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THE SMITHFIELO HERALD Publishc j Every Tuesday and Fridpy. j BEATY & LASSITER Smithfield, N. C. Editors and Proprietors, Cash in Advance. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Yeai, $1.50 Eiuht Months. 1.00 Si* Months, .75 Three Months, .10 Entered nt the Post Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. WELCOME TO THE FAIR. The people arc given a most h'.'arty welcome to the Johnston County Fnir which begins tomorrow and will con tinue through Friday. This is the one big county event which all the people of the county may be looking forward to. Let the people from every s scti->n come to Smithfield and enjoy thf it Fair. It is the County Fair and as such it has the support of the county people. Let everybody come to Smithfieb? nid have a good time. T i.t- * one, two or three days off and en*er i into the spirit of the occasion. He nv r- , ry for this week and help otlxra to !kj . merry also. It will d<? us all go;>d t xtaKc on" little holiday in .165 and enjoy the meeting an<l mingling together of friend and acquaintance. Com" to lh< Fair and have a good time. o iskim; I'ATKim it:. Th rc are many waya in which a man m: >? I ?<* patriotic. .II;' docs j *,t hare to join the army or the navy <?r~ even !?y a Lil < rly Bond. Il?- may bo patriotic by not overcharging a friend or u en tomcr for the tl'ings he lias to sell. Since prices have been so tb- | normally high there seems to be an inclination <n the part of some to charge too much. Taking a large per cent of profit for what you have to sell is one of the ways one can show his 1 lack of patriotism, Being patriotic is lo v inn- one's country and loving one's country is impossible unless one is able to love bis fellow.-man. Whun man loves his fellow-man he docs not overcharge him for what he sella him. He never takes advantage of Mi< scarcity of an article to make an un reasonable profit. The patriotic m 11 never lets selfishness dominate hi.-* life and acts. e THE WAR W1U. TEACH I'IBI.K 1 OHLKi ATION. I In a kingdom the individual is re garded more or less as an asset of the government. It is considered that he , belongs to the government. It is said t that in Germany if a man makes an < important discovery it is regarded as belonging to the government. Patents , made by individuals go to enrich th government. Business is more or less ' run in the interest of the government. Thus in Russia for many yoai . tb ? 1 proceeds of the breweries and saloons and distilleries went to the Czar. But in the United States the peopl" swing to the other extreme. Many of thei. reached a point they were not willing to pay taxes or work the roads or perform any public duty. They have looked on such things as throwing away so much money. They have look ed on laws as so many burdens. Pros perous men were unwilling to give any of their time or money to the government. Now that the war is go ing on they are having to give their time, their sons ami their money to the government. The w; r will teach public obligation as perhaps nothing eJsA? would teach it. However bad the war may be there will some good come out of it. * The 'obacco farmers have been very liberal in giving some of their tobnceo to the Red Cross ladies who have paid occasional visits to the ware houses here. They have already sold the tobacco given them for several hundred dollars, and if they had be gun this work sooner the Red Cross would lirve received much more help from their farmer friends. The col ored farmers have not been one step behind their white brother, but have V contributed liberally when they have had tobncco on the warehouse floors. SAVING SEED PEAS. The pea crop of this county is the ! nearest a failure ever known. The rains were too heavy and then too I light and the peas did not make their usual growth. It now looks like seed peas for next years's crop are going to he very scarce and high. It is im- 1 portant that an many seed peas as pos- j xible he saved and this work should be done at once. Pea* have now done all the growing they can and should be ' picked at once. No other work should he allowed to come before pen pick ing. Southern fanners with hut few exceptions have never yet fully learned the value of peas as soil builders. If all available land in the South was sown to peas it would mean millions of dollars to our farming. All farmers who cannot save enough seed peas on their farms should at once buy all they will need if it is possible to find them. It now looks like we sh;?ll have to im port car loads of seed peas into John ston if we plant many next summer. ROOSEVELT THE CR1TICISER. The Roosevelt stock is getting below par again. When his would-be friends try to boost him up a little for his patriotism along some lines, jthey run across a snag because of his activities along other lines. Some tirne ago he was hailed as the great Patriotic One who was willing to go r ny 1< ntrth for his country. He was so Toll of energy sind so verbose that an outlet had to bo had somehow. Ho wanted to lead the army to France, but Mn"e he could not do that he was satisfied to take an editorial position on a We t i n paper win rc be could reach thousands with his words of wisd< m. Hut the Colonel's tendency towards criticism has so obsessed him tf i! he is unable to forego it even if ho has to criticise his gov ern u:1 nt Tn a tim ? of great stress and strife. His recent editorials have had to deal with the unpreparedness nf the country when war was impend ing. The country is making as great progess in getting ready for the uront sliugglc as any nation in his tory. If Mr. Roosevelt wants to ?orve his country at this time with lis great ability ho can do a great ] leal more good by standing by it and ! ncouraging it in its great work than n pointing out it* short coming; . Rev. Lew is Chester Morrison. The Reverend I. wis Cheater Morri ;on, Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal 'hurch in Smitbfield and of St. Ste ihons Chtirch in Duke, was in attond ince at the Convocation of Raiei-'h leld at St. Stephens Church, Oxfrd, l^is past week. On Wednesday norning h<- officiated at the service of ( nomine, prayer in that church. Wed ie lay evening he assisted th? Rev- ( ?rend C. P. Willcox at St. Saviour's ^ hurch, Raleigh, an<l preached the , ?ermon. ? On Thursday morning- All Saims , Day he celebrated the Holy Eucha rist, agisted by the Reverend Mr. Willcox, at St. Saviour's, Raleigh. While in Oxford, together \ ith the nther clergy, he enjoyed the privilege nf a visitation to the Oxford Orphan ; 've (Masonic). Sanderson- Brad y. On Saturday afternoon, November :>rd, Mr. Jumes H. -Sanderson, of Wayne Comity, and Mrs. Eveline Brady, of SmithfieU!, were happily married. The marriage took place in Raleigh, ;:fter a drive through the country on Mr. Sanderson's : utoin bile. They wre accompanied to Ral eigh by Miss Ola Brady rnd Miss Gradabellc Turner. Mr. Sanderson is a good farmer and an influential man in the community of his old home. Mrs. Brady is the widow of the late Wil liam Lewis Brady and has many friends here. It is said they will make their home here. Huptirit Women To Meet. The Woman's Missionary Union of the Johnston County Buptist Associa tion will meet at Selma Baptist church beginning Wednesday afternoon, No vember 14th at 3::10 o'clock. There will be sessions of the union h?ld also Wednesday night anfl throug'-. the day Thursday. A good program, which will be | rinted in our next is .^ue, has been arranged, and a !arire% attendance is expected. Reports to The Adjutant General's Office show that the number of re cruits accepted for the R"gular Arnr on October 29 was 1.U77, making a lo-, tal o( JW7.785 acceptances since April 1, .1917. MISS PICKENS TO LEAVE US Miss Nell Pickens, who has boon Home Demonstration Agent for John ston County for the past eightwn months, will leeve this week for G?e tonia, when- she will take up a simila work for Gaston County. Miss Pii > ens resigned a month ag o. Since coming to Johijston Miss Pick ens has made a host of friends who re gret to see her leave the work and the county. Her work among the mom bers of the canning clubs has l>een of untold valu'.* and will bear fruit for years to come. Tin- vigorous canning campaign waged by Miss Pickett throughout the country last summer was the means of saving thousands of cans of fruit and vegetables .vhich otherwise might have gone to wast* Not only has she helped in the canning work but she h:>s been of much servicc in the schools and in the other clut work. She h:<s been a tireless workei and Johnston is losing a vmloabk MISS NELL PICKENS. agent foj; good to the people at Inrgj in the j.oing of Mi is Pickens. Th.1 worl Miss Pickens has done in Johraton ha: s ! '? ra.ted attention ove the Stat? i.n<l it has tho reputation -h.' nude thai' j died her away from us. (!:. ,?m County i. a county tl ; t do . things. It is perhaps the l>. st or<ia nized county in the State along the line of community and betterment work. It ha:; a well-equipp 1 Farm Life Schffol with a Johnston County man at the l.o- d of it ? Mr. \Sani ,T. Kirby. The county has a live I'arm Demonstration Agent who is doiiiv tb'ngs. The people of Gaston arc alive fo the beat things and great effort ; have been mad" to introduce pure-bred hogs and cattle with a success that hai made the county talked about as one o'" ih" real progressive counties of th.* State. Last summer Miss Pickens was in cited, along with other worker of tm State Agricultural Department, to risit several points in (listen County *ii!l make talks along the line t f can ling and ther community work. The [Jaston people b ing very much alive .vere not slow to see that Miss Picftens was a woman of real worth and at >ne^ made her a pr< position to take up :1h* work there. The result of it all was that Johnston is to lose her. Tho , Jaston people did net hesitate to >>f fer Miss Pickens about fifty per < nt more salary than she was gettinsr in Johnston and it did not t ;k > her lorg Lo decide to aciept. The Herald, in common with hun lreils of progressive people in John ston County, very much rej',:-?ts to see Miss Pick n leave the work h- re which is so full of great pcssibilit;os. She had gotten a firm grasp on the situation ami was finding the woik prospering under her leadership. I' is a work eminently worth while :>n.} oae that the county must carry on. Here's lust wishes for Miss Pi 'kent as she goes to her new field of work. St. Paul's Episcopal Church. , At St. r nil's Chur h Sunday, Ino Reverend Francis M. Osborne, spe cial representative of St. M iry ? School, Raleigh, was present with ' he rector, Reverend Lewis Chester Mor rison, and together they con !urtc:! both services. Mr. Osfcorne praclud in the morning, and the rector :>t the evening: service. Governor Signs Death War rent. Some months ego J. A. Terry, a Guilford County farmer, 58 years 0U1 was found guilty of murder and sen tenced to die in the electric chair. IK took an appeal to the Supreme Cour* which found no error in the trial t:v en Terry by the lower court. An ap peal was then made to Governor Hick ett asking him to commute the sen tence to life imprisonment. Friday t'v Governor pave notice that he couli net inferfere and ?< t November 9Gi as the day for Terry's d >ath. This i the first death warrant the Governoi has signed since he assumed the office After having made throats r?ainsi his neighbor, Te ry went to his hor.n in a fit of anger and slew him, am n nv he must pay the penalty with hi.? (life. * M * THE SIGNS OP THE TIMES. * ? * i * By Cy Johnson. * * ? I get up at seven, eat breakfast at seven-thirty, go to my office to read my mail and start out into the coun try about eight; that is if the passers by help me crank my new Ford. I take a good start on the paved streets in Smithfield so me and Lizzie (Lizzie is my Ford) can shoot through the mud holes just outside the town without having to call for help to get out. ~ Now Lizzie don't mind a few sorto juicy places in the road but she sure does get all "het-up" when she has to crawl through the long deep ones. Do you blame her? And through those sandy stretches in the south and west part of the county Lizzie hates to travel. Often she refuses to move at all. But I kin da reason with her and tell her that the folks who live near these sand hills and hog wallers will soon become ashamed of themselves and fix their highways in good style. Of course, a drink of cold water urges her onward through it all. Yes, we get through all riwrht lu-t we lose a good deal of valuable time and don't get to call on but three farmers when we ought to have seen five. Then too, it's hard on me and Lizzie as well as my pocket book. But we're gona follow tho best ro;' !s just like other folks are prone t<i d >. And if the poor- roads persons >!' n't like it they can come across ' with better road-beds for us, as well j as themselves, to travel over. If they ha vent' got the money they can vote Ix-nds to get them. And did you ever notice the differ ence in the farms near the good and P i r r< ; t ' -4 ? Why there's as munh dif f, i-ince between them as there is be tween a shoestring and a necktie. But the sierns of the times are, that all the roads in Johnston County will be get o\ r-al I ? vei y soon. Me and Lizzie are for it; not agin it. Then and then only can 4ve say that "the farmer's life Iris <?ot the city man's life skin ned i ore ways than the (Johnston) f: t i:ie c;:n uro to town." I CY JOHNSON. | \Y \NTFI) ? 500 M EN, WOMEN AM) I children to oat dinner with us at Auction Sale, Brn E. Gardner Farm. S iurday , November 10th, 10:00 A. M. First National Auction Co., Smithfield, N. C. The Teachings of Personal Experience come tow high in cost for t'-.e up-to-date successful man of today. Invariably the strongest advocates of the bank account is the man \rho has Learned By Experience and then it is often Too Late. Profit by the teachings of Experience ? Start an account today. New Books Just Received THE SALT OF THE EARTH, by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. OVER THE TOP, by Arthur Guy Empey. ANNE'S HOUSE OF DREAMS, bv L. M. Montgomery. FANNY HERSELF, by Edna Feiber. IN HAPPY VALLEY, by John Fox, Jr. WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING, bv Rupert Hughes. LONG LIVE THE KING, b? Marv Roberts Rinehart. THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT, by Winston Churchill. CALVARY ALLEY, by Alice Hegan Rice. WHEN DADDY WAS A BOY. by Thomas Wood Parry. HERALD BOOK STORE, ^ Smith field, N. C. Buggies and Wagons JUST ARRIVED Three Car loads of BUGGIES and one Car of Wagons with another car of Wagons now in transit. YYe want your Wagon and Buggy business and remember we will not be undersold. Furniture Our whole up stairs is full and the prices are right. Anything from a 35c. Rug to a $200.00 Bed-room Suit. Clothing ? ? MISS ANNIE PEACOCK sold one man six boys suits of corduroy clothes. We expressed four of these suits to Asheville, and still, we can make the heart of many boys glad. Come on boys we have what you w hat. We can sell you to-cay cheaper than we can buy; why, because we got* our Shoes in the house laM February. IN FEED STUFFS, of all kinds, we make the low prices; others follow. Come get our prices and we will save you money. ? We know your Wants. We want your business Austin-Stephenson Co. SMITH FIELD, NORTH CAROLINA \ N
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