The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-22
NEWS NOTES.
Items Picked Up Here and There and
Gathered From Our Exchanges.

Gathered From Our Exchanges.
Raleigh Alderman have fixed the
near beer tax at $4,000 year.
The boil weevil is destroying the
cotton crops in some sections of
Georgia.
New tobacco is being sold on the
Kinston market. The outlook is for
a good crop.
On a wager of $500 a man at
Bloomsbury, Pa, ate three dozen
raw eggs, shells and all.
Joe Pulley was killed by bss STEP
laughter, Marie E. Pulley, with an
AK at Selma one day last week.
The first sentence to the electric
chair was made by Judge Lyon at
Robson county court last week.
Franklin township, in Franklin
county, has voted for bond issue
to get money to build good roads.
Wheat on the local market at
Townsville, N. c., is bringing S1.25
per bushel right from the thresher.
The Virginia Carolina Chemical
Company have declared a three per-
cent dividend on common stock.
Miss Mary Morgan, daughter of
the late Senator Morgan, Of Alaba-
ma, died at Blowing Rock, N. c.,
last week.
Two thousand bales of cotton for
October delivery have been sold by
farmers at Americus, Ca, at price
above II cents.
The Roxboro Courier says that the
tobacco crop in Person county is
changed fifty per cent. by rain and
hail that fell last week.
Walter Hobbs, the noted blind
tiger artist, of Durham, has been
sentenced to seven years on the
county roads for selling whiskey.
Brodie L. Duke has been refused
a license to marry in North Carolina
on account of his troubles with his
first wife, Alice Webb, few years
ago.
Mr.. J. P. Caldwell, Of the Char
lotte Observer, has suffered relapse
and is again in the hospital. Mr.,
Caldwell suffered stroke Of paraly-
sis last spring.
Mr.. J. L. Mayo has purchased the
Washington Messenger outfit and
will soon resume the publication of a
daily paper in that city, to be called
the Daily News.
The White Furniture Company
of Mebane, have been awarded a
large contract by the War Depart
ment to furnish furniture to the
government in Panama.
Sam Gibson, a young negro, near
Concord, shot and killed his wife
about l o'clock at night thinking the
woman was some one entering the
room for the purpose of robbery.
A. dispatch from Durham says
"Gen. J. S. Carr is spending the
week at Occoneechee farm, seeing
after the threshing Of his wheat
Last week from twenty-three acres
he saw $50 bushels, or nearly 43 l.;
bushels to the acre. He has alst
LOT and with such a ratio, may
expect something like 5000 bushels
This is an unusual yield for Nortf
Carolina farms and in barrels Of
Peerless" flour, means about $40,
OOO."
According to a bulletin of the Un
tied States Department of Agricul
ture 1S,061, $3.50 pounds Of tobacco
were produced in this country il
1903. Of this amount $50, Ala, go
pounds were produced by state
reached by the lines of the Southern
Railway Kentucky, North Carolina
Virginia, Tennessee and South Caro-
lima grew more than II per cent. o
the total crop of the United States
The production of the differen
States in pounds was: Kentucky
1875, 900 900; North Carolina, 49,, ,OO(
600 Virginia, ia, 100000; Tennessee
! SO, 600, 600; South Carolina, 25,O85
900. Approximately, S5O,OOO.OoO wa
the farm value of the South's pro
duction Of tobacco on December
-Winston-Salem Sentinel.
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