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THE SMITHFIELD HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. WATCH YOUR LABEL. No receipt will be sent for sub scription. Each subscriber is asked to watch the little yellow label on his paper. If the label is not changed within three weeks after remittance is made, the subscriber should notify us. Watch your label. NOTE. ? All correspondents should remember that we pay no attention to communications without the writer's Dame. If you write every day be ?ure to enclose your name each time. Address all matters for publication to The Smithfield Herald, Smithfield, N. C. TOWN AND COUNTY TOPICS. Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Holt were in town Thursday for a few hours. ? ? * Mr. G. I. Pierce made a business trip to Raleigh Thursday afternoon. ? ? ? Miss A*a Myatt and Mrs. E. F. Ward spent Wednesday in Raleigh. ? ? ? Read and sing "The Star Spangled Banner" on page three, and grow pa triotic. * * * Mr. J. A. Daughtry, of the Wayne Agricultural Works, Goldsboro, N. C., was here this week. * * * Mr. 0. L. Rogers, who has been principal of the Myatt school this term, is in town today. ? ? m Rev. H. F. Brinson is spending a few days with his home people at Currie, Pender County. ? ? ? Miss Annie Ihrie Pou has return ed from Winston-Salem where she spent Easter with friends. ? ? ? Mr. Wm. Gray, of the Bingham School, at Mebane, N. C., was in town yesterday on business. * * ? Mrs. T. L. Ginn, of Goldsboro, was with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Stevens a few days this week. ? ? ? Dr. R. J. Noble, United States Commissioner, of Selma, was in town for a short while Wednesday. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Faison Pearce, of Warsaw, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sanders Thursday night. * * * About a week ago a thief stole from Mr. W. A. Moore, living on the land of Mr. N. G. Rand, near here, nine pieces of meat. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. Scott Green, of Ral eigh, spent several days here this week with Mrs. Green's parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Sanders. *? ? ? Mr. A. W. Overbee, of Pine Level, Route No. 1, was in town yesterday and callcd at The Herald Office and renewed for another year. ? ? ? J. Rufus Jones, who has been want ed by th? United States Government, was brought here Tuesday night by Mr. B. L. Jones and lodged in jail. ? ? ? Some of the young men of the town are arranging to give a minstrel for the benefit of the High School base ball team next Friday evening, April 27th. * * * Mr. M. F. Sanders and son, Mr. Charley Sanders, and daughter, Miss Lillie of Rocky Mount, were here Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mr. Claude B. Sanders. ? ? * Miss Erma Stevens, who is teach ing in the Roxboro High School, was here Tuesday and Wednesday, hav ing been called home on account of the death of her uncle, Mr. C. B. Sanders. * ? * Mr. Lacy John, County Farm Dem onstrator; Miss Nell Pickens, Home Demonstrator, and Miss Elizabeth Kelly, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, went to Raleigh on depart mental business. * * * Mrs. Z. M. McClary, of New York, representing the Community Chatau qua, was here Wednesday making plans and arrangements for the com ing Chatauqua Week which will be some time in June. m m m Among the relatives from a dis tance who were in the city Wednes day to attend the burial of Mr. C. B. Sanders, we note the following: Mrs. Annie Faison, of Faison; Mrs. H. F. Edgerton, of Kenly; Mrs. Millard Sanders, of Rocky Mount. ? ? ? We arc printing elsewhere in this paper a program of a Sunday School Convention to be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 28, and 29, at Pisga'n Baptist church. This church is four and three-quarter miles west from Smithfield. This is considered a meeting of much importance to all who are interested. Mr. Hubert Barbour and sisters, Misses Bessie and Effie, accompanied by Mr. Gyel Harrison and Misses Annie Austin and Retta Branton, of ( Clayton, spent Saturday night here \ the guests of Miss Ava Coats. < ? ? ? Mr. E. S. Sanders, Weather Ob- f server, reports the weather this week as ideal for the young crops. The , highest temperature reached yester- | day was 91. There has been a steady , rising of temperatures all the week. J ? ? ? The County commencement of the town schools will be held here to morrow. Part of the program will be given in the Opera House and part ( in the School Auditorium. See full ] program on last page of this paper. ( ? ? ? The members of St. Paul's Episco pal church of Smithfield have elected j Mr. A. Vermont as delegate and Mr. K. R. Holt as alternate to the Epis copal Convention to be held May 13th 1 at St. Timathy's Church, Wilson, N. C. 1 ? ? ? l Messrs. C. I. Pierce, H. L. Skinner, 1 N. M. Lawrence, Allen Smith, Claude Martin, Paul Brown. Dixon Wallace, ' S. S. Holt, W. H. Austin, J. H. Abell and a number of others went to Ral- ' eigh Wednesday to attend the open- 1 ing baseball game. ? ? ? Miss Emily Eliott, of Linden, who ' has been the guest of Miss Mildred 1 Sanders for several weeks, left Mon- ! day for Raleigh to visit her sister, ' Mrs. London. Miss Mildred Sanders accompanied her to Raleigh and 1 spent the afternoon. * * * We are glad to note the Mr. John Arthur Narron, who is attending the Horner Military School, at Char lotte, N. C., is making a reputation for himself to the extent that his company elected him overwhelming ly to represent them in the declaim ers' Contest at their commence to be held about the last of May. * * ? The members of the Community Chatauqua met in the Red Men's Hall this week and organized for the work of boosting the Chatauqua which will be given here about the second week in June. The members organized by making Mr. F. Hunter Creech president and Mr. E. L. Woodall secretary. A full list of the officers and workers will be given in Tuesday's paper. * ? * The finals of the State-wide de bate will take place at Chapel Hill tonight. The preliminaries were held yesterday with the result that ten af firmative and ten negative teams are to debate this morning to decide which two teams shall be pitted , against each other tonight. We are glad to note that the Benson affirma tive team was one of the winners in yesterday's preliminaries. Meeting at Methodist Church. Services are being held twice dai ly at the Methodist church ? at 10:00 ( A. M. and at 8:00 P. M. Rev. S. A. Cotton, the pastor, is doing the preaching in a strong and forceful ( manner. He is presenting the old time gospel in all its simplicity and appealing to all to live the higher ^ and better life. He is assisted in the ! meeting by Mr. A. J. Parker, who leads the singing. Mr. Parker is a fine young minister whose earnest , and inspiring service of song is aid ing greatly in the meeting. Good . congregations are attending and it is , hoped that much good may result be cause of the faithful preaching of ^ the gospel. The Epworth League holds a prayer service each evening ' at 7:45. Farmers Meeting Tuesday. The farmers and business men of j Johnston County are to have a food conservation meeting here next Tues day in the Court House, at one 1 o'clock, during the noon reccss of court. Every farmer, banker, mer chant r.nd citizens generally are urg ed to attend and take part in the meeting. Mr. J. Paul Lucas, of Char- j lotte, will be here to address the r meeting. Services at the Primitive Church. We are requested to announce that Elder W. A. Simpkins, of Raleigh, will preach at the Smithficld Prim itive Baptist church next Sunday morning, April 22, at 11 o'clock. A good attendance is desired. Death of A Good Woman. Mrs. Alice Stanley died in Ingrams township on April 16, after a long illness of dropsy and cancer. She was fifty-two years old. She leaves a hus band, mother and seven children. She has been a member of the Free Will Baptist church for several years. W. J. S. The April term of court for the trial of civil cases only will open here next Monday for a two weeks' sitting. Judge Albert L. Cox will pre side. GHOST ELLIOTTS DIPLOMA. When a small boy, I heanl a good leal about Ghost Elliott, the educa tor. He was well known in the east ern and southern parts of Johnston County and in other counties before *nd for while after the Civil War. Recently I was at Faison, N. C., where he was formerly well known, having taught there for several years. Mrs. R. B. Soulherland, who runs the Witherington Hotel at Fai jon, showed me Mr. Elliott's diploma. He was her great uncle and this di-' ploma has fallen into her hands. He was born, I think, in Sampson County near Smith's Chapel Method ist church and very near where the rounties of Sampson, Duplin and Wayne join. There he owned a large plantation and several slaves. He was t>orn in 1800 and graduated at Chapel Hill one hundred years ago this spring. This made him only seven teen years old when he graduated. L)n his diploma are the names of the irraduating class, twenty-four in number, among whom was James K. Polk, who afterwards became Presi dent of the United States. When Mr. Polk was President he :ame to Chapel Hill to make a speech und was met there by Ghost Elliott who had walked from his home in Sampson to Chapel Hill to see his ild class-mate and hear him speak. It s said he walked across the Univer sity campus and taking the Presi dent by the hand greeted him as 'Jeems," an old way of calling the name James. ; Mr. Elliott was a great waiKer anu would sometimes take the boys he was teaching and walk to Goldsboro or Raleigh with them. He wore no socks. He considered bathing very important and would take a cold bath every day either with water from a tub or by going into a creek or river, and usually went to a stream of water. Part of his life he conducted a farm life school at his home and there had a swimming pool for the boys which he dug out for the pur pose. He was a close student and be came a great scholar. His last teach ing in Johnston was at the home of Col. John Sanders in Ingrams town ship. It was there that Ex-Sheriff C. S. Powell studied surveying under him. It was there Judge W. S. Ste vens and Rev. Robert Strickland were among his pupils. Mr. Lovett El dridge who died near Smithfield a few years ago, went to school to Mr. Elliott, but I am not sure where he was then teaching. It seems he taught mainly for the love of teach ing and not because he had to teach. His real name was John Elliott, but he had a light complexion and light hair and it is said at college one of his class-mates went to his room late one night where he was studying by a dim light and said that he looked like a ghost in his room. From that time he was called Ghost Elliott. He died in the home of Dr. Best, of Greene County, and was buried there. Eighteen years ago a friend looked up his grave and placed a tombstone to it. It seems he never made any pro fession of religion. In fact he was skeptical and some of his old students imbibed his skeptical ideas. It is said that once when the great Dr. Charles Deems who afterward went to New Vork and established the "Church of the Strangers" was holding a meet ing at Smith's Chapel church r.?ar Mr. Elliott's home, he arose in the ;ongregation and acknowledged that ;here must be something in religion is he had never found anything en :irely satisfying without it. But that was as far as he went. He did not uake a profession or join any church, tt is said that a few hours before his ieath he made one prayer as fol ows: "O God, if there be a God, have nercy on my soul, if I have a soul." J. M. BEATY. Rand-Tom linson. The announcement in Tuesday's flerald of the marriage of Miss Mary romlinson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. H. B. Tomlinson, of Woodsdale Farm, a few miles west of town, to VIr. Parker Rand, of Whits Oak Farm, came as a surprise to many of ;heir friends. The marriage was ex pected to take place in June, but ow ng to the fact that Mr. Rand be onged to the Coast Artillery, the late was moved up. The happy young couple went to Raleigh and from there to Atlanta ind other Southern points for a few lays. They will be in Raleigh for iwhile, after their return, until Mr. band's company is called into service. Mr. Rand is a graduate of the A. & E. College and is a young man of ibility and promise. He is a son of VIr. and Mrs. Walter Rand of White )ak Farm. His popular and accom slished young bride is a graduate of Randolph-Macon Woman's College at Lynchburg, Virginia. They are well (nown in this section of the State vhere they h/ive a host of friends a'hose best v ishes follow them on heir journey through life. i * It has been said "The person who has accumulated a Savings Fund has gained far ? more than appears on his bank book. He has developed his character and formed habits j of more value than gold. He will be worth more as a man as well as an investor with ? every year he keeps on Saving." Now if we can be instrumental in helping to form ; this Saving Habit, we will not only be a blessing to them in the coming years, but a ; benefactor to our community. ; ? This Is Our Plan ? ? ? Beginning May 1st, we will issue Coupons with everything bought for Cash at ! ? our Store. Select your son, daughter or any one you may choose whom you would ! like to see open a Savings Account, and when $20 worth of Coupons are accumulated ' you return them to us quarterly ? on July 1st, October 1st, January 1st and March 1st. ' We will deposit 5 per cent for each $20 to the credit of your nominee in the First ? National Bank of Smithfield or The Johnston County Bank & Trust Company, as you -i may select. It is to be understood that the Deposit is to remain at least two years. Of course we hope you will encourage your nominee to add to this Account from time ? to time as much as possible, and by the time your son or daughter is old enough to go to college they will have money enough to pay their own expenses and will have formed a habit that will be a blessing to them all their lives. Each quarter a list of ; the names with their amounts will be published in The Smithfield Herald. * 4 Remember we issue no Coupons but for Cash Purchases. 1 Cotter Hardware Company Smithfield, N. C. Card of Thanks. We wish to return thanks to all for the many acts of kindness and expressions of sympathy and com fort that has been given us during the sickness and death that has oc curred in our family. As night brings out the the stars so has our afflictions brought out the beautiful Christ Spirit in our people. May the Lord richly bless each and every one is our prayer. MR. AND MRS. W. S. STEVENS. News has reached Buenos Aires that a German submarine has sunk an Argentine ship off the European coast. The news created a great sen sation in Buenos Aires and so great wa? the feeling of the population against Germany that two German newspapers in that city closed their offices. NOTICE. I will hold Registration books op en for Smithfield township from April 9th to April 28th, 1917, for the purpose of registering all quali fied voters for the election to be held Tuesday, May 8th, 1917, "For Good Roads" or "Against Good Roads," under State aid. I will be at my office next to W. T. Holland's Garage. New registration is required. D. T. LUNCEFORD, Registrar Smithfield Township. This April 9th, 1917. THE SMITH FIELD MARKET. Cotton 17% to 20 Cotton Seed 90 Wool 15 to 22% Fat Cattle 5 to 6 Eprgs 20 to 25 Fat cattle, dressed 10 to 12 Granulated Su^ar 9 to 10 Com per bushel 1.35 to 1.40 C. R. Sides 21 to 22 F eed Oats 85 to 90 Fresh Pork 12% to 13 Hams, per pound 20 to 22 Lard per pound 20 to 24 Timothy Hay 1.30 to 1.40 Cheese per pound 35 Butter per pound SO to 36 Meal per sack 3.50 to 3.60 Flour per sack 5.50 to 6.00 Coffee per pou;:d 15 to 20 Cotton seed meal 2.25 to 2.30 Cotton need hull* 1.00 Ship Stuff 2.50 Molasses Feed 2.50 Hides, prreen 12% to 15 Sweet potatoes 75 to 80 Stock peas per bushel 2.00 Black-eye pe&a 2.25 Beef pulp 2.40 Soup peas 3.00 Insect Exterminators For Spring House cleaning. Now is the time to begin. We have a big stock of the best the market affords. We also have several remedies for killing Flies. Come to see us. Creech Drug Co. The Good Service Drug Store, Smithfield, N. C. BOOKS AT ONE DOLLAR EACH Boys' Life of Mark Twain. Through the Gates of Pearl. Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington. Just So Stories, by Kipling. American Poets and Their Theology. HERALD BOOKSTORE. A YOUNG MANS CHANCES for a successful business career are increased a hundred fold through the practice of consistently saving a part of that which he earnes ? as he earns it. It is regularity in saving that builds character, cre ates capital and establishes credit. With these three qualities, success is practically as sured in any field. The First National Bank Smithfield, N. C.
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