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THE COMMONWEALTH. PUBISHED EVERY THURSDAY. CHAS. F. CARROLL, Editor and Proprietor. IS NIGHT J HELL: HOW ALP9CS R6HI I ' - , i I'.nttreii at the postoiliee at Scotland fwk, N. 0. , as Second-Claag Matter. Thursday, September 30. 1915. German Writer Describes Visib Italy Reveals Unique New Arm to Battle Front. The new editor of this paper con gratulates himself on being able to ecome a citizen of Scotland Neck, and it is his aim and purpose to give to the good people of this communi ty the best paper possible. This pa per knows no factions, if any there be. Its motto will be the greatest good to the greatest number, will lend its support to any movement looking to the betterment of all the people. If the public will lend its encouragement and support this pa per will do its part in the building up the morality and citizenship of the county and State. There is no reason why this town should not be ideal. It has the surroundings to back it up. It has good churches and good preachers, good schools, and good teachers, good banks and good bankers, good stores and mer chants in fact, everything with which to succeed. Now lets all get together and help each otherjto ward making everything better. We candoitif we will LET'S WILL. The editor's being a stranger to some of you, is no reason for hold ing back anything that will help in this movement. Approach him as if you knew him personally and tell him anything that will help, or any news. He will appreciate it. He has come Every Instrument of Murder and D. struction in Action Fearful Con cert Splits the Ears and Rakes the Nerves. Berlin. The Berliner Morgenpost publishes the following vivid descrip tion of the awful battles north of Arras by Dr. Max Osborne, a special war correspondent who had been at the western front since the beginning of the war: "With four or five other correspond ents I had decided to visit our ad vanced trenches near Arras. Two offi cers, a captain and a very young lieu tenant, offered to lead us to the outer German positions. They jumped into our car and silently we sped on through the night. "After a while the lights of our auto were extinguished. Not a sign of life was discernible around us as we ran along the road cautiously but swiftly. Then we noticed gray shadows moving through the darkness singly and in groups. "Suddenly our car stopped and we had to advance afoot over the dusty, rocky road. Great rockets swept up through the darkness, in beautiful curves, bursting high in the air and sending sheaves of fire in all direc tions. Great white lamps, resembling large moons, lighted up the counto for miles around. It seemed as if light to the World. Mountaineers of the Alps Perform Feats Which Nobody Believed Pos sible Scale Summits and Take Enemy by Surprise. Y .LETTERS PROM CORRESPONDENTS . Rome. The Italian war has re vealed to the world a new arm, the "Alpines." The Alpine troops are strictly an Italian institution and, with the Ber saglieri, form a picked corps. The de fense of the Alps is intrusted to them. First of al? an Alpine soldier is a son of the Alps. Thsy are recruited there and they are organized into battalions. The mountaineer of the Alns never wastes a shot. His mark- manship must be infallible or the fain ished wolves infesting the deep, wooded gorges will destroy his herd. When military conscription claimed him he knew every peak, road and track. Constant exposure to the severe winter cold or the heat of the summer had hardened his mus cles and made him insensible to fa tigue, The training of the Alpine includes everything belonging to the infantry arm and more. He is taught how to regard a cave as his fortress and a rock as a redoubt. He is taught methodically and scientifically how to climb to an almost inaccessible peak or scale a sheer wall with the help of a rope and pick. Further, he impB hd Mifliienlv been built into learns how to dynamite a rock in the the air. These mysterious lamps were space of a few seconds and how to Horfit.iinTnTici nttnnheil to narar.hutes set ions or stones roiimg uown upon which keep them floating between heaven- and earth, for some time. "A moment later there was fire all around us. The artillery on both sides had commenced its awful work. Ear- Bplitting, infernal noise now accompa nied the fantastic fireworks. The dull roar dissolved itself into innumerable Bounds and noises. With faint shrieks. like scared little birds, the French in- the enemy climbing after him. The training and fighting qualities of the Alpine were put to a severe test during the advance in the Tren- tino and Caraic frontiers, where the occupation of the passes and the sum mits dominating them had to be made swiftly and effectively. The task de volved wholly on the Alpines and in fantry. On May 25, at two in the morning fn-ntrv hnllpts whizzed over our heads. to stav and make his home here. tTlA mf.oMn trims rattled, shrannels the reveille was sounded and the Al Cive him vcvir UT5Dort and he prom- exploded with a deafening roar and vmes received the order to scale the (m e mm oar support -nanep om howitZers spit out their summits facing them, chase the enemy ises to give you a paper you 11 be pWTQ with eureune- sound. Everv sry and prepare the ground for the ,i irtmrnfmt nf iirripr and destruction infantry and artillery. tj O. ' ' J L LU ICilU. u...- i was in action 'Covered by earthworks and sand Hamilton Horns. Mr? Ed. Norman and son of Nor folk spent several days with Mr. J B. Williams last week. James Rawles spent Wednesday in Bethel. Miv. J. B. Cloman is spending sometime in Scotland NecK Mrs. J. P. Bovle, Mrs. Htiry Waldo and Miss Effie Waldo spent a few hours in WilliamsLon Saturday. Steve Evvell and F. L. Gladstone went to Norfolk Tuesday. Mrs. M. H. Nobles spent last week with her mother in the country. Mi?s Mollie Harrington was the guest of Miss Mary Anthony.Friday. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Davenport have returned to their home in City Point. P. H. Davenport, Harry Waldo, W. S. Rhodes and F. L. Gladstone went to Wiiliamston Monday. Mrs. G. C. Gladstone and daugh ter went to Norfolk Monday. J. A. Kitchen and family spent Sunday here. C'.arc-nce Vardy, Misses Mary Stewart Riddick and Bertha Par rish of Spring Hill were in town Sunday. . 'Sirs. M. I. Fleming entertained Wednesday at Bridge from 10:30 to -1:30. Delicious luncheon was served. Mrs. Fleming had as her guests, Mrs. G. C. Gladstone, Miss Delia Purvis and Miss Lelia Pippen. Mrs. Maggie Floyd died on Thurs- j day. morning Sept., 23 at 5 o'clock after an illness of 4 mo.nt.hs. She eaves to mourn ner loss s daughters, one sister and five brothers also sev eral neices and nephews. The fu neral services were conducted from her residence at 2:30 on Friday. GROW CABBA Spring Gieen, and were overtaken by the other party. M iss Cora L .ng of Hobgood pent a few days with Misses Pearl and -Jefferson House. Mrs. Kate Purvis of Williamston is spending some time at the home of Mrs. Mary House. Miss White a trained nurse of Washington is with Mrs. Mary House who is seriously ill. Miss Alma House from Stokes is IheTgnest of Misses Pearl and Jeffer son House. Messrs. M. L. and T. H. Burnett were in Williamston Monday. Miss Lillie Mae Bennett was the $uest of hei sister, Mrs. Ralph House Sunday. R. J. House was in Williamston Monday. Mr. Ben Burnett of Hobgood was in town Sunday. Every Halifax County son has read nn.is we si0wly moved along. We were with more than casual interest the told that about this time of the night announcement of Hon. Oscar Ever- the battle . was generally becoming ett that he will be a candidate for Attorney General. Though not ac tually a Halifax County man so far yartis from us a French shell exploded, the Passes and entrenched itself Un as geography has it, Mr. Everett is and then another one. We tried to der the protection of the artillery. in everv other sense one of us. He reach the nearest shelter, but shells less violent, but after we had passed the last houses of a village a veritable bell broke loose. On a hill about fifty Not in a sin gle instance did the Alpines fail to reach their objective. The Austrians were surprised and either fled or surrendered after a brief resistance. At noon every bat tery of mountain artillery was in its place and shelling the Austrian forts. Simultaneously the infantry occupied attended our schools and was On the Carnic frontier, or more pre- S 1 j.1 -a r i -t . t RtniP.lr nn all sirffis of us. raowinz down i" me ju&nie iero sector, ins rOOS tnrinp- trrpat rrnt.Rrs into ash. entrusted to tne iupmes was brought up with us both socially the field and meadow and sending a harder and more complicated and commercially. When he was nail of sand and stones over us as a husky youngster in his 'teens his they exploded. Timer shint wnu tl-irnwn'no- n hnqphflll "All the devils of hell seemed to . ,T ,. n have escaped. A fearful concert split from his home in Martm County into ur earg and racked our neryes In in Halifax County. He lived just that organic distorted rhythms and nun near to us. A neighbor and a neigh- dreds of discordant sounds the satanic bor's son who hiked from home af- symphony roared over the country, ter leaving college after fame and shrieking, howling, grinding, rattling . TT , , , , j. iU and at times almost laughing. The fortune. He worked hard for the pnrth trfirnMAfl hM1fiath our feet, more fame and the fortune came inciden- terrors to the hellish concert above Particular peak as absolutely impreg- tally. Anyway he now has both. As and around us. t a l rt was notlims a lawyer, he has won his way to the At last we reached the shelter and it a "Jeer 1 The only way of . '.. , . f,orp aQf na in n wr nf a thpatpr wfi approach lay through a deep gorge tront ot tne Durham bounty liar; ln(,eBnHhnMft ST1PPi' on the northern side of the mountain as a business man of more than the Wo a if in trnr,pP rnmnletplv lokhig toward Plezzo. On the Ital ordinary capacity, his worldly ac- carried away by the wild dance of ian side even a sentry was regarded cumulations and his unblemished re- death before our eyes. Near the bomb- Probably the exact history of the capture of the five peaks composing the Monte Nero range will never be written, but e3'e-witnesses maintain that this history will be a hymn of praise to the Italian Alpine troops. General Cadorna in describing the capture of Monte Poce, the fifth peak, said the Alpines performed feats which nobody believed possible. The Austrians themselves regarded this Honor Roll For Third Week, mary Department. lurst Grade: Gladys Everett, Margaret Hines, Sarah Long Johnson, Lucille House. Myrtella Hyman, Ruby Hurst, Pauline Davenport, Hazel Piland, Ethel Bunting, Eloise Ross, Darris Rawls Earline Glouer, Mamie P e Turner, Rupert Rawls, Ellsworth Glouer, Lillian Haislip, Thomas Harrell, Robert Harrell, Marie Cowey, Marion House. Third Grade. Christine Piland, Litton Hurst, Luther Cowey, Reba Cowey. Pri- to supply your home market during D. aELi.in75gtgBBji csmoer ana janumv WHEN PRICES ARE HIGH. We have growing in the mountains of North Carolina the finest lot cf CABBAGE PLANTS that lias ever boon grown f0i shipment during September and October, and being grown ia thfcfcclimatc, they are tou.-h and hardy and can stand the effects of the hot sun better 1 ban s.r.y other plants j-ou can cot WadoMAKlir -ma varifltv. viz.. THE FLOW 3D A HADR. 'lha only cabbace that given us satisfaction, set during September and Oetobor. Prices, by express, f . o. b. Horse G Shoe, N. C. 1000 to 4000 $1.50 per 1000; 6C0O to 8000 1.25 per 1000; 10000 and over. SI ikt g 1000. Buyer pays express charges. Prices by Parcel Post, 33s per 100. Address orders to MEGGETT PRODUCE CO., (The 700 Aero Truck Farm) YONGE3 ISLAND, s, c. jg Wa also grow Cabbage Plscts for shipmsnt from Novcmfcci'ta April S ana win bo b to supply roua mi. io m uwua Q-000000000 OOOOOO OOO O-OOOO-C -0 OR The International Gasoline En gine is the thing to buy if you want the real 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 Nee!;, N. C. 0 0 6 0 0 t 0 o ? 9 o 6 v.; i 0 , cvoo-ck O-O-O OOOOOO OOO OOOOOO -6 ill 1 1 U w 11 Juiii1! a : SjI it . , fj ' " r putation attest. He is in every sense Proof shelter the soldiers moved of the word qualified to fill the high r?una, seurs' LA' "l office to which he aspires with credit nn t.a fnr thRm. as thev did not to the state. even hasten their steps when they passed a particularly dangerous spot. AnH a vonr 9?n most, nf t.hp.m were With the first whisper of winter peaceful citizens and civilians like old General K. Lamity exits around myself, and my colleagues. What men ,i n ,v j m i war has made of them! the corner in favor of the dethroned mi, . . fc , mA i lit; lllgllL Ul UUllUlO DCCIliCU CilVA- King Kotton who has come back less, but at last a weak ray of light, stronff wrhich fell into our shelter, and the yvaiuiiu a. iai& luiu us wai muiu- ing was near. Still the guns were Speaking of "if s" if Great Brit- thundering and roaring, but a9 the sun slowly began to rise tne nrmg ceased. For a few minutes not a shot on cotton the fleecy staple would was heard and in the pale twilight my overheated brain drew a fanciful pic ture of a God walking over the land and commanding peace. ian would remove the contraband on cotton the fleecy shoot to twenty cents The Seat Reg. An astonishing specimen of the train "seat hog" "was lounging at his ease in a coach on a Seaboard train the other evening when the coach filled up at Lumberton. A lady who wras among the last to en ter the coach here stopped beside this seat, the only one in the coach at that time which was occupied by only one person, and asked the oc cupant if she might occupy the vacant place. The man on the seat wore a clerical garb, and so help us if he did not unblushingly tell the lady that he rather not, that he had some distance to go and did not care to be disturbed! The ungracious re mark aroused the ire of a Lumber ton gentleman who was occupying a seat with another person across the aisle, and, praise be! the Lum berton man immediately riz up on his hind legs, brushed aside the of fending "seat hog", raised his hat hat and politely invited the lady to be seated. The lady naturally hesitat ed but when the Lumberton man insisted she yielded; and the "seat hog", looking mighty glum, huddled down on one end of the seat and said nothing. It is to be hoped thit next time that particular "seat hog" will be a little more gracious toward any lady who may happen to want to share a seat with him on crowded coach. Lumberton Robesonian. "The dream was short, however. French shells came again tearin through the air, our cannon answered and the small guns chimed in. With in ten minutes the battle raged as vio lently again, all during the long night. Hell had only taken a breath." TWO MEN FIGHT WITH LYNX North Dakotans Kill Vicious Animal in Fierce Battle Near Devils Lake. as superfluous, The only way to take the fort was to scale the wall and reach t.hp. trenches undetected. The Alnines did it. The rest is known. Two Austrian companies were surprised and dis patched in their sleep.' Two more shared the same fate. Later in the day the Austrians launched against the Italians a battalion of Hungarian Honved, in a desperate effort to re take the position, but the battalion was annihilated and the bodies of the Hungarians are still at the bottom of the gorge. HUMAN SKELETON IS FOUND Workere Stumble on It While Digging Gravel Near Battle Lake, Minn. Devils Lake, N. D. In a battle in a wheat field a half mile from Lakota, Fred Hensey and Charles Travnicek were returned victors over a vicious female lynx, the first ever seen in the lake region. A ( dray stake was used by Trav nicek to kill the lynx, which was ready to spring at Hensey, who was unarmed. Mr. Ashby Dunn went to V eldon Wednesday night on business. Traffic Officer Found Rare Gem. New York.-While directing traffic at Broadway and Chambers streets, Policeman McArevery, of the traffic squad, saw something sparkle in the gutter. He picked it up and found it was "a gold brooch set" with six dia monds ana worth $2,500. No doubt our readers - here have begun to wonder why The Common wealth does not come to them as early in the week as it formerly did. By way of explanation, permit us to say that it is comparatively new to us, and we have not as yet been able to secure enough competent help lor our mechanical department Please bear with us for a few weeks and we promise you better service. both as to promptness and amount ot news matter. Battle Lake, Minn. While hauling gravel from the Thore Glende farm northwest of here Workmen discov ered a huge human skeleton. The jaw hones were in good state of preserva tion and were of mammoth size. The teeth were intact and about twice the size of the average man's. Some of the teeth looked as though they had been filled with cement, but in all probability were sound at the time of death and the enamel had decayed, leaving the darker colored interior exposed. The jaw was taken to St. Louis by L. D. Johnson, who was present when Che skeleton was discovered, and pos sibly experts there can throw some light upon the discovery. Those who saw the remains esti mated that when living the man must have been fully eight feet in height. Dawson Hems. Miss Irma' Simmons of Enfield spent a few days here last week vis ting relatives. Mrs. J. A. Barnl.il! is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. II. Anderson at La Grande this week. Miss Addie Marks of Roseneath visited Mrs. M. T. Walston last week. Mrs. Jim Weeks and Miss Ellen Weeks of Battleboro spent the week ena wuh relatives here. 2Ir. Staton Ayers.'of Bethel was a visitor here Sunday. Miss Donnie Dickens of Scotland Neck was here last week nursing little Gallie Barnhill, who has been seriously ill with diphtheria. Messrs. L G. Barnhill and W. H. Weeks marketed -Tobacco in Rocky Mount Tuesday. Miss Myrtle Moore is in Norfolk attending school. Mr. and Mrs. Grover Harrell of Tiilery attended services here Sun day. Mesdames Jim Tiilery and Hugh Johnson of Scotland Neck visited Mrs. J. R. Holliday Sunday. Miss Vera May Waters of Pacto lus is visiting Miss Irene White. Mr. Fred Harrison of Scotland Neck made his usual visit here Sun day. v Miss Nellie Edwards of Roseneath spent Friday wTith her sister, Mrs. M. T. Walston. Dr. O. F. Smith of Scotland Neck has recently made several profes sional calls at Mr. W. B. Barnhill's. Our Paster, Rev. G. H. Johnson of EnfieH held protracted services! here last week, each service was well attended especially at night. It was saicTby many to be the best meeting held here in years. His sermons were plain and enjojed by everyone. Twenty two were added to the church by baptism. Dawsons un animously voted for Mr. Johnson another vear. American Wire Fence. The Heaviest. The Strongest. The Best Galvanized. The Best for fencing of the Pea nut Patch. The Best for any use. 2t. Josey Hdwe. Co. Will Address Members Good Roads Commission of Halifax County. The following letter has been written to each member of the good roads Commission of Halifax county Sept. 23, 1915. Dear Sir: On October 4th a( noon arrange ments have been made for Mr. D. H Winslow of the United States Department of Road to address the members of the Good Roads Com mission of this county and others at Halifax on the subject, "Mainten ance of Roads." Mr. Winslow is an expert in his line and has already accomplished splendid results in certain sections of this .state organizing maintenance forces and directing these forces in the proper methods of maintaining different kinds of roads. As a full attendance of the mem bars of the Commission is desirable I ask you to let nothinsr interfere with your presence in Halifax on the date named; also ask that you bring with you, or cause to attend, all road foremen in your section of the county and any others who are in terested in this, most important feature of road work. With kind regards I beg to re main. Very truly yours, Chairman. Good Roads Commission of Halifax County. I5jp;inniim- with ntxt month this I'nuk will dis tribute each month in thisooinmunitya.se ries cf folders treating eaoh month of a dilr'T ent farming subject. The war lias brought home to nil of us the imperative necessity for diversification of crops. Experience has shown that every far mer can greatly incicase the yield of his farm by farming: riiihtly according to new" scientific methods. Each of these papers will be complete in itself and each will g-ive 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 those suggestions should double or triple the revenue from his farm. If you would like to lia ve them, send us your name end address on a postal card. THE SCOTLAND NECK BAN! iv r Scotland Neck. N. C. g G. Hoffman, President. J. Harper Alexander, Jr., CasUier p A. McDowell, Chairman of the Board. Spring Kill Items. Spring Hill, Sept., 28, 1915. Mr. Clarence Vande of Tiilery Miss Be-tha Parrish and Miss Mary Stuart Riddick of Spring Hill spent Sunday in Hamilton. Rev. Johnson and his brother spent Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Twisdale. Mr. E. A. Tiilery, Mr. Alvin Twisdale, Miss Selma Twisdale, Mr. J. B. Lilley and several more at tended services at Dawson Sunday. Mr. Morris Lvon of WTeldon was Big Sum for "Conscience Fund Washington. An anonymous New Yorker swelled the "conscience fund" r xT x i , .... . 1 uj. me ueasury ueparcment tms weelc cs-r.o- Hill lasfTHir-flnv rh- ond largest in the history of the gov ernment. The money arrived in Yvash ington in a special delivery envelope and was in gold certificates. Ice Cream Supper. There will be an ice cream supper at the home of Mrs. Lucy Ivey, on Saturday night October the . second, to help raise the balance due on Ves tibule of Roseneath Church which is nineteen dollars. The public is cor dially inuited to help us, in this cause. Emma V. Ivey. Mr. Spooner Dunn was in Spring Hill Sunday afternoon. PREFERS THE OLD NAG. A former mayor of Emporia, Kan., has -bought an automobile, but explains the superiority of anticipa tion over realization in the following words: "I prefer old Maud and the surrey. She has sense to supply j Williamston Ready For It. He was traveling in the South and had to put up over night at a second rate hotel in Western Georgia, re lates the Argonaut. He said to the clerk when he entered: "Where shall I Autograph?" "'Autograph?" said the clerk. "Yes; sign my name, you know." "Oh, right here." As he was signing his name in the register in came three fellows imme- i diately reconized as Georgia "crack- the Oak City Briefs E. W. Moore from Hobgood ar rived Saturday and is clerking for H. K. Harrell. B. L. Hines left for Kelford Mon- ers" 0ne of them advanced to day. . jdesk. H. K. Harrell spent Monday fn V" "Will you autograph?" asked the ; clerk, his face aglow with the pleas- what I lack when driving. She does j Henry Hursh and Jimmie Council ure that comes from the conscious- not run against posts nor chase pe- I (thinking their friends with an au- ness of intellectual superiority, destrians off the street and when I j tomobile had left them in the lurch "Certainly", said the "cracker." ride after her I let my mind and my j Sunday) walked four miles to get a his face no less radiant than that 'of arms and legs take a rest." " 1 mule and buggy to convey them to the clerk; "mine's ye". The Success of an Article is Proven by The Results it Gives ! Make this test on your farm. Get five aerosol liquid inoculation either from the rotate or National Department of Agriculture and use on one acre. l-e one acre of NITRA-(tERM 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. 80 it is with in oculating bacteria,. The germs grown in liquid or jelly for ins do not stand the sudden ehange when transferred to the soil. germs arc NITRA-GEUM is in a soil form. The AS- grown and acclimated to live and grow in the soil, ready togo to work when you get them. They don't have to undergo the sudden change and then become acclimated before going to work getting Nitrogen from the air. Ten thousand acres used in Halifax, Martin. Northampton, Nash, Edgecombe and a few bluer counties this year. Satisfied customers are its big gest asset. Not an expense but an investment. Use it on Clover, Vetch and Alfalfa and rodin o your fertilizer bills. J. L. DUNN, Local Agent, Scotland Neck. u t v.; t.) ; j H i ' S": It t; ti V. f J n r i ti I f -, n x
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