‘LECTO Ue d WHICHARD, Editor and Owner. TRUTH IN PREFERENCE TO FICTION. TERMS: 25 Cents a Month, ll cee nee Vol. 6. GREENVILLE, N. C. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1897. oo No, 848 ROCHDALE ITEMS, Rocupae, N. C,, Sept. 6, “97. Some cf our people will speak of the weather being dry once in a while. BASE BALL. | Nene —y ! Games’ Played and; Standing Clubs. of Cottoa picking is in full ‘268 % J ¥ * » ‘ ° 3 7 4 ru wWORgress New York, Sept. 6—St. Louis, pre New York, 9. Baltimore, Sept, 6—Pittsburg, we around our town now, R. A. Willoughby has grown a —as Baltimore, 6 stalk of corn this year ssventeen feet Boston, Sept. 6—oston, 10; Cin- high. : . Sub Our community Was very well rep- resented ab Marlboro Friday mghe and There meeting being conducted there, Brooklyn, Sept. 6—Brooklyn, Chicago, 12. Philadelphia, Sept. 6— Philadelphia, 2; Cleveland 8. 8; Sunday, was a protracted C.L. Tysor, of Ayden, who ts a Vashineton, & ; quisville. 3: | - ane -_ Washington, Sept. §— Louisville, 0: | native of this neighborhocd, was ever 4 | Washington, 7. ' this way fifth Sunday visiting rela | and bought a HOW THE CLUBS STAND. tives | j : Von Lost Per Cent yates RO BL Parker and he two! Boston 78, BF 696) daughters, Lanie and Mam‘e, who live | | Baltimore 4500 08 694 \ in the section of Kings X Roads, spent New York 69 39 639 | fitth Saturday night and Sunday with | Cincinnatl 63 to 583} the family of Mrs. Parker’s brother, Cle eland ao al O19} Joab Tyson. | | Chicago 50 62 446) fee srooklyn 49 62 141 | Miss Hellen Atkinson left here last Louijaville 9 G8 141 | week to go to Sampson county for the Philadelphia 49 63 43x | Purpose ot attending a school there. Pittsburg 47 Ol 430) Cholera is playing havoc with the Washington 45 ol 430} hocs around here. St. Louis 27.084 243 Charicy Cobb, ct Norfolk, came | Sunday to see his father, J. C. Co’ b- JUST FOR FUN. Many of our people attended the | _ yearly meeting at Otters ereek Sune | Agrave offense—robdirg a cem>- 1 any. ra (C.D. Smith says that he had rather “HaIH.LoIo A sicn o* the times—-“Fried oysters; : . - yy . ! seli now than buy, as he has his shelves with every drink, ; 0 : picked full of new eoods, | Dry goods clerks are letting their ; oe © | We age pleased to have Miss Lula hur grow for the football season. ae . ; . | Bell, of Kinston, with us again. Miss It isn’t strange that an unsvccessful | Bell is expected to spend severrl weeks air ehip inventor should have a soar] oyer this way. OSTIM MNVods i head. Hedmond Peyvon, a colored main | de | Suy, w’en it comes ter baseball wiolives onafarm ot R. J. Cobo’s pitcher wot goes ter de saloon too often | near here, showed us a cotton barr last cits broke. week trom which nine locks of white of the football eotton had been picked. sevson thc uudertaker’s face takes on at With the approach We ave sorry that Mrs. Patue J. grin of delight'ul anticipation. Smith is very sick and hope she will recover 8O0o0n. Jack—-“T understand you gave May ‘halt a dozen bottles cf colegne.” Bill Joh. Fianagan, wife and three of Yes; just paying a little bet.” “Tn- i ther littie children, from near Farm-| ville, and also Jay Flana,an were visiting relatives in cur town today. deed?” “Yes; I odor a few scents.” Tke summer girl and the silly sea. scn go out together, but 1t doesn’t fol- ‘low that the summer girl will cepse making the men silly. | Misses Em Joyaer and Mary Lassi~- | ter, ot Lizzie, were visiting the family ‘of Ivy Smith, Saturday nizht and Sun- Some of those who adopted Klon: day. dike-or bust for a motto have discover- ed that it is Klondike-and~busied, with nine months of winter ahead cf them. Help the Orphans. We are requested to announce that Mr. B. F. Sugg, chairman of the or- phau asylum committee of Greenville Masonie Lodge, will wait upon our cit- izena within the next twenty days to solicit donations, either in cash or 1m kind, for the orphans at Oxford, Have so nething ready against the time he First Shipment. The first shipment of new cotton from Greenvile this season was made by the Greetville Supply Co. on Sat- urday yia the Old Dominion Steam. ship Co. to Norfolk. \EFRED FORGES. Dry Goods -:- and-:- Notions, CLOUHING, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, _ FURNITURE, HARDWARE, * calls. If you wantto save money trade with us. Agent for George A. Clark’s Spool Cotton. |. Dime and Builders Materia! a Specialty. ‘come and see / + GENERAL MERCHAUNBISE { AIS 9GL IN | "4002100 01B SOOTIG OUT, “JOITLOD 21B SOT ONIM WH ‘ALNONOD .LLId NI GHAV1TdSIC AFAR Are coming in dailyand you should see them. Beautiful line of PICTURES that are selling low down, Handsomest line of CARPETS in town. We stilf have a few Summer Goods - that are going at sacrifice prices. If you want bargains t. atare bargains dov’t miss,this chance. | It AEA | Y Vit : HH. M. HAl - SU'RSCHTETION RATES." a - $3.00 Mae moonth, <--- » *. « 25 One week. 10 Delivered in town by carriers without eektra cost... : se ialecbaade rates are liberal and can be be oC i the editor or at cnet em 8 ion e: -odesire a itve coreexponueet + at | avery postoffice inthe cornty, who will _ gend in brief items of News as it occurs “{n each ueighborhood, Write plainly and only on one side of the paper. cavar, SupreMper 7, 1897. eae th ara t sarseensenie mataiannete init Hae means ie ates om ‘A Needed Invention, The Brooklyn man who stop- ped the policeman ou the coruer “Just a minute before the police- ‘man stopped him luoked as if he : had been through a Kiondike winter and had left the country of a thrashing machine. “Here, Mr. Policeman,” be be- gan, when the policemen put in: “What’s the matter with you anyhow?” he asked. — “Domestic, purely domestic,” be explained “Giad to hear there ae vo for- eign complicatious,’ said the of- -ficer, encouragingly. ; : “Tnere ein’t; there 1? Ww there neyet was;but what us mar- ried men need is protec .iou.” “Well, hasn’t the Dingley bill gone through a-whooping? What myre do yoa want?” smil- ed the officer, who was disposed to be facetious. “Yes; but. that’s got nothing. to do with my case,” contended the man indignantly. “What us mar- ried men want is protection against our wives. Look at me, Mr. Officer; look at me. I’m a married map, and wy condition is entirely due to my wife,’i ‘You are sober enough, I vuess,” said the officer looking him over, “Course Tam. “Tain’t that! neither. What we want is sume of these here inventors, who are turning out ail kinds of machines that are aoing all kinds of things we don’t have any use for once in a thousand years, to get right down on their marrowbones and invent a machine that wili go on the letter a wife hands to her husband to mail when he’s got tomething eise to think about, so that when he passes a mail box or a carrier or the postoffice, this same invention will yank the !et- ter out of his pocket and chunk the who!e thing whore it belongs. Then when the letters are collect- ed the machine can be taken off and sent back to their owners for future ase. Nowathing like that would haye saved me from look-— ing like 1 look now and would have made. it possible for me to go back home before two weeks.” “Why,” began the Officer, when the man shct him off. “Aw, don’t why we any whys,” he said. ‘By gosh, I carried that letter around two weeks, and it ought to got to the place in four days, and when it didn't it kept ‘my wife from doing something or. other one of the new women so- cieties she belongs to wanted her to do, and sc she just lit mto me, and you see what a wreck I am.’ _ “Where are you going?” asked the officer kindly, as the man -ttarted off. “Darred if I know,” he said, “I eB rl go down here to the on and throw dice to r I'll go toa ho or "—New York sen! an a afterward through the Jittle end! _ How They Cure Alcoholism. | Mrs. Alec Tweedie bas recently, brought out a book entitled “Through Findland 1n Carts,” full -|of racy chat of travel. She speaks of Finland as being like Norway .|“idcled with telephones,” and tells the fojlowing little story to illustrate the excessive use of the telephone by Finnish folk : “Pekka wes mad in love with Ile, a wondrously beautiful waider. He beard rumors that she was trifling with anotber. He could not stand the torture, even for a few hours, aad 80 up the mansion of the family Heikkila. “Joy. Heheard tne voice of Iima in answer, and said; Is it |you, dear one? I, Pekka am here. “A soft sigh replied. “Arg you glad to pear Pekka? Do vou care for him just a little?’ “Ya:,’ sighed the fair maid. “Darling, it is not true that you care for Armas Merikante ‘ ‘ae “No, no,’ she cried. “¢Yon like me—ydu love me ? © Ves,’ sbe softly mrwured. « ‘Will vou be my wife? “-f will, Pekka.’ “Oveirjoyed, Pexka almost hug ged the wocden box that brsugit him such glad tidings. “ ‘When may I come to see you darling—my little wife ?’ “‘Qome, Pekka, come for din- ner at 3 o'clock. A few more sweet nothings, aud, quite enrap- tnred, Pekka returned to his of- fis) reutine. At3 o'clock, spick and span, with a voiden ring in his pocket, ke presented nimée'f at the house of the Heikkilas. “Tv the saioa stood the mother. He went toward her to receive her motherly congratulations, Sbe rushed forward to meet him, ai al good mothers-in-law shou'd aud, throwing herself into his arme, she cried—— “jake me, Pekka, dearest Pekka: I am yours till death.’ “ ‘Mine !’ “*Yos.. 1 have loved you long, darling Pekka, and I am ready whenever you can fix a day for our marriage.’ “Tableau. Moral: telephones.” | As there are, according to Mrs. Tweedie, some thirty-six thous- and more women than men in Beware of | Finland, the action of Pekka’s in- tsnaed mother-in--law is explain- able—The Mectrical Engineer. Pedagogue Grade-Up in Kansas. Ii 18 understood that Superiv- tendent tryker, in order to “orade up” the teachers, has pre: pared an entirely new set of questions for the next examina- tions. Among them are these: “You can frequently see a white horse; why do you never see a white colt ?” “Why does ahorse eat grass backward and a cow forward 2” “Why does a hop vine wind one way and a bean vine another ? Explain fully.” “Why does a horse tethered with & rope aiways unorayel it, while a cow twists itinto knots ?” “What isthe length of a flour barrel?” | “What avimals haye no upper teeth, and why ?” “Why did Abdul Hamid delay acceptance ot the proffered medi- ation of the powers ?” “After the Omaha platform, What is the greatest Americag document written sincethe Dec- laration of ludependence ?” “Giye a historical fact of the ker, G. Washington, Wm. Shakes- peare, Jerry Simpson, Napoleon.” —Abilene Retlector, 3 = By actual count 10,000. ‘people between July 1, and A ugust 23 jeft the Pacific coast for the goid fields of Alaska and the t Klondike i region. following great men: Wm. Stry-} ‘ but ‘also on ihe brethren in a Coldseekers; Discouraged. A Post-Intelligencer corzes- pondent, writing on August 25, trom Skaguay, says that a three daysdownpour has discouraged many gold seegers, one hnndred returning io a single day from the trial, where the mud reached five fectdeep- / . 'The men are tearlully mired, up to their shoulders, and the horses are often shot, because they can- not be moved from the stiff mud. The horses are soon worn out by the exhaustive work of packing, and withont ahorse miner nas 20 hope of getting through, “Men, as packers are In great demand, receiving from $8 to $10 per day and board. The work is very bard, a man ‘being required to carry 100 pounds to the load, and to keep it up all day through mudand rain. A person cannot stand itlong A great many are cutting down their supplies to ‘barely enough to carry them over the winter, and are pushing on to the lake post haste, to get jdewn to the river before snow flies. — —_ STATE NEWS, — a Fayette” of them Six prisoners escaped from ville jailon Saturday. Five wer3 recaptured. A young man named = Hallie Hallo- way, was run over by an engine and both legs crushed on Friday at Dur- ham. Fle died Saturday trom the effect of his injuries. Wiluwington receipts of cotton tor the year ended the Ist inst., were 234 - 664 bales against 176,447 tor the pre— ceding year. opreme atest Won't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Lite Away, It you want to quit tobacco using easily and torevsr, 99 made strong, magnetic, tull of new life and vigor, take No—To-Bac, the wonder- worger that makes weak mea strong, Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over 400,000 cure’. Buy No-To-Ba rou syour drugyist, who will guarantee a cure. booklet and sample mailed tree. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co Chicago or New York. Well Own ——— A woman's characier 13 likened unt> a postage stamp, Says an exchange Une black mark ruins 1. Man’slixe a treasury note , no matter how many stains it has it will pass at par. When a wo- wan falls from grace her charac- ter is generally ruined forever. On the other hand aman may straighten up and be received iato the best suciety again. All of which is too true—but being true does not make it right by a great deal. eae ‘Lhers is an epidemic of what iscaned summer grippe in New York. The symptoms are similar to the fami iar influenza, except that pains in the joints are not an a:companiment. -A severe cold ia the head and sneezing that is a'most incessant are the chief characteristics. There isno im- m diate relief, the doctors say, but the patient has si nply to bear with it untilit has run its course. Every business man in every town owes it to himself. and his town to offer every inducement to attract trade. and custom to, his home by every- fair and honest means. . he does. his duty he reaps’ cor sponding benefit, oth- _jerwise be bec¢ mes &.preving shy- 7 lock not ot on. ‘his senstomers ull micrannsids ripe. We. a om sie ao we a bowels, Never ; ¢icken, weaken or) & R. A. TYSON, Vic-ePres, ~ STATEMENT OF THE » R. L. DAVIS, Pres’t. "J L. LITTLE, Cash’er- REORGANIZED JUNE 1 sth, 1896. / The Bank of wees GREENVILLE, N. C. Atthe Close cf Business July 23rd, 1897. _ RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. : d Discou 0,273.62 Capital stock paid in $23,000.00 Over om o . 1,580,183 Surp'us and Profits "503.19 Premium on Stock 1,000.00) Deposits subject to Check 48,289.50- Due from Banks 2, 630. 55} Due to Banks : 795.23: Cash Ltems 1 O78, 15? 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