The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-09-15
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.
The Coming, Going and Whereabouts
of Our People and Other Folks.

Mrs. Lula Cooke is visiting relative!
in Edgecomhe.
Mr.. E. T. Whitehead i. North pur
chasing goods.
Capt. G. S. White has gone North t.
purchase goods.
Mrs II. w. Nixon is again clerklna
Tor Hoffman 4, Bro.
Mr.. J. S. Brinkley, of Norfolk, has
been here some days.
Miss. Maude Shields is c,erking fol
Riddick & Hooker this season.
Hon. Claude Kltchin went to Tar
boro Monday to attend court.
Miss Anna Clark left this morning
for St. Mary's school in Raleigh.
Miss Katie Weeks who has been a,
Roanoke Rapids Is home now.
Miss Merry Lawrence went to Will.
'iamston Tuesday to visit relatives.
Mr.. J. Frank Brinkley, of Greenville
was here Saturday shaking hands with
his friends.
Misses Olivia Berry and Ida Ed
wards, of Ayden, are visiting Mrs. G..
F. Burroughs.
Mr.. Albion Dunn went to Raleigh
last week to argue some cases before
the Supreme Court.
Misses Mollie and Maggie Carr haye
returned from a visit to their home
people near Tarboro.
Mr.. E. T. Clark, of Weldon, was
here last week doing some surveying
in the community.
Miss Minnie Strickland returned
Monday from a visit to relatives and
friends in Tarboro.
Mrs. J. B. Jones, who has been away
from home some time on a visit to
relatives at Thelma, has returned.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie T. Allsbrook, of
Richmond, are here on a visit to his
parents. They will remain some days.
Governor Aycock has appointed Mr..
J. Y. Savage delegate to the Cotton
Farmers Convention in st. Louis Sept.
9th.
Mr.. J. D. Anderson and wife, of
Weldon, came down Saturday On Wis
1t to his uncle, Mr.. J. D. Weeks, and
other relatives.
Mrs John A. Anthony, of Charles
ton, S. c., came up last week to Spring
Hill to visit her mother and other rel
atives.
Mrs. G.. Hoffman has gone to Rocky
Mount, being called by the serious ill
ness in the family Of her sister, Mrs. NJ.
Oppenheimer.
Mrs. DIR. Matthews, OF Clinton, &C
by her nelce, Miss Elma
Peterson, Is here visiting her brother,
Mr.. A. c.. Peterson.
Mr.. F. L. Lilly, of Fentress, Va, was
here Saturday. He is staunch friend
OF The COMMONWEALTH and always
gives a pleasant call.
DR.. J. D. Hufham went to Elm City
some days ago to enter upon pastoral
work which he has accepted there. He
Will preach there twice month.
Miss Estelle Parker, a charming
young lady from New Berne, spent
asst week here visiting her cousins,
Mr.. and Mrs. d. M. Prince.
Mrs. George Pittman this week
goes to Norfolk to live. Her daughters,
Misses Cottie and Bertha, have been
there some weeks, haying good posi-
lions in business.
Mrs. Kate Hosler who has been
away three months at Ocean Grove,
has returned to her place as saleslady
Tor N. B. Josey. Her friends are glad
to welcome her back.
Rev. G. T. Lumpkin has returned
from his visit to Virginia. He was &C
on his return by his sister,
Miss Addie Lumpkln, who will be in
the graded school here.
Last week Mrs. Margaret A. Shields,
her daughters, Mrs. A. G. Livermon
and Miss Margaret Shields, and also
Mrs. J. P. Kimberley left for StLouis,
where they have gone to visit the
Worlds Fair.
DR.. J. A. White, his sister, Miss
Nina White, and Miss Gussie Harrell,
Of Williamson. have just returned
from two weeks visit to st. Louis.
DR.. White says one gets tired looking
at the mammoth show.
Mr.. G. E. Swarthout is now with
Mr.. w. L. Register in handling pianos
and organs tor the Gable Company.
Mr.. Swarthout is an expert tuner, and
his presence in town for two or three
weeks gives the people good oppor-
tunitY for having their Instruments
tuned.
Those who accompanied the remains
Of Mr.. Paul V. TiIlery Tuesday were
the entire family from Tillery, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. B. Pope and Mrs. II. B. Har-
rell of Weldon, Mr.. w. D. Tillery of
Roanoke Rapids, Mr.. and Mrs. James
and Mr.. Howell of Tillery,
Misses Kate and Halle Arlington,
sisters of the widow, Mess. J. HI. and
T. 9. Pope of Crowells.
Retail Merchants Association.