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The COMMONWEALTH Published Tuesdays and Fridays Telephone Number 5. tt 7 : , SAL AMAGUNDI I i I Tpi C. F. CARROLL, Editor & Proprietor. Entered at the Postoffice at Scot laud Neck, N. C, as second-class mat ter under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. Subsc'ptP - -rice One Year Six Months Three Months (Payable Strictly in Advance) $1.50 . .73 .50 Advertising ttates: Display, per incn 15c net. Reading Notices, 5c per line per issue. (Circulation Books Open to Legitimate Advertisers and Prospective Patrons) Friday, August 4, 1916 Pardon the delay, but noe this: the Dcutschland has went. The primary being over it behooves you to limber up for the election. WE ARE GRATEFUL. Our reeent petitions to the public of Scotland Neck to communicate us the news that they happen to learn has brought forth results. Today we were literally showere with items by phone and person. For these favors we are deeply grateful. Our slogan of "Read it First in This Paper" is becoming a realization and we want to keep it so. Our splendid equipment enables us to furnish the very latest news locally', from the State at largo and the na tion. We want every person in town to feel that they have an interest in the paper we know they read it and we are especially desirous that everybody become a subscriber. It is generally known to the business people that the price of raw print paper has advanced greatly within the past six months and this raise in price affects every publisher. No one is immune from the heavy ' charges. By way of illustration, the paper this issue eost Naturally So. People who know the least suspect the most. Wilmington Star. Argument. There is a suggestion that Carranza may retire, possibly to avoid a punc ture. Greensboro News. Yes, Why? But if Mr. Kitchin was so far wrong about it why did they drop the mat ter so quickly. Durham Sun. It Did Both. Instead of "getting out and getting under" it might be well for the Deut schland to "get under and get out." Kinston News. , Excuse For Two. Mr. Hughes has two charming daugh ters but that gives only two fellows a real good excuse to vote for him. Wil mington Star. riTlM ...AND DOUBLE.; Always Doing It. Even standing in the effulgence of present day glorious light of reason Joe Cannon lambasted the Democrats. However, you "can't teach an old dog new tricks." Wilmington Dispatch. j J8 Btt AT TTfc" ' 1 . IS? I 1 I I LL BEGIN Entirely Possible. It hasn 't rained that is a regular rain in 10 or 12 hours. But as we make this cheerful observation, we re alize that it could rain any minute drizzle, bueketfuls, or sheets. Greens boro News. Hf Jul if iLil!. It is gratifying to note that bus iness conditions, in a general v;,y, arc better than at any time since the European War began; b;-.t it is more gratifying, and indeed en couraging, to find that the VERY GREATEST percentage cf in crease, ever any previous month, recorded in MY FANCY GEO CBSY BUSINESS, was m-idi in the month just past JULY. rTov, this means mere in ray business than in an average one, because it is well known that I have had a splendid patronage all the ti ne. It proves, too, that the good people of this commv.nit; ap preciate my efforts to give their ONE HUNDRED CENTS' for their DOLLAR. woi in Your orders arc ALWAY! preciatcd. an- Twin Essentials Of course, Asa Candler is being boosted "for mayor of Atlanta not be cause he has money, but because he is prominent. Yet if he did not have money he wouldn't be prominent. Wilmington Dispatch. They Accuse Paul. The following paragraph appeared recently in the Shelby Aurora High lander under the head of "Political Hot Shots:" Mr. I). B. Paul a prominent attor ney of Charlotte was in town Wednes day on professional business. JOYS OF A MERCHANT iT , A, --.ne is one u n ruing alter an- exactlv 4 cents per pound more than ,, ,, 1 1 - i other, was written for me sa-jd a good it did six months ago. An advance of j morc.hant friend of the Editor, "I ccr nearly 200 per cent. We ought to insist j tauily have a snap, My jobber sends upon an increased subscription rate j 'uus every month and draws on me at but a recent investigation, of conditions j siSht but if 1 sel,1 a bil1 to n,v sto- , , j mers with a modest request that I need causes us to bring the paper back down . , , , . . 11 the money they come in swearing and to the old price one dollar per year, j quit trading. Those that owe me an i At this price you are getting the Com-j promise to pay tomorrow, spend then monwealth at a little less than one cent ! eash with my competitor or send it off to a cat house. If I contribute to anv All summer goods must go regardless of cost. Space too limited to mention prices. Come and see for yourself the big reduction in prices. We will give during this sale double amount of cou pons on everything except heavy groceries, feed, etc. Will give on groceries one half amount cou pons regularly given oh dry goods, etc. For every dollar paid on account during this sale, we will give a dollar in coupons. No goods charged at sale prices. Make Your Dollars Count. JSi it ? vmummi Mh Phones 174 BotiiPnnp.es QUALITY CLE AN LINE V. S L. H S IS per copy. Twice as cheap as any other paper in the county. During the past three months we have put on the list something like 200 subscribers, who willingly paid casn money, because they know that a news paper can not operate on a subscrip tion credit basis and come out even. Many of our friends felt indifferently because they were dropped from the list as delinquents, but we gave them plenty of notice. It is imperative now and it w-as then that we do this. The postal laws forbid a publisher sending a subscriber the paper longer than nine months on credit, yet so far as we know this law lias never been enforced. It would work disastrously -to many a publisher who would extend accomo dation to the . public. We have no black list of our delinquents. It is not necessary to worry about your old ac count if you want this paper. Just a dollar bill will get the paper for twelve months and anybody can afford that." If you do not live in close prox imity to the office a letter bearing the money will suffice. We know you will get your money's worth why not get it now? JAPANESE STEAMER INDEFI NITELY QUARANTINED SEA. cause people say I'm bidding for trade: j if I don 't, they say I 'm a pine-rooting j hog and ought to be boycotted. Each day I 'm expected to dig up most of ; the cash I get in the till from every- thng from a raffle ticket to a chicken ! show to a lawn party for a church fund ; by people who claim I ought to do this ' because they give jne the smallest part' of their trade; but my friend Sawbuck j & Co., located in the West don 't do any of these things and if I were to circulate a subscription paper among the jobbers from whom I buy they would give me the horse laugh proper. If I sell my customer a pair of B. V. D. 's I must treat the family to candy and cigars, notwithstanding I felt that I was doing a real service by showing him how to keep cool; if I buy a load of potatoes from my farmer friend I am expected to treat his family. Cus tomers who are able to pay hang on to their money while I pay 8 per cent at the bank to get ready cash. I hav a big business during hard times and poor crops from people who are willing to trade with me providing I can dupli cate cat. houses prices (which I can do) and wajt for my money until after har vest or pay day. My scales are tart heavy when I sell sugar and too light when I buy butter. I am a liar, a thief, a grafter and a. skinner. If I smile I am a soft soap hyproerite; if I don 't I 'm a dyspeptic grump. Yes, there is always something to take the joy out o ' life. Here are $6,000 worth of book accounts, all good, and only tlu1 WHEN giving- profit-sharing coupons aiici certificates wo increase our business and our over-head expense does not increase in proportion. Therefore the premiums we give you have nothing to do with the prica of our goccl?, for we have net advanced our prices, and will continue to give you one hundred cents worth of xcerchandise for every dollar you spend with us, in addition to profit-sharing coupons and certificates that are redeemable at our store for any article illustrated or listed in our catalogue. Hnturally it would be impossible for us to carry in stock all premiums listod in the catalogue, but we have made arrangements wLereby we can secure the desired article for you on short notice, and those saving; our profit-sharing certificates do not have to pay transpor tation charges on any article in this catalogue- We solicit and aim to merit year valued trade with the xocle -tanding that in return you get full value for your money. Consequently, save year coupons ar.i certificates. The more you buy of us, the more you get bach in valuable premiums. Do : ot leave our store without securing coupons or certificates equivalent in value to your pir chase. If oiir sales- nni JL Jo. iff oiiaroiis La X-J LSi.lL & it Turning No i No Cranking m No No Bolht Worry men fail to give, them to you, ask for them they belong to you as i ps your cnange. Allow us to help furnish your home and supply you with the mar.-, useful articles ob tainable, without additional-cos b to you. Begin today to save your coupons and certificates, end m a vrr :hort time you will possess a sufficient number to entitle you to one or more of our valusblo "sremhuns. Burroughs-P ittman-Wheeler Company Everybody s Store U Freezes Ice Cream and Ices to suit the most fastidous taste. Sizcfl Quart S3.09 uart bize d i ry one una the old way. dispense wi $3,50 th c. GBEEN3EQRO HAXjTS ESCHAN3E j N"EGEO HAS FIT FALI,3 INTO CHASGES. j DITCH AND IS DEOWNED. Greensboro, Aug. 1. Efi'ecti'? today, j L'uryaw,: N. C, Au;. 1- Wliile walk Greensboro banks are uo longer eiiarg- j ing alo;!g the public road near Book:;, ing ex( diange on c-lie -ks deposited by Friday . morn-jug, Ed. Xevkirk, a re al' other eont'oreiieo lield between the rei)re.sontative.s of ihe railro:ids and of their patrons. Thjs action was decided upon, at a meeting of the Oi-T-nsboro clearing l.ouse, of v.diicli the five banks of the city are member s. Mr. II. G. Vaughan, president, of the American Exchange National Hank, estimated that Greensboro people have been pay ing between ifS.dOO and $10,000 amuial- :'ct'-d colored man, suiltiei the en, ployees. The m-(i;:ition lion tliat. nothing can le i)oiu bv i it 1 it "aT A fctOSB JM Fl ."1 :'i:!!i! !;-:cs tiie nosi- X !"?( foiinn! naturi' until after the ro se i zed wUh an epileptic lit and fell m!t of the vote is luioA.-n and the em- a ''.itch by tee roadside and was drown - plovers and employees finnilv fuil to ed before help could reach him, al- ii:e ! resident, however i ----- ? onsidi-ring whether some oxtraordi ary atiion may not be taken. Yokohama, Aug. 3. The Japanese I Good Lord knows how I'm going to steam-hip Hawaii Maru, bound from Oriental ports for Tocama, Wash., has been indefinitely quarantined owing to an outbreak of cholera on board, lo cases were found in the steerage, four proving fatal. Most of the passengers embarked at Manila but the port of the origin of the disease is unknown. " PERILS OF PAULINE." .' After considerable delay by reason of iloods and other unavoidable condi tions, the Palace Theatre has succeed ed in again securing chapters of the popular serial picture, "Perils of Pau line," the 15th, chapter of which was shown last night. There are yet four or five chapters, and they will be shown on Thursday nights as heretofore until the serial is completed. paj $400 sjght draft due tomorrow. Say, it's good to talk to you, obi boy, I 'm going home and do onto my custo mers as the fellow from whom I buy does unto me. Strange, I never thought of that." Merchants Journal and Commerce. ly as exchange on checks, and'that this I mother, who was at homo a half though the ditch contained but four inches of water. Hjs twelve year old son was with Mm at thf time, but he: . became, frightened and ran to his Head in i:i The Commonwoalrt Tv-rat H&.UN-FOUNDED- amount will be what the banks wjll lose j away, and the depositors will make in the fu- jessarv. tare. It is generally known, of course, j tnat tins action results rrom the recent j order of the Postmaster General that postmasters collect checks in small towns. It is expected that banks in I many other cities where exchnngo has I been charged lierelofoie, will follow ! the. load set by Greensboro. It is an- j nounced, however, that in view of tho I fact that banks are now cut out of all ; exchange on checks a charce ivill be!...!,' ji To inquest was deemed miie noi - I Iligi: Point, Ai:g. 1. The electric ear operate:! between High Point and' Thoi iasvnie by the C. and Y. Y. Rail- . road, i: asrain running on scheiinle :'- JL 3 11 int of business sever ! Vfl made for coTlecting notes and rafts. tor bei-i; from 1 he damage caused by the J The big storage battery car .. being elinrgisl ureiinraterv to the regular trii':?f ):4terv boxes ( ar.'ih isro. ' I About two hundreod dollars wortii of : j V battery boxes of the car we: e burn- ; led. MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION MET THIS AFTERNOON. Several Delinquents Placed on Black List by Members of the Organization. The local Merchants Association met this afternoon in the directors' room of the Scotland Neck Bank to trans act regular business Several delinquent debtors were put on the "black list." This association wttp TfPTIvr APV STP.PTiAV 1 1 " The county primary was held yes- . ' Inv.lnt' O 1I.tVi Vftt Vl,-IY11' ' " , , ' ' man who meets his obligations, but as over the countv. The office of county , . . , one or the members remarked, it is treasurer was tne oniy one conicsien , . , ,, -, a terror to the '"crook." Mr. 1 Sowers being run against Dy air Thompson of Rosemary. Returns indi cate tliat Mr. Thompson was over- CLAIMS ENDURANCE RECORD. wlieimingiy tiereateu, ne securing oniy , Danviiei 111., Auz. 3.W. R. Ba? . . ' " about 1UU votes m tne county. Df Muncie. Ind.. todav Hn5m tn have set a new endurance record on THIS PAPER GIVES MOPjEi the piano, by playing continuously for NEWS WHILE IT IS NEWS AND fifty hours and five minutes, no bs AT LESS COST THAN ANY OTHER j gun playing Monday night and did PAPER IN THIS SECTION. not stop until last nighfr. PSHIDENT MAY INTERVENE - l 127 RAILWAY DISPUTE, SAID, j U 3 Preparing to A trainmen AVas'nington. Aug. if Strike of tho j 1 Seems Insvitibls. ! .t -m. Ji. Ch n- MARSIIAL'S FORCE IS CUT DOWN TO ONE Greensboro, A eg. 1. The force in the L. fc. .Marshal s ollice has been reduced to one man, Mr. J. !. Bennett being the only one left. Mr. J. L. Boger, who has been deputy marshal for some time has resigned and two deputy collectors who had been working m connection wjtli the office have been allowed to go be cause the appropriation for destroying illicit distilleries has been exhausted. The two deputv collectors thus illseon- tinned are Messsrs. 0. V. Xeelev and ! 'of 4n0'00 employees of the railroads W. II. Johnson, both of his county. !T1, ''' AdQIit is axi.0U8 to -et a!1 tho ; : info: 'mat ion possible in oroer to inter- ivene it a strike seems inevitable. J T e mediation board is gathering j facts in anticipation that the strike generally look in ttis paper for tlio news and jou gener F.'Iy find out froja tais paper waat's trppened worth put ti :T rfco print.- 13 ot you arc eositt'lEics disappointed when ycu i-aow Fo?nctain.r taat is net iu tie pr.per. We have contdraially asked yon to tell u;i if you kuo-.v anything ,of 'ntcresi. Another thing: do you V.now that yon and I and Bill and Marv tt i ill jkg y f w i !l l!i . , &m I bers. commissioner of the f Yderai boar.l ; jt ot mediation and conciliation, was c;il!-'X ed in bv President Wilson todnv in Tj connection with the th rente:: e, stride : 111 NEGRO ATTEMPTS CRIMINAL . ASSAULT ON WHITE GIRL f it 59 make this paper more inter esting lacaliy if everyone of us will send tie little items in by pfcena or nail to the editor for -publication? He will gladly welcome this fav- Chadbourn, X. C., Aug. 1. Persons vote arriving Here state that or, and it wvii't cost you 'OT being canassed will af vor it the WOOds in w:ll'.-oi. an A flint tho vflilrnaila fi.).l H around Boardinan are being scoured by their emplovees will be unable to rea-h !j enraged citi.ens of that community in an rgreemer.t. When this point is It search of a strange negro who this af- ! reached, the board expects to be caUe.l 8 l"uuu" ilm '"l";" :l erimmai assault in to attempt to settle the differences. : g upon a i miss fields, daughter of Mr. j The President has referred to the and JMrs. Strange Fields. Th was frightened away bofore he accom plished his purpose. He is said to be headed in this direction. Boardman is a negro Department of Labor an appeal 'from the Chamber of Commerce of the Tin ted States for Federal intervention. in situation is expected to come to my big sight cf time to do this. The phone is nv-mber 5, and here is nearly alvays so'.aeone in the office to take tha mes sage. Begin right away now and try this out and by so doing you can greatly P - nsversal Freacl The New Tire Everyone is Talking About The Non-Skid Tread combines an One Tire all the Advantages of both the Suction Tread and the Raised TresS Types. mm 1 - i m m I 8 rm m I Ij j Prices Moderate and P i JU J ( Quality the Best! t3 if j Sill Jcsey Hardware Co lllf fiO ill 1 Sccand KeclN, it" !'Vv TT of;A ii, A,-St S, v,h f.,a rm of 18 YOU HAVE NO ICSA EOW MUCH YOU WILL BE FITTED BY USING .THIS "SPACE CONSISTENTLY I H I H H n I s tl H 4 a 8 a 5 I a I .the strike vote will be announced and I J
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