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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1907
Page
3
Edwards & Co offers special pricing on men youths and two shoe styles including low cut designs. Sole agents promote the Stand Using Machine. Also sale on hats furniture accoutrements hay oats mill feed weeders at cost and bottom prices.
Scotland Neck resident gains recognition for early success with the Suf and Fuel Co where ell serves as general manager. A native of the Old ate, he is praised as one of the town’s bright young men with many friends in his home community.
In Scotland Neck notices report hay wagon activity as farmers cope with drought and cotton decline. A Confederate veteran, Mr Cannon, marks fifty years of marriage. Personal paragraphs list residents visiting relatives, attending meetings, or traveling to Greensboro and beyond, with several regional movements and social calls noted.
Mr Stuart H Smith travels to Union Springs Alabama where he will marry Miss Pauline Ramsey on Wednesday afternoon. He is accompanied by his brother Richard Smith Jr of Richmond Virginia. The couple will spend the rest of the month in the North Carolina mountains and return about July 1.
The Planters and Commercial Bank in Scotland Neck has been open two weeks and shows strong early business. Located on the corner of Main and Eleventh Streets the building is handsome with modern fixtures. C. J. Moore serves as cashier and J. G. Mills as book-keeper, both welcomed by the public.
The Commonwealth news editor sought a quiet hour to draft copy and was directed to a shop of ice for a seat in a corner. He chose the busy office instead to avoid disturbing clerks and finished his copy amid the newsroom hustle.
Miss Carrie Rena Cox wed Mr Staton N Weeks at Hobgood Baptist Church last Tuesday at 3 pm. Rev Summer of Norfolk officiated as guests noted tasteful decor and a wedding march by Mrs N Herring. The bride is daughter of J S Cox and groom a respected Edgecombe County planter. Attendants included Miss Mary Summers with Ernest Weeks and others.
In appreciation we thank all who expressed love and sympathy during our recent bereavement. Signed Mrs. Henry Allsbroook.
Invitations issued announce the marriage of Miss Francis Hill to Dr. John L. Nicholson in Washington D C on June 29. Miss Hill is well known locally and has many friends who will be interested in the event.
Greensboro reports that Mr. A. L. Purrington has been elected vice-president of the State Merchants Association in session for the second congressional district. The honor was earned without solicitation and is described as well bestowed.
The magistrates of Scotland Neck township met Monday as the public roads board and elected I H Smith as superintendent, D M Prince as chairman, and J E Shields as secretary for the township board.
Mr James Hyman displayed a bark fragment from the apple tree near Appomattox where Gen Lee surrendered to Gen Grant. The token had been kept by his mother Mrs Celia Hyman whose brother Mr Andrew Jones living near Bethel brought it from Appomattox.
On Twelfth Street at town edge, handsome new homes are under construction by WL Harrell J C Mullen and J W Madry. Madry’s house sits beside W P Darden, Mullen’s beside Mrs Mary Tillery, and Harrell’s further west. The town has seen notable modern improvements in years.
A C L Seaboard Air Line and Southern Railway petition the Corporation Commission to extend the eight hour limit for telegraph operators to March 4 1908 when the national law takes effect. In the interim operators may work up to twelve hours. Hearing set for June 21 with Railway Telegraphers Union likely to oppose and favor July 1 state law.
A remedy for coughs called Kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup is recommended for babies and children but suitable for all. It contains Honey and Tar, has no opiates, and does not cause constipation. Tastes almost like maple syrup and is sold by E. T. Whitehead & Co.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Futrell of Scotland Neck will graduate with a class of seventy three at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston on June 20. She studied two years and made a fine record and is described as one of Scotland Neck’s brightest young ladies. On the same notice, Mrs. Eliza T. Shaw invites attendance at the marriage of her daughter Lida Trippe to Mr. Charles Thomas Lawrence on Wednesday June 26, 1907 at three o’clock, at 201 West Second Street Washington NC.
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