North Carolina Newspapers

?(lt SmitljficID lieMit price one dollar fer tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." sinole copier rive cents. VOL. 24. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29,1905. NO. HO ? * WEATHER CROP CONDITIONS. Rain Needed In Some Sections of State?Cotton Crop Below Average?Tobacco Burnt and Speckeled. Raleigh, Sept. 20?Theclimate and crop report for North Caro lina for the week ending today says: Weather has been gener ally dry and warm, except in a few counties in the eastern dis- ! trict, where heavy rains inter ferred with cotton picking. Rain was quite geueral on the 20th 21st, and very beneficial. Rain j is needed in the Piedmont plateau in the extreme western counties and in a few local cities in thej east. There is a slight improve- j ment in the cotton crop. It has j continued to open rapidly in some counties, the bulk already [ being open. Reports of prema ture opening are confined to the sections where the rainfall has been deficient and ffrarm weather prevailed. The bolls are small, and the lint short. There will be no top crop, owing to shed ding. No further reports of dam age by army-worms have been received. The crop everywhere is below the average, in some places being very light. Tobacco has been about all cut. Curing continues, and it is i generally reported that there | will be only a fair crop and of in ferior quality. Much is burnt and specked, and the remainder lacks weight, but has good color and texture. KENLY NOTES Mr. J. R. Sauls went to Rich mond, Va., Tuesday. Mr. Jno. G. High attended the picnic at Nobles' Chapel Friday, i Prof. J. P. Canaday, of Benson, i was here a few hours Friday i evening. 1 Mr. E. J. Barnes, of Wilson, was here Wednesday to attend to some legal business. Rev. R. W. Horrell, of Selma, will begin a series of meetings ' here the second Sunday in Octo , ber. ' Miss Gertrude Grizzard, of Jarrett, Va., spent several days here the past week with her sister, I Mrs. Z. A. Snipes. I Miss Mabel Boyett, of the i Buckhorn section of Wilson i county, visited friends here J i Wednesdaa and Thursday. 11 Rev. Dr. R. H. Whitaker, of 11 Raleigh, filled his regular Semi monthly appointment at the g Methodish church Sunday night. Mr. C. W. Edgerton returned ^ from Norfolk, Va., last Wednes- t day, where he had been gone to c buy stock for his sales stables. B Mr. I. J. Creech, who has been a R. R. agent here for the past 14 t months, has resigned and Mr. G. t Y. Jones, formerly agent at Micro, has taken his place. We are glad to note that little ; Louise Alford, who has had a \ severe case of typhoid fever, is now rapidly improving, being 1 able to sit up most of the time. t Mrs. J. G. High and Mrs. W. T. Bailey attended the Sunday c school picnic at Nobles' Chapel. J ii Wilson county, last Friday and 11 spent Saturday and Sunday 1 with friends in that section. i: The Kenly Mfg. Co.?J. H. Al- k ford and D B. Sasser, owners? 8 are making some improvements ii to their plant here. They are t putting iu a 50 horse power li engine and boiler and will shortly ri put down a saw mill and other t machinery. 1 Sept. 27. ? Rkx. e jt Arc You Engaged? '" 18 Engaged people should remem- c ber, that, after marriage, many ii quarrels con be avoided, by keep- n iug their digestions in good con- o dition with Electric Bitters. S. t A. Brown, of Bennettsville, S. C., says: "For years, my wifesuffered c< intensely from dyspepsia, com- ft plicated with a torpid liver, until U she lost her streugth and vigor, b and became a mere wreck of her ii former self. Then she tried Elec tric Bitters, which helped her at once, and finally made her en- si tirely well. She is now strong a and healthy." Hood Bros, drug- tl gists, sell and guarantee them, A at 50c a bottle. 1 Ii GENERAL NEWS. Germany is shocked at the high rate of child suicides, the record having been 42 annually. Will Ellis, a negro under arrest in Birmingham, Ala., is wanted for six murders committed in five States. Every countv in South Caro lina that has voted on tne issue of Dispensary or Prohibition, has voted the Dispensary out. Marion county, South Caro lina, voted out the Dispensary last week by a vote of 1,000 for Prohibition to 200 for dispen sary. Former Governor O'Ferrall, of Virginia, who was a Confederate veteran and served six terms in Congress, died Friday in Hich mond. At Pensacola, there were eight more cases of yellow fever and two deaths Tuesday making the totals 109 cases and fourteen deaths. A New York Democrat, who was defeated for Congress, wants to know of President McCall how much of his policy money was used to defeat him. In the speed trial on Long Is land Saturday for the Vander bilt eup races, Pope's 60-horse power automobile made about 50 miles an hour. At Newton, Ga., a sensation j has been created by Quintin! Miller, arrested for murdering his father, the young man having ! confessed that his mother shot father in a quarrel about a dog. The Nebraska Homeopathic Association favors a movement to compel all persons who desire to marry to undergo a rigid medical examination in order that their fitness may be deter- j mined. In New York Friday the insur ance investigation brought out testimony that J. H. Hyde and associates, of the Equitable As mrance Society cleaned up $114, 500 on $1,876,090 of Atlantic i 2oast Line stocks. The miners' union, as well as i the mine operators, are said to ae well prepared for a struggle, ] vhich according to statements < nade, may be expected to com-1 nen?e next April, when the opera- ( ore are expected to order a j; ockout. The text of the new treaty of !? illiance between Great Britain t md Japan was made public t r-iesday at London; it ensures he independence and integrity f ?f China; guarantees equal com- 8 nercial rights to all nations, j md Japan and Great Britain are o join each other in war if the erritory of either is molested. 6 i 8 I I Weekly Crop Bulletin. L Washington, September 26.? e ^he weather bureau in its weekly s ?ulletin of crop conditions says: r The reports indicate but little hange in the condition of cotton a n Mouth Carolina, Georgia, Ale- / tama and Oklahoma and Indian ^ territory, a slight improvement ^ n North Carolina, Missouri, Ar-! H :ansasand North-western Texas, t ind more or less deterioration j j n other portions of the cotton ! v >elt. although there is decidely ? ess complaint of rust and shea- j, ling in the central and in por- \ ions of the eastern districts. v 'icking in Texas was interrupt- ( d to some extent bv raiu but his work has been active under ;enerally favorable conditions in dl districts, except in the north entral portion of the belt where b is not yet general. Picking is n earing completion in portions s f Georgia, Louisiana and ex- o rcme southern Texas. t Some injury to housed tobac- V o by moist weather is reported V ?om portions of the middle At- cl in t ic states and New England, a ut elsewhere the reports respect- a lg this crop are favorable. ri K You are liable to an attack of si ome form of Bowel Complaint G nd should provide yourself with li he best known Remedy Dr. Seth L mold's Balsam. Warranted by f KOOU I'luo, fi SELMA NEWS. Messrs. K. M. Nowell and I Alonzo It. Richardson spent Sun day near Wendell. Miss Annie S. Noble left Satur day for Spartanburg, S. C., to attend Converse College. Misses Eula Rouse and Lowe, of Wilson's Mills were in town j Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. I. W. Hocut and daugh ter, Mrs. J. I. Jeffreys, are visit ing Mrs. James D. Jeffreys. Mr. W. Alex Green is now at tending the medical department of the University at Raleigh. Mr. Geo. D. Vick left Sunday night for Philadelphia where he goes to attend Jefferson Medical College. Mrs. John H. Parker and daughter, Miss Minnie, returned i from a visit to Mrs. J. P. Tem ple, of Wake, Tuesday. Mr. Robert Millard Nowell has been appointed a marshal at the State fair. He, on Waxy, will make a fine appearance. Mr. John H. Parker returned , from a visit to Chattanooga last Friday. He went to attend the ( unveiling of the North Carolina Monument, but it has been put off till Nov. 10th as it was not finished. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Coleman, I of New York, were here last week visiting Mrs. Dr. Noble. Mrs i Coleman is a daughter of Mrs. : E. S. Moore who lived at Coons boro some years ago; but now I j lives near Greenville, S. C. I Misses Katie Yarborough and i' Alice Noble, of Wilmington, and < Prof. Noble, of Chapel Hill, are i visiting Mrs. M. A. Noble. Prof, j 1 Noble is on his way to Garland, Sampson county, where he is to ? make an educational speech. t Senex. * ; ? LEACHBIJRG ITEMS. Mr. W. B. Godwin has been f sick for the past few days. j Mr. L. D. Wood spent Friday i t and Saturday in Raleigh. f His many friends will regret to f learn that Mr. Willie Stevens is 8 }uite sick withfever. Mr. Ralph Holland, of Meiry 1 laks, is on a visit to his uncles, 8 Messrs. Thad and Albert Stevens. 8 Mr. W. T. Johnson has his gin | and saw mill almost complete and will, in a few days, be ready " ;o gin cotton. j Miss Nellie Johnson has been < imployed to teach the winter g icbool in district No. 3, Cleve- i and. Mr. Hubert Jones, of the Ral:j !igh street car force, spent ^ everal days at his old home lear Gulley's Mills recently. The farmers are getting along lioely picking their cotton, but g ire somewhat discouraged at the orry crops. Cotton will not be ? nore than half a crop. I Sol, accompanied by his wife, w itteuded the Primitive Baptist p kssociation at Willow Springs ;$ hurch in Wake county Satur- tl lay and Sunday. The attend- j c ince on Sunday was estimated f o be above ten thousand. The [ kssociation seemed to be a sue- w ess in every way. A large crowd, w ;ood behavior and good preach- n rig made everything pleasant, h ?be next session will be held w ?ith Clement church near Fourjjc Jaks, the last of next September j Sept. 20. Sol. w Like Finding Money. u Finding health is like finding ^ aoney?So think those who are ick. When you have a cough, ^ old, sore throat, or chest irrita ion, better act promptly like v y.C. Barber, of Sandy Level, v a. He says: '?! had a terrible hest trouble, caused by smoke nd coal dust on my lungs; but, ft*?r flnrfir," so pr,'io? jn other o Diuuufco, i was cured by Dr. ei ling's New Discovery for Con- u umption, Coughs and Colds." n Ireatest sale of any cough or d ing medicine in the "world. At. P food Bros. Drug store; 0c and c< 1.00; guaranteed. Trial bottle nl ?ee. d CLAYTON NOTES. Mist* Lalla Ellington and Miss Kate Cummings, of Raleigh, are visiting Mrs. J no M. Turley. Miss Julia Ferrell who has been visiting here for some time left this morning for her home in Raleigh. Miss Mattie Oulle.y is sick with malarial fever. Miss Maie is teaching in her stead until she is able to resume her duties. We learn that Mr. Millard Hin nant, who was with Mr. W. A. Barnes last Fall, will begin with him again October 1st. Mrs. Spiers and Mrs. Call of Sel ma were the guests of Mrs. E. B. McCullers Tuesday, attending the Fiddler's concert in the even ing. Messrs. Tom Stephenson and Arthur Wallace are attending court at Raleigh this week. They ; hope this will be the last time ! they will ever have to attend court in Raleigh The concert given by the ladies 1 of the M. E. Church, on Tuesday i evening was vetj a success b,v all present The "Old Time" fiddling was s'lrrulv great. The soon songs and wit and humor were all gran J. , Mr. John S. Barnes lias return- | }d from Northern markets where , he and Mr. W. A. Edgerton have t been to purchase goods for the ( Barnes-Edgerton Co., recently \ ncorporated to do business at t Smithfleld. ( Messrs. M. G. Gulle.y and Riley t B. Gulley have purchased the eusiness of John S. Barnes at ;his place and will continue busi- H less at the same stand. See an- j louncement elsewhere in this <, taper. * The revival meeting will be held j it the Baptist church beginning he first Sunday in October. Fas- t or W. H. Rich, of Salisbury, will a issist Fastor Blanchard. Every E tody is cordially invited to at- t ?nd at every service. j The girls of the BaptistChurch ire arranging to have a poverty . tarty in the near future. From ( he description we have had so ar. we see nothing to prevent it ^ rom succeeding. The girls gen- j rally do things right. Our two millinery establish- fi nents are in trim for the Fall w ind Winter business. Mrs. John- [ on has with her. Miss Craig who p ras with Messrs. Barbour A Sons a ast season, and Messrs. Hilliard t ind Richardson have with them, & liss Mabel Benton who for sev- fl ral years was milliner for Messrs. p Iherwood Higgs & Co., of Ral- a igh. The stocks of both estab- 0 shments are fine. Yelir. . Nest of Railroad Robbers Un earthed- t< There are stirring times in the y heriff's office this afternoon. lt ?etective Scarborough of the .tlantic Coast Line has been at a oik all day on what he suspect- ^ d was a case of wholesale rob- ja ery of A. C. L. freight, and ? at o'clock this afternoon he and p he sheriff's deputies arrested ^ harles Snipes and Lonnie Brown ja wo freight handlers of the A. C. and are now out with war- r ants for six more of them and ^ ill bag most of them before 8j ight. The two arrested had ate, clothing, shoes, tobacco, j8 biskey, meat, and other articles 8( i their possession when taken ito custody, which it is alleged ere stolen from the A. C. L. j( Quantities of freight consigned tj j Fayetteville and other points al ave been stolen lately, and the gt uthorities say they have at last iscovered the robbers in the eight handlers of the road?a eritable nest of them.?Fayette- r( ille Observer 27. 8( Got Ott Cheap. P He may well think, he has got al ff cheap, who, alter having rt intracted constipatiou or in- ei igestion. is still able to perfectly ?store his health. Nothing will ri o this but Br. King's New Life it ills. A quick, pleasant, and o >rtain cure for headache, con- ht dpation. etc. 25c at Hood Bros, w rug store; guaranteed. STATE NEWS. Littleton Female College opened with 165 boarding pupils, the largest number in the history of the college. The Flora Cotton Mills with an authorized capital of #400,. 000 has been chartered for r ayetteville. This makes the lOch cotton mill in the county. -Nine are now in operation. The Southern Life Insurance Company of Fayetteville, had a most important meeting Tues day. They will soon be ready 1 for business and will have repre sentatives to place their policies before the people. Governor Glenn has returned from his tour of New England. i He was everywhere received with , enthusiasm. The people heard i him gladly. He talked of the great industrial activity of the | South and the opening for im- < migration and capital from the North and Northeast. It is be lieved that this trip will benefit 1 the state greatly. < Walter Craven, a carpenter, J iged 11 and I^eslie H. Gerringer, < 1 Southern Itailway telegraph j jperator, two popular young ( Ben of Greensboro, were killed , 'here last week being run over by i freight engine while walking on i part of the track posted as laugerous. They stepped off e .be track to escape -a passenger J rain, but were caught on the t Jther by the freight, both being J errible mangled. t Here is the way Judge Ward T ipplied the law to illegal liquor c ellers at Elizabeth City: "W. !? I. White, plaod finder bond of >300 and fined $200; J. W iykes, $300 boud, fined $100; oe Eisenburg, $100 bond, fined a !>0; John Mradshaw, $300 h >ond, fined $100; \\ m. Morgan d ind Carrol Fool, each fined $50; A io bond required of Martin Hin- T on, Geo. tfuidley and Henry \ lcCleese, cached fined $25." I s Grant Farrish, of this State, r' ias recently sold to the Standard 6 Ml Company nine thousand Ci kCres of hard timber in Western forth Carolina, to be turned in- ^ 0 barrel staves for use in trans- ^ >ortating oil in barrels. Seventy- n ve years ago this timber land t] tas sold to the parents of Mr 'arrish by the State of North arolina for thirty-five cents per ere. Mr Farrish bought it for hree dollars and twenty-five ents per acre and sold it for ve dollars per acre. The tim- > w er is located twenty miles from railroad, and is a virgin forest ti f oak and hickory. d BENSON NEWS. E a Mr. Ira Creech, of Kenly, is in jwn. ? Mr. P. A. Creech and family, of B( nlmington, spent last Sunday1 1 town with relatives. A good number of our people ? tteuded the Primitive Baptist1'1 ssociation at Willow Springs ist Sunday. Messrs. J. F. Woodall aud R. \| . Surles returned from an ex ?nded trip to Bladen county , >st Friday. J The revival at the Free Will vj aptist church closed last Sun ay, there being several acces- ti ons to thechurch. re Rev Mr. Leak,of Hockingbam, assisting Pastor Forbes in a ?ries of meetings at the Metho- fj ist church this week. Mr. James Lawhon, of Lower ohnston, has accepted a posi on with Mr. Preston Woodall te ad invitee his friends to call to F * him. Miss Tempy Britt who has j "en spending several days with ai ieses Minnie and Moody Smith p< (turned to her home in Samp- R in county las' Sa urday. a Mi?s Lalla Ellington and Kate uminings, after spending sever I days witti Mrs. E F. Moore. 8' ?turned to their home in Hal- w gh on Wednesday of this week Mr. Preston Woodall's new ?sidence on Hill Street is near ig completion. This will be h.' ue of the largest and most andsome buildings in town F hen completed. Sept. 27. Solon, LOCAL NEWS. ?Mr. and Mrs. Jae. L. Wood all have moved into the house recently vacated by Mr. J. D. Underwood. Mrs. Seyle, of Charleston, 8. C.. mother of Mrs. Woodall, has arrived and will make her home with them. ?Turlington Graded School enters upon its third week with an enrollment of 204, the larg est number, this early in the term, in the history of the school. The Tenth Grade, the graduat ing class, numbers 15, ten girls and five boys. ?Mr. William N.Rose, Sr., who for the past several years has been living with his son, Mr. G. B. Rose, near Newton Grove, was found dead in bed Wednesday morning. He was in his usual health the day before, doing some light work. He was a brother of the late Dr. Rose of Smithfield. ?Mr. A. H. Rose left Sunday eight for Philadelphia, Pa., to :omplete hie course in medicine it the famous Jefferson Medical College. Mr. George D. Vick, of 3elma, has also returned to the lame institution to finish his :ourse. Both these young men will be members of the next lenior class. ?Mr. Wm. Richardson, of John ton county, who was in Raleigh 'esterday, has recently visited nost of the counties in Eastern >orth Carolina, and be says that he crops in the sections he has ?isited will not be over half a rop. "The best cotton 1 have een was between Yauceboroand Irimesland," he said ?News and ibserver. ?Mr. William Nichols formerly , resident of Smithfield, died at is hifine in Wilmington Satur ay. He was the father of Mr.. .. C. Nichols, of Spring Hope, 'he Raleigh Times save: "Mr. lichols was born in Columbia, C., and when two years old emoved to Georgia, staying here until 1834, when the family ame to North Carolina, having ettled in Johnston county, at mith eld. About 13 years ago e returned to his farm and for lany years was busied with bat life, having abandoned that 3 go to Wilmington." ARCHER LODGE NEWS. Mr. J. D. Boyett, of Smithfield, as here Satturday. Eight colored, people were bap zed in Buffalo near here Sun ay morning. Mrs. J. A. Batton and Mies imma Batton visited relatives t Selma last week. Misses Beatrice Green and Irene mith left Saturday to spend >me time in Raleigh. ? Mr. Silas Lucas, of Wilson, as among us last week in the iterest ofhis company. Mr. Wm. Stancil is spending lis week with his brother, Mr. oses Stancil, of McCullers. Misses Genoa Wall, Ellie Whit y and Ava Wall, of Clayton, isited relatives here Sunday. Miss 1-iesaie Neil Barnes re lrned Friday from a visit to ilatives in Selma and Smithfield. Several of our people attended le Primitive Baptist Associa on in Wake county last week. Mr. aud Mrs. Thos. Newton iturned Saturday from an ex uded visit to relatives in ranklin county. Messrs. O. G. Barnes and W. Bissett attended the baptizing 1 Lee's Chapel Sunday and re >rt 24 candidates baptized by sv. A. A. Pippin as a result of recent revival held there. Mr. J. W. Barnes recently lowed us a school slate that as 9G vears old. The slate was aught by the late Siab Barnes, r., and cost fifty cents. It has le same frame it bad when ought and is used each succes* ve vear by Mr Barnes at his In. Mr. Barnes intends keeping as a relic of autiijuity. Sept. 2?th. 8. L. W