THE COMMONWEALTH.
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L. MILLS KITCHIN, Editor and Proprietor.
.Entered at the postoffice at Scotland
Neck, N. 0., as Second-Class Matter.
Thursday, August 12. 1915.
Large Stone Taken From Kidney.
Modern surgery continues to re
veal new marvels daily, but a recent
operation performed at St. Vincent's
hospital, involving the removal of a
prall stone weighing a pound and a
half from the kidney of W. E. Britt,
.of Roanoke Rapids, N. C, is some
thing new in Norfolk. The opera
tion was performed by Dr. R. L.
Payne, Jr., two weeks ago, and the
patient improved so rapidly follow
ing the removal of the stone that he
was able to leave for his home in
Roanoke Rapids Saturday night.
Mr. Britt had been suffering from
kidney trouble for many years, and
the trouble became so acute seme
time ago that the operation became
necessary. The size of the store
was a big surprise to both the pa
tient and the attending physician.
So far as is known, it is the largest
stone ever removed anywhere in
this part of the country. Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot.
RocKy Mount Police Capture Booze.
Rocky Mount, Aug. 7. Within a
few minutes last night the Rocky
Mount police station was turned
into a veritable liquor store room,
while the jail became a very populai
place all of a sudden. One hur dr jd
and seventy-four pints, and many
quarters and half pints of liquor wis
the ha ul of the police.
It came about when an air hose,
to freight train No. 209 busted,
while the train was pulling into the
city, and police officers, Bartholo
mew, Denby and Wheelas made a
haul of the defendants who alighted
with their bags, boxes, satchels and
cartoons of whiskey.
The haul was the largest made in
a single night in this city's history
and was a serious interference with
the traffic which has grown in great
proportions since the enforcing of
the new law against shipments. The
carriers seldom ride the passenger
trains, though they sometimes at
tempt such measures as a sending
along of a trunk full of whiskey
checked on one train and they come
on another to claim it, this was done
last night by Arthur May, a negro,
who was nabbed as he claimed his
trunk in the baggage room here,
and which upon being opened was
found to contain 96 pints and one
quart.
The negroes taken from the in
coming freight and who fell the prey
of the officers when the accident oc
curred, were arraigned in the city
court this morning and were given
sentences of three to four months
each on the road.
DESIGN YOUR DRESS
TO SUIT YOUR DOG
Styles Change in Clothes and
Canines Likewise.
SOCIETY TURNS TO HOUND DOGS
New York, Aug. 10. Did it ever
occur to you that the width of your
skirt and the line of your dress had
anything to do with the faithful
quadruped on the end cf the leash?
That he should expand and contract
with the whim of Fashion seems al
most inhuman, but such is the case.
When skirts are tight, dogs are
small; but, no sooner is fulness in
troduced in the mode, than society
finds excuses for buying long-leg-led,
lithe canines that suit their
clothes.
To-day is the day of the hound.
Dispose of your terrier and bull, and
acquire a grey-hound or one of the
guaranteed-to-protect police dogs;
that is not working overtime in the
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Mrs. Warren ana Christy Found Guiiry.
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Winston-Salem, N, C, Aug. 7.
At 11:15 o'clock tonight Judge E.
B. Cline, of the Superior Court, hav
ing received the verdict of the jury
murder in the first degree con
demed Mrs. Ida Ball Warren and
Samuel Preston Christy to death in
the electric chair Friday, September
24, for the murder of G. J. Warren,
husband of Mrs. Warren. Clifton
Stonestreet, found , guilty of being
an accessory after the fact, was sen
tenced to three years in State's
prison.
An appeal was taken, filed for the
defendants as paupers.
Mrs. Warren stood erect until the
words fixing the date were uttered,
then with a quick, nervous jerk,
sank into her chair, drooping for a
minute and then resuming apparent
calmness. In the event Mrs. War
ren is electrocuted she will be the
first woman to go to the chair in this
state and, it is said, the second wo
man ever to pay the death penalty
in North , Carolina.
Warren was missed from bis home
here after August 18 of last year,
and his body was found in Muddy
Creek, Forsyth countv. last Arril
Christy, during the interim, had
gone to Texas, where he had lived
,for years with Mrs. Warren, and
whence the woman, then posing as
the wife of Christy, alias KeaVns,
eloped with Warren.
- Mrs. Warren, arrested after the
discovery of the body, according to
the police, made a confesion irnoli
catmg Christy is then said to have
made a confession in which he told
of a plot by him and Mrs. Warren
to kill her husband.
The HerYGuManteed It.
"A customer came into my stc-e
the other day and said to one of my
clerks, 'have you any thing that will
cure diarrhoea? and my clerk went
and got him a bottle of Chamber
lain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy, and said to him, if this
does not cure you, I will not charge
you a cent for it. So he took it
home and came back in a day or
two and said he was cured," writes
J. H. Berry & Co., Salt Creek, Va.
Obtainable everywhere.
The Slim Girl with Iier Greyhound Gowned in
The Princess Skirt.
s'ock market. It is quite the smart
thing to do. All the matrons nn
Long Island have forsaken bridge to
bring up pups into perfect speci
mens of American dog-hood, and
prices for special species soar be
yond tne reach of the mere lover of
dogs. These canines, bred through
generations to perfect obedience and
alert watchfulness, bring fabulous
prices. One police dog, imported
from the other side, was recently
purchased by a certain Miss Fisher,
prominent here in New York socie
ty, for the tidy mm of ten thousand
dollars; but, then, this dog has past
the test of regular duty and is per
fectly capable of running down the
huskiest of desperadoes. Dogs train
ed for nome duties are much more
modest in price. Oftentimes a bar
gain, especially in the younger dogs,
can be picked up in three figures.
So devoted are the younger set to
their pets, they are bringing them
into town with them. Many smart
dogs are to be seen on the Avenue
It is interesting to note the divided
favor between the greyhound and
the police dog. Possibly, it is be
cause the greyhound is so nictur
esque that some women, esneciallv
the slender, choose this breed. One
girl, who lives in the mi)!ionaires
row on the upper end of Fifth Ave.
nue, takes "Jeff" out for exercise
herself when she is in town. I met
her in front of the library the other
morning. Whether she dressed
with "Jeff" in mind, or whether her
gray serge skirt was happenstance,
do not know; but, certainly, the cos
tume and the dog brought out
the best points in her own per
sonahty. Her dark blue eves and
blue-back hair were intensified by
the contrast with the erav. Th
skirt was one of the new Princess
styles in gray serge, edged with blue
and trimmed with braid. This had
the new suspender straps and was
worn with a blouse of sheer, tran
parent Swiss, cut on simple lines,
tne labnc being its charm. The
hat, too, was in the same shade of
gray, one of the new taffeta turhans
with a tulle band to shade the eyes,
that Jeanne Lanvin brought out in
the early season. The whole tended
toward long lines, and the 0TPV
hound fitted in admirably well with
the costume.
Out on the large estate at Long
Island, the greyhound police dog
are put to real service. Mrs. But
ler Duncan, formerly Mrs. James
Kernochan, was one of the first wo
men prominence to bring the police
dogs to America. Her "Peter" was
was soon the pride of Long Island,
for he gummed the game of a dark
ee-nive Departmen
t Store
Dlugin Bros. & Baron, Props.
J. W. Madry's Old Stand
Scotland Neck, North Carolina
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individual who had his mind fixed on
Mrs. Duncan's prize poultry. Now
there are other Peters on other es
tates. These dogs are trained to
watch the autos, the buildings, the
sheep; in fact, all the property of
the owners. So invaluable have the
dogs become that the owners bring
them along with them when they
change from country to town, or
from town to country. A young
matron who has an estate just
across country from (he Duncans
has a half -grown police dog for boon
companion.
Wherever she goes, the dog is
with her in the country, trotting
serenely beside her horse, and in
town, well knowing the dignity of
his position, tugging at the end of a
leather lash. This fad of taking
your own dog out on the Avenue is
growing. I saw the woman men
tioned above the other day, striding
along behind her husky Pat. She
was smartly gowned, but there was
nothing that would attract attention
Colored Evidence.
A well-known lawyer was trying
to make clear to a legal student the
significance of the term "colored
evidence" meaning by the evidence
that has been tampered with.
"The best illustration I can think
of came within my observation not
long ago," said the lawyer. "A
physician had said to a fair patient:
" 'Madam you are a little run
down, you need frequent baths and
plenty of fresh air, and 1 advise you
to dress in the coolest, most comfor
table clothes nothing stiff or for
mal.'
"When the lady got home this
is how she rendered to her husband
the advice given her by the doctor:
" 'He says I must go to the sea
shore, do plenty of motoring and
get some, new summer gowns."
Philadelphia Times.
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Full-Skirted, in a New Princess Frock , She
Strides Beside the Sturdy Pattrick.
other than the dog. Her dress was
a linen Princess in coat style, cut
short enough to show her striped
stockings that match her collar.
Her hat had a dark blue satin brim
fastened well upon a straw crown,
with the only trimming a bead pin.
The whole costume was simple. She
was out to enjoy a walk with her
dog, and her skirt was amply wide,
thauks to fashion, so that she could
keep up with the sturdy Patrick.
It would seem, the wider and
more extreme they have their skirts
the larger is their dog. And Fash
ion says hoop skirts are returning.
What, then, do we expect in dogs?
Fancy the Four Hundred with great
Danes for pets!
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