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[HE SMITHFIELO HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASSITER Editors and Proprietors, Smithfield, N. C. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Caah in Advance. One year. 11.50 Eight Months, 1.00 Six Montha. 75 Three MoLtha, .40 Entered at the Po?t Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as 8?cond-class Matter. JOINING THE RKl) CROSS. The Smithfield Chapter of the American Red Cross is now fully or ganized and ready for business. It has a great work before it and every woman in the town of Smithfield unci the community round about is given a special invitation to join the chap ter. In the great wnr which has been thrust upon us every man and woman can have a part. All can not be sol diers, but till can do something. The war must be won to make the world safe for democracy and every person who can take a part, however little it may be, and neglects to do so, is a slacker. The winning of the war is of the greatest importance not only to the people living today, but to generations yet unborn and we must not fail. Our boys, many of them, are already in the service. Others are going daily, and from week to week and month to month more and more of our young men will be called to the colors. II is our duty, and none of us can perform a greater duty to them than our noble and faithful women, to stand by them by planning back home to make their lot brighter and more comfortable. The women of the Red Cross arc doing a wonderful work along this line. Not only every woman in the com munity is expected to join in this work but the men also are expected to join. The matter is before us. How will we answer the call? Will we join the Red Cross Chapter and lend our aid and our influence to this great work, or will we stand off and let the women do it all? It is a question for every man to answer. The membership fee for one year is only one dollar. Or one may get in that class where the membership fees are higher. It is a place where all can render service and nothing less than the best service is expected now. HELP THE AMBULANCE CORPS. The Smithfield Rod Cross Chapter at their meeting yesterday afternoon decided to donate One Hundred Dol lars to the Raleigh Ambulance Corps No. 43. Several Smithfield boys have enlisted in this corps. There are boys from Clayton and other parts of the county in this service and it would be a fitting thing if the county would raise a sufficient amount of funds to purchase an ambulance for the unit. There an Red Cross Chapters at Clayton and Selma and no doubt they are willing to join in a campaign to raise a thousand dollars in Johnston County for this purpose. The Herald opens its columns to the noble women of the county to push such a cam paign if they so desire. What do oth ers say? One of the deadest laws ever put on the statute books in North Caro lina is the present automobile law. Just take notice and see how many cars are run without dimmers; how many are run by children under 16, and how many break the speed laws during the next seven days. THE TABLES TURNED. A few days ago news came from Perograd that one Mr. Nicholas Ro manoff, foimerly known as the Czar of all the Russia*, had been sent to faraway Siberia and given an abid ing plac" at Tobolsk, a small city situated in the region where so many Russian prisoners had been exiled durjnjr the reign of the deposed ruler. The tables are turned and the man who has had the power to send so many to a life of exile far away from fri< nds and home is now reap ing the harvest of his sowing. A PROCLAMATION BY THE GOV KRNOK. North Carolina is about to send twenty-five thousand men into battle. These men are making the supreme sacrifice that forever hereafter the wisdom of the many shall determine the decrees of nations. They go to make wai on war. They go to de stroy with the sword the government that maintains that the sword is, and of right ought to be, the final arbiter of a nation's rights. When the government that defies war shall perish in war then war will come no more upon the earth. It is fit that these guarantors of the world's peace should be sustained | by the love and prayers of all good I men: Now, Therefore, I, Thomas Walter Rickett, Governor of North Carolina, do request the people of the State: First, to assemble on Saturday, the first day of September, in township and school district meetings, and hold patriotic exercises in honor of the men we are sending to the front; Second, on Sunday, September 2nd, let special religious services he held ( in all the churches in the Slate, and let all good men pray for the safety and success of the men who are go ing into hr.ttle that lasting peace may come upon the land; Third, That on Labor Day, Septem ber .'trd, appropriate patriotic exer cises be held in every county seat in the State and let the men who have been drafted into the public service J be the guests of honor at these exer cises. Done at our city of Raleigh this the twenty-fifth day of Augur.t, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seventeen, and in the one hundred and forty-second year of our American Independence. T. W. RICKETT, Governor. A Teacher Married. Miss Chloe Freeland and Basil Tourneur Horsfield were quietly mar ried at the home of the bride's pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Preeland, Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock. The marriage was a surprise to the many friends of the bride. Rev. J. B. Gibble performed the ceremony. The ((room is the son of Rev. F. 11 .T. Horsfield, of Oxford, and is a State chemist. They left immediately for their new home at Raleigh. This paragraph was taken from Sunday's Greensboro News. Mrs. Horsfield liatl been elected teacher of English and History in Turlington Graded School. Her resignation was received bj> the School Board on the 17th. She stated her reasons for re signing were "purely personal." I'nion Meeting Called Off. Mr. Editor: Please give notice in The Herald that the primitive Bap tist union meeting to be held with the church at Mingo, the second Sunday and Saturday before, in September, is railed in and there will be regular services at Hickory Grove at the same time. L. A. JOHNSON. Moderator of Union. Dr. G. I). Vick Klected. 1 1 ?l The County Board of Health met here in special session yesterday to choose a successor to I)r. Thel Hooks, 1 County Superintendent of Health, \ who resigned to accept a commission t in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps, i United States Army. All members of < the Board were present, as follows: ? 1), B. Oliver, Chairman; Prof. L. T. i Roya'l, secretary; Dr. B. A. Hocutt, < Dr. L. G. Grady r.nd ('apt. H. L. 1 Skinner. I H K q Dr. George I). Vick, of Selma, one of the county's best known physicans, r was the choice of the Board. Dr. Vick i has been practicing medicine many l? years and is regarded as one of the leading physicians of the county and will make a fine health officer. Soon after war was declared Dr. Hooks offered his services to his country and has been expecting to be called any time for the past several weeks. He has been called to go to the Officers' Training Camp at Ft. Oglethorpe where he will vnter the service as a First Lieutenant in the Medical Officers Reserve Corps. This Is Some Payroll. It took $1. HO ,000 to pay off the em- ( ployees at Camp Greene at Charlotte j Saturday. The first week, the payroll was $40,000; the second week it was ( $75,000; the third week it jumped to , [ $ 1 08,000. Every town in the courity is cor dially invited to take part in the pa triotic rally to be held in Smithfield next Monday. It is n6t a Smithfield occasion, but a Johnston County oc casion. Let everybody who loves his I country plan to take part. .Mr. I 'ou Not a Candidate. I Statesville Landmark. The Lankmark mentioned in its last issue that they were charging that Mr. James H. Pou of Kaleigh, who is rendering the State and the country splendid service through his public addresses on the war, with being a candidate for Governor on a war platform. The Landmark stated that it had no idea that Mr. Pou was a candidate, and the following letter from Mr. Pou to the editor of The Landmark settles the matter: "I write to say that your surmise ' is correct. I am not, and will not be, a candidate for Governor; or for any other office in the gift of the people of this State. Over 20 years ago I renounced all political ambitions and aspirations. I wonder now that they ever had any fascination for me. Th<> . office of Governor is an honorable ! one; but its functions would be pe culiarly distasteful to me. Were it ever to come within my reach, I would decline. "You may make my renunciation <>f all political ambitions ;>.s explicit a> language can express. I am a pri vate in the Democratic ranks. 1 de sire no office; and I am in no one's it way. As strange as it may seem to some folks, men can voluntarily render a public service without hope of per sonal reward Mr. Pou being one. The Landmark regrets, however, that Mr. Pou has renounced all political aspirations. The State may need his services in a public capacity. Watch Friday's Herald for full par ticulars about the Grand Patriotic Rally to be held in Smithfield next Monday. The True Sage. The true sage is not he who sees, lut he who, seeing the farthest, has the deepest love for mankind. He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness. ? Maeter linck ! OK SMI \ MORS I-:. IK. in \ years old, healthy and sound. Kx- E ceptionally good as a road horse. J R. L. Ray, Selma, N. C. E n 1 . V' 1 1c City Fliyslclan anil Metlical Author, n-iyss L "Thers can be no strong, vigorous, Iron men nor beautiful, healthy, rosy-cheek?4 f '?ii' ? ?!???? . I i i.iV. -n t:,'-ee tiir.es r day niter meals v.1U B iiicit ase th- Wt eng*h and endurance of weak, nervous, run-down folks 100 p?-r L nt. I;; ? ' ? in inny inst ncos Avoid the old forms of r-.?tii: o f Uoss. whi' n ' y n;;nv. t . ' stfc. corr >de t . .icli, an ", thereby do more harm ? ti . g ? > J lRinic ir n ? SuiMc I: It is dispensed in th s city L by all good druggists. P HOOD BROS., Smithfield, N. C. CREECH DRUG CO,, Smithfield, N. C. ? .KTTER MAKE YOUR FIN ANCIAL j rrangemtnts before the Fall rush tarts. Money is cheapest commodity n market. Better "lay in store" your icoded supply while it can be had. Yar lial le to cut off loans at any ime. Loans made in Johnston County 1,000 up to one-half appraised value f cleared land, on five (5), ten (10) r twenty (20) years. Interest five ."?) per ctnt. on five years loans; six *i) per cent, on ten and twenty year >ans. Supply unlimited. "First nme, first served." Have some valuable land to sell. See ne before selling your land. Always 1 1 market for negotiable paper of all inds. August 25th, 1917. FREDERICK H. BROOKS, Smithfield, N. C. Stand by the President. Because he stands by you. Stand by the Laundryman. Because he stands by you. All kinds of laundry work lone at the Smithfield Steam Laundry. Prices reasonable. Call phone 19-L and we will ?ome. .W JOHNSON Proprietor. Hauling Wanted We have a lot of dry lumber we want hauled to Smithfield, lumber is about two miles horn Mr. Burt Bar bour s store. Good price. Come to see us. RAND & LAWRENCE SMITHFIELD. N. C. Every man who does not SAVE is in danger of depending on charity IN OLD AGE If you would avoid that possibility, start an account with us today. You cannot tell when your Earning Power Will Stop and the reserve fund of the savings account stand be tween you and charity. Mr. Reader, Do You Buy or Borrow The Heralc? HOOD BROS. Smithfield, - N. C. THE BANNER WAREHOUSE Has Surpassed its own Reputation X Thursday We Averaged $30 for our entire sale Look Out For Pin Hookers AND BRING US YOUR NEXT LOAD Your friends, SKINNER Si PA TTERSON SMITHFIELD, NORTH CAROLINA
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