2l)f Jirralft. ^.ck oni dollar peb teab. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." bihou corn ticim VOL. 27. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. MARCH 20, 1908. NO. 2 State News. H. R. Miller, a salooukeeper of Salisbury, has none into bank ruptcy. Business must be fall ing off. * A convict who tried to escape from the Wilson couutv chain gang Saturday wan shot and killed by a guard. Walter Page, editor of the World's Work, of New York, will deliver the literary address at Trinity College on .1 uue 10. It is stated that Senator Bai ley, of Texas, will be one of the speakers at the annual banquet of the Manufacturers' club at High Point next month. Rev. W. McC. White, now pas tor of the Second Presbyterian church of Petersburg, Ya , has accepted the call to the pastorate of the First Presbyterian church of Raleigh. Mr. T. B. Parker, of the State llepartmeutof Agriculture, widely known as a practical and euc-| cessful farmer and a working Democrat, is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Com missioner of Agriculture. Mr. Eugene C. Beddingfield has announced that he will not be a caudidate for corporation com missioner, a position he now holds, at the next State conven tion. lu all he has served in this capacity more than 1:2 years. Mr. Olipbaut Whicker died Tuesday at his home at Kerners ville, aged 8'.) jears and six months He had always enjoyed good health and uutil a week be fore his death had never had the services of a physician. Death, resulted from the infirmities of old age. The Commercial and Farmers bank of Raleigh of which B. S. Jerman is president and Herbert \V. Jackson cashier, has become the Commercial National bank, with a cash capital of $100,000 and a surplus of the same amount. The bank is 17 years old and has been very successful. This gives Raleigh two national banks the other being the Citi zens. Prof. M. 11. Dry, of Wingate, has been elected principal of the Cary Public High school, to suc ceed E. L. Middleton, who re signs to become corresponding secretary of the North Carolina \; Baptist Sunday Suchool Board, succeeding Rev. HightC. Moore, niow editor of the Biblical Recor der. There were eleven applicants for the Cary principalship, these coining from teachers in this State, Virginia, Alabama and Loiiisiana. l)rk William W. Hamilton, gen eral evangelist for the Southern Baptist Convention, is conduct ing a. highly successful revival meeting at Raleigh Tabernacle Baptist Church. With him are Mr. and Mrs. A. D George, of Indiana, who are in charge of the singing. Immense crowds are attending the services and the interest is very marked. I)r. Hamilton is to be succeeded within a week by Dr. A.C. Dixon, of Chicago, who will go to Raleigh from Atlanta where he is now taking part in a Bible Confer ence. Mr. A. L. Brooks, who consi ders his nomination as the Dem ocratic candidate for Congress in this district as practically as sured, has written Governor Glenn a letter tenderiug his re signation as solicitor of the ninth judicial district, the same to become effective June 30th, at the close of the spring term of court. Solicitor Brooks places his resignation in the hands of the Governor this eurlv so that the several gentlemen who aspire to succeed him may have a fair field and in order that his sue oessor mav he nominated by the judicial convention. The Lucky Quarter. Is the one you pay out for a box of Dr King's New Life Pills. They briny you the health that's more Precious th ? u jewels. Try them for headache, biliousness, constipation an i malarn . 1 they disappoint you the pric will hr? che- rfnllv ?"'und?d r<1 J'ood Br..s <1 - u Clayton News. Mi88 Swannanoa Home spent Sunday here with her parents. Liberty Cotton Mills will soon be at work. Things are begin ning to assume busiiiess-like pro portions. We are glad to note that our friend Mr. Henry Austin, who for some time has be?u suffering with a t hroat trouble at school! at the I'niversity, is improving. Mr. Coy Smith is at home from King's Business College, confined and quarantined with a good case of measles. Hope Coy w ill soon be straight again. The Home Building and Loan Association is getting things in proper shape and will evidently be able to begiu active business operation by the first Saturday in April. We note with pleasure the con tinued growth of the attendance at Clayton High School. Six new pupils enrolled this week and the faculty hopes and has reason to expect more next week. Dr. H. W. Sears lectured at the Academy last night under the auspices of the Lyceum Co. of this town. Dr. Sears' lecture was one of the finest we have ever had here and all through i: there were grand and greit truths which are sure to do us all good ilis subject, was an ex tra-ordinary one, "More Taffy and Less Epitapby" and unless I we are a poor judge his lecture coutaiued the substance the sub ject suggests. L Some real estate transactions have been negotiated and from the number of inquiries for suit able building lots, we are forced to the conclusion that the Home Building and Loan Association is getting in good work even be fore it really begins to work in earnest. Next week we are going to have an advertisement in The Herald, Johnston County's j grand old advertising agent, i setting forth the worth of the as i sociation to this county. We are glad to note the pro motion of one of our former townsmen and one who still in our minds is a Clayton bov, Mr John A. Robertson. Mr. Robert son was for live years with the S. C. Pool Shoe Store as book keeper, later he was cashier of the Bank of Dover for about a year, then with the Blades Lum ber Co , at Newberne for some time, and recently was elected to the responsible position of treas urer of the Dixie Fire Insurance Co., and The North State Fire Insurance Co., both of Greens boro. We rejoice with Mr. Robertson in tiis promotion in business life and feel that every honor bestowed on him is fully merited. We know John A. Robertson and therefore appre ciate his woith. It's a strikiug peculiarity and a verv encourag ing one, that every Clayton boy who has struck out in the world for himself, has attained ad van cement[in big degrees. We are justly proud of Clayton's boys. f eliu. ! Clayton, March 18 For Herald Readers. Since nobody knows when, people have suffered from indi gestion, sick headache, bloating, dizzy spells, distress after eat ing, sleeplessness and the many other symptoms of stomach troubles and have found the usu al remedies powerless. Here is a chance for The Herald readers who may suffer with weak stom ach to test without risk of loss 1 the new prescription, called Mi ; o-na, for indigestion that has met with great success wherever 'it has been tried This treatment whicfj strengthens the whole di ! gestive system so that the . stomach does its worx without any distress, is sold by Hood i Bros, under a gusrart.ee to re i fund the money if the remedy docs not do all that is claimed I for it Mi o ua costs but 50 cents I a box. and one box wili do more i real good than a dozen boxes of |'he ordiuary digestive tablets whie i h eak"r th ne is much in rlemaad as an educa ? i ?? y General News. Great damage has been caused iu th Pacific Northwest by heavy i raius and floods. Several boomers for ''residen tial candidates have already opened headquarters at Den ; ver. Former President Cleveland celebrated his seventy-first, birth da.v at Lakewood, N. I , Wednes day. TJiree tueu were killed and six injured, one fatally, by the blow ing up of a powder mill in Indi ana, Wednesday. An alleged forger arrested iu Paris is said to tiave confessed to I a plot to swindle a New York ; banking tirm of $240,000. A father .and two sons were blown to pieces by exploding dy namite uear (ireeusburg, Pa., Wednesday. On May 8, Hear Admiral Fvans will b ? relieved of the command of the Atlantic battleship tieet, to he succeeded by Admiral Charles 8. Speiry. Six hundred children were on Wednesday inarched out of a New York kindergarten whicti was on fire without knowing why I they were being dismissed. Three men were killed at In j diauapolis, Ind., Tuesday after noon by the falling of a heavy i Hteel beam t hat was being placed i in position for railroad track ele vation The men were in the em ploy the Kelly Atkinson Con struction Company of Chicago. Tuesday night United States Senator VVhyte died at his home in Baltimore, Vld. lie was the last survivor of Senators who voted against the Fifteenth amendment to the United States constitution. He served one j term as Governor of Maryland, He was appointed to succeed the } late Senator Gorman. He was J in his 84th year. A. B White, the negro princi pal of Gregg avenue colored public school at Roanoke, Ya., was shot and fatally wounded by Thomas C. Cooper, also col ored in a pistol duel fought on the school grouuds Tuesday. Cooper alleges that White had insultingly criticised Cooper's sister who is a teacher in the school. Cooper is in jail. It has been learned that Rus sell Riley, artist and literatauer, who died at St Louis Monday, was Assistant Secretary of the Confederate Navy during the Civil War. He was at one time an associate of Robert E. Lee, who is said to have given him one of his swords at the end of the war. He is also credited with several paintings showing marked skill. William Grueger, 21 years of age, opened fire upon a crowd of men and women in a restaurant at Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday night and instatly killed Edward Draudt, forty years old, severely wounded .1 ames Barr, and then attempted to commit suicide. After the shooting the young man went to the sidewalk aud there turned the revolver against his own head and fired. It is be lieved Krueger will die. Catarrah a Germ Disease. Catarrah is not a blocd disease but is caused by germs that lodge and grow in the air passages, causing irritation with poisonous and offensivemucous discharges. It is an insidious disease of most' destructive tendency. Its ap proaches are unalarming, and1 its victims are well on the road to a chronic state or to dread consumption before they realize ihoir danger. "Stomach dosing is ineffective in the treatment of ! catarrh. The only healing agent is Hyomel, which is inhaled with the air you breathe, killing ali catarrhal germs and driving them from th? system. The! sooner you use llyotnei the soon er you will be free of catarrh. Hood I?ros. will sell you a- dollar ; outfit with the understanding! that if it does not give eatisiae tioo your montv will b s refund P() Benson Notes. Miss Ireue Baker, of Four Oaks, was iu towu Saturday and Sun day. Let everybody remember the j 'Deestrick Skule'at the'Academy Friday night. Mrs. I.ydia Weston and Miss Viola Boone, of Fairfield, are visiting Mrs. W. I). Boone. Hev. l\ 1). Wood all, of Ual eigh, spent Tuesday night here with his brothers, W. C. and .1. F. Woodall. There was an interesting game of baseball here Friday after noon when the Benson and Dunn boys crossed bats. The score was 8 to 7 in favor of Benson. Mr Willis Johnson, of Smith field. and Miss bucy Canoday, of Flevation, were married at the j home of ('onetoe Canoday, sou of the bride, on Wednesday, March 11. A horse belonging to W. It Denning ran down Main street Sunday morning while hitched to the buggy, badly damaging one of his legs uml demolishing the buggy. Garfield Smith and Geo. Cang ston, colored, wer? before Mayor Britt last Wednesday on the j charge of blindtigering. They were held for the Superior court under if 100.00 bond each. There was prayer-meeting at the Haptist Church Wednesday night. Prof. Cullom and daughters, of Raleigh, were pres ent and rendered souie very beau tiful selections, which were great ly enjoyed by all present. The Benson Drug Co. have re cently installed a $1,700 soda fountain iu their store and are now prepared to serve the thirs ty public from one of the nicest and most up-todatefouutaius in ] this section of the State. The Benson school under the management of Prof. Itoyall has had the most prosperous year of its history. More than a dozon teachers are here taking advan tage of the opportunities offered j by the high school and new ones coming daily. Benson is moving ahead iu all directions. Messrs. P. Part and Ashley Grant are erecting dwell j iugs. Mr. A. B. Hudson has just completed a nice residence near the Academy and is soon to be gin work on a brick store buil ding on tbe lot vacated by Mr. J. E. Holmes. The Farmer's Commercial Bank opened here Wednesday morning in tbe old Bank of Ben sou buildiug with a paid in cap ital stock of $10,000.00. Phis is a strong institution and will have tbe support of all the people of this section. The offi cers are: President, .Jno. O. El lington; Vice president, Wade H. Roy all; Cashier, M. T. Britt. | Phe Directors are: W. I). Boone, , P. B. Johnson, C. T. Johnson, Ben. J. Mathews, Wade H. Roy al, J. H. Rose, J. C. Stancil and Preston Woodall of Benson, J. F. L. Armfleld of Fayettevile, and E. T. Britt of Newton Grove. Reporter. March 19, '08. Dividends for J. D. Rockefeller. New York, March 14.?Out of a total of $14,750,000 paid out in dividends by the Standard (hi Company today at the rate of $15 a share, John I). Rockefeller, who owns 25 per cent of the stock, received $3,750,000, bring ing up the total of his returns from Standard Oil stock for the past six months to $0,250,000. I'he total paid out in dividends by the company during the last six months is approximately $25,000,000. Fifteen men owu | 00 per cent of the stock and in I the last ten years have recived in cash dividends $380,000,000. j Of this John I) Rockefeller re-1 ceivcd $1.1.7,000,000. The profits of the coinpaoj j since 1882 amount upproxim b*.civ $000,000,000, of which $07^000,000 has b en paid in OipRmii The net, fa.Tiinps of the company for the la it six i vears are estimated at uver $455,000,000. Kenly Items. We are sorry to hear that Kev. A. L. Oruiond is sick with mumps. Mrs. A. J. Smith, ofGibsonville is visiting her father Hon. C. W. Kdgerton. Mrs. Pearl Anderson, of Wil son visited her mother Saturday and Sunday. Mrs. John G. High's sister, Mrs. Mullock, of Wilson, visited j here Sunday. In our town you will find the string to the door latch on the out side to every one advocating I prohibition. We are sorry to report that Mr. I*. B. Sasser, had the misfor tuue to lose a tine mule today in a peculiar way. The mule was taken out and started home from ! the day's work when be stepped on a piece of feuce rail in the edge of the street about four feet long with his front foot and caused one end to fly up striking underneath near bis tlauks and piercing about four or five inches causing him to bleed to death in about thirty minutes. Kevs. E. VV. Souders, of Fay eteville, and It F. Pittman, of Aydeu, filled their regular ap pointments Sunday morning. Sunday night there was a Union Temperance meeting of all the churches held in the Free Will baptist church, conducted by Itev. J. II Shore, of Smithfleld. The best comment we know to make on Mr. Shore's address is that we no not think it could hardly have been surpassed. The large church was filled to its ca pacity and every body was held spell-bound during the entire ser I vice. His argument was strong ' and convincing, softened with ! love for the man that stands up against prohibition. Kenly, Mar. 18. Max. Death of Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Sponcer Mrs. Cornelia Phillips Spencer died March 11th at her home at Cambridge, Mass., in her 83rd year. Her father was James Phillips, an Englishman, who for more than forty years tilled the chair of mathematics in the North Caroliua University. Her mother was Judith Vermeule, of Harlem, N. Y , member of an old Dutch family. She was a highly intellectual, thoroughly cultivat ed and most efficient womuu. Her brother, Itev. Dr. Charles Phillips, was for nearly half a century professor of applied mathematics iu the University. He was also for a time a member of the faculty of Davidson Col lego. Her other brother, Samuel Feild Phillips, ranked among the foremost lawyers and public men of the State. He was solicitor general of the United States un der three administrations. Mrs. Spencer resided at the University for many years uud was for a long time the govern ing spirit there. She was a very stroug woman intellectually, wrote much and in many ways made her impress on the intel lectual life of the State. Since 181)4 she had made her home in Cambridge with her daughter-Statesville Landmark. Truck Farming In Burke. Mr. John I.. Houk says that froru three acres in tomatoes last year he realized $75, or $25 per acre, and that this year he will put out four or five acres in tomatoes. The same land in wheat | yielded on an average of ten I bushels to the acre. Mr. I). YV. YVhisenhant had two acres in to matoes last year and made more money from them than any other crop on the same land. \lr. John Scott, of Irish creek, realized $50 from oue acre in to matoes and beans, and has three bushels of dried beans left. The bulk of these products was sold to the Catawba Y'alley Canning Compauv, in ^lorganton, who buy all the tomatoes, beans, etc., our f irmers will raise.?Morgnn t >u Herald. For an evening of fun and mu sic go to the Opera House to j night and witness "Next Door."