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THE SM1THFIELD HERALD Published Every Tuesday ?nd Friday. I WATCH YOUR LABEL. No receipt will be sent for ?ub >cription. Each subscriber is asked to watch the little yellow label on his ?aper. If the label is not changed within thre? weeks after remittance Is made, the subscriber should notify 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. Hot Weather In Smithfield. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year in Smithfield, the mercury climbing to 97, according to the re port of Mr. E. S. Sanders, weather Observer. The lowest temperature for the day was 75. This morning at 8 o'clock the thermometer stood at 82. ? "? '''? ? - New York Architect Here. Mr. Spm Coley, an architect of New York City, arrived last night to look over the Smithfield Hotel and make plans for the remodeling of the building. It will be interesting to note that ]\lr. Coley, as a boy, lived in Smithfield while hij mother was here running the Smithfield Hotel. Woman Robbed on Smithfield Streets. Last Saturday night Mrs. Ed. Warren, who lives in the southern part of Smithfield, came up town to do some trading. She bought a pack age of goods which she carricd home herself. She had some money in a small satchel which she held in one of her hands. After doing her trading she started home. She passed the end of an alley way just west of the Banner Warehouse when suddenly a negro from behind her stepped up to her left side and snatched from her the satchel which contained her money. She had presence of mind and after screaming for help said: "Get him Chief Turner." The negro thinking the police was near dropped the satchel and ran through the warehouse. Policeman Turner was in formed of the occurrence and the man was described by Mrs. W:\rren. She said she did not know th<? name but knew the man and said he had driven a wagon for Mr. W. M. San ders. Jesse Boylan and one of his brothers were arrested and carried to her but she exonerated them. Later she identified Junie Brooks a son of Laura Brooks as the man who com mitted the theft. The color of his shirt, the color of his pants, his necktie and his cap besides his gen eral appearance agreed with a de scription she had given of him before he was brought to her. He had a preliminary hearing Sunday after noon before Mr. J. W. Stephenson and ;s being tried today before Judge F. II. 3rooks. Enjoyable Dance. A mo?t enjoyable dance was given by the young people of Smithfield last Friday evening at the Municipal building. The music was furnished by a splendid architect from Raleigh. Delicious punch was served during the course of the evening. Mrs. Har ry Stevens gracefully presided over the punch bowl. The chaperones were: Mrs. H. P. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Skinner, Mrs. E. W. Pou. Those dancing were Misses Marga ret Sprin, of Georgetown, S. C.; Jo ret Springs, of Georgetown, S. C.; Jo Grace Wynne, of Raleigh, N. C.; Mar garet Moore, Mabel Wellons, Annette Lawrence, Margaret Pou, Frances Sanders, Hazel Gillette, Sara San ders, Annie Ihrie Pou, Charlotte Avera, Caroline Avera, Sadie Pitt man, Dunn; Janie Jackson, Dunn; and Miss Rand, of Norfolk, Va; Messrs. Edwin Cooper, of Dunn; John White Ives, Raleigh; Edward Abell, Jr., William Sanders, Jr., Ryal Woodall, Jesse Ellington, William Wellons, Dixon Wallace, John Avera, Ransom Sanders. Walter Parrish, Arthur Narron, Jesse Adams, Four Oaks; Harper Holliday, P. H. Whitehead, and Dick Taylor, of Dunn. ? X. Here From Georgia. Rev. Whitley Langston, wife and two sons, of Valdosta, Ga., were here Saturday. They made the trip from their Georgia home by motor. They went down to Bentonsville townshp to visit relatives. From there they will go to Asheville and Junaluska for ,? few days. Mr. Langston is Pre siding* Elder of the Valdosta District. FINDS NO TRACE OF MALARIA AT HAND PONI). Smithfield, N. C., July 28. 1917. Dear Sir: After making a care ful investigation of the Rand Pond I am of the opinion that it is not a nuisance to the Public Health. 1 can find no trace of malaria, and can see no evidence which would justify me to believe that it causes the spread of disease of any character what ever. Yours very trulv, THEL HOOKS, County Health Officer. To Study for Y. M. C. A. Work. Mr. I. W. Medlin, of New Bern, who for the past two years has been Field Secretary of the North Caro lina Conference Epworth League, was in town a few days this week. Mr. Medlin has given up his work as Field Secretary to enter the Y. M. C. A. Work among the soldiers. He will leave Friday night for Blue Ridge, N. C., where he will take a special three weeks' course in Army Y. M. C. A. work. If, after complet ing this course all examinations are successfully passed, Mr. Medlin will be assigned to some one of the army training camps. W. H. Ktheredge lie-Appointed. The news is sent out from Wash ington that the Senate has confirm ed the appointment of a number of North Carolina postmasters. Among the number we note the naming of Mr. William II. Etheredge who has been re-appointed postmaster atjg Selma. Canning Demonstration. There will be a canning demon stration at New Hope school house Thursday, August 2, at ten o'clock. All ladies interested are requested to be present. MISS NELL PICKENS, Home Demonstration Agent. Three Germans Still Left. We heard the other day of a man who claims to have kept up with all the German casualty lists as they have been published in the newspapers sincc the war began three years ago. These reports have not all come from the German official lists, but they are those sent from Europe uncensoied. According to the figures of the man who has kept up with them there are only three Germans left in the Empire, basing his report on the lat est census figures. According to the newspaper reports of the killed and capture'' there has been terrible slaughter in the Kaiser's domains. The man who compiled the figures thinks that the three who have not yet be?n killed are the Kaiser, the; Crown Prince and General Hinden burg. A Call to the Farmers. The farmers of Johnston County are invited to meet me at Court House in Smithfield, 10 o'clock Monday morning, August Gth, to hear plans discussed and go before County Commissioners asking their assist ance in securing a Cotton Grader for Johnston County. W. C. HARPER. Furlough Issued In 1864. Mr. Elisha Wallace, (Better known as Dick Wallace) was in our office Friday and showed us a qopy of the furlough granted him to come home from the Confederate Arfny in 1864 when he claimed that he had the measles. The doctors pronounced the case measles. Mr. Wallace now says he did not have measles. Here is the way the furlough reads: "Gen. Hospital No. 1, "Kittrell's Springs, N. C., December 1, 1864. "Private Elisha Wallis, Company H, 2 N. C., Jun. Reserves, is hereby furloughed for Ffteen Days under General Orders No. 9, Headquarters Reserves. "Quartermaster will furnish trans portation. "H. T. BUTT, "Surgeon in Charge." Meeting Farmers Union. The members of Farmers Union of Johnston County are urged to be present at County Meeting Thursday, August 2, 10 o'clock A. M., in Hall of Farmers Union Company, Selma. We desire every Local represented. W. C. HARPER, Secretary. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Mr. Walter Parrish made a busi ness trip to Benson yesterday. ? ? ? Mr. J. M. Lawhon, of Peacock's Cross Roads section, was here yester day. * ? ? Mr. Lacy John spent the week-end in and around Rich Square with friends. ? ? ? ? Rev. W. H. Wall, of Middlesex, spent Sunday night here with Mr. E. F. Crump. ? ? ? Mr. T. R. llood spend Sunday night in Raleigh with his daughter, Mrs. R. S. Stevens. ? ? ? Mr. W. H. Stegal who is buying tobacco at Cheraw, S. C., spent the week-end here. ? * ? Mr. J. H. Holland, of Kenly, was here last Sunday to visit his brother, Mr. W. T. Holland. ? 99 Mrs. F. H. Brooks returned from Asheville Saturday, after a few weeks' stay with her mother. ? * ? Mr. Joe Cotton and daughters, of Mississippi, arrived Saturday to visit his brother, Rev. S. A. Cotton. ? ? ? Mr. Robert W. Sanders, who is at work fn Durham, is at home for his vacation, arriving Saturday night. ? ? ? Messrs. H. S. Ogburn, P. H. Young blood, and F. Hunter Creech made a business trip to Raleigh yesterday. ? ? ? Mr. J. C. Standi left Saturday night for Rever Edge New Jersey, after spending a week here with his family. ? * * ? Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Peacock and little son have returned to Chicago, after spending some time here with relatives. ? ? ? Mrs. W. W. Jordan and children and her father, Mr. Blackwell, left yesterday to spend some time in Reidsville. ? ? ? Mrs. James H. Kirkman and two sons left last week for a visit to rela tives and friends in Fayctteville, Maxton and Laurinburg. ? ? ? Miss Eva Coats returned from Greensboro Saturday where she has been ntt mding the Summer School at the State Normal College. Miss Mildred Yarborough, of Spring Hope, returned to her home Monday, after a few days stay in the city with Mrs. W. II. Byrd. ? * ? Miss Annie Peacock and Miss Leo la Smith, of Benson, will leave to morrow to spend several days at Black Mountain and Junaluska. ? * * Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ross Pou left for Washington City Friday night to I spend some time, Mr. Pou having du- 1 ties there as his father's secretary. ? ? ? Miss May Moore left Saturday to spend some days in attending the Sunday School Conference at Mon treat in the Western part of the State. * * * Mr. Clyde Peacock left Thursday night to return to Chicago where he has a responsible position in the big stores of Marshall Field and Com pany. ? ? ? Mr. G. W. Cavenaugh, of McI)on ough, Ga., and Messrs: J. S. and M. J. Cavenaugh, of Wallace, N. C., were here this morning and called to see us. ? ? * Miss Birdie Kornegay who has a position is stenographer in the law offices of Wellons & Wellons, left last week to spend several days at Tarboro and Ocean View. * * * Mr. Horace Easom who has been aiding Rev. Fred N. Day in a meet ing at Spring Branch church in Sampson, is at home for a few days with his father, Mr. J. II. Easom. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Perkins, with three children, Mabel, Hazel and little John, Jr., of Wendell, N. C., spent the day here Sunday at the ; home of their son, Mr. N. L. Perkins. 1 ? ? ? Miss Clara Young, stenographer and bookkeeper in the store of the Austin-Stephenson Company, is ex pected to return tonight from Juna luska where she has been attending the Epworth League Conference. ? ? ? Mr. W. H. Heiselman, who has been connected with the paving work in Smithfield as foreman of the curb gang, left Saturday to return to his home in Brooklyn, N. Y. He expects to be called into the army at an early day. ? ? ? Mr. J. B. Hudson, Miss Mattie Hud- ' son and Mr. Gardner Hudson, accom- 1 I panied by Mrs. Gordon Weeks and. Miss I.ocile Rose, motored to Ral- ( eigh to see Mrs. J. B. Hudson who is , in Rex Hospital, having gone there last Tuesday for treatment. "I Evangelist Fred N. Day will aid Rev. C. E. Stevens in a meeting at Pine Level Baptist church, beginning on the second Sunday in August at 11 o'clock. Mr. 11. B. Easom will lead the singing. . ? ? ? There will be a special service at Hophnibah Baptist church the first Su'.daj in August at 4 o'clock. Bo lides the regular service an effort will l>" made looking to the building of a :iew church. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Austin and children, Margart Lee and Bill Joe, Mr. T. E. Austin, of Roxboro, Or. J. H. Austin, of Four Oaks, and Mrs. W. S. Stevens left Sunday on Mr. Austin's Cadillac for a motor trip to Baltimore. They expect to be away about a week. Meeting Postponed. The revival meeting which was to begin at Bethesda h?st week lias been | postponed until the fourth Synday in August. M is* Pickens To the West. M iss Nell Pickens, home demon stration agent for Johnston County, left Saturday for the western part of the State to attend farmers in stitutes in Lincoln, Gaston and Mc Dowell counties, and give demonstra tions in c?nning work. The work of M iss Pickens l;as attracted attention elsewhere and the State Department is calling on her to show others. The House of \\ indsor. George V. has renamed the Royal Family. Its German origins, the Ger man language or accent of some of its numbers, are familiar enough. The House of Hanover, the books used to call it. It has a thin strain of Stuart blood, and there is Danish in the contemporary members. Compound, indeed, is any exogamous royal line, tut the English has more German than it is proud of. The Prince Con sort was of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha house, whose chief business is breed ing and furnishing Kings. Saxe Coburg, Gotha, and all other German titles and degrees whatsoever are solemnly renounced by King George in behalf of himself and all the other descendants of his and their grand mother Victoria living in Great Bri tain; and the House of Windsor is to be the name and title of the royal house and family. If Lloyd George seems a little more out of p\ace than, say, the Archbish op of Canterbury at the meeting of the Privy Council where the unnam ing and renaming were announced and approved, we arc to remember that the King as a symbol of British unity is useful, beloved, permanent, during good behavior, the historical decoration of a mighty democracy. Windsor, the view from the north terrace of the Castle, the shining riv er, Eton, the great park where flour ish trees of the ancient royal forest where William the Conqueror hunted, are old friends of Americans innu merable. Splendors of history, archi tecture, of art, are there, but the sense of continuity, of ancientness, is perhaps the prevailing impression Windsor gives. The Anglo-Saxon Kings had a fortress there. There for hundreds of years has been the main home of the English Kings. There, where King Arthur, in the legend sat among the Knights of the Table Round, Edward III, built the Castle for the meeting of the Knights of the Garter. King George has chosen a venerable name for his house. Mr. Kipling irreverently anticipated him in "'Ere's to the Widow at Windsor!" ? New York Times. There's never a burden so heavy That it might not be heavier still; There is never so bitter a sorrow That the cup could not fuller fill. ? Helen Hunt Jackson. THE SM1THFIELD MARKET. Cotton 25 Cotton seed 1.00 Wool 15 to 22*6 Fat Cattle 5 to 6% Eggs 25 to 30 Fat cattle, dressed 11 to 12% Granulated Sugar 9 to 10 Corn 1.75 to 2.00 C. R. Sides 24 to 25 Feed Oats 1.00 to 1.10 Fresh Pork 12% to 15 Hams, per pound 26 to 27 I-ard 22% to 27% Timothy Hay 1.40 to 1.50 Cheese per pound 35 Butter per pound 39 to 35 Meal 4.75 to 5.00 Flour per sack 6.50 to 7.00 Coffee per pound 18 to 20 Cotton seed meal 2.25 to 2.50 Cotton seed hulls 1.00 Ship Stuff 2.60 to 2.75 Molasses Feed 2.60 to 2.75 Hides, prreen 12% to 15 Stock peas per bushel 2.00 Black-eye peas 2.25 Beef Pulp 2.50 Soup peas 3.00 W. L. Woodall & Sons Smithfield's Shopping Center Did You Visit Woodall's Last Saturday? If not ask your neighbor. She will tell you about the DOLLARS SHE SAVED by buy ing here on Saturday. Again we are going to REAEAT for Next Saturday, Aug. 4th the same Dollar Day Bargains. So come and bring your friends. 11 Yards Dress Ginghams, 12Vj?c value, $1.00 8 Yards 15c Bleaching for 1.00 11 Yards Good Quality Unbleeched Sheeting for 1.00 2 Yards Silk Shirting for 1.00 12 Yards Dress Lawns, 10c quality, for 1.00 8 Yards 27-inch Lawns and Voiles, 15c-cent value 1.00 5 Yards 25 cent Voiles for 1.00 5 Pair 25-cent Hose 1.00 2 Pair 50-cent and 1 pair 25-cent Hose 1.00 25 Per cent off on all Dresses. , 25 per cent off on all Slippers. 25 per cdnt of on all Waists. 15 per cent off on all Laces. Lots of other Bargains. W. L. Woodall & Sons Smith field, N. C. Banner Warehouse SMITHFIELD, N. C. If you want a load of Tobacco Graded for the Opening Sale, Aug. 2 1 st Bring it to the Banner Warehouse and we will have it ready for you and will guaran tee you satisfaction both as to grading and prices. Tobacco is going to be higher than it was last season, is our opinion. Do not let the pinhookers fool you. Skinner & Patterson Proprietors Our price for grading will be $1 25 per hundred. Mr. Reader, Do You Buy or Borrow The Herald? 1 ac:^ve Service Dollars that are put to no practical use are idle and profitless. Invested in a Savings Account they at once enter upon gainful and necessary duties. They serve to keep prosperity going; they earn interest in this Institution at the rate of 4 per cent yearly. Our officers invite you to begin saving today. Open an account with one dollar. The First National Bank Smithfield, N. C. T. R. HOOD, President. R. N. AYCOCK, Cashier.