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Newspaper
Scotland Neck The Commonwealth
Location
Scotland Neck, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1908
Page
3
A speaker asserts that self help is now easy and all income levels share equal banking privilege. He urges individuals from youth to modest means to open accounts to build competence for old age and to take advantage of banking access with the wealthy.
Fragmented ad text mentions dresses, furniture, flues, and tobacco flues with incomplete details and unclear dates or entities. Includes names like Ashby B. Pyle Edwards Co Josey Howe and addresses in Richmond Virginia. No coherent event or outcome discernible. Proceed with cautious summary of readable items and entities.
Norfolk advertisement from a business firm promising to save readers money on any purchases. Readers are urged to write to the company and mention the paper.
In Tarboro, John R. Askew, hospitalized nearly three weeks at Pittman Hospital, continues to improve. He has regained consciousness, recognizes his visitors and can talk some, a welcome sign for family and friends.
Sunday afternoon a prohibition meeting gathered at the Methodist church in Palmyra with residents of Palmyra and the William Chapel community in attendance. Mr. E P Hy man presided and urged rallying to prohibition. The Commonwealth editor spoke and attendees from Scotland Neck joined.
A large Sunday night gathering at the skating rink urged prohibition. Services were suspended in Methodist and Baptist churches. Rev C A Jones opened with prayer and introduced Albion Dunn, Halifax County Anti Saloon League chair, who urged liquor traffic suppression.
Special attention is called to E P Mueller and his Molasses Grains advertised as one of the best foods for horses and cattle. The Norfolk plant capacity is ten car loads daily, with twenty five years in the feed business. Mueller aims Norfolk as a distributing point and can source molasses from Cuba. Tank capacity is one million one hundred twenty five gallons. grain and molasses are ground together to form the feed. Existing trade covers Virginia Philadelphia Washington and New York. Manufacturers seek contact with Eastern North Carolina. see ad and write, mentioning this paper.
Dr W D Morton, pastor of Rocky Mount Presbyterian Church, began a series of meetings in the local Methodist church. He preached nightly and Sunday at 4 pm, with Sunday evening service suspended for a union prohibition meeting at the Skating Rink.
R P Byrd bookkeeper for Edwards and Co. married Ellen Hatcher at the bride's home in Cumberland county on May 20. The couple returned to Scotland Neck the same day and will reside there. The Carlos correspondent notes the groom’s popularity and the bride’s family ties to William Hatcher of Carlos. Ceremony led by Rev W A Humphry.
Scotland Neck beat Hamilton 8 to 0 Tuesday in a season opener. Dick Holmes pitched the complete game for Scotland Neck with 15 strikeouts, while Lawrence and Peele led Hamilton at the plate with six strikeouts for Peele and Lawrence. Hamilton lineup included Jones Darden Grimes Barnhill Martin Sherrod Matthews Peele. Scotland Neck lineup centered on Holmes and Riddick as key players with K House as manager.
The obituary for Mrs Josephine Nicholls Hill, wife of the late Whitmer Hill, reports her death on the fourteenth at her Washington North Carolina home. Born in Plymouth, NC, she lived in Scotland Neck as a child, became a devoted wife and mother, and endured years of illness with faith. Survived by three daughters Nannie, Mary Hill, and Mrs Jack Nichollson, and son Charlie Hill, with several brothers and sisters.
Norfolk Virginia photographer Mr J H Faber will visit Scotland Neck next week to offer high class photography. O J Moore, cashier, will be ready for work Monday. The notice sworn May 23 1903 invites locals seeking fine photography to call on Mr Faber. He has years of experience and aims to please, with other advertisements calling attention to his coming.
Rev J E Hutson holds a meeting at Dawsons this week and will close his work in Scotland Neck next Sunday after months of supply. The new pastor Rev R A McFarland is expected to arrive for the first Sunday in June.
This paper notes summer guests will arrive from Scotland Neck and elsewhere. It invites readers to share information about visitors as the town expects a steady stream of arrivals and departures this season.
Monday near Webb's mill pond a horse hitched to a buggy broke loose and dashed toward town. The animal trotted through Lew is farmland leaped a ditch near Steptoe, skirted oil mill and Main Street, turned onto Tenth toward the depot, and finally halted at C. W. Dunn's lot with no damage to the buggy.
Under Daughters of the Confederacy guidance a June 3 meeting in the graded school auditorium will mark the hundredth birthday of Jefferson Davis. Superintendent C W Wilson of Scotland Neck Graded Schools will give the address. The public is invited and organizers aim to teach the truth of the Southern Confederacy to today’s children. The event promises engaging content and community attendance.
All persons are notified to clean up their back lots by June 1st. They will be inspected at that time. G. S. Waite, Mayor.
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