WINTERVILLE DEPARTMENT
In Charge of S. C. CARROLL
. -a A , The Eastern Winterville and Vicinity- Advertising Rates on Application
Authored
Mr. Forest Q-U You
A new of men and by of j,,
c section as a young man of for the following
Harrington harbor A, Co , .,
International can be ft be
at A. W. Ange Co.
Bagging and tics just in
on. Barber Co.
V. U House Co makes the
. in town. Had you
a pleasure to them to learn of
their future relations with him.
We congratulate the company
upon securing his service.
Pitt County School
on
pest I
thou I about Will it's manufactured by The A. G. Cox
R the cheap sale now I Manufacturing Company are
i Ht A W. Ange cheap; comfortable, neat and
A large let are liberal.
, paint , in the market come to see
i on. Barber Co. we nave the desk for you.
, . and comfortable for hats, caps and pants
see Harrington. Barber Co.
We are closing out our
quail and a hen laid their eggs
in the same nest at the home of
Mr- Watkins. near Hay-
meadow. The quail began to sot
first and as a result hatched out
six bright little
The little mother took to the
bushes with four of her newly
hatched family and is doubtless
industriously scratching tor them
and teaching them all the arts
incident to a young quail's early
education. She has already,
perhaps, exhibited them to the
mothers of her social set. with a
A HAPPY
HOME
Is one where- health abound.
With Impure blood there can-
not be health.
cannot be blood.
revivify the torpid LIVER d
natural action.
A healthy LIVER pure
blood--------
Pure blood means health.
Health means happiness.
Take no All
Do You Own a Piano
D not. and expect to own one store stencils, but each one a stand-
soon, owe it to yourself to ex-lard, of acknowledged tame
the display
shown at the White
A display really
to a large city.
In a glance you will inspect a
line of pianos that not alone stand
in character of tone, and
general in a class to
itself, but you will meet with prices
that stand unprecedented here and
incomparable anywhere. Eight
different makes to select from, none
of those cheap western department
reputation in the trade. Four
player-pianos of best known
makes. ,
We will take your old piano in
exchange for one of these self play-
We also carry the
ORGAN, the standard of the world.
Old organs and pianos taken in ex-
change, terms to suit your
When in Greenville visit our
pardonable pride in their rapid
bridles etc. at and below but, perhaps, some
cost. a nice lot of zinc about their obtuse-
, , . i
desk or write A. G.
u Co.
y nave the
the right price.
a nice lot tuba and bucket. is your
L. . ,. ed heating Save money by
market buying DOW. W. L. House Co.
.,. L. House Co. t-or of nice crockery
i m i d eggs a specialty. ,,, A- Ange Co.
Com g-st the best prices.
Barber
H a be prompt delivery. i. . .
ha. We are offering special prices this country,
. , mowing on shoes medicines, conduct a mission, or series
and repairs, call We pocket cutlery, for the f
u. . i. Barber ix.
v;
Col
Leave your orders for ice at
W. L. House Co. They
in catching on to the ways
of a quail's life and habit.
Wilkesboro Patriot.
To All People.
Archdeacon C. Webber,
of Boston, Mass-, a learned and
godly man, and on of the gr
to
TAX ON CARNIVALS.
Attorney General Holds That
They Are Not Exempt.
There is considerable
interest in opinion just
by Attorney General T.
W. on the meaning of
Section of the Revenue A-t
relating to the exemption from
taxation of exhibitions or enter
benefit
White.,,
Next door to Carr Atkins Hardware Co. store.
REPORT CK CONDITION
THE BANK OF GRIFTON
AT GRIFTON, N. C.
In the State cf North Carolina, at the close of business, Sept. 1st, 1909
for
nice of;
. Prices are
nice hearse
i.
Oct 1st
next thirty days. 7th. at Sc. Paul's
W. L. House Co. church. Every
Cooking and heating most welcome to or
a d just received. All services. I take this me
. best material and all persons in our m-
g Harrington Barber Co. to take in th a r. if-
. f , a large lot of and to help make it as e t
Sunday AH kinds, size, possible t. .
.
people.
F. k
PI ;. .
lot of Se z
r.
A i an.-
just I. All kinds, t auction on Saturday,
. , . , j
AW Call and examine the stuck b
lot N- tons in.
F. G. James Son,
. r id
C .
;. S dine.
. lot tin and
. and r
Norfolk Tho j fl j
are the desks for you. are
Tim reprinting to oldest; cheap, and
. and life
arr. in A G.
Office in bank building.-J S. Co. N. C
j lam selling twenty
Mrs. Mack and Miss I of Fairbanks
Battle H Kinston, for twenty cents equal
visiting Mrs. Pattie Sutton. j five cent
Miss Ethel V
Bis;
quantity
and household goods to be bold
Mfg
cent
Graded School Opens.
The Greenville graded school
opened this morning tor the fad
While no complete
was made the at-
was about percent,
larger than at the opening last
year.
IN A COPPER CAMP.
Carroll left
this morning for Colerain, where
The young men of the
organized a Y. M. C. A.
elected the following
L. Whitley, president,
H. u. Cox, vie -president,
J. a. secretary,
Causey.
a right to
pr l its school for its
i, u wen as its excellent
training.
H. filled his reg-
appointment at the
church Sunday and
night. th sermons were es-
lamp chimneys
cents. W. L.
Keep your metal war
and new by
M- Electro
found at W. L. II i
Co. Also nice lot of
Just received, a
ladies and shoes
Harrington, Barber
For stationery and
A. W. Ange Co.
I am representing th
and strongest fire and
companies
also write
etc. J. S. Ross, V. i
We are selling out
of boys clothing below
It, Divider Known
and
A camp own
peculiar it ha
two
who work
and lb smelter who
from and
training to unskilled day
More Often than not they Corn
camps within the
of religious, charitable or
objects. According tn
construction street carnivals by
paid companies do not come
within the meaning of
section, although a portion of
the proceeds are to go tow.
charitable institutions. He says
that the statue does
plate exemption except where
those giving and participating in
the are to receive
no pecuniary- comp n and
that if a carnival company is
hired to give the entertainment
then primarily. if
of the carnival
and that it is a
to .
or education will
derive any benefit from the
re n contrary
opinion has I
carnival when
r the i
local have
exempted fr m taxation.
In the ruling
General
to cast a fling at the average r-
that going about the
country setting up under
auspices of fraternal orders and
similar He
kind of exhibition handed
out to the public by the
carnival company is
insipid, only virile when
vicious-a sort of saw dust
with hookworms in its t
The ruling as to tax was at the
request of State Lacy.
Wilmington Star.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts
secured
and unsecured
Banking House, Fur
Due from Banks
and Bankers
Cash items
Silver coin, g
minor coin cur.
notes
other U. S. notes
Total
26.67
1.199.52
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
Surplus fund
Undivided profit,
less cur. ex. pd
Bills payable
Time certificate
807.101 Deposit subjects
to check
Cashier s Checks
ding
411.82
935.00
500.00
6.033
55.17
Total
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County o Pitt,
I C T Gardner, Cashier of the above-named bank,
Knowledge and belief
Subscribed sod sworn to
fore me, tins 10th day f S. pt.
R. JENKINS,
Notary
Z.
C. J. Tucker.
Directors.
OF THE CONDITION OF
The Bethel Banking Trust Co.,
AT BETHEL, N. C.
A the close of Sept., 1st,
Loans and
Overdrafts
and unsecured
Furniture and fixtures
Due from and
Cold silver
minor com currency
Total
Liabilities
6,000.00
4,500.00
Capital Stock
Surplus fund
expenses
Bills payable
Time
sub to cheek 21,448.88
for interest
and taxes-
Total
1,276.00
2.091.00
The Road to
Subscribed and sworn
to be-
lore me, this 11th day of Sept.,
S. T. Carson.
Notary Public,
has many obstruction, but none
a health. to-
day health, but Bit-
health build, r
r . known. It
as the call the, action of stomach, liver, in-
Barter or to the mm -hO,. bowel, purifies and
the and or blond, and tone a. d th
. T-----J .
Whole system. body and keen
brain can t
lord to slight Electric Hitters if weak,
down or sickly. Only Re,
by all druggists.
good.
man Mr King is easily one of the next few day.--.
preachers in the State just received
Owens spent Sunday brand of cutlery,
in Miss headquarters for got
for the smelter men.
The smelter is the heart of the camp.
In the community there is every
of camp architecture, from the
tent pure and simple and the
breed which Is n tent floored
and boarded op the sides to the Marriage
turn of the root and titled with a . , , w u
enough that win lock, to the of Deeds W. M. Moore
like a huge packing box with issued the following licenses
rows and row little, narrow in- . .
the sides like polka, last
dots on n waist a tint roof WHITE.
that not reach an Inch beyond the .
the bole painted a laded Nash Hardy and Mary Little
and jaundiced over with the dust. Thomas and Mamie
town
fruits and peanut.-. Y
W. L.
I am
and fire and
companies in
Office in
Mr. who
treat yon was in
Newton Taylor and Elmer
Gardner, of were in town
yesterday.
is fine now.
of cur farmers are using
their heads and waiting for
teen rents.
noes.
B. D.
, and corn
been M y,,
;, , t of A. u the great t healer .
Hr a of best sales-
m. ct has accepted
with the Pitt County Tobacco ales
He Informs us that
.,,, his work will be on the quality is much
road, buying seed and selling I Prices corresponding.
COLORED.
John Gray and Taylor.
Louis Smith Ann
John P. Little and Hortense
A Hurry Up Cal.
I Quick Mr. Druggist
of Sal e
These are the j quarter-For the of M .
burned
cut his foot with the
Forest, who
A great copper camp grows slowly.
there Is n town ground 1800-
there Is something like tun- J. f,
stations, slopes, working reach-
like streets and to faS
low the the had. There l
no gutting f n rich and going
on. no careless search for to
be rubbed and left.
with skin
precision each yard of work f
driven to up the road to ore , , ,
till and to leave a safe and r . .
convenient way by hit may reach, and
the surface. Nature ban rooted her,
wealth of deep In the earth.
and no haphazard methods will release. crimson clover, Vetch
It It would amuse or be- J
wilder an old time gold miner to and rape Seed at r
the care and economy practiced In ., n
modem copper small
the constant search for better
methods of handling, the struggle to
eliminate waste and all the hr-
On
The win that the
prisoner stole your The
I win
he stole On umbrella I car-
leader.
1900.
in
On Sunday morning Prof. W.
EL who has for several
years been the efficient
of Memorial Baptist Sun-
day school, tendered his
The reason for this
that the class of the
school needed a teacher, and
Prof. being the most
capable connected with
the school for this position, and
a request coming from the class
tor him to take charge of it, he
resigned the superintendency
he might do so Prof. C.
W. Wilson was unanimously
elected to succeed Prof. Rags-,
dale, and the school is to be con-
upon having so excel-
lent a man for the new
The school is flourish-
and growing larger all the
Staton,
s M. Jones,
M. O. Blount,
Directors.
WOODS SEEDS.
obtainable.
Winter or
Hairy Vetch
not only one of the largest
yielding and best winter feed and
forage crops can grow, but is
also one of of
adding more to
soil than winter crop.
Wood's Fall Cat-
gives full Information
about this valuable crop; also
I all other
Farm Garden Seeds
for Fall planting,
O mailed free on request. Write
for it
WOOD SONS,
Richmond, Va.
.-
perfect wire fence
Call and take a look through, for sale by Carr Atkins
outline o new styles in dress Co.
J. R. J. G- see P. M. Johnston for your
mill supplies and mill repairs.
I Subscribe to The Reflector.
I All work guaranteed.
LAXATIVE COUGH SYRUP
ECO W pURE
or refunded.
FOR SALE B WOOTEN.
EASTERN
D. J. Editor and Owner
Truth in Preference to Fiction.
VOL. No.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER,
No.
SOMEBODY BE MADE HAPPY.
FLAW IN REVENUE ACT.
BY GETTING AN ELEGANT CHRIST
LYCEUM COURSE.
Caw May be Carried to the
From Wilmington.
I Wilmington, Sept. 23.-What
The Reflector Will Give Awry by many as a very
Beautiful Baby Upright imp error in the
machinery act as
This is but. a an- th-S-ate prohibition w insular
Just i i get as i- to the malt
ready, as it were, for as
follow from day to y i wholly irrelevant by many
and it is going to bean by
to be th here who have
person in all this section Christ
mas.
Since the recent opening
salesroom
White, everybody has
been there to look it their in-
over that beautiful baby upright
Boudoir piano, is
est piano made, m and
volume k i. the faun of the best
f-z
it ;
m c in In tn meantime go
there and look at it.
Tin- f that you want to get
uppermost in your mind
now is that Reflector is
going to give that piano to some-
body for a Christmas present.
Who lucky person is to be
remains for the 24th day of
December to tell. The paper is
a popularity
contest, and the person-
man, woman, boy or girl-who
receives the most will get
the piano. And it will be
absolutely free, there being no
charge at all for voting.
been looking the question up.
For several days it hes
rumored on the streets that a
very serious defect or
in the law had been dis-
covered, the effect f which is
that dealers may sell all the malt
liquors they please just so such
above
half of one per cent, of alcohol,
the mistake having occurred in
instrument. No. of the revenue
. will be machinery act at the
legislative of 1909 and,
therefore, superseding the pro
act of 1908, tin error
having occurred in providing a
tax on beverages analyzing one-
half of one per sent,
when clearly
meant.
Section No. under the sub-
head of
provides that license shall
be issued to any or brandy
distillery or to any firm
or corporation desiring to engage
in the manufacturing of any
spirituous, vinous, or malt
liquors, the sale of which is pro-
by chapter public
laws, special session of
Tacked on to this section is the
following. individual
or corporation in
Ila. L r. , v i i J II V
MARRIAGE ANNOUNCEMENT.
For the of the Public Library
n Greenville.
It v i b a source of
entire community to
mat definite arrangements
been made for the
here during this season of
some of the best attractions now
appearing on the circuits
in the large cities. The fact that
entertainments, of the
highest class, have successfully
stood the critical great
audiences in a number of places,
insures their merit and makes ad
I the keener the satisfaction with
I which the announcement of their
j engagement for production in
He has been received.
The End of the Century Book
I Club has taken charge of the
arrangement and, with the
I dial assistance of all the people
I of the town, hope to mike the I
entertainments a success.;
That these ladies will secure the
cooperation they richly deserve j
goes without the saying. Enter- j
of such superior
as these promise to be
i have not been so frequent as to
cause them to grow
j and the opportunity of enjoying
a rare pleasure at expense
and doubtless will win
the good will and support of
jail. Within a short a more
definite statement as to dates
will be made. Meanwhile
everybody join bands with the
committee and make the concert
season something of which the
community may be proud.
WILL WED IN DECEMBER.
Scotland Neck Croom and Greenville
Bride.
STATE NEWS.
Happenings Interest in North Caro-
On Friday evening from to
o'clock Mrs. Robert J. Cobb
entertained a of friends
at a card party. The interest in
the occasion was increased near
the close by Mrs. Cobb making
the announcement, which took
the by surprise, of the
marriage of her daughter. Miss
It-ma Lea Cobb, to Mr. William
Dunn, of Scotland Neck.
I to take place in December.
Mrs. Cobb, assist d by her
sec daughter. Miss Lucille,
received the arriving guests at
th front door and directed them
down the ball where underneath
draped crimson Mates
Irma Cobb and Nell Skinner, two
Dee brides-elect, served
punch.
The game of the evening was
six-hand euchre, there being
eight tables of
guest of honor prize, a set
CAN'T GO TO THE CARNIVAL
A rather crude, tut
less swindle was per-
in Raleigh- A young
white man, to all appearances an
ordinary young farmer, who
called himself E. C. Jones, per-
the fraud on Barbee
Company, cotton brokers, there,
through which the brokers are
Didn't Tobacco at the The
Kan Did Can be Seen on
the Midway
didn't sell at gum
Now how I got on my
back
on a kart hack
I'll tell I will Z
I d tell at Gum
Now, man ain't
rounder,
u mow err
mall pi If as Hat
s r Hi
out over He had one bale didn't sell at do Gum.
of cotton that he sold to one of
the Barbee Company buyers,
who sent him to the official cot-
ton weigher, whose certificate
the young man proceeded to
raise from one to eleven bales,
thereby making the statement
Call for was
issued and quickly cashed at the
the
kart i
it me is
Do I is stated
I didn't soil r.-ah de
New, how i
beast.
I no git ten Yo h c
places or day de
I d sell at
Bo tar it de price
disappearing ; not no
load m h
up
Sudden WM the death at do Gum
day miming of Mr. Edwin
thereafter,
I Hut s de Law I, I's dill out
while on duty in stamp I
Popular Greenville Couple to Wed
The Sans Club held it, malt or near-beer or any
first meeting of the season
Thursday afternoon with Miss
Lottie Skinner, at home of
parents, Col. and Mrs. Harry
Skinner.
After the preliminary business
meeting of the club, Mrs. Skin-
invited the guests into the
beautifully decorated dining
room where an elegant five-
course lunch was served. The
color scheme of the room was
yellow, the long table
having strips of yellow ribbon
around it and ornamented with
yellow flowers. There were
covers for twenty-one with
low place cards at each plate.
At the conclusion of the course
of ices Mrs. Skinner handed each
guest a card ornamented with
yellow flowers to which was a
drink, under any name or
whatsoever, containing
one-half of one pr cent, alcohol
or more shall pay an annual
tax of It was clear-
the intent of the law
a tax should apply to dealers in
near beer and other and such
non-alcoholic drinks of less than
one-half of one per cent, and
some lawyers take the position
that the law after ail would be
construed in court solely as to its
intent, but nevertheless there is
an interesting question and it is
believed that a test case will be
carried up to the Supreme
court from this city at no distant
date. Even should the section
of revenue and machinery
act be declared as vitiating the
section of the prohibition law,
COLLISION.
and Near
Meeting at Crossing.
Friday evening there came;
J close to being a collision
the street crossing near the,
I A. C. L. depot. Th-i passenger
j train was coming in -late, and,
the same time Mr. C. R.
Townsend was returning from
pencil tied with silk cord, however, it is pointed out that
and asked each to write a good the legislature could either be
wish to a December bride, an-
with the request the
marriage of her daughter, Miss
Nellie, to Mr. A- M. Moseley to
take place on the 9th of that
month. The guests responded
gladly to this request, and after
the reading of the many
of good wishes the loving
cup was passed all dranK to
the health and happiness of the
to
parties to this announce-
are both well known and
popular young people of Green-
ville. Miss Skinner is a lady of
many charms, and Mr. Moseley
a member of the cotton and in-
firm of Moseley Bros.
Their marriage is looked forward
to as an occasion of much inter-
est.
Dr. H. O- Hyatt will be in
Greenville at Hotel Bertha Oct
4th and 5th the first Monday and
Tuesday for the purpose of
treating diseases of the eye, ear,
nose and throat. Those who
want work done will be charged
on fee unless terms are agreed
upon.
called together to remedy the
defect in the or so far as
Wilmington is concerned the
board of aldermen could an
ordinance requiring a very high
license that would h to mini-
the would result
from a liberal construction of the
act of the 1909 session.
It is understood that Hon.
John D. Bellamy several weeks
ago advised a number of his
clients among the near-beer
dealers here that under the
subsequent act of the
they have a right to sell
malt beverages of any kind,
it contains more than
half of one per cent, alcohol, but
other attorneys of equal learning
and ability contend that such is
not the case.
Developments will be watched
with interest at any rate. It is
expected that the technicality
will be raised in some of the
cases to be tried at week's
term of the Superior court, in
which event the point will be
passed right up to the higher
court. In the it is
out the sand-clay road in his
j automobile. As he came near
enough the crossing to get a
view of the track ho
twin coming, both about
distance from the
crossing- To put brakes on the
automobile was the work of a
second, I going at good speed
and down grade it was seen that
the car could not be stopped
short of striking the train. By
presence of mind Mr. Townsend
whirled the front wheels of his
car, which rear wheels
around after them just in time
to avoid a disaster.
of pearl pins, was awarded to
Mrs. C. L. of Scot-
land The first prize, a
book was won by
Miss Lizzie Jones and the second
prize, a dainty piece of china, by
Mrs J. A. Ricks.
At the conclusion of the game
a course was served.
Heart shaped mats and doilies
decorated with hearts and cupids
were placed upon the tables,
being in keeping with the gen-
color scheme of red and
I white, the hall the ad-
i decorations of and
i potted plants.
The cream, served as the last
course, was in red and white
cupids, and on each was a
plateau mounted with a red
heart at Cupid was shoot-
an arrow. Within the heart
was a card bearing this an-
December
Nineteen hundred nine.
The loving cup was then borne
in. After a toast by the hosiers
it wad passed to the guests,
drinking and giving a toast of
good wishes to the bride-elect.
The announcement of this
marriage will be re-
with much interest not
only in Greenville and Scotland
Neck, but throughout the Stale,
as both the parties are well
known. The bride-elect is the
eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. J. Cobb and a social favorite.
Mr. Dunn is a prominent banker
of Scotland Neck.
office.
,, j as as
call to him with I's swine Ur sell all at de
Gum.
THIS MAN DID
I mt at the Gum
Now why do I o
and fat;
And c IS and a
stylish
No question to answer a-y
my tobacco at Gum.
Now why do I drive such a splendid
That Hashes town t like a
And why, when I I foe on
Id II my at tho Gum.
Now, I bay a now plantation
And to fur i
Besides taking care of needy re-
I soil my at Gum.
Now, why -o swim so many
sink
Those stand to poverty s
brink
YoU know at once if you only
think.
sell my tobacco the Gum.
Now, w y I piles laid up in the
bank,
And live like a king or a noble of rank
On Ufa's shaky platform have this
strong plank
under arrest. A standing I sell my tobacco at the Gum.
on the corner was shot through I Now, I sty to the former, who feels
I like a bore,
tie arm. . As stands BO dead close to tho poor-
Selma. N. C , I My f. fend, tho reason I am rich
harness on, aft r a service of
about twenty years in
Raleigh post His death
occurred at a quarter to eleven
News and Ob-
server.
Goldsboro, Sept.
Head a u lit man of this city,
having tilled up oh
created considerable
excitement this afternoon by
shooting up the town in wild
west style. He sitting in
of J. W. Gardner's st- re,
near the intersection of John
and Walnut streets, in heart
of the business section of the
town, talking to some
when without cause or
provocation, he pulled a pistol
and began shooting in the
direction of the street's corner,
emptying the pistol before he
could be apprehended and put
Bower a of
the Selma Lumber Company
plant, and wound-
ed Chief of J. W.
tonight. telephoned
and are poor,
I soil my tobacco at the Gum.
New cotton seed hulls, sacked
or bulk, at F.
that the
Licenses.
Register of Deeds W. M. Moore
has issued following licenses
last
WHITE.
J. W. Pearce and Maggie V.
Waters.
COLORED.
James Smith and Rena Floyd-
John Nobles and Cobb.
Joseph E. Carr and
Moses and Rosa
In the report of licenses pub-
published last week an error was
made in one name, Nash Hardy
and Mary Little having appeared
when it should have been George
Hardy.
Leave Off Side Strips.
We note some of the
are still packing cotton with side
strip, when they will have to
dock their cotton four pounds to
cover same or lose tho difference
in price, this being th-i rule on
every exchange. There is just
enough bagging, without side
strip, to cover bale after it
is compressed, we have to
depend upon the exporters to
handle three-fourths of all the
crop. Take notice and do not
put on side strips, as it means
loss to the farmers.
Co.
fighting, sou an I r-icing a
general rough Chief
Griffin, accompanied by Police-
man Smith, answered the call.
When they arrived at the mill,
the had stopped shoot
A search was begun for
the offenders. When Bowers
was discovered in the woods
nearby and halted by the chief,
he only stopped to aim a double-
barrel shot gun
Pulley Bowen will have their
fail millinery op. on Tues-
day. Oct. 5th. They will show
all the newest and latest styles
in ladies pattern hats and Other
millinery. Be sure to see their
display. old
midway to a dominating
display of the products of the
Fourteen shot effect in the and industry ti. State The
chiefs side, in the right indications are c o i,
hand and arm and two for a larger numb.
head.
Mrs. Dells Gulf. N.
C, a motherly woman with a
heart that with kind-
county exhibits than inti P
He says that sensational free
midway attractions are being
will surpass i
i provided in former years,
Cotton seed meal by the bag
or ton at F. V. Johnson's.
nets and affection for all human-e Carolina circuit
and other living desired
She had a hen setting
defiantly came the nest with
a young brood, and left two eggs
unhatched. Mrs. was
N. C,
A special term of the t
25th.
Sow -n.
without
safe to say that few. if any, of
the dealers wilt care to run the
risk of an open sale of anything
except that comes within
the evident intent of the law.-
Observer.
The Reflector does job work.
Pulley Bowen will have their
fall millinery opening on Tues-
day. Oct. 5th. They will show
all the newest and latest styles
in pattern hats and other
Be to see their dis-
play.
so put them in
bosom, and they hatched out two
as pretty and as bid-
dies as any old mother hen ever
ducked over and strutted away
from the nest
Sun-
Official announcements of the
approaching State fair proclaim
that the management is d. term-
to reform the midway
so that the i attires
be changed from a
whereat F. C. Watkins,
of Black Mountain township,
will be tried for the killing of
John H. Bunting, a traveling
salesman of Wilmington, and
the wounding of Paul Cameron
Collins cashier of the Bank of
Hillsboro, on August 7th while
they, were guest- at a Black
Mountain hotel. main-
that he shot in defense
being called in to a
by the men.
AND BRIEFS. WHO ARK SICKLY.
who value their own cum-
, n u fort a ii the welfare of their children,
rte flatten KM and be
,. Sweet Pointers for
for the That
, con-
. ; l he d
a . powder
,. fa I. Sold h all
Don't accept an, A
m tier who will
A Lime. Le N. Y.
V i . v I n
Mrs. C. i.
and Mrs G
d . H
Si. to
today
A HARD STRUGGLE.
Many a Greenville Citizen Finds
the Struggle Hard.
With a back constantly
With disorders.
Daily is but . struggle.
o led to keep it up.
Kidney Pills will cure you.
One bun re. thousand i endorse
mi- claim.
Here i.- one
Mrs. Joseph Jr . Street
Mount, N. C, am
pieced tea fa favor I loan a
k as the t. obtained
i , , i their use proved them i
. Cleveland county
CYCLES OF TIME UNITED
hi ii M s.
nil i .
i .
.
. Saw Veteran of Great Battle
Elder P. of Wilson,
ii -ii for a
friends relatives
n Ru h . u Cleveland
; ii
, r , r, , with I further disposed of paint in my
, o man, Mr.
remedy of merit. I suffered
considerably from dull, nagging I act
aches s d sharp across my loins.
If I lifted or trade a quick
movement, th- twinges were more no
it was hard me
, rm my household
It and languid and was
devoid or ambition.
trouble arose from my id-
I start d Kidney
and gave me renewed
re was living strength n
. . fauna of I I
,. p. i Cleveland county,
her
J.
. h
i i
For sale by deal. rs. Price BO
Elliott, Co., Buffalo,
i- K ., I .,
,. m daughter IN York, agent for th- Dolled
name J
. who com
bail i Kings i
. .
r the
her.
C.
I y. i i
r. Gold
of
. the battle
ii, Mr.
ran f
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II
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Miami
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ION.
Pi i m
H i. It t my
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I., the
toe rs,
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pi
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to
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the
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I I
I re i
I have
. .-. i.
. . ii . .
a Shredder Pay.
If a man has of corn
that will average bushels to
the acre, he can afford to buy a
shredder and if be has acres,
can to the
power to run the- shredder, for
the same engine may he used
for other farm purposes. Of
course, ii is plain many far
cannot. to own a
and provide the power
to run it; but if one man with
acres of corn can
to provide the necessary ma-
then G. or men
whose combined
to or more acres can afford
combine pure, the
machinery. A r
will do the work for a much
larger area, and this is the sort
of co-operation that will pay.
Raleigh Progressive
Farmer.
FORECLOSURE SALE.
By virtue of the authority vested in
me and contained in a decree of fore-
made i the
Pitt county, on the 80th
in the cause of L. C. Skinner vs.
B. I Fannie M. Jones,
I will expose to lie sale before the I
conn door in Pitt-
count., on the day of
detail i, at o'clock M., the
following described tracts of land in i
f . order fol owing, to
1st. I will Bell th t of
lend ritual in township
the lands of, Sam
. . and others, as tile
. being the same its
A. Jone and try
Tr up a d wife, and la
a I to II. el by If. A. Jone.
an ii . containing M i-- acres in
I I
I sell lots Ho. H
i ii I No. the i n of I
ate S i
, A Jami
i c I -i acre
on . It V. ; acre I will
or tract of in i
. , g the Ian la
o . . .
Mil. . . Ma
I . i, or less g
I d t i I. H. Jo i
Jo en, i I, 1st These
tr i I . 1.1 i.
. ii ii I cash,
This i .; i . OS
no-, C
R. L. DAVIS, Pres. J. A. ANDREWS, V.-Pres.
H. D. BATEMAN, Cashier.
The Bank of Greenville
With the Experience of Years.
Strong Board of Directors
A ad a Capital of
Resources
We are in position to take good care of our old
customers, and also prospective ones.
Business Cordially Solicited.
JAMES L. LITTLE, Cashier
. V
SPECIAL EXCURSIONS
NIAGARA FALLS
VIA
Chesapeake Steamship Co.
2- d. i th 10th, a and September 2nd,
. th, .- th, Co
Fell ii m Va. Po C to Ni-
Is, u low n I -6 . in I limit for return
sale, I r Leave Norfolk
of Jackson a i e f Sunday, m. Arrive
th for an; information.
K. R. M T. P. A. Norfolk. Va.
MRS.
. . .
Ill,
J E van Gr
ti rotary it Si I
I SALE
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iv
By ii i . r i-i d
J Mewl an
wife I i- M n 4th.
II mortgage
of r I i III e the K i
n i of Pitt e in book Q
page I th w. sell for
I., Not Kind to house do-.-
. . 14th.
,,,, d c piece or
, . , , ii. parcel of land, ii c of
in i. i ii.-i en lulu a J.,,,,,.,; ,,, of K and
., i V the d v.-,. i.
to C
M. in ; I tutor
M in late Pit
i to notify a I p r-
n . i ma In i the e i. .
. f d, tn tin m I
tin d in t i Ive
from date, or u will l
i d bar of
All per laid
will make immediate payment,
Thia the 8th. day . f S.-pt
J. H. Janus,
i ltd
BOWEN
. . Greenville C,
if it is INSURANCE
C. t WILKINSON
Lift; and Fire.
lid a
keep.
Jo -i el t
i parties i. N. a-
i ltd
i I ;.
. . I .- an p I r
c C d I u -u have f a
it . t , i
He ii led a bottle ,,,.,,,,, to . ,
. Hi of C and wife
at Ii
the I No i
; h line
,, ; to Black Swamp
on n Swamp to
belt ; the I t
Joseph
, . i i and hid
it in out
in h th was
. taste .
be did Pi w t
pint i ., I Sure he
th- 18th, of
MERCER,
P. C S in, at tor my.
CERTIFICATE OF
To all to i th Ire com,
i to my
i. a, authenticated record
., f l. th
in the.-i of by the
. i of ail hod rs, de-
ll i i . office, ii P iv, up-
lid, i i. . j.
d . ;,. , bottle
i.;
an Going I I a I
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North l i, J. I Dave ; b I .
his bl
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in charge
in
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that i
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Km , ration, in-d by ail
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i , I, if , ii or l ii
I hi Ii, if tons i coat d
I , if there i Una-
and Liver
will cure you, they d i not
, p t
P , . I make per-
of Con . p-
a and I are
but Bryan is
giving hi chi
; ii I a
. of II Pill i you
u i
Dr. Bi i u ii. i ii j
Alan M i
den, C
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Co.
i lid
Ti v. i i I I her
unto h
day
September, A, I
Grime
a it i II i. Seen i f .-.
Stray lip .
I ii taken op
marked, will i, I about pounds.
Owner t proving owner-
hip d paying eh r i .
S. I.
Home, N. C.
Sept 1809.
Notice to
Having duly qualified before
prior court clerk of Pitt . .
of Harrell,
notice hereby given to ad
a, pi estate to in i
payment to g ed;
d hiving claims
laid estate ere fat they n
the same for to th,
on the 24th
of or thin notice I
in bar of recovery.
This day of
C. I. Warren,
of
I'd
Notice to
Having duly qualified before the
Superior court Pitt county
administratrix of the estate of J. W.
Tucker, d notice
given to I persona to the
estate to make immediate payment to
the and all persons
claims the are
that the.- must present the same
t the d f r payment on or
i. fore the 4th day of or
tin notice will be plead in bar of
recovery.
This 4th day of Annual. 1908.
H I. r
of J. W. Tucker, d. M.
S ltd
ii. w. mm,
Groceries
Ami Provisions
Cotton
Card
W. F. EVANS
AT
Office I- Smith ft I
to John
building.
OH I, L CARI
N C,
H. X
N- C
U I. H
ATTORNEYS
a it K K w i i LI N
Sub
Oar Gt i ill i if you
A i. it in of some
form of bOWl I m, id may com to
any i family should be
vi i with a Dr. Beth Arnold's
Warranted by J. L
i. kept
; in stock.
Bought nil
N or t Ii C a r n
Subscribe H
JULIUS BROWN
N.
DR. b
PHYSICIAN
Greenville, N. C
Office on st set, formerly
pied by Bagwell
The
College of re
Arts.
The for vocational
I an in . I i in and
In Civil Electrical and
Mechanical Engineering; Cotton
I y .; in
Ch I v not It yourself for
by la of
A dress
U B. ii I President
w. at Raleigh, N. C.
w. Pi Kt CO
A.
an I
ESTABLISHED 1875-
S M
Wholesale and retail Grocer
and Furniture Dealer. Cash
paid for Fur, Cotton Seed
Oil Turkeys, Egg, OaK
Bedsteads, etc.
Suits, Baby Carriages, Co-Carts,
Parlor suits Lounges,
Safes, P. and ail Ax
Snuff, High Life Tobacco, Key
West Cheroots, Henry George
Cigars, Canned Cherries, Peach,
es, Apples, Pine Apples, Syrup,
Jelly, Meat, Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
Soap, Lye Food, Matches,
Oil. Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls,
Garden Seeds, Oranges, Apples,
Nuts, Candies, Dried Apples-
Prunes. Currants,
Raisins, Glass and
Wooden ware, Cakes and Crack-
Macaroni. Best But-
New Royal Sewing Machines
and numerous other goods.
Quality and quantity cheap for
Come see me.
S M
STILL WITH
The
Mutual Life
INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF
NEW YORK.
OLDEST IN AMERICA,
LARGEST
IN
THE WORLD.
1843. over
H. BENTLEY HARRISS
Of r, Neat lo
N. CAROLINA
CENTRAL
Barber Shop
Herbert Edmond, Prop.
Located in business sec-
of the town. Five chairs
in operation and each one
sided over by a skilled barber.
Our place is inviting, razors
sharp. Our towels clean.
Modern electrical machine for
dry shampoo and La
dies waited on at their homes
WASHINGTON TO
But G read
That the State's interest shall
be in every way is
practical purpose of the
of State as expressed in a
adopted by it yesterday
after more than a day's hearing,
in which it declares the willing
of the State, under certain
Conditions, to convicts
for grading the
Railway from Belhaven via Bath
to Washington.
The project of extending the
road from Belhaven to Washing-
of the latter city
and the people between the two
points. The work is to be done
additional expense to
the or further obligation
by I the use of the con
and by work is
meant the i
and opting of th
Before the consent f the gov-
the use of the
convicts a satisfactory
covering the above condition
must be submitted, and no
encumbrance can be placed upon
the properly.
The resolution as by
the C Hindi of State is art
it the Gov-
and the Council of State.
That the grading of the Matt.-
SEEDS
tut I
NEW BUILDINGS FOR TRINITY
Will be Very Head-
Writ Mention
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SEND CENTS
ex
NEWS.
North Care-
N. C , Sept.
Henry Gibbs, a young I
was placed in jail here late this
afternoon, charged the
serious offense of attempting to
criminally assault two white
near nine
LOSE THEIR LIVES.
By Hurricane Which Swept
Trinity College is to have two
new buildings and when com.
they will be regarded as
the handsomest on the campus.
They will probably both be of
the exact type.
Mr C. C. Hook,
was in and east of Statesville this morning
submitted plans for one of between eight and nine
buildings, be The tell a thrilling story
. as the recitation building-
buildings were made
on account of the
at the last commencement
had been given to
the needs of the college by B. N
WE no longer handle Wire Fence made by the
received the agency the famous
FENCE
Don't to see it.
D KALE WIRE
Strictly O- load ,
Be-t at Best
their experience with the
and the practically admits A
his guilt. It will go hard with
him in the courts No. made
Raleigh, Sept. -Friends I
throughout the State will be o, ft
de-ply to learn that Mr. I SWISS COSt
Just received Repeating
the
n w
New Orleans, The building will be com- Busbee, past
he havoc and very N h Grand Qr n
the hurricane which be the contract-1 j 0.1,1 Follows. Suffered J
the gulf states were u will ten months to a of paralysis this
h, re today by refugees .;, and be ready for was to
rived with the from
the declared
that persona had lost their
lives it. one portion of Louisiana
by the storm
occupancy at the opening of 1910.
Ii will be a handsome with
two stories and a basement.
Will have ten recitation rooms
his home in an ambulance. Be I
j I Columbia and
clothed, famished and. . have their
panic by will be
the administrative forces.
which they passed through, men,
women and children straggled
into the city today in one
procession, each group
viewing within terrifying d
the damage to life
and property. ,
starved
as in his
transacting
some
at the time;
business in
connection with his
of of his
the late C M. Busbee, who
died some as a result
of strokes. Just the
tent of this stroke on Mr. Pen in, I
Busbee has not yet developed.
at each.
Come and see how we do
LEADERS IN
Tie-.- hall several hundred
by the declared feet the one.
convicts from Belhaven via Bath had ;. tin , be exactly like
to will be ordered;
the Pans. w arranged somewhat different
the people residing away the entire will be dormitories in
This building will have all th
comfort, lighting and heating.
second building be ex- j jg was unconscious for
like the first, will be greet length of time after
the first one is completed. I came upon him, Ht was
will be situated near the Dune I i his desk chair in a help- j
Greenville,
N. Carolina
in the territory between
Washington on or
the of the and shelter
,,,, U
two will it world
Wist -Mass. Sept.
m it.- it-
. m to an
. , s one. the two win ,. , w ,.
They cared f r, the prettiest part of th end at ten next Friday
-mi i bu forenoon, o c
. ,., . . mm I'll , I . LI. L I
OF t ii; OF
THE BANK OF FARMVILLE,
AT N.
the of business 1st, III I
to
sh at
to provide
materials, implements, amps.
vehicles and teams necessary
on gr-ding,
without expense to th
proper ad
and Without
upon
provided
of
grading to a prop i
satisfactory to tin; t
and the council State for com-
and opera-
ting said when graded
Washington, additional
expense to the State or
obligation by it, he 890-
News
Observer.
wave lid
hurricane I
the
., with a monumental tower
j W mere would be a
large enough for two or
re vehicles to pass other
,., same time. These
Go With a Rush
. fir tint.
h. a
i ill
r I- eon
ii and all will certainly cost
less than
Resources
members of the denomination
Reign Loans and
what they to their
Don't
aw mo Don t money tan to
they r net
Stomach, pa Liniment W
flannel I
and Only Use, at liniment w to any
a. r for lame back, in the aide
and much cheaper. by . ,
and
and
few r In prayer, ,,,,. from
gong and cu items
of their ardor coin
wooden
the main turnpike between
ton and Plymouth in this town.
ck
Surplus
ilia Nona Festival
Nut bank and wilier
i Total
exp and
i. i .
mi Bill i .
i Time of
ii. If.
Night on Bald Mountain
On a lonely Ale-.
Fort EdwarD. N. Y., climbed
the home of a neighbor,
tortured Asthma, bent on curing
with New
Put More Bagging on Your
Again we
cotton growers t. put on bash
ties to the fl
cut. limit the If
put on than G cent.
th-tis to bay, pounds on a
pound bale, Ed on
pound bale, -t.-.- it is .-imply a
matter of giving the cotton buy-
good cotton worth
pound when he is paying yon
for bagging and
aging about Si a
This is a matter our farmers
have been entirely too slow to
understand.
The gist of the whole matter
tie Umbrella
fining that he was not
lecturing, Judge Adams
declared that he felt moved tore- -fl
on
that when a Subscribed and sworn to
. . . inly
the f my
U. Cashier,
A.
Umbrella I g that ,.,.,
An insurance man declares a festival with me, pt.,
that he tried this scheme of liquor in one pocket
other day and that it worked, a pistol or razor in
lie found himself caught in a oilier, may look for trouble,
rainstorm and, being in too The judge might have added
of a hurry to wait for it also and that when the
said U arrested and
brought before th said judge,
there'll be something doing.
Wadesboro
It, I. Davis,
M. Lewis
T. I.
him Will . ,
that had cured f of Thia
price of W-
is fixed by manufacturers
. who buy on a basis of per cent.
for bagging and ties.
Throat and Lung cure on Earth,
Croup, Hemorrhages
C -e
for Fever, Grip and Whoop-
Cough. and Trial
by all
Good Tobacco Good Prices.
There were many pleased far-
at the price their tobacco
brought on the market today.
The breaks were very large and
the good grades sold well.
Common grades do not show
much improvement for of
demand.
That is to say. they figure on
pounds tare for each pound
bale; and on each 500-pound bale,
therefore, they allow a price for
the gross bale sufficient to pay
for only pounds net of lint
cotton. In other words, the
price paid per pound for the
whole pounds is lowered so
as to allow for pounds
Progressive Farmer.
inn
stop, he was to acquire
an umbrella right away quick,
He paused under an awning and
waited, he says, until somebody
came along who he sized up as a
man with a guilty conscience
Then the insurance man step-
up to the stranger, saying
I'll trouble you for my um-
The stranger stared at him a
moment, handed over the um-
and walked away, mutter-
a word of apology.
Of the insurance man
admits the scheme might not
always work, and a certain
amount of discrimination should
be used in the selection of the
Plain Dealer.
P M, JOHNSTON.
MACHINIST,
Running repairs to all Kind of
Steam erecting Engines,
machinery, all ems a
tor Machinery and
Electrical novelties. Give a trial.
All work and terms
left at H. U I
will receive prompt attention, or phone
No.
la taM. The aim the I
MOTTO
I Not Quite
at u
of 30.1.
THE TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA.
for
Mat, ,,,,,
it
HUMAN HANDS
DO NOT
From
k.
for
Jell-. mi Pa
to worn, It la
Our U
m your
ICE la to
Id CREAM
Mil.
two of l-
la
M coat of P
Nauru Straw
by your I
by .
it-
Sat. H. t
Your complexion your
temper tendered a
By taking Chamberlain a
Stomach and Liver you can
Family of Six
W, Va., Supt. 22.-
An entire family of six persons
were murdered and the body of
all but one of the victims were
burned with their home at
Buchanan county, Ya
today. The motive was evident-
Iv robbery as the owner of the
house, an woman as
Justis was gen-1
supposed to keep a urge
sum of money the
Mrs. Justin,
George Meadows, h-s wife and
their three children were the
victims.
Saved by Law.
When Mr. W. H. Allison was
visiting in Anson county recent-
he procured, near Lilesville, a
bunch of long leaf pine tops and
brought it home to show his
friends, the long leaf pine being
unfamiliar to up-country folks.
The of the bunch Mr-
Allison has are about two feet
long-and are somewhat like the
rushes growing on the creek
Some years ago it was though
the long leaf pines were about to
be exterminated, but since they
have the stock law in the
How often you can gel
or driver or
lacking. Have a good
fool box and be prepared
Our line
la a could and
we will your tool
box does lack a single
article.
Report of
The Greenville Banking and Trust Company,
At GREENVILLE,
in the State of N. Cat the close of business, Sept.
the tree are taking root
Of
You get
Horse Goods i c
J. R-
u Corey,
RESOURCES. .
Loans and , Stock,
and d
Pen.
,,. sub.
as
All other Bonds
and
Banking r e
and Fixtures,
from a
Cash
com, all
minor coin currency
National k
other V. S.
Total
. l
Total
t rapidly and in a Ira
there will new
this beautiful specimen the
Landmark-
State North County of Wt, IS
Call and see P. M. Johnston
when in town for engine
and boiler repair work and any- nth day of Sept,
thing you may need. Shop op- ANDREW J.
Hotel Bertha. w Notary
g CAM,
Correct-
U t.
FLAN Ail N.
,.,,
We know whether Cook A headline in the Atlanta
or will lay claim to this Journal says had one
thousand
If lie tried to go them all at one
time there must have been
A lire in the White House digestive organs.
Washington, Sunday,
D.
GREENVILLE, NORTH
Biz
Advertising may be upon
tin business in Tb
hug, Evans
. I
K in the
C., u mail matter.
-V OCT.
m r the talk the worse
they make look.
weather. Both can have it if
it.
considerable excitement bat the
damage was small.
The in
to raise a fund
The Republicans of the
district are making more stir
over the appointment of a
supervisor of that district
to ere.-; a Confederate mono- Democrats did over
here seems to have a congressman sometime
lost in the
It time of year now
to remind you to be careful to
look after chimneys and stove
lines that have been on of use
during the months when
wire no-, needed.
The Twentieth Club
Since the North Pole has be.-n
discovered, the South Pole had
just as well come in an I up
If not it will he found anyway.
We do not get out of the President Taft IS to give
m ., ice man before the a date while on his tour
coal man has us. the country, and city is
I making great preparation the of Cincinnati, a suffragist organ
V . is .- North petitioned the may-
had to do with I . of that city to appoint women
weather, further indications on the police force. It does not
talking remember of hi. smallness us that women would
now stand, in to let records and officers.
. . , ., be brought back to Amer-
need of nothing so much as good men, Something must have gone
. i.-a on the Roosevelt.
roan. wrong in Republican circles
can always tell by M, bacteria around Greensboro, some of
editorial page of the Durham been found in
have gone to resigning
I when Joe King goes j
high price has offices. When one of them got
mg.
the
religion a worse
strain
thing to do with s discovery, hold we did not know he ever
turned loose until prized
Putting u- the stove and get- to keep hi.
mouth closed for a time. That j. A. Patten, the Chicago
is about the rational thing wheat king, is reported to be in
; has done since he round York buying cotton. If he
. ,. ,,. . that Cook had discovered the creates us much excitement on
if those w no
. ,. ,, ,, North Pole. the cotton exchange as he did in
thought the world was coming to
, , . ,., . the wheat pit tin re will lie
an end yesterday feel . , ,
On-paper suggests that doing in pries
today North Pole controversy
Those who forward submitted to former Some people will stop long
predict the kind of winter tie enough in the busy whirl to gel
will have are beginning to see ought to be authority on down to worrying about what
. pertaining to ice, may take place a or a
million years hence, just like
they were going to be here to
be effected about conditions ex-
then. Foolish people
The astronomers and
are making much ado over Mars
just now-, that planet, according
to calculations, now being with-
in miles of the earth.
Even with that nearness to us,
there is not much likelihood of
getting on speaking terms with
our neighbor One
professor says he discovered the
south pole on the planet with
h telescope,
Mr Fred L. Merritt, who for
some time has been land and
industrial agent of the Norfolk
A Southern Railway with head
quarters at Norfolk, has taken
the general agency of the New-
Orleans Groat Northern road,
which is quite a promotion,
him larger and more
duties. Mr. Merritt is one
who always makes good, being
an active worker in whatever he
engages.
Not believing in the Trinity
Of the God-head to begin with,
and using the Sabbath for a work
day just like he would any other
day, it need give no surprise
that when President Taft reach
in his journey he ex-
tended the glad hand to the
Mormons and gave them much
comfort.
on one money crop to
exclusion of home supplies The
farmer who has well tilled
and smokehouse does not feel the
pinch of low priced tobacco like
the man who has his corn
meat to buy.
This year's ought
to convince farmers that it is
best to practice greater
of crops We believe
another year will show a larger
number of them in Pitt county
who do not place their
A wrong travels faster than a
right is sometimes never
overtaken. Mr. C. L. Coon,
superintendent of schools in
Wilson, sometime ago went to
Atlanta to rood a paper before
educational meeting, and in
that paper gave obtain- j
ed from nobody knows where, i
claiming that the of
North Carolina paid more in
taxes than was expended on
schools. This statement
of Mr. Coon has been taken by
certain Northern papers as a
ground of attack upon not only ;
this State but the South, and a
great injustice has been done.
State Superintendent J. V. Joy-,
has shown the absurdity and
incorrectness of Mr. Coon's
but the papers that have
used the latter will take no
pains to refer to Mr.
statement correct the wrong
that has been done.
Peary is a line one, and if he
goes much fort her his assaults
on Cook he will get the public
to believing he did no really
reach the North Pole. He now
says he is not going to give out
any of his own polar observations
until Cook has p aced his full
statement before the public.
Nice game, that the
other fellow to show his hand
and then will play according
Iv. Of course Peary Ins much
knowledge of the polar regions,
and to gel in possession of the
observations made by sonic one
who had actually reached the
pole ho would shrewd enough
to up his- own statements.
No doubt his purpose is to try
to pick such Haws in what Cook
says as to discredit the latter,
but in tins he will hardly
The fair thing would be
for both of them to submit their
observations to the scientists at
the same time without either
having any knowledge of what
the statement of the other con-
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In a Popularity Open to
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Contest Begins Saturday, Oct.
OUR AYDEN DEPARTMENT
IN CHARGE OF W. E. TINGLE.
Authorized of Tin- Eastern for
Any kind of machine
needles, shuttles, bobbins tr belts
at J. R. Smith Co.
i vicinity. Advertising rate tarnished
BETHEL ITEMS GRIMESLAND ITEMS.
Bethel. N. C. 1909. N. C. Sept. 1909.
The I. O. F- had one Mrs. W. A. James, of Ashe- Mr. and Mrs. G. Moore re-
of the biggest days an old resident of this turned from
ever had in Ayden. The streets is here visiting friends
were lined with all day. and r Everybody
Spring dress Roods laces and I welcomed her to her old
to match at J. R. Smith of
A. C. L. R. R. has about
shed to the cotton
platform.
Mason and Lightning fruit
jars, rubbers and caps at J. R.
Smith Co.
J. J. Gentry spent part of
Thursday out of town.
fitting, rubber and
belting, rope and pulleys at J. R-
Smith Co.
Indian Little Chief gave
an interesting program at the
graded school Wednesday night.
T. W. Wood turnip and
rutabaga at J. R. Smith Co.
Mrs. Agnes Blount and sister,
Miss Nannie Nichols, left this
morning for Greenville.
School books and stationary
at J. R. Smith Co.
J. F. and J. J. Smith
left Monday morning.
Lawns, Laces and
at greatly reduced prices at J.
R. Smith Co.
Lee Sauls, of Black Creek,
spent a few days with his
brother, M. M. Saul's.
hose for
has come into our midst as a
saleslady for Blount Bros. W
give her a welcome to
town.
The meeting at the Baptist
closed Tuesday night with
several additions to the church
Rev. Mr. did tr Kid
preaching and made
friends in and around Bethel
The new brick building new
the depot, is fast hearing com-
and ill be used for
offices by and
Ward-
M. and N H. Blount.
Bullock and Dr. Manning
made a flying trip to Greenville
Friday. They wore none from
here but hours.
Mrs. Eva Cobb, of Mildred,
and her Julia
of Washington, D. Were
pleasant in re last week.
Miss Mary of
is spending some
with Miss Maud
k.
John Sherrod, of Whitakers,
Sunday and Sunday night
in Bethel,
M. and M. K Blount spent
in
Misses Manning and
more last week.
M. Levy, of was
with us a short time Friday.
R. A. Fleming, of Ayden,
spent Saturday and Sunday
n -re.
O. J. Galloway and Frank
Taylor went to Norfolk last
Wednesday on the excursion.
Rev. J. R. Tingle, of Ayden,
his appointment
in the Disciple church here Sun-
Hon. J. J. Laughinghouse.
at State prison,
in our a short time
last week.
Miss Galloway, from near
Galloway X Roads, was visiting
Mrs. J. P, Wilson Sunday.
Ed. Matthews, of Washington,
was up to see us today. We arc-
always glad to seethe old boy.
Grimesland came very near
having to suffer from a fire this
this M. M. Smith's
house caught on fire, but with
the aid of the good citizens and
others succeeded in extinguish-
f the
Store.
The contest for the beautiful
up-right piano at the Central
Mercantile Company's store is
very rapidly and
the people are interested to know
who is going to get this grand
prise. Folio is a list of the
leaders There are hundreds
Other C but space for
bids publishing.
J. R
Lizzie Cox
St. church
Lula Taylor
Eula
Annie Edwards
Ann Lyn Savage
Janette 5-l
Sycamore Hill church
Tucker
Annie Daniel
Lawrence Fulford
Baptist church
Methodist church
W. H. Arnold
Marv Rives
Frieda Briley
Roland Jenkins
Jennie Congleton
S.
A. M. E. Zion church
Get in the race and work, the
lowest may be the leader at the
close of this great contest.
Not h mil should be lost a
show of croup.
Cough Remedy given as soon
as th- becomes , or wen
the cough appears, v.
before very much pier, t attack. Sold by all dealers.
damage was done.
., a ., of i i f the graded school
gentlemen and children at J. 1- .-j at
homes,
Smith Co.
Mrs. M. M. Saul's and
Thursday to spend
time with her sister who
been with her in Ayden the
past few weeks.
patterns and magazines
at J. R Smith Co.
Ayden now
like herself since the cotton
market has started up. with h. i
big tobacco market we have
lively town.
Lime, cement, windows
doors always on hand at J. R
Smith Co.
The Athenian Literary
of Bethel High School was re
h, with the
following Baxter Car-
son, president; W. C. White
vice president; Miss Man-
secretary; Miss
Lloyd, Mist
Parker,
Miss ;
Prof. J. B. Martin, chaplain.
J. Talley, railway postal
S. Ry., left
afternoon for Raleigh, to
his work, running from
to Norfolk.
P. M. Johnston for your
mill supplies and mill repairs.
All work G
Care In Preparing Food.
in recent rear, scientists bare
r T-
It is used In connection with largely by its
In. Colic, Cholera and suit Is the most stringent rood
Remedy it means it to laws bare ever been k
dysentery or bowel
It is pie lo take and
valuable tor children sad adults,
by all dealers.
Try a bucket of use
one third less than lard, at J. R.
Smith
A visit to the large
plant of J- R. Smith Co.
Dixon will convince you that
they can furnish you with
lumber to build a Louse, and nice
material with which to complete
it, such as mantel,
and turned work. Sell
you a open or top bu
wagon, cart or wheel
barrow or repair any of the above
for you. Make wire doors
and screens for your windows.
Shoe your mules and horses;
grind your corn, gin your cotton,
while you live, and then can fur-
you with a nice coffin or
casket and hearse for yourself
or Come to see us,
Yours to please,
J. R. Smith Co- Dixon.
Mrs. Joe remedies,
Perkins Tablets and
medicines at J. R. Sn it i Co.
Mill supplies, belts and a full
line of hardware at J. R. Smith
Co.
School books, Bibles and
at J. R. Smith Co.
K. Elite, a good top dresser
for cotton, at J. R. Smith Co.
royal blue shoes for ladies
and gentlemen at J. R. Smith
Co-
J. R. Smith Co- Dixon will
furnish you bagging and tier free
for nothing and gin your
cotton for the twentieth pound
and pay you cents per bushel
for your seed, The proposition
is very popular and people from
quite a distance are hauling their
cotton to them.
Let for Salt
North Carolina, lo
minutes walk Caro-
Training School, corner lot
lots lot
with good dwelling,
rooms pantry and kitchen
For full information, write or
apply to F. C- Harding,
Greenville, N. C.
NOTICE.
II. Smith has purchased
A. D. Cox in the
Carolina Milling
Co. and will conduct the bus-
lien at the sane place- All .,
promptly looked after. Mr. brands an-oaten.
Cox will still with the , hot climate,
Company.
Chamberlain's Colic. Cholera and
is today the best
known medicine In use the relief
and cure of bowel complain., tear s
dysentery, and
should be taken a the t unnatural
looseness of the bowel.-, it is equally
for children and It
always cures. Sold all dealers.
One food that has stood out
neatly as a perfectly and pure
food and which was as pure before
the enactment of these laws as
could possibly be Is Quaker
conceded by the experts to be the Ideal
food for making strength of
and brain. The best and cheapest of
all foods. The Quaker Oat.
Is only manufacturer of oatmeal
that has satisfactorily solved the prob-
of removing the busk, and b .
peeks which are so annoying
Starts Difficult Bot
Same.
Com
that is a
val here this week, met with
difficulties the first day
managed to pull over them.
Hauling down
from the A. C L. depot and
pitching the tents and
booths on the Williams lot had
to be done in disagreeable
and the men having to
work disadvantage
i made slow progress.
Still i hen many of
the ready t begin
Then a further handicap arose
when the town
was i able to fill its of
the contract by providing lights
for the grounds and tents. As
the electric light plant, is heavily
loaded with the to
in carry, adding the
lights necessary for the carnival
was not considered, so the plan
was to place a smaller dynamo
at the mill, near the
carnival, and furnish the lights
from that point. This
have been all right if it had been
gone about in time, but being
put off until the lust day it was
found that from something being
wrong the dynamo could not be
made to work. This caused
disappointment
The carnival people
some tent oil rs and
enough of these were brought
out for one of the shows and
some of the booths to tun A
large crowd of people went down,
ard these to
and around the few place open
made too much of a j t-n for see-
anything to advantage.
The one show was open
Monday the was four-in-
one museum. This proved quite
business. In is a monks
family. tremendous
animals and the
girl. In the same enclosure
with the latter were several
snakes she h,
now and then ; I or bitting
off the of One as V her
fancy.
The electricians think
i v e with
the dynamo d t
sight, ct i i.-i
good i i . for
Slights In th y
not have . e
carnival s u
lights . i . .
All the n
mad B-i I i -i
ready m-i w .
i II e
. ct it
dance n c
plantation, Jesse Jam L i i
Christ th i arc
Then there are I in- c
a-id
Twice a day Ms Gav, 4.80
,;. in. will dive fro n a
tower n a t
A m water, turn-
backward
h ;. up I ; after-
serenade, ate mu-
ins. w on several
-s in -i with other
Royal
member of n b in I is now
wearing -i Gr slogan
button.
K ti proprietor of
carnival and
quite an a relation. He
it ids and
personal r from
all parts if the
, keeps fresh and sweet anywhere.
REPORT CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF AYDEN
AT AYDEN, N. C.
At the Close of Business Sept. 1st, 1900.
HOPE WELL ITEMS.
Resources
Loans and discounts 66,020.96
Furniture and fixture.
Demand loans 5,000.00
Due from 1,604.78
Cash items
Gold coin W-00
Silver coin, including all
minor coin 008.06
hank and other
Notes 1,019.00
Total
Oct
Liabilities
Capital stock 26,000.00
Surplus fund 12,600.00
Undivided profits, less
cur. exp. and taxes pd. 666.18
Dividend unpaid
Bills payable 6,000.00
Deposits sub. to check 88,016.30
Cashier's outstanding
Total
77,174.07
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF , , .
I J, K. Cashier of the above named bank, do swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my
Subscribed and sworn to be- Correct-Attest j
fore me, this of Sept.,
HODGES.
Notary Public
MISS C. MEREDITH,
Graduate Nurse
Ayden, North Carolina.
J. It- SMITH.
R. C. CANNON.
DIXON,
Directors.
Hope Well, N. C, Sept. 1909.
Paul of Winterville
school, spent from
day until Monday in this com-
Thad Cannon and Miss Lula
attended Sunday school at
Corey's school house Sunday
Miss Charity Worthington and
T. E. Skinner spent Sunday
afternoon with Miss Ethel Mum-
ford.
Charlie Taylor, of Greenville,
spent Sunday at Charles Smith's.
Miss Bertha Stokes, of Stokes-
town, is spending; this week with
her sister, Mrs. R. Cannon.
L. J. spent Sunday in
D. L. Skinner spent Sunday
near Hanrahan.
B. D. and wife spent
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. J.
R.
I. A. sold tobacco in
Greenville Friday and was r
pleased with his We wish to call your attention to our new fall
P J. C. Skinner and Misses Lelia we now have. We have taken great care th yea and we
Skinner spent i
Saturday and store.
Come let us show you.
W prepare to furnish you with
House and Kitchen Furniture
at the prices. Cash or Installment.
Come to see us and we will convince you
AYDEN FURNITURE CO.
NEXT DOOR TO
n a
Constable Skinner had a . CO., Ayden, N. C.
hone put in his house last week, I v
A FEW OF THE MANY FEATURES YOU WILL SEE
Marion Sheridan and Her troupe of Performing
Professor Herd of Performing Elephants
Including DUCHESS. Largest Elephant in the world
the beautiful ten thousand dollar Ken-
horse A truly wonderful display of Trained
Animals. people, horses and Ponies.
funny Clowns.
An Pro-am Events. Bring to
BABY Elephants, Camels. Li.-- s. Monkeys, ard Bi free Spec
Street Parade, the Show Grounds at a. m.
O'clock p. m. and at Night.
OUR PIANO PHARMACY
Now Open.
WITH the exception of two makes which haw not reached us
yet, the most of the makes which we intend to handle are
no w on our floor, next to Carr Atkins Hardware Co.
The grandest display ever n. In m of
pianos can be Ken, artistic Lester strictly
piano is used in the leading Conservatories of the U. , among
them in the New England Conservatory, Boston, largest musical
institution in the he East Carolina Training
School. Greenville, N. C its music departments
with these famous instruments The owned Henry and i. U.
Pianos, this is e ct the most noted the
pioneers in the piano industry in this country. Of this piano we
quote from the music
is considered to be of the really
and expert piano makers we have living today. He is
also recognized as an expert ca e drawer and his reputation tor
developing the same is to none in the trade. He
eminent as a maker of scales of
FIVE POINTS
Everything New and Modern
COMPOUNDED
by an experienced druggist, only
AND FRESH DRUGS.
MUSICAL
Six other makes and Among;
those Boudoir known the
r ever manufactured ever like A truly
piano is the favorite . t the little pianos. V
thus quote the celebrated Madam Emu a j the
which I purchased tor n private use last P
and used by me in my I I our I desire Ml
that th s piano certainly proved itself to be a little t i
st the whole truth. I am enthusiastic this little piano
a quality of tone that is west and sympathetic, being
practically to accompanying my v e v e
if nit pianos It
truly a wonderful little and I n.; expose n ire t. r
.
We e the public to our Are
the purchase of pianos, or have you in -tour hone , n
trial and look a and your home a be -i
pier and your pocket will remain decidedly in .
c i Terms to your convenience Com i to
t-.- , lest.-. Milton Bros. . c
Daily recitals.
A full line of Fine Stationery, Toilet Supplies,
Cigars, Tobaccos, and everything handled
A First Class Drug Store
PURE CANDIES ALWAYS ON HAND
Nicest Soda Fountain in
Ice Cream exclusively.
Our Fall Stock
is now complete.
of Dr. E. A. in of Pharmacy
TOOLS.
and
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IMPORT BULBS;
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Remember headquarters I
for Cal j
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Raleigh, N. C.
S. J. NOBLES
BARBER
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The Reflector job work.
Nicely furnished, every
thing clean d
working the
best barbers. Second to
none in the State.
Cosmetic a specialty.
, in are made by me
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making h and
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and in make a lot drills to i v n-.-v
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but . Jo. .,.
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knew Hie ii .
willed I lie wen Believe In It.
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We have in a line of Coat Suits
for the fall. A new line of and
Children's Cloaks. Our Shoe Stock is as
strong as the strongest. We carry the
celebrated Hamilton Brown Shoes for
men, women and children. Our Regina
and shoes for ladies are here
and cannot be surpassed as to style and
quality. The
Dry Goods, Notions, Silk and
Grocery Department
is not lacking.
The Cotton Ginning season is here, and
be sure and give us a chance before buy-
your bagging and ties. Remember,
when you get ready to fence off your
peanut patch for your hogs, we have the
wire to do it.
ATTENTION
When you spend your money with us you
have a chance to
Win A Piano, Free
CENTRAL MERCANTILE
COMPANY
J. F. DAVENPORT, Manager.
Our m is now visiting the Northern markets, where she will purchase
the most stylish headgear for our millinery department that Paris and
other leading can make. She will assure you that when you have
seen the styles that will be on display at out; opening, and watching the
leading style w ill admit that she has the latest styles of the
season. Mrs. James, Higgs, and will be glad to show the ladies
these beautiful hats at our opening.
The Big
Store
The Big
Store
Get Ground in Greenville
I am now offering some very desirable Residence lots for sale.
If you are expecting to build you a home or want to make a paying investment
it will be to your interest to see me.
also have some splendid Manufacturing sites on railroad sidings for sale.
Terms to suit purchasers.
b C- ARTHUR, Greenville, N. C.
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO INVEST
Furniture until you have carefully inspected our stock.
We have on our floors the most complete e of
of every description ever shown in Greenville and we invite
you to inspect our line of
Mattings, Art Squares, Window
Shades, Toilet Sets, Etc.
In fact everything to make your home comfortable. We
are also sole agents for the celebrated Royal Electric Felt
Mattresses, which his no equal.
Taft Boyd Furniture
Company
LEADERS IN ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE
GREENVILLE, N. CAROLINA
C D. TUNSTALL
Opposite Center Brick Warehouse.
General Merchandise.
Furniture And House Furnishing Goods
For Cash or on Installments.
In Building Formerly Occupied by Dispensary. Large Stock of everything
Heeded in your House. Our Pi lets in low.
BROWN SAVAGE
J. S MOORING
Now n Sam White store on Five Points. More room and larger stock. Com
to me.
General Merchandise
Ii you want your HORSE to
fast and pull strong; buy Tour
Hay, Oats
and Corn.
of W. B. He will sell
you Better Feed and More for Lea
Money than any man in town.
W. B.
Place is headquarters for Corn.
Oats, Cotton Seed Meal. Hulls,
Brand, Chicken Hominy, Cracked
Corn, corn Meal and all kinds of
Feed, Salt, Lime and Cement.
J. C. LANIER
IN
Monuments
Land for Sale.
A tract of acres, acres
cleared, will produce any crop grown
in North Carolina. Situate
between and in
Martin county. interested
should call on or address
M. G, Warren, N. C.
Stones
Iran Fencing
Subscribe to The Reflector,
Cobb
NORFOLK, VA.
Cotton Buyers, Brokers
in Cotton. Grain
and Provisions,
PRIVATE WIRE
to New York. Chicago
and New Orleans.
Unhappy Marriage the Lot of
Famous Men.
sun warmed my roof tree;
the marriage was a blunder; she
was nine years ray Seldom
did the last of the Victorian j
novelists, George Meredith, refer to
his first marriage, in with j
Nicholls, widow of Lieu-;
tenant and daughter of
Thomas writes an I
paper. But on one
be broke the silence concern-
that unhappy episode in his
life with the foregoing pathetic
words. It is some satisfaction to
know that when the first Mrs. Mere-
died, in this gnat writer
enjoyed twenty years of much
happier domestic life with Miss
a lady of French descent,
whom be married in and who
died in
Several other men of genius con-
temporary with George Meredith
had reason to regret the
yoke. John for in-
alter falling in love as n boy
with a beautiful French girl whom
ho wooed with poems, romances,
dramas and mute worship, receiving
nothing in reply chilly
and lively ridicule, married
at the age of twenty-nine a lady
great beauty, C. Gray, of
a family long intimate with the
Buskins. The marriage, we are told,
was arranged by the parents of the
couple, was a somewhat hurried act
and brought no happiness to
Buskin was immersed in is studies
and projects, while his wife was de-
voted society, and six years after
marriage she left him, obtained
a nullification under Scotch law and
ultimately became the wife of John
Everett
Then there was George Frederick
Watts, tin- famous Royal
who. when he was years
of age, married Miss Ellen Terry,
who was not then out of her teens.
As might been anticipated, the
union of two such artists, only one
of whom was permitted to pursue
his art. was tempting disaster,
after short time the
dissolved. Subsequently Watts
married a Scotch lady, with whom
he lived for years in great
Tragic h the extreme was the
marriage I to Jane Welsh,
whose heart had been given to Ed-
ward Irving, but the gifted orator
was engaged to a Miss Martin and
was held to his vow. The absence
of love coupled with the had
per irritability of the famous
historian led to much
both for himself and his wife, who
confessed that the years were to
her the of
Most of us have read of the
fortunate union of Lord Byron to
Miss the only daughter
and of Sir Ralph
a wealthy baronet, and how after
the of a child Lady Byron
went to her father and refused to
return to her husband. Subsequent-
a formal deed of separation was
signed. Then there was Shelley,
who married the sister of a school
fellow without being really in love.
Ho separated from his wife and
married a second aft-
his wife had committed
by drowning herself in the
Serpentine in Hyde park.
In the annals of literature, how-
ever, it would he to find
even in fiction a more amazing ex-
I ample of enmity between husband
and wife than that which existed j
between Lord and
Wheeler, a beautiful Irish girl,
whom he married in 1897 despite
tho protests of his mother. It was
a most unhappy marriage, even
after the separation, in 1838, they
referred to one another in the most
York Mail.
Obeying the Autocrat.
That flue old New England. Pf.
Oliver Wendell Holmes. down
rule that the law of tho
a man to two looks lie every pretty
; woman. This fair and proper
provokes no complaint In Kansas City,
It is not commonly
we have to an
to n locality with more women
worth looking at than are seen on
of Kansas City every day.-
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r American
Steel Wire Co.
A Found, substantial, enduring fence,
built on tho elastic,
most scientific, practical and per-
fence principle known. It yields to great
and sudden pressure but returns again to the
original shape. . . .
Thoroughly galvanized and protected against weather.
FOR SALE BY
J. R. and J. G,
ABOUT
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UR CLOTHES
THE time to con-
sider where to buy, and what to
buy.
We don't mean to dictate to any
clothes they should buy, but if
you will allow us to put you into
of our
Hart, Schaffner and Marx
new models, you will be readily con-
what to buy and why we say
so much about Hart, Schaffner and
Marx Clothes.
The all wool fabrics are a special
point for Hart, Schaffner and Marx
tailoring
the extremely fashionable style
give the H. S. M. Clothes an
not to in other
makes.
Some of the fashions for
men are exceptionally good; the cu
and finish are exceedingly
and we can promise you
out of the ordinary.
For all apes, sizes and tastes,
stouts and slims, we have the right
clothes.
Prices, we can fit your form, we
can fit your purse.
C. S. FORBES,
THE MAN'S OUTFITTER.
SUMMER IS i
And now is a good time to have
r suit nicely cleaned
pressed, so it can be put away
kept for months. It is time
bring your overcoat and have
it cleaned
perhaps a new
or re lining. A little work on it
may save Buy a new one.
am ready to do this work for you
as it ought to be done.
PAUL The Tailor.
DAIRY PRODUCTS.
have moved my Dairy Io the .-.--
son place, one mile from town, and am
i better prepared than ever furnish
all y Products, Will make delivery
In town. Phone T 2-4.
S. I, DUDLEY.
h B. JOHNSTON
PLUMBING and
STEAM FITTING
Op.
TO RICHMOND, VA.,
on account Virginia State Fair
round trip rate of Tickets
on sale Oct. 1st, to 9th inclusive,
final return limit October 11th.
For further i; call
on ticket agent or v .
W. Craig. T. C.
Wilmington, N. C.
IF
.
C. CARROLL I
Rates on Ar j
GREAT LONDON
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i of Id
here is n bins c
L- i
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in is
. , Barb r
For g a . e r l
Kb i t write A. G.
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of
see or. earth than the urchin who
outside the bi . n views
; companions pass
j o. . . . .
nave from many
sf enable him to eat
Sinai tr lie
to assimilate and
. , . . keen
flesh
. III Elegantly
lo Substitute.
I. not, and
t-
New Carolina Indus
re stencils, but each one a stand-
n. aid, d acknowledged fame and
the n CM . in the trade Four
shown at th n Shit, play best
A v-r .-c makes.
i to a large city. We will take your old piano in
. one of these sell
en. also carry the
, AN, the standard of the
general in a c to CM in
f ice.; h to your
that stand here
anywhere. right
different makes to When in Greenville visit our
i i
In a
line that not .
, Barber Co. before him to enter paradise,
time the bid
etc. ind below fat his that he has
. . a lot of sine not able lo the
cur price of admission. He may
money by up later to be a great and
-V. L. and become president
. nice crockery United i, bu; he
Hi Co. does not care tor th
L for ice at would give all his chances in
. i. . . v . world for the possession of the
i slip of cardboard
.; prices j would put face to face
; it m the glees baboon.
the if you meet any such wistful
White.
Next to Can ins Hardware Co. store.
THE
REPORT Of TH CONDITION OF
BANK OF GRIFTON
Al N. C
, . i i . .
. .
. . .
. j
u I
i . U .
Hi
L. House Co.
. .
at the outer pale of
the Heart's Desire, aid
are moved by the memories
, All your youth to pas- him in, you
land up-lo-date. j will do a batter deed than if you
barber Co. found him hungry
a . e lot for he will digest
,, . . meal and need another
,, c, long, but a circus is worth
. b .;, missing many meals to see.
,, , . ;,, a , So go to the circus, and don t
. , it be so ashamed of wanting
A . that the exeunt that
to take c re
. A the children. Admit
the Sept,
the Trades
man reports the
industries established in North
Carolina.
grain com
R insurance
company.
publishing
company.
factory.
West works
system. ;
chemical RESOURCES
manufacturers. Loans and
pipe block
y. and unsecured
R tobacco Banking h . r.
factory. I F
electrical from Bi La
bile factory.
Wilson cotton s
the North the. close of business, Sept. 1st,
1.41
LIABILITIES,
Stock
,,
u.
C i
Ch
J.
i--.
t,. .
e. i
V.
and ;.
Al Co.
A N just in.
Come and i w styli
Barb r C ,
A. W. Ai . ft f. has .
a r ice lot of tin
.
. Ti. t. School D
e or y u. s e
I lie . d
; j fruits ; workmanship
, . A G. Cox Mfg.
I . Co. Winterville. N. C.
bargain ii lam twenty-five cent
dust
A Co. for twenty to six,
. . ten
, , with lamp c for five
s. ;. U cc its. W. I. House C.
I K i l our ware shiny
; pent new by u the famous R.
i . shine
S p, ; , i L House i
Co. All i lot of stove polish.
re d, ; nice lot of
I i c i
r t i ate
A. Co.
I am r i B ling oldest
Undivided profits. ex.
i 199.52 Bills
Time certificate 2.011
u. Hi Deposit subjects to check Cashier Checks 55.17
,.
. I
you like n. Go and eat peanuts,
laugh at the down and
young and again. Th
clown is another test. He will
be, t all intents and
the first clown that you ever
saw; and he will have the i
j I you attend in the
p i ; will laugh to
i pi . i. Th i is
not meant mil to your
sense of humor; his is the higher
function of testing the degree of
youth which you retain.
Howe's Great London shows
coming for two exhibitions Wed-
ITEMS.
N. C. Sept. 1909
and Bankers
j Cash v. ms
I Silver coin, it
minor coin our
notes
other U. S. notes
The Road to Total
has obstructions, none m .
state of north Carolina. of
is i t h j, . Gardner, the above-named bank, do sol-
U . is title to the best of my
G. T. GARDNER, Cashier.
John Z. Brooks,
C. J. Tucker.
W. W. Dawson,
Directors.
stomach, liver, .
s, in i urines and the knowledge bi lief,
blood, t-c d sworn to be-1
system body and ken . , , .
You can't fore me, this day
R. F. JENKINS,
No tan Public.
TI u
;, i e
You
ford to Bitters ii weak, in,
y. Only c
i, a i
Wore a Coat
OF THE CONDITION OF
Hall county a rare j
Beth Banking Trust Co.,
mow and
;.; WOW a
coat v a i. or. overcoat.
Mr. on Mr.
Gainesville a
few The
man a shirt, in winter
ho wear j hickory or cot-
ton check shirts the
AT BETHEL, N.
Al the close of Sept., 1st, 1900,
Mrs. Ivy Smith and Murk
Smith went to Bill Friday
and returned Sunday,
Mrs. Mills Smith and Mrs.
C. E. went calling at
T. E. Robinson's and B. P.
Saturday g.
Mr. B. P.
by, from near Farmville, were
Resources
Loans and discount
Overdrafts
unsecured
Furniture fixtures
Due from
Gold In.
minor .
Liabilities
weight by we He sleeps
r no blankets or piles of
himself
warm by his on red blood. He
has had the opportunity Total
of an education and
bill from a bill. He CAROLINA, County or Pitt,
coins, He
has been quite successful in life
Capital Stock 6,000.00
surplus fund 4,600.00
I profits less
expenses mill taxes 1,576.03
Bills 8,000.00
Time certificates of 8,889.70
sub to cheek 21,440.88
for interest
taxes
Total
917.92
and is comparatively well off.
Front th-
Herald.
I. w I Cashier of the above-named bank, do sol-
swear i it the above statement is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief. W. II. Cashier.
I mill sworn lo l.
i. .
strongest tire life b here Sunday evening,
s America. Mr. and Mrs. C. E.
e I also write wt to Farmville
J. S. R church.
Mr. and
A Hurry tip Call
Mr. Druggist Quick A boa
of Sal e
-For tin- love i f Moses, hurry
Baby's burned him-if I hi.-1
ii. cut his foot the
fore me, day of
T. Car. n,
Robt, Staton,
S M. Jones,
M. O. Blount,
Directors.
V an . stock
for d David Smith, of I
r .,. , ,.,. v.- our section Sunday
OF THE CONDITION OF
s THE BANK OF WINTERVILLE,
; M
, i.
; lit, a IS
fruits and Y u in.
vi i v. i. r
re res in i g the I
Art lift k;
. . the world,
l; bu
J.
i Rosabel r,
r i.
i, . ;. a
. ., ii h of whom . ire delighted
it. v.; i. tee her,
. w Bridgers preached
of i, est we
r i . r heard in the M. E church
i u I hare last Sunday morning, he
orator of a
high order. His lather, Rev. J.
for i B. Bridgers at night.
lain the oldest
an I strongest and life
. in the world.
o. . O Bee iii bank
. J. S.
b o. inn
t. tells For male oaf, six
o old, good stock,
to ltd J. L, Lanier.
. v . t
Is M J-
, . I Nash, were attending our
. She
ti t it an soon rated ; w family.
If. the i t. e. in. Sold
by all drug, is .-.
All T-132
t Green-
At
AT N. C.
he close of business, Sept. 1900.
school at Smith's school
ming,
. ti K T son from
b K . i
he i I . . i, . a a
. .
,. , to i
We had i . Sunday . . ,. , , ;,.,.,, .
I at Smith's i , .,.,,. . . ,,, s
. . , . . . .
t m
for
b Gold I it a
i I e v mi is
V v.
e; ii w I we
n for. its
; i , Iciest
; OF NORTH Pitt County,
Be . their E Green, Cashier F. A. Asst. Cashier
i.
Xi. m. day, as it v. e
beginning a
school L is just three
years old, ;
Mrs. F. Smith ho was of fall
sick at B, P. k
week, is well and returned hi me day, Oct. 5th. newest and
evening. best styles of the season will be
We had it stormy and rainy,
vitro to see th-
F. Lee ft Co,
Resources
discounts
secured
unsecured
Furniture and
Demand loans
Duo from and I I
silver coin,
minor
Nut bank notes and
s. notes
Total
Liabilities
Capital stock 15,000.00
., Surplus fund 660.00
profits, less
and taxes pd
payable
deposit 202.20
subject to 8,180.66
14,414.91
. i
Total
yesterday and com, Indications
this morning that we will
have some fair weather for a
few though it is windy.
Mills Smith and children,
Misses Ruby, and
went to Greenville today
to attend the carnival.
of the above named k, do inly swear that the above state-
is true to th lies of our knowledge belief.
T. A.
Asst, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to be-
me, this 10th day of Sept.,
1900. R. H.
Notary Public,
E. GREEN,
Cashier
A. G. Cox,
R,
I. F, Harrington,
Directors
mm SYRUP
N.-w Buckwheat u Meal
at S. M.
TO PURE FOOD AND DRUGS LAW.
FOR SALE BY JNO. L, WOOTEN.
eastern
D. J. Editor a d Owner
Truth In Preference to Fiction.
One Dollar Per Year
VOL. No.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA. OCTOBERS. 1909.
No.
TRAINING to begin work.
HAS MOST FAVORABLE
OPENING.
First Meeting of the
Association Saturday, Oct. 9th.
I The first meeting of the
More Than a Hundred Pupils Association will be
-Public Celebration he'd in the graded school
c d -j . u Saturday, Oct. 9th. at
lion pf Nov. 12th. . . ,
a. m. There will be no
The Bast Carolina ., . , for this
Training School had its as much of the time
opening this morning, and be consumed in
was so much
than, had been
every one connected with the
institution, and people gen-
are filled with delight
The start of indicates
that it is to ho a
and those who hive Inhered
for it are gratified to realize that
for future work.
The reading course, as
by the State superintend-
for teachers, will be
by Supt, H. B. Smith.
Prof. C. W. Wilson, of the East
Carolina Training
school, will also speak to the
teachers for a short time at this
their labors have in no -r of association.
been In vain. The officers, both of the
When October was first Association and the
elected as the date for opening Woman's Betterment
THE
for a Successful
Season.
As the time draws near for the
fir t. i the fall concerts to be
here interest in the event
glows more and
there is now every indication
that the opening audience will
practically the entire
population of Greenville. Ar
have been completed
by the ladies of the End of the
Century Book Club and only
some unforeseen circumstance
can at this stage interfere with
the success of the entertain
Dents.
The high standing of the Rad-
Bureau insures the
THE REFLECTOR PIANO CONTEST
INTEREST IN IT IS GROWING
IN IT IS
FAST.
BIG CIRCUS AT ROCKY MOUNT
Barnum and Bailey to Exhibit There on
Thursday, Oct.
The Barnum Bailey greatest
The List of Candidates Their Votes show on earth is to visit Rocky
are Published New
th sch o , w
f ., ii. the
inauguration of President R. H.
would take place on
Thursday, 7th, but circumstances
executive committee
not control interfered with
their plans arid it was found
necessary to d the public
celebration and of-I
the president to a later date.
After h between ex
win elected at
am aware of the fact that a
great many of the schools have
not opened yet. I am anxious,
however, that every teacher who
expects to teach in this county
timing the coming session,
whether her school has begun or
not, be present at this
meeting. Attendance upon
meetings is compulsory,
and trust, that, if this were
Governor Jarvis, chairman of the I not true, no teacher who pro-
committee, State poses to teach for us feels so
Joyner and Gov-j tittle interest in the educational
Kitchin, as to the most progress of the county as not to
suitable date for the State desire to attend every meeting
ears, and others expected, to be that may be held of this
during the present school
here, November 12th, was named
for the date the Cele-
and inauguration, and
everything will be in readiness
Ones Coming in.
Since The fleeter piano con-
test opened interest in it has
grown daily, and the contestants
who have already entered are
at work earnestly to secure the
prize. Since the list was pub-
Saturday some new
have been added, and others -ire
to be announced soon. The
contest will be a spirited one,
and while only one can win the
piano, The Hi Hector is rot going
to let the others labor
that., to be had in the m m
th
and the work of
of our best Known ladies who
have given their time and labor
to th- enterprise makes certain
of the rest. There is no reason
why the course, as far as it goes,
should not offer to the people of
Greenville attractions equal in
merit to those produced in the
largest cities of the South. As
a matter of fact this is precisely
what it will do as all the concerts
engaged for this cs are now
presented in those cities and
wherever they have
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL
The Visitors Here and Who
Travel.
Monday, October 4th.
0- V. York went
today.
W. H. Cox. of was
them with a cash at.
end of the contest in accordance
with the number of subscribers
each ha for the r.
Friend-, the contestants
should help them in working
for this hands -me prize. If
not already a subscriber to The
take it end let the
corresponding number votes
go to the candidate of your
choice. If you are taking the
piper, pay up your subscription
ht-ad as you
Mount on Thursday. Oct. 21st.
Never since the beginning of
time has an amusement enter-
prise so in size b en here
organized as this one. Its mag- j p. T. Anthony
is almost beyond belief.
All America, together with every
foreign country, has been a -cured
from end to end by agents of
this big show in search of novel
ties and the is a perform-
brim full of sensational acts
new to the circus world. In the
big Barnum Bailey show are
nearly stars, most of
whom are seen now for the first
time. A new sensation will be
seen at every performance in
the balloon Mrs W. H. Ward
This remarkable animal with its Deans went to Aulander
rider ascends to the-today.
i of circus tent in a W. and E
year
I think I can safely say that
this year will witness the beat
for these to take placed that sessions of this association that
date, which will be made a not-1 have ever been held in the
able day for Greenville, Pitt I county. This will be made
county, and the entire State, possible if ail the teachers will
this school is a State institution attend and show their interest in
and all people feel
in it
an interest
the work. Heretofore you have
been faithful and I believe it is
Yet the formal opening of the j only necessary for me to make
school today was not without, the announcement of this meet-
great significance, for it marks j in order that you may be
the beginning of an era that there, and yet do feel like
means much for Eastern North ling you to attend this first
Carolina. Every incoming train meeting in order that may
Monday and today brought begin and plan for larger and
dents to the school, while j better tilings. I will appreciate
the registrations had nut been if you shall respond to this
completed in time to give the first of the workers
I desire. Every subscription,
won high praise from the public,, the
and the press.
will come here, and k
only difference between The R fl and
them in Greenville and taking ail , n
trip to a large city in search and Do
an evening's rare entertainment f
of the railroad , ., .,,.
is the difference
fare. Let us not
wont to Has-
sells today.
Howard went, to Cone-
toe Sunday.
E. V. Smith went to
Sunday evening.
E. T. Firming went to
Saturday evening.
C. B. West left Sunday even-
for Wilmington.
Mr. and Mrs- W. M. Moore
went to Scotland Neck Sunday.
Miss
loon and descends to the ground
, returned from
W. Harvey have
Danville where
they went to attend the
I of their mother.
Miss of
only attend
some friend, and the paper. If
you nave favorite in the con-
test, get out and work some for
her. You will see below the
, names the candidates who
tractions to a
list for next year. I
The first
the Singers, of and r.- cm-
on Tuesday night of next week, should nave
j candidates in the contest. From
of these places word has
CONTEST FOR PIANO. come of some to be
nominated. on the names
these fine concerts but
the ladies such good will j
that it will add still other at-
in a shower of fireworks.
Nearly animal wonders
are to be found in the big i
cage menagerie, herds of
elephants, including one herd the Ayden teachers
th u actually play upon from Friday to Sunday
instruments in time and tone. zoning here with Mrs. G. W.
A of giant giraffes,
monster trained hippopotamus, j Mr. and Mrs. Long left
only r bi-horned rhinoceros Sunday morning for a trip to
hundreds of other strange Northern cities. Mr. Long will
boasts. Barnum Bailey's big. purchase good
new, free street parade is the away.
most gorgeous processional dis-j Miss Bessie Hellen, of Beau-
play ever attempted in who is to enter the training
history of circus business. Its a few days
tremendous size and to
can only be believed in the N Hart before school
actual seeing. It is natural to
this big circus to lead all
others in quality and quantity of
its street spectacle as well as in
other departments of the big
show, yet never in its splendid
history of nearly half a cent
has it displayed such extra-
as is shown this year.
BETHEL I fEMS
actual number today there are
fully a hundred boarding pupils
there, not counting those of the
town who will live at home and
attend the school. Such an open-
is truly gratifying.
At o'clock in the assembly
room President Wright conduct-
ed formal opening exercises, and
followed with a brief address to
the students in which
as to registration,
for books, classifying and
beginning their work was given.
for the coming
Contract, registers and blanks
will be distributed at this meet-
and not by mail as it
requested.
We are expecting you
day, and I trust that you will
not us.
W. H.
Supt Schools.
Commissioners-
Chairman J. P. was
The real work of the classes will detained at home by sickness,
begin Thursday.
The president and faculty are
very enthusiastic over the large
enrollment of students and the
fine appearance of the student
body, each of whom seems to
have come inspired with a deter-
to reach the highest
success.
The faculty is composed as fol-
t m to work.
it is open to ind
com
candidates
please,
at once.
Vote at
where they
Don't wait, but begin
The standing of the
noon today, so far as
At the Central Mercantile Company's
Store.
for the beautiful
up-right at the Central
Mercantile Company's store is
progressing very rapidly and ;. Es
the people are Interested to know
who is going to get this grand, Miss LoUie
prize. Following is a list of the James
leaders There are hundreds of
other contestants but space for-
bids publishing.
D. E. House came horn Sun-
day evening from
where he had been at the
side of his wife, who is sick at
the home of her parents. He
states that the condition of Mrs
House is slowly improving.
Tuesday, October 5th.
J. D. Smith went to Weldon
today.
Earl Harrington returned this
morning from Wilmington.
Mrs. A- L. Potter returned
from the regular meeting of the
Board of County Commissioners
on Monday, and Commissioner
B. M. Lewis acted as chairman
filling the position well
and carrying on the business
with dispatch.
There not much outside of
regular routine work to demand
the attention of the board, the
only exception being a petition
Prof. R. H. Wright, president, and counter petition relative to
Prof. C. W. Wilson, an election to change the
and teacher of pedagogy. J stock law boundaries on the south
Prof. H. E. Austin, teacher the river. The matter
was left open for investigation
Lynn Savage
Lizzie Cox
J. R,
Eula Langley
Peters church
J. B.
Annie May Edwards
Lula Taylor
W. J. Evans
Annie Daniel
Janette Tyson
Sycamore Hill church
Baptist church
Tucker
Flossie Whichard
Methodist church
Lawrence Fulford
Roland Jenkins
Episcopal church
Get in the race and work,
lowest may be the leader at
close of this great contest.
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1308
1346
1725
loon
Bethel. N. C. Oct.
Miss Whichard is visit-
Mrs. H. V. this week.
Mrs. W. -I. and child-,
ran went to Friday Monday from a visit
to visit her R. L. Smith and daughter,
R. A. Lloyd, of Vandemere, j Miss left Monday
t pent Sunday and Monday here, evening for Richmond.
Dr V. A. Ward was
science.
H. public
school administration.
Mrs. Kate R. lady
principal.
Miss Mamie E. teach-
of English and literature
and will be again taken up at
the next meeting of the board.
Miss Mavis Belle Evans
Miss Lillie R. Tucker
Miss Jessie Hodges
Mrs. John H. Cheek
Miss Christine Johnston
We know all the votes secured
are not counted in the above as
some have not reported. The
candidates can suit their
pleasure about letting their full
vote be published, but the names
of subscribers should be sent in
as fast as possible to the paper
can be started to them. The
list of will be
again Saturday.
Every day people going to
the music room of it
White to see the upright
Boudoir piano which The
tor will give in this contest. It
is a beauty, a gem of musical
instruments, and fortunate will
the
the
called to last
week because of the illness of
some of his people.
Miss Grimes returned
Monday from several days visit
in
Miss Lillian Smith, of
spent a part of Monday
here.
J. D. Bryan, T. R. Andrews,
W. J. Dr. Manning
attended the association at
Scotland Neck Sunday. They
had standing room on the
cars, but said they had plenty of
walking room from Parmele to
Bethel.
Misses Nancy Coward aid Lil-
Burch, who had been home
for a week end visit, left Sunday
to return to their school at Caro-
Institute near Washington.
Misses Mary and
Smith and T. M. Hooker
and Evans made the trip
back with them in an
bile, returning home in the
evening.
Leta Taylor, of Gold Point, were
here a short while last Saturday.
Mr. Guilford Andrews and
Mrs. Mary E. Ward returned
Misses Mildred Arnold, Gladys Monday afternoon from the as-
Andrews, Elizabeth Jones,
Christine Stancill and Gertrude
and J. D. Bryan, Frank Cobb,
Blount, Wheaton
per and Dr. Manning all went
out for a hunt last
Mis- Birdie teacher
of
Miss Fannie Mae Bishop,
Davis, I teacher of music.
teacher of history. E. Lewis, teacher
Miss Maria Daniel Graham, of Reflector,
teacher of mathematics 6th.
Miss Joyner
Association Next Week-
The Roanoke Association will
meet in the Baptist church here
a week from tonight. The in-
of the church is being
newly painted and carpeted in
readiness for it. A large attend
be the one into whose week. They came back tattered
it falls Christmas eve. Go and land torn, but Miss Christine
gentleman to let ;
see and test the piano, which
they will do with pleasure, and
you will delighted with it.
lino i pi n
v, r
aid bes
white l- ., shirt waists,
is expected and our cents, each.
will open their doors in enter- Be sure to see them
i W
Stancill was the lucky
tailing the
Misses Arnold. Belle, Jones,
Parker, Stancill and Wright.
with M. K. Blount on his auto
and Dr. Ward on his buggy, had
i pleasant trip Sunday
the out to Hon. s. M.
farm. The best part of Training
at Scotland Neck.
Miss Ora Carson is spending
this week in Williamston.
Mrs. W. H. returned
Monday from Salisbury, where
she has been to attend the state
Convention of the W. C. T. U.
Mr. Cowper, of Greensboro,
has been talking insurance in our
town today.
We regret very much to lose
our popular townsman
Peal. He will give his services
to the East Carolina
the D was the we fed it o,
fruit they enjoyed while there,
ant he, wish there were more
people like Mr. Jones.
Pulley i Misses and
all
we can for in
Surely he is the bes
that Bethel can furnish,