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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Death OF MI. NOrfleet.

The death of MIR. John A. Nor
fleet, an esteemed citizen of Halifax
county, father of Mr.. E. Norfeet,
Of this city, occurred Sunday morn
ing at 7 O'Clock at the James Walker
Memorial hospital, where he had
been i'll for some time, and much re-
greet is expressed for the family by
acquaintances here and elsewhere.
Mr.. Norfeet had been at the hos
pital here for several months for
treatment of paralysis, which was
the immediate cause of his death.
Deceased was 81 years of age and
was born in Halifax county, where
he lived practically his entire life.
He served during the war between
the States with great valor and was
held in high regard by his many &C.
quaintances.
Of his immediate family there is
onlv one surviving member, Mr.. Eus'
tace Norfeet, we'll known citizen
Of this city.
The remains were accompanied tc
his old home at Scotland Neck or
Sunday night by Mr.. and Mrs. +
Norfeet and Mr.. j. NJ. Tayor,
friend of the family. The funera
was held yesterday morning at Il
O'Clock and the remains were inter
red at that place. - Wilmington
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Trinity Church.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4TH.
500 q. m.-Woman's Auxiliary.
900 p. m.-Litany Service.
" FRIDAY, AUGUST 9TH.
Feast of the TRANSPORTATION.
1000 a. m.-Holy Communion.
$3.50 D. m.-Evening Prayer and
Address.
SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH.
Ninth Sunday after Trinity.
700 a. m.-Holy Communion
CORPORATE Communion of the Broth
erhood Of St. Andrew
9:45 a. m.-Sunday Schoo.
HOO a. m.-Morning Prayer arc
Sermon.
$50 D. m.-Evening Prayer ant
Sermon.
G.. G. BRADLEY, Rector.
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Death at Tillcry.
(Cor. to The Commonwealth

(Cor. to The Commonwealth
The entire community around
Dawsons was shocked and grieved
when it was learned here this morn
ing that the "Silent Messenger" had
again entered the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Weeks, Of Tillery, and
borne from their midst their eldest
daughter.
Otelia was beautiful young girl
of fourteen and the very light and
Joy of her home. With so much to
live for, and in thinking what she
could have been in his service, we
can but wonder what could have
been Gods purpose; but that He is
all-wise and never afflicts US except
through love, we have no doubt.
She had not, until the time of her
illness, manifested any desire to be 9
Christian, but from her anxiety con
corning the salvation Of her loved
ones, and the beautiful prayer anc
hynn, ("Jesus Lover of My Soul")
that assembled from her dying lips
we feel that shs had learned to low
Jesus.
She had been i'll with typhoid feve
for two weeks. Everything tina
love and experienced physician
could do was done for her, but of n
avail, and at twelve o'clock Sunda
night, July 25th, her spirit took it
flight with the day.
The remains were inferred in tn
family burying ground of MIR. c. E
Pope, near Dawsons at 4:3O O'Clock
Monday afternoon, the Rev. MI
Creasman of Scotland Neck, conduct
ing the services.
MAY God bless and comfort all sh
has loved and left.
"Sleep, well-beloved.
Goodnight but not farewell,
Midnight will soon be past,
Dawn greet the eye at last,
Gloom from each heart be cast
5 And thou shalt wake.
E. N. S.
Dawsons, N. C. July II.
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Notice.

Having qualified as administrator
of the estate of Minnie D. Prince,
deceased, late of Halifax County,
this is to notify all persons indebted
to said estate to make immediate
settlement of said Indebtedness to
me. And all persons having CLAIMS
against said estate will present them
to me. duly verified, within twelve
months from this date, or this notice
will be pleaded in bar of their recov-
cry. 900
This Aug. 4th, 1909.
D. M. PRINCE, Administrator, OF
Minnie D. Prince, Deceased
KITCHIN & SMITH, Attorneys.
S-5-6t.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

The News and Observer of Tue s-
dav published reports from the vari-
ous counties of the State showing
the condition of drops on August lst.
The final average on the principal
crops is as follows:
Cotton, 66 2-3 per cent.
Corn, 80 per cent.
Tobacco, rs per cent.
Wheat, 80 per cent.
Oats, 100 per cent.
Peanuts, 80 per cent.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

ANY barn or out building can be
made water tight by applying Car:
eoter-Morton Roofing. This Roof
ing can be applied over the old
shingles. if desired, and will make
good tight job that will last TOT
years. This Roofing is cheaper ana
more satisfactory than shingles OF
other materials. Hardy Hardware
Company will furnish booklet upo1
request.
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LOCAL NEWS.
Items Gathered From the Town
and Country.

Look up the adv. of The Scotland
Neck Bank on this page.
There has been too much rain this
week for the good of the crops.
Mr.. Richard H. Smith has been
confined to his room the past week.
Send US your next order for job
work. Price and material guaran-
teed.
The condition of the crops have
improved very much the past few
weeks.
The next term of court for the
county will be held at Halifax begin
ming on 23rd inst.
The Town Commissioners have re-
vised the town ordinances and ere
preparing to have them published.
The work of building the court
house is progressing slowly. The
excavation for the foundation has
been made and the work of laying
the foundation is ready to begin.
His many friends will regret to
know that Capt. William D. Smith
suffered slight stroke Of paralysis
one day last week and is confined to
his bed at the home Of his son-in-law,
Mr.. Bernard Allsbrook.
The ladies of Trinity church will
give reception to Rev. and
Mrs. Bradley, at the residence OF
Mrs. J. w. Leggett, on Tuesday
August the tenth, from 9 to II
o'clock. The public is cordially in
vited to attend.
While at Halifax Monday we hearc
many compliments paid the cotton
crop of Mr.. C. A. Williams, of Ring
wood. Mr.. Williams has one hundred
acres of cotton that will make one
hundred bales-and his corn and to-
bacco are just as good in proportion
On Wednesday of last week a
Smiths Mill pond, about four miles
from town, big brunswick stew
and barbecue was given by Messrs
Albion and Sam Dunn in honor o:
Miss Ella Margaret Boddie, of Dur
ham, and Miss Aline Galloway, O.
Mount Airy, the guest of Miss Salll'
Speed Dunn. There were between
Is and 100 guest present and the at
fair was a most delightful and en-
joyable one.
Because of unsatisfactory machin
ery Mr.. ]. D. Stewart has been com
pelled to abandon the idea of manu-
featuring ice this season. He ha
been selling ice at manufacturer
prices, thinking every week that h
could supply his trade wit
homemade ice, and as result h
has been running at loss. Mr.. Stew
art tells US that he will continue t
sell ice but at an increased price o
| SO and IS cents.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
The Scotland Neck Bank
Scotland Neck, N. c.
Special Announcements.

WOOD-1O CORDS FOR $500
during August. Cut right length.
Lock Box No. 242. 1927
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

OUR CLEAN SWEEP SALE OF
Summer and Hot Weather Goods
begins Monday morning August 9th.
All summer goods at cost. N. B.
Josey Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

\ CAR LOAD OF DRESSED
Plank and Flooring at $500 per
thousand feet. N. B. Josey Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

FRESH CAKES EVERY WEEK
we receive fresh shipment of fine
cakes to sell by the pound and a
splendid assortment in Packages.
The Allsbrook Co. S-5-2t.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

100 IRON BED STEADS $1.25
each. 100 Bed Springs to match 81 90
each at N. 3. Josey Co.'S.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05
Estimate Of Crop Conditions.

Dawsons, N. C. July II.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

NOTICE THERE WILL BE A
called meeting of the Road Board of
Scotland Neck, Palmyra and Rose
meath townships at the office Of DR..
III. E. Shields next Monday, the 9th
Einst.. at 2 o'clock. D. NJ. Prince,
EChairman; W. G. Hedgepeth, Secre-
&tary.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-08-05

Y IS FOLDING CANVAS COTS so
4cents each. n. B. Josey Co.
Evening star., 1909-09-02

musket that saw service in the John
Brown raid at Harpers Ferry nearly fifty
years ago. padded about the Eastern
branch yesterday in a leaky fiat-bot toned
boat. Every now and then the venerable
relic of slavery days would pull the tric-
ger and there would be a great pun Of
smoke and report like the eruption OF
Mont Pelee. and in the distance the featll-
ers of some luckless bird would fly.
A gull that came within the old
mans vision and went down under his
awful fire was torn almost into frag-
ments.
What are you loading with. Uncle
Jasper?" a bystaIder asked. You must
be using nails
NO sab: dun make dem shots myse'T.
an dey hits ter KILL
Asked why he shot sea gull. which is
too fishy to eat. the aged negro replied
that lit dun looked like er duck"
An inspection of the greasy haversack
carried by the venerable pot hunter dis
closed that II contained the carcasses OF
one reed bird. six sparrows. a sea gull
frightfully mangled, two blackbirds and
half-grown crane.
Use gwine ter hab a ole-fa ashioned not
pie outen dem," he explained.
Evening star., 1909-09-02
Some Recent Attempts.

Some of the most recent or noteworthy
Eattempts 10 reach the north pole are
enumerated below:
Walter Wellman. an American, left the
Island of Spitzbergen for the pole In a
balloon August II. 1863. IIis airship be-
came disabled after he had travelled
thirty miles and he was forced to return.
In 1906 Commander Robert T.. Peary.
IT, s. ". reached 81 degrees minutes,
equivalent to about 2G: miles from the
pole. Commander Pears- is now in the
polar regions on another expedition. y
relief ship was sent out month ago TO
endeavor to pick him ". Hc started
from Sydney, n S. July IL 1905
September 8. 1905. Capt Roald Amund-
sen u Norwegian. completed the first
voyage through the northwest passage
He left Christiania on the Gjoa June IL
1903 and arrived at IIerschel Island in
the Arctic ocean in September of la,,
In 1904 Baron Toll. 4 Russian, led a
polar exploration by way Of Siberia. but
all the members perished from the cold.
In l"s' ERICKSON. a Dane, headed an
expedition and got far as Saunders
Island. where they were rescued in a
destitute condition In the same ve.r
Anthony tiala. young Brooklyn ex-
picrer, sailed on the ship America and
proceeded farther north than the Duke
OF the Abruzzi. His party endured great
hardsnip before they were rescued
The Northwest Passage for which so
many early voyagars sacrificed their
lives. has been achieved, Capt Amund-
sen or Norway having made 1t in 1904
l"Wi but the practical value of such a
trade route has long since been dis
credited. More than 500 years ago, Sir
Martin F'robisher wrote regarding. the
passage: 1T Is the only thing in the
world that Is left yet undone whereby a
notable mind might be made famous and
fortunate.
When IL was done the fame was small
the fortune insignificant. The north
pole long ago usurped the goal of arctic
exploration as the one inaccessible spot
in all the world.
Evening star., 1909-09-02
SCARED BIRDS SEEK TREES
ESCAPE INTREPID HUNTSMEN
ON EASTERN BRANCH.
Unusual Sight of Wild Ducks and
Cranes Roasting on Randle
Highlands.

shotguns. ancient muske.s and other
types of firearms in the marshes Of the
Eastern branch of the Potomac. many
wild ducks. cranes and other water birds
left their haunts yesterday and flew
wildly about Randle Highlands.
While the sportsmen are invading the
marshes in quest of tootlsome reedbirds,
there are many pot hunters In evidence
who shoot at any old thing that flies
or hops, from wren or innocent little
pee-dee TO a tame turkey gobbler or a
hen of commerce. Hence the invasion
Of gunners In the marshes from the
Pennsylvania avenue bridge to Benning
has resulted In q general exodus of the
Evening star., 1909-09-02

lsoI more than go years explorers have
,,.en trying 10 penetrate tho frozen mort h
Il, lind the pole and the tabled northwest
s,assace to the far east From first 20
ast until DR.. Cook reached the goal.
.aeir attempts have been frutless. and
he records OF their voyages have all
oeen alike in tales OF freezing weather,
fields of impenetrable ice, days of suffer
sng and often the silence of unsolved
tragedy.
Modern science contributed little TO the
progress of discovery in the far north.
Explorers of the twentieth century
scarcely went farther than the men OF
ne seventeenth century. Norsemen were
the first 10 touch Greenland and Iceland.
many centuries ago. but authenticated
records Of northern discovery begin soon
after the discovery OF America.
i521-First polar expedition sent out
by Henry VIII of England for "discoverie
even To the north pole, two faire ships
well manned and Sictualed, having in
them divers cunning men TO seek strange
Evening star., 1909-09-02

| regions One snip was lost north OF
| Newfoundland the other returned to
/ England.
l5es-First crossing of eightieth degree
! under William Barentz, looking for the
! northwest passage. The ships reached
| 80 degrees II minutes north latitude.
| This Is the first expedition that left def
| mite records of it's experiences
! 1306-The record far. hest north, until
Cooks feat. made by Cokmander Peary
reaching 81 degrees s minutes an ad-
vance OF only 4so miles in :;0o years
Tragedies Of the North Pole.
| Sir John Franklin and all his men in
two ships of an English expedition were
| lost in 1SiS. Capt. De Long and an
American expedition We're nearly all lost
In 1881. Nineteen out of twenty-four
men in Lieut.. Greeiy's party perished in
1884. Prof. Andree started for the pole.
In a balloon in 1897 and never was heard
of again
Positions of expeditions around the
pole are usually given In degrees and
minutes of north latitude. 4 degree Of
! latitude at the pole is 63.4 statute miles,
and minute, which is sixtieth parr
OF degree. Is approximately II miles
Most modern expeditions reach eighty
degrees north with relatively small diff
ficulty. That is 6.4 miles from the pole
| The struggle has been TO cover the inter
vening region of ice, snow and barren is
lands. Peary. in 1906, got within 21;
! miles OF the goal. Nansen OF Norway in
1882. the Duke of the AbruzZi in 1870
and Anthony Ffala OF Brooklyn IN 1876.
all reached points about 80 miles from
the pole before being obliged TO turn
back.
Three Routes Often Tried.
There have been three often-tried routes
to the pole The most favored has beeu
IN through the channel between tie east
coast Of America and the west coast of
/ Greopland, The second lies long the
| eastern side OF Greenland, with Spitzen-
berg base. The least used is the
Pacific ocean route through Bering
Straits aSi pushing north from the ST.
berian coast.
Likewise there are three modern
| methods Of conducting expeditions. The
one most often used Is TO push as far
north as possible through the ice in a
strong ship and then with well equip
ped sledge outfit dash across the ice on
| foot. This was the method Of COM
| mander Ptsary in the past and the one he
Is now using.
DR.. Nansen gave striking example of
another plan. He had constructed an
exceptionally strong vessel, the Fran,
which he allowed TO be frozen in the ice
at chosen spot, expecting that the arctic
currents would carry him to the pole
The currents, however, drifted him off to
one side.
Andree's Trial by Balloon.
The most modern of the schemes is TO
sail through The air. Prof. Andree tried
1t first IN 1891. With an ordinary bal
vised-he set out from Tromsoe. Norway.
Evening star., 1909-09-02
DR.. wilson's Mother n..d

Word has been received here of tha
sudden death Yesterday at Milford. Mich
of Mrs. Mary Wilson. mother of Rev ~
george +. Wilson. Of this city. She was
eighty-four years OF age and the u,Soa =
OF James Wilson of Fayette county. Pa.
Evening star., 1909-09-02
Peary Made Many Trials.

The most persistent explorer OF recent
years has been Commander Robert f.
Peary of the United States Navy. His
first experience was iii 1886, when he did
some Greenland exploration. Ever since
then he has been working al the polar
problem, making half a dozen voyages
under auspices of geographical and scien-
title societies. Each time he succeeded
In forcing farther north, reaching 81 de-
srees IL minutes i'll 1901, and then the
record. 81 degrees q minutes in 1906. His
dashes over the ice were made after care
full calculations of natural conditions and
human endurance Yet with all his elab-
crate preparations the pole still remained
beyond his reach. Last year he started
again from New York and is now some
where in the arctic regions.
Evening star., 1909-09-02

of the American expedition under Com
| mander De Long in the steamer jean
nette in 1881. The party went up the
Pacific coast through Berine strait and
attempted to push their way through the
ice toward the pole. The ship was
crushed and sank off the north coast of
Siberia. The men put off in three boats.
One commanded by Lieut.. Chipp was
never heard Of. The second. under En-
gineer G.. W. Melville. reached land
safely and. with the aid OF natives
searched for the others.
Commander De Long and his party Of
the third boat were discovered by n re-
lief expedition in miserable huts OH the
Siberian shore at the mouth of the Lena
river. Only two of his party survived.
and they We're in the last stages of
starvation. In all. twenty ont of the
thirty-three men in the expedition We're
lost.
Soon afterward another expedition un-
der Lieut.. Greedy started up the Green
land route. 1t had a horrible experience
from cold aud starvation. When rescuers
reached them in 1884 in their last camp
on & desert island north of reenland
only nineteen men We're left alive out OF
the. tWenty-fOur that started out
Evening star., 1909-09-02
Andree's Trial by Balloon.

The most modern of the schemes is TO
sail through the air. Prof. Andree tried
IT first IN 1897. With an ordinary bal
ioon--for airships had not then been de-
vised-he set out from Tromsoe. Norway.
Evening star., 1909-09-02
birds, great and small, that frequent the
shores Of fle Eastern branch

OHuS. SIcdt dIiu slIdils liidl llS1ucIN tAC
shores of the Eastern branch.
Ducks and cranes have been driven into
the tall timber. and just before sunset
last evening the unusual sight wit
messed on North Randle Highlands OF
five big. plump wild ducks seeking 4
roos.ing place IN tree tops away from the
sounds Of the battle and lying shot along
the stream below.
Another unusual picture was presented
in fields on the highlands. Long-legged
cranes herons aud "dippers'' walked
about among the sparrows, larks and
thrusles. far away from the shot-riyen
atmosphere of their feeding places in the
river marshes. Some of the cranes were
so tame that they permitted persons to
get within pistol shot of them.
In the earlier part of the night, while
the hunters were still popping away at
reedbirds, ortolans and blackbirds In the
marshes below. the air about Rand
Highlands resounded with the cries OF
the water birds. the loud '.quacking OF
wild ducks be ng particularly In evidence.
Old hunters declared that the WHO uuchs
must have been badly frightened to nave
selected tree tops as their roosting places
II was a case of mo rest for the weary,
as the gunners continued shootine even
in the moonlight last night. and We're
out at the break of day.
No Respecter of Birds.
Some of the pot hunters have bsgged
birds of almost every known variety that
make their habitat IN the District. An
Evening star., 1909-09-02
No Respecter of Birds.

Some of the pot hunters have bsgged
birds of almost every known variety that
make, their habitat IN the District. An
old colored man. armed with an ancient
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-12-23
New Enuland Pie.

Some poor dweller in the benight.
ed beyond of Chicago asks what real
New England pie is like 1t probably
will not help him to be told, but II
he means apple, 1t is like an essay by
Emerson liquefied with the music Of
Massenet and spiced with the cyni-
cisrn of Shaw; If he means pumpkin,
il is like some OF Gounods music
heard in landscape all sun and fiow-
ers. 1t is too early yet to describe
the mince pies of 1909. but last years
and last year was not an extraor'
binary good year-were like an In
crease in salary, and present from
home arriving on the day when ones
conscience was behaving itself.--Bos
ton Globe.
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Use for Stale Bread.

A few ways of using state bread:
Brown nicely in hot oven. roll fine
and dip fish into the powder before
frying. Use a slice in making your
lemon pie and for bread and mock In
dian pudding. If you have n half or
whole loaf, thoroughly wet with colo
water, put in pan, cover with another
and steam in hot oven about 15 min.
utes. Tastes better than newly
made.
Cake treated the same way, eaten
with sauce for pudding is delicious
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-12-23
Emharrassinn.

Not only the houses OF the Mex.
leans, but whatever you admire is
yours. If you express a sentiment
OF appreciation of anything, the own
er at once says; "Senor, II is yours .
but he simply intends something Nat.
terlng, and you are therefore not ex-
pected TO accept anything that is Of
fered to you. An amusing story is
told of Sir Spencer St John. the Eng
lish ambassador. which illustrates how
this national courtesy often provokes
embarrassment Sir Spencer, who is
gallant old bachelor. was prom
enading with some ladies in the park
when he met a nurse girl with a
brighteyed baby. The ladies stopped
to admire the little one, and Sir Spen
Ger asked whose child II was "Senor
it is your own" replied the nurse. with
n courtesy. Sir Spencer has never in
quired as to the parentage OF pretty
children since.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-12-23
Takinn Care OF Yourself.

There never was n time when peo-
pie paid as much attention to their
health and strength as they do now.
Time was when fine stock and fine
horses were fed more carefully than
human beings.
The result of properly balanced ra-
tions has worked wonders with stock
and recent experiments are proving
that the same thing is true of man.
kind.
II has been found that Quaker Oats
eaten often and regularly taking the
place of heavy. greasy foods will work
wonders in the health and strength OF
a family.
School children fed frequently on
Quaker Oats thrive physically and are
always capable of the best work at
school. For athletes, laborers, 1t is
the best food.
For those who are not convenient
to the store the large size family pack.
age of Quaker Oats is the thing; for
hot climates the hermetically sealed
tins are best. 10
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1909-12-23
SKIN TROUBLES CURED.
Two Little Girls Had Eczema Very
Badly-ln One Case Child's Hair
Came Out and Left Bare Patches.
cutlcura Me. with Great Success

IT have two little girls who have
been troubled very badly with eczema.
One Of them had II on her lower
limbs. I did everything that l could
hear Of for her, but 1t did not give
In until warm weather, when 1t seem
ingly subsidized. The next winter when
1t became cold the eczema started
again and also in her head where 1t
would take the hair out and leave
bare patches. At the same time her
arms were sore the whole length OF
them. took her to physician, but
the child grew worse all the time. Her
sisters arms were also affected. l be
gan using Cuticura Remedies, and by
the time the second lot was used their
skin was soft and smooth. Mrs. Charles
Baker. Albion, Me-, Sept. 21. '0S."
Potter Drug Chem. Corp. sols Props, Boston.