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THE HERALD, IVhi ihiit:t> Miihmnu. i-'s i ilil.tSIIKP 1SN-J. :u:\rn i!mi.iw i,.\ssiti:h, I'HOI lUKTOUS. S. S. UU1/1 I ,i T J, bAHSI'l Kl! I ICiituoliit |j,? at HrnithfMd9 iOllXiHt >11 I Milt I v N. ft* MHCOfHl-i'lflMI matter. RATI - or .*1 BHCItll'TlON: ^neiffcai. <? twh in f?, - - ? $1.00 Si \ month*. c.^li in :tdvriiu??, - - .30 Thnj<* CRah in u : . - .25 " ? 1 'IJL. . - The exjm?K^orw of the nevaral corre ?]M>ii 11 ? i11 > i do it ? i. ?<?? Mii'ii\ reflect tlievie\ ? "f tlie linma^vriMMit of Tut Hkiulb. The editors are not there fore renponnible for the vietve or utter ariceH apf tearing in ftiiy conimunientlon. FiuDAY. 8:-:ITKMI?KR 6. 1001. OUR COTTON MARKET. While th" reputation of Smith held as a cotton market sulTe.ed more or less hist seusou, it does not follow that the business men of our town will permit the same to be said of the season that is now opening. Owing to a series of the most unfortunate events, our market last season was practically de stroyed in ft competitive sense just as the great volume of thV crop was being marketed, about October loth. Onaccountof the late date and because of the fact tliut other interests fully occu pied the time and attention of our business men, it was well nigh an impossibility to restore to the market the reputation it had previously enjoyed, as we then advised, all efforts should have been employed to maintain tlie market but the great mistake of waiting until a new season opened was made. Hut we desire to assure the cot ton growers of the county that this market is fully and painfully aware of the mistake it has made and that it is determined that every effort shall be made during the coming season to regain its lost position. There is a demand here for your cotton, there is competition among the buyers and the seller may rest assured that his crop will bring its full value here. GRIST AND ROLLER MILLS NEED ED AT SMI HI FIELD. For a long time we have been surprised that some man or com pany has not put up and equipped some first-class grain mill at Smithfield. A good corn mill would be very convenient for the peonle of the town ami surround ing country. Some corn would be brought fifteen to t wenty miles to a mill here by people coming to town on other business. A roller mill here would get wheat from all parts of the coutity and some from other counties We venture the assertion that a roller mill at Smithfield would double the acreage of wheat in the coun ty. Many of our farmers now will not raise wheat because they cannot get the best flour from it., Now is the time to start about this enterprise. Let the farmers be assured that the mills will lie built and it will not be hard to get them to plant wheat. We doubt that many farmers have gained by holding cotton. Lost weights, damaged cotton, etc., will usually overbalance any increase in price. If, however, it is to be held, we repeat, take t'ahe of it. Don't expose to the weather, and keep it off the ground. Thousands of dollars have been lost by the farmers of Johnston county on account of the ie item of damaged cotton, it i- a leak that can be easily stopjied. It would be folly for us to claim 1 that Smithfield will pay more for I < ? on than any adjacent market. ' it iimot afford Jo do so. How ever, it can afford to pay equally , as much, and it will do it. ^ 1 C'.AYTON lOWNSHIP MOVES FOR BE ITER R )ADS. W e nit- triad tostate that Clay ton township has moved forward for the improvement of its roads. The peopleof Claytonhuverained about one huii'lred dollars in subscriptions for road improve ment. A tax of ten cents on every hundred dolhu-s worth of pro|>er ry in the township and thirty cell's poll tax on each rpan, h is been levied for the same purpose. Last Monday arrangements were made with the County Connnis -ionei s for all the convicts from " this and other courts to be sent to Clayton township to work the roads. Clayton township people never do t lanes by halves and the move ment they tiave started means that their roads will fret the work they have needed so long. But it is not surprising that a people always ready for any and all im provements should move forward for better roads.' MORE TOftAlXO AND LESS LOT TON. There will be much more to bacco and lens cotton planted in Johnston countv next year. There would have been a great increase in ttie acreage of tobacco this year but for the high price of cotton last fall and winter. Hut it seems we cannot hope for such prices tor cotton except as a re sult of a short crop. The high price of tobacco will increase the acreage to some extent every where but the fact that we are finding out moreaboutour lands will cause the largest increase in j the acreage in this county. No county in the State can boast of better cot ton land thau some of ours, but a large per cent of it is not, strictly speaking, cotton land. We have raised cotton on it against odds. This wet year has demonstrated these facts conclusively. Nearly all of our land will grow tobacco and fully three-fourths of it is very fine to bacco land. Somecomplaintliat tobacco is an expensive crop. Tliat may be true, but most of our farmers can with their fami lies do the work themselves and the money value per acre is far greater than that of any other crop you can raise. (tot ton is tin expensive crop also. There never was as much money in it as seemed to be. We know but few men who have made a great effort at cotton raising with hired labor and kept out of debt to say nothing of making money. In writing this we are not try ing to get farmers to quit cotton but we advise them to plantsonie tobacco as well as cotton. Many farmers would have been in bad condition this year had they de pended on cotton alone as a money crop. Smithfield is regarded in the tobacco world as one of the best markets of the present and as one of the uueat markets of the future. It is evident that within a very few years, we shall have one of the first tobacco towns of the State. Each seasc n of its history as a market has recorded a steady and gratifying improve ment over the previous. Pay One Dollar Each Time. We have a number of subscri bers who have taken The 11 eiiaed all the time since it was estab lished. We have others who stop occasionally but take it most of the time. There are still others who. take the paper one year at a time. We get along very well with all these, but subscribers who want the paper for three months only are not so very satisfactory. We have the same entries to make on our books as if they subscribed for a longer time, and unless cash is paid for such subscriptions they are very hard to keep up with. The three months plan is not satisfactory to subscribers themselves for no person can get the best results from reading a paper unless at least a year's trial is given to it. We cannot refuse to take three months subscriptions but we re quest all w ho can to take The 11 ehai.d at least a yearatatime. \nother point we want to inxi-t on is, that you pay one dollar ieach tune you pay. Some pay 2"> or oO cents now and then and often wit li t ie payments a year apart, and they seem to wonder that tneir sutmcrlptions get l>e hiud. We are very particular in ' keeping; our hooks and hardly ever have any t rouble with yearh subscript's. So we insist that vou snhscriiw' for ft whole year and pay one dollar each time. Superior Court Proceedings. Superior Court convened here Monday with Judgeltohinsou, of ; Hold.- >ro, press iicg. Tie-State is i" .re-^nt'-d by Solicitor Armistead Jones, of Raleigh. The following were selected a agrand jury: J A Wilson,foreman, H K John son, W I! Driver. L II Wnodall, A li Titter, D T Lnn-eford, W II J U Creech, Jr., I* I' Allen w I llinton, I! M Itoherrson, A C Johnson, A ! Whitley, I, If iirimes, A (i Jones. J Ira ltyals, <? li Johnson and J li Smith. N. li. (liven was appointed offi cer t ) attend the ,r t 11 jury. J udge Hobinson, us usual, de livered ail able charge to the grand jury, after which the fol lowing State c tses wi re disposed [ of: State vs J P Carroll, up for costs; paid and case dismissed. State vs X K Lee, selling liquor on Sunday, guilty. A motion was made to set verdict aside, which was not allowed. Pined one dollar and cost. State vs. lchubod Starling, assault with deadly weapon. P lei til guilty and judgment mis pended on payment of cost. State vs Libert Hudson, (lis turbing religious congregation. Prayer for judgment continued to next term. State vs Admon Wilkina, lar ceny and rec'tving. Plead guilty and judgment suspended on pay ment oWost-. State vs John 11 Edwards, as sault with deadly weapon. Plead guilty and judgment suspended on payment of cost. aiaie vs nucKucr nuuson, as sault with deadly weapon Plead guilty and judgment suspended 011 payment of cost. State vs S A Hodges, J W Dratighan and John \\ lute, alias Musselwhite, assault with deadly weapon and breakingindwelling. I'lead guilty and judgment sus pended oil payment of cost. State vs W .j VThurston, retail ing liquor without license. Plead guilty and judgment suspended on payment of cost. Si ate vs Daniel ltedick, assault with deadly weapon and carrying concealed weapon. Plead guilty and judgment suspended on pay ment of cost in both cases. State vs \V 11 Stallings, assault with deadly weapon. I'lead guilty and judgment suspend on payment of cost. State vs A P Wallace, assault with deadly, weapon. Plead guilty and judgment suspended on payment of cost State vs Sam Doublin, assault with deadly weapon. Plead guilty. Three months in jail with lea ve to hire out. J A Barbour and Will Artis, lar ceny and receiving. Barbour failed to make his appearance. Artis plead guilty and judgment suspended on payment of cost. State vs Richard Willams, Ilin ton Stevens and Jesse Wilkins, larceny and receiving. Not guilty. State vs William Banks, larce ny and receiving. Guilty; three years in penitentiary. State vs W B Brinkley, assault with deadly weapon. Plead guity and judgment suspended on payment of cost. State vs Willie Lewis, larceny and receiving. Guilty; one year in penitentiary. State vs G W Mitchell, carrying concealed weapons. Guilty and judgment suspended on payment of cost. State vs Jerry Mason, assault with deadly weapon. Guilty and judgment suspended on payment of cost. Believing Dr. Seth Arnold's Balsam a reliable remedy for all bowel disorders, we hereby guar antee every 25c. bottle sold by us to give satisfaction or money refunded. Hood Bros. Allen Lee. Notice to SmithheldRoad Overseers. To the Overseers of Public Roads of Smithfield Township: You are respectfully required to meet with the Supervisors of roads, Saturday the 14th day of September, 1901, at the Court House in Smithfield at 9 o'clock a. m., to attend to business that t he Supervisors are bound to look after. Overseers are requested to bring their road orders. Respectfully. A. 11. Sasskr, Ch'mn. FOB BEN T. I have on the Watson place several good two-horse crops for rent. These crops have good houses lor j rooms in each, and portions of the crops are "'lying out" this year or sown in jieas. < )ne of the houses is the one now occupied by Mr. Ashley lteasley, uul a lurgeorchard and vineyard goes with it. This house will be repaired, painted and put ingood order. Tobacco barns can be furnished if desired with any crop, rhe lands and houses will be shown to any one by Mr. Atlas' Johnson living 011 the place. 1 can furnish good houses and good lands, with the use of a large pasture, but 1 cannot furn i-h stock or supplies. jam ix 11. ror. Aug.29?-1 ws. anothlr excursion. < t.i Monday, September Kith, we shall run another excursion from Dunn via Wilson to Wil mington and Ocean View bench. Fa re for round trip only #1.50. (in with us. II mat Brothers. WANTED?Energetic lady or gentleman to represent us in your town and community, flood wages and steady employ ment to the right person. IfKX.XKTTSVII.I.K I'l l). Co. Menuettsville, S. C. j NOTICE OF SCHOOL ELEC TION. Stati: of North Caroi.ixN, Johnston County. To Whom it may Concern. My a petition of one fourth of the free-holders of said section, there will be an election held in that part of Wilson's Mills town ship lying bet veeti Xeuse river and the main prong of Poplar brunch, on Tuesday, October S, llMfl, on thequestionof a special tax tor school purposes, as pro* vi ed in Section 72, of the Public School Law of North Carolina. Ml qual lied voters in said terri tory will be required to register before they can vote. My orderof Board County Com missioners. This Sept. ?'! 1901. .1. \V. Stefhexbox. Clerk M. C. C. Senator John K. Woodanl says: Dr. Worthington's Remedy has proved an almost Infallible remedy for those diseases lor which it is especially recommended. It has been used to my knowledge, with great efficiency in many distressingly troublesome rases. 1 believe it should become a household remedy everywhere. Price "J5c. at Hood B.'os. Come to the Farmers Ware house and enjoy good prices with hundreds of your friends; wegi\ e 1 you a hearty welcome and will i send you back home happy with li ph prices for your tobacco. Boyett Bros. Remember that Skinner & Bags dale have no drummers. They do their drumming on the ware house, floor with high prices. FOR SALE. For sale one houst'and acre lot in northern part of town. Apply to J. I). L'NDERWOOI), I Smithfield, N. C. 1 have my tobacco graded and ready for market. Where must I sell ? With Boyett Bros, at the Farmers Warehouse. Why? Be cause 1 get honest weights, fair dealing and good prices. Boyett Bros. Why do you get such high prices for vcur tobacco? "Because 1 sell tit the Riverside." Baylor A I .assiter will always work for you.; Remember what Baylor A Las siter did for you last year. They j will do just as much for you this year at the Riverside. A lot of new bicycles iust re ceived by B. F. Smith, Benson, N. 0. Skinner A Ragsdule lead be cause they haven't any ju-ts but sell every farmer's tobacco for its value. The place to have your tobacco graded is at the Riverside. They have the best basement and best grader. Warranty Deed. Mortgage Deed, Mortgagee's Deed, Quit claim Deed and Commissioners' j Deed blunks for sale at Tut; Herai.d Office, Send us your Job Work. Neat work at living prices. We stand at the top of the lad der ready to hand down the high prices to our farmer friends who sell their tobacco with Boyett Bros, at the Farmers Warehouse, j *C !K NEW PUBLIC SCHOOL BOOKS jjj m S m 5 IP At State Contract and \}j pf\ Exchange Prices. 'P Paper, Jnks,Slates, yii t\\ Tablets and all jf? IP school supplies at \|> 2! * r |ii * HOOD BROTHERS, ifc /f? # * DRUGGISTS. & IP \ii &&&&&. ?&?&?& SEE THE SEA! Last Chance. ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, We Shall Ru*n an Excursion from Dunn, Via Wilson, to Wilmington AMD OCEAN VIEW BEACH. Round trip fare only $1.50. llo with us and see the great ocean. HATCH BROTHERS. BACK FROM BALT! IW O R E. I HAVE JUST RETURNED FROM THE NORTHERN MARKETS, where I bought the largest nnd belt stock of Dry Goods, Shoes, i Notions and Millinery That ha- ever been brought Smithfiebl Look out for my advertisement. W. L. WOODALL, SMITHFIELD, N. G JOHN A. McKAY. E. F. YOUNG. THE JOHN A McKAY M'F'G CO. Kdged Tool, Foundry and Machine Works. One of the very best equipped plants in the State. Machine Repair Work of Every Description. High Grade Saw-Mill, Bngine and Boiler Work a Specialty. THE FAKOUHAR. All Kinds Iron and Brass Castings. Store Front Irons and other Heavy Work to Order. WE ARE AGENTS FOR A. B. Farquhsr Co.'s Machinery, ? Engines, Boilers, Saw Mills, &c We arc aiso agents for the Southern Saw Works and have a good etock of their (mill) saws on hand. ENGINES -ZL2ST3D \ BOILERS y Of all Btylos fr??ri ^,.4 to 6(10 horse i>owec We Handle All Kinds of Machinery and ,V Machinery Supplies. A Steam Fitting, Pipe, Inspirators, Sfiafting, Pulleys, I'ost Hung ers, Grate-barf. &c., &c. WE DO HIGH 6RAt)E WORK ONLY. GET OUR CATALOGUE AND PRICES. The John fl. JVicI^ay JVI'f'g Co., dunn. n. c.
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
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