The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1910-05-05
LOCAL NEWS.
Items Gathered From the Town
and Country.

How long will the candle burn?
The white sale will commence to
day (Thursday.)
Send US your next order for joI
printing. Our prices are right.
What are you doing for your town
Building it up or running it down
Don't forget the entertainment a
the opera house tonight Thursday
Remember the play at the Madry
opera house tonight Thursday by
home talent.
Help the ladies of the Baptis,
church by attending their white sale
today and tomorrow.
There will be communion and ser
mon at Trinity Church Thursday
morning at 10 o'clock. Assertion
Day.
The Roanoke Union will meet with
the Nashville Baptist church, May
27-29. An interesting program has
been prepared.
Those of our delinquent subrcrib.
ers who have not settled are remind
ed that we need the money due US.
Friends, send it in right away.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will conduct white sale at L. r.
Carriers wholesale store Thursday
and Friday, 5th and 9th inst. Every
body invited to visit the sale.
The white sewing machine exhibit
ton conducted by Mr.. w. L. Harrel
has attracted crowds this week. The
fancy work exhibited by Mr.. w. T.
Fitzpatrick has been greatly admired
Messrs. w. H. Josey, A. J. White
head and William Hill, of Scotland
Neck, have been drawn as jurors
from this section for the May term of
Federal court that convenes in Raj
eigh on Oath, inst.
Prof. Paul @. Bryan, who has been
teaching school at Oxford the past
two sessions, will become editor of
Statesville Sentinel the first of June.
Mr.. Bryan is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
G. w. Bryan, of Scotland Neck and
has many friends here who will join
The COMMONWEALTH in wishing him
much success in his new field of labor
The County Commissioners were
in regular session at Halifax Mon
day. All members of the Board
were present. The usual routine
business was transacted. The hand
some new court house was received.
1t cost, completed and equipped with
heating plant and furnished with
handsome furniture, SAG, 26O.39
Three hundred dollars of this amount
was retained by the Board to have
the walls finished or decorated when
they thoroughly dry out. A look
over the building and atits structure
will convince almost any one that it
has been built remarkably cheap.
Mr.. A. Strickland, Of Scotland
Neck, is stronger believer in dreams
now than ever before. Some weeks
ago there was stolen from his smoke
house about $50 pounds of nice hams.
He says that he prayed over the mat
ter and followed every clue he could
get but made no Roadway toward
recovering the meat or capturing
the thief. Finally he had dream
one night in which he was shown the
meat and the party who stole it. The
vision Of this dream would not leave
him until the next evening in COM
pany with officer G.. H. Johnson, he
followed up and found some of his
meat, arrested Peter Williams. who
was bound over to court and is now
in jail, failing to give bond, awaiting
a final hearing before the Superior
court. The man in whose house the
meat was found has left for parts
unknown and so it looks as IT there
is right much truth in the dream.
Notice.
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