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to whin? of Ameri They Erica, remember Ino' you across tfceinig ington slothfully leC it |die! Li>y tjhe G^dywe honor j I Whom alone ' e did not die for Freec^m: tpen, to let her ?roAarm, arisjt, America F Putlby the craven {L^omlp, we come to the tojoraf We /come, invincible djead! // ?== osts toldeathless pj xso Who t^ugfj^ cow And fling HAG] VILIGANTEJ* manhood gone? nd Tun, who taught jpeace with quaking hard-won liberties? America, America^wherK is\your glc^-y fled? What ot the -dreflmSjjiihat^of the deeds, what of the noble' dead? What bl the swords that flashed^or you, what of the tongues thatspokej What/ Of the hearts jthat heaits that broke? \u, what of the dead! will not be sword once more! is on your shore I are. in the air? call of ^Adams, ;nDt made to. e\and gutter \tour light on we bow! perish nowl dread! 'the the old, om the flame! and Arm,j ^rm,\atis?, Amcric^T An e$a6?\ words andxba Jha Ha/k, he >w/ the old heroic _ 1, invN . ? cowards, perish! But if you are men, then Not Afraid to Die It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country. ? Horace. It is related that a private in the army of the Potomac was sentenced 1<F ue BUUl 1UI sleeping at hts post of duty. In some way woM of the approaching execution came to the attention of President Lincoln, and after writing out a reprieve he called his car riage and started out to see that the reprieve did not fail to reach the p"*or condemned soldier. It was a broiling hot day and the ride to camp was a long one of ten miles, but the great-hearted Lincoln was bent: on sav ing the poor soldier and he went for ward. Perhaps the president later for got the Incident amid weightier cares of state, but not so the soldier. When the Third Vermont charged upon the rifle pits before Yorktown the follow ing year the enemy poured a volley upon them. The first man to fall was William Scott of Company K, with six. bullets through his body. Ills com rades caught him as he fell and as his life blood ebbed away, he raised to heaven amid the din of battle, the cries of the dying and the shouts of the enemy, a prayer fnt the president, and as he died he remarked to his com rades that Lincoln had showed he was no coward and was not afraid to die. At the burial later the chaplain nar rated the circumstances to the boys who stood about with uncovered heads. He had prayed for the presi dent and paid him a most fervid and glowing tribute with his dying breath. * + * + + One country, one constitution, one destiny. We cannot honor our country with too deep a reverence; we cannot love her with an affcction too pure and fervent; we cannot serve her with an energy of purpose or a faith fullness of zea! too steadfast ?nd ardent. ? Grimke. SAIL ON, 0 SHIP OF STATE ? o ? Sail on, O ship of state; Sail on, O Union, strong and great. Humanity, with all its fears. With all Its hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate. Sail on, nor far to breast the sea. Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee; Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears. Are all with thee, are all with thee. H. W. Longfellow. A WORTHY CITIZENSHIP ? o ? It Is the Hope of the Nation ? Her Welfare Is Our First Concern. A great nation is made only by worthy citizens. ? C. D. Warner. ? ? ? National enthusiasm is the great nursery of genius. ? Tuckerman. ? ? ? Our country's welfare is our first concern, and who promotes that best, best proves his duty. ? Harvard. ? ? ? When'er our country calls, friends, sons and sires should yield their treas ures up, nor own a sense beyond the public safety. ? Brooks. * * * ? * FOLLOW THE FLAG. * * m ? ? * I T is the right of the American * + people to enjoy a monopoly * * for their own flag within their * * own jurisdiction ; it is the right, J * and should be the duty, of those *? ? who follow other flags to follow ? * them elsewhere. ? The Century * * Magazine. ? * * RED-TAILED HAWK (Buteo bor calls) Length, about two feet. One of our largest hawks; adults with tail red dish brown. Range: Breeds in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Canada and Alaska; winters generally in the Unit ed States and south to Guatemala. HUbits and economic status: The red-tailed hawk, or "hen-hawk," as it is commonly called, is one of the best known of all our birds of prey, and is a widely distributed species of great economic importance. Its habit of sit ting on some prominent limb or pole in the open, or flying with measured wing beat over prairies and sparsely wooded areaB on the lookout for its favorite prey, causes it to be noticed by the most indifferent observer. Al though not as omnivorous as the red shouldered hawk, it feeds on a variety of food, as small mammals, snakes, frogs, insects, birds, crawfish, centi pedes, and even carrion. In regions where rattlesnakes abound it destroys considerable numbers of the reptiles. Although it feeds to a certain extent on poultry and birds, it is nevertheless entitled to general protection on ac count of the insistent warfare it wages against field mice and other small ro dents and insects that are so destruc tive to young orchards, nursery stock, and farm produce. Out of 530 stom achs examined, 457, or 85 per cent, contained the remains of mammals, pests such as field mice, pine mice, rabbits, several species of ground squirrels, pocket gophers, and cotton rats, and only 62 contained the re mains of poultry or game birds. NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court. Austin-Stephenson Company, vs. W. Nev/ton Smith, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. The defendant, W. Newton Smith, above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has fyeen commenced in the Superior Court of Johnston County, to obtain judgment against said defendant for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the false and fraudulent warran ty by said defendant of the grade and analysis of certain cotton seed meal sold to the plaintiff by said de fendant, and to have said judgment declared a specific lien on that cer tain carload of said cotton seed meal, heretofore contained in Car SW-15436, and attached while in the possession of the defendant A. C. L. Railroad Company. And the said defendant, W. New ton Smith, will further take notice that he is required to appear at the term of the Superior Court of said County to be held on the 3rd Monday before the 1st Monday of September, it being the 13th day of August, 1917, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plain tiff will ask for the relief demanded in said complaint. This 12th day of April, 1^)17. W. S. STEVENS, Clerk Superior Court. MORTGAGE SALE OF VALUABLE LAND. By virtue of the authority contain ed in a certain mortgage deed exe cuted to me by Rom Sanders and wife, on March 20th, 1916, as is recorded in Book No. 18, page 81 of the Regis try of Deeds of Johnston County; the terms and conditions of the same hav ing been broken, I will offer for sale at the Court House door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., on Monday, May 14th, 1917, at 12 o'clook M., to the highest bidder for cash, the following described land, to-Wit: Beginning at a stake on the road, thence with the road S. 3 W. 3.27 chains to a stake; thencc S. 87 E. 11 chains to a stake; thence N. 5 W. 2.50 chains to a stake; thence N. 3 E. 1.70 chains to a stake; thence N. 87 W. 10.40 chains to the beginning, contain ing 4% acres, more or less; the same being Lot No. 6 in the division of the lands of Ivory Sanders, deceased. Reference is herewith made to deed from Kader Sanders et als, to Rom Sanders as recorded fn Book "X"', No. 11, page 22, of the Registry of John ston County. Time of sale, Monday, May 14, 1917, at 12:00 M. Ternu, Cash. This April 6th, 1917. PERCY HOLT, Mortgagee. S. S. HOLT, I Attorney for Mortgagee. EI). A. HOLT Dealer in High Grade Coffins, Caskets and Burial Robes, Princeton, - North Carolina NOTICE OF SALE. Under and by virtue of the author ity contained in a certain mortgage deed executed on the 1st day of Jan uary, 1912, by R. A. Allen and wi?e, Polly A. Allen, to the undersigned, which mortgage deed is duly record ed in the Registry of Johnston Coun ty, in Book "1" No. 11, page 247, default having been made in the pay ment of the bonds secured by the same, and the conditions in said deed having been broken, the undersigned will, on Saturday, the 20th day of May, 1917, at twelve o'clock M? at the Court House door in the town of Smith field, North Carolina, offer for sale to the highest bidder, for Cash that certain tract or parcel of land lying and being in Oneals town ship, Johnston County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the Hutchenson Watson lands, and others, and Beginning at a stake, the Hutchen son Watson corner, on the edge of the Watson Mill Pond at high water mark, and runs S. 1 degree W. 95 poles to the run of Buffalo; thence up the run of Buffalo to the mouth of Crooked Branch, the Daniel Ea son corner; thence up the run of said Branch to a stake at the high water mark of said Watson Mill Pond, said stake being placed there as the be ginning of an agreed line between said J. S. Eason and Alph Richard son; thence about S. 20 degrees E. along the line of high water mark 25 poles to a stake; thence about S. 67 degrees E. along said high water mark about (50 poles to the beginning, containing Forty-five (45) acres, more or less (the aforesaid agreed line being the same surveyed and chopped by T. R. Fulghum, County Surveyer). This 21st day of April, 1917. JESSE PARKER, Mortgagee. ABELL & WARD, Attorneys. NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court, Before the Clerk. A. M. Noble, Administrator of Willis Powell, deceased. vs. Bost Joyner Richard Crawford, Puss Merrill or Mercer and Harriett Merrill or Mercer, and all others unknown having interest in the Wil lis Powell, (dec'd.) estate. The defendants, Puss Merrill, or Mercer, and Harriett Merrill, or Mer cer, and all others unknown having interest in the Willis Powell (dec'd.) estate, will take noticc that an ac tion entitled as above has been com menced in the Superior Court of Johnston County before the Clerk, to sell the lands of the administrator's intestate for assets to pay debts; and the defendants Puss Merrill, or Mercer, and Harriett Merrill, or Mer cer, and all others unknown having interest in the Willis Powell (dec'd.) estate, will further take notice that they are required to appear before the Clerk of the Superior Court of Johnston County on the 21st day of May, 1917, and answer the complaint in said action or the plaintiff will ap ply to the Clerk for the relief de manded in said complaint. W. S. STEVENS, Clerk Superior Court. This 19th day of April, 1917. NOTICE. State of North Carolina, Johnston County, Pine Level Township. H. Weil & Bros. vs. J. L. Creech. The defendant above named will take notice that a summons in the above entitled action was issued against said defendant on the 20th day of April, 1917, by W. F. Gerald, a Justice of the Peace of Johnston County, North Carolina, for the sum of $29.50 (twenty-nine dollars and fifty cents) due said plaintiff by ac count which summons is returnable before said Justice at his office in Pine Level in said County and in Pine Level township, on the 26th of May, 1917. when and uhere the de fendant is required to appear and answer or demur to the complaint or the relief demanded will be granted. This May 20th, 1917. W. F. GERALD, J. P. NOTICE. ' The undersigned having qualified as Administrator on the estate of C. B. Sanders, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 24th day of April, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said es tate will make immediate payment. This 20th day of April, 1917. LEON G. STEVENS, Administrator. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Executor on the estate of Nancy L. Richardson, deceased, hereby noti fies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 17th day of April, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persns indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 16th day of April, 1917. ROGER F. RICHARDSON, Executor. ABELL & WARD, Attorneys. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administrator on the estate of Martha H. Massey, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 24th day of March, 1918, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment. This 54th day of March, 1917. E. W. M \SSEY, Administrator. M-27-ev. Tues. NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court. Austin-Stephenson Company vs. W. Newton Smith, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. The defendant, W. Newton Smith, above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Johnston County, to obtain judgment against stid defendant for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the false and fraudulent warranty by said defendant of the grade and analysis of certain cotton seed meal sold to the plaintiff by said defend ant, and to have said judgment de clared a specific lien on that certain carload or said cotton seed meal, heretofore contained in Car STLSW 50365, and attached while in the pos session of the defendant A. C. L. Railroad Company. And the said defendant, W. New ton Smith, will further take notice that he is required to appear at the term of the Superior Court of said County tc be held on the lird Monday before the 1st Monday of September, it being the l.'lth day of August, 1917, and answer or demur to the com plaint in said action, or the plantiff will ask for the relief demanded in said complaint. This 12th day of April, 1917. W. S. STEVENS, Clerk Superior Court. AN ORDINANCE AL*f HOhlZING THE ISSUANCE OF $50,000 IMPROVEMENT RONDS RONDS OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD. Whereas, in pursuance of the pro visions of Chapter 56 of the Public Laws of 1915, entitled "An act relat ing to local improvements in munic ipalities," the Roard of Aldermen of the town of Smithfield, N. C., has, up on petitions made as provided in said act, determined to make the local im provements hereinafter described, *nd to assess a portion of the cost of said improvements upon property benefited thereby as provik 'd in said act, which assessments shall be pay able in ten equal annual installments; and Whereas, in the judgment of the Roard of Aldermen the cost of said local improvements will be $50,000, of which $26,600.67 will be assessed as aforesaid, and the remainder will be borne by the city at large, and it is necessary to finance said local im provements by issuing bonds of the town of Smithfield: Now, therefore, the Roard of Al dermen of the town of Smithfield do ordain as follows: Section 1. Negotiable bonds of the town of Smithfield, to be known as Street Improvement Ronds, shall be issued pursuant to The Municipal Finance Act, 1917, to pay for the constructing or reconstructing of the surface of the following named streets and highways in the town of Smithfield, such surface to be of sheet asphalt, bitulithic or bitumin ous concrete, laid on a solid founda tion, and for the constructing at the same time of sidewalks, curbs, gut ters, and drains on such streets and highways, viz: nr 1 ^ d A X rr 1. : ? ,1 CU , iwarKei oireei, inuu om-ii, oct pal amount of the issue of Street Section 2. The maximum princi pal amount of the issue of Ssreet Improvement Bonds nereby author ized shall be $50,000, of which not ex ceeding $26,66(5.67 of bonds shall be for the purpose of paying the por tion of the cost of said improvements that is to be assessed upon property benefitted thereby, and not exceed ing $23,333.33 of bonds shall be for the purpose of paying the remainder of said cost. The maximum rate of interest which said bonds shall bear, shall be six per centum per annum. The maximum period within which they shall mature shall be fifteen years. Section 3. The following matters are hereby determined and declared pursuant to sections 17 and 18 of The Municipal Finance Act, 1917: (1) The probable period at the end of which the last installment of said assessments (in anticipation of which not exceeding $26,666.67 of said bonds are to be issued) will have been in arrears for two years is 12 years. The probable period of useful ness of said improvements (for the town's share of the cost of which not exceeding $23,333.33 of said bonds are to be issued) is 20 years. The average of said period, (they being the periods that would be stat ed herein pursuant to The Municipal Finance Act, 1917, if a separate or dinance were passed for the bonds for each of said purposes), taking into consideration the amount of bonds applicable to each purpose or item, and the period stated in this section in respect of that item, is 15 years. (2) A tax sufficient to pay the prin cipal and intarest of said bonds shall be annually levied and collected. (3) A statement of the debt of the town of Smithfield has been filed with the Clerk, pursuant to the Municipal Finance Act, 1917, and is open to public inspection. (4) The average assessed valua tion of property subject to taxation by the town of Smithfield for the three fiscal years in which taxes were last levied, as shown by said statement, is $1,045,568. (5) The amount of the net debt of the town of Smithfield, outstanding, authorized or to be authorized, as shown by said statement is $62, 466.29. * Section 4. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and shall not be submitted to the voters of the city, the bonds hereby authorized be ing exclusively for improvement of which at least one-fourth of the cost is to be assessed upon abutting prop erty or properties benefited and said cost being a necessary expense of the said town of Smithfield. The foregoing ordinance was pass ed on the 19th day of April, 1917, was first published on the 24th day of April, 1917. Anv action or proceeding question ing toe validity of said ordinance must be commenced within thirty days after its publication. N. M. LAWRENCE, Clerk. r AUCi OEi T bil NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court. Austin-Stephenson Company, vs. W. Newton Smith, and Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company. Tho defendant, W. Newton Smith, above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Johnston County, to obtain judgment against said defendant for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars damages sustained by the plantiff by reason of the false and fraudulent warranty by said defendant of the grade and an alysis of certain cotton seed meal sold to the plaintiff by said defendant, and to have judgment declared a spe cific lien on that certain carload of said cotton seed meal, heretofore contained in Car L&N-6695, and at tached while in the possession of the defendant A. C. L. Railroad Co. And the said defendant, VV. Newton Smith, will further take notice fhat he is required to appear at the term of the Superior Court of said County to be held on the 3rd Monday before the 1st Monday of September, it be ing the 13th day of August, 1917, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiff will ask for the relief demanded in said com plaint. This 12th day of April. 1917. W. S. STEVENS, Clerk Superior Court. NOTICE OF RE-SALE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court, April Term, 1917. J. J. Godwin vs. J. T. Colyer and wife, Eula M. Colyer. Under and by virtue of authority of a decree of the Superior Court in the above entitled cause the under signed commissioner will offer for sale, for cash, to the highest bidder at the Court House door in the town of Smithfield on Monday, May 7th, 1917, at 12 o'clock M., the following described property, situate and being in Oneals township, Johnston County, and being all of lots Nos. 3, 4 and 5 as 1s shown in the partition of the lands of Elwood Colyer, deceased, to his heirs at law containing 84 acres, and more particularly described as follows: LOT NO. 3: Beginning at a stake in Worley Creech's line and runs with said line S. 39 Mi E. 27 poles to a persimmon tree; thence South 70 W. 174 poles to two hickories on the bank of Little River; thence up the run of said river to a hickory corner of Lot No. 2 in the division of the lands of Elwood Colyer, deceased; thence with said line N. 70 E. 169 4-5 poles to the beginning, containing 28 acres. LOTS NOS. 1 AND 5: Beginning at a hickory on the bank of Little River corner of Lot No. 3, and runs with said line N. 70 E. 174 poles to a stake in Worley Creech's line thence wivi said line to the run of ic Bra) oh; thence up the run of said m .mil o u stake, Morris Godwin's comer; thence with an old ditch and a line of mark ed trees to a hickory on Little River; thence up the run of said river to the beginning, containing 56 acres. The above described lands were of fered for sale at the Court House in Smithfield on Monday, April 9th, 1917, and were bid off for the sum of $955.00. Said purchase price has been raised according to law by a deposit of $95.50 having been made with the Commissioner and at the said re-sale the bidding will begin with $1010.50 and the lands will go to the highest bidder. This April 21, 1917. E. J. WELLONS, Commissioner. WELLONS & WELLONS, Attorneys. NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court. Austin-Stephenson Company, vs. W. Newton Smith, and First National Hank of Smithfield. Th ? defendant, W. Newton Smith, abov6 named will take notice that an action entitled as abovt; has been commenced in the Superior Court of Johnston County, to obtain judgment against said defendant for the sum of Three Thousand Dollars damages sustained by the plaintiff by reason of the false and fraudulent warran ty by said defendant of the grade and analysis of certain cotton seed meal sold to the plaintiff by said de fendant, and to have said judgment declared a specific lien on that cer tain check for $680.00, or the pro ceeds of the same, heretofore issued by the plaintiff and attached while in the possession of the defendant, First National Bank of Smithfield. And the said defendant, W. New ton Smith, will further take notice that he is required to appear at the term of the Superior Court of said County to be held on the 3rd Mon day before the 1st Monday of Sep tember, it being the 13th day of Au gust, 1917, and answer or demur to the complaint in said action, or the plaintiff will ask for the relief de manded in this complaint. This 12th day of April, 1917. W. S. STEVENS, Clerk Superior Court. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administrator on the estate of Eveline Creech, deceased, hereby no tifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 27th day of March, 1918 or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said es tate will make immediate payment. This 27th day of March, 1917. A. S. CREECH, Administrator.