The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1907-04-04
News AAoat.

/ There are 1900 life and fire i'll
: surance agents in North Carolina.
: An old colored woman was found
dead in the track Of a forest fire
near Kinston. 1t was supposed she
was burned while fighting the fire
near her home.
, The people of Dunn voted on dis
, pensary or prohibition last week and
the dispensary vote had a majority
of something'over q dozen-as we re-
member it was Il.
the extremely cold weather the
first of this week greatly threatened
fruit and truck, especially strawber-
ries, about Mount Olive. Doubtless
it is injured some and the early ma
turity delayed.
Mr.. R. B. Shaw, of Washington.
N. c., died in Willaimston Sunday.
says the Greenville Reflector. Mr..
Shaw was q well known piano tuner
and will be remembered by many in
Scotland Neck.
Arrangements have been made for
a good exhibit by the negroes of
North Carolina at the jamestown
Exposition. They will have choice
location and doubtless their exhibit
will be creditable to them.
Easter was a chilly day and the
new bonnets and new dresses for
/ the season were hardly in keeping
with the wind and weather. Rich
mond had q real snow storm and
news from Asheville Monday said
that the surrounding mountains were
snoW-capped.
. DR.. John D. Biggs, Of Williamson.
has been chosen to fill several i'm
portant places made vacant Ivy the
death of his brother, Mr.. Dennis S.
Biggs. He has been made president
of the Dennis Simmons Lumber Co.,
and also has been made president of
The Farmers & Merchants Bank.
Mr.. E. S. Simmons, the well known
and able blind lawyer in Washington.
N. c., died some days ago. Besides
being an able lawyer he was a good
writer, and some years ago achieved
some renown from writing and pub
fishing a splendid book on the race
question. Many OF the people in
Scotland Neck will remember him
and his book.
Judge Z. 3. Jones created little
sensation i'll Wake Superior court
some days ago. Two Raleigh lawyers
became dissatisfied with Judge Jones |
because he would not continue q case
in which they appeared for defend
ants. They returned their fees to
their clients and walked out of the
court room. Judge Jones sent for
them to return, read some law to
them and told them they were in the
case and must see it through.
Rev. Livingstog Johnston, secre-
tary Of the State Mission Board of
the North Carolina Baptist State
Convention, has recently visited
Hyde county; and here is how the
News and Observer quotes Mr..
Johnston:
Hyde county, Mr.. Johston says, is
land Of wonder to a man who sees
1t for the first time. 1t is the Egypt
OF North Carolina. The most fertile
and consequently the most wealthy
and most highly developed portion of
the county, is the country bordering
on and surrounding Mattamuskett
Lake, which is seven miles wide
and tWenty-one miles long. This
section grows more corn to the acre
than any Fart of North Carolina.
The soil is rich and those who own
1t are prosperous. There is a fine
road that surrounds the lake short (
distance from the shore and the
residences are built on the farther ;
side of the lake and overlooking it.
The farms of teeming fertility lie ;
back of these residences, many of
them are quite handsome, Mr.. John +;
ston says.
These farms are on a ridge a :
mile or two in width that borders
the lake, and beyond it the land. is {
over and not so fertile. Mr.. John
ston was well pleased with what he t
saw in Hyde and especially with her
Inc citizenship.