The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-06-10
MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST.


What is TFanSpifing in North Carolina
and Other States.
The Florida House of Representa-
uves has passed a bank guaranty
bill very much similar to the Okla
homa bank law.
The Alaska Yukon Pacific Exposi-
ton is on. President Taft in the
White House last week touched the
button that put in motion the expo
sition wheels. The exposition cost
$4,000, 900, and was built in two
years. 1t was financed by the
Northwest.
1t is understood that the town Of
Littleton is soon to have a system of
electric lights. 1t is also rumored
that there will be an ice plant in
connection with the lighting appa-
ratus. The Sterling Manufacturing
Company, of Littleton will enlarge
its present equipment, and furnish
all the necessary power.
The agricultural monthly, Modern
Farming, a paper that was published
in Richmond, has been consolidated
with the Progressive Farmer, a
weekly paper published in Raleigh,
and hereafter in conjunction with
the Progressive Farmer will be pub
lished weekly. The new paper will
be known as the Progressive Farm
er and Modern Farming
The city of Asheville has planned
for splendid and excellent scheme
Of municipal advertising. From
twenty-five hundred to ten thousand
dollars is spent every year in
Ofuer tilc dCurdl ana Otnef aC-
vantage neville may be made
known, nus attract people to
it's borders and cause the city to
push rapidly forward.
On the 18th of June the conven-
ton Of the Cotton Manufacturers
Association of the State of North
Carolina will be held in Charlotte.
Thus far fourteen conventions Of
various kinds have met in Charlotte
since the first of January. On the
Fourth Of July the annual conven-
ton of the Rural Letter Carriers of
the State will meet there.
The silver service which the peo-
pie of the State Of Mississippi pur-
chased through popular subscrip-
ton, has been presented to the bat
tleship Mississippi. The presenta-
ton was not made on board the bat
tleship as was intended, but on ac-
count of the fast-running seas was
made at Pascagoula, Miss. The
image Of Jefferson Davis was en-,
graved on the service.
Messrs. George w. Norwood, Jr.,
of Goldsboro, and George Gunter, of
Raleigh. constitute special COM
mittee from the board Of directors
of the State prison to install the
electric chair in the prison for the
electrocution Of all prisoners here
after sentenced to death in North
Carolina under the act passed by the
last legislature. In the event of a
death sentence being imposed any
where in the State, Superintendent
Laughinghouse says, the committee
is in a position to hurry up the in
stallation of the chair.
The one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of jefferson Davis was ap-
propriately observed last Thursday,
June 3rd, throughout the Southern
States generally. Jefferson Davis is
rapidly coming into his own. Both
North and South are coming to know
him as he Was-hOneSt and good,
great and grand and pure, with cour-
age to stand by the right as he saw
the right, whatever the costs. He
never sacrificed principle for any
thing; he sacrificed many things for
principle. 1t will not be long before
posterity will give him that place in
history he so justly deserves.
Governor Kitchin, in response to a