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fin "f IT " Nl yPvl V vZ"5 frrv -SIS .r rr --a - --. . - 5n iJ TT T7 VOL. XIV. NUMBER 21. FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1921 TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE 5c PER COP POISONED WELL ft PEACH TREE IN LL BUSINESS HOUSES WILL KILLS FOUR CLOSE Oil ARMISTICE Oil! I ilia, tUMMUW-WKAL i i . , . , , mBJmmmmammmmmmim.m., RANDITS HOLD UP SCOTLAND NECK TRAIN ! FIGHTS BLOOM (By Associated Press.) j Reports have appeared from time Augusta. Ga.. Nov. . The death, to time in the press recently of the -t night of Mrs. J. F. Lee, the wife'prank3 0f nature, but there is an in f a Barnwell County. South Carolina '. s&neo here wheh beats any yet printed. mier. marks the fovrth in the fam-;- Capt. &. S. White reports that a y siiue Tuesday. wh. three children, peach tree on his place is in bloom ged. two. tour and six. died after land that he has noted a fairly well rinkin- water from r. well alleged to ' grown green peach. This is a most :.ve been poisoned. Mr. Lee is in a ' unusual freak oeeurauee for November, iitiral londition. Ti.e mystery of; voi sum i unsoivtJ. At a called meeting held this morning the Merchants Association de cided to close their places of "business on Friday, November 11th, Armistice Dayv and to call on all business houses to do so, in order that the people of the town and community may be able to celebrate the day and attend the services and celebrations prescribed for the day through proclamations of the President of the United States and the Governor of North Carolinaa. i Do you know that 132.000 jinen, girls, mothers of families. Paxton, 111,, Nov. S. Posses are ; nunnng .en Dandits who, last night, j men, girls, mothers of families, :.nd ;held up the New Orleans Limited on j little children have died of tubereu i the Illintis Central railroad two rnile.s . iosis in the U. S. in 1921? Do you south of here, -wounding four train"; know that about 2,000 of these were j employees and stole to pouches or ; in our own state? Do vou know that 'registerel m'dl. They fired the mail Nome of them were in our own town? T AXREUIStON BILLPASSEO IK SENATE Hi GOES TOJIOUSE (-".y Associated Press) -h iatoi, Nov. oil! faces its t .-.- after the r :norir ov 10 a .. f . MLY STATE ELECTING GOVERNOR TODAY j Xew York, Xov. S. This being an j off year in state and national politics municipal contests marked the annual! fall elections throughout the country. Virginia is the only state electing a governor, E. Lee Trinkle, Democrat, and Henry W. Anderson, Republican, being the chief candidates. The form- The tax re d rewriting by ?age early thLCfcr's supporters claim a fifty thousand the Senate on a vote of ; plurality, the latter twentv-five thou- ;:.:v. -ei!.t to twenty-four, after six-u-eu hours session. The measure goes sand. Kentucky, Maryland, Xew Jer sey and Xew York elect legislators. tu the 1 uw. tliu?e when it convenes tomor I Mavoraltv elections included Xew L'evubliean ieers there plan ! ork Citv, Detroit, Cleveland and Cin- i to conference Thursday. Treas- cinnati. .--rimte roughly that the: Early reports indicated a heavy vote r.ry r hill will a billion two hundred millions i er axi t'uut tziree quarters ilP;,io- r-xt in tho State eWinn -n-itVi i he pr. -fiit law. UIUier i women voting for the first time in Virginia for a Governor. EX-SERUICE MEN CALLED CARELESSNESS j CLERKS T DM T W IS EMPLOYMENT nr or Governor Morrison Issues Armistice Day Proclamation WHEREAS. Chapter 2S7 of the Public Laws of 1919 designates Novem ber 11th of each year as a Legal Holiday in North Carolina, and calls upon the people of the State to observe tie same in an appropriate manner; and, WHEREAS, said day is the anniversary of the signing of the Armis- . - . T . 1 . T f a 1 At i a --r- t i -r-i t nee, maiing me ueieat or our adversaries in xne late worm war, ami pointing the way to a new era of world Peace and Democracy; NOW, THEREFORE, I, CAMEROX MORRISON, Governor of North Carolina, do herebv call upon the pecple of on? State to enter into the spirit and significance of the day, and, on Xovember 11, 1921, to ponder up on the bravery of those who made the Supreme Sacrifice on European bat tlefields, and upon Lovaltv, Devotion and Patriotism of those in the Home land who, without murmuring or complaining, sent the best they had, the Flower of American Manhood, to the fields of honor, and to resolve anew to make the Peace attained through blood and sacrifice count for all that :s noble and good and true in our domestic life; AXD, further, I appeal to the Churches and Religious people of the State to assemble in their respective houses of worship on that day, at a time to be appointed by their pastors, and to spend one hour in prayer for the reduction of the armaments of the -natous of the world, and for peace on earth. AXD, finally, I call upon the educational leaders of the State to con duct such exercises as may be convenient and expedient. Done in 'our City of RALEIGH, on this, the fourth day of Xovember. in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one, and in the one hundred and forty-sixth year of our American Independence. CAMEROX MORRISON. Governor. -Jear and escaped. Police guarded all j Why did they die? Because they roads leading into Chicago, and alarm5 were ignorant, and because thev did was sent to all Illinois towns. AUTOMOBILE KILLINGS DURING PAST YEAOS ArmWti'-f Dav will be celebrated as in "Weldou, FridaV, Nov- eiiiber 11' At a meeting of the Io- j Xew Yoik, Nov. ;. One wav to re- f the American Legion held uuce federal exr-c-uses would bi for uu'ut ul members of that organ- everybody to think twice, or at least i . t. . ionee, before mailing a letter or a pack-j jzatioa it cm this section, and all ex-1 1 . , - . ! a tre. Carelessness bv rmrt of thf rmb- ' reouestea to meet x j s-rvicf iti'-u were : Vv"-:. ion Fiiday morning at 10:30 and i tj a-i!iMo at the Confederate Mon i.i:i:t tu organize for the parade, v.'i.irl. will I..- held at eleven o'clock. The lo-;l post will have a float in the pa rail I"- representing '"Fraternity." A Congressman of. national reputa- ! lie requires thousands of postal em- jployes to do nothing but straighten out ! misdirected and improperly addressed j'mail. fhe working hours thus em J ployed each year would, if placed end I to end, stretch all the way back to I B. C., perhaps farther. One naive thing a great many peo- v.:':! -'H-ok immediately after the , ,. .,, . , , pie do eerv dav is to dror a letter .'ra.-.if. ;ii, then dinner will be served; ' 1 n ,11 . T i or parcel in the mail box without a io all ex-service men. In the after- 1 noon, there will be football game be- j t'.v.-eii f!r- freshmen teams of the. I'niverMtv of Xorth Carolina and , 'de Ciilf"-t- Fa rm Status Improves i!iton. "'- -to word inscribed upon it to show who t lie sender might be or to whom it is intended to be delivered. This fact, postal officials say, is accomplished 400 times a day in Xew York alone. ' Such mail must be ripped open in the ! hope of identifying the sender or in . tended recipient. Curiously, the spe I cial mailing clerks of big business ; ovses are sani to oe guilty or tnis careless act just about as often as r-resS) i those for whom licking stamps an i 8. Agricultural .addressing envelopes do not constitute calling. U. S Nov. k conditions in the West Bods I Your Booster! Every o::c loves a booster, but every one is not alwrys reary to boost for his booster. The boo ter is supposed to boost because he likes to do it and in a great measure that is so. The greatest booster in history, however the home town paper must combine with the natural liking for the boosting game, the re wards the simplest rules of business requires for the continuance of the boosting spirit. The editor of your home town paper likes to be appreciated just as you like to be appre ciated. And how better may your appreciation be ex pressed than by the amount of money that goes through his cash register? Every one in this town and community will have an opportunity to show appreciation for the home town paper during the week of No vember 7-12, which will be observed in every state in the Union as not have money to take the proper j measures to get well. Our help is 1 needed. I Every person in Scotland Xeck is ; asked to help give these sick people ia chance to get well, a chance to live. j Won't you help? Won't you buy the ! Washington, Nov. 7. The Depart--Christmas Tuberculosis Seals? Every jment of Commerce, through the Bu-' . Peun.v tor eael1 little seal goes to help ireau of the Census, announces that'tne reaT fight. lont use the faucy ' during the year 1920, 9,103 deaths re-!soais tus year. Let each one of your suiting from accidents caused by au. ! Christmas packages and letters be tomobiles and other motor vehicles, ! ecorate witu the si&u tui3 crusade excluding motorc-yles, were recorded for ueaitu within the death-registration area of Last v- 'there were $152.66 worth the United States, which area con- v ' "-.n Scotland Neck, $3S,16 : tains S2 per cent of the total po-"f-- - nt to Dr. McBrayer for National :tion. This number represe gV ; and State Tuberculer work, $1.25 was irate of 10.4 per 100,000 VJ. ion, as spent for expenses, $113.25 was used. against 9.4 in 1919, 9.1 in 191S, S.9 in'.in our owu town. A siek mother wa3 1917. 7-3 in 1916, and 5.S in 1915. Be-; sent to the Sanatorium, and with tween 1915 and 1920, therefore, the some outsille helpj was kept there for ; death rate per 100,000 population from five months. She is now back with jmotovehicle accidents and injuries her children, on the road to recovery, (increased by about four-fifths. The ' There are other mothers and other actual number of deaths resulting from children in Scotland Neck who need uioior-wmtie acciaenrs in tne o our lu.ip. Seventv-five prr cent of States from which data for 1915 are tne ?a0 available increased from 3,571 in that tpVi-u year to 7,433 in 1920, the rate of in- . crease being 108. 1 per cent. During !the same period, according to data ! obtained from the Bnrp.ni of Pnhlir- Roads, of the Department of Agricul ture, the number of registrations or automobiles, motor trucks, and cor.i imereial motor vehicles in the same j states increased from 1,767,055 to 6, i 085,150, fhe rate of increase l-.e'n r i 244.4 per cent. The death rate per ! 1000 motor vehicles in use in the ) i , states in questions decreased from. 2 jin 1915 to 1.2 in 1920, being only thr j fifths as great in the latter as in the 'earlier vear. Seventy-five :re i:ept for i;: e in our own Subscribe for Tour Home Town Paper Week Buy the Christinas Seals, buy them, .'u-t t:;e pe;::;; 'he t:'!i ir. !-uy them, ::;v for each Scotland Neck go over b!' big !attle for M-alth On : v- A v ,nd h a ni iiapp.m- at both '.ug Stores, aud h. ( . .J-.cv, com in it t ees. Jr., Chairman, rur nL I AND JILL SPEED OF TRUCKS Exports of Foodstuffs (By J. E. Jones) :.". n-ions loan agencies in lova, '.ri-k , Wyoming Minnesota, North '.!: Dakota. Wisconsin. Michi- c '''' ;: n-1 Iiliiiois. and with repre "f,t' " of tat.- banking associa :'S of those states. Banking asso i!r. .".Ir-yi-r haid, Lave prom '! !- ci,oj...-ration making the eor- Washington, Nov. 8. How large is the averacre truck and how fast does i: trawl This rues-tion and others ! . of interest to truck owners and users , i Washington, Nov. 8". The exports -f the bighwa--. r. v answered by in- of foodstuffs have -been maintained formation obtained in a recent traf- i (this year to a surprising degree. A fie census taken by the Bureau of eompari-ou of exports for September, Public Roads, United States Depart- jl921, with the same month a year ago, ment of Agriculture, one one of tins jand th. five-year average 1910-1914, most traveled highways in New Eng- j shows that breadstufTs, including all land. The census discloses that 40 grains, .vas three times Kie prewar per cent of the trucks were of 1 ton average, meats over-twice as much, capacity or less; 33 per cent between j dried fruits nearly double, and canned 1 and 2 1-2 tons; 5 per cent between goods three times as great. ;2 1-2 and 5 tons: and that less than 2 j Wheat products were exported in per cent of the trucks were of more .surprisingly large volume during July than 5 tons capacity. On a level 'and August this ear, while stretch of road, over which the speed i in the rinst the movement of motor vehicles was timed, it was iwas usuallv low at this period, taking found that more trucks traveled at a Washington, Nov. S. October fail-' its uptur.-i in August and reaching the speed of 20 miles an hour than at any ures reported by Bradstreets number- height in October. This year, however, other rate. Thirty-seven per cent ed 1,803, an increase of 17 per cent thG ""Tease of exports began in April traveled 20 miles an hour or faster, over 'those of September and the sec-janl continued with very little decline One truck, whose driver said he wa it is meant. Another cause for tardy ! oartment of Commerce reports the oml larg,st number in any month since i11 Jlllv- at products declined in in a hurry to get there, w"as found to deliveries is the not yet abandoned j completion of a new outline map of' March, 1915. In solvencies last' month i quantity from the first" of the year l,e traveling at a speed of 45 miles an ,-ustom of taking a pride in eccentric. Alaska. The map extends from the were nearly four times those of Oc- until Mav, when exports increased, hour. peculiar handwriting. Arctic Ocean in the north to theitober, ;1919. Liabilities . aggregated coming 1a to the. level of January. . Postal authorities attribute to j State of Washington in the south J 47 700 293, 31 per cent above Septem-' which, as noted above, i'Sve improved and confidence has been Every day 350,000 pieces of improp---establi-lied within the past few ' erly addressed mail are posted in New v" ks Jvi-ene Mayer. Jr., of the War - York. Often the wrong state is writ-C::;iu-i. ! .'...rporation. said on his re- tn on the envelope, frequently the '':"tl t-'"'-'. a serir-s of conferences in name is wrong. 1 Mr. Meyer and other offi- with representatives of the Here as elsewhere. the most common error is for the sen der to nut down his own home town I A New Alaska Base Map Mi Y FAILURES DURING OCTOBER i (By D. .frr-ss) Washington, Nov. S. The TT. S. as the address when another commun- Coast and Geodetic Survey of the De- carelessness by mailers SO percent of j and includes all the Aleutian Islands , jer s total, but a;l tlie delays complained of. They jand a part of Eastern Siberia. The preceding month back to November of por at ion's funds available where mo it mention how those sorting letters must -boreline is compiled from the mo?tjiast year. 'irvi-vs or th airrcultural slow was more than smaller than in any; double xlis prewar average, and nearly double the amount exported in Sep tember a year ago. Lard exports us ually run fairly uniform through the Feb- I he oiggest increase came m xne : respect to southeast Alaska andiSouth, which had about two and one-.'?'31" rer.cdiing a high point in oast- ha :,, ti,p fu11TPS ana liabilities ruary. iins year a aecnne siariea in PINETOPS. MARKET HAS BIGGEST WEEK r Pineto)S, N. ('., Nov. 8. The farm- new upturn began er is beginning to realize that Pinetopi down everv time thev run across recent Coast antL Geodetic charts and i within their states and ; an address penned in a strange style, jin r- t, fho credit requirements Jiow 50 employes here are kept busy westward to Kodiak Island, the c i'aall farmers. The rr.rnnr.n- Uonrehtn" directories to locate the !line is better represented than here- :0f October. 1920.1n ten mosths of 1921 tiat month, but a v,.,.. - .; ,.-? ,.i.f of nersons imnroperlv tof ore. The accumulation of Alaska I llPTP hn-n heer, 15.535 failures invol- in May andn by September had reach- is a good place to sell his tobacco .as -ekiuir to preserve the addressed, and how much time is con- are here embodied, presents a delinea-ving liabilities of $591,105,741. : l.rr.iK ? ti. fir west findinfr to what town mail tion of the coastline in a more really. - ti I.- marketin- of immature ar l should b sent when assiened by the -true shap3 than heretofore and in- '-T'i'-, ;.i,d 1o assist in the finan- writer merelv to a number along, this respect tne map is more rename. i or ; than other existing maps of i . 1 at X , C 1 .. i. rT 1 . . . 1 - Ti-it-f 11 .1 11. 1 Viae 1 .ppn flip Vlr- pl a level twice aoove me top ui jum j ,u .uul,. ... - T-Por rmd riPnrlv three times the pre- 'est week in the history of the Pine- WEATHEE REPORT ,war average. It appears that decline tops Tobacco Market. There was sold For North Carolina: Unsettled ; in prices of American products was fol- on the floors of the two warehouses 1 - . - -i -1 nm ei i ini Qfif, R4- avpraennir similar weather. Rain late tonight or Wed-, lowed by an increased uemanu iur;x, u. .,.,.-- I . ' 1 d "O O i r.ry. 1. 11 n d T e c nOtlTlflS. io!,i-ir Freh east winds. them abroad. , 1 !'',,, I ",:-f i r.ttle for fcediiiL' in the corn Main Street." "Elm Street" It . I ! ' :"- h'Trst veTino." scale I i i.i;jf-.-- . -T I
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