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THE S! Published Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASS ITER Editors and Proprietors, Smithfield, N. C. wcnsagssaassss RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Caah in Advance. One year, S 1 -SO Eight Month*, 1.00 Six Month*, .75 Three Month*, .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., a* Second-class Matter. moooooosoooooixoayxcccoxioo DID THE I'ROI'H KT I ORESEE THE AUTOMOBILE? Some think that th? Prophet Na hum foresaw the automobile. Nahum, 2nd chapter and 4th verse says: "The chariots shi.ll rape in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." TWO VIEWS OF THE WAR. Mr. E. H. Coapman, general man ager of the Southern Railway, is quoted as saying that the war "is going to last five years at least" and may "continue ten years." Another man who knows just as much about it as does Mr. Coapman, Mr. Elihu Root, said in a speech at Moscow last week that "the end of the war will be reached in 1918." Neither of these men knows when the end will come, but there are many who hope that neither is correct. They hope the war will end in 11)17. FORECAST OF COTTON CROP. A cotton crop of 11,633,000 five hu nil red pound bales for this year is the forecast ir.ade public by the De partment of Agriculture yesterday. In making this estimate the Bureau of Crop Eestimates based its calcu lations on the condition of the grow ing crop on June 25th. Last year's crop was 1 1 ,440,0."i0 bales; the crop in 1915 was 1 1,190,820 bales. The Bu reau places the acreage in cotton this year at 34,600,000. The acreage in cul tivation a year ago was .'$6,052,000. The condition of the growing crop on June 25th was placed at 70.3. A year ago it was on the same date placed at 81.1, and the ten year aver age on same date is 80. The figures given for North Caro lina follow: Condition on June 25th, 67; on June 25th last year, 76. Acres in cultivation 1,476,000; last year 1,490,000. The report says that the crop was in good condition in Tennessee and fairly good progress was being made in North Carolina where warmer weather was needed. The drought was serious in Louisiana. In Texas the drought prevailed to some extent but the crop was standing the condi tion well and making progress. To-morrow is July Fourth. One hundred and forty-one years ago tho Immortal Declaration of Independ ence was signed at Philadelphia. A little whiskey taken by a youth of twenty may be considered a right and proper thing by some folks, but when we look at what happened neai Franklinton Saturday we see the aw fulness of it all. The young man ir Wake County jail almost crazed ove! the awful wreck now sees that he has no right to do as he pleases. July l-'ourth a Holiday. The banks and the post offices will be closed to-morrow, it being Julj Fourth. Make your deposits to-da> and secure your stamps. THIRTY-NINE PER CENT IN A YEAR. There is no end to the increase in food prices, und unless some drastic methods are employed to stop the skyward tendency the American peo-' p!<> are going to find themselves in hard place* before many more months. While it is to he regretted that the necessity of the times de mand food regulation, this, it appearr, i* the ( nly way to stip the food spec ulators nrd those wiie ere so heart ies.* that i hey never pec the suffering and sorrow of their neighbors. Some idea may he gained of the increase in the past few months hy reading the figures given out hy the Iiureau of Labor last week and published in Friday's dailies. The item follows: "Retail food prices in the United States advanced on an average 5 per cent from April 10 to May 15 as shown in figures compiled today hy the Hureau of Labor statistics. Dur ing the year ending with May 15 they increased .'10 per cent. "The biggest jump during the month was in flour which advanced 29 per cent. The increase in corn meal was 15 per cent; beans 14 per cut; bread l.'l per cent and rice 11 per cent. The only drop in price was in onions, ,'}<> per cent, and butter 9 p t cent. "Some of the month's increases are given us follows: Beef, 2 to 1 per cent; bacon, ham and lard, 8 to 10 per cent; hens, 1 per cent; Salmon 10 per cent; eggs 3 per cent; cheese U per cent; milk per cent; potatoes C per cent; sugar 5 per cent; coffee und tea 1 per cent. "The greatest advance during the year was made by potatoes, which advanced in price 140 per cent and in "our, 122 per cent. "In the last four years retail food prices generally have advanced 5(5 per cent." NORTH CAROLINA NEEDS MEN. This week is called National Guard Week in North Carolina and an ap peal is made to bring the North Car olina units up to the full war strength. This State still, needs 3,940 men to recruit all branches up to the maximum strength required by the War Department. The total strength of the guard up to June HO was <>,051 men and officers. A statement issued by the Adjutant's office shows the organisations to stand in this State as follows: First Infantry, 1,555 men enlisted and 117 more needed. Second Infantry, 020 men enlisted and 1,070 more needed. Third Infantry, 1,248 men enlisted and 754 more needed. Cavalry Squadron, 392 men enlist ed and 28 more needed. Coast Artillery, 075 men enlisted, which is 21 beyond maximum strength. Company A Engineers, Wilmington, 109 men enlisted, 55 more needed. Company E Engineers, Charlotte, 144 men enlisted and 20 more needed. Company S. Engineers, Greensboro, 113 men enlisted and 68 more needed. Ambulance Co. No. 1, Canton, 88 men enlisted and 63 more needed. Supply train, one company of which is being organized in Raleigh has T>8 men but to complete the train for the Ninth Division 266 men are needed. These will be supplied by the draft. Field artillery, with batteries being organized at New Bern, Washington, Durham, Mooresvillo, Lenoir, Wades boro-Monroe, 857 men enlisted and 1)33 more needed. Engineering train, Wilmington, 15 men enlisted and 151 more needed. Machine gun cavalry troop, (iasto nia, 40 men enlisted and 30 more needed. New radio company requiring 75 men lias not yet been started toward organization and no home station has been selected for it. Take Care of the Sacks. If every farmer wastes from three to five dollars worth of sacks each year it will amount to a large sum if y >u count up the farmers. Mr. R. A., Wall, of the Clayton Oil Mill, asks us to urge the farmers to take care of the- sacks they get. Sacks suitable for acid phosphate now cost $1S>0.00 per thousand f. o. b? cars at Rich mond, or Philadelphia, and may be ? counted at $2.00 for the sacks for a ' ton of acid or a ton of guano. Mr. . Wall has bought these same sacks , at $80.00 per thousand and when the , nrice went to $100,000 per thousand sacks were considered high. Inside coffee sacks are now worth eighteen cents each. Cotton seed meal sacks now cost ten cents each. Oil mills boupht them a few years ago at four .'tnts cach. 1 ' Time robs the rose of its freshness ' and beauty, but has no effect on the thorn except to make it sharper. PROF. L. T. ROYALL RE-ELECTED Hoard of Kducation Select Him For Another Term of Two Yearn at Meeting Held Yesterday. Mis? Mai tie Hudson Fleeted Supervisor to Succeed Mittfl Klizabeth Kelly. School Committeemen Appointed. The Johnston County Hoard of Ed uration held its regular meeting here yesterday with all members present Mr. W. (i. Wilson, Chairman of the Hoard, succeeds himself for a six year term, having been chosen to this place by the last General Assembly. Mr. Wilson was re-elected chairman of the board. The biggest work of the board at yesterday's meeting was the selection of a County Superintendent to suc ceed Prof. L. T. Royall whose time was out. Prof. Koyali was a candidate to succeed himself. The friends of Prof. Fred Archer, Superintend* nt of the Selma Graded Schols, presented his name us a candidate to succeed Prof. Koyall. Both candidates had strong friends working in their be half. The election resulted in the choice of Prof. Royall to succeed himself for another term. In their selection of Prof. Royall to succeed himself, the members of the Board recognized the faithful ser vice of the County Superintendent who has been at the head of the John ston County schools for the past sev en years. In these years there has been a wonderful development in the schools of the county. Many schools have been consolidated and made more efficient. A number of special tax districts have been established and the schools greatly improved in many ways. In all these years Prof. Koyall has given his time and best energy and talent to the school work. He has wrought well and his hun dreds of friends throughout the coun ty will hear of his re-election with unbounded satisfaction. A matter of importance was the selection of\ a candidate to succeed V iss Elizabeth Kelly, who recently resigned to accept a position in the State Department of Education at Raleigh, as rural supervisor. The board selected Miss Mattie Hudson, of Smithfield, who was a supervisor of schools in Wake County the past year, to fill this responsible position. As a teacher and school worker Miss Hudson is well known as one of the best in this county. Her work in Wake County for the past year has been highly satisfactory and we are glad to see her come back to her home county to engage in this great work. She will begin work in this county on September first. As supervisor for the Negro schools of the county the board re-elected C. L. W. Smith, of Smithfield, who has held the position since it was estab lished. He is chosen for six months each year at a salary of sixty dollars a month for the time he is at work. In addition to these matters the board appointed several school com mitteemen and transacted the usual routine work. The Farm Demonstration Work. At their meeting here yesterday the County Commissioners decided to suspend the farm demonstration work temporarily. Mr. Lacy John, who has had charge of this work for the past year, will (jive it up on August first to take up work elsewhere. He has laid some of the foundations for a larger work in this county and has made many friends who regret to sec him give up the work here. We understand that it is not the intention of the County Commission ers to stop this work entirely, but that they hope to take it up again at an early day. In this decision the farmers of the county will rejoice. Farming is the greatest enterprise of the county and anything that helps for beter farming helps for a better county. In ancient times the city of Tyre was famous for its output of purple. GENERAL NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 1 Some ?f the Event* of the Day Told In Brief. T'lere are 7,366 National banks in operation in the United States, a ,:ain of 47 during the past year. Fifteen persons lost their lives in the fall of the big water tank on to the whale back steamer at Milwaukee ! Saturday. A socialist peace parade in Boston | Sunday ended in a riot. The police | were called in to stop the trouble ind little damage was done. A belt-line car on the great Gorge route just below Niagara Falls plung ed down a 20-foot embankment Sun day, resulting in the death of nine persons. Eighty- seven of the German mer chant ships seized in American ports at th* outbreak of war were turned over by President Wilson to the ship ping board Saturday for operation. The other fourteen already are in powssion of the navy department. An official announcement was made in Paris Friday night that the ar mored cruiser Kleber had struck a mine off Point St. Matheiu on Wednes day and sunk. Three officers and thir ty-five men were lost. The Kleber had come from Dakar, Africa, and was on its way to Brest. Brazil's navy has begun co-operat ing with the American fleet in South American waters in hunting down German sea raiders and watching for German submarines. Official notifica tion of Brazil's revocation of her neutrality decree came Saturday in dispatches from Ambassador Morgan l*t Rio. ? Secretary Danifels announced that all persons residing on the old James town exposition site must vacate by August 1st. This is a part of the plan to make Hampton Iioads one of the greatest naval bases in the world. Work will be begun at once on a naval training station to accommo date 10,0000 men. After six weeks of work, the Sen ate Finance Committee Saturday nijrht finished its re-draft of the war revenue bill passed by the House. As revised, the measure calls for a tax levy of $1,652,170,000, which is $148, 000,000 less than Secretary McAdoo told the House that the Government would need tor un the war for this year. The soldiers of new Russia have assumed the aggressive. For the first time since the revolution last March, Russian troops have begun an attack on an extensive scale. Along a front of eighteen and one-half miles in the region of Brizzany, Galicia, Russian troops have stormed the German po sitions. Berlin says the Russians suf fered losses and were compelled to retire before the German fire. Broadway theatrical and movie stars were started Saturday, says the New York Times, when they heard thut Charley Chaplin, the English comedian, had received an offer of a alary of $1,000,000 for his services for one year, beginning Sept. 1. Ac cording to the report that reached the Rialto, Chaplin, who is now at work at Los Angeles on the final part of his contract with the Mutual Film Company, for which he is paid a sal ary of $(>70,000 a year, will average more than $20,000 a week in his new job, as he is to receive a bonus of $50,000 for signing the "million-dollar contract." The Price for Threshing: Grain. The price for thrashing grain in this section is too high. This has been a discouragement to farmers to plant :rrain. They feel that after they have made the grain and saved it they should not be forced to give the 12th to gefc it threshed. In the wheat grow ing sections of the country nobody charges over the 20th to thresh grain and mrny of them thresh it where they find large lots for the 25th part of the grain. The wheat farmers further south who cut their wheat earlier and had it threshed when the price of wheat was higher than now, would have paid about thirty dollars per hundred bushels in paying the 12th as a toll fo rthreshing. We know farmers who fed their wheat to hogs rather than have it threshed for the 12th. Of course this was when the price of wheat was lower than it is now. The men who run threshers will have to do their work some cheaper if they expect farmers to plant wheat extensively. We remember when cot ton ginners charged the 15th* but the people would not stand the heavy toll and then the ginners reduced it to the 20th and later began charging a certain price per hundred pounds of I cotton. If farmers are to raise wheat I they cannot afford to give the 12th [of it to have it threshed. ? B. Your duty to yourself, to your Family, to Society Demands that you look after the Safety of your funds. Thieves do Steal and Fire-brands Burn, but your money in this Bank is here for you when you want it. 1 he man who has his money in the Bank is the man with his mind at ease. FOR SALE? CELERY PLANTS ? Giant Paschal, Self Blanching, etc. 35 cents per hundred postpaid. $3.00 per 1000 Express. S. W. Everitt, Trucker, Oriental, N. C. THE PAIN CAUSED FROM PILES is very bad. Dr. Huns' Piles and Eczema Ointment will relieve you instantly. Creech Drug Co., Smith field, N. C. BINDER TWINE? A LARGE LOT just received. Can supply your needs. Roberts-Atkinson Co., Sel ma, N. C. READ "LLOYD GEORGE, THE Man and His Story," price one do lar. An interesting story of the life of one who has risen from lowly beginnings to the chief place in the government of one of the greatest nations in the world. Herald Office. NOTICE ? I HAVE TAKEN UP A white sow which I found in my cornfield. Mark: Crop and slit in left ear and slit in right. Owner can get her by paying expenses, in cluding cost of this notice. T. H. Daughtcry, Pine Level, N. C., R. 1. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE JOHNSTON COUNTY BANK & TRUST COMPANY, At Smithfield, N. at the Close of Business June 20, 1917. RESOURCES Loans and discounts $155,907.79 Overdrafts secured and unsecured 637.86 Banking Houses $ ; Furniture and Fixtures $2,225.20 2,225.20 Duo from National Banks 32,473.71 Due from State Banks and Bankers 600.00 Cash Items ' 160".59 Gold' coin 265.00 Silver coin, including all minor coin currency 825.97 National bank notes and other U. S. Notes 4,652.00 Total $197,748.12 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in $25,000.00 Surplus fund 1,500.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid 3,281.95 Notes and bills rediscounted 27,500.00 Bills payable 20,000.00 Deposits subject to check 77,424.85 Demand Certificates of Deposit 36,688.36 Savings Deposits 5,229.51 Cashier's Checks outstanding 738.65 Accrued Interest due depositors 384.80 Total $197,748.12 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, County of Johnston, June 29, 1917. I, T. C. Evans, Cashier of the above-named Bank, do solemnly swear that ?JT he above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. T. C. EVANS, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 29th day of June, 1917. LUTHER T. PIERCE, Notary Public. (My Commission Expires September 25th, 1917.) CORRECT? ATTEST: S. C. TURNAGE, F. H. PARRISH, E. J. WELLONS, Directors. 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