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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Notice &C Land Sale.

BY virtue Of power vested in me
by the law as administrator Of David
Bell. deceased. by a certain deed of
trust executed to him by Frank
White and wife. which is duly re-
corded ia the Office Of the Register
of Deeds for Halifax county, North
Carolina, in Book 169 at Page 354, /
will On the 9Th day Of November,
1911, sell for cash, at public auction.
to the highest bidder, in the town
of Scotland Neck, n. c., at II o'clock
M, the following described real
estate: That lot or parcel of land
lying in Halifax county. North Caro-
lima, and in the town Of Scotland
Neck, on the north side of Ninth
street, according to the map Of said
town, and beginning at a point on
said street, the southeast corner of
the lot on which the Methodist par
sonage is situated, then at right
angles on the line of the lot on which
said parsonage is situated a straight
line in northerly direction 100 feet,
thence at right angles parallel to 9th
street a straight line in an easter
ly direction so feet, thence at right
angles a straight line in a southerly
direction 100 feet to Ninth street,
thence up Ninth street SO feet to
the beginning
This 9th day of October, 1911.
r. G. DUNN,
Admir- of David Bell.
Kitchin & Smith, Attys.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
George Barr MCCutche0n's Beverly.

Fashion is a funny thing and the
way in which styles are originated,
especially in articles Of feminine at
tire, sometimes occur in q very
unique way. Although George Barr
McCutcheon's Beverly" has been
published for several years, and al
though there appeared on the cover
Of the book Harrison Fishers con-
ception of the ideal Beverly" garb-
ed in a most ravishing hat and veil,
ii was not until the novel was dram
atized and put on the stage last
spring that the Beverly Hat be-
came one of fashions crazes. Now
in every city Of the country where
Beverly has appeared the women
have gone crazy over the beauties
of the Beverly Hat and it is be-
ing copied far and wide. At the
opera house, Tuesday night, Octo.
Der oath.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Piano Recital at FdSSifern.

"The years opening entertain
ment at Fassifern school was q piano
recital by Miss Rebecca Hill Shields
Of the faculty. This was Mis- Shields
first public appearance in Lincoln
ton and her work was most success
full introduction as pianist. In the
first movement Of the Moonlight
Senate by Beethoven, the player
seemed to have caught the spirit
and effect Of the perfect moonlight,
calm, soft and of mysterious beauty.
The Allegretto brought a brighter
happier mood which changed, with
the third movement to one Of heavy,
depressing agitation, showing much
musicianly understanding and plan
istic ability. Wagner's beautiful
melody 'To the Evening Star" with
its harp-like accompaniment, arrang-
ed for the piano by Hist, together
with Rats Spinning Song with
its humming wheel, gave Miss
Shields fine opportunity to use her
lovely singing tone. The Chopin
numbers, Military Polonaise and
Bercuese were effectively and well
given, affording the great contrast
of heavy chords and delicate, rapid
scale work. The most brilliant num-
Der on the program and the one
which is ever a test of a pianist s
ability was Memberships Capriccio,
opus q. It's constantly returning
attractive theme and stirring rhythm
working up to great climax, were
splendidly given and made a fitting
close to a delightful evening. Miss
Shields playing and pleasing per-
sonaIity made many friends for her. -
Charlotte Daily Observer.
PROGRAM.
Senate OPP. 81 No. 2 Beethoven
Adagio Sostenuto, Allegretto, Pres
to Agitato.
0, Thou Sublime, Sweet Evening
Star-Wagner-Liszt.
Polish Dance-X. Scharwenka.
La Fileuse-Raff.
Polonaise in A acknowledgements
Chopin.
Capriccia -MendelsSphn
Orchestral parts on second pixno,
Miss Pixley.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
The law under which the goot

The law under which the good
roads election is called provides that
in the event the requisite majority
of qualified electors shall vote For
Good Roads, at the said election
and the result shall be recorded and
declared for good roads, the board
of commissioners shall elect seven
electors, residents of said county, to
be known as the Highway Commits
sion Of Halifax County, whose
term of office shall be two years.
The law also provides that the high
way commission shall elect general
road superintendent for the county.
The election is to be held under the
law governing all general elections.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Notice of Lana saie,

BY virtue Of power vested y 'l
by certain decd ii t aze.'.
to ne by WIN. Evans and VI
duly recorded in tie .ls
Register Of Deeds ioJ i,. 49,
ty, North Caroline, IN ao15
page 546, l will on the ~ % 81; AK
October. 1911, sell fcr
lie Auction, 70 the high n.4
in the town Of ScotIana
at II O'Clock NJ. the l9Ia"'rl
scribed Real Estate: s
parcel Of land in the sa.8
Scotland Neck, IIa,jiaf
North Carolina on Bloc q,
ing to the map of said town
east side of Roanoke -'rteI ''
the North by de Io.
Powell, heretofore ca1Es
Powell by kitchin q Ss
East by tie town ditch at
Hollis line. on Che Sau,a
Smiths lire. f:ontirc az :. &
Street SO feet and gun. ~
Rachall Holt's lire.
This the 30th day ol 9e.'
STUART SNIru Gra
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19

1t is now just little over three
weeks to the good roads bond cleo
ton, and yet we have not heard the
matter discussed in the least. Are
the county commissioners and good
roads association Of the county going
to let the matter go by without
arousing the people on the subject?
Let the people know just how it is
proposed to spend the money, need
and the benefits of improved roads.
Draw cut a full discussion on the
subject that the voters may be able
to cast their ballots in an intelligent
manner. Wake up, and get ito work,
everybody. The Commonwealth in
vites free discussion on the subject
Of good roads and the bond issue
and our columns are open to give
the matter as much publicity as pos.
sible.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
GlsngIGW Items.

Glenview, n. c., Oct. 16.-0al
farmer friends are still pushing e
get their cotton out.
The peanut crop is al ~, but they
are scarce on The vine. The eros
viii be short.
Ali Of our people are out OF sorts
over the low price Of cotton.
Rev. J. W. Frank filed his regular
appointment at Central Gross last
Sunday. Sunday School was re-or-
gained, Mr.. j. H. Hulk was appoint
ed superintendent. We certainly
hope that the Sunday school may be
a success this time.
MIR. T. t. Hale has recently bought
the entire farm and store of Mr.. 5.
S. Viverette at the Glenview seat.
Some Of our people attended the
Baptist association that met with
the church at Washington, n. c.,
and report a good time.
The Swift Greek Union will meet
with the church at Antioch the fifth
Sunday in this month.
Mr.. E. G.. Hale, Of Sharpsburg
is here to see her son, Mr.. 7. I. Hale
Mr.. T. 7. Hale went to Richmond
last week to buy a lot of fall ant
winter goods for his new store here
Mr.. J. E. Ayers, Jr., has JUS
started his new cotton gin. Thi!
makes four cotton gins for our town
The cool nights reminds US tina
frost is not far off.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Judge Harlan Dead.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Associate
Justice, John Marshall Harlan, Of
the Supreme Court, died at 8:15 this
morning from an attack Of acute
bronchitis at his home here. He has
been Ill since last Monday when he
contracted severe cold. He was
born in Boyle County Kentucky, on
June 1st, 1888. He was the oldest
man from point OF service now on
the Supreme court bench. He was
appointed by President Hayes, No
vember 1877.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
The Gotten Leaf Caterpillar.

The cotton leaf caterpillar, of
which we have written, has appear
cd, it would seem from reports, in
all parts Of the county. Never be
fore has anything like this been seen
in the county, worms eat the leaves
of the plants, leaving only the ribs
Of course they do no damage now
but suppose they should break out
early in the season next year?-Ca
taWba County News.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Thursday, October 10, 1911.
Hon. Locke Craig, Of AsheviIle,
has announced his candidacy for the
gubernatorial nomination next year.

The lawyers for Henry Clay Beat
tic are making an effort to have the
verdict of the jury convicting him
OF numbering his wife, set aside for
the reason that the jury began their
deliberations with prayer. Suppose
thew had rendered a verdict in favor
of the accused by acquitting him of
the charge Of murder, it is likely he
would have expressed himself very
strongly as great believer in prayer.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
KeilllheG Union.

The Kei1ukee Union will meet
with Kehukee Church near Scotland
Neck, Friday morning October 9th
and continue through Sunday. The
10 o'clock train will stop at the
church each day and the train going
to Kinston Sunday afternoon will
also stop at the church. Besides the
Elders Of the union several visiting
Elders are expected and the union
promises. to be avery interesting one.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
naTdan-n :IiHan.

Mr.. w. ?. Darden and Mrs. Naomi
Pittman were married in the parlor
Of the hotel at Halifax Tuesday,
Rev. J. S. Wood, of Weldon, offici-
ating. Mr.. and Mrs. Darden re-
turned to Scotland Neck in the at
ternoon and are receiving the con-
.cratulations of friends.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
We clip the following from an eX

We clip the following from an ex-
change, which is truthfully said:
"When you pull down the town in
which is your home, youare pulling
down yourself; and when you build
UP you are building up yourself and
neighbor. Try to Danish from your
mind the mistaken idea that all good
things are away off in some other
locality. Give your town all the
praise it can legitimately bear. 1t
certainly will do you no harm and
will cost you nothing; and above all
patronize your home institutions, i'll
Guiding the printing office.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Notice Of Bond Election

The Board Of County Commission
ers of Halifax county have called an
election to be held on Tuesday. the
18th day of November, 1911, for
Halifax county for the purpose Of
voting on the issue Of Three Hun
dred Thousand Dollars of Halifax
county bonds for the purpose of
building good roads in the county.
By order Of the Board.
]. H. NORMAN, Clerk.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
RECIPE FOR
Keeping Sweet Potatoes

My recipe for keeping sweet po-
tatoes having proved successful for
q number Of years, | offer it to
the public for $1OG. The cost for
keeping 100 bushels is only Is cents.
Below | present testimonial by
persons who have used my recipe.
BENNETT ALtSBROOK,
Scotland Neck, N. G..
TESTIMONIAL. We, the under
signed, having used with success
Mr.. Allsbrook's recipe for keeping
sweet potatoes, hereby give it our
endorsement and express the conf
dence that it will do what he claims
for it.
MD. Allsbrook, tried it 20 years.
G. C. Aiisbrook, tried it Is years.
L. Il. Long, tried it years.
]. fl. Baker, tried it ] year.
E. f. billiard, tried it / year.
Henry Baker, tried it year.
r. j. MadrY, tried it l year.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
Not Asl ExneEEraellf

Over million Of Coles Original Hot Blast
Heating Stoves used in America today They
have been proven superior to all other heat
ing stoves by years of use By hundreds eff
thousands of users. They are in use in every
state in the Union; in the homes of capitalists
and wage earners and the most enthusiastic
testimonials are received at the factory of the
Cole Manufacturing Co. at Chicago every day.
Coles Hot Blast is guaranteed to reduce the
fuel bill third over any lower draft stove
of the same size Guaranteed 10 hold ire
from Saturday night until Monday morning
Guaranteed to give uniform heat day and
night with soft coal, hard coal or Ignite.
Let us show you these stoves and demonstrate
their marvellous points Of superiority. N-15}
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
To Our
Ginning Customers!

We are glad to announce that
having completed extensive improve
ments in our ginnery, we are now
ready to begin ginning and to give
better and quicker service than ever
before.
Charges for ginning will be 1Oc
per hundred pounds seed cotton.
Bagging and ties furnished at lowest
market price.
AS we buy in car load lots we can
probably furnish bagging and ties
cheaper than is sold elsewhere, and
we earnestly request that you allow
us to furnish same to prevent con-
fusion.
Furnishing of bagging and ties by
customers makes SO much trouble
for us that we will hereafter charge
25c per bale additional.
Cotton buyers have been instruct
ed to advise all ginneries that they
may not buy bales with side-strips,
so unless previously notified by Gus
toner bales will be packed without
sidestrips.
Hoping that each one of you will
harvest big crop,
Respectfully yours,
COTTON OIL & GINNING Co.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1911-10-19
LAND Pos ,TiD'

All the lands formerly own, III.
The Halifax Land Company, az ~.
chased recently by DR.. Il. - i.;.ljsd
IS hereby posted against Z ls.f,rr
trespassing. hunting and n
The law will be strictly enlo'1,t
S. F. DUNN. Agen.
for DR.. II. II. fi''
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27

By the time she had grown into early teens she was seized with a stronger wanderlust. It would not let her rest. She seemed bewitched by the eyer-moving light of some will-o'- the-wisp. Powerless to control her self. she fled one day 10 Long Beach, where in boys clothes that she had contrived to borrow, she found work in a bowling alley. A police alarm was sent far and wide. The girl read 1t, but did not return.
 A woman probation officer, much taken by the pretty child. discovered her disguise and she was taken back to Judge Barclays home, and with Q solicitude for her future they placed her under the kindly tutorship of tho sisters at a convent
 Her, brain having been set awhirl in some strange way, and in it's wild working having cast her out of the domestic orbit, she was now beyond control She cut out the lock of a door that Imprisoned her and. heed less of danger, she slid down a drain pipe from a tnird-story window and scaled the convent walls. Taking to the highway she reached the open country before dawn. She found 2 companion of her own years and sex and together, dressed as boys, they roamed through southern California, living as tramps and learning how to ri5a the slant-hipped ponies on the ranches like vaqueros.
 Again the hand of authority fell upon the shoulders of the fyaway child, and she was carried back under restraint to the home which she had abandoned.
 The ingenuity of a mind keyed to the abnormal is more than match for
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27

aslant the red mesa land.
 The copper faced cowboys, sitting at the door of their shack, looked up with astonishment at the hsggard lit- tie stranger They saw Q bare five feet of frailty in sadly worn shoes and trousers, with wrists no bigger than two fingers, hands of a child and face that didn't seem to belong to thf rest of the shadow.
 Long way from home, sonny, ain't yuh?" asked one of the men. who had left a real name in the east and be- come Poker Chip Charley for COW punching purposes. "and a bit hungry, too. guess; eh?"
 And without waiting for an answer they took the shadow in and seated it at a table and fed 1t all it could eat, which is hospitality denied none in the land of longhorns
 A week thereafter the shadow lay upon cot in the big ranch house, with a bandage about the temples and the delicate heart pumping so feebly that only the trained ear of a nurse, who had been brought up from Tia Jauna. could hear 1t.
 How did it happen?" she asked.
 "why, miss" said Poker Chip Charley" the youngster called his self the kid cowboy, and he wanted to hook leg on the friskiest horse on the ranch just to show us what he could do. So. miss, we give in and put him aboard Dulcie. which ain't no horse for a kid to ride, but he did ride him. the kid did. Never saw any thing like it, but the kid want beefy enough to stick, Dulcie bucked and the kid landed on the head"
 Kid Cowboy a Girl.
 That night the boss of Sanchez ranch went out to the cowboys shack with a bit of news. The kid cowboy was a girl, an innocent little runaway from the states. Her name was Jean nie Gordon.
 Right here, as well as anywhere. the opening chapter of this girls strange life may be told. It may be called the chapter of her moral sleep, as the other chapter is properly called that of her awakening
 Jeannie Viyien Claire Gordon-story- booky sort of name, but rightfully
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27

8 perfectly sane person. Even while Judge Barclay was planning anew for the girls welfare she was waited away like a thistledown iR the wind This time she was carried far across the border into the wild country of Mexico and to the ranch beyond Tia Juaua Her voluntary return to Los Angeles after this wide swing in the open was inspired as is now known, to a temporary restoration of those faculties which guide the morals. She went at once to Judge Barclays home She was calm and penifent Mrs. Bar. clay had died while the girls last es- capade was running its course. and the judge was in no mood for a recon ciliation with one given to such wild vagaries. He did not know the girl was irresponsible. He received her formally, if not eoIdly. gave her a letter to the manager of the cannerfes down at San Jose and money for her immediate expenses and transporfa- ton, and sent her from his door with a good wish for her happiness some what severely expressed.
 Became a Thief.
 5 The girls cratic path of wild child. ish adventure at this moment diverged into one pitfuliy crooked and erim. inal. Teannie became a thief She stole things without reference to their value or her needs. When she want. ed anything. or thought she did. her cunning mind directed her ready fin gers to the place where it could be found It was not long before she be gan taking things she did not want knick-knaclzs which she threw away or left in hiding places on the premises, there to be found by others.
 In San Francisco, whither she drift. ed with light fingers, working along the way. she was arrested. Because of her tender years and the evidence that her form of criminality was far removed from the sordid she was sent to B. Catherines home. Tn a week
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27
TAFT OPPOSED TO ROSTRUMS.

In his speech before the Grand Army men at Rochester Wednesday. President Taft declared himself as opposed to the nOstrHms that are being prescribed as a panacea for the alleged ills that afflict the body polite, and it was most surpris- ing declaration to emanate from the president of the United States and head of the Republican party of this nation. As a purveyor of nostrums, President Taft at this time is the daddy of 'em all, from the fact that he stands for all the quackery and jugglery that is being practiced by his party.
 In the demand that has gone up from the people for a revision Of the tariff. exemplifed by the crush ing defeat that was given the re- publican party m the last cohgres- sionaI elections, and which lost to that party the control of the lower house and nearly lost the senate, the president and his party have prescribed the nortrum of a tariff board report as a remedy For
 existing evils. Acknowledging pub licly the evils of the existing Payne Aldrich tariff IaF, which revised tE, tariff upward instead of downward, the president is SO wrapped in ioy- alty to his party that he vetoed rh only evident opportunity to give the
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27
SCIENCE MADE /. BRAIN NORMAL.
How Girl of Impish Impulse, in Young Womanhood Thief, Has Been
 Permanently Restored to S Moral Strength.

~ CIENCE has reclaimed another
 person from the crime world,
 closed a chapter of wildness and converted an Irresponsible into ho- man being of moral strength. In the awakening of JeannIe Gordon, through the professional mlnIstrations of Dr.. K. N. Powell, girl who was run away and later a thief has been re- stored to society. Her disturbed brain for years ~hiried her out of the do mestic orbit and she was heading for state prison when the surgeons knife and the mental healer saved her from herself.
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27

Says the Fl Paso Times: Arizona and New Mexico aspirants for office seem to be only limited by the pres ent population of the two states, but let them go it. A people who have been denied the opportunity so long have a whole lot of political ambition and aspiration coming, and if every man in the two new states should develop a burning desire to serve his people he has a perfect right to get right out in the middle of the road"
Bisbee daily review., 1911-08-27
ARGUMENTS OF
 SOCIALISTS DESTROYED.

There are few points on which so- cialists and few union labor leaders base their opposition to the Boy Scout movement. One is that it $ military; the other that it is cap italistic enterprise, founded with the view of teaching the boys to be subservient to their employers. A glance at the manual of the Boy Scouts of America disproves these contentious. While the. boys are taught discipline, yet all military titles have been taken away from the movement. Labor unions attacK the movement on the ground that the scout laws were framed to make the boy promise to be loyal to his employer. The scout movement does emphasize loyalty and obedience, but the scout movement also teaches the boy to use his head and decide for himself what is right and. what is wrong regardless of the influences of others.
 Plank No. 2 Of the law says: A scout is loyal to whom loyalty is due; his scout leader, his home, and parents and country" Plank No. : says: "A scout is obedient to his parents, scout master, leader, and all other duly constituted authority The scout law also says that "a scout is courteous. thrifty, brave. clean, in thoughts and in habits"
 Regarding the recent attack on the movement by the Western Fed eration e Miners, the Rev. T. H. Martin, of Butte, Montana, says: During the last several months have carefully studied the scout movement as it is in California and Washington and found 1t supported in those states by many of their best citizens. Some of the leaders of the Boy Scouts are as much in terested in bringing about economic freedom as the writer of the resolu- ton in question. Every person met who is practically interested in the Boy Scout movement, believes it to be one of the most potent factors now in operation for the bringing about of the desired generations of young men And as the Boy Scouts are from the families of the work ing class the greatest good will ac- crue to that class"