OUR AYDEN DEPARTMENT IN OF C. L. PARKER Authorized Agent of The Carolina Home and Farm and The Eastern Reflector for Ayden and vicinity. Advertising rates furnished AYDEN, N. C, Sept. R. E. Jones has returned from the hospital where has has undergone a treatment for mad dog Mrs. J. J. Hines and two small children are away on a visit to Mr. Hines in Black Mountain. Cotton is selling at the usual high price of It- cents and upward. Wednesday morning o'clock Messrs. Spain Edwards at Ridge Spring lost their saw mill and grist mill by fire. This is serious loss to these gentlemen, besides the to them and their patrons. The loss is partly covered by Hardware of all sorts and kinds, mill supplies, belts, etc. J. R. Smith and Bro. Mrs. J. E. Cannon, who has been very sick of late, is convalescing. Prof. Sawyer is the proud father of a baby boy. Mr. W. B. Alexander is having his residence repaired that was damaged a few weeks ago by lightning. I will gin your cotton, give you bag- and ties, buy your seed, or ex- change them for meal. L. L. Kit- Mr. has moved his family into the country. Mr. Grover is very sick at his home, near Winterville. Rev. J. W. Tyndall closed a series of meetings last Sunday at trees with several additions to the church. Hardware, lime, cement, belting, full stock mill fittings, cook and heat- stoves. J. R. Smith and Bro. Mr. J. W. Webb, of Kinston, has moved his family here, and will ate the lumber plant and merchandise store of Mr. J. A. Griffin. Mr. E. A. who was for a long time sawyer here for the Ayden Lumber Company, but now has a good position near Wilmington, is here on a visit to friends. The Ayden graded school will be- gin next Monday, September 20th, with Prof. Koonce at the helm. It is to be regretted that we have not a better equipped, up-to-date building, but we now have learned to submit to the inevitable, and keep trying. Mr. J. S. Hines has returned from a visit to his son at Black Mountain. We arc jobbers in Geo. A. Clark's spool cotton. J. R. Smith and Bro. Mr. Robt. Worthington is much proved from his recent illness. We do all kinds of turned and scroll work, repairing in wood and iron, gin, saw and grind. L L. Kittrell. Mr. Ola Kittrell is suffering with rheumatism, and not able to be at his post at the mill. Arrived today, a solid car load of cook and heating stoves and ranges. Arrived yesterday, a solid car load of metal rooting, all lengths. Come to see up. J. R. Smith and Bro. We do hope to see a few things ma- First, the road opened from St. Abram's springs to Uncle Jerry- Second, a nice, up-to-date brick hotel, three stories high, with all modern convenience. story, she told him that she had on Third, that we may yet have as strong a tobacco market as we have cotton market. Fourth, that the Baptist will be to Ayden what the Training school is to Greenville, from an educational stand point. Fifth, that we may have a of good roads all over the county, and Swift Creek may be dredged and drained from Vanceboro to the tributaries in township, Pitt county. We are glad to hear of the grad- improvement of Mr. H. B. Smith, who has been very sick with fever. Mr. LaFayette Cox spent Sunday in Farmville. Thefts is quite a demand for cotton pickers. If Chief Smith will enforce the vagrant law, the demand would be more supplied, and less loafing. The school at the Seminary has re- installed another new up-to- date piano. Bring us your cotton, we will do our best to please you; buy or ex- change your seed. L. L. Kittrell. Mr. Zeno tells us the farm- in his section are paying per hundred to have their cotton picked and haul hands to and from the patch. Chickens, eggs, wax, hams and all other produce R. Smith and Bro. Our Masonic brethren had their regular communication and barbecue last first Thursday, with full attend- and work in the first and sec- degrees. Prof. E. F. Mumford, of Morganton, who has been here a few days on a visit to his mother, returned Tues- day. Mr. Elias of Winterville, has been spending a few days in town. AYDEN, N. C, Sept. Dis- conference will meet in Ayden the 31st of October. Don't forget the place and date. There is a meeting going on at the Baptist church. Rev. Mr. Rock Is doing the preaching, assisted by Rev. Mr. Adams, the pastor. Let us hope much good may result from this meet- J. R. Smith Bro. had a shipment of hardware to arrive Thursday even- that remained in the depot during the night, and among it was some proved rat traps, and next morning, Mr. the agent, found that one trap had caught two large rats the night without being baited. These traps retail at cents each. Plenty of them on hand. Mr. J. Will tells us he has about bales of cotton open on his farm, and that hands are very scarce. All of our sick people seem to be getting better, and we have much to be thankful for. The fable of the old lark and her young ones was demonstrated last week by one of our well-to-do farm- in Greene county in working of emulation he had tried in vain to get help to pick his cotton. His wife, like a ministering angel, listened with all the earnestness of her heart, and when he had finished his sad her father's farm picked pounds of cotton per day, and could do so again. So the next morning she and her husband went in the field, she picked he and a was inspired and picked all in one day. There is nothing like being en- by a smart, black-eyed help- mate. Mr. Enoch Davenport, of Rocky Mount, is visiting his parents. Our town is getting to be an ex- port as well as an import town. The Ayden Lumber Co. shipped two cars of their season red gum lumber to London, England, last week. They do a considerable lumber business in South Africa, having shipped several cars there. Messrs. J. B. Brinkley, of Green- ville, and L. P. of Kinston, were pleasant callers at our Sat- These gentlemen are old re- liable tobacconists and have been tried and worthy of being tried again. Mr. Joe Parker, who has been en- for the Ayden Lumber Co. for a long time, has resigned and will accept a similar position with the Kinston Manufacturing Company. Capt. L. R. Watson, of Pink Hill, came in Saturday to spend Sunday with his sister, Mrs. Peden. There were bales of cotton on our market Saturday. If its hardware, mill supplies, lime cement, or building material, we have it. J. R. Smith Bro. Bring on your cotton, we will fur- bagging and ties and gin it for the 20th; buy your seed or exchange them for meal, grind your corn and do all kinds of repair work in wood and L. L. Kittrell. Mrs. Tucker, of Kinston, is here on a visit to her brother, Mr. W. S. mount Mr. R. L. Griffin tells us he has an acre and a quarter in cotton from which he has picked one and a half bales and there is fully as much more to open. He used N. B. Josey high grade fertilizers and top dress- Sold by J. R. Smith Bro. red heart, hand-made shingles for sale. J. R. Smith Bro. Say, Mr. Business Let us have your local. Spur up, don't have such cold feet Tell the people where you stay and what you have to offer. Then you can expect orders by mail or phone. Mr. W. S. Jackson brought his daughter here this morning to board the train for college. We learn that a little son of Mr. W. C. Jackson is very sick with fever at his home near Middlesex. Grave fears are entertained for his recovery. The I. F. is doing a thrifty business now. have several on hand, waiting for. cool weather to confer the degrees. Mr. Willis Dixon, of will move his family to Morehead in a few days, where he will go into the fish packing business. Mr. Dixon is a good farmer and prominent Red Man. We wish him much success in his new venture, as many of his lows and brethren have done Mr. Clarence Hart tells us that he has more corn than he can house. Mr. J. F. Hart returned a few days ago from a visit to his parents at Morehead. Messrs. J. J. Harrington and Se- Cox returned Saturday from a trip to Swansboro and other eastern points. They report land as high down in as town lots in den, and returned with their Messrs. E. Hardy and John S. Hart left Monday for Bogue Sound, where they will be joined by Mr. Frank Hart and will spend a few weeks catching trout, mackerel, eels, cat- fish, and ponies. Miss Louise Wilson, daughter the late David Wilson, died Thursday of typhoid fever. She was years old and a member of Macedonia church. Mr. B. J. Skinner, Farmville, spent Monday night in town. Our graded school starts on the 20th. i Quite a lot of grapes are being shipped from here to Garrett Co., Norfolk, where they will be made into grape juice, tangle-foot, preserves, etc. ; The Free Will Baptist Ministerial conference convenes here today at o'clock. We are expecting and have prepared for a full on this annual occasion. The program has been carefully arranged and many of vital import- spiritually, are to be treated. Let us gin your cotton, we give bag- and ties. L. L. Kittrell. Mr. D. of the Ayden Lumber Company, is away on business. Dr. Wiley on Value of Cottonseed Oil. Id these days when much is be- said about the purity of food products, and the healthfulness of foods, it is refreshing to hear what the great authority, Dr. Wiley, has to say about cottonseed oil and its products. The quotation given is from an ad- dress Dr. Wiley made before the In- Crushers Association in New York last June. have a meritorious article, you have learned how to purify it and make it palatable and attractive, and you have everything now but the con- of the public and the edge on the part of the consumer how to use your product. Put a little fort in that line, and you will see what wonderful returns you will have. I do not believe there is a man, man or child in this country, if the consumption of cottonseed oil was common today throughout this broad land, but what would have better health and be a better Judge of what Is good to eat, and be happier, by reason of his better health, than he is today, so I am pleading for the of the public, I am pleading for a wider publicity of your product, for cottonseed oil as a human Feed The Land. He that two blades grass to grow where one grew has had all manner of compliments. paid him since man first began dig- his living from the breast of old mother earth. He is the man who feeds the soil so that it in turn may feed him. The early and late rains, the sunshine and the dew, may do their part, but if the farmer has starved his lands, taken all off and put nothing on, robbed them of their fertility and product e power, short and unsatisfactory crops are bound to follow. Feed the soil. Go after the thin, worn out and waste places, and build them up. Redeem that which your short-sighted greed has de- Observer. They Were Just From Baltimore. One who loves and reverses the American language sends me the fol- lowing curious which he overheard late in a North Carolina I never seed you at the party, No; I never got no chance to go, If I had you'd want to went, I'd seed you'd got to Sun. wilt POLITICS POLITICIANS. 8888888888888888 The first election of state officers in Arizona will be held December 12th. John T. Tobin, of is men- for the Democratic nomination for governor of Colorado. Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota, is expected to become a candidate for the Republican nation for governor next year. Omaha is the latest and one of the most notable additions to the long list of America cities which have adopted the commission plan of government Chicago boasts, of the first club formed in the West to further the can- of Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, for the Democratic presidential nomination. . Representative George W. Norris, of the fifth Nebraska district, one of the insurgent leaders of the house, has begun his fight to supplant Brown in the senate. Congressman Andrew J. who represents the thirty-second dis- of Pennsylvania, is the choice of the Republican for mayor of Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia, has announced his intention to re- tire from office early in so as to be ready to assume his duties as United States senator when con- convenes. Friends of Dr. David Jayne Hill, who has just retired from the can ambassadorship at Berlin, are said to be urging him to become a can- for the Republican nomination governor of New York next year. James Hamilton Lewis, who was a member of congress from the state some years ago and who now resides in Chicago, has an- his candidacy for the seat of Shelby N. in the United States senate. William Andrews, who is likely to be one of the first United States tors from New Mexico, was a dry goods merchant in before he removed to the south- west to engage in railroad building. All signs point to a hot fight in Texas for the seat of United States Senator Joseph W. Bailey. Among those who are expected to get in the race are former Governor Thomas N. Campbell, Congressman Morris Shep- and Governor O. B. A spirited contest is in prospect in Oklahoma. Senator Owen, whose term will end a year from next March, will be a candidate for re-election. His chief opponent will be former Gov- Haskell. A third candidate is Justice Williams, of the Oklahoma Supreme court, who believes that the fight between Owen and Haskell will be so bitter that a third candidate will have a good chance to capture the toga. The governor of the new state of New Mexico will receive a salary of a year, while the governor of the sister state of Arizona will draw but a year. The governor of New Mexico will be elected for four years, while the governor Arizona will hold office but two years. The Arizona executive, however, may be re-called for a second term, while the constitution of New Mexico makes the governor and other state officials in- eligible for re-election. M AH HI ACE LICENSES. On The Eve of Reciprocity. Canada is in the thick of the most spirited and far-reaching campaign of all her political history. The gage of battle is the reciprocity pact, already ratified by the United States and championed by the Liberals of the Dominion. On next Thursday, the ballots of the people will determine whether or not this great policy, with its cementing influence upon friend- ship and trade, is to be carried into effect. Interest in the outcome is scarcely less intense in this country than in Canada. Many months ago it be- came clear that the rank and file of American citizens are heartily In fa- of this reciprocal agreement for freer trade. And in no corner of the United States is this feeling than in the South. For, reciprocity will not only stimulate important southern Industries, but it is also one of the oldest principles for which our Democracy has contended. Nor is there any considerable as to what the outcome will be. Under the leadership of Sir Wilfrid the premier, the Liberal party represents today, as it long has, the dominant force of Canada's thought and sentiment Among the farmers, its strength especially pronounced there is every likelihood that the rural vote will go almost solidly for this agreement. It is believed also that the Maritime provinces will, for the most part, support reciprocity. Certain manufacturing centers will probably oppose it. But in order to defeat this policy, the Conservatives must change the political complexion of thirty-five seats In the parliament, and, according to all careful estimates this is a virtual impossibility. Sir Wilfrid has openly charged that certain industrial trusts of the United States, who have fattened upon the high tariff system, are pouring money into the Canadian campaign. Having failed to beat the measure in con- they are now striving to buy its defeat in the Dominion. But no one believes that the people of Can- will sell their own and their country's welfare. According to the present outlook, the pact will be overwhelmingly rat- at the polls next Thursday. In that event, it will receive the govern- formal sanction within the next few months and before the year ends, Canada and the United States will have entered upon a new era of mutual friendship and prosperity. Atlanta Journal. Nine Were Issued During Last Week. During last week Register of Deeds Moore issued licenses to the follow- WHITE. W. T. and Lillie G. Evans. J. B. Davis and Esther Sermons. Luther Joyner and Hales. John and Nannie Lilly. COLORED. J. H. House and Mary Peter Latham and Pitt. William Mason and Georgia Webb. Charles Johnson and Ellen Joyner. Joe Hardy and Cora Tyson. Forced to Leave Home. Every year a large number of poor sufferers, whose lungs are sore and racked with coughs, are urged to go to another climate. But this is cost- and not sure. There's a better way. Let Dr. King's New Dis- cure you at home. cured me of lung writes W. R. Nelson, of Calamine, Ark., when all else failed and I gained pounds in weight. Its surely the king of all cough and lung Thousands owe their lives and health to it. Its positively guaranteed for Coughs, Colds, Croup all Throat and Lung troubles. Trial bottle free at all druggists . Bettor Celebrates WASHINGTON, X. C, Sept. last Sunday Rev. Nathaniel Harding, the beloved rector of St. Peter's Episcopal church, this city, celebrated his 38th anniversary as rector of this church. Large congregations were present at both the morning and even- services, and at the morning ice the same hymns and entire service that was used years ago was used at this service. Rev. I. W. Hughes, rector of Holy Innocents Episcopal church, Henderson, preached the an- sermon. At the night ice Rev. If. A. Barber, of Christ's church, Raleigh, delivered a strong sermon. Both sermons and services were enjoyed and appreciated by large congregations. At the night service Mr. Barber, previous to beginning his sermon, made a number of graceful and appropriate remarks relative to Rev. Nathaniel Harding and his long and successful pastorate of the local Episcopal church. Mr. Harding is the oldest pastor in the city and is well beloved by hosts of friends not only in his own church, but through- out the city. No Need To Stop Work. When your doctor orders you to stop work, it staggers you, can't you say. 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