ADULT ILLITERACY CAMPAIGN IS NOW ON Miss Kelly Seeks to Do More Than'Teach Illiterates to Read and Write. Many Schools (io taf. Smithfield Cotton Mill In terests (Jive $.'{,500 for Erec tion of Community Kuildinn, Serving As Day School and Illiteracy; Rules Governing Expenditure of State Funds. (News and Observer.) "It isn't sufficient to teach ndult illiterates merely to read and write," says Miss Elizabeth Kelly, Director of School for Illiterates, who is working up the campaign against illiteracy in North Carolina along the line of com munity schools which will have the fundamentals of reading and writing as a background but which will en deavor to lead men and women into a great community usefulness. The work has already started, and in fact encouraging progress has been made in several sections. In Gaston county's drive against illiteracy $.'$,000 is in sight and it is likely that the State will give $1,000 if the atten dance upon the schools warrants it. The schools in the county, made up largely of cotton mill operatives, will be conducted o?n the group plan. Miss Laura M. Jones has been se cured in Buncombe county as whole time worker who will devote her ener gies toward the establishment of com munity schools. The Selma cotton mills, Johnston county, have secured two whole-time workers, the Ivanhoe Mills of Smithfiold have appropriated $3,500 for a community building to be used as a day school building und as a community building also. Mrs. Eleanor Zachary, at Smithfi?ld, is the whole-time workt r engaged in the illiteracy camjvign and the com munity activities. KiiK'h for Appropriation. Miss Kelly now is spreading through the State the general rules adopted by the State Hoard of Education for the expenditure of the money appropria ted by the General Assembly in ll> 17 , for establishing schools for adult illiterates. No school is to receive any of this money unless it shall have an enrollment of at east ten adult illit erates. The rules follow: "I ? An adult illiterate is on" who is more than fourteen (14) years old, who can not read or write. (The com pulsory attendance laW requires at tendance of all under fourteen (14) years upon the regular public school.) "II ? Night schools. (a) A maximum of $10.00 may be appropriated from State funds for this purpose for teaching ten (10) illiter ates for a period of twenty (20) night sessions. Each night session shall de vote at least one and one-half hours to actual work of teaching illiterates. (b) If monthly report shows an average attendance of more than ten (10) who were enrolled as illiterates, $2.00 additional- for each additional pupil in average nightly attendance not exceeding twenty (20) may be ap propriated. To illustrate: If the re port shows an average nightly atten dance for twenty (20) nights of twelve (12) who were erirolled as illit erates, $4.00 additional to the original $10.00 may be appropriated making salary $14.00 from State in place of $10.00, provided, of course, that amount is duplicated from local funds. "Ill ? Day Schools. (a) A maximum of $20.00 may be appropriated from State funds for this purpose for teaching ten (10) illiterates for a period of not less than twenty (20) days. Each day session shall devote not less than two (2) con secutive hours to actual teaching and not less than three (3) hours to school work for the benefit- of pupils other than illiterates who may be enrolled. (b) If monthly report shows an aver age daily attendance of more than ten (10) who were enrolled as Illiter ates, $2.00 additional for each ad ditional pupil in average daily atten dance not exceeding twenty (20) may be appropriated. To illustrate: If the report shows an average daily atten dance for twenty (20) days of twelve (12) who were enrolled as illiterates, $4.00 additional to the original $20.00 may be appropriated, making salary $24.00 from State in place of $20.00, provided, of course, this amount is duplicated from local funds. "IV. ? Two copies each of all re ports relative to schools for illiterates shall be made by teacher of school. One copy of each shall be filed in the office of the county superintendent and one copy of each in the office of Miss Kelly, in the State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, N. C. "V. ? No voucher to pay any teacher may be issued from this fund until teacher's monthly reports of school for illiterates, together with summary of each pupil's work for month are made out on blanks furnished for this purpose and approved by the county superintendent of schools and filed, one copy of each, in the office of the county superintendent and. one copy of each in the office of Miss Kelly, in the State Department of Public Instruction, Raleigh, N. C. "VI ? The county superintendent shall fill out certificate blanks furnish ed him, stating length of school term, number of illiterates enrolled and source of money duplicating amount of money asked for from the State fund for teaching illiterates. He shall mail these certificates together with the reports, as required by the State Board of Education in Rule IV, to Miss Kelly's office in the State De partment of Public Instruction, Ral eigh, N. C. Upon receipt of these re ports and certificates vouchors will be made out and mr.iled to the superin tendent for distribution to the teacher. "VII? These schools for adults need days or nights constitutes one month, and under the law no apportionment of funds can be made for a school mainained than one month." PLANS FOR A REAL CHRISTMAS. (By E. H. Moser,) America is now in the hour of real testing. Our patriotism is being weighed in the balances and is not found wanting. Each time a call for money or men has been made the response has been more than grati fying- Now a very sane and sensible appeal is being made to our citizenry. This time the call v/ill save money to most of the American people. In Selma that appeal is simply this, send a postal card to your friends thifc year wishing them a Merry Christmas, and say, "I have sent your gift to the Red Cross, they will remember a soldier boy with it." Who would not rather make the heart of a soldier thrill with joy on Christmas Morn than to be the recipient of a thousand Chistmas pres ents? Yes, we will do this and none of our friends will feel bad because we forgot them. Make this a Merry Christmas for the soldier boy. Selma's Red Cross Chapter needs $51 for this purpose, to send a Christ mas package, charmingly made up and neatly packed, by attractive girls and the noble women of Selma for thirty four of our boys who have gone to do battle for us. The good women of our land can arrange these boxes in such a way that it will bring a half million smiles in cantonments and trenches Christmas morning. Not a boy must be forgotton, not a face left sad. We will e the happiest in our lives by remem >ering these at Christmas. Yes, Amer ca's own guard tonight! We are hav ng a real Chistmas. * Selma, N. C., Nov 26th. Firms Fail to Get License. Raleigh, Nov. 24. ? Steps will be nitiated immediately to suspend the rading operations of firms or persons vho are subject to license under the President's proclamation of Oct. 8th, anless applications for license are ?nade at once, according to a telegram iust received from Mr. Herbert Hoover jy State Food Administrator Henry A. Page. In his wire Mr. Hoover stated that tnany firms and individuals had failed jo far to make application, notwith standing the fact that they should have done so before November 1st. Mr. Hoover's telegram was in effect in announcement to these that "Time's up." Firms which have licenses are ex pressly forbidden to buy food com modities from, sell them to, or handle them for any person or firm who is required to have a license but who has not secured the license and com plied with the provisin which requires the license to place on every contract, order, acceptance or order, invoicc, quotation and price list his license number. Any infringement of this rule should be reported to State Food Administrator Page. BETHANY NOTES. The family of Mr. Burrel Whitley have been quite sick. A good many of our farmers are sowing wheat. Cotton is so late some of it is in the patch yet. Our school commenced last Monday with Misses Lena Tyner and Lena Johnson teachers. They are staying in the home of Mr. Moses Creech. Dr. Wade H. Atkinson, of Washing ton City, spent Monday and Tuesday with Mr. Kirkman Creech. The Herald is a welcome visitor in , these parts. It seems like a letter from home folks. ? B. November 23rd. 'two IHE in fight with guns. J. \Nhtflrr Glover and Charlie Salter Found Dead On liogue Banks With Bodiea 15 Feet Apart. Morehead City, Nov. 24. ? J. Wheeler Clover, a prominent citizen, aged 54, and Charlie Salter, aged 35, of Bell Cove, were found dead at 1 o'clock today on Bogue Banks, both having died as a result of gunshot wounds, each having shot tly? other. The bodies were fifteen feet npr.rt, Salter having staggered about ten feet away before falling, after a load of number eight shot had penetrated his heart, Glover was shot in his abdomen, about two inches above the left hip. Glover left here Friday noon, telling his wife he would return at seven o'clock. Not returning his Wife become alarmed and had boatmen take her to their lodge on beach, but no trace could be found and at 1 o'clock this morning they returned home. Today a search ing party of thirty-five men discovered the two bodies in the position mention ed and the guns having each been shot one time. Glover's gun at his side and Salter's under him. Glover was very strict about tres passing on his reserve and the double tragedy i^ supposed to have resulted from Glover's ordering Salter off his land. Glover leaves a wife, who before her marriage, was Miss Pauline Lepper, and three children, one brother, of Brooklyn, one sister and an aged mother living in California. Salter leaves a father, mother and one sister, who lives at Bell Cove, twenty miles west of Morehead City. WILSON'S MILLS SCHOOL. (By Harriet Uzzle.) Wilson's Mills, Nov. 26. ? A ship ment of sweaters, etc., is being pre pared by the local workers of the Red Cross. A social was given by the young people's organization of the Baptist church Friday night. All reported a happy evening. More pupils entered school this week. Each noon when the differ ent groups of children await the Prin cipal's signal for dismissal we feel proud of our young army. Our society will not meet as usual next Friday as the day will be a holi day. Our last meeting carried a splen did program. Miss Kate Bryan pre sented sample class work. The game, "I see and I saw,' 'was well carried out. " The Sky is Falling ' was a story dramatized. Both numbers re ceived applause. Our Principal, Mr. R. A. Pope, goes to the Teachers' Assembly next Wed nesday, at which time Mrs. Lula Uzzle will give the monthly tests. Mesdames J. A. and W. G. Wilson and Miss Evie Wilson were in Smith field Wednesday in interest of the Red Cross Work. A party consisting of Mr. Loon F. Uzzle, Mrs. G. C. Uzzle, and Miss S. O. Parrish motored to Raleigh Friday. A number of our townsmen and their children were attendants at the presentation of the Birth of a Nation in Raleigh Saturday. A fire threatening to become serious ate its way through a partition of the porch at the home of Mr. G. C. Uzzel's Sunday. Neighbors aided the immedi ate members of the family in exten guishing the flames. We are sorry to learn that Mr. Carl Garrison for some time bookkeeper for Uzzell-Davis Co. expects to take up new work in Raleigh December 1st. He leaves many friends who wish him well in his work. And we understand he goes with a splendid record behind and a bright future before him. Special Thangsgiving service .was rendered by the Christian Endeavor Society of the Disciples church Sun day night. A certain pupil in General History was asked after a very full explana tion of how Martin Luther was tried for life before a court at Wurms had been made by the teacher ,to explain to the class the Diet of Wurms. Drowsily came back the answer: "Teacher, I aint et none o'dem things." People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks: they amuse them selves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism. ? "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table." BOSCH EE'S GERMAN SYRUP. Why use ordinary cough remedies, when Boschee's German Syrup has been used so successfully for fifty-one years in all parts of the United States for coughs, bronchitis, colds settled in the throat, especially lung troubles. It gives the patient a good night's rest, free from coughing, with easy_ expectoration in the morning, gives nature a chance to soothe the inflam ed parts, throw off the disease, help ing the patient to regain his health. 25 and 75 cent bottles. Sold by Creech Drug Co. ? Adv. ? DR. J. F. FOSTEtt Physician and Surgeon KENLY, N. C. A VICIOUS Rl'MOR. "Among the many absurd and vici ous rumors put into circulation these days, probably through pro-German influences, is one that the United States proposes to confiscate money on deposit in banks. The absurdity of the statement is obvious on its face. These rumors are wholly without foundation and probably ffircuhated for an evil purpose. | "The Government has no pov/er to confiscate the money of depositors in banks." ? From statement of Secretary McAdoo. An Alien Enemy. "Mr. Schrpidt," complained Mrs. Terrell, " I ordered a dozen fresh eggs." "Chass?" inquired the grocer. "Haf dey not come already?" "You sent me nine eggs," declared the irate customer, "and three poison gas bombs." ? From the Thanksgiving Puck. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE BANK OF KENLY At Kenly, N. C., at the close of busi ness November 20, 1917. RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $111,837.17 Overdrafts secured and un 1 secured 3,851.64 United States bonds on hand "Liberty" 1,038.00 Banking Houses ..$3,778.88 Furnjture & Fixt. . 2,261.18 I 6,040.0(! Demand Loana . 31,750.00 Due from National Banks. 5,038.78 Due from State Banks and Bankers 2,946.01 Cash Items ! . . . 754.32 ! Gold Coin 172.50 Silver coin, including all minor currency 255.54 National Bank notes and ! U. S. Notes 2,713.00 Total $166,397.02 LIABILITIES. Capital stock paid in $10,000.00 Undivided profits, less cur rent expenses and taxes paid 4,511.71 Deposits subject to check . 103,276.06 Time certificates of deposit 46,882.20 Cashier's Checks outstand ing 873.05 Accrued Interest due de positors 854.00 Total $166,397.02 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA? County of Johnston, November 26th, 1917. I, J. H. Kirby, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. J. H. KIRBY, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 26th day of November, 1917. N. R. PIKE, Notary Public. Correct ? Attest: W. T. BAILEY, J. T. EDGERTON, J. H. KIRBY, Directors. NOTICE. By virtue of the authority contained in a Mortgage Deed. Executed to Farmers Mercantile Co., by Simon Morgan and dated the third day of April, 1916, and duly Registered in the Register's Office of Johnston County in Book No. 18, page 46, the under signed will sell at public auction, for cash, at the Court House door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., on the 20th day of December, 1917 ,at 12 o'clock M., the following property to-wit: Adjoining the lands of Tom Wiggins, Len Chappell, Betty O'Neal, Hezckiah I Watson and others. Being the tract or parcel of land conveyed to Simon [Morgan by deed from Silas Lucas, as will appear from reference to the [registry of Johnston County. Con taining forty-five acres more or less. For a more complete boundary, re ference is hereby mnda to the records | of the books of the Register of Deeds .for Johnston County. This 20th day of November, 1917. FARMERS MERCANTILE CO. Mortgagee. NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County, In the Superior Court, Before the Clerk. C. E. Whitley vs. Lorenzo Whitley, Romeo Whitley, Alice Sanders and Husband, Lovett Sanders, and Lila Chappell and Husband, Monroe Chappell. The defendants Romeo WTiitley, Alice Sanders and Lovett Sanders, above named, will take notice that an action entitled as above has been commenced in the Superior Court of Johnston County to sell the lands of Charlie Whitley and Zilla Whitley, deceased, for division among: the heirs at law of said Charlie Whitley and Zilla Whitley and the said de fendants will further take notice that they are required to appear before the "Clerk of the Court of Johnston County on the 30th day of November, at his office in Johnston County and answer 'or demur to the complaint in said ac tion, or the plaintiff will apply to tho ( court for the relief demanded in said complaint. This 2(tth dav of October. 1017. W. S. STE^EXS, Clerk Superior Court. A. M. NOBLE, Attorney for Plaintiff. TWO GOOD FARMS For Sale at Auction For Cash I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, on December 15th, 1917 two good farms, near the County Home. One farm has 126 acres, with three horse crop cleared. The other has 42 acres with a one horse crop cleared. Good pastures on each place. Time of Sale: Saturday, December 15, at one oclock K M. J. E. JOHNSON Smithfield, N. C., Route No. 1. Will sell privately if price is right. The Luzianne Guarantee: If, after using the contents of a can, you are not satisfied in every respect, your gro cer will refund your money. The best percolator and the finest recipe cannot produce a good pot of coffee if the dry coffee isn't exactly right to start out with. If the same percolator and the same recipe do not produce the same results every time, you can bet your boots it's the coffee that's off-ee! Luzianne is uniformly good coffee. There is no guesswork about it ? ever. Give your percolator a chance to make good. Buy a can of Luzianne today. The guarantee is genuine ? means just what it says. Ask for profit-sharing catalog. The Reily-Taylor Company, New Orleans Get your Christmas Cards and Christmas Post Cards at the Herald Book Store. 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