THE COMMONWEALTH.
PUBISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
CHAS. F. CARROLL, Editor and Proprietor.
Miirrwi ai the pofoilu i M)tiaud
BUKOWINA LAND OF REFUGE jurtlES WERE DUCK BLIND
Thursday, September 3. 1915.
COTTON ANTHRACNOSE OR PINK
BOLL-ROT
Mr. H. R. Fulton of the depart
ment of plant disease of the Agricul
tural Experiment Station at A. & M.
College, has written the Common
wealth a letter and enclosed a cir
cular for publication in this paper
bearing on "Cotton Anthracnose r
Pink Boll - Rot," hich has been
playing havoc with cotton in this
vicinity. Farmers should rrad it
carefully:
"The spots on the boll grow to
about one-half an inch, are brown,
and covered at a certain stage with
a pinkish coating. Affected bolls
open prematurely, and the lint rots
or is of inferior grade. Wet weath
er favors the disease. The loss
sometimes reaches 75 or even 90 per
cent of the bolls.
"It is afungoue disease, and for
tunately does not spread far during
a season because the reproduciive
spores in the pinkish masses are
sticky and depend largely n spat
te.ing water rather than on wind
for their dissemination . The disease
is carried over winter or introduced
into new localities chiefly thiough
internallv infected seed that have
developed in slightly affected bolls.
No satisfactory seed treatment is
known. The fungus may remain
alive on the old stalks during the
winter; and cotton should not be
planted in the same field the ext
year unless it has been fall or winter
plowed to bury the stalks.
"To avoid the disease, do not plant
contaminated seed. Safe seed of
any variety can be secured from a
moderately infected , field if it is
picked seprately from stalks that
have no diseased bolls and that
stand a few feet away from affected
stalks. If only a small amount can
be secured, plant it in a special seed
plot from which a large amount of
Clean seed can be had the following
year. Jt is best to obtain seed from
from, an uninfected field, if possible.
Be careful to have gins well-cleaned
if they have been used for diseased
cotton.
"By this seed selection method the
following results have been obtained
by the N. C, Agricultural Experi
ment Station:
T:.. : : ima c -
uisdusc in 4iciu in ixjic ouniiiier-
our's Half and Half 25 per cent;
Cook's Improved 15 per cent; Harts
ville Long Staple 10 per cent. Dis
ease from unselected seed planted in
19ia Sumroerour's Half and Half
45. p, e ; Cook's Improved 26 p. c;
Hartsville Long Staple 14 p. c. Dis
ease from selected seed planted in
1913 Summerour's Half and Half 4
p. c; Cook's Improved 2 p. c; Harts
ville Long Staple 2 p. c.
"Fortunatel the disease is rather
restricted as yet; but it is increasing
at a dangerous rate. It is first
brought into new localities in seed
ti
grown eisewnere. urowers are
warned not tu buy any cotton seed
for planting unless reliably assured
that it is free from disease and not
to plant any unseleeted seed from
ther own infected fields. Take
immediate steps to free your farm
of this disease .by the seed selection
method. Get your neighbors to do
the same. A few hours' careful
work will prevent large losses next
year. Full information about this
and other important farm crop
diseases is contained in Bulletin 182
of the N. C. Department of Agricul
ttjre, Raleigh, N. C ,"
Exiled God and People Souaht Ifcfl
Fastnesses When Crowded Out
of Ancient Homes.
The following etefczrmt srT
cerninir the province of BukowisaJ
the neighbor of Galicia in the Atts-
tro-Hungarian empire, which has
been figuring in the war news re
cently, was prepared by the Na
tional Geographical society:
Legend has it that the old gods are
in exile in iSuKowma. However
true this may be in the case of the
gods, it is true in the case of the
peoples of Bukowina that most of
them went there in exile. They are
the Ruthenian and Roumanian tribes
who were crowded out in the bitter
struggles through which Europe
came to its present apportionment.
They, like their neighbors, the ex
iled gods, lead lean existences in the
small, mountainous forest land
which lies on the outskirts of every
thing. Bukowina is an Austrian crown-
land, with the rank of a duchy, with
a few small cities and a population;
of some 800,000. It presents an un
obstructed frontier to the Russians,
while it is cut off from the Anstro-
Hungarian empire by the Carpa
thian mountains.
Its chief city, Czernowitz, is just
across from the Russian frontier,
Broken spur ranges from the Carpa
thians further isolate much of Bu
kowina from its neighboring Galicia.
It is most easy of access to Russia
and to Roumania. The first natural
difficulties which the Russians met
covered with forests and tangled
with underbrush.
The crownland has an area of
4,031 square miles, and lies almost
wholly in the Carpathian belt. Its
climate is severe, and its soils, except
in the larger valleys, are not very
productive. There is little mineral
production and no industry besides
brewing, distilling and milling.
DISTINGUISHED
In Barrel Below Snappers Were Con
cealed Birds Being Shipped in
Violation of Law.
There are persons who take a
snapping turtle seriously, ana, ae-
spite his ill nature and tendency to
remove pink little fingers, learn his
peculiarities and read his innermost
appetites. One of the latter is John
B. Thompson, federal inspector un
der the migratory bird law, and he
knows mighty well that no turtle
will eat ice in any circumstances,
says a St. Louis (Mo.) dispatch to
New York Herald. i
Recently five barrels of live snap
ping turtles arrived at the Union sta
tion, consigned to purveyors to the
restaurant trade. Now, a turtle is not
a migratory bird. The barrels were
filled in with ice, and Inspector
Thompson could see the turtles
stamping their feet, blowing into
their hands, throwing their shells up
around their necks, and making
every possible effort to keep comfort
able in the intense cold.
"There is something in those bar
rels," said Inspector Thompson, ad
dressing no one, ''besides turtles. I
shall forthwith look into this matter,
barrel by barrel." This he did while
the snappers whistled through their
teeth to indicate that the heating
arrangements were not as advertised.
In the bottom of the barrels 87
wild ducks, bound and gagged, were
going whither they knew not. It is
the closed season on migratory birds,
and the ducks ceased to migrate im
mediately.
INFINITELY VAST AND LITTLE
Hamilton Items.
(Continued from Page One)
Mrs. J. P. Boyle went to Williams
ton Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davenport,
T. W. Davenport, Mrs. Martha
Moore, Mrs. James, Messrs. Manning
and Miss Louise Satterthwiate were
called to the bedside of Mrs. Maggie
Floyd last week who is very ill
Mr. and Mrs. D. . Taylor and
daughter spent Tuesday in Scotland
Neck.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Davenport ana
Miss Ella Moore Davenport spent
the week-end with Mrs. Maggie
Floyd.
Lawrence-Harrison.
Mr.
and Mrs. John D. Lawrence
invite you to be present
at the marriage of their daughter
Annie
to
Mr. Isaac Ferdinand Harrison
Thursday evening, October 7th
at six o'clock
Dawson's Baptist Church
Dawson's, North Carolina
on
The Commonwealth is requested
to announce that their will be Sun
day School at Mullen's School house
Sunday at 3:30 o'clock. All the
people of the community are invited
to be present.
Thev Baffle Understandina and Cause
Apparent Contradictions in
Scientific Facts.
The infinitely little and infinitely
vast alike baffle the understanding,
developed as it is by our concrete
t finite life. Creation is typified by
the sphere. A circle is a straight
line that at every point ceases to be
a straight line, and the earth s sur
face is a plane that every moment
! ceases to be a plane. Following the
surface of the earth does not carry
us to the under side, because there is I danity and attractive manner.
Miss Shields Entertains.
Friday afternoon Miss Nannie
Shields entertained at her home on
North Main street at a miscellanious
shower in honor of Mrs. John Hen-
ton, who was unexpectedly married
last Wednesday at Halifax.
Mrs. Dunn was presented with
many nanasome presents Dy ner
numerous friends preseut, one of
the most unique being a friendship
bracelet presented her by the mem
bers of the "Thimble Bees" a club
of which she is a member.
The bracelet had the names of
each of the club members with the
date and Mr. and Mrs. J. Hinton
Dunn engraved upon it.
A salad course followed by a
sweet course was served in a most
NOTICE.
Having qualified as Administra-j
trix of the estate of the late J. T.
Edwards, of Halifax County, State !
of North Carolina, this is to notify j
all persons holding claims against,
the said estate to present to the
undersigned on or before the 22nd 1
day of September. 1910, or tbi,'
notice will be pleaded in bar of their j
recovery. All persons indebted to
said estate will please make imme
diate payment to same. This the
20th day September. 1915. j
Belle Edwards.
Administratrix.
A. Paul Kitchin, Attorney.
Why Not Smile?
Are you ancry? Are your lips
cracked? Are you afraid of wrinkU-s?
Are you suffering from an ingrowing
grouch? None of them? Then why
dont you smile? Histony tells us of
men who traned themselves not to
smile, because they wanted a siern
expression of countenance. The sav
acres also prided themselves on not
showing any sort of emotion. Have
you not noticed in the photographs,
that the mothers of the war heroes
of Europe are not smiling? Neither
are the generals who are doing the
killing. A hard and stern expression
does not indicate a good heart nor a
clear conscience. A thief seldom
smiles. The woman of the street
smiles with her hps, but her eyes
are hard and cold. The poverty
stricken man on the street who begs
for a dime, cends his plea direct to
your heart if his appeal is accom
companied by a smile. Only the
failures of life never smile. A smile
is the cry of the sentry of the soul.
"All's Well!" Selected.
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US fv(UJJl7 lOi LQ)-AVi3 LC supply your
" " " - market durino-
csmber and
home
De.
Januarv
WHEN PRICES ARE H9GH. We have growing in thamountaint
of North Carolina the finest lot of CAZUATS PLANTS that has ever been grown for
shipment during September and October, and beinsr grown in that climate, they are tough
and hardy and can stand the effects of the hot sun better than any other plants you can get
We have only mevariety. viz., THE FLORIDA HEADER. .The only cabbase that hak
fiven c satisfaction, set during September and October. Prices, by express, f . o. b. Horse
hoe, N. C. 1000 to 4000 $1.50 per 1000; 6000 to 8000 $1.25 per 1000; 10000 and over, $1 pjj
1000. Buyer pays express charges. Prices by Parcel Post, 35c per 100. Address orders to
MEGGETT PRODUCE CO., (The 700 Acre Truck Farm) YONGES ISLAND, S. C.
W also srow Cabbage Plants for shipment from November to April
and will b glad to supply yea. Write for prices
Q-O00-0- oooooo ooaooooooo
FOR
SALE!
he International Gasoline En
is the thing to buy if you want
the reai Horse power and good ser
vice. If in the market let us figure
with you. Others are pleased with
them, why not get in line.
Hardy Hardware Company
"The Hardware Hustlers" Scotland Neck, N. C.
00-CCMC OOOOOO OOOOOOOOO0
KB
Wanted
Three convenient unfur
nished well located rooms
for light house keeping.
B. W. Martin,
Jeweler.
"So yours was the class of '99 ?
"Yes. It was a distinguished
i n ma a 4-rr
"In what way?"
"There was nobody ins it whom we
(called Fatty."
AN ARMED PEACE.
no more an under side than there is
an upper side there is only a bound
less surface. But if it were possible
for us to build a globe on the globe,
as large as the one we inhabit, would
:it not have an upper and an under
side ?
The rain causes the grass to grow,
and the sun causes the snow to melt,
'but we cannot apply the idea of
1 cause, In this sense, to nature as a
whole, but only to parts of nature.
Gravitation caused Newton's apple
to fall, but what causes the earth to
fall forever and ever, and never to
fall upon the body that is said to
attract it? John Burroughs, in At
lantic Monthly.
PRAISING VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS.
notice:
One Year Old.
Mr. Clee Vaughan, one of the
Commonwealth's steady advertisers,
! tells of his year-old grocery business
Having qualified as Executor of i in the paper this week. Mr. Vaug-
the last will and testament of i han enjoys the distinction of having
Robert Ferrall, deceased, late of more customers than any business
Halifax County, State of North 1 of this kind in Halifax county, no
Carolina, this is to notify all persons 1 doubt. His employees number eight,
holding claims against said estate to he has two telephones, two delivery
present them to the undersigned on ! vehicls, and five bicycles. He tells
or before the" 22nd day of Septem-lus that steady advertising, fresh
ber, 1910, or this notice, will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery.
All persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment. This
the 20th day of September, 1915.
Joseph Ferrall.
Executor.
A. Paul Kitchin, Attorney.
goods and prompt service have had
much to do with his success. Read
the advertisement.
"I haven't heard Nexdore and his
wife quarreling for several days.'1
"JSIo; they re not on speaking
terms just now." Boston Evening
'transcript.
THE BACHELOR'S BUTT-IN.
"Getting married ia like begin
ning a beautiful story."
xes, out one wmch cannot pos-
siDiy nave a happy ending.
Vocational schools were praised by
Mayor Curley of Boston at a state
conference of teachers. The city ex
.ecutive said: "Any institution that
'prepares boys and girls for good citi-
'zenship and equips them with all
'that is needed to increase their earn
ing capacity cannot be too highly
commended. Such institutions lift
men and women to a hisrher nlane
Read The Commonwealth. .$1.00.
An exchange observes that the
Germans have captured Villa. For
the benefit of our citizens of Mexi
can - descent, we submit that the
object of capture was Vilna, a city,
not the rehanded individual.
. REPORT Of THE CONDITION OP THE
PLANTERS & COMMERCIAL BANK
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C,
At the Close of Business, Sept., 2, 1915.
THAT SUFFICED.
V
"The doctor says I must get away
iior my nerves.
Did he see your tongue?"
"No, but he heard my wife's."
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Loans and discounts $112,41)7.31) Capital stock .: .$15,000.00
Overdrafts 378.54 Undivided profits, etc 5.325.70
of living and solve many of the prob- Furniture and fixtures 2,111.93 Bills payable 3lj000.00
lem3 that confront the coTTiinuTiitv" Dnd loan- 5,00b.01 Deposits 84,161.28
I TV-. knnlrr. "-. 1 1 V O 1 l"il"C5 1ft Q VX -4.1 iTo t lllDVO J f V rlr O AIl Dfntl'.r
Cash items G10.80
Gold Coin 588.50
Silver Coin. &c 1,715.25
Nat'l. Bank Notes, etc... 2,363.00
22.76
NEEDED ONE.
ODD HARMONY.
ieatb of an Infant.
On Tuesday morning. September
14, the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. B.
tfarnhill was made dark and sad by
the death angel entering and taking
little Pattie Benson, their infant
daughter, aged only 2 months and
119 days, but Uod had permitted her
Mttle life to remain here long enough
to be dearly loyed. She was indeed
a bright bud of beauty and promise,
but He that doeth ail things well
needed her worse - than papa and
mamma and thought it best to trans-
i m. u it:. i .
piaiiL jier iium wii simui worie to
bloom 'neatb milder skies. We can
not understand why God, in His all
wise Providence should so sorely
grieve this family but it is not for us
to question the works of our Heav
enly Father. So. parents, rather be
glad that your baby is "safe in the
arms of Jesus," She could not wait
when Jesus was calling, and Heaven
is nearer to you since your baby will
t 1 lA.1 I A. 1 . ..
De waiting ami waicning io swing
wide the golden gate" that she may
bidyou welcome over there, where
you will clasp your darling in. your
arms once-more. Aunt Minnie.
Dawson's, N.. C.
l "Sleeping in the open air is n
longer experimental."
xet, strange to say, it is both:
tned and tentative."
ACCOUNTING FOR IT.
"What caution was that your la
ther gave you with your bundle of
hreworks?"
"He told me to remember that fin
gers are something one should always
b-anv I -1 S3
: ' ft
THE RESULT. f
Jacob You know, Esau,
. asked me for my pottage.
Esau Yes, and I made a
imess of it.
Total $135,f09.74
Total..; $135,509.74
State of North Carolina County of Halifax.
I, O. J. Moore, cashier ot the above-named bank, do solemnly swear
the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
'that
O. J. MOORE. Cashier.
you
fine
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 13th day of July, 1915. Correct Attest: Stuart Smith,
J. E. Shields, S. A. Dunn,
Notary Public. Directors.
L
ITS KIND.
"I wonder why barbers are gen
erally such sociable men."
"I suppose it is because they find!
it so easy to scrape an acquaintance'
AND RICE GETS PUFFED UP.
: Bix Scientists claim now thai)
vegetables have feelings, emotions.
Dix That's right. We frequently
see caDDages with swelled heads."
NEW YORK GOLF COURSES.
There are 110 golf courses within
thfr New York, of what is known as
the metropolitan, district. These can
take care of 50,000 golfers with ease.
"Will there be any profit on this
i beauty showr
"Well, there ought to be a hand-
ijSome one.
i . 1
INTERESTED DECISION.
"The suffragists are beginning to
embark on a silent course."
j "That so? Then I'm going to
iurge Maria to join 'em."
The-weather man has departed
for the equatorial regions now, we
think, and will permit inhabitants
of the temperate zone to prepare
for an early fall. Killing frost and I
a hard winter.
AWFUU
; "It would be horrible!"
' "What would be?"
J "A strike of the dry cleaners dur-
ling the white flannel trouser season l"
KEPT HI8 WORD.
She You promised to, stop smok
ing when we were married.
He Well, I did. They wouldn't
allow smoking in the church.
. CARRYING OUT THE IDEA.
"What kind of a hat would yon
jget if you were I, to go with this
j awning-stripe dress?"
! "I should suggest a shade hat."
SAME LINE.
"Billyons began life by watering
horses and cows on a farm."
"And he's still
IWall street'
watering stock in
NOT SO MUCH.
"I Can throw all rrnnm o flvot
touch.
t "Thrfs nothing; so can &" banana
Commence Tall Sewing
The
New Fall
Styles
Latest Fall Style
-IcCall Pattern 6779. One ot
il-.j many sew October da-
With their touch of
quaintness from 1880
are faithfully reproduced
by
Mc CALL'S
MAGIZINE
The Fall Fashions
show more simple
lines, which makes
it easier than ever
before to construct
a dress from pat
terns. See the new
McCall
Book of
Fashions
Now On Sale
is filled with new
ideas, and beauti
ful illustrations
Smart Fall Model
McCall Patterns 6751-6757.
are showing many other
oew and attractive October
ae3jgns.
Edwards & Co., Scotland Neck, N. G
ANNOUNCEMENT
Beginning with next month this Bank will dis
tribute each month in this community a se
ries of folders treating each month of a differ
ent farming subject.
The war has brought home to all of us the
imperative necessity for diversification of
crops. Experience has shown that every far
mer can greatly increase the yield of his farm
by farming rightly according to new scientific
methods.
Each of these papers will be complete in itself
and each will give explicit directions for ob
taining the maximum yield of the crop dis
cussed and will give the proper crop-rotations
to be practiced to maintain and in
crease the fertility of the farm.
The farmer who follows these
should double or triple the revenue
farm.
suggestions
from nis
If you would like to have them, send us your
name and address on a postal card.
THE SCOTLAND NECK BANK
Scotland Neck. N. C.
G. Hoffman, President. J. Harper Alexander, Jr., Cashier
A. McDowell, Chairman of the Board.
The Success of an
Article is Proven by
The Results it Gives !
Aluke this test on your farm. Get five acres of
liquid inoculation either from the State or National
Department of Agriculture and use on one acre. Use
one acre of NITRA-GERM on one acre, and see for
yourself which gives results.
Suppose you were to sit up in the shade until
July or August and then go to work in the field. It
would go pretty hard with you, wouldn't it? Why ?
Because.the change is too sudden. So it is with in
oculating bacteria,. The germs grown in liquid or
jelly forms do not stand the sudden change when
transferred to the soil.
NITRA-GERM is in a soil form. The irerms are
grown and acclimated to live and grow in the soil,
ready to $o to work when ,ou
don't have to undergo the sudden
become acclimated before going
Nitrogen from the air.
Ten thousand aeres used in Halifax, Martin.
Northampton. Nash, Kdvcombe and a few other
counties this year. Satisfied customers are its big
gest asset. Not an expense hut an investment.
Use it on Clover, Vetch and Alfalfa and reduce
your fertilizer bills, v s
J. 1. DUNN, Local Agent, Scotland' Neck.
get them. They
change antl then
to work getting'