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AT THE CAPITAL OF BANNER. Benson (traded School To Open On September 3rd, \N ith Able Corps of Teachers. Sudden Death of >1r. J. V. Hart foot. Enjoyable I'icnic by Presbyterian Sunday School. Minn Gertrude Surles (iiveit Ice Cream Supper. Other Items of Interest. Benson, A up. 23. ? Mrs. C. E. Mills, of Florida, is spending some liin? here with her daughter, Mr*. H. H. Utley. Mr. anJ Mrs. Edwin J ?nes, of Ken ly, are here for a few days with friends. Mr. Claud Weeks left the first of the week for LaG range where he has a position with a tobacco warehouse. Miss Mabel Evans left the first of the week for her home at Rich Square after spending several weeks hire with relatives. Mr. p.nt' Mrs. M. T. Britt an J Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rose and children spent Sunday Chalybeate Springs with friends. Mrs. S. C. Smith r -turntd Sunday from a several days' vacation to Fu <iuay Spiings. , Mr. Loyd Langdon, of Wade, was a visitor to our city Monday on busi ness matters. Miss Veral John on, of Harnett County, has been here for several days visiting Miss Gertrude Surlea. Mr. Hubert Benson was here the first of the week on a short visit to his sister, Miss Stellla Benson, who is visiting relatives here. Miss I.ula Standi is here t' is week assisting Postmaster L. K. Stevens in his work in the office. Miss Maud Hall, of Fayotteville, has been here for several days vis iting relatives. Rev. J. M. Duncan, of Mt. Olive, was here for a day or two this week shaking hands with friends. We i're ( always pried to welcome him back to Benson. Miss Cullie Ivey ,of Durham, was 1 here for several days visiting at the home of her uncle, Mr. S .F. Ivey, ' recently. Mr. Ira Lee, of Middlesex, was in the city Tuesday for a short while with relatives. Misses Clara Stevens and Estelle ' Stevens, of Golds boro, were here this week spending a few days with Mr. and Mrs .W. C. Rackley. Mr. S. F. Ivey and Mr. N. W. Por ter went to Goldsboro Tuesday on business, spending the day. Messrs Ezra Parker, N. T. Kyuls, R. U. Barbour and George Moore went to Smithfield Tuesday attend- 1 ins: the Recorder's Court. ? Mr. Brosia Porter, of Petersburg, 1 Va., w s here this week for v. few days. ( 1 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Whittenton and '? Messrs. A. L. Barefoot and I,. Gil- 1 bert were visitors to Raleigh Tues- < day. | Mrs. Fannie Stewart and Mrs. Es- ? sie Lucas left this morning for a few < days visit to Falcon, N. C. > Mr. Preston Woodall left today for Philadelphia where he will spend * some time buying goods before his 1 return to Benson. 1 Sheriff W. F. Grimes and family, of Smithfield, spent Sunday in the 1 city with relatives and friends. Mr. J. B. Benton and little daugh ter, Gl-idys Benton, went up to Char- ' lotte the tirst of the week ft.r a day ? or two. i Miss Helen Dixon, of Rat ford. ^ spent a few hours here the first of 1 the week on her way to visit her brother in Pennsylvania. Mr. an! Mrs. W. D. Boon and chil- ' dren :.nd Mrs. Boon's sister, Mrs. ' Jones, of Elizabeth City, went up to Raleigh today for a short while. Miss Ethel Hall returned last ' night from a visit of several days to Fayetteville. ' Mr. J. R. Adams, of Four Oaks, was 1 in the city last night on a visit to friends. Dr. S. P. J. Leo, of Dunn, was here for a few hours Wednesday on a bus iness visit. Mr. C. T. Johnson left last night for Baltimore and other northern cities where he will buy poods for his store. Mr. J. E. Wilson went up to Smith field yesterday for a few hours on business. Mrs. W. II. Massengill, who has l>een sick for the past few days, is improving for the last day or two. Mr. P. A. Fisher, Lorin Fisher, and Misses Janie Fisher, of Carthage and Virgie Harkey, of Mathews, Rpent a few days here this week at the home of Mr. J. B. Benton. Rev. J. W. Patton, of Greensboro, has be?n here this week lecturing to the members of the Masonic Order. He will conduct services at the Bap tist church Sunday morning. Miss Gertrude Surles gave an ice cream supper Tuesday evening Au gust 2lst, at the home of her pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Surlcs, in honor of her guest, Miss Verl John son, of Coats. After playing numer ous games including Rook, Wink, Truth, Fruit Basket, Knife, Post Office, and many other very amusing ones, and those present listened to music rendered by Miss flora Canal day. The occasion was very highly en joyed by those present, among them we note: Misses Flora Canaday, Minnie Johnson, Alta Benson, Maud Benson, Lettie Surles, Lucile Lee, Kuhy Hobbs, Myrtle Massengill, and Messrs. Wm. Woodall, Paul Ste phenson, Ernest Hudson, Clarence Johnson, George Hall, Wilbour Creech, Aaron Penny and Casper Jer nigan. Th? Benson High School will open here on the .'Jrd day of September, un der the supervision of Prof. T. T. Lanier as ptincipai, and the follow ing assistants: Miss Letitia Mydgette, of Manteo, Myrtle Bruton, of Biscoe, Mae Bell Cobb, of Fremont, Florence Dixon, of Raeford, Julia Canaday of Benson, Minnie Somers, of Mt. Airy, Mabel Kurfees, of Coolemmee, Mat tie Lippe, of Moorsville, Myrtle Ashcraft, of Wadesboro, and Annie Laurie V/icker, of Elon College. The school has a very promising outlook for a prosperous year; applications have been made by a number of pu pils from a distance for entrance al ready and quite a large crowd is ex pected on the day of the opening. Mr. J. V. Barefoot, of Harnett County, brother to Mr. A. L. Bare foot of Benson, died suddenly at his home three miles west of here this morning, after having been stricken with apoplexy last night at eleven o'clock, lie was in his usual good health yesterday and was in Benson talking and laughing with friends here. He was fifty-two years old and leaves surviving him a large number of children besides his wife. Mr. Barefoot was a Jusice of the Peace in Harnett County for the past twelve years, was a prosperous farmer and 11 man <>?? large influence in the com munity in which he lived. He was a member of the Free Will Baptist [?hureh at Hodges Chapel, at which place the funeral will take place. Mr. Barefoot will be missed by the en tire community. The members of the Presbyterian Sunday school here enjoyed a picnic Wednesday. There were nine auto mobile lords of them who went to Raleigh and spent the day, which was highly enjoyed by the younger mem >ers of the school. Misses Catherine and Aline Mc Lamb, of Sampson County, are ?spending a few days at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. McLamb. JOHNSON SCHOOL HOUSE NEWS. Mr. Jesse Wood and daughter, Miss Dlza Wood, of the Shiloh section, <pent last Friday night with Mr. Wood's daughter, Mrs. F. I). Holland. Mr. Clarence Lee and sister, Miss Myrtle Lee and Mr. Walter Dickson \nd sister, Miss Nelia Dickson, of Willow Springs, spent la t Sunday at he home of Mr. J. G. Powell. Mrs. Paul Youngblood, of Wilson's VI ills section, spent the latter pi rt of ast week with relatives in this leighborhood. Miss's Kittic and V ra Beasley ?nd M is ? Olza Wood left l ist Satur lay for Norfolk, Va., on a visit to "datives. Miss Irene Coats, of Shiloh, spent iart of this week with her sister, Mrs. Thomas Ives. Mr. W. J. Lewis and family, of b'our Oaks, spent last Sunday with Mr. Ben Casey. This week is a busy week with the "aimers of this section? pulling fod ler. Little Miss Lallah Parker is spend ng some tim.^ with her grandmother, Mrs. G. A. Thompson, in Pisgah sec :ion. Mr. and Mrs. (". C. Champion spent last Sunday with Mrs. Cham jion's sister, Mrs. J. L. Johnson. Little Miss Christine Wood, of Sbi oh roction, spent last week with her sister, Mrs. F. 1). Melland. DREAMER. >ilas Ferguson's Exemption Revoked. Raleigh, Aug. 20. ? Silat, Ferguson, ivho had been drawn for draft ormy service and exempted on account of impendent wife and child, was today >rdered into service through revoca i<>n of the exemption, on account of illeged gross misconduct at Pullcn park h st night. He and two friends made an attack on J. A. Winters, whose wife they had attempted to press tluir company upon. Fergu son and Robert McLean held Winters, t is reported, while Herman used his knife on Winters, who warned Her man that they must not be disre spectful to his wife. Herman was given six months on the roads and the other McLean boy was fin'd S2.r?. Ferguson was fined *10 and then the reserve hoard re voked his exemption on the ground that in view of his conduct his wife ivould be better off with him in the army. You don't get any further on the Highwy of Life by arguiner with Fate, the Traffic Officer. Drive on, David! ON ROAD TO BENTON'S VI U.K. Sheriff Powell Ti*ll? Herald Readers Why the "Devil's Itace Path" <.ot lis Name. Visits Ikntonsv i 1 1?- Bat tleground and Mill Crek Old Spring. ( alls to Mind Men of Day* I. out; Past. Messrs. Editors: I know it is thresh ing old straw, but Mr. T. C. Jordan invited my wife and mysulf to go with him and family to visit the Ben tonsville Battlefield recently. So with his bin Chalmers car provision ed and iced, we wheeled over th< Na tional Highway across Turner's and Black Creek bridges, taking the left road by Pal, Percy and Charlie Smith's, over the old tram, now one of Ingri.m township's good road:;, via Mr. Calvin Stewart, nee John Wood Lovit Dr.vii, C. S. Powell, Oscar Rand old place, passing the old Pat Strick land place, who owned more than a hundred hogs and cows, not a foot of land; went barefooted always, and kept her clothes in a flour barrel, see the moon through the cracks, finger picked cotton, spun and wove cloth, milked in a gourd, ground meal in a hominy mill, and sometimes broke some of the Ten Commandm< nts; on over the "Devil's race path," which legend snys was the meeting place of noted turf lovers, the McDaniels, Mc Donalds, McDougals, McNaits, Mc Lambs and others of the followers of < harle the rretender, tnd . cattcr i over this and the Cape Fear regions. It won its sobriquet by a stranger mounted on a richly caparisoned lure; ? fine black horse, coming to the race on an occasion, when "spirits" were free and all present in a jolly mood, without an introduction or inquiry as to stakes, followed in the wake of the first go, passed all on the half way, his horse's nostrils blowing smoke like a tar-kiln, going on and on, never looking back and never return ing. His identity was never discover ed and was ever afterward called the "Devil's race path." After the war in 18<>f> Major Nathan Williams and Col. John Sanders, two of the most distinguished citizens, large land and slave owners, losing all except lands and a single horse, vis ited Smithfield together, "riding and tying," which was riding and walk ing alternately. Their slaves wcr enfranchised and they disfranchised, and that makes a white Southern Republican an enigma. IJut that is another tale. This region is rapidly improving in all material lines. The Stuart school house, a handsome one with flourishing Sunday school, is a fitting stquel ::t our end of the noted race trac k. The old mulberry orch ard at the Col. Sanders place brought old recollections of the old apple and grape dumplings so oft^n served by the princess of the Sand Hill, Mrs. Martha Sunders, and here the vener able old school-master Ghost Elliott taught and I lor.rned surveying in five days attendance after the war. The sandy roads have been clayed and the advent of automobile has : hort ened the time to Bentonsville from three hours to 30 minutes. A flourish ing church and school on this road is highly appreciated by the sons of Ham. Bentonsville holds its own. Some old buildings have disappeared, but other, more pretentious have been builded. The old post office name of Bentonsville, after wearing the Beusley suit a few yeirrs, went back to her first love, and is now commemorating the fierce battle of Bentonsville of National notoriaty. The sand in this region is still on the map. We lunched on t^e Sam Howell branch which lay between the Yankee and Confederate armies. The breast works and rifle pits arc still easily traced and the scarred trees boar tes timony of the inquisitive minnie balls and shrieking sl?clls and yhrapnel. Passing the monument beyond the battlefields which is fast decaying, while th" graves of the fall -n Con federates are already unrecognisable. Wo passed th * old John Harper home, the scene of so much hospitality to Confederate soldiers in these dark days. \Y ro passed old Mill Creek church and Masonic Lodge No. 12~>, a daugh ter < f Fellowship No. R-l. The dignified first Worshipful Master, Major Na than Williams, came in my i.iind and his old associates, Jim Bry; n, Bill Bryan, Tom Sne-d, I)". Res \ Bill Rose, and others r.nd r vh it to the hill-side spring that has b^tn honor ed with a concrete wall and terra cotta pipe in place of the old gum, while tin same old stately unbled long-leaved pines still stand sentinel around this far back tryst! ig place for many decades. This was the church and school grounds of many of my war comrades, and many, many times on our Virginia marches have I heard them sinking its praise*. Volumes could bo written about it, but not now. We stopped at Mr. Calvin Stewart's and enjoyed his pleasant surroundings and future invitations to gnaw mutton bones and veal cutlets and fisl: chcwder3. The tall corn, rank cotton, and flourishing young or chard "locked good to me." C. S. POWELL. Crop Pays For Him Farm. Gerhard Esaw, who lives west of Gainsville, is glad that he left Ger many and came to America where he has found splendid opportunity which he declares could not be en joyed by his people in Germany, says the Oklahoman. He paid $*>,400 for | ICO ucrcs of land on which he har vested 2000 bushels of wheat that he has stored in a granary expecting to get $2.50 per bushel. This, he figures, will realize $5,000. He will have not less than $1,000 worth of corn. His oats crop brought him $1,500. He has more than paid for his farm in one year. He declares that America offers advantages as well as liberty from taxation and oppression such as exists in Germany. ? Oklahoma Dis patch. Plato's Chiseled Sentences. Why is it that the words of Plato live today? Mainly because of their content, but partly also because of their literary form. It is said that he j wrote one of his sentences in setfen different ways before casting it into the final form which he desired. Pa tiently he applied the chisel as a lit erary sculptor until the statue stood complete before him. The difference between life and death with much of our work, literally and otherwise, is the difference in workmanship. The fruit of carelessness can but be ephemeral, while the work of patience > will endure. ? Biblical Recorder. The Sword for Germany. German autocracy has lived by the sword and ruled by the sword. It must die by the sword. The crisis through which the empire is passing is a sum mons to the Allies to prosecute the war with still greater vigor and de termination. The psychology of the situation is now on the side of democ- I racy. The German autocracy has no i means of dealing with popular unrest except through victories in the field, and if these are denied to it, if defeat is piled upon defeat, the system will soon go crashing down to ruin. The harder the blows that the Allies can now deal the quicker the end. That is what the German crisis should mean to every Government at War with Prussian imperialism. It is the revelation of a supreme advantage which cannot be disregarded without the needless prolongation of the war and the loss of uncounted lives and treasure. ? New York World. SPECIAL SALE OF MANHATTAN SHIRTS All $2.00 Grades Now $1.65 It will pay any one that needs a suit of to look at the left-overs from last fall and last spring, and do it soon, as the regular fall and winter stock will be higher. Nl Grantham Smith field. N. C. Positively No Longer Positively no longer than the last day of August, 1917, will we charge any goods to anybody. We have tried the old way too long for the best and will adopt the Cash System entirely, beginning September 1st- We shall keep a good stock of goods and will be able to give you good bargains for Cash. Remember we are across the river at the Brick Yard. C. W . Beasley & Son Smithfield, N. C. Spiers hi of Clearance Closes Saturday Sept 1st Opportunities that Cannot be Overlooked Are Presented at this Sale We are Offering a Big Stock of Desirable Goods ' Principally Less than we Can Buy Them Goods Will Be Much Higher Very Soon SPIERS BROS. SMITHFIELD, N. C.
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