THE SMITHFIELD HERALD !
Published Every Tuesday and Friday.
BEATY & LASSITER
Editors and Proprietors,
Smith field, N. C.
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Cash in Advance.
One year, $1.50
Kijfht Months, 1.00
Six Months, .75
Three Months, .40
Entered at the Post Office at Smith
field, Johnston County, N. C., as
Second-class Matter.
KEEPING WAR MONEY AT HOME.
The United States is offering for
sale n bond issue of three billion dol
lars, known to the public us the
Liberty Loan. The government is
expecting the people of the country
of nil clusses to subscribe to this loan
and thus furni*h the money for the
war. This money is to come from the
people and then is to be spent, the
most of it right here at home. In
other words the Liberty Bonds will
turn into circulation in this country
almost three billion dollars. Not only
will the Liberty Bond money be spent
here nt home but the principal parts
of the huge sums loaned the Allies
will also be spent at home. War is an
awful thing, but after all, it has some
compensations. The situation in this
country is such that a country already
the richest in the world is now to <
grow even richer yet. If there ever I
was a time in the life of the Ameri- i
can farmer when Prosperty and Fort- !
une smiled in his face that time is i
now. Whut will he make of his great 1
opportunity? It is before him, knock- i
ing at his door, und the farmer who i
is wise will invite him in. And right i
here, let us say, that there are hun- i
dreds of farmers in Johnston County
who are eminently able to buy Liber
ty Bonds. Not only are they able to
invest in these bonds, but it is their i
patriotic duty to do so. It is a good :
investment. It will pay well in divi
dends in more ways than one. It will
be casting your bread on the waters,
and ere many days it will be coming
back in increasing power and oppor
tunity.
The time to buy these bonds is al
most out. June 15th is the last day.
Every bond bought by a farmer or
laboring man adds that much strength
to his government.
PLAN TO PLANT WHEAT.
The time will soon be here to plan
to plant a wheat crop. Every farmer
in Johnston County should plan to
plant at least a small acreage in
wheat, if he has any land available
that can be used for this purpose. A
little land in wheat will mean much
for the peoplo next summer. Plan
and plant wheat.
The Community Chautauqua is a
great get-together institution. It is
an enterprise that brings the best tal
ent of the country in all lines of edu
cational endeavor to our doors. Smith
field is having its first experience in
the Chautauqua this week and the
fine array of talent which has come
to us has already impressed many
wii.h the worth-whileness of the in
stitution. The people of this section
are very conservative and they take
on to new things very slowly. They
have to be shown. But when once
aroused to the importance of the
thing they stand by it nobly. The
time will come when the people of
this section will look forward to the
coming of the Chautauqua. They will
soon learn its great worth and then
they will support it enthusiastically
and gladly.
SERVICE TIIK KEYNOTE.
The people of SmiUificld and com
cumity have had the opportunity this
week of hearing three unusual lect
ures. The first was Riven her? Sat
urday night by former Governor
ShalU-nberger, of Nebraska; his
subject was "The True Patriotism."
The second was given Sunday after
noon by Mr. James S. Knox, of Cleve
land, Ohio; his subject was "Commu
nity Efficiency." The third of these
lecture was given here last night by
Dr. K. L. Williams, who is known as
the "fighting parson of Chicago."
His subject was "The City and the
Soil."
A remarkable thing about these
three great lectures, though coming
from mm in different sections of the
country and from different callings in
life, was the fact that through them
all ran the same keynote, that of ser
vice. One talked on patriotism and,
showed that it was service to one's
fellow-man that made men stand by
their homes and their native land.
Wars come that out of them there
may come a larger and better life
for the peoples. Sacrifice and service
are big words and no man ever climb
ed to the pinnacle where he was able
to take a j-urvey of the world and its
needs that did not get there through
service and sacrifice.
The second talked on building up
the community life and through it 1
the larger nnd more extended life of
the nation. Again comes in the Hpirit
of forgetting self and rendering ser
vice to others. There can he no nation
al service or national loyalty without
community service and loyalty. And
again there never will be any r"al
community service or community loy
alty until there is an individual ser- ,
vice and a personal loyalty. Service
is one great hig word that sets ma- I
jestically on the highest wave of the
sea of community building.
The third man talked about dealing j
with evils and the vices of the city. I
He told of how it took courage and '
r
sacrifice to go up against the powers
>f evil and corrupt politics in the
life of a great city. And through it j
ill again stood out that one hig word,
Service. There is a service to be given
m the home, in the community, and in
the State. It is first of all a personal
service. Then follows the community
service, and the other follows as nat
urally as does the day the night? the |
spirit of service and sacrifice that
makes men go forth into the battle '
for the right, whether it be on the I
battlefields of Europe where the great
Kuns are roaring and the machine
Kuns are mowing men down by the
thousands, or whether it be in the
slum districts of the great city where
men and women and children are suf- (
fering and dying, yea, going into that
which is worse than death; or even in
the quiet country town or village
where there is work to do that calls
forth the best thero is in men. It is
service that counts, and there is no
real service without sacrifice.
WALKING THE RAILROADS.
We arc told that in most foreign
countries they have laws against
walking the railroads. There the laws
are enforced, having both the rail
roads and the people behind them. In
America where so many people feel
that they are at liberty to do as they
please about everything, the laws
against walking on the railroads are
not enforced. In many places the
railroads have up notices: "This is
not a thoroughfare. Keep off," but
these notices have very little effect
and peopK> go on trespassing as if
there was no warning notice given
and no danger either. People walk
over long trestles and long bridges
when they ought to know there is
danger. Hundreds and even thousands
of people are killed in the United
States every year while walking on
the railroads. We recall several who
were killed that way in Johnston dur
ing the past few years. On the rail
roads is a very dangerous place to
walk or to loiter. In many places the
railroads have been sued for damage
for killing people when it was not
their fault. It seems strange that at
certain times the trains can neither
go backward nor forward without
injuring or killing some person who
is trespassing by being on railroad
property.
Buying a Liberty Loan Bond means
two things? a good investment and
patriotism, standing by the country.
TYPHOID FEVER CAMPAIGN.
County fommiMiionrri Make Appro
priation For Vaccination AK*inst
This Disease in Johnston.
At their meeting here last week
the Hoard of County Commissioners
made an appropriation for an anti
typhoid campaign in this county un
der the direction of the County Su
perint indent of Health, Dr. Tliel
Hooka.
This campaign will be put on soon,
announcement of dates being mad.
later. ?
The people are learning to know
that the proper way to improve the
health of the country is to adopt
methods of disease prevention. The
result of vaccination against typhoid
fever have justified the strongest
claims made by the advocates of the
work, and now all are advocating it.
The people of the county who have
not been vaccinated ageimt typhoid
within the past few years should get
ready to avail themselves of the op
portunity of fever vaccination.
THE GARDENS.
It is safe to say that no year be
fore in inr.ny has seen Buch a general
effort of the people to make their
gardens amount to something. More
garden land has been planted and a
greater variety of vegetables than
ever before. In the past many of the
garden, have been a disgrace to the
owners and a weak part of the farm
management. Now that we have
planted the gardens it is important to
keep them worked. Instead of neg
lecting them for everything else let
them be first on the program. It does
not take long to work through the
garden and after it is worked then the
other farm work can be taken up and
it will be found that the delay from
working the garden is but little. Get
ting started is the main hindrance to
working it. As soon as one lot of veg
etables is off another lot should be
planted to the same ground. Make it
it rule that no part of the garden shall
be idle and that no part of it shall
icrow up in grass and weeds. It is well
to plow vegetables not only for culti
vation, but to keep grass and weeds
From taking possession of the
ground. If grass and weeds are al
lowed to grow in summer they will
se in the way of the fall vegetables,
rhere is no reason that grass and
veedfl should make it necessary to
ipend a day preparing a little patch
.'or fall Irish potatoes or turnips.
One of Josephus Daniels' admirers
was in our office a few days ago and
nominated the Secretary for Presi
lent to succeed Wilson. He says that
f the Navy carries out its great plans
uid succeeds in crushing the naval
power of Germany nothing can keep
Daniels from being the next Presi
ient. Stranger things have happened.
From Smithtield to Atlanta.
Mr. V. E. Towles, United States
Road Engineer, was here last week,
having returned from Atlanta, by
way of Columbia, S. C. Mr. Towles
is now in charge of maintenance un
der government supervision of the
National Highway between Smith
field and Atlanta. The trip from
Smithficld to Atlanta is a long one
to make on a Ford car, but Mr.
Towles made it all right. He says
that the roads in most places on the
route are good.
A Gem of An Introduction.
At the University commencement
last week President Graham intro
duced Secretary Daniels as follows:
"The President of the United
States said here on one occasion that
no man can love his ^jntry unless
he first loves his own community.
"The Secretary of the Navy came
to his present hiph position after a
life of devoted service to his own
State and his own people. The paths
of loyalty that led by his own door
he has followed till now, the sphere
of his influence touches the shore of
every sea, where rides in majesty
what Mr. Balfour recently called 'the
second greatest navy in the world.'
"When he was called to his present
hiph position, critical men foresaw a
thousand ways by which he would
meet disaster; but after four years
of the severest tests not one can de
tect a single act in which he has
preatly erred.
"The prcat heart of the American
people has always been with him, and
it is wholly with him now as we em
bark on the wonderful enterprise
that is to determine the history cf
centuricc, and the happiness of all
human kind.
"We believe that he will so lead us
that history will fully authorize the
hiph judpment of our preatest admi
ral, who declared shortly before his
death that the present Secretary is
the pror.t"st Secretary the Navy ever
had."
Miss Bessie Sanders is the puest
of Miss Corinna Sanders.
MASS MEETING IN PRINCETON.
Citizens of Town Assembled Last
Sunday Afternoon and Drew I'p
An l*r?ent Appeal To Senator*
and Representatives to Work for
War-Time Prohibition.
Whereas, Wo believe that the man
ufacture and sale of intoxicating liq
uors causes a waste of grain, ineffi
ciency on the part of our men in the
trenches, in the factories, and on the
f.irms, and a waste of labor of 300,
000 abL'-bodied men and boys engag
ed in the business;
Whereas, The citizens of the nation
have just cause to be alarmed about
the future food supply, and are there
fore calling upon Congress for legis
lation to prohibit the manufacture and
sale of liquors; and
Whereas, We believe that such
legislation would do much to relieve
the food situation and increase the
efficiency of our people.
Therefore, We, the citizens of
Princeton, N. C., in Mass Meeting, as
sembled, Sunday afternoon, June 10,
1 ;? 1 7, do most respectfully urge our
Senators, the Hon. F. M. Simmons,
and the Hon. Lee. S. Overman, and
our Representative, the Hon. Edward
W. Pou to use their influence for the
pa age of such legislation as will
secure War-Time Prohibition.
We authorize our Chairman to sign
thi e resolutions in behalf of the
audience and to send a copy to each of
the gentlemen named above, and fur
i! i h copies to the Raleigh News and
01 server, and to The Smithfield Her
[ aid. ^
C. A. JONES, Pastor.
C. W. EASON, Secretary.
Princeton, Juno 11, 1917.
KEEPING THE PEOPLE COOL.
Fifty years ago if some one had
proposed to make ice in the hot sum
mer time it would have sounded
strange. Now there are many ice
plants in different parts of North
Carolina. There has been one in John
ston at Selma for several years. The
Wood Grocery Company own and
operate it. It is on the east side of
the railroad, less than a hundred
yards from the depot. They get their ,
water from a well two hundred and
ten feet deep. This well has piping
in it extending seventy feet to solid ,
rock. Below the beginning of the rock
the well goes in the rock one hundred ,
and forty feet. This is good, pure
water and comes from the well by a
pump at the rate of fifty-five callons
per minute. It is an eight-inch well,
ami pumping fifty-five gallons a min
ute twenty-four hours a day regular
ljf for sixty days at a time has never
carried the water down in the well
more than seventy feet. The capacity
of this ice plant is seventeen and
one-half tons daily. It takes forty
eight hours to make ice from the
time the water is pumped for it. It is
put up in blocks of three hundred
pounds each. This plant is a great
convenience to this section. They ship
the ice on both the Southern and At
lantic Coast Line railroads. It is
shipped as far north as Enfield. The
plant is run regularly about five
months and then two days each
week the remainder of the year.
Much of the water pumped at the
ice plant is again pumped and placed
in a large tank and used by the rail
road locomotives.
Mr. Wilbert C. Massey, of Prince
ton, who has held a considerable
amount of cotton from last year's
crop, sold last month 140 bales at
twenty cents per pound. He still has
on hand 532 bales of his best cotton.
I0HN KENDRICK
BANGS TO GIVE
"SALUBRITIES"
JOHN KfcNDrtlCK BANGS.
Mr. l'-angs is well known to all Chau
tauquans. Ho Is one of the leading
literary men of his day. Ills ' House
Boat on the Styx" has won a perma
nent plat e In American literature. Ills
"Salubrities" is a running tire glimpse
of tome of the great men he has come
to know in his travels throughout the
worid. Thaw Include statesmen, hu
morists, captains of industry and men
of wide fame. He will give "Salubri
ties" here on the closing day of the
Chautauqua.
HELP YOUR
COUNTRY
The Nation needs financial assistance.
You may not be able to do much, but do what you
can. Our United States Government
"War Bond Club"
makes it possible for you to help.
It enables you to purchase a United States Govern
ment Bond by weekly deposits.
It not cnly enables you to secure a safe investment
on an easy saving plan, but affords you an opportunity
to show your willingness to co-operate with other patrio
tic citizens in the defense of our national honor and free
institutions.
Come in and learn more about the plan.
Johnston County Bank & Trust Co.
Smithfield, N. C.
CLAYTON TO ASK FOR NEXT
SESSION OF THE PYTHIANS
Clayton, June 11. ? The Clayton
Lodge of Knights of Pythias and the
business men of the town, will send
a strong delegation to Rocky Mount
on Tuesday to make a determined ef
fort to secure the 1918 meeting of
the Grand Lodge of Knights of ^
Pythias for Clayton. That body has
never met in a place as small as this,
but it is urged that the controlling
body should visit small towns occa
sionally, and, then, the Pythian Home,
the pet of the order in the State, is
located here and those pressing the
claims of Clayton will emphasize the
fact that the grand lodge should come
here so that the members can make
a full study of the Home and that the
children might get a view of those
who are fostering them. It is earnestly
believed that the next session will
come to this place.
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* BUSINESS LOCALS *
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A BIG STOCK OF GOOD YEAR
Tires and Tubes just received by
Smithfield Garage & Machine
Works.
PLENTY OF HIGH GRADE FER
tilizer on hand in Smithfield and
Four Oaks. Austin-Stephenson Co.
A BIG STOCK OF GOOD YEAR
Tires and Tubes just received by
Smithfield Garage & Machine
Works.
ONE CAR COTTON SEED MEAL
for fertilizer. Austin-Stephenson
Co., Smithfield, N. C.
FRESH JERSEY COWS FOR SALE
by E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C.
WANTED? A SLIGHTLY USED
Ford car. Austin-Stephenson Co.,
Smithfield, N. C.
PLENTY OF OLD PAPERS NO\*
on hand at The Herald Office at 6
cents per bundle.
FOR SALE CHEAP ONE REAPER.
Come quick. Austin-Stephenson Co.,
Smithfield, N. C.
I ONE CAR COTTON SEED HULLS
in bales. Austin-Stephenson Co.,
Smithfield, N. C.
WHEN YOU WANT TUBES,
Tires and other bicycle supplies, or
tires for baby carriages, or a good
bicycle don't fail to see H. S. Powell,
Smithfield, N. C. All kinds bicy
cle repair work done,
i
THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING &
Loan Association has helped a
number of people to build homea.
It v/ill help others, and maybe you.
j New series of shares now open.
See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst.
I HAVE A FINE LOT OF REGIS
tered Duroc Jersey pigs for sale at
?15 per pair. Now ready for deliv
ery. Chas. F. Kirby, Selma, N. C.
WANTED? A SLIGHTLY USED
Ford car. Austin-Stephenson Co.,
Smithfield, N. C.
I HAVE ONE BLACK MULE FOR
sale, weight about 1000 pounds, 12
years old. L. M. Rose, Selma, N. C.
SEVERAL CHEAP MULES AND
horses on hand for sale cheap. Aus
tin-Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C.
SHINGLES AND LATHS FOR
sale. Roberts Atkinson Company,
Selma, N. C.
WANTED? YOUR MEAT, YOUR
corn, your produce. Austin-Stephen
son Co., Smithfield, N. C.
NICE HONEY FOR SALE? SEE C.
R. Turner, or phone 124-J, Smith
field, N. C.
LAST SHIPMENT OF SODA EX
pected the first week in June. Send
your order now. Austin-Stephenson
Co., Smithfield, N. C.
OUR SUPPLY OF MOWERS IS
half sold. Come quick. Austin
Stephenson Co., Smithfield, N. C.
GOOD HOUSE AND LOT FOR
rent or for sale. Apply to L. B.
Jones, Smithfield, N. C.
TOP DRESSER? HURRY WHILE
you can get it. Austin-Stephenson
Co., Smithfield, N. C.
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