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Jim 1 HE CISCULATIOH . Established 1882. j m EASTERN CA&OI A L. LULLS KITCHIH, Editsr cad Proprfetcr. nronLcicn, is ouxt ziotto BTJBSCBIPTION FBIOE, $L00 PES YSA1 VOL. XXXI. SCOTLAND NECK, N. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1915. ? 7 A" 1 ft Call 1-7-4 It Pays Ycu What uality Stock Service are to a business has been fully dem onstrated in my Great Patronage, which is larger now than ever. It can't get so large, however, but that your smallest order shall have the most careful atten tion. The largest retail stock of Fancy Gro- T T IT naiirax ceries m county. i rices es I ow as can maae. Both Telephones 1-7-4 CI 0 rhan PLAN FOR MARKETING PRESENT COTTON CROP Mr. W. H. White Offers Some Good Suggestions. COTTON IS A WORLD COMMODITY Pocahontas Virginia Beach, Va. Three-story Cottage, very wide v?raa.!a., directly on ocean, fine t, h!e and .coed service. Near 17th St. Station. For terms address MPwS. A. B. Williams. Hancock-House Go.,Tnc Embalmer Roanoke Rapids, N. C. Day or night service anywhere C. Williams, Lieensed Embalmer V J. E. Woolard Transfer otland Nefk, North Carolina Cars for hire Me attention. , Cars repaired. Po Quick service. Tel ephonesResidence 45. Office 6G. Allen Allsbrook House Mover Scotland Neck, North Carolina F vou are thinking of having a i ouse )f any kind moved see me at n.ue Prices reasonable. Asliby W. Dunn Attorney at Law S2otland Neck, North Carolina Money to loan on approved secu rity. DrTTTl). Kitchin Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck, North Carolina Office in Postoffice Building over North End Drugstore. Telephones Office 10, Residence 34. Dr. A. D. Morgan Physician and Surgeon Scotland Neck. North Carolina Office in building formerly used by Br. J. P. Wimberley. Dr. It. L.. Savage Rocky Mount, North Carolina Will be in Scotland Neck on the third Wednesday of each month at the hotel to treat the diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat and fit glasses Dr. D. F. Keel Dentist S -otland Neck, North Caralina Successor Dr. A. C Livermon Oifice up-stairs in the Whitehead Building. Office hours from 9 to 1 and 2 to 5 o'clock. From 7 to 9 p. ni. hy appointment. Willie II. Allsbrook Life Insurance Scotland Neck, North Carolina Representing the Metropolitan Life Insurance C T v'Tk. While there is speculation and un rest as to what the present crop of cotton will sell for, I think it will be wise to eliminate all sentiment and look at the cotton situation from a plain business standpoint. If we could or would only handle the raw cotton, or what the manufacturers call the farmers' stock, like the man ufacturers handle their product, we would get not less than ten cents for our cotton, and I think twelve cents not a dream. With a crop of not more than twelve to thirteen million bales this yeart nearly five million bales less than what we have made in prior years, and with all the countries on the face of the earth that manufac ture cotton in need of it, I can see no good reason for low price cotton. The countries that are at war with one another can get money enough to buy millions and billions of dol lars worth of guns and implements of war to kill people with, and sure ly the cotton that we do not need for consumption in this country can be sold to the foreign countries whih can get so much to pay for materials to kill folks with. I would like very much to see the farmers get together in this neigh borhood and arrange some plan whereby they could hold their cot ton off of the market without doing harm to the merchant or banker they owe. It is not right for us to use the merchant or banker and when we g t the cotton to pay them with, pile it up for higher prices while our creditors are actually suf fering for funds to meet their bills with. I can conceive of a plan well work ed out where we could hold and market our cotton as required and use the money, or the larger part of it, to pay the obligations we have made in making it. We are told by good autho-ity that there is an aounaance or money, ana ail we would have to do to get it is to prop erly -house cur cotton crop through some kind of holding organization so that the banks would be secure, and the money would at once be available. In regard to the course England is pursuing in declaring cotton contra band, 1 think this is actually child ish. I have no idea that our gov ernment vill sit still and let England say to us what we shall do with our cotton. Our cotton is a commodity which the world wants, needs and is compelled to have. There is noth ing that will take the place of it for wearing apparel. If I were at the head of this American government, I would say to the English govern ment, contraband or no contraband, the American people must have free access to the high seas which is pub lic property for all mankind. If her people wanted to buy our cotton I should sell it to them. If the Rus sian people want to buy it, ihev should have the same privilege. If Germany wanted our cotton, they should have the chance to buy it, and if England refused to let it be delivered I would put an embargo on every commodity produced in this country and which shj has to have. This would bring her to her knees, and within sixty days you would have forgotten there was such a word as contraband cotton. If this course did not relieve the hituation I would equip and man a fleet that could deliver every pound of cotton that could be sold to any country on the face of the earth where the boats could go. This wav England has of saing to us what we shall do with a material produced that all the world wants, and especially cotton, which is used to clothe mankind with, does not not please me, nor do I think the American people like it. Going back to the method of sell ing the present crop, I think it abso lutely necessary that we take some steps to protect ourselves against the arbitrary ruling of England in making our cotton contraband, and I know but one way. We must hold a portion of our cotton off of the market, and to do this we must put ourselves in a position to get some of the money that will be avaialble for this purpose. Why not this com munity start a movement along the line suggested, and protect ourselves do. We can do it. The present crop of fotton is a small one, and eyery pound of it will be wanted soon. We have the facilities for protecting ourselves, and it will be come us to do it. Tne cotton that we produce th coming years will take care of it self. It is this crop that we wi:l have to look after. It is stated that out of about eight million bales o" our cotton exported last fiscal year Germany took less than one fourtu of one million. This being true, there is absolutely no reason fol low price cotton this crop, and les:. cause for England's action. Market your cotton judiciously and do all you can for the man wht has helped you make it, and we wil. come out all right. W.H.White. THE VACATIONISTS ARE RETURNING HOME In Trim Tailored Sait or Princess Frock She Livens fifth Avenue THE HIGH COLLAR BIDS FAVORS Making Soldiers. The following racy letter has been received from Mr. Roger A. Derby. It will be red with interest by all Sandhillers who read The Citizen, as all good Sandhillers should do: On the way up I bought a Ford chassis and put a truck body on it. They allowed me to add it to the motor equipment and have mounted a mechine gun on it. I bought iT and assembled it, on Monday, in Albany and join the column that night at Saratoga. Next day, at Saratoga, 1 painted it battleship gray, put a searchlight on it and lettered it, "Sandhill Machine Gun Doodle and 1 did this from 7 a. m to 4:30 p. m. and then ran 103 miles: in four and half hours and join the column again that night at 10 p. m. The captain was delighted. In 48 hours the car was completely assembled, painted and mounted with a gun, ready to go into action, and also marched with the column We came into camp, in line, as the Sandhill Battery and are known as such. General Wood inspected us. He seemed pleased and amused The o?p?.ii thinks it the most effi cient unit in the outfit: it surely 1 the most mobile. They made me paint the Sand hill Battery out, as the whole out fit was called this by the people when we arrived. 1 told the cap tain we didn.t mind and suggested that he paint Sandhill Batteries on the other cars, but he did not see the joke. We start on a hike into the moun tains tomorrow, l tninK we can work the business out for the Sand hills. I am going to take the equ:p- ment down over the road in bap tember. and borrow the gun if I can. I think we can organize sev eral other units down there. Any how, it has been a nine advertise ment for the Sandhill. They call us the Sand Flea and everybody knows about it. New York AugustO. The first crisp day3 of September finds our Avenue taking a new sprightliness, not that it is ever particularly dull or deserted, but there is a different spirit. Summer visitors have gone their various ways, and New York ers have returned, ready to take up city life again with its endless ac tivities. The shops are showing the fall and winter fashidhs; the dress making establishments have lost their lazy calm, and delivery wa gons are loading up and starting off on trips from shops to home with creations of furrier, tailor, modiste and shoemaker. - j Soft, fluffy things do very well for warm days; one relaxes and is cool, happy, and delightfully fem inine. But with the first days of fall, the tailored dress or suit is donned with a feeling that is almost akin to relief: American women. - r is still a favorite and will probably hold its own until well into the win ter. High collars, however, are be ing advocated by many of the lead ing dressmakers; not the perfectly straight choker or stock of a few years back, necessarily, although these are smart and becoming many, but a collar closed at the top and open to blov? the curve of the throat- These are ealiid ' A" col lars and are far more youthful and becoming to most than the old time high collar. Many women perfer the high collar for street wear, with tailored suit and hat, and even if it does not become universal, it will share favor with the low, open col lar during the winter season. One of the inventions of the sea son is the colored blouse or separate waist with the tailored suits. This fad is probably the outcome of the little chemisettes of pink and blue that we have been wearing with the taffeta frock and serge dress. I saw a paticularly attractive combi- DR. WHITEHEAD WRITES ' ABOUT GOOD ROADS Tells of The Bio improvement in His Neighborhood. REGULAR NEW YORK BOULEVARD -Wi i you be kind a little space in SMART SUIT LINES. especially, find the tailored suit or dress becoming and satisfying. l here is a tnmness ot line and a feeling of being well dressed that lends her added dignity. Strong rivals to the coat and skirt ,are the Princess frocks of serge, gabardine or whipcord; serge leads. While trim and straight, these do not follow exactly the lines Thf Mmn is a snlpndid institution. ! ot the Fnncess ot some seasons but if everybody thinks you can &ack; they are usually pelted, some- times paneled and yoked. Belts another guess. We are working day j pJay an important part this season and night, without interuption, andjew costumes but show them; on nnlv e-ettine- at the rudiments. I the Princess they are often merely am going to devote myself entirely to the machine guns and cut out in fantry as soon as I know enough about it. Multum fn Parvo. half belts, that is, they extend from side frcnt to side back, separated by a panel at front and back. This flat smooth appearence in iront and back is one of the new notions this season; all pleats and gathers are ! confined over the hip. Many of the tailored coat suits have belts of patent or shiny motor leather. These are often ornament- i T1RLAI liS A PANEL PRINCESS nation at one of the tea rooms the other afternoon; it was a blouse of pale rose colored crepe de Chine, a shade between coral pnd old rose, and was worn with a dark blue serge suit. This blouse was made with tucks at the shoulders to give fullness over the bust and was trim med down the front with a gradu ated friil oi the cropr; the clause closed with round nickle buttons. Around the high choker collar was twisted a piece of black satin ribbon above which, reaching almost to the chin, showed the points of a stiff white under collar. Another suit of beige colored serge had a blouse of creamy yellow crepe embroider ed with old rose silk. This fad of contrasting blouse is practical and becoming and should appeal to many. Mr. Editor enough to allow m your columns to say a few words about the work that is being done on our roads out in this ne k of tie woods The question has been ask ed me so many times about this road I am having built through my farm that I will take great pleasure in giving the facts to the pubMc. Leading out from Scotland Neck there are two GRAND trunk lines, or public roads; one is the road from Scotland Neck to Tarboro and the other from Scotland Neck to Enfield by way of Coffield's Bridge. These roads run almost parallel for several nines. ihe distance through my farm from one to the other is two miles and a quarter, a very rough and hilly country. For fifty years my venerable o'd grandfather, and after he passed away my father, kept this path (not road) up for the benefit of the pub lic. Some things are alright until ihe third and fourth genera' ion, LuL i we boys didn't want to follow luco lheir f cot steps, and digging up lightwood stumps in the middle of a Halifax county pig path didn't ap peal to us. So three years ago I v,'ent before the couniy commission ers with a proposition (and. by the way, I have been goinrj ever sinc-) to loan the county the money with out interest for any number of years if they would build this road. They finally considered the proposition and gave the order to work the road. And 'tis simply wonderful how Mr. Dickens has done this work far be yond the expectations of everybody. He first gave us p. turnpike from Beech Swamp Bridge to town. You could year these old horny hands of toil make these remarks: "I clare it's great!" "Firat time been anything done to this road in rlr'rty q We have in stc a nice line of Trunks. exceptio If you Trunk it r Some bargains. need vill i you to see our V and prices befi buying. Scotland Nee urniture Ccm Cash or Credit a y e e r New Ice Houst AT Womack's Grist I ' a Plant Diseases. According to a Shanghai paper just received, a Chinese student wrote the following description of j ecj harmoniously with applique d- the European war and its cause; "Now there is a great battle in Europe. This began because the prince of Austria went to Serbia signs of colored suede; the soft dull harmony of the suede makes the ef fective contrast and lends a distin c tive touch to the suit. One sees, with his wife. One man of Serbia ; aiso belts of the same material killed him. Austria was angry, and j as suit or dress piped sometimes so write Serbia. Germany write j with suede, patent leather, or a vi a letter to Austria, 'I will help you.' i vid coior; the effect is smart and at Russia write a letter to Serbia, I ; tractive Buttons, too, lend their will help you. France did not aid in brinsintr in the bright touch want to fight, but they got ready , of contrast that is required this the'r soldiers. Germany write a , season m our smart dark costumes, letter to Fracce, 'You dont get ' There are some wonderfully at ready, or I will 'fight you in nine tractive buttons of galalith, mother hours.' Germany to fight tnem , of peari trimmed with color, bright pass Belgium. Belgium say. 1 am I green, blue or rose, and numberless a country; I am not a road.' And othSr novelties in form and coloring. Belgium writes a letter to England 0n an important suit of tweed dis- about Germany, to help him. So . Daaecj recently in one of our shop3, England help Belgium. The Wall , l notiCed some extremely smart Street Journal. ToTh3 Public. buttons of woven leather, with loops of leather for the shanks; they blen ded beautifully with the dark brown mixture of the tweed and were really the chief attractions of the suit. These, however, are decided novelties and probably cannot be Col- Counts have just been made on the five-year rotation test plat at Creedmore, which shows 15 per cent of bacterial wilt as compared with 72 per cent on adjoining land crop ped continuously with tobacco. In 1914 the four-year rotation plat, showed 12 per cent in comparison with 56 per cent on land continu ously in tobacco. In 1913 the con tinuous plat had 79 per cent of wilt. These adjoiuning quarter-acre plats, and the nearest of those not in rotation doubtless makes the showing less favorabie than would be the case in large fields. The four-year rotaiion includes corn, wheat, mixed hay grasses ana to bacco; and the five year rotation corn, wheat, whea1", corn, mixed grasses and tobacco. This land could gro v only one-quarter to one-half a crop of tobacco when se lected for the test in 1911. It is important' that tobacco growers in all parts of the state watch closely i the for any signs of wilt disease and take immediate steps to use rotation suited to their conditions that will keep the wilt in check. against what is inevitable unless we I ately." Obtainable everywhere. "I feel that I owe the manufac turers of Chamberlain's Colic, Chol era and Diarrhoea Remedy a word of gratitude," writes Mrs. T. N. . ., tK j XT v tarun TWV.tf separately as yet in great pain and feeling terribly or ed buttons are used sparingly; sick, due to an attack of summer ' one or two at the closing of coat or complaint. After taking a dose of I blouse, or one or two on the girdle it I had not long to wait for relief ar(; sufficient. as It Denenteo me aimosu immrui- , The open throat for general wear everywhere None Equal to Chamberlain's. "I have tried most all of the cough cures and find that there i none that equal Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It has never failed to give me prompt relief," writes W. V. Harner, Montpelier, Ind. When you have a cold give this remedy a I trial and see for yourself what a splendid medicine it is. Obtainable years! etc. ihe tirst ot July he began my road, and to show you what a prop osition it was, several yeara ago I made an effort to get the govern ment to put me a mail rout, through hre. I u?ed up all of my station ary writing to them, L-ul U.Iy ih( y sent a man down here to go over the route. This path goes through a swamp called ' Cow Hal!." lie went ba:k to Washington and wrote me that "Bull Hail" was too much for the United States Government. Mr. Dickens will corn'Vte thi:-. work in a few days, and it's a beju ty. In fact, I will stake a thousand dollars, yes (s-Hinds pretty good for these war times), five tnousancl that no county in North Caro'ina can send the equipment here and do the work in the same length of time. Mr. Dickens is an expert in his line and when it comes to system he will compare with the Pennsylvania rail road. Not one cross word have I heard him say to the convicts. To my mind the very best law that this county has passed in twenty five years Mr. A. P. Kitchin pulled off last winter through tlu legislature when he had passed this road Jaw to give we people in this end of the county seme good rosds. William Jennings Bry?.n in his famoi'S speech out in Chicago said unless the coun try prospered grass and weeds would grow in your main street. What's more beneficial than geed roads to the farmers? Tak2 a.r-, ior instance. I couldr. t mark-r.-t i..y crop before May. I csme out here two years ago from Tarboro on a stretcher, ar.d I am now a fit com panion for Daniel Bocne or David Ciockett (better not zsk Jarl Bow ers), have lived in the woods to lor.g. If we can keep brother Dick-ins on job many month and every farmer and citizen rally to the sup port of this Joint C onYnfiioSron in a diort time instead of as it was said in ye olden time?, that all good read's lead to Rome, it will be said, ail good roads lead to Scotland Neck. In conclusion, Mr. Editor, I war.t to invite you and through you the Joint Commission, the Highway Commission and the Board of Coun ty Commissioners out here on Fri day, September 2rd. to take a ride over this New York Boulevard and also partake of a dinner on the side. Dk. Cliff Whitehead. Wo have equip; a storfiRo for ICE and h. e received our lirst si -meiit. Ice will be delivf d from vmo()ii any h r nud anywhere in tow Prompt attention r- en to every order for ' e and your patronage .11 be highly appreciate Full supply ot Ice 11 be kept through, the tire year summer i. d winter. Call 1-5-4. WOMACK'S HE HOtt . S. II. ALEXANDER, Mgr. A Long Day' Work The day's work wt t seem so long when y u go about it with ener y and enthusiasm. Y- r nerves must be in pro. r shape and you Jii t have the right amc t of endurance, if the wt t of any day is to be s- -cessfully accomplishr NYAL'S TONIC tones your nerves, gb s you vigor and vital y and makes up for 1 t vi tnl energy. , 1 1 is a i 1 beneficial tonic medi that aids every orga I the body to more pr- - erly perfomi its iu tions. Putyour sy-"i i'i shape by faking it $1.00 PER BOTTLE The North End Drug SI e p. Store 06 Phones Room CASTOR For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Y Always bears the Signature of trs
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