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SCOTLAND NECK, N. 0., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1922. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE
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CHURCH HIRE
1E5TH0YED B!
HCEflDIAMES
(By Associated Press)
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 22. Buck
Angels is dead in fire which des
troyed six stores and apartment
buildings at Craddock, with a
loss estimated at a hundred thou
sand dollars.
(By Associated Press)
O 11 Q I O
Th fire which destroyed the his
tC!ic one million dollar Notre
D-ne Church today is believed to
,.e been caused by an incen
,i;w. Chief of Police Lorraine
sat! in announcing receipt of a;
Jeter informing him that the)
ed'iee would be burned Decern-j
l,e;2Sth.
BAN!
GERMANY DEES
APPOINTMENT
OF ECONOMIC
TERLERDYALWIDOWSTO iGOIVIMISSION
SEND MS TOGETHER
ondon, Dec. 21. Two dowag
er'ueens and one Dowager Em
prrs of Europe, the widows of
f oilier Kings of
(By Associated Press)
(By Associated Press)
Denver, Uol., Dec. 22. The au
thorities are pushing vigorously
their hunt for the bandits who
held up the Federal Reserve
Bank truck guards and escaped
with two hundred thousand dok
lars and whose trail they believe"
they have picked up yesterday at
an abandoned ranch house twen
i. '1 I t t T-l
iy miies irom ureeiy. .four men
suspected of being those who rob
bed the bank truck and shot am:
killed Chas. Linton, left the farm
before the officers arrived.
MOSCOW THIEVES H 10
LOOT IN CEMETERY
STORES
AND
BANK
ION
S TO CLOSE
. AND TOES.
At a meeting of the Merchants'
Association last night, it was de
cided to close the stores Monday
and Tuesday m order that the
clerks and salespeople mav have
holiday. In this movement th
banks are co-operating and both,
the Scotland Neck Bank and the
Planters and Commercial Bank,
will close their doors Saturdav
again Wednesday
FAMILY FEUD
RESULTSINDEATH
(By Associated Press)
St. Eutauville, 0., Dec. 22.-
Roy Lidson is dead and his broth
er llliam is wounded and
James Pearson is being sought
by West Virginia authorities as
a result of a fight which came as
a climax to a feud between the
two iamnies. me cattle was
staged in the hills near Wierton,
West Virginia.
MeIbers of
masker party
night
to open
morning.
NATION!
ADVERTISING
PLANT OF ATLAS
SEARCH FOR
BODIES IN LAKE
ENTIRE LOUISANA NATION
AL GUARD COMPANY
RUSHED TO COOPER LAKE.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
OFFICERS INVESTIGATING
SITUATION.
Berlin, Dec. 22. It is officially
denied that Counsellor Cuno or
other government official)
the appointment
oi an American Commission to
investigate uermanys
anv
had suggested
economy
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ABSTEMIOUS
AND
A
HARD WORKER
England and
Jjc mark, and an Emperor ot
Rusia, are to spend the Christ-
ma holidays together in England.) condition.
jjcvager mueen iouise oi ueu
ms:k, widow of King Frederick
yjL who died in 1912, and Dow.
po-fV Empree Maria Feodorovna,!
of fussia, widow of Emperor
Alexander III, who died in 1894,
wilbe the guests of Dowager
Queti Alexandra at SandrifcLg
han Queen Alexandra is the
wid-w f ino Edward VII, who
died in 1910. Those who follow
nnalc nf Tn'nltv oflV this IS
the 'irst time, probably m his- " Lli 1UdU, vvxu tlL imu-e11
orv ;hat three widowed queens years of age has become virtually
haVethus come together I the leSal dictator of Italy, has a
Al-ma Feodorovna is a voungei-; P'reat capacity for work. Since
siste of Alexandra, and Louis!he. assumed charge of the Minis
a sister-in-law of both,:" Hence j rnes .of foreign Affairs and tne
it .ill be a fam-ilv Keuniocrv.! Ulterior, Mussolini has averaged
(By Associatea Press
Rome, Dec. 22. Benito Musso-
(By Associated Press)
Moscow, Dec. 19. IngeniouK
thieves of this city have been
using an old graveyard in which
to hide food supplies pilfered
from railroad cars. The loot
was buried at night hnder what,
the next day, looked like newly
made graves. Ultimately the po
lice recovered J5 tons of sugar,
and half as much cocoa and flour1,
all of which had been abstracted
from relief supplies. i
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SAVES BRITISH
0Y5TERM0NGER5
London, Dec. 20. England thisj
fall had an exceptionally large
harvest of ovsters, so much so
that there was fear the public
would not consume it all. So
the oystermongers of Colchester
started a national advertising
campaign which in three weeks
cleared their shelves and left the
public still clamoring for more.
CMDY COMPANY
nvm
OESTP
Bl FIRE
Ma ia Feodoro v na arrived m
Eirl i !--?ently and celebrated
hei c: 'V birthday, Nov-
over eighteen hours of hard
work every day. At his desk
promptly at the stroke of eight,
She has "been li". 'iiig" io. . uu
two years in Denmark she ' was
originally the Danish princess
Dagmar but she will now re
main in England for several
weeks. Queen Louise, who is 71
years old, is expected at Sand
ringham a few days after Christmas.
There will be no public or so
cial functions in honor of the
royal guests, but during the
Christmas season King George
and the entire royal family will
spend a few days with Queen
Alexandra and their aunts.
The meeting of Queen Alexan
dra, who is 78 years old, and her
sister, will be more or less touch
ing as the Queen is known to be
very distressed at the plight of
her sister, who has been rapidly;
isfA ! he is still busy a midnight attend-
At- the badness of the two
NATIONAL SAVINGS
CERTIFICATES POPULAR;
IN ENGLAND !
BRITISH WOOL
SEEK TO IMPROVE STOCK
(By Associated Press)
Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 22. The
plant of the Atlas Candy Com
pany was destroyed by fire with
an estimated loss of fifty thou
sand dollars. The origin of the
fire is unknown
(By Associated Press)
Merrouge, Dec. 2S. The entiro
National Guard company, which
has been on duty here while the
lak -e being dragged for tha
two men who were
-napped by masked men last
Cooper Lake when guards discov-
ered a number of men wading in
the shallow water of the lake
and fired upon them.
Department of Justice agents
here investigating the case said
that the men were probably some
of those in the masked party that
are though to have thrown Major
AVatt Daniel and Thomas Fletch
er into the lake and that they
were attempting to remove the
bodies before the authorities
found them.
GOLDEN
OPPORTUNITIES
most important ministries m hisi
government.
During the eighteen months in
which he was engaged in the or
ganization of the Fascismo
movement culminating in the
peaceful entrance of a hundred
thousand .of his followers into
Rome October 31st, Mussolini
worked an average of twelve
hours every day, including Sun
days. Mussolini eats little and drinks
less. He sleeps about five or six
hours out of the twenty four.
His beverage is a light Italian
wine with about fifty percent of
water added.
His favorite recreations are
fencing and walking, and he 1?
said to be a chess player of no
London, Dec. 22. Several hun
dred head of rams are to be im
ported into this country from
Peru in order to test the possi
bilities of producing merino wool,
or merino cross wools, in the
British Isles.
The plan is the result of ef
forts bv manv wool manufactur-
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-London, Dec. 19. National ers in the North of England to
Savings Certificates sold to Nor- j breed sheep here which would
ember' 11. total 6Q1'479.2?1 ! nrrirfiipft a frmcln wool as fine
produced in South!
America. At the present time
shillings and 6 pence to 16 shil-lthe first wool produced here is
ungs mere was a temporary luLV graded as coarse,
but since there has been a sharp! Should the initial efforts be
increase in demand, and the cer- successful, it is probable that all
tificates are now one of the most of the present lage flocks will
popular investments in the coun--be gradually killed to make way
try. For each sixteen shillings for the finer breeds, as these
invested, the buyer gets one command prifces four times high
pound sterling at the end of five er than the present British prod
years Uct.
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"Would anyone like to send a
basket to a family of four? The
father recently hurt and family
in need.
No 50. Stocking for 1-iyear
old boy.
Monroe, La., Dec. 22. Lieuten
ant Louis Hayden has been or
dered by Capt. W. V. Cooper
tojmpbilize a detachment of forty
men and rush to Morehouse
Parish to reinforce the guards
men already on duty there.
pounds sterling. When the cer-! as that
tificates were changed from 15 i
LAST YEAR'S FAILURES IN
E
ENGLA DSHDW NCREAS
Shreveport, La., Dec. 22. The
bodies of two men believed to be
Daniels and Richards with limbs
tied with wire, were found near
Eastland ferry on Lake La
Fourche badly decomposed. The
bodies were brought tothe sur
face by abig charge of dynamite
exploded during the night by un
identified persons.
VALUABLE BOOKS ON
AERONAUTICS HELD
ENGLAND
'With But a Single Thought"
declining in heath since the kill-j mean ability.
ing of her son, who was Emperor j
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Italy's man of the hour was an
Nicholas, by the Bolsheviki at enthusiastic advocate of his
f country's entrance into the world
19 t j war on the side of the Allies. I
I He served asa corporal until
wounded so severely that he had.
to be sent to the rear as unfit for!
further active duty. It is said
that his body bears the scars of
one hundred and twenty wounds,
caused by shell splinters and
shrapnel
SOUTHAMPTON TO HAVE
HUGE FLOATING DOCK
London, Dec. 20. The world's
largest floating dock is now be
ing constructed in Scotland for
an English railway company,
and will be moored in the harbor
at Southampton in time for use
next spring. The dock is made
entirely of reinforced concrete,
ad will cost about $5,000,000.
VIENNA DOCTORS COLLECT
FEES IN BREAD
Vienna, Dec. 20. The physi
cians of Hoitzing, a Vienna sub
urb, have established their fees
on the basis of bread cost. One
loaf represents an office catl,
and one loaf and a half an out
side visit. In the rural districts
a similar system is growing, but
based on a measure of flour, in
stead of the loaf of bread.
SHORT DA'S LEFT
If you wait until Saturday,
you can't wiggle up to the
counter.
Look through the adver
tisements in THE COMMON
WEALTH and see who to
trade with.
These merchants are pro
gressive you will do well to
patronize them.
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London, Dec. ,20. The year)
1921 was a record bankruptcy
year in England and Wales, the
number of failures being 2,82-t
in excess of the 1920 total. The
Inspector General in Bankruptcy
in his report, says "the magni
tude of the failures is mucii
greater than m any year since i
the Act of 1883 came into opera-'
tion.
When compared Avith 1920 the
figures show an increase in lia
bilities of 15,034,065 pounds ster
ling, and in assets of 5,849.260
pounds sterling.
There was a notable decrease
m the number of companies reg-, ber of valuable "historical books
istered in England and Scotland! on aeronautics which would oth
during 1921, the figures being erwise have been sold to an
6,834 with a nominal capital of American company.
107,214,736 pounds sterling, ! The books are of interest as
against the 1920 figures ot 10,78ojthey were written before the
(By Associated Press)
London, Dec. 19. The Council
of the oyal Aeronautical Society
announced recently that through
the generosity of the trustees of
the Carnegie United Kingdom.
Trust t has been able to arranga
for the purchase oi a large num-
companies with a nominal capi
tal of 587,484, 21 pounds sterling.
Of the 6,834 companies registered
6,291 were private enterprises,
2918 wTent into liquidation, and
1,684 were removed from the
register on the ground they were
no longer carrying on business.
The rate of unemployment wa?
high during October in nearly
possibilities of aircraft were ful
ly realized, and there are remark
ably few copies known to be m
existence.
These works, together with the
library already possessed by the
Society, makes its collection of
early and modern aeronautical
literature probably unsurpassed
in this or any other country. The
books in the Society's library
any student in
all the principal industries, says
the Labor Gazette. Among mem-' are available to
bers of trade unions it was 14.1 the British Isles.
at the end of October, as compar-j "
ed to 14.6 at the end of Sept em-j WEATHER REPORT
ber, and 15.6 at the end of Oc-j For orth Carolina: Fair to
tober, 1921. The changes mlli?ht and Saturdav. Colder on
rotes of wages, reported as hav- the Northeast coast tonight.
i
ing taken effect in October, re
suited in an aggregate reduction
of over 250,000 pounds sterling
in the weekly full-time wages of
nearly 1,500,000 work people,
and in an aggregate increase of
over 22,000 pouds sterling in the
weekly wages of over 400,000
people. ,
Since the beginning of 1922 the
chancres m rates of wajres re-!
(j -
ported to the Ministry of Labor
have resulted in a net reduction
of nearly 4,200,000 pounds ster
ling in the weekly full-time wages
of nearly 7,500,000 work people,
and a net increase or nearly 11,
500 pounds sterling in the weekl'
wages of nearly 75,000 people.
Diminishing northwest winds.
COTTON MARKET.
TODAY'S MARKET
January . 25.96
March 26.28
Mav 26.39
July 26.17
October 24.39
YESTERDAY'S MARKET
December 25.65
January . 25.69
March 26.03
May 26.10
Julv 25.88
October - 24.22
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