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FOR The Eastern EDITOR VOL. XX GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY, N. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST a M -AT- ARE KNOCKING THEM OUT. OR For Dry Goods, Press Goods, Hats, Carts, Shoes, Trunks, and Clothing, Gents Furnishings, Gloves, and a line of Baby Caps, Cloaks, Mitts and Bootee. Come see us. Every day n bargain day and everything a bargain. Your friends, W. T. LEE CO. FIRST CLASS MILITARY SCHOOL IX EASTERN N. School, LaGrange, N. C. MILITARY, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC COMMERCIAL SCHOOL. Hoarding Pupils, Twelve Counties and two State represented past session. Barracks for Sixty Cadets. The school aims to strengthen character by developing latent and power. The individual needs of the students arc considered. The training strengthens the traits, gives a sound body clear mind. Class room methods cultivate ion, and mental grasp. Athletics encouraged. per hull lei in. including board, tun inn, fuel, lights and room, No incidentals. School opens September Write for J. E. DEBNAM, Cash is King. we will make the sharpest, swiftest most sweeping, price cutting ever known in mid summer. the is nil half on all Dimities, Silks, White Hosiery, Hamburg-, Underwear, Shirts, Slippers, Um- and all goods. These goods must be pushed out to make room fall goods. RICKS WILKINSON. A NOVEL SCHEME. For Higher Education in the Public Schools Comes From Rowan. The school committee of Mt. la township, Rowan comity, have decided upon a novel experiment public school work. At a recent meeting of that com- it was decided that it wise to establish a high school, centrally located in the township, for the Instruction of the more ad public school children. This idea was at a meeting of the committee and a number of educators, who will en- to establish n each town- ship, or suitable sized territory in the rural districts, where the funds will justify, a high school to be supported part or whole, as the case may be, where the more ad- grades pupils may the classed and than the primary free schools. The idea met with nearly endorsement and was referred to the county school committee with the request that it be carried out in Mt. Ilia township next This matter has been brought before General Toon, the Public Instruction, by Prof. K. member of the Rowan county board of education. The resolution adopted the Mt. Vila committee are as fol- lows Whereas, our system of com- schools it the tendency is more money longer schools terms, and, Whereas, The four mouths term had are amply sufficient for the grade of work usually done, us long a term as for it is specially cm afford to attend, Whereas, It is evident that thy secondary or higher education is sadly neglected in rural or country districts, and experience and ob- prove that attempts to combine it with the primary free school proper have, in most cases, fell short satisfactory results. And, Whereas, All arc taxed alike for school purposes, and the funds available are in excess of the requirements for schools, and the more advanced pupils have not under the system the they de- serve, fore be it Resolved, t. That view of the foregoing, Hie best inter- of common school in and of rural dis- in particular, that we arc in favor establishing a central high school each township, con- sized for the special benefit of pupils of such advanced grades as it is not to teach said primary schools. Resolved, 2nd. That we would favor such apportionment of school funds as would run the now schools not four mouths in the year, the excess to go to said central high school as a nucleus for in part, whole, as the MM may Resolved, That a copy of this paper be submitted lo County of Education of Rowan county, with request to consider this matter, and if way be clear, make the if such it in Mount Vila town- ship the pi year. by J. B. CH If TO THE AND CUSTOMERS OF PITT ADJOINING COUNTIES. We are still in the forefront of race after your We offer you the best selected line of General Merchandise to be found any in Pitt County. Well bought choir selections, the creations of the best manufacturers of America and Europe. Seasonable all the year round, spring, Bummer and Winter. are at work for yours our mutual ad vantage. It is our pleasure to show yon what yon want and to sell you if cm. We offer you the very best service, polite attention, and the most liberal terms consistent with a well established business built up strictly its own merits. When you to market you will not do yourself justice if you do not sec our immense stock before buying elsewhere. Remember us and the following lines of general merchandise. Goods and Notions, Hats cups, Silks and Dress trimmings Jacket.- and Gapes, Carpets, Mattings Oil cloths. Shoes. Men's, Women's and Children's and Harness, Horse Blankets Dusters. Groceries. Flour, Meat, Sugar Coffee, Molasses, Lard. Scad ts. Hardware, Plows, Castings and Plow Fixtures, and Rope. Furniture. Headquarters for Furniture and everything in that line. buy strictly for Cash, but sell for Either Cash or on Approved Credit Our motto is Honesty, Merit and Square Dealing. Your Friends, Just Received. A large line of Baby Caps, Belts, Laces and Embroideries. Ladies Col- and Cuffs all Sizes i have largest handsomest link of mt Kit BROUGHT TOG BERN VILLE. Mt-. M. T. is in charge of my millinery department and it hut ; . is not on hand one will be trimmed to suit your tastes while you wait. Hals, Silks, Braids, Ornamental, Flowers, Ribbons, and everything n milliners line. POTATOES. Hie papers have n lot lo about the scarcity high price AYDEN NOTES. X. C, Aug. A number of our people of Irish year. The I attended the yearly meeting at drought in the Middle West and Hancock's Sunday. bus cut crop and; Rev. Mr. and family left Ike almost incredible statement i- Friday to visit relatives in wade potatoes which ally sell in the larger cities for about SO a barrel are now worth l to a barrel. try can scarcely to what ail extent Irish potatoes figure as an article of diet in cities. In the hotels and they are far i . of Kinston, spent Wednesday night in town. W. Duncan, of West was here Wednesday. i i W. and J, L. Robin- son, of Cove, spent Wednesday j. i. more popular than bread, the place night town. of which they take, and a rural I of Greensboro, stop- is not thought of. It i in town Friday. is so Mi people In all the K. Faulkner went up to walks of life. They arc as staple as any product of tho soil Misses Eula and Clyde Cox, of wheat, corn, tobacco; night in they always command a good price, town. They went lo with comparatively little work in Monday morning. planting or cultivating they trow Rev. Mr. of HART, well in North producing to the the dig does not like vesting and threshing wheat, lug i. g cotton cutting curing tobacco; proceeds came up Saturday to conduct services Sunday. Mi-s Brewer who was vis- Miss Edith Broadway return- ed homo a few days ago. Misses and Lena FOR STEAM SUPPLY. We have just added Steam Supply to our business and will sell anything in this Una very low, See us when in want and Angle Standard Globe mid Angle Valves, Chuck Valves, Water Oil Cups, Air Docks, Hancock S. Injectors, Cocks, Pipe all sizes, Fitting all LINE OP Packing, Rabbet Bolt, bandy Belt, Leather Belt, Belt Lacing, Boll Honks, When you want to keep a secret eon tide it to half friends. They keep the rounds The self-made man is not always proud of his job, because he is gen about half from the sale the product of an son, of spent Sunday lo acre in potatoes out run from an acre oilier of the of Greenville, was crops mimed. It ha- been often I here Sunday. why North Miss Rosa Willoughby, do raise more dale, spent Saturday with her sis- for market. We archer. Mrs. C, L. Tyson. not advising them on the subject Miss Abbott spent from for Friday until Monday with her sis- own business, they Mrs. L. II. advised by Ml Moo. of Bethel, than m. do, Hie reason is perhaps I pi ill saving crop -ii. alter it is dug. Of course I lure is . , , Rev. Black Jack, Some good and lie . , .,, . , ,, ,,, spent Saturday night in and Observer that some Moore, of or tracker could write an Interest newspaper article on the rah the yearly meeting at Han Thursday for k's. lie home Mon- morning. and Mrs, returned . S accompanied them j j L i U L S Home. will enter school at F. n. Hue U- lS Willie is boarding at TO STAY Hotel. mi mi ii. Misses Blanche and have gone lo Washington to visit Margie Tho makes hay while shines society. Sue Drain Tile Garland Cook Stoves, BAKER k GREENVILLE, N. C. V; A V I. Li. .-. lively . n nil I AS i i I nil. I i Hi Hi K . yO . o I ill I i I S I i i . f in I U The between men is yon some better than When girls i got a spark, Is it so i In Locust trees are said to lie more susceptible to lightning than trees Carmen In Western Ohio report many in- stance, where locust, tries have been splintered by lightning when Other varieties have A Western paper advises people not I lo take shelter under a locust tree dining a shower; mi.-ht j have any sort of

mm EASTERN REFLECTOR N. C. D. J. Owner Entered at the Poet Office at Greenville, N. an Second Claw Mail Matter. Friday, The Sheriff and Superior Court Clerk give notice that all juror summoned for the regular term of Pitt Superior court need not attend, us a new jury will be drawn for the special term that will begin on the third Monday, 16th. All persons who were bound over to the regular term, and all witnesses are to appear at the special term. Everybody in- should give particular at- to this. The Charlotte Observer is setting the pace at a rapid rate, and con- to make for itself a name. a crime was committed at Charlotte, the authorities were slow taking steps to capture the criminal, the Observer pot up a reward of a cap- was made. Now the is going in for even a bigger thing that. It is go- run an excursion from Char- to New York. A special train over the Seaboard Air Line will lie run to Portsmouth, from which point an Old Dominion steamer has been chartered to New York. May it meet with success. Rev. H. M. Eure , pastor of the Methodist church, in his sermon Sunday morning warned parents against slot lie said they were dangerous to the boys of the community, unless the evil was removed the could not be foretold. He told of the President of a liquor who stated in an address their business would decrease an less a thirst for drink was created among the boys, and that nickels and dimes invested in treating now would bring dollars to the pockets of the future. By comparison Mr. these slot machines would entice boys to places of both gambling and drink- making the evil twofold. The reference his sermon timely and has pal sonic people to thinking. A member of Hoard Alder delivered himself at Monday afternoon, of a tirade against K because paper had dared to speak against slot machines and to the action of the Aldermen in levying a license tax under which they could come in and operate hue Make any excuse for it I hey may, there would now have Greenville fur the levying of the license tax. Some of the Aldermen are frank to say they hail no idea such ma- chines were as arc now being operated here. We Ml all did fully the ex- tent of the slot machine evil, or surely they would not have voted to license them. Now after seeing it. they should reconsider the mat- and correct what DOM done as far as it is in their WASHINGTON LETTER. from U. Bear Admiral Schley, who has been Washington for several days will probably the close of of Inquiry, looks like a man who knows he is right and if absolutely certain of winning. He spends much time with his giving them the preparation of the pro gramme that will he followed by then the inquiry. Today- all three of his Jeremiah M. Wilson, Hon. Isidor Hay tier, Attorney General of Mary- land, and made a formal call on Acting Secretary for the purpose of supplementary list of witnesses to be ordered before the to ask for a list of the Navy Department's witnesses. Acting Secretary Hackett has promised that Admiral will be furnished a list of the Depart- witnesses as soon i--com- Admiral Schley regrets having to abandon his purpose of accompanying the Washington to the Louisville Conclave, but he feels that it would not be good taste for him do so nuclei the that it might be thought that ha be lionized by his fellow for effect. When he promised to go with the Washing- ton of which he is a member, he had no idea that no would at this time, be preparing to appear a Inquiry . There arc reasons other than the outrageous treatment of Boar Ad- Henley. why a courageous and fair-minded Congressional Committee could do the country a real service by thoroughly gating all branches the Navy Department, One of them be band closely connected with the cruiser Columbia, which cost T HAS OPENED Under more favorable conditions than ever before in its past history. We have larger and better facilities for handling tobacco than ever before a larger number of good buyers Who have orders for every grade f tobacco grown, Greenville is your market and the Farmers Warehouse Headquarters for highest market prices at all times, and clever, courteous treatment the hands of every one connected with the Farm- Warehouse MB A I am In better fix to do business than aver before, and if work and the best prices will get it am going In have your tobacco. I appeal to no passion or prejudice but from upon the bed rook of truth and merit I rest your pat- I ask you this year to give mo a chance and I will take care of the balance. I bare been running a warehouse on this market nearly H years and I think I know how to sell your tobacco, I have with me a corps of thoroughly tent, reliable and courteous assistants, who will use every honorable to advance your interest. When come to Greenville ask you especially to come around and see me whether you bring tobacco or not. A hearty, princely welcome always awaits you at the Farmers. Sincerely. O. Le JOYNER, Greenville, N. Prop. Warehouse. BUCK JACK ITEMS. STATE NEWS. Happening In North Carolina. Some thief broke into the armory of the military company at Concord and stole several suits of uniforms guns. The store of B. J. Johnson, at Wharton's was destroyed by lire Sunday morning. This is lime he was out at the same place. The Swiss authorities have arrested pupils and all the teachers of an Italian girls boarding school located near the frontier for having smuggled mer- across the border. The teachers were In the habit taking girls out on daily ti in procession, walking two by The walks led over the border so often that the custom Decamp suspicious, stop examined the young men and clothes full of cigars, other articles. It is estimated up to the time of their detection they Had worth cf forbidden goods. leaf than ten year.- ago, Jack, K. C, JO, and winch allowed to rust at Cooper, of Roper the League Island Navy Yard until my, arrived Friday evening to The Carolina baseball league has of sinking, with no visit relatives and friends here. to pieces, taker other a single watch- at. T. Philips filled his j Trains are delayed all over man, and which was lately sent to here Saturday night State by the heavy ruins cans the Brooklyn Navy Yard to be and Sunday. Mug washouts. used es a receiving Although j Miss Lucy Clark, accompanied for speed and regarded by Prank Mayo, spent part of last outsiders as one of the finest ships here, of its class, the bureau of Misses and has from the day it was caster arc visiting in this neighbor- put in Commission, assigned the hood. Columbia to obscure tasks. Mr. Woodard. of reason ascribed for Ibis would came Friday to visit friends here pear ridiculous, if it were so laud returned home obviously tine. The Quite a of our people i ,. , , ,, , . . , , , ,, , , . . . . . On Monday the of was designed by Bear are getting tickets the . . , . . . ,,. . . , . . . . voted a proposition to issue who ha.- to k. L- . , , . , , . . . , ,, . , bonds for street improve- friend Admiral Several from here went down to .,,, , . , , ., . , . measure was and has in consequence night. . , ., iii .,.,.,., by a small been constantly opposed Little Miss Nina of Greenville, is visiting here. is having much discus E. I. Clark was presented with a graded school site. The I now whether there was any other a deer by his Mr. J. H. selected a not reason Una or envy for the Mills, on last Saturday, bis by many of the citizens, birthday. Ed. is delighted with n was applied his deer and says he hopes to i for to prevent the purchase of the able to raise him. A. C. Clark will leave Friday Olive to the fall Body Packed In A Trunk. term school there. We regret I N. C , August very much to have him leave The dead body of a Woman named Willie Seaborne was Bureau of Navigation. The country certainly has a right to deliberate plans of the Bureau of Navigation to lay up a cruiser in order neglect it useless a could out, if it about it right way. Child Din Suddenly. Amos is a bright, industrious youth. We wish him well in bis William Thomas King, little of Mr. Mrs. B. King aged, I Mis, White Mon- . months, her sister, Mrs. here. very suddenly this about o'clock. The child had been as bright and well as until a abort while after he got up dressed this morning, be violently ill. were hastily summoned and all possible thine, but iii a short while the child was dead. The doctors aid the cause of death edema the lungs. was Mr. and Mrs. King's oldest Child, Hi sudden death was a-hock to the community and a sad blow to the family. Mr. King was Washington City looking after some business, never dreaming but that his home was as happy as when he left It. The sail news was him by wire. As he cannot reach home until sometime honor row, the body of child has beta embalmed and arrangements for funeral deferred be The bereaved parents and have the sympathy of every one in the community in the great sorrow that sud- then. Or. A. is having a built street near Hotel o a Difference. Out mi the sales a few days ago a bunch of who had co different were discuss the sales at the ware- houses. One of them said that he bad thought tobacco would bring as much one floor us as same buyers followed the doors, would as much at one as another. said i he, I saw the sale at Joy mi's this I it convinced there i u difference. At Joyner's there was an en- put life in sale, and I know tobacco sold higher on this account. Besides Joyner knows and mud bidding on it and ain't afraid to buy a This conversation took place the street after the sales were ow, in. Summer Season, upon remain until pain I away by a or two I cure for from cramps lit forms of or No household lip Avoid Ultra, is Pain-Killer, Perry- e We, found in her trunk her home in avenue Ibis morning. The body had been cut up and doubled into the trunk with a lot of the woman's The woman wits seen Lot day night with John Miller, her paramour. They were Sunday Miller appeared nervous uneasy. He asked where the woman was. Later he said she bad left and be was go to ship her trunk to her. He disappeared about o'clock this morning. A woman saw blood stains in the room aim opened. officers an- after He Is medium sized, black, with a scar on i bl face. The woman was killed wild an the coroner says. The are greatly ex- cited will lynch Miller if they get a chance Winterville Department. HAPPENINGS AND BUSINESS NOTES. N. C, Aug. Quite a large crowd expect to leave here the excursion train tomorrow for Norfolk. C. A. Fair is now the markets purchasing the fall and winter goods millinery store of Mrs. C. A. Fair. Misses Bessie Baltic Nichols are visiting friends and relatives up western section of the Bay has gone to to remain a week with Johnie Browning left on Tues- day's freight for on J. K. Faulkner held services in the Missionary i ch here Sunday morning and night. Mr. of K. Con- tenure, preached Baptist church here last Sunday wants BOO cords of woodcut. Sec him at once. Miss Bryan has gone to Falkland to spend some time with her friend Miss Parker. Miss Ophelia Parker is visiting friends the section. A. Cox who has been sick for quite a long while is so much proved that he left for Monday to resume his duties his store. We extend our to friend Tom Wyatt for n bag of nice peaches pears. They were good. J. Harriss, of this neighborhood, died Monday night of consumption. She leaves a band and several child-en. Miss to Saturday evening and return- ed morning. mi Bryan down the road Saturday and came back Mon- day. Leonard spent Sunday here visiting friends. Miss Matilda of ville, who has been visiting here for several days left for Ayden to spend some time there. Parker left for Kinston yesterday Orders are already coming in for the A. G. Cox cotton planter for next season. Williams, of spent last night with Capt. Henry and this bought a nice lot of wire the A. Co. We must congratulate The upon its most excellent list of correspondents from ions sections of the county. These the kind that furnish news to the people, even if some of it is manufactured. mean no serious reflection. Only it speaks well for Well, a town like Win- instance, where so much is done, why can't news be manufactured toot See. Tun the work of its live dent Notice. I have been authorized by the Commissioners to list tie taxes. All persons who have listed their taxes fur are notified to come and do so the mouth of August, or they may have an Interview with the Solicitor at September court. T. It. Deeds. Claims He Can Cure Insanity. Dr. of this oily, claims to have a permanent cure for He resides Virginia avenue holds high rank as a physician. His special study has been neurology, and he is very firm s that he can do what he claims. have cured five canes so said he, wish to demonstrate that I can cure others. I have had some trouble with the medical fraternity I will not give out the secret of my I would like to state advance that I tin to cure cases of insanity due to severe to the head Of here persons w ere born idiots. That is impossible. Hut other cases I will cure in from four to eight weeks. demonstrate this to the world, I only ask that the St. Louis newspapers, one or as n whole, select some worthy subject, a mother of a family, or a father, or even a sou where real charity will lie apparent. The conditions are if the pa be in asylum must in- that he or she be at once re moved to some private home, if possible. I will charge nothing for my services, and if, after my treatment, the is not restored to perfect mental health, I will forfeit Louis Dispatch, 10th. We do the work. And that is the reason the old selling so much tobacco. We get the highest price for every pile sold on our floor. The farmers see this, and appreciating the bard work we do fur them they bring us their tobacco. We treat all alike, get the best price every time. Bring your next load to the Greenville Warehouse and we will show yon the truth of this. We have every accommodation for yon and your team. J. C. B. EVANS. D. SPAIN. The DIVIDEND RECORD THE RESULT Securing the highest rate of interest consistent with safety. Rigid economy of management. death rate, resulting from a careful selection of risks and limiting its business to the United States. It will be to your to see what we can do for you placing your life insurance. Good territory open for Agents North Carolina. T. ARCHIBALD CARY, General For Virginia and North Carolina, northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1201 E. Main Va. Exposition. I am prepared to about visitors with board and room with nil modern conveniences. Fine view of Niagara River and Brie from the house. Niagara Fulls car door every minutes. min walk to exposition grounds. Take Niagara street car to Auburn Avenue. Moderate rates. All correspondence will receive prompt attention. JOSEPH A. MOORE, 1285 Niagara Street, Buffalo, N. Y. Winterville High School. at term opens September 2nd and closes December 20th. Spring term begins December and ends May 10th. School, Academic, Intermediate and Primary De- and Music. Delightful location noted for healthful- in---, surrounded by excellent moral and religious For and full information address G. K. Principal, Winterville, N. C. Masonic Hall School. For Girls Only. Masonic Hull A school girls under Board of by Greenville Lodge, No. A. F. A. M., will open fall Sept. This school was conducted last year with to people of We have there- fore Lizzie Parker and Lelia Thornton to teach in thin taboo Ibis year, and to all who have girls to educate we ask patronage in maintaining this school. Tuition per Intermediate Higher 13,60, each extra. A fee of it will be charged. he school will have music department this session. Persons in town who can board pupils of the school will please notify the Secretary. It. L. Sec. Board Trustees. Greenville Male Academy. The session of this school will begin Monday, September J, TERMS FOLLOWS s Primary English per mouth I per mouth Languages 1.00 This school has The work the past s go every session from us in the Their standing Purely a course given Writing may be arranged for if past duly appreciated and we entrance best work. N. Aug. its present management for thirteen is oiled as a guarantee for the future, to University or any College there speaks for work done here, if desired. Stenography and Type pupils Your patronage in the ask a continuance of the same. Karly W. II. Fortunes Through Advertising. No fortunes arc in Ibis day tin- -all- t ii It-- which arc not advertised the newspapers. The Mail Order Journal names a long list men who have gained by manufacture and sale articles which have by ad- exclusively. Most VII depend chiefly news- papers and use other mediums in- if at Record, Bethel High School, BETHEL, N. A School for Mrs Writ. or Can- fill attention nil pupil. Three tie- I in- commercial A depart- from I lo de- mi K; us i, particular. C, H. S- Ml m MM This space belongs to who is now in the Northern Markets. EASTERN REFLECTOR NOTICE. If there is a CROSS MARK the margin of this paper it to remind you that you owe for subscription and we, request you to settle as early as pas- We need what YOU owe us and hope you will not keep us waiting for it. This notice is for those who find the cross mark on their paper Tom and We hear that a peddler drove off the dam to river, near Old Sparta, and fell in where the water was feet deep. He man- aged to get out, but the team and goods were lost LOCAL REFLECTIONS. Ariel composed by Miss Perkins Tyson, for sale at Reflector Book Store. The Reflector Book Store will sell a big tablet and a rubber tip- lead pencil both for cents. Sausage in Vinegar Magic Yeast, Pearl Ad and Henry George Cigars at S. M. Schultz. We have received the new en- for our mill plant and will be read for work in a few days. Miss Eva of Wilson, sang Heavenly as an offertory in the Baptist church Sunday morning. She has it sweet voice. getting for school re- member that Reflector Book Store Is the place to get school books, tablets, pencils, slates, chalk, colored crayons, books, pens, ink, etc. Monument of Dr. The family of the late Or. C. J. have just had a handsome monument placed at his grave in Cherry Hill cemetery. The is a fine of Vermont and is feet tall. It weighs pounds. N. C. Aug. 1901. J. Z. Brooks went on a business dip to Tuesday. Miss Eva Bell Wells, of is visiting the Misses Pittman for a few days. Geo. Sugg, Lloyd Woolen and Marvin all of Kinston, came down Tuesday morning to see game of ball and Dr. Dawson accompanied his mother, Mrs. Sack Dawson to Ashe ville where Mrs. Dawson will stay for a few weeks for her health. Mat Allen and Frank of Kinston, came over Tuesday to see the game of ball root for the Grifton boys. Ben Sheppard, Sidney Moore and Barnes came over from Ayden Monday to see game of ball on Tuesday. Tuesday about ten o'clock, the or the beat ball play- of Craven on the north side of Neuse river, began to drive to be ready for a game of ball in afternoon. And after a hotly contested game the Grifton boys came out victorious i n a score of six to nine favor of our home team. The boys from began to kick from time they got here until they left, but say they could not find any fault with umpire's decisions, as be gave everything that was to be given to the visiting team The boys from Craven when they went the grounds they kicked to. the back stop of course to get a game we lore it down, but we were con- that the catcher for their team wanted fit back before the game was over. Drowned. Harris, a colored man who was a tenant on farm of Mrs. Lucy Randolph, was drowned near Falkland on Sunday. mail attempted to ford the creek that was badly swollen and got in where the water was too deep. The team got out sale, but the man was drowned. A bottle of key was his pocket when his body was found. Notice of of The of W. T. Co., which has formerly com- of W. T. Lipscomb, T. Hooker II. E. has been dissolved. The said W. T. Lipscomb and S. T. Hooker will continue the business at Liberty Warehouse under the firm name W. T. Lipscomb Co., and the said W. T. Lipscomb and S. T. Hooker are now the of all amounts due old of W. T. Lipscomb Co., will pay all the outstanding claims against the same. W. T. S. T. July Announcement. The firm W. T. Lipscomb Co., is now composed of W. T. Lipscomb S. T. Hooker, they having purchased the entire inter- est of B, I'm ham in the business We the undersigned desire to ink our friends and customers for then past patronage and to state that we will continue lo do business at the Liberty Ware- house where we will always be pleased to serve them. We are fully prepared to protect the In- of all our to secure for them the highest prices for their tobacco. W. T. July The of Wealth. The Wilmington Star says that Col. W. T. Blackwell, treasurer of Greater Durham, has had his raised from 020.8.1 to a mouth. Colonel Is the man who made Durham made it famous with his Durham Bull tobacco. At one time, and not so many years ago, ho bad an Income his tobacco of a year. This is one of the many illustrations of how riches take unto themselves wings and fly away. Gave Him Jump. Tuesday afternoon Sheriff O. W. Harrington went over Carolina township arrested a his way back to and when about to cross Creek, neg u in pet I out of the buggy and notwithstanding were tied and the Sheriff shot him five times, he got away. The Sheriff came to town after bloodhounds buck to try to run the but he gone in the swamp there was so much water could not trail. School. Prof. V. H. Peters- burg, has charge as principal of Bethel School. He united at Bethel Saturday lo prepare for opening fall term of the school Sept. 2nd. Prof. Young came over to Monday evening to have some printing and advertising for the school. Announcement up pears Ibis paper. The is glad the Bethel people have secured a good for school hopes may have it successful fall Meyer Court. Mayor W. EL Long has disposed of the following cases bis court since last drunk and dis- orderly, lined i and costs, 04.10. John Taft Henry Tuft, color ed, disorderly conduct, John Taft, lined l and half costs, Henry fined one penny and half costs, total II. Hardison keeping bar- shop open Sunday, fined one penny and costs, 3.71. Appealed to Superior court. Fleming and Ed Ran- riotous and disorderly con- duct and assault with deadly bound over to September term of Superior Court. House, drunk and disorder- costs, 03.20. Charles Barrett, drunk dis- orderly, and costs, 03.20. Jack Id and Bryant, riotous disorderly conduct and assault. Sam not guilty. Jack fined one penny and costs, 01.76. Willie Latham, entering bar- room, being a lined one penny costs, entering barroom being minor, not guilty dismissed. Marion Perkins, shooting pistol in town, lined costs, 04.20. Foreman, entering bar- room, being minor, lined one pen- cost.-, 01.00. John Gray, entering barroom be- minor, fined one penny and costs, 01.00. William Humphrey, lined costs, 04.50. Ben Anderson, riotous dis- orderly conduct, costs, 02.05. Mayor had a much week usual, as the long list of shows. Burned Her Son Tongue a Cure for Lying. Elizabeth was convicted here today of Inning thrust a hot iron poker into the it of her seven j cur old son Daniel, because the little fellow bad been guilty of telling a hood. to her admission the woman deliberately heated the implement over a lamp and the boy's mouth held it against his tongue for several seconds, him frightfully. She was sent to jail for six mouths fined Tho boy will pro- Dis- patch, 17th. It Important Hi those, for pleasure or in T, v against attack which only m. hilt lire III their A of Perry is, we a effectual randy auto there U hut one Killer, Perry Trice and This space is reserved for Big New Store, Watch it for Startling Prices.

Have Ton Forgot What THAT I AM STILL AN LINK OF Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Shoes Hats, Shirts, Pants, Hardware Tinware, AND A OF WHICH I AM TO me to sec me far yew next Barrel of Flour or Pork. Yours to please Jas. B. White. AFTER TWO YEARS BEEN PAID IN OF NEWARK, K. J. POLICY HAS Loan Value, Oath Value, Paid-up Insurance, Extended Insurance works automatically, Is c. Will be re-instated if arrears be paid mouth while you are living, or within three years after lapse, upon of and payment of arrears Interest, second No Restrictions, s. Incontestable. Dividends are payable at the beginning of the second and cf each succeeding year, provided the premium for current year be paid. They may be To reduce Premiums, or To Increase the Insurance, or S. To make policy payable as an endowment during the lifetime of insured. J. L. N. C. unless Red Cross is on label Don't talcs s Substitute WE WORLD TO PRODUCE THE EQUAL OF for Chills. Fevers, Night Sweats and Grippe, and all forms of Malaria. DON'T WAIT TO SPEND CENTS AND BE CURED CURES TONIC FAMOUS TRY IT. NO NO PAY. PER DELIGHTFUL TO TAKE. Horner Military School, OXFORD, if. C. Elegant buildings, heated by the Buffalo fan system, securing pet- ventilation. Sixteen new rooms for two boys each to be added for the fall term. Engagements should be made early. Annual attendance up to I he full capacity and many turned away each session for lack of Rest athletic Held, with quarter mile track, in the Smith. Faculty of specialists special work. Curriculum preparatory to the best college or education. An atmosphere of high ideals surrounds the school, as students preparing for higher education are excluded. Fall term begins September t. feet OUR RALEIGH LETTER. rial C ft. V., Aug. The new school has been closed at last and and on of lust met ion sent out the for- letter to the county boards of education giving instruction their use, exclusively, in the free public schools for th next five I years. Senator and Congress- of the Raleigh District have secured establishment of nineteen free rural mail delivery routes in this district, to hare the naming of ten and the Congressman nine of the carriers. This Isa convenience to the country people, and every in the Stale should urge its In Congress to the establishment of as many of these routes as possible. lit may be added, that the more miles of the counties have worked the move rural they will secure. Ill Ml I The State of the Alliance held its annual meeting last week at Hillsboro. Capt. W. B, Fleming of Warren was elected President of the Alli- T. Johnson of Vice-President T. Parker Hillsboro, Secretary and Treasurer and Business Agent; J. W. of Raleigh, Chairman Committee. a resolution was adopted de- the the Chem- Company, and advising to buy as little manipulated guano as possible, and to make their own fertilizers from the raw I materials. I EPIDEMIC FA KM A terrible epidemic aiming bones in certain portions portions of eastern North Car- is reported. In Hyde i i alone over are dead from I and fever and many more are sick. The fever which kills thorn is brought on by biles little pests In unusual mini leis this and a formula for preventing the fever is now be- sent out farmers by the Ag- Department here. Ir. Petty, a capable veterinarian, says that the best proscription for this is quinine given internally and an external application of kerosene oil and solution twice a day. Only No crop can be grown without Potash. Supply ugh Pot- ash and your profits will be large; without Potash your crop will be GERMAN K M l I . rt A Growing Evil. One of crying evils of the times is the growing habit of of the of suspending judgment on payment of the Of course there arc eases where such action is necessary, but it together too common. It frequently costs are the object for which courts are established. Be- sides it t he school fun money that belongs to it. rial officers did not suspend so often, the lines ought would go into the school offender would be deter- violating the Observer. Atlanta, Ga Powders ever its tn the public and trade as and In it steadily year year our now amount ti two or tores hundred per year, which i a very strong ii merit the it giving lbs of tiny nothing counteract the effects of the hot ran or overcomes the. I, incident lo Till. DRUG CO. Rudolph lender in and km Nice far per alarm. Cabinets at go per All oilier hue vary Crayon math- any small Nice Frame on nil time. Come examine my work. No to show samples answer The very best work lo all. Office hour S to a. m., I. toll p. in. Yours to please, HI HYMAN. IN J. W. PERRY k CO. Norfolk, Va. Cotton Factors and handlers of Bagging, Ties and Bags. Correspondence and shipments solicited. RUGS. x Inch Genuine Reversible Scotch a inch in Two. Over oM i-i Ti from people and i for be for mm price, fr to make tn week for this State New K. C. TO tin Clerk Superior Coon leaned Letter cf to Die en the 9th lay of the estate of i hereby given lo all lo the to make to to all of estate to claims to the twelve after date of notice, or notice in their recovery. This the 9th of August, iii p Practical Education In engineering, arts, a of manual training. a year. Total in- and Thirty SH students. For T iron, IN AGRICULTURE MECHANIC ARTS, ft e. THE NORTH CAROLINA NORMAL AND Literary, Classical, RaM Annual r. .; of the K CO Practice and To In ll . i . . and other informal, laxative If bare constipation, bad breath, inactive liver, heartburn, kidney troubles, loss of lack of energy, bad blood, blotched or muddy skin, or any and which tell the of bad and an digestive Will Cure It will clean out the stimulate tho liver and kidneys, strengthen the mucous membranes of purify your blood and put you your again. Your appetite will return, your bowel, move liver and kidney to trouble you, your akin will clear and freshen and will feel the old time energy and buoyancy. welting the medicine r one, fur rm and similar trouble, will Ideal far children. It keep, regular or nature, relieve. fever, cause. and make, well, happy and hearty it and for For Sale by to present outlook, all vegetables will be tr command profitable price, winter and spring. running meats this mind, but adopt methods putting up vegetables and such fruits us can be bad. The con- and vegetables, canned or preserved, is rap- Idly growing, and of meals in a measure decreasing. This is well, for the health of the consumers. Therefore, fruits an tanners and truck-gar- may not he able to sell fresh last Year's grain and forage should be canned or preserved as lie fed lo such animals. MAI OF Preparations are being made to f ii as may lie. It will save as well as money to the family add lo the general care for a larger number of j Poet. dent old at the ate Home here, and about her 1st a number of in- mates be received. is room as many as at present. mis let for a new dormitory building, which, with Hie building now in use, will a improvement t Home. the TORPID st re. it hen the digestive organ the bone la, and arc an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE In malarial their virtue are they la freeing the t, iI hot moil Ml n luxe,, At CO , lO .-J V . ind We will pi in w wt M a . At the encampment and animal, the Confederate Vet- last week, at General delivered an ad- dress and the following officers were Curr; Brigadier John ti. Hall, L. London, M. 1-. SI. the first, second, twirl fourth Brigades, respectively. next meeting will held at Greens- The North Carolina Knights of Honor, the meeting of the Grand Lodge last Friday, elided . Past Grand K. U. N. Vice Dictator; P. c. Carlton, Grand s. Grand Supreme Representative, T II the multi-mil divorce from hi-; wife last week in a Florida court, will soon marry a leading and well-known lady. Mr. It years of age. that coated. Take No Substitute. nil That is wont they for. Tun- No Paper m prepared fill onion Will P- cm it l rum I to few II of Mr. M. I. will Kevin J II. BUNN, Greenville, V. by Judge Henry It Bryan that he -will be to the term all Jurors who die weeks said are lo all who parties who have U-n over term are an-l attend the special term of on Monday. 1901, A new will for term. Thin Aug. P. c clerk Three One Year for Times VA., Now Only Cents a Year, and includes absolutely free The Paragon Monthly, New The Farm Journal, Philadelphia. THE DAILY Ml SUNDAY TIMES. Including Farm Journal and Para- Monthly, now only per year; per month by mail. Address TUB TIMES, Va. OLD DOMINION LINE SERVICE Steamer leave Washing- ton daily at A. M. for Green- ville, leave daily at M. for Washington. Steamer leaves Greenville Mondays, Wednesday and Friday, at A. M. leave Tarboro for Greenville Tuesdays, and Saturdays at A. M. carries freight only. Connecting at Washington with Steamers for Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York and ton, and for all points for the West with railroads at Norfolk. Shippers should order freight by the Old Dominion S. Co. from New York; Clyde Line from Bay Line from Baltimore, and Line from Boston. JNO. SON, Washington, N. C J. J. Greenville, N. O. PHI county in Superior court before Roman ass and others, Wyatt t j The above defendant cheater Hill lake notice that an action at in the Superior of county, sell a certain lot in of Bethel for Ami the will further lake notice hat to appear the i clerk of Hie of on and answer or to the complaint said action, or the will apply to the for the relief in complaint. This August t II. clerk court. . . LAND SALE. Dy virtue of a Decree of the court Co Beat, L. Beat, the Com. will cl before the court house door in the 2nd day of Sept. tract of lying the North side of Creek South a of Bald road Frank corner, South E. SO poles lo oilier comer, thence Wt-t poles to a coiner near East poles, I hence South poles. o a stake corner In said line, Weal, Main with Road lo the more or i, By virtue i directed to I mil Superior four of A. Young ft Co. . an-l A- K. J. Cox, I will on the 2nd day of Sept. 1901 at o'clock M. at court house Pitt County sell to the for cash lion all title and which J. W. Cox ha in the following Real due puce at Had- X beginning iii of the New Ta retail Grocer and Furniture Dealer. Cash paid fur Hides, ton Seed, Oil Egg, eta. Bed- steads, is, Oak Suits, by tin Carts, Parlor j suits, Safes, P. and Gail M.-at Key Gas tied r, Peaches, Apples, Pine A pi , up, Jelly, Milk, flour. r, c-flee. Lye, Mi IV I, Matches, Oil, Cotton Meal and Gar- den Oranges, Apples, Nuts, Apples, Pi mien, Currents, Glass and Wine, Tin Wooden Ware, Cakes and Crackers, Cheese, Best Butter, Stand- ard Sewing nu other goods. Quality Quantity. Cheap fur cash. Com to see mo. down New Road to Cos line, thence line around to Read, with to Containing pun of land i X acres fully in a Deed Lewis , and to John M. cox in It A page of the Register office of Also piece of con- acre fully in a tied from wife to John In II-1 past- m the Pitt mealy, This 2nd, day of 1901. O. V. II, IV. W. Tucker, 0.8 Greensboro Female, College Greensboro, N. C. Literary Business Music, Art and Literary and all Living Expenses 1200.00 per Year. Fall Session begins September 11th, on cation. President. CANDY I owned throe r, of New every CHRISTIAN at of iii a certain therein pending, Cannon, Public Administrator, the M II. vs. R. will Monday, 2nd, 1901, the Court door In bidder, for lit r of in town known in II. KM of mid town, including This the of August, CANNON, Public c W. II. i deceased. DEALER IN Carolina, Pitt court. Hooker vs. U. administrator f K. J. a I Vi. William J. B. Yellowley Executor of II. A. J. Yellowley individually. J The J B Yellowley as of Of H A Yellowley, will take notice that an action entitled as above has commenced ii Superior court. of county, to have that tract cf land known as Alpine, of which E c Yellowley died seized and bold by of the court lo pay a debt due plaintiff from said Bo Yellowley and also to It cherry from making sale land under from J ll Yellowley and for other relief demanded in the complaint and the wild defendant will further take notice be is required to the next term of Superior court of said county to held on the 1st Monday in September, at house of said county hi N-c, answer or demur to the complaint Mud act inn or the will apply tn the court the relief do- in said of U. C. tiers ii UNIVERSITY of North Carolina. OP TUB STATE'S ACADEMIC LAW, Eighty live Free tuition lo mill I. fur the Instructors. Now Water Works, Central spent in in mil term ,, E. p. vi Chapel N. C. to Mr. for Virginia, of that MUTUAL LITe Co., Its large polity to public of North will new In this this dale will to all siring tho very beat insurance la beat life II it mi JOHN Agent, N. C. to tho m m N. C. Cotton lies always on Fresh goods kept constantly en hand. Country produce and sold. A trial will convince you. D. W. W, R. WHICHARD Whichard, N. C. The Stock complete in every de and prices as low as the lowest. Highest market prices paid for country produce. Silts A OF Hardware. COME TO SEE ME. j. k. Norfolk, Va. Cotton Buyers and Brokers in stocks, drain and ions. Private Wires to New York, Chicago and New Orleans. The Commoner ISSUED WEEKLY. WILLIAM J. BRYAN, Editor A Publisher, Lincoln, Advance. One Year fl, Six Months Three Sing. Copy No traveling canvassers are em- ployed. taken at I The Semi- Weekly and will be sent together one year for or The and one year for payable in ad- C. CO. WASH I FOR SI I The Eastern Reflector D. J. EDITOR TO -AT- VOL. XX. PITT COUNTY, N. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST NO ARE KNOCKING THEM -t SO i. C- Dress Goods, Hats, Caps Shoes, Trunks, Boys and Gents Gloves, and a big line Baby Caps, Cloaks, Mitts and Bootees. Come to see us. day D bargain day and everything a bargain. friends, W. T. LEE CO. A FIRST CLASS MILITARY SCHOOL IN EASTERN N. J School, LaGrange, N. C. MILITARY, LITERARY, SCIENTIFIC COMMERCIAL SCHOOL. Pupils, Twelve Counties and two Stalin F represented past session. School for Sixty Cadets. The school aims to by developing latent and power. The individual needs of the students arc considered. The literary training strengthens the manly traits, gives a sound body I and clear mind. Class room methods cultivate . and mental grasp. Athletics encouraged. Expenses per half term, including board, tuition, fuel, lights and room, 55.00. No incidentals. School opens September Write for J. E. Slit. Cash is King. A LIST PREPARED BY REQUEST. Some weeks ago a lady in n Carolina wrote to the writer ash- in,; him to print in Messenger a of books suitable for girls of fourteen or lift we think it was, for we mislaid the letter soon after receiving and have not been able to it. Most fairly people can make out a list of for girls of thirteen to and all will differ. With some hesitancy we submit a that ran lie read by girls of good minds. We have a neighbor of this kind, a Miss of hut thirteen, she reads and hugely enjoys Scott, George Eliot. But she is sprightly and a book lover. The could lie largely extended. We submit the follow- a by by Miss Porter; of History of by Story of by North Caro- History by W. c. Allen; Mode's History of North Scott's novels and poems; poetry essays; Green's one volume of the English Me of Our Own Golden by Miss Young; Kipling's Jungle Book; Five Books, by Myths of the Middle by Baling Gould; of a Neigh- by by George Elliot; by Mrs. of on English by Henry Reed; the Hack of the North by Canon Oliver's by Kate Wig- gin; Schools by Mrs. Oliphant; Novels by Dickens; Comedies and Historic plays Shakespeare, to be selected; the dock; Halifax, and Conditions of Will He do on the Elliot; Told j, Hawthorne; by j n . Kingsley. If we would take lime to think over the whole Held could double list given, but enough and more arc named. Wilmington J. M TO THE PEOPLE, OUR FRIENDS AND OF PITT AND after your are still In the forefront of the offer yon best selected line of General Merchandise to be found in any store in County. Well choice selections, the creations of the best of America Europe. Seasonable all the year round, Spring, Slimmer and Winter. We are at work for yours and our mutual ad vantage. It is our pleasure to show you what you want and to sell you if we can. We offer you the very best service, polite attention, most terms consistent with a well established business bull up strictly on own merits. When you conic to market you will not do yourself justice if you do not see our Immense Stock before buying elsewhere. Remember us and Hie following lines of general merchandise, Goods and Notions, Satins, Dress Just Received. A large line of Baby Caps, Belts, Laces and Embroideries. Ladies Col- and Cuffs all Sizes I WAVE THE AND HANDSOMEST TO GREENVILLE. Mrs. is in charge of my millinery department it ; is nut on hand one will be to suit your tastes while you wait. Hats, silks. Braids, Ornaments, Flowers, and everything ii the milliners line. Shoes. Men's Harm ii i Capos, Carpels, Mattings and Oil Cloths. Women's and Children's Horse Blankets and nil Groceries. Flour, Meat, Sugar Coffee, Scad Is, Hardware, Plows, Castings and Plow Fixtures, Nails and Rope. Furniture. Headquarters for Furniture and everything In that line. We buy strictly for Cash, but sell for Either Cash or on Approved Credit Our motto is Honesty, Merit and Square Dealing. Your Friends, J. Greenville Male Academy. COTTON TICS A shot of cotton tics will and the surrounding cotton growing country, but the whole of tho cot- ton belt, i already fell here, as a tho price of lies, 91.05 a now ranges REASON. IF THERE IS ANY. The Wilmington Messenger has recently remarked that several new professors for North Carolina colleges have been elected lately, and all of them from outside the The Raleigh Post observes upon this that there from 11.10 to and mast be something wrong some- The next session of school AS FOLLOWS on Monday, Primary English month 12.00 Intermediate For cash e will the sharpest, swiftest most sweeping, prim cutting ever known in mid summer. the ll cut just half on till Lawns. Dimities, Silks, White Goods, Hosiery, Laces, Hamburg, Underwear, Shirts, Slippers, till furnishing goods. These goods must be pushed out to make room fall goods. KICKS WILKINSON. The editor of is receipt of the following letter, addressed to him personally. omit names. I have been Informed your is now without a dentist. Will you please be so as to let me know if this is true. you In advance, I urn Yours truly. English per month W Languages 1.00 This school has been under its for thirteen The work In the past is cited as a guarantee for the future. go every session from us directly to the University or any College in the Their standing there speaks for the work done here. Purely a business course given ii desired. Stenography and Type Writing may be arranged for if pupils Your patronage in past is duly appreciated and ask a continual., e of the same. Early entrance insures best work. W. Greenville, N. Aug. Principal. The believes duty every professional man and every business man owes himself and the public to have bis name, if only n card stating his business, appear regularly his town pa- People outside of a town look to the town papers to see what the has, and when they fail to sec a business or not represented they naturally come to the conclusion expressed by the writer of the above letter. Masonic Hall School, For Girls Only. Masonic Hall School A girls under control Hoard of Trustees appointed by Lodge, No, A. A. M., will fall session Sept. 2nd. This was conducted last year with great satisfaction to Hie people of Greenville. We have there fore employed Misses Lizzie D. Parker and Leila Thornton to leach this this to all who have girls to educate we ask put lounge and support this school. Tuition per 11.60, Intermediate J. Higher Languages each extra. A fee l will be charged. The school will have DO music department this session. Persons in town who can board pupils of the school will please notify the Secretary. B, L. Sec. Beard Trustees, at least one party U holding ti pt of for 81.35. The shortage is caused by tho strike of tho Amalgamated of Iron steel and iii, and the hut-down the Mid . Company's mill, chief source of the tic sup- ply. Contracts with the era were made En January, March, for a quantity sufficient to meet demand and the factors had every reason to believe that the stock, I or least the greater pan of ill had been made up long before strikers out. but to their gent demand for shipments on con j tracts made since opening of season, have In en I old to the wits n I mi hand. Too turns stilted they bail only a would be prorated bus As contracts between manufacturers the strike clause, his obligation of a strike, the factors have no re- dress will to take Mali sunk as can get, sell for what it will bring content themselves us best they can under the stances. There r a few mills other than where suggests that thing ought lo be done to put a to this county among The Landmark takes the subject up and says the facts t are as they are because it remains, line now as it was the Master that prophet is not without honor, but in his and among his own kin, In his own It two young men of equal both of talent. They ire appreciated at home, a way, but don't amount to much there; they exchange homes and each be- comes distinguished. a says The Landmark, native home man cannot succeed any line of endeavor at home as well as he can elsewhere, because people Mill not appreciate him lake to him as they will to a it concludes, very Thus it is that lies and that they Philosophically we scud elsewhere fur college pres- and teachers while other come to North Carolina for about the way of it, and i. Is of little to for is a way the has always bad about It. it would not do to it would not be true to say, that Virginia as without of Dr. Venable or North Carolina, of Dr. Derringer, yet it is a the of the of North Carolina Mr. T. has suit against the city of bury on of an injury received by Mrs. bins on the night of 11th. While she on a loose plank on a side walk and suffered a arm. Three The. Value OF ANY OTHER Turn FASTER. the one makes I the chairman of the lies; one of these U in an- faculty of the University of other in and still another to is a at Ohio, bill the Some of the output of these even should lawyers, physicians the Ohio mill trouble with and of the great cities are the strikers, will not men, some of them North where meeting the demand. To be sure it is A motor said a . day that -apply can states and section last Inn a very short lime, and as reflected light, but per- soon as the cot ton crop begins had remained where move freely, unless strike were born they would have been settled by that time the given out no light at all, or at i lion Ire- L, ,;,.,. more than prices for lies or the neighborhood, it is better for practically slop shipping their pro- , themselves and the world News. ,,,.,, Agents wanted in all territory, Company. All nil I, tale by S. T- fer mile lo do All change i-- the our own people their own In chair, for nit tire and oilier town solid sure now, and the are feeling of the round i.- the Greenville, N. Charity and Children. so called better half is of- I the whole thing. Maude, dear; it is a mistake to think that scaling wax comes from seals. don't have to play check- to get n checkered de- lire- the Philosopher