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A Family Newspaper: For the Promotion of the Political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the People
VOLUME XXXIV.
TWICE-A-WEEK
SCOTLAND NECK, N. C, FRIDAY, DEC. 1st., 1916.
READ IT FIRST IN THIS PAPER
NUMBER 5.
CHILDREN! SEND IN YOUR SANTA
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UNITED PRESS SERVICE
There is no more fitting time to
show our appreciation of the loy
alty of our subscribers and adver
tisers than to announce in this is
sue that we have completed ar
rangements with the United Press
Associations to furnish THE COM
MONWEALTH with telegraphic
news of all the foreign happen
ings on the days we go to press so
that on Tuesday and Friday this
news will come to us from Wash
ington, D. C, by telegraph and
contain in condensed form, the
same foreign news that appear in
the large afternoon dailies, but
with the advantage that The Com
monwealth will be issued at four
o'clock in the afternoon, whereas
the city afternoon daily papers do
not reach here until after seven
o'clock at night.
We trust our subscribers will
appreciate this added service and
realize that THE COMMON
WEALTH is issued for the bene
fit of the public, so that, at any
time, if there can be any further
improvement made in the paper,
upon the suggestion of any sub
scriber, that will be of material
benefit to all, it will be the pur
pose of THE COMMONWEALTH
to make such additions from time
to time.
AMERICA'S ONLY FEMALE
SHERIFF (Ex.) WANTS
JOB BACK
vN THNKSGIVTNG PRAISE
f' Lord of the rast, Thee, we hail!
Thine ancient promise doth not fail; r3
ffJjf The varying seasons haste their round; XfV-
llLU Witn goodness all our years are V
-Jjl Our thanks we pay, TjpVJ,.
, 0n let our hearts in tune be found. ' A
'" Lord of the harvest, all is thine: iL""
lO Tfle rains that fall, the suns that "7
V-A The seed once hidden in the ground,
fftA Tne skiu that makes our fruits
New Pulses from our lips shall sound. yV
(By United Press)
Hackensaek, N. J., Nov. 29.
Miss Constance Kopp, the demon
midersherilf (ex) who, when in
office was a four time winner on
anything she undertook, is still :i
loser in the battle for her job
back.
Miss Kopp was fired when John
W. Courter, Republican; slid into
the sheriff's berth on the G. O. P.
landslide in New Jersey Nov. 7.
He take it from himself, couldn't
find a thing for Miss Kopp, Demo
crat, to do and so bounced her
Miss Kopp, however, claims that
the new civil service law, adopted
just as the Republicans glided up
to the fleshpots, guarantees her
her job.
She is still off the pay roll, how
ever, but has not given up the
fight.
SANTA CLAUS PRIZES
The tricycle in the window of
the Josey Hardware Co., will be
given to the little boy under eight
years of age who sends in to The
Commonwealth the best Santa
Claus letter.
Mr. Jim Pittman, who is an
hospital in Richmond, Va., is re
ported to be somewhat improved
and expects to return home in the
next two weeks.
CORONATION OF NEW
EMPEROR THIS WEEK
Ceremony Will Follow the Funeral of Francis
Joseph Thursday
London, Nov. 29. The corona
tion of the new Austrian Emper
or as King of Hungary under the
name of Charles IV., says the
Budapest paper, Villag, accord
ing to a dispatch from Vienna,
will take place directly after the
funeral of Emperor Francis Jo
seph. The Hungarian parliament
will fix the date and hour for the
coronation.
On coronation day the royal
couple, in accordance with cus
tom, proceeds to the church of
St. Matthews in procession head
ed by the Hungarian Premier. It
is a part of the ceremony that
the new king, on reaching a hill,
must point with his sword to the
cardinal points of the compass,
thus signifying his intention to
defend the territory against all
enemies. It is expected that this
intresting symbolical act will take
place on a mound, made of earth
brought for the purpose fr0m
each of the Hungarian provinces
and built in front of the parlia
ment hall.
After the ceremony the king
will ride to the castle, while the
Hungarian Minister of Finance
also on horseback, distributes
gold and silver coins to the popu
lace.
It is expected that the corona
tion present to be made by the
royal couple, which at the last
coronation consisted of 100,000
crowns, will go to the war inva
lids, as at the last coronation the
present went to the invalids of
the War of 1848.
Funeral of Late Emperor Today.
FINDS STOCKHOLM GREAT
EST CENTER OF INTRIGUE
WORLD HAS EVER
KNOWN
By WM. PHILIP SIMMS
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Stockholm, Nov. 28. (By Mail)
This is the spy-centre of the
world. Here foe meets foe but
with his fingers erossed. It is
neutral ground and the spy plays
his ungrateful game in perfect
safety.
"See the chap over there? a
friend asked, pointing across the
lobby of one of the prettiest ho
WARNING BANKERS
ON FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
"Washington, Nov. 29. Ameri
can bankers were warned by the
Federal reserve board to avoid
locking up their funds by pur
chasing treasury bills of foreign
governments involving long term
obligations. While specifically dis
claiming "any intenton of re
flecting upon the financial stabil
ity of any nation," the board of
advises all investors to proceed
with caution and formally an
nounces to member banks of the
Federal Reserve system that with
the liquid funds which should be
tels in the world. "That is an 'available to American merchants,
POOD BY MAIL
MAY REDUCE PRICES
Government Experts Will Experiment With
Parcel Post
Vienna, Nov. 29. The coffin of
Emperor Francis Joseph has been
finally closed but the body will
remain lying in state until Thurs
day the day set for interment.
At the burial in the crypt of the
Capuchin, a historic ceremony
will be carrid out which was an
ciently designed to impress the
monarch's successor that in spite
of all pomp a sovereign is mere-
y a mortal.
The funeral procession will be
halted at the entrance to the vault
by a challenge from within:
'Who is there" the reply will be
made, "His Most Serene Majes-
y, The Emperor Francis Joseph."
The challenger will then reply
'I know him not." Responding
to a second challenge the an
nouncement will be made : The
Emperor of Austria and Aposto
lic King of Hungary is outside."
Again the. challenger will answer :
I know him not." When, for
the third time, the voice within
asks who demands admission, the
master of ceremonies will reply:
"A sinful man, our brother Fran
eis Joseph. The portals will
then open and the procession en
ter.
Austrian military attache. The
man he is talking to is a Russian
from Petrograd. I know them
both."
There they are playing their
games, iacn trying to tricK me
other to LOiie end, only heaven
knew what.
manufacturers and farmers in
danger of being absorbed for oth
er purposes it does not regard it
in the interest of the country at
this time that they invest in for
eign treasury bills of this charac
ter." The statement is regarded in
Never mind about locking your j official circles as one of the most
chest of drawers, or your bags or important declarations by the
trunks," an acquaintance told niej board since its creation. Officials
the aav i lanaea m oiockiiuuu. wuum nut mstuaa humuuu
Locks are no good here. I? any
body wants to see what you have
hidden away they will manage to
do so. And they usually want to
see.
There is perhaps no more tiis
eination spot anywhere than a
certain hotel here. In the worlds
most beautiful dining room under
a sort of colonade ranging along
side a formal garden where .1 su
perb lawn grows under a lofy
glass dome, where huge palms and
flowers grow in profusion and the
tinkle of a fountain in the Vene
tian court is not much softer than
the musie of a hidden stringed -
orchestra, Germans and English,
Austrian and French, Russian ai d
Bulgars, Italians and Turks, Bel-
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publication, but some of them for
mally interpreted the warning as
the reserve board's answer to the
recent proposal of J. P. Morgan
& Co., British fiscal agents in this
country, to have American bank
ers of the British treasury bills
of an indefinite total issue, se
cured by gold reserve held in Ot
tawa. Such loans would be for
Washington, Nov. 29. An
nouncement was made that the
Federal Government will make
extensive experiments with the
parcel post for the purpose of
trying to develop it into an ef
fective weapon for attacking the
high cost of living.
The first step in this direction
were takn yesterday when the
parcel post experts of the Post
Postoffice Department held a con
ference to formulate some com
prehensive plan by which the
parcel post can be more easily
utilized as a food-product convey-
and the city consumer.
When the plan is approved, it
will be tested out in large cities
like New York, Baltimore and
Washington and in some smaller
cities of about 100,000 population
If it works well, Congress will
be asked for funds to defray the
cost of establishing it throughout
the country.
eel post with the view of devel
oping it as a genuine and effect
ive transportation agency be
tween the farm and the city.
Ever since the parcel post was
established four years ago there
have been sporadic efforts to u
tilize the system as a good pro
duets vehicle between the produ
cer and the consumer. These ef
forts were made at the suggestion
of Representative David J. Lew
is, of Maryland, "the legisla
tive father of the parcel post."
STORK THAT HOVERS OVER
CHICAGO IS SOME STORK
(By United Press)
ninety days with the privilege of! The Postoffice Department has
renewal of five other ninety day now at its command the sum of
npriofls. inenses of makiner these tests.
t , -
: ! $10,000 with which to i -v the ex.
SANTA CLAUS PRIZES ;This sum was carried in the last
The doll to be given away by j appropriation bill, and in view
The Commonwealth to the little
girl under eight years of age for
the best Santa Claus letter is now
exhibited in the window of R. C.
Josey and Company.
of the acute situation which has
arisen in cities over the high
prices of food it has been decided
that now is the psychological
'time to experiment with the par-1 just below Kehukee church
Chicago, Nov. 29. Apartment
houses may not be the best places
in which to rear children, but Chi
cago's 'stork doesn't sniff at them-
not on your ironbound statis
tics which show that 6,144 fami
lies here have seven or more chil
dren.
School census figures just made
public show sixty-two families
with eleven children or more the
largest family is of fifteen chil
dren from 6 months to 17 years
old including a pair of twins.
Mr. Enoch Simmons, we are ad
vised, was in town Wednesday
for the purpose of purchasing the
property of the late Dave Madry
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