III Mill THE EASTERN REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C SIX D. W. DEALER IN Groceries And Provisions The End of A Quarrel Cotton Bagging and Ties always on hand Fresh Good kept con- In stock. Country Produce Bought and Sold D. W. GREENVILLE North Carolina. Not Quite How often you can get a thing nail or screw driver or lacking. Have a good tool box and be prepared tor emergencies. Our line of tools is all you could desire, and we will see that your tool box does not lack as useful article. Of Course You get Harness, Horse Goods, Burglars were In possession of the town-not in open possession, for they were never seen; hid somewhere all day. doing their housebreaking at night. This comparatively simple, tor the police force consisted of five men. who were expected to watch houses, or a thousand houses to each On Sunday evening when the Burnes family were at church and the servant burglars entered the house and got away with much On Monday night, or. rather, morn- they cut a hole with a Jig saw in the kitchen door of the turned the key. walked In, took every- thing on the ground floor and depart- ed without awakening the inmates. And so they proceeded, nearly every night entering some house and carry- off valuables. Why they operations In one locality for so long a time no one could tell unless It was on account of lack of Mrs. Bartlett had a tiff with her husband in the morning at the breakfast table. Her servant the day before had left her In the lurch, there was an unusually large washing and i no one to do it. She had requested Mr. Bartlett to go out and hunt up a to come In and launder. Mr. Bart- had replied that by so doing he might possibly lose an important deal and a thousand dollars that would go with it. Then Mrs. Bartlett had told Dim that If be refused the washing would have to go over, ant this would disarrange the household for the whole week and perhaps whereupon Mr. Bartlett told her that he would rather the washing stand over a month than that he should lose his deal. This was the way it started, and it by Mr. Bartlett putting on his hat and going out. shut- ting the door on the middle of a sen- his wife was tiring at As soon as the husband departed the wife went out herself, found a laundress, brought opening me emit- she put out her head and looked down upon a man the window catch on the floor below. Sometimes the most timid ; display the greatest when put to a trial. Mrs. Bartlett realized that something must be done to drive the man off. She feared that if she cried out she would not be heard and It would incite the burglar to kill her. There was neither gun nor pistol in the house, and if there were she would not dare touch either. Like a flash it came to her that the water in the boiler was very hot, having been kept so all day for purposes. Seizing a pitcher she rushed to the bath room, tilled it with steaming water, returned to the window and poured It down on the head of the burglar. There was a yell and the man, wring- his hands, stepped back and looked up at the window. he cried, can yon be so devilish as to pour scalding water on your There was a shriek at the window, and Mrs. Bartlett. frantic, rushed back -r m THE EASTERN REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C. SET -V ITEMS. Grimesland, N. C, June After so many disastrous fires our town is again getting down to business. Within fifteen months every business house has de- by fire, but in the near future we hope to see new and better buildings take the place of those destroyed. W. M. Moore, T. F. Proctor and Dr. C. M. Jones have built larger and better stores they had before they were burned out and J. O. i Bro. have built a large store for W. M. MOORE CO. Grimesland, N. C. Headquarters for Clothing, Dry Goods, Notions, Furnishings, Hardware, Groceries. and in a few minutes the serenity of the household was only broken by the rub. rub. rub in the laundry. Mrs. irritation cooled down as the water in the range boiler grew hot, and she began to regret her harsh words. Mr. Bartlett went to his office, had an business day and when even- came, supposing his wife would be In the same humor he had left her, In- stead of going home to continue the i quarrel went to his club, dined and the evening there, i When the dinner hour arrived and Mr Bartlett did not return Mrs. Bart- I began to tremble for fear she had gone too far. She dined is, she went through the motions of din- i for she was in no mood to eat. When she paid off the laundress and found herself absolutely alone In the house her heart went down like the Fountain, n. honor of absorbing her that she had driven her husband away from her, the other that the who were infesting the town might make her a visit. Locks and keys were a great deal for her. and she locked and bolted every door in the house, in- the front door, besides noting that the catch was properly set on window. The evening was spent, first, In abusing her Una- band for not coming home; second. fearing that he never would come home, and. third, expecting every to burglarized. About o clock he went upstairs, and. putting on a wrapper, lay down on the bed Suddenly she started up downstairs and threw open a door. There was a Protest m have from the husband, while the wife Deg- , r . to come into the house. Mr. j put huge stores on Main street. Bartlett had been protected from the; j. O. Proctor Bro., have the hot water excepting his hands, which . f new saw and looked like boiled lobsters. The water not boiling, but was hot enough to well under way and will blister them. His wife wrapped them be for business along In cotton saturated with sweet oil. and We hear that northern capitalists wife to embrace her and thought the to locate a paper couple were entering upon a t Tar ; to forests of cotton wood and the couple, disgusted with the from to fruits of it. have taken every product. There is enough against ; new Grimesland to ; such a mill fact View Womanhood. supply Of WOOd is 10- The oriental idea of the exhaustible. which American women enjoy noes mi Editor of Reflector was accord with that of Americana. One imAm We expressed herself as great- US a short while r . W e y shocked that American men should were to shake his kindly hand compel their women to go about in cheerful word with carry anything that can be found in a stock of General Merchandise July 1st, we will for days make special cut prices on all SUM R GOODS. This is a chance bar- gains on these goods. Call and be convinced. Cool Cloth- T. F. PROCTOR, Grimesland, N. C. GENERAL MERCHANDISE Anything wanted in the way of Clothing. Dry Goods, No- Shoes, Hats, Groceries and Hardware can be found here. Whether it is some- thing to eat, something to wear, or some article for the house or farm, you can be supplied. Highest prices paid for cotton, country produce or anything the farmer sells. J. R. Corey DEALER IN and Italian Marble GREENVILLE, N. C. Wire and Iron Pence Sold- work and prices reasonable d on lion. Physician and Surgeon, N. C one door east of post office, on street Phone DEALER IN gentleman with whom we talked thus with our disaster, expressed himself the subject of hoped w for fortunate future, women. Why. let me tell you that again, and not boys, till they are ready to learn the ways of men. are taught by , tWIXt. their mothers. We arc subject to our. people come and go. me mothers, and we know what you dentals do not yet seem to , Proctor is to have good men and good citizen. I we note that M. E is we must have good mothers. You will home after running a series hardly find a man. up and Tar his caste, daring to go against the, counsel of his mother. Can you say as , river on his gas boat Myrtle, much for American This little craft has been a source Could as much, do our mUch pleasure to our people, as well as those of our near-by be said for American men no asylums for helpless fathers and mothers in the orient. So long as there Is a comer and a crust to be shared the parents in the oriental family have the lion's Whichard, N. C. cities. J. J. Mason has returned from a business trip to Norfolk and Baltimore. We learn that he will soon move to Washington and engage in business in that town. Miss Moore has closed a very prosperous term of school at and is at summer. We are of are so pleased with her school work that they want her to teach for them again. Dr. Jones out Friday J. Proctor Bros. SUPPLY HOUSE. Pliers and If want lumber to build a house, furniture to go in it, clothing and goods far your family, provisions for your table, or implement for we can supply your needs. We manufacture TOBACCO FLUES and sell the best tobacco trucks, also do general repairing of buggies, carts and wagons. Come to us for any- thing you want. Che Stock complete in every and prices as low as de the rest. Highest market prices id for country produce. Smoking In Spain. In Spain people smoke incessantly under all conditions, at all hours and In nil places, except in church. Men smoke In the railway carriages; they smoke in all the tram cars; they smoke In all the minor theaters; they smoke In all the restaurants, in the hotel din- for the rooms, and, of course, in the fa t In business offices the merchant and his clerks smoke. In shops the shop- man, while trying to sell goods to a lady, will stop to roll a cigarette, I which, when lighted, he will puff In. her face. You see conductors and W. M. Moore drivers of tram cars smoking. All the a party of ladies hackney smoke g up creek. They Had she even coachmen and footmen or f or had she dream- carriages sometimes smoke on had bites, j pd it While she was wondering there e box. Beggars approach you. Lavina Ada V ard, was a step in the rear of the house. Go- in mouth, to whine for alms if visiting friends me to a back window she peeped you for tickets at a railway office,, nave t, through the blinds, which she had ; he clerk lays down his cigarette as he here, returned to their home Sun slanted, but though she could hands you the dingy bits of pasteboard. one below she could see The Innumerable peddlers all , . q j. B. m will regret to learn of her serious illness. She is slight The better today, origin most frequently in use is to-1 c Venters, who recently A native of tropical or i moved place, is building a H. C. VENTERS, N. C. Dry Goods, Notions, Fancy Tobacco and Cigars. The only Soda Fountain in town, All the popular drinks. Hot Peanuts every day. R. c. n. JONES, Physician and Surgeon, Complete Stock of Drug. N. C. No views are good views. Tact is the sense of the To live happily you must mag- the small pleasures and mini- the small annoyances. Buyers and Brokers in ks, Cotton, Grain and Private Wires to New York, and New Orleans. ESTABLISHED IN 1866. I. f. CO. Norfolk, Va. Factors and handlers of j Ties and Bags. I and shipments was filling out very fist. But your Vigor stopped the restored the E. Z. Cohoes, in. i. It's impossible for you not to look old, with the color of seventy years in your hair I Perhaps you are seventy, and you like your gray hair If not, Use Hair Vigor. In less than a month your gray hair will have all the dark, rich color of youth. J I MB All If MB cannot Ton, Ml one dollar Md a bottle. e the nm. tropical America. It was cultivated by I the subjects of the Monte- as well as by the other native long before the ad- i vent of Europeans on this hemisphere i under the name of or Though introduced into Europe I most as early its the i It was many years before it made new residence. When finished it will be one of the best houses in town. Will Dunn and S. D. Tucker engaged in a little scrap Saturday Time two minutes. Two Keep your money friends will keep you. England travels in ruts, travels on rails. and your whilst Us way Into popular favor. There It was known to the English as love to the French as and to the Italians as I Progress and these names are still in use, per- match. the old. widespread notion that its use as food had Influence on the amatory passions. is the Humor is the of things. sense of the unfit- laborer is worthy of his the laborer is also worthy of his higher Truth. The -The publishers told Arthur that he would have to rewrite a good portion of his book before they could bring it I should think they would have had him rewrite some of the bad City Journal. If you know Malaria, you like it. If you know Ague Cure, you certainly do Whether it's cold or whether it's hot, We've got to weather it whether or not. The man who went around predicting a cool summer has just bought a lot of our hot weather stuff and betaken him- self to the seashore. We took no stock in his predictions, but a good deal of stock in Negligee Shirts, Thin Underwear. Straw Hats, Serge Suits, Thin Coats and kindred contributors to a low temperature. OUR PRICES AS WELL AS OUR CLOTHING WILL KEEP YOU COOL. FRANK WILSON THE KING CLOTHIER. Reduction Sale of Summer Pants. The Fine Line of Pants we have been carrying in stock at and dollars are now offered at the . GREAT REDUCTION PRICE OF. P for each pair, regardless of former price. These are strictly all-wool goods, finely tailored and in the very latest style. We have a large stock and can surely fit and please you. The great rheumatic remedy not only cures every form of rheumatism, but makes radical cures of Contagious Blood Poison, Scrofula, Sores, Boils, Catarrh, all diseases arising from Impurities in the blood. Endorsed by physicians and prominent people every- where after thorough trial. DOCS NOT INJURE THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS. If. C. In tearing- testimony to curative f f oar Two cured my ion of a bad If of any benefit to you In your remedy, you can it. Tours truly, W. H. RAND, Steward State Blind All or prepaid on receipt of price. Bobbin Chemical Ce., Baltimore Button. . rid. i your farm a name and order Reflector to print it on your N. C, June j Mrs. H. M. of Norfolk is visiting Mr. parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Misses May Brooks, of Grifton, and Harper, of Snow Hill, are at W. A. den's. Mies Maude Dawson, and Roy of Institute, county, spent Saturday night and; Sunday with Miss Fannie I Miss Florence returned home today from Goldsboro and j Snow Hill, where she has been visiting. Miss Lillie Patrick, of Hill, accompanied Miss to Goldsboro. Miss Bettie Smith, of Hugo, spent last week visiting at W. W. Marion Taylor, of spent Saturday night and Sunday with J. T. Elias Turnage and son made a business trip to Kinston last Friday. W. J. went to Goldsboro last week. We wonder what bu he bad We are glad to see out again, Mrs. E. E. who has been sick some with lever. Misses Ethel Hill, of Fountain Hill, and Sunday night visiting relatives in this neighborhood. A good many from here attend- ed the picnic at last Saturday. Miss Lucy Turnage and J. M. Ormond visited the family of Major Henry Harding last week. Felix Pin man, the clever little salesman of T. W. Go. of Kinston, was here last week. Dr. J. E. Patrick, of Snow Hill was here a short while this morn en route to den. A. R. Holton, of Ridge Spring, was here a short while one day last week. Mr. Holton is always a welcome visitor with us all. He is such a jovial and clever man. W. J. and C. L. made a business to Greenville last ; Thursday. Mils Lucy Turnage and little brother, Loyd, visited their sis Mrs. W. M. Edwards, last Saturday. Your correspondent has been told that the crops in this section are the finest in the county. The I tobacco is especially good. Some ; of our farmers began curing today. J. W. of Kin-Ion, was i here last week. He said the U i in this section was the best lie had seen this year. We have i a Hue section of county and should ; feel proud of it. The tax books of the county show that real estate is valued higher in this neighborhood any other the county. In i tact it is of Eastern a, or, at least we think so. The regular appoint- was filled Sunday by Rev. J. W. Jenkins, who is dent of the Methodist orphanage at Raleigh. Mr. Jenkins spoke very forcibly in behalf of that I noble institute. After his remarks Rev. Mr. Pope, tie regular pastor, had subscription taken for the orphanage. Some of the responded liberally, two of the giving fifty dollars each. No doubt but that work Mr. is so successfully carrying on is the greatest work that can be accomplished. Mr. Jenkins is a thoroughly consecrated man and has his work well at heart. The following are names- of the visitors who attended church here Mr. and Mrs. D. H Dixon, Misses Sal lie Palmer and Palmetto Taylor and Mrs. Eugene S. Edwards, from Hooker ton. Misses Mary and Leona Lassiter,, Railroad from Suffolk. Va., to of Lizzie. Mies Grimes, of Rob- j ton, N. C. who is visiting Misses Lassiter. Misses Ola Patrick and Suffolk, Va., June are now making a survey from Washington to Kinston. ITEMS. Harper and George of Snow j for Suffolk railroad Hill. Miss Maude Dawson a view of their line Roy of Institute. Miss I Suffolk to Washington, or if May Brooks, Grifton, Misses the proper arrangements can be Verna, Ethel and Ollie Hill, of made the Washington Plymouth Fountain Hill. Miss Bettie Smith, railroad will be purchased. Over- of Hugo, Miss Cox, of Ayden. j have already been made to Leslie Smith, of Mar- the Washington Plymouth Taylor and Smith, but the Norfolk Southern Mr Smith, of holding them in check. If land. Moses of Farmville. I this scheme is not carried through Miss Ora Sutton brother, of then the Suffolk Carolina will build a competing line from Wash- to Plymouth and use trans- fer barges from Plymouth to 1903. Edenton, where the Suffolk Some of our farmers are now run a narrow tobacco this week. I road. Their road from Suffolk to C. H. Langston and Edenton will be made standard Henry and Earnest, went to Win- If this is accomplished it. Saturday afternoon. shorten the distance from E. D. Braxton went to Winter- j Washington to Norfolk by about ville yesterday. miles. Exum and Harvey spent Engineers were in Washington Saturday in Grifton. yesterday making a survey, under Elder G. C filled his the it was for the United regular appointment at Bethany when in fact. Sunday. for Miss Winnie Cox, of Ayden, Gazette Messenger 23rd. spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Hardy. Will Harris and Jim Alexander, At this at the of Ayden, were in the neighbor- home of Mrs hood Sunday. her Misses Edith Broadway , Lillie, and Mr. George H. Bessie Harris, of Ayden, spent were married by Rev. Sunday afternoon with Miss H M Eure present to witness E. E. went to Ayden Mon- The couple received quite a day. of handsome bridal presents. R. T. Langston. of Immediately after the ceremony spent Monday night with his broth- they left en the northbound Langston. ; for a bridal tour and will reach Misses Letha their home in Sanford about July and spent Sunday; iNt. afternoon with Miss Annie Greenville regrets to loose the i bride, but wishes her all hap- went in her new home. Friday afternoon. Mrs. Fred and child- j Mayor's Court, and Dixie, spent M H w Sunday afternoon with Mrs. C. H. Langston. BETHEL ITEMS. Bethel, N C, June 1903. Whedbee has dis- posed of the following cases since last Jim assault with deadly weapon, over to Superior court. J. T. Move, riotous and conduct and firing gun in and Andrew Moore, of and costs, Greenville, are visiting in and around Bethel. John M, left Tuesday for on Richmond returned the next H 5- Francis Cartel, using vulgar M. O. is still fined H up the potato crop. He is now in I m Virginia buying potatoes. and James R. Carson and wife, of ten days in jail. Va., came in Sunday evening to his old home to spend a few days with his father, brother sisters. We were all glad There was mar- shake Jim's hand. He was looking; here Wednesday afternoon well, has been gone about j at the home of Mr. J. T. Abrams, mouths, and is doing a nice Dickinson parties were Mr. J. F. Mrs. J. L. Nelson, of Mount Pollard and Miss Eliza Everette, Olive, is visiting her daughter, e ceremony being performed Mrs. M. O. ; Elder James Corbitt. There have been about Both the people lived a barrels of potatoes shipped this few from town and drove spring from Bethel and vicinity, to be married, returning to- amounting fully to About. the home of the bridegroom half of that amount was left with mediately after the ceremony. farmers, so they are in better shape and have more money than any time since the war. God bless farmers. T. R. Harper Miss Mamie Harper, of Nashville, are visiting their sister, Mrs. J. E. Hocutt. Misses Jennie and Nannie Hug gins left Monday morning for home in Virginia. They have been working for Bro. the past season, and many warm friends. They have the best wishes of all. Telling troubles only en- larges them. A married man should never talk in his sleep unless he is sure of what he is going to say. Seeds of discontent will take root in any soil. A successful is some- times but a turn for the worse. Take life easy during the hot weather and give the undertaker a rest. Throw physic to