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SHKK1FF POWELL IN ?I(J STORM. While Feasting In "Sweet Sampson" the Weather (Jets Freaky, the Wind* Blow, the Thunders Hour, the Lightning** Flash and the Kain Fours, (.reatest Sight Since "Old Trip Was a I'up." Water Kound for Two Days. S?* Big Wreck. Messrs. Editors: 1 have been kidnapped, marooned and nearly keelhauled last week. Mrs. Powell and self went to Sweet Samp son, the land of fruit and timber (huckleberries and hoopoles) as well as dogtongue and gallberries. Every thing was lovely "er gwine," visiting our children and grandchildren, twelve or maybe thirteen head. Of course wi feasted on chicken, figs, scuppernongs and various pantry sup plies sandwiched with cream and cool buttermilk. Rut it is a long lane, that never turns. 1 butted into the 1 Kquinox and last Friday rfight Samp son turned his foxes loose in the Phil istines' corn. The wind blew, the rain descended while the thunder and lightning was fearful. Since "Old Tige was a pup" such a rain has not 1 been seen in these pr.rts, and it is 1 to be hoped that many green grass seasons will pass before another such. I left Clinton via Warsaw for good 1 old Johnston last Saturday morning. 1 Four hundred yards of the railroad ' was submerged, the train just creep- 1 ing along, having to push floating 1 old cross ties off the track. Arriving 1 at Warsaw and learning there would 1 be no trains on the Wilmington and Goldsboro road for an indefinite time 1 on account of wrecks and washouts, attempted to return to Clinton to my buttermilk and cake stand, but found 1 the railroad floating and bowed off 1 the embankment. So 1 returned to ' warsaw an<l took a two days' course 1 of hotel medicine, (and they have a 1 nice one there). No mail or papers for ( two days and then only by humpmo- 1 bile. Monday morning I hit the grit ' ..nd iujoJ'cd it for Faison, eight miles 1 away, passing a terrible washout and ' wrecks near Bowdens Station. lly , ' some fatal mistake or misunderstand ing, a pile-driver, locomotive and five or seven box cars went to their doom 1 in a pile, the engineer and fireman '^ going dcwn with them, but miracu lously escaped with only seven * wounds and unknown mental shock. ( In the dark they made ther escape ^ leavng a bloody trali over the wreck- | age, even the bell was bloody. A great derrick was there as I passed, removing the debris, and a force on r shore framing a new trestle. The | same state of affairs was on the Wilmington and Goldsboro road and ( the resumption of schedules was in- (, difinite. A forty-mile gap with no trains is the biggest break the W. & y W. ever experienced. 1 hope never to | see such another wreck. I took a ( train at Faison and reached Smith field on schedule time Monday even- j ing. , 1 am now hauling pears and like ( it better than marooning. N C. S. POVyKLL. Sent. 18. 1917. *1, Strawbt'rriin. > . ? |! A treat many of our readers are taking an interest in strawberry . growing for home use. Now is the ; time to start the strawberry bed; es pecially is this true if fruits are want- , ed from the bed this coming spring. Plow or work up "the land as deeply as possible. Turn under a good lot of litter and organic matter. If there is a growth of peas on the land it is a good thing, but if there is no such crop to put under the soil a coating < of barnyard manure should be giv-1, en the land. From ten to thirty tons should be applied to the acre and plowed in. Following the plowing the land should be well worked. It should be disc harrowed once or twice, " de pending upon the way in which the ?>il plows. After the discing" a spring tooth harrow or a spike tooth harrow ' should be used to put it in shape for planting. - The plcnts should be purchased from some reliable plant man, or if they are to be taken from a patch already on the farm only the young plants ? that is, those that came from' runners this past summer ? should be used. If a plant has dark and black roots on it, it should not be used for setting. Good varieties to plant are the Lady Thompson, Klondike and Missionary. If fruit is desired from the planting in the spring the plants should be set during late Septeml>er and early October. ? i The rows should be laid off four feet apart if the matted hedge row is to be used. The plants should be set every eighteen inches in this row. Be careful when setting the plants to spread out the roots and to thorough ly compact the soil about the plants after setting. I)o not set too deep in the soil and be careful not to plant so that a portion of the roots will be subjected to the cold weather of win ter. Crowns of plants set too deep are apt to rot and those set too shallow will suffer from winter cold. If desired some fertilizer can be j yt ;n he row at the time of plant ing. This fertilizer ran be made of a suck of cottonseed meal to a sack of acid phosphate, ami from six hun dred to a thousand pounds of this material should be used per acre. Six Wlindred pounds in the row i* sufficient for fall planting. An appli cation of a hke amount or more may be made broadcast to the patch the following spring and worked in the soil with a Planet Jr. cultivator. There arc some of our readers who ask every fall about planting straw berries in barrels. Holes four inches square and twelve inchts from center to center may be cut in the sides of a barrel and the barrel filled with rich soil. Strawberry plants are set in the holes in the barrel. By watching the barrel as if it were a flower pot a small quantity of strawberries can be grown in this way, but it is only done for pleasure and never for the pro duction of berries in large enough amounts to be used for any purpose except for ornament. Wo do not re commend this method. In the spring after the plants are set into the field they should have an application of fertilizer and be work id with cultivators until they begin to set their fruit. It is a good plan to mulch the middles of the rows with straw or manure before picking time, as this mulch will keep the fruits clean and prevent packing of the soil during picking. It is barely ever cold "iiough here to necessitate the covering of the plants to protect them from cold as in the northern sections. After picking is over the strawberries should be cleaned up and the mulch worked into the ground and the cul tivation continued until late in the season. Spraying with Bordeaux mixture from time to time will keep he plants free from disease and help n the production of runners for mak ng the hedge row. The plants set ?ighteen inches apart in four foot rows should make rows two feet ?vide and thick with plants by the ?nd of the first season. This makes i middle two feet wide for working he plants. ? Southern Kuralist. The .Machine on the Job. A great part of the economic prog ?ess of the world has come from the ubstitution of machines for dogs, ox n, horses and men. But in spite of all hat the inventors have been able to lo we still find ourselves short of nhor, with the farmer one of the irincipal sufferers. We could be in better shape. The nan who has depended upon muscle, ioth human and horse, has been very onservative about putting /steel sin ws to work for him. Under ordinary ircumstances we get along all right vith this conservatism, but last spring ve were forced into a situation that las elevated labor savers to life sav rs. We should go the limit in taking idvanHMr*' of them. Years ago, when we had no self tinders, an hour of labor was expend 'd in producing a bushel of wheat, mproved machinery and better meth ids have brought the time down to ess than ten minutes. Now there is 10 question about the efficiency of the rrain drill, the binder, the header and he thresher. The development of the manure preader lacks the romance of McCor mick's invention, but thousands of farmers would part with their bind ers first. The champion corn husker i)f Iowa isn't in it with the power husker, which is now a well-known machine in the Corn Belt. Now another group of labor savers is emerging from the experimental stage into the field of everyday use. The dairyman who finds the labor i|Uestion daily harder to solve is grad ually getting acquainted with the mechanical milker. Some day it will he as familiar on the dairy farms as the silo, for the simple reason that it is badly needed. The tractor is gradually moving to the farm, but it must move faster to keep up with the world. It is going to do our cultivating r.s well as the plowing, harrowing and planting. And along with these machines are coming electric motors and numberless lessor improvements that will triple the power of the farmer's r.rm. This year ought to mark the great est advance in the saving of man la bor on the farm. The machine must do the job. ? Country Gentleman. All Gone. "You say you want a job in this office? Well, what can you do? "Nothing." "Why didn't you apply sooner? All those high-salaried positions havt been taken long ago." ? Judge. A census of the Canal Zone taker by the police and fire divisions as ol June no, 1917, shows a total civiliar population of 23,295, a gain of 495 a! compared with a year ago. Of th* total population 7,447 are Americans of whom 3,494 are men. 1,890 women and 2,003 children. Of the popula tion of all other nationalities (15,848) there are 9,310 men, 3,005 women am 3,533 children. \ i W VOI.l NTKIiRS I UK >tu\ ii k Found In J. B. Key, Head of a Bi* Department Store at < harlot te, and H. B. Varn*?r, Owner of the I, yon Theatre in Lexington. Raleigh, Sept. 19.? Volunteers to lead the North Carolina retail mer < bants and the moving picture house owners have been found by Pood Ad ministrator, Henry A. Page, in J- B. Ivey, head of a big department store at Charlotte, and H. B. Varner, owner of the I. yon Theatre in Lexington. Each of these exceedingly busy men has offered to raise his division of workers from the ranks of the business in which both have flourished. Mr. fvey will undertake to bring to the voluntary service of the United States all th?* retail dry goods mer chants of North Carolina and Mr. Varner, who is a newspaper publicity artist of first rank, will devote him seif to the organization of all picture houses into the general scheme of propaganda which is capitally impor tant now Mr. Ivey is chairman of this big organization. Following the lead of the government he will communicate with the dry goods merchants of all places in North Carolina and assign to then, what work is desired. These re tail < rganizatk-ns are to be apprais ed of th" character of the food propa ganda work expected of them. As one feature in bringing the demands of the hour to public visualization, a grvat country-wide window display contest is to take place. It is through these window displays that the need of a wise use of supplies is to be shown by the merchants. A prize of $50 is offered for the first, $30 for the second and $20 for the third best display in each of three classes. Every store that puts a dis play and conforms to the rules of the contest will receive recognition from the Food Administration. They are designed to show the public need of economy in the use of all foods and particularly for substituting certain foods available in this country for those heretofore commonly used with out restriction but now vital to the maintenance of our Allies in the war. The conditions of this State-wide contest will be stated by Mr. Ivey who undertakes this big job solely because he desires to do a business man's duty to his country. Mr. Varner's position is unique in that he is owner both of a newspaper and a moving picture house. A double duty in publicity is shouldered by him. One of the purposes of the moving picture organization is to promote "clean-up" campaigns on the pledge cards which begin October 21 and continue through eight days. This novelty can be the more easily pre sented through the co-operation of the picture houses. The Government has a picture, "Food Will Win the War," which is to be exhibited by 17,000 picture houses in the country. Hesides these, slides and one-sheet lobby posters will be regularly employed by all the pict ure houses in the country, if the Gov ernment can gain the willingness of those owners to co-operate with the publicity plans. And to the end that the greatest amount of material may be put before the people, the Govern ment welcomes any suggestion from any source as to what would well go into these films, posters and slides. Mr. Page has just begun the or ganization of his vast system of vol unteers. This week, particularly, his office is busy. It will require the work of every man and woman in it to carry to the last man in the State the seriousness of the world's food situation. NKYV HOPE LOCALS. The revival meeting will begin at Antioch M. E. church Wednesday night, September 2t>, by the pastor, Rev. T. W. Siler. Miss Gertrude Ball, of Raleigh, is visiting Mrs. Rufus Sanders. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Lee, of Fal con, spent the week-end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Lee. Mr. Warren Massengill visited rel atives at Fayetteville last week. Mr. Marvin Strickland and sisters, Misses Ina and Ethel, of Falcon, spent the week-end with relatives in the community. Mr. Fred Loe made a business trip to Wilson last week. Messrr. J. B. Strickland, cf Lumber ton, and M. B. Strickland, of Smith 1 field, spent Sunday with their parents, Elder r.nd Mrs. Robert Stricklnnd. Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Upehurch an 1 nounce the birth of a daughter. We are very sorry to note the death ?f Mr. John Jordan which occurred at his home Tuesday afternoon, after suffering several weeks with typhoid fever. He leaves a wife and four chil 1 dren. Our hearts go out in sympathy i for the bereaved ones. ? Four Oaks, Sept. 18, 1917. ? 1 1 ? "" , The standard medical books endorse ? the ingredients in Dr. SETH AR , NOLD'S BALSAM for Summer Sick 1 ness. Buy a bottle today of Hood Bro*., Smithfield, N. C. ? Adv. ? ? ? BI 'SIN ESS LOCALS ? * * m w m ^ w mmmm m W ^ THE PAIN CAUSED FROM IMLES j is very bad. Dr. Muns' Piles and Eczema Ointment will relieve you instantly. Creech Drug Co., Smith- 1 ti.ld, N. C. 0 FOUR YOUNG MULES FOR SALE ; very cheap at The Austin-Stephen- j son Co. ? . i WHEN YOU WAKE IN THE MORN ing a Cce, Cee Inner Spring Mat tress makes you feel rested and ready for another day's toil. Some thing New. Cotter-Underwood Co., Smithfield, N. C. W ANTED? I WANT TWO LARGE, reliable families with good help and own team to take a three-horse ? crop each in 1918. Good land for all ^ crops. Good pasture land also. Par- ' ties wishing to rent can be shown over the place at any time. Julius A. Leo, Sr., Four Oaks, N. C., R. F. I). No. 2. , I) FOR WIRE FENCING SFE AUSTIN " C r: Stephenson Company. COTTER-UNDERWOOD COMPA ny's Store is the place to buy your Dry Goods at the right price. C CAR RED DOG SHIPSTUFF AT? Austin-Stephenson Company's. B WOULD SELL ABOUT TEN TO fifteen acres of tract of land one mile north of the corporate limits of the town of Smithfield. Purchas- j er might buy some other land ad- j joining this. Address B. Box H, y Smithfield, N. C. | IF YOU NEED A NICE RUBBER Tire Buggy, call on Cotter-Under wood Co., Smithfield, N. C. SELL YOUR GOOD TOBACCO with Boyett Bros. They sold 314 pounds for J. R. Olive for $123.94. TWO CAR LOADS OF ONE AND two-horse wagons and prices fight at Austin-Stephenson Company. SCHOOL BOOKS AND SCHOOL supplies at Hood's Drug Store. School Books are"not charged. Sold only for the Cash. SOLDIERS NEW TESTAMENTS? Khaki-bound New Testaments for sale at The Herald Office. OUR FALL AND WINTER SHOES line is now complete. Cotter-Un derwood Company, Smithfield, N. C. NEW TESTAMENTS AND BIBLES for sale at The Herald Office. SEED RYE, SEED CLOVER, SEED wheat. See The Austin-Stephenson Company. DID YOU EVER READ THAT great little story "Ten Nights In a Barroom?" If not get a copy at Herald Office. Price only 6 cents. By mail 8 cents. THREE CAR LOADS OF NICE FUR niture on hand at Austin-Stephen son Co.'s, and prices satisfactory. LOOK ON YOUR LABEL, AND IF your subscription is in arrears re member the printer. He has to pay weekly for the cost of getting out the paper Paying up when youi time is out helps us. THE BEST LINE OF SHOES OF all kinds are at Cotter-Underwood Co., Smithfield, N. C. NEW BOOKS RECEIVED AT THE N Herald Office. The leading new ^ novels together with a large lot of E the popular sellers of the past z. years now in stock. Come in and ?) see them. I TYPEWRITER RIBBONS? ROY VL. V Underwood, Oliver, Remington and P L. C. Smith ? for sale at The Her- H aid Office. 4^ IF YOU WANT ONE-THIRD OF your life, easy and comfortable see our Felt Bed line of Mattresses. Cotter-Underwood Co., Smithfield, N. C. I YOU CAN FIND AS GOOD SHOES. Clothing and Dry Goods at Austin Stephenson Co.'s as anywhere and S prices very low. ' 3 WE HAVE FOR SALE? SOME f mules and horses cheap for Cash. ? Cotter-Underwood Co., Smithtuld, p N. C. j SELL YOUR NEXT LOAD OF TO- J 'iL n ^4* TV?.,i? n rn ft bacco with Boyett Bros. They are making some of the highest prices we have heard of. IF YOU WANT TO ENJOY A GOOD novel read "Sunny Slopes," by Ethel Hueston, author of "Pru dence of The Parsonage." Price $1.40. On sale at The Herald Office.
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