THE COMMONWEALTH
AFTERNOON DAILY
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i this paper and also the local new
published herein.
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November 15 1918
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All Austrian Armistice is an ex
cellent thing; for what is left of
the Austrian Arm v.
'let!tiveh able to restore her? And
what will be their temper after;
'the devastated territory is crossed!
I They ase likely to audit the ac-j
! count and underscore it with red. !
This war has reversed all tradi-
itions. In the last lour years tnoi
doctors have learned how to cure
most accepted varieties of fatal
wound. A man shot through the
heart used to die in previous wars.
It was the correct thing to do. It
was hardly respectable to do any
thing else.
Now he wakes up out of, the
anaesthetic and demands a ciga
rette. The medical prefession has
rewritten all its rules.
If the fertility of Belgian soil '
is destroyed a few chemists will
get together and find a way of res
toring its fruitfulness in a few
years. A group of Luther Bur
banks will teach orchards to do
what orchards never thought of do
ing since Eve stole the apple.
The Lokal Anzeiger should de
vote editorial space to things less
nebulous than predictions covering
the next half century. The next
few years will hold enough trou
ble for the Potsdam junto to
crowd ten centuries. But passion
ate strictures and tearful attempts
at intimidation contain sufficient
proof the ofj waning Prussian
morale to encourage the most
skeptical of us to a stedfast optimism.
FECIAL
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N. B. Josey Company.
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Scotland Neck, N. G. 10-6t
NOTICE
Extra Large Heavy Bags foi
Cotton Pickers for salt;.
N. B. JOSEY Co.
FOUND AUTO LICENSE. CAN
be obtaned by giving nuxnbr
and paying for' this ad at The
Commonwealth. ti.
FOR SALE-SEVERAL SMALL
farms and two largs farms for
sale. Apnlv at once to Box 36
Scotland NeVs N. O. tf
WANTED 25 BKAND NEW
members in December for the
Home Building and Loan Association.
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fHAT I WILL GET AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF SUGAR FOR
MY GROWING TRADE FROM NOW ON.
OF COURSE, YOU KNOW I HAVE A FULL SUPPLY OF
EVERYTHING ELSE IN MY LINE.
THANKS CALL OFTEN.
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The business built by quality, cleanliness, courts' And a square
deal.
FOR RENT OR SALE THE
Bell Hotel equipfped with elec
tric light and city water Apply
to N B Josey Scotland Neck N C
FOUND A NEW AUTOMOBILE
tire. Can be obtained by des
cribing same, paying the reward
and for this ad. Apply in first
instance to the Commonwealth.
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FOUND BOOKS DEEP
DOWN IN DUG-OUTS
American Library Association Bosks
Sure Reach Soldiers, Says
Raymond Fosdick
The kaiser is reported to have
purchased an estate in Norway.!
He might have done better to se
cure an island somewhere in the
far seas, where he could remain
"monarch of all he surveved."
"Peace" is a noun that we are
all much attracted to, but wre are
very particular that it should have
the right adjectives in agreement
with it. It must be a "just"
peace, a "lasting" peace, or Ave
will ha none of it.
And now they tell us that Span
ish influenza, despite its name,
came straight from the Orient. A
name has not much significance.
For instance, we have alwavs
known that German Kultur, de
spite its name, came direct from
the devil.
THE SUPERLATIVE DEGREE.
"I found the books of the American
Library Association everywhere in
Fiar.ee," says Raymond Fosdick, chair
man of the National Commission on
Training Camp Activities, who has just
returned from an extended trip over
seas, during which he conducted a
thorough investigation of the irork
being done by the various war vork
agencies.
I found them in dugouts thirty or
forty feet below ground, in cow-barns
where shrapnel had blown parts of
the roof away, as well as in the sub
stantial huts and tents far back from
the tiring line.
'1 have found them in hospitals and
dressing stations; in scattered villages
in the training area where our men are
billeted and even in the remote parts
of France where the forestry units are
carrying out their lonely, but efficient
and essential work. Your books are in
continual demand from the time the
soldiers arrive in camp in America
until they come back home after serv
ice over there."
The A. Li. A. library service has
grown tremendously within the past
few months and millions of books
have been distributed wherever sol
diers and sailors are quartered, on sea
or land.
WEDDING INVITATIONS-ALL
who contemplate sending out
wedding invitations, or announ
cements, and wish to save the
high cost of engraving, should
apply to The Commonwealth.
NOTICE
We are largely interested in
the Cotton Oil and Ginning Co W e.
will thank our friends to have
their cotton ginned with them.
N. B. JOSEY CO.
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Do not imagine that because oth g
er cough medicines failed to give
you relief, that it will be the same
with Chamberlain's Cough Reme
dy. Bear in mind that from a
small beginning this remedy has
gained a world. wide reputation
and immense sale. A medicine
mus, have exceptional merit to win
f-stfeem wherever it becomes known
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FOR SALE TWO ENGINES
suitable for thrashing peanuts,
terms reasonable. Apply to
Shields Commissary 10-28tf
COUPON BOOKS THE COM-
monwealth has taken the agency
for the Betz Coupon Co., fr cou
pon books. Any merchant wdio
needs these bo:s in the near fu
ture should acivise us and we
will have them delivered in
time. Applv Commonwealth
Office . tf
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sortment of Ladies Winter
Dresses and Coats that it
will pay you to see before
making your selection.
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The devastation will be as com
plete in the cities as in the rural
districts and the mines. Not a
building must be left standing be
tween Holland and Luxemburg.
a ne Tieius ana xorests win be re
duced to barrenness for fifty
years, and the mineral deposits
will be destroyed and demolished
and variously maltreated by fluids
and explosions to the extinction
of their productiveness and fe
cundity.
Everything, in a word, is to be
promiscuouslv bedeviled into the
next two generations.
The foregoing is a prophetic pic
ture of Belgium in the Lokal An
zeiger. Berlin. It delineates Bel
gium as it will look after the cross
ing of the allies. .
Precision and thoroughness are
characteristic of the German.
They are occasionally absent from
Prussian journalism when Ameri
can victories are being explained
away, but these are necessary
lapses, and are always followed
by a return to form.
Yet this kind of journalistic pre
cision is even less effective than
the delirium of the yellow press,
it indirates the weakness that bor
ders on hysteria the impotence
that threatens before bursting in
to tears. What if Belgium is de
vastated? Are not the "allies, col-
"NEED ONLY CREED"
SAYSG1PSY SMITH
"Need is the only creed orer there,"
declared Gipsy Smith, the famous
evangelist, speaking to enormous aud
iences in southeastern cities, where
mass meetings have been held in the
interest of the United War Work cam
paign to open on November 11.
FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS
PLEDGE ASSISTANCE
Representatives of Florida daily and
weekly newspapers in attendance at a
luncheon held in connection with a
confetnce of United War Work cam
paign workers, pledged themselves to
concentrate behind the big drire to
open on November 11.
Their action puts the full strength
of the Florida newspaper fraternity
in the field and in every section at
the state the puWic will be informed
through the columns of the press Just
what the aims and objects of the seven
great war work agencies are in this
earning campaign to raise $170,500,000.
Professional Cards
AVOID THE RUSH, WE
ALL THE TIM
ARE ALREADY A RUSH
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.EL BARBER SHOFS
W. A. W ALSTON, Prop.
oanitary and up-to-date. Special
ttentiou given to c&ildren.
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FOR MANY YEARS, IN
SCOTLAND NECK,
If YOU Want
A REAL, CLASSY
SHOE-SHINE
Call on Me At Walston's Barber.
Shop Saturday and get a
Shine that will last till
10c - SUNDAY 10c
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Over Whitehead's Drag J?tore
SCOTLAND NECK N. C.
Has taken over Dr. D. F. Keel's
equipment and office and is
ready to make appointments
for all classes of dental work
Office Hours Morning 9 to 1.
" " Evening 2 to . 6
Other appointments by special
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up in the rear of Herring & Co's store
next to the Dixie Theatre
We will do everything in our power
to serve the public.
We will keep a clean and quiet place.
We are open for business and your
business will be appreciated. Ovsters
daily. Phone 124
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Catarrhal Deafness Cannot lie Cureo
by local applications, as th.y caiin:'' leucn
the disfast.l iiortiou oi ih ear. Thcsv is
only wsty tu cure cair;rrhal (i afntF.
and tlmt is Vy a ci,netit:jtioaal rcmciiv.
Catarrhal Uca; :u-3:.- ca-jstd' by an in
"la raotl roi-j;iioii of th cosia lininp m
the Eustachian T-uW. W'.-. n iriis tub. i.
intlam'.-U ytia have a ruinlii:.r sound or jr i-pt-rffct
hc:iii!,r. and wh.-.i it is ciuir :
Clogvd. 1.M--8 !'n-ss is i:;- ie-t;'t. Unless t h
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d-Jrn,-M ar-:- ct.r.s a by cr-rh. wisicii is
a:; inflamed o.or.a;t.KVti v:" iiucous aur-
faccs. IlaH'a T'."j;:rrh 2idictsio arts tt:tu
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Vt win giv,? onv ir-udr.--? rxsilars for
any f-asi- or -atarrhil ;a:'n.-s that cannot
b?. ftireu by iift.'i'a Ouiarrh Medicine. Cir.
cujare ire. All Or-sn'fis. TSc.
COAL
A car Winifrede Coal,
will arrive in a fe wdays.
CASH with order.
This November 11th.
BORERS AND CO.
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Winter apparel is here in profusion selected with utmost care to meet every demand
and at prices to accommodate every pocket book.
Blankets, Quilts, and all the things for household use can be found here at prices
that are not war-prices.
Your Interests Are Ours We Have Ever Made Them So.
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