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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
STATESVILLE DRY.

Last Monday Statesville voted on
local prohibition. The vote was 431
for prohibition and 191 against, major
ity of 24O for prohibition.
Now, then, it remains to be seen
whether the coed town OF Statesville
will suffer the loss of business which
whiskey advocates predict every time
the question of prohibition is raised.
luz 0Cat0sVIIIe IauuIuarK IN speak
ing OF the victory says:
GAIL good citizens will not only &C
qulesce in the RESULT but will lend their
efforts to the observance and the en-
forcemeut of the new regulation. 1t
is sincerely hoped that it will prove
best Tor the community and that the
glorious results predicted will be real
lied. No town is dependent for its
success upon the manufacture or sale
OF liquor apd no town will succeed sim
ply because the manufacture or sale of
liquor is prohibited. The success of
every community depends on its citi-
zens and it will succeed or not succeed
in proportion to the properly directed
efforts OF its citizenship, regardless Of
the liquor question"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
Notice..

SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION.
To the defendant, David House:
The defendant Dayid House will
take notice:
/. That an action entitled Mite
House against David House has been
commenced in this court against him.
2. That the purpose OF this action is
to obtain an absolute divorce from the
said David House on account of aban-
donment OF her without cause on her
part prior to the first day Of January,
1899. and living separate and apart
from her for more than one year prior
thereto.
3. And the said David House is no.
titled to be and appear before the Judge
of our Superior court to be held for
said county at the court house in Hall
fax on the 18th Monday after the first
Monday in March, 1908, and answer
the complaint which has been deposit.
cd in the office of the clerk of the
Superior court for said county, and let
said defendant take notice that if he
fails to answer the complaint within
the time required by law, the plaintiff
will apply to the court for the relief
demanded in the complaint and costs
to be taxed by the clerk.
Given under my hand this the 18th
day of February, 1908.
8. M. GARY,
2-196t C!'k Halifax suD'r Court.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
BOUGHT BY SCOTLAND NECK
CHURCH.

F. A. Odds in Charlotte Observer.
RALEIGH, March 13.-In the "Hall
of History" in the State Museum here,
are two copies OF the Book of Prayer of
the Episcopal church. Onone of these,
handsomely bound In morocco, ia stamp
ed in gold "Bryan Grimes, Major Cen
eral Second Army Corps, Army North
ern Virginia" Bishop Cheshire, OF
this Episcopal diocese, looking at this
book, said to me "Let me show you a
singular thing. You see this book was
printed in London. You notice also
that here is the prayer for the Presi-
dent of the Confederate States, but
look at the prayer for the navy. Here
you see that the printer made no change
from the old prayer book, and that the
prayer remained for the fleets of the
United States This is really very
singular. Now let me tell you about
how these books got here. The clergy
men OF this diocese bought five bales OF
cotton, sent these to England, through
the blockade, sold them and with the
proceeds bought these prayer books.
Only one edition was published. The
books came through the blockade to
get here, but only part of them sue
ceeded in reaching North Carolina, a
vessel having a number of copies on
board having been captured. These
books were bought by the chui ches at
Wilmington, Raleigh, Charlotte, Fay
etteville, Scotland Neck, Pittsboro, and
possibly one or two other places. The
books are now extremely rare"
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
DOES IT PAY TO BUY Cheap

A cheap remedy for coughs and
colds is all right but you want some
thing that will relieve and cure the
more severe and dangerous results of
throat and lung troubles. What shall
you do? Go to q warmer and more
regulsr climate? Yes, If possible II
not possible Tor you, then in either case
take the ONLY remedy that has been
introduced In Ill civilized countries
with success in severe throat and lung
troubles, "Boscheeis German Syrup."
It not only heals and stimulates the
tissues to destroy the germ disease, but
allays Inflammation, causes easy ex-
pectoration, gives good nights rest,
and cures the potent. Try one bottle
Recommended many. years by all drug
gists in the world. You can get this
reliable remedy at 3. T. Wkiteheed
4 Co.'S. Price 80 ard 75c.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
QUESTION ANSWERED,

Yes, August Flower still has the
largest sale of any medicine in the civ
ilized world. Your mothers and
grandmothers never thought of using
else for Indigestion or Bill
iousnees. Doctors were scarce, and
they seldom heard Of Appendicitis,
Nervous Prostration or heart failure,
etc. They used August Flower to
clean ont the system and stop fermen-
tation Of undigested food, regulate the
action Of the liver. stimulate the NOR
vous and organic action Of the system,
and that u Ill they took when feeling
dull and bad with headaches and other
aches. You only need law doses Of
Greens August Flower IN liquid form.
70 make yeu satisfied There Il nothing
serious - matter Nth yon. You can
~ III 1lllable renSdy = +.
T. s . % e
3
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
BELL "A BUZZARD.n

We often hear the expression that
$50 and So has not sense enough to
bell buzzard" It seems that in wears
gone by some one down about Rober-
son county had sense enough for that
business. The Robersonian says:
1--WE have been informed that the
belled buzzard which attracted some at
tention near Black swamp last week, is
no new conner. Our informant tells us
that Mira Cleland Barnes, who lives in
that neighborhood, caught buzzard in
1858 and placed q bell on 1t, and it is
supposed that is the sarAe one.:'
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
THE LEGISLATURES WORK.

As usual there has been various COM
ment on the work of the Legislature
since it adjourned. One gives it
word OF commendation and another
gives it a word of criticism. Perhaps
both views are correct. One writes that
the body was in favor of everything and
stood for nothing while another writes
that 1t was a conservative body yet
progressive withal.
The COMMONWEALTH both commends
and condemns the work In measure.
The spirit of harmony was more In
evidence than usual, which is to be
commended. The body did some good
work and the State will feel the influ-
ence of it; but there was disappolnt-
ment in the puny work of temperance
reform. To pass any temperance law
that looked like advancement towards
Temperance reform was more than any
North Carolina Legislature had done
before; but what the Legislature did
was really more in name than in fact.
The subject of temperance was more
before the body than any other, and
yet there was very little done, and what
was done was not done heartily; for
after passing the Watts bill, which
moved distilleries into incorporated
towns, the body then proceeded to in
corporate certain little places for the
sole and only purpose of giving the
whiskey business chance. This mega.
tiyed. all the supposed good intentions
for real temperance reform.
The body did we'll in electing Mr..
Overman to the Senate and the whole
State feels safe in that choice.
Taking it all in all, the Legislature
measured up fairly we'll with such
bodies in North Carolina, but it did
much less real work than has been done
sometimes.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
THE OLD NORTH STATE FOR
EVER,
Charlotte News.

charlotte News.
The old, stale saying that, "North
Carolina is good State to be born in, !"
seems to stick In the minds of some of
these emigrants as they blind them
selves to the opportunities that sur
round them. If North Carollnian, es-
pecially farmer, has sufficient funds
to enable him to journey to far west
ern State and set up for himself, there
is no excuse, except it be his own lazi-
ness, for his failure to make a good
living at home. There are instances
IN which the State. and by the State,
we mean the employers of labor within
Its borders is to blame for this emigra-
ton, but most generally the fault rests
with the people themselves, who thus
refuse to open their eyes to the ad-
vantages their own native soil offers
them. Here is little bit OF Informs
ton from the Roanoke Chowan Times
that Is offered as complete and effec-
tpal argument against the emigration
of North Carolinians:
Roanoke river lands beat the State
for farming purposes. General Matt
Ransom sold his last years crop of cot
ton for $40 1865 go and his cotton SEED
for $24. 600, total of 500. $3.50 for
one crop Of cotton. Mess. w. p. ard
B. G. Benthali, who purchased q small
Roanoke farm OF $50 acres two years
ago. did even better than that, consid-
[ering the size Of the farms. The Bon.
thalls sold, last week, their last year
crop OF cotton for something over
%, zoo. They had already sold cotton
seed to the amount Of 1854. Their net
profits last yeal amounted to about
I$4,OOO. The year before the net profits
on this farm were over 5000. They
gsve 49, 800 two years ago ior tho farm
ct public sale Many predicted tlaey
hAd buried tholT fnoney but flio NJ
tpea o1 r. - - -
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
Notice.
Lula Staten) Halifax County,

Lula staten| Halifax County,
VS..
Joe Staten.) North Carolina.
Action Tor Divorce in Superior Court.
Joe Staten, the defendant abose
named, will take notice that an action
entitled as aboye has been commenced
In the Superior Court for HALIFAX
county to dissolve the bonds of matr-
mony now existing between the plain
TIL and defendant, and said defendant
Will further take notice that he is re.
9uired to appear at the April term OF
the Superior court of said county to 30
held at the court house in Halifax on
the fifth Monday after the first Mon
day in March, 1908, and answer or de-
muir to the complaint in said action or
the plaintiff will apply to the court for
the relief demanded in said complaint
S. M. GARY,
Eliot Clerk Superior Court.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
WILL OPEN THIRTY GRAVES.

A negro 'sherb> doctor" in Phi!ade!-
phla is charged with being accessory
to the murder of w. G. DAME, whose
widow is charged with his murder by
slow poison furnished by the "hefb
doctor" The police force say they
Will open thirty graves to satisfy them
selves as to how much poisoning the
"herb doctor" has done.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
ABOUT THE BRETHREN.

MIR. J. G. Caddell has become editor
OF the Raleigh Times. He is we'll known
throughout North Carolina, is we'll
equipped Tor the very best OF newspa-
per work, and The Times already shows
evidence OF his good work. Mr.. Caddell
was for long time connected with the
News and Observer, ard then with the
Biblical Recorder, and brings to his
editorial work much good experience.
The press OF the State will welcome
Mr.. Caddell and in this welcome THE
COMMONWEALTH joins heartily.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19

The March number of the Wake
Forest Student is unusually fine. It is
designated on the cover as "Anniver-
sary Number" although there is no
long report OF the Anniversary exer-
cises. Every department. is filed with
choice reading matter, and the contri-
buttons are rather striking. The edl-
torial work for this number is by Mr..
Raymond G. Dunn, of Scotland Neck.
and it il w0ll done.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
LIQUOR kETARDs PROSPERITY

Statesville Mascot.
One of the favorite arguments of the
liquor men is that it will kill the town
to drive out whiskey. Their anxiety
for the progress of the town is touch
ing, but their argument is childish and
worthless. Let us reason about the
matter a minute, for every good citizen
is interested in the growth of 5he town
and all of us want to see more factories
here, more citizens moving in, more
houses being built and more comforts
in the homes of the town.
We assert that it will help the town
and not hurt it to shut out liquor, and
we don't have to depend on one-slded
statement of the condition of affairs six
teen years ago In city in another
State for proof. Let us take North
Carolina towns with no greater natural
advantages than Statesville and see
what their history is. From the cen.
sus returns we find that the following
towns in North Carolina chat have no
saloons and with an aggregate popuIa-
ton in 1890 OF IL, 178, have increased
in 1900 to 26,418 or 116 per cent:
Asheboro, 81 per cent. Burlington,
116 per cent. Concord, 81 per cent. I;
Gastonia, 253 per cent. Kings Noun
tain, $50 per cent. Mooresville, 70 per
cent. Randleman "a per cent. Abs
marie, 457 per cent. Thomasvllle, ~
per cent. Lenoir, 90 per cent. While
the cities and towns having saloons
and an aggregate population in 1890 OF
1892 have increased in 1900 to 39,817
Or 16 per cent. In Charlotte, IS per
cent /; Durham, Il per cent; Marion,
48 per cent. Morganton, "a per cent. ;
Reidsville, % per cent. Salisbury, 40
per cent. Statesyllle, 81 per cent.
Wilmington, Oh per cent; Raleigh, Z
per cent. Asheville, 26 per cent.
If it would kill Statesville to drive
out saloons, it would help it to keep
them. Then why haye the prohibition
so,vns abore mentioned GROWN mUre
rapidly than Statesyille, when it had
the benefit (according to anti-prohibl.
bitionists) of the liquor trafic7 Take
another example. In 1890 High Point,
which has never had saloon, had g. CSC
inhabitants, in 1900 it had increased
to 4, 1853 or IS per cent, while Statesville
in 1890 had 1898, in 1900 3,14l, an in.
crease of only 81 per cent, although al
that time Statesyiile had liquor in
abundance. Since 1900 Hish Point
has continued to grow and instead oil
trying to get saloons, they asked the
Legislature that has just adjourned to
pass an anti-jug law. so whiskey
couldn't even be shipped into the town
Concord and Gastonia are still growing
and having tried prohibition they like
it SO we'll that the last Legislature en-
acted anti-jug laws, not only for each
OF the towns, but also for Cabarrus and
CASTOR counties in which they are stu
ated. Would the business men of these
towns be trying to make their prohibl-
ton laws more stringent If they die
not know from actual experience that
prohibition was good thing for thei1
towns? What becomes of the kill-the
town argumen: in the light of thes,
facts? The liquor men know better
and no sensible man will be deceived
by these statements.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1903-03-19
FLOODS IN The MISSISSIPPI.

For several days the papers have re-
ported great floods In tho Mississippi
river. The destruction to property has
been kerry great and suffering must in
evitably be the result Of tho floods. It
is estimated by reports from tie wealth
or bereau that the water viii not abate
in several days.