MURFREESBORO NEWS Mrs. Ruuell Nicholson and little son John Friend of Raleigh who came to attend the burial of Rev. C. W. Scarboro, spent a few days here with Mrs. H.L. Evans before her return home. j Miss Mollie Davis was accompan- I . ied home Saturday by Miss Georgia Mae Bryant who spent the week-end < I in Pendleton. J Born to Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Watson, j a girl, Katherine Hairfteld. Mr. Walter Vinson who lived a few miles from Murfreesboro died rather, suddenly Saturday night. Arrange- | ments had been made' to have him < Uflcen to a hospital on Sunday, but t relief came from a higher power be fore dawn. ' Mrs. Leonkirth and little daughter 1 arrived from Rose Hill, N. C., to be ^ the guests of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. Gary , Parker. Rev. Mr. Larkin filled his appoint ment in Winton Sunday morning. Mrs. J. W. White has returned to Wakefield, Va., after concluding a visit here with hfer daughter and son in-law, Mr. and Mrs. E. N. Nicholson. Miss Grace Pearce returned from Milwaukee Friday to spend the week end in Murfreeaboro. Little Virginia Louise Davis who attends the graded school here spent , the week-end with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Davis. Mrs. Lena Harris and three child ren of Farmville have been redent guests in the home of Dr. Gary. , Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Underwood spent Thursday of last week in Nor folk. ( The Epworth League held a meet ing Friday night for the purpose of reorganising for the ensuing year. Parkers' Everywhere Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Revell, Mr. J R. Futrell and Mrs. Parker of Arkan sas motored over from Ashleys Grove Saturday and were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Futrell. Mrs. Parker's father, Mr. Ira Futrell l?rft this county about 40 years ago. He married in Arkansas and has lived there since. This is the first visit of his daughter Mrs. Parker who also married in that state. It seems impossible to escape the name "Parker" even in Arkan sas. Miss Carrie Parker spent the week end with her parents at her home near here. * * Rev. J. W- Whitley left Monday to 'attend the Convention that convened in Winston-Salem this week. Mrs. Chatty Hostess Monday afternoon Mrs. 0. A. Chetty was'hostess to the Ladies A,id Society of the Baptist Church. At the conclusion of the business fea tures, there was a pleasant period during which Mrs. Chetty served a course of delicious fruit salad. Willing Workers Social Tuesday evening of last week, the willing workers, a Sunday school class 6f boys gave a social at the home'of their teacher, Mr. Elmo Parker. A variety of amusements with nice things to eat added to the pleasure of the occasion. The evening's di version was concluded by a walk to the convict camp where the party chaperoned by Mr. and Mrs. Parker made a boijfire and related stories, jokes and the adventures of youth. Give Pastor Reception On Tuesday evening of last week the members of the. Methodist church gave their new pastor and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Larkin an informal recep tion at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Worrell. Mingled with many social amusements that ifurnished pleasure werp the entertaining fea tures in the form of piano, violin and vooal music and recitations furnished by Mrs. G. N- Harrell, Mrs. T. B. Wynn, Mrs. E. N. Nicholson, Mrs. L. J. Lawrence and Misses Frances and Sue Lawrence and Mr. T. B. Wynn. Mrs. Worrell assisted by Mrs. H. L. Evans served chicken salad and hot chocolate. Abopt 46 guests were present besides the guests of hpnor, Mr. and Mrs. Larkin. IP ' Ouch! Rub Backache, ; Stiffness, Lumbago j ; Rub Pain from baek with omall | ? trial bottla of old '|j "St. Jacob* Oil." Back hurt you? Can't straighten up without feeling sudden pains, sharp aches and twinges ? Now listen I That's lumbago; sciatica or maybe from a strain, and you'll get relief the moment you rub youf back with sooth ing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil." Nothing else takes out soreness, lame ness and stiffness ?o quickly. You simply rub it on your back -nd out comet the pain. It it harmless and' doesn't bum the skin. Limber up I Don't suffer I Get a small trial bottle of old, honest "St Jacobs Oil'' from any drug store, and after using it just once, youl! forget that-you ever had backache, lumbago . or sciatica, because your back will never hurt or cause any more misery. It never disappoints and has bean Ttfr ommended (or 60 years. ' _ . . . 4 - .. -a.: THE CHRISTMAS I , PICNIC I ( arty and whe had come garbed In mlckerbockers and sport sweater was , raddenly quiet He said hp was not . nuch good at making a Are. Instead, 4 le seemed to admire himself and his , kandsome legs and to ignore the open- j ng of the basket*. To be sore, he ( odked well and his attitude said quite . ilalnlyi J The man whe In rented knlckerbock- , nrs, without a doubt had good looking , egs himself, and perhaps an enemy rlth particularly ugly ones, but he cer- , mlnly dldnt get the better of me." , But Jerry, who was always a good i Ire builder and upon whom the work 1 tlways rested, despite previous pro- i tests that It would not this time, was 1 he one now who built the Are. i And the rest of the typical picnic. 1 jeople did the usual things. There sua the man who talked about bulld og the Are so as to keep the smoke !rom blowing In the faces of every me present. There was the girl who spoke from time to time In alarmed, sudden sen tences, wondering in turn If the salt, pepper, bacon, sugar, milk or coffee >ot had been forgotten. There was the girl who was obvious- ( y helpless. . " There was the girl who kept asking vhat she could do to help, who would , j lave received any suggestions with i very bad grace. And there was Milly, who really un lld the packages and cooked the ba son and saw that everyone had enough to eat. The man who said most about not >elng hungry Inquired with mqre than in academic in terest as to what the Ailing of the tagdwlches might >e. v And there was the man present who spoke from time to time of the good things that could have been brought If only he had thought of them looner. But Jefry and Billy saw that tbfe picnic.was a real picnic, while the others gave Jieir eating services. 1 And after the picnic was ever and i Ferry was helping MUly a* she washed I >ff the dishes In the boiling water Jer 7 had gaved In the old big kettle, he | ?Id: * 1 "Mllly, you're the most nnselflsh girt < >e ever known. Different from ev- < iryone. rve always thought so. And t lon't yon think we'd make a good j ?am?not only on a picnic but through j Iter , And Mllly answered: "That's very much the way Tve , bought about you, Jerry-'' , 80 that you see, MUly and Jerry ] veren't so much cheated at that pie- , tie as you might have thought In ( act, they had. a very merry Christmas , ilcnlc 1 , | * 11 1 At the Christmas Party. < The wise hostess wishes to prevent tor young guests from pairing off and . emalnlng with their escorts the entire j ?venlng. To change partners in a j love! and entertalnlag way In the , ourse of the evening, have ready a , ?lrcle of green cardboard divided Into , is many sections as there are girls , present Write a girl's name In each , Uvtalon. Now cut out a large red | >asteboerd star, with a white arrow minted on one of the points, and 'anted tht% star to the center of the I tardboard circle by means of a large >ln. Each boy In turn cornea up and iplne the star, and the maiden whoae inmc Is Indicated when the white ar- 1 ?ow cornea to rest Is accorded him gs 1 Mirtoer. Of couree, If a girl's name tag already been chosen the boy mutt -? iptn unln. ThS spinning ?tffr will wsult In much mirth for the young < >eople. 1 L fry SBBm ..RISTMAS OPENS THE HEART ' i It l? tha Gladaomo Baaaon Whan tha I Happiaat Paapla Ara Thaaa > Who Qlva tha Moat f^r-l HRISTMAS Is one of the I f* words of the language that ?_ convey a suggestion, create i 9 a vision, project an atmoe- I phere of glamour, romance iud sentiment far greater than them- ' lelves. ' To say Christmas is to open the 1 syes of the mind and the doors of the 1 leart to the dearest recollections of < jur childhood; and these fond and 1 shadowy remembrances mean little inleas they create In us the desire to > tave Christmas mean as much to 1 children {oday as It meant to us when * we were tiny. ? < For Christmas, the birthday of an < mmortal child, was. Is and must re- ? naln especially the festival of the I irlght lnnocepce of Infancy. That Is ' why we resent It when some over- t literal and painfully conscientious 1 person rises up In duty bound to do- ' dare there Is no Santa Clans. Such > |oy-klllers, robbing the nursery of an ? Illusion cherished, would take away ? the fairy tales' and quell the spirit of 1 id venture and flood every mystery of t ?hadowland with the Ught at common I lay. *l Let no Improving modernist tamper with the old-time, traditional observe c ince of Christmas. We need for the | life of our own souls the Christmas I tree and the Tule log at the domestic 1 iearth, and the stockings hung a-row, 1 ind the joyful clatter of thw great t morning, and the dinner with the fam- t ily gathered round in glad reunion. < We need the sweet custom of the t Interchange of tokens, when Into that 1 mstom there creeps no accent of com- I pulsion, no hint of a mercenary calcu- t latlon. For we know that It IS of the very egsence of Christmas to give, not ? to receive. The blessing rests on i those whose love, "great enough to i hold the world," seeks outlet on this i lay to other lives?cramped and ] pinched, alone and poor, meager In g lomfort, -facing the day without a smile and the night without the pillow pf a hope. ? ' It Is a wretched celebration of the ? time to shut oneself In with a surfeit of a feast and a plied hoard of gifts ind exult that we have so much. Those whose Christmas Is the* mer riest, whose coming year Is certain to >e happiest, are those who give the most away, and In the giving give themselves.?Philadelphia Ledger. /, KEEP PEACE AND OOOD WILL Essence of tho 8pirlt of Christmas 8hould Bo Retained Through out the Year. . e (8l as INNUALLY, the- spirit of sNXV [ Christmas descends upon I L_J the world. For a little space p P the enmities and Animosi ties, the trials and annoy ances of workaday life, the sorrows and anxieties are forgotten. Human ity, prosperous, turns its thoughts to humanity in suffering, and see lie to bring to those in want and in distress at least a fragment of the spirit which is abroad throughout the land. Then memory turns hack to old friends, perhaps almost forgotten in the rush of the year's affairs, kindly thoughts and pleasant recollections BUI the mind. One turns naturally to tfje greeting and the gift as a means of expressing the Joy of Christmas which is in the heartrand on each of us Is Impressed anew the thought that it is more blessed to give than to re wive, giving not only material gifts, but friendship, kindness and good will. And then, when the brief holiday season is over, when the Christmas greens have disappeared and the world is again in its drab working clothes, the spirit of Christmas van ishes. Again the suspicions and jeal ousies and envy show themselves. Again we forget the old friends, and the happy memories of other days are submerged under the pressure of the business of today. One cannot keep alive always a hol iday spirit. If that Vere attempted, the work of the world would never be lone. It is not desirable to attempt to keep with us for more than a few lays each year the spirit of Christmas loIHty and good cheer. That joyous Atmosphere would lose its zest were we to try to live in it for long. teut perhaps the underlying spirit of Christmas could be kept alive more constantly in our hearts. Perhaps the ore and friendliness, and the tend ency to forget injuries and rise above the pettiness of life which manifest themselves at Yuletide, could be ro sined beyond Twelfth Night and made i part of our dally lives until next Christmas. Jpre need not exchange gifts or greetings. We need not go about with holiday Jollity |b our countenances, But we can keep and cherish and aug nent by. dally use the ideal of peace tnd good will toward men, which is the essence of the Christmas spirit. And by so doing make the world a bet ter place in which to live.?Milwaukee Sentinel. Whan tha Miatlatoa Hangs High. While the mistletoe bants high. It is useless -to urge the lurking possi >tlltles of the osculation germ. * : Christmas Stockings. V (Thristiufls stocKlnga, according is the family breadwinner, not only grvw larger but junltlpty at ? rapid rata. * A rHE FIRST CHRISTMAS CARD Mrot Docoratad Yuletlda Qraetlng Wat Mad* for tlr Honry 9*1* In 1848. NGLISH NOTES AND QtHBR r* IBS has the name* of three .?_ men who at oaf time or an il other have been credited with designing the tret Christmas card. W. C. T. Dobson has tome claim to making the first Christ naa card In 1844, but John C. Horsier nade a Christmas card for Sir Henry 3ole In 1848 and later began the pub lcatlon of each cards. But there Is nothing particularly tew In the origin of pictures sent to ?mlnd friends of some particular went. The custom was very old la 3hlna, from which country so many customs came to be known as very old ifter they were established in Europe, n the Chinese laundries pictures in ed and black used to be familiar to he man going for his weekly "wash. Phey were Chinese New Tear cards rhich remained on the walls until the lext New Year came around. But the isle of Christmas cards as a business came In about 1846 or 1840. The Amer can-made cards some years later hare he credit for Introducing quality and irtlstlc design Into Christmas card trlntlng. On New Tsar's day Japanese mer chants send their patrons cards with treetlngs of the season. An elaborate tymbollam la used In conveying the Tapanese messages, and when it Is mown the stork la supposed to live a housand years and the turtle ten housand, their significance on the cards Is readily understood; they say o the recipient, "We wish yen a long lfe." The pine tree, everlastingly [reen, Is a symbol of good fortune1; he fan means Increasing good fortune. The seven gods of good fortune oc cupy prominent places on the New Tear's cards. They are Eblsu, happt tesa; Daikoku, prosperity; Benten, nuslc; Fo^ei, charity; Giro, long life; PukurokoT good luck, sad Blshamon, isotectton against evil. t Notice of ^tlt of Land Under Dead of Truat By virtue of the power and authority vested in the undersigned trustee in a certain deed of trust executed and delivered by J. W. Wiggins and wife Virginia Wiggins dated January 16, 1918 and of record in the office of the Register of Deeds for Hertford County, state of North Carolina in book 64, page 259, and default Having been made in the payment of the indebtedness secured : thereby * and at the request of the holders of said notes and in accordance with the provisions contained in said Deed Trust the un dersigned Trustee will sell at public sale in front of the Court House door in Winton, !J- C., Hertford county, on Monday, January 8, 192S at 12 o'clock noon to the highest bidder for 1 cash the following described land to-wit: * Lying on the right hand side of the , public road leading from Harrellsville i to Cofield, N. C., commencing at a ? corner where the Joe Mannor branch crosses the road thenee?along?the- - centre of said branch to a corner at , a dead white oak thence along B. G. , Williams line (Wynns land) to { Charlie Harrell line, thence along ^Charlie Harrell line to said Harrells- . ville and Cofield road, thence along , road to first station containing 47 . acres more or less, being a part of the ' land bought by W. P. Britton and deeded to J. W. Wiggins by Lucile H. Williams. This December 4, 1922. M. R. TAYLOR, Trustee! 12-8-22-4L Anyone familiar with the facts . will agree that the press of rural ; North Carolina was never more need- , ed, and that its- opportunity never greater. V ' Subscribe to the HERALD?$1.60. NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED TRUST Pursuant to and by virtue of the power and authority conferred upon me by a certain deed of trust exe cuted by N. E Greene and wife Hattie E. Greene on the 17th day of Dec., 1920 and registered in office of the Register of Deeds for Hertford County in book 68 on page 181,.de fault having been made in the pay ment of certain indebtedness therein set out and secured, and having been requested by the legal holder of said indebtedness to advertise and sell the land as herein provided; I shall on Saturday, the 13th day of'January, 1923 in front of the U. S. Postofflce, in the Town of Ahoslrie, N. C., be tween the hours of 12 o'clock m. and 1 o'clock, p. m., sell at public auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the following described real estate to-wit. That certain lot situate on the east side of Catherine Creek Road in the Town of Ahoslde, N. C., adjoining the lands of H. E. Greene, J. M. Phelps, J. T. Parker and more fully described, beginning at corner of said lot on Catherine Creek Road at corner J. M. Phelps line, thence along said Phelps line easterly 210 feet to J. T. Parker line, thence southerly 50 feet to H. E. Greene line, thenee westerly along H. E. Greene line 210 feet to Catherine Creek Road, thence northerly along Catherine Creek Road 50 feet to first station. This the 13 th day of December, 1922. W. L. CURTIS, Trustee. 12-16-4t. Lime and vitamines are needed iit the best development of the child. Fruit, vegetables, milk and butter . supply these elements, says Dr. J. O. Alverson, nutrition specialist for the , agricultural experiment station. Subscribe to the HERALD?$1.60. \ Christmas Gifts c THAT BRING THE SMILE BACK If the gift you give Husband, Brother or Sweetheart is of the ? sort that will bring a smile of cheer and sentiment every day of the year?then you-'ve found the gift he wants. THEY ARE CERTAINLY HERE r SUGGESTIONS THAT PLEASE -i \V' ' * ? '' ? - 'Hosiery Shirts , Suit Cases k H^ Bath Robes V Gloves r Gowns I % Cloaks / ? Umbrellas ^ Handkerchiefs J| I * Ahoskie Department Store AHOSKIE, N. C. 'r ? - ! i hi ' '