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THE SMIIHFIELD HERALD Published Every Tueaday and Friday. cess jsacc zxiczzzzzxrzxzz BEATY & HOTTER Editors and Proprietors, SmithfieM, N. C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: m Caiih In Advance oEe year, .. .. 1 1.5" Fight Months, .... 1.00 Six Months. .75 Three Month*. .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnaton County, N. C., an Second-rl.'iaa Matter. STAND BY THE HOARDS. A great many people stem not to understand the work of the local ex emption boards. These hoards have been appointed by the President of the United States to examine and make report on all men who appear before them. It is being talked by some, who are doubtless ignorant of the work of these boards, that the boards can keep the sons of Johnston from {join ? to the war if they will try. It is surprising to think that any man or set of men of average intelli gence does not know better. Those who say such things should stop right now and consider their action. This is a time to obey the law and keep your mouth shut and the man who is trying to make the people believe that the exemption boards can keep a fit subject out of the war is doing that that will stir up strife and is not proving himself to be as good a friend of the government as he ought to be. The men who are put on the ex emption boards in Johnston County are honorable men. They have been placed in their present positions "lie cause the government has confidence in their honesty end uprightness of character. They are called on to per form a most serious and important work and it is the patriotic duty of every man and every women to make their work as light as possible by standing by them and encouraging them in the discharge of their duty. They do not want to send any moth er's son tc war. But they have a duty to perform, not to send men to war, but to apply the rules of the War Department to every man who comes before them for examination. Every man who comes before them has to be measured by the War Department's test, and if he comes within the rules he must go to fight for his \ country. The exemption boards have no right to keep him back or to send him on. They must follow the rules laid down for their guidance. They would not be true to their President, their country or themseluves if they did otherwise. And it is the most solemn ' duty of every man and every woman to stand by the government in this hour, and standing by the exemption boards in their work is standing by the government, for they are part of the government. BE CAREFUL TO MEET THE] EXEMPTION BOARDS. The man who is deliberately absent ing himself from appearing before the exemption boards is placing him- ! self in a very awkward position to say the least. His .country has called for him and it is his duty to pre sent himself before the exemption board for examination. If he fails to do this when called after a certain length of time he wll be enrolled as a member of the army and then the army officers will look after him. News frc m Washington says that such a man will be regarded as a deserter and treated accordngly. HELPERS NOT HINDERERS. Those men in Congress who are apposed to the udministrAtion and the war and are constantly trying to hamper the work of the President | and hi3 plans ought to either, keep their mouths closed or resign their seats. If they cannot be helpers they ought to be patriotic enough not i to be hinderers. THE HAPPIEST FOLKS. ? I About the happiest people we have are thos" who have jobs and believe ' in sticking to them until they are finished regardless of the clock. Clock] watchers and time killers are never satisfied. They are always fearful , that their employer will make some profit off their labor. (The men among the lal>oring classes who have best i succeeded and risen to any degree of prominence are those whose first and sole object has been to render service commensurate Wth tht* compensation received. If it required a little over time work to complete the immediate job in hand they have gladly given "it. For illustration read the follow ing from the Boston Monitor: "Hours of labor do not bother the birds, and, fortunately, neither does the high cost of living. The thrush, for instance, ^ets up at half past two these summer mornings, and works in dustriously for nineteen hours, dur ing which he feuds his growing fam ily over two hundred times." THE HIGHWAY THROUGH BOON Mill Several years ago the people of North Carolina decided they wanted a good road from the mountains to the sea coast and accordingly the legis lature passed a law for the Central Highway to be built. A vast amount of work was done on it and the suc cess of the Highway bi?ilding sur passed the expectations of many of even its warmest advocates. In this section of the State there was one small link which gave trouble, and that is the part of the highway across Boon Hill township. At first there was no money available for this work. Hut several months ago Boon Hill township voted bonds and now that the money is in hand it is thought the roal should have been built ere this time. Shall we have another winter of that bad road? We hope not. We hope the road commission ers of Boon Hill will not let this mat ter wait longer, but will go ahead with the work. It is said that the United States government is very anxious for the completion of the highways leading to the coast on ac count of the war. If the United States government should have to have any thing on the highways in the winter it would have a hurd time getting its load;, across Boon Hill township, unless the roads are worked. Hut the thing to do is to build the roads. They cannot get much work in winter and it is important to do it now. NITRATE OF SODA. Nitrate of Soda is a wonderful fer tilizer, hut its pricc is fretting be yond the point where it can be profit ably used. It is at least twenty dol lars per ton higher than it was last winter and may go high- r. The last lot received in Smithfield this sum mer sold for one hundred dollars per ton to parties who bought it on fall time. Tile planting of peas and the raising of stable manure would do away with the necessity for so much soda, but so many farmers are dis posed to neglect either partly or wholy the se two things. The time for sowing peas is about past, but we can arrange for raising stable manure and the time will soon be here to gather seed peas for next year's crop. Another thing which will help would be to trade cotton seed for cotton seed meal. Everything should i>e done to get ammonia without having to buy so much nitrate of soda. Want to He State Librarian. The resignation of State Librarian Miles O. Sherrill, who has held the place 18 years, has opened another j good job for somebody. Already there are candidates for the place. Mar shall I>e Laneey Haywood would like to have the position, and Judge Wal ter Clark is recommending the As jsistant Librarian, Miss Carrie I Broughton. A. J. Field, Editor of the State Journal, would also like to ' have the job. The salary of the State 1 Librarian is $l,~-r>0 per year and that iof the Assistant is $900. We Know You Are Reading It. As a ccrtain editor said, "If you feel I like cubing us for what appears iti I these columns, let 'er rip. We know then that you road the papi>r." A Merchant Took a long Trip. On July 31st, Mr. Henry F. Edger ton returned to Kenly with his fam ily, who accompanied him on a long automobile trip through eleven States After leaving North Carolina they went through South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Mary land and Virginia. They spent a short while in Canada and stopped, amonjr other places, in Washington, 1). C. Mr. Edgerton s=ays he saw a lot of the best fi?rmin;r done anywhere in the whole country. He saw much fine corn in the States west of hero. The best field of corn he saw on the trip was that of Mr. Walter Woodard near Wilson. Two weeks of the trip was spent with Mr. Edgerton's brother, Mr. John E. Edgcrton, in Tennessee. Mr. John E. Edgerton left North Carolina seven 1 years ago to make his home there. He married in T'nnessee and is now quite an influential man of that State. He is President of the State Manufacturers Association and a director of the National Manufact urers Association. He is connected with th<' good roads work of that State and a lqadcr in his church and in the Christian work of his denomin ation. Recently ho took a leading part in defeating certain flonrtitu 'ional amendments which some were trying to get adopted in Tennessee. We are always glad for our people who leave us to do things, and Mr. John Edgerton is one of the men who I has honored himself and the old homo county which gave him birth by what I he has done since he became a man. His home was a pleasant place to stop on the long trip taken by Mr. Henry F. Edgerton and his family. Guano Prices To Catch Up. Mr. R. A. Hales, a Kenly merchant, who has sold guano for several years, says that guano prices which have been lower, comparatively, than oth er prices, are going to catch up. Years ago farmers paid for guano with cotton and guve from four to five hun dred pounds of cotton for a ton ol guano. Mr. Hales says this ye&r is the first time he has ever known when i'. farmer could pay for three tons of 8- 4 guano with a four hun dred pound bale of cotton and then have fifteen to twenty-five dollars left. Guano has already advanced sev eral dollars per ton and the prices wdl likely go much higher. Advances In Match 1' rices. This wick u salesman went to Ken ly and acid about fifty dollars worth of matches to Messrs. J. T. Edgerton & Brother. Here is a statement which he made in regard to matches: "In the past three years the various chem icals used in making matches have ad vanced from one hundred to eleven hundred per cent. Potash used has ad vanced fourteen hundred per cent. Half a million dollars have been lost trying to get a successful American potash. Sixteen match factories ha\ o closed on account of shortage of ma terial. If the war lasts penny boxes of matches will cost a nickcl cach and nickel boxes will cost twenty-five cents." i It is to be hoped that they will not get so scarce that the "chunk of fire" will have to be kept again in the fire place. Some of our old men re member Uhat when boys they were sent to the hopics of neighbors to get "chunks of fire." This was during the latter part of the Civil War when there were no matches to be sold in this part of the country. A Club Agent's Work. Last February there went to Kenly a man representing a club agency for papers and magazines in Atlanta, Ga. He sold four magazines and pa pers for $5.50 on six months time, taking orders for them which were notes also. Two or three men paid him cash for their notes and the oth ers, four or five in number, were dis counted and are held by the Bank of Kenly. These notes will be due August ltfth. There seems to be two troubles in regard to the purchases. The read ing matter furnished seems to be of a lighter character than was expect ed, and besides the agent promised to send each purchaser an encyclopedia as a present which has not yet come. The book present is not mentioned in the written order and will hardly come, wo think. Tenants Were Leaving Their Homes. Two weeks ago Messrs. B. W. Sugg, Hunter Sondcrs and Carl Gordon spent a few days fishing at White Lake in Brunswick County. They left there about the time the rainy weath er stopped. Mr. Sugg says that both the cotton and corn there are small and yellow. The crops to him looked like starvation. He says he heard of several tenants who had moved from their homes on account of the poor crops. I t ? BUSINESS LOCALS ? * X ftXSKXXXXXSSXXXKKXSSKSXXSXX WANTED ? , AN EXPERIENCED saleslady to work in Dry Goods and Suit Department. Address Sales lady, care The Smithfield Herald. DID you EVER READ THAT great little story "Ten Nights In e ! Barroom?" If not get a copy at Herald Office. Price only 6 cents. By mail 8 cents. FOR SALE? ONE FORD CHASSIS] 1916 Model Just rebuilt with new motor. Apply to Central Highway Gaiage, Princeton, N. C. | I WILL ESTIMATE AND GRADE I your timber on short notice. 21 years' experience. F. P. Whitley, Smithfield, N. C., Iioute No. 2. | GOD THE INVINSIBLE KING, by II. G. Wells. Price $1.25. "One of the best sellers of today." THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING a Loan Association has helped ? number of people to build homes It will help others, and maybe you New series of shares now open See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst. SEE US FOR FRUIT JARS? COT ter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C. CORN $2.3."> PER BUSHEL? DUR in;r the month of August, we will pay $2.35 per bushel for corn, shelled and bagged, settlement to be taken in Merchandise at Cash prices. Why pay time prices for ! goods when you can use your sur plus corn at the above price and , make a profitable saving? ? Farm ers Mercantile Co., Selma, N. C. FRESH JERSEY MILK COW FOR when you want them, so I can have sale. E. F. Boyett, Smithrield, N. C . FEEDS OF ALL KINDS? RED Dog, Shipstuff, Wheat Bran, Tank- 1 age, Pig Meal, Poultry Feeds, Mo lasses Feeds, Dairy Feeds, Cotton seed Feed Meal, Stock Remedies, Cotton Seed Meal, Nitrate of Soda, Top Dressers, Guanos, and Acid Phosphate, Corn Meal, Oats, Flour, and Hay now on hand. Prices right. Farmers Mercantile Co., Selma, N. C. LOOK ON YOUR LABEL, AND IF your subscription is in arrears re member the printer. He has to paj weekly for the cost of getting out ' the paper. Paying up when you? 1 time is out helps us. SEE US FOR FRUIT JARS? COT ter Hardware Co., Smithfield, N. C LOST ? LAST FRIDAY AFTER noon, August 3rd, between Benson and my home, one bolt Bleaching and one bolt blue and white striped Shirting. Finder please notify me >r A. B. Hudson at Benson and re- I ceive full pay for their trouble. R. G. Johnson, Bentonville, N. ?J., Route No. 2. NOTICE. Strayed or stolen from my home about July 2th, one Beagle hound log, color white with brown ears, two or three brown spots on his back, j Dog belongs to Pet Allen. Liberal re J ward for him. Notify me at once. HUBERT LEE. Four Oaks, N. C., R. F. D. No. 3. Putting it off today won't get it done tomorrow. An advertisement in this paper today will bring business tomorrow. Notice small cuts in your casings. Have them Vulcanized before they develop in larger ones, save tire ex pense and mileage. All work guar anteed ? Cr.sing and Tubes. Tires re ceived by express will be returned in 24 hours. Prices reasonable. Give us a trial is all we ask. Piedmont Vulcanizing Shop Clayton. N. C. Paint Your House Before Cold Weather I? you go through the coming winter without repainting your house the deterioration in value will be twice the cost of painting it now. t Let us figure on the paint for your house. We fur nish the best of paihts, and quote you the lowest possible price. * Smithfield Hardware Co. Smithfield, N. C. Plant Turnip Seed If you Want the Best Turnip Seed That Money Can Buy Come To HOOD'S The Oldest and Best Seedsmen in Johnston County HOOD BROS. Druggists On the Square! Smithfield, N. C. Grading Tobacco We are receiving lots of Tobacco to be graded. If you want any graded for opening sale bring it to us any time. Yours for business, ros. Smithfield, N. C. When you think of GROCERIES? let your thoughts turn to TURN AGE Smithfield's Leading Grocer The Best is None Too Good For OUR Customers ! S. C. IT urnage Smithfield, N. C. ONE SET OF BOOKS "The Ethel Morton" books for girls, six Volumes, for sale at $2.00 Regular price of these books is $3.00. A set of clean, attractive books worth having. Come quick HERALD BOOK STORE Smithfield. N. C.
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