Is Your Farm Big Enough? Or, do you wish to spread out, and make MORE twenty-five-cent-a-pound cotton
and MORE high price tobacco, corn and other products? If you are capable of handling more land than you
now have, wouldn't it be a good idea to look around for more before the price goes up? If you are not satisfied
with what you now have, read this.
We are offering, at an exceedingly low price , 328 acres of land, located about four miles from Smithfield, on a
splendid road. There are about 175 acres cleared and the land is just about as good as you could wish. No
better pasture could be found anywhere. Four dwellings. Excellent neighborhood and close to school and
church. You will be surprised to know how cheaply this place can be bought. It will not be on the market
long. We would consider a trade for the place you now own.
ABELL & GRAY, Smithfield, N. C.
Insurance and Real Estate
Tailoring Opening
July 30, 31 and Aug. 1st
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Featuring the Complete Advance Showing of a Beau
tiful Line of Fall and Winter Woolens and Style
Models from the Great Custom Tailoring House of
Schloss Bros. & Co.
Baltimore and New York
Mr. C. E. Boerner will be in charge.
N. B. Grantham
SMITHFIELD, N. C.
INCREASES IN FOOD PRICES.'
I
Within Last Throe Years as Shown
by Department of Labor
Statistics.
Heavy increases in retail food
prices in the United States within
the last three years ore shown in
statistics compiled by the department
of labor. The sharpest advance was
in flour, which jumped 150 per cent
in price. Potatoes increased 125 per
cent; lard eighty-two per cent; sugar
seventy-nine per cent; corn meal
seventy-seven per cent; bacon fifty
six per cent and bread fifty-five per
cent.
During tne first year of the war,
many prices decreased slightly, but
by the summer of 1916 they were
mounting rapidly. Most of the in
crease was during the last twelve
months.
Wholesale prices of many commod
ities have more than doubled since
1914. Wheat and flour have increas
ed 200 per cent; corn 140 per cent;
corn meal 170 per cent; potatoes 140
per cent; lard 107 per cent; beef
seventy-six per cent, and hog.i sev
tnty-nine per cent.
Panama Canal tolls for the year
just ended showed a total of $5,872,
244 as compared with $2,554,576 the
preceding year, an increase of ap
proximately 130 per cent.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS AT?
Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield,
N. C.
THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING &
Loan Association has helped s
number of people to build homea.
It will help others, and maybe >ou.
New series of shares now open.
See Mr. J. J. Broadhurat. ?
j ICE CREAM FREEZERS AT?
Cotter Hardware Co., Smithfield,
N. C.
NITRATE OF SODA AND TOP
Dressers ? We have just received a
pood supply of Nitrate of Soda and
Top Dresser. We also have several
brands of fertilizers, Acid and a
small lot of Cotton Seed Meal. This
is the year to use fertilizers freely, i
Make your crops produce as much i
as possible or you will miss the full
benefit of the present high prices.
See us at once. Farmers Mercan
tile Co., Selma, N. C.
LARGE LOT OF TOBACCO
trucks on hand, iron nnd wooden
wheels. Cotter Hardware Com
pany, Smithfield, N. C.
TWO MORE FRESH YOUNG JER
sey milch cows for sale. W. R.
Lonjr, Smithfield, N. C.
Success and happiness are only to
be had in frivin# up our own will. ?
Gen. Gordon.
LOST AT SELMA ON JULY 24TH?
An automobile roar lamp and aato
Number N. C. ? 11005. Finder will
please bring same to Herald Office
and receive reward.
SEE COTTER HARDWARE COM
pany for your Tobacco Trucks, iron
and wooden wheels. Smithfield,
N. C.
Din YOU EVER READ THAT
groat little story "Ten Nights In a
Barroom?" If not get a copy at
Herald Office. Price only 5 cents.
By ir-il 8 cents.
LARGE LOT OF TOBACCO
trucks on hand, iron and wooden
wheels. Cotter Hardware Com
pany, Smithfield, N. C.
FOR SALE? SWEET PF.PPER FOR
hash, 25 cents per peck. C. S.
Powell, Smithfield, N. C.
BIG LOT OF CEDAR SHINGLES
4x18. Cotter Hardware Co., Smith
field, N. C.
BARGAINS? 5t PAIRS OF LA
dies' fine Oxfords, $2.00 to $4.00
values, going at from 50c to $1.00
per pair as long as they last.
Nothing larger than size four.
Come early and choose the best
bargains in Men's Shoe3 and Slip
pers. Farmers Mercantile Co.,
Selma, N. C.
HOST ? PACKAGE CONTAINING
2% yards white Lawnsdale Cambric,
2 yards White Lawn, IVi yards
embroidery edge, 3 yards Lace, half
yard White Organdy, wrapped in
paper bearing W. L. Woodall &
Sons name. Finder please return to
Herald Office or the undersigned.
Mrs. N. M. Lawrence, Smithfield,
N. C.
BOARDERS WANTED? ON Au
gust 1st, I shall move into the
home now occupied by Mr. and
Mrs. W. W. Cole, and will be pre
pared to take boarders. Mrs. Ella
Baker, Smithfield, N. C.
Two Farms
For Sale
For Sale ? Two nice Farms
within a mile of Selma. Will
sell on terms to suit purchaser.
W. A. GREEN
Selma, N. C. I
I HAVE FOR SALE TWO TRIP LOG
carts. They are in good condition.
Apply at once if you want one or
both of them. H. V. Faulkner,
Smithfield, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1.
LARGE LOT OF SCREEN DOORS
and window Screens at Cotter
Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
SEE US FOR FRUIT JARS? COT
ter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C.
LOOK ON YOUR LABEL, AND IF
your subscription is in arrears re
member the printer. He has to pay
weekly for the cost of getting out
the paper. Paying up when youi
time is out helps us.
rURNER'S NORTH CAROLINA
Almanaci for 1917 now on sale at
The Herald Office. Price ten cent*.
OVERSEERS' NOTICE.
All the Road Overseers of Oneals
township are asked to work their
roads and report to the Supervisors,
at Hare's Store, the first Saturday in
August, being August 4th, 1917.
This July 19, 1917.
W. H. GODWIN, J. P.
I WANT TO SELL MY PONY? SHE
weighs about eight hundred pounds
and is gentle and reliable for fam
ily driving. E. F. Crump, at
Smithfield Cotton Mills.
FRESH JERSEY MILK COW FOR
sale. E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C.
SEE COTTER HARDWARE COM
, pany fQr your Tobacco Trucks, iron
and wooden wheels. Smithfield,
N. C.
FOR SALE? ONE NICE MARE
mule 5 years old, weight about 958
pounds. Come quick if you want a
good mule. J. S. Benson, Clayton,
N. C., Route No. 1.
TWO LAWN SWINGS? WORTH $9,
tfoing1 at $0.00. Austin-Stephensoc
Co., Smithfield, N. C.
LARGE LOT OF TOBACCO
trucks on hand, iron and wooden
wheels. Cotter Hardware Com
pany, Smithfield, N. C.
BIG LOT OF CEDAR SHINGLES
4x18. Cotter Hardware Co., Smith
field, N. C.
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