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at the capital of banner. Mr. Jesse B. Holm*-* Parsed K**y at the Age of 7M Y Htt*. A New Bridge Amu Burndl Creek. and Another at Wl.ite Oak Swamp is a Probability Soon. Other Newi Notes and Perwmala of Interest. Benr,on, Aug. 9. ? Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Tope, of Goldsboro, were here Wednesday for a -hort while on busi ness. Mr. N. T. Ryals was a visitor to Clinton today on business matters. Little Misses Maud Johnson and Virginia Stone are f, pending the week in Emporia, Va., with relatives. Mrs. J. B. Faireloth went to San ford the first of the week where she is spending a few days with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Jackson, of ] Sampson County, were here the first ] of the week at the home of Mrs. i Martha Jackson. Mr. William Canaday, who holds a position with a Drug Company in I Richmond, Va., is here this week, hav- I ing come home to be examined by the Local Board of this District. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gilbert and children and Miss Elizabeth Parker, of Kissimmee, Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Gilbert, of Dunn, were visitors at the heme of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. | Rackley this week. Mrs. George Holland and Miss Leola Smith left the first of the week for a short vacation to Black Moun tain and Asheville, N. C. Mr. J. E. Reilly, of Charlotte, N. C., is here today on business matters for the American Seating Company. Mr. Will Bingham, of Durham, was in the city Monday on a short visit to relatives. Deputy Marshals Moore, Stell and Flowers captured a 75 gallon capacity still a few miles West of Benson this week. No one was at the distillery at the time of the raid, however, several barrels of beer were destroyed. Mr. Mark Barbour, of Duke, has been here this week visiting relatives anil friends in and near town. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Royal and children and Mr. J. W. Whittenton went up to Raeford Sunday on a short visit to relatives. Miss Ethel Hall ha? been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Hall, of Clayton, this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith and chil dren spent Sunday and Monday at Princeton with relatives. Mr. Herman Jernigan has returned to his home here for a few days vis it from A. & E. College. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hall and children spent Sunday, with relatives near Buie's Creek. Mr. J. Robert Barbour, who has been in the railway mail service with headquarters at Hertford, N. C., is home for a visit to his parents. Mrs. Rilla Jackson, of Winter Park, Fla., has been here for several days visiting at the home of Mrs. Martha Jackson. Mrs. L B. Pope and little son, L. B. Pope Jr., have been here this week visiting relatives. Mr. C. T. Page, night Police and Mr. Chas. Spence left the first of the week for Petersburg where they will work for a while. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Dixon left Mon day for Fuquay Springs where they are spending the week on a short va cation. Miss Katie Eldridge, of Lower Johnston, was here Tuesday for a while visiting relatives. Mesrs. J. B. Faircloth and H. A. Parker went up to Raleigh the first of the week on business matters. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Johnson, of Bentonsville, were here Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hodges and daughter. Miss Katie Hodges, and Mr. Carnan Jernigan left the first of the week for Asheville where they are spending a few days. Messrs. Casper Jernigan and Sher rill Utley went up to Richmond, Va., Sunday and returned Monday. Among those who yent to Smith field Monday we note Messrs. Paul Lee, N. T. Ryals, Claud Canaday, A. B. Hudson, Edgar Barbour, Ar lando Barbour, J. P. Lee, Jake Green thai, J. F. Lee and others. Mr. W. D. Boon was a visitor to Raleigh yesterday on business mat ters. Mr. W. H. Slocumb went up to Rae ford Sunday and returned Monday, spending a short while with friends there. Messrs. W. C. Lassiter, Jr., and R. A. Langdon, of Elevation township, were hero today on business. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Barbour and son, O. A. Barbour, Jr., and Mr. Wil liam Canaday went up to Four Oaks yesterday for a short visit. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boon and chil dren will leave tomorrow for Eliza beth City and Norfolk and other places for a several days vacation. They will go by automobile. Rev. W. C. Royal, pastor of the First Baptist church at Fredericks burg, Md., who is a former Benson boy, was here for a few days this week. He conducted services at. the Baptist church here Sunday night. Messrs. J. K. McLamb, Ralph Whit tenton, Aaron Fenny, Hryan Godwin and Kd. Parker left yesterday for Atlanta, Ga. They will return the last of the week, bringing with them sev eral automobiles. Miss Maud Edmonds left Monday for her home in Virginia, after spend ing several months here as Trimmer lor the C. T. Johnson Millinery de partment. Miss Beatrice Goodrich left yester day for Oak City, where she will teach in the High School this year. Mr. Ira Rose, of Rocky Mount, was here the first of the week with his | brother, Mr. J. H. Rose. Mrs. J. W. Taylor, of Baltimore, has been here for several days visit ing nt the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rose and others near town. Much improvement has recently been made on the highway leading *o Four Oaks by the building of a bridge across Btirnell. The bridge over this stream hits been in dangerous condition and the public will be pleased that a new, bridge has been erected. It is understood that within the next few days White Oak Swamp will be bridged by the road authorities of Banner township. This will be a great improvement as the streum is badly in need of a bridge. Mr. Jesse B. Holmes died at his home here Tuesday afternoon, after having been confined to his bed for a month or more with a complication of diseases. He was a good man, a member of the Free Will Baptist church, and leaves a widow and several children surviving hirn. His remain.s were laid away Wednesday afternoon in the Boison Cemetery, the funeral services being conducted by Rev. O. B. Garris and Rev. Chas. Johnson. Mr. Holmes had carried on business in Benson for a long time, having con ducted a grocery and market for the i ast fifteen years. He was seventy years old and will be greatly missed by a large number of people. Family Reunion. On Wednesday, Augus t 1st, rela tives and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bud Jernijgan celebrated Mr. Jernigan's eightieth birthday. There were about one hundred present, most of whom were relatives. The religious services were con ducted by Rev. C. A. Jackson, ?>{ Dunn, N. C., who used to be Mr. Jernigan's pastor. Mr. Jackson op ened tli? service by fitting remarks. Then the audience sang such good old hymns as "Amazing Grace." They certainly sang them in the spirit and 1 understanding, manifesting tears of joy all the while. The service came to a closc seemingly all too soon. The audience w^.s Riven a recess during which they occupied themselves in two principal enjoyments. The nv-n >. fed their mules and horses and the I ladies spread an appetizing dinner. Perfect harmony and good will w?3 < manifest now, as it had been all day. After all had eaten they talked, chat- < ted, etc., until about o'clock when i another nhort devotional Fervice was 1 held for some who could not come in the morning. < A. E. J. Resolutions of Respect. Whtreas, In view of the loss A\e have sustained by the decease of oar friend and class-mate, Lessie Leo, and of the still heavier loss sustained by those who were nearest and dear est to her; therefore be it Resolved, That it is a just tribute to the memory of the departed to say that in regretting her removal from our midst we mourn for one who was, in every way, worthy of our repect and regard. Resolved, That we sincerely con dole with the family of the deceased on the dispensation with which it has pleased Divine Providence to afflict them and commend them for conso lation to Him who orders all thfng.i for tho Lest, and whose chastise ments are meant in mercy. Resolved, That the heart-felt sympa thy of this class be extendi d tc her family in their afflictions. Resolved, That a copy of these res olutions be sent to the family, also to The Smithfield Herald by the sec retary of our class, "The Wesley Wil ling Workers," of the Sanders Chapel Sunday school. ADDIE TALTON, President. JENNIE HILL. Secretary. MARY HILL, Treasurer. Rev. John A. McMurray to Fay etteville. It will be interesting to the people of this section to learn that Rev. John A. McMurray has been called to the pastorate of the Highland Presbyterian church at Fayetteville. He is the second son of Rev. John A. McMurray who was pastor of the Presbyterian church at Smithfield twenty years ago. He is a graduate of Davidson College and of Colum bia Theological Seminary, and hss recently completed a Post-graduate course at Princeton Theological Sem inary. AT THE CAPITAL OF BOON HILL. Meeting to Start at Baptist Church On Auxust Ittth. Mr. John V. Wigjc? the Father of 20 Children it Age of .16. Other Items of Interest. Princetcn, Aug. 8. ? Mr. Thursttn Viele, of the Little River Lumber Co., has returned, after spending a few weeks a*. Glenn Falls, N. Y.f his old home. Miss Myra Aycock, cf Fremont, it visiting Miss Myrtle Edwards this week. Mi s Jessie Rose, of Wallace, if spending the week with Miss Hester Gurley. Miss Jessie ha:; teen showing the boys how a girl can ride a horse } like a boy, and not sideways as gir!s usually ride. Mr. L. D. Grantham has returned, iifter ? pending several days in .Nor folk, Va. Miss Alma Lindsay, from Hamlet, N. C., is visiting the family of Mr. A. J. Masaey. Mrs. N. Warren has been upending a few weeks with relatives in Gohis boro, bu. has returned. Miss Bessie Narron is spending a fe w weeks with friends in Durham. Miss Tempie Hinton and Lor?. Ma son ar visiting friends and relatives in Wilson County. The friends of our old Princeton boy, Pat Raiford, now a resident of Durham, will note that the stork vis ited his house about the 6th instant and left a little girl, all surprised. Miss Hattie Lois Whitley is visit ing her 1 rother, Mr. Geo. P. Whitley in Durhrm for a few days. Miss Lila Stuckey is visiting the family of Mr. Jasper Stuckey near Kenly, this week. The happiest now in Johnston County is our young friend John W. Wiggs. He is now celebrating his twentieth baby. He was first married at eighteen years old, his first wife being Miss Lonie Daughtry, and was nineteen when married. She bore four children, and died. Mr. Wiggs then married Miss J. Ellen Little, who was only sixteen at the time, and is now the mot'ur of sixteen chldren. About seventeen children of this union are now living; about twelve of them are girls. Mr. Wiggs is now fifty-six years old and enjoys the best of health and is one of the best men 'n Johnston County physically. We would like to know if there is another man in Johncton County with as many as twenty children. The meeting at the Baptist church will commence on Friday night, Au gust 16th, and will be conducted by Rev. C. W. Blanchard and Rev. J. M. Duncan. * I BENTONS' VI LLE N EWS. We art' having a dry spell which teems to be damaging crops some in this section. How about Road Bonds for Bentons ville township? Don't forget the Bentonsville Town ship Fair, October 4, 1917. Come and meet your friends, for they will be there. Mesrs. W. W. Cole, G. E. and Ever ette Thornton and Mrs. G. E. Thorn ton and little daughter, of Smithfield, were visitors in this section Sunday. Ex-Sheriff C. S. Powell, accompa nied by a bunch of the younger set of Sanders Chapel section, motored to these parts Sunday to view the Battle fields. Messrs. A. M. Rose and J. E. Mas sengill represented the Jr. O. U. A. M. at a District Conference at Seven Springs, Friday and Saturday of last week. Mr. D. Stephenson and family, of McCullers, spent the week-end in this section with Mrs. Stephenson's pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Beasley. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Rhodes are spending some time in South Carolina wih relatives and friends. Quite c large number of our folks attended services at Jordan's Chapel Sunday. Rev. A. H. Butler will begin a se ries of services at St. John's Holiness church on the third Sunday in Sep tember. Mr. Butler is an evangelist and a very good speaker. Mr. and Mrs. Lorman Dupree, of Ihinn, motored over and spent Sunday with relatives in our burg. Bcntonville, Aug. 8th. Watching the Small Items. Reclamation of scrap paper, one of the "smell items" in connection with a systematic campaign inaugurated by the Mobile and Ohio Railroad to prevent every character of waste and conserve materials of all kinds, net ted the company for the year end ing June 30, 1917, the sum of $1, 875.82 after deducting all expenses of handling. Each effice on the road is furnished with a certain number of sacks and all scrap paper and old records that the Company has been authorized to destroy are placed in these sacks. Once each month they are picked jp by a supply car and assembled at a concentration point. The paper is then sorted into the various grades and baled. When a car load has been accumulated, it is sold. DO YOU WANT To SAVE MONEY? Of Course You Do---V/e Can Help You-? LISTEN! Our Big 25 per cent Reduction SALE will Begin Friday Morning, Aug. 17th And Close Saturday Night, August 25th ?? ? ? i i .i .i * Everything in Our Dry Goods Room Will Be Reduced 25% ? i Nothing will be excluded ? nothing laid aside. Our stock is complete and new goods will be coming in and displayed during this Sale, comprising beautiful Fall and Winter Goods. This is a rare opportunity for those seeking High Quality Goods at a big dis count. These sales have been satisfactory to those who attended them and we intend to make this one the Greatest success of any. Come to the sale, even if you do not want to buy. Our clerks will not worry or try to tease you into buying. You will be made to feel at home. Tell your neighbors to meet you at HORNE'S BIG SALE. Bring your children too. We shall be glad to see you. Remember: By trading with us you save money and^K make money. Ashley Home & I on "The House of Service'' - CLAYTON, N. C. has been regarded. The people have been looking to it to see who was to be called into war. Every issue is important and every patriotic citizen who wants to keep up with the news of the war as it touches Johnston County folks should be a subscriber. It is published every Tuesday and Friday at $1.50 per year. Now is the time to keep your name on the list. x The Smithfield Herald i Is the oldest and best paper published in Johnston County. In the years to come it will be looked to by the historian when he goes to 0 write the history of the big war.
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