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jvmitfjfirlft Hrfalk price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR OQUNTRY AND OUR GOD." sinqle copies five cents. _ VOL. 24. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. AUGUST 4. 1905. NO. 22 WEEKLY CROP REPORT. Crops Need Warm Dry Weather Favorable Conditions Itequlred to Make Average Cot ton Crop The government weekly crop bulletin for North Carolina for the week endiDg Monday, July 81, says: The characteristic feature of the weather during the past week was the relatively low tem perature that prevailed. While the mean of the week for the state at large was only slightly below the normal, the night tem peratures were generally below 70 degrees and the maxima be low 00 degrees, except at a few places on Sunday, July 550th. As the weather was aiso quite cloudy during the most of the week, the conditions were very pleasant for outdoor work, but the ab sence of sunshine, aud excessive moisture in places caused further rank growth of vegetation aud delayed the formation of fruit, 1 which it is feared will makecrops, especially cotton, rather late. The rainfall was irregularly distributed and generally smail in amount; over most of the in- 1 terior of the state the first part j of the week was dry and favora- j ble. with good showers on Fri- ( day, but in some northeastern counties, chiefly Beaufort, Hali fax and Nash, and in several west of the Blue Ridge the rains, 1 though smail in amount, were too frequent for best results. In 1 most counties, however, the week was fairly favorable both for ' work and for, the growth of crops. La> ing by crops is practically completed, and the chief work on . hand is cutting and cut ing to- i bacco, plowing for wheat, seeding i turnips and making late hay. ( More sunshine and a period of i dry weaf her would be beneficial. | Cotton has overgrown its nor mal size in most counties, and in ), the central-eastern portion of the state the plants are not very 1 full of blooms and fruit; there is ! considerable damage by rust, ' but lees report of shedding, al ' though where the crop is suffer- ! iug from excessive moisture both bolls aud leaves are falling, and 1 on light lands plants are turning yellow. lu the west in spite of 1 rapid growth cotton seems-to be < blooming freely and fruiting < well. Very favorable conditions ' from now on will be needed to < make an average crop of cotton. |< Early upland corn is about i made; fodder is ripening, and i pulling has begun in a few coun- I ties; young corn appears to be 1 earing and filling nicely, in pieces s from 1 to 4 silks to the stalk i1 are reported; much bottom land ; corn is still badly in the grass. Tobacco is doing fairly well as f a rnle and is curing nicely, but it ( is over ripe in some places, and j j on thin land the cures are light i | on account of damage by too \ much moisture. j, Peanuts, field peas, sweet pota- | toes aud rice have progressed < nicely. Thrashing wheat and ( other grains is about over, and :. in mauy instances the yield has {J turned out eomewhat better \ than expected. ( Sowing turnip seed aud late i hay making are under way. The | fruit crop in the west will be l short aud inferior; apples are very scabby; grapes are lipening; the moist, cloudy weather con tinues to favor the spread of fungus diseases causing decay. ' Transplautingstrawberry plants ' bus made good progress. Bains reported; Goldsboro ' <) 12, Lumberton 0 154, New Bern 2 (54, YVeldon 0.10, Greensboro ' 0.20, Raleigh 0.(52, Asheville 1 1 00, Charlotte 1 00, liatteras 2.00, Angier 1.31, Pomona 0.25, 1 Lexington 1.02, Moncure 0 32, 1 Hendersonville 1 80, Nashville 1 117. 1 i Polar Variety. Rod rick?I see Peary is going i after the pole in a ship called , Roosevelt. Van Albert?Yes, I guess he thinks that will be a good name 1 to nut the bears to flight.?Detroit i Tribune. |i STATE NEWS ITEMS. Scotland Neck had a $10,000 ( fire Tuesday night. Grading has begun at High l'oint and Winston and steel rails for the road are being de livered. Professors Whitehead and Payne of the University of North Carolina, have accepted Profes sorships in the University of Virginia. The contract has been let for a new hotel building iu ( barlotte to be known as the Highlands. The buildiug will have 140 rooms and will cost about $200,000. Eleven negro prisoners under sentence to the chaingang for various terms, escaped from jail at Eumberton Monday night. They used a saw which they had secured by some unknown meane. Prof. It. E. Sentelle, principal of Wakefield High School, and representative from Wake county in the last General Assembly, has been chosen superintendent of Elizabeth City Public Schools. ( A steel bridge to cost $200,000 will be erected acoss Newport river, connecting the towns of Morehead City and Beaufort. The bridge will be about two and a half miles long. Work on the structure will be commenced at once. It is probable that the installa tion of Dr. W. E. Poteatas 1'resi jent of Wake Forest College will ( take place during the session of the Baptist State Convention in (laleigh in December. If so, the convention could go out to \\ ake ^ Forest for a day. The mayor and citizens of Asheville have opened the doors of their healthful mountain city to the people of New Orleans ; and other yellow fever infected , districts. Many refuges have accepted the invitation and ate , pouring into Asheville daily. < Bob Berry, a furniture factory worker at High Point, tried to ;ommit suicide Wednesday by dashing his throat, but he is ex pected to recover. Strict adher ?nce .to the "Burning Bush w iiious faith and corn liquor is Believed to have unsettled his mind, if he had any. ^ The divorce evil in North Caro- ( ina is growing, or rather has done so up to the present time, lince now there is a new law The clerk of the court of Wake ?ounty says that on the county locket there are about 25 divorce juits at present. He says the iverage for the past seven years me at least been 25 cases, but ( Dhat the rush is not so great iince the new law went into effect. He has been in office several ( pears. A most horrible and shocking accident occurred at Davis' Shore, ( aboHt ten miles east of Beaufort, Friday afternoon, when Sutton Davis, a 10-year old lad, while wading and playing in the water, was suddenly attacked and eaten by a very large shark. Sutton was in the water about waist , leep when suddenly a shark ap- i proached him, threw him in the iir and caught him as he struck the water, pulled him under and disappeared in deep water with the boy. Thorough search has Been made, but no particle of the Body has been found. Public is Aroused. The public is aroused to a knowledge of the curative merits Bf thao great medicinal tonic, Electric Bitters, forsick stomach, liver and kidneys. Mary H. Walters, of 540 St. Clair Ave., Columbus, O., writes: "tor several months, 1 was given up to die. 1 had fever and ague, my nerves were wrecked; 1 could not sleep, and my stomach was so weak, from useless doctors drugs, that I could not eat. Soon | after beginning to take Electric j Bitters, I obtained r li f. ? ir ' a short time I vtasemjreiy cured. Guaranteed at Hood Bros, drug store; price 50c. . I After you are married, young lady, it is just as well to remem ber'that cooking is a greater art than thumping a piano. BIG TOBACCO OPENING. | About Seventy five Thousand lbs. ' of Golden Weed Sold here Fri day at Satisfactory Prices. Last Friday marked the open ing of the Smithfield tobacco sea son for this year. Both tobacco warehouses?the Banner and the Farmers?were well prepared for a good opening, but the large quantities of tobacco brought was quite a surprise to even the managers. Both bouses were well filled, the total number of pounds offered for sale being be tweeu 72,000 and 75,000. The prices ranged from #5.00 to #12 50 per hundred for com mon lugs, with scrap bringing from #1.50 to #-1.00. The farm and there were many of them present?seemed well pleas ed at the prices their weed brought. The opening has been pro nounced the most successful since our market first opened just seven years ago. With well light ed houses, well equipped in every respect; with plenty of prize house room to store all tobacco brought here, with a large corps of buyers with good orders; and the warehouses under the man agement of our own people who have been here since the market first opened and built it up to its present high standing, theSmith-! field market promises to add to the splendid reputation that seven years of honest ami fair | dealing has given it. 1 he outlook is promising and ' encouraging for a splendid sea-! son with fair prices. Suit Against the Equitable. 1'be Attorney General of the State of New York has brought suit against the -lb old directors of the Lquitable Life Assurance Society. The Baltimore Sun gives the following summary of the bill of complaint: -Negligent, improppr and irn-' provident performance of duty. Acquisition by the directors, in violation of their duty, of money belonging to the society. Leasing of premises at in adequate rentals. lLals disadvantageous to the society in acquiring control of other corporations. Excessive and unwarranted loans to agents. Payment of excessive pensions. -Making of loans without war rant or on insufficient security to trust and improvement com panies. Keeping large sums of money on deposit in banks at insufficient rates of interest. Making a deal with the Ameri can Loan and Deposit Company to the detriment of the society. Making false statements re garding the surplus and with holding part of it from the policy holders. Value of Common Carriers. Raleigh, N. C., July 31?The corporation commission has completed its assessment of com mon carriers. The valuation put upon railways is. Atlantic ('oast Line #24,454, 014; Seaboard Air Line 12,500, 000; Southern for owned lines #14,135,255, and for leased lines # 11,51 u,339; miscellaneous lines #0,20S,731, increase #92, 3(51; for all railways #09,573, 334, against only #12,300,000 in 1H91 when the corporation commission took charge. The assessment of other com panies is: VV estern Union Telegraph Company, #947,000; Postal Telegraph Company, #07.791; Pullman cars #170.900; South ern Express, #402,109; Steam boats #141,000; refrigerator cars_ #103,189; water works #405,014; electric light #750, 814; telephone #824,512; street radwavs #1,599,190; Grand total #75,372,344. The value of the street railways is as follows: Wilmington #325,000; Ashe ville #300,000; Charlotte #250.. 000; V\ inston-Salem #250,OO0; Durham 225,000; Greensboro #100,000; Raleigh #40,000. GENERAL NEWS. Admiral Ilojestveusky is able to sit up in u chair. Street-car builders of the coun try have combined, with a capi tal of $45,500,000. The foreign commerce of the United States the past year amounted to $1,517,462,833. The yellow fever continues to spread in New Orleans. Up to Wednesday night there had been 378 cases and 70 deaths. Forecast for frost in Minnesota and rumors of a famine in Rus sian set up the price of wheat in theCuicago grain market Mou day. It is believed in Washington that Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will eventually resign and that his successor will be Repre sentative Wadsworth of New York. United States Senator John H. Mitchell has been sentenced to six months in jail and a fine of $1,000 for accepting pay for his services in connection with the Oregon land frauds. The Dutch expedition set against the rebellious native state of Boni, in the Island of Celebes, one of theSunda Islands, in the East Indies, iofficted severe punishment on the natives, 260 of whom were killed. On account of the murder of the two Carter children near Val dosta, Ga , J. G. Rawlings, three sons and a negro will be hanged, and another Rawlings boy and a negro preacher will go to the penitentiary for life. Secretary Wilson, of the Agri cultural Department, visited President Roosevelt at Oyster Bay 'Monday. Afterward he stated tnat the statistics bureau will be reorganized with four members, f wo of which will be from the South A Successful Operation. Selma, N. C., Aug. 2.?Little Gracy, the niece of our towns man, Mr. C. Talton, returned from Washington a few days ago where she underwent an opera tion for deformed ankle, it hav ing been in this condition from her birtl^ Recently when Dr. Wade H. Atkinson was visitiug in Selma he chaueed to see the little girl's condition, and at once suggested that she be taken to Washington City for an oper ation. Her uncle, Mr. Talton, being ever mindful of the interest of Ins people, at ouce complied with the suggestion and took her to Washington and put her under the care of Dr. Atkinson. At the earliest possible time the operation was successfully per formed. resulting in the complete restoration of the deformity. The result has been both sur prising and pleasing to the little girl's friends and relatives. Dr. Atkinson is a Selma boy, who has for many years been a very successful practicing physi cian at the National Capital. Compliment Gone Wronq. Muggins had just been intro duced to a bride of six weeks at a social gathering and after a remark about the weather he said, gallantly: "And have I really the pleasure of meeting the beautiful Mrs. Smythe, whose praises are being sounded by everybody?" "Oh, no, Mr. Muggins," the lady replied. "The beautiful Mrs. Smythe to whom you refer is the wife of my husband's cousin." "Ah, 1 see," rejoined Muggins. "I thought there must be a mis take somewhere."?Detroit Tri bune. Peculiar Disappearance. J I). Hunyan, of Bntlervilfr, O., laid the peculinr disappear ance of his p' mful ?v nip oiiis, i f indigestion and bi'i visne- -t, to Dr King's New Life Pills, lie savs: "They areaperfect remedy, for dizziness, soursromach, head ache, constipation,etc." Guaran teed at Hood Bros, drug store, price 25c. RECEPTION AT FOUR OAKS. By Capital Club In Honor of Mr. J. A Raffleld. of the Atlantic Coast Line Four Oake, N. C-, August 1.? One of the must enjoyable occa sions of the season was the recep tion by the Capital Ciub, Mon day night, July 81, 11)05, in \ honor of Mr. J. A. Rattield. the clever railroad agent who is soon to leave to accept a more lucra tive position in the offices of the company at Rocky Mount. Mr. Rattield, by his straightforward business principles and honest judgment in matters pertaining to his position, has won many friends, who regret to see him leave, but who wish him every! success in his new home The reception was held at the "Club Housel' which was taste-1 fully decorated for the occasion, music being rendered by the Four Oaks string band, under the diiection of Mr. J. R. Rallance, our clever druggist, who proved himself quite equal to the occa-! j sion The "menu" was selected! with care and was in every wax perfect. Mr. C. W. Bandy acted as "grand toastmaster," assist I ed by Mr. Jesse B. Adams, and Mr. G.o. YV. Salmon at tbedifter ent tables, nearly fifty guests be ing present. Mr. Bandy made a j beautiful speech in behalf of the "club," Mr. U. K. Masseugill re sponding on the part of the busi ness men of the town and Dr. J H. Stanley representing the pro fessional interests Speeches wer^ also made by .1. VV-. Hollowed YV. R. Keeu, C. H. WiWtams, Hugh B. Adams, T. M. Massed-, gill and several others, all bear ing upon the usefulness of Mr. Raffield as a citizen. After the supper (which was served in courses) was over by motion of Mr. Bandy a vote of thanks was tendered Mr. Bal lance and a committee appointed to draft suitable resolutions ex pressing our regrets at losing such an estimable gentleman as Mr. Raffield. Government Cotton Report 74 9. New York, August 3 ?The government crop report at noon today shows 74.9 somewhat better than when last issued. | The market showed little change standing at one o'clock at 10.65 j for July, 10.75 for October and 10.92 for December. ARCHER DOTS. Mr. Joe Hinnant spent last week at home. j Mr. Robt. A. YVall secretary aud treasurer of the Clayton Oil Mill Co., was in our midst last week. Miss Mamie Batton. of Selma, is visiting the family of her brother, Mr. A. L.' Batton, this week. Quite a number of our farmers went to the opening sale a Smith I field Friday and came back well I pleased. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilder, of near Raleigh, are the guests oi Mrs.J Wilder's mother, Mrs. Jane [ Boyett. Mr. Matt R. YVall returned to school at Raleigh Sunday after spending two weeks with his | parents. Mr. Brannou, the photographer ( of Clayton, has been here for the past week and has been doing a good business. Miss Ellie YVhitley returned last week to her home in Clayton after spending some time with Miss Hattie YVall. Several professions have been made as a result oi the revival at YVhite O ik. and many more are expected by the last of the; 1 tmeting Buffalo and Barnes X Roads I crossed bats Saturday afternoon 1 Score.1, Barnes X R >ads 14, Buffalo 5 I'he most interesting features of the game were Barnes' pit'hing. Fowlers' cat lung and theskdlful manner in which J. C Boyett got the balls and retuui ed to the first base. S. L #. KENLY NOTES. Mrs. II F, Edgerton went to iSmithfield Tuesday. Miss Faunie Freeman, of net r Taylor, spent Wednesday with friends here. Miss Lillian Deans, of Hender son, spent last Wednesday at Mr. J. U. High's Miss Maggie Whitley, of Seltna, after spending a few days here, returned home Friday. Several from here attended the Vocal L'nion Sunday at Mt Car mel church near Pikeville. Miss Kva High went to Selma today (Wednesday) to spend a few days with friends. Mrs. J. T. Edgerton who has been visiting friends near Lum ber Bridge returned home Wed nesday. Miss Lillian High, of Louisburg, who has been visiting her cousin. Miss Eva High, returned home Tuesday. Miss Ora Hooks who has been visiting friends near Pembroke and in Four Oaks returned home Wednesday. Mrs. J. W. Darden who has been spending some time with relatives near Godwin and in Smithfield returned home last Wednesday. "Miss Vlitt Benson, of Florence, S C., is spending* some time here as the guest of Miss Irma Ayers, at the home of the latter's sister, Mrs. R. T. Reufrow. Mr J. W. Darden opened up his large new store this week. He has a large and nice stock of dry goods, notious, shoes, fur niture and buggies, all new goods. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. High left today for Norfolk, Ya.,to attend the Virginia State Fair and visit other plaees-of interest around Norfolk. They will be gone several days. The dispensary here was voted out J une 2Gtb by a good major ity and it will therefore perma nently close the 26th of August. Johnston county will then be a dry county, every town in the county having by that date closed its whiskey shops. Our town has been without a regular policeman for several weeks. Mr. J. T. Jones, the police for the past two years, having resigned. The Board of Town Commissioners met Satur day morning and employed Mr. Eugene Mason, of Black Creek, who was present and was imme diately sworn in. The young people here had a very pleasant time last Friday night at the charming home of Mr. C. W. Edgerton, theoccasion being a birthday party given his daughter, Miss Maude. The house and yard was beautifully lighted by a great number of beautiful Japauese lanterns. After playing several very inter esting gamee all were invited out on the lawn where a number of tables were arranged and ice cream and cake and watermelons were served. Every one seemed to thoroughly enjoy the evening. The following out of town guests were present: Mr. J. B. Barnes and Mr. Waignright, of Wil son; Mr. Jesse and Mr. Hugh Adams, of Four Oaks; Miss Irma Ayers, of Nichols, S. C., and Miss Mit Benson, of Florence, S. C., and Miss Lillian High, of Louis burg. Miss Edgerton was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Aug. 2nd. lD:x. A Tjuching: Story is the saving from death, of the baby girl of 0?o. A Evler, Cum berland, Md. He writes: "At the age of 11 months, our little girl was in declining health, with serious Throat Trouble, and two physicians gave her up. We were almost in despair, when we resolved to try Dr. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. The first bot tle gave relief; after taking lour bottles she was cured, and is now in perfect health." Never fails to relieve and cure a cough or cold. At. Hood Bit s. dru r ston: 50c and ? 1 <>i>g i rauteed. Trial bottle free.
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