North Carolina Newspapers

fflt SMTHFBD HERKLD 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 U made, the subscriber should notify ua. Watch your label. NOTE. ? All correspondents should remember that we pay no attention to communications without the writer's ume. If you write every day be sure to enclose your name each time. Address all matters for publication to The Smithfield Herald, Smithfield, N. C. WITH THE CHURCHES. Presbyterian ? Services Sunday morning at eleven o'clock only, by the pastor, Rev. A. S. Anderson. Mr. Anderson will preach at the Lassifer school house, near Spilona, Sunday afternoon. Methodist ? Services Sunday morn ing and night, by the pastor, Rev. S. A. Cotton. Baptist ? Services Sunday morning and night. Dr. Vann will speak on Christian Education at the eleven o'clock service. TOWN AND COUNTY TOPICS. Mr. Ezra Parker, mayor of Benson, was in town Wednesday. ? ? ? Mrs. W. R. Long is visiting Miss Candacc Sanders for a few days. ? ? ? Miss Bessie Sanders has returned home, after visiting Miss Corinna Sanders. ? * * Miss Mildred Courtney is the guest of Mrs. Geo. Ross Pou on Oakland Heights. ? * ? Miss Eunice Wellons was the guest of Mrs. Rob Sanders for a part of the Chautauqua. ? * * Mr. P. A. Holland, of the Sanders Chapel section, was in the city Wed nesday night. ? * ? * Miss Pierce, of Kenly, was the guest of her brother, Mr. C. I. Pierce, for the Chautauqua. ? ? ? Miss Sarah Sanders left for Chapel Hill Wednesday to attend the Univer sity summer school. ? * ? Mrs. Lee E. Sanders and children returned from Kinston and Prince ton Wednesday afternoon. * * ? Mr. L. E. Reaves, of Raeford, and his sister, Mrs. Nat MeLamb, of Ben son, were here Wednesday. ? * * Mrs. Patterson has returned from Granville' County where she visited her sons, at the old home, for several weeks. ? * ? Mrs. Jno. O. Ellington and family were among the many out-of-town people in Wednesday evening to hear the Hawaiian Band. ? * * Mrs. J. H. Abell, Mrs. E. J. Holt and Mrs. W. N. Holt attended the marriage of Miss Mary Taylor Sas ser at Durham Tuesday. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Grantham, of Red Springs, and Mrs. G. K. Gran tham, of Dunn, spent yesterday and last night here with relatives. ?< ? ? Mr. and Mrs. Claude W. Smith and son, Claude, Jr., leave today for Mt. Vernon Springs, Chatham County, where they will spend the summer. ? ? ? Mrs. Hugh Broadhurst and children spent Monday night in the city with her sister, Mrs. F. K. Broadhurst. They left for Greensboro Tuesday to visit relatives. * * * Mrs. E. B. McCullers and son, Mr. Warren McCullers, of Clayton, spent Thursday night in the city, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Sanders and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. R. Pou. ? ? ? The Chautauqua was pretty well attended by the people living near here. There were also quite a number of people from Four Oaks and Sel ma who attended and enjoyed the programs. *.* ? Misses Gradabelle and Roberta Turner and Ola Brady left Wednesday for Kinston and other points in Le noir and Jones Counties to visit rel atives and friends. They will be away for several weeks. ^ ? Miss Anne M. Love, of Fremont, Ohio, who had chargo of the Junior Chautauqua and the play-ground work here in conection with the Com munity Chautauqua, left Wednesday night for Waynesboro, Pa., where ?he will have charge of similar work for the next five days. PLAY. Activity is the condition of the child's being. Through activity the muscles, nerves, and senses are de veloped. Very early these activities take the form which adults have termed "play." However, play is the serious business of lifk> for little children, and requires as constant exercise of the powers, as the hard work of men and women. Indeed it does more, it develops muscles, brain and character. Most people rec ognize the value of play in the first two instances ? as to the physical life and the intellectual life. It would be useless to argue other than that only by use must the muscles of the child grow. Long ago, too, people found out that the brain is influenced by the physical being ? "Sana mensa in sana corpore," is afi old motto. Therefore, it is the last thing men tioned ? the development of character ? which is desired to be emphasized here. Often the first moral distinction which becomes real t*> the child is that between fair and unfair play. This spontaneous moral distinction which the child himself experiences, may be the means of effectively teaching him a moral truth. This is a good reason for directed, educa tive play. If the boy or girl should learn only the one lesson ? a square deal for everyone ? it would be worth all consideration. But it does more. In group games and team play, self-sacrifice is taught. The child first learns to subordinate his Own personal interests to the good of all. He learns the meaning of the word, service. Perhaps it is only a sacrifice hit on the baseball team, but it tcaclies a vital Christian prin ciple, oft-times better than many sermons. (James, too, afford excel lent means of develop' self-control, while heartiness ar enthusiasm which characterize play, become spontaneous attributes throughout in e. / Joseph Lee, the father of tne mod ern play ground movement in Amer ica, has well said: "The thing that most needs to be understood about play is that it is not a luxury but a necessity; it is not something that a child likes to have; it is something that he must have if he is to grow up. It is more than an essential part of his education; it is an essential part of the law of his growth, of the process by which he becomes a man." In recognition of the educative value of directive play, a number of the people of this community have decided at least to make a beginning along this line. The Woman's Club during the last year, placed play ground apparatus on the Turlington Graded School campus. During the school term, the play of the children was, of course, supervised. At the suggestion of Miss Love, who had charge of the Junior work of the Chautauqua here this week, it has been decided to have the grounds open one afternoon in each week ? from sik until seven o'clock ? when some grown person will be present to direct the play. Mrs. L. T. Royall and Mrs. T. J. Lassiter have been appointed as the committee to have it in charge. They will arrange to have at least three grown-ups present each time to organize games, discourage danger ous plays, etc. Wednesday is the day chosen for these games. Let all the children re member ? Wednesday afternoon from six until seven o'clock, on Turlington Graded School grounds. Changed Business Location. Several weeks ago Mr. C. W. Beasley bought out Mr. J. R. Walton's interest in the brick yard across Neuse river, about half a mile from Smithfield. Since then he has been at work there, his grocery business in Smithfield being conductcd by his oldest son and his wife. Recently a new store was erccted for him on the Smithfield and Raleigh road opposite the brick yard. Hereafter the busi ness will be conducted there instead of at their former store in town. The name will still be C. W. Beasley & Son. They have an advertisement in this paper. Fifty-One Dollars in A Cow. It is said that the United States government's estimate of the average cost of raising a two-year-old cow or steer is fifty-one dollars. This is the estimate after carcful tests and experiments. If this estimate is true and we have all reasons to believe it is, nearly if not exactly correct, then those who have been selling steers and milk cows ^t from twenty to thirty dollars each have been losing money. One of the great needs of this section now is more cattle, but they cannot be had because the peo ple are net willing to pay for them. Dr. and Mrs. Battle Hocutt, Misses Jessie Eason and Octavia Jeffreys were among the Clayton people in the city Wednesday night to attend the closing number of the Chautauqua. Tuesday's Taper Highly Commended. This morning the editors of The Herald received the following en couraging letter from l>r. E. C. Branson, of the Chair of Rural Eco nomics and Sociology at the State University, and editor of the Univer sity News Letter: "Gentlemen: "Your issue cf June 12th is great. I have cut it ail to pieces for our file. 1 enclose ten cents for which please send me two more copies. "With best wishes, I am "Faithfully yours, "E. C. BRANSON." Liberty Bonds In Smithtield. The bdnks of Smithtield have been making a campaign here for the sale of the Liberty Bond issue, which closes today at noon. The First National Bank promised to be responsible for $15, 000. Of this amount they have sold $9,000 to their patrons and customers. In all they have 85 subscribers to the bond issue, ranging from fifty dollars to two hundred dollars each. The Johnston County Bank and Trust Company have sold $2,000 worth of bonds. These are taken by ten subscribers. From the latest news obtainable it now looks like the big bond issue will be overscribcd. Approaching Marriage. Friends here have received the fol lowing invitation: "Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rand request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Julia Ingram, to Mr. William Herbert Woodard, on Thursday morning, the twenty-first of June, at eleven o'clock, White Oak Farm, near Clayton, North Carolina." Closing of the Chautauqua, The Community Chautauqua, the first of its kind ever given in Smith field, came to a close with Wednesday night's program when the Hawaiian Singers gave a most delightful con pert to the largest audience present at any thr\e during the whole five af ternoons and nights. The only attraction Tuesday was the Royal Blue Hussars Band, which captured all who heard it. In the af ternoon several classic and patriotic selections were given. At the night performance a large crowd was pres ent and felt fully repaid after listen ing to the excellent musjt. Again the program was made up of classic, sa cred and patriotic selections .It was the best band ever seen in Smithfield and no musical concert was ever so largely attended or more greatly en joyed. The feature of the afternoon Wed nesday was the lecture of John Ken drick Bangs, the noted author and lecturer. A large crowd was present to hear him talk about the great men he had met. His lecture was filled with with and humor r.nd was much appreciated by those who were pres ent. On Tuesday evening the audience was tested to see if the people of Smithfield want the Chautauqua back again next summer, by giving them an opportunity to see how many sea son tickets they would agree to take. Under the leadership of Mr. W. W. Cole and Mr. N. L. Perkins a canvass of the audience was made and it was found that those present pledged to take about three hundred and fifty tickets for next summer. Again Wed nesday night a canvass was made which ran the number pledged to about 450. Before the Chautauqua will agree to make a return date, the business men and women of the town must guarantee the sale of 500 season tickets of two dollars each or the sum of one thousand dollars. A con tract is now being circulated asking for signers and it is believed that the Chautauqua will be with us again next year. While the backers this year had to put up some money, and while it was not a paying proposi tion, those who backed the movement last year are nearly all signing again. Ladies Busy Canning. ' The campaign for an increased production of vegetables is Hearing fruit and many ladies are busy xhese days trying to can beans and other edibles. Several people in Smitlifield have bought canners and they now propose to save all their beans and fruits. There will be thousands of cans of fruits and vegetables put up in Johnston County this year by pe ple who have paid little attention to these things heretofore. The worth of the conservation campaign in Johnston County alone will never be measured in dollars and cents. Mr. J. W. Barham, propriter of the Merchants Hotel at Selma, in forms us that Mr. Julian S. Carr, of Durham, spent Monday night at the Merchants Hotel on his way to Fay etteville. An Important and Inte renting Taper. 1 i u? of The Smithfield Herald ? ?' eh will be published next Tuesday, I J li>, will be a moat important and J 11 inter* t ing one. It will contain H tl names of every man between the * uii's of 21 and 31 who registered J here for military service under the jj S< ive Draft Law. There are nearly i four thousand men in Johnston Coun- J ty who have enrolled at their coun- J try's call, to go into the war or wher- H ever th - country needs them most, h We cail on all our readers to look out J] for the pr.per of next Tuesday and j preserve it t'or future reference. Some i day it will be valuable historical doc- J ument. It will be a source of pride J to the succeeding generations to look ? over Johnston's roll of honor in the year of li) 17. The name of every man who reg istered in this county on June 5, will be printed in this paper. It will be a roll of honor, and it will also reveal to the officers any who may happen to live in this county who are of the military age and failed to register. Look out for Tuesday's paper and keep it. To Organize Sinking Schools. Mr. J. B. Beasley asks us to state that Mr. C. B. Thomas will be at Wilson's Mills Baptist church next Sunday, June 17th, at 11 o'clock, and the same day at Johnson Union Free Will Baptist church at 3:30 o'clock to organize two singing schools. HEAR Dr. R, T. Vann Former President of Meredith College at the Baptist Church Sunday Morning June 17th, at 11 O'clock His Subject will be "Christian Education" The public is cordially invited to hear this distinguished preacher and educator. THE SMITH FIELD MARKET. Cotton 23 to 23% Cotton seed 1.00 Wool 16 to 22% Fat Cattle 5 to 6% Eggs 25 to 30 Fat cattle, dressed 11 to 12 Vi Granulated Sugar 9 to 10 Corn per bushel 1.65 to 1.75 C. R. Sides 22 to 23 Feed oats 90 to 95 Fresh Pork 12Vfe to 15 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 35 Meal per sack 4.00 to 4.25 Flour per sack 7.00 to 7.25 Coffee per pound 15 to 20 Cotton seed meal 2.25 to 2.50 Cotton seed bulla 1.00 Ship Stuff 2.60 to 2.75 Molasses Feed 2.60 to 2.75 Hides, green 12bi to 15 Sweet potatoes 75 to 80 Stock peas per bushel 2.00 Black-eye peas 2.25 Beef Pulp 2.50 Soup perns 3.00 WHY SUFFER WITH PILES OR Eczema? I)r. Muns' Pile and Ec zema Ointment will relieve you instantly. Creech Drug Co., Smith field N. C. FIOW MANY? ? DEWBERRIES next week at $2.25 per crate of 32 quarts. C. S. Powell, Smithfield, N. C., June 15, 1917. HAY BALERS? ONE MORE IN stock, of International Harvester Company make, at old price. Who will take this one? Roberts Atkin son Co., Selma, N. C. IF YOU NEED BRICK COME TO see me at the Brick Yard across the river, half a mile from Smith field. A large lot of nice brick just to suit you, all the time on hand. A few months ago I bought the interest of Mr. Joe Walton in the Brick Yard and we are now pre pared to serve the public. C. W. Beasley, Smithfield, N. C. MULE FOR SALE ? GOOD, SOUND worker, nine year* old, weighs 1,100 pounds. Pricc right. Cash or terms. Robert* Atkinson Co., Selma, N. C. Grain and Forage is Short ! And it behooves every Farmer to save every bit of Hay he can. The time for cutting Oats will soon be here. So to meet your needs we have just unloaded one car of Moline Mowers and Rakes. The lightest draft, easiest running Mower on the mar ket. The price is cheaper than last -year when we sold more than any other two concerns in Johnston County. Come see for yourself. Get our prices ? you will be interested. The best is none too good. Austin-Stephenson Co. Smithfield. N. C. . * k*. A kC A&* JL JL - ? . -* - _ ? . ? . _ 4 ? ? ? ? t t # # # # A m ? A * * ? A * * * * A * A A A ?- A AT CREECH'S Your Prescriptions receive the most careful attention and are filJed only by Registered Pharmacists. The purest and best drugs and ingredients obtainable being used and your Physicians orders are carried out ac curately throughout our Prescription Department. We will appreciate your Prescription and sick room pat ronage. If we can accommodate you in any way do not hesitate to call on us. Creech Drug Co. 1). HEBER. CREECH, Manager. Sniithfield, N. C. i Your FOOD TROUBLES j Tell Them To Us! We are the original trouble menders when it is a ques tion of food. Do you have trouble finding just the right brand of Coffee? or Flour, or Canned Goods? Then try us. NO MORE "EAT" TROUBLES when you buy your Groceries from us. We've anticipated every possible trouble of the kind and are prepared to meet it and to conquer it. Now bring us your troubles and see us MAKE GOOD. City Grocery Co. Smithfleld, N. C. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? rrxxTTi 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. This Bank has subscribed for $15,000.00 "Liberty Loan Bonds" In addition have placed applications for the requirements of more than forty (40) indi ? viduals. Are you included in this number? You perhaps can't fight? -You can help send some one to fight for you. Let us have your subscription before it's too late. The First National Bank Smithfield, N. C. T. R. HOOD, President. R. N. AYCOCK, Cashier.