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COUNTRY NEEDS MEN OF ABILITY Or. Hiilis Discuss:: Slrikss anj InJusiria! linrost. THE BESELLiGa GF LABOR By Rev. Dr. NEWtLL DWKillT HILLIS.P??t? of Pivmoi/ih Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. What Is the matter with our working classes? What is the cause of our strikes and Industrial unrest? said I?r. Newell D w i g h t Hillis, pastor of Plym outh church, Brooklyn, In the latest of his series of sermons. He chose for his text, "Know ye not the sljrns of the KEY. l?. NEWELL ,4^,.. DWIG1IT n IIXI3. the last two years our people have sold billions of dollars of goo.ls in foodstuffs, am munition, to tlie war suffering states in Europe. The war trade has been a powerful stimulant to the industrial heart ami induced fevered conditions of trade. Now the country is b#?iu uing to liquidate its wage, just as in times of panic the country liquidates its inflated stocks and boom values. It is not wonderful that timid men are becoming alarmed and panic stricken. For a lonsr time strikes in one industry have been followed by strikes and riots in other industries until in their alarm many men anticipate the indus trial war and tl:e fulfillment of Her bert Spencer's prophecy as to immense bloodshed in the collision between the two warring classes, with the over throw of our government ami the es tablishment of a military despotism and a form of industrial slavery of the severest type. But there is no need for calling out tl militia because the street cars do not run or because we have no crcrtni for the morning's coffee and no gasoline for the auto. must the Worker Hate the Capitalist? During these tliree years of war trade two black passions have developed. Many rich men feel that money is the only thing worth having, and many poor men think that every worker must hate every rich man. A collision, there fore, was inevitable. The republic is founded upon the liberty of each citi zen to sell his labor for whatever he thinks it is worth or to give his labor away for nothing. Not long ncro a thousand union men, having decided not to work themselves for less than $3 a day, decided to kill any nonunion man who under stress of illness in his family was willing to work for $2.75 a day. But if a nonunion man is to be coerced by trims and clubs and st&nes what becomes of liberty? When one ox becomes greedy and horns the weaker ox away from the manger we call it brute force. When one savage in the South Seas drives the weaker savage from his little teut we call it barbarism. When one working man seeks to control another working man by the club it is anarchy. The gravity of the situation is not based on the number of men in this repuublic who seek to get their way by force of pis tol, bombshell and riot. The Power of Small but Deadly Forces. During the French revolution only 2 per cent of the people believed in brute force and the guillotine. Ninety-eight per cent of the people opposed the Red Terror movement. Two per cent seems a negligible quantity, and yet they burned the granaries, bams and ctaa teaus in the country, .blew up rich men's houses in the city, piled corpses up like cordwood and made the river Seine run red to the s< .i. (.rant that the apples in the orchard are of un usual size and sweetness, but if there be a speck of blight upon the fruit that decay will soon go to the heart and rot the fruit of the orchard. Granted that we have a hundred millions of people, a hundred and fifty billions of prop erty expressed in terms of cities, vil lages, factories, farms, mines and ships. If there be sin it will eat like a cancer, consume like rust and bring our boasted civilization to wreckage and ruin. Small, indeed, the germs of cholera and the black death, but they devastated England and r.-.Ined Europe. The History of Labor. The history of lalior is at once sad and heroic, pathetic and exlii'arating. tragic and glorious. In the dawn o! history, where the mists part, the work er first appears as a slave in Egypt, Greece and Route. Gentlemen did nol work. Workers we e bought and soli] like sheep and o:-.eii an !, growing old or sick, wore killed. Each palace had i. slave doorkeejter chain* ' to f!ie lintel the sailor was chained to 1? is oar and the porter to his cn vt. I valient, the slave was flitiged, tor'ur -1 ami stretch ed upon the rack, flnnir as f<w>?i to 111' lish or crucified. l>;irini; llmse hloodj feasts in the foli einn L"0,000 slave: were slain during tii ? g'.: Hatoria' games celebrating llic c .t'lronement o: an emperor. l ittle i>y !!(:'?"> men lxv^aii to question the master"-; ri,r'* of life oi death over his hond mci. 1 1> secret re volts were planned. The news of ih Insurrection of slaves >n Sicily sent n wave of terror over the empire. One young gladiator of gieat intellect plan ned a secret society and led the revo lution. This revolt of Spnrtacus was unto death. lie shook the whole Ro man empire. The revolt, ut last, was put dowu; hut, like &MBaon, Sixirticui pulled down tlie temple ami brought about the decline of the ltoman empire. When the dust from the ruins cleared away It was found that the ftlaxe had been succeeded by the serf. The serf j belonged to the estate and enjoyed cer t alne.l privileges. The tirst fourteen ! days of plowing belonged to his mas ter; ul'ter that Hodge could plow his own little field. The tirst seven days of harvest lielousred to my lord; after that Hodge could reap his allotted tle'.d. Every other lamb, calf and colt belong ed to my lord as did sixty days of milP tary service iu the winter. The Rebellion of Labor. Ib the beginning of the seventeenth CMtury the sorf* revolted. Secret leagues were formed. Weajions were collected and hidden. At ore and the same time begau the peasants' war In Germany, the Puritan revolution in England and later came the revolution in France. When the clouds and smoke of battle cleared away the worker wat free to go into the market and sell his labor. Immeasurable were his gains and yet, having achieved the wage sys tem, the wage was insufficient. Indeed, the early settlers in Virginia sold their labor for four years iu advance in re turn for their passage to this country. The New Industrial World. Today for worklngmen the whole world has become new. Gone the days of the patrician iMves, the serf Lazarus and the great gulf digged be tween. In the republic the difference between the poor man and the ricb man is a thing of goods on the out side and not of quality of manhood on the inside. Both vote at the same poll, and the two ballots are of equal worth. Both find the paths free and open leading to the schoolhouse, libra ry, college, to land, onice and honors. A law that is beneficent for one man is beneficent for all; a law that is evil for one casts its shadow over all. Grant the soldier and Lincoln the emancipa tor read the same newspapers, Joined in a political canvass, bought and sold at the store, as did millions of their fellow men. Andrew Carnegie begins as a messenger boy. Edison sells newspapers, Jim Hill toils as a farm hand, Marshall Field commences life at yr? n month and his keep, Sir William Vai^Horne resigns his position as a schoolteacher at $1S a month, builds a railway and loaves $."0,000, (KM). We all have the same chance that these men had, only we did not have the brains. The Door of Opportunity. These men went to a little school house, as did we all; went to a little church, as did we; had three hours every winter night for reading and planning, as did we. They organized their lives and selected a goal, made every minute march and won in a great race. The men who fifty years from now will control the great railways, banks, factories, newspaper offices are today building healthy bodies, training themselves to industry, initiative, self reliance, courage, paying no attention to what is called "luck." Senator In galls once said that Admiral Dewey was so fortunate that he threw double sixes twice in succession and that there was one man in every generation whose dish was always right side up when ever it rained. Hut the boy who be lieves in personal excellence and will not be defeated and toils on becomes so sensitive to the signs of the ap proaching hour when the gods will rain gold that his garments are always spread wide to receive the precious treasure. American Inefficiency Versus German Efficiency. For years our people have been fed on flattery and adulation. The writers pour forth an endless flood of honey suckle liquor. Gtvat is the United States ! What railways ! What steel plants ! What factories ! What gold ! What billions! If any one dare say anything about our inefficiency he is straightway lampooned. But look at the facts. Contrast the natural advan tages we i>ossess through the finest hematite iron ore, unique coking coal, the richest soil, with Germany's poor ore, lower grade coal, sandy Prussian soil. As for food, we have the finest wheat lands in the world in the north west, yet average fourteen bushels to the acre. Germany has sandy soil, carries her nitrates from Chile to the Prussian fields and raises thirty-five bushels of wheat to the acre. Several years ago American engineers to the number of 100 visited the Iron and steel plants of England, France and Germany. Preparing to visit the Krupp works, the women of the party feared to go to the smelters on account of the soot, lest they ruin their cloth ing. But. to the astonishment of ev ery one, the German superintendent told them they did not need black gloves and old wraps, but could wear their white gloves through the works. In the steel works at Pittsburgh 80 per cent of the coal goes out the top of the chimney, soot falls in Hakes, the visitor covers himself with an old raincoat and then rushes for the bath at his hotel. "But mark how German efficiency saves what we waste. The carbon rising through the chimney is strained out and rcburned; the gas is carried back into a little engine and exploded; other invisible gases are carried off in retorts and turned into chemicals, acids, explosives and dyes The Saving of Waste. The secretary of the Engineers' asso ciation once said in an address on th< subject that if Germany's resources oi Iron and coal and gas and oil equaled ours they would drive our employers into bankrupt y and our workmen int< poverty. For five years I have carried a certain knife. Even now the stee1 in one blade will all but shave the hah from the b??< k of one's hand. The last atom of phosphorus or sulphur was ex pelled. What the German workman has lacked In the material was madr Bp by accuracy, diligent e and skill. When the (>recian nun her found that the sword of licr sou was tt>o abort she told him to lengthen It by taking a stcj> nearer the enemy. But broud minded engineers and experts who arc wllti ig t ? tell t o truth atlt iu that our equality i.i any niauufactuilug depart ment is l.ased i 11 s< .. cthing that na ture an-l Provli :iee I ive ?' ?ne for us through the holier quality of lrou and coal. oil and gas, thus handi appinf our 'trcloce-ssora, who supplemented their iutet ? r i.au-rial with skill. The ti.j v I:.. 1'i ily tome for American work In rmon t>? look nt the facts in llie cu: e. Illiterate men, who cannot read nor write, can never hope to com pete with w or'.; 111 en trained in schools that have made them experts with ref erence to the material and the 'tool* that they are manufacturing. Fundamental Errors. Certain errors are fundamental for millions of American workers. Be cause the union has strengthened them on the one side they are unable to see how singularly they have been weak ened on the other side. The labor un ion has helped men iu different ways. The workman who has one day's labor to sell for $3 cannot make a good bap gain. but when a thousand men jolft wittj him and theif representative hua $3,000 WortL of labor to sell it in creases his chances. Again, by acting together the thousand men speak with so powerful a voice that they can secure safety devices for dangerous tools, can secure shorter hours, bet ter conditions, light, ventilation, for through mass and multitude they force recognition from the occasional seltlsh employer, acting together at last they have shortened the hours for the woman worker and passed a law against child labor. The cry of the children in the coal breakers of Penn sylvania, the cotton mills of the south and the woolen mills of New England Is very bitter, and the new child labor bill represents a great advance. But. Insisting upou all these gains, the worker has also lost much. Witness the bripht, eager, ambitious man and beside him the careless, half drunken workman. The former is keyed down to the level of the other man until the heart and hope are cut out of him. ?angers of the Mediocre Level. Edison secures his invention by toil ing not for eight hours, but often for forty-eight hours, gathering momentum until ut lust he succeeds. If the young lawyer, young physician, farmer, in ventor, orator or author were limited to eight hours, so as to give work to other doctors, inventors, writers, this country would be reduced to a level of mediocrity that would ruin social progress. There are three errors, there fore, that are fundamental. First, many workmen have been taught to hate capital as little children hate the bogy man or the devil. Capital is that dread ful ogre, Mephistopheles, that is al ways maneuvering, undermining and destroying the workman. You have heard workingmen pour forth bitter denunciations of capital. But this is as if the workman should hate the trade wind that Alls the ship's says, should hate the river that turns his turbine wheel, should hate the steam that pushes his locomotive, should hate the electricity that multiplies his hand a.nd his foot. What Capital Does. Capital is simply yesterday's labor granaried. Forethought saves the har vest in many varieties of glass jars, but capital cans, preserves and hands for ward in 500 different forms the accu mulated harvests of labor. Any man who has two loaves of bread and needs but one, two coats and can wear but one, two spades and can dig but with one? that man is a capitalist. The rich man of today Is the poor man of yesterday, carrying his many days' work forward with him in the form of capital. For the workingman to hate capital, therefore, is fyr him to hate the natural forces that multiply his per sonality through tools and the human forces incarnated in property ? that reaper that gives him bread, the loom that gives him clothing, the car and ship that bring him comforts, tools, conveniences, from distant lands. Alone, capital cannot fling a bridge across the river. Granted. But alone an Indian, representing labor, cannot fling steel cables across the river. Both must unite in the great achieve ment. The Need of Ability. What this country needs is a few men of ability to show the working men how to convert coal directly into electricity without the intervention of steam. Today we are wasting 80 per cent of our coal. There Is doubtless some poor boy living in the country who has the latent ability to solve ^his problem. When be solves it he will save the people of this country $300, 000,009 a year, expressed In coal. If he received $2"0.00n,000 a year and the people received $2."50,000,000 more as a free gift, never having done anything themselves, would It not be fair? in gratitude is like acid on a plow. This republic Is suffering grievously at the hands of agitators, who are going up and down the land sowing tares amid the wheat. The /rorp nerer hates the gardener. The purple clusters never tear oJT the bough and turn it Into n club against the husbandman dlgg'ng about the vine. We need as leaders men with the spirit of Abraham Lin coln, lib-hard Colnlen and Benjamin Franklin. The cause of the working man and labor Is ti e cause of tli" re public. One of the bitterest experl Mices that poor boys who have finally won out suffer is th" ?r-plclnn. envy and m'srei rrscif tl >n tint work like poison In the heirts of their people. We neod to distinguish lietween the true and false 1'"' ;i . of c i ? ? : 1 1 " y nn?' work out soi. e | ; ;i ,.i ,i ? t-o-o^ eration t lin ! v. i ve ? ; . now confront!: j our generation. NEW YORK MARRIAGE RECORD. In Nearly Every Instance, Bride groom Ik of Military Age. New York, July 31 ? The record for marriages was broken here today whin lt'4 ceremonies were performed, the bridegroom in almost every in stance being of military age. The number of marriage licenses issued was 294, considerably under the ex pectations of clerks when they saw long lines of young men and women waiting for the bureau to open this morning. The reduced number was due to the action of Thomas D. Mc Carthy, United States marshal, and a force of deputies, who appeared | early in the day and compelled every man of draft age who could not show his registration card to leave the building. NOTICE OF SUMMONS. State of North Carolina, County of Johnston, In the Superior Court, September Term, 1917. Mary liirch vs. Ed. Birch. The defendant above named will take notice: That an action entitled above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Johnston County, to dis solve the Bonds of Matrimony now existing between the Plaintiff and de fendant on statutory grounds; and, the said defendant will further take ( notice that he is required to appear | at the term of the Superior Court of j the said county to be held on the . Sixth Monday after the first Monday | of August, it being the 24th day of September, 1917, at the court house in the said county in Smithfield, North Carolina, and answer or demur to the complaint in the said action or the Plaintiff will apply to the court for relief demanded in the said complaint. This the 31st day of July, 1917. W. S. STEVENS, Clerk Superior Court. RAYr & COCKERIIAM, Attorneys for Plaintiff. NOTICE OF LAND SALE. Under and by virtue of the powers contained in a certain mortgage deed executed on February 4, 1915, by G. W. Lawhon and wife, Emma Lawhon, to Willie F. Starling and duly record ed in Book No. 24, page 38, Registry of Johnston County, and the same having been duly transferred to the undersigned, the conditions of said mortgage deed not having been com plied, I shall offer for sale to the highest bidder for Cash, at the Court House door, in Smithfield, Johnston County, N. C., at 12 o'clock M., on August 11th, 1917, the following de scribed tract of land: Beginning at a stake, J. A. Star ling's (now Willie F. Starling's) cor ner, and runs with W. S. Stevens' line to a stake his corner, on the Big Ditch; thence nearly South with John Sanders' line to an ash in a gut near Neuse River; thence down said gut to Neuse River; thence up Neuse River to a hickory stump, J. A. Star ling's corner (now Willie F. Sar ling's); thence with his line to the beginning, containing 45 acres, more or less. Also another tract containing 60% acres and known as the land that was given to Willie F. Starling by J. A. Starling, as will be found by refer ence to said Will, duly probated and recorded. July 19, 1917. WILLIE F. STARLING, SALLIE F. LAWHON, Transferees. NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE. That under and by virtue of the powers contained in a Judgment of the Superior Court in a matter en titled: A. F. FUTRELL vs. W. C. GATEWOOD ET ALS., I will on Sat urday, August 4th, 1917, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o'clock P. M., in front of the old Selma Grocery Company's building, on Raeford street, in the town of Selma, John ston County and State of North Car olina, offer for sr.le: That certain two-story brick build ing, 25 feet fronting on Raeford street and running back at right an gles 80 feet, and being the same now occupied by Preston Mozingo as a Grocery Store, and formerly occu pied by The Selma Grocery Company, to the highest bidder for Cash. This property is located in the best business district of Selma, North Carolina, and on one of the main streets. The terms of the sale are j Cash, and the sale will be made sub- j ject to confirmation of the Court. R. L. RAY, Commissioner. ; This July 5th, 1917. NOTICE. This is to notify the public gener ally that I have sold by business here tofore conducted as the Kenly Feed & Groccry Co., to Mr. Julian Rich ardson and he will continue to conduct i same under the title of Kenly Feed & Grocery Co. I am no longer con nected with the business in any ca pacity and will not be responsible for any obligations created or incurred by the present Kenly Feed & Gro cery Co., Julian Richardson, propri etor. i All obligations of the Kenly Feed & Groccry Co. prior to July 1, 1917, .will be settled by me. This the 5th day of July, 1917. STEPHEN H. ALFORD, Trading as KENLY FEED & GROCERY CO. PAUL D. GRADY, Attorney. No. 666 This U a prescription prepared especially lor MALARIA or CHILLS &, FEVER. Five or six dotes will break any case, and if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not return. It acts on the liver better than Calomel and does not gripe or sicken. 25c | ? ? Y ? 1 TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE TOWN OF SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA: I, H. L. Skinner, Mayor of the Town of Smithfield, N. C., hereby re quest your Honorable Body to pass as an emergency measure, the fol lowing and attached resolution, en titled, "A Resolution authorizing the paving with sheet asphalt pavement 1 of certain streets between designated ! points in the Town of Smithfield, N. ? C., and providing for assessment on I the abutting property owners to de- ' fray part of the cost of the same un- 1 der, and by virtue of, Chapter 56 of Public Laws of North Carolina, 1915." The said resolution authorizing the pavement of certain portions of Sec ond and Bridge Streets. I do hereby1 request that the said resolution be passed as an emergency measure at the regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of said j Town on this date. This 3rd day of July, 1917. H. L. SKINNER. Mayor. A Resolution authorizing the pav ing with Sheet Asphalt Pavement of certain streets between designated points and providing for assessment 1 on the abutting property owners to I defray part of the cost of same, under and by virtue of Chapter 5(5, Public Laws of North Carolina, 1915. Be it Resolved by the Board of Town Commissioners of the Town of J Smithfield: That Whereas Second Street, from Market Str,eet to Bridge or Smith Street, and Smith or Bridge Street, between Second Street and Neuse River Bridge, are badly in need of repairs and improvements, and the welfare and convenience of the public at large require that said streets should be graded, improved, and pav ed within the limits aforesaid, with asphalt or other suitable pavement, and the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Smithfield hereby find that the flbove improvement is neces sary; and, Whereas, further a majority of the owners, who represent .more than a majority of the lineal feet of front age abutting upon Second Street be tween Market Street and Bridge or Smith Street, and Bridge or Smith Street, between Second and Street and Neuse River Bridge, have peti tioned the Board of Commissioners of the Town of Smithfield, to pave the same with asphalt pavement, requir ing in said petition that two-thirds of the cost of said pavement be assesed upon their lots abutting directly on said streets, according to their re spective frontages thereon, by an equal rate per foot of said frontage; and Whertas the said petition was duly filed with the Clerk of the Town of Smithfield, who investigated the suffi ciency thereof and certified the re sult of his investigation to the Board of Commissioners of said Town to the effect that a majority in number of the owners, who represent more than a majority of all the lineal feet of frontage of the lands abutting upon Second Street between Market Street and Smith or Bridge Street, and Smith or Bridge Street between Sec ond Street and Neuse River Bridge, have duly signed said petition and that said petition complies with Chap ter 56 of Public Laws of 1915 in all respects; and Whereas the Board of Commission ers of the Town of Smithfield finds that the petition is sufficient in all re spects, and that Chapter 56 of Public Laws of 1915 has been complied with in all respects, as to the filing and certifying of this petition to the Board of Commissioners; and Whereas, the Board of Commission ers of the Town of Smithfield is of the opinion that all of the said streets above mentioned between the points designated and proposed to be paved, should be paved with asphalt of the kind and character required and speci fied by an Engineer to be employed by the Town to have charge of said construction; and Whereas, in order to secure unifor mity of work done, the Board of Commissioners is of the opinion that the work should be let out to con tract in whole, by order of this Board under the assistance of Gilbert C. White, the engineer employed by said Town, and that this method would be better and cheaper for the property owners and for the Town; and ttti ? i t-? i ? vy nereps, sam noara 01 commis sioners is of the opinion that the pavement aforesaid is the best and most suitable for said streets, and that said improvements should be made as aforesaid, to-wit, by contract for the whole work, and that two thirds of the cost of said pavement should be assessed upon the lots abutting directly on said streets, within the limits above prescribed, according to their respective front ages thereon by an equal rate per foot of said frontage: NOW THEREFORE, Be it and it is hereby resolved by the Board of Com missioners of the Town of Smithfield, N. C., in a regular meeting sitting this 3rd day of July, 1917, That Sec ond Street, between Market Street and Bridge or Smith Street, and Smith or Bridge Street, between Secont Street and Neuse River Bridge, be paved with asphalt pavement as' afore- j said, under and by virtue of Chapter 56 of the Public Laws of 1915, and the procedure thereunder as hereinbe fore set forth, and the General Laws of the State existing. And it is further resolved, That two-thirds of the cost of said pavement on each of the said streets aforesaid, within the limits prescribed, be hereinafter assessed upon the lots abutting directly upon said streets according to their front age thereon, by an equal rate per foot of said frontage, the assessment against the said lots abutting on said streets to be based upon the total cost of paving that street within the limits prescribed, upon which said lots abut, Exclusive of so much of the cost as may be incurrodlat street in tersections. Be it and it is hereby further re solved, That the proposition of the cost of said improvement herein pro vided for on the streets above desig nated, ?to be assessed upon the abut ting property, shall be divided into ten equal annual installments, the said installments bearing interest at the rate of six per cent per annum, from the date of the confirmation of the assessment roll, and shall become due and payable on the date on which lUU are payable, the first install ment to be due and payable on the date on which taxes for the year 1917 are due and payable, and each year thereafter for a period through and including the year 1926. E. S. SANDERS, Clerk. NOTICE OF SALE. That under and by virtue of an or der of J. B. Cheshire, Referee in Bankruptcy, I will, on Saturday, Au gust 4th, 1917, between the hours of 12 M., and 2 o'clock P. M., in the town of Selma, North Carolina, in front of the First National Bank, offer for sale the following real es tate to-wit: "One House and Lot belonging to Caldonia Turner, situate near the colored graded school in the town of Selma, North Carolina, and describ ed as follows: "Beginning at Mary Williams' corner on Smithfield street, and runs northwardly with the said street 75 feet to Eliza Richardson's corner; thence with Eliza Richardson's line eastwardly 75 feet to Claude Bell's corner; thence nerthwardly with Claude Bell's line to Mary Williams' corner; thence westwardly with Mary Williams' line 75 feet to the point of beginning, being the same land pur chased from J. H. Parker on Septem ber 23, 1903 by Caldonia Turner, and recorded in Book "A" No. 9 at page 548, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston County and. also the same identical land mortgaged to Nowell & Richardson, Inc., by Caldo nia Turner and husband, Will Turner, on September 20th, 1910, as will ap pear by reference to Book "V" No. 10, at page 116, in the office of Reg ister of Deeds of Johnston County." Terms of sale Cash. This June 30, 1917. S. P. WOOD, Trustee, | of Nowell & Richardson, Bankrupts. [RAY & COCKERHAM, Attorneys, ^ ? I ' ? . ? ? ? ? NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Administrator on the estate of Gaston Grantham, deceased, hereby . notifies all persons havinjf claims, against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 29th day of June, 1918, or this noticc will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate pay ment. This 28th day of June, 1917. W. A. POWELL, Administrator. SALE UNDER EXECUTION. By virtue of authority of an execu tion directed to the undersigned from the Clerk of the Superior Court of Johnston County in an action entitled P. B. Johnson vs. J. A. Parker, et als, I will offer for sale for cash to the highest bidder, before the Court House door of said County, on the 13th day of August, 1917, at 12:00 M., the following described property, to wit: , Beginning at a stake in the run of Hannah's Creek, J. I. Parker's cor ner, and runs with his line N. 28 chains to a maple at the run of Beaver Dam Swamp; thence up the run of said Beaver Dam Swamp to the mouth of a branch; thence up said branch 1 chain to a gum; thence N. 8 W. 22.50 to a stake; thence with Noah Parker's line S. 20 W. 24.f>0 chains to a gum at the run of Hannah's Creek; thence down the run of said creek to the beginning, containing 61 acres excepting from the above description 36% acres sold to J. S. Parker by deed recorded Registry Book "J" No. 9, page 136. This 19th day of July, 1917. W. F. GRIMES, Sheriff of Johnston County. SALE UNDER EXECUTION. By virtue of authority of an exe cution directed to the undersigned from the Clerk of the Superior Court, of Johnston County in an action en titled J. G. .Barbour & Sons vs. H. R. Goodson, I will offer for sale for cash, to the highest bidder, before the Coqrt House door of said county, on the 13th day of August, 1917, at 12:00 M., the following described property, to-wit: Beginning at a stake in the line of the North Carolina Railroad and runs with said Railroad West to the 'culvert, on said Railroad; thence down | the run of branch running from said .Culvert to the fork of said branch; ! thence up the East prong of said branch to a white oak at the head of I said piong, corner of land owned by jClavton Cotton Mill Company, thence | witn the line of said Clayton Cotton Mills Company's land S. 76% W. 4.91 chains to the beginning, con taining 4% acres less one-fourth of an acre known as the homestead of said H. R. Goodson. SECOND TRACT: Beginning at a stake, E. B. Blake's corner, runs S. 68% E. 2.27 chains to a street; thence S. 2.20 W. with said street to Harry Durham's line; thence N. 68% W. to Harry Durham's line 1.80 chains to a stake;- thence N. 2% E. 1.60 chains to the beginning, containing 8-25 of an acre. Known as the lot conveyed to H. R. Goodson by W. J. Campbell by deed December 10, 1912, recorded in Book "G" No. 12, page 534. THIRD TRACT: Beginning at a stake in Harry Durham's line, runs N. 21% East 2.16 chains to a stake, E. B. Blake's corner; thence his line S. 86 E. 3.20 chains to a stake his corner; thence S. 3.30 chains to a stake in Harry Durham's line; thence his line N. 68% W. 4.29 chains to the beginning, containing one acre, more or less. Known as the lot conveyed to H. R. Goodson by W. J. Campbell by deed dated November 14, 1912, re corded in Book "G" No. 12, page 531. This 19th dav of July, 1917. W F. GRIMES, Sheriff of Johnston County.
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