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VOL X. NO. 36 FARMERS AND -v MERCHANTS BANK J"? Supreme Court Af firms Decision of Lower Court -- - Jury Decided "Kiting" The decision of the Supreme Court in the case of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, against the Germania Life Insurance Company is highly gratifying to the stock holders of the bank. The suit in volved the validity of a check for $1,250 deposited with the bank by R. L. Hall, of Raleigh, agent of the insurance company. Hall and Lula Parham cashier of the com pany, had been engaged in the sys tem of "kiting."' The bank held a letter from the company authoriz ing the payment of checks, but the check in question was protested. On this the suit began. A jury in the Martin County Superior Court gave the bank a verdict, and the Supreme Court affirms that decis ion. A Guaranteed Cough remedy is Bees Laxative Cough Syrup: For coughs, colds, croup, wtoooping cough, hoarsness and all brachial affections. Best for children because it is quick to relieve and tastes good. Gently laxative. Sold by Chase's Drug store v „ > HA§SELL ITEMS Mr. Tom Davenport was hen Monday. Miss Era Rawls spent a few days here last week. Miss Lizzie Harrison spent lasl week at Oak City. Mr. and Mrs. W. Z. Mortoi spent Sunday here. Mr. E. I. Fleming, of Greenville was here Wednesday. Mr. Tom Roberson, of Battleboro was here Wednesday. Mrs. G. F. and Miss Hilda Rob erson were here Saturday. Miss Odessa Rawls is visiting Mrs. Thigpen at Farmville. Miss Selma Fleming came home Wednesday from the Normal. Master Roy and Ralph Roberson of Robersonville, are visitiug here Miss Codie Purvis from HamLl ton spent Sunday with Mrs. R. H Salsbury. Mr. Leßoy Flemming came home from the Medical College a. Ral eigh Saturday. Mr. H. H. Bunoughs spent Monday here on his way home from New York. Misses Laura Salsbury, Eva Rawls and Ethel Ives visited in Gold Point Saturday. Miss Ethel Ives, of Bayboro, spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss. Laura Salsbury. Mrs. Paul Salsbury, after a visit to Scotland Neck, spent Friday night here en route home. Mr. Frank Johnson, after an ill ness of several weeks, died at the home of his nephew, Mr. J. F. Purvis Friday morning at i o'clock. ■ Mr. McGuire from Greenville was bere Wednesday looking after his wood cutters. He has con • tracted to have three thousand cords cut and shipped. Most cough cures and cold cures are constipating, especially those that 'contain opiates. Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is free from all opiates and it cures the cold by gentle moving the bowels and at the same time it soothes irritation of the throat and lungs, and in that way stops the cough. It is espec ially recommended for children, as it tastes nearly as good as maple sugar. We sell and recommead it Sold by Biggs' Drug Store. THE ENTERPRISE DARDENS ITEMS Mr. Stanford Jackson is still ver} Mrs. Saberitie Bundy was a vis itor in Dardens Friday. Mr. Carroll Fagan is visiting liis grandparents in Columbia. Mr. Vance Fagan is still ill. We hope for him a speedy recovery* Mrs John Riddick and daughter, Miss Mannie, spent Monday in Ply mouth. Mrs. Eavid Swinson has return ed from a visit to her children in Norfolk. Mr. Asa Allen and Miss Yida Simpson attended church at Cor inth Sunday. Mesdames Burras and Fagan, of Jamesville, were guet«ts of Mrs. C. C. Fagan Sunday. Quite a number of our peoplef anticipate attending the Union at Morattock Sunday. Mr. W. A. Moore is quite sick from a series of chills. We hope to see hinf out soon. Mrs. Annie Bateman and Miss Ruth Coburu were guests of Miss Btrnice Pagan Sunday. Rev. Mr. Tyndall and Prof. Perry were guests* in the home of Mr. James Jackson Tuesday. Rev. Joseph McCaskey, of Ayden filled his regu'ar appoiutment at Corinth Saturday and Sunday. When you take Kodol, the food you have eaten will be digested naturally, regularlv and promptly, and in this way Kodol gives the stomach a chance to regain its lost strength and heal h, and after a little while you need not take Kodol longer, but take it while you do need it and if it fails to benefit you your money will be refunded to you. It is sold by Biggs' Diug Store. HAMILTON ITEMS The Baptist are holding a reviva! this week. Mr. T. F. Pippen went to James ville Monday. Dr. B. L. Long come home from Washington Monday. Mrs. C. H. Baker has returned from a visit to Norfolk. Miss O'Neill of W'hitakers is visiting Mrs. J. L. Barnhill. Mr. Flovd Rogers of Winton is visiting Mr. E. Edmondson. Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Boyle are at home from a visit to Philadelphia. » Miss Ixu Mayo Brown is at home from school at Winston- Salem. Mr. Edward Darden retuned from the Council at Washington Wed nesday. Mr. W. B. Lawence was here from Whitakers last week to see his parents. % Mrs. E. L. Perkins has returned from-Norfolk, where she went to attend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. Williamson. Misses Maggie Btlle Jones and Maud Baker have returned from Greensboro where they have been attending school. The stockholders of the Bank of Hamilton held their annual meeting May 25th. The old officers were re-elected with- the exception of Mr. B. GARogers, M*. F. L. Glad stone was elected a director in his place. The bank earned 10 per cent, the past year aud declared a dividend of 6 percent. Sick headache, constipation and biliousness are relieved by Rings Little Liver Pills. They cleanse the system. Do not not gripe. Price 25c. Soldby Chase's Drug Store. WILLIAMSTON, N. O, FRIDAY, MAY 28, 1909. ROBERSONVILLE NEWS ITEMS People Coming and Going--As Gathered By Our Regular Correspondent. Mr. and Mrs. McLean left Mon day for Ayden. Mr. J. H. Roebuck, of I.eens, was in town Tuesday. Mi*. A. R. Dunning was up from Williamston Monday. Mrs. Ray who has been ill for a long time, is up again. Miss Bettie Roberson spent a few days in Greenville last week. Rev. A. C. Andrews, of Ply mouth. was in town Monday. I . Misses Ward ar.d Wvnn, of Wil liamston, were in town Monday night. Rev. Mr. Reynolds filled his ap pointment at the Methodist Church Sunday. Mr. Bell of Shawboro and Mr. Leary of Washington were here Monday., The infant son of Mrs. J. A. Manning has been seriously ill for some days. The ball team played Greenville last Monday. Score 4tol in favor of Greenville. . Miss Fay Fverett spent a portion of last week with Miss Ruby Brown in Pitt County. ... 1 Mrs. P. J. Edwards, of Green ville is stopping with her daugh ter, Mrs. llight. Miss Minnie Bryant, of Gold Point, was the guests of Miss Annie Mooring last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. A. and Miss Lydie Roberson returned from Washington Tuesday. Miss Estelle House, of Scotland Neck, was the guests of Mrs R. J. Nebon Monday night. Mr. Arch Griffin went to Rocky Mount Monday on account of the death of his little niece. Ganderbone's Forecast (Copyrighted 1909 by C. H. Rietli) For June The biimming mill-pond full of boys, The springboard and the slide, The sly beef-chewer 011 the job, And the pants securely tied. The dripping and the tell-tale hair, The scurry home at noon, And then what Paddy gave the drum— Not yet, but June, The wedding and the wedding guests, The presents and the raiment, The father proffering the bride, And the much einbarressed clai mant. The dinner, and the shoes and rice, The dear old honeymoon, And Love's young dream until they wake— Not yet, but June. The enH of school, the joyous shout, The essay and oration, Some samples of bad grammar by The Board of Education. All standing singing "Auld Land Syne" Or some such fitting tune, And two, young men \and thirty girls— \ , Not yet, bth June. The picnic and the happy kids, The dinner in the shade,- The scream when little Johnny Smith Falls in the lemonade. The soul mates strolling hand in hand, Not married yet. but soon, And the little red-bugs at the bat- Not yet, but June. June was dedlcted by the Romans to love and marriage, and was .... * _ - '-i* ~ . ■ Bv JOHN D. EVERETT Miss Isabel Morton left Tuesday for Wilson to attend the commence ment of the A. C. College. Mrs. SuJie Williams, who has been visiting Mrs. J. T. Brown, returned to I.eens Monday. Some of the young people of the town and several visitors enjoyed a dance at the Town Hall Monday evening, Mr. C Abraui Rol>erson returned from Chapel Hill Tuesday, after completing a successful year at the University. Mr. Homer Burroughs was in town Monday en route from Pough keepsie, where lie Completed a busi ness course. Roberson returned from Charleston, S. C , last Saturday, where be has been with bis father a few weeks Mrs. John Andrews, who spent last week with Mrs. G, 1). Rober son, returned to her home in Tar boro Monday Misses Maude and Niliie Wynn, of Williamston, are spending this week with Misses Marjorie Barn hill and Geneva James. Mr. and Mrs. J . C. Robrrtson left Tuesday for Charlotte to attend the Bankers' Association. From there they go to Asheville for ten days. Another step which indicates the progressive spirit of Robersonville is the fact that the people decided to take an industrial page in the News and Observer. If you have a good thing tell it and others will come and help you make it better. Printer's ink, wisely used, will re turn many fold to those who invest in it. tberforc. named for Juno, whose ex perience was thought to more near ly typify that of the average mar ried woriian than anything that had happened up to that time. Juno married Jupiter, one of the best and most exemplary of gods, giving him her simple trust and all the rope compatible with a reasona ble enjoyment of liberty though married. Nevertheless, they had not been married long enough even to feel sure that they were suited to each other, when the bride made the terrible discovery that the co owner of her wedding present and the man who was to flag the family breadwagon had an affinity. F'ortunately, though it had proven to be with gods as it is with men, it was not with goddesses as it is with women. Juno had a come back coming to her, and she got buiser than a mother robin rustling worms. She,turned her husband's affinity into a heifer, and set Argus to watch over her as shepherd. Argus had a hundred eyes, and do what he eould, Jupiter could not catch him asleep all around and steal the heifer away from him. As a last resort he sent Mercury to slay him. After trying everything else, Mercury told him .that Bryan was elected, and he fell dead. Juno took the eyes of Argus and set them in the tail of a peacock, where we may see them any fine morning in ttfe country to remind us of that oldest of domestic tragedies insep arable from the history of June. The ./wedding march will fill the land, And the quail will get to pipin', The Muse will rouse the village band, And Patten's wheat will ripen. The old self-binder will come put And sing a few sweet stanzas, And the college graduate will shout And hit the tra'l for Kansas. Come o«t with us at harvest time • when the sickle sings at mowing, ' Iwhetfthe rose is blooming in the j field, and the breath of June is J blowing, when the golden harvest | ebbs and flows in undulating bil ' lows, Mid the water boy is fast j asleep down where the grass is j green and deep beneath the shady | willows. s There's nothing like it anywhere i upon the earth or over, the air is , fresh and fragrant with the *weet ,} breath of the clover, the birds are , ; singing operas, and the poultry is j H-sunning, and the old familiar I dinner bell sets everybody running, j There way be men in Marathons j that run a mile a minute, but it's la question if St. Yves or Longboat Would be in it if he were working lin a field, though many times a i winner, and a bunch of twenty harvest hands I nocked off to go to j dinner. ; It's simply wou.ierful the way i! A harvest h*nd gets going j You look at him one instant and j You see him calmly mowing, | You wouldn't think if forty bells ! Should ring that be would hear them, Or if ten banquets beckoned him That he would venture near them He looks as whipped out as a rag, j And dead to all attraction— ' j Hut you want to bear the dinner bell To see his triple action. | You want to see him double up j As if be had the colic, ■: And tear the field upsetting out :| Upon that little frolic, I Tt is as if the fumes of beans | Had reached him, or the vision i Of chicken had appeared to him, I j Or else that pome Klysian | Mirage had shown him corn cakes, P' e > Fresh biscuits, or food such as Gods eat teased him, keeping just Outside his eager clutches. The meadowlark will chirp and sing, and the bumblebee will bum . ble, the colt will do a Highland fling, and the tumblebug will tum ble, the calf will buck and jump for joy of simply being loose, the droll grasshopper sit around and spit tobacco juice, the luckless tramp resume his marsh and the bulldog chase and bite him, and the horsefly irritate the mule, and so ad infinitum. It is hard to forecast tariff phe nomena at Washington, but the I prospect is that when the dust of 'conflict settles this time we, instead of the trusts, will be found to be jgoat. Mr. W. H. Taft will con tinue as President, and Mr. Theo j dore Roosevelt as hunter to the As isociated Press. Messrs. Morgan iand Rockeftllor will divide the j money. Mr. James Schoolcraft I Sherman will furnish the f ilence. Mr. Joseph (1. Cannon will run the I country, Mr. Nelson W. Aldrich ■ will be the villain, and Mr. Albert I J. Beveridge will be the J hesitating between two loves. | June will be notable in astronomy 'There will be two eclipses—a total j eclipse of the full moon on the third, and a cetnral eclipse of the sun on | the seventeenth. The eclipse of I the moon will be visible generally j in North America, except the north j western portion, and the eclipse, of J the"SUIT will - be visible as a partial j eclipse in ' the United State and Canada, except south of a line drawn from San Francisco through Tucson, Arizona, to Corpus Chrisii, Tex. The effect of these phenom ena will be to make fishing better than it has been for years. Sub scriptions to the fund of $i0,000,000 which Prof. Pickering is raising for communication with Mars will be received up to the fifteenth. Country newspapers forced to send wood need not feel embarrassed. Many £ large city papers are only giving advice. , • 1 sr.oo a Year in Advance AN AGRICULTURAL COMMONWEALTH What One Martin County Farmer Has Done-Clar ence A. Poe Tells of the Things Accomplished-- Half has not Been Told The Uplift of an agricultural State—what men are doing this in spiring work, and what methods are thev using? One of the men is Mr. Augustus Williams, a Martin County farmer. He gave a big bnrbecue to his neighbors la«t fall'—had all his friends and kinsfolk and tenants and hired men take a Saturday off and make merry with him. And what was he celebrating? A poli tical victory? No. The discovery of a gold mine oti his plantation? No. The couummation of some important financial transaction? Not at all. Mr. Williams was celebrating the fact that he had succeeded in his effort to get 70 bushels of corn per acre Irom land that not long ago was only a common, poor, clay hill side. Yes, 70 bushels per acre, al though the State's average yield per acre according to the last census was only a fifth of 70 bushels- Now, however, there are hundreds of farmers who are pasMng even the 70 bushels per-acre maik, and Mr. Williams himself, not content with his last year's record, believes that he can double his yield once again. I hear much from 60, 70 and even 100 bushel-per-acre men (a farmer is as proud now of building up a worn-out farm and of doubling his yield of corn or cotton as he used to be of getting a political office), and the best part of the w hole story in most cases is not the yield per acre, but the spirit of progress in dicated by contrast with theshame fuly low yields of former years. There is Mr. J. A. ileal, of Nash County, for example, who made 62bushels per acre riNkyear on land that five years ago only bushels. The difference, he savs, —a difference of 700 per cent in total yield, and the differ ence between starvation and pros perity in the matter of net results —is due entirely to reading agricul tural literature, scientific farming: and this is but one example of the revolution that is going 011. The people have decided that all wis dom didn't die with their fathers and that success in farming depends upon other things than planting at the right time of the moon. Interesting; service). Rev. John w. Tyndall closed a very interesting and instructive neJles of services in the Christian Church here Wednesday night. Mr. Tytidal h?d visited the town before and had made a strong im pression. Therefore his sermons were listened to by a large crowd of interested people. His dis courses have been based on those portions of Scripture that furnish research for the most profound thinkers in the religious world c£ to-day. In these services he has been assisted by Prof. J. M. Perry, instructor in vocal music. Mr. Tyndall is president of the Indus trial Christian College near King - ston, N. C. This he has taken for his life work', and is many boys and girls to.become useful men and women. Pupils can work their way through school and're* ceive both a literary and industrial education. Prof. Perry is associ ated with him in the school. The church here has been greatly help ed by the presence of these two men, and the outside world has enjoyed the meeting. Govern your thoughts when alone, and your tongue when in company. MMm,' . . , k
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