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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1908
Page
2
The piece discusses farm worries over labor and cotton prices in 1908 and mentions the presidents message to Congress. It cites the flu near epidemic spread this winter and predicts steady cotton demand. It also covers Ground Hog Day reporting with light humor about seeing or not seeing a shadow and ongoing winter weather.
A man named Gurganus, ill with pneumonia near Hamilton, was mistakenly buried alive after death seemed certain. His coffin was opened after coughing sounds from inside, and he was found alive and on the road to recovery. An unrelated advertisement for a drug and shoe store follows.
Me J J Laughinghouse warned Eastern North Carolina farmers to seize benefits from organized action. The Greenville Reflector notes slow organization and cites C C Moore saying the Southern Cotton Association has raised value per bale by $10, urging farmers to pay ten cents per bale to sustain the effort.
Uncle Frank Epps, a well known elderly Black resident of Halifax county, died last week of pneumonia at what was likely between 90 and 100 years old. He was a familiar town figure for over fifty years, deaf and largely mute, yet quick to identify mourners at funerals and once served in the Bowers household nursing Miss Leonora Bowers and her children. Mrs Howerton and Mr Gowan cared for him in his final crisis.
A large incendiary fire roared through Morehead City around ten last night, damaging the Paragon store and all buildings east of Dr Headen’s office to the Morehead City Drug Co. Losses reach $35,000 as Beaufort volunteers aided until the blaze came under control by midnight.
E. T. Whitehead & Co. of Scotland Neck advertises L. M. Paint Agents selling Zinc Metal oxide made with White Lead and pure Linseed Oil. They claim long wear and cost about $1.20 per gallon for a thousand gallon grindings and mixings.
In broad daylight yesterday a house near Piney Grove Church burned, killing Mrs J M Underwood and her two year old son. The husband, absent at the church service, found the ruins after flames died. Pocketbook with silver money missing, cause unknown, no foul play suspected. The couple had lived on a small farm with one other child who died earlier.
The assembly sent a question to voters for May 26, 1908 on prohibition taking effect January 1, 1903 if approved. The rate bill raises fare to 2 1 2 cents, limits liability, and exempts railroad agents from penalties. enforcement bypasses the North Carolina Corporation Commission and court penalties.
The Legislature acted with general laws including tax exemptions for real estate used for charity religion or education and burial expense provisions for Confederate pensioners. It also restricts traveling liquor sales in prohibition areas, blocks railroad mergers, and adjusts freight rates to allow limited exemptions for joint hauls by small rail lines.
Mrs Bettie Dickens wife of W L Dickens died January 24 1908 near Aurelian Springs North Carolina at age 57 She was a Methodist church member and quietly buried at Ebenezer cemetery Survived by husband and six children The text includes religious sentiments and a local medicine advertisement for Little Liver Pills sold by E T Whitehead & Co.
An Anti-Saloon League appeal urges a state convention and a statewide vote to extend temperance reform. It argues the liquor evil harms all families and communities, transcending party and creed, and calls businesses and citizens to join a righteous fight to end the saloon.
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