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O. YEZ!? ? 0, YEZ!? ? O, YEZ! Come to The J Javis Stores SMITHFIELD, N. C. You will find here the largest and most up-to-date stock of goods to be found in the County. We bought these goods early, before the recent Great advance in prices, and will sell them so cheap that our competitors will wonder how we do it. t 1 0 ? , ? ' - , | You will find plenty of good cold ice water all the time, Free. Two big stores and Two big warehouses filled with the best goods money could buy, at the very lowest prices. Come \ ? and let us supply you with the goods you want at the prices you want to pay. - ..... _ The Davis Department Stores Where Bargains Are Always Found Stores on Market and 3rd Streets SMITHFIKLD, North Carolina AT THE CAPITAL OF BANNER. Little Junius Lee Dies of Typhoid Fever. Brief Mention of Those Who Come and Those Who Go. Benson, Sept. 6. ? Mr. Jesse Ryals, of Rocky Mount, has been here for the past few days visiting his moth er, Mrs. C. C. Ryals. Mr. H. W. Weeks, of Robinsonville, was here Monday and Tuesday visit ing relatives. Mr. James P. Lee went up to Ral eigh Monday on business matters. Mr. M. M. Murchison, of Winston Salem, was here Monday for a short while visiting relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Johnson, of Oxford, visited relatives here Sunday and Monday. Mr. John Slocumb, of Wilmington, was here recently visiting his brother, Mr. Henry, Slocumb. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Williams were visitors to Lillington Monday on busi ness matters. Mr. and Mrs. John Holmes and children, of Farmville, were here the first of the week visiting. Mr. Holmes returned Tuesday, leaving his family here with relatives for a few days. Quite a large crowd of the citizens of Benson attended the Johnston County rally at Smithfield Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Strickland went down to visit Mr. Strickland's pa- ; rents in Bcntonsville township, Tucs- ' day. | Mr. and Mrs. W. II .Royal were vis- ] itors to Raleigh Monday -for a short 1 while. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Boone and chil- 1 dren went down to Clinton Tuesday to spend the day with friends. Miss Floy Johnson, of Spilona, was | in town for n few days recently at I the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. | Moore. _ Mr. Clarence Britt left the first of , the week for Richmond where he en- i tered a business college. Mr. J. E. Wilson, who sprained his back by a fall a few days ago, has ' been in the hospital at Fayetteville for treatment for the past few days. Mr. Loyd Langdon, of Wade, was in the city Wednesday on business matters for a short while. Miss Flora Canaday will leave the first of the coming week for Greens- j boro where she will enter Greensboro Female College. Miss Kate Hamilton, of Jonesboro, has accepted a position as stenogra pher for the Farmers Commercial Bank and will arrive this week to as sume the duties of her position. 0 Mr. Linwood Sutton is here for a few days visiting his sister, Mrs. H. A. Parker. Messrs. M. T. Britt, W. 11. Slocumb and J. B. Benton were visitors to Jonesboro the first of the week. Mr. P. Holmes, of Washington City, is here for the past several days visiting relatives. Mr. Holmes had held a position in Washington for a number of years and always pays his home people an annual visit. Mr. James A. Wellons, of Smith field, was here yesterday on business for a short while. * Mrs. Lcnnie Penning returned last night from Wilmington where she has been visiting relatives for a few days. Mr. Palton Lee, of Four Oaks, was in the city yesterday on a business trip. Mr. Ralph CanadayT" of Smithfield, was here yesterday spending the days with his brother, Mr. Claud Canaday. Mrs. Charlie Barbour and children, of Middlesex, are here Visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Ander son, Mrs. Barbour's parents. Mr. Alton Hall, son of our towns man, Mr. J. L. Hall, left Tuesday for Wake Forest where he enters college. Misses Velma Finch and sister, Dorothy Finch, left this morning for Oxford where they are attending col lege. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Sponce, of Buie's Creek, are spending the week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J .L. Hall. Mrs. D. McL. Holt and son, Nelll Holt, of Sanford, are spending some time here with Mrs. .Holt's daughter, Mrs. J. B. Faircloth. Miss Lucy Alderman, of Edenton, is here for several days the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Smith. Misses Pauline Blayloek and Lelia Beel, of Dunn, are here for a short visit to friends. Mrs. Geo. F. Pope, Miss Margaret Pope and Miss Cora Warren are here today at th ehome of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Wl.ittenton. Mrs. F. T. Moore and Mrs. J. G. Dixon returned yesterday from Fu quay Springs where they have been for several weeks. Miss Alva Hardee returned the first of the week from Baltimore, where she has been for the past sev eral days. Mr. and Mrs. B. I. Tart and little son, of Four Oaks, were here Sunday spending the day with friends. Mrs. Matthews returned this week to Rocky Mount, after spending some time here with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Barbour, of Cleveland township, were here Sun day at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Lee. Miss Vira Floyd, of Orrum, Robe son County, arrived last night and will spend some time here at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rose. Miss Ruth Jones, of Smithfield, was here recently for several days with friends. Mr. Junius Lee, the nineteen-year old son of Mr. W. R. Lee, who lived three miles north of here, died Tues day of typhoid fever, after having been sick for several days. His re mains were laid away in the family burying ground Wednesday after noon. What Happened at Selma. At Selma the other day, a Southern train waited ever so long on the A. C. L. connection, and while passen gers sought something to interest them, a squad of soldiers appeared. Two pretty young ladies immediately raised a window and began looking. The soldiers saw this and began preen ing themselves. The privates were rather awkward, but the handsome young officer took all the compliment to himself and if he had been a pea cock, the nir would have been full of gorgeous feathers. An elderly man with his back to the car was speaking with him, but it was plain that he heard not a word. He adjusted his wrist watch and readjusted it, in plain view. He manipulated his charm ing swaggorstick. He smrted vacantly at what the man was saying and peeked under his hat brim at the girls. He wouldn't let on that he knew they were in the world. Finally he re moved his hat, delicately to wipe per spiration from his forehead, but really to display his magnificent head. He had as fine a head as ever you saw on a man; his hair was the least bit cur ly and of a glorious color. Every hair was in place. He knew it was a splen did possession and he stood in the boiling sun bareheaded so long I feared he would have a sunstroke. And the girls ? "they ate him alive" ? ? with their eyes, and when the train pulled out, they twisted their heads until I feared me they would dislocate their charming necks. "None but the brave." ? "Wayside Notes," in Wil mington Star. TYPEWRITER RIBBONS ? ROYAL. Underwood, Oliver, Remington and L. C. Smith ? for sale at The Her ald Office. A SUICIDE NEAR CLAYTON. Claude Matthews, Young White Man, Takes His Own Life. Claude Matthews, a young white man of Powhatan, committed sui cide yesterday afternoon by shooting himself through the abdomen with a shotgun, the load from the gun pene trating the stomach and lungs. Though terribly wounded the young man lived for several hours, and dur ing his conscious moments told those about him that he regretted the rash act, which he said was committed in a spirit of madness. Following is an account of the oc currence as told to us. Claude Mat thews, who is a son of Mr. J. II. Matthews, was arrested some time yesterday morning and at about one o'clock was tried before Justice of the Peace L. H. Johnson on the charge of carrying a concealed weapon. He was found guilty and bound over to court, his father furnishing bond. Re turning home from the trial he se cured his gun, went into the kitchen where in the presence of his wife he placed the muzzle against his body and with his left hand pulled1 the trigger. His wife tried to persuade him not to take his life, but in spite of her pleadings he went ahead. Med ical aid was summoned immedia tely, but nothing could be done to stay the hand of death and he died at six o'clock. Morose and despondent over the result of the trial, is give nas the cause, as there was nothing else known that would have caused the young man to take his own life. He was about twenty years old and had ben married about' a year. ? Clayton News, Sept. 6th. Johnson-Causey. Benson, Sept. 4. ? Mr. Paul John son, who lives near Four Oaks, was married here Sunday afternoon at the home of his sister, Mrs. E. F. Moore, to Miss Janet Causey, of Asheville, N. C. The marriage was a surprise to the many friends of the young groom who is well known here. The bride taught school at Spilona last year and was visiting in that community when they decided to em bark on the matrimonial sea. They have many friends here who wish them happiness. OUR FALL AND WINTER SHOES line is now complete. Cotter-Un derwood Company, Smithfield, N. C. NO SHUFFLING OF THE CARDS. The Philadelphia Public Ledger, in a strong editorial endorsement of President Wilson's reply to the Pope's appeal for peace, closes as follows: "The President does not, however, close the door to peace. He holds it wide open. Germany may enter if she chooses. Austria may precede or fol low Germany, as she chooses. It is plainly in the hope she may precede the President gives the assurance of respect for the territorial integrity of all nations, so far as it is truly na tional. ttut he wisely declines to dis cuss specific terms. The German people may easily gather from his words what he will not do. The Ger man Government will as easily dis cover how firmly he refuses to hag gle with it. There is to be no give and take ? no bargaining across the ta ble, no shuffling of the cards, with those whose word cannot be trusted. There can be no discharge in a war for freedom until freedom is firmly established. And that cannot be while those who challenged its existence sit in the seats of the mighty. From such an answer as this Germany can ob tain no diplomatic victory. There is no refusal of a just peace. There is no desiro of conquest, no Vindicative ness, no challenge to national pride or national right. What better answer could have been given?" Details With Wheat. Preparation for wheat should be pin early in the fall, or better, in the late summer. The best land for wheat is a good, stiff soil. The land should be thoroughly plowed with a two-hors^ moldboard or disc plow. After it has been plowed good and deep allow the soil to settle down well, then use a disc harrow to pul verize the land so that there will be no clods to interfere with the sowing. The seed bed should be well settled so that the seed will not be put in the ground too deep. From October 15th to November 15th is the best time to sow wheat in this locality. A pretty safe rule though, is to sow it just as soon as the first frost falls, for then there will be no danger of the Hessian fly, which disappears with the coming of frost. The variety of wheat sown de pends mostly upon the latitude. The Fulcaster has proved best in this section as the atmosphere is damp and it can endure this better than some other varieties. Leap's Prolific is a good yielder except for this rea son. Before sowing, use a pound of formulin to forty gallons of water and sprinkle the seed so as to pre vent sftiut. This quantity will be suf ficient for 25 bushels of wheat. One pound of bluestone might be mixed with the water and used in the same way. It will be necessary to use this amount for five bushels of wheat. To secure a good stand use one to one and a Jjalf bushels of seed to the acre. I use a two-horse drill to put the wheat in with. When plant ing, if the soil is pea stubble or land where peas have been planted, I use 300 pounds of 16 per cent acid to ihe acre. If sown on clean culti vated land I use a 10-3. About March 1st it is well to give the wheat a top dressing of nitrate of soda ? about 100 pounds to the acre. It is much better to put this on in ,two applications, going across the field^ one way the first time and another way about two weeks later ? this give3 an even distribution of soda. It is a good plan to harrow the wheat at this time with a smoothing har row, which will give a cultivation to the wheat. A light cultivation is very beneficial to wheat when putting soda on it. ? C. E. Craig, Lancaster, IS. C. mnner liuuds a Bridge. Benson, Sept. 5. ? The traveling public will gladly commend the act of the Banner Township Road Commis sioners in the building of the bridge over White Oak Swamp which has just been completed. This bridge has been badly needed quite often during the rainy weather which we ' had through the summer months, as many times people were held for sev eral hours at this point because of the high water in the swamp. Sin's Punishment Sure. Pleasures are false that bring repent ant pain; The soarding hawk, however swift to fly, Can not outstrip his shadow on the plain ? That low-flung specter follows till the twain Alight together on the crag hard by. ? From "The Gravedigger" by Fred Emerson Brooks. SOLDIERS NEW TESTAMENTS? Khaki-bound New Testaments for sale at The Herald Office.
The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, N.C.)
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