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Volume XII. No. 20.
Four O'CIock Edition
Scotland Neck, N. C, Friday January 21, 1921
Telegraph Service
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firs a
M' i
CALL
In vain we wait for the
who said he would come in to
morrow and another who said he
would be in next week and
square up. "We find no relief
from the party who brought las
some live news about his family
who said he would probably
uive us a subscription to The
Commonwealth in the near
1 urc.
Long before the summer enc
ed it was found the old subscrip
tion price was not paying for the
paper and mailing and moveS up
a little. As the Holidays ap
proached and many attractive
inducements were offered by
various concerns to start anoney
their way, soMiot to be outdone,
we offered to our
.six months extra. Now we have
man The Proposed Tariff Would Add
About A Dollar To Every
Pair Of Shoes
S. SOLDER;
EW
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SOW a
ILti
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Price Five Cents.
CEMENT
ENOUNCED
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Sergeant Told Her He Was A Harding To Be Tendered Presi- iThey Will Be Asked To Siffn An
THE PEOPLE PAY
Captain So She Left Him
3 Days After Marriage
Tlie National Boot vand Shoe
u. j Manufacturer's Association, in
I convention assembled, has unan-
mously concurred with the tan
ners in protesting against the im
position of a duty on hides. The
dency Of Foreign Trade
Financing Corporations
HE TRICKED HER
RECOGNIZE ABILITY
New
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York, '3 an. 21.-4Three ew York. Jan. .21. Oovprnor
days after her wedding, Mrs.'. William P. G. Harding, of the
Harriett -Scott, of Paris, discover- Federal Reserve Board, will be
Agreement To Lay Off
One Day
OFFICIALS CUT HALF
The engagement of Miss Sarah
Baker Fenner to Mr. Frederick
F. Drake, both of Raleigh, was
announced yesterday at a lunch
eon given by Mrs. T. W. Bickett
at the Exeejtive Mansion in hon
or of " ' fenner and Miss
e Crews, whose marriage
Mr. Willliam - McKimmon
place Wednesday. Miss
Pittsburgh, Jan. 21.-S nun- Fenner 's marriage will take place
dred and ' seventy-jtwo thousand in the ear1 sPrin
employes of the Pennsylvania Miss Fenner is the daughter
Railroad are confronted with a f Mr. and Mrs. T, W. Fenner of
ed that her American soldier hus- tenrlprWi
.11 -r u T , , J , 1 yt- V"C iiujiuin, y UX Lilt;
old Republican gag about thejband was mereiy a sergeant im proposed ForeWiT
foreigner paying the tax aoesjstead of a captain, and so she cinff Comoratinn. "it " wa ' reduction in their ranks of 20 ner RaleiS5l Mr- Drakc Js with the
well enough in politics, but it"has eome to this country to ask ooA bpr. tn w jurM." North )CaroXii4a Bales 'Company
of Raleigh.
1 Tj. f mi
toV tor a divorce, siie announced to- chairman of th Orfi x i ;..
Mfla u-;,,, 4 1 a i. ij i . . .euuvu agrees iu lav on one uuy u, weeK.
ners know that they would pay .day.Her temporary abode is an Committee. J Mrs. Bickett s gnests were
the tax. ana they would have to i
- . - - upi-uvYic iicputtuuns xuj cpBaKing at a luncneon of the' Mlsses yaraii Fenner, Katherine
Qi,hWihpr!,add it-t0 1116 Price of leatherThe
iDoot ana sne mantacturers know
vetumed to the olid price but Ml 7er; WeU that if the Price of
to no good. Added to this ai 1 "u:c uu. u" Mme:
v l they will have to add it to the
n aioritv of our merchants! are i
conomizinz? by cutting ottt all Pe of shoes. The people ha v
newspaper 'advertising whije
others have reduced it. So The
t 'otnonwealthi is between "the
devil na he -dep sea' whatever,
t hat may mean with this iieem-
tne suit are already under way. j Merchant's Association McHugh, Deen operating wnat is known as Crews, Roberta Crews, Helen
Before her marriage, Mrs. Scott who is vice president of the Mer- single trains in the future will Whitaker, Mildred Holding, Mar
was Mile. Juing de Conde, of ehanics and Metals National double up that is, one crew will ian and Louise Baker, Lucy and
Paris. The soldier from whom Bank, of this city, said that J'er- do tne WOrk that two crews have Albertine Moore,, Lucy and Eliz-
sne seeu:s separation is or was pme Thralls, seCretay and freasl
lugly not-TOoTthwhile enterprise.
done heretofore.
HAD
RICHES
complained of the high price of
shoeSjj and the fmlanufacttirers
would like to get the price down
to a point at which the public
will buy. A" tar on hides will
raise th.e price of aUdomestic as
well as imported bides, and add
iabout; $1 to the selling price of
tteord.
abeth Dortch, Evelyn Graham,
attached to the American Army urer of the Discount Corpttfttion " IMesdames Lon j. Newton, John
of Occupation, Mrs. Scott saidof New York, would be asked to ; The ojffiicial personnel of the iE. Beam an and Earl Johnson.
that he represented himself to be become an executive vice presi- 'system, will be reduced 50 per
a captain during , their courts;
CHARITY
and that she left him as soon' as
she discovered the deception."
Upon seeking legal advice, she
learned that she had "become an
dent
cent.
Trainmen, telegratphers, yard
mien, clerks, road men, freight
The table was decorated with
white lilies, white carnations,
ferns and smilax, with .white
candle in silver candelabras..
At the saan time, the Organ
ization Committee of the finance
corporation annduajeed that Mc
Hugh had been -designated as 'handlers .and every, class .of eiu- j a nviirTnnisr'Tcr.'KnTiEn
American citizen by virtue of ner chairman 6T"the fcoard will be asked to sign an i JUDGE TO SUCCED
reorragerand ihat she vwoMd tors. "' - . ' :i --it-v-i: t.r
have to come here to press hr In announcing' the selection of). r i v - '
FAMOUS FOX
action :
.. " " "
Newark, N. J. Jan. 21. An
80-year-old woman, sent to the
fity almshouse by charity work
ers, was refused admittance to-
Way when it was discovered that
bhe had $6000 of her own. j
The wexman, who had been i.liv-:
ing on charity for 15Jyears'in?a'f
single attic room in a poor sec
HOUND
BAN
PRES.
ISHED FROM
KENTUCKY
OF WARD
CO.
COPPER
Governor Harding as head of the :
corporation, wnicit" will nave a
capital of $100,000,000, McHugh
said 4 'no better selection could
jpossibljr he jd.,. fc
! ' Governor Harding, ' ' he con
j tinued, served the"country with
f j marked ability and courage and
with great credit tM himself.
! is willing to lay off one "day a
HUSBA2TD
week until such. tinie as the rail-!
road company sees fit to restore
all employes to full time. . ,
While it is true he can ill Be
flf n nt nr w nrt
LI it I J N I 1 1 K hfi ! sParj from the position he now
BANDITS ROUTED
BY GAZE III EYE
Lexington Ky., Jan . 21. ' Old ; Nome, Alaska, Jon. 21
occupiers, Stilll we believe that
the ; mnaximum of p ressure ' on the
Thorn- Federal Reserve system has pass-
Phladelphia, Pa., Jan. 21.-
-Greenville, S.. C, 2Tin. 21.
Mrl.f Fannie Xlavis ' Scott, widow
of Walter M. Sqojt, who was
killed in an autojiijobile accident
three weeks ago, has been elect
ed without opposition to the of-
ice of Judge of Probate of
Ireenville County, to succeed her
jlate husband.
j Mrs. Scott is the first woman
to be ejected to a county office
in South Carolina.
King," -the most famous fox-las Ward, president and general ed and that he wiU see an op-jf y.Ung te
mie aiuc room m a poor sec-' & "v v'i' tha Mirar atnrA nf TamM'Rnnt 1
ion of the city, admitted s):haa houud Kentucky, today .nanager of the Ward Copper portunity for still greater service n m4 MasW street Mfe'" 14 learned . that Master
4 some money ' ' in
convicted at -Winchester" on a 1 Company, of New York, was to the country in this undertak-!
an old trunk
I 1 i! 1 1 1 j I n . . . 'M - .
:i thp home of her- sister The tuarse; VL sneup-siaugnier. toun- frozen to aeatn a lew miles trom mg."
trunk, which-had not becn onen- Jude W- Lee Evan ruled j Teller, Alaska, January 12, ac
-i ac t ... ! flip dfir wn miilfrv lint, inctanrl RVVr1 1-nrp '-. r o 1i t v Tniv,ft
on tor uu vears, was tililea witn & ' ".vx yi " v. nn r i; n g a f
bills- and gold piece's. 'of the death asked 1 today. ' JvJAYWK LAW
There were $1000 in bills and wuxuing w uit report, nam
2)0 in $5 frold pieces and bank Jud2e ruled that 01d King" ?lcft the company s mining camp
miust be exiled trom Kentucky m the inner seaward peninsula '
James Madry was brought home
elf f ri orn ol rvn a fttAinfr Viia nan.
i t - i. rr a lt. L yesterday from the Rocky Mount
er last night. One of them drew ,
i nA iii u hospital oy nis motner, Mrs. j.
books showing savings amounting
SMOKE AT
proprietor with the command:
,W. Madry after a diagnosis by
''Hands up.
money."
Hand over vour
the physicians of the institution
for the rest of his life.
"Old King" was tried on
with an" Eskimo man and woman
$3000. Each of the gold pie-
or.s wiis wrapped in tissue paper.
Among the bills we're several .hare e that he. with two DWiDies,;r"er' Ieiimwr sutllOD ou
?it?i i v'Ti i i - 7 :Granty Harbor. After reaching
sivil war had. killed some sheep belonging
'and two dog teams, enroute to
Teller, a reindeer station on
shin plasters" of the civ:
Period.
VICTIM FLEES
FROM KISSING
GIRL BANDIT
;to Robert Taylor . Th
ipies were acquitted.
tw:
tlio top of the divide above Tel-
who said that pus had set
tled around the spinal collumn.
Bootod loweved Jiis paper ancFMrs; -Madrv was informed the
IIIC 1 1 11 HI 1 "ased eyes. He made no mo- physician here could treat the
H lu ll J If 1 1 i11 to rise' ut eoncentrated his 'ease as well as they. The young
raze upon the Suae f the leading iman had bruised his knee and it
, ibandit with' the revolver. He re-arose.
National Park, N. J., Jan. 21. 'called that somewhere he haft
lev. the three became lost in the The Tniwement of ehurehwnmpn read of men friffhteninEr awav
darkness. The Eskimos said here to stop their husband and iwild animals by staring in the
Old Kink and tlie puppies thev decided to sro back to a cabin 'sons from smnkimr at hnm rliea '-es of the beasts. The miizzh-
belong to Frank Jones, noted'f ox : they had seen, but Ward proceed-1 not meet the approval of Mrs 'of t!ie revolver was pointed
llSdgar A. Waters, wife of the'a spot between his neekti
i - ,
the "Es-,Mavor. , She so stated todav. Iiis third vest hullon, hut Hoot
She said sh( will not ask her ds gae never wavered.
I
misbana to cur out his pipe or
j hunter, and when the verdict ot.e( on alone.
exile was pronounced Jones an- For the next two davs
"TUP" 11 m..I.,
RED CROSS
a '"t !bpeacf time h C
e and1 A Chi! WJ?ar J
noimced he had
;from all over th(
den being: ' 4 Don't
skill that dog. Ship
received letters. : kj1Ilos flit(j tliey Mere storm
eunty, tlie bur- hound in the cabin, and on th '
i
ij'.e
Ihf
Idea go. Jan. 21. "Xow kiss
dear boy "
This was the insult added to
injury heaped upon Stanley
and he will be
evei-v care."
saft
let
him
and
Jones declined av t what
State he would sli;
when his exile ViCan.
them third dav battled tl ieir Avav , oto -cio-ar in the house because she
learn thatlthinks a man Mho M'orks all day
have the pleasruv of tlie
Mrs. Waters learned
number of Momen had
to mo tlie station, onlv t.
receive Ward had not yet arrived. A .should
'searching party sTai ted out the isnioke.
a i t i 'r.. i '? i i,i
nexi (lay aim loiino urn s sieo uiai a
:e
doe
COTTON MARKET
tl. La sky. a salesman. M ho re
ported to the police thata wom
iti handij held him up at Thirty
firs j nid State streets.
Prodding him in th ribs with
n hn knife, tlie "kissing ban
dit" made l.asky give up hi
luie. 21 and his M-atch. After
performing' these rites, shG said:
"1 always demand "a kiss from July
r.-ieh victim. NoMr kiss me, dear October"" '
and dog team on Dewev Creek''.
There Mere evidences that Ward
had spent, the night there. The
'teperature
For several moments the- three
'desperadoes'1' stood nonplussed
ai this strange manner of resist
ance. At jlast. frightened hy
the hypnotic glare, they dashed
.from Ihp place.
January ;
"March --
Mav
issued no-smoking orders in theis
homes. ; Triumphant. Boot(d ran after
Recorder -Jacob Tientz todav, them, screaming at the top of
during the night had stid that his wife had asked him his voice for the police.
een 20 degrees l.elow zero, ami t, refrain from smoking, except
IWnvd ws knoAvn to have onlv in ti.,, Viteheo T.nst nhvht he
aid the school directors adjourn- 1 -v
d from the-sehoolhouse because
mm ig? , f
th
lieaf
led
boy'
T.sskv fled.
J Local "Market lo cents,
i Cotton sev-n cents a bushel
'a ;rohe to protect him from
16.52 obi:
14.r0 ! Member? of the seaT-eh'jg party
14.81 jsaid Ward had evidently left his
lo.(To team on tlie morning of the
lo.OS 'twelfth and started, for Teller.
10 miles" distant. ITe proTiably about
became confused, thev said, and lei.
m tlie
The bodv was
side- of
20 diles
Teller
t'ould not smoke there and
came to his hohse, but he told
them that they M-ould have to
M'rong direetioi! moke m th0 kitchin. With the
found on the door closed they smoked and
Grantley Harbor, deliberated. Mrs. Bentz said she
distant from Tel-. was proud, of her husband- action.
F.oys arul irlrls who learn early t
tnke proper care ijf their tH?ttv
throats, eyes, ears arid stoiiiacli. hav
made a lonj; step mwurd halthy
niitiihol ami vi!iiunliuft. Throujfli
its piiWIic lilth ttit'i nnrsiii'j: scrv
loe.s, ihe AiniricKi) Hed ('! aims
eventuutly to rea-Ii sHhih! fhillrei
witli t;ihit!: refiirdins Ji ir
rention Mini henltl: ri-uinotioii. Here'?''
a s iiool u.rrse treat l'.nle slri
for smv iiioMtJl. :i i he-- tui? ,t i ini
pl:jetiii:'''.Ji7Yn'ii:it?e lessen in teeiU'.
TT h U J Mil'? J. Ji"t.