THE CAROLINA HOME and FARM and EASTERN REFLECTOR should help you to think. KIAL ESTATE WILL SOT who addressed the The train rumble, over the switches Something like . year ago county last Saturday and who la Director of the and in the dusk a swinging lantern tag about building lots In Greenville. Bureau of ills that a man is at work, The Reflector advised contemplative Washington, paid the guiding you safely when your work purchasers that they would not save Training School a compliment is done. Cant you take an interest by waiting to see if they in his speech. He said lie had in that human atom, representing the would lie cheaper. Go price a lot to- normal schools In every part a week i TIE lac. SUD Md Training School D Editor space, lighting us on our journey and be convinced that the of normal school he had GREENVILLE. CAROLINA toward the constellation Hercules paper knew then what It was talk- ever visited. Uncle Sam's A black steeple is outlined against about. And the same and Directors are careful In Subscription. year, . . the dark-blue sky of evening. That hold good today, as a year months. . statements tiny make Sin high compliment from so eminent source i greatly appreciated by the is a linger of stone, built by a man you will not be able to buy a lot business to point toward Infinite price for which it of Training School The Reflector Building, corner Power. It now points In be obtained now. This not said and Third the earth slowly in the interest of any one who may Jean Libel picturesquely con- All cards of resolutions turns-it will be pointing have Iota to sell, as at this la, gift is t respect will be charged X at here upward or we do not have any In mind that M. men not per downward in tin- carpentry of the on the market, hut at the on advertising universe. In the twenty-four hours Greenville is making you need ,,, that they will be peaceful. up as round pleased and steeple points toward all the price. About the best advice we as second class matter space, and constantly it give one who wants a home is Cowan have been trying to M, Wit, at the poet Wisdom and to go ahead and buy a lot and let the some fakes and got caught. Greenville. North Carolina, Another way the express companies Items, have of robbing the people la the, . , . . i- I Dec. Mr. R. method they have adopted In remit-1 C. Jackson made a trip to ting for C. O. D. shipment. They used to send the money back to ship- Harrington. Barber and Company sealed packages, charging the a nice complete line of bats; It consignee for returning the money o . , . . . Several of our young people attend- fee of about cents for amount. , the basket party at Corey s school under increasing the fee in with the amount of the re- Remember the A. G. Cox Mfg Co., Now instead of sending the are agent, for the Perfect may, they collect the fees and Poultry wire fencing. out of the consignee and remit with Howie and Elmer W came in Friday their own money orders by mail to m the shipper. A. money order fees are many times smaller than the fees one car load of pitch collected, it can readily be seen what lumber for cart and wagon wheel a nice rake off the express companies G Cox J. S. and get No wonder they pay several per cent dividends. you a at x w O--------- Aug. and Co. begin the new Observer year on time. Harrington. Barber and Company act of March FRIDAY. DECEMBER A week from tonight there will be a wholesale stockings. THE I HE A k BRISBANE Justice in every corner. building and loan association put him This is tiresome All right, then a house on it. we'll stop. But whether we tire or The women of Philadelphia band- you. together to knock down the high , t , As a thinks, so he grows retailers were of The Raleigh News and has just entered upon a new volume and one of Its pledges for the new are ready to serve you with anything In the heavy and fancy groceries year is to do more than ever for the dry Rood and farm of North Carolina. Thai and fencing, at prices that will pay Is promising a great deal, for there to come for. I., not a paper in the state that has Mildred Wilson of near den is visiting Miss Dorothy Johnson. Just arrived a new line of up to after year put forth better Think, study, use all the hours that for ., and they succeeded. Dis-i separate your croupy cradle from Ana report says the same women fort for the progress of North Caro- dry and patch. If live in the suburbs de- V turn their attention to do urn hours per Jay to travel hours per day moans practically of your active life. How make mo of Una and the prosperity and happiness them, it will pay you. Spier and of her people, coupled with a siren-1 Jackson. Insurance Commissioner J. R. Young is sending out warnings to two boas, and feel each day warrants to be served on John D. that th-y boon well and other officers of the instead of being waste,, those Standard Oil Company, in the case few. high price of meats, with the --------o result likely to follow. The housekeepers can reduce United States Attorney General the high cost of living If they and has refused to allow up their minds not to pay the 0.1,, and lions during Christmas times. Heed- tills warning may be the nous warfare for good government than the News and Observer. Mr. allow up their minds not to pay the price, I and stick to It. hours should be among your best Never If are dinging to a strap because companies are l TM for vi- to exploit you. Never mind if you are tired and weary when the day Judge Harry W. Whedbee is in which the Magnolia Oil Company a record wherever he goes to hold of Texas, was indicted by a federal court, not only for his ability and business method of conducting the court, but also for Ills wanting to is see the counties progress. He re- of the Sherman law. One again. Mr. preventing loss by lire. Said a man who comes this way occasionally, but rends The tor between visits, never saw man who talks as much about his is ended. The tired brain often thinks using the machinery of the great of- stirred the commissioners o. i better than the fresh one. And man. M Of the Department of Justice to both Durham and he . a so recently descended from the monkey Instead of prosecute, the mil- because they have such poor courtly who had to think while hanging head heads of illegal trusts. while both are amply able to down, ought to have no trouble think- A ,.,,,, could be cited to their needs. Judge, tag as he hangs from his strap-held has. by means home is In a county , UP- prepared opinions, order. P Some in the cars play card as , ,,,.,. and h ill this mat- Tho of the currency see good says there is enough money in travel Others talk tens of thousands much time on this and other new s- trusts, private and special privilege. It WM , r.-ii. in, attorney general, who . counties coining along and not being for us all to have military hair A new lot of garden and flower reed In at A. W. Ange and Company. j A full line of buggy harness Just Josephus Daniels has for twenty are always prepared to years been at the helm of that able you money when you buy your paper and he truly makes It j harness from us. I Our fruit is the best to be had. also a full line of nice candles on hand at When a body go. way and and falls In the hands of such a host; R. Dad's Is the place to get as June proprietor of your oranges, apples and etc. for Hotel Tull. lie Is sure of being com- Christmas. , ., . . ,., We are glad to hear that Misses housed and slept and well Fannie and Elizabeth Spier arc fed. This of hotel always re- fleets credit upon Its town. We re-j We carry a complete line of that Greenville Is also coming fins and caskets on hand all the time. along in this particular and that In furnish excellent hearse ,, . , vice. When In need let the A. G. a few months more our Proctor Hotel Cox Mfg. Co., serve you. will be open to do credit to the town. ,, made t fly 0--------- lag trip to Greenville Saturday. Do let your Christmas presents be For beef, and oysters, see R. the sensible kind. For example, w- send I bald-headed man a pair brushes, nor the Dec. will content i twentieth century times each. Some oilier fellow must be with eighteenth century buildings and of our share around pay Santa to Investigate the novelties at Spier and . stopped Important suits against the Try Make up your to your hours of I till pockets. office. It was the The supreme com, of the slate has The Reflector Is to to thinking. The brain, like the only . ,.,,,,, an ,. .,,, , of of brethren of the Press for your giving. H ion and vicious- property belonging to churches and nice things they have said about It exercise. It must be methodical ,, said for rental purposes. The court recently beginning a new year. We and regular. There is no limit to Us wag for decide church and hope to continue holding such good possible results. You would be glad f exploitation pro- and other purely church esteem from them. to spend your two traveling hours acres of rich sugar is- property is not liable to taxation, hut ill a gymnasium on wheels. Make the the holds real estate held by of your homeward car it mental gym- Each night or morning, take up some one line of thought and fol- low it to as far as your mind can lake you. Learn to observe, to study, to reflect Don't look at your fellow passengers as calves look at each other on the way to the house. Look, as a human being, at other human beings. There they sit A little In advance of the fire r season is a safe time to clear away toothless man a gold toothpick. the same rule all through and store. no not give presents that are Don't forget those good up to date Intel worthless to the person re- sewing machines at A. W. Ange and them. Have some Judgment Company. Messrs. W. J. Braxton. J. L. and Prof. F. C. Nye went Saturday. The fellow who is ordering Christ- ft, Is tho place to get mas had as well make up your oranges, apples, etc. for his mind to use the opportunity while . , Messrs. John D. J. he can. With the prospects of con- Jackson and James passing the law to prohibit wont to Greenville Sat- law of the islands expressly tees of the church and used 0th- declares that no corporation shall be purposes, such as renting, is liable dead leaves, waste paper and trash allowed to acquire more than to taxation the same as property held that may have accumulated near fences and buildings. Proper precaution thing can be done. such shipments into dry territory, evening, there are not going to be more than one another Christmas or two that the Umber for acres. It was the at- by persons, general, who sanctioned the Taft administration railroad hill, later exposed and altered, In containing a Joker Southern Pacific North Carolina could do more bus- North Carolina talent Is the appointment of Mr. O. the of the A. and If. within her own borders If there Raleigh, as superintendent of judges were decent freight rates and it did along this line may prevent a lire. or recently held unlawful by tho National Corn Exposition take forever lo get a shipment or hang. Some chatter, others Supreme Court. It was held in Columbia. S. C. in from the western to the eastern fret, fume, complain, brag, grin the attorney general, whose suit and February or otherwise express the strange against the steel trust is one in equity that move us here. of a criminal prosecution. They are all ghosts, as Carlyle tells At the time of appointment of The wise housewife is the one who turns a deaf car to the who of the state and vice versa. For the past fiscal year North Car- paid nearly nine million you, imprisoned for a time in it was said his selection by calls at the door and says In Internal revenue taxes into of flesh and a car packed full Mr. Tuft was In recognition of the and So the man of the the national treasury. This shows of real ghosts passing over the earth desires of the great Industrial trusts says look in the closet and how much of the money goes, on their quirk Journey lo the grave of the country, who had contributed him that suit of clothes ought to stir you. large sums to Mr. Tail's campaign Hubby sometimes loses a o--------- fund and who as a return favor de- or an overcoat by just such ruse. car load of pitch and wagon wheel rims. A. G. Cox Mfg. Co. of spent Saturday with friends Miss Helen Gould has at last to- hero to get married. Unlike Harrington. Barber and Co., are American she did to serve you with anything In not go across the water after a and a title, but takes a man. We did think Helen for had better judgment than the most. Miss and Pearl j them lo Saturday. A new lot of dress ginghams Just at A. W. Ange and Co. Greenville already has her share and Ruth of people who are waiting for a flying trip Greenville Sat- to turn up, but we want more evening. the heavy and fancy groceries, dry and notions, farm supplies and that Will pay you boys are boys, but the very instinct that prompts them to get a bis appointment as attorney match and pop-cracker In them to disregard graver laws when they grow older, if allowed to go checked. THE STEEPLE, THE sired that a man be placed OF A CLOCK in charge of the government machinery. ARTHUR The whose life general Mr. was a trust Just because it la against the misery Is still a Joke to them For years and years he had aw do, Is the same that blessed Interest receiving huge fees from deeply. And the too, with for Interpreting the laws, tired black face, resting for the from the viewpoint of tho days slavery-slavery on wage fare of the people, but from the basis, but slavery all the same. viewpoint of the welfare of the trusts. such issues of The Reflector as you despise his thick lips. Hut Mr. was a member of out Friday put people to talking, those lips are carved on every sphinx the law firm of Strong and in sand and If you could Congressman Henry T. back far enough you would find the described this Arm on tho floor of ancestors of that before House of Representatives as fol- days of the Pharaohs, laying the of your religion and locating firm of Strong and The as a part of their entertainment of the editors, anted Hob Phillips with a And the pig was so that Hob was overwhelmed. ---------o With a cotton oil mill ahead and work to begin on the government building next year, things go right on looking good for Greenville. of the kind who will find something lo turn and turn It. The man who does not favor good Spier and Jackson's new goods are arriving every day. Call and inspect them. Quality and teed. Mr. J. L. of Nash county, roads In this progressive age is In town Saturday on help tho advertisers too. We sent out over papers that day. and on an average five people read each one of them. the stars in heaven. At that Is one of these important New savage., sharpening bones and legal firms to which great raw flesh. When you see the appeal for aM when they on the opposite seat, the to violate the laws of the starred one who has gone down or when they have violated the the human race while we have gone laws of the up, think about him, speculate as to 0-------- ultimate your The Philadelphia sisters would con- Don't merely say to yourself, a favor on housekeepers generally plain and go on chewing they would their movement . to put down the price eggs H The pictures that flash by your car over the country. The government is about to put a new nickel In circulation. The old ones lire good enough, but we shall not run from the new ones If any happen to come this way. Greenville has done well In the way of development this year, but one tiling the town ought to put for next year Is more factories. People whose corns get stepped or well, It's because they have corns. has about struck the limit of growth In population until more houses built. You cannot find a desirable house vacant. ---------o Yes. and then you hear some- body kicking about something in Greenville. But what Is the kicker doing to make It better The farmer who is looking well to next crops, has already commenced plowing his land and Is going down deep after It. buck number ought to wear antiquated label. Bob Phillips got the pie at bury and is rubbing H on the other boys who not there to see him enjoy It. Just a few weeks now to the be- ginning of the legislature. Then Raleigh will have things going her way again. ---------o and more useful with each year. The Virginia courts almost n farce of the Allen matter before they quit. Yep. been looking for it They've began talking about going after the North Pole In a flying machine. If boy and girl knows what meant when you say It Is only a For your beef, oysters see H. W. Dall. He will give you some bargains. Messrs. Tucker. Walter H. Cherry were In town Remember the A. G. Cox Mfg. Co., agents for the Pittsburgh Perfect farm and poultry wire fencing. Mr. Thad Nichols Mr. George Allen of were here Sun- day night Harrington. Harbor and Company have a line of huts; It will pay to see them. Dr. B. T. Cox made a flying trip to Monday. Pensions far Soldiers North Carolina needs more cal men like Clarence Poe, editor of week off. the Progressive Farmer. are ready It may sound bad to ear th-re but all will not be many a sock that worth a darn, ready when It comes. Superior Court Clerk D. C. Moors has received the pension checks the confederate soldiers and widows in Pitt county who are on the state pension list. The amounts for the pensions are the same as they re- last year. The checks some In good time for Christmas. December published the Milan decree, forbidding all intercourse with England. English under Hugh defeated the Sikhs at battle of Goo. Will Not Discuss Appointments in Cabinet I Did Think About it During His Vacation Ayden Items. Dec. Editor Here Is the other No. sock have been for. which makes you a pair Mrs. Harris of is visiting relatives in town. MOW YORK. Dec. Wilson returned today from his vacation trip to Bermuda. The steam ship which carried him and his party docked here a few min- after a. m. Not an announcement as to politic or anything did the have to make on his arrival. going to devote myself to New Jersey he said. After a few hours In New York he went direct to his home In Princeton. at the East Carolina teachers rain- governor . I At the December meeting of the Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society on Saturday night, the program was on the life of Biographical Sketch Annie Poe the Poet . o as to be on hand at the state house . Clara Poe the World Author. Fleming Vocal Solo . Elizabeth with relatives here will leave for home Thursday Mrs. C. Fletcher is spending few days In town. We are paying dozen for eggs. J. R. Smith and Pro. Mr. W. O. Wingate and Miss Ethel were married at this morning and left on the I o'clock train for a bridal trip. Dynamite, and per cent J. R. Smith and Bro. Mr. B. E. Dall ha.- purchased the Interest of Mr. Fate in the E. E. and Co. property Lee street. Mr. of near Plymouth here week and took an option on the farm of Mr. S. Jackson Mr. Cox has purchased a large farm In Creek in Bean fort County and we learn will move some time in the early year. Mr. H. G. one of our most enterprising young has sold his farm near here and chased a large farm near Roberson- Martin county. Consideration is a good business man as well as farmer and we are to see him leave our community. Car lime, cement and salt. J, R. Smith and Bro. The opera seats In the are installed and will comfortably seat besides the spacious rostrum. We regret to note the serious ill- not decided finally on any post of service, developing of Mr. John E. who Importance has not even chosen common function of been taken to the Kinston hos- a private secretary. this service should be for an operation and his con- fog was just lifting when the to count for Christ; it should being so critical, the operation has been delayed. It's easy for you to buy your holiday goods as his stock is so complete and prices so extremely low in Trenton early tomorrow for the regular budget of state business. The president-elect brought with him his annual message to the New Jersey legislature, which meets on Reading and Lois Carrie January It embodies every plank , in the Democratic state platform., ,.,, of Soc New Jersey Just now in , ,,, the Governors mind and It Is quite the to , of ,,,, , Tc likely that until he Is able to com- .,,, ,., his program of progressive log- one. he will not only continue in j office as governor, but will not take J. up many of the preliminary tasks of office tilling with respect to the Pres-i administration. About Appointments. v J. Walker at the Training School W. C. A. services on Sun- As to appointments Governor day evening were conducted by Rev. son admits Hint while selections pastor of the Christian running through his he has He subject Christian you will find them fitting better rearing best, end you have n line to select from that can't be supposed, in quality, workman- ship newest leathers, inns, patent leathers, gun metal r tads. Tin- shoe of quality and the kind that wear. Just The Thing You Need For winter is heavy underwear, cotton flannels, white and red flannels, woolen and cotton blankets, cotton and woolen dress goods in all toe newest shades. Your dollar will buy more goods here Hum elsewhere at our Store, and our stock s complete for your making your holiday shopping easy having such a quantity to select from. docked and It was much unsolicited; it should be express- early for a crowd to gather, but a and should bring joy. handful of friends were at the pier. brought the lesson home by say- among them the Governor's secretary inK that Young Women's Chris- Joseph and a reception Association stands for one thing headed by Dudley Field, who Christian service. Mr. Will A. Hardy of near Hugo, Co., Is moving his family here will locate on Lee and Hart street. If it's hardware, guns, pistols, am- munition, dynamite, caps or fuse, see us J. H. Smith and Bro. Mr. L. Kittrell has leased the of Mr. John Bill Cannon and the accompanied Miss Margaret Wilson. The other daughters, the Misses Trustees Meet Eleanor and Jesse took the Bermuda of trustees or East Car- trip with their father and mother. Tethers Training School held Mrs. Wilson and the girls will re- meeting here today to latter will move to Ayden and occupy main in New York to attend the ban- the plant and examine the an- the residence on the corner of of the Southern Society reports of the president and bur- and Second street, row night, when Mr. Wilson will in readiness to submit to the The yelping of the turkeys at this his first public speech since legislature. Those attending the season of the year calls to mind when his election. To do so he will re- are J. It. state we were a boy and read a poem In turn to New York from Trenton late superintendent; Messrs. T. J. Reflector, think Dud Joe was tomorrow afternoon. J- Leigh. Eliza- author, like Declaration. Beth City; Y. T. Kinston; Tho turkey mounts the highest limb. LADIES and MISSES Coats and Suits VERY ATTRACTIVE full length models of Hue quality in semi-fitting coats, many and belt effects, self material, broad reversible collars, sleeves plain or turned cuffs. We also show ninny colors in gray Johnnie Coals, blues and blacks, each garment having a guaranteed lining and hand- tailored. C. T. The President-elect carefully made J. R. Ban- out his declaration for the customs Clarence Poe. stating the number or pieces of and the value of goods and the purchased abroad. During the trip up from the ocean was smooth as an Inlet riv- r. It's near Christmas time. The that gets his tooth on him Will surely have to climb. Monday night to hear the address of Not since Mr. Wilson was en- ,. of route to Bermuda four weeks ago, A, bas there been such a calm, hence for , the In addition to the student mows got up his winter steam many people of Greenville and com- the amusement of the boys, were at the Training; school will sell no more ice cream. dotes From Chapel Hill for they the president-elect acquired with the worth Mr , sailors a reputation for luck. man and , ea, Not only did the exceed from , her past the northbound, Mr wag voyage from the Bermudas, but With North He show- exception of an Hour Just out- L, the had aide the Bermuda reefs, when the , especially in re- CHAPEL Dee, on the Construction of the crest of the Blue Ridge was the sub- of a paper of far-reaching inter- est read by T. K. Hickerson. associate professor of civil engineer- But will make It up on toys. in the University of North Mr. Lafayette Cox has purchased Una, before the regular meet- the farm of Mr. Joe Cox. Jr. in of Mitchell heard frock township. Society. This remarkable highway Wishing lo one and all of your Is being constructed on the crest readers a merry Christmas and the Blue Ridge is the work of the ship pitched in a heavy land swell, there was hardly a wave to , be her. Gov. Wilson said he had he by his vacation Our hands are no answering letters, of which there was ,,,, , were about perhaps half of them but are far for government positions. now than then because Other passengers began leaving the w, have lo make them Bermudian us soon as she had docked more and , have ad. hut It was half an hour later before happy New Year the Wilson party left the vessel. The remained on the pier tor nearly half hour looking the baggage. Knows of Threats, Of the arrest of three men New Jersey charged with Bending letters intelligence our values increase. to Wilson, he said today was as much gold In California knew nothing. He had never read hundred years ago as Is tho letters and for this reason will not be needed to testify at the arraign- of the prisoners set for row. Letters from cranks and others are always Intercepted by the Governor's secretary. WASHINGTON, Dec. Taft today announced through Sec- that the post of Am- to Great Britain, made cant by the death of will not be filled by him. This announcement followed an curly morning conference between the ad Secretary Several reasons were given for president's decision. He believes that cent years, there Is yet much that I second month, ending Dec. 13th, is The standard of as First Ruth Cobb, Bertha Little, Smith, Lillian Smith. Joseph Forbes, Bob- Norman, Joseph Zola Morgan. Second Leonard Manning. Third Nannie Edwards. Nan- Bryan Parker, Ben Ashley son. Lloyd Fourth May Belle Tyson, Mamie Ruth Smith, Anna Forbes. Fifth Christine Smith, Forbes, Roland Parker. Sixth Lena Mattie Smith, Clifton The highest average was made by Smith. Map Belle Tyson and Clifton Corbett. DELIA SMITH. NANNIE MOORE, Teachers. Appalachian Highway Company, of which Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, of Honor Roll Chapel Hill, Is president. This Tho honor roll for the public is at work at present on build- school at King's Cross Roads for the a section of road from Asheville In civilization and intelligence. Place the most valuable farm In North Carolina the heart of ca and it would lose its value by Its surroundings. The human mind is our chief pro- duct, and as we raise the standard today, but then the land containing a gold mine could have been ed from a savage for a red blanket. The land of Manhattan that contains the great city of New York once sold for Its harbor was Just as deep and the Hudson river Just as long then as now, but It took human In- to find this value. The same island could now be covered In gold and its value not measured. North Carolina's greatest need In the line of development Is to raise the standard of Intelligence of her average citizens. It is not the few brilliant minds here and there that make us great, but the Intelligence of the average man. Ours Is large- the Important diplomatic questions y an agricultural state and the boy Great Britain and the Unit-1 who is to follow the farm needs as ed can be handled successful- good training to make the highest v in Washington by Mr. Knox and In his vocation as do those James the go in the professions. A great He understands that President- mistake in our rural schools is with that were much elect Wilson already is considering tho text books used them were man for the London post and prepared by people who do not know tho development of North Carolina, is at one bound to Increase the length of the public schools to not less than six months In the year; to have a compulsory education law, and to have text suitable to the needs of these schools. He brought out many good points on each of these, and showed that sentiment throughout the state is turn- to them. It was along these practical lines that Mr. Poe for the development of the state and what said made an impression for good on his hearers. Preceding the the students of the school sang three songs, not wish to appoint some one who the needs of country life. They deal can serve at best only a few months, more cube roots and square roots The president had first been in- than they do In cotton roots and corn to make an appointment, but roots. deliberation with Mr. Knox brought Some of the things Mr. Poe said Fit His Case Exactly. father was sick about six years ago he read an advertisement of Chamberlain's in the papers that fit his case writes Miss a decision to th contrary must come and come speedily for Margaret Campbell of Ft. Smith. Ark. to Boone, a distance of miles. Pour and one-half miles of this high- way has been constructed at a cost of per mile. The average width of the road Is feet, with a maximum grade of 1-4 per cent. The construction of this wonderful highway is under supervision of En- Boys Corn Contest Club I. C. I. II. In the Capitol Although a large part of the state experienced the most severe in many years, the result of the Boy's WASHINGTON, Dec. j of the capitol and the lobbies of the office buildings of both the yield above 1911. Six hundred and boys have made their re- of the headquarters of an port with a total yield of bush- Contest shows an increased average els or an average yield of 62.8 bush- equal suffrage convention. Women adorned with white ribbons els per acre, 1911. four hundred are out in tares, with business and thirty-live boys reported with an and dashing from office to office and average yield of 60.7 bushels. The from committee room to committee average cost in 1912 was while I They are ,, Na. Increase It was in 1911. This cost is duo largely to tho severe In the Piedmont section, which reduced tho yield and thereby In- creased tho cost per bushel. Two boys made above bushels, five above twenty-one above and seventy-live above The est was made by Richard Brock, in Wayne county, but his coat of production was so large that the championship of the state goes to J. B. Clingman. a member of George West, Jr., of Kinston, with the graduating class of the yield of bushels. of 1912. The two boys making the best re- schools of east central In each district, twenty in all, of North Carolina have decided win free trips to the National Corn to hold literary and athletic contests. Exposition. These trips are given by between their students at Chapel Hill the Southern Fertilizer Association of next April. The features of the meets Atlanta, Ga. Many counties will also will be n declamation contest, a track to this exposition, meet and a baseball game. On be- Ono girl. Miss Ethel Smith, of half of the Professor county, competed with the W. Walker, inspector of secondary There were two other girls schools, extended the principals of, boys and won third prize in her dis- the schools of this particular territory the contest In the state, but their a cordial Invitation to hold this were not large enough to win hero instead of elsewhere, as has district prizes, been customary In the past. The work is charge or O. Perhaps a safe Index to tho high of the U. S. Department of cost of living and the universally bad Agriculture and A. and M. College. Conference of the W. C. T. V. in session here to urge consideration of bill prohibiting the shipment of intoxicating drink in- to states. Long before the Senate met at II o'clock tho galleries were crowded Before the meeting hour the delegates conferred with both Senators and Representatives in forts to impress upon each the views of the back Sena- tor Kenyon hopes to get action on tho legislation before Congress ad- the Christmas recess . The conference delegates, which In- Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, the national president; Mrs. Ann B. don, national vice president, and Mrs. N. Hoge. national secretary, discussed the situation in mass meet- this afternoon- crop conditions of North Carolina In 1911 is seen in the number of dents at the of North Car- that have boarded at Commons Hall, the boarding hall run by the authorities of the institution assisted by A. K. State Department of Agriculture. FOR SALE I will sell for half cash aid on easy terms the enclosed part of my Brice's Creek plan- situate about four south of the city of New Bern on the west of the s de of Brice's Creek. navigable How to Bankrupt the Doctors. A prominent New York physician It were not for the thin boarding house Is operated upon and thin-soled shoes worn basis of making bare running ex- women the doctors would probably the price per month for each be When you a boarder now being only ten do not wait for It to develop Into During tho entire fall this pneumonia but treat It at once. boarding hall has been taxed to Its full capacity for accommodations and each month more than students have taken board rates. cough remedy Is intended to especially for coughs and colds, and has won a wide reputation by its advantage of its of these diseases. II is most Not In many years have effectual and is pleasant and safe to o many boarded In the hall for the four fall months. purchased a box of them and has not been sick since. My sister had trouble and was also benefit- by For sale by all deal- Adv take. For sale by all dealers. Adv. Meeting of Oregon Dairy Interests Ore., Dec. large attendance marked the opening here today of the annual meeting of the Oregon Butter and Cheese There are between and acres cleared with abundant for purposes. The land Is very high and dry ranging from to feet above Brice's Creek w is Its eastern boundary. It was the General Hatch and later the Geo. W. Perry plantation and Is a very fine tobacco, cotton, hay, truck and grain land and a very lino grove and splendid water may had anywhere on it. It la convenient to New Bern by both Water and road transportation. More woodland will sold with It It desired. A. D. WARD. New Bern, N. C lowed later in tho week by the an- convention of tho Oregon Dairy- Association The meeting will be fol- men's Association.