THE SMITHFIELD HERALD
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TOWN AND COUNTY TOPICS.
- Mr. Dixon Hood spent the week
end with relatives in the city.
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Mrs. Geo. Ross Pou spent Monday
in Rrleigh shopping with Miss Mary
Shaw.
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Miss Pauline Hood, of Kinston, ar
rived Saturday to visit friends and
relatives in the city.
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Mr. Seth W. Myatt, of New York
City, is here on a visit to his mother,
Mrs. Mary B. Myatt.
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Mr. r.nd Mrs. J. D. Dickens went to
Halifax Sunday, returning Monday.
They made the trip by auto.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Powell, Mrs. W.
L. Ellis and Miss Alice Lindsay spent
Monday in Raleigh shopping.
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Dr. N. T. Holland spent Sunday in
Fayetteville with his wife, who is in
a hospital there for treatment.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Powell and Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. Ellis visited friends
and relatives in Raleigh Sunday.
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Miss Pearl Aycock, of Micro, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs. E. O. Ay
cock for the Home Coming Week.
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Mrs. F. W. Davies and daughter,
little Miss Frances, spent last week
with parents here, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Barham.
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Miss Ethel Coats has returned to
her home in Coats, after spending a
few days here with the family of
Sheriff Grimes.
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Edgar Williams, a colored man liv
ing near Smithfield, lost a stack of
fodder last Friday by lightning. It
was set on fire and burned up.
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Mrs. C. B. Williamson and little
daughter, Virginia, are at home again
after a two weeks' stay near Knight
dale. They returned Friday.
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Mr. W. Ransom Sanders and Mr.
J. K. Cunningham left here Sunday
on an automobile for a trip to New
York, going by way of Washington.
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Among the large number of this
section who attended the Confederate
reunion at Washington last week,
were Messrs. Israel and Oscar Ste
phenson.
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Mr. Edgar Turlington, who is a
member of the faculty in the English
?cpartment of the State University,
ha*s been spending several days here
with relatives.
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The Ncuse Lodge No. 230, Knights
?f Pythias, will hold its regular week
ly meetings on Thursday evenings in
the Red Men's Hall, beginning
promptly at 8:30 o'clock.
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Mr. J. W. Setzer has visitors from
bis old homo at Hickory, N. C., his
mother, Mrs. J. S. Setzer, his sister,
Mrs. Espy Sherrell and her two chil
dren and Miss Louise Setzer.
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Messrs. James Cobb, R. C. Crute,
Lee Sanders, Geo. and Tom Ragsdale
and Thomas LeMay left Sunday by
auto for Havelock to spend a few days
in fishing. They were accompanied as
far as Kinston by Mrs. Lee Sanders
and children who will visit Mrs. John
C. Hood until their return Wednes
day.
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Miss Irma Sykes, who has been
teaching at Franklin, Macon County,
for the past year, is spending a few
days here visiting friends and study
ing the home demonstration work in
this county. Miss Sykes has recently
been chosen as home demonstration
agent for Macon County. She attend
ed the canning demonstrations at
the State College last week. She will
return to Franklin in about two weeks
to take up her work there. Miss
Sykes, it will be remembered, taught
in the Turlington Graded School for
two or three years, and then two
years in the Four Oaks school before
going to Franklin and has many
friends hero and at Four Oaks.
The Play Ground Features.
One of the most interesting? feat
ures of the Chautauqua has been the
play ground work for the children.
This morning Miss Love took a crowd
of children accompanied by a few of
the parents out on a breakfast pic
nic. About sixty went on the hike.
They planned to have breakfast at
Mr. W. C. Harper's lawn, a mile and
a half from town and after enjoying
some games they will return. This is
a good feature and those children who
are taking part are enjoying it very
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Heavy Rainfall Here.
Smithfield has had a total of 3.80
inches of rain here since last Thurs
day morning. The heaviest rain of
the season is the one which fell Thurs
day just about one o'clock, when, with
another shower which had just fallen,
the total was 1.72 inches. For the
24 hours ending Saturday morning
at eight the rainfall was .20 inches.
For the 24 hours ending at eight
o'clock Sunday morning the amount
was .80 inches and for the 24 hours
ending at eight Monday morning the
amount of rainfall was 1.08 inches.
Sunday was characterized by one
cloud after another, beginning short
ly after midnight. Six or seven
clouds passed this way, each bringing
a nice rain. The ground in this com
munity is getting pretty wet.
Contract Let ror Wilders Roads.
Mr. E. P. Lore, the engineer in
charge, informs us that the contract
to build the roads in Wilders town
ship has been let to II. G. Scarboro,
of Wendell. Work is to begin at once,
and pushed to final completion.
Wilders township voted bonds for
road building and is proceeding un
der the right plan ? employing a
road engineer and letting out the
work by contract.
To Finance the Paving Proposition.
We learn that the Johnston County
Bank and Trust Company has ar
ranged to let the town have the forty
thousand dollars necessary to carry
on the paving work here until the
bonds are sold. The bonds cannot be
offered for sale until the paving is
completed and the exact of cost is
fixed.
Taking Liberty Loan Bonds.
The First National Bank of Smith
field has subscribed for $15,000 in
Liberty Loan Bonds. Quite a number
of thsir patrons have subscribed
through this bank. The Johnston
County Bank and Trust Company ha^>
also sold some of the bonds to its
patrons, and it now looks as if the
town will take about the number of
bonds allotted to it.
After the Dodgers.
The Sheriff has received the fol
lowing telegram dated June 11, from
the Governor:
"The War Department orders the
arrest of every man whose duty it
was to register and failed to do it.
Please make a searching investiga
tion in every precinct in your county,
and if a single man failed to register
according to law, report the same to
the nearest United States Attorney or
Marshal, and the delinquent will be
arrested at once. North Carolina reg
istered more men than the govern
ment estimated it would, according to
our population. This fine fact makes
it all the more important to require
all delinquents to be registered. When
ninety-nine men voluntarily do their
duty, it is the essence of justice to
the ninety-nine to compel the hun
dredth man to do his. The quota from
North Carolina will be based on the
original estimate of the government,
and not on our actual registration.
Therefore every additional man regis
tered reduces the proportion of the
whole that will be first selected for
service."
Street Paving Moving On.
The work on the street paving is
moving on nicely now. A large force
of hand is at work daily and
much progress is being made. In a
few weeks, when the streets begin to
look so nice and clean, the town will
take on new life. Mr. James S.
Knox, of Cleveland, Ohio, the great
community expert, who spoke in the
Chautauqua tent here Sunday, com
mented on the work of paving he
saw going on. He said it meant bet
ter and greater things for Smithfield
and that the people here would take
a greater pride in the town after the
work had been completed. He said a
town without paved streets reminded
him of a boy with a dirty face.
Mr. H. B Marrow, the new super- 1
intendent of the Smithfield Graded |
School, was here Saturday on his way
to Chapel Hill to attend the Univer
sity Summer School. Mr. Marrow is
tha registrar of the summer school.
HIGH CLASS ENTERTAINMENTS.
Big Attractions Daily at the Brown
Tent. This Afternoon the BiRRfst
Musical Feature Ever in Smithfield.
the Royal Blue iluMsars Band. To
morrow Afternoon the Celebrated
John kendrick Bangs will Lecture.
Hawaiian Players Tomorrow Night.
With a patriotic band concert this
afternoon and evening by the Royal
Blue Hussars Band, one of the most
striking bands in America, a lecture
by John Kendrick Bangs, the noted
American author, tomorrow after
noon and a concert in the evening by
the Hawaiian Players, Smithtield's
first Chautauqua will come to an end.
Four of the ten programs of the
Chautauqua, which opened Saturday
afternoon, remain to be given.
Patriotic music will be the feature
of the entertainment of the Royal
Blue Hussars Band this afternoon and
evening. Included in the band are
four zylophone players, a quintet of
ocarina players and Egyptian trum
peters. The band will play the Anvil
Chorus, using two anvils with elec
tric attachment. The Band has played
before tho crowned heads of Europe
and is directed by Signor Louis Cas
telucci, who is considered one of the
great band masters of this country.
Mr. Bangs will lecture tomorrow
afternoon on "Salubrities I have Met."
The lecture will be in the nature of
personal recollections of such men as
Theodore Roosevelt, Rudyard Kip
ling and Mark Twain and will include
a fifteen minute interview with Presi
dent W'ilson, in which the President
extends a message to all Chautauqua
goers. Mr. Bangs is known through
out the country for his short stories,
and is an excellent lecturer.
The Hawaiian Singers and Players
will closc the week's program, with
both vocal and instrumental music.
In their instrumental music they will
play the ukelele and the steel guitar,
and they will give the best known
Hawaiian pieces.
Rain marred the first two days of
the Chautauqua, and on Sunday
night it was found necessary to hold
the entertainment of the Pierce Com
munity Players in the Opera House.
When it rained so hard that it was
difficult to give the various numbers
in the prelude. Mr. Pierce played
hymns on the piano and the audience
joined in. When the lights went out
suddenly during the prelude, because
of the blowing down of the wires,
lamps and lanterns were brought in,
and the play, "The Harvest" was
given.
Patriotism has been the keynote of
the entire Chautauqua. The opening
concer* , of the Mendelssohn Sextette
Saturday afternoon and the prelude
Saturday evening were given over
largely to stirring patriotic songs. In
the evening A. C. Shallenberger, ex
Governor of Nebraska, and now a
member of the Military Affairs Com
mittee of the House of Representa
tives, delivered his address on "The
True Patriotism." "To be truly patri
otic does not mean that one must
shoulder arms and fight in the trench
es of Europe" said Governor Shallen
berger. "Those armies that we send to
Europe must be fed and the people
who devote their time and attention
to increasing our crops to feed those
armies are just as patriotic as the
soldier. We can show our patriotism
by buying a Liberty Bond and thus
help to finance the war. The man who
builds up his home and then protects
it is showing the highest type of pa
triotism."
In concluding his address Governor
Shallenberger paid a beautiful trib
ute to the flag, picturing the mean
ing that lay behind the red and the
white stripes and the stars.
The Sunday program, except for
the address of James S. Knox on
"Community Efficiency" was sacred
in character. The prelude in the af
ternoon by the Boston Musical En
tertainers consisted of numbers which
conveyed some moral, and the play,
"The Harvest," given in the evening,
is considered by many to be a most
powerful sermon, its moral being
"Forgivo and Forget."
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iuununy aiternoon ine Tscnaikow
sky Quartet gave a prelude of classi
acl numbers, after which Josephine
Chilton pave a program of Southern
readings. Mrs. Chilton is a native of
the South and her negro dialect
stories were well received. In the ev
ening Dr. E. L. Williams, the Chi
cago preacher who did more than any
other one man toward cleaning up
the vice conditions of Chicago, deliver
ed an address on "The City and the
Soil."
The Chautauqua is under the di
rection of Mr. Howard W. Palmer,
a graduate of Columbia University.
The assistant superintendents are Mr.
Frank W. Harrah, a graduate of
Denver University, now a student in
the Cornell Mcdical School, and Mr.
Lloyd M. Meeker, a graduate of
James Millken University in Ohio,
and a student now at Union Theolog
ical Seminary in New York. Miss
Anne M. Love, who was last week
graduated from Columbia University
of New York, has charge of tho Ju
nior Chautauqua.
TWO NATIVE HAWAIIANS
WHO WILL APPEAR
AT THE CHAUTAUQUA
| The cut above shows two of the mem
bers of the Hawaiian Singers and
Players, a company of native Ilawai
lans who will appear here on the third
day of the Chautauqua. They will
wear native costumes and give native
songs and dances.
Sugar 50 Cents a Pound In Rome.
Rome, June 9. ? Sugar mixed with
saccharine is now sold here at 50
cents a pound. The government pre
viously fixed the price for ordinary
granulated sugar at 25 cents a pound
but, owing to the small stock in Italy,
saccharine has been added and the
price raised. It is three times as
sweet as the old one. Even at the
new price sugar is very difficult to
obtain in more than 5 cent package
lots, tho grocery stores selling it only
to regular customers or to persons
buying pound packages of coffee.
The government issued a decree
providing for food cards, allotting so
much food per day to each person,
but it is doubtful if the food card
system will be ready before the end
of the war.
LOST? A RED SWEATER WITH A
yellow "D" on left side .If found,
return to Mr. Edward Woodall or
Frank Harrah at Chautauqua
Grounds.
THE SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Cotton 22 % to 23
Cotton seed 1.00
Wool 15 to 22%
Fat Cattle 5 to 6%
Egrjrs 25 to 30
Fat cattle, dressed 11 to 12%
Granulated Supar 9 to 10
Corn per bushel 1.65 to 1.75
C. R. Sides 22 to 23
Feed oats 90 to 95
Fresh Pork 12% to 14
Hams, per pound 25 to 26
Lard per pound 20 to 25
Timothy Hay 1.40 to 1.50
Cheese per pound 35
Butter per pound 80 to 8E
Meal per sack 4.00 to 4.25
Flour per sack 7.00 to 7.25
Coffee per pound 16 to 20
Cotton seed meal 2.25 to 2.50
Cotton seed hull* 1.00
Ship Stuff 2.60 to 2.75
Molasses Feed 2.60 to 2.75
Hides, RTeen 12% to 15
Sweet potatoes 75 to 80
Stock peas per bushel 2.00
Black-eye peas 2.25
Beef Pulp 2.50
Soup peaa 3.00
I W. L. Woodall & Sons
Smithfield's Shopping Genter
CORSET SALE
j Our Entire C&{\ ni i Si n 99 C 0 r s e 1 s
j Stock of Will go on
j *?? r-M. <t?t >- * *??. -1-- L
I Sale To-day At?
1-3
Off Regular Price.
The railroad failed to
deliver us these goods on
time, so made us a dis
count if we would handle
them. Therefore we are
giving you advantage of
this discount.
Corsets
$2.00 to $6.00
Now
13 OFF
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W. L. Woodall & Sons
Smithfleld, N. C.
A CAR CEMENT
Just Received
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Also a Car of Wall Plaster, one Car Lime and
several tons Hydrated Lime in Warehouse. A
full supply of Fertilizers 8-4, 8-3-3, 4-8-4, and
Three Cars of Nitrate expected at an early date.
W. M. SANDERS
Smithfield, N. C.
I HAVE ONE GOOD JERSEY COW
for sale at a bargain. Mrs. W. L.
Brady, Smithfield, N. C.
A BOOK FOR THE CHILIJ IS ONE
of the finest things you can give
him. See our stock of children's
books. Herald Office.
LAST SHIPMENT OF SODA Ex
pected the first week in June. Send
your order now. Austin-Stephenson
Co., Smithfield, N. C.
A FEW MORE COPIES OF "THE
Story of Europe and the Nations at
War" now on sale e.c The Herald
Office.
ED. A. HOLT
Dealer in
High Grade Coffins, Caskets
and Burial Robes,
Princeton, - North Carolina
DID YOU EVER READ THAT
great little story "Ten Nights In a
Barroom?" If not get a copy at
Herald Office. Price only 5 cents.
By mail 8 cents.
LOST BETWEEN G. A. SMITH'S
store and Smithfield, or at Smith
field, a Ladies' black leather purse,
containing $4.60. Finder will pleaso
notify J. L. Faulkner for reward.
Wilson's Mills, R. F. D. No. 1.
This Bank has subscribed for $15,000.00
"Liberty Loan Bonds |
In addition have placed applications for the |
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Smithfield, N. C.
T. R. HOOD, President. R. N. AYCOCK, Cashier. ?