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DEPARTMENT J. M. BLOW, Manager and Authorized Agent. C. for we take and writing for in arrears We have a list all who receive their mail at this office. also take orders r Miss Smith after a pleas- Fred of Kinston. spent visit to Mrs. B. F. Manning-. day very pleasantly here yes- has returned to her home lat Fort Barnwell. If you arc interested in Cook . Watches, clocks and needing attention in my line i will to in the best and latest style C. E. Spier. I all work entrusted to my care to give entire faction. Try me. C. E. FATE OF AN EDITOR WHO TOLD THE TRUTH FOR ONCE. A North Carolina editor announced that just for one issue last week. OAKLEY ITEMS. Oakley, N. C. March 13th. J. L Perkins, of Stokes, was H. A. Gray went to Washing- ton Friday. E. made business calls in Robersonville Friday. Z. V. Whitehurst made calls in Bethel Saturday J- K of NOTICE TO CREDITORS. DISSOLUTION NOTICE. d Heaters it pay you to examine quality and prices that Cannon Tyson are making Rev. T. II. King his reg- here ;. I cheap goods go to E. E. they have Ha t and wit . i x . new is v, ti car loads of . S fa which we will Day h Don't sell us to serve. F- Lilly Co. W. J. Boyd and W. EL Hooks have E E new t fresh meats, sausage and fresh fish. Dr. M. M. Sauls is quite sick at his home and his presence is badly needed at the drug store. Ail art wishing him a speedy recovery. Merchandise Broker-I carry a full line of Meat, Lard and Can buy before giving me a trial. Frank Lilly Co. W A Hardy and wife, of Greene county, spent with the Luther Lawhorn- If you need any Paint be sure and see E. E. Co. Miss Eason, of Snow Hill, spent the better part of last week with her cousin, Master Joseph exchange corn for o or -i Lean, Healthy Shoats weighing from to GO pounds- preferred will pay cash mark- et e for same W. A. ltd Ayden, N. C- W. J Hemby has been to and r fro a Beaver Dam p family who Were t to the mother of Mr,. The will be pleased with one of those I . Saul's. and see I solicit the patronage of the people Ayden and community he would tell the truth. Here are a few choice items from the local the sorriest man in town, advantage of the summer rates Sunday and went to the city to get drunk on dis- j was here Saturday and Sunday liquor. He with friends the money from his wife. She Miss Reba Corey went to Spier. Works in the cotton mill a; night, j Greenville Saturday. He sleeps all night and loafs all Miss Lela Manning, of Bethel, day. Mrs. is devoted to spent a few days here last week her husband. She recently visiting her brother, T. A. Man threatened to pull all the hair out j of another woman's ho ad because Skinner and son. expo.--e to nub. that woman had said that her of Ayden, spent and in everything pertaining to Sunday the neighborhood. Si me Sophia he wore another new Chief Police James visited at dress and new bat to church last Winterville Saturday and Sun- Sunday. war the cynosure day. of all eyes., Her hat cost and Jim Taylor went to the making of her cost Sunday and returned same day. Mis. Ins notified the Mrs. H. A- Gray, Mrs. J. E. editor to say that she will part of the summer away at the resort Her husband, whose income nth. has to rent of Mrs. John . duly qualified before , of Kilpatrick A Patrick con- court of Pitt county as ducting a cotton and insurance business of the estate of the town of N C has blocks, deceased, notice is hereby day dissolved given to all persons indebted to consent. Joel Patrick withdrawing from to make immediate payment to said firm. the undersigned, and all persons having Dec. 12th. claims against said estate must present W. H. Kilpatrick the same for payment on or before the Joel 5th day of Match. 1908, or this notice t d w will be plead in bar of recovery. This day of March, B. T. Cox. , of Samuel Stocks. trial. C- E Spier. Manning Brown, a colored man, an employ- of the Ayden Lumber Co. had the misfortune to fall under a car and break his leg. cons cotton F Lilly Co. M. M. Sauls has the finest and best supply of Fountain Pens ever brought to Ayden. Call at the Drug- Sine ard cure one of those M. Sauls. All sizes and reasonable prices the best Fountain Pens at Sauls Drug Store. Unfortunate Redbreast. Tuesday of this week Mr. Dal. las Lee. of township. killed a robin which several weeks or months ago had the m to have a stick driven through its body. The stick was about an eighth of an inch in size and nearly twice long to go through the bird. It went through the breast and out at the back and the top end was a quarter of an inch. Below its breast about an inch cf- the stick showed and had worn slick. At the entrances above and below the flesh seemed to have healed some- what the stick. When Mr. Lee saw the bird it was seemingly well and flying around other birds. The dent t, the poor bird must have happened when a tree fell or during a storm. The mystery of it all is how the bird lived and flew around with a stick through its body. The bird was on at this office for two days seen by several persons. Smithfield Herald. SALE OF REAL By virtue of a power of con- inn mortgage deed exec- and delivered by Jesse W. Brown , w j Brothers, on the K 1st day of January. 1906, and r -1 the of deed I of Pitt county, in Book J-5. Pun i lie sale before the house door Greenville, to the highest bidder the following parcel of bind to life estate of Jesse W. Brown in and to that certain tract or parcel of Situate in Greenville township, rut county and on th North side of Tar River, the Z. W. Brown, w. If. Brown estate R. J. May and W. J. Fleming known as the B. W. Brown home ace, containing; acres more o.- Or Joseph Dixon AND SURGEON. Earn St a N. C. Sales Feed and Livery Stables. Nice Conveyances. Deal to the N. C. C. B HART TO J. H. in Dry Goods. No- about a house, hire a cook, a nurse, pay the r and the doctor- He also has lo pay town taxes When the Tom Doyle, went into bankruptcy last October it was found that poor Jim owed him more than anybody else in town. Taker Montclair thinks there I . de- ceased had several relatives an many friends in this section Died Under on. Dirt. Last Monday afternoon at works of the Midway Brick Co , a mile west of C. Al station at this place, where clay was being taken out the dire caved in and buried Chas. OF AYDEN -n AYDEN, N. At the of business 1906. the o town property June. Two or three have listed since he opened the books this morning. They are among the large property holders. If C. in Mebane and his f Mebane, both colored. The lat- j coin Loans and Overdraft Furniture and fixtures Due from banks an i bankers Cash items i stock 167.61 Surplus fund was extricated in a condition, but it is believed he will recover, while the one could buy for former being much was not reached until life was extinct. The as we are informed, had the con- 135.50 100.00 6.563.03 notes other 3.671.01 less expenses Total Dividends unpaid Deposits subject to check a checks outstanding 1,688.26 he would certainly be in luck. We would give name of U OP NORTH CAROLINA, u OF I J. B. Smith. Cashier of the I . distinguished gentlemen,; M to day keep . the above am t but they are prominent the church and we do not wish to embarrass the minis- The members of the S. S. Poker Club, who have for the past eight months been doing business in the rear room of the brick mills going. To save a great deal of digging they dig under for some distance and split the over-hanging ledge, and it in this way the men were caught. The recent rains m Li lo b 7- II Notary pi j and It. ashier. . SMITH CANNON, Dire Galloway's The Salisbury Post has this to say of Galloway, the representative from Despite the weight of years and wife, of and physical infirmities Capt. had softened the dirt and it barber shop, are thinking of broke q pending operations for the sum- Gleaner, mer. These young sports say they have no fear that Chief Police will molest them Charleston, S C. have been vis- the family of J. E. Jones, Mr. Guthrie returned to his home yesterday and his wife will re- main sometime longer with her parents. pens on sale at Saul's drug store at from to J. R. Jones, one of Uncle Sam's from Fortress Monroe, is at home a visit of several day.-- JOsephus Cox and J. F. Winterville, were on our cotton market Saturday. Can Nobles who has been very sick is much better. It is a delight and a pleasure to say nothing the in having a first class Pen. Call at Drug and secure this much need- ed article. Everett is home from Scotland Neck a visit to his family h Owing to the sick- of one of his children he will remain several days. Fountain With any and all size points for sale at Drug Store. I have bought the business of J. Taylor and respectfully solicit the pat- of the public. C. E. C. A. Fair and C. R. Williams went to Winterville yesterday. Swift Galloway, of Greene, is the juvenile of the house. captain, would you say should you choose to write your own I interrupt- ed as he was entertaining a dozen of us in the house between today with reminiscences. would he replied without Galloway, lame in both legs, cripple in both hands, blind in one eye; seeing very with the other, deaf in one ear was until the last expiring breath on the firing Somebody Move. has yet actually taken hold of the idea that a and bath houses on front would be a good thing. Getting time to start in if such a convenience is to be ed by summer. to Creditors. Having duly qualified before the Superior court clerk of Pitt county as administrator, with the will attached of the estate of E. A. Coward, ed, notice is hereby given to all persons Indebted to the estate to make payment to the undersigned, and all persons having claims said estate are notified to present the same for payment on or day of February, 1908, or in bar of This Feb. 27th, 1907 Willis Dixon. of K. A. Coward. R. F. D. No Snow Hill, N. C. ltd notice in their and nightly gatherings. Their only reason for suspending operations is that funds have run low. will begin at the old stand first next. called Ed Bates a thief one day last week. Ed went alter him and made him show his Alyce and Mr. Mario. Monk at the Baptist parsonage, Sunday afternoon. The bride is a very ordinary girl who loafs the drug store and post office most of the time- She can drink more coco-colas than any old soak in town and she is as thin as a woods rooter in July. She is not a beauty at all and she has a voice like a and a gait like a goat. The groom is an ordinary loafer. He lives off the old man and isn't worth a a cart of shucks. This couple will have an unhappy life, an so the editor has no congratulations to Light- foot Sunday night on The trouble with him is he live up to his own He is the stingiest man in Now, in the good old summer time when the Bob Whites make music in the golden wheat fields, all the day long people drive out to the edge of the town to see a piece of coat tail suspended from a barbed wire fence. It is all that community has of the editor who dared to tell the truth for once. The paper suspended pub- Killed by Story. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bennett, wife of Fred K. H. Bennett, of Trenton, is dead as the result of a funny told by her husband Overdrafts Secured a week ago. She laughed i u . heartily that she burst a blood; Due from Banks vessel, and death ensued after Cash Items several days of intense suffering. Gold Coin years Mrs. Bennett's Silver Coin REPORT OF THE CONDITION -OF----- THE BANK FARMVILLE. N. C. A THE CLOSE OF J N. 26th, 1906 sons were drowned together while swimming in the The Bennett's were at dinner when the husband told the fatal joke, which was about a young man who telephoned to his wife that six or eight of their were coming to dinner and that she had bettor get a slice of ham for the meal. The wife laughed until she be- came unconscious. Despite the best medical and surgical skill that could be procured, Mrs. Ben- nett suffered great agony before she passed away. Loans and Discounts Stock paid in 2,842.78 Surplus Fund 1,000.00 348.59 Undivided profits 2,713.79 Deposit 2,537.75 84,615.42 subject 57,844.55 124.25 479.46 solemn st of ray Which side of the trust a man Will take largely de- pends on whether he is on the outside or inside Journal Disputed About Rent. Savannah, Ga. March P. Harrell, of Dodge county, was shot and instantly killed tonight about o'clock by Mrs. Sallie The grew out a dispute about rent, Mr. owning the house in which lived. He had gone there for the purpose of collect- the rent upon being re- fused payment he told Mrs. that he would have her put out, whereupon she drew a a pistol and shot Harrell twice through the heart and brain. Mrs. was arrested- Mr. Harrell a wife and several children. State of North Carolina, i M County of Pitt. I, J. R. Davis, Cashier of the above-named y swear that the statement is true to the b and belief. J. R. DAVIS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to be-j ore me, this day of Feb. DAVIS, Notary d BETHEL BANKING AND TRUST COMPANY. AT BETHEL, N. At the close of business Jan- 26th, 1907. RESOURCES. Rev. J. W. Rose, of Edenton, is in town in the interest of his paper, the Baptist, which he publishes in connection with his pastoral work. Loans and discounts Overdrafts Furniture Due from Banks and Bankers Cash items Gold coin, j bank ind other U. S. notes j Total J 5,075.89 LIABILITIES. Capital stock 5,000.00 Surplus fund 2,300.00 Undivided profits Bills Payable 718.48 Time certificates of deposit 2.184.60 Deposits subj. to check checks out- standing 960.25 Certified Checks Total State of North Carolina, County Pitt Cashier of the named bank, do solemnly is true to the best of my swear that the above statement edge and belief. Subscribed and sworn to me, this 2nd day of Feb. T. Notary Public I W. H. Cashier M. O. BLOUNT, R. J. GRIMES STATON, Directors. EASTERN REFLECTOR D. J. W Editor and Owner. Truth in to Fiction. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR GREENVILLE, PITT COUNTY. NORTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, THREE SCORE AND TEN. in the Life of Crover Cleveland 1837 in Caldwell, Essex New Jersey. 1841 with near 1835-Started west in search of employment and located 1859-Admitted to the bar. assistant dis- Erie D candidate for district defeated. sheriff of Erie Mayor of lo by largest majority ever given candidate in that city. HAIL STORMS SOON. One Visits Brick Residents of the Church section, not far from the Ala- mince line, in the today,, if a hail storm yes- afternoon about six o'clock. No damage was done, the blowing of numerous barn doors from their hinges by a high wind Buggies and other light vehicles standing in the the pen were twirled around and about, but there was no dam- age done. One man said an old cat with four kittens on a box had bad luck. She was not a great distance from a pond I the sent the box and kit- into the water. After the Storm was over curiosity led the THE LEGISLATURE. A Summary of the New Laws. It has been the custom to The Observer correspondent of the Legislature, to look over the list of the acts in to get the which are most important to the people of North Carolina, he is able now to furnish them. To aid the Orphan-j health to provide for small percentage of these passed. Marion. of by Those which did pass To allow elections to of a hospital in Moore townships or school district c To amend the by ; . the writing companies having over by physicians. capital to invest the excess in such manner as the in- Governor of the man to investigate and he said the box had lodged against a raft in the he pulled it out and found kittens alive and well, but rather wet.-Greens- Record. State of New president of the United States. 1886- Miss Fran Folsom. Defeated for re-election by Benjamin Harrison. J. M. Moore Dies Suddenly. 1892-Elected president for I The of the death time, defeating President j M morning Harrison. was a shock to a host of friends, 1892-.-Retired from public life I but few knew he was sick- and up residence at Prince-. been indisposed for two ton. N. J. It is now years since Mr. Cleveland first assumed the of the house Only five other presidents lived so long after their inaugurations, and these were the two Jefferson, Madison, weeks or more but did not take his hod until last Thursday. His trouble was at first thought to be indigestion, but Sunday some- thing like tetanus developed, and he passed away at o'clock this morning. James Moore was of age, and eldest son of I Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Moore He and No president horn in and was a in the past half boy when his father moved except Mr. Cleveland, has to Greenville in 1889 to take the survived his inauguration for Agency which was Line. of the Atlantic Coast In he married Miss THE IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS. The following are the most resolutions which were Requesting congress to vote for tin- Appalachian Forest Re- serve and asking the governor to go to Washington in th interest of that measure. Endorsing th; second Hague Peace conference. Endorsing the Jamestown position, appropriating more to allowing the Carolina building sold and the proceeds used by the com- mission. Making a gift to the comer North Carolina. Urging congress to improve the upper Cape Fear river. Also urging it to prohibit gamy. To secure a change in the con- so senators will be elected by a direct vote of the people Bills were passed eliminating whiskey from the following Burke, Lincoln, Ca- Cherokee. Macon. Cabarrus, Cleveland, Rutherford, North- Stanly, Scotland, Cum- ts upon the subject education To require deaf mutes at- tend the school at gin ton air.; to limit the attend- to North children. To require weeks attend- each year of tween ages of and b. To a safe and water supply for schools, public and Creating a system of public high schools, the number for county t b fixed by the I Stat- superintendent of public instruction to not less one or more than four. t . orders, r Meal of buildings RAILWAY HATTERS. A great of attention given railway matter-. more than was Durham. and the record of Gen- Grant. by the wife and la lit- and Mecklenburg. Princeton. N J., March j son. He also leaves a father It would require a bushel basket, and mother, one sister and three to hold brothers, other messages of and buried with the honors of those fraternities at o'clock Tuesday afternoon, the Cherry Hill received today at home of Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleve- land on the occasion of the interment being in birthday of the dent A number of the felicitous j Greater greetings were forwarded to Mr Jg Cleveland, who is now enjoying An q more than his annual spring pleasure trip nary importance to in the South, visiting his old interests of and friend, Gen. E. P vicinity was opening today at Georgetown, S. C. It is to j of the greater Louisville expo these regular hunting and fish- Scores of workmen trips that Mr. Cleveland at- have been busy for weeks tributes in no small measure past getting ready for health at the age of three occasion and today they gave score and ten. way to the public. The It is interesting to note that was formerly opened by the twenty-five men who have President who touched served as president of the a button in the white house at States, eight of the first Washington. addition to an twelve who filled the office lived j elaborate display illustrating the to be years of age of older, industries and of Louis- of the thirteen who fol- lowed in the office; of chief of the nation there where but four who lived to the age of seventy-Presidents FUlmore, Hayes and Cleveland. Of the first twelve presidents John Adams lived to the age of died at Thomas Jefferson at John Quincy Adams at the age of and Martin Van and An- drew Jackson at the age of and respectively. Of die last thirteen presidents none ha; attained the age of James Buchanan, the oldest, died at the age of Millard Fillmore was at the time of his death and ford Hayes away soon after he had reached his r birthday. villa the exhibition an interesting exhibit of articles from the treasury, war, navy arid departments at Washington The exposition will remain open till the end March. FIFTY DROWN. 70th ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. counties were allowed to improve their and very large bond issues were allowed to be voted on for this purpose in the counties of Franklin, Forsyth, Durham, Rowan, Wake, Granville and Buncombe, rang- from to At no session of the have charters granted to so many railways, the follow- is the North Carolina Union; Southport, Northern Western; Raleigh Winston- Idem, Northampton ford; Western Carolina, Rockingham Randolph Cumberland; Graham comity; Washington Vandemere; Dover Southbound; Elkin Allegheny; Virginia Eastern Carolina; Virginia Carolina Southern; Deep River Farmers Creek; Alleghany Piedmont Southern; Southwest- Greensboro; Seaboard Great Western; Kinston Carolina; Monroe Southern; Franklin Smoky Mountain. Bills were also passed allowing Buncombe, Henderson and ties to subscribe stock for a com- railway between Ashe- ville and Rutherford; to allow and following bills which pan To fix the maximum rate at cents per mile. To regulate freight rates and prevent unjust dis To prevent put.- winking in passenger cars. To require railways to keep cars To conductors and station agents to arrest drunk, disorder- or boisterous persons. To allow railways to construct belt lines at towns To the directors and one of all railways to a citizen and resident of this State. To allow the corporation cons- mission to union depots in towns if 2.010 persons. To street railways to separate sec To prevent of in bans t, and also to stealing of and railway property. greatly power of the corporation MISCELLANEOUS M. I Oilier important o a miscellaneous character are s i d R an of ii gs into the tr a y logo t the c fund. To rate tub i pi i To require the commissioners th of agriculture and the beard of am agriculture to be practical farm- ;, prevent the id i in To require purposes, rained nurses. to protect rs and n waters. amend th -11- . f cloud on T el conventions and punish frauds the-eat. r s the use of the companies by lies lie penitentiary to r of life it i be used for re-in- . . available in of of the p y, iv r a of c for th com- proofs y demand to loan m c pro f. regulate the form of life i tracts b; requiring form of all policies under lie submitted to and To pay half to officers I proved by the insurance -om- witnesses where no true before the company bill is found. cm issue said policies, this act To extend time for obtaining to be July land grants. To allow the insurance com- To regulate osteopathy to employ an actuary create a State board of and accountant to calculate and leek up the books of the To protect companies. e keepers. e a general penalty To prescribe the hours of provisions of the vice for railway for which no special penalty has been imposed. To establish a board of To provide for bit an for the assessment f real estate. To the hours of the labor children in factories. To amend the landlord and tenant law To so amend the general road I that county commissioners waste law. volunteer case of injury or sickness, due to vice at fires by levying a tax of i of per cent, the prom of fire insurance companies- in order to secure this the t must comply with the let the working of roads by c by sections To enable the State to make proof of the possession ex key licenses, issued by the gov- in prosecuting off- tax to To . of a life insurance is the in limit the poll cities and towns. for the display of To restore dentists to their,,. State flog on all courthouses, former dignity as doctors- sch other public build- To and ;. ,. exclude all persona ex j To exclude minors under those concerned in j from pool rooms, bar room-, etc To prohibit corporations from Disaster to Banish Ship. By cable to March Danish training ship Viking, which was undergoing repairs in the- ship building yard here, was I the consolidation of blown over during a storm early this morning. There were -100 workmen on board the ship at the time and it is believed fully of conversion of the Wilkesboro them were drowned. The men to a steam or were precipitated in the sea with-1 electric railway, out a moments warning, storm coming suddenly upon the West End, the Asheboro Montgomery and the Jackson Springs railway; to allow the The Greenville Memorial Baptist church will hold its j ship Many of the bodies service on Sunday L and the search the in April, at which it is hoped, to be is in school matters, bills every member church D who can attend will be The church was organized I Your attention is called to the the latter part of March, 1827. and I millinery announcement of the y- the anniversary exercises, which opening of Mrs. L To establish a manual training have of late years been regularly Co. It will take place Tuesday school in the mountains, occasions of and Wednesday, March To establish a teachers train- interest The same Sunday will be 27th. It will be worth your school in the East. passed in- the Stonewall Jack- son Training School or reform- as r. . technology at for felonious assault. To allow benevolent to receive, buy, hold or Bell real or personal estate. To regulate sales of leaf to- on warehouse floors and require reports to the department To prevent usury and ion. To extend for two years the time for settling the debt. To promote public decency by punishing people for using cent signs, writings and pictures in public. To allow the Governor to point special police for water power, transportation and con- companies. To provide for the care of the mentally deficient by providing special institutions for them. To prevent the sale of or misbranded . foods, drugs, medicines and liquors To increase the number of challenges in all cases less than capital. To allow the governor travel- expenses To allow judges to send boys under to the reform- or county home. To extend the crime of so as to include keepers or inmates of disorderly houses. To prevent and punish trusts prove; tine public improvements by other by prevent- occupancy of land for right- To all telephone lines under the corporation To promote the oyster try. To punish fraud in giving cheeks, and agent and not of the . Ob- T. Sunday . Ir worthless orders. To create the office of fish com- missioner. To require express companies to pay claim fur loss or damage co property. To secure immigration in North appropriating half from the- State, half from the agricultural department To secure a statue of Zeb Vance to be placed in Statuary hall at at To fix the salaries of State officers and t o require fees to turned into the State treasury. To make general election day a legal holiday. make the pension an increase of There were bills of car- increased appropriations for all the State institutions, some forty in number. INSURANCE LEGISLATION. insurance bills m I . ; ii; at his r . den ion the of pen and after an .- of days with Godwin was native of county and moved to Greenville years ago his residence here the remainder of his life, lie is survived by his wife and two daughters, Mrs E. C. of and Mrs. Wells, of Old Sparta. funeral was held at o'clock this aft in Cherry Hill cemetery, ices ed by Rev. J. pall be in rs were Messrs. W. B. W. L. Brown, W. M. Iv iv.-. C White, C T. Mun- d. u C. Flans ran, B, F. and v Ormond. To authorize the State board of were but a Sick. T. Cow II is sick. R b Evans . very sick Wiley Brown is at home with grip C. D. Rountree, who was sick several days is out again. Sometime afternoon the residence of Mrs- M. A. White East Third street, was broken into while all the family were away from home. Nothing missed from the house, but there had been a general ransacking of trunks and drawers as if the thief was hunting for money.

. i Couldn't Believe Him. Cut This and Save It. A correspondent of the South-. Plantation writes as th.- Rower of a w known either said. After a worry argument in which neither scored; two Irishmen decided to fight it out. It was agreed that It has After i I ave i a re pulmonary consumption but mi a umber of cases ha 11-1 bleeding at the lungs, and hectic Bush was . cheek. Alter trying this remedy my own satisfaction, have thought required that I should says he's hat world. It is th t know he said so, the tight would cease. they had been at it j about ten minutes one of tin m fell and at once I've had But his opponent kept on hit- ting him until a man who was them don't v. u let him net; said the at. p. with coffee sugar, r ,, , can t bi a word Glasgow Em LAND victor, without relaxing forts, he's such a liar you he says. . end of July, . ii co old plants are g it pt in Smith enters and dean., Th must i claims acres more or less, of be co . Creek ., township, beginning at . r Cl n It is for Mill's patent, up Long ti adjoining the lands of Up I y t . , f .- . , . , day of Feb. m d blood Oliver Smith. I the Any or persons claim . tin the to or interested in tin . in described land I States, Canada and Me their protest ii writing f the human r a up and keep Entry Taker ex-officio tint; for use. .- . ENTRY VACANT LAND. i Washington Smith en- acres more About Home Do You Contemplate Owning One f so the first thing to consider is a goo lot in a desirable location and you can- not be better suited in a lot than the Dead. Cremation is one of the most ancient methods of disposing of the dead Before the of the Christian era, prevailed among all civilized nations, except the J. and Egyptians, l how- ever, gave way to earth burial. Cremation has had a revival during last few years, and from one crematory in existence in 1890, and since the others have been added to he list each year. Cremation is common in Japan, where per cent of the d incinerated. The first crematory in the United States was built at Washington, Pa, in Dr Le and the firs, incineration there was that of the body of Baron de Palm, which took place in Dec- ember of the year This was the only crematory in the United States until Women investors. stock in the Pennsylvania vacant land in township adjoining th lands it his is the p. Smith. C Smith, and statement mail.- by Vice- Claude Cannon, Noles Mills, resident Thayer. About half, Washington Mills. Sallie Cox, W. r, to b- per cent, Haddock and others. , e George Washington Smith- f l of the This d day of Feb. 1907. greatest railroad are Ai person persons claim- title to or interest in the fol- it is not to be presumed lowing described land must file hat th. army of the fair sex their protest in writ with me half the shares within the next thirty days, or . .- . they will be barred by law. f the. company, their portion Williams still be very large Taker ex-officio- That might, if they so exert a powerful in management of the s affairs be But are not for speculative ms. They bought stock for investment only, and they are wisely- intent to let the men manage S affairs. What this great aggregation, women investors want is ire dividend. of them only a few snares, but the come must be in many cases a factor in life. Big Crops. Who small-grain raising a thing cf the past with us colored man. tenant on the Canady place, sowed five of at last season and a crop of bushels Over in Pitt county j . William Cox on one ace of id five bushels of oats d raised to feed, mules, one horse and one for one year. That shows mt can be if our people r to do it. Kinston Free Press. proper v surpasses this for a desirable home. Lots can be bought there now at reasonable prices and on easy terms. is every indication that property around G is going to be higher, and longer you defer buying the lot the it will cost. This is located minute walk from the business part or the town. See Sam White and let him explain prices and terms. Child Drowned. The one-year-old child of Mr. Alex Anderson wandered off from hi.; home in New Hope township Monday afternoon and when found two hours later was laying in a ditch, about from the house, life being extinct drowning The par- and other children were in he back the little strayed off. Goldsboro Head- A small wagon with shad attracted a crowd almost like it had been a load cf The price was in too. JOB PRINTING TO J. MEN. King at Jamestown Exposition. Norfolk. a. Visitors to the exposition will have to see the greatest of trained wild animals pr gathered in the United ates. the animal is now on his way from ere he has been for the transportation of i animals at his London arena d bis Paris hippodrome to this and here they will be b those now in winter in Richmond. Va. latter are those which ring the summer months are own at Island. first in s country was at the World's r in Chicago when his spar- g kangaroo attracted wide at- The trained lion, e, a savage beast, despite training, was next before i public and very nearly led in the Paris hip- THE REFLECTOR and When you want Work send you fixers to THE REFLECTOR . The man who Insures Ills life Is wise tor his family. The man who Insures his health Is wise both for his family and himself. You may Insure health by guard- It. It is worth guarding-. At ill first attack of disease, which generally approaches through the LIVER and itself In innumerable way. TAKE. And save your health. Not Quite Offers advantages for reaching the LARGE QUANTITY OF NEW TYPE AND STOCK -t Y ADDED TO THIS DepartmenT. Bow often you can get a thing nail or screw driver or Have a good tool for Our lino of Is a and that your tool box does not a single useful article. Of Course You get Harness, Horse Goods, J. P. Corey D. W. I IN Groceries And Provisions j Cotton Bugging and Ties always on i i Fresh kept con- in stock. Country Produce Bought and Sold D. W. o i e t It REPORT OH CONDITION OF I HE GREENVILLE BANKING TRUST COMPANY N. C. At close of business Jan 26th, O and unsecured 5,871.02 mill All other Stocks, Bonds and from 25.960,62 Gold Com Silver Coin bank l- ti notes Total 1200,181.5 stock paid in f 12,500.0 Undivided profits, Bills payable Deposits 30.141,31 at n fl to nick i Due to Cashiers ck Total. 1200.186,5 Carolina. County o f, C. -S t above named bank, do t h it i- to the best of my C. S. CARR, Cashier. i in Feb 1907. MOORE, Notary I A. M R, O- j. Directors. THE CONDITION OF OF At Close of Business, 26th 1907. , ,., ,. paid in 1-99 -l ll i Oven. , Mini p, . . Doe it D I i , .- ii , j Bills payable Ran i . i no , out- . i . . binding 111,578.52 SENATOR HOLT GOT ENOUGH. It is not often that one dose of office is enough for a man- Usu- ally when he tastes it once he smacks his lips and cries for more Not so with State Sc tor J A. Holt, of Guilford One dose to have as the following he wrote to his home paper, the Record, In a humorous way you ask what I am a candidate for. I am going answer seriously. I am I a candidate for restoration to the position of first lieutenant in the little home I left at Oak Ridge sixty days ago. When I get back into that little Eden I ex- an angel to stand at the gate a flaming sword forever forbidding me to pass its portals again into the political field be- I accepted the of my party and my countrymen and I have tried as best I could to act for the people. My votes and speeches far as they might affect mat- of public welfare have in- variably been for those in- principles of human lib- el civic righteousness for which the Democratic party stands. The result of the work of the legislature is before the people for their approval or dis- approval. On all public my vote is on record. thank the people for their and c ; of approval, as well as c i I ., . I I . ; Pin COUNTY MEET- A Great Occasion Last Saturday Reported for Reflector. Saturday morning, March BUTTON MAD. most interesting; Mycenae the Pitt County I ii. v . I 9th a meeting of Association was held in the Greenville graded school building. A large crowd was and each one enjoyed the interesting and instructive meeting was opened with Thou Almighty after which Rev. J. E. read a Scripture lesson and I'd in prayer- A few announcements and en- remarks wen- mule by Prof. He con the association on large attendance. Miss Peace read an excellent paper on to teach reading in fourth Her thoughts and suggestions e most helpful, only to fourth grade teachers but Dr. J. Carlyle, f Wake colic . ad i the ; All w re d to see fan or us. He was in i. A. h in a ppr i Ir, I i i art h is y i The of the Craze In the Tim of Louis XIV. The i buttons present the museums and among the col- n- ore the sold I i the ions ken Schliemann also those found in the tomb of I. The latter were ti I tho re in ties They are of gold and of colored glass, imitating garnet. Buttons detach- ed iron copes and religious gar i lie middle i I of the renaissance have also been B i i chest things of ind beyond u are I were worn by i. mis XIV. M. hi he tor of and ii in I I lire in -ii tor- . an official i I-- of that pen . i. It is us . . ho eighty dim h . I'd 180,0 and i I lose fix a ind but- ton . . I by It- Mar . for r . seventy- i die- Mi I i I Two i i. s, i i I . i el . of ha Southern R To farmers along Norfolk Southern encourage our . . fa ; I field products the owl i w w theN em O m e . ,. in I Ii tN. iv red that ,. Best do n de d not B n I k s later la hi CO i- I i C t i L FLOWS, AND WAS Ah I. i i . I ii ii h s .- i i . is that lie hi i b if trust he did i in i. Quite a nun .- id would see us t.- They must have been blind, or tomorrow hi Al a am. then be c n for and Aurthur m t this, the last I. for present school year, will be an- not c One man told us other great. it ion. Announcement beg i announce we are Retail for -r- White Lead, Paints Colors, and Country Ready Paints, There is no line in the world better m line. It has behind it a reputation for honorable wares and honorable dealings. If you use the Harrison Paints you need never worry quality. We trust that you will favor us with your order. whenever you want good paint for any Have just a car load and can give you Special Prices. Hart GREENVILLE, N. C. months that he would pay as ho got some money. The man would not lie, of course, he has not a cent since. Franklin Times. Dora A. Hornaday. .; Mice That Were Tipplers. A correspondent In some years ago I had to early one morning into a miscellaneous store kept by a who also kept liquor bar. As entered the shop I noticed a mouse reeling across the and I remarked to the shop-keeper that the mouse seemed to be hurt, but his reply astonished ire He said that mouse and sever- others that infested his shop were confirmed drunkards. Dur- the night they regularly drank all the liquor which re- in the glasses which the soldiers had used in the evenings for their drinks. Meat Burned. On last Friday miming J. Braxton of near Reedy Branch church, had the misfortune to lose a great quantity of meat in his in fact all that he had put up for the year. Not only his, but also the meat of one of his tenants burned. Fortunately the house was saved by strenuous efforts. It is supposed that some of the meat fell the pit in which there was some fire pared to smoke the hanging con, that it caught In a and so-n wrought much havoc before it and the fire extinguished. Powder Magazine on Board the Exploder, With Effect March 12- A disaster curred here this evening. The powder s on board the French battleship blew up at minutes past one and as a result Capt. the command- of the battleship, Capt. commander-in-chief chief of stair of the Me squadron, and from to so jackets are dead. While Rear Admiral run and i of other men are suffering I from injuries, some of them e in their extent Naval cir- are aghast, an i the public Is by the appalling coming so Boon after the loss of the French submarine in which men ;. death. Where Are Hungry. Hot ml i bride in i;. in ire i . i on her day ired i my, and iring the of given i ton i i i- n is to do. the . to should nut ti i evening, Ii easily iii . in lint an . -in- i- lo i I life. re i with age follow .- in i , ii tare of in I which i; . mod ti the altar, Tho bridesmaid not all dress alike, their is unlimited.- London An . i th .-folk Pleases. A fair sized greeted Way Pairing. A number of ago at a town in Maine an i was lo take c, n was strong rivalry . the I Hid Democrats, Hi- ram More blacksmith, i strong rat, bill many of were tin in of tin- election a i l have bis horse she, , . -aid l I j y. You're a Ii n . n pair off. of in vole, it am if both d Exposition on the Soul . n . in o and I u . to spec awards of merit and diploma by the authorities i addition to the above All ; to this matter should be to F. L. Land an Industrial Agent, Norfolk, Va. lank the Ethel Morton Company I This m. the comic opera in it found out tin Masonic temple opera house. Vi temple opera House, Wednesday night, the attendance was not as large as th- company m I was really a pleasing performance publican Ian In from beginning to en and the r enjoyed it. There are. voices in the east and they gang with The us game i especially Manager Courtney ex- pressed ids intent n f . here season, and if ho e assured of a large house r. a bad r i having mar- i r i. a if i you ii lie bad want The started. cried. didn't do it, the chuckle. owe . n explained, with The of Voice. When you live in hotels a deal as have mere or less summer, you the power the human voice to o the opp . O, what a harsh, . is there are in n's voices too Th of it Tho other morning was o the b a ii at the bathing ii heard some one ca in discordant tone th it set my nerves a-tingle wit their acid sharpness. The called and answer back in a peevish way. I expecting to see sod uncouth nursemaid, and to surprise beheld the el mother of the boy. Now. woman's is always irritable and peevish just like the boy, and who say her voice is not responsible for it One of the worst tempered I know married a woman with sweet, low voice and an disposition. He is now Iv changed You know, simply can't all I yourself when everything t peaceful and soothing all and soothing all around It seems to me if realized this there would more happy homes. Kate

w ; EASTERN REFLECTOR PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J. iND as second matter Jan. at the lost Gram N. C, under of CO of R arch 1879. in raMS upon application desired pool in I M , I With other things of the way Mr. Bryan is again occupy- space in the papers. If you want to get on the safe side cf an investment a Green- ville real estate dealer is not a i bad man to see. in NORTH CAROLINA FRIDAY, MAR. 1907 The As Easter bonnet time draws I Vice-President Fairbanks is on a speaking tour in the West just like a campaign was on. Must be trying to work up his chances for the presidential nomination. A FINE HORSE. Being Formed to One of the prettiest horses we ever saw is now on exhibition at the stables of R. L. Smith Co. It is an imported French coach and is not quite years old. The horse is a beau- chestnut color, well shaped body and alert movement. is from the best coach breeders of France, is registered by the French government and has a long pedigree with of credentials. This horse was imported from OAKLEY ITEMS. has suspended for the near the might be changed time The government to works would be thousands cf dollars The present is certainly France last year by From way the s.-.-. if- is chi re to new . t adj urned, State i.; g to b gain. thousand i cf i out France last year by it tip. Kitchen says the et of Columbus, Ohio, the in Mm AM. ; those soldiers, as the in- importers of fine animals a fabrication out of the affair is all out his way ; rain lea. i c . ; i ,, . ,, , . II that other ii tor . tun.; in resorts are going to have ; ex- ma to ha d he a ah . j at it by j o many s .-.--. re Lie body . death. f b. iv at all- Ti J. . title , . e . w hasten I the -no of a I i i to cute for dam s up ; a c fee of a to hustle to hold their own s those in the vicinity of ma a hue is not Norfolk the coming summer, as to work the garden. m-st people who can get sway was brought to Green by Mr. Harry Lawrence is thoroughly familiar with his qualities. We understand that a of people in this n Oakley, N. C. March Eli and wife vis. ed in the Oak Grove section Sunday. J. L. Williams and family of Winterville, visited J. J. James and family here last week. James of Oak Grove, made business calls here Friday Miss Martha Rawls visited Saturday and Sunday. Miss Minnie Moore visited in Martin Saturday and Sunday. Whitehurst, of Rocky Mount, was shaking hands with his many friend, here last week. Mr. and Mrs C. H. Ross their little baby by death day night. It was interred Mon- day p. m. in family burial pot. A few people from here attend- ed church at grove Sun. day. Roebuck, of Mar. Funeral of Mr. J. M. Moore. The funeral of Mr. J. M. Moore, who died Monday morn- was held at o'clock this afternoon in the church, the conducted by Rev. R The interment followed in Cherry Hill cemetery, the vice at the grave being conduct- ed by the Masonic and Red Men fraternities, both the lodges here attending in a body. Mr Moore's was in the Masonic at Tarboro, being a resident there at the time of taking the degrees, and a delegation from that lodge con- of Gen. John W. Gotten, C J. Austin, F. p. Pulley. J. Frank Lisle and J. H. came down to attend the funeraL is. cup f,. homo want co take in the . brick plant . . No one complain that the i . people are not interested in national, even international . questions. In the campaign in the eighth congress district of .-. while to try to build Virginia, principal issue it Greenville re interested in improving homes, I tin, spent a few days here is forming for the purpose cf week with her sister, Mrs H. A. buying Dactyl and keeping A Gray. here as a bread horse, arid that a j J. S. Cherry and family of the stock has Stokes, at J. T. ready subscribed. price of the horse is of what is v la i a ; is a f r Dr. have i me y- r. t v. more that he will not run is giving Andrew Carnegie i in the president again, Looks like some , , would .,,., , ,. , educational are slow lo believe t he , . ., and report to , . . v. one h ;. I I ; ii . concern lo to his of will be f his claim whether this should sell Inlands. It ii u can t hold the town ,, , ,, I question so vital that district, n . by tin- party t the country in war. n. She is going spread her i ii- and cover the now territory They have extracted the from Mr. Roosevelt once E. d . a i and then we read i or city has gone v,. An made Rock- Since the lawyers have has to give beating around the bush on the city of New in dodge and decided on a done more com large of plain murder, there by dividing this big sum a more speedy I giving nation of the Thaw Mail. i that need it worse than Mew Y reflections. a Contributor. The removal Postmaster P. is the way the tern- Smith, of Charlotte, and the s keeps growing B. Spines to . no great him, shows that the . . president Ii tie love for lie The r-i. k ; van f of the whiskey sellers to see that one of the b . I ex soldiers hag male a cont.-s- money storm, regard to the v, t at l Everybody hates a successful Texas that h J. S. Mooring, of Greenville, spent Sunday in this section. Miss Blanche Mayo, of Bethel, spent a few last week with he sister, Mrs. W. J. Little, near HiS AGED Leaves a Remarkable Family Record. Mr. J. G. reached h Saturday night from bedside of his aged fa-he--. William Bowling, at in Durham county, and on Mon- day a telegram t at his father was dead. Capt. Bowling was in bis year and his life was a remark- able one. He lived to see the eighth generation of his family- three generations of his We regret to state that Mr.-. Belcher improves very and five generations of his s descendants all coming within Joe Williams went to Green- the scope of his years. C H. Ross came in Monday, great-great-grandchildren, He was absent at the time of the of them now of his little child. show. iv i s waiting for Mr, have another I G Reflector L . .,. n n id the h is . . i due note the elected to establish a wonder what Senator F . in the east and have to say h i ts that t e school will be Li G; very much, brother. We thought your would bring you around to our way of thinking. Oar o th r Observer. A fire broke out res to , t id only i to be popular is to a re. The suffrage bill talked to death in the British of What a The last created the office of assistant attorney. general of the State with a , i the p- m who thaws 1.600 a year. s s Clement, a young lawyer of bury, has been appointed to the always iposition. As they have gone perhaps we floor of the hear tho th about one o clock;,, ,. , . , ,. Saturday morning and gave the The building and plant a narrow j at business escape from destruction. An Charlotte mill men hour's hard fight ti e about them, and there seem to be fire, work on the paper hardly regrets that the trial fell down, stopping i-i the meantime. The loss was about g me poor deceived creatures had a ten faith in that they crawled around his body death, thinking that by town lg the hem of his gar- hey would be healed of their It is needless to say that their faith got a jolt. One crippled woman who was helped by her to reach the body, thought she could walk after touching it, but when turned loose fell m d nearly killed The of some people in Mrs. is about similar to this. If an editor daring to express an his paper on any matter before the legislature was influencing that then there would like to have an oil painting jaw advanced scientific theory that deep and the cause of disease. Notice what a percentage of us are healthy Tho activity with which Lon- don has tackled municipal own- and woman's suffrage, may eventually cause the try to be the home of real says ho is will- to sit by the president and him all day long We are few in the State that can plead not guilty. We thought it was the privilege of a per to say whether it thought a matter right or wrong. Wall street seems to be feeling the pinch. But watch out, the threatened panic may be for a purpose. When stocks dump considerably see i f there is not a gobbling up of bi lumps of them and many small holders frozen out. of Mr. Roosevelt taking some of Mr. advice. Mighty mean of the Iowa leg- to Cummins and Shaw that way. It expressed its presidential preference by voting for Roosevelt, for Cummins and for Shaw. A wave fifty feet high broke over the steamer La T e i i her with, water, it is said i who v r on her the only s who enjoyed it, the h to em MAKING PLANT. Mr. W. K. Dad, Jr., Another hobby The Reflector has been for a long time is coming in winner on fie home stretch. That is a brick plant. Time and again this ratted attention to the need of an enterprise in Greenville and tried to show that it would not only be a great help to the town but also would prove profitable to the promoters. . ,,,.,. now have the pleasure of Charleston, S. J , stating that is soon came Monday on account of Mr W II t u have a i his sick mother, Mrs. Settle town died a Mr. W. H. Bail, J.-., has Belcher. ., a of land, acres, on I of railroad from the- i n, , , , Lumber , , , , factory, and has already Augusta, Ga, March 10th.-A commenced ere buildings j terrific fire which started this, Mr S,, Uh S preparatory for the plain. He morning is raging and sweep. th I has also placed an order for the business section of H I machinery of capacity -city. The Augusta Chronicle seven children to make brick per day. ting plant and Western bar of brothers and sister The land purchased for this I Union Telegraph Company I took place a purpose contains an have beet, destroyed. burial ground of clay, and experts who have j The Chelsea hotel is --j given samples of it a the are in a NOTICE TO Near Close. Special New York. March is expected that the evidence in C. S. makes hi, Easter i the Thaw case will You could and in that event the c ought not do better over i. ; . i r, guarantees fit and nor is fine for, making brick. Mr. expects to be ready lo making in a month. called again. Having July l . of Pitt c . I. of tho or notice hereby persona indebted to the eel to make Immediate payment to and all persona laid estate present for payment on or before the of This 6th day of or notice will be plead in bar of H. T. Cox. Adam, of j. l. i ; i U -l i i- J H MARK F. S. Norfolk Va. have been the standard Cotton and Tobacco in the South b i care is used in the ti of material. your dealer and don't i to re good, See that is on every bag. This department i F. C. NYE, who is authorized to the Eastern Reflector in Winterville and territory George of Willow Elder Fred left F. C. Nye went to Scotland of ten as possible. Green, was a visitor this morning to fill his appoint- Neck toddy visit the graded J. p. Carroll Dr. B. T. There is a great z of fertilizer being hauled from here from the number of cart; and wagons seen earring and going. The better plan is to make the land improve itself by the proper notation of crops, sowing cow peas and clover here Friday. We now . f lea . c- to aV v-i B. T. Cox, Bro. Jimmie Carr. a student of W. H. S. left Friday to spend Sunday at his home near Hats to suit you at B. F. Man- Co. They are also carry- a pretty line of pants. Those who come in from the country farm work in good progress. The planting season is near at hand. When you trade the store the merchant can use your check as easily as the cash. The man who does your work can use it as well If you have occasion to send it through the mail, it is cheaper and as safe as a money- order So deposit your money in the Bank of Winterville and you will readily see the convenience and safety by so doing. Mrs. W. L. House and children left Friday evening to spend some time with relatives in den- The A. G. Cox Co. has still on hand a full supply their Tar Heel Cart wheels. Send your order assure prompt shipments. M. G. Bryan, our clever post- master, made a business trip over the river Thursday. A new lot of nice spring and summer pants just opened at Harrington, Barber Co. Miss Mimic Cox went to Greenville v morning on a tour, Another large of shoes just at Hickory Grove. Protect yourself from the sun I by getting a large hat at Barber Co. there. went to lie to day. Write An up to late line of large rugs just received by A. W. Ange I order. Co. J S. Cox left for Rocky Mount on a trip. Call and the new Straw Hats just arrived a. A. W Ange Co. The days will soon be here a comfortable c Mich be a luxury. A. W. Co. has them at a bar- gain. Get your choice groceries at B. ft Co. will be added to those who are in arrears taxes for the p year after April 1st, Chas. W. Smith. Collector. The A. G. Cox Co., are still shipping the reliable Cox Planters and Simplex rs to both North and South Carolina. Send us your order we assure prompt A car load of hay at A. W Co. Mrs. Smith and little son, DeWitt, went to Greenville Remember that the A. G. Cox. Co. continue for the coming to make tobacco Misses Helen Galloway, o Grimesland, and Lydia of Robersonville, spent Sunday here., E. Hooks, of Ayden, was in town Tuesday evening. s. Jno- Warren and of Bethel, were pleas- We pay charges on all on are Stare, X- C- We A e For Easter. in at Harrington Barber Co. The ladies of the Missionary jam visitors here Sunday. Society of the Baptist church- Rev u E of will observe next week as the den appoint week of prayer I at the Methodist church suns all Sizes are .,,, ,,;. at cost at B. F. Manning s C-- The very latest novelties in Wool and Cotton Dress Goods. Ready Muslin Under- wear. Shirt Waist, White Tail- Skirts, and Jackets. We have- a full line of for Men Youths and Boys, Hats, etc Come in and see our swell line of Ties. EASTER SUIT. i i In the spring time a young quickly turns to thoughts to an trimmers are now in The Northern Markets and we expect them to have the best line of ever shown in Greenville. announce our opening later. C. T. L. GRIFFIN. MILLI MRS. LEE. was accompanied by night. Mrs. Stan-1 ET We wish to announce to our friends and patrons that our stock of SPRING is more varied and complete than at any previous season, having been carefully selected, in north- markets by MISS BLANCHE CROMARTIE, our experienced assistant Milliner. BER- GREENE is at the head of the trimming department, her artistic skill is too well recognized to require comment by us MISS will assist in waiting on customers, will find her affable and attentive. Thinking for your liberal patronage in the past and prom- Chas one of They return- to exert our every effort to please you in the future, we invite St was here awhile e borne Monday to cur store. Our will take Rowan Cooper and AND WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26TH AND 27TH. MRS. L. GRIFFIN CO. court be. Friday evening on a busing trip. sucker are famous as jurors, shoe for ladies and gentlemen at of the school boys j ten Jed church at Hancock's I Sunday. Tho A. G- Cox Co. are . I now reserving orders for their and more are expected next H trucks even week. though it is early in the season- Rev. B. E. of Ayden s now ac was here week in when moat of the farmers t capacity. begin to use a cotton and The A. O, Cox Co . are guano sower. AM we ask is just s receiving for their to remember Old Reliable B. F. Manning C. Winterville High to enroll new Five entered last Monday morn-1 PULLEY WHEN IT COM I TESTING ME MEN----- AND BO THAT'S WHY WE FAR SIGHTED ENOUGH TO HANDLE ONLY THE BEST OP CLOTHES MADE A VISIT TO OUR STORE ENLIGHTEN YOU ONT THE CLOTHING question. AH styles, patterns, all sizes for every man, and at prices that should be more than we ask YOUR SPECIAL IS CALLED TO OUR EB C. S. FORE THE MAN'S l OUTFITTER l. and most up to date st. buggies. Cox Planter Simplex Guano Sower made by the A. G. aw moving their Cox Co. to their new plant, a-., i in a few days they hope to bi ready for work. t the drug store B, T. for I, W. Wood a Bob's grad rota Secure a at Barber Co. Harvey Cox and Elbert Smith went to Greenville today- Misses Elizabeth Boushall and Bessie Sams went to Greenville today- A large shipment of best flour just received at Harrington Barber Co, Fresh drugs of all kinds at B. F. Manning Co- Mack Ellis, of Kinston, is here at the bedside of his brother, George, who is critically ill with pneumonia and appendicitis. G. E. and family went to Greenville Monday after- noon. Willie Bullock who has been detained from school by an at- tact of pneumonia returned to school Monday. N. C Jackson of Ayden came over awhile Tuesday evening- It is with sadness that we announce the death of George Ellis Greenville. He died this morning at o'clock, after having suffered only a few days. Keep your horses, boys, and He a brothers and sisters to morn their loss. He will do buried Thursday at the chickens in a by giving them Pratt's food. B. F. Manning Co. We arc to see Mayor sir r- of grippe. American Herbs la the thing for of tho l. can you Died. Mr G. H. Ellis, who re- led hero some years con- , t L W J a shoe repair business on Fourth street, died this morning, your home by cover- and appendicitis, your fl I with matting at home of his a, Win. A. W. Ange Co. has it at a He sick some ago and went to his sister's. In opening our new department we beg to say to the ladies cf Greenville that we are prepared to offer the choicest and most up-to-date line of MILLINERY ever offered in the both in Street and Dress Hats, embracing all the latest ideas of domestic markets. We will show trimmed suit all classes of trade, from low grade to the finest effects that can be produced Our designer and ELOISE has been trimming pat- terns in one of the largest wholesale houses in the east. She has held some of the largest positions in tho south, and to see her skill in designing will be a treat to the lady buyers- In Dress we will Tar exceed other seasons in showing better and more varied styles than ever before, and we can furnish any style of head wear to match dresses of all description. Call and in- our new department before buying, as we feel as- sured you be more than pleased with styles and prices. We will announce day of opening later, PULLEY BOWEN. HOME OF WOMEN'S The New Year Finds me old ma door north cf GROCERIES, G PICKLE . CO- . C S, every his past yr.-i.- U be It will pay visit my store and see in v stock. tie B. Johnston.

mm READING IN THE 3RD GRADES. AND 4TH idea of vowels once ob-1 for him, for he knows them the consonants will fail analytically and synthetically. into line without much formal It is of ;. aid in the instruction. spelling lesson. Ho knows how Most teachers haw it a t. take to pieces the word to be goad to have the pupil to construct its parts, the unknown words upon And lastly it is of invaluable a board during Study to n pronunciation. Upon those of to I with He and the end- fate arc fortunate to syllables by the teach r for the often to teach in well ordered and to pronounce just before sentence or government graded town in recitation r drill in sound of or Read at Meeting Greenville, N. C. Mar 9th. BY ETTA P. a come the blunt sound to the this way the may be third and fourth grades up n to the more After the mechanics have been thoroughly prepared for their difficult words of the next day's foundation, how work and in which the new grade j, and try their own powers ever, it is to be that and step of cutting into syllables under they are only the foundation upon in a well planned whole, the teacher's Alter which we may begin to build the of is feel that it will be found real art of reading. The child; . the word together has acquired the tools but he is Schnapps Tobacco Is Made ENTIRELY from Flue Gar Tobacco Grown in the Piedmont Country. The Imitation Brands Have Schnapps Quality Only On the Outside Of the Plug i- only to tarry out and ; m i we f an- i to d Bi of a a have the class nothing bettered unless he has . i in again in been aught how to use them on an id a of the word rather how to forgo them in the I . third int thought and ex-i i. th v.-ti- V. vi ,. . I for i re- i i g i . e . re y . r i a little contest in at h the a them id an i ac- . o m pros- in. With end in view the o. encourage in every ; hie. i lea is vary the ii s a period by giving. t pupil book or mag- e a ;,. marked to I the . i th e n by I e pupils tell the . ii . h class. ; . the r om i a ks in jig g, -a o . i g Hundreds of imitation brands are on sale that look like Schnapps to- The outside of the imitation plugs of tobacco is flue cured the same as Schnapps, but the inside is filled with cheap, flimsy, heavily sweetened air cured tobacco. One chew of Schnapps will satisfy tobacco hunger longer than two chews of such to- The color, size and shape of the tags, plugs and packages of certain imitation brands of tobacco have been made so much like Schnapps that they have often been accepted by buyers under the belief that they were getting Schnapps. Sufficient proof has been secured to establish the fact that certain brands are infringements and in of the trade mark laws, yet the trade will continue to be imposed upon Dy until the suit air enter c v to pr led. A ii ms arc to be as Schnapps, but there is only one Schnapps. Be sure the on the tag, and on the p under theta- spell S-C-H-N-A-P-I and then you have m wholesome tobacco produced, w just enough sweetening to the mild, juicy, stimulating quality the leaf tobacco. Expert tests that this flue cured tobacco, in the famous Piedmont region, i quires and takes less sweetening th any other and has a stimulating, satisfying effect chewers. If the you are don't satisfy you more than them habit of expectorating, stop yourself and chew Schnapps Schnapps i like the tobacco formerly bought to sold t. ;. per costing from Schnapps in cu plugs. 5- It. -co . N. did ; or; to this Ti a Se-r. ed in or,; . . , 4.1 en . word have it i r ;. ; i i- to p no Ion;. r . It . . tire t ; w . . tin. t . . T. . i. sue r . .-and ; u them to th r to PI ; . . y , to i n . r . is v r . . K i . . . v. ill rated Th or folk i has just c a line I-1 .- ; a aw miles A T- ; Starr. I n the red be at vi , . . Mar . of . . I be j , ., . the medium z lock . ti. p v; rel fore. The large were already cents sh . which I reading be ;. ti.- as well as to The d with the avert re ; fold he hes a on in of i. ; r if indeed ;. hazy idea may be called a at all, he . as no feeling forth- sentiment of the he is reading and he has to encourage him in the 3rd place to do any reading at home the lesson is a something entirely outside h s life interests. r-f process this by means of eye f t c m ear for v and the ab Mice m more natural The training of th- the most of all to go about perhaps because it necessarily indefinite- It is only by original experiment. The maybe led from accenting Tor them- selves simple well known words to their judgment will learn that first of these problems is upon the hardest perhaps to deal which carries the Nothing may be accomplished den of he has mastered the of the mechanics of read- A good way in which start in the training is to a number of from the lesson name is given at the and have prepare for a k C m i n . ; a to ll a r which -tea thorn come to class. n ; . red read it to t- the other n embers. A. child of ten works for criticism of s than for time the lesson i; different members may take different characters, the class deciding which reader in- On r; r user t add; interest to I a r read some short i of j or poetry to the It Lo forgotten, how-1 more difficult words of, ever, that the real of They reading class is to teach the pup LI; -0 read and this aim will be he been induced to want to That child who has learned on joy, and will, habit of enjoying reading has find out syllables. already conquered half his seldom accented as the suffixes cation. And that teacher who Bern and trains enter the city P. O and and thence to the end the line a t wet the Beaufort division, through freight service Norfolk is expected to prove benefit to business it will -rive a direct com- She U the wing com- verbatim I which w lat Friday . the under- Sieved, humble and respect full to leg to bring th. following e with Norfolk and f w . north by water trans consideration with The freight and with , trains will a distinct service the trams running on, T a Compositor and I e Beaufort division. little been said of tit the has been from Wash- r is an a g V . . MM , h f a, ho Pitt . J ; . ; Sh-. Woof . lo and Hi I , I . S. named win take n tics that an as in o c t coin , the the land ; in in said i and the defendant will take he is t. at the v county on Man 1907 and an I or demur action o- the p will apply Co for the demanded in said day i March 19.171 D. Superior lesson in the old way, c-on-con-s-e-n-l -sent- consented. C-a-r-Car-o-o- H-n e line, Caroline. Aft the would and prefixes is already familiar,; keeps the aim this etc habit always in mind and Tb the observer pose has grasped the key-note I this thorough training in the of mental culture. Every school of words will seem have a complete and will towards New but. the has bean pushed rapidly, the track having been done by machine at of a mile a day. The P. C and W. handle the business out of and Oriental. Work will soon he pushed on the Railroad, a property controlled the Norfolk and Southern, to Halls- ville and Kenansville in county, it is understood, with the ultimate purpose a terminus a station on the A. C. j-, about Magnolia or lower. at present I have m it seems to myself. So, I kindly Crave o beseech your to take me in your Com- in day or night. The Poor Petitioner awaiting for your honor's valuable reply. For which act of I shall pray long life and I beg to Respected Sir. Yours most Obedient Servant. Compositor. Singapore Eastern Daily Mail lesson five minutes drill easier words from the at, random or from the room will serve to familiarize the pupil with the letters and their sound. Teach vowels, their differ- sounds and the fact that one, or more than ore grouped to- will be found in every syllable and he will r w . divide the word into its by the number of vowels. With the teacher library filled with books be of many devices I which a child may understand to avoid the monotony which If school i has not that library the next the child s interest object upon which it should bend advantages all its energies is the securing of one. to lag, but important The pupil is master of the word before him. It is no longer the bewildering whole which he must learn and m a Chinese student must the words but, a of now how to at a Truly, Only on Cards. people have stood the recent ruling of the department Writing to ho on the front of post card, thinking it pl lid to the nary government p-i card The ruling does not to the lat- longer have a the a Car Down. Deputy Sheriff W- J. armed with an execution against Southern Railway Besides the great lumber to the depot today and in the section to be traversed by that blanch there are vast trucking interests to be served. Notice to Creditors. Having qualified before the Superior court clerk of Pitt county executors last will and testament of J. M. deceased, notice is hereby all persons indebted to the es- to immediate payment the undersigned, and h said To of Kidney, Bladder troubles. Other say a t will i r year We say full free bottle if i benefits you, SOL until c This to AND Only limited f b away. Don't, miss to test NORFOLK SOUTHERN R Steamer Washington daily at a m for daily Si chained down a passenger car standing on a spur track next to the old freight station on at Washington. South Elm Street The Connecting at Washing was issued to satisfy two Norfolk judgments held by Mr. against the South- em, one of them for and -vi I. ether for The car order I was chained to the J was No It i arc i , vi. . that j No ls before the day I that now the railroad y i if I. J. Agent, they intend to put th C Greensboro H,, G. i in. s. V. . . HEIR TO FORTUNE. at by Police After Loaf Search. N. C. Marsh E. Jr., Pitts- Pa , to tune left him by his father, whereabouts has been own, was located here by this afternoon. is a mechanic, and ployed in the railroad shops of the Southern railway. id not know of his father's B, and had not heard that his had come into a fortune ago by death of lather's r, James Me- ell, Harris Pa. Harry Fitzgerald, of Pa., recently asked of to aid him eating his brother, were sent here, whore was last heard of but ace of his could until Monday. go Harri to claim his fortune- He wife and six children. SUSPENSION. LETTER TO MR. STORK. Little Lady Wrote Park Official to f Her a Baby. Now March Secretary Frank of the park opened his mail yesterday morning he found a letter addressed to C Park, New writ- t in a slopping, hand, reading as Avenue, Detroit Mr. Plea bring Frances Stevens a baby b a white baby, you bring clothes, truly. Frances Stevens. like you Mr. Mr. touched by I've appeal wrote a reply, which Little We are out of now. hut expect a new lot in soon- We shall not forget you when come. Si Park THE OLDEST CITY. by Saul of Tarsus, Is Still In If yon were suddenly asked to name the oldest city in the world which is in a nourishing would lie your answer In nine out of ten the per- son to whom such a query might be would hark hack to Greece or He would wrong. The oldest city ill the world is Damascus. lyre and have crumbled on the shore, is a ruin, Palmy- is iii a desert, and and Babylon from and tho Euphrates. remains what it was before the day-, center of and i e of in the desert, presidential with and sacred ma extending through thirty cent It was near Damascus that Saul of Tarsus saw the light above the brightness of the pun. The street which is called Strait, in which it was said still runs the FLOODS FLAYING SMASH. fork on the Southbound Industrial in to be at N C . March -Work the Southbound industrial been temporarily to dose Mr. H. E. Fries, down by night Closed Down. Wheeling, W, Va., Thursday, it of the company. engineer's office in i city will be maintained. Ir. Fries expresses the I that the suspension of the will only temporary. s action, it is held, is the re- of adverse railway i in North Carolina and other States, which has rail- o. account of water. The and jobbing district is under water and a break in the gas main and shortage of gas Is adding to the Cincinnati. O., Thursday, Reports from all over State indicate great damage by floods. In many places the con- an. The Miami i stocks, making it river is the highest of this . a to financiers to put money in new roads. The amount of money already on the southbound, however leads who e inter st id to he- e that the road will be built as recent railroad can be and the market becomes more tic son Two hundred were Hooded at Lima. The Ohio river ha reached the line at many points. The and was pan re- i the the I'm i on, i in i secret ; i when height it . . to have one . his he was hi in this called in . .-- ; i Persia, and art of inlaying wood and steel with a silver, ii kind of in engraving and sculpture unit- ed, keening, with which Ills and are s Book. Appointed. -The lowing recess appointments of were made at the House forth D. John B Spence, Char- William J. Leary, Sr., Thomas H. Dickens, Held; Willis Percival Edwards, S. M. Hambrick, y; W. Eugene Miller, Frank Roberts. Mar- John R In. Cotton Report. According to the report of the Association, was pinned up to March 2nd, bales of cotton. The number pinned in this State is given at The report claims that cf the total 428.000 bales were ginned before S 1st, last year. If this report approximates the sinner's report which will soon be made public, cotton may be expected to go somewhat higher Evacuation Day in A Nugget of Wisdom. Express publishes i of profound you pull down the town is your home, you are down yourself, and when build it up you build up and your neighbor. banish from your mind the idea that all good things or in some other local- Mass., March usual notable ceremonies were held today commemorating the evacuation of Boston by the British. The bay section of the city was well decorated with flags and bunting when the William- booming of the guns on the war- ships the navy yard and from the forts in the harbor and the ringing of bells in the city inaugurated the day's exercises In the military parade, which was the spectacular feature of the day, were all the available men from the marine barracks and a . considerate force of from the navy yard. procession was reviewed by governor, the mayor and other dignitaries. Natural Fluid resins or oil from several different trees are extensively used in the Philippines as varnishes, due of thorn, culled oil of . pale yellow liq n h, but it becomes dark and ms after con- tact with air. I in i it dries and firms a hard varnish. It is also capable of heir in a lamp. Another natural Is i . of It is white when fresh, but darkens after expos re and makes a very tough ram Oil of is ii third variety, in- others in its r properties. Chemical analysis shown that all these wood oils i entirely hydrocarbons known as In case of Accident i he From the much In for on the box to . . i-i i in i ., . the . Sold I -.-. n. to use the . e dam- . . -id called . it i Is, smooth, introduced c i me of Ii Jo Definitions. An i sh the of Samuel Johnson in London recalled some of the remarkable that in inserted i dictionary. Among them i it the; least curious was the one Ii was de I cs reticulated or at equal n i inti in . ti m Other amusing d h a of Hie rated by some a woman, ;. . not a i c ran e nu o I any one without i England to mean pay I I iii treason to his Telephone just one time MAY BE WORTH A YEARS RENTAL As Little as Five Cents Per Day -i places one in residence. Jno. I. Clear ;. . i toe . II -St of D The pills that e Ki n ed by Jan. I. U I maple s . . , wrote of K i . Co in ,. . fee y i contain H i the N Pure Jno, I. Wooten. Meal I; . hi . from . fur relief. that i and . mi the lease , it much hat you . for w . r-o th . . nos , . .- . and . in. K ., . a-. Ii . r for keen elasticity, tho manufacture was Tamerlane carried tho . i v. hi . . . H ere by . i . it an . Law, Jno. I. Wooten I l I. om i I i .- .-in Id I h . i i in A mo like by mo an Kansas Star. r ire ,, . . ,., . . , . .,. .,,. n, vi- . II I . ii rs. CURE A Specialty. n Hot and Cold Baths i W t , . -1 I r . in . all . I r TUB . . w. Arithmetic. Napoleon used to make mistakes in figure . and positive as arithmetic I to be. lie could have worked oat the most complicated problems, and yet he could rarely total up a sum correct- It i- fair to add that these were always made without intention. Tor example, in the number of men who ware to make up his battalions, or divisions, ho always used to in- crease the sum total. One can hard- believe that in d so he wanted to deceive but he thought useful to exaggerate strength his armies. It was no use mistake of kind. He refused to admit it and obstinately maintained vol Hi- k-a de Good to Eat -I-.- DESSERT vol . ad i water and let T. , T i. tOo. par grocers. I your town all the an legitimately bear. It will do you no harm and . cost you nothing, and above patronize home Board of Education. Tie legislature re-elected the board of education for county to serve two years i from July 1st. The board of A. G. Cox, L. C. M. O. Blount. board could not easily improved upon. It is com- led of gentlemen thoroughly to the educational inter- s of the Kb. I. A. R. S. Executors of J. M. Fulford. service again, lord. I Centenarian Passes Away. Mrs. Teel died recently her home nearly three miles mi town. Her exact at a i is not t sh-- was thought to a old. Honor Memory. Charleston. S. C, Marsh 18.- The universal regard in which the memory of John C. is held was given expression throughout South Carolina and States today by ex- commemorating the 125th anniversary of the great states- man's birth. Public schools, colleges and literary and cal societies throughout the State Held special exercises in honor of the day- Calhoun was born March 1872 The old home in which he lived, near Pendleton, this State, is being carefully looked after by the of Clemson college, which owes its existence largely to the fact that the great states- man's son-in-law in his will left all Calhoun plantation, a grand property of acres, together with the historic homestead and fifty odd thousand dollars, to the State of South C to par- fill. and , a w h the ; n , f the State i at education. . . . k. . iii id .- Arkansas .-. . . of tho reporter paper c . u death . mo by i editorial i A on . I nil found the ed tor i s f about iii in i has been a sud loss, visitor sail loss and looked tho room. I um plea; lo m he went on. at the melancholy event by bulging up fiend Crowned. raid. do yon said the visitor, pointing. ho isn't crape, the the world. dates some 4.00 I year.-, k and Ii was written in Egypt, n o r e for tho . given is to short- en by n th, and on the line so i i to construe a square. And this, though far from i near u for mo nave long . convinced that the . . i but it i; only in . . in they able to demonstrate this. A professor named published demonstration, which was a i by tho tide world i N. C . t- iii Cases only Si,. Phi In tr- L VI Recipe Book free i award nil i o. l.-Ho. ii i nit int lie and re Dealer US, Inn . Turkeys. etc. t ad. Mann s Tables, Safe.-. mid Gail Ax Snuff, i h Key George Cherries, lies. pies, Syrup, i Meat flour, p, ii Food, and tin., , els, Nuts, ; Dried P aches, P. K ; hi i i wan-, I I. Hi st . r, n -sewing Ma d- d f Ii. come Clover U I am .; ;Cold or a always pro- w rail runs to ; i I of pa i i era . want In ; . i Ni . las. n ; ; ii r . . , -J B f r ET H , Relieves Bl I III I is mi Lang l. i; I ad Tar. C i action of . C an L. . it. tat all f; EB y Phi by i. men has lo i exploded the at- i bi creed of the it. Ii is now well known that no cranium, not even that which tho mighty intellect of i, reveals on its outer aspect any certain signs of the development within it The ii Harry Skinner, Jr. H. W. LAWYERS. N. C. in NOTICE TO CREDITORS. All claims against the partnership firm of Coward Wooten, which claims wherein existence on the tilth day if January 1907 are notified to exhibit the same to K. M. the surviving partner. within twelvemonths from the date notice is. WOOTEN. partner of Coward Wooten. This Feb. C. J. W. BRYAN. In , pun I . u-i. .;., and to . c i That Dr. .; c tan Kb it surely . ; lift ;. v v . f ; J n I that 1- c . r It. lira I l p K III . I .-. . ; th. Well, Coil- cm. a I war, at . . , ;. t and on- I.- . in J-W. h CO. NORFOLK, VA. Cotton and handlers of Tics and Rags. Correspondence and shipments solicited- Neighbors Got Fooled. was literally coughing myself to death, and ha i to to leave my bed; and predicted would never it alive; but for thanks be to God, I was in- to try Dr. King's New It just four one dollar bottles to completely cure the cough and restore me to good writes Mrs, Eva of Stark of cough and cold and r of mid lungs, Is guaranteed by J. I. i Drug- and Trial bottle free. .- Headache k ; J. W. BRYAN. Ruing From the A prominent manufacturer, A. of N. relates a remarkable experience. taking lass than throe bottles Electric Hitlers. I feel like one troubles is the Diabetes I rally believe Electric Bitters will cure me permanently, fur it has already stopped liver and bladder complications which have troubled me for L. Wooten Druggist. Price only JULiUS BROWN ATTORNEY AT LAW. GREENVILLE, N. C. Practices in JAMES L. FLEMING, ATTORNEY AT LAW, GREEN N. C. it K. L. Carp, Dentist. R. L. Johnson, GREENVILLE, N. C. Contractor, Builder. I Setter. Plans and s on application. All w Tern key job when ever de- -mm

OUR AYDEN DEPARTS j, ft,, i LOW, Manager . d Authorized Agent. C. v. . Itake script ions and receipts for , . , their wail take i. T age f r i m l B J. R. Lock for a L it will ; y, , iii qua a i s U ft . i are i will leave th . for Si Car- . i . will represent th It r J cheap goods to Co. they always V . wife, Sn vi r here Wanted- car loads i l . which we will nay hist cash price. Don't sell be fore seeing us- Yours to serve. F- C . Ralph Johnson, of hi. I Go to E- E. new market for fresh meats, sausage and fresh fish. M. spent a very pleasant h with us Wednesday. a full line o Meat, Lard and Can Don't before giving me a trial, Lilly Co. Robert Anderson, of y Mount, is here. Mrs. j. and are or. a visit I Hi use station. If you need any Paint be sure and E. Co We i l E. continues quit sick out at his borne on hire street. exchange corn for or J Lean, Healthy Shout weighing i to pounds pr et price for same W. A. Harden. Ayden, N. C Miss I, of is it friends and taking in the opera. Can Nobles is so much in pro i i able to c urn down, lie had a hard time. The will be plea ,., . i nose Saul's. Call and see Hart is now living in th, Ca. on West rail road set. i . Bale at Si u to Cl banning who has I in a i north can I i noon. P g . riff S. Dudley was a yesterday. It i . I and a pleasure to . of the in having a first class Pen. Call at Dru la cure this much need- ed article. B. F. Manning and L L. Kit- v were here with th s yesterday. Fountain Pens with any and all points for Bale at Saul Store. ,;., em shad might be c. late day. There to be an over- abundance here Thursday and still they were one dollar. I have bought the clay business of J. CW. Taylor mm respectfully solicit the pat- of the public. C. E. I all work entrusted to care to give entire faction. Try mo. C. E. Spier. I solicit the patronage of the people of Ayden and community in everything pertaining to the business Give me a trial. C- E Spier. Watches, clocks aim anything needing attention in my line will be attendee to n the very best and latest style C. E Spiel-. cotton meal. F Lilly v Co M- Sauls has and Iv in Pens . r brought to Ayden. pt I'm e a it while at . as the bi of a ii . . the mis to have a piece a to I p the a him on Ii r was a I boy, i j serious in He s he i h ad. for ii will stand the proof. and n as able i lie I Fount. Pens a . ire. Now the has about passed it behooves e i citizens, who pleasure and would like to pleas end the coming dull to for pastures . j ; Is anew that their wishes i be real zed. There is the park. This place so nicely adopted for a resort to thus.- who enjoy delightful shades and scented breezes, where all can rather and mingle in sweet com The aged to ponder and think of tho past, they to participate and drink in the sweet reflections t might have been and still t The little ones lo gambol and play on the w grass and I . the cooling oaks. Then there Is the rink, where pleasure and mirth go in hand to s y exercise health cheek. vigor an I n to the human form. Let us pare for the feast and never it be said Ayden is a dull town. The Harry Company gave us two very pleasant per- this week. Mr. c change in characters and and for a show its class is above the ordinary. W. I. House d family of spent Sunday with Will Alexander. II went to and n from Greenville Leslie Turnage has come home from a tit to Durham. Miss Janie Kittrell been visiting Mrs. Dr. Blount. B. F. Early received a telegram Friday informing her that her daughter. Mrs. was critically ill at Point. Mrs. Early left on the morning train Monday. from the country has been visiting May Smith. Joe Jones a member of the Fortress Monroe after a ten days visit has returned to his pa t. The ladies of the graded with the assistance of some of the students and other home talent anticipate at an early date to give an entertain- for th purpose of raising funds toward the enlargement of the library at the school. This is indeed commendable and worthy a noble purpose The entertainment we are sure will be of a high order. The teachers of this school are highly cultivated, I have traveled much and by and observation are fully competent for such an under- j taking. We expect an enter- rich, rare and J On the noon train yesterday the remains of Miss Maggie were brought here from Tarboro- In the afternoon th were carried out and laid to rest in the family burial ground. Miss thing; on was years cf age and many are the friends and who mourn her death. yesterday about one o'clock Mrs. Mary Manning wife of Mr. Charles Manning, who lives the of Ayden, bad B severe stroke of paralysis and died within about two hours. She leaves a husband and two small children, the youngest about one week old- Her re- mains will be today. I. L. Rollins, of was a visitor here Friday. J J Smith has returned from Norfolk where he has been on cotton market several days. A. n, of Green was selling cotton on our market Monday. Miss Edward--, of Kin- is visiting Miss Merry. Dr. D. L. James and wife, of Greenville, spent Sunday with . family of C. A. Fair. We had the pleasure their . i tit and spent a very pleasant hour with them. If our people intend having that park it is time something was doing. Somebody take the BUCK JACK ITEMS. Black Jack, N, C, Mar. There was quarterly meeting here Sunday with a large dance. Frank Mayo family, of Greenville, attended services here Sunday and spent the after- noon with W. L. Clark. Miss Emma Johnston, Greenville, is here visiting this week. Miss Julia Cox left today for Ayden where she will spend some time visiting E. I,. Clark, of Greenville, spent Saturday night and ;. here. Miss Fannie House and broth- NOTICE TO DISSOLUTION duly qualified the con- court cleric of i as ad- ducting a cotton and insurance the estate of the town N. C-, has this notice Ii hereby given to all persons indebted to th- to make immediate payment lo the undersigned, and all claims against said estate must present the me for payment on or before the fin day of March, or this ill be plead in bar of recovery. This 5th day of March. MOT. B. T. Cox, . . of Samuel Stocks. Saturday night and Sunday visiting uncle. G S. John- A good many of the land people attended church here Sunday. Miss Bertha Coward. ville, and Miss Eva House, of Greenville, spent Sunday with Miss i Jessie Clark. J. . went to Green- ville today. A O. Clark, of Grimesland, spent with H J. Smith. John S. Dix n, who school at Ayden, came home Friday no I Sunday. Miss Dora Cox, of Red Banks, spent a part of last week I visiting Miss Dixon- Porter and wife attend- ed services here Sunday and spent the afternoon with Miss Maggie Smith. W O. Cox and family spent lead, ethers join in and do j Sunday afternoon with Henry BALE OP By of a power of sale certain mortgage deed exec W. Brown David, of spent to on the day dissolved co by mutual Joel withdrawing from said firm. Dee. 12th. W. II. Joel Patrick. Ur Joseph Dixon PHYSICIAN SURGEON. -I N C. Sales Feed and Livery Stables. Conveyances. Lies. to suit N. C. B. 1st day of January, 1906, and duly re- corded in the office of register of deed . f in Book J-8 I will on Saturday the day of April, expose to pub- sale before the court house door in Greenville, to th. highest bidder, for I cash the following parcel land to . Hie life of Jess.- W. Brown in and to that certain tract parcel of Situate in Greenville township, county i on the North side of Tar River, the lands of Z. W. Brown, V. M. Brown estate R. J. May and J. Fleming I and known as the H. w. Brown ace, containing- more or less. The estate to sold under the f ,. foregoing mortgage on the said 8th Heavy . t St. it t HART H. in Dry No- OF lot s op until the is an as- Dixon. Miss returned to sured fact. None of us will ever hep LIABILITIES, have cause to regret it lure to her Mrs Abram discounts Many from here Are in dance up, court in Greenville, Dixon Mills this week. We are having some weather at present The farm I coin THE n. At the Capita G. W. Cox, of Greenville, is here on a visit to his son, E. G. Cox. BILL DID NOT PASS 167.61 610.69 186.60 6.663.03 much time at No Bend Issue for Reads in Pitt County. Early in the session of the re- school and returned yesterday work. Jodie Dixon mot his foot cut very had Saturday but is getting along very well at present. Miss Lula Mils home Friday from high cent legislature a bill was intro- j ENTRY OF VACANT I AND. to give Pitt county ,. A. ,.,. .,,, to vote on the question of is- following described vacant land, ,,, i u I Lying iii township, I I bonds for the ,.,, Indian well swamp and I'll. pose contracting good roads I branch, adjoining the lands of John in the county. A com- of this S. S. Smith, Arden Hills, bill was sent The Reflector for . , Lawhorn and others, containing that the people of or th county mi and ex-1 This March 4th, 1907. press their sentiments if desired, i i. a. Arnold. l seems that many people are Any person . persona claiming title now under the impression i de- , -ii i , . i. . bed land mint tile in the bill passed and that such an ,. election IS to be held sometime they will be barred by law. this year. But this is not Alter the bill was intro- the legislature it not called up again, hence did Ii. Williams. K. Taker not pass Marriage Licenses. Register of Deeds K Williams issued licensee to the following couples since last WHITE- John W. and Strickland. COLORED, Austin Gaylord and Hettie Grimes, NOTICE North Carolina I Pitt cow In Superior Willoughby Vs Cornelius Will, The defendant above take an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior of county to obtain plaintiff from the defendant an lute from tin- bonds of upon the that are fully set in the complaint arid the defendant will r take that is required to appear the Henry Hill and Annie term . the Superior said Warren and Celia Ann ,, ,. alter I lie in March, it being the 22nd lay of April, 1907. Abram and Alice I house county Ii o. . I Greenville, North and .,, , ,, , ,, to the c in or the plaintiff Edward Williams and This the 13th day of March, 1907. D. Moore. V. for Foreman Herman Sped and Lizzie Cory. Joseph Burney and Georgia Hill. Oscar Roberson and Frances Downing, STRAY TAKEN UP. I have taken up a stray y r ling running with st K. about on.- and half or two; year.- old, in poor condition, white col r. and unmarked. Owner can get same I proving p and paying COS s. W. J. Crisp. K. F. D. No. . C. March 18th IS lid NOTICE. Having as administrator with the will annexed of Me. Q. Rog, era, deceased, late of Pitt county, N. C. this notify all persons having claims against Um . of the said Me. ii. Rogers, doc eased, to exhibit them to the with n twelve months from of this notice or this notice will l pleaded in bar of their All persona Indebted to said estate will make payment. This the day of March. 1907. John A. Staton, Administrator. Julius Attorney. APRIL 1st. WE MOVE TO OUR PERMANENT Prior to that we are Otter- BARGAINS IN PIANOS NEVER EQUALED. WRITE FOR PARTICULARS. Piano the Sweet Official Piano Jamestown Exposition. CHAS. M. Norfolk, Virginia. Total surplus Undivided profits less expenses Dividends unpaid . go yo, sub . et to check 1,688.20 Si., . I'll I J. It. t. -ii,. the above is el In f In 2nd if f i n lo I .,,,, t In . f and I. It t it Vile DIXON, CF THE CONDITION THE HANK OF N. L. Al THE CLOSE OP J . r Stock paid in and Discounts Overdrafts Secured 2,8-12.78 Surplus F U nil 1,000.00 848.69 profits Furniture and Fixtures 1,680.60 m C t Deposit 2,537.75 Due from Hanks 84,515.42 Cash Items eh ks o ts ding 124.25 Hold Coin Silver Coin 479.46 Slots of North t County Pitt. v I, J. It. Davis, Cashier of do solemn- .-i to th my and belief. J. B. DAVIS, and i t ore me, this day of Feb. I dO. , J. V. JOHNSTON, it. L. v is. Public. r BETHEL BANKING TRUST COMPANY. AT BETHEL, N. At the close of business Jan. 1907. RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans and discounts 5,000.00 Overdrafts Hanks and 718.48 Hankers of Cash items L deposit 2.184.60 Gold to cheek ind other U. S. notes Silver hank it u i it i i Clicks 960.86 Total , Toto, Suite of North Carolina, Pitt, I. W H of tho above named the statement is to tho best of my edge and belief. Subscribed and sworn to , me, this 2nd day of M. T. M Notary Public J R. J. GRIMES STATON, IT PAYS TO At m J. Owner. Truth In Preference to Fiction. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR VOL. No. GREENVILLE, NORTH FRIDAY. NO. to Sing a Special to Reflector. New March 26th. -hi- of today ending April 2nd- This sum will be paid in royalties, but the company guaranteed the sum, equal the annual salary of the president of the United States and the total annually far excess of that To fulfill the contact the diva a passage to England, she had f. r today. GUILTY. Verdict Sight, j Elizabeth City. N. C, March 20th--The in the case Joshua Harrison charged with the kidnapping and murder of Kenneth i the 9-year-old son State Senator Beasley, tonight rendered a of guilty. Court convened this morning a. m. in the fifth day of the Harrison trial. Solicitor Ward closed the argument in a speech of three hours length. His was one of tie finest to be made in this court house He reviewed the in a powerful manner, which profoundly impressed the and the audience, who got surroundings and One man was to jail by the five days for applauding. Solicitor Ward that Kenneth is living and his mother will hare h within six He echoed the sentiments of a great part of the audience which has greater any day since the trial began. Solicitor Ward his argument at. a. m. and Judge Allen began at his charge to the jury, which he concluded at p. m. The case to Representative Accomplish- ed to Reflector. Washington, March capital is much interested in amateur and. some of the leaders of society are very gifted in the art of pleasing with their of music or readings. Among the most accomplished musicians son-m-law of the president, who as a professional on Wisconsin. James Stephen- the violin, while songs the never fail to please, frequently, backer of Senator La convulsing his His be elected for the love of music is only exceeded by term, it is expected. This is all his love of politics The father wants. He has been a Mr. established the college of music in Cincinnati, and first the Thomas orchestra there, and pro- the annual festival, which years ago attracted attention to Cincinnati as a musical a Bill on Hat Train tn Reflector. Albany. N. Y. March that has attracted Melba. the noted opera i York beard of underwriters could and will be imitated f, has signed a not be represented to oppose the other slates, the many the proprietor of a talking bill which ire who pays her to I fire insurance law The Special to Reflector. St. Louis, March Pa., 27.- Missouri senate has passed a bill Keystone that the New that has attracted much derailed OPENINGS. Two in Tic ;., When it comes to opening j of of new good-, esp in the millinery line, . and three amends the received here from so that The hurt. into his machine for contract shall be stated in is intended to regulate reform crew n week. The is to another hearing was election movements, to the -x- . .,.c. than fifty for today and it is no in of passing such movements j disclosed ha dollar.; for singing in the week excels. . i. A v. i-. cl I i progress. The of under- under like requirements been with some writers is now represented and imposed upon political parties. mischief. is piling up arguments against bill provides that leagues, the measure. Friends of the j committees, associations or so- hill declared that no statement I incorporated of made by the insured on his be- formed for the purpose half should be deemed material to tie character, defeat or void a policy unless it fitness or Qualification of was made with intent to or nominees for public and defraud, unless the mat-; and making reports on A in Aid of Jews. i, to actor. New York, March the direction of Mrs. Sam- u-l Mrs. Joseph H. Cohen, Mrs. Albert Lucas, a whist in aid of the Jaws aged, and destitute poor, and for the rebuilding of the alma houses destroyed the Kingston earth- quake will be given tonight at the Waldorf Astoria. The affair is expected to be a lively one, as a large number of the most in- people among the Jew- population are ac- in this enterprise. misrepresented Increased the I same, shall state in full, in every here today for a week's session Questions i item of . h. will -o up u d n . n risk of loss, for the that report or recommendation to the risk was not increased. He s nominees, the i said that the agent of the insured names and . ell make statements which sons were not made to him when the Any i t recommendation policy was applied for, and there-j furnished or published by such fore the entire contract should associations which be contained in the policy, in all of ion shall order that the ordinary man of j be unlawful, and any person small means, who is honest, and printing or circulating a report does not conceal anything where j without information shall be applies for insurance, should I guilty of a misdemeanor and know under what conditions not less than nor more is paying his premiums The than by imprisonment in clause for jail not less than one month or lings and household furniture, more than one year, or by claimed, should be line and imprisonment. The assigned to i heir barges for a year. Talked Too Much. Millionaire for Special to Reflector. Milwaukee, Wis. for the reason that the average man does not Stand the terms. He contended also that the day clause as to a place being unoccupied worked on in- justice, as many a vacant was amply protected, j pointing-to the fact that when a Man h closed his house in the bill also provides for reports of campaign expenses such as are required of regular party or- Seeking a Piece Land Under Special In i k-cl Reflector. New York. March has i developed that one of the jurors Ion the Thaw trial Saturday i night told a companion that after closely studying Thaw two months all of the jurors con- him a Bate man. The talk of this may make a mistrial of the ease. The ladies are delighted with the two in p even the sterner sex, though gifted with n it j i n of in, much to admire if it p him to in Mrs. L. G., as is usual with their p . have a i hats, id other new i t was -r the array of . ids. i i i at- . l i i of his devoted to a dis- i,. be p . of millinery, spring dress trimmings and innumerable. His pattern hats are beauties and everything in i keeping with the season's styles. Roth these openings will con- tomorrow Pulley also begin then. ANOTHER Conference Special to n things in this Va., March shapes a d . Ii more co if m e f Ll e and much I. arc i, South, ton- really to CIVIL COURT. M . While this term of civil wait is getting along veil In removing cases from the docket, great The election today to fill the vacancy occasioned by the declination of Senator Spoon- to serve any longer as Unit- ed States senator from the State vacation period, there is less N. Y. importance attaches to any s. far Tobacco Men to Nashville,. Tenn. March The tobacco growers of see, Kentucky and Virginia are and very grateful to the legislature for passing the two tobacco association said President Fort, who is chief executive officer of the He said that the passage of two bills mentioned ma- the nation in its fight against the to- trust. This organization has been conducting a ed fight for several years past against the oppressions of the trusts and in behalf of better prices for their tobacco, and the I that they are win nil. . ii the line. The two bills passed were strongly favor- ed by all but a very small per- of the members, and the majority fee that they will now be able more effectively than ever before to carry on their con- test. Tigers Open Today. to Reflector. Princeton, N. J. March The Princeton schedule opens the season today with a game with William and Mary at Norfolk, followed one tomorrow at Norfolk with and Sid- con at .;. After Ling Service to New York, Major An- J. who been in military service for some twenty-three jeans, has from the 71st Regiment, quits the service today- Cap- has received the, appointment in his place. Color Sergeant Buford has received the brevet of second lieutenant after vice, and been retired. risk than when occupied, and The to secure a large I disposed cf. when the occupants are moving of land under water Five divorces have Leon made, about A temporary breach not have, been for white resulting in a loss which does revived, audit is more than and three for colored. not increase the risk, he claimed, tie on tills Quite a number of small cases should therefore, in no way void The grab was have been non-suited. down, or lather passed along, Hyman Supply Co. vs W. J. the land board last Kittrell, plaintiff alleging that The new board excessive homestead had been matter ii; a com defendant, was committee has, it is said, com tided to make a the policy. U n. vet., Pennsylvania's Carnival. Thronged- Today Pulley Bowen had their first opening since adding a department to their Lore. So eager w ire the ladies this el display of attractive goods, for some i before the doors were a large crowd had in front of tho store. took of this and several pictures of the mo were taken. When the doors were thrown open expressions of delight were h -in from the ladies as the beautiful pattern hats and other stylish goods v re ed and admired. enter rising firm certainly i a splendid of i fin Crowds .-t re i ITEMS. Montgomery College. to Reflector. Montgomery. Ala. March Plans are forming in this, city to secure the location of the dist Oman's College in this city, if possible. Active work has already begun to raise the sum of the amount and to secure about fifty shares of ground. The chances of securing the college are con- excellent. special to Philadelphia, March favorable report on the April 27th, the University at a meeting held today. Pennsylvania will give its 13th annual festival, or outdoor meet, and the preparations now show that it be the grandest over given by the in- and among the very largest ever given in the country. s thousand en- tries will be it, in fact, the has been grow so rapidly that the management is fearful Parliament. Special to Reflector. Washington, March 27.-The Philippine census was issued March 1906 and consequently today is the day for the Philip- pine commission to a general election for the choice of gates to what will be as teat some means to be the Philippine assembly. provided for the overflow. To this end a plan his been pro- posed to devote two days to the meet, holding the for schoolboys on Friday, and the college, championship and events on Saturday. is to take legislative power heretofore exercised by the Philippine commission in all that part of the not by Mores or non- tribes. New York City Bilk Sp. to Trying to Track From Eleventh Avenue. Special to Reflector. New York, March 26.-The long contention over the tracks of the New York Central Rail- road in Eleventh has Albany, N. Y March other bills from New York re- transportation and the transportation prob- will be considered today by the joint committee of senate assembly that is considering public utilities bill There bills legislating the present rapid transit board out of and the bill providing for an elective public utilities com- mission in New York City. Grady's bill provides that a pas- may travel as far as he reached the point where nation proceedings were com-; pleases for one faro so long as he not retrace his steps, ail Hint e. lies connecting with other. Washington Special to Hell Washington, D. C. March 27- The Washington conference of the Methodist Episcopal church began its annual session In this city today. It will sit a week, and the time will be mostly with routine work, hear- reports of presiding elders, and stationing the preachers for another year's service, Bishop is presiding. Railroad Merger. Special to Reflector. Philadelphia, March At a meeting of stockholders of the Railroad today the merger i. Eric was approved. Bernard administrator vs rill a was decided in favor of plaintiff. J. L. Elks Robert Brown was decided in favor of defend- ant. decided in favor of defendant. W. H. Nichols vs W. H. Elks decided in favor of plaintiff, The amount in this suit was and the case has lien in court three years. One suit growing out of the recent selling of washing rights in was adjust- ed by the notes in the purchase of such being surrendered to plaint iii by de- and further effort to collect the notes abandoned. Marriage Licenses. Register of Deeds R. Williams issued licenses to the following couples since last win no. and Mary J. T. Langley and Mary K. Moseley, L. G. Mills and Bessie Smith. J. Bullock and Jessie Ann Lewis. J. J. Haddock and Lizzie Elks. COLORED. and Martha Dixon, Andrew Howard and Clara Chapman. When you want your horses and mules insured see J. G. Oakley, in. C. mi i Mil, to . Belcher I-. returned to Charleston ling a few days with his Mr.--. Minnie Brown and i of Wilson, visited last we . W. family, of Goldsboro, is.-- -n few days in and around Oakley. W. A. Andrews and family, of Mount, visited at J. T- Sunday Will Jenkins went to Bethel Sunday. W. W. Willoughby, of Bethel, spent a part of Sunday in Little spent Sunday in the Great Swamp section. J. . James, Ii. kins, Williams. Eli and J. E. attended th burial of M Leggett, of Martin county, Sunday. There was a large crowd present to pay the list tribute of respect to this good He was buried with sonic honors. S. A Congleton, wife and daughter attended church at Oak Grove Sunday. an i sister, of Saturday night ant Sunday Mr. and s. A. Congleton, W. of ard, was on Deputy Sheriff Dudley, of Greenville, was here Monday on business. On Wednesday March o clock, at the home of the bride's mother, Mrs. Matilda her only daughter, Miss Mary, was happily married to Mr. J. K. Barnhill. of Winter- After the ceremony the bridal party drove to the home of the groom's father, Mr J R, Barnhill, where a bountiful awaited them.