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The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03
Oak City Items.

Oak City June LIST, 19l5-Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Long and little son, are
the guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Long
this week.
Robt. Salisbury ard Miss Merit
Robertson, were in town Sunday.
S. E. Hines and wife, Misses Liz
zie, Annie Mae Harrell, Lila Philpot
and Clarice Cartwright, went to
Tarboro Thursday evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Ainsley, of Roper.
returned home Saturday.
Mrs. M. T. Haskett is spending a
few days in Scotland Neck.
Misses Alta Hines and Clarice
Cartwright, went to Scotland Neck
Tuesday to spend a few days.
Miss Clyde Jordan spent Tuesday
in Scotland Neck.
Johnnie Eubanks, of Hassell, was
in town Sunday.
Mrs. Victoria Powell returned
Sunday, from Scotland Neck.
Messrs J. L. Hines, Sam and
Whalen Cosper, spent few days on
the river fishing. this week.
Mr.. Joe Haislip gave picnic at
johnson Creek Monday.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03
Clean up Days IS Postponed.

90 account Of the installation of the
New Town Board Of Commissioners
the Civic League vii postpone its
clean-ur-aay from Wednesday and
Thursday OF this week to Thursday
and Friday June 10Th and 18th CT
next week.: This is due to the fact
that the old authorities will not have
time 10 secure carts and a place to
discard The trash.
There VIII be an important meet
ing OF the league Friday June 4th,
in Fir. George Bryants store, at
5 o'clock in the evening. All ladies
are urgently requested to be pres
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s-s.ra, Announcements.

HARDY EIJEVE. CO
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03
Mat
IA SE~

Having qualified as adn1;nistra o.
pn the estate Ct Alien Smith, de.
Isad, late OF Halifax County
rtb Carolina, | here notify all
,soa7 having claim against the
ate IF said deceased to present
m 20 NE, 81 to my attorneys
+chin and Smith. within che year
ri the date Of this notice CT said
+fca vii ite pleaded ia har Of this
e. ecy. Ali persons Indebted 10
p estate viii please make immedi-
settlement.
WILLIE SMITH, :
chiGl {. Smith. Edmr.
Phis NAY 18Th 1915.
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thanks to their hostess, declaring it
to have been an event that would
hardly ever be forgotten in the So
cial chronicles of Scotland Neck.
About one hundred people from
here and a sprinkling of visiting
characters enjoyed the juicy cue.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03
Entered Store Window.

Forcing their entrance through
the rear of the store in the early
hours Of Sunday morning, thieves
entered the store Of the Hardy
Hardware Company, on Main Street,
and made away with between fifty
tive and sixty dollars worth Ct
goods. TIE thiei evidently knew
the value Of the different lire Of
goods ca, led Il . hardware estaa-
l.S:.Eaen5, IS he confined his lootirg
operation 60 fountain pens and nj. 4
priced r2z0zs. Tne entrance was
5oaaa - breaking, he ono-eigh.,
'nca Tiado" pane il the office If
the Company and cra Wing through.
,t3e Cash register WIS found open
Sunday morning bat the only dif-
ference n TIE financial status of the
re 'st@c other than the night be
lore when the store was closed,
was that the opener had charged
hi1lsele with thirty-six dollars. He
found no ready money in the store.
The police are working Oh clues as
TO the identity o. the burglar. Thu
is the last link in long chain Of
robherles that have occurred il
Scotland Neck in the last eighteen
months. AS yet not & man has been
caught Or even arrested in the con-
nlunity for store-break;ng.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03
MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY
CLOSES FRIDAY NIGHT
A Strong Production and a Worthy
Climax to This Best Of all Serials.
An Official Announcement.
$4,000 PRIZE WINNER SHOWN,
Atlanta, Ca, May 20, Is.
Palace Theatre,

Scotland Neck, n. c.
Dear Sir We have ar
ranged our schedule on the
23rd Episode Of the MIL
LION DOLLAR MYSTERY.
This solution our Director,
Mr.. Hansel, assures us will
be a tremendously strong
production-a worthy eli
max to this, the best of all
serials.
Advertise for Friday, June
i, 1915.
SYNDICATE Film Corr.
BY A. G. 3.
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tyf,., .;<..:.s nc SsaEl.

TIE Commonwealth gives notice
the latest acquisition to its re
prto.,al statf II tie parsonage Of
[r. Carl Edwards Fitzpatrick
E..l Timed the crew Saturday
E9raian ard will devote the ms
Btity af his moments looking after
l. s5iles, and con1ings OF Scotland
/ ch reop'a and Scotland Neck
|sitors. s., if You see ye Carl
eneiug around with one OF his In
|lisitoriai expressions iu toned On,
ben up aid jar aloose from any
f1ou:!t Of transient information
! at you happen to know. Such en-
Ehtenncnt IS t. the whereabouts
the local globe rotters viii be
bpreciated by both Carl and his CO.
crkers.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03
lvDCyCee.

! il parsors holding notes or ac-
nt5 against the late MRS. Anna
FdoEE.sctt, deceased, vii! turn
h Il! . NJ. J. Harper Alexander,
h 1cotlca3 Neci, Bank for col
Fon. }. II. ALEXANDER, JR.
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Services at Nahald Church.

There will be preaching and Sun
day School at Nahala Church next
Sunday, June 9, by Mr.. Lewis w.
Lancaster, a Tarboro minister for
the Summer. Sunday School at g., 0
in the evening. Preaching immedl-
ately after.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03

FOR SALE CHEAP-A 2-HORSE
we Springfield Gasoline Engine
gliding tietai Water Tank and
|cesSa' y PIPING. Reason for sell
|, want to Use electric power. Can
seen IN operation by applying to
le Commonwealth office. viii be
n at q sacrifice.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1915-06-03

Vile, Is VISITING Mrs. ). A. Dunn.
Miss Laiia Stilwell, Of Savannah,
Ga, is visiting Miss Louise FutreIl.
Mr.. Elliot Clark, of Halifax, wa
here Sunday and Monday morning.
Mr.. j. T. Braxton, Of Plymouth
spent Sunday here with his family.
Mr.. Lewis Horton, Of Plymouth,
| visited Mr.. Gavin LYMAN last week.
Miss Ruth Cobb, of Greenville,
came up through the country Fri
day.
Mrs. J. P. Wimberly, Of Rocky
Mount is visiting her sister, Mrs. S.
A. Dunn.
Hon. Claude Kitchin spent Thurs
day and Friday in Washington on
business.
Mr.. B. S. Courtney, Of Williams
ton spent Sunday here returning
Monday.
Mrs. John Hinsdale, of Raleigh,
is visiting her mother in rural Scot
land Neck.
| Mr.. and Mrs. J. L. Gloom, Of
Geld Point spent Sunday with Mr..
A. c.. Peterson.
Mr.. T. ". Russell attended the
Shciners convention held in Green
boro last week.
Mr.. Julian Vaughan after spend
ing a few days here left Monday
for Richmond.
Mr.. Percy Tillery is visiting his
uncle, Mr.. Wells TiIlery in Roanoke
Rapids this week.
Attorney W. A. Darden, of Ayden
spent last week here with his father,
Mr.. w. P. Darden.
Mr.. F. A. Cherry spent last week
in Greensboro attending Miss Ear
nestine Cherry's graduation.
Mr.. R. L. Hardy spent Monday in
Halifax. MIR. Hardy was a juror
for this term of Halifax Court.
| Mrs. Eddie Pendleton and her SIS
ter, Miss Mary Taylor, Of Whitakers
left Monday for Richmond.
Dr.. and Mrs. A. D. Morgan and
Miss Hilda Hancock left Monday for
Richmond to attend the reunion.
Mr.. Henry Marston spent the
week end here, returning to his
home in Henderson Monday morn
ing.
. Misses Lydia Josey and Lillian
Harrell have returned home from
Meredith College to spend the sum
mer vacation.
Miss Gertrude kitchin returned
Saturday from Wake Forest. whers
she has been visiting Miss Mar
guerite Gulley.
Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Register
Miss Bessie Durham and Miss Julis
Rhen. Of Tillery, were here Frida.
for few hours.
Mr.. John Josey has returned TO
I the summer from Wake Forest Col
lege, where he has attended schoo
for the past year.
Messrs J. C. Hughes and Allison
Mcdowell motored to Pinetops las
! Thursday on business, returning tn
following evening.
! Miss Ernestine Cherry has return
] ed home from the State Normal Co
lege at Greensboro where she wa
graduated this year.
Mrs. 0. G. Berry returned Satul
! day afternoon to Ayden, N. C
] after brief visit to her daughter
) Mrs. B. F. Burroughs of this city.
i Miss Mary Weeks, who has bee
teaching school at Graham, N. c.
!; for the past year, returned HON
8 Saturday for the Summer vacati OF
4 Misses Eva and Willie Moore an
4 Lucille Leggett nave returned hon
. from the State Normal Colleq
4 where they were at school the pa:
! year.
d Messrs j. 3. Jones, Lawrene
q House, Joe Plttman, w. I. White
q and c.. N. Malone attended the II
& raj letter carriers meeting ,
FL n L. N A><laxx
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
LEARN HOW TO LIVE.
az n. ApoINoToN BRUCE,
Author of The Riddle OF Personsnts'
Psychology and Parenthood, ETC.

a., a. the only animal that does not Know
how 10 live. ,-..ou -, , famous
This was the bitter exclamation OF ia. anu.
r,adicat sncialist after day spent IN listen
ING "a the woes of nervous patients, VINO. WIZ
denonstrablv few exceptions, were the au'noi :
OF their own misfortunes. 81.
And nervous patients are by no means 'he
o,iv neonle who do not know how 10 lVe'
Most neopIe are in this plight II they do NOT
tbrongh their ignorance shorten their lives tney
at least FAIL TO GET OUT Or LII - a.
THAT 1T CAN AND SHOULD BRING THEM.
They allow themselves to become Saves 70
auu narrow routine. In many cases tney ieau
Iuachine.like existences. They work. they sleep
they eat-that is about all. Even when they
seek diversion they do so in stupid, mecnan-
ical unthnking way
ance seems TO be 10 kill time" This they ac-
comnlish by various means. notably by gambling.
drinking and sexual dissipation Sucn MODES OF
life may kill time swiftly. but they also pave the
disastrous effect of killing the people who per-
sst in them.
Even among those-happily the great major
ity-who lead sober decent lives there is lam
entable ignorance OF the principles OF right
living.
They allow themselves to become obsessed
with sundry strange delusons. Some become
obsessed with a mania for MONEY-MAkING.
and can think OF little except the accumulation
of gold Others are infected with mad long
ing for POWER. Still others make fetish OF
Il
Urged to feverish activity by their obsession
al ideas, they plan, they scheme they plot. Also
impatient at delays and setbacks, they grieve
they worry, they despair.
Their whole lives are spent in whirl OF emo
tional excitement. Thereby their lives are
shortened ten, fifteen, twenty years through the
unbearable strain that prolonged excitement puts
on the brain, the heart the kidneys. and other
vital organs
Nor are these obsessed ones the only victims
of undue emotionality. The world is full OF
people who. while ir no wise slaves TO ideas Of
fortune power. or rank. SACRIFICE THEIR
LIVES TO THEIR EMOTIONS.
Trivial happenings are enough 10 plunge them
into an agony OF fear Anxiety is their constant
companion Fretfulnss and irritability poison
their existence and the existence OF those who
come into touch with them.
Ask yourself. my reader. IL you do or do not
belong 10 one Of these classes OF people who do
not know how TO live.
Answer this question canddly, after long and
searching determination. Note your behavior
from day to day. See If IL conforms 10 the es-
tablished principles OF physical and mental ny
giene.
Apart from this observe particularly whether
ing gives you soul-satsfyng contentment.
II you can truthfully say this, | congratulate
you with all my heart
II you cannot, urge YOU to set about gaining
without delay the ideals. the knowledge, and the
MORAL CONTROL that alone will enable you &c
live life as il should be lived
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02

would
public would wink tn
"or they had handed
aher baldheadd
friend waa loan
But OF sed its dangerous documnt wild
would that had bin
Windsor armory"
"Oi should
Perhaps said tn
had thin left the Doodle decided
before spoiled his hands"
What will tn askd
"oi1 tell thing tn
do / be off chatter
tn Baabe but ordinary choke off tn
a-arg
I hash
finish politicians
that
than a caliope question
ONCE thin destruction.
"Faares schedules franchoise
switches hrses an payasyerner have all bin
minton III Montreal bond boulder
An all tn nd
ship
Thin III decided
An that needed L. r
Th
were authorized get plan Tn
VII they had
Thin IN plan "as m public IN
Thin IN gas belt volcanoes all
an threatens spoil N only
III 'u ioleers lel do"n IN Boston
But ye haven't ould me vet just how
meef All Oh know Is that when m
"Annythn Casey.
| That's what Grogan AXE
some inquiry an see just how work.
III Will IN ton
question he u get rid OF lust ain il on Proc
owens IN next tonne he's candidate rr snnythin
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
LAW
BY Or. FRANK CRANE
Copyright. 1915. by Frank Crane)

| am Law.
am natures way. am Gods way.
BY me comes order, unity.
In my hand | hold three gifts; health,
happiness and success.
These who do not follow me are de-
voured by the dogs of disease, misery.
and failure.
The ignorant fear me. they run from
my face. they tremble at my voice; but
the wise love me and seek me forever.
am their desired lover
Fools think to outwit me, and that no
son of man has ever done.
| am more clever than the cleverest.
am stronger than the strongest / am
old as God. | never sleep. never err.
| am virile as youth. ! am accurate as
mathematics. | am beautiful as poetry.
| am sweet as music.
Without me there could be no art, no
harmony of sounds. no charm of land
scape or picture, no government no life.
| am the secret of goodness. am
the horror of SIM
| am the eternal path, and besides m~
there is none else. Without me men
wander in the labyrinth Of death.
Heaven is where | am. He'll is where
| am not
| am efficiency in man. | am lowell
hess in woman.
| am everywhere; in every wrinkle OF
he infinite waves of water, in the oak,
n the brain, in nourishment, in excreta.
n disease. in soundness, in the lovers
,lasp, in the corpse, in the stars, in the
forms.
| whirl, dance, flame, freeze. but
,lways automatically For | am more
intricate than calculus. more accurate
han any instrument.
They that live by me find peace.
They that kiss me find love.
They that walk with me come at last
o God.
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SATURDAY. OCTOBER 2, 1918
War Play Formula

wears IA SWORD, wn;ch ne trips over
as he exits on the run. saying. AYE.
Aye, Liftnant. will carry the mes
sage though they rip meh soul from
its earthly sheath"
On Decoration day people go forth
and decorate the graves OF veterans.
A bugler Is a man with II faulty mu
steal instrument who can play two
tunes--one 10 put YOU To sleep and
one TO wake YOU up. Military life
is very strict, everybody salutes
everybody on pain OF being shot at
sunrise. The colonel Of regiment
always has a daughter who handles
all the situations by stroking the
colonel's gray mustache and twirlins
him around her little Anger.
An army can do nothing without
spies. These spies are always
caught. When closely examined they
prove to be dark-complexioned young
men. generally little hit tat under
the chin and over the hips, villains
and towards: or else they are fair
haired fellows. noble striplings with
ramrod backs and with their shirt
collars opened and turned In 10 dis
play a soupcon OF vigorous chest.
These latter are the hero SPIES
Green Book.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
LONDON CHIEF FILM CITY.

London is declared to be al present the Aim
city of the world Every week there Is passing
through the city 1885, 600 feet OF film. or about
10000. 900 feet year, of which so 900 900 feet is
coming from America For this $4,000 00o feet
IL is estimated that British picture theater audi.
ences paving round 100000 pounds-f5..
600 000-a year to the Americans OF which
100000 pounds goes in salaries and wages to
producers, players and others actually connected
with the making of pictures. But the sum total
OF British distress is not that all this money
goes TO the Americans Discovery has been
made that big share Of the control OF Ameri-
can picture production Is in the hands Of Ger.
man Americans. More than this. IL Ia said that
there IL no difhculty in getting films made in
Germany To America, and that these films are
many Of them exhibited in Great Britain-rn.
dianapolis News.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02

care not II you know nothing
about an army Nobody else is any
better on than you are. All they
know about an army Is that its mem
bers come on TO the stage shaping
the dust out OF their clothes. Actors
do this on purpose. am informed.
They pour a lot OF dust on to them
selves while standing in the wing,
and then they go out behind the
footlights and slap It all on again.
This is war.
The audience In this country new
er knows when a war play is drivel.
Some absurd actor may give them
a laugh now and then. or the author
may be little too raw in spots; but
a good stage manager can always
pull the wool over the eyes OF a
civilian population such as ours.
The average American knows
nothing about his OWE army or any
other army. A major is a man with
things on his shoulders. A corporal
is a kind OF sergeant. A company
is some soldiers, like a regiment
Every man that can arord one
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
szlssI@Rle3ekAsnt 5tR
nunetons and Suggests some
Uses 70
BY TOM MAY

(sCAAY GROGAN" said Casey. whats injunction?
- injunction" law suit that stops
"I.oke a brake. eh"' said Casey
No" said
ventured
proceedn. Win
oke whoy tn
Can snnythn?" askd Casey,
where is
tn where III
tn sky line
ha bungao
SCI have tn
afther injunction prevent tn first
crew hoired
tn brewers
r. prohibition
bein placed be tn allies America
injunction tn land
Berlin.
would happen Walter Johnson whn he walked
thin afther tn exdeputy
HERTZ had served tn him
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
Pointed Paragraphs

Agitation is the antidote for stag
nation.
And many a single man is guilty
of double dealing
Smiles make better salve for
trouble than DO frowns.
A little change is good thing
but a big roll OF bills is better.
Frequently a man thinks he Is
charitable because he gives advice.
Perhaps a man can write sen
s!hle love letter. but he never does.
1t does seem queer that most OF
the good fellows" have lot OF bad
habits.
Sometimes two women can stor
talking about each other lon-
enough TO swap kisses.
II every man were taken al hi
own valuation there wouldn't be Ia.
enough halos TO 90 around
II does seem queer that peop.,
who are not able 10 make goo,
themselves seem TO think they car
hand winning brand OF advice Q
others.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
ela0rial to Jas. B. Angel
An Honor Richly Merited

sH has been decided that the million
liar Michigan Union club house that
70 stand on the university campus in
|ap Arbor shall be memorial to James
ANGEL, president emeritus, and the
ines joins with all the state in approval
the plan.
1he possibility that in the years to
me there should be forgotten the great
evice Of DR.. Angel to the University
4 Michigan, to Michigan his beloved
NE, and to his country, is a thing that
|6uld be provided against NOW, by
~ whom he has helped and benefited,
y BY those who know.
I'd. Angels work, all of the tremen-
IS effort he has put forth in so
~ devoted to public service will be to
y advantage of generations to come for
|kundred times so years.
~ educator, journalist and diplomat he
- been builder and the material he
D chosen for the foundation every
o, for the man, or for his college. or
IA state or for his country, has been
N1ACTER.
memorial by all means to Michigan's
"a man, that the example of his
~ I'VE, and q memorial now that
ocN how much We appreciate
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02

Il means that IL will more usually
affect persons living in improper
surroundings; thus, those whose
systems are physically debilitated
and unable to throw on the germs
OF the disease. Smallpox may
spread from unclean places to sur
roundings that are seemingly SAM
tary. Tts origin. however. usually IL
among insanitary conditions.
Care OF home surroundings. bodily
cleanliness and general health Will
help TO render US immune against
smallpox. Perfect cleanliness VIII
help TO check the srread OF this and
other communicable diseases.
The best time 10 cure disease
IL before IL occurs.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
A Poem a Day


NOT As 4 WILL.
and alone l stand
With unknown thresholds on each
hand
The darkness deepens as | grope,
AFRAID 20 fear. afraid to hope.
Yet this one thing | learn To know,
Each DAY more surely as | go
THAT doors are opened. ways are
made,
burdens are lifted or are laid
BY some great law unseen and still.
purpose to fulnll,
Not as | VIII.
and alone ] wait.
Loss seems too bitter, gain too late,
Too many burdens In the load,
And too few helpers on the road,
And JOY - weak and grief IL strong.
And years and days so long, so long
Yet this one thing I learn to know.
Each day more surely as | go
That I am glad the good and III
81 changtless law are ordered still
Not as | will"
Not as WILL sound grows
Each time my lips the words reaeat.
Not as | WIN" The darkness feels
II 4r, safe than light when this
thought steals
Like whispered voice TO calm and
bless
All unrest and all loneliness
Not as | will" because the One
N hn loved us frst aud best has gone
Before US on the road. and still
Cor u~ must all His love fulhll-
Not az ! Will"
Helen Hunt Jackson
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-10-02
Who Can Tell Us?

To add to the religious aspects OF the
war, the purely sentimental, domestic
song of "Tipperary" is to give way to the
rousing march of Onward Christian Sol
diers," hymn designed to awake the
militancy of the luke-warm believer, OF
whom the Bible has something more
forceful than elegant to say.
The English and the Germans seem
10 be confusing the issues and are going
10 salve their consciences for all this
awful slaughter by laying their sacrl-
fees at their improvised altar of Christ
Just how they arrive at their conclu-
sions and just what their premise is
10 start with we have never been able
TO discover.
We only know that no one is to blame
and that each country is model of vir-
inc in the ewes of God, who is invoked to
bring victory to each simultaneously
and consequent destruction and despair
to the other side.
How the German and the English
man straightens this out with himself
we would like to know.
Will anybody tell US?