
pass throngh into the kitchin.
Now Katie was out that evening
and the kitchen was darK. Burning
witn jealousy, the wile took some
matches and hastily placing her
shawl on her head, as Laue oiten
did, she entered the kitchen by the
back door and was aimost immediate
ly seized and embraced ana kissed in
the most ardent maimer. Wi inner
nettrt oursiing wim rae,' the injured
vvue prepared to administer a terri
ble rebuke to her spuuse. Tearing
nei-t.ll irom nis emurace, sue sn ucjx
a malch and stojd lace to face witn
Katie's beau, one of the factory boys
Her husband says his wife has never
treated him so well since the first
month they were married as she has
HOW CHILDREN 0PM
Children grow by nourishment not
overloaded stomachs or rich foods but
qualities that are readily converted into
life-sustaining blood; too often their
digestive powers cannot procure these
qualities from ordinary foods which results
in weakness, dullness and sickness.
If your children r.re mider-size, under
weight, catch coll easily, are languid,
backward, p ile or frail, give them Scott's
Emulsionwl-ichis pure medicinal nourish
ment. It sharpens the appetite, builds
healthy . flesh, firm muscles and active
brains. Scott's is growing-food for
Children. Refuse alcoholic substitutes.
Stringent Sunday
Blue Law to be
Rigidly Enforced.
.Editorial.)
By a vote of three to two the
City Fathers on Monday night
closed Scotland Neck up airtight
Sunday. No more drinks; no
more merchandise; no more ice
with which to make cream for
your Sunday dinner. In fact, we
don't know whether we can use
the telephone in calling the doc
tor should there be a sickness in
the family. If you want medicine
and your doctor is out of town,
thus rendering it Impossible to
have him write a prescription,
you might as well lay down and
die; thus saith the City Fathers.
By such a ridiculous enforce
ment of the so-called Blue laws
three of the town commissioners
have queered their chances for
1 re-election. Instead of co-oper
ating with the drug stores and
regulating Sunday business they
have slammed the door in their
faces.
The larger towns of North Car
olina have long ago solved this
Sunday problem by making all j
drug stores close during church 1
hours. Why dsd not the com-
missioners use a. little flexibility f
in enforcing this law? These j
stiict enforcements will last just jj
about as long as the majority of I
the gentlemen who passed this
law. In all probability the same
men who voted to close the drug
stores on Sunday and shut up the
ice houses will keep some poor i
neSro working all the Sabbath jj
freezing cream or rubbing down
his horse for a Sunday afternoon jj
drive. "Consistency thou art a j
jewel." There are several people
who wor hard all the week who I
do not have time to set a sott
I drink until Sunday; and now
I when they come in to wrench
their dusty throats before going
:o church the nothing doing
Qjrr . wVi-.tr" v' them away.
These same men will let any 8
cheap show in the country come
to Scotland Neck as often as they
seek license. This they have giv
en us a good demonstration of.
The carnivals and other low-brow
forms of entertainments take the
money away from the working
man and from the merchants.
Every merchant in town has kick
ed about the commissioners allow
ing these venders of fakes and
catch-penny frauds to come here.
They have "strained at a gnat and
swallowed a camel." If the three
commisssioners could only realize
the stupendousand quixotic folly
they displayed in their vote Mon
day night we are sure they would
resign in twenty-four hours. The
truth of the matter is: if these
drug stores and ice houses would
disregard their foolish ruling and
continue to do business on Sunday
as before and fight this thing out,
there is not a court in the land
that would hold against them; it
is unconstitutional aud has been
held so. These same commission
ers will let green stagnant pools
of wate-i stand on Main street and
breed mosquitoes enough to in
fest the neighborhood with ma
laria; but they won't allow a man
to indulge in the innocent pastime
Qf drinking a chocolate milk on
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Sunday, iney gu sporting oy
"Lake Bacteria" on bunday and
never see if, tuey come into town
Sunday morning and see every
body pointed tuwai da drug store.
Absurd! Kidiculous! they are
the words.
Tbe Shanks Snows.
The Shanks Show which gave its
ii itial performance on E E. Pow
ell's lot Monday night played to a
crowded tent and the patrons were
well pleased with the high class
vaudeville acts which Mr. Shanks
ottered under his large waterproof
tent. The show is well worth the
price of admission, ten cents. Mr.
Shanks in his opening announcement
Monday night said his players were
ladies and gentlemen and "that he
catered to ladies and gentlemen."
Mr. Shanks has this week lived up
to those words and tne piay-gomg
public of Scotland Neck have shown
their appreciation by a crowded
house at every performance of the
show. It is a high-class, clean, and
clever aggregation of vaudeville
artists. If you pass up. this show
you miss a good opportunity for an
evening's real enjoyment.
For a mild, easy action o$ the
bowels, try Doan's Regulets, a mod
ern laxative. 25c at all stores.
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 1914
CENTRE ROW OF TREES REMOVED.
Rome Regrets Heard Expressed But no
Objections Offered.
Mr.: Ernest Winslow, that young
captain of industry, with a force of
negroes last week mutilated the
center row of trees that split the
Main street of commercial Scotland
Neck. Mr. Winslow, anxious for
the removal of this unsightly detri
ment to traffic, contracted to do
away with the row of trees, at fig
ures which would be a.losing propo
sition with him, busied himself the
minute the word was uttered by the
City Fathers with the hewing down
of the shade trees and this week the
trees are gone; the stumps uprooted;
the holes filled up and how Scotland
Neck has made the first stride to
ward beautifying and improving her
main thoroughfare, The whole
town seems as one in proclaiming
this a long needed improvement.
As yet there have been no kicks
registered against this improvement
project, although some of the hu
manl and marks of the city were a
bit sad when they saw the handi
work of their youth, in planting
these trees fall before the strone
arms of Mr. Winslow's axemen. But
these who were a bit reluctant in
favoring this project on account of
sentiment admitted it to be a great
ly needed improvement for Main
street. With a street like Scotland
Neck now has as a thoroughfare
traffic can flow in its accustomed
channels without the usual conges
tion on busy days.
With the trees out of the way Mr.
L. R. Mills of the Municipal light
plant is waiting for the arrival of
new light poles before taking up the
old ones. The new ones will be
placed on the west side of Main
street.
Baywoods Hams.
Haywoods, May 5. Mr. and Mrs.
H. M. Pittman spent a day in Wel
don last week. .
Mr. W. F. Coppedge, of Halifax.
was at Hay woods Sunday school 1
May 3rd.
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Stephenson,
of Rocky Mount, are visiting at the
home of Mr. Stephenson's parents
this week.
Miss Winnie Burt, teacher of the
Pittman school, spent the week end
at her home near Enfield.
Mrs. Z. E. Stephenson and Miss
Nannie Stephenson were in Weld on
one day last week.
Mr. R. H. Reade and sisters,
Misses Clem and Myrtle, were in
Halifax Sunday.
Mr. J. J. Wade, of Halifax, visit
ed in this vicinity Sunday.
Mr. Ernest Baines and Mrs. Liz
zie riargrcve were in weldon one
day last week.
Mrs. J. E. Stone, who has been
visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
J. E. Fleming, returned to her home
in Raleigh last week.
Mrs. M. L. Shearin spent Sunday
at her mother's, Mrs. S. Trueblood,
near Weldon.
Mr. J. E. Fleming spent Saturday
in Enfield.
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J-J. T. wniteneaa uompany may
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tnis store will and docs stand back
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it you taKe calomel, perhaps you
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but it often happens that the after
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and hence its use means taking
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A IinSEY-lOATED MESSAGE.
Found Snugiy Stored Away in tbe Files
cf a Local Colleger.
Wednesday.
My Long - lo3t - but - ever -cherished
Mary;
Pray do not think that my silence
thus far since your muchly enjoyed
epistle is in any way indicative of
my appreciation of said epistle; for
already I have it nestled among rr y
most highly valued archives and
each tender whisperlette et cetera
contents thereof indelibly carved in
the realm of my fluttering palpita
tor. At the moment I became the re
cipient of the above mentioned mis
sive I was was whirled into a mad
dened phyxomina I just must write
and ask you for a date; which date
was to be the medium through which
to pour out my very soul in expres
sion of a newly found love. Then,
after carefully deliberating such a
move; my deep and conservative
sense of caution impelled my coun
cil ic self to throttle this sudden and
tonitrous out-burst of affection and
defer such a mission until both my
spiritual and financial status was ac
corded a higher rating.
Such a thing as I have alluded to
in the foregoing paragraphs began
(as the woeful wooer would warble)
as mellow moonlight flitting about
the nocturnal shadows, but in its
more mature stage has developed
into a wrathful and eurahlic tornado,
before which bow my every impulse
as the forest trees before the hurri
cane. Though I realize how futile any
ejfort of mine would be to attempt
to convince you of how 1 yearn for
the sight of you; how I pine to sen
sation the musical rippie of your
voice; Jiow I crave to tell you how
much ; how I long to realize the
touch of your hand; and how I covet
your presence; still, to attempt to
smother the expression of my love
for you would be as quixotic as to
try to muffle the thunderbolts of
the July heavens.
Though I am bitterly conscious of
the futility of my love for you, 1
will be equally oblivious of its fail
ure. In the later years when the
clouds of time will have sprinkled
snow hakes upon my now blond
apex, I will drink the disappointed
dregs of consolation in having truly
oved a good woman, though my
ove proved amiss.
When now in the balmy days of
my youth, standing on the threshold
of life peering into the happiness
that should be mine ere my manhood
fades into feebleness; surely! a just
and all-wise providence has ordained
that you shall be mine. And if such
does not come to pass I verily believe
that the centuries, in their mad rush
to eternity, wiil pause to avenge the
destruction of my maiden love. If !
lose you despite the intense and
ardent love I have for you, all har
monies what in poetic phrase is
termed the gushing melodies of
angelic choirs and the joyous pulsa
tions of human life on earth would
sound to me, the disappointed lover,
as the guttural sounds of hellish
revelry. So great would be my re
morseful dimonix.
Although the love-stricken pre
amble of this message may sound to
you a bit bucolic; you must remem
ber the fragrance of the wild Syringa
ofttimes rivals that of the hot-house
rose, for no matter how I express it;
whether in the language of the high
brow, or clothe it in the village ver
nacular of the hard boy element, I
am as sincere and as true as steel in
m conviction that in the beginning
you were meant for me and I for
you. And to tear you from me thus
robbing me of the vigor and passions
of your youth and stripping me in
the later years of your companion
ship would be as impossible as to
reverse the lever on the wheels of
time; and thereby making the yes
terday the tomorrow and the tomor
row theyesterday.
Even when this old world reverses
back to its primitive state of muddy
vesture and decayed protoplasm;
long, long, after I have been tucked
beneath the alfalfad sod, sweet and
phantom-like memories of the girl I
should have had will ever linger
about the tiny siab that stakes off
my allotted space in ye old fashioned
cemetery.
Though my love up to the time I
met you had proven onlytransitory,
it is now anchoredas staunchly as
the mammoth cruiser in her dock.
Heavy, impure blood makes a
mnridv. ninmlv complexion, head-
chos nanpfia. indigestion. Thin
hi nnd makes vou weak, pale and sick
ly For pure blood, sound digestion,
use Burdock Blood Bitters. $1.00 at
all stores.
The Fad
No amount of misrepresentation by the
peddlers of alum baking powders, no jug
gling with chemicals, or pretended analysis,
or cooked-up certificates, or falsehoods of
any kind, can change the fact that
Royal Baking Powder
has been foimd by the offi
cial examinations to be of the
highest leaveeing efficiency,
free from oluni, and of absolute
purity and wholcsomcncss.
Royal Baking Powder is indispensable
for making finest and most economical food.
Oh! that I had the power or ingen
ious skill of some unknown procef a
of mental telepathy to convince you
of this! ! !
My Own! until I am assured of
your love for me, and that I am your
chosen mate, I will continue to ba
held in the relentless clutches of un
certainty and in the swirling vortex
of discontentment. Forsooth! if
this awful suspense continues much
longer mental derangement is bound
to fcllcv inits wake, for all the
mental dexterity that I was once en
dowed with has been usurped and
kept in a constr.nt buzz of admiration
and thoughts of you of late. I sel
dom ever fall in love; but, whence
once my old heart, has been felled
the momentum is well-nigh perpet
ual. Although the trend of this love
linked communication may sound as
if it were written without the con
currence of a responsible will, and
you, perhaps, may infer from the
general flow of ox tail soup herein
contained that it was written during
a lucid interval-still, I was. jaever
soberer in all my life. There is not
a word or sentence in this letter in
which I can ever be accused of being
regardless of the claims of consci
ence; nor could I be guilty of the ir
retrievable "faux pas" in not again
asserting how utterly true each ar.d
every individual breath of it is.
If I had the .lightest semblance of
a thought that wh.t I Yr.'.-o. v rittet
you in tnis communication wou.
fall from your listeners in wantoi.
waste, the reflection of it would be
as poisonous as Ihe juice of the
Madagascan Tanghan, which would
destroy and engulch my momentary
happiness.
P.yron was certainly no slouch
when he said: "Truth crushed to
earth shall rise again." In this cas:
if I lose it will be "love once stifled
shall again assert itself a thousand
fold. - Yours,
Tom.
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NUMBER 18.
Re mams
Banana Skin Law In Bra-l.
During a Scut&wark Inquest, in
which it ras suggested that an old
mr.n had slipped on a banana skin, a
juror said be had been la Brazil, unrt
; tLere if a policeman saw a person
. throw a banana or orange skin on tho
roadway that person wts nt one ar
i rested and fined or sent to prison.--London
Daily Graphic.
The Old Reliable
Barber Shop
We are doing business
at the same old stand.
Special attention
en to children.
giv-
Old razors sharpened
at reasonable prices.
The
Pioneer
Barber Sh-p
Billie Walston
Proprietor.
We can't sell you
goods on
SUNDAY
BUT
what it takes to FEED
you during the wek
have it in abundance.
Our line of iJroceries
is complete in cver.v de
partment. If you buy your EATS
here you are sure of get
ting the BEST.
Come to us when you
are hungry except on
Sunday.
W. B.Strickland, Jr.
Phone 88. Polite Service
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