The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
NEWS NOTES.
Items Picked Up Here and There and
Gathered FrOm Cur Exchanges.

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November 1920.
Rev. w. r. Huntington, rector of
Grace Episcopal Church, New York,
is dead.
Rev. John T. Jenkins has resigned
the pastorate Of the First Baptist
Church at Wilson.
Work has begun upon section of
inland waterway between Norfolk,
Va. and Beaufort, N. C..
Lottie Fairchild, a young white
girl at Macon, Ga, drowned herself
because Len Levar would not marry
her.
Emmett r. Rigsbee, a lineman for
the Durham Traction Company, met
instant death by touching a live
wire.
Henry C. Pullman, president of
the National Baseball League, COM
mitted suicide at his room in New
York Thursday.
Col. w. G. Lamb, of Williamson,
has been reelected chairman of the
State election board, and ]. G.. Cliff
ford, Of Dunn, secretary.
The North Carolina Veterans will
meet at Charlotte on August 25th
and 26th. Gov. Thos. ]. Jarvis will
attend and deliver an address.
A cotton mill to cost half mil
lion dollars and contain forty thous-
and spindles is to be built at Rock.
ingham. This will make the tentf
mill for that town.
Georgia farmers made a profit Of
half a million dollars on their peaci
crop this season. That looks like
there is money in raising fruit fol
market. .-Greenville Reflector.
People have lost a large number O:
hogs in this community. Cholera il
very prevalent, and in violent form
DIR. J. S. Rhodes has lost fifty yer.
fine shoats, many of which wer'
olooded stock.-Williamston Enter
prise.
. Sea- island cotton growers in con
4. e-..'s,,''., ca, -.,.~--.. =,
w. Webb, Of Hahira, Ca, president
and O. L. Mizell, secretary. 1t wa
decided to make Savannah a storag
point for sea island cotton and t,
hold a general sea island cotton grow
ers congress at Valdosta, Ga, Sept
17th.-Ex.
At the superior court of LIE
county, last week, quite a larg
number of blind tigers were con
victed and sentenced to the roads fo
terms varying from four to twelv
months. They were convicted b
the evidence of detective employee
by the Anti-Saloon League. The
were all colored men and were fror
ford.-Chatham Record.
Because she ran "blind tiger
and had the habit, in addition, G
whipping her husband at fire
quent intervals, Judge Allen,
the Superior Court, sent Alice Grad
to the workhouse for six months
Her husband is known to hundred
Of Raleigh visitors as the old Confe(
crate veteran who peddles penci
and various other wares about tt
streets, carrying his merchandise
a big basket. His name is Geore
: Washington Grady. Solicitor Jon'
told the Judge of the woman's hal
it of whipping her husband just
he was about to pass sentence.-Rs
eigh Correspondence.
The report made on cotton conc
ton up to July 25th, by the Natio
al Ginners' Association, this afte
noon gives the general average
TT.
The average by States follow
Alabama, 70; Arkansas 76; Flori
IS; Georgia 70; Louisiana 81; Missl'
ippi Ga; Missouri 81; North Caroll
IS; South Carolina II; Oklahoma
Tennessee II; Texas &c.
The report says: ''This is the 10
est condition ever known at this 81
G son of the year and indicates or
= of around II, 100000, and uni
good rains fall in the next we'
throughout almost the entire be
e but more especially in Texas, Sou
ern and Western Oklahoma and MI
issippi, the crop will be under tt
% figure"
- The best remedy we know OF IN
A cases of Kidney and Bladder trou
" u. 800 ,,.o n o1yvoyS can rpcOmm(