The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-11-04
NEWS NOTES.
items Picked Up Here and There and
Gathered frOLa Our Exchanges.

The colored fair at Raleigh last
week is said to have been big sue
cess.
William P. Wemyss, one of the
oldest and best known citizen of
Fayetteville died last week.
A man in Kansas City, Mo-, shot
and killed his sisters and brother
in-law, now says he is crazy.
The Norfolk & Southern railway
is to be sold at public auction in
Norfolk, Va, December 7th.
Five children in the Presbyterian
Orphans Home near Lynchburg, Va.
were cremated in a burning build
ing one night last week.
Rev. A. H. Burroughs, of Bristol,
Va, has married 5000 couples Of
clippers since 1889, and reports say
he is still marrying them.
Mr.. S. M. Gattis. of Orange Coun-
ty, has been appointed solicitor of the
ninth judicial district to succeed
Mr.. Jones Fuller, resigned.
The Standard OIL Company has
been fined $65,OOO in the District
Court at Austin. Texas, for the vio-
lation of the antitrust law of
that State.
Mr.. H. H. Powell, proprietor of
the Sanford Hotel, has some 40 or
so hogs fattening to be killed in the
winter. He expects to make some
of these hogs weigh from 400 to 500
pounds. Sanford Express.
Tyrus Cobb, the great baseball
player of the Detroit American Lea
que delivered a lecture at Winston
Salem Friday night. He was passing
through tue State as member of
the New York Herald automobile
run to Atlanta, Ga.
The best joke of last week is on
J. T. Moore, more fearless officer
never executed the laws of a state,
and he has arrested his share of vio-
lators of the law. He attended the
Raleigh Fair and was there relieved
of all his money and other property,
even to his hand cuff keys. Joe
Pennington brought him home in
his auto.-Tarboro Southerner.
While Ira M. Young was digging
for sewer, ten feet below the sur
face, in his back yard at Butler, Pa,
his attention was attracted to an un-
usual pebble. Examination of it by
New York specialist in precious
stones show it to be ruby, worth
from $1,000 to $40, The find of
Young, who is poor man, has
caused immense excitement among
neighboring property owners. Dur
ham Sun.
They are having a warm time up
in the West over the Biltmore post
office. 1t is somewhat sensational.
Mrs. Julia Reed was recently re-
moved. Congressran Grant says
she offered to bride him to get her
the reappointment. She says she
didn't. She says she merely offered
to contribute her share to the Re-
publican campaign fund, and take
stock in the party paper at Green's
boro. She alleges that Grant told her
she had to come across for the cam
paign fund as all the officeholders
had DONE" Congressman Grant
says he didn't. So there you are.
"You did," and Il didn't. And
more of the same sort. Just how
such political fight as this is going
to turn out is a difficult matter to
foresee, or forecast. 1t is evident
that Congressman Grant has his
hands full, for Mrs. Reed is after
him with a sharp stick.-Durham
Sun.
A News item sent out from Raleigh
says
1.-The State board of health and the
United States board of education
are beginning an educational cam
paign in North Carolina through the
public schools for the betterment of
the public health, and great work
will be done during the next few
months.
"The whole plan will be set out in
publications soon to appear. Every
teacher in the public schools will de-
vote ten minutes each week to prac-
tical talk on some preventabe disease
such as tuberculosis, hook-worm, ty-
phoid fever, malaria and the various
contagious disease. Pellagra is not
to be included, because as yet there
is not enough accurate information
regarding it. matters now being in
the experimental stage, because 50
far the cause is not known. The
State board of health has DESIGNATED