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DEPARTMENT I
IN CHARGE OF C. T. COX
Authorized Agent of The Carolina Home and Farm and The
Eastern Reflector for Winterville and vicinity
Advertising Rates on
it l t t i s FERTILIZER
HITS THE SPOT EVERY TIME
President Wake Forest Speaks
MUSICAL PROGRAM HIM
Mr. M. B. Bryan, of Norfolk, Sometime ago Kittrell
a day or two at home this week. d to take Horace Greeley's advice
The best kind of a plow, is the and Ho
far as Tenn., and decided
Syracuse sold by Harrington. Bar-., go he
and Company, either one or two turned Wednesday saying there was
horse with solid steel beams. no place like
The annual meeting of the stock-1 Harrington. Barber and Company
holders of the Bank of Winterville are headquarters for American farm
will be held in its office on Friday. I fencing.
Feb. 2nd. at p. in.
Gov. W. W. has appointed
J. L. Rollins a notary public, and
he will soon be ready for business.
If you need a good disc harrow
A. W. Ange and Company have the
test.
Miss Lucy return-
ed Tuesday evening from a visit to
Miss Salisbury in Hassell.
Harrington, Barber and Company
have jut. received another large
shipment of rubber roofing, prices
light, will pay you sec them.
Mr. F. Manning, our clever cot-
U i h n in three in
I. this v, eh looking
cotton bush i ,
If you d i i . A. W.
Ange and Com it and at
Rev. C. W. of Wilson,
i s town Thursday.
-Mi. S. C. Carroll left Friday morn-
for Raleigh as a delegate to the
league.
A nice lot of paint Just arrived at
A. W. Ague and .
Mr. C. T. Cox was In the neigh-
of Friday evening.
It you need shoes or hats, it will
pay you to see Harrington. Barber
Company.
Miss Vivian Roberson loft Friday
to a day or two with
hi I
The best kind of a harrow for
old land are those with a
you will them at
b, Barber and Company.
Several of our people went to
Greenville yesterday to hear the
stock case tried.
There were about Sixty hales of
i sold here Friday, some of it
bl 1-4
sills M
had. The poor took such
heavy falls not only in body but in
ale. My it was great.
Interesting Received At Reflector I Next cams um of the
This, altar being filled with
I candles, nuts. etc. was fastened to
ii hook in the ceiling in such a
to be about ten feet from the
CHRISTMAS ACROSS THE BORDER Bad. applicant u taken .
Mex. lo look
, . . . folded and turned around like a spin-
The Christmas Holidays for us at , ,. .
top three or four times and was
and other pleasure of trying to
What a noise in the What break it with a cane. Much fun was
was the meaning of all that Ah shown in It all but the zenith was
I recollect, that was the last day of reached when the successful
school before the holidays and the cant broke it and the contents began
people were gathering to see and falling here and there. What a con-
hear what the little folks had to say of words were heard as
in their Christmas as they the children began to pick up candy,
anxiously waited for Santa Claus to etc- filling mouths, hands and
come and give them a stocking stuff- e's-
ed with goodies. Many of the dear Someone has said that everything
little people and grown ones too, had a circle comes to an end, so the
conception of so they of departure came all too soon
waited and eagerly watched to see and at eleven Mr. and Mrs. in
what kind of a piece of humanity, own sweet Christian way began
would appear. How their eyes spark- , singing the old familiar
led and danced with delight as he we The
appeared on the scene and delivered crowd Joined them and It seemed to
his speech of welcome ending with sang with more melody and sweet-
rain made the night a dis-
agreeable one to be out, a consider-
able number of town people gathered
with the students in the auditorium
of East Carolina Teachers Training
school, Monday night, to hear the
of Dr. William Louis Poteat,
president of Wake Forest College.
I The lecture was preceded by an ex-
musical program of four
under the direction of Miss
These
Ye by
the school.
by
class.
I Miss Arlene
by the school.
I Prof. C. W. Wilson introduced the
speaker of the evening. He referred
to Dr, Poteat as a former teacher of
at Wake Forest, and said the per-
interest of this teacher had in-1
spired him to higher ambition. The
I presentation was most appropriate.
Dr. subject was
ration of and it was a fruitful
presented with groat force I
Interest by a master mind. He said
speak of our resources of
material things, at the same time
tho personal. The wealth of
a nation not consist of property,
territory or provinces, but of people.
Human labor gives value to all raw
The world of land and sea
have no meaning aside from a
man standpoint. We boast of the
of our nation, but the test personal benefit The school
is what does it produce in manhood be congratulated for securing
and womanhood. Likewise we boast M a man in its lecture
of a religion, hut even there the same such word- as Dr. Poteat uttered
test Is made. If It does not develop ,. but uplift to a higher Ideal of
a better manhood and womanhood and more perfect manhood,
need to discard It and take another.
The great test of all tilings is man-
hood and womanhood and there is no
rial from men.
men and children.
Our personal wealth is our only
wealth. The school of the present
the life of the future. do
waste our resources when we
them. Iron that is put into ships,
bridges, engines and machinery is not
wasted. Timber that is cut and used
In building our homes is not wasted.
Coal that is consumed in
f.
he explanation is simple; they are
the greatest care and
ingredient has to pass the
test own laboratories;
Sold Reliable Everywhere
Offices
Columbia
Columbus
ii-. lecture was from the
mind and heart of a profound think-
and even the humorous touch
now and then illustrated a strong
point. Ho held the closest attention
bis audience and none heard him
NOTICE LAND SALE.
North County.
In the Superior Court, before D. C.
Moore. Clerk.
Jesse Haddock, administrator
of Samuel Mills. Martha
I. F. Mills. Fred
Mills, Mills, Macon
and wife,
Lena
Mills and Maggie Haddock
Bx
By virtue of a decree of the
court of Pitt county, made by
D C. Moore, clerk In the above
special proceeding, on the 29th
power or heat is not wasted, day of January, 1912, the under-
Do we waste our personal wealth signed administrator of tho estate of
People die when they ought not to
Merry Christmas to A jolly
man was he.
than ever before. At the close
of this beautiful hymn we had a
how the wind blew whistling prayer by the native pastor after which
c merry tune as it came around voices of and hostess
North corner of the building, giving rang out joyous and clear,
the audience a full blast In the key
of as It passed
After Santa had given each little
We left
them not only expressing our
to them for such a delightful
girl and boy a little gift they, with evening but a silent prayer of thank-
hearts bubbling over with
joy, said goodnight and went to their
different homes some of which were
very humble, to dream of his coming
again. A happy thought that.
Those of us who attend the Sun-
day School and church service had
only a beginning of the pleasures
that were to come to us during tho
holidays for Mr. and Mrs. who
are as gentle as doves but wise as
Solomon, had a feast in store tor us
in that we had a most delightful
evening in their home January 1st,
1912.
As is the custom of the church we
had a meeting In the little
mission chapel that night. Many
things were said. The native
was given to our Master for
the blessings of the Christmas
days of 1911.
Now, may I add just a few thoughts
for your prayerful consideration
the coming days Mexico Is
undergoing a great change in this
time of unrest. We can't tell what
the future will be.
The child of tomorrow in Mexico
is an important individual and should
be given careful, yea, very careful
consideration. Every child ought to
be free to be a child. We must learn j
to appreciate what childhood is. The
mothers of Hie future are the
of today. How important then
that they be taught the things that
will be of vital for the
future. The child of ton must
Samuel Mills, will on Wednesday,
, the 28th day of February, 1912, at
die, and one-third of the people die o'clock, noon, expose to public sale
of preventable diseases. Then we before the court house door in Green
should prevent these diseases. Life the highest bidder, for cash,
is not as long as it ought to be, as
,. , ., j . t Samuel Mills in that certain tract or
the average length of duration shows. parcel of land township,
I Another waste of personal wealth Pitt county, North Carolina,
the low tone and inefficiency of the lands of Jesse Haddock, Cal-
life that is possessed. Here the speak- J and others; containing about
, j, ,,. , . , , acres, more or less, also the 1-9
referred to interest of the said Sam-
and hookworm treatment, and said the Mills in the tract of land adjoin-
of the land had many sins the lands of Mills, Calvin
to answer for in the fun attempted to and others, containing about H
. . lucres, more or less.
be made of these. the day of .,
Another case of waste of personal JESSE HADDOCK. JR.,
wealth is the perpetuation of a Administrator of the estate of Sam-
type of manhood. Some deceased.
born into the world with defeat Attorney-
ed upon them; and some succeed in ;
spite of every handicap, but these
. . , . . North County,
the exception. Here he referred to n the Superior Court,
the the alcohol fiend, the T. Allen, N. W. Tyson,
criminal by nature, and declared and G. E. Harriss,
that such should not be allowed to vs-
marry and perpetuate their and
SOy, Some one might ask if he favor- wife, Mary P. Allen, Henry
ed legislation or medical control and
investigation of proper subjects for
the marriage relation. Not at all.
These things should be governed by
Allen and Allie E. Allen,
Joseph J. Allen, Elma K.
Allen and J. W. Allen, the
last five being minors.
virtue of a decree of the
pastor gave a very interesting
talk on after I have a mother. Some one has said
which Mr. gave a very great moral faces are depend-
as well as Impressive one, on upon great How many
the How import-
ant. The meeting closed with an
invitation to enter the home of Mr.
and Mrs Mans which they had beau-
decorated with
alms, flowers and of Mex-
colors with here and there a
Mexican Hag floating in the breezes.
In the of the on one
great men do you know who did not
have great mothers Nay, verily. I
dare say your answer is
How dear the name of mother.
Let the Mexican child with his av-
intelligence have a chance and
see what Mexico will be years
from 1912. God hasten the day when
all of our people will say In the true-
public conscience. Public opinion can court of Pitt county, made in
develop a new of manhood by the above entitled case, at
saving the The soul of all
the undersigned commissioner, will
is improvement of the on Monday, the day of February,
a is Impossible 1912, expose to public sale before the
less every i society submits to Court house door In Greenville, to
the law of lei Every individual for
,. ,, described tract or parcel of
should with every
and influence for a higher and -being in Greenville
of manhood and the conservation Pitt county. North Caro-
end described as follows, to-
at an iron slob in
, . lane In the Williams line
was needed or
our personal wealth.
the lane in the Williams line and
; a S. W. course to an iron
at a wire fence on the hack of
the field. Thence a straight line to
an iron in Brown's line; thence
i with Brown's line to the run of the
I branch; thence with said branch to
every minute of each day that we line; thence with said
are examples lo these little people. I line to the Williams line; thence
Now friends, how can we be to the Williams line to the beginning.
to see if a button
darning had to be dune.
A teacher must not only be con-
bill she must be strong In
and womanhood for ii is
side was the picture of President est sense of the word. me a
draped with Hags and ribbon. by the road and let me be a.
Alter a contest in the i lend of
were victorious, we were very cord- The child or tomorrow in Mexico
ally Invited to take seals at the tables must have teachers whose lives
containing about
tomorrow in Mexico just what.
Christ would have us to be
acres, more or
This
Which had been made immaculate
the dainty touch of Mrs My
What a of hot coffee.
consecrated and Oiled with the
the Master who Is the Gnat Teach-
of us all. She must make the mo-
and cakes. Mans meats count for she Is
sys Christmas but once el man character. This reminds me of
some us would not ob- little seal I wrote on the board
After refresh- mis n. n rt; In
Its not
possible for us to give him all these
things and many more that I hare
not mentioned unless we have the
earnest prayers and a large amount
of the contents of the pocket-books,
those we left behind to help us in of th
this great and noble work There-1 notice
fore may I plead for more
17th day of January. 1913.
F C. HARDING.
Commissioner.
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for
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.- Ad in mi, C. Tans,
Special beta and book. Treatment suit baa. J M
y .; it came
meats were s of the Mr,
Wans in his own Jolly way Intro-
din mI tile
Deed to boys and girls.
Introduced to the
I finished writing
little gone i and
hen i asked they said.
dot's that I explain-
ed to them and without an exception
to
Having duly before the
Superior court clerk of county,
administratrix, with iii an-
Jane i.
is hereby siren to all
i mi- Inch lo estate to
Immediate payment to the
and any persons
servants of the Master against said estate are notified
door is open for us now must present the to
may so live and so act for payment on or
night shuts life's day we W
be able to, count many sheaves In recovery.
This of course, was new to the Mex- every one began to examine her dress I
His name. This nth day of January.
Yours in Christ, a. WILLIAMS,
i a in a of Jane L. Godwin
ha cox. i
to
Having qualified us administrator
. x. of Joseph deceased
late of PHI county, X. this is to
notify all Inn lug i
against deceased
to them to the undersigned
date r this
notice, Or notice will be pleaded
in bar of their recovery. All persons
Indebted to said estate will please
make Immediate payment.
This day of January, 1912.
U. M.
Administrator II. If,
Julius Brown, attorney,
Men are like hens. they
have to s, ran ii for a living the more
useful they
February, n is true. i a little
but it is likely to pull through with-
out bankrupting March.
IS THE
HEART OF EASTERN
NORTH CAROLINA. IT HAS
A POPULATION OF FOUR
THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED
AND ONE, AND IS
ROUNDED BY THE BEST
FARMING COUNTRY.
INDUSTRIES OF ALL
RINDS ARE INVITED TO
LOCATE HERE FOR WE
HA VS EVERYTHING TO
OFFER IN THE WAT OF
LABOR, CAPITAL AND
TRIBUTARY FACILITIES.
WE HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE
JOB AND NEWSPAPER
PLANT.
eta
Is the I Mini, Most Healthful, the Host Man.
I. C, FRIDAY, , 1912.
WE HAVE A
OF TWELVE HUN-
AMONG THE BEST
PEOPLE IN THE EASTERN
PART OF NORTH CARO-
LINA AND INVITE THOSE
WHO WISH TO GET BET-
ACQUAINTED WITH
THESE GOOD PEOPLE
A BUSINESS WAY TO TARE
A FEW INCHES SPACE AND
TELL EM WHAT YOU
HAVE TO BRING TO THEIR
ATTENTION.
OUR ADVERTISING
RATES ARE LOW AND CAN
BE HAD UPON
WILL RESIGN
cub mm
Head of American Tobacco Company
Will Open Offices in London
LARGER FIELD PRESENTED ABROAD
STATE
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
ALL OVER I HE OLD
NORTH STATE
Extension of Southbound.
Feb. pro-
posed extension of the
Southbound Railroad from Its south-
side tracks up to and through the
town of Salem was approved so far
as applied to property outside the
town by the county commissioners to-
day. The petition had already been
presented and approved regarding
property rights-of-way in Salem Itself
,. ,, ,, , . The approval of the county
to Become Head of .
. , . was conditioned on the
Tobacco Company In He . . .
of the county road supervisors
but their consent will be
NEW YORK, Feb. B, lug, it is expected. The project of
Duke very shortly will resign from the extension will give the Southbound
presidency of the American a terminal freight station In Salem
British American Tobacco Company
With Head in London Lures
N. Long,
Supporting Underwood, WORLD
Answers Col. H. B. Varner
Further Says That Underwood Is The Man
Democrats To Support In Coming
Campaign
The
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
FROM EVERYWHERE-
TOLD BY WIRE
STATE'S
Tennis Meeting. R, S A. A. D. Hi S.,
The Tims For he South To Act Has Arrived If
Is Nominated His Election is
MR. DUNCAN FIRST
to be held tomorrow the
tins city. Toe
j meeting promises to be one of
importance lo all
DOORS OF WHITE HOUSE HAVE BEEN CLOSED TO devotees of the game. The awarding
SOUTHERNERS FOR YEARS the for
tennis associations
throughout the country are arriving
all directions to attend the
annual meeting of the
ltd Slates National Lawn Tennis All Lines Are the Properties of the
Hut Latter Hill
as Separate
T. President Consolidated
Lines.
Feb.
the first mailers to be taken up today of consolidation
the meeting. The effort ti take the of the Raleigh and Southport. Ash.
big tournament away from Newport, and Aberdeen, and Durham and
co Company and become chairman shipper and will mean While House to Wilson Is a pure and lofty where the event has been held reg-; Southern prop-
Closed lo Men of The South patriot, while every man who for a number of years, will be owned by the Norfolk Southern
Fifty Years Varner Asks South- es from inclination for a north- renewed. The Joint Judith Club railway, into the greater system of
to Support Underwood in em candidate to an earnest support of Narragansett Pier will make a the Charlotte and Southern
Coming Sure He of an able, upright southerner is strong bid for both the singles and company, with
Will be Elected II a or at least a doubles events. Philadelphia will Norfolk, Va. The Norfolk South-
and trickster so be a factor, and the Cricket remains a separated property.
Underwood is unquestionably of and the German- The officers
of the Tobacco much for the road and also for the
Company, Limited, with Its chief of- accommodation of shippers.
in London, it was announced
today at the American Tobacco Com- Wilmington Women Hurt In a
offices. He will be succeeded away Accident.
as president by Hill, long, Feb. Mrs. Van-R.
a vice-president. King and Miss Cynthia Rountree, I
Mr. Duke's desire in making this daughters of George Rountree, Esq. H. B. Varner this afternoon gave out club president,
it was explained, was to de- and , of the most prominent young a letter written to the s and Ob- , E. Q
vote himself to the extension of the society women Wilmington were server replying to an article in that to en at. I . .-.
business of the To- victims in a runaway accident today paper this morning. The letter is in has bid M JO
Company, Limited, which now at noon when they were thrown from this language and explains . B .
LEXINGTON, N. C, Feb.
Frederick Hoff. second
principally in China, India. their buggy
Canada, South Africa and Con-Third and M
Europe. badly
Mr Duke said that he felt that a and Miss Rountree sustaining serious Democratic nomination for President. president of the association, who has
larger field of activity and usefulness injuries. Oliver Galloway, a brave for the purpose of helping Governor
awaited him the youth who made an attempt Harmon. There is absolutely no ,
Tobacco Company. He added that all to stop the runaway horse, was drag- foundation for this statement. I a or revenue
the companies formed out of a distance of nearly a block and in my life supported one candidate
American Tobacco Company and the is now In the hospital with serious in the interest of some other
I Mr. Underwood is nominated he
is true, that before I had given j will be elected, because he will com-
Aroused Over Law careful consideration to this question, the support of all factions. He
land before I knew that a southern progressive, yet he is conservative,
explanation of the Feb. Is definitely de-j mall had the real chance to secure and Is not aligned with any faction
ion by the American Tobacco to hold a big law the nomination, I was inclined to sup- party, therefore, he Sunday with special R L bu
other companies which were injuries,
under the decree of the Cir-
Court were now fully organized
and embarked on their separate ca-
In in V. M. A. Meeting.
Minn., Feb.
of the branches of the
Young Men's Christian Association in
Minnesota met here today for the an-
State convention. The sessions
will continue the next three days,
Manly, treasurer.
Morris Hawkins secretary.
Nelson W. assistant sec-
and Shores, general
counsel.
The following are the appointive
of the Raleigh, Charlotte and
Southern Railway
W. B. Rodman, general solicitor;
W. Ii. general superintend-
I. W. consulting engineer;
B. L. traffic manager; W. L.
Bird, auditor; H. W. Davis,
today declare a dividend on of the citizenship of Raleigh port Governor Harmon, but recently weep the country as no other can-
stock, Mr. said he had j Thursday night. A program of became convinced that not only did could possibly do.
advised that, in view of the interest Is being planned. There, Mr. Underwood have a good chance years the door of the White
Services in the mornings and u fare-
well mas meeting in the afternoon.
The convention will have as a
C. P. superintendent of
transportation; J. E. Gould,
of Motive power; J. H. Bar-
chief special
payments In cash which the company seems to be some confusion secure the nomination, but that House has been closed to the men theme, Men and Religion Claim agent; W W
had recently been to make Just what the aldermen of the city did his nomination would give the party of the south. I have long felt that ward around which most
the retirement of Its bonds and last Friday night as to setting aside I best chance to elect a President this was largely the fault of the of the speakers have been Instructed
for other purposes required by the a fund for working up cases against I that his election would give the of the south themselves. Dur-
decree, it would be wise to blind tigers. What they did was its best possible executive. these years whenever a south-
pay no dividend on its common stock adopt a motion to the effect that thin condition I determined to sup- man has been spoken of for this
at present, and that the directors had provision of a fund of asked
to make their remarks. Prominent
among those who are to deliver ad-
dresses are President Henry Church-
House for
Salisbury. Feb. many re-
commendations by grand Juries, pleas
concurred in this opinion.
for by the police commission, go over
to the March meeting when the
Wisconsin Agricultural amount should be Included In the
MADISON, Feb. 8.-The WIs- budget to be made up March.
Lie Blown Out by
Feb. Information
reached here of an
dent that happened recently at An-
In which Van Dean was
State Board of Agriculture
held its annual convention here to-
day. The speakers and their topics
were as In
Secretary of State James
A E. M.
Griffith, state forester; Manage- injured the premature ex-
Prof. J. C. dynamite charge. One
Business Side of Farm- s
W II. New London; . and it Is reported that his face
Potato industry A. J. was terribly mangled. Ills said
Pinkerton, Tomorrow the h was blasting out stone at
Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders Ranger lo be Shipped to
elation will hold its annual session to be used in the reduction at the, . ,,
copper mines when the blast went
off. The wounded man was given
medical attention as soon as possible
port him. high office, we have taken counsel III King of Oberlin College, Rev. J.
is It necessary to the with our fears and unanimously voted Freeman, D., of Minneapolis, . board com.
of the man whom your Wash- that our man would be unavailable. President S. Davis of Chicago nave at that
correspondent Is supporting Of course, the other sections of Theological Seminary. B-, ,,,, a
that the motives of those who sup- country have been willing to accept Willis of Dr. George from
of ourselves. This Fisher of New York and A. Q. m M- an e
placed in The Rec-
for plans and specifications, the
same to be submitted to the board the
first Monday in March, the county
port other candidates should be our own e
Why is it that every man condition will go on Just as long St. Louis, International secretary
who changes from some other can- we make no effort to change it.
COUNT. COM. BEET
Regular Monthly
of the Railroad Y. M. C. A.
Colorado Republicans
DENVER, Col., Feb. Mon- commissioners reserving right to
Handsome
We have received a beautiful
here.
Card Thanks.
We wish to extend our d it Is reported that he Is doing
thanks to tho people of Greenville well as could be expected,
and who were kind to
us during the long Illness and death Heath of Former of Bessie
of our mother. Mrs. M. L. We Claim.
will ever hold them In fond Feb.
oner's Jury which Inquired Into the
The board of commissioners
met In regular monthly session on the
first Monday with all the members
present.
The following sums were ported dead.
rid paid out of Sonic correction
stationery and printing.
register of deeds. commission-
salaries-treasurer, day will a notable day for Col-
I register of deeds. sheriff, if plans now com-
19333.83; clerk court, premium successfully carried out.
on bonds, general roads. A big conference la to
county stock law. held here on that day. and the ex-1 and farm guide from T. W.
Bethel roads. that peace will he re-i Woods Sons, the Richmond seed
roads, roads. stored the rival factions in j merchants. Farmers and truck
roads which the party In this state has been would do well to obtain such u
The officers presented their reports Supporters of Pres-1 from Ml Sons and
showing the following collections for followers of It carefully when selecting
Register of deeds.
clerk. Sheriff,
Two names were added to the
per list for monthly
progressives, all have been invited to j Wood Sons are regular
Join In the conference, and the Reflector.
and editors of the state will be
tWO previously on the list were re-
made In
here en to help the peace
MRS. T. R.
MRS. J. K. FORBES,
MRS. W. T.
MRS. A. W.
MRS. J F. SMITH.
MRS. II. W.
Mr. Improving.
A telegram from West Point today it
says that Mr W. Wilson con-
to Improve and tho doctors
think he Is out of danger.
To In Arrears.
along The state committee will I We have been letting the
in the forenoon to fix upon subscriber try to keep warm
time and place for holding tho during this cold weather without
death of For paupers. superintendent convention. In the evening u minding him of his indebtedness to
husband of Bessie Clark, men- health, home, coin nay banquet will held with this paper. There are a number of
tinned In connection With the am ferries, court drawn to serve f,,,.,,,,,,. Senator of names In on our list, whoso
Hawkins returned fol- l ii M for u the chief speaker. I Integrity should cause them not to
lowing find witness tick- , i.,,.,. to be reminded that they ought
the deceased came to his death DOS- j p Brown, Mill. t Second A. Bullock, II. N. to pay for this paper, at the
from n of boarding clerk court Samuel Warren, K. W. Carraway. Teddy Harris. John I. after your name on this paper
we recommend a sheriff, John I, n i. T, House. J. Corey, 0.1 and see if you are one of them. If
of the stomach Rod Stenographer, Crier, Mart I. J. J. U J. K. B, Griffin, J. W. let this be a sufficient reminder to
i contents. costs, Justices of the peace, Gibson, J. J. J. H. Hudson, ton, T B. Hooker, S. along after S
constables. Janitor, H. C, J. H. Edwards, Bar- T Oakley, J. L. Nobles, O. A. John-
And all men are conveying prisoners and Insane, Boyd, J. Ray Thomas son, J. F. Hart. Joe V Cox, Willie. He who would achieve fame must
those who are different. coroner. smallpox. Moore. Edward pay the press agent.
mm
so fear or
DISEASES IN SCHOOL.
has come to me from
what I believe to be reliable sources,
that there ore fears in the minds of
a number of the people that there are
children In the graded school
ed with contagious diseases. desire
to say that we have exercised all the
precautions we could protect the
children, and thus far we have been
There are no contagious
diseases of any kind in the school.
and have no fears that there will be
any epidemic.
D. Secy,
Carolina Club
wants to know how much
STOCK
YOU wan r
WITH OTHER EDITORS
Mr Gets Information.
Joe Cannon.
wanted to know when the
Democratic metal bill was before the
House, why such articles as sewing
machines had been placed on the free
list. Chairman of too
Democratic Ways and Means Com-
courteously supplied the ex-
and for cheapness and facility of land
transportations. We have seen that
neither of these desiderata is obtain-
ed under the recording system. The
Torres acts are designed to realize
both by the simple expedient of
the title judicially determined
once and for all time upon
for initial registration under the
diseases. Parent would do well to bag to city a American people. said Mr. Under-
take note of this, as there is a pen- r , , of honor a wood. testimony
attached for violation. reception given machine are be-
should like to ask people to in- at her Old to the rich and poor alike In
quire of me. or of the physicians. m this country for iron. to a
they have fears about all Between seventy-live and a machine and yet arc being laid down.
rumors as the one of which I .
write. First-handed information is a
were present, the freight paid, in the Orient, for j persons. It is intended to give
In this connection wish to Fountain Entertained In The owners assent is necessary
that the state law prohibits persons Honor of lion- lo operation
ending to public schools children formerly Miss have Placed articles the act. but once given, is
Infected with any kind of contagious Norfolk, who for of is implied which
hall run with the land and be op-
forever.
The object sought is apparent. The
owner's title is to be established not
only as against any Claim
ant or claimants, but as against all
him
an indefeasible title. The aim is to
extinguish once for all against adverse
to the record such as arise from fraud,
legal incapacity to transfer, unknown
heirs, irregularities in judicial
and other latent defects which
liable to be discovered and made
the basis of attack at any time under
the recording system.
This being done, it necessarily fol-
lows that system of transfer Is
greatly simplified and made much
less burdensome. Title having been
perfected at the time of original reg-
the holding of a registry
certificate is evidence of
able right. Hence, instead of being
under the present necessity, as a man
careful of his interests, of having the
title established anew, with the at-j
loss of time, expenditure of
one. re ashamed to go to
always best. There are persons in hospitality was American people and say that when
this, as in every other community. while the guests M article is manufactured in this
who rely on rumors and hear-says. who country so cheaply that it can com-
and as a result much confusion arises. welcomed by her In all the markets in the world,
Out of confusion nothing but harm M u, making we are willing to place it on the free
comes to grown people, and in the list for the benefit of our own
case of children the evil results are M door
extremely injurious. Fountain and Julia Ross received, The metal bill passed by the
H. B. SMITH. the cards makes reduction on all metal
Superintendent Schools. q were Mm J. averaging per cent and
February 1912. L Fountain, who wore a gown of places on the free list Iron ore. nails,
crepe meteor; Miss Lillian sewing machines, cash registers and
Fountain, in pink; the guest of many other articles n-w being sold
Mrs. Wyatt, in a gown of real by American manufacturers cheaper
lace over yellow satin. The others to foreigners than home consumers
In the receiving line were Mrs. Wyatt's j
Miss Edith Cecil of; a Protected Industry.
Norfolk, who was maid of honor at Sixty-live per cent of the workers
wedding, wearing her gown for in the United States Steel Corpora-
that occasion of pink crepe do chine; plan's at earn less
IT WAS A JOKE.
But The Hid a Human
Act.
Saturday some of friends of
Deputy Sheriff Dudley thought
they had a good joke on him and were
PETER COOPER, who when yet alive, gave to
Cooper in New City, earned only a
year for the first two he Was in that city. He was an
apprentice to a He SAVED the first
years and put it in the bank
Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank
THE BANK OF GREENVILLE
GREENVILLE,
about it. Hut it was not . cf Kinston, in pink than the actual cost of and Insecurity from later
such a joke, after all. even though fl our to the average family, according successful assault from MOM
the might have been
for the time being while per- fl
forming a duly that embodied a real
wore as bride
maid at the wed- calculations made before the
steel trust Investigating committee
room dainty refresh- by Louis l.
act of humanity. It came about this y lawyer-.
Fountain, Frances Park. Mil- average wage of per cent
Dudley was commissioned to of the employees in the steel plants
take a demented colored woman to throughout the at he said, IT 1-J
the state hospital in Goldsboro. The
woman had a 4-months-old baby and
in pink, the gowns of cents an hour. The Associated Char-
. in the receiving line of that city, by careful invest i-
the infant was taken along with her. . with this color gallon, has figured it out that the
House were
thus.
Beaching the hospital the officer was
In the room pink cost of bare existence of a family of
informed, much to his chagrin, that formed and wife and three
the baby could not be received there. of . appointed in is a year. By
no alternative was left but to take working hours a day. days to
charge of the baby and bring it back ft in tis of
to Greenville. Those not on to the
Wyatt's honor the reception was at the end of their year's labor,
suspected quarter, the prospective
purchaser or transferee may obtain
merely by registering in
place of the forms
ed by law to effect the transaction,
of course, being complied with.
There will be seen to be latent in
this system the possibility of
by the complete, utter and
vocable of right to ti-
in favor of the applicant for reg-
As a matter of course, the
decree of registration is subject
reopening by the usual procedure of
attack upon decrees in general the
Statute of limitation running for
situation might have wondered why delightful and will be fol- will have earned just less than terms in the states.
a white man was traveling with
lowed by other affairs in her home. this sum.
are making a special offering in coveting
and the immense variety of and patterns shown will sure-
enable you to prices plan to pay.
We call particular attention to the handsome carpets and runs
shown--low named. Shop early and secure the best choice
baby in his arms, but he
brought that baby home all right.
TO
horrible conditions are the
result of the use of great power
Praises Carolina. and wealth of this trust to prevent
Rocky this is my employees from joining
visit to North Carolina. was The condition of labor in Ibis
Will Burned With astounded at industry is nothing less than
the advance and progress In ten rears tins trust, while
tho apparent prosperity in the working under these conditions
i. ., U. rep- has taken from the American people
resenting the millionaire bankers. In excess of liberal
Otis A; Hough, of Cleveland. Mr. profit on its actual investment and
cast down because of the tire that ha, enormous profit has been used
swept away half of the business sec- came here flown to their
of the town about a month ago of ascertaining present miserable
financial and business conditions in Query for the American
Brick.
The Reflector man was down
Grimesland. Wednesday, and was glad
to And people there are not
then, however, it is seen to be a rigid
law. especially as the acquisition
title la the meantime by an
cent purchaser for value generally if
not makes the decree
binding. The of
rights under the documentary
registration system possibilities
of wrong, the protection of the weak
against the strong, of the helpless
against the unscrupulous is not com-
Under the more rigid Torrens
System this possibility is greatly in-
To safeguard these in-
a state indemnity fund is pro-
but have made up their minds to r
build. And the rebuilding will be on for was Ma ,., that ,,,, .,. ,.,.,, protecting the steel
a larger and better scale than before. just the road with high tariff rates so that
handsome brick buildings to take the by four workingmen in that industry
place of the ones that were burned. have good wages and desirable
Mr. H. H. Proctor and the Clark working conditions and since the reimbursement of those who may be
have already decided to put Tow f Bead, steel trust has denied its workers wronged thereby, and who do not
up two double brick stores and are has been some both good wages and decent the opportunity to defend their
only waiting for spring weather K excitement in railroad circles of the conditions, why should the steel trust interests at the judicial
begin building. Dr. Hudson will also Lumberton today. Some be longer permitted to enjoy for the vesting of the title.
under the system. From those
who desire to register and thus ex-
contravening rights to their
title, the state collects a fund for the
build a brick office and drug
and others will soon be
with new buildings
time last night the Seaboard siding rates which taxes every family in the
following mM p a dis.
tones of a hundred yards or more and
at an early hour this it was Torrens Land System,
found that the mayor of East Believing in the possibilities for
and two or three policemen good in the Torrens land title system,
Arc Always and Slum Id ,. guard duty with instructions the Daily News has declared in favor
Have Large Attendance. I to allow no one connected with the of i's adoption by the next general exacting test, the Torrens system may
The Men's League in Seaboard to enter the grounds, the assembly. Just what the system is, lie found to possess some
Christian church Sunday afternoon, V. S. C. people being In charge and what it is aimed to would be strange no
had a very small attendance due to of tho work putting down their track by it, is not generally understood by law devised by human instrumental-
fund, it will be apprehended, is
cornerstone of edifice, it is
designed to compensate the innocent
who may have suffered through the
law's operation, without injury to In-
purchasers for value.
In the last analysis, under the most
cold weather, yet the moating
was well worth while. Messrs. C.
C. Pierce and R. M. discuss-
ed Interestingly the subject,
and emphasizing that the
two are inseparable and must go to-
In real Christian life.
where the Seaboard track had been, the public, and as a means to an
quote from the
Won't Now. an editorial
No more limping for Tom Moore, of sen tat Ion of it
Ga. had a bad sore on
my Instep that nothing to
help till I used
Next Sunday's meeting will be lie writes, this Wonder-
The two great demands in real es-
has ever been perfect. But we
believe the system would be a vast
Improvement over the present
registration system, under
Which disputes and endless litigation
in the Baptist church. Subject,
to Text. Peter.
Leaders, Messrs, J. Tyson, Wiley
Brown and F. M. Wooten.
Tho men can get much out of these
meeting if they will attend thorn.
fill healer soon cured Heals old
running sores, ulcers, boils, burns,
cuts, bruises, eczema or piles. Try
it. Only cents at all druggists.
Almost Lost Ills
S. A. Slid, of Mason. will
never forget his terrible exposure to
a merciless storm. gave me I
dreadful he writes,
ed severe pains in my chest, so II
was hard for me to breathe, A neigh-
gave me several doses of
King's New Discovery which brought
great relief. The do. tor said I was
on tho verge of pneumonia, hut to
continue with the discovery. I did
and two bottles complexly cared
Use only this quick, safe, re-
medicine for coughs, colds, or
any throat or lung trouble Price
cents Trial bottle free.
by all druggists.
Things worth while are. morn apt
to your way if you go after
them.
Portrait of Judge Shepherd Will
He Presented Supreme Court.
event of particular in-
to Raleigh will take place Tues-
day morning in the Supreme court
room, when a portrait of ex-Chief
Justice K. Shepherd will be
presented to the court. Former
present the
trait and Chief Justice Walter Clark
will It for Court. The
trait of the late Justice will
help further to adorn the walls of
the room. Shepherd one
of the very ablest lawyers in the State.
tale are for absolute security of title Daily News.
THIS IS HUM
National Convention.
ROCHESTER, N. Y Feb.
co-operation In the movement which
makes for better agriculture and
larger crops is to lie one of lead-
subjects of discussion at the an-
convention of the National Can-
Association, which began In this
City today With a large attendance.
The convention will continue in
for
CHICAGO, Jan. a. The
national committee expects to have
tho attendance of several state gov-
at I's meeting hero tomorrow
to discuss the progress which has
been made by the organization in its
movement for tho nomination of The-
for president
Edward
Dr. Edward who recently
retired from the presidency of
College, the famous
for the education of deal mutes
at Washington, D. C. was born In Thursday.
Hartford, Conn., February 1837, He
was graduated from College FLOWERS
in 1856, with a degree of bachelor
science, received the
in was similarly honored
Vole University In 1895, and also re-
on honorary from Col-
University In 1899, Dr.
was a member of the faculty
of his father's Institution for deaf
unites at Hartford in and in
. ;. .- lulled the
Institution for the Deaf,
and in Washington, and
oped from it College for
Deaf, founded in which is
still the only college for the deaf in Phone
When you want tho best,
we are at your
Choice Ruses
Violets Wedding in
the Latest Styles.
Floral Offering artistically arranged
at short notice.
When In need of pot rose
bushes, shrubbery, hedge
plants and trees, mall, telegraph
or telephone your orders to
J. Co.
the world.
X. v.
Taft Vandyke
Roofing and Sheet Metal Work
For Slate or Tin, Tin Shop Repair
Work, and Flues in Season, See
Greenville. N. C.
J. J. JENKINS
G. M. MOORING SON
General Merchandise
Buyers of and country produce. We now occupy the former
Central Mercantile Co. store and Will be glad to have our friends call
The Home of Women's Fashions
Pulley Bowen
Greenville,
North Carolina
The Daily Reflector
goes into 1,400 homes six a
approximately,
readers. The Eastern Reflector,
our weekly edition, goes into 1,200
readers. .
H Can you figure out why an ad
in either of these papers won't pay
Mr. Merchant-Your Think
I,
DR. D. MILL
AT TRAINING SCHOOL
President A. And Delivers Ad-
dress on Sidney Lanier
COMMEMORATING BIRTHDAY
MEET.
The Sidney Lanier Literary Society
of Training school celebrated the
seventieth anniversary of the
of Sidney Lamer by giving the school
and the public an opportunity to hear
an address on this great southern
poet by one the state's greatest
scholars and most polished speakers.
Dr. H. H. Hill, president of the A and
H. College.
Miss Marguerite Davis, president of
the Lanier society, had charge of the
program. Three choruses, two by the
school and one by the Lanier society,
were sung.
Miss Davis then, with grace and
dignity, Introduced the speaker.
Dr. Hill gave a sympathetic
and Interpretation of Sidney
Lanier as a man, musician and poet.
He brought his audience to a deeper
understanding of the great spirit who,
handicapped by disease and poverty,
brought poetry and music close to-
and whose was
la holiness and holiness
After the address the Lanier society
received in the library In honor of
Dr. Hill.
Proposition to Lease Town Commons
Fronting
The board of aldermen met in reg-
monthly session Thursday night.
with the mayor and six members of
the board present.
The committee reported that a
horse and rubber boots and coats had
been purchased for the use of the fire
department. It was also recommend-
ed that two sleeping rooms for fire-
men be provided in the city hall, and
the committee was instructed to fix
the rooms as early as possible.
The sanding committee had no re-
ports.
The committee to whom was re-
the proposition of J. Benjamin
Higgs to lease the town commons,
fronting on the river, for a term
ninety years, made the following re-
port which was
That the town of
e the
when the case
of W. A. Fretwell against the Atlantic
Coast Line for damages, was called,
it was determined by Judge Justice
that there was no grounds for suit
and case was promptly
When this was done, Mr. Fret-
well, who had no attorney, arose and
asked another case he Lad on the cal-
be withdrawn. Its request was
granted, and there will be no suit
against the Southern Express com-
so far as Mr. Fretwell is con-
In withdrawing the last suit
the plaintiff thanked Judge Justice,
but went out muttering, no doubt
thinking that ail the world is against
him in an effort to the
DIRECTORY.
AND CITY OFFICIALS
Lodges and Social Organ,
Began Tour of South.
J. Watson, of South
Carolina, president of the Southern
Cotton Congress, conferred with
Greenville bankers here today the in-
grant to any person, persons, firm or Rock Hill plan of cotton
corporation doing an Interstate trans-1 acreage reduction. It was the first
business the privilege of conference his present tour which
HAS TWO ACCIDENTS
using a portion of said property, or
the whole thereof, if necessary, free
of charge, for the purpose of con-
a wharf, building ware-
houses, and erecting any other
of whatever nature necessary for
the proper conduct of said business.
That said person, persons, com-
or corporation doing said
shall keep and maintain, year-
a regular and continuous water
transportation service, said service
not to be interrupted or delayed ex-
for natural causes, such as in-
sufficient water In Tar river any
other unavoidable accident.
That said person, persons, firm
County.
SheriffS. I. Dudley.
Clerk Superior C. Moore.
Register of M. Moore.
Wilson.
OH. Laughing-
house.
C.
P. D.
J. Holland, J. J. May, B. M. Lewis.
W. E. Proctor.
tip Hooks
.,
v.
will last twelve days and extend as
far west as New Orleans. Mr. Watson
was accompanied by J. G. Anderson,
of Rock Hill, S. C, originator of the
scheme which proposes to get
from planters to reduce next year's
acreage to per cent of the area
planted the past season.
or corporation shall transport to and
i Part of Hi- I n of from town of all kinds
of commodities carried by railroads
Saturday was an unlucky day for
Mr. R. E. Overton. one of the em-
of the Cabinet Veneer Com-
Early that morning he was
working at the anvil in the forge
room, when a piece of red hot Iron
flew out of the tongs In which he was
holding it and struck him in the face,
about an inch below the eye, burn-
him quite painfully. Later in the
day Just before noon he was adjust-
a machine when his right hand
was caught in the gearing. His little
finger was so mangled that the end
of it had to be amputated, and the
next finger was also badly crushed.
Dr. L. C. Skinner looked after his
injuries.
OR MID-
die aged men to travel with man-
ager and solicit. Also one collector.
Address M. S. Davenport, care gen-
delivery, Greenville, N. C.
Town.
M. Woolen.
C. Tyson.
L. Carr.
Chief of T. Smith.
Fire Chief-D. D. Overton.
E. Nobles, E. B.
W. A. Bowen, J. S. Tunstall J.
F. Davenport. B. F. Tyson, Z. P. Van-
Dyke, H. C. Edwards.
Water and Light
Spain, C. L.
W. Tucker.
L. Allen
and other public carriers.
That the privilege granted shall
be co-extensive with regular,
and adequate transportation
except as hereinafter stated.
. That for insufficient or
service the privilege granted
be forfeited, and the right de-
said person, persons, firm or
the further use of said prop-
upon the town through its mayor
giving three months notice of the
withdrawal of said privilege.
D. Overton was elected build-
inspector.
The water and light commission
was instructed to put 6-inch pipe on
Ninth street from Evans street to Co-
street at the expense of the
Shocking Sounds.
n the earth ate sometimes heard Maude Owens was granted license
fore a terrible earthquake, that warn to run a restaurant in Darden
of the coming peril. Nature's warn-1 building on Dickinson avenue,
are kind. That dull pain or ache A was appointed to col-
in the back warns you the kidneys for paying Fourth street.
The officers made their reports for
O La
SCHEDULE
Trains Leave Raleigh, Jan-
S, lull.
YEAH ROUND
a. Atlanta, Birmingham,
Memphis and points West, Jackson-
ville and Florida points,
at Hamlet for Charlotte and
Wilmington.
THE SEABOARD
a.
with coaches and parlor car. Con-
with steamer for Washington,
Baltimore, New York. Boston and
Providence.
THE FLORIDA FAST
a. Richmond,
Baptist, C M.
Rock, pastor; C. C. Pierce,
C. W. Wilson, superintendent of Sun-
day school; J. C. Tyson, secretary.
regular pastor.
Episcopal. St. rector at
present; H. Harding, senior
and secretary of Vestry; W. A. Bowen
superintendent of Sunday school.
Methodist. Jarvis
E. It Hoyle, pastor; A. B. Ellington,
clerk; H. D. Bateman, superintend-
of Sunday school; L. H. Pender,
secretary.
regular pastor;
P. M. Johnson, clerk.
Chapel
Rev. W. pastor.
need attention if you would escape
those dangerous maladies, dropsy,
or Bright's disease. Take El-
Bitters at once and see back-
ache fly and all your best feelings re-
turn. son received great
fit from their writes Peter Bondy
South Mich., is
a great kidney Try
it. cents at all druggists.
past month.
Bills as approved by the
committee were ordered paid.
The meeting took a recess
Tuesday night, 6th.
Driver Badly Hurt
Sam who works for Mr. J.
E. Winslow, was severely hurt Sunday
by one of the horses at the stables. In
approaching one of them, the animal
kicked and struck on the
right hand, badly hurting and fur-
breaking some bones in his arm.
Is suffering a great deal from
his hurts.
CAMPAIGN
Republican Senators and Represent
Meet.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb.
day's Joint caucus of Republican sen-
and representatives to ratify
the selection of members of the
finance
Lodges.
Greenville No. A. F. and A. M.
R. Williams, W. M.; L. H. Pender.
Sec.
Sharon, No. A. F. and A. M
H. Harding. W. If.; E. E. Griffin, Sec.
Greenville Chapter No. R. A. M.
R. C. Flanagan. H. P.; J. E. Wins-
low, secretary.
Covenant No. I. O. O. F James
Brown, N. G.; L. H. Pender, Sec.
Greenville Encampment No. L
Every Manure Spreader is not a Cloverleaf
that looks like one. You can't judge a Manure
Spreader by its looks because there are many
features which are found in the construction of
one machine that are not found in others.
Manure Spreaders are the most easily op-
the strongest and best machines on the
market. If you will examine one critically you
will agree with us that the
is the best machine you ever looked at. Drop in.
Let us discuss the manure spreader proposition.
Let us explain the many meritorious features
found in Cloverleaf construction. Better still,
buy one, then you will be in a better position to
know why you can't judge a manure spreader by
its looks. If you are not ready to buy, call and
get a Its filled with valuable
on soil maintenance and fertility. We are
reserving one for you. Won't you call and get
it today
Hart Hadley
GREENVILLE, N. C.
and New York Q C. P.; U
For Mrs.
Mrs. J. Bryan Grimes charmingly
entertained a party of friends yes-
afternoon at Five Hundred
In honor of her guest, Mrs. Ned
Laughinghouse, of Greenville.
There seven tables and a
most enjoyable afternoon was spent
the game, followed by refresh-
Those present Mrs. Laugh-
Mrs. J. E. Mrs.
Alfred Williams, Mrs.
Mrs. E. H. Jordan, Mrs. James
Miss Florence Jones.
Mrs. Elias Carr, Mrs. Julian Tim-
Mrs. R. D. W. Connor. Mrs.
Robert Strong. Mrs. W. S. Wilson.
Mrs. James Mrs. Charles Gold,
Mrs. Miss Annie
Mrs. M. T. Norris, Mrs. J. K. Mar-
shall, Mrs. Louis Mahler, Miss Mary
Republican Congressional Campaign Armistead Jones, Mrs. Ed. Battle.
Committee marks the first active step Mrs. Mrs. Shipp. Mrs.
Sleepers. day coaches and dinning
car. Connects at Richmond with
C. O. at Wash with
railroad and B. for Pitts-
burg and points west.
THE SEABOARD
p. Atlanta. Charlotte,
Wilmington. Birmingham. Memphis,
and points west. Parlor cars to
Hamlet.
p. m. No. for
Louisburg. Henderson Oxford and
Norlina.
p. No. for
O. for Cincinnati and points west,
Memphis, and points west. Jack-
and all Florida points. D.
Pullman sleepers. Arrive Atlanta
a. m.
Arrive Richmond a. m.
II. Pender, Scribe.
Tribe No. I.
H. S. Sachem; J. U
C. of R.
Tar River No. K. of
Woodward, C. C; A. B. Ellington.
K. of R. and S.
Tar River Ruling No. F. M.
W. Brown, W. R.; J. W. Little,
W. C.
Clubs.
Lillian Carr. pres
Miss Ward Moore, secretary.
Dunn, president;
M. Clark, secretary.
End of
president; Mrs. E.
Secretary.
Washington a. in. New president; Mrs. E. B.
p. m., Penn. station. Mrs. W. L. Hall, secretary.
R. O.
B.
Selecting
Piano
arrive to Washington and New
York.
C. II. G. V. A Portsmouth,
in the Republican national campaign
of 1912. From this time on the
machinery will move with an
ever increasing velocity until the
max is reached with the casting of
ballots in November.
The Republicans plan to begin the
practical work of the a lit-
earlier this year than In 1904 or
1908. No attempt is made to conceal
the fact that they expect a much more
difficult campaign than in of
those years. The party is less
than it was in the contests
of four and eight years ago, while
the Democrats have more encourage-
to make a harder fight now
than they have had at any previous
time since 1896.
belt Royster, Mrs. Watkins Robards,
Mrs. George Mis. R. M. Al-
bright Hrs.
Times.
N. S. Schedule
ROUTE OF THE
NIGHT EXPRESS
Round K. It.
president; Mrs. S. J. Everett,
Civic W. H. Ricks,
president; Mrs. E. V. Smith,
Daughters of T.
J. Jarvis, president; Mrs. J. L.
en, secretary.
The Kings A. L.
Blow, president; Mrs. J. G.
IN EFFECT HOT 11th.
Beautiful
la our bargain today, Pulley
L- Bowen call attention to their new
arrival of laces and embroideries for
spring. They have a beautiful line
of both domestic and Imported goods
and the ladies who call to sec them
will be more than pleased.
Tobacco Expert.
Mr. W. M. a government to-
expert, who has been carrying
on experiments to ascertain the best
fertilizer to be used for the
of leaf as well as best
adapted, etc., In South Carolina,
arrived in Greenville Thursday to
carry on his work in this state in
government station In this neigh-
He has still charge of the
station In South Carolina, but will de-
vote a great deal of his time to our
state. Mrs. came here with
him.
There
a man. but
with him.
The town
week in honor
Released on Bond.
J. who
rendered to Sheriff Sharp Friday
is out on a bond. He
says the News and Observer and
papers have done him an
by stating that he Is wanted In
many things to convince Chase City, Va. for the larceny of n
easiest in lo agree diamond and in Carolina tar
shoving a trunk. He Hays hat he has
ought to look clean this never been in South Carolina and
the visitors. know where Chase City is.
N. following schedule fig-
published as Information only
and not guaranteed.
TRAINS LEAVE GREENVILLE
East Hound
a. m. Pull-
man, Sleeping Car for Norfolk.
a. m. Daily, for Plymouth, Eliza-
beth City Norfolk. Broiler Car
service connects tor all points
North and West
p. m. Daily, except Sunday, for
West Hound
a. m. Daily, for WilBon and
Pullman Sleeping Car
ice connects Norm, South and Weal
a. m. Dally, except Sunday, for
Wilson for
all points.
p. m. Dally, for Wilson and
Broiler Car service.
For further information and
of Sleeping Car space apply
to J. L. HASSELL, Agent. Greenville
N C
W. R. HUDSON, W. .
General Supt., O. P. K.
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Marriage licenses were issued to the
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White.
II. R. and Nina Smith.
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D. L. Whitehurst and
C. J. and Nettie May Eason.
Will Lee and Marv Hutchings.
Lucy Battle.
Andrew Ward and Mattie Langley.
Peter Mary
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James Roberson and Land.
Warren and Chap-
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Pat Davis and Mary Smith.
Charlie Tice and Mary Sugg.
James Roberson and Mollie Sneed.
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Blamed a Good Worker.
blamed my heart for severe dis-
tress In my left side for two
writes W. Evans, Danville, Va.,
I know now It was Indigestion, as
Dr. King's New Life Pills completely
cured Best for stomach, liver
.-. kidney troubles, constipation.
hi -I or cents M
druggists,
fl Do not get the
idea that people
will visit a store in
search of an article
when they know
for sure of one that
has it
is an investment i
T E HOME
and FARM and EASTERN
REFLECTOR
Published
THE REFLECTOR In.
D. I. WHICHARD. Editor.
NORTH CAROLINA
to attain any degree of progress. W k.
business man should and The rapidity with which railroad
plane in which he will be and accidents succeed each
the same level with the other other has robbed the newspaper col-
men. and then the of one source of news, for now
such enterprises as we are a railroad wreck Is anything
now, would be mere play.
We never will have factories in
Greenville unless we have the hotel
but new. We have them everyday in
the week. Many every day of each
week. Of course we hare more miles
need so much and we never will of tracks than any other country in
Subscription, lie year,
Hi months, .
II
have that hotel unless the business
men get together and stay together.
And for any sake do not let us
again say need a but let
us instead put It soon have
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BLIND TIGERS.
Although North Carolina has been
legally a dry state for so long, it
that only now has any desire
been evinced by the people to en-
force a law which of their own ac-
cord was passed.
The state-wide movement for a
really dry state is bringing to light
a state of affairs which has greatly
the prohibitionists. As an
NOT MUCH. of the Anti-Saloon League
ought was the keynote of convention in Raleigh last week, one
all short speeches made Monday night tiger came to the front and in
rates may be had
application at the business office I
The Reflector Building, corner
and Third streets.
All cards of thanks
at respect will be charged for at
sat per word.
Communications advertising
ates will be charged
cents per line, up to fifty lines.
as second class
August 1910. at the poet office
North Carolina,
act of March J. 1879.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1912.
at the meeting of the Carolina Club.
To u. It sounded very much like the
tones of the greatest respect for the
law which he had been breaking with
wide known sign, some degree of success, has thrown
only in our case It should be himself into the mercy of Justice.
particular blind tiger was not
.,., . brought to justice by a policeman, a
W- Hied to keep up counting the B
. . . .,, , . , magistrate or any other man
of limes this e
was said by different members at the
meeting. Along the odd we got
Sissy and stopped. Only three of the
business men in the Carolina Club
Monday night made a noise like money
and if only the rest had signified a
willingness to imitate that noise we
might today announced that the
vested with authority. It remained
for one of the local pastors to stir
the authorities into action and no
sooner had a private, or almost a
citizen, the desired
effect was felt.
When the Rev. R. L. Davis made
his famous spread of whiskey
before the astonished Raleigh
hotel was a As it
people, the authorities assumed an
is we are very sorry to say that
hotel seems to be as far away today
as the proverbial mirage that
the dessert to doing a few
more miles to find out that the cool.
Inviting oasis is still a few more
miles further down the sandy waste.
The mirage-hotel is practically as
far away today as when the question
was put to the members of the
club. With only this it
has helped to find out that individuals
the smaller capital at their dis-
air of offended innocence and insisted
that the preacher turn Informant and
help them catch the law-breakers.
This act, which was referred to as
a grand stand play by some of the
press, came a little too late. To any-
body acquainted with local conditions
in any large sized town In
Carolina, the stand taken by the
must have appeared more
the world, but this really is no ex-
for the profusion of wrecks.
We would suggest railroad
who persist in neglecting the
care of their tracks to furnish engine
drivers with blanks such as
Train No. Jumped the track
from . Number of
people dead . Number of
people injured . Time sys-
Is expected to be tied up.
This would save a great deal of
time in making the report of the
wreck and would give the driver am-
time to be on the next
When analyzed in a sober mind this
continuity of wrecks Is nothing short
of a disgrace to our country. Aside
from the material damage sustained
in such accidents the loss of life at-
every year an appalling
According to the census bureau
people die annually of accidents.
Of these 48.000 accidental deaths, 3.-
are homicides, the rest, or
just accidents, and of these
13.000 nearly result from
wrecks. This is exactly one-
ninth of the deaths occurred during
the wars of 1911. Eight thousand
lives lost to the nation through care-
in most instances the rail-
road carelessness. Nearly
people die every day in the
iii railroad wrecks.
Dots all this happen because in this
country a life is undervalued Is
it because we are so crowded that we
-an afford to lose the productive
forts of people every day Or is
t simply because laws cannot be
i and enacted that will force
railroad Companies to adopt means
of sad guarding the passengers their
trains carry
Whatever Is the answer, the fact
remains that with the high degree of
civilization we have reached, we have
to these roads means a
prosperity to the cities through in
creased agricultural production am.
greater stimulus to all industries.
If you are a highway official
because you are striving for
methods of road construction am.
maintenance, and more efficient
If you are a railroad man, be-
cause improved roads mean
production, consequently more
prevent freight congestion,
more industries, more roads, more
tourists.
If you are an automobile user,
because you can get the benefit
your machinery every day In the year,
your repair bills will be lower, long
and better tours will be possible
at all seasons of the year.
If you are a dealer in farm pro-
ducts and implements, because you
can receive the products and deliver
the Implements at all times.
If you are an automobile man-
because every mile of
proved roads means a greater de-
for both pleasure and
cars, Increases wealth, and con-
the power to purchase.
If you are a publisher or editor,
because improved roads make
wider circulation possible,
advertising by . stimulating
enterprises, and because road
is the most important
question of the age.
If you are a manufacturer of
road machinery or road materials, be-
cause road Improvement means
more. But notice Is served right is misery and
low there is no bid for an open bred In an unsanitary garbage can
of the question in these than anything else we can think
as The Reflector does and for this reason sanitary garb-
want to be the vehicle for bringing age pails should be
local war. As to the beautifying of the com-
this is a subject that will
receive entire and Just attention at
the hands of the ladies of the Civic
I HE
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
We have received at The Reflector League, and we hope that all
office a copy of the Christian Science owners will lend their aid to this or-
of the 19th of January, and This is the proper time
thank the sender for the to make up plans. The weather will
courtesy. We are always glad to surely be Ideal for gardening, etc.
good on our table and We congratulate the Civic League for
try in our spare time to study them Its efforts towards a healthier and bet-
the benefit of our readers. looking Greenville, and will do
We carefully read marked In our power to help,
or rather from article, by El-
Hubbard. It is very kind of the
good to speak In such a nice way
THE EXPRESS
Now and again the govern-
or a publication like the Monitor; u to Possibilities of
are rather afraid that the head of the exerting some of its power In favor
is a little the common people. Witness the
what he says. The as he sugar trust, the meat trust, the bath-
calls them, have printed his name tub etc. etc. Towards prose-
countless articles, product of his these corporations the govern-
and gifted pen and no doubt spends large sums of money and
that the owner of those has
after lapses of time in which much
signed many a fat check to help the useful work could be accomplished. If
to materialize his ideals. This same time was Inverted In an earnest
is where the inconsistency comes In. prosecution of the combines, they
For everybody knows full well that hang on to some
Elbert Hubbard has written much, or technicality and
rather is writing much, for the own- The American people keep en footing
of what is considered the acme of the bill.
Word has been passed now that
It If you are the proprietor of
hotel, because improved roads mean
more tourist and more the other hand, the Monitor can the express companies are to receive
travelers. New England, with its well afford its policy of eliminating a severe Jolt at the hands of the gov-
of good roads, get from its pages anything that eminent, and like the beginning of all
a year from tourists alone. the emotional or morbid, for the prosecutions, this one start-
If you are a banker, because of the scientists gets the well ed handing pubic of
good roads will increase agriculture.
and manufacture, depositors, deposits. support of many of figures that are calculated to fire the
and dividends. famous Marv Baker G- The most even tempered and meek citizen.
If you are a progressive citizen. says that many of the readers of , An us nave anything
because you cannot progress so long t Monitor are not Scientists. Per- gent by express have more than a
as your state and nation remain In e g , the
Q greater majority are, and where a dammed out of money and all of us
A QUESTION OF FENCE. by a great many are mighty glad to hear that some-
has been asked manufacturer or merchant Is ,, to be done protect on
times to something about the nave his this particular line. Hut. we do hope
stock law muddle In this county, but And that this time an exception will be
are with him in that respect. made and the prosecution will be
We again thank the sender for his earnest and that when the lawyers of
are the only ones willing to private run blind
Greenville take a step that will tigers
bring progress to the
town.
One of the speakers at last night's
meeting expressed the opinion that
Greenville would never be able to
bring factories or industries of which
we stand In such great need If we are
to grow and prosper, unless we have
a modern hotel In which to favorably
impress the future Investor. We
agree with the gentleman.
We have always advocated that
Greenville needed factories, but we
likewise have engaged In a live cam-
to Interest the people in the
hotel proposition and have given all
the publicity we could. We
In the hotel as the stepping stone to
our future progress and believing
It as do, we're sorry the negative
result of last night's meeting.
It would seem as If those that are
In a position to invest are
like a pantomime than anything else.
As if the authorities needed any such that the value of a life can-
not be measured by the dollar and
that a life lost is not necessarily a
life replaced. A life does not hap-
pen to be a bolt, or a wheel, or a
length of rail. It Is a great deal
more valuable than any of them and
furthermore it may never be replaced
Perhaps as the list of accidental
deaths, due to railroad wrecks grows
larger, the government will see fit
it is one of those knotty problems
that hardly know how to approach
or what to say about it after it Is
approached. There are two sides to
the question, in fact many sides, and
all sides want to go to the bat at the
same time.
kindness.
It would be safe to say-
that should the authorities care to
look into the matter there would be
no room in the local for
the stationary and itinerant whiskey
merchants that are defying the pro-
law.
Some two or three years ago It
seemed to Mayor Gaynor, of look into the matter with
York, that It would be a great idea eyes and will do its best to have the
Bit. It L. DAVIS AGAIN.
The secretary of the Anti-Saloon
League of North Carolina seems to
About the best Information is that have lamp beat to a
the last legislature near the time as the Oyster Bay Hermit would
of closing enacted an additional stock say. he rubs the suit
law bill for Pitt county, subjecting case, or box, or receptacle that
companies discover some moth-
eaten technicality, or Joker, Uncle
Sam will refuse to continue seeing
it that way and that we will be made
free of the piracy of the express com-
0--------
to put on the lid as tight as it had
never been before in Gotham. At
least he let everybody understand it
that way. Some good, honest police-
men yes, there are some in New
thought Epictetus was in real
earnest and made the awful mistake
of locking up two or three saloon
keepers that had their family door
entrances open on Sunday. For which
honest work he was transferred with-
out comment. The sleuth from
Cork kept up the good work in his
slaughter come to an end.
It is not that railroading cannot
be carried out without that awful loss
of life. Other countries carry com-
as many passengers per
year and yet the loss of life in those
countries is so small, that It never
causes comment. Why could we not
have the same degree of safety when
traveling
THE FORTUNES OF THE SUN.
With this title the Saturday Even-
Post published sometime ago a
It to the rules and regulations gov- companies him to anti-saloon meet- about
stock laws already existing or six or eight pint bottles of
to hereafter in the county. The booze come forth unblushingly to
biggest feature about this new stock smile upon the surprised
law bill was that it did away with Bring,
about miles of zig-zag fence R. L Davis sprung a
provided for a 16-mile straight fence in Raleigh and the
to do the same service, the saving to Jot Matthews followed. Dr. L.
the tax payers by this shorter sprung the second surprise In which has shined in Durham so
to keep up being In the proportion of Charlotte and his arrest followed. The y and we ho, w,
tried to succeed while its management
to the truth rather than to play
up to the advertisers. Its purpose
was noble, its deficit great, and Its
conclusion rapid.
However, we are not talking about
that Sun, but about that Other Sol
REASONS FOR
The Tarboro Southerner calls at-
to a set of good reasons for
The Ohio Good Roads
new territory, and another transfer
afraid that somebody else I. going to About the ,
make a little more than themselves.; wag up.
We can't see where they get this Idea. had been on the force a little
But granted that somebody else was and now he can hold any beat
going to make better. he lo. course his Ideas of bUt
Is not the Investment offered worth politicians are somewhat
the consideration county; likewise Pitt county and. In
,, ,. . . , . , fact, every county that suffers through
It was shown last night that the. Perhaps the case In our state is
property, as It stands now, has been not exactly same. Yet. have you
paying per rent, for a number of ever heard of blind tigers being pro-
year Is It Impossible for It to con- We certainly have. Who
to pay per cent, with protects them It is easy to answer
on the same property this question. The negligence of the
The logical way to reason would be. authorities which we appoint and pay
f It pays per cent as It stands, protects And In this case that
Improvements would the negligence Is the best protection a
paying percentage. nut, even If It blind tiger wants,
did not pay anymore. It per cont.
its bad roads.
They are all
sons and bring out the value of good
roads Individually, which Is, perhaps,
the best way to show how the people
of a county will be by
building good
If you are a because
your farm will Increase In value, you
your family can attend church,
your physician will be In closer
touch with you, your boys and girls
I can raise profitable crops, your
We wonder how It would turn of hauling will be lower, you can
such a small gain In investment were the to offer a reward your products when prices
We think It is worth the trouble. And for every case of a blind tiger being et
It should not take any wide-awake convicted.
business man of this community to
think with I When blind tigers find out that the will stay on the farm, you will have
It would be a great Idea while Is going to be enforced, there mall service, more social life
in i, happier conditions all around.
r shout It to hr a diminishing of violators.,
it to personalities I If you are a merchant, because
got. down to If we meant It And a strong public
The days of the Individual In sentiment behind those whose and it possible for purchasers
Men It Is to enforce the laws, there to reach you every day In the
mast work together If they to be more enforcements. Put your pat-n
travel Team work these things together and It will you of
. , commerce or a board of trade,
would be enough Bunch-work that upon every citizen rests th are
Is what In asides If we are ever go- some duty. to the cities, and every
to The provisions of this bill,
however, were not to become effective
until nearly one year after the
adjourned, or to be exact on
first of January, 1912.
And In the meantime there has been
something doing. Of course there
were people who the old crooked
fence left on the outside of the stock
law territory whom the straight
fence would bring on the inside. This
was where they did not want to be,
hence the controversy. Through all
the year there was talking with
meetings and speech-making
In opposition to the new stock law.
When the time came for the board
of county commissioners to put the
machinery of the bill In order and
have the new fence built in accord-
therewith, the opponents
lied for a light. Injunctions were
against the fence being built
across certain lands, and this com-
up before Judge O. H. Allen at
the recent court, he deeming that the
commissioners were In the of
law In such cases, dissolved the
Injunction.
There was another rally of
with more injunctions, this
time going even further than hold-
the fence across forbidden lands,
and also enjoining the levying of tax
In the prescribed new stock law
or the use of stock law funds
already on hand for the old territory
These latter Injunctions are to come
up for a hearing before court in New
Bern about the middle of this month,
nobody knows the final
he
same theme with slight variations.
keep on shining to do credit to North
The authorities were there with the
real surprise of the evening. Now It We that , man.
would appear the secretary of the win continue to publish the
anti-saloon league will have to tell along game
where he got the booze or stand In put where t today and that
contempt of court. And the author- we , look n
seem to be right. If drinkers a we have m
will not help convict blind tigers, . .
same degree of pride at having such
non-drinkers will have to apply the , paper for
proverbial shoulder to the wheel.
Therefore Dr. R. t. arrest The of Durham m
The authorities are probably as Sun , paper to can
well aware of the origin of liquor In out and
Charlotte, but they evidently find It be t,.,,,, ,
very difficult to catch them at it, for
the drinkers will naturally refuse to The Norfolk railroad
kill the hen that lays the pint bottles on a quarter
that bring Joy to their hearts and de- worth of property
dizziness o their minds. For to be for depot and yard
this reason, the Charlotte authorities
Immediately pounced upon the first
witness
on.
they could lay their hands
indicates that the road will do
things on a large scale In the
Some merchants could mention
THE CIVIC K. ought to pattern after the business
In another part of this issue we qualifications of John Wanamaker,
publish an account of what took place even If they imitate him only in a
it the meeting of the Civic League, small way. He spends millions of
held in the court house last Monday, dollars a year advertising, though
We are glad to hear that this or- he started without capital and Is to-
is going to do its best to day the targets retail merchant in
place Greenville In a condition of the United Merchants who
sanitation that will guarantee our expect their business to grow must
healths, and we certainly approve the use publicity and this can be had in
regarding the cleaning up no better way than through
f back lots and beautifying the that people read,
front I --------o
The Cleaning Day, spoken of at the The sugar trust crying
Civic League meeting, should be and makes a plea to the gov-
to come with all possible speed, eminent to stop the prosecutions
The garbage pall discussed should against Better stop their raid on
This Is all we know about the Its at a Us then there
law muddle, and If we have not of fact, this should be a mat- might not be anything In their line
it right it Is because of not knowing for the authorities to look into, for the government to prosecute.
Of Welcome By Mayor F. M. Woolen, Mrs. R. and
Mrs. S. T.
RECORDING SECRETARY N. C. FEDERATION, MRS. G. W.
RESPONDS, MRS. K. R. COHEN MAKES ANNOUNCEMENTS
A after nine o'clock Tuesday Mattie King,
the ladles of the Council of Mae
as ushers.
North Carolina Federation of . . .
Following the exercises in the court
Clubs were welcomed to Greer.- Carolina Club gave a
ville in the court house with ad- in honor of the council. This was
dresses by Mayor F. M. Woolen for an occasion of brilliance, and under
the town of Greenville, Mrs. R. O. the direction of Mr. E. Gates,
for the End of the Century man of the entertainment committee.
Club and Mrs. S. T. for the was perfect, in every detail. The
Round Table Club. Mrs. R. R. Cot- club rooms were beautifully deco-
made the announcements and rated, and the pleasure of every one
some of the young ladies of the East was heightened by the delightful
Carolina Teachers Training school music furnished by band.
entertained the visitors and public The guests were received at the
with delightful music. entrance to the hall by Dr. and Mrs.
In opening the evening's program C. Laughinghouse. and at the
the chorus of the Training school, led door of the rending room by Mr. and
by Miss May R. B. sang the Mrs. W. H. Bail. Jr., who introduced
Federation chorus and a song en- them to the head of the receiving
titled as the In this, line In this lino which formed a
as in other occasions, this singing by semi-circle around the reading room
the Training school chorus was were President and Mrs. Albion
greatly appreciated. Dunn, Mr. and Mrs. Robt. H. Wright,
Mayor F. M. Wooten, in addressing Dr. D. L. James and Mrs. B. W. Mose-
the visiting ladies, expressed himself Mr. M. L. Turnage and Miss
as being greatly pleased at the Moore, Mr. and Mrs. C. T.
Hotel Proposition Comes Up Again Be-
fore Members
MUCH SAID. VERY LITTLE DONE
liege of conveying to them the greet-
and words of welcome to the
town of Greenville, but equally re-
that he was not better fitted
to do full honor to their presence. He
spoke of the great Influence that
men had in the state and to what ex-
tent such a meeting as began last
night in Greenville would have
influence in the community.
Ho was that we could
offer the ladles the quietness
of our town for their deliberations
in exchange for the hurry and scurry
of the larger cities. He assured
that during their stay with us every
visiting lady had the heartiest wishes
from the people of Greenville and that
every one felt the great honor done
the town with their presence. In
closing his address Mayor Wooten
told a little story that greatly amused
his audience.
Mrs. R. R. Cotten then introduced
Mrs. R. O. Jeffries, who in the name
of the End of the Century Club, spoke
to the visiting ladles of the pleasure
they all felt In having them with us;
of the importance of having them
come to help our clubs and lend with
their presence prestige to the cause
they advocated. She said that
ever place woman had heretofore
ford, Mr. D. M. Clark and Miss Ward
Moore, Mr. A. J. Moore and Miss
Alexander, Mr. J. B. James, Mr. D.
J. Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hall,
Mr. Charles James and Mrs. W. T.
Lipscomb, Jr., and Mr. and Mrs. C.
The Carolina Club met Monday
night in Its regular monthly meeting
and if any, have been the gather-
of this kind in which so
speech-making and voting was done.
After the regular
as reading minutes, etc., was over,
two new members were admitted to
the club, Mr. Don and Mr.
Zack VanDyke. And right here Is
where the meeting assumed the as-
of a national convention In Chi-
or some other equally large
city.
The question came before the
as to the advisability of low-
the initiation fee. Practically
everybody who could say something,
said it and before long an appeal
was made to a ruling by the chair.
Finally both appeal and lowering on
initiation fee were put to a vote and
both appeal and lowering of fee
were defeated. In both instances the
voting was very close.
The question of reducing fee dis-
posed of, the chair called on some of
the members to deliver five minute
Case New For Third
Trial.
ST. Feb. Alter
the now famous
case, one of the most
cases of the present time, in-
a question of double
was for its third trial before
the United States District Court in
this city today. The suit Is by the
receiver for the Arkansas City, Kan.,
State Bank, of which George
A. was cashier when he dis-
appeared in July against a
prominent life insurance company of
New York. In which was in-
sured for 25.000. At the first trial
a verdict of in favor of the
was reversed later on by the court of
plaintiff was given, but the verdict
appeals and the case remanded
retrial. At the second trial the Jury
disagreed.
The case has been given
wide publicity on account of the
strange features which distinguish-
ed. It hinges upon the question
whether George A. the
character in the case is really
dead as is claimed by the plaintiff
or alive, as is asserted by the
company, which has produced
a man, formerly a convict in the Au-
burn under the
name of Andrew J. White, of whom
it is claimed that he is identical with
George A.
George A. was born in
Mich., in February.
receiving his education in the pub-
schools of city, he entered the
The Bank of Ayden,
IT
In slate of North Carolina, at the close of business, S, 1911.
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Loans and stock paid in .
Overdrafts . c ,., ,.,.;,
but fund .
Furniture and fixtures . 643.30
Demand loans . 4,000.00 Profits, less cur-
Cash items . 33.386.54 rent an
Gold coin . 200.00 .
Silver coin, including all Deposits subject to check.
minor coin currency 92.50 Savings deposits .
National bank notes and Cashier's checks
other U. S. notes . 880.16 . 904.64
. 4.177
Total,
.
State of Carolina, County of
I, Hodges, cash -f the bank, do solemnly
that the above statement is to the best of my Knowledge and be-
lief. STANCILL Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before 11th day of December, 1911.
ELIAS D. G. BERRY.
J. R. SMITH. Notary Public.
R. C. CANNON, My commission expires Feb. 1913.
Directors.
AND HIDES stem
MARKET PAID
RAW FURS AND
Woo; on Is price
lit. this ad.
JOHN WHITE CO.
LAND SALE.
By virtue of the power of sale con-
employ of his uncle, Chan. A. John- in a certain mortgage deed, ex-
son, as a bank Later he en- and delivered by J. S. Fulford
gaged in real estate and investments
in Omaha and still later he became
Pollard and A. Joyner, trading as
W. A. Pollard Company, on the 4th
speeches on the hotel question. Prof, cashier of the State Bank day of January. 1911, and duly re-
S. Forbes, Dr. and Mrs. L. C. H- Wright spoke first and In the Arkansas City, Kan. In July. corded in fie register of deeds office
allotted made clear the, while being cashier of that bank, North Carolina, in
DOOM V-9, page the undersigned
the reception room the guests were
view. Dr. Laughinghouse
received by Mr. and Mis. F. J. Forbes
; and further impressed the need of
and invited
which were
tables by
Marj Sb
Miss
to the punch bowls,
such a building. Mr. C. T.
Passing from the reading room to every point of disappeared, leaving a con- .,, the
shortage. After seven court house door in Greenville, to the
years, during which time no trace of highest bidder, on Monday, the 4th
could be the of March, 1912, at noon
o certain tracts or parcels of land
and being in the county of Pitt
He sub- for which had Insured . state North Carolina, and in
Mr. bis g months before his dis- -caver Dam township, and described
Mr Cecil H- the strain and on appearance.
himself subscribed another means satisfied that was dead
Want Ads
The Carolina Farm
and The Eastern Reflector
Column
presided over at two
J. B. Kittrell and Miss
did not say much, but what he did family attempted to collect the
i, Hr.
Cobb,
and -Miss Smith.
At main door between the hall
lying on the south side of the t.
Other small subscriptions were prom- started an Investigation and its agents and road not
and the reception room receivers
and Mis. K. Williams, Mr.
and H. E. Austin. They also
had a register on which tile visitors
were enrolled.
Ice
and at one time It
us succeeded in a prisoner in An- covered by the dower of V.
Cobb. and excepting an undivided one-
It Interest in the woodland lying
south of the Nichols road which was
conveyed lo Florence L. Smith.
That part of the
Hooker which was assigned to
V. Cobb, widow of W. L.
Cobb. as dower, the interest in this
tract to be sold is a fee-simple sub-,
NEW HATS.
Mis. J. L.
such gatherings as the one
lust started In Greenville had a the guest
influence in the uplifting of the Wooten.
cause for which they up-1 Mrs. G. W. Whitsett. recording sec-
lift of humanity. At the close of -rotary, Greensboro, the guest of Mrs.
her address Mrs. Jeffries was loudly F. G. James.
and repeatedly applauded. Mrs. T. B. Tyson, Carthage; Mrs,
Mrs. S. T. was then N. Stover, Wilmington, the guests
and read a most Interesting of Mrs. B. W. Moseley.
address to the visiting ladies. Among I Miss Clara Cox, High Point, the
many important things she mentioned guest of Mrs. J. L. Hassell.
that women had engaged In a cam-1 Mrs. C. C. Hook, Charlotte; Mrs.
to recover what was lost to her K. W. Greensboro; the guests
four thousand years ago. This Mrs. Lina Baker,
to the Garden of Eden made I Miss Edith Raleigh; Mrs.
the audience laugh a good deal. Sidney P. Cooper, Henderson; the
man was winning for herself, through guests of Mrs. R. O. Jeffries,
the work of her clubs, a place which j Mrs. B. W. Hayes, Oxford; the
she was always Intended to hare and guest of Mrs. J. G.
that she did not hold up to now
we might have a hotel after all. bum prison, who claimed lo be the
. The fever, however, stopped about missing A. With
the mark and after a great a remarkable
deal more was said about the worth The man had been living In
the property and the advisability State Of New York under the name
and cake were served investing in such a proposition the of Andrew J. White and seemed to
by ten girls from the clubs. adjourned eleven a criminal record, tI
Alter the reception the young 0-cock. at which time the began in when he was commit- to the dower of V. Cobb, An d Bargain
remained an hour and that registers our hopes for another Erie He as For more particular -v . ,,
enjoyed a dance in the club rooms, had almost gone down to zero. several sentences the last for description see conveyances recorded,
Those who are here so far in at- ,, ft, Au f one i
I count, U
upon meeting or some season White was sent from Au- s. Fulford and wife to W. A. Pollard
Co- v-9- Deed of AT M.
Mrs. R. R. Cotten, president, Cot- criminal insane, but he obtained his H. to J. C. Cobb, Book
release upon a habeas corpus. j-8. and R. J. and
, ,.,,. . H, Cobb., Bars, to J. S. Fulford, new Iran no
his release White was taken H-8 page OF DRESS
to Nile, Mich., where, however, the Sale be made to satisfy said in all the up to date
relatives of refused to admit mortgage deed. Terms of sale, cash, patterns, in at Pulley Bowen's.
the identity of White with the miss- I
HOLDS MEETING
Some of the relatives
of changed their mind after 2-ltd
W. A.
B. A. JOYNER,
NOTICE OF SALE.
By virtue an order of the
Mortgagees. FORGET PULLEY BOW.
en s special sale on embroideries,
and embroidered
ply because the work of organizing;,., ,., NO
Into such bodies as the visiting ladles
represented had required a lengthy
period of time. Many were the ref-
Mrs. made to the
progress woman had made lately and
how far reaching all her movements
had been since the organization of
DANGEROUS.
I measures Adopted by
of League
they had talked With White and be- Moore Long, Attorneys,
came so convinced that he was really Greenville, N. C.
KEY-NOTE DISCUSSION that they received him at
their homes. The residents of
virtue an order or the bu- ,. t.,. iv
many of whom had personally known court of Pitt county, made in II Or JOB
The Civic held an were also divided in their special proceeding pending therein, the place get it in
meeting in the court house Mon- While some believed that Bailie J Brans, Mamie F. office.
White was with Lucy C. Baker, et.
day afternoon, having an unusually doubt John Kennedy, James T Kennedy, et. NEW LINE OF
large attendance. Among the , pretender. said court I will em-
. . . I . Dun It-l.
Dodson's
to Take the Place of too
Powerful
In the days when was the
calling of only remedy a or
conventions, etc. Mrs. was
Interrupted many times with the
under discussion was the high- proofs for White's identity with for sale court house I for spring are
important one in regard to the which the insurance coin- door in Greenville, on Monday, the now in and ready for inspection.
of the sanitary nail which submitted at the first and sec- of March. 1912, at o'clock Pulley Bowen.
adoption sanitary pan, , , ,. . . m the following described tract
the league urges its members to pro- trials were not considered
cure for themselves, not only as an strong to establish the claims Hounded on the north by the old
Is a Safe Med- object lesson, but as an evidence of of the defendant company. Since plank road, adjoining lands of
their belief In the necessity for then, however, additional evidence is T. It. Moore and and known as have Just opened, are I
said to have been procured. At the
It was decided that there should former trials the most important wit- and wife. February
A BOWEN'S LINE OF
laces and embroideries, they
the prettiest
had. Be
them.
be
sent to the mayor a request to of the plaintiff was John Moore 1900. and recorded in Book H-S,. AR GREAT RF-
. . . i i. a. a New pat containing 1-4 acres, more mm
the streets early In the a . , odd of val
of her audience.
Mrs. Cotten then Introduced Mrs.
C. W. Whitsett. the recording sec-
of the North Carolina
who a pretty and well-
chosen response thanked the End of
the Century Club and the Round
Table Club for the hearty welcome
extended the clubs they represented.
Mrs. Cotten said that she would
like to something about the alms
of the clubs represented, but that
time not being available another
public meeting had been for
Thursday night at the East Carolina
Teachers Training school, when the It to give you
ladles representing the different satisfaction, it t
clubs would address the public and can your money back
what their organizations by
were doing and to what effect.
Miss Arlene Joyner. attending the Up.
Training school, rendered a song, t nave taken up one BOW
which won so much applause for a few mark-
that an encore followed. To say that ed ear and crap m
Miss Joyner did Justice to the songs. owner can get same by prov-
would not be exactly right. She more ownership and paying charges.
before the crowds who testified that he saw
to catch and inhale the thous- MM In an Oregon wilderness
thing
substance that compels the
liver, no matter how weak It is, to
do its work, but docs nothing to
strengthen the liver and a large dose
sometimes the usual j approval was that we should
cause salivation. Hudson's Liver-1 in a simple fashion to beautify the
builder
is a builder that
the liver while making It do its
work. It is entirely vegetable,
pleasant to take, has no bad after-
effect and is perfectly suited for
children as well as grown people.
You don't have to be careful What
Pharmacy will sell you a
in
of germs set In motion by the August. 1898.
street-sweepers. the Pontiff's
. , . lawyers have made every effort to es-
A suggestion that met with much ,.,.,, . . . , ,.
the complete record of the
man as Andrew J. White and it s
said his whole life history for
Terms of sale. Oath, or 1-2 cash and
and balance in months to be
cured t mortgage said land.
This February 1912.
W. F, EVANS, Commissioner.
to close out the
Pulley Bowen.
CHERRY,
Greenville, N. C.
than did Justice to them, and the
fully appreciated her singing.
To close the program the chorus
of the Training school sang
fully the Slumber Song, by Some things seem more Important
and again was MeW accomplished them.
Misses Ward Moore. Susie Warren, marriage, for example.
begin
the
unsightly spots about the town by
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Having duly qualified before the
WE ARE OFFERING HALF OFF OX
all suits carried over from last
fall. This offer applies to and
children's Pulley Bowen.
the last thirty years been
planting hardy flowers, a bit of hedge
or some here and there. as administrator of B. F.
Much regret is expressed that so
Practicably all the voluminous deceased, notice is he
Including the
photographs,
given to all
prison records, parsons Indebted to the estate to
payment to the
JUST RECEIVED A NEW SHIP.
of It. U. corset We have
all sizes. Bowen.
up the back lots, and it was other documents payment to wanted-TENANT
planned to have a general h Prison record and all persons having
day Boon Andrew J. White will again be sub- claims against said estate arc notified
at this trial and in addition that they must present the same to
The league is still feeling the
FOB TEN
acres good land lo be cultivated In
tobacco. Good 3-room furnished.
None but good man need apply. Ad-
.,.,. . v----. , a amount i;,,. for payment on or ,,, v ,,
lift Hf and- . . . . . dress Box R. r. Greenville
given at me mass meeting, of prove is the 5th day of February, v r , . . .,
wishes to say to it friends and the e Qr of N
with George A. who recovery.
In The mother and the This February 5th, 1912.
S. M. CRISP,
say
public generally that although it is
now but two years old. It to
live to be a hundred, under the beau- will be among the
and sanitary conditions which
It most earnestly desires to bring
about Greenville.
Stray Taken Up.
I have taken up one black pig.
weight about pounds, marked hole
in right ear and silt left ear.
Owner can get same by proving
ownership and paying charges.
W. A.
R. F. D. i, Greenville, N. C.
witnesses for the com-
and will positively deny the
Identity of White with
they had done In the former MORTGAGEE'S SALE.
the New Mexican ranch- North County.
m., at the court house door of
Pitt county, the fallowing described
of B. F. Windham. tract parcel of land lying in Pitt
Bounded on the south by W. B.
on the north by C. H. Stokes
others, containing sixteen
e acres, more or less.
man. who seems to be the only one By virtue of the power of
ready to attest to death, contained In a certain mortgage ex- This sale Is to satisfy the
will be the star witness of the plain- on the 13th day of January, terms of the mortgage above refer-
side. 1902, by E. P. Stokes to Fred Mills.
I which mortgage is recorded In book
It doesn't condole a woman to toll H-7 at page Pitt county Regis-
rod to.
This 5th day of Feb., 1912.
FRED MILLS. Mortgagee
her wrinkles are the dimples of try, the undersigned will offer for HARRY SKINNER, Attorney,
on Saturday. March 9th, 1912, at i
RH
W m
breaking World's
Plowing Record
a full of can be turned in less than
five minutes with outfit an impossibility, but
to those who have Been it done it appears easy. It is a
fact that row long ago the worlds record for plowing
a., acre was broken on the great farm of Purdue
Lafayette. when an acre was turned evenly
and perfectly in the astonishing time
and seconds. This was done by a Base Oliver
cine Gang Plow made by the celebrated plow concern of
that name in South Bend, Indiana great and growing
manufacturing, city. horse-power tractors sup-
plied the motive power. .
The Oliver Engine Gang Plow something new
although its popularity is attested by the fact that
of are m use in the Do-
and other western states. lie test of the .-0 fur-
row on the Pit farm demonstrated the
of this I modern invention and this was
., a more recent exhibition in South
Bend where a i gang plow pulled by three great
horse gasoline tractors, was shown to an
men and women assembled on one of the
Oliver farms. pictures of the plow in operation
were made for purposes.
are selling the tie horse and two horse Oliver
Chilled best and cheapest con-
We solicit your patronage- Come to see us.
J. R. J. G.
YE
Real Estate
and
Insurance
Moseley Bros.
WELL UNDER HAND
OP OF
Greenville Banking and Trust Co.
AT
In me state of North Carolina, at the close business, December
RESOURCES. LIABILITIES.
Block paid In .
8.258.18 Undivided profits, lees cur-
North Carolina Ml . rent expenses and taxes
All stocks, bonds. Paid .
Report From Various Parts of Republic --y .
Furniture and fixtures------ 6.215.88
Indicates Contrary
AND l
S BUSINESS CARDS.
V, F. EVANS
Attorney at Law
Office opposite R. L Co's
stables and next door to John Flan-
Buggy Company's new building.
Greenville, North Carolina.
CAPTURED LEADERS ARE RELEASED
N. W. OUTLAW
Attorney at Law
Office formerly occupied by
Fleming
Greenville, North Carolina.
J. L.
In
S. J.
Attorney at Law
Edwards Building on the Court
House Square
L. I. Moore W. H. Long
MOORE LONG
Attorneys at Law
North Carolina
the
H. W. CARTER, M. D.
Practice limited to diseases of
Eye, Ear. Nose and Throat.
N. C Greenville, N. C.
Greenville office with Dr. D. L. James
a. m. to p. m. Mondays.
In Spite of Assurances From
dent of Mexico Unrest is Felt
Throughout the Whole Republic
Rebels tarry Away American Man-
ager of Mining to
Shoot Rim, They Say.
Feb. mu-
aided by after
a sharp fight today, compelled Gov-
to release from the
penitentiary Antonio Rojas, a militant
Vasquez and three
of his followers.
to me demands after three
fighting, In which the royal
were commanded by General
in person.
Five are known to be dead,
and a number wounded. The rebel
losses are unknown.
Within a half hour after the gov-
had agreed to the demands of
rebels, Rojas and his companies
walked out of the penitentiary. Each
man carried a rifle, which was handed
to him with a belt full of cartridges
as he left the prison.
Mexico City, Feb. uprising
In today will prevent Gen-
from moving his
Demand loans . 10.000 Time certificate
u. banks and bank-
. 66,687.97 Deposits subject to check
Cash MM
Silver coin. Including all Due o rank, and bank-
minor coin currency. 891.27
National bank note, Cashier's check.
other U. note. . 12.101.00, tag . 661.40
Total.
j Total, .
State of North Carolina, County of Pitt,
l C Carr, of the above-, bank, do solemnly swear that
the true to ft. beat of my
H. A. WHITE, Notary Public,
B, EVERETT. Mr commission expire. March SI, HI
Directors
DUNN
Office in st that place
Practices wherever his services are prison has mutinied, at least until
desired
Greenville,
North Carolina.
W. C. D. M. Clark
Civil Engineer Attorney at Law
Civil Engineers and
Surveyors
Greenville, North Carolina.
alter the arrival at of a
battery of artillery ordered there from
last night.
It was generally admitted here to-
night that the detention at
is but a part of a widespread rebel-
lion which has for its object making
Vasquez Gomez president
H S. Ward C. C. PIERCE
Washington N. C. Greenville, N. C
A PIERCE
Attorneys at Law
Practice In all the courts.
Office in Wooten building on Third
Street
Greenville, Carolina.
DOING THEIR DUTY.
Stores cf Readers Are
Learning the Duty of Kidneys.
To Alter the blood Is the kidney's
duty.
When they fall to do this the kid-
are sick.
Backache and many kidney Ills fol-
low;
Help the kidneys do their work.
Kidney have cured
thousands of severe cases.
Proof In the
W. A. E. Fourth street,
Washington, N. C, says, have used
Kidney Pills and I know that
they can be relied upon to a
lame and aching back and correct
trouble with the kidney secretions.
For some time my kidneys did not
TRIED BEFORE MAYOR
WOOTEN THIS MORNING.
Greenville,
HARRY SKINNER
Attorney at Law
The following cases were tried be-
fore Mayor F. M. Wooten this morn-
Willie Fleming, colored, for
sentenced to day. on the
roads.
Willie Fleming, accused
the larceny of by Nile Stoker
came about something like t
Fleming offered to sell Stokes
good for
a pint. Stokes had only a bill.
Fleming offered to get the change
He went away and had a lapse of
memory which only came back to
him this morning. He was bound
over to the Superior court.
Lee Gregory, colored, vagrancy,
days on the roads.
Huddle Whichard, vagrancy, days
Ion the roads. Mayor Wooten may
change the sentence passed on Which
do their work as they should. I was Buddie having helped In the re
subject to backaches and had of the annexed
when passing the kidney secretions, lag.
I used a box of Kidney Pills
as directed and gave me relief.
North Carolina.
FIRM GETS CONTRACT
To Erect Three For Feeble-
minded School
That was nearly a year ago and I
have had no need of a kidney
cine
For sale by all dealers. Price
cents. Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the
take no other.
W- if.
Nev r any Fear of Burglars if you
keep your papers, valuables and jewelry
in our deposit on the most
scientific modem I y the world's
greatest proof against
fife, theft, etc.
Bring them in
are dangerous. A box costs
per y
National Bank of Greenville
Resources 340,000.00
Cabbage Plants
Millions of thoroughbred Frost Proof
Cabbage plants for sale. The follow-
Jersey Charleston Wake-
Held, Succession, Large Late Drum
Head.
This selection should give you con-
heading through the entire
IN FIELD, PER
THOUSAND.
Prepare for shipments in lots of
from 1.000 to per thou-
sand; over per thousand.
F. O. B. Greenville, N. C.
Can supply order of any size.
Count and satisfaction guaranteed.
ARTHUR,
HIGHEST BID WAS
Washington Mayo, who seem,
have taken over the throne of
late Doc Williams, selling liquor
Case postponed until tomorrow In or-j
to obtain more evidence.
, Mattie Sutton, a
caught red handed with a
purloined from B. store
Hound over to Superior court
H. C. for being drunk
disorderly. Fined and costs.
LIGHT mow.
Don't stand on your dignity
much Get out occasionally and
tie.
On last Friday the board of
rectors for the school for feeble
minded, which the state will
near Kinston, met In that town
to receive bids for the erection of the
first three buildings of the
boy's dormitory, a girl's
and a central building for
quarters, kitchen and dining
rooms. The contract for these
was awarded to York I
Cobb, and Greenville, their
bid the lowest, The
bids ranged from this figure up to as
high as
York Cobb are the same con-
tractors who erected the East Caro-
Teachers Training school build-
in Greenville, also the Knights of
Pythias orphanage building in Clay-
ton and one of the A. and M. College
buildings in Raleigh. The excellence
of their work is a guarantee that the
buildings for the school at Kinston
will be first class.
And Sunday Was a Bitter Cold
Day.
The ground hog began getting In
his work and the weather man hit It
right in his prediction for snow Sun-
day morning. While rain came first,
some snow followed and there was
enough to make house tops, and
places where it could stick on the
ground, look white. The weather
cleared during the morning and the
remainder of the day was bright, but
the brisk wind felt like it was right
off an iceberg and the temperature
was below freezing all day.
Give The REFLECTOR
Your JOB PRINTING
-There's a Reason
COTTON YET IN FIELDS.
88888888888888888
MOVEMENTS OF
TRAINS
88888888888888888
Atlantic Coast Line.
North- South-
bound bound
p. m. p. m.
a. m. P- m-
Norfolk Southern.
East- West-
bound bound
a. m. a. m.
a. m. I'M a- m
F p. m
A. f. L. RAILWAY
Passenger Traffic Department.
New Orleans, La.; Mobile, Ala,
Fla.
On account of the above
the ATLANTIC COAST LINE
ROAD COMPANY offers special
rates to the respective
Selling- Dates.
February to 19th, inclusive,
arriving destination not
than midnight, February 20th.
Limited.
Reach original starting point
later than midnight, March 2nd, u
less limited is extended to March
inclusive, by personal deposit
with Joseph Richardson, spec
agent, at destination, and payment
fee of
Stop-Overs.
Stop-overs will be allowed at
stop-over points on request.
For rates, schedules,
etc., see local agent or address,
W. J. CRAIG, T. C. WHITE,
P. T. Mgr., O. P. A.,
Wilmington, N. C.
JUST STYLE.
What Is more pleasing to the stylish
young lady than to have her lover
looking as though he had Just step-
out of the band box. She Is de-
lighted lo go out with him. Should
her dainty dress be soiled or the suit
rumpled, there Is no need for re-
Just send It to us and It will
be returned In a few hours looking
like a new gown.
Frank Hopkins
Phone Greenville, N. C
And Preparations Begun for An-
other Crop.
Hero it is February, yet a ride
through the country or along the rail-
roads some fields almost as
white with cotton as they
usually are In October and
The weather Is so cold now that
the farmers are having much trouble
in getting the cotton picked, and it
will be some weeks yet before all of
It is out, even if all ever saved.
Gathering one crop and making prep-
for another in the same field
can now be seen going on In some
place.
A new lot of MAT
I also Mil and tut
no charge for cutting.
Gardner's Repair Shop.
Central Barber Shop
Locate In main
Fur operation and
on by a
wait -n at
IF YOU ARE GOING
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DAILY SUNDAY
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and OF are the most elegant an-
up-to-date steamers between Norfolk and Baltimore.
Equipped with wireless-telephone in each room.
Delicious meals served on board. Everything
comfort and convenience. t s I
Steamer, leave Norfolk p. m. dally, arriving at
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Connecting at Baltimore for all NORTH, NORTH MAS
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Very low round trip rates to Baltimore. Phil
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Reservation, mad. and any information cheerfully
W. H. T. P. A,
Norfolk,
MYSTERY III DEATH
OF
Tells Coroner Woman Was
Killed By A. C. L. Train
SCRATCH ONLY WOUND FOUND
Death resulting from an unknown
cause was th.; returned by
the coroner's Jury in the case of
Mary Taylor, the colored woman who
came to her death Saturday
in the proximity of the At-
Coast Line tracks, one mile
from Ayden, at a place called Swift
Creek bridge.
According to the husband's story,
he, James Taylor and his wife. Mary,
were returning home from Ayden
Saturday afternoon when the pas-
train due in Greenville at
upon them. They were walking
between the rails and as the train
them, Taylor quickly left
the tracks; but although this may
strange, he made no attempt to
drag his wife with him. Taylor as-
that his wife was struck by the
train and that death was
Upon an examination being made
by the coroner, Dr. Laughinghouse,
the only wound that could be
was a slight scratch on the chin
It will probably never be known
really caused Mary Taylor's
to Something that is strongly
at is that both were under the
of at the time.
SURE OF
Returns From Home State Pleased With
ST Conditions
INDIANA ALSO SEEMS FOR
President Returns to White House
After Ohio Trip and Expresses Sat-
at His Chances to tarry
Home
WASHINGTON, Feb.
over the political prospect es-
with regard to his home
state, and confident that Republicans
chances for victory at the
election are excellent, President Taft,
none the worse for his trip to Ohio
and back, returned last evening. He
arrived at the union station at
went at once to the White house,
where he immediately plunged Into
a pile of work that was awaiting his
attention.
Secretary met the president
at Baltimore, and discussed the work
awaiting at the White House on the
way to Washington. The president ex-
pressed himself a. delighted with hi.
enthusiastic reception by the people
of Ohio. He is confident that he will
be supported by the delegates of his
home state in the national
The president's cold was improved,
and it was said that he would be as
fit as ever In a few days. Many
matters were awaiting the
A HAPPY
HOME
Is one where health abounds.
With Impure blood can-
not be good health.
LIVER there
cannot be good blood.
revivify LIVER and restore
natural action.
A healthy LIVER means pore
blood means health.
Health means happiness.
Take no Substitute. All
The of
Yesterday's News contained a local
story to the effect that there Is a
likelihood of the Atlantic Coast Line
extending its lines to Charlotte.
Such reports have often gone forth,
and while today there is no assurance
that such extension will be made
soon, it is generally believed that be-
fore many years go by this great
railway will include Charlotte on its
route.
The past year has witnessed great
things for the city. The coming of the
interurban and the Norfolk Southern
will usher in a new era of industrial
activity. Not a business interest In
the city but what will share the
fits of accelerated business.
Atlanta is a good example of what
railroads and men can do for a town.
If Atlanta is today the pro-
HITS THE SPOT EVERY TIME
m explanation is are
the greatest cure
every ingredient has to puss
test of our own laboratories;
Fertilizers.
Reliable Dealers Everywhere
GUANO CO.
Sales Offices
Norfolk Va. Tarboro N. C. C S C.
Baltimore Md. Montgomery Ala.
Macon Ga. Columbus
Items.
N. C, Feb.
president's action, including the city In the South It Is chiefly
on the Supreme bench, one OH because of her men mid her rail- Cobb Miss
the circuit bench at Chicago, a
other and the ambassador j We have the good as can
o Prance, which is said to have j
offered to Myron T. of
I have Ohio.
From Lumberton to
It has been four years since
written a Hue to the Advocate about
myself or my work. want my Sew Industries.
friends to know, however, that I am For the week ending January
still in the land of the living and the Chattanooga Tradesman
trying to do something for the Mas- the following new industries for North
It is singular, but every move factory,
have made in the has been bank,
a long one. It Is best, you know, land company;
for some fellows to be removed as realty company,
far as possible from their former R. D. cotton
charge so no reports of failure will mill.
development
was more foreign to my company.
thoughts than coming to Greenville. shoe factory.
Yet I am sure no one could Greensboro
better pleased, and if every any.
and his family have been saw mill.
went to Wilton Saturday.
Mr. Guy Lassiter and Miss
Proctor, of Snow Hill, were Visiting
city and an Misses Agnes and Trilby Smith from
men with pride in
earnest desire to work for its till Sunday.
And we are getting the railroads.
The future is altogether
reports News.
Misses Nannie, Carrie Belle,
Bailie Smith visited Misses Alma and
near Sun-
day.
Mr. R. E. Willoughby visited his
Governor who only a short c L T U
ago celebrated his 78th Sunday
day, still carries a level head. Asked
yesterday what he thought of all this
correspondence about Wilson. in Smith-
follow.
Nothing
electric com-
as cordially received as we have, overall factory.
Joy and good cheer reigns in j North
Methodist parsonage through- company.
out the conference. We have not Rocky machine
received a half-dozen like works.
our friend and relative down In hardware
Sampson, for we have not learned the
said It was to be deprecated; that in,
this good year or any other year, it
was poor politics for Democrats to
fight each other when all their time
should he devoted to fighting the
common enemy. Never was a great-
T truth expressed. Hut Governor
should recall What the old
are so many
ways for a man to play the fool that
cannot miss them
Daily Record.
town Sunday.
Mr. R. A. Smith, of Farmville, was
hare Monday.
Mr. It. E. Willoughby went to Kin-
Tuesday.
There will be a valentine party at
Smith's house Wednesday night
February 14th, for the benefit or the
public school. Everybody is
ally invited to attend.
com-
pro-
weak-
Stubborn Case
was under the treatment of two doctor,
Mrs. R. L. Phillips, of Indian Valley, Va.,
my case a very stubborn one, of
I was not to sit up, when I to
take
I used it about one week, before I saw much change,
Now, the severe pain, that had been in my side for y;
has gone, and I don't suffer at all. I am feeling better than
in a long time, and cannot speak too highly of
TAKE
URDU I
The
Galloway's Cross Hems.
N. C, Jan.
A woman may win a man's love Edwards went to
art of the hypnotist, but when we hardware , ,
rived the pantry was well filled With
remains.
com-
The people of Green-
know how to make j Wilson machinery and sup-
feel at home. dealers; com-
social atmosphere is refreshing and
at the religious enthusiasm exceptional.
m We left behind us in a
th little faithful, loyal band, upon whom
ville certainly
their preacher
tr
Miss Daisy Porter visited
made up of what we haven't Mile last week,
done and what we are going to went to
last Tuesday.
if you are one of those ailing women who suffer from any
of the troubles so common to women.
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Thousands of ladies have written to tell of the benefit they
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. Advisory Dept, Medicine CA. Turn
book. Hon
After
The Journal gives a
the most flattering compliments long account of the case In Forsyth
would be properly bestowed. It wail court against the Forsyth Club Com-
not easy to pull ourselves away and Its L. H.
whom we have loved and served Davis and J. E. Pepper. The
four brief years. Their sorrows tor established the i
been our sorrows. With by their receipts from
them we railroads over which the alleged
These years
were.
and crowned with a measure to prevent the proving of the
Just as long as tills preach-1 signature of the parties
or his little family survive many
Horrible Discovery Wade In Tenement
House of Striking Town
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Porter went
to Greenville Wednesday.
Mr. J. C. Galloway went to Green-
ville Thursday.
Mr. Frank Buck, who was stricken
with paralysis some time ago, left
j Friday tor Raleigh to enter the
We hope to see a large crowd at
next Sunday, as we are ex-
our new
A Few Bethel
BETHEL, N. C, Feb.
institute was held Saturday, but the
cold weather and bad roads made a
small attendance. Messrs. French,
Shaw and Mrs.
and -Miss Webb all made Interesting
in respective parts of the
Institute work.
The Bethel Hanking and Trust
preacher, Rev. baa moved into new
which are nicely fitted up for a
of toil and whiskey and beer were shipped, and
nevertheless, years was a and technical at-1
indicted.
with u
Miss Minnie Mae business.
Saturday night with Miss Daisy looks almost like the fall the
NO CONNECTION WITH MiLL STRIKERS Ur around
Porter Galloway have recently many carts and wagons are
vision
faces
and
Will appear before
many Lumberton
will be household words with
is. May God's richest blessings ever
with those dear ones,
only yesterday a friend of mine
tile truth correctly when he
left a good town for a
Greenville has a
G- of something like and
without a single cotton mill or
manufacturing Industry. The
jg
the in most communities. The
all live well; In fact I have
known people who come as
spending all they make for the
like of life. Greenville- is the
of tobacco market of the state,
time a located East Carolina
public School for Teachers, a well-
institution of which every
North Carolinian should be
ladles From what I have observed
clubs work i thorough, and sound
explain for our church every one who
were properly informed knows
Miss -vis Memorial Church Is one or
beat church buildings in the
which Me. t B equipped, In II
that an North Carolina Conference could
Miss Jo entertained royally and this we
would Beef to do real soon,
and In all, we have a
One in which there is much
To and a lot of good people to
of us do
fully th
i. .
N. C. Jan. lit. 1912.
Raleigh Christian Advocate.
The policemen examined told of the . Late Last Night th.
many signs of whiskey-dealing they
saw in the building at the time of
the arrest
It Is presumed, says the Journal,
from exceptions made by the at-
for the defendants that It is
their purpose to carry the case to a
higher court. Good. The
wish to have the club whiskey
selling carried to the Supreme court
for a re-hearing. That phase of
of law has grown rapidly since
the 3-to-2 decision that the hope of
enforcing law In club towns lies in a
reversal of that decision as to old
repaired and painted
improvement to the
Two White Men and
Women In Tenement House of Mu
Town. Murder Commit-
In the Heart of the City. Two
LAWRENCE, Mass. Feb.
mysterious quadruple murder in which
two men and two women were kill-
ed was revealed tonight by the dis-
of the bodies of the victims
in a tenement house in the heart of
the city.
The dead Mrs. Annie Denis,
aged years; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
clubs. As to the specially equipped aged and years respect-
new clubs, organized by parties who
make money by It, there is not room
to doubt that the Supreme court will
by a united vote punish such trans-
parent violation of the prohibition
law.
The Club violator of the law must
be prosecuted and punished along
with other blind
News Observer.
It II.
Mr. and Mrs. C. O.
request the honor of your presence
at the or their daughter
Carrie Leone
to
Mr. Clarence
on Thursday morning, the fifteenth of
February, one thousand nine
hundred and twelve
Jarvis Memorial ft E. Church,
Greenville, N. C.
and an unknown man.
A disturbance was heard In the
apartment about o'clock
this morning by the family which
lives downstairs but no investigation
was made. When no member of the
household appeared during the day,
however, the police called in.
The body the unknown man was
found In the with the
cut and knife wounds in his body. In
a corner Were the bodies of Joseph
his both of whom
had evidently met death during a
bloody battle for their lives.
In a bedroom adjoining was found
the body Mrs. Denis. Her
had been rut.
The say no connection be-
tween the murders and the mill
strike here Is apparent. It Is believed
the murderer escaped by a rear door.
root prints were found on
a stairway leading to It. The police
have no
had their store
It is quite an
town.
Mrs. G. S. Porter spent Saturday
night with her mother, Mrs. J. S.
Cox.
Mr. Leroy Buck spent Sunday at
homo with his parents.
Mr. J. C. Galloway visited near
House Sunday. Think ho must have
had a cold trip.
coming in
With cotton to he ginned. to
-Tun bales have been ginned at
plant, and there is yet much
cotton In the fields.
Dr. F. C. James, our veteran
has been quite sick for some
days.
The graded school here is doing ex-
work under the superintend-
of Prof. w. A. As many
pupil from the
recent had
The Happening Around Standard, has had effect on the
STANDARD, N. C. Feb. Tor the time there has been
Frank Nichols, of Standard, Interruption In the Work of I
Sunday with relatives in Farmville. school.
Mr. Charlie Tyson, of near
trees, was in our town Monday. Mr. II, It. Conduct, Y. H. C.
It Is very wet through this section. Sen Ice,,
hut the people are sowing tobacco Mr. II. Smith, superintendent of
beds and making arrangements m the graded school, conducted v w
make another or the weed. c. A. services at the Training school
For your garden seed and farming on Sunday evening. II s them, was
supplies, see the Peoples Supply Com- Bible Study. He lamented the
Ignorance neglect of intelligent
Dr. Frank, of Norfolk, came in study of the Bible. The homes have
Tuesday and is spending a few days turn. I I largely over I.
her. He says he likes Old North Sunday i oven here, the
State does believe that there are Is a due
not any better people to be found to the fact that the
chapters are studied
Miss Flanagan spent Thurs- rather than books. He stressed the
lay night with Miss Tucker. literary tide of the Bible, calling a
Mrs. Alice Moore, of Greenville, to the Bible as a library of
who baa spending the last week sixty-six books, representing all of
with Mrs. N. Tucker, the classic Forms of literature. He
borne Wednesday evening, rend a Illustrating the
Mr. Willie Edwards, of near Ridge but appalling, Ignorance of the
Spring, was over to give us a call Bible on the of
Thursday. Tm, has three
Mr. w. H. Elks, Sr made a classes with an
trip to .
morning. work.
Stops
Neuralgia
Pains
Sloan's Liniment ha I
soothing effect on .
nerves. It stops
and sciatica pains
Here's Proof
M.
Mich., . .
h t in I.
i I i t . I pAl
.- f can w,,
Li intent top
Mr. Andrew BO Gay
I, I
Liniment for
and it Iran
LINIMENT
is the best remedy for
backache, sore
throat and sprains.
At all dealers.
Price
two on
H r, .
II and 10111-
ti lice.
Er.
Carl S. Sloan,
Bo-tun. Mm,
Marine Corps Officer Trial.
Feb. s. A court-
martial with Col, George Barnett
presiding convened at the
navy yard today for the trial
Lieut W of the Marine
conduct
I an officer.
or sixty,
aX
DEPARTMENT
US CHARGE OF C. T. COX
LEGAL NOTICES.
Authorized Agent of The Carolina Home and Farm and I he
eastern Reflector for and
Rates on on
NOTICE OF SALE. LAND
North County. By virtue of a decree of the
In the Superior Court D. C. of county, dated Jan-
Moore, Clerk. made in a certain special
I William Minton and wife. Bessie proceeding therein pending entitled
. H. Mills, administrator of
mm. deed versus h. h.
James
SALE.
North Carolina
Pitt Count,
the Clerk
In the Superior Court
of a decree of the
court of Pitt counts, rendered
in a special proceeding or
therein pending, entitled Mary
administratrix of Geo. II.
N. C, Feb. The A. G. Cox Manufacturing Com
Rev. C. . Harris spent Sunday at pan always carries a full line of
where he held services. electric welded farm
Miss Kate Brown, of Kinston, was lug. poultry fencing can
in town one day mis real In Inter- also be at their place,
est of the Orphans Friend at Ox- Several of our good people attend-
ford. ed mission meeting at Ayden Thurs-
Barber Company are day.
tor beet x. Cos Miss Sarah
made a pleasant trip to
Miss of Ayden. spent evening.
Sunday in Wu with her aunt, Mrs.
NOTICE OF LAND SALE.
North County.
A. G. Cox vs. Harris. R. L. .,, Davenport; Mills and others. will, on Friday,
Griffin, N. S. Avery. John Griffin, Will wife. Briley. vs. 23rd. 1912. at o'clock m.
John Williams and wife Lou Walter Davenport and sell at the court house door deceased, vs.
Williams. Maggie B. Stocks. Nan- Greenville to the highest bidder and wife. Magnolia Hath-
Braxton. Pattie Braxton. Janie virtue of a decree of the cash, that certain piece or parcel away, Jesse W. and wile,
Clara Braxton. Elisha B. court of county, made by land in township. Annie Howard and
Jones, Griffin. Avery. t Moore. Clerk, on the day Pitt county, known as Lot No in the others, heirs at law. the undersigned
Mary Avery. Riley wards. of January the undersigned division of the lands of the late Wash- commissioner will, on Thursday. Feb-
Bettie Edwards, Ellen on Saturday, Mills, bounded and described between the hours of
Edwards, heirs at law day expose to Beginning at the last and o'clock. In the town of Green-
Reedy Branch
ville, before the court house door.
J. H. C.
A new lot shoes and dry goods
just arrived at A. W. Ange
Mr. J. V. Cox came in Saturday
For your grubbing hoes, axes,
and bush blades see Harrington, Bar-
Company.
Among the new arrivals In town
night from Fairmont and returned is a Mrs- E F-
Tuesday.
We curry a complete line of buggy . Chapman is spending
Can you with most f-
grade harness, and our prices are Cox s
Miss Mamie Chapman, who is teach
near is spending the
week end holidays at home.
; . and being u . . .
la the above special proceeding and of North Carolina and
pending before the clerk of the u-in Township, adjoining the
court. will sell on Monday. j. h. Briley, William Dav-
noon, at the court house W. D. and others,
in to the highest containing acres more or
for cash. that certain tract This sale is made for the purpose
land In Pitt county, formerly making partition among the ten-
as the home place of Felix Braxton ant
harness,
any-
right. Call in and we will show you
the harness and prove, too, that our
prices are
See Harrington, Barber The stockholders of the Bank of
for your garden seeds. They met in the of the
now have anew lot. u on Friday evening. February
Mm Sarah Barber, who is teaching and after listening to a very
in Greene county, m called home factory report from Mr. C. T. Cox.
to her sick mother is cashier, of the year's work, declared
some today. dividend of per cent., which was
Don't forget It is time to cut stalks I laced to the surplus. The same of-
and A. W. Ange Company has the Beers were re-elected for the coming
cutters
There was regular services in the At the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
Methodist church Sunday by its new Smith, near here. Miss Nina Smith
pastor, Kev. who delivered Mr. Doctor were
sermons. i on Wednesday evening by
It will pay you to see C. Harris. Both are very
Barber Company your poultry popular v th us and we wish them
netting. happy life.
he lived and died, adjoining the
lands of G. B. Ellis. Joshua Cox,
Bryant Tripp and others and
on Gum Branch, a description of
which is to be had by referring to
load from J. to Felix
ton recorded in the register's office
of Pitt county in book page
containing acres more or less,
saving and excepting therefrom
acres, said farm being in the
section of Pitt county.
This the 12th day of January.
S. J. EVERETT.
Commissioner.
Strayed, a white cow with small
red spots on body and red neck,
marked swallow fork half moon
in right ear. A small yearling left
with the cow. Suitable reward for
recovery.
S. I. JONES.
Route Bethel. N. C.
This
branch to a stake pointed by small township, N. C. and more
maples and two small pines in said y described as
branch. It being the third corner of I Adjoining the lauds of R. D. Whit-
Lot No. thence with the line of the Edgecombe county line;
Lot No. north east poles to ands Gary Manning and Mrs.
. stake on a ditch; thence with said E. containing
ditch N W . poles to another acres, more Cr less, being the lands
small thence up the winding of o ,,. late u and the
the 15th day of January. 1912. small ditch to a stake, a corner being more described
C Commissioner. Lot- thence with the line book D on page Put
i t tit r t .-, I . i ii. .
NOTICE OF LARD SALE.
North County.
in the Superior Court.
J. T. Allen. N. W. Tyson,
and G. B. Harriss,
vs.
J. W. Allen. Jr. and wife,
Allie Allen, H. Allen and
wile. Mary P. Allen, Henry
Allen and Allie E. Allen.
Joseph J. Allen, Elma R.
Allen and J. W. Allen, the
last rive being minors.
By virtue of a decree of the
court of county, made in
said lot S. SO E. 2-5 poles to the be-
ginning, containing acres, more
or less. Said land will be sold sub-
to charged upon the
same for In favor of Lot No.
assigned to Mills in the
vision of the lands of said Washington
Mills.
This the 23rd day of January. 1912.
JAMES H. MILLS
Administrator
Jarvis and Blow, Attorneys for
LAND SALE.
By virtue o the power of sale con-
in a certain mortgage executed
Augustus Blount and wife. Cherry
to A. G. Con, on the 1st day
of May, 1908. which mortgage was
recorded In the of the reg-
deeds Pitt county, in Book
-v page the undersigned will
i for cash, at public auction, before
lie court house door in Greenville,
Tuesday, February the follow-
described land, Two
land in town-
ship, being the two tracts described
in a deed from A. O. Cox and wife, to
Augustus Blount. said deed dated May
one tract containing acre.-.
Hems.
N. C. Feb. One Held In
W. B, and little daughter, day.
of Ayden, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. The first of the farmers institutes
F. M. Smith. for Pitt county this season was held
Miss Carrie Nichols is visiting lei- in on Wednesday.
near Snow Hill. day was cold and disagreeable and
The old store that was once known the roads very bad, so that the
as Cobb's store and later known as was not large, but the pro-
C. D. Smith's store is being moved gram was carried out and those pres-
to Arthur by Mr. L. A. In heard much to them,
the rear end of this store is the old Mr. A. L. French, a
post office, known as county, lectured on live
Some time ago Arthur Joyner. son stock bow to make this
of Mr. A. A. Joyner, was bitten by a pay. He spoke on the
pet dog. The dog wt mad a few ages of better drainage,
days ago. Mr. Joyner went to Mr. S. B, Shaw, of Raleigh, as-
Monday night with his son to horticulturist of the state de-
have him examined for hydrophobia, of agriculture, spoke on the
Mrs. Walter Gay returned to Farm- horticultural line and gave valuable
ville Monday after spending several Information as to the proper of
days here with her parents. Mr. and fruit trees.
Mrs. M. Smith. I Mr. E. S. of the
There will be a Valentine party at Stales department of agriculture and
Smith's school house Wednesday agent of farm demonstration work in
night. February for the benefit of North Carolina, lectured on the
the public school. Everybody Is of growing all needed sup-
Invited to come. I piles on the farm and general farm
economy
Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor Mr. II, Winslow. of the United OF SOUTH
exercise, insufficient of States department of good PITT
rood, constipation, a torpid liver, a moat practical talk on this w Webb, his administrator or
and anxiety, are the most common most important subject, bringing the I assigns, or any person
causes of stomach troubles. Correct facts home In showing where Pitt I Take notice, that on the first day
Takes
I have taken up two sows and
three borrows, unmarked, will weigh
out pound each. Owner can
same by proving property and
all charges.
E L. MILLS.
N. c.
county registry.
The said land will be sold subject
to the dower rights of the widow,
Mrs. Mary E.
This January 1912.
C. C PIERCE, Com.
Ward and Pierce, Attorneys.
North County, In th
Court.
Susie S. Harris vs. Henry Spencer
Harris.
The above named will
lake notice that an entitled
as the above has been commenced
in the superior court of Pitt county
to have the dower of the plaintiff
ands of her late husband. H. S.
BALE OF ESTATE.
virtue of a of sale con-
in a certain mortgage deed
the above entitled case, at January executed by Riley Jenkins to M. C.
term, 1912. by O. H. Allen, presiding. Manning on the 12th day of March. ,,
the undersigned Commissioner, will said mortgage deed is Prescribed
on Monday, the day of February.,. , register's office to WU
1912, expose to public sale before the put county. book O page he is
court house door In Greenville, to undersigned, will on to appear before the clerk of the
the highest bidder, for cash, the 24th day of February, at superior court of Pitt county at bis
lowing described tract or parcel of expose In Greenville. N. C. on Man-
kind, the court house door in Feb. 1912 and answer
and being in Greenville , MM cash, , complaint or
township, county, North Caro- following described tract or in said action or the plaintiff
Una, and described as follows to- ,., of m , P
Beginning at an Iron in being in Bethel town- demanded in the said complaint
lane m the Williams line and put North Carolina, and This Jan II
running a s. to an iron being the land where Riley Jenkins I c
a wire fence on the back of ow being the same land Clerk Court
the Held. Thence a straight line to purchased by the said Riley Jenkins F JAMES
an iron in Brown's line; thence
Brown's line to the run of the
branch; thence with said branch to
M. D. adjoining the,
lands of H. S. Smith, deceased. Shade
Briley, the Matthews land, Frank Pol- .
for Plaintiff.
line; thence with said Bar- , l , , .
line lo the Williams line; and Sad tract , TO
the Williams lino to the beginning. T The undersigned having
less.
to which deed is hereby made for an
accurate description.
This Jan. 1912.
A. G. COX,
Mortgagee.
HENRY HARRINGTON.
Owner of debt.
F. G. James and Son. attorneys.
having this day
about acres, more or T sale is made to satisfy. .,.,.,
terms of said mortgage de. d. as administratrix o
This the 27th any of January, 1912.1 ; T b-
F. C. HARDING. . L Mortgagee, for D. C. Moore, clerk supreme court
c- f hereby given
TOWS FOB SALE, all persons indebted to said estate
STATE OF SOUTH Under and by of an order Immediate settlement with
the superior conn, made 12.1911, and n
. , . , i in a special proceeding en- , . , . ,.
To C. C. Held, or any person interest- j Allen administratrix vs. claims against said estate
E. Corey, et the same are hereby to file their claim
Take notice, that on the first day number upon the P. S. with Hie undersigned within It
i May. at the court house docket of said court. I will offer for the or
door In the town of L. sale Hie court house door of .
sheriff in for the to the highest bidder, for cash, be bar of
of Pitt, did expose to public sale at o'clock, noon, Feb. 1912, the cover.
I This the day of January, 1912.
LEILA F, WILLIAMS
, Administratrix of the estate of B. F.
fee ,,,,, .
of
came the thereof; the said son avenue, adjoining the lot of W. F. C Harding, Attorney.
lots were taxed or assessed in the M. Moore, J. J. Corey, and others
name of C. C. Held for the year 1910, known as the residence of the late E TO CREDITORS.
and the tune of redemption will ex- . n let Mn as
pile on first day of May. Mil , th MM
more or less, and known as the Sam- w Tucker, sheriff in
u. I Stock share of the W. H. Stock;, f
tract of land; the other piece contain-;,.,,.
one acre is known as a part th, f
Warren Braxton hind, township. Said lots were sold at said , scribed as
described in a deed from G. S. G. for ,,, due for , and
Nine and wife, to A. G. Cox. reference ,,,, at , the southeastern
tract of land; the other piece contain- described described real estate, sit-
one acre is known as a part 0- Falkland in the town of Greenville, de-
This the of January. 1912.
J. J. HEARNE, Purchaser.
NOTICE.
North Carolina.
Pitt County.
To G. Morrison. Morrison or
any person
Take notice, that on the 1st day
d take Chamberlain's county is losing in not having May- at court May, 1911, at the court house door
your habits an
Stomach and Liver Tablets and
will soon be well again. For sale by; At the same lime there was a meet-
all for women at which Mrs. Charles
of Raleigh, lectured on
Items. bread making and common diseases;
AYDEN N. C., Route Feb. Miss Lucy Webb, of Warren
Messrs. and Stokes are county, lectured on the tireless cooker
our champion bird hunters. r household matters,
killed Thursday after- There I much to be
noon.
the
Corey and court clerk of Pitt co. as
Also one-half undivided remainder executive of the estate of Alex
interest in fee after the life estate deceased, notice is hereby given to
all persons indebted to the estate to
eastern side of Dickinson avenue and make immediate payment to the
being a corner lot lying in the S. E. and all persons having
angle where new street recently claims against said estate are
opened intersects Dickinson avenue that
my for payment on or
The said above described lands as before the th day of January
the town of Greenville, the town of Greenville. L. W. th , being the or notice will be plead In bar
r. . .-. fl . i . th mill ii .-.- ST
m i t. ire i t i t I ; tile I
W. sheriff in and for the in and for the county property of J. R. Corey at his death. recovery
of Pitt, did expose to public sale of expose to public sale the. w. F. EVANS,
the following described piece or par. described One lot In i Commissioner.
eel of acres in he town town-1 This, January 1912.
township known as a part of the lo, Bold at
Luther Jo;, being the for the due for year and
allotted to his daughter. Bettie mo at undersigned be-
ROSA GRIMES.
of Alex Grimes
NOTICE CF SALE.
Lewis. Said land was at said
sale for taxes due for the year 1910. lot was taxed or assessed in the name Sugg, blocks
learned at I at which sale the undersigned G. F. Morrison for the year 1904 Stocks vs. John David
these Institutes for farmers their purchaser the said land and 1910, by order of the Fred Jones and wife. Wholesale Co.,
was taxed or assessed in the name era of said county; said lot not Bonnie Best Dall. was dissolved by mutual consent
The firm doing business under
list
Miss Berths Holloway, of A of flannel dampened with NOTICE OF SILK Or BEAl ESTATE
-ho has been visiting here.
and bound
By virtue o
iv of sale con-
NOTICE OF LARD BALE.
returned home Monday. Miss Bessie the affected is superior to tabled in mortgage deed County.
Harper accompanied her home for a any plaster. When troubled with executed by J. A. Gardner to II. A., Superior before C.
lame back or pains In the side or the day of April. Moore. Clerk.
1911, and recorded in the office of Haddock, administrator
of Mills, Martha
visit.
Mines and Annie U a trial and you are certain lo Hi of Deeds of Pitt county in
R. Kim-ell. of are visiting i more than pleased with the prompt book page the undersigned
at Mr I I relief which it affords. Sold by ail will on the 11th day of Mar.
. , Italian o'clock, noon, expose to
Mr. Wait.-r Bland, of Turkey dealers.
pent Sunday here. in to the highest bid-
Mr. Frank Holloway, of Gum Swamp for cash, following described
spent Sunday here. Having as administrator tract or parcel of
Mr. Stokes
Monday.
, W. J. will continue the
j under the same firm name.
in Pitt county, North assuming all liabilities and as-
and in Greenville Township, sets of the firm and all debts due the
beginning at a stake on the New Kt payable to them.
road. S. Sermon's corner
Mills, I. F. Mills, Fred
Mills, Mills, Macon
and wife,
Lena
Mills and Maggie Haddock
Ex parts.
virtue of n decree of the
wont B. X. of Joseph deceased, court of Pitt county, made by
Pitt county, North Caro- c. clerk In the above en-
late of Pitt county, N is to am beginning at Gardner's bridge ,.,.,.,.,, on the
no all persons having claims running eastward with the run January, 1912, the
and runs south east poles to
a stake centered by maples, then
north I west poles to a stake In
the Held. J. J. Sermon's line, then
with his line north west so poles
to the Greenville and New road.
thence southerly with said road to
the beginning, containing acres
D. S. SMITH,
W. J.
S. GATES.
w.
Strayed.
From my farm between
more less being owned by Parmele one cow, pale red color,
marked half moon under each ear.
. i . ,,,,,., ,,,,,, -m.
FOB SALE against the estate of said deceased of Creek to J. F. s administrator of the estate of , ,., ,. .
,, ., r corn tor bounded on the south by Ed s ,,,., ,,,,
Halts four-ear Prolific corn ,.,, ,, by the of 1912. at K HARDING Conn on
sale. Grown 1-2 foot rows, of l main road leading from ,,,.
. to
before the court house door in Green-
Inches in the row, making it a good bridge to Maple Cypress,
.,,,. ,.,. i r SI of recovery. All persons northerly with said road to the be- ,,,,, bidder, cash.
corn. M per 11.70 m pr aM , containing forty acres. of the late
Dall
This sale Is made for the purpose
of making partition among the chain collar when she dis-
appeared. Suitable reward tor re-
W. G.
Parmele, n. c.
per 1-2 bushel; St per peck .
Grown and selected by
W. K. WOOL Kit.
. r, R. V. No. I.
tot l
NOTICE TO
Having duly before
make immediate payment
This st day or January,
M. CLARK,
Administrator D, B. If,
. I. .
Taken
I ave taken up a spotted hog
more or less. Samuel Mills that certain tract or Superior court clerk of Pitt county.
sale is made to satisfy the parcel of land In us administratrix, with the will an- swallow fork in right ear.
terms of said mortgage deed. put county, North Carolina, adjoin- of the estate of Jane L. God- h ,.
This the 6th day of Feb., the lands or Jesse Haddock, Cal- win. notice Is hereby given to all
II. A. HART. Mortgagee, via Mills and Others, containing about persons Indebted to the estate to ownership and paying charges.
P C HARDING, Attorney. acres, more or less, also 1-9 make Immediate payment lo A. K.
i. .,,, . Interest of th and any persons having u K D Greenville. N. C.
. t Id Mills the tract of land adjoin- claims I
You arc probably that u .
always results a cold, but How to cure a cold Is a question . Is m danger a ,.,,,, on or,
you never heard of a cold resulting in which many are Interested man Will risk her life to protect It ,. or before the day of January.
White fowls. to
per trio. Pens to
Treat- Poultry Farm. Falk-
in pneumonia when now. Cough Rem- No great act of heroism or risk of day of January. 1912. or this notice will be plead In bur of
Cough Remedy was used. Why lake has won Its great reputation life is necessary to protect a child;
. . II . I. I . I . b i I I I , I T L V
JESSE HADDOCK. JR.
the when this remedy may be Immense sale by Its remarkable from croup. of
for a trifle For sale by all deal- of colds. It can always be depended Cough Remedy and all danger Is p Attorney.
upon. For sale by all dealers. avoided. For by all dealers. i
I recovery.
This of January. 1912.
NELLIE S. WILLIAMS,
of Jane L. Godwin.
HEART OP EASTERN
CAROLINA. IT HAS
A POPULATION OF FOUR
THOUSAND, ONE HUNDRED
AND ONE, AND IS
ROUNDED BY THE BEST
FARMING COUNTRY.
INDUSTRIES OF ALL
KINDS ARE INVITED TO
LOCATE HERE FOR WE
HAVE EVERYTHING TO
OFFER IN THE KAY OF
LABOR, CAPITAL AND
RY FA C III TIES.
WE HAVE AN UP-TO-DATE
JOB A N D NEWSPAPER
PLANT.
, , .
vI,
a i
Agriculture Is the M-st the Most Healthful, the Most Washington.
now or
AMONG THE BEST
PEOPLE IN THE EASTERN
PART OF NORTH CARO-
LINA AND INVITE THOSE
WHO WISH TO GET BET-
ACQUAINTED WITH
THESE GOOD PEOPLE IN
A BUSINESS WAY TO TAKE
A FEW INCHES SPACE AND
TELL THEM WHAT YOU
HA TO BRING TO THEIR
ATTENTION.
OUR ADVERTISING
RATES ARE LOW AND CAN
BE HAD UPON
VOLUME
IN M H. C FRIDAY, 1912.
Meeting Similar To One Held Id
LEAGUE ORGANIZED
At Hell Attended Mass Meeting Com-
Is appointed to Present Ben-
to the City
to Clubs Should lie
in Every Sell-
Clubs Should Forfeit Licenses.
CHARLOTTE. Feb. we
respectfully ask that the board of
of the city of Charlotte re-
fuse the further granting of license
to so-called social clubs; that we fur-
request that every drug store
and social club convicted of selling
liquor contrary to law shall forfeit
its
dwelling on the liquor situation and
proposing various ways by which to
remedy the alleged general violations
of the law; the state of things as It
now exists was by some charged
against the representatives of the law,
the recorder and the police force, and
by others to a lick of public sentiment
to clean up the town, while Recorder
D. B. Smith said that he would offer
a resolution that the meeting send a
delegation before the board of alder-
men next July to ask that all license
for another year to drug stores and
social clubs be turned down. I
will go with you If you said
the recorder.
WORLD
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
FROM EVERYWHERE-
TOLD BY WIRE
Men Confer.
NEW YORK, Feb.
of the National Trotting
got together at the Murray
Hill hotel today and began their bi-
at which the laws
governing the light-harness racing In
this country are laid down. The
matter up for consideration this
year is the oft-proposed plan of equal-
records made on mile tracks and
those made on half-mile tracks.
existing conditions the mile tracks
are rapidly disappearing, and unless
relief is forthcoming it Is that
they will soon give place to two-lap
rings everywhere east of the
Valley. Some talk is heard of a
move to repeal the rule banishing
hopples, but the general opinion seems
lo be that no such attempt will be
made at the present meeting of the
Oklahoma Gives Wilson
an Boost
Friends of Gov. Wilson Did Not Expect Much Support
From That State In Spite of Previous Beliefs
New Jersey Man Is Put Ahead of Champ
Clark According To Returns
OKLAHOMA STATE WAS THOUGHT TO BE SOLID FOR SPEAKER CLARK
News From Western State Bring
To Wilson Men Who Relieved That
Oklahoma Would Be Solid
Friends Wilson. Feel
Sure That He Has
Of The Five Legislative Districts.
WASHINGTON. D. C. Feb.
unexpected as it was gratifying, the
of primaries is
causing a jubilation among the friends
association and that if it is made it of Governor Woodrow Wilson in
will not be successful.
Norwegian Lutherans to I nil.-.
MADISON, Wis., Feb.
negotiations that have been in
progress for several years, a
committee representing the
Lutheran synod and the United
Lutheran Church of
America met in this city to arrange
the final details of Ian for uniting
the two branches into one
The union will effect nearly
half a million Norwegian Lutherans,
the most of the Illinois.
Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
and South Dakota and Nebraska.
lire Company Elects Officers.
At the monthly meeting of Hope
Fire Company, held Monday night,
new by-laws were adopted for the
government of the company. The fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
present
C. Tyson.
H. Evans.
S.
C.
New rubber coats, hats and boots
were distributed to the
Change and L. Directors.
At the meeting Tuesday-afternoon
the directors of the Home Building
and Association, Mr. E. G.
Flanagan resigned as one the
rectors because of other business that
occupied bis time. Mr. C. S. Carr
was elected to succeed him.
Wedded by Cardinal
NEW YORK. Feb.
Farley officiated at the In
St. Patrick's Cathedral this morning
which made Miss Marlon Edith Regan,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B.
Regan, the bride of William Gunther
Gardner. British Vice Consul in this
city. The wedding was attended by
nearly 1.000 guests was followed
by an elaborate reception at the
Hotel Knickerbocker of which Mr.
Regan, rather or the bride. Is the pro-
Washington tonight. Clark's hopes
are correspondingly deflated. Know-
as they did that Clark's
had set the time the primaries,
Wilson men had regarded Oklahoma
as barren of Wilson strength and had
not claimed a single delegate in the
which Champ Clark's workers
had referred to as the of
Missouri's favorite son candidate.
Today Wilson men are fairly
their candidate has carried three
of the five legislative districts and
that as more Instructed votes
than Clark. They believe that
knowingly the Governor of New
developed enough strength in
Oklahoma to give him six or more of
the ten votes which will be instructed
at the slate convention next week.
But whether or not has
Carried a majority of the state's con-
votes is generally
ed in Washington Wilson
nun have won a sweeping gain.
T they have surpassed
Clark in the state of which his man-
agers had assured him as confident-
as they had his own Missouri, but
even a tight race this state would
afforded them all the
they could desire.
The result of the Oklahoma
blocks at its first move long,
thought out on the part of Clark's
manager to stampede the Democratic
party for their candidate.
Confident that at time
could bring about the withdraw-
of Governor Folk in favor of the
favorite son of his state, Clark men
sometime ago turned their energies
to In Oklahoma.
They developed enough strength In
both states to fix the primary date
whenever they wished. It was then
they their plan for a coup
d'etat that they hoped might result
in victory in the Baltimore
STATE
CONDENSED NEWS FROM
ALL OVER THE OLD
NORTH STATE
of Mr. Bryant by
the Side of the Head.
KINSTON. Feb. driving
along Trenton rood. Sunday morn-
Mr. Henry Gray, of Jones county,
discovered the body of n man covered
in snow by the side of the road, and
uncovering, it. saw that it was Mr.
Bryant Parker, also of Jones county,
frozen stiff, and dead. dead
man's pocket was a bottle of whiskey,
and the surmise is that he started to company.
walk from to his home, nine
miles, Saturday evening,
the severe snowstorm that
Saturday night. Overcome with
cold, he probably lay down, as is char-
of those benumbed with
and met his death.
Mr. Parker was about years of
I C. NEW INDUSTRIES
For the week ending February
The Chattanooga Tradesman reports
the following new industries
in North
bagging com-
textile plant.
lumber company.
drug company.
Granite company.
gas plant
High automobile
company.
grocery com-
lumber company.
lumber com-
furniture com-
construction
Milwaukee's Anniversary-
MILWAUKEE, Wis. Feb.
Seventy-five years ago today the
of Milwaukee was organized.
with Solomon Juneau as first
dent of the board. At that time the
village boasted of a population of
age, the son of Mr. Benjamin which has since
of Jones county, and a brother according to the
of Mr. J. N. Parker, of this county.
He was not married.
last census.
You are probably aware that
always results from a cold, but
you never heard a cold resulting
in pneumonia when Chamberlain's
Remedy was used. Why take
the risk when this remedy limy be
bad for . trifle For sale by ail deal-
Chicago's Oldest Citizen.
CHICAGO, Feb.
Hamilton who succeed-
ed to the title of Chicago's oldest set-
upon the death Fernando
Jones some months ago, celebrated
her eightieth anniversary
today. Mrs was born inside
old Fort Dearborn and has resided
In Chicago all her except for
short periods when she was with her
husband at the front during the
war.
Visitor.
Mr. n. Gorman, who was prom-
on Greenville tobacco mar-
last season, spent the day
Greenville, having arrived this morn-
from Richmond, where ho re-
turned this evening.
Mr. Gorman will have his own
warehouse next year in Greenville.
Wisconsin Telephone Convention.
Madison, Wis., Feb. -The an-
meeting Of the Wisconsin Slate
Telephone Association began in Ibis
city today and will continue over to-
morrow. The Wisconsin workmen's
compensation net, the construction of
rural lines, and the different methods
or accounting and handling
are among the leading subjects
scheduled for discussion.
LEAP SOCIAL DANCE.
The young ladies of the Greenville
social set entertained Thursday night
at the Carolina Club in a leap year
dance that was attended and
which proved very successful. About
twenty couple enjoyed the dancing
from to a little after o'clock.
The decorations the ball room
were most appropriate. Electric
lights were shaded and hearts or many
sizes and degrees of hue
bung from every available support
to remind the young men that there
was danger of declarations, not of
Independence, but very much the
way. As It is no proposals are
reported.
Full credit should he given
Misses Smith, Cobb, and
Forbes for preparing the club for the
evening. Or course Messrs. Gales
and Kittrell also helped to decorate
and reach such places as made a
ladder dangerous for feminine reach.
Altogether a delightful was
spent and the young ladles
proved they are capable
to keep up with the young men i our
community, when it comes to social
entertainments.
After the dance a lunch was given
at Mrs. Cobb's, complimentary
Miss Myers with Mr. Chas. James.
Miss Roland Jenkins with Mr. M.
Phillips.
Isabel Morton, of Roberson-
ville, with Mr. S. E. Gates.
Miss Forbes with Mr. D.
M. Clark.
Miss Smith with Mr. M.
Turnage.
Miss with Mr. C, War-
Miss Mae Ayes, Washington, with
Mr. Oscar Greene,
Miss Estelle Greene with Mr. R.
Hood, of Goldsboro.
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Dunn.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. Forbes.
Mr. and Mrs. S. Forbes.
Mr. and Mrs. George
Dr. and Mrs. L. Skinner.
Mrs. It. J. Cobb and
Mrs. B. II.
Messrs. Hurt Doll
in ti and Norman Warren.
Farmer Attempts Suicide.
farmer years old, with a wife
and ten children, living near Organ
church, Rowan county, attempted
it is alleged, with a shotgun
this morning. Mr. Post had been
bothered considerably of late by rel-
over some land and had been
unable to sleep for three nights. This
morning early ho entered a small
room at his home and in some way
fired a gun. A part or the load enter-
ed his neck, producing wounds that,
while painful, are not necessarily fa-
Death of Mr. R. C. Charles, of High
Point
High night at about
o'clock Mr. R. C. C. Charles died at
bis residence on Elm street, after a
lingering illness of six months,
caused by n stroke of apoplexy seven
months ago. The funeral services
were to be held this afternoon at
o'clock at the First church,
Of which the deceased was a faithful
member. His remains were laid to
rest in the city cemetery. He was
aged years and months. He Is
survived by his wife and a grown
son
Missouri Boosters Meet.
Mo. Feb. state
immigration convention assembled In
this city today to plan an aggressive
campaign to attract Immigrants and
capital to Missouri. The
which will continue In session two
days, is largely state of-
railroad Immigration agents
and representatives of numerous com-
and Industrial
There's s Difference.
They come, they go, I don't know
How moving in and moving out
Helps, except to keep them on the go.
keep the people all in doubt.
never move, I never rove,
have no fear, I have no strife.
Nor never change, but always shove
Along the same Old Mutual Life.
H. BENTLEY HARRISS.
With the Mutual Life of New York.
How to a cold is a question
iii which many are interested just
now. Cough Rem-
has won Its reputation and
sale by its remarkable
seven-inch snowfall
Saturday night had Raleigh consider-
ably snowbound Monday, and when
the moiling began toward noon, root
troubles developed, especially on
of the buildings In the business
section. The ears had a hard
time getting started and the line from
Greenwood to the country club was
not opened operation the
cars all.
When her child is in danger a
man risk her life to protect it.
No great act of heroism or risk of
life is necessary to protect a child
from croup. Give Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy and all danger Is
avoided. For sale by all dealers.
Misses Mines and Staples, by cf colds. It can always be depended
Misses Smith, Moore, For sale by all dealers,
and Mrs. Dunn. The broke up
Pitt County Fair Association.
The executive committee Pitt
County Fair Association met hero to-
day and selected Friday, March 1st,
as the date to hold a meeting of the
association to receive reports of the
officers for the last fair and plan Tor
holding another next fall. The
official call will be
published in a few days.
A piece of flannel dampened with
Chamberlain's Liniment and bound
on to the affected parts is superior to
any plaster. When troubled with
lame back or pains In the Bide or chest
give It a trial and you are certain to
he more than with the prompt
roller which it affords. Sold by all
dealers.
II.
W. Major, attorney general.
Is n tor the Democratic
ion to
Mrs. Cobb's well satisfied with an
evening which had brought forth so
much happiness and enjoyment.
The guests at the dance
Miss Mary with Mr.
Bats.
Miss Lucille Cobb with Mr. J.
Kittrell.
Miss Mary Smith with Mr. Cecil
Cobb.
Miss Ward Moore with Mr. Win.
Patrick.
Miss Staples, Virginia, with Mr.
Alec Blow.
Miss Clara Hint's, of Kinston. with
Mi. John
To View Construction.
NEW YORK, Feb.
ed public officials of both the United
Canada were Included
among passengers who Bulled for
Panama today to view the progress of
construction on the canal.
Two members of President's cabinet,
Secretary the Interior Fisher and
Postmaster General Hitchcock, were
among those In party. Canada
was represented by Clifford
former Minister of the Inter-
and many years a leading
figure In Dominion.
Girl ill Spencer M Not
Burns.
Spencer, Margaret, the 8-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Rufus
was seriously burned at their
home In Spencer Monday. While
playing around an opt u lire the child's
Clothing ignited and its hands, chest
and neck were frightfully burned. The
parents were absent at the time. The
little one's condition Is critical.
Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor
exercise, insufficient of
food, constipation, a torpid liver,
and anxiety, are the most common
causes of stomach troubles. Correct
your habits and take Chamberlain's
Stomach Liver Tablets and yon
will soon be well again. For sale by
all dealers.
Voices.
All day with anxious heart and won-
ear
I listened lo the city; heard the
ground
Echo with human thunder, and
the sound
Go reeling down streets and dis-
appear.
The headlong hours in their wild
career
Shouted and sung until the world
was drowned
With one more
All day II surged but nothing
could bear.
That night the country never seemed
so still
The trees and grasses spoke with-
out a word
To stars that brushed them with
the silver wings.
Together with the moon I climbed
the hill
And in the very heart of Silence
heard
The speech and music of
things.
Louis In Hampton
Columbian Magazine.
He is a brave man who will the
parson with a short-haired woman.
N. C.