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. V C-! tk -■7$!:"' C. J. \ /># . / •■ ’ "*14'^ •. 'OseKt. 7 'Tr^’, >V,- ^ T 1 r 1 '^. . .. :$-■ • ' - / " '-.V '' '\>$ -^4^^ O ^ *. * Local and Personal: Mr. A. B. McGill is at ^ home on ft visit from Badin. v. Miss Marcaret Moore has re turned from a\^viit to Mount Vernon Springs! Miss.lda McLauohhn has re- tnrhedfronVrf pleasant vi-it t(> ■' relatives in Wadeshoro. Mr. and Mrs. T. B.. Upchurch spent the past week in the moun tains of western North UaroHn r. • *5 Mrs- J. T.'Jerome and little child ha«£;retitrned 'Jrom a t^o weeks’ visit to relatives in Dur ham Mr. and Mrs. L. F- Clark and little ilauL^hterl Jennie McNeill. Mr. and Mrs. \V. P. Covington and .Mr. tV. P. Covington .spent the WHelc imd at Jaeksop Springs MissEuline Townsend, who si»ent last week ^yith Miss ,ZelT- hie Harris, has returned her home in Bennottsvhlle. S. C. She was accompanied hy AJiss Harris 'Mr. D. A.‘Maxwell of Kaefdrd R .ute 2, brought ns nf^arly a peek of Triump ■ yarns Tuc'sdav, taken from two [il,lilts. Mr Max well says his potato crop is very fine; he dug one row and got five bushf-ls of fine potatoes. liev. Mr. and Mr.s. H. N. ^Ic- V. Diarniid of Rocky Mount have spent t he past tvvo^ weeks with ;. relativ- s lu re. 'J'he\ r.sturn lf> •'itoi'ky tomorrow,.. Mi- MehiarniM preaciied a splenoid .ser-mun..d,.!:] the 1'reshyterian church last Sun y day. mormng. Yesterday about 3 o’clock the Wind rose from the south and we had a''great dust storm. This reminded us that on the 28th day of August, J893, there was a great storm all day; cotton was torn to pieces. Fodder that .hadn’t been pulfed was whipped ■into stringis. Rain fell all day, and numbers of trees were blown down. ( tiieut. Paul Johnson from Camp Jackson spent Sunday with hPmerfSlte.^ ' V, Mi- D. A- Currio noticed a large hawk trying to catch, a squrirrel On the school campus la few days ago, but the squirrel was resist ing arrest. Mr. Currie killed the hawk and saved fhait squirrel. Min Fknrf. IMiair a apeod- mg this week with Mias Ketie Lee Me Kinnoti of Maiton. • V ; Rev* Eugene Alexander, now a Chaplain in the U.'S. -Army, was a guest of -friends in this county the first of the week. He will be located at Camp Meade. MdM after this. S- nc BC\JSOWI .■ .f' - '■ - We have the following Ma- **• ^ f ' chines, in stock: 2 Grain Drills with Fertilizer Attachment $135.00 | 4 McCormick Mowers . - 90.00 4 McCormick Setf-Dumping Hay Rakes - • 35.00j The above is all the machinery; we will have this Fall. We sug gest, that you place your: ord'», ati once. ..Material IS 'gditing siarcwi and higher ail the time. _yi—,11 - - II I 11 RABFORD HARDWARI COMPANY. We have jiist4*eturnKed frcm the, I^Jorthern Mar kets, where we sejtected a be assort ir.ent of mer= chandise for all departments,of our store. We are already receiving shipments of new thingfs in our Ready-to-wear and Milinery departments; For This • / ^ - . ■ . , I we call attention^ to new lots Shirt Waists^ Silk Dresses and Skirts. We are also showing* some snappy things in Ladies’ Hats. Let us show you. Always some thin NISBET BROS. CO Ca$h Department Store Pratt Building , = Raeford, N. C. > ' The United, States Food Administration has set a price of of three dollars fifty cents per bale as a reasonable charge for ginning cotton that weighs five hundred lbs. or less and an additional charge of eighty cent^ per hundred lbs. for all ov^ that amount, asking that no bales be ginned weighing over five hundred seventy five pounds. f * ' The charge for bagging juid ties must be market value plus ten per cent. • ■ , . “ . y We will follow instractions of the Food Administration in the oper ation of our gin and in following same we do not find it necessary to change our method of doii^ bus^ess and having kept our gin plant at a ligh point of efficiency we wiU continue to give our customers the same Isatisfactpiy work they have had in the past. 7 .V. "V \ • 7, We Want ToillQin Your Cotton. ** I • “7^- ^ No price has yet been fixed for i,d ,td «ly pidee we pay is subject to adjStment to conform'to their ruling: X
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