davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-27

new york-the other day i herd
tell of a man who had a pistol in his
house to shoot burglars with if they
come & 1 mite he thought he herd a
teller down stares & he shot at him
& it was. his son who had gone down
stares for a drink of water
that made the father very sorry
& he throwed the gun way
now if this man had wife like
mrs. medders he wood still have the
gun & his boy too
she told my ma the other day
that mr.. medders had bought his self
a revolver to protect the house agin
robbers which, he says, is ible to
brake in almost amy mite
and mrs. medders is askeared of
revolvers & is afrade that mr. med
ders will shoot 1 Of the family on his
self in stead of the robber so she tells
my ma that she hid the revolver in a
phase where mr.. medders wood never
find it if he hunted the rest of his
life & he won't do that because he
stuck it under the mattress & he
thinks it is still there reddy to grab
when he heres a robber Dustin in the
house
but, my ma, says to mrs. medders,
won't your husbend be awful sore
when, he cant find the revolver
yes, that's why, mrs. medders says,
for he has such a terrible temper
that he will boiler loud enuff to
scare the robbers away & that will
save him the trubbel of shooting at
them
He DIDN'T NOTICE IT
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-05-27
and went to bed and sat down on a
wasp. Golly! we never heard the
clock strike 9 at au.-CIarksville
Ark, Democrat.
SUNDAY NOISE
BY Charles B. DriscoII.

By Silol lSS D ~ iSCOliu
On Sunday, when 1 fain would read
about the Promised Land, or sing a
hymn, or listen to some Sunday
music canned, my next door neigh
Dor gets his ak and chops a pile of
wood. l frOwn my solemn Sunday
frOwn. It seems to do no good.
My neighbours wife tries all week
long to move her spouse a bit, but
he prefers to doze and read, to talk,
and eat, and sit. Six days and nights
he grandly loafs, but on the seventh
day he gets his hammer, saw, and
ak, and makes a little hay. He makes
a noise throughout the block, he
makes the neighbOrs sore, and some
fine Sunday afternoon his yard will
run with gore. The folks who want
to rest or read or sing their little
songs will band together with a
whoOp, to right their many wrongs.
They'll make one noisy day of rest,
and it will be the last. The man who
makes our Sunday noise will mingle
with the past.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
TROOPS SCOUR BORDER FOR BAN
DTS
Large Number Of Mexican Marauders
Are Reported to Have Crossed The
Line During the Night

Line During the Night
Ell Paso, Tex, Aug. 1.-Two troops
of the Eighth Cavalry under command
Of Captain William Kelley, Jr., are
securing the gulches and canyons be-
tween Finlay, Texas, and Fort Han
cock, about seventy miles east of here,
in search of bandits
The cavalry is supported by a bat
talon Of the Twenty third Infantry
rushed from Ell Paso to Fort Hancock
early today in response to reports to
General George Bell, Jr., commanding
the Ell Paso military district, that ban
dts in large numbers had crossed the
Rio Grande in that vicinity.
There had been various rumors here
through the night of bandit activities
in the neighborhood of Fort Hancock.
One version had it that a band Of a
hundred or more Mexicans crossed the
line to avenge the deaths of the Mexi-
can cattle thieves shot down Monday
in the fight with an Eighth Cavalry
detachment about six miles from the
fort
First reports from General Bell from
the cavalry column said three hours
search of the hills disclosed no trace
of bandits.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

Objection by Republican Leader Mann
Prevents Passage by
House.

Washington, Aug. 2.-Objection by
Republican Leader Mann prevented pas
sage by the House today of the resolu-
ton appropriating $4,000 for relief
of Flood sufferers in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi. The resolution
was passed yesterday by the Senate.
The resolution takes it's regular place
on the House calendar, but Southern
representatives expect to make another
effort to have it passed in the near flu
ture. When it adjourns today the
House will not meet again until Fri
day.
Representative Mann objected to i'm
mediate consideration of the resolution
when representatives from the South
ern States demurred to an amendment
which would subtract from the South
ern States allotment of the Fedora
good roads fund the amount of money
proposed to be spent out of the f1ood
relief fund for repairing damaged
highways.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY

At meeting of the County Demo
cratic Executive Committe ,eehld at
Halifax on the Tooth instant it was
ordered that the Primaries for the
Nomination of Candidates for the Coun-
ty and Township Offices, and Members
of the County Road Board be held on
Thursday, August 3rd.
The Polling places in each Precinct
will be open from 7 A. M to P. M.
All Democrats who expect to abide the
results of the primary are invited to
participate in the primary and vote
for the candidates Of their choice.
G.. D. HOUSE,
Oh IN. Dem. Elk. Com. Halifax Co.
Thelma, N. c., July IL, 1916. IT,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

Whether the former chief Of police
of Danville can render efficient SER
vice under his correct name Of T. b..
Stripping, and when his record has been
laid bare, as he did when a fugitive
from justice under the assumed name
of Morris, is a matter of speculation,
but at any rate, it was nice thing for
the Council Of Danville to proffer him
his old place as soon as he had been
liberated from the prison of Georgia.
[ goes to show that there are instance
where a man, who has served prison
sentence. can get another chance and
a great many Of them are worthy Of
such consideration.-Kins Fro c
Press
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
PESTS WILL BE PUT
PUT OUT
Says Only the "Mollycoddles' and Sis
sizes Among the Guardsmen Who
COMPLAIN of Their Hardships

San Antonio, Texas, Aug. General
Funston tonight sent to the War De-
partment at Washington a telegram
announcing his intention to rid the va
rious National Guard camps of news
paper correspondents who send out
false accounts of conditions in the
camps. He referred to such CORE
spondents as "pests'' and said he had
endured them as long as he proposed
to.
An order has been sent to all district
commanders along the border covering
future action against newspaper men
sending out dispatches which may be
called untruthful. In each instance the
offender will be tried by a special court
of militia officers from his state. If
found guilty he will be ordered from
camp.
e'The great mass of the guardsmen
are standing the hardships Of camp life
well,' SAID General Funston, ''and
have no cause for complaint. 1t is only
mollycoddles and sissies who kick.
These are the ones who tell tales to
special correspondents.
The generals telegram, which was
sent to the adjutant general, said, 81
wish to call attention Of the War De
partment Of the carnival of lying being
INDUCED in by many Of the correspond
ents who accompanied the state troops
to the border. 1 have never seen or
heard of anything that approaches it
for sheer righteousness and shameless
ness.
s'While there are honorable excep-
tions, many of these correspondents
are men of no judgment or balance or
have so little experience of the work
that they seem to have no sense of bal
ance or proportion. Ordinary incon-
veniences or deprivations, that to a
man with real soldierly instincts are
merely subjects for jokes, are magni-
fed by them into the most distressing
stories.
.They persistently neglect to say
anything about the excellent and cred
table things that they see, and if they
can see nothing to find fault with, they
manufacture out of whole CLOTH The
effect is to distress needlesslv the fam
lilies and friends of members of the
state organizations and make people #
other nations think we are degener-
ate races of sissies and mollycoddles in
capable of being made into soldiers
I have endured these pests as long as
l propose to and shall hereafter bar
offenders from camps and prohibit
them from accompanying troops on the
march,
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
CHURCH SERVICES.
Methodist Episcopal Church

Methodist Episcopal Church
Rev. L. T. Singleton, Pastor
Sunday School-9:45.
Morning Service-11:OO.
Evening Service-7:45.
Wednesday evening Prayer Meeting
-7:45.
Baptist Church
Rev. r: A. Mcfarland, Pstor
Sunday SCHOOLGIRLS.
Morning Service-11:OO
Evening Service-7:45,
Wednesday evening Prayer Meetin y
-7:45.
Episcopal Church
Sunday SchooH9:45.
morning Prayer and sermon-1l:Oo
Evening prayer and sermon-S:Oo
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
OAK CITY ITEMS

Miss Pauline Beverly arrived from
Norfolk Tuesday and is spending few
days here with friends.
Miss Ethel and Blanche Everett were
in town Sunday.
Mr.. Ernest Hyman was here a short
while Sunday.
Mrs. j. L. and Miss Emily Hines
were in Hamilton Monday morning.
Miss Helen Council of HAM lton
spent Saturday and Sunday the guest
of Miss Emily Hines.
Rev. T. J. Crisp and Rev. Mr.. Rosser
of Whitakers are holding a series of
sionary Baptist Church.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
10 BOYS BORN TO ONE COUPLE

Corning, Ark, Aug. Frank Scott
and his wife of Kensett have been mar
ried ten years. Nineteen boys have
been born to them. Six died at birth
and of the thirteen living there are
three sets Of triplets and two sets Of
twins. The parents have been partial
to the letter "A'' of the alphabet in
naming them Ashbell, Archer and Aus
tin are four and half years old. Ar
thur and Arnold three and half; AL
fred, Albion and Adolph, eighteen
months, and Abel and Abner, six
months.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

roads, across vast, sun-baked
stretches, these Saxon "Sixes''
proved to the world their won
derful strength and stability
now-with these things in
mind, knowing the difficulties
these Saxon "Sixes' had to
overcome will know more
clearly how remarkable is the
time Of 6 days, Is hours and 1C
minutes for this ocean-to-ocean
dash, and you will realize more
wildly than from any words
what a truly wonderful motor
car Saxon "Six" really is.
Yet, after all, the real lesson to be
drawn from this does not concern
itself with the time nor with the
speed nor with the duration trip.
but with the fact that these Saxon
Skies" did no more thar your
Saxon "Six" can do.
On the floors Of over 1900 Saxon
dealers throughout the country,
you will find Saxon "Sixes'
identical in every detail with
these 3S cars in the great trans
continental race. We urge you
to see them at once.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
BUYS A HuPP

Mr.. D. Ray Boyette has just receiv-
ed the latest model Hupp touring car
1t is understood that Mr.. Boyette will
shortly announce that he is dealer for
this popular make of automobile.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
NOTICE..

Having qualified as administrator of
the estate of the late H. L. Shields. this
Is to notify all persons having claims
against the estate to present same to
me before January 81, 1917, or this no.
tlce will be pleaded in bar of their re-
covery.
All persons indebted to the estate
will make immediate payment.
This Jan. 31st, 1916.
C. 7. LAWRENCE, Admr.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
FAMILY TROUBLE Is
AIRED IN COURT
Durham County Man Admits He Has
Bought no Clothes For His
Wife in ID Years

"AAo LII 10 Gals
Durham August 2.-Charlie Hicks
plead guilty to the indictment of not
having purchased bit of raiment for
his wife in eighteen years, but atone
pent for the sin of commission was
sought behind his views of woman S
rights: cit is woman's place to
hold her tongue and not keep up her
racket By the same unsound reas-
oning Charlie had numerically beat
his wife and the incompatible relations
in the farmers household were intimate
ly related in Squire R. A. Harris court
this afternoon. The imprints of a
tightly quenched fist behind the ear OF
Mrs. Minnie Hicks were self-confessed
evidences of Charlie Hicks That wife
beating was not an extinct practice
within four and one-h half miles of the
city Of Durham.
The trial was imbued with all tue
pathos, humor and sentiment incident
TO a storm-tossed household. Charne
Hicks is farmer Of Oak Grove town
ship and was married twenty-six years
ago The matrimonial lines did not Tall
in pleasant places. To enforce policy
that his wife buy her own clothes from
money earned from farm work was des-
tined to work hardship and create Ill
will. And when Attorney Brogde1
pointedly inquired of Charlie Hicks
whether he had furnished raiment 81
his better half, Hicks spoke with
wounded pride, ''She tended her own
tobacco patch To supply the house
hold with a diet of meat and bread
was good enough for king according
to Hicks and he resented his wife s in
situation that the food was not choice
enough.
Pleads His Own Case
The farmer plead his own case in
court and only asked for an explaEa-
ton. "Shc throwed my mother in my
face and hates the ground which she
is buried in, 'Sehemently uttered the
defendant "She would not cook my
breakfast for me and many day |
ate dewberries for breakfast. She
broke the gun and front door and
would have torn my clothes had I not
run every clip
Turn to the other side of the picture
Minnie Hicks is an impressive wisp of
a woman, and according to the evidence
had courageously borne the brunt and
hardships of an impulsive household.
Charlie has been convicted once before
of wife beating. She had equipped a
modest country home with furnishings
from the funds and savings of a daily
laborer's toll. Her husband admitted
that she had equipped the home. The
recompense was heap of abusive Ian
guage. Her final testimony to the court
was: 81 reckon since he thinks l am
burden to him we had better separate,
but I want half of the property and
my freedom.
Held for Superior Court
The defendant goes to the Superior
court under bail of 800, and a peace
bond will likely temporarily adjust the
unpleasantness in the troubled house
hold. Charlie Hicks gift of CAB wedg-
ed in final peremptory command to
the magistrate: otis no use of this
bond and court over this trife of mat
ter
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

Precisely at 10 80 Saturday morn
ing, July Is, Saxon "Six"
swung through the doors Of the
New York saxon salesroom, sped
swiftly through the crowded
traffic, crossed the ferry, and with
it's radiator turned to the west
struck into ~record-breaking
speed.
The eager driver bore a message
from Mayor Mitchell Of New
York to Mayor Rolf of San Fran
CISCO
One hundred miles further on an
other Saxon "Six' driver took
up the message and the race
against time. So on and on until
the 3Sth Saxon "Six' in the At
lantic-Pacific relay race drew up
at Mayor Rolls office in Frisco
at LAO Saturday morning, July
%.
And the time was 6 days, Is hours
and 10 minutes-the fastest time
ever made by automobile from
New York to San Francisco over
the Lincoln Highway.
A wonderful achievement, you
say? Yes. But wait. # yo"
would know just how remarkable
this time really is
consider that all 80 Of the cars
participating were literally
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
ALLIES MUST WIN TO PUNISH
THOSE WHO BEGAN STRIFE
Conflict Cannot be Draw, Says Lord
Newton-The "Blood Guilty.
Must Pay Penalty.

London, Aug. 2.-The war won't be
a draw. The Allies will surely win, re-
,ultinp in a new world and conditions
of comfy and better understanding,
declared Under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs Lord Newton, in statement to
the United Press Wednesday.
The Allies must win to bring punish
rent to the "blood guilty. and new
hope to the oppressed, he stated.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

stock model Saxon "Sixes,"
with regular equipment. Not
tuned' or "doped" for rae
ing purposes.
consider that 81 stops were
made and precious time neces-
sarily lost at each stop.
that the pilots were
not professional racing drivers,
but Saxon "Six" dealers.
that the schedule was
through in less time than had
been estimated would be neces-
sary by the Saxon Motor Car
Corporation.
that the terrific rate
Of speed at which it was neces-
sary for each Saxon "Six' to
be driven made the wear and
tear on each car equal to that
of hundreds and hundreds Of
ordinary motoring.
that not a single me-
chanical fault developed to
delay the progress of this thrill
ling trans-continental trip.
consider that these Saxon
Skies met and surmounted
every possible obstacle of read
and weather. Through deep
and heavy sand, over new-made
country roads, across streams
and up rock-strewn mountain
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

WANTED: A Subscription Solicitor
and correspondent in every town in
Halifax County. Good proposition to
right party. Address The Cannon
wealth.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
Held for Superior Court
N. Y. MAY HAVE THE GREATEST
CAR STRIKE IN HISTORY
Thirty thousand Surface Car Men
Threaten Take Tie-up to Elevated
and Subway Lines

New York, Aug. New York s t.,
ooomiles of street car lines were threat
ened with the most complete tie up in
history today. Right to unionize is the
issue. Unless it is granted 10000 sur
face car workers threaten to carry the
strike to the elevated and subway. The
tie-up even of surface lines would Sc
riously hamper business.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04
SOFA BEANS FOB SALE

We have for sale nice lot sofa beans,
also some Virginia seed peanuts and
black peas. Call on BAKER & EVER
EFT, Palmyra, N. G. % limo.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

If you know an item Of news, send
it to The Commonwealth.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1916-08-04

R95 .NlY-TlSM
Will cure Rheumatism. Neu-
ralsia, Headaches, Cramps, Collie
Sprains, Bruises, Cuts, Burns, Old
Sores, letter, Ring-Worm, &C.
zema. etc. Antiseptic Anodvne.
used internally or externally. Csc
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
Give Merchant Il Rest.

There is seldom a week passes.
and hardly a day. when citizens
who are engaged in business are
not called upon to contribute
something fer charity's sake 1t
is always the mercants who are
asked to shoulder this varied and
eratious giving Some people
seem to think that they who are
in business can pick up dollars
anywhere and ought to contribute
willingly and literally every time
they are asked. As rule dollars
are no more plentiful with bus
mess people than with any other.
Just remember they have troubles
of their own. Beg your money
for a while OF the land owners
and retired men who have plenty
of money drawing Interest The
business men would appreciate
the change.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
Peoples IlantS
HoWtoGu1hei1l!!
Why advertise them
in the Jasper Courier
Advertising Space Costs Money.

Good goods bring fair prices,
poor articles are good for what
ever they can get. This is true of
advertising as of everything else.
As a rule low rates and large dis
counts are a sure INDIGESTION of
small circulation. Advertising
space in publications of good cir
culation represents a very heavy
outlay and cannot be offered at a
nominal price without loss. Pub.
fishers, like other business men,
do not do business for nothing,
neither are they in it for the
pleasure it affords. Hence they
they cannot afford to give adver.
Using space for less than cost.
Low rates may be taken as a
positive proof of equally small
and comparatively valueless
circulation.
The business man who has a
certain amount of money to spend
in advertising should bear this in
mind. In order to spend wisely
he needs choose well. 1t does
not follow by any means that
because he can get a space for
less money in one direction that
there is whera he can get the
best advertising. On the contrary
it seldom happens SO. This same
business man might pay hall a
dollar for a dinner when he could
get a dinner around the corner
for fifteen cents, if he cared to.
But there is difference in the
dinner which is worth the other
thirty-five cents. There is just
as much diiferencei in advertising.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
The COuntru Editor.

The country editor is always a
potent fierce in his community, 1t
is true that his writings do not
attain the wide circulation that
mark those of his metropolitan
contemporaries, but they are none
the less effective for all that
There the writer gets in close
touch with his readers There is
q neighborlinesS between him
and his subscribers that make
his audience almost family one.
Whatever his views, they are
sure of an attentive reception
More good comes from talking
to a thousand who listen than to
a million who don't.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
Printing.

To print a kiss upon her lips
He thought the time was ripe;
But when he went to press, she
said:
4 Go not like your type"
A kiss ne printed or her lips
And showed her no contrition
Because the artful mink inquired
well, when's the next
edition?"
A kiss he printed on her lips
And she made this Grafton:
Please, please continue. doing
that!
1t boosts M circul toni
A kiss be printed on her lips,
But father was about;
He didn't like the ardent swain,
And so he led 1T" out.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
MakinQ and UAmdkinQ Men

Report has it tina f ~ he
cities of the South, N ms
in its night life sets tie pace.
And of all New Orleans motor
ious resorts, where folly has
held sway and unbridled license
prevailed. the dance hall Of one
Aiexandor Holzcheiter was the
nOtorlous,
One uay this week the Green
Tree Cabaret -Hoitscheiter' S
place-was Closed, its windows
boarded W. The police entered
The stock Of chioce liquors had
been spilled upon the flour. Hoz
scheiter his wife and three child
rem had disappelr. as tho the
earth had swal!oU them. But
he left this mess -. chalked up
on the polished surface Of the
mahogany bar:
This has been called the most
disreputable place in New Or
leans No longer viii | associate
with the men and women who
frequent it. lose I'll, but | will
live among clean people and
make my living honestly"
Reformers might do well to re-
produce this true tale n tract
form.
Ho.zscheit or left this bit of
slum philosophy. scrubbed upon
the big bar mirror.
1T takes a mother 90 years to
make a man Of her son. tt takes
another woman 20 minutes 20
make fool OF him.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
Oppose Drinking BY Girls.
Catholics of America Adopt
Resolutions 1T Session OF
Union.

Washington, August 1.-THE
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America was on record to-day
In opposition to the growing Use
of intoxicants by women or girls.
Resolutions to that effect we're
adopted and officers elected.
headed by the Rev, John q. Bean.
Ptisburg. at the closing session
of the union last night. Other
officers chosen were: Nice-preSid-
ents, the Rev. y. J. Kane. Sean
ton Pa. James E Dougherty,
Philadelphia; Mrs. Thomas J
Hackett New York: treasurer,
the Rev Maurice j. O'Conner.
Boston. and secretary Thomas L.
McCloskey. Connecticut.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1916-08-18
improved Proverbs.

Quacks are stubborn things
It's a wise girl who knows her
own mind.
Society's the mother OF con-
venti0n,
Home was not built in 9 day.
Modesty is the best policy,
Circumstances alter faces
\ rolling gait gathers no re-
morse.
ALPS not old that filters =
Let Us eat. drink and be mar
rled, for tomorrow we dye
Charity uEcovers a multitude of
sins.
Caroline Wells, in The Smart