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If You Need
An Accident Policy
Talk to
MOSELEY BROTHERS
SMITH, THE HORSE MAN
At his stables extending through the block between
Third and Fourth has on hand a large stock of
Horses and Mutes that will sold at reasonable prices
BUY OR EXCHANGE FOR ANY HORSE OR MULE
YOU H TO DISPOSE OF.
At Third Street entrance to stables I am prepared to feed your horse
and take care of your vehicle when you come to town.
R. L SMITH,
Greenville,
North Carolina
FOR CHRISTMAS GOODS
YOU SHOULD GOTO
L. M. SAVAGE
NEAR L- DEPOT.
HE HAS A LARGE LINE OF TOYS of all kinds
ALSO FRUITS AND CONFECTIONS.
Everything you want to make Christmas joyous can be found here, and
the prices will SAVE you MONEY.
LET US DECORATE YOUR HOME
and you have no more rivers to cross or no more sorrows to bear, for you
get an everlasting job.
WELLS BROWNE
GREENVILLE, N. C.
DEALER IN WALL PAPER
Practical Paper Hanger and Decorator. Work done anywhere in North
Carolina. Mail orders given prompt attention. Interior Painting a
Years of experience has taught us in all
LETTER OF THANK.
lie N. C . Nov.
Mr J. F. .
North State Mutual Life In. Co ,
N C.
me to you
and the North Mutual e
d, for check of in pay
me you
on account of s . I hold one of
your comb nation accident, health end
fife when hi n bi d
a not issued other so
f as I v. I too re-
commend this policy to nil d
best insurance. Again you, I
am, yours,
J. D .
J. F. STOKES
will sell you the Safest, Best, and most Up-to-date
Life, Accident and Health Insurance
on the market. Will also buy or sell your farm; will borrow
or lend your money on best security. Interest in advance.
Office, 4th Street, GREENVILLE, N. C.
CARD THANKS.
We wish to extend to
the North Mutual Life
of n, N. C, for their
prompt payment of icy we held on
the life of our and the
J. T. We also to
k Mr. J F. Agent, for h s
further h to many
to the Fellows, of which
o he was a for lb
ii I kind e s to us.
MRS LOUISE ABRAMS,
and
Stables
is a household word among those people
of Pitt County who want
Good Horses
and Mules
A CAR LOAD JUST RECEIVED
They know this is the kind WINSLOW keeps. He buys in large lots from
the very best Western markets, and those who patronize him get the
benefit of his close buying and careful of every animal.
Christmas Turkey
Ii all of us had to depend on for the turkey that we expect to pot between
slats on Christmas Day, most would with a slice of tide. Bot don't
have in about your CLOTHES, SHOES, HATS and FURNISHINGS.
We can fit and suit you at any
price, and what is more desire-
able or for a Christmas present.
Men's Suits
Nothing
But
the
Best
is his motto, and that is the kind you want when you buy a horse or mule
for either pleasure-driving or work. You get the best on easy terms
when you buy from us.
J. E. Winslow
GREENVILLE and AYDEN, N. C. .
We are especially strong and
P can show values that you
don't find elsewhere. Give the boy a suit and
he will have something that him good.
we that we can save
money we mean every word
we say, and can prove what we say.
Pair There is nothing more
Hat or fair or mobs
a pair of shoes. And we have any style-at
any price-a man, woman, or child wears.
The most desirable stock in Greenville.
Space forbids to mention near all the mer-
that we carry, but we can show you
the choicest lines of
Clothing, Hats, Shoes and
Men's Furnishings
b A kiwi
in Pitt County. We don't offer you prizes to get your business, but offer
you value in every dollar's worth you buy. Our is new and clean
all the time. If we show an old suit we tell you about it. Beware of old
is worn out before you get it, and dear at
any price.
WHEN MAY WE EXPECT YOU
C. S. FORBES
The Man's Outfitter
.-.
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The Eastern
D. I. WHICHARD, sad Omar
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COMB.
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VOLUME
NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, 1909.
NUMBER W
GREENVILLE and PITT C
Summed up and Told By Some of Greenville's Representative
Unsurpassed
BEST TOWN IN EAST CAROLINA
Every Advantage Offered to Prospective Citizens in Schools. Churches, Business Opportunities
and Real Greenville, Yours if You the County will
be Found Best Farm Lands in the People.
THE PROGRESS OF OUR TOWN.
B, F. M. WOOTEN,
With a year of life filled with peace,
prosperity and progress, Greenville
with Us steady and strong develop-
has grown Into a splendid pro-
portion of municipal existence.
The spectacular development of the
few years preceding the one just
needed a growth to
sure and permanent those new
which,
cost tax-payers a great deal
of money. The present year has sup-
plied that need. And today Green-
ville In her attainments and strength,
stands out prominently as the most pro-
little city among the many
progressive ones In North Carolina.
Her Interest In education been
th. In Ufa during
this period, and Is today on. of Hie
chiefest aims of her And It
has accomplished wonders For in-
It made the Bast Carolina
Teachers Training School the most
successful educational institution. In
Us beginning, that the State has ever
seen. Its splendid grounds,
cent buildings, its strong faculty and
fine and large body of students, these
combined with the spirit of the com-
guarantees to the whole State
the permanency and usefulness of
institution.
The Greenville Graded Schools have
had a year of splendid success. Each
year these schools have added
religious, social
industrial to the whole community and
carried out Into the county its good
effects. Through the organization, the
Flu County Teachers Association.
Greenville and the whole of Pitt county-
have kept in beneficial touch with one
another and have thus greatly In-
creased and strengthened the interest
In education. And today the good
of these schools. Graded and
are more far-reaching and helpful
than ever before In any period of their
existence.
This too, has been a remarkably ac-
year among the many churches of
Greenville. It seems that the churches
now have greater Influence over more
people ever before, and they have
developed In our people a more friend-
a desire to reason
together In all matters pertaining to
community welfare. There is, of
course, a great deal yet to be
still this has seen much
good develop in this phase of our
lives. And as a factor in this, the
several classes of the churches
have not been least Important. In
fact, this writer believes that no plan
of religious work this community
has been so effective In reaching the
young men and awakening In them a
sense of their possible usefulness.
Also, municipal progress been
strong and substantial during this
a splendid municipal building
has been erected, new streets opened,
walks built, other at reels
Improved by using, sand and clay,
making truly attractive and
at a comparatively
small cost; a site for the
building has been acquired by the
United Stales Government. All these
progressive steps, and many others,
have been made during the year Just
closing, which carry convictions to
the minds all us that this
been one of th. most productive years
In Greenville's long life.
Such has been her busy life that she
has brought within her homes during
this year, attending to her material de-
and chief executive of the
Slate, members of the State Board of
Education, senators, representatives,
eminent editors, statesmen and prom-
educators, and these from every
part of the State.
This busy life and Its beneficial
Its fills the mind of every patriot
citizen of Greenville with pride in his
little city, and strengthens his hope
for a still greater development of her
men and women and material growth.
THE PROGRESS OF OUR COUNTY.
By F. C. HARDING, Co-.
While has been the
watch-word throughout the entire
State during the past twelve months,
no where In all the state the
spirit of progress been more active
and accomplished results than
in the county of Pitt; and no county
In the State has been quicker to rally
from the stress and pressure of the
money panic, or more rapidly gathered
renewed energy from the stern lessons
which It
Being centrally located in the East-
portion of the State, it is
ally an county, and yet
there are immense interests along
lines which make the county prom-
In the commercial world. It
has within its borders twelve
towns, three of which
lighted by electricity and six hat.-
banking institutions, splendidly equip-
with resources reaching n one
million of dollars.
In transportation facilities it is
surpassed by any county in the State,
the Atlantic Coast railroad pass-
through the entire length of tie-
county from North to South, intersects
the Norfolk and Southern
passing through of the
county from East to West, dividing
the county into four nearly equal sec-
The citizenship of the country Is its
greatest asset, and is the real source
of the progress of the county. Her
people are intelligent, energetic and
thrifty, and the wealth of the county
is well distributed among the masses.
The soil Is well to various
crops and with Intelligent cultivation
produces abundantly.
has reached a high degree of
perfection and Its soil and climate
make It the finest tobacco county In
the Stales, and produces not
only finer tobacco but more
than any other of its size in
the world.
Pitt county, with its large area, its
productive soil, its intelligent,
and thrifty husbandry; its
did transportation and Us well equip-
hanking facilities, is naturally
and easily of the most prosperous
counties in the State; and its pros-
Is restricted to a particular
hut extends throughout the
entire county and among all classes.
The masses In every section
county are becoming educated and
every township is justly proud of
numerous, large commodious
school buildings. The educational e n-
of the people throughout the
entire county is shown by the
gift Of DO. hundred thousand
dollar, by people of a single
comity for t of the
East Carolina Training School.
Along with spirit of education
has come spirit for good
and experiment has
the that county
clay prop mixed with Pitt county
sand makes a road is second to
none, and a new era of road-making
. dawned upon up.
j The spirit of progress in Pitt count y
has brought with it a spirit of
and public improvements
permanent improvements
synonymous terms. The energy of
the people is being expended in
build for the
The character of the public officials
of a county Is a Index the
progress of the people. Pitt
i; exceptionally fortunate in this re-
sped. Her public are broad-
minded and close at heart the
be.-t Interest of entire county, and
j tilth clean hands are administering
progressive and public-spirited
I The history of Pitt county during
the past year has been a history of
program along all lines of activity.
a progressiveness that is becoming
attractive to the of
interest to the investor.
THE S OF OUR SCHOOLS.
S need.
r for of re-
Pill
By W. H.
following of
fans, showing educational
i of On public schools of
Tin will probably of in-
to die public
There um six thousand white
in county, and ninety per-
of are in
schools, average being
per cent, of
The county has five d
schools tin ploying from to four-
teen teachers in These
schools so lot a at least.
fourth of the children in the
are enrolled In them. There are
twenty schools employing two teach-
AH in each s These schools
every convenience
US largely There are fifty-
live modern, up-to-date school build-
in county, in accord-
plan for such
of School
The value of property has n-
in the past seven y. from
to This does not in-
plant erected
during the past year by the State, in
Greenville, known as the Hast Caro-
Training School. Should
this be included, white school prop-
Of county will now be. In
round numbers. The
to schools in the same
length of time have increased from
to year there was
GREENVILLE
Ki In re In Ibis nil ill inn vim- picture truck
The and
of
i and of I'll lights, miter and
the year, bill tobacco prize
nut
of enterprises. Here Is she,, repair
the home rest room for
II hotels machine
like
rest assured till is retail r
If win Ice
in
Three hanks ha it ii
job
half s million furniture
best building loan
In the stores and
Carolina
fertilizer en feed sales
bow In session cot in n broker
any real estate-
schools excellent market
Rood churches for undertaker and streets
for mil mi factories of building;
of room for all
opera cabinet timer to
a Hi tie more than
local taxes.
Private to the public
in the county during past
t d to Ten new
buildings were erected during the past
year. Forty-live districts in the county-
hate and in these libraries
are more than five thousand volumes
of well books.
A Fine Corps of
The white schools of Pitt county em-
ploy one hundred and thirty-two
teachers, and only four of these hole
grade certificates. No
corps of teachers ever served In any
county than ibis county now has, and
has bad for the past few years
Hell. mi.
An active Woman's As-
is now doing groat work in
beautifying school grounds and school
houses. This collected and
pent the improvement of schools
during the past year.
Id -I Spirit.
Nowhere in North Carolina does a
spirit prevail, than
in the suburban and rural dis-
of Pin county, citizens
of no county are more loyal to the
cause of education. The schools
b. en reduced lo a splendid system; a
course of study is rigidly adhered lo,
thorough grading is Insisted upon at
all times, and every child Is being
given a chance. The term has
been increased during the past seven
from three and one-fourth
months lo five and one-fourth months.
A Matter of Contrast.
As a matter of Seven years
no there was not a two-room school
in the county. Only one school
had two teachers, and both
taught In the some room. There was
not a single graded school. u
not a local tax district. There was
only one painted there are
sixty. One half of the teachers held
second certificates. There was
no Association. There was
little life, less enthusiasm. There was
no rial system of schools, each school
separate and alone. There
was also bin demand for better
things. The plans for the future are
prudent, wise, and progressive. Pitt
Count will be satisfied with nothing
but the best, and it proposes lo march
to the progress along all
It every true to give
his Influence to every effort that tends
lo build Wisely and well, knotting that
the future of his county depends large-
upon true educational progress.
n use Jail.
Is n nourishing little
seaside resort, during the season
almost every room Is let at
good prices.
A visitor lo that delightful spot last
season Interested to observe a
soundly cuff a lanky youth for
misdemeanor, curious to
knOW the reason of the chastisement,
ho went over to the guardian of the
pence.
ho In-
quired I he visitor.
Lets, sir. Let me catch
tin at It give a rare
good
why i you run
the policeman.
bless ain't any.
body In this week.
let for Answers.
STOP LOOK LISTEN
THE
FARMERS TOBACCO COMPANY
has done more to make prosperity for the Tobacco Farmers than any other similar tobacco
business in this part of the State. By our work we have made enemies, but we want the
tobacco farmers to look into this, and see who they are, and what is the cause of their en-
Find a man who is opposed to The Farmers Consolidated Tobacco Co., and trace it
down, and see if there is not an ax to grind somewhere.
OUR WORK STANDS FOR ITSELF
To the plain common sense of the Tobacco Growers we have always appealed our cause, and
their verdict has been pleasing to us, and we know it has been to them.
We thank you for your patronage, in the future we expect to do as we have in the past.
Farmers Consolidated Tobacco
YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO INVEST
A Dollar
in Furniture until you have carefully inspected our stock.
We have on our floors the most complete line of
FURNITURE
of every description ever shown in we invite
you to inspect our line
Rugs, Mattings, Art Squares, Window
Shades, Toilet Sets, Etc.
In fact everything to make your home comfortable. We
arc also sole agents for the celebrated Royal Electric Felt
Mattresses, which has no equal.
Taft Boyd Furniture
A TRUE STORY OF
CHRISTMAS AT SEA.
Company
LEADERS IN ALL KINDS OF FURNITURE
GREENVILLE, N. CAROLINA
Furniture And House Furnishing Goods
For Cash or on Installments.
In Building Occupied by Dispensary. Large Stock of everything
Needed in your House. Our Pi ices are low.
BROWN A. SAVAGE
Copyright, by American Press
gathering of official-
M the Harbor dub. was In
Marion Captain Truman's more
down by the dock. Outside the wind
howled shrieked through the rig-
of ho fleet of coasting vessels
warped alongside the Main street
wharf, and unconsciously the men
bitched their chairs closer to the fire
a fiercer blast rattled the windows.
During a temporary lull In the storm
SI Tuttle broke the silence with
the following
Jest n Christmas eve
n this, along back In the eighties,
when I was old In
the good ship Ann. You
led her. don't you Hailed from
and could smash through any gale
that ever
course some wet on deck,
and the we pounded along the
rougher It got, and finally we bad to
turn and run afore the wind. Never
saw a gale to bang on
plowed through seas you could only
guess the height of. And dark You
couldn't see hand afore your face.
was five of us aboard, and
was pretty well tuckered out next
but daylight showed no let-
up, and, to make things wuss. n heavy
snow sot In. Seemed Bl if It turned to
, lee to SOOn as It hit the dock.
and afore you could say Robin-
son- the was froze solid, mid a
dozen men couldn't have
cast loose the dory.
about six the mate
I took the wheel, I went to
I get a bracer, when there come a heavy
I crash, and both masts went by the
I board I went up the
I In two Jumps. Lilt I reached the
deck the water was the
In tons, and the ship begun
to bear wallow like a sun; pig.
any use to
launch the dory, even If we had had
time, mid In two shakes of a dog's
tail the Ann rose high on the
top of a bug.- comber, quivered like a
lion and I Inn plunged bend first
beneath Hie waves with all on board
Captain SI stopped leisurely bit
off a chunk of cut plug, when some one
did
drawled tin- captain
blamed one of us drown
W. H.
Subscribe to The Reflector.
Dusky-I's
Is
-Puck.
Christmas Superstitions.
If dry en Sunday
A printer ye hell see.
with water t-irons;
there shall lie without fable.
For the summer shall be reasonable.
With storms at limes among.
that year shall all be
The harvest shall e wet with
pestilence fall on many a country,
lire that sickness shall have passed
And while great tempests last
Many young people dead shall be.
that year with Iron shall
There shall changing of many lords
high.
great debate.
Many tidings shall com to men;
Many wives shall be weeping then,
Both of poor and great estate.
The faith shall then hurt truly.
For divers points of heresy
shall then appear
the tempting of the fiend.
And divers matters unkind
Shall bring great danger near.
shall thrive, one and the other.
Save they shall kill each other.
And some shall die.
fruit and com will not be good.
Apples will be for food.
And ships shall suffer on the sea.
-From MS. In British Museum,
Fifteenth Century.
The Ancients and Electricity.
A writer in the
cites many incidents to
show that electricity was not
known to the and that
in a novel
the made use of
lightning conductors was well
founded. Instruments much like
modern were also
used, the says, by priests n
means of communication between
temple. There can no doubt,
he fays, as to the temple having
protected be lightning rod.
The Biblical descriptions show that
roof was provided with metallic
points held aloft by columns and
that these point, ending in chains,
terminated in great water tanks.
lie of which is vouched
for in the t book of Kings and
the second book of
Plenty of
While governor of Tennessee
Senator L. Taylor was once
approached by an old woman
who asked a pardon for her hat-
band, Bent the penitentiary
stealing a ling.
long ho been in
was
on two years came
the answer; law, he no
good to thorn no good to
me nohow, I speck they'll be
glad to rid
do you want to got him out
if he was of no use to
toll the truth,
done
AN EVENING
SPENT
With the most versatile pianists, could not
possibly bring you more enjoyment than you,
yourself could derive from either
The
Mayer no,
The Milton,
The Bros.
Or Lester
Player Pianos.
In fact, with either of these Player Pianos
as a companion, you have the advantage of
playing the music music you best
like, and playing it in that rich, full manner,
bringing delicate beauties of the melody
which even many skilled pianists fail to develop,
and this, possible with the veriest novice, with-
out your knowing one note from another.
We will take deaf and dumb piano in exchange.
TERMS TO SUIT.
When in Greenville, visit our Piano
the finest music in Eastern Carolina.
White.
FOR SALE
Beat Quality Rough Lumber De-
livered anywhere in Greenville or
on Tar river. Heart a specialty.
For prices address
Notice.
Wiley Whitehead, colored, or bis
heirs, is hereby notified to appear
in Greenville, N, C , on or before Jan-
1st , ti lay claim to proper-
bequeathed to him in the will or
Jennie , deceased.
This Nov. 1809.
J. G.
of Jennie
W. H. MOORE, Falkland, N. C U
Articles by Mrs. T. J. Jarvis, Prof. R. H.
Wright, Rev. B. F. Huske, and others.
. I
CHRISTMAS IN A LARGE CITY.
If MM Mil. II
en i stall a large
will our hotel late at
Br. II V .
noise everywhere, street ears and
of Had. We late the el
valor our room, on twelfth
ii o our we
find It as quiet in the
try.
is only a short from our
hotel to the shopping district, so we
om December see
Hen is one of the Shopping streets.
Just look; People, people, people
the walks, in
streets coining. going, landing
talking, rolling or stand-
and looking through
windows.
Here we gad;
letter, no lo plea,
one mob f
and person a
we follow woman and
her little boy. She is showing him
the They n doll store
and see all kinds of I
cent to a
dollar doll s it hands and
winks its Hui where is lb
little boy here he is at another
window looking a train on a
toy track over toy trestles
and through tunnels.
Thus we wander along Be
until we approach sir-
Here are many people Handing.
holding children and all looking
BO. Is Win Old Santa Clan
walking to fro on tie third Boors
of a toy store, lie is beckoning us,
to come in and so we go. Why we
are in a world of people
buying toys and old
giving to each little child.
my store we thread our
way through the places
we literally In the and
are carried along With the people.
Suddenly we realize it Is late In
day and we are M tired we can
stand o we will n Him to our hotel.
git and rest u little,
Is evening and era are again upon
the hut the has shifted
There are many, many more people
here than in the day-time. The shop
windows are lighted with
electricity. Hut people are not
shopping so much, they are walking
streets blowing horns,
and oilier noise producing annoyances.
It is a real carnival with a super-
abundance of confetti. Groups of
are going together having fun out
of all whom meet. The whole
street Is one mass of
humanity. The city Is pleas-
This continues until a
late hour, then they lake cars for
home and crowd gradually
away. So we go to our hotel and
come next day.
What a change The street is com-
deserted. The are all
closed. Where are the At
borne Christmas dinners and
enjoying a day of rest. Quietly
home busy townsman enjoys his
family and friends for one day and
Christmas over. it Is In a
big city.
THE TRUE SPIRIT.
IS
I. PUTT
And there wore in the country abiding in the Hold, keeping watch over their
ck. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone roundabout
them and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them for, behold, I bring you
good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all
perfectly it is right and best
for us to go to those whom we love
to their hands with that
will make I hem happier and more
comfortable and to fill their
with loving cheer that will
Ufa and tenderer here
in this faith, which once vis-
it us be thankful
AT CHRISTMAS TIME IN BRAZIL wort THE IDEAL CHRISTMAS IN GIVING
running the entire circumference of j
the under a widely projecting I , n. I.
B; 1.1.
for the
In Writing Christmas In Bra-
roof, all of which render the home of
Who does not rejoice coming
wealthy thoroughly yet how there are
it Is well to call attention to the when remaining in doors-. The poor who seem catch Its real
tact that d Janeiro, the capital humblest thatched Ideal is not which
of that great country, is twenty-three
THE MODERN CHRISTMAS DAY.
REV. I. F.
for The
As this time of the year people are
apt to be in hearing
about the way used to be
kept In the good old days before the
War, or In reading account of Christ-
mas celebrations in foreign lands;
but after all don't believe any of
us would be willing to exchange our
own modern for
any substitute- wain to go on year
altar ear making each other glad
with loving thoughts
on day when we
commemorate the Saviour's In
the hill country of Main en-
passed Bluet- was
cradled in manger of Bethlehem.
but morn It it ii t the world la
grateful to for His wonderful
to the children of nun on that, the
Urn of all days. So even
this year we are going show our
gratitude for the
Gift we have received by giving
remembrances, and by showing the
spirit to those whom we
love.
That's the kind of Christmas I am
glad to Will modern,
Christmas, we who
live on this Cod's human
give good gifts to one another,
tin Saviour Is given unto
ought to ordinary and
that there comes a day every year degrees south of the equator, and
the children are overjoyed by consequently seasons are the very
they find In their stockings, reverse of what they are here. With
when the houses are tilled with dolls Christmas conies In
and the noise of horns and drums. snow and ice and cold are
be day when Grandpa and verdure flowers are
wears new slippers, and Grandma scarce. There it comes in
a sad story that makes the tears when flowers arc blooming on
i mi down her dear old face. Blessed I every hand, and fruits and fields are
the day when we toys to I green beautiful. On
and raisins and inns lo cat. and day in the sun is so
nobody can hear a word for the above the City Its rays are
of the children. Christmas and they fall upon the so
may soon be broken, and that men walk in tin own shadows
home refuse blow, but we are imagine us. if you please, on
for the unselfish Joys of our the eve of the 15th Of December long-
human, Christmas big for half dozen electric fans In
tide. May nil these Joys be yours
dear r. and may all the rich
this happy season All
your bean It overflows.
Accessory.
To make n pretty handkerchief bug
two embroidered handkerchiefs are
laced together sides
ribbon through tho bending which
forms a part of fancy border.
Ribbon Is run through the beading on
fourth side used draw-
strings tor the bag and loops to bans
or curry It by. The handkerchiefs
may laced together entirely and
used n pillow, or by Insert-
a sheet of scouted cotton wool i
Blend of pillow a sachet for
wardrobe may In made.
every room if which we may the
occupant, while the burning sun
pierces down everywhere,
upon the stone shut out
and bay while the wall ii-
. grows so eggs laid there-
on are rooked in less than
if too indolent, hook worm
did not occur to us in those I
has only to thicken the nailing vines,
over walls roof which in tin j
i while will tangle
for feet in thickness, thus
affording a cool shade the
occupants of a single room, on the
Inside, as well as for and
other reptiles on outside.
sun when one is forced out of
doors Is simply terrible.
The till of July there being about
their coldest day of the year, and
the hottest week, the reader
may well Imagine that there Is little
if any celebration of the nativity of
our Lord, save in the solemn mid-
la marked with the license or revelry
but which
is crowned with most self-forget
and the giving out of self to
others. Thai was the Christ spirit
lie came not lo in- ministered unto.
. bin Always
If. lie gave even His life for others
eels Its spirit of love from
Christ, and iii observing the
Of His we should try
catch all of ibis spirit possible.
is worth while without love, and
show our best love in imparting n
others and stripping ourselves
Would you have an Ideal Christ-
mas; I ion OH cup
night mass that ushers In 85th overflow
f December; a rebuke I. ma, h.
be too often hilarious debauch-1
cry of day with us. Every hem
should rejoice in the bl I
hope given us in the birth or a Re-
of world, bin re-
halt en hour. Hut electric fans can j,,,,,,,, he harmony With the
mil be used; for any rung current
of air, unless it be the Trade Winds
ions magnitude of that event.
Brassieres.
If you have a stout friend make her
a brassiere. It can be of four widths of
three Inch ribbon. edges
b.
ore lit of the
PUt
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on salt sea. will almost in-
variably bad lo viol, ill colds
very often In pulmonary
or In chronic
so u single palm leaf for the poor.
a gorgeous lace fan for place With wide real her in front,
where It Is booked, and on slightly
ed lines over the bust. It Is held In place
by a ribbon over each shoulder, which
hooks to at each side
Less pretentious ones are of
cambric mi like ii l
I lie d
w III
lie
i hi
el. w Mil ii ll i
in when i darkness
slid these
light sympathy tin
bearing lo them a gift
ills Forgo the children
in their innocence, bin mingle with
and conn Unite to pleasure of Ir
titles hearts, If He things do
make yon an Ideal
Hun the saying is more blessed
hipped, not Hitched, These held In give was spoken In
one's name In diamonds on
are alone while
many of our doubtful
cream, almost entirely
boned.
The houses, however, are all of.
Is the houses of tho no-
and walls from
to three feet In thickness, with
vain.
kind reader, this is way
make Christmas ideal, if
never tried It, do so now. Forget
self for once, and spend the day hi
carrying happiness and gladness to
those who need II, and its
you will realize for
In your own heart that you little
dreamed could be yours.
which the soul baa
tor hard lo keep. The
iii- national holiday seems
in carnival of and
we are familiar with.
men reverently named
i Christ died, no more calls out
adoration of th- Hui
Christ mas is the pass-
years make Ha meaning more
We more and more re-
minded what the day stands for as
o Ii bring near-
i to world.
In and In i. lunch
I has been done to restore in
-o some of the work
seen Before my early
i the day was out of p-m-Ii-v and
la ii I knew well
of of
nun and women who made the
day us, for the worst excesses
mobs desecrated the
of Babe of
horrors of the
h the heart of a
and lie made ii a pan of his
work redeem time from
the disgrace Into which Ii had fallen.
of the of the
desolation
human bean was forgetful of
and careless of sorrows of
Its neighbors, cave the world
touching descriptions of the heroism
and of those who. having
could lo copy Christ
end make his birthday full of
and kindly deeds, sent the ghosts of
and Christmas pres-
s in come
through all the world, and the selfish
saw a their own
and glory of the good
could do. And so Charles
was the missionary of child
and i since his splendid stories
Wire primed people tried hard
lo make Christmas what ii ought lo
Of course we have fully
yet; reform takes a long time
do all Its work Some us arc
foolish enough
we spin-.- to buy presents for
who do not need and of-
ten would rather we had kepi our
cash for a wiser better
We our brains, make uncanny
journeys, work day and for
than nothing, simply lo remember
our gifts who are not In
in oil of them, and the gill carries
with it no remnant of the
spirit.
The true purpose of the Christ day
is To bring together the
happy, blessed people who have
precious things in abundance, and the
poor. sick, friendless, ragged, hungry
ones who are people
who have no true knowledge of the
beat, And they meet, these two sons
of people, make merry together,
not for the comfortable to make the
wretched their pain by their
gifts and leave them, but lo lie happy
together for Christ's sake on Christ's
day. Now I his can lie done by those
who have little money but much
which is In my short Journey
through world, in cities
full of wealth, or country places
a few hundred live, I have dis-
and village where
or misfortune had needy vie-
where there were lonely, empty
lives. Everywhere there Is someone
who would be grateful for a loving
word, everywhere is a need in man or
and season seems
cruel to those who bale no friends,
few clothes, and poor, hard fare. Ev-
mother out of her mother love
could do a little for them, give them
i Of sacrificial
something more
ions than money, coal thought and
lime and love, bin the good It did
would wot so much
in iii burden of pain from
breaking heart Ch rial man
day
Is i came in do- lo
by giving himself lie never
had much money, Man of
bill lie had love, and because he gave
world will all be
mi I from sin and sorrow.
I i Inn nun who give
i without love, do much harm. We
have give ourselves lo do good to
our fellow men. any one of
you who read these lines was all alone
Iii world, old mid nearly
ten, praying from very weariness that
on SOOn might leave it. You might
be always poor and sometimes
but if near you there living
one who was rich and offered you
money for a Christmas gift and an-
t.
Continued on
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FRIDAY 1909
but we hope these things can be
accomplished in the
year, and be if the pat
continues to increase as
it has the past year. Improve-
can only be made
keeping with the patronage, as
The Reflector has only its own
income to rely upon, but we
have faith to believe that the
friends of the paper will help us
to bring these things to pass.
Prompt subscribers and
plenty of them will help the
paper grow better all the while.
We want everybody to feel that
this is Greenville, our Pitt
county, and The Reflector our
A REMINISCENCE.
REFLECTOR
member well when all south of
the graded school was cotton
corn field, less than half
houses west of Pitt street,
and only four houses on
son avenue. And the editor i
not an old man, either.
OUR ADVERTISERS.
The reader has but to look
over the advertising pages of
this holiday-anniversary number
of The Reflector to be convinced
that Pitt county has some enter
prising business men who be-
in the use of printer's ink.
These are the people who make
a newspaper possible, ill fact a
paper could not exist without its
advertisers. get this hand-
Electric Way
is
Today, December is the
of The Daily
tor. Fifteen years ago it began
its career as a daily
being the outgrowth of The
Eastern Reflector which started
weekly thirteen years
that edition now nearly
closing its twenty-eighth year.
For nearly twenty-live years of
this time, a quarter of a century,
the present editor has been sole
owner of the paper and has
its affairs. In North Car-
a quarter of a century is a
long time for a newspaper and
editor to continue together with-
out a change.
By way of a little talk about
itself, which is not out of place
on anniversary occasions, The
Reflector can say that while it
is not all it desires to be, it has
no complaint to make. There is
nothing in its career of which it
is ashamed. It has always en-
to be clean honest,
to the motto under
which the first issue appeared
in Preference to
It has triad to make
itself a welcome visitor into
every home it entered, this
will to be its aim.
It may be gratifying to the
many readers of the paper to
know that it has had better
year than the one now closing.
The Reflector has more strong
friends today than it has ever
had; its circulation is larger
than at any time in its history,
and its pages show that the ad
patronage is more
liberal than ever before. For
this we can but express grateful
appreciation to one whose
patronage has helped to make it
it so.
What The Reflector has done
for Greenville and Pitt county
need not be mentioned, as the
results through the years of its
career speak for themselves
The greatest pride of the
has been in working for its town
and county, and its highest joy
has been seeing these prosper.
In the coming year The Re-
hopes for, and will work
for, even better things, both to
the community and to itself.
As to itself, some important
improvements in
One of these is a type
setting machine and faster
presses which we hope be
installed before the year is very
old, which will enable giving
more reading matter and putting
the paper quicker in the hands
of its readers. Another is the
adding of dispatches to the
news service, something we
have desired, but which the
A quarter of a century is
time for a business to con-
without any change in pro-
that is the re-
cord of The How
many other business enterprise-.
in Greenville can the reader
pick out that for twenty-live
years or more have been con
ducted without change, Of by n
man born here and who has
never lived elsewhere We
have been running over in our
mind to find these, and have
so been consulting the old files
of The Reflector, and few, very
few, are found.
In looking over the first copies
of The Eastern Reflector printed
in January, are found but
five names among the advertisers
that are familiar business names
here now. Those are James
Long, S. If. Schultz the
Old Brick Harry Skin-
John Flanagan, the
Flanagan Buggy Co., by
and Herbert Ed-
the colored barber.
The first Daily Reflector in
1894, does not add many more to
the list that are yet
there only found Frank
son, Wiley Brown, W. H. Long,
O. T.
I ford. Two members of the firm
J. B. Cherry Co. then are now
J. R. J. G.
Bros were also doing a business
then, hut they are now the
some large paper today
these business men have been
liberal with their advertising
patronage, and for the
reason you have able to
read the two Reflectors from
week to week and day to
for twenty-eight years. Of
course the people, the
Greenville business have
ugh all these years been our
largest patrons, The Re-
appreciates their friend-
ship support, and tries
ways to give them full value
more for every dollar they in-
vest with the paper, as it does
with
Two other towns in the county
also have this spirit, and their
business men believe
in their county paper.
Winterville had hardly begun
as a town before some of the
business men there
arranged to have a regular de-
The Reflector, and
it has continued as a feature of
the paper, for they realized that
it paid them. The same thing
is true of Ayden, and that town
carries its regular department in
The Reflector. You will find
these towns represented in this
paper.
This does not mean that there
are not other good towns and
good business men in Pitt county.
Farmville, Bethel,
Grimesland, Falkland,
Stokes all have
them, we hope they, too,
By
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FOR HOLIDAY GIFTS
A Sewing Machine Motor
An Electric Vacuum Cleaner
An Electric Chafing Dish
An Electric Coffee Percolator
Washing Machine, run by a Motor
An Electric Iron
Electric Cookers and Stew Pans
ASK US ABOUT THEM-WE WILL BE
PLEASED TO SERVE YOU.
Water Light Commission
Greenville Supply , ft
These things show how in their
years bring changes Of the, o
more a hundred business.
. , , paper to look over
establishments in Greenville to-
,, advertisement in it.
day, you can count on the
those here twenty-live years ago.
The longest in business here
is Ernul, the druggist, who
has been the sole proprietor of
his store since 1879 has
the same building nearly
the whole time. Dr. D. L.
James opened his dental office
in 1883 and has continued it
These business men invite you
to trade with them, and as said
at the beginning of this article,
they are the ones who mike it
possible for you to have a county
paper.
WHAT THIS PAPER CONTAINS.
Readers of The may
without a change except constant congratulate themselves
improvement in appliances and. the opportunity of enjoy-
skill as the years rolled around, j jUg the many excellent articles
The only others not make up the literary pages
recall who have been in this anniversary-holiday
business a quarter of a century and we feel sure every one
are W. B. Wilson, broker; W. will fully appreciate the feast
B. Brown, merchant; Dr. Zeno placed before them, The home
Brown, physician; ex- f. people responded gladly to our
Jarvis, A. L. Blow, Harry Skin- j request for contributions from
F. G. James, attorneys; their pens, take occasion
and R. L. Bomber, machinist. to thank them for helping
So The Reflector in its to make this edition so interest-
time has seen established nearly jg. The articles speak for
every business th town possess- themselves, and the names of
es. The editor has witness- the contributors are given with
ed the erection of every building At the same time re-
on Evans street south of the that other good
court house with the exception tides intended for this issue
of the residence of T. Mun-J handed in M late that we
ford and the old store on the not have time to got them
Mr. F. If, Wooten,
dent of the Chamber of Com-
writes on the progress of
Greenville; Mr. F. O. Harding,
chairman of the county Demo-
executive committee,
writes on the progress of Pitt
county, and Prof. W. H. Rags-
dale, county superintendent of
schools, writes on our educational
progress, each of these showing
the remarkable development
that has been made.
On the Christmas page Prof.
K. H. Wright, president of East
Training
School, writes about
in the Mrs. T. J- Jarvis,
who spent several seasons in
South America while her
band was U, S. Minister to Bra-
writes of in Bra-
Rev. B. F. Huske, rector
of St. Paul's Episcopal church,
writes of the Christ-
and there are other
on the Christmas spirit,
all of which will de-
reading.
In addition to these two
feature pages, you will find
other pages filled with choice
selected articles in keeping with
season and
All together this edition of
The is one which we
may be pardoned fur feeling
proud of, along with it goes
the wish that every reader may
ave a happy, joyous, and indeed
an ideal Christina.
Norfolk and Southern Railway
K. AND HUSH M. MM,
Direct Through Train Service Between
All Points in Eastern North Carolina
and via Norfolk to All Eastern Cities.
EFFECTIVE WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1st, 1909.
TRAINS LEAVE
a. m., Daily, including Sunday for Wilson, Raleigh and Intermediate
stations. Arrives at Raleigh a. m.
p. Daily except for Wilson, Raleigh and intermediate stations
a Sunday, for Washington. Mack Eden ton,
Hertford, Elizabeth City, Norfolk and principle intermediate point.
Connects at Kerry for Belhaven an Co Branches.
a m., D lily except Sunday for New Bern, Morehead Beaufort and
intermediate ions.
p. m., Daily Sunday for Washington and intermediate stations.
For further particulars, consult Norfolk Southern Railway Folder
or apply to J. L. HasselL ticket agent, Greenville, N. C.
H C. W. W.
E. T. LAMB, Gen. Mgr., NORFOLK. VA.
Report of Condition of
The Greenville Banking and Trust Company,
At GREENVILLE,
in the State of at the close of business. Nov.
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts,
Overdrafts sec. and
All other Stocks, Bonds
and Mortgages,
e and Fixtures,
Loans
Due from Banks
Cash Item
Silver coin, including all
minor currency
National and
other U. S. notes
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock,
, Surplus fund,
Undivided profits, net
17,600.00 Bills payable,
28.499 Time 28.724.65
4,712.80 Sub. Chic. 122,909.44 I
994.80
261.14 certified 300.00 I
803.01 Due Bank.
Total
17,600.00
6,216.38
13,000.00
ML 885.07
FRESH OYSTERS EVERY DAY.
I keep the schooner
the wharf and run another boat
cue win ma vim. bringing fresh oysters. When
point next to it, and perhaps type, but they will used I you want oysters that are guaranteed
have d hr always come
.;, town and circulation three-fourths of the buildings between now Christmas. quart.
paper did not all other street. We On the page devoted to
State of North Carolina-County of Pitt,
I C S. Carr, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
C. S. CARR, Cashier.
Subscribed and to me,
this 20th day of Nov. 1909.
J. MOORE.
Notary Public.
A. M. MOSELEY.
C. LAUGHINGHOUSE,
R. C. FLANAGAN.
Directors.
Subscribe to The Reflector.
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OUR AYDEN DEPARTMENT
IN OF E. TINGLE.
Authorized Agent of The Eastern I U flee for Ayden and vicinity. Advertising rates
Waned to buy bushels
of field peas by J. R. Smith Co.
See cur new dress gods
and before making
your fall purchases. J. R. Smith
Co.
School books, bibles and
at J. R. Smith Co.
Dinner baskets, pencil boxes,
elites, at
J. R. Smith Co.
Cook stoves, heaters and stove
repairs at J. R. Smith Co.
patterns and magazines
at J. R. Smith Co.
Rubber, and corrugated roofing
at J. R. Smith Co.
To the Merchants When you
want an extra grade of groceries
call on W. E. Tingle-
Car salt fine or course at J. R.
Smith Co.
If you want to insure
property against fire, Tingle will
do it.
Gaudy and rubber belting
pipe fitting valves at J. R.
Smith Co.
If you have any property to
Tingle will sell it.
Galvanized sinks nice to attach
to your pumps for your water
shelf at J. R. Smith Co.
Windows, doors, lime, cement,
hardware, locks, hinges at J. R.
Smith Co.
If you need a good open or
top buggy, wagon or cart call
R. Smith Co. At
We will pay the highest mar-
price for bushels of
cotton seed delivered to us in
any quantity.
A nice line of coffins and
caskets always on hand with a
nice hearse at your service at
J. R. Smith Co. Dixon.
An experienced blacksmith is
waiting to shoe your horses and
mules at J. R. Smith Dixon.
Will gin your cotton for one
twentieth pound, and give you
the bagging and ties, bring u
your cotton. J. R. Smith Co
Dixon.
F. F. Guthrie has purchased
the Jackson residence of Mr.
Frank White, and will mo veto it.
The Utter will move on hi j farm
in Lenoir county.
Will repair your cart-,
and buggies or sell you new ones.
J. R. Smith Co. Dixon.
Gov. has appointed our
townsman, J. R. Smith, a
gate to the second Southern Com-
Congress to be held in
Washington, D. C, Dec. and
7th.
Nice turned work,
window and doer frames made
on short notice by J. R. Smith
Co- Dixon.
Rev. Fred a
Free Will Baptist
minister, died very suddenly
Monday evening. On returning
home from town he had an at-
tack f from which
he never rallied. He will be
buried today with Masonic hon-
ors at his country home. He
has married more people than
most any man of his age. He
was prominent at home and
abroad. He represented Pitt
county in the general assembly
in 1892, on the Democratic
ticket.
Call on us for ceiling, flooring,
and
We guarantee
faction.
J. R. Smith Co. Dixon.
Walter Faulkner shot and
killed his brother in-law, Jesse
Robinson, near
Sunday night- Both were drink-
Faulkner has so far es-
caped-
Ayden Lodge I. F.
will celebrate next Monday
night, Dec. 13th, with an oyster
supper. J. T. Smith, Jr. will
the on that
occasion
D. H. and wife, of
Va, are visiting their
daughter, Mrs. W- C.
Tripp, Hart Co. will open a
full line of Christmas goods in
Brick warehouse.
S. S. Jackson has purchased
the residence of
ton on Vent-rs Street will
move here soon
On evening from
until o'clock. Miss
Richmond entertained in honor
of her guests. Miss Nellie
of Grifton an
and Lewis, of Greenville
The reception rooms were at-
ferns.
The principal feature of the
evening was Nations. Mr. Alien
Cannon tho and Mr
Ray Turnage the Ad
salad course was served
by the little Claire
and Lucile Brown.
Those wore
and of
Miss of Grifton. Mist
Turnage. Gaddy, Bland,
Hodges, Richardson and Barnes,
of W. H.
and Wyatt Brown, of Greenville;
Roy Turnage. Lloyd Turnage,
Ned Allen Cannon.
Steve Noble. John Noble,
Tingle and John of
Ayden.
Doing in That Busy Little
Town
N. C .
S. K. t
Both I
Miss B. Packer
home t- p ;. and
d U
Miss Christine I
I ring M hi
j home.
Dr. M. P
from Granite Fall w r
be was one of ii
DOCTORS SAID INCURABLE-
RELIEVED BY
FARMVILLE ITEMS.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF AYDEN
AT AYDEN, N. C.
At the Close of Business Nov.
Resources I Liabilities
Loans and discounts stock 25,000.00
12,600.00
Overdrafts secured
and unsecured . . ,
, . . Undivided profits, less
Furniture and F
Demand loans exp. and taxes pd.
Due from 49,886.18 Dividends unpaid 48.00
Cash items c Deposits sub. to check 59,089.00
Silver coin, including all
minor coin cur. 501.41
bank and other
Notes 5,070.00
Total
Cashier's checKs
outstanding
Savings deposits
Total
513.08
12,874.10
N. C. Nov. 1909
Rev. Jesse is in
Wadesboro attending tho
convention.
Lyman Joyner and wife, of
Birmingham, Ala., have arrived
to make Farmville their future
home.
Miss Anna Bess Harris is visit-
at the home of Miss
R. E. Belcher has been elected
chief of police to succeed Mr
who resigned last week.
Rev. W. A. Forbes left today
for his new charge at Atlantic.
He leaves a host of friends
behind who regret very much to
see him go.
Last Friday evening the young
ladies of the Virginia Dare
Literary society most charmingly
entertained the members of
Athenian Literary society in the
auditorium of the public school
building. The evening was
most delightfully spent in play
games ard enjoying th-
vocal and instrumental muse
present
Minnie Smith, Bernice Lang,
May Barrett, May
Flanagan, Horton, Annie
Laurie Lang, Carmen Flanagan,
Louise Dixon, Henrietta
Sue May Lila Smith,
De Messrs. Al-
Moore, Lee Carr,
Barrett, John Joyner. Richard
Bynum, Lloyd Horton, Jasper
Joyner, Julius Turnage, Bennett
Fields, Richard Joyner, Harvey
Turnage, Henry Tyson. Chap-
and Mrs. J. Stanley
Smith, Miss Cora Moore
and H. H-
The decorations were holly and
mistletoe and the society
The color scheme was very nicely
carried out in the refreshments-
of A R
sell, a classmate of hi
Misses Minnie Willis and Lucy
Manning attend d the M
; conference at U we I.
Misses
spent a very
in n.
Thanksgiving is over and w
are tint
is here, by the
i of the stores
. Miss U visiting In
I Norfolk for a few iv s.
I J. B. of Greenville,
night here.
Misses A Idle Bar-
Manning are spending a few
days at home because the
and death of little Elva
Everybody is glad Rev. J.
W. has been sent back to
Bethel to be with us another
year.
The death angel our
town last week and took from
our midst little Elva, the eight
year old daughter of Mr. an
Mrs. W. J. Rollins. Being
ways in good humor, she was
loved by all knew her and
was a favorite among the teach-
and pupils of i
has left a vacancy, both i h r
home and school that n
can fill. we only die ct
the bereaved ones to our me
Ruler who all
things well. She is the second
victim that appendicitis has
claimed in her family, the
being a sister about eight year
ago.
Mrs. E. West
Main SI.,
Wis
Catarrh
of the
Stomach.
Robust and Strong -Splendid Appetite.
Mrs. v. M St., WU write
have lifted hi our family a number When I
n a AM fur catarrh am talking
-I have taken it every Spring Fall for roar And that n
keep me strong, with appetite, and tree from any
A few it cured moot catarrh h
had Incurable.
am much pleased with
Bowels and
Ml Mary
Chicago,
can as a good
for chronic catarrh
bowels and stomach. I have been
my praise fur
tonic. witched only ninety
taking now one
hundred
of Internal
Mrs. B. II. Jackson, B. F. I.
mow .-. man, have had catarrh
led with H for over three years. u. internal organs for than a
began to take year. tried other medicines without
the wonderful tonic tor women, I any benefit.
noticed wonderful Improvement at I was pomaded to a
on look six succession trial, and proved a
ii on baud lo lake taking ten
now when lay cough is bad. I
Ask Your Druggist for a free Almanac for 1910.
KING'S CROSS ROAD ITEMS.
Looking One's Best
It's a woman's delight to look her
be t but sin art
and rob life of joy. Listen
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skin a. d It
face. sore eyes, cod
sores, cracked chapped
Try it. for piles, at all
druggists
HOPE WELL ITEMS.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.
COUNTY OF PITT,
J. R. Smith, Cashier of the above named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is to the best of my knowledge and belief.
J. R, SMITH, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to
before me. this 19th day Nov-
ember, 1909.
HODGES,
Notary Public.
J. R SMITH.
R. C. CANNON,
DIXON,
Directors.
We are prepared to famish you with
House and Kitchen Furniture
at the very prices. or Installment.
Come to see us and we will convince you
AYDEN FURNITURE CO.
NEXT DOOR TO
Roll.
For Pine Hill school for the
month of November is as
Lottie Ellis, Tripp,
Margaret Worthington,
Harris, Frank Harrington,
Bryant Carroll, Henry Craft, and
Ryan Ellis.
The highest average was made
by Harris.
Smith, teacher.
NOTICE NOTICE
We wish to call your attention to our new line of fall goods which
we now have. We have taken great care in buying this year and we
think we can supply your wants in Shoes, Hats, Dress Ginghams No-
Laces and Embroideries and in fact anything that is carried in a
Dry Goods Store.
Come let us show you
Tripp, Hart Co., Ayden, N. C.
Listen.
The man who believes in
and to is
always a flat lay
up something for old
provide for his while
he may. Go to The Old Mutual
Life, of New York, for
H. Bentley Harriss.
ltd
Hope Well, N. C, Dec. 6.-
Miss Daisy mar
Stokes, is her cousin,
Miss Rosalie Skinner this week.
S. G of Greene
spent Saturday night and
in this section.
J. R Cox and Misses Clara
Smith and Mamie spent
Saturday night and Sunday in
Greene county.
Several of the young people
attended the basket party at
Corey's school house Friday
night.
Joe Crawford and Allen,
from near Cobb's X Roads, spent
Saturday night and Sunday with
R. M.
Misses Agnes D and Clara
Forrest, of spent Thurs-
day night with Miss Rosalie
Skinner.
On Saturday evening
Miss Worthing-
ton Rave a pound party in honor
of her birthday.
crowd assembled p.
m. They were received in the
hall by Miss Worthington
and ushered in the parlor by
Miss Cara Several
beautiful solos were d by
Misses Vida aim
Charity Worthington and Tom
Jackson, Jarvis T.
Skinner and
At fruits and confection
were served abundantly.
King's X Roads N. C. Dec.
Several of the young people
attended the basket party at
Friday night.
Misses Cox and Irene
Smith went to
day morning.
Miss Outlaw and Mr.
of Fountain, were visiting at
Mrs. Mattie J. Smith's Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed
and family spent Saturday night
and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs.
W. L. Smith,
Miss May who is
teaching at school
and Sun-
day with Miss Irene Smith.
H. S. Tyson attended the
quarterly meeting at
Creek Sunday.
Mr. Mrs. W. B Randolph,
from near Greenville, spent Sat-
night and Sunday with her
mother, Mrs. Mattie J. Smith.
J. C. Parker and his mother
were visiting at Mrs-
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and W. Moore
were at Mrs Bettie
Sunday.
Lost Eye.
Mr. T. E. Hooker sustained a
very serious accident a few days
ago, He was in his yard chop-
ping some kindling wood when
one of the splinters flaw up ard
in the ball of his left eye,
giving him great pain and ruin-
the site of eye. Mr.
who gave him no hope that he
could ever see out of the injured
rye. His many friends
with him in this misfortune.
Alone in Saw Mill at Midnight
unmindful of dampness drafts, storms
or cold, W. J. Atkins I as night
watchman, at B inner Springs, Tenn.
Such exposure gave him a severe
that settled on his lung. At last he
had lo give up work. He tried mi y
remedies hut all f died till h Iliad Dr.
King's New Discovery. us
one he writes, went
to work as well as Severe colds,
stubborn throats and
sore s, and
oping get quick relief a d
prompt Cure from
cine. c and Trial bottle
by all druggists.
MISS C. MEREDITH
Graduate Nurse
I Ayden, North Carolina.
Keep The piano con-
test in mind.
Stung Year
I ion's many
, doctors and J of medicine in
. K. lie, N. C,
at last Dr K New Life HIM,
and writes they wholly him.
They constipation, biliousness,
kick headache, liver,
and bowel troubles. all
Rich Men's Gilts are Poor
want to go on record
as Hying that regard Eh Bitters
at one of tho greatest gift that God
baa made to woman, Mm.
vault, of Vestal N. Y.,
can forgot what it has dona
for Tl is glorious cine gives
a woman s, vigor of body
and ant ll quickly
nervousness,
headache, fainting aid
soon up the weak, ailing and
sickly. at all druggists
Wright Brothers In hon s,
have to stay. Tho
for croup and p never falls,
and e fur
sin and aches an I
Highly p all over t land by
young and old.
by
THE GOOSE GREASE COMPANY,
Greensboro, M. C
C. D. who conducted
a general merchandise store m
Dickinson avenue, made an as-
Saturday to F. C.
Harding for the benefit of his
creditors
Plan
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BALTIMORE, MD.
Lily's Oyster
Fresh Oysters
Coming Every Day
Can Serve You Any Way. Try Me
LUXURIOUS ROOMS SINGLE AND IN SUIT.
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JOSEPH I. HERMAN,
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SAVING THE I this will interest mothers
Ha Seats u Harm Great Body
White
Raleigh. Dec. 1-The
Progressive Farmer, the most
largely circulated farm weekly
in the South, prints a
article this week
white tenant farmers to
buy land now, and declaring that
the whole South must stand
together to encourage the
of a class of prosperous
mall white farmers as the back-
bone of the country. The big
plantations, it declares, hold back
progress. The article
hope we have seen about
the last of Southern white far-
leaving the farm to take
work in cotton mills. We are
anxious to see the manufacturing
enterprises of the South build
up, but we are more anxious to
see the farm lands of the South
held by prosperous small white
farmers, to see these small
white farmer have their part in
the great agricultural awaken-
now going on.
has wisely said that
in all ages and all countries the
men of the classes who own the
land sooner or later make them-
selves the aristocracy of that
country. We have not come to
this condition so rapidly in
America as in other countries,
because of the abundance of
cheap land resulting from the
newness of the settlement and
the sparseness of population as
yet; but in the long run the
history of other countries must
be repeated here.
thoughts came very
forcibly to mind as we rode
through a cotton mill village the
other day and saw its hundreds
of white women
and children-who have left the
farm to become the homeless
hirelings of the cotton
The finding
place in manufacturing for them,
are left on the farm and are
becoming land-holders in rapidly
increasing numbers. Prof- W.
E. a prominent Georgia
educator, has just publish-
ed a map since 1900
Georgia have increased
land-holdings from 850.000 to
acres, and now own
within the State of Georgia alone
an area larger than the entire
State of Delaware.
only this, but the
children are going to school and
developing healthy bodies in the
open sir, and healthy surround
of country life instead of
being shut up in the cotton mi
over-worked, under-educated,
and poorly developed physically,
as the tendency must be in all
cotton mills so long as the
of the South are too
subservient to the less humane
mill owners to needed laws
of restricting child labor in the
less humane mill
owners, we say, because there
are many thoughtful and far-
seeing mill owners who heartily
favor stricter regulations.
we have no ill
will toward the cotton
we have no ill will toward
the We do realize very
strongly, that the safe-
of the South depends upon the
presence of a large white rural
population- The drift to the
towns and the cotton mills not
only affects this directly, but
also indirectly, because when
once the population of a
becomes predominantly
the small number of white
people left may be forced to
move out in order to find
numbers for society of
their own.
was a wise saying of
James Oliver's, is the
land that is tilled by the man
who owns and the
need of the South today is to
encourage the holding of small
farms by white farmers. We
repeat, that we say this in no
ill will to fact, it
should not necessary for us to
say this, because no one else in
the South has preached more per-
than we the doctrine
Notice
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for By of a power
Children, a certain relief fur feverish- ed in
headache, bad teething by H. A. Boyd and wife,
Sen move and regulate the bow- to H H- on the day o.
destroy worms. break January. 1907, and ed in the
up in hours. They are so pleas- office Pitt county boo
ant to the taste and milk.
Children like them. Over
of cures. They never fail.
, Sold by all druggists Ask today,
notable Don't accept any substitute.
y s page the
the 5th of
that it is the intelligent,
who helps, and the
ignorant, poverty breeding
who makes us all
we say this for the good of white
and black alike became the best
interests of both races demand
that the rural South maintain its
large white population. Unless
this is done the himself
will not progress as as
he will with white guidance, and
unless this is done, the cities of
the must also inevitably
go backward.
urge every white tenant
farmer, and especially every
white man who for toy reason is
thinking of somebody's
hired man in town instead of
owning his home in the country,
to buy land. The great
of the South, for the good
of our section a whole, must
be broken up. We must
age the spirit of home owning,
with every man sitting under
his own vine, and fig tree,
we must especially
the of a great class
of small white farmers.
saving of the rural South
to the white race is one cf the
most important problems now
before the people of the cotton
belt.
this connection, there is
another thing that to be
mentioned, and that la the prob-
of immigration. The Farm-
Union and other farmers
organizations are right in pro-
testing against the coming of
large numbers of Italians,
Hungarians, Poles, etc.
This would only make a bad mat-
worse, and complicate mat-
still further. What would
help, however, is the coming of
a large number of wide awake
northern and western farmers,
buying small among us
and making their farms object
lessons in stock raising and other
lines of diversified agriculture.
These northern and western
farmers will also set a good ex
ample for our southern people in
that they are ready to do any
and all kinds of work with their
own hands, entirely independent
of As a southerner
reared on the farm and a de-
of generations of
southern farmers, we must con-
fess the need of our people at
this point, and the help that we
would get here from an increased
number of wide-awake western
settlers besides the aid they
would in keeping up the
balance of population between
the two races in the South and
preventing the predominance of
a colored farming population,
which, we repeat, would be
undesirable for both whites and
blacks and ruinous to our section
as a
will on
1910.
at o clock noon expose to public
before the court door in Green-
Mi to the highest bidder for cash,
the tract or parcel of d to
Lying and being in the county of
Pitt and State of North Carolina, ad;
joining the lands of
heirs, the lands of J. R. Peyton the
J. J. Laughing-house. Mrs.
Fannie C. Saunders and others
known as the Major Jordan tract
land, containing acres more or
and being the land conveyed to H. A.
by J R. Peyton. This sale is to
be made to satisfy the debt secured
said mortgage.
This the 1309-
H. H. Mortgagee.
F. C. Harding, Atty. ltd
Land Sale.
By virtue of tho power of sale con-
in a certain de-d
and delivered by Edward h-
and wife Mary Laughing-
house to K A Tyson on th 4th day of
January a d duly recorded i- the
of deeds office of Pitt county.
North Carolina, in book 0-7 page
the undersigned to mi
before the court house do r in
Greenville, to the h bidder, on
the 11th day of December,
1906 at o'clock noon, a certain tract
or parcel of land be the
of Pitt and State of North t
and as follows, to
On the east by run and the
Speer land, on the south by Tar river,
. n the west by John Fleming heirs and
on north by Fernando Ward and
known cs the Mizell farm, and being
the same land deeded by Wheeler
tin, commissioner, to R A. and
by the aid R A. Tyson ed to the
U satisfy
sad mortgage deed. Terms of
This the day of November, 1909.
R. A. Tyson, Mortgagee.
Moore Long, lid
R L. DAVIS, Pres. J. A.
H. D. BATEMAN.
Bank of Greenville
GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
.
By virtue of a mortgage
and delivered by B. B. and
wife, J- G. on the
the 15th day of January, 1908. and re-
corded in book Z-S the
will sell for cash before th
court house door in Greenville on
day, December 31st, 1909, the follow-
described piece or of land
situate in Greenville
four miles of Greenville,
he lanes of Joseph Sermons and
others, beginning at a tree
on the New Bern road and running
with said road p to the fork
g to Red Banks; thence with
real
at the corner a tobacco barn; thence
to a stake in Joseph
line; f aid Sermons line t
the 1-2 acres
,., , lea , and being the place
the said and wife
now reside; to satisfy said mortgage.
This December the 1st.
J. R. J. G. Mortgagee.
F. G. James t Son, ltd 3-w
LAND SALE
By virtue of a decree of the Super-
court of Pitt county, in special
proceeding No. 1585. entitled. Ben
baker and wife Martha Ann Baker
et against Alfred Ballard et
the commissioner will
sell for cash the court house
do-r in at auction
at no.-n, on Saturday, December 18th.
the following parcel
or lot of land situated in the county of
Pitt in and in th.
town of adjoining the lands
of R. R. Fleming and Silas
lard heirs and fronting the main
and Greenville public
rad, on cast tide of said
about one half of an
acre more es, ard being the
lot of lard whereon Alfred
Senior, at the time of his death.
This November 16th. 1909.
J. B. James. Commissioner.
. .
. .
to Lean
Accounts Invited.
JAMES L. LITTLE, Cashier
By virtue of a power of sale contain-
ed in a certain deed execute I
and delivered by Jemima Britt. Mart
Davis, and Viola
S. Carr, on the 19th day o
and duly recorded in the
register of deeds office of Pitt c
North Carolina, in book E page
the undersigned will to die
sale, before court house door in
Greenville, to the highest bidder on
Thursday. December 30th, 1909, at
o'clock m. a certain tract or parcel of
land Wing and being in the county of
Pitt and State of North Carolina and
described as follows, to
hat certain house and lot formerly
owned and occupied by William Britt,
and later occupied by Mary
Davis and James and
bounded on the north by s
residence lot, on the by Dickinson
avenue, on the south by the lot
of Condition of
The Bulking and Trait Company,
At GREENVILLE,
in the State of N. C. at the close of business, Nov.
pied by W. J. Turnage and an the est
by Greene street, being known
Bill Britt let, containing one half an
acre more or to satisfy
gage deed. Terms of sale cash.
This 29th day of November,
C. S-
F. M.
NOTICE OF SALE.
On December the 15th 1909, I will
for sale at Hopkins farm
two and one half miles of Bethel,
N. C, to the highest bidder for cash,
the following
One horse, three mules, cattle, hogs,
corn, fodder, peanuts, hay, wagons,
carts, plows, cotton guano
sower, and all other things
belonging to Bailey and Jenkins on
farm, and also part of my house-
goods, as I will leave the farm.
This Nov. 17th, C. W. Bailey.
Notice to Creditors.
Having duly qualified before the
court clerk of Pitt county ad-
of the of J- H.
deceased, notice hereby
given to all indebted to the
to make immediate payment to
the and all persons having
against the estate are notified
to present the fame to the undersigned
on or before the 13th day of
or notice will be plead
in bar of recovery.
This 13th day of 1909.
S. T.
ltd of J. H.
Loans and Discounts,
Overdraft sec. and
All other Stocks, Bonds
and Mortgages,
e anS Fixtures,
Due from Banks A s
Items
Silver coin, Including all
minor coin
National bark and
other U.
Total
11,249.43
1,000.00
4,640.99
17,500.00
28.499
4,712.80
241.14
e, sos.
Capital
Surplus fund,
Undivided profits, net 8,211.28
and bill IS
Bills payable,
i cheeks I
Due g
T,
State of North Carolina -County of Pitt,
I r Carr the above named bank, do solemnly swear that
the beat m,
and to before me,
20th day of Not.
I. MOORE.
C.-
R. C. FLANAGAN.
Statement of Condition of
THE NATIONAL BANK
OF GREENVILLE, N. C.
at the of business. November
Land Sale
By virtue of a decree of the Superior
court of Pitt county, in Special Pro-
No. 1583, entitled J. B.
way, w. et
tho undersigned commissioner will sell
for cash before the court house door in
Greenville, at noon, on Monday, De-
the 27th, 1909, the following
described tract of land in town-
ship; adjoining the of Caleb
Smith, Calvin Mills, William
Mills and others beginning at a slake,
the second corner of a granted
for acres, formerly
in Henry line, now owned by the
heirs of said Mills and run from thence
with the second line of said patent
south west poles to Caleb Smith s
line; thence with said Smith's line a
Southeast course to the land belonging
to the s-id Henry Mills, deceased;
thence with their line to the first station,
being the me land described in a deed
from Louis Mills, to John Galloway,
-lated March and recorded in
book X-X page said land being
sold for partition.
This 27th day of November, 1909
J. B. JAMES, Commissioner.
11-29 ltd
to Creditor.
Having qualified before the
Superior court clerk of Pitt county as
administrator of the estate of J. L.
Fleming, deceased, notice is hereby
given to all persons indebted to the
state to make immediate payment to
the undersigned; and all persons having
claims against estate will take
that they must present the same
to the undersigned for payment on or
before 24th day of November, 1910.
or this notice will be plead in bar of
recovery. .,
This 24th day of 1509.
S. T.
ltd of J. L. Fleming.
RESOURCES.
Loam discount
Overdraft
United 21,000.00
Furniture and Fixture
due from Bank
COMMON ERROR
Notice
In Superior Court.
The Same Mistake ii Made by
Many Greenville People
It's a common error
To plaster the aching back,
To rub with liniment
joint
When the trouble comes from the
Don's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
And are endorsed by Greenville
T. S. Norman, St.
Greenville, N. C, gladly
give Kidney my endorse-
as they have proven of
benefit to me any other remedy
ever I suffered severely from a
dull ache through the small of my
There was also a soreness across my
kidneys and I was hardly able to get
on account of the sharp, dart-
pains through my loins. When
arising in the felt tired and
languid and had but little ambition or
energy. Since using Kidney
Pills, procured at drugstore,
the and pairs
ired, I do
aid that tired,
has vanished. My with
Kidney Pills has been so satin-
that I do not to give
them my
For sale by all dealt rs. SO
Co. Buffalo.
New York, agent for United
, ,
Remember th -and
take no other.
LIABILITIES.
Stock
and profit 11,327.32
Circulation 21,000.00
Dividend unpaid
12,000.00
1412
NORTH CAROLINA,
Pitt
Florence Willoughby
vs.
Willoughby
The defendant above named will take
notice that an tied as above
has been commenced in the Superior
court, of Pitt county to obtain a divorce
from the bonds of matrimony. And
the said defendant will further take
notice that ho is required to appear at
th next term of the Superior court of
Pitt county, N. C, to held on the
14th Monday after the 1st in
September, it being the 13th day of
December, 1909, at the court in
Greenville, N. C. and answer or demur
to the complaint in said action, or the
plaintiff will apply to the the
relief demanded in complaint.
tho 27th of Nov , 1909,
D. C. Moore, C. S C.
Julius Brown,
Atty. for ltd
JOHNSTON.
ENGINEER and
Running repairs to all kind of
Steam fittings, erecting Engines,
Tobacco machinery, all systems a
Agent for Machinery and
Electrical novelties. Give a trial.
AH work guaranteed and terms
Menage left at H. L.
will receive prompt attention, or phone
No.
Stray Taken op.
I have taken up one black sow,
unmarked, about pounds,
ha very large ears. Owner can get
time by proving ownership and pay-
Thia Nov. th. 1909.
L. H. Allen on Allen farm.
R. F. D.
Comparative Statement of
November 1907,
November
November
If you do not your
to become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS-
101,692.68
141,688.63
if its INSURANCE s
C. L. WILKINSON
Bonds, Life and Fire.
CD. TUNSTALL
Opposite Center Brick Warehouse.
General Merchandise.
D. W.
in
Stray Taken Up.
four h
have taken up four hogs, three
and one red, all marked crop
and pairs entirely and slit in left ear and hole in right
disappeared I do suffer from car, weight to each
i ,.,,, , Owner can get same by proving owner-
I ship and g charges.
Toll Nov. 1909.
W. W
Care J. B. Oakley, R F. D. No
Greenville, N. C. ltd
Groceries
And Provisions
Stalk and st
Carr Atkins Co.
Cotton
Fresh kept ton
in stock. Country
Produce Bought and Sold
D. W.
GREENVILLE N C
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Pulley bowen
Home of
Ii you want your HORSE to trot
and pull buy your
Hay, Oats
and Corn.
of W. B. He will tell
Sou Better Feed and More few Le
than any man in town.
W. B.
Place U headquarter for Corn, Hay,
Oat, Cotton Seed Meal,
Brand, Chicken Hominy, Cracked
Corn, corn Meal and all
Feed, Salt. Lime and Cement
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Heart a specialty.
For price
MOORE,
T AMT
The Board of were
regular monthly session
Thursday night, seen of Use
members present.
J. L. Davenport relief
from the payment of town poll
tax on he does
not in tho has
to work the county roads.
petition was as lie
resident of the town on the first
day of time for listing
taxes.
Alfred Jones and Herbert
Fleming were released from the
payment of town poll tax, they
being non-residents.
C. A- Payne asked for a
in the tax on moving picture
shows. He was allowed to operate
hit show for the remainder of
the fiscal year upon payment of
tax
The street committee reported
that sand-clay work had begun
on Evans street, that the street
leading to the steamboat landing
had b Jen put In order, and the
streets generally were In fair
condition. The committee was
Instructed to employ a civil
engineer needed on street
work, and were given authority
to contract with him.
W. treasurer of the
carnival fund, was Instructed to
turn this fund over to tho clerk
of the board to be used on the
improvements on Evans street.
The building com-
reported that plans were
in hand for a wagon shed, and
preparation being made for be-
ginning work on same. The
committee was instructed to first
ascertain the cost of building the
shed and report to the board
before beginning work.
The several officers made re-
ports for the past month.
The police were instructed in
the event of any prisoners
in their charge to physicians for
medical attention to report the
same to the mayor so that the
charges for such attention can
be added to the bill of cost
Hardy was granted
to conduct a near beer
stand.
The members of Hope Fire
company were released from the
payment of poll tax.
Aldermen E A. C. S.
Carr and J. B. White were
pointed a committee to look into
the matter of buying a horse for
the hose wagon.
water and light
was instructed to have such
hydrants repaired as need at-
A petition for changing the
arc light on Fifth street from in
front of the residence of T. E.
Hooker to a point near the A. C.
L. railroad crossing was referred
to the water and light committee
with power to act.
The resignation of N. W. Jack-
son as assistant clerk and tax
collector, was presented and ac-
The choosing of a
was referred to a joint
conference of the aldermen and
water and light commission.
The chief of police was in-
to have the old grave-
yard on Fifth street taken up.
Accounts for current expenses
during the past month were
allowed-
Popular Makes a
Remarkable Statement.
De J. W. Bran has at last obtained
a remedy
i are on a tee to
Liver Trouble. If food does
direst wed. if there is or
s the
bid, if there i-
end strain Liver
will cure you. If they d not you h
Dr. J. W.
to return your money.
Pills dive
Liv
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arid a I L arc
but Dr. Bryan is
I giving his a chance
the truth. if purchasing a
; rent box of Liver Pills you
re not with the result go
Dr. and ask for your
Also for sale by M. M. Sauls at
N. C.
Professional Cards
F. EVANS
AT LAW
GREENVILLE, N. C.
opposite R. L.
and next door to John Flans
Baggy building.
Not Made by trust
Farmville, N C, De 3.-The
people were
Monday when it was learned
that D. A- chief
lice, was to resign that night
and return to Grifton in a few
days. The law-abiding citizens
were sorry to see Mr.
leave, as he been faithful in
his duties as an officer. Who
f ice Receipt
Postmaster R. C. Flanagan
informs us that the receipts of
the Greenville for the
month of November were 896.-
For the same month of
year the amount was
making an increase for last
month of This increase
receipts is a good
R. L GARB
Dentist
N.
DR. S HASSELL
PHYSICIAN
Greenville. N. C
Office on Third formerly
pied by Dr. Bagwell.
U I. MOORS W. H. LONG
Moore and Long
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
f E no handle Wire Fence made by the Trust. Have
received the agency the famous WIRE
FENCE. Strictly Car load
Don't to see it. Fence at Prices.
of receipts is a
will be appointed to succeed him of the growth of
is not known.
The house being built by John
T. Thorne, on Second street,
will soon be ready for
Work on the streets is being
pushed by the town
Work is being vigorously pros-
on the Disciple church.
are sorry that the j
diet pastor, Brother Forbes, has
been transferred to
of the town, and brings us
nearer to the establishment of
free city delivery.
The old, old story, told
without number, and repeated
over and over again for the last
years, but it is always a
come story to those in search of
is nothing in the
,, ,. that cures coughs and
colds as quickly as Chamberlain's
Atlantic. ., . ., u i
JULIUS BROWN
Attorney-at-Law
Harry Skinner.
U. ff.
SKINNER
LAWYERS.
Jr
ft WHEDBEE
Greenville N- C;
Forbes i. a splendid
sen, a gentleman, and
a preacher of ability. Rev. G.
B. Webster is to succeed him.
We bespeak for him a hearty
welcome.
Sold by
Mail N. S
Postmaster C.
has received notice that begin-
Sunday, Dec. 5th. regular
Services at the Baptist church ,,, be ,
Sunday morning. to on the Sunday Norfolk
will speak on Home Religion be.
tween Washington
N. W. OUTLAW
Attorney at Law
Office formerly occupied by J. L.
Fleming.
GREENVILLE.
Just received Repeating
Rifles, No. made by the
Swiss government. Cost
each. We will sell for ten days
at each.
Come and see how we do it.
Baker Hart
LEADERS IN HARDWARE I
Greenville, N. Carolina
The pastor will leave Monday
morning to attend the Baptist
State convention at Wadesboro.
The given by the ladies
of the Methodist church Thanks-
-ESTABLISHED 1875-
S M
Wholesale and retail Grocer
and Furniture Dealer. Cash
paid for Hides, Fur, Cotton Seed
Oil Barrens, Turkeys, Eggs, Oak
Bedsteads, Mattresses, etc
OF THE CONDITION OF
The Bethel Banking Trust Co.,
AT BETHEL, N.
At the close of business, Nov. Ill, 1900.
and if extremely
caused by rheumatism of the
Quick relief is afford-
by applying Chamberlain's
giving was quite a success netting Liniment gold by all druggist.
about . i
Prof. H. H. and gee p M for your
corps of teachers are making mill repairs,
for celebrating work
North Carolina Day, Dec. 17th.
The exercises will be interesting. Kl
We hope the fathers and mothers A IN I
will attend In large numbers. C AND BOYS
We learn that W. E. Barrett. ll-O ow i
j-i- Suits, Baby Carriages, Go-Carts,
Lame back com- son suddenly g-g- f
P. and Gail Ax
High Life Tobacco, Key
West Cheroots, Henry George
Cigars, Canned Cherries,
es, Apples, Pine Apples,
I Liabilities.
i Surplus fund
who runs the Horton Hotel, is to
return to his farm near here next
year, and Mr. Hobgood,
is to take charge of the hotel.
most prevalent
the dry cold weather of the
early winter months. Parents
of young children should be
pared for it All that is needed
a bottle of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy. Many mothers
are never without it in their
homes-and it has never
pointed them. Sold by
Calendar.
Bros., insurance
agents, have presented The Re-
with a handsome calendar
for next year. It has a large
picture on it that is very at-
tractive, and the calendar pad is
nearly feet square with very
large figures.
MAKE ICE CREAM
FROM WATER
and a small quantity of
if milk nU.
M milk . . .
A, MM to ons
ii thoroughly and
don't else. This
of delicious lea
,, la ID minute at very
you know
Pr,
at all grocer.
Book
Many school children suffer
from constipation, which is often
the cause of seeming stupidity
at lessons. Chamberlain's
and Liver Tablets are an
ideal medicine to give a child,
for they mild and gentle
their effect, and will cure ever
chronicle constipation. Sold by
all druggist.
Call and see P. M. Johnston
when in town for general engine
and boiler repair work and any-
thing you may need. Shop op-
Hotel Bertha. w
When a cold becomes settled
in the system it take several
treatment to cure it, and
the best remedy to use is
Cough Bern
will cure quicker than any other,
and also leaves the system in a
natural and healthy condition.
Sold by all druggist.
We want Girls and Boys
to work in the
Tarboro Knitting Mills
At Tarboro, N. C.
and in the
Runnymede Mills
Near Tarboro, N. C.
The work is light, no dust or t
dirt and the pay is good. We can
furnish you a house in the town
of Runnymede or West Tarboro.
A Free Education For Your
Small Children
We have good schools at Tarboro,
and Runnymede.
We had steady work all the
year. Do not fear a shut down,
we will have work for you every
day.
Come and See the Work or Write
GENERAL MANAGER
Peach,
Pine Apples, Syrup,
Jelly, Meat, Flour, Sugar, Coffee,
Soap, Matches,
Oil, Cotton Seed Meal and Hulls,
Garden Seeds, Oranges, Apples,
Nuts, Candies, Dried Apples-
Peaches, Prunes. Currants,
Glass and
Wooden ware, Cakes and Crack-
Macaroni, Best But-
New Royal Sewing Machines
and numerous other goods.
Quality and quantity cheap for
cash. Come see me.
S M
Resources
Loans and discounts
Overdrafts secured
and unsecured Undivided profits less
Furniture and and taxes pd
ii Tie certificates of 6.048.06
Deposits Sub to check
Total
Total
0,000.00
6,000.00
377.60
knowledge and
be
Subscribed and sworn to
fore me, this 16th day of Nov.,
1909. S- T- Carson,
Notary Public.
Robt,
S M. Jones,
M. O. Blount,
Directors.
S. J. NOBLES
BARBER SHOP.
Nicely furnished, every
thing clean and
working the very
Second to
none in State.
Cosmetics a specialty.
J. G.
REPORT Of THE CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF GRIFTON
In the State of North Carolina, at the close of business, Nov,
137.96
1,199.52
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts 308.02
Overdrafts secured
and unsecured
Banking house, Fur-
Fixtures
Due from Banks
and Bankers
Cash items
Gold Coin
Silver coin,
minor coin cur.
notes
other U. S. notes
Total
LIABILITIES.
Capital Stock
Surplus fund
Undivided profits,
less cur. ex. tax's pd
62.24 Deposit
20.00 Deposit subjects
to check
Cashier's Checks
outstanding
335.43
3.330
j Total
500.00
276.30
500.00
14.072.28
61.01
Not Quite
How often you can gel a
nail or crow driver or
Ker Have a Rood
fool box and be prepared for
emergencies. Our line of tools
I a you could desire, and
we will see that your tool
box does not lack a
useful article.
CENTRAL
Berber Shop
Herbert Prop.
Located in main business sec-
of the town Five chair
in operation and each one
sided over by a skilled barber.
Our place is inviting,
sharp. Cur clean. I
electrical machine for
dry shampoo and La-
dies waited on at their homes.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of Pitt,
I T Gardner. Cashier of the above-named bank do, sol.
John Z. Brooks,
Tucker,
W. Dawson,
Directors.
knowledge and belief.
Subscribed and sworn to be-
fore mo, this 16th day of Nov.
1909, R. F. JENKINS,
Notary Public.
Of
Con. St.
You get Harm
Horse Goods . c
of
J. C.
IN
Monuments
Tomb Stones
Iron Fencing
FOR THE BEST
FURNITURE
and
always go to TAFT Van DYKE
J. S. MOORING
i. Whit. tat. P. M m
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
WINTERVILLE DEPARTMENT
In Charge of MORRIS
Authorized Agent of The Eastern Reflector Winterville and Rates on Application
. prices Co.
fir. R.
A. D. and who have been visiting at Golds-
A new lot of men's and h State convention,
dress shoes just in. . prices Co. which convene Dec to
Miss Maggie Tucker, who has
been at Va.,
returned a few days ago to her
home on Route No.
Luther sweet
s it's a boy.
C. S. Smith and Horace Kittrell
took a nice walk a few days ago
ask them about it.
Ernest Cox, W. Rollins and
Eugene Cannon all attended a
basket party at Cory's school
house Friday night.
To the people of Winterville
and If you know any
items of interest, would be glad
to get them for the paper. If
you have anything to advertise,
would like to furnish you rates.
If you are not a subscriber to
The Reflector, let me send in your
G. Morris,
agent.
W. Rollins went to Green-
ville Thursday.
Clothing can be
had at A. W. Ange Co.
J. S. Ross went to Ayden
Friday.
Miss Alma Cannon and Lucy
were in town
For good and comfortable
school desk call or write A G.
Cox Co. Winter-
ville. N. C. Thy have the
right at the right price.
Mrs. Myrtle Waters, of James-
ville, is visiting her brother, A.
W. Ange, this week.
Col- T. H. Walker, of Green-
ville, was in town Friday.
We are carrying a nice line of
Coffins and Caskets. Prices are
right and can furnish nice hearse
service. A G. Cox Mfg. Co.
B. D. Forrest went to ton
Wednesday.
Harrington, Barber Co.
have just received a large lot of
nice shoes for winter w jar.
Miss Mamie Chapman is spend-
this week at home.
Pitt County School
manufactured by The A. G. Cox
Manufacturing Company are
cheap; comfortable, neat and
durable. Terms are liberal.
When in the market come to see
us, we have the desk for you.
Clyde Daugherty and Miss
Mamie Chapman went to Kins-
ton Wednesday to have Miss
Mamie's eyes treated.
For jelly glasses, dried fruits
of all kinds and butter and
cheese see A. W, Ange Co.
Mrs. R. H. Hunsucker spent
Friday afternoon in Ayden.
We can give you a bargain in
nice clothing.
Harrington, Barber Co,
We have just received a full
supply of furniture. Give us a
oil. AW. Ange Co.
Oysters We have them Fri-
day and Saturday nights.
R. D. Co.
Cooking and heating stoves
and ranges just received. All
of best material and up-to-date.
Harrington Barber Co.
Rev. J. B. Jackson, who has
been visiting relatives here,
left Wednesday for his home at
Hamlet.
I lie i County School Desks
are the desks for you. They are
cheap, durable and
Prices right and workmanship
guaranteed. A. G. Cox Mfg.
Co. Winterville, N. C.
A W. Ange and sister, Mrs-
Myrtle Waters, went to Green-
ville Thursday.
Just received, a nice lot of
children shoes.
Barber A Co
Mr. and Mrs. E. A.
who have been visiting at
returned home last Saturday.
A new lot of dry goods and
notions of all kinds just received
at Harrington, Barber Co.
A. D. Cox, who has
with a cataract on his
eye. had his eye treated Thurs-
day.
Harrington, Barber Co.
bought a bale of cotton and paid
and sold it to B. F. Man-
How is that for selling
cotton
See A W. Ange Co. for
Winchester rifles.
returned home Friday.
We have just received a nice
let of cloaks, give us a call. A
W. Ange c Co.
J. D. Cox. who has been
spending a few days at home,
returned to Fairmont Thursday
to resume his work.
Pump pipes Then see us
We have just good
lot.
J. If. Harrington and F. M.
Crawford attended a basket
party at Tripp's Friday
night.
Miss Elizabeth Moore,
the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union, will lecture
in the Winterville High School
auditorium Wednesday night,
December 16th, at o'clock.
The public cordially invited.
We head the list in nice
A. W. Ange Co.
The is the Kind
you need. See us.
A. W. Ange Co.
After persona of a
v ill benefit by
Of these pills. have been
DRINKING TOO MUCH,
they will promptly relieve the
SICK HEADACHE---------
and restore
the appetite and remove gloomy
lots. Elegantly sugar coated.
Take No Substitute.
A new lot of lamps just in.
Harrington, Barber Co.
For nice hall racks, see us. A.
W. Ange Co.
Cattle want to
buy cattle. R. D. Co.
The A. G. Cox Co. made
a shipment of a solid car of Pitt
county school desk today. The
is continually increasing
rapidly. Better place your or-
early. A. G. Cox
Co., Winterville. N. C.
Misses Willie Faulkner and
of Ayden,
spent Saturday afternoon in our
town.
J. D. Cox came in Saturday
night from Fairmont and spent
Sunday at home.
Rev. T. H. King filled his
regular appointment the
church last Sunday morning
and night.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W, Ange and
Mrs, Myrtle Waters attended
services at Ayden last Sunday.
B. D. Forest went to Greenville
Monday.
J. L. Rollins attended services
in Ayden Sunday night
J. E. Green attended services
at Salem M. E church Sunday.
J. R. Smith, of Ayden, was in
our town Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Bryan have
been visiting relatives at Stokes.
Mr. Bryan returned home Tues-
day.
S- Carroll and F. A,
Edmundson went to Ayden
Tuesday night.
Eugene Cannon attended
services at Reedy Branch Sunday.
E. U. Cox spent Sunday even-
at Ayden.
J. D. Smith was in town Tues-
day- Q
Louis Manning and Albert Bar-
went to Ayden Monday
night.
I am representing the oldest
and life, and fire
insurance companies in the world.
Office in bank building.
J. S. Ross, Winterville, N. C
M. B. Bryan wont to Gr
Tuesday.
There will be a basket party
of school house next
Thursday night. The public is
invited.
F. A. Edmundson went to
Greenville Tuesday.
is with sadness that we
the death Elder
Fred who lived near
here. He died Monday evening
about o'clock. He will be
buried today by the Masons of
which order he was a member.
The lecture made by Prof. C.
W. Wilson, in the Baptist church
Saturday night was excellent.
If you were not present you
missed a treat
Rev. T. H. left here
Monday for Wadesboro to attend
ITEMS.
N. C.
D. Braxton went to Littleton
last week.
Misses Lizzie and
went to Ayden
Langston and family,
of Grainger, spent Sunday at
Chas. Langston's.
Miss Dollie Braxton, who is
teaching at Willow Green, came
home Friday to spend the week
end with her parents.
Miss Bertha visited in
Ayden Sun Jay.
Mrs. Albert Wingate, of
den, is visiting relatives here
Charlie Langston is on the sick
list.
Miss Annie visited
Mrs. R. T. in Fountain
last week.
Miss May of
Oxford, is spending
with her brother Dick-
Watch the
Thinking that it would be
gratifying to the customers of
the Gum Warehouse, we take
this method to inform you and
the public that the Gum Ware-
house for the month of
averaged more than any
warehouse on the Greenville
market. The Gum Warehouse
averaged eleven dollars and
cents for the
entire month of November and
lead the market by sixty four
cents on the hundred pounds.
Sell your to-
at the Gum Warehouse.
the daddy of The Con-
Tobacco Company.
He stands with head erect and
as firm as the rock of
with outstretched arms to
come the noble sons in a noble
cause. Come boys, and bring
neighbors, and lets not
only make the Gum lead in high
prices, but in p A pull
and a strong pull all together
with father will do
John P. Lovelace. Mgr.
John L Gibson, Floor Mgr.
C. F. Meadows, Solicitor.
Ban
Farmville. N. C. Dec 4.-In
behalf of the members of the
M. E. church, South, at Farm-
ville, I desire, through the
courtesy of this paper, to express
my gratitude to every person in
the town of Farmville, and
rounding community, who in
anyway added to the success of
our bazaar held Thanksgiving
day and night.
The day dawned bright and
beautiful, following the cloud
storm the day preceding,
and we really felt that G d
smiling his approval on our prep
and we resumed cm-
duties with renewed vigor, and
with our hearts filled with a
greater degree of thankfulness
to Him for all His goodness to
us.
At the close of the day we
found that our net proceeds
amounted to over which I
hope some day you will see in
the form of a memorial to you
for your generosity.
And last, but not least, I want
to thank our dear sister who so
generously threw open her doors
to us and bid us enter and at the
same time using her every effort
to promote our cause.
May God deal with you in your
every effort for good, as lavishly
as yon have dealt with us.
Agnes Moore.
If not, and you e to own re
soon, you owe it to ex-
the display
shown at the White
Ware-rooms. A display really
to a large city.
In a glance will inspect a
line of pianos not alone stand
in character of e, and
general in a to
Itself, but you m with prices
that stand here and
incomparable Eight
different makes select from, none
of those cheap western department
store stencils, tut each one a stand-
ard, cf acknowledged fame and
reputation in the trade. Four
player-pianos be i known
makes.
We will take your piano in
exchange for one of self play-
We also carry the
ORGAN, the standard of the world.
Old organs and pianos taken in ex-
change, terms to s your
When in Greenville visit our
wart room.
White.
Next door to a At ins Hardware o. store;
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF WINTERVILLE,
AT WINTERVILLE, N. O.
At the close of business, Nov. 1909.
Resources
Loans and discount
Overdrafts secured
and unsecured 393.81
Furniture and fixtures 1,178.63
Due from and 11,211.61
Silver coin, including
minor currency 346.42
Nat bank noes and other
U. not s 1,390.00
Total 121,706.08
liabilities
Capital stock 96,000.00
Surplus fund 660.00
Undivided profits, less
pd 627.00
Time of deposit 802.20
Deposits subject to ck 14,696.36
Cashier's checks
outstanding 31.68
Total
I i mm
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, Pitt County,
We, J, E. Green, Cashier and F. A. Edmondson, Asst. Cashier
of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above state-
is true to the best of our and belief.
F. A. EDMONDSON,
Asst, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to be-
fore me, this 16th day of Nov.,
1900. R. H. Hunsucker,
Notary Public.
J. E.
GREEN,
Cashier
A. G.
R. H. Hunsucker,
J. F, Harrington,
Directors
Nervous
Break-Down
Nerve energy is the
force that controls the or-
of respiration, cir-
digestion and
elimination. When you
feel weak, nervous,
table, sick, it is often
cause you lack nerve
energy, and the process
of rebuilding and sustain-
life is interfered with.
Dr. has
cured thousands of such
cases, and will we believe
benefit if not entirely;
cure you. Try it.
away
completely, and led me on the
of the Brave. J
hut got no permanent relief.
I got no ll I to give up
taking Dr.
In a f-w
I was much I continued
to until entirely cured.
am In never
opportunity to
Mils W. I.
Oregon.
Your Mill Dr. Nary.
and authorize him to return
price of bottle If It
to benefit you.
Miles Co, Elkhart, Ind
to the Reflector.
Marriage License.
Register of Deeds, W. M.
Moore, has issued the following
marriage licenses since last re-
WHITE.
J. I. Tyson and
G. F. and Dora But-
ton.
W. B. Holloway and Carrie
Manning.
John Smith and Mamie Which-
ard.
COLORED.
Bruce and Mollie
Phillips.
Levi and Kirk-
man.
Louis Jenkins and Ella Risks.
Willie Dixon and Annie Jen-
kins.
Charles Patrick and Annie
King.
Clarence Barrett and Martha
Dixon.
Frank Davis and Annie
bury.
The total number of licenses
for the fiscal year ending
Dec. 4th was which was a
decrease of from the previous
year.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF
THE BANK OF FARMVILLE,
AT FARMVILLE, N. O.
At the close of business Nov. 1909.
Resources
Loans and discounts
Overdrafts secured
and unsecured
Furniture and fixtures
Due from
Cash items
Gold coin
Silver coin, including
minor coin currency
Nat bank other U. S.
17,171.19
1,670.50
39,886.88
21,986.88
742.50
985.95
SALE OF LAND.
By virtue of a decree of the Super-
court of Pitt made on the
19th day of November, 1909, in a
proceeding therein pending
entitled, William Fountain,
tor of J. W. Potter against W. D.
Potter others, I will, on
day, December d, before the
court h door in Greenville, sell
at sale to the highest bidder a
certain tract tr of land situated
i i Township, Pitt county, ad-
joining the land of H. J. Stokes,
W. F. Mills, the heir of John Moore,
and others acres,
more less, a to the dower
eight of Susan Potter, widow of
J. W. Pot-tr. Terms of
This the 19th of Nov. V
William Fountain, a of J. W,
Potter. Jarvis Blow, Attorneys.
Do not sell your furs hides
until you see E. M.
opposite Norfolk Southern
depot. w
Notes
Total
2.897.00
12,448.16
Liabilities
Capital stock
Surplus fund
110,000.00
6,000.00
Undivided profits less
cur. exp and taxes pd 1,247.78
Dividend unpaid 1,000.00
Bills payable 15,000.00
Time of deposits 11,881.12
Deposits sub. to check 80,546.70
Cashier's 1,817.56
Total
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of Pitt,
I, J. R. Davis, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly
swear that the above statement is true to the best of my
edge and belief. J. R. DAVIS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me, this 20th day of Nov., 1909.
J. A.
Notary Public.
W. M. Lang,
R. L. Davis,
F. M. Davis,
Directors.
The highest medical authority
on foods,
Sir James Crichton Browne,
of London,
gives the best reasons for eating more
Quaker Oats
In an article published in the a big-boned,
Youth's Companion
23rd, 1909, Dr. Browne, the
great medical
foods, says, about brain and
muscle building
is one kind of food
that seems to me of marked
value as a food to the brain and
to the whole body throughout
childhood and adolescence
and that is oatmeal.
are the most nutritious
of all the cereals, being richer
in fats, organic phosphorus and
He says oatmeal is gaining
ground with the of
Great Britain. He speaks of it
as the mainstay of the Scottish
laborer's diet and says it pro-
oped, mentally energetic race.
His experiments prove that
good oatmeal such as Quaker
Oats not only furnishes the best
food for the human being, but
eating it strengthens and en-
larges the thyroid
gland is intimately connected
with the nourishing processes
of the body.
In conclusion he says
seems probable therefore
that the bulk and of
the Northerners the
has been in some
measure due to the stimulation
of the thyroid gland by oatmeal
porridge in
The Scotch eat Quaker Oats
because it is the best of all oat-
meals.
Get Ground in Greenville
it will be to your interest to see me. for
I also have some splendid Manufacturing sites on railroad sidings for sale.
Terms to suit purchasers.-.
L- C- Arthur, Greenville, N. C.
NOTES FOR C
CHRISTMAS SHOPPERS
Red Men meet tonight.
Fifteen days to Christmas.
Our Greenville, yours it you
come.
The merchants will have busy
times the next two weeks.
Big line of Fay stockings on
hand. Pulley Bowen.
This paper may make you feel
like Christmas.
Lace, Dutch and coat collars at
all prices, at Pulley Bowen's.
When you have baggage to go
to trains phone No.
Nice line of silk mufflers in all
colors at Pulley Bowen's.
The County
meets tomorrow.
Merry Christmas ribbons at
Pulley Bowen's.
Bring your furs to S. M.
Schultz for high prices.
See our line of pillow top
handkerchiefs. Pulley Bowen.
Eastman's and supplies
at Coward Wooten's.
All the new things in
belts. Pulley Bowen.
Keep The Reflector piano con-
test in mind.
and children's
woolen golf gloves in all colors,
at Pulley Bowen's.
When buying your Christmas
presents be sure you see cur line
of fancy Frank Wilson.
Special reduction on
tailor made coat suits in stock.
1210 Pulley Bowen.
Suede button shoes
just
J. R. J. G.
Complete line f holly ribbons
in all widths for Christmas.
Pulley Bowen,
candies at Coward
Wooten's, always fresh. There
is nothing better.
See our line of men and boy's
neck wear for
1210 Pulley k Bowen.
Call by the Candy Kitchen and
get some of the nice fruits and
fresh made candies.
Be sure to tee our line of
men's shoes in all leathers, at
13.60 and Pulley Bowen.
For or
turned house. J. W. Perkins.
1213
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FOR JNO. L. WOOTEN.
Children's crib blankets, price
at Pulley Bowen's.
Mufflers, mufflers, the newest
novelties of the season at
Wilson's.
Cord rushing, all colors, for
cents a box, yards to the
box. Pulley Bowen.
Italian band has been
in town the last few days making
excellent music
If you want a nice trunk or a
dress suit case be sure to see our
line. Pulley Bowen.
A new lot of
ally designed for Christmas
Is. Frank Wilson.
For special reduction on hats,
ribbons and baby caps you
call on Mrs. I. F. Lee Co.
Big line of white woolen
blankets, and at
Pulley A Bowen's.
What to give for a Christmas
present can be solved if you look
over this issue of The Reflector.
The Music Club meets tonight
at o'clock with Mr. and Mrs.
O. E. Warren.
Highest cash prices paid for
Pitt County Oil Co.
Winterville, N. C.
Give him one of those Parker
lucky curve fountain pens, at
Reflector Book
Nice line of in all
styles for the Christmas trade.
1210 Pulley Bowen.
Our line of suit cases and
traveling bas , make fine
Christmas U. Frank Wilson.
for ladies and
men, in black and tan.
Pulley Bowen.
For Christmas nothing could
please more than a beautiful
holiday box of famous
hose for ladies and gentlemen.
Frank Wilson.
Beautiful
silver mesh
and children.
line of imported
purses, for ladies
Pulley Bowen.
Give the advertisements in this
paper careful reading and you
will know to do your
Christmas trading.
From now until Christmas we
will give a special reduction on
hats, ribbons and baby caps.
Mrs- I. F. Lee Co.
Elegant writing materials,
pound paper and envelopes a
specialty at Coward Wooten's.
fancy collars, one in a
box, make beautiful Christmas
presents- Prices and cents
at Pulley Bowen's.
Come on with your
lion to The Reflector and vote
for somebody in the piano con-
test
Unloading car American wire
fencing. low. See us
before buying. j
w J. R. J. G.
Greatly reduced prices in our
millinery department, including
all shapes and pattern hats now
on hand. Pulley Bowen,
More and gold fish at
Reflector Book Store. Place
orders early if you want them
saved for Christmas presents.
We are making low prices on
Stalk cutters, Disc Harrows and
smoothing harrows. See us be-
fore buying. J. R.
Special value in
leather hand bags for
and 17.50.
V, Pulley Bowen.
Those wanting engraved cards
for Christmas should place orders
i early to insure delivery in time.
i The Reflector takes orders.
See our special snow shoe for
men, with cork inner soles,
which prevents dampness from
reaching the foot. Special price
of M. Pulley Bowen.
Don't forget that Pulley
Bowen have reduced prices on
all tailor made coat suits in
stock.
For Jim King place,
near N. depot. put it
water and lights if desired,
Higgs Bros.
Large stock of children's bear
skin coats in white, red, rose
and green. Big reduction in
price. Bowen
Anthracite, domestic lump.
and other grades of coal,
quality, prices to
per ton.
We have a complete line of
linen handkerchiefs in all styles
and at all for the holiday
trade. Pulley Bowen-
there be anything more
disagreeable rough chapped
skin cream is
guaranteed for it at Coward
Wooten's. U
See our line of furs. Nice
Christmas present for your
mother, wife or sweetheart.
Pulley Bowen
Cabbage plants, cabbage
plants, great big cabbage plants.
If you want early plant
Warren's cabbage plants now.,
O. E. Warren.
are headquarters for
gloves, in all colors.
Superb line for holiday trade.
Pulley Bowen,
A useful gift for
, a beautiful holiday box con-
four pair of famous
interwoven
Frank Wilson.
Now is the time to buy cotton
seed hulls. They will be higher
after Christmas.
Pitt County Oil Co.
1213 Winterville, N. C.
Our stock of misses
and children's hosiery com-
in every line. cm fit
from the smallest to th largest
foot. Pulley Bowen-
Lost-Gold filled hunting case
watch, American stem winder,
movement number case
number Liberal reward
to finder.
We have a beautiful line of
umbrellas for Christ-
mas gifts. Prices con-
with quality.
Pulley Bowen.
Liberal meal exchanges will be
made for cotton seed during the
month of December. Long dis-
Phone T-13
Pitt County Oil Co.
Winterville, N. C.
If you are undecided about the
singing canary bird for Christ-
mas you see C. B. Which-
ard soon. The last order for
Christmas delivery will be sent
off next week.
Special for Thursday. Friday
and Saturday, Dec.
For all purchased made on above
named days you will be given
vote for every penny you spend
in the piano contest.
1210 Central Mer.
Over a million cabbage plants
for sale. Jersey and
Charleston and Early
Pilot, all grown from Tait's true
type seed. Delivered in field at
per thousand, or packed for
shipment at per thousand.
If you haven't seen
about that telephone, you
had better do so at once. We arc
now receiving orders at the rate
of two and per day, a little
faster than we can put them in,
First come, first served. Get in
line, order yours at once.
rates, five cents per day.
extension telephone fifty cents
per month. Why worry your
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL BRIEFS.
Shipping.
Not too early to now.
When you worrying
about what to get, take it as a
sign that you are not giving
love but from a sense of
Half the fun of Christmas
shopping is the crowd, the jam.
and the hurry.
The price tag is not the right
way to measure the gift.
people can shed more
joy other
can with a big account to draw
on.
Don't forget that the sales-
people the counter are
made of flesh and blood, and that
they are quite as apt to become
weary as you are.
Do your shopping in the day
time, and give the clerks a
to rest up.
A cherry is the best
Christmas gift you can give to
some people.
Visitors Here and People Who
Travel.
Rev. B. F. Huske d
Thursday evening from
ville, where he had been called
by the sickness of his little sis-
We are that he left
her much better.
R C. one of Green-
former who some
years ago to Sanford and
was made of Lee
when that county
in even-
to spend a few days here.
His friends are glad to greet
him and fee him looking so well.
It h s bean three years since he
was last here and he says it
him joy to behold the great pro
Greenville has made in that
time
HIDDEN DANGERS
Nature Gives Timely Warnings
That no Citizen
Can Afford to Ignore
anger No cornea from the
kidney will warn
when the are Heir. Well
a clear, amber d. Sic c
tended a thin, foamy
or red, i I full of
i and irregular of passage.
signal No. cornea from c
back. Back p-ins. dull and heavy, or
and acute, tel. you of k kid-
and warn of the approach
and Bright a disease.
Kidney Pills cure
and cure them p Mere u
proof in the statement of a nearby
resident. ,
Wm. Washington and Tar-
Mount, N. C,
Kidney a proved in my
remedy for kid-
and I have no hesitation
You will see the best program
at the tonight
that have ever The
Millionaire Cowboy, ODe Legged
Pete fat, Alphonso, the
Dead Shot; The Broken Violin.
Music by Vito
j Miss Florence v still leads
in the contest for the in gold,
others follow closely.
in recommencing them to anyone
afflicted with this I used
them for backache and oilier annoy-
arising from red
ind they me prompt relief.
For sale by all dealers. Price
cents. Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
State. i , , .
Remember the e-and
no
The Paper Them.
Greenville gained one
and business n an during the
past year, and we believe we
will not mind his name
Wells Browne, the
who says the
edition of The Reflector
a year ago brought him here.
He chanced to see a copy of the
to correspond with
the editor about the town, came
here to see for himself and found
that it was Greenville,
yours if you And he has
made it his ever since. We hope
this edition will help to bring
others as good as he is.
Visit.
Rt. Rev- Robert Strange,
bishop of this diocese, is ex-
to arrive in Greenville
Saturday. Be will preach in St.
Episcopal church both
morning and evening on Sunday,
in the afternoon will preach
to the colored people.
For Rent-100 acres good farm
land. See Bros.
ARE YOU SURE
Re Elected Chairman.
At the meeting of the Board of
County Commissioners Monday,
the beginning of the new fiscal
year, Commissioner
was re-elected chairman of
the board. He filled the position
most acceptably during the past
year.
lo boy U
lute from factory,
other kept la
Sanitary
Why lake any whore your health.
t Why Dot
MAKE FREEZE YOUR OWN ICE CREAM
In MINUTES
FOR k. A PLATE with
ICE Powder
It to Simply of
one milk
heating or d
makes two
quarts of lot clean, put and whole-
MOM. A good ice cream can be
for a dollar or two which will
for w soon cost.
JELLO CREAM Tow-
and
Cold by food J
Tho Co., Roy, N. Y
WIT .
NOTICE.
By of the power of Bale con-
in a mortgage deed
and delivered by Julia A.
Wilson and R to J. B. Lit-
on the 30th day of November,
and duly I in the
office of Pitt county, North
p-8, page the
will expose to public
ft re the court home door in Greenville,
to the highest tidier on Jan-
a certain tract or par-
of land lying and in the
of Pitt and State of North Carolina
ard described as
Situate in p. M me
north side of Tar river and aide of
creek, adjoining I he lards
formerly belonging to T. I.
deceased, Allen Baker and and
bounded a Beginning in the
run of at the mouth
Root and up said MM
to the of a ditch, thence up said
ditch to a holly; thence north, 1-
cast cherry tree at the road; then
with the no-th 1-2 wist to
forked pine near the road;
e st in a direct to All n Baker a
line; thence with Bakers line to
Thomas J. Sheppard's thence with
his line to a gum in Laurel branch,
thence with Daniel a line to
the creek; down the creek to the
beginning, more or
lea-, saving and excepting so much or
land heretofore conveyed by J. B.
Little and wife to G. R. B. B. and J. J.
and the upon said
land by J. b.
I Little and wife to Bettie L. Short,
i lo satisfy said deed,
sale; Cash.
I This 9th 1909.
j B. Mortgages,
Blow, Attorneys.
ltd Greenville, N. t.
BLOUNT
has an electric cleaner and is prepared
to clean carpets, mattings and rugs
properly without taking them up.
put down and stitch carpets when
Work done promptly. Can be
found at the store of J. R. J-
Subscribe to the Reflector.
C. V. YORK.
. J. COBB.
York Cobb,
GENERAL .
CONTRACTORS
LONG DISTANCE PHONE
Greenville, North Carolina
OFFICE IN BUILDING.
Work done in or out of State.
ESTIMATES FURNISHED ON APPLICATION,
u hi
mm
from 3rd page.
other, a kind, cheery soul, honest in
her Joy, who offered herself for a
friend, who gave and com-
fort because she loved Christ and you.
and had little else to give, which
would choose If you could have
tut on I think know. I believe
would say that love was the
greatest thing in all the world.
Now God gives mothers and every-
one else this Christmas day just to
prove truth of this to all they
tan it to the world,
that rich and poor may exalt love
above money, make love more
gold. Not far from any of
some soul Is In danger,
some people are hungry, some for-
one wanders alone through the
music of the Christmas day, hearing
no love songs sung by men or angels,
brooding over the wretched present,
the hopeless Will you have
a gift for such, one that
has heart and purpose In it It
would be ever so much better to give
lime and money to do some real good
to the miserable than to buy
for friends who will not know
what to do with ii when they get it.
to lit pity dictate our Christ-
mas gifts than or bet-
still to let Christ have his way
with us this Christmas day.
CHRISTMAS IN ENGLISH FICTION
It N.
by American Press
until the first
half of the
century was SUM
spent M P
vie of literature
which has come to
be known
fiction effect
permanent I o el It
In the hearts
of
lug mankind. The
ancient parable
plays the
rhymed
legends of the mid
die ages are still In
on the continent, but the more
secular minded English had only the
rude Jingles and the
carols of boot eating antiquity
Contrary to the prevailing notion, the
Inventor of the tale with a distinctive-
Christmas flavor was an American
It Is likely that It would occur to few
Americans and to no Englishman to
dissent if It were asserted in
presence that Charles Dickens
the Christmas story. Ills name
ll so Inseparably connected with so
of the holiday literature en-
shrined In the popular heart that it Is
small wonder the mention of Christ-
mas suggests him. The credit of the
however, must given
to another, a man who was at the end
of his thirties when Dickens was horn,
who been at Malta when Nelson's
fleet sailed away to Trafalgar, who had
visited Sir Walter at and
bad captivated him and who was aft-
secretary to the United States
legation In England. That, of course,
means Washington Irving.
first book. Sketch-Book
of Geoffrey Crayon, had pleased
everybody, so much so, Indeed, that It
was by John Murray In
London and translated Into several con-
languages. Both the publish-
and the public were urging him to
do something equally meritorious. No-
body realized more keenly than did the
author of exquisite work the
of producing Its mate, and he
wit not a man to be driven Into
Three years later ho published
and the chapter of
that masterpiece of literary workman-
ship entitled at
was the pioneer holiday tale of
English literature and has furnished a
model for subsequent which
bas seldom been equaled never
excelled. easy grace and felicity of
expression were a revelation to every-
body In those days, and the wonder
and the charm arc potent still.
William Thackeray, mas-
of n realism that Is the wonder and
the despair of those who have followed
him. needed no
model chose
none. His
Patties re-
nothing
ever In
the of any
other man. The
public was pleased
with It. but never
so much as was
Thackeray himself.
Most of all, the author of
professed to believe that It
that bad made
his too. In face of
the fact that had
been published. This perversion of
Thackeray In regard to the literary
value of bis wares and bis lack of faith
In his bad so little
confidence in the success of
that after It appeared be applied
for a government
proof sufficient that the man who ere
a masterpiece may have a dim
conception of artistic values.
All the makers of great fiction are
more or under spell of their
Immediate surroundings, but few have
It more apparent than
Dickens. Those who knew
stances saw plainly that be bad put
himself and his sad childhood Into
many of bis pathetic short stories.
la of. The
In Master which an ac-
count of things which to
his troubled boyhood. As a
child he was a firm believer in ghosts.
and It la probable that he entire-
abandoned faith in spectral
Many of his are
with disembodied spirits, and they
are like the ghosts of no other writer.
are that appeal to one
make one believe In their .
They ore frequently more real j
than living characters who
with Although they are dead,
they conduct themselves like living en-
titles.
Christmas ghosts are
the realm of literature. f all the
silent shapes that
v have been sum-
moued from the
upper and nether
J V worlds to lend en-
to the
tale
bis alone have
become
ed. There Is
anything re-
about
They are
the most
spooks ever Invented. They
are seldom sepulchral, but are
cheerful. They are the
haunting, Bleep and never to
exorcised phantoms of the fairy tales
actual freed from all
in regard to
that come to us when we bid them
and vanish politely we are weary
of their presence.
Bret Harte never made a secret cf
bis for the creator of Little
Nell Tom Like Paul at
the feet of Gamaliel, he was to
receive his lesson from the he
acknowledged his master. Not
until after Dickens had his
work did the literary light Who
stood revealed ill far western
learn that his model had seen
exquisite elegy In
had bean board to express
his admiration of it most gen-
terms. The dying novelist de-
that the work of the new Amer-
writer contained such subtle
strokes of workmanship as no other
writer In the language had yet ex-
And then he asked, with a
humorous In his weary eyes,
yon think that his manner is
very like my
Dickens. Harte bad a genuine
fondness for the doings of
One who knew him best says that up
to the last of his life thought
much of the Christmas season and to
the last kept up the fond and foolish
custom of sending generous presents
to his Better appreciated In
England than In Ids native country,
Harte spent the later years of his life
abroad, but Ills stork's were to the last
distinctively American. In that ad-
performance entitled
Santa Came to Simpson's
there Is no flavor of the old world
Christmas, and Johnny, clothed In the
stars and stripes. Is a young American
of the most unmistakable sort.
Two of the most strikingly
Christmas stories ever written are
H a
Christmas Ban-
and Miss
There is little of
C h r i s t in s In
H a wt home's
tale.
The Joyous
val is only a lit-
makeshift
around which is
dickens. woven a weird
psychological study that drives all re-
of the blessed season from
the mind. Us ghosts are not the so-
and easily banished spooks of
Dickens. They are formless and
creepy mid all pervading. They are the
fearsome specters that rise frig-
id vapors of German Ism. and
they are made Icier still a strong
admixture of New England
It Is a masterpiece in con-
question
at all about that-but It does not make
Yule log glow more brightly or
lend a better flavor to steaming
bowl.
Mary Russell does not deal
In ghosts. All of her Christmas char-
are flesh and blood people, and
they are not of the sort Unit not
stay dead when they Her
mas Is as in work-
as anything which ever came
from her careful pen, and Hint Is say-
much. It Is as and
suggestive as a pastoral, and its
Is as soothing as the delicate
savor which escapes when the cover
of n potpourri Jar Is lifted or
drawer of an old time cabinet Is open-
faint, pervasive odor of crush-
ed rose leaves and dried lavender.
has but one purpose, The training teachers. The courses are so
planned as to meet the needs of East Carolina in the best way possible.
THE WORK OF TH E FALL HAS BEEN WHOLLY SUCCESSFUL
and others are asking for admission to the school after Christmas.
Address all inquiries to
President
The Timely Prep-
of Useful
Christmas Pres-
Bags Al-
ways Popular
and Appreciated.
Priscilla
Bedroom Slippers
The girl who bas time for a little
fancy work at home, either making
things for herself or preparing for
should start work on
butterfly handkerchiefs.
have been sold shops for
some lime. Imported from Paris and
costing quite a bit of money.
A girl can make them at home if she
Is clever with her needle. If she bas
been doing any of butterfly
In underwear which has been
the fashion this season she will be ex-
pert enough to start this other
work.
The foundation is a sheer fine hand-
kerchief with hemstitched edge.
Either one or several butterflies are
cut from sheer colored silk mull and
applied to the linen.
They be all of one color or In
different colors and embroidered at
the edges and up center to give
the coloring of n real butterfly.
Some girls may prefer Just one but-
with widespread wings In n
color, such lavender, pink, yellow
or blue.
If she makes a set for n Christmas
gift It will be pretty to put a different
d on each
Bags Popular Gifts.
Bags of all kinds are always well
liked presents. They may tie made
flat or round and be for either useful
or ornamental purposes, but in tiny
guise they are most acceptable.
of tile bags this season are built on a
foundation of covered cardboard,
most beautiful of all are of
ribbon gathered round a flat
Lasting Christmas Gift
FOR MAN OR WOMAN
WATERMAN'S IDEAL FOUNTAIN PEN
is a gift that will last a great many years, and be of constant
service to the recipient and a pleasing and permanent
of the giver. We have just received a lot, at
prices from up.
A Beaut and Appropriate Box Accompanies Each Pen
M. M. SAULS, Druggist,
AYDEN,
NORTH CAROLINA.
remarked an old
skipper on the Water front, an-
superstitions cling to Ins men
who go to sen. Take, for instance,
that shark's I'm nailed to the tip of
the flying of that
mer. There's of the
who come down to the docks on
n Sunday afternoon that don't look
and wonder at it. But few know
what it means to seafaring men.
It's a superstition as old as the art
of sailing one in which all sea-
men believe. They think it takes
ginger out of heavy seas when
the ship is shoving her nose under,
and they also believe that so long
as the fin holds the vessel
will never in n collision. It is n
mascot which brings nil good, be-
sides adding speed to the ship. A
sailor in leave the musts
go by the board as to sou bark's
fin lost off
J. R. SMITH CO. DR. JOSEPH DIXON.
J. R. SMITH CO. DIXON
Milling Manufacturing
AYDEN, N. C.
General Manufacturing and Repairing
IN WOOD AND IRON.
.
System Grist Mill, Saw and Planing Mills, Wood and Smith
Shops, Electric Light Station, and Undertakers.
Window and Door Frames, Columns, Brackets, In and
Outside Trimmings for Buildings, Wagons, Carts, Etc.
Will Buy Your Seed Cotton, Cotton Seed, Corn and Peas.
fail to or write
M. G. BRYAN
N. C.
if yea in I hi way l
TOMB STONES OR MONUMENTS
or say kind of Marble week.
lit It asocial for
Co., C, which
the Souls.
wast
basket, willed the bottom. More
useful, but In
way, Is seen In tin
cut. To make it cut a by
circle of cretonne, fold sides to-
shape Illustrated. Line
with some plain material,
making Inn
for needles, scissor. The
busy her will be to receive
this gift. .,
The Reflector does job wt
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STEAM INC
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Cotton Factors and handlers t
Bagging. Ties and Bags.
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IN
Monuments
Tomb Stones
Iron Fencing
Greenville,
WILSON WRIGHT
New Town Pressing Club
N- C.
Cleaning, Pressing, all Colon of
Dyeing sod Repairing Clothes on
short notice. As work guaranteed,
attired
HERE Is
Mrs. Philander
us shook
the snow from his coat and
carefully wiped bis feet on the brand
Dew doormat.
get returned
moodily.
get one Why Dot, James
forgot It, Bella, until just as I got
off the train, and as that was the lost
train from town I very well
walk back and look up a tree. By that
time the shop would all be closed
back Such nonsense Of.
course If you haven't thought enough
of the children to buy them a
Interpolated Philander
desperately, say another word.
I'll find a tree somewhere tonight If
I bare to rob church of the Sun-
day school
He thrust his arms into bis overcoat
grasped his hat, but Mrs.
put out a detaining hand.
she said seriously,
cannot And a tree Id Rose Heights to-
night. know there is not a shop
Id Heights, and where else would
you look for a
shall walk Into the woods dig
returned Philander, with dignity.
you could do that, James, but
It Is o'clock now and there Is no
moon. You will lose your
returned Mr. Philander.
hope I know my way around Rose
Heights. I a very handsome pine
tree Id that strip of woods back
Turkey bill road. I could walk there
blindfolded and lay my hand upon that
he asserted rashly.
returned Mrs.
reluctantly. hate to have you go,
James, but the children will be so dis-
appointed. The presents ore oil ready,
and I have been up in the attic and
got the base for the tree and all
in fact, everything is ready
except the
will soon be said
Mr. Philander grimly as he Jerked on
bis arctics and turned up bis coat col-
brine me the from
the woodshed, he added.
spade, James I thought they
chopped trees down. The ground la
course, the as by re-
plied Irritably. He was
vexed with himself for having forgot-
ten to order the tree, which was one
of the necessary adjuncts to the Phil-
Christmas. He bad never, for-
gotten It before. He to order
It that morning and have It sent to
suburban borne later In the day, but
an Important business matter had
en the remembrance of festival
from his mind until
when opened the door recalled it to
but attention.
Ho sallied forth, bearing ax, and
waded through the newly fallen snow
to the corner of the street, where he
turned toward Turkey hill road. The
snow was only six Inches deep, and
the walking was not so bad. Cray
clouds bung low, and there was a thick
of flakes as Philander turned the
comer. When reached the strip of
woods It was snowing heavily, and he
could only guess at location of the
particular pine he had In mind.
He whistled cheerily he walked
along, for his spirits were rising. Be
a warm glow stealing
tired frame he anticipated the de-
light of three
when beheld the selfsame tree
that they so warmly admired a
while before set up in their own
parlor, ablaze with candles and rich
with gifts.
Mr. Philander stopped and thrashed
himself vigorously with
There was a In the air
that was reflected from the fallen
snow, and there was the tickling rush
of lakes In bis eyes. When be reach-
ed very opening In the woods
where admired the tree he
turned around and looked carefully up
and down the rood. Of course be
could see nothing, nor was there
faintest tinkle of bells. It was n,
very lonely spot,
Mr. knew that the strip
woods was private property, he
knew that he could make It all
right with the owner of the
woods, on the following day. Lake
four miles away and It was tin-
In his permission now.
Although Mr. Philander stated
that he could put his hand on the tree
In he found It rather a
cult thing to do after nil. lost
himself several times the dense
and all the tree trunks seem-
ed unfamiliar to his touch. Then, all
at once, he emerged from the under-
brush, spicy of
ed bis face.
It. by he exclaimed. He
dug the snow from the trunk and
with n few lusty blows mid tree
In dragged It. trailing
snow. He lost his once or
e, and Dually, at n when
a almost brunt
that night, be found himself standing
before his own gate.
He carted the tree around to
back door, and with Mrs.
help It was taken into the house and
up In parlor.
Mr. Philander thawed himself out In
front of kitchen store quaffed
fragrant coffee that bis grateful wife
had prepared.
Is a beauty, she said
gleefully; finest ever had.
How delighted the children will be. I
am sorry, though, you are so tired,
I'm all right now, said
Philander cheerfully. was worried
after I found that I bad forgotten
tree, but I closed out that deal with
today, and I wee busy every mo-
lovely that you got the con-
tract, cried his wife excitedly.
la a line Christmas present for
bet your life It returned
Philander Jocosely. let us get
Bessie, dragging her new doll
remorselessly by Its flaxen hair.
flaked It came that way,
protested Indignantly.
a Santa Claus tree, babies, so
dears feel bad about it. Bun away
and said Mr. Philander
Then he turned to Jack,
It's the very same tree, my he
proudly.
doesn't look like It, said
Jack bluntly.
eh What's the matter
with
nothing. It's fine, but it Isn't
tree we Insisted boy ob-
mind, never returned
Mr. good
He sought bis wife, who was helping
Norah with the breakfast tree
was a great success, my be said
genially.
Is replied Mrs.
happily. children are so de-
I'm glad of that. I was tell-
Taylor yesterday morning going
down on the train that Christmas was
not Christmas without a tree, and he
said that It wouldn't be Christmas at
their then, for were not
going to have
uttered Mrs.
not,
I don't know. He some-
thing about bard times, said the
good, old fashioned suited
them well enough; that would
bang their stockings before Are
and all that, you
lander. Taylor told it was
the of her husband's
did It asked
Philander, Interest.
Taylor said his wife beard some
one chopping half II lost
night, but she didn't think an thing of
It, and this morning they found
tree was the stump
very observed Mr.
-Hard luck for
continued Jack ear-
was In the woods on Turkey
bill road today and that tree
saw last inlay Is there yet. You
didn't cut It down. knew that one
wasn't
Mr. Philander paled slightly.
pursued the terrible
Jack with a directness born of sudden
revelation, is Mr. Taylor's tree
I knew I'd seen It
Mr. Philander shrank from their
rifled
Taylors will be here in a few
minutes. said Mrs. Philander
coldly.
dear, must have got turned
around in the storm, but the Lord
only knows how I got In Taylor's
the other side of woods,
said Jack sympathetically
I guess you walked right
and Into Mr. Taylor's
must have done groaned
Mr. Philander. Then with sudden In
spiral ion he stripped the tree of Its
ornaments and candles carried It
the house Into the hack yard.
He scratched a match, and In live min-
the Philander Christmas tree was
a charred ruin.
bad, old said Taylor
lively as Philander
explained the absence of the
tree. one reason why I don't
believe in Christmas trees. They are
apt to take fire, there you arc.
I glad it happened before we
rived
am ejaculated Mr. Philander.
But all the little Philanders agree
that It was the most beautiful Christ-
mas tree they ever had.
IT TRAILING THE SNOW.
the ready for the Every-
thing
Isn't a thing for you to do,
dear, save to hang them on the
said his wife, leading way to the
lighted parlor, where tree
its symmetrical branches glistening
the light and exuding a fresh balsamic
odor.
Jove, It Is the handsomest tree
we ever exclaimed Mr.
surveying the shapely conifer ad-
They were soon st work, and pres-
beautiful tree blossomed
forth In glistening festoons of gold and
tinsel, A radiant star tipped
the highest point, while daintily
orated gifts burdened the branches and
wore heaped at the
It was with satisfaction that
retired that night. They
were lo leave the resplendent tree,
but utter weariness drove them to bed.
It daylight when first de-
lighted shriek from n small
his tired parents. Mr.
groaned dismally. He from
head to foot, ho was sick from
lack of sleep. Mrs, Philander
equally tired; but. the self ab-
negation of mothers. In general and
mothers In particular on Christmas
morning, she got up and went down-
stairs to enter Into Joys of the hap-
children.
When Mr. Philander came
stairs to breakfast the children
about him
asked Jack, tho
this very tree we saw last Sunday
when we walked along Turkey bill
road Is this tho very
told you Hint, asked
Mr. Philander sharply.
mother did. I told her I had
seen It somewhere before, and she said
H that very
fought Claws
dear I think children
prefer a tree just said Mrs.
Philander regretfully. Tom-
my Taylor We must Invite him over
to see tho children's this after-
Indeed, that will be an excel-
lent plan. Suppose we Invite a fen-
people to spend the evening and enjoy
the tree with us. We can put some
and have a jolly
said Philander, warming up to
subject be proceeded.
will be agreed
Mrs. Philander, us ask the
we'll ask chuckled
Philander. show Taylor the way
to keep
That afternoon Mrs. Philander busied
herself preparing for the evening's
entertainment Tho Taylors ac
gladly, so bad tho other In-
guests, Mr. Philander, who
was the soul of hospitality, walked
about and rubbed his hands with pleas-
ant anticipation.
lie made sundry trips to tho cellar
for apples cider cracked great
bowls of nuts. He carried In huge
arm loads of wood for the fireplace and
surveyed the with com-
satisfaction.
It was at that that Jack
Philander burst noisily In.
what do you he began
breathlessly.
my boy, what Is It ask-
ed Mr, indulgently as
warmed bis co-it tails comfortably.
heard Mr. telling some men
that chopped down the tree
from his front
Mr.
absently. I
know, Nor-
way pine that stood on their front
a exclaimed Mrs. Phi-
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Shall I Buy for Christmas
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BEAUTIFUL HOLIDAY GOODS
WE CAN MEET your WANTS
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is seeking an appropriate Christmas Gift for young or old
PRICES REASONABLE
Come and see Our Splendid Line of Christmas Attractions
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Suggestions About
Hand Wrought
Jewelry
and Useful
Handkerchief
and
Attractive
Hanger m
Watch fobs are present
man from girls who are clever at de-
signing and making band
Jewelry. Fobs of copper set
a pretty green stone, and
mounted on tan suede of a
quality are very smart It I a
ion, too, to have belt buckles made
of old watch eases and from old
tare frames, not to mention
girdles from old fashioned chased and
fretwork napkin rings. Tb ring
eat Into perpendicular strips, the rip;
being fastened together with
chains In ornamental design. Old
coins are often Joined together
dog collars, and quaint buttons are set
in metal bands for fillets. These art
only a few suggestions for girls
are interested In arts and crafts work.
Useful Handkerchief Case.
A useful handkerchief can
made by purchasing flowered ribbon
with a satin edge. Get the ribbon
width of a handkerchief when It U
folded Into a square, allowing a
for the finish. Turn both ends over s
little more than Is required for a
For the Woman Cook,.
Few women can resist the appeal
a daintily made apron. For
or at a chafing dish an apron
and many persons lite t
wear one around at
tasks that do not require them to b
in more serviceable aprons.
A dainty affair of this kind,
would make a nice Christmas present.
Is so simple In construction that any
one can develop It.
All that Is needed Is a of thin
lawn, sneer
or floe barred dimity. size of the
square can be varied from a yard
forty Inches or even more, according
to height of the wearer and the de-
sired length of apron.
an Inch wide hem on
skies and hemstitch It on one or both
edges of drawn threads, as
Hold the square to you with s
at the bust Hoc, and at the waist lint
It by several groups of But
lengthwise tucks to form a small bit
top. On each side of the point
formed put tics of the material two
Inches and a half wide. These may be
hemstitched all around, or they can
hemmed on the edges and finished In I
deep hemstitched hem at bottom.
This dainty apron la capable of many
variations. In addition to the hem-
stitching, a design con
worked In corner that forms
bib and at bottom corner directly
below It. or the four corners can be em
those opposite the bib lint
taking a smaller motif.
An Individual touch can be given
hemstitching as described and
In bib corner a large oval medal
lion with a monogram In the center
Touches of color could be Introduced
In embroidery with good effect.
HOMEMADE GIFTS.
Mads by I
ways
Christmas Is coming, and all the In-
ones arc beginning to won-
what will for their
friends, what kinds of offerings
can design that will have two virtues
evidence of loving care and real use-
Under this head will coma
lavender Illustrated. It It
made of cream colored scrim and Is
embroidered In cross stitch with
a little flower design worked In
In n deep cream and the
lower end was turned tip about four
Inches. An Inch wide hem at the top
at the pocket and another at top
of the apron were run with leaf green
ribbons and tied st the ends In soft
rosettes. The pocket extended
across the apron and tiny
pockets above were decorated with
brilliant cretonne roses, and a leaf or
two were applied to the material by
buttonholing In green embroidery silk.
Statement of Condition of
THE NATIONAL BANK
OF GREENVILLE, N. C.
at the close of business. November I GOO.
A Smart
This is s gift easy to make and one
that will be appreciated by woman
who Is short of drawer or cupboard
room. This la a good, strong,
Loans and discounts 149,893.55 Overdrafts United States Bonds Furniture and Fixtures 3,240.42 Cash due from Banks Surplus ad 11,227.32 21,000.00 Dividends unpaid 83.07 12,000.00 Deposit. 141,688.63
A Waist Hangar.
Here Is a new shirt waist holder
that la made by cutting white card-
pocket handkerchief and overcast
edge strip and of the turnover
together to make the two pockets
Hem the and fold the
together for packing. This little cast
Is particularly to carry
In
WAIST
board twenty-one Inches In length and
In depth In Hie form of
Illustration. Cut u
paper and paste on the front.
two la the ton for the rib-
loop, one being
and the holder Is completed.
The Reflector job work.
silk, while a wall of Troy Is dons
around the outer edge of the sachet
to bide all evidences of stitching.
To make this little gift one would
require a five cent package of dried
lavender, a bit of muslin measuring
fl by Inches, a piece of scrim by
inches and three shades of lavender
embroidery silk. Make a bag of the
muslin measuring by inches, of
course taking off enough for
Inch scams; fill It with the
and sew It up. fold the scrim so
it measures by C Inches and em-
the design In middle of one
side. The basket should be done with
middle color, the two center flow-
and of darkest shade
and rest of flowers In the
lightest shade. This done, sew tbs
scrim on three sides on the machine,
wrong side out. This will make
bag. Now turn it right aide out and
sew It like a Preach seam one-half
Inch from the Outer edge.
This will leave the third side, which
will lie at Pit bar one end or the oilier.
Mill open, this put the
muslin hag of lavender. The sachet
then needs only lo he sewed up on the
remaining side, the embroidery done
over stitches, and tho gift will be
complete.
An Embroidery Apron.
A Hewing apron seen re-
the keynote of newness
anal bf easily copied for u Christ-
Bias It made of Hue
ordinary milliner's sure to
choose MM of large
quite an ornamental affair.
The Is first neatly lined Inside
with plain sateen or washing silk and
then Is covered all over the outside
dainty patterned chintz or
tonne The sowing Is all done at the
edges with good, firm and
then each edge Is neatly bound with
ribbon, or braid to cover the
sewing.
This should be completed by
a large, neatly hemmed square of
lining to cover hat when placed In
box. An embroidered monogram
In the corner of this square would
form a dainty finish to
Comparative Statement of
November 1907,
November 101,692.68
November 1909, 141,688.63
If you do not transact your business at this back, let this be an invitation
to become one of our SATISFIED CUSTOMERS-
Grandmother's Present.
An attractive mile Is
In this Use the bottom
a soft, pliable woven basket on which
a design of daisies leaves can be
worked with In the shades to
suit. After tills Is basket
should be lined with green silk,
which conies eight Inches he-
the of the basket. A casing
Is made at the lop of this and hag
green ribbon.
A of sort will he found
very fur holding a ball of
yarn, letting the end nut St tho
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Everything New and Modern
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AND FRESH DRUGS. I.
A full line of Fine Stationery, Toilet Supplies,
Cigars, Tobaccos, and everything handled by
A First Class Drug Store
Cut Glass and Holidays and Weddings
HOT CHOCOLATE
We have just received a Hot Soda outfit find are
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Home of Women's Fashion, Greenville C.
We have an especially attractive line of goods
suitable for Christmas presents; for men,
and
The Gift Maker's
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Line of Goods, full of the
is now ready for the inspection and approval of all who
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We are specially prepared for the Holiday trade and
can supply your needs promptly. We would be pleased
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RICKS BROTHERS
AS A CHRISTMAS PRESENT
What is nicer than
Candy, a Kodak, a Box of Fine Writing
Material, Art Cards
or a Box of Cigars
These can be had at
COWARD
DRUG STORE
A Complete Line of Drugs and
Medicines
and in fact kept in
A Wide-awake Drug Store
cu be hid of them.
SANTA
HEADQUARTERS
on display an
beautiful
line of TOYS and flu-
for Holiday trade
Nuts, Fruits and
the best
ties. Can supply all
your needs for Christmas.
Call and inspect my line.
Maryland Casualty Co.
follow.
Premiums received by various
Casualty in North
Carolina year Dec
ember as shown by
State Insurance
Maryland Casualty C.
Fidelity Casualty Co . i.
Life Ins. Co.
Co.
U. . Casualty Co.,.
tea coo
insurance in force in
My connection with the company
a of twelve
Tie new
P is built in fill need of
the
adjustment of all losses
. 011.53
. 0.708
O. 31.45
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THE TOY MAN
For the RIGHT GOODS at RIGHT PRICES to
J. S MOORING
k net. Greenville, N. C.
On the Boom
EVERYTHING FOR THE CHRISTMAS COOKING
AND HOLIDAY FESTIVITIES
Fruits. Nut;. Mince Meat, Can
full line Pickle Celery,
rants
Grip- Fruit, and all Breakfast
OUR BAKERY DEPARTMENT can supply you
in Fruit, Pound and Penny Cakes. Pies. etc.
Leave your order now for your Christmas
Cakes. Everyone knows the quality of Mr. J.
M. baking. He personally superintends
this department and any special order will re-
his careful and expert attention.
We have a full line of in Christ-
mas packages, and other Candies of different
grades for Santa's pouch.
LOOK OUT FIRE CRACKERS at
J. M. CO.
IN
THE BUILDING ON
Good, that are and suitable not only for the holidays, but every cay in the year
can always be found at my store. Anything needed about home or farm.
I for their liberal trade year, and take pleasure in I be
prepared to serve them better than ever the coming year.
BRADLEY, The Jeweler
No. EVANS STREET
One Price
Everything in the Jewelers Line to select
your Holiday and Wedding Gifts from. Come
early for any Engraving to be done.
LOOK FOR THE
REVOLVING SIGN
Carr Atkins Hardware Co.
GREENVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Dealers in all kinds of
Hardware
COOK mm AND RANGES, PLOWS, HARROWS, LIME, CEMENT
STOCK AND POULTRY FENCE.
We guarantee the right prices
Sofa
DAVID
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JAMES
MATT
me
Groceries
aid Confectioneries
Christmas Orders
for
the
Before you buy your presents for Christmas
visit the Episcopal Bazaar, which opens Dec.
4th in the Perkins opera house on Fourth St.
and see the beautiful things on sale there. You
will find everything you need for gifts, and the
ladies will be pleased to have your patronage.
I have a nice, fresh line of Groceries, Fruits,
Nuts and Candies. In fact everything you need
for Christmas festivities and
Good and quick service. MATT .
DORMITORY, LE HIGH SCHOOL
HIGH SCHOOL
Spring ten, open. January Fore t
HARRINGTON, BARBER COMPANY,
N. C.
CARRY a full and complete line General
Merchandise, Dry Goods, Hats and
Shoes and Farming Implements, especially la-
saving Machinery.
Buyers of country Produce and Cotton.
Look out for Santa Claus. The old man is coming with
many Pretty Things for both Old and Young
The Hunsucker Buggies
A MERRY CHRISTMAS FOR EVERYBODY
E wish to thank our friends and patrons for their liberal patronage
given us during this year, and trust that we will continue to share
your confidence and business for O
M the, Will stand Try one
A. G. Cox Manufacturing Company
WINTERVILLE,
It is the aim and purpose business to give our customers the lull
valued their dollar and to conduct our business solely on principles.
We consider quality always in everything and with low prices and
lair treatment lo one and all an inducement you to make our store
headquarters your purchases during
Let us show you what we have lo oiler you and remember that ii you
wish your 1910 business to be every point view, we are
in position to help you make it so.
E. Turnage Sons Co., n. Carolina
Everything for the Farm
THIS IS A BARGAIN
event that will surpass
ever attempted in the
line in Greenville.
FAIR WARNING
This is ad you have
WINTER
at such low prices. Ask for
This High-grade stock of Merchandise, consisting of Dry Goods, Dress Goods,
Silks, and Children's Wearing Apparel, Shoes, Mattings, Furniture
ha been thrown on the market to be sold, without reserve, regardless of cost, or by Dec
offered in announcement for this
Great Bargain Carnival
ii marked st prices that deserve, your attention; overshadows anything ever
attempted in Greenville.
The Prices Quoted Below
have their real only in conjunction with the quality of merchandise
offered. The reputation of C. T. and the quality of merchandise
he carries is well
A MIGHTY TIDAL WAVE OF BARGAINS
COAT SUITS.
Coat latest
finest tailored at the following
hT
Regular price I, price
Regular
Regular price isle
price sale price
SILK AND DRESS GOODS.
Von best color and
regular sale . .
in u eh Lawn, regular price U-
sale price
white regular price
sale price
in solid and stripes, colors,
regular price k price
Wide,
price ale price
Suiting in all durable colors, regular
price sale price
Fancy silks in all the latest shades, reg-
price sale price.
EMBROIDERIES. LACES. ETC.
Regular price
Regular sale price.
Regular price
regular price c, a
price.
and Laces,
price and sale price 11--
In this department our price will prove a
veritable revelation to the economical buyer.
LACE CURTAINS. ETC
Curtains, regular price 2.25. sale
.
Lace Curtains, ti i pattern, regular
price. sale price
Lace Curtains, most exclusive patterns,
regular price sale price
Lace Curtain.-, regular price sale
price
Bed 18.00, sale
price .
Spreads, regular price MM
price. .
Comforts, regular pi ice sale price
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drawn out by some disinterested child. The person holding the
out will receive in Cold The person hoMIng
the 2nd number drawn out will receive Cold. The person
holding the 3rd out will receive Gold. The
holding the 4th out receive in Gold.
Be sure and ask for your coupons with every purchase, and save
NOTIONS.
white
chiefs, sale price f
Men's white, hemstitched handkerchiefs
regular price tale price .
Men's white hemstitched
regular price price
. ion i Pins, regular price sale price
two papers for.
Good Thread, price
price per spool
Good Pearl Buttons, regular price in.,
sale price per dozen .
Good safety fall regular
price per
Air Float Violet Talcum Powder,
price la, price.
Good Talcum price
sale price per box-----.
Fine tooth Brushes, best bristles,
price sale price.
Best needles, regular price Be per paper
-Hie price.
1.63
MEN and BOYS CLOTHING.
lot Sui's price
i price.
lot men's Suits, regular price
sale price .
lot men's Suits, regular prior
Men's Suits regular price 110.00 and
sale price
I Suits regular price
sale price .-
I lot Suit, regular price
sale price .
lot boys Suite, regular price
sale price.
Suits,
regular sale price.
up-to-date end latest
regular 0.00, Bale price
Men's Pants, regular price 1.50.
price
Men's odd regular price 9.00,
price .
Men's best Overalls and Jumper.-., reg-
price 1.25, sale price .
Men's Overalls and Jumpers, regular
price sale price
lot Men's Overcoats, regular price
sale pi ice
lot Men's Overcoats, price
12.50. sale price
.
them.
TAKE NOTICE
No one connected in any way with C. T. store will be
entitled to a chance in the Cold.
Furniture and Trunks.
Trunk, regular price 1.60, tale pries
regular price vale price
I lot Wash Stands, regular
price sale price . .
I lot Oak Bedsteads, regular price
10.00, sale price.
I lot regular price sale
price . I -90
lot Matting, regular price sale
prim . .
I lot Malting, regular pries sale
price -23
I suit solid Oak, regular price
price
suit furniture, solid Oak, regular price
sale price
parlor suit, nicely trimmed,
plush back and bottom, sale price I 2.98
solid sale price
only S-98
lot handsome Oak Chairs, regular price
tile price
lot chair., regular sale price
only
solid Oak. I toll
STAPLE DRY GOODS.
Very beat American Calicoes in all pat-
regular price price
Yard-wide Sheeting, regular price
sale price.
Beat checked Homespun, regular puce,
sale price
Percale, regular price
sale price.
Best dress regular price
Best apron cheeked Ginghams, regular
price price.
Good apron checked Ginghams,
price price .
Best yard-wide Bleaching, regular price
Best table Linen, regular price
price. .- -28
Beat table Linen, regular price
sale
Good Towels, regular price
price
Good Towels, regular price
sale price.
Good Towels, regular price C,
sale price.
FIlM Towels, regular price
sale
Broad Cloth, all regular price
sale price.
LADIES, MEN'S and SHOES
and patent tip and
plain toe Shoes, safe price
regular price 1.60.
THE EASTERN REFLECTOR.
D. J. Editor and Owner
Truth in Preference to Fiction.
One Dollar Per Year
price.-
regular price and
2.50, price. .
lot and regular
Lie I
price 3.00, Hale price
work Shoes,
price 1.75,
sale .
Men and regular price 2.00
sale price.
Men a regular price 2.50. sale-
price.-.
Men a Shoes, regular p- 5.00, sale
price .-
Shoes, regular price 1.50,
price .
regular price 1.26.
price . .----
I,.,, line Shoes regular price 3.60,
sale price
1.69
1.99
1.28
1.6
3.69
1.19
1.49
A Square Deal to Everyone at the Big Store
Look for
The Big Red Sign
Look for
The Big Red Sign
VOL. No.
GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, DECEMBER , 1909.
No.
MUSIC CLUB.
and
Delightfully Entertained by Mr.
Mrs E.
The of the Music Club,
Friday night with Mr. and Mrs
O. E. Warren, at their home in
West Greenville, was one of ex
pleasure, the entertain-
by the host and hostess
being delightful. The home was
beautifully decorated with smilax
and lace ferns and red and white
carnations.
As the and guests
arrived were served with
hot punch by Misses Nellie Pen-
Linda Moore.
Both the president and
of the club being absent,
the usual business part of the
was passed over, except
the calling of the roll.
The music program for the
evening was as
Unto
Mrs. Parham. Miss
Gaston, Messrs. Whichard and
Pender.
Vocal Arrow and
the Miss Gaston.
Instrumental
Miss Bishop.
Vocal That We
Two Were Miss
Bennett and Mr James.
Instrumental
Miss Davis.
Vocal Through
the
Arab's Prof.
Austin.
Vocal duet- to the
Misses Gas-
ton and Smith.
Following the program was a
contest of filling blanks with
musical terms in a romance on
Schubert's Miss
Smith and Mr. Whichard tied on
filling the largest number of
blanks, and in drawing the
a handsome picture, was award-
ed to Miss Smith. Another prize,
a picture, was presented to Prof.
for the best answer to a
joke.
Refreshments were served,
consisting of cake, cream and
mints, the cream being in harp
shapes, and on each plate was a
red carnation.
The entire evening was one of
great pleasure.
GRADED SCHOOL NOTES.
Boys Have Good
Clan Holidays
The of the Henry Grady
Society held their reg-
bi monthly debate at the
school last night.
The query was that
the the times indicate the
continued safety and welfare of
the United The
was by Messrs.
Adrian Brown, Charles
Alfred and Chandler
The negative by
Messrs. Linda Smith, Ben
David Moore and Spruill
Spain.
There was not a poor speech
made. The boys had prepared
their talks with much care and
study, and the debate was one of
the best they have yet held-
In addition to the debate,
CAROLINA DAY.
the Corned Will Close at Noon on
the 24th.
This week and next, up to
noon on Friday. 24th, is all the
time that is left for The Reflector
piano contest, and it goes with-
out that the remaining
days are going to be active ones
with the candidates. Just what
the candidates are doing we are
not able to say. as they are yet
keeping their own counsel and
holding to the decision not to
have their votes published so on
can know what the other is
doing. This is alt right if they
prefer it that way, even if it
does keep all uneasy about
any surprise that may be sprung
about the close of the contest.
However, we will make the
that it will b. best not to
In addition to the debate, back their
were Messrs. and run the risk of any
of them crowded out in the final
rush, as not a vote will be re-
after the last stroke of
o'clock on the 24th. They can
bring their votes in any day and
let them be recorded, and we
will keep the number secret if
preferred.
Another we will
make to the candidates, is that
the remaining days of the con-
should be devoted to work-
in than ever for new
subscribers to The Reflector.
Of course collections from
old subscribers count, but new
subscribers count double
they are the ones to work hard
eat for.
There is among
our readers in the contest, and
many who come to the office to
pay their subscription, vote for
To be Observed by Graded
School.
The teachers and pupils of the
Farmville graded school are
working hard on the program for
North Carolina Day. which they
expect to observe Friday. Dec.
17th. The exercises will be held
in the forenoon and they desire
the parents and friends of the
school to attend. The exercises
will I promptly at o'clock.
Following is the
The Old North State, by
school.
North Carolina, six children
from the 1st and 2nd
Music, First Waltz, Mary Ellen
Kittrell, 3rd grade.
of Christmas, Minnie
grade.
Music, First Crocus, Mary
Barrett, 5th grade.
NOTES FOR BUSY SHOPPERS.
Alfred Schultz and Ben Taylor;
the delivered Spartacus
to the Gladiators at and
the The Death Bed of
Benedict Arnold. At the next
meeting of the society the entire
membership will deliver
During the latter part of
session a joint debate will be
hold with the Aycock Debating
Society of Goldsboro city schools.
It is also probable that a debate
will be held with Raleigh, or
with some other
The graduating class of the
school numbers six this year, as
Misses Estelle Greene,
Hilda Critcher, Exum,
Agnes Spain and Nannie Bowling
and Alfred Schultz. The
organized some weeks ago; Miss
Estelle Greene was
president, Miss Hilda Critcher,
vice and
class
Carolina, Our Pride, Maynard
Brief far
People.
Merry Christmas ribbons at
Pulley
If you want a nice trunk or a
dress suit ease be sure to see our
line. Pulley Bowen.
Be sure to see our line of
men's shoes in all leathers, at
and i. Pulley Bowen.
See our line of men and boy's
neck for
Pulley Bowen.
for ladies and
men, in black and tan.
Pulley Bowen.
Special reduction on
tailor made coat suits in stock.
1210 Pulley Bowen.
Suede
All the new things in
belts. Pulley Bowen.
Children's crib blankets, price
Hi at Pulley Bowen's.
Cord all colors, for
cents a box, yards to the
box. Pulley Bowen.
Pig line of white woolen
and at
Pulley Bowen's. IS
and children's
woolen golf gloves in colors,
at Pulley Bowen's.
Complete line of Molly ribbons
in all widths for Christmas.
Pulley Bowen.
All kinds of seed oats at F. V.
Johnston's. Phone
1214
fancy collars, one in a
box, make beautiful
5th grade.
Music, Waltz,
Dixon, 4th grade.
Wanderer Back Home,
Thelma 5th grade. i
tousle, Love Story, Louise
J. R. J. G.
stock of children's bear
skin coats in white, red, old rose
and green. Big reduction in
price. Bowen
Those gold fish and at
6-1 Reflector Book Store will make
History in the Names of Christmas presents that greatly
Counties, boys and girl, from the the
6th and 7th grades. If you u
America, by singing canary bird for
Indian Names, should B. Which-
ton. grade. soon. The last order for
Music, In the Twilight. Betty delivery will be sent
6th grade. j oil next week.
Racing Waters, Annie Laurie
Lang, 7th grad
Alfred the candidate they Prefer-
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cobb
invite you to be present
at the marriage of their daughter
Irma Lea
and
Mr. William Albion Dunn
on the afternoon of Thursday,
the thirtieth
at four o'clock
Memorial Baptist Church
Greenville, North Carolina
At Home
After January the tenth
Scotland Neck, North Carolina.
No cards issued in the city,
Mrs. D. Dead.
The many friends of Mrs. S.
M. Schultz deeply sympathize
her in the two bereavements
through which she has passed in
little more than a week. On
Friday, 3rd inst., she was called
to Rocky Mount by the death of
her sister, Sadie Abram
Mrs. accompanied by
another Miss Mattie, re-
turned home the middle of
the week, and Saturday
message received
announcing the death of their
mother, Mr--. D. Abram. No
doubt the death trail
hastened by grief over the death
of the daughter the
previous week,
See our Una of pillow ton
Pulley Bowen.
Schultz, secretary. The
colors are blue and white.
From the music department
four will be graduated this year,
Agnes Spain, Estelle
Greene, Hilda Critcher and
Lillian Carr. These young ladies
will be the first to graduate from
the school of music
The enrollment of the school
has been this fall, and the
average daily attendance
cent, of this number.
The management takes pride in
the high percentage of
attendance and the small number
of
School will close for the
days on Wednesday, the 22nd.
and re-open Tuesday. Jan.
giving a vacation of two weeks.
Barring a exceptions, the
children have worked hard this
fall, and their progress has been
moat satisfactory. There has
not been much sickness in town,
and but few other things to
interfere with the steady progress
of the school When Christmas
comes, the children and the
teachers will richly deserve a
happy vacation and here's hoping
that they will have it.
helps, too, as every one who
desires to do so has the privilege
of voting for Come
pay your subscription and help
one of the candidates.
The position of the different
candidates in the voting column
stands the same as before, but
we do not know how it would be
if all the votes each has were
published.
Miss Mary Johnson
Miss Lottie Blow
Miss Lillie R. Tucker
Miss Mavis B lie Evans 4.8
Miss Beulah Mumford
Miss Maud Mooring
James Tingle
School
Miss Lelia Stokes 1,600
Mrs. D. E. Nichols 1.445
If you have a favorite in the
list of candidates get out and
help work, for the prize is well
worth striving for. You have
only to go to the music store of
White and examine
the piano to be convinced of
beauty and excellence.
your
and vote for somebody. Do
it now.
Music,
Askew. 6th grade.
Zebulon B. sketch
Joyner, 6th
Music, On the Fannie
10th grade.
in the Pines, Eva
Horton. 8th grade.
There are yet on band some of
The
day edition, which can be had
the for cents per copy.
Persons desiring them to send
off should call early.
Over a million cabbage
for sale. Jersey Wakefield, and
Charleston Wakefield and Early
button shoes j presents- Prices and cents
each, at Pulley Bowen's.
More globes and gold fish at
Reflector Book Store. Place
orders early if you then
saved for Christmas presents-
Special value in
leather hand bags for
and 7.50.
Pulley Bowen.
Those wanting engraved cards
for Christmas should place orders
early to insure delivery in time.
The Reflector takes rs.
Don't forget that
Bowen have reduced pi ices on
all tailor made c at suits in
stock See them.
Skinner Marriage.
On Thursday aft moon at e
hour by the beautifully
solemn ceremony of the
church, Miss Nell
Skinner united in marriage
f j to Mr. Alfred M Dow.
of
the
lave-
Music, What the Swallow T was entirely without floral
Sang. May Belle Flanagan, 9th line of
, silver m purses, for ladies I
Social in Colonial I
Carolina, Lee Carr, 10th Highest cash price paid for
Music. Voices of the Deep, peas in any quantity by F.
Louise Dixon, 7th grade. IV. opposite N. S.
North a part of; depot.
American History, Fannie I Take your or ton seed in any
10th grade. quantity to F. V. Johnston, and
Music. Scarf Dance, Eva the highest price in cash or
ton. 8th grade. exchange for meal.
North Carolina, the Favored
Daughter of Nature, Henrietta
10th grade.
Duet. a Che-
Eva Horton and Louise
Dixon.
North Carolina of today com- R ,,. , ,,,,, ,
pared with Colonial North Care-., present to send
Loyd Horton, 10th grade
Ho For Carolina School.
Mr. J. E. Randolph Dead.
On Sunday morning Mr. J. E.
Randolph, who lived with his
sons at House station, miles
from Greenville, was found dead
in bed Mr. Randolph was quite
old and had been feeble for some
time. He was a life-long Demo-
a gallant Confederate sol
and a good citizen He
leaves several children, all of
Whom are grown.
Mrs- Mellie If, Harris.
invites you to be present
at the marriage cf her daughter oft mm.
See our special snow shoe for
men, with inner soles,
which prevents dampness from
reaching the foot. Special price
of Pulley Bowen.
A year's subscription to The
would make a nice
friend, and it would be a re-
minder of your
all the year. 1215
Greatly reduced prices in our
department, including
all shapes and pattern hats now
Pulley Bowen.
Cotton.
Washington, Dec. The
crop reporting hoard of the
Department f Agriculture
mates that the total production
of cotton in the United States for
the season of will amount
to 4826,314,000 pounds gross
weight.
; Tho estimated production in
pound grass weight bales by
States is as
Virginia North Caro-
South Carolina
Georgia
for Alabama
Mississippi la
880.000; Texas
Burnt Some.
The fifteen cents mark
cotton, Saturday, caused a
many of the holders to
r pi Co. bought between
on day, Oklahoma
several cars of peanuts. United States
Mellie
to
Mr. Archibald I- House
Wednesday morning,
December the twenty ninth
nineteen hundred and
at eight o'clock
at in r residence
Sever, hundred and sixteen
Dickinson Avenue
Greenville, North Carolina.
At Horn;
After January tho fifth
Nineteen hundred and ton
Elizabeth, Louisiana.
See our furs, Nice
Christmas present for you
mother, sweetheart
Hi 8-ii Pulley Bowen.
beautiful line of
umbrellas for Christ-
is. Prices eon-i
with duality.
j Pulley Bowen
Lace, coat collars at
prices, at Pull -y
Give him one of those r
fountain pens, Bl
Reflector Bo l Store,
Nice line of In all
tries for the Christmas trade.
Std Pulley A Bowen.
a complete line of
linen handkerchiefs in all styles
and at uric s. for the
trade, Pulley Bowen.
Our Block of misses
and children's hosiery la com-
p We can lit
nothing
indicated the usual
joyous occasion of a
save a large o
the f
villa and friends at a distance,
rt once both
of the young couple, and
the sympathy of the givers for
the beautiful bride in her
great sorrow.
A had joined
the immediate family, and
promptly at o'clock Rev.
Father Francis Gallagher, the
resident priest of the diocese,
entered the drawing room and
standing in front of a simply
constructed altar awaited but a
moment the entrance of the
groom with his bi other folk, wed
by the bride on the arm of her
father, and the lit fol-
lowing the of the con-
give,, Mr. and
Mrs. Moseley drove to the N.
S. depot and the train
for a visit to Florida and
by m . t
good wishes of
friends.
The Set.
Now is your change to the
toe, for
your own amusement but for
cause, the public library.
Therefore don't hesitate for lack
of come on, you
will find galore awaiting
you. The young and the old.
the married and single, are
ally invited to come as a
masker or a spectator. Don't
forget tho date, Dec. .
Bring your furs to S. M.
for high prices.
We are
kid gloves,
for
from tho smallest to the largest Superb line for holiday , .
, . A Bowen. Pulley Bowen.