THE SMHID HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. WATCH YOUR LABEL. No receipt will be sent for subscrip tion. Each subscriber is asked to watch the little yellow label on his paper. If the label is not changed within three weeks after remittance is made, the subscriber should notify as. Watch your label. NOTE. ? All correspondents should remember that wc pay no attention to communications without the writ er's name. If you write every day be sure to enclose your name each time. Address all matters for publication to The Smithfield Herald, Smithfield, N. C. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Mr. W. Ransom Sanders made a business trip to Henderson Wednes day. Mr. Gillam Hicks is spending the week with relatives in Granville County. Judge F. H. Brooks went to Durham yesterday to attend the Baptist State Convention. Mrs. Mary Yelvington and Mrs. Flora Hyman returned Wednesday from a visit to Dunn. Miss Elizabeth Kelly, of the State Department of Education, spent a day or two here this week in the interest of her work. Judge F. H. Brooks has an engage ment to speak at Brogden school house tonight at 7:30 o'clock. Everybody invited. No collection. Misses Sadie Puckett, Helene Ives and Carrie Brodie Sanders returned Monday from Franklinton where they spent the Thanksgiving holidays with Miss Zelma Wester. Miss Ava Myatt went to Greenville Monday to attend the' marriage of Miss Willie Ragsdale to Mr. Hobgood, which took place Wednesday. Miss Myatt v/iis one of the bridesmaids. Miss Sallie Hadley, who has b?en spending the summer in the mountains of Western North Carolina, arrived Tuesday night to visit her aunt, Mrs. W. M. Sanders, and other relatives here. Quite a number of Smithfield people went to Raleigh yesterday to do Christ mas shopping. Among them we note, Mrs. Jas. Wellons, Mrs. E. S. Abell, Mrs. L. T. Royall, Mrs. W. M. Law rcnce, Mrs. R. I. Lassiter, Miss May, Moore and others. Rev. John W. Suttle, of Shelby, is expecting to arrive today to visit Mr. J. M. Beaty and other friends here. He is attending the Baptist State Convention at Durham and decided to visit his old field where he spent nine years of successful service as pastor of the Smithfield Baptist church. Mr. T. S. Ragsdale is going to Ral etirh today to attend a meeting of the comm;ttee having in charge the War Savings Stamps campaign. Col. H. F. Fries, of Winston-Salem, is the State Chairman. He has invited Mr. Ragsdale to take charge of the work cs Cihairman for Johnston County. The Civic Department of the Wo min's Club will meet at the Club Rooms at four o'clock Monday after noon, December 10th, to dra^ up plans for beautifying Smithfield. The mem bers are urged to be present. All oth er women interested are given a cor dial invitation to attend the meeting. Messrs. E. S. Edmundson and R. C. Gillett went on a hunting trip up in Wake county near Garner yesterday. Mrs. L. G. Patterson and Mrs. C. B.< Willirmson accompanied them ? Mrs. Patterson to spend the day with Mrs. Simon Turner, and Mrs. Williamson to spend the day with Mrs. John Turner. Mr. Willis M. Barbour, a private of Camp Jackson, has been spending a few days with relatives around Four Oaks. He is a member of Company C, 317lh Machine Gun Battalion. He has been in the service about two months. He was in town Tuesday and called in and subscribed for The Herald. Be sure to inquire and learn about the War Thrift Stamps and the War Savings Stamps, which will socn be on sale. Save your quarters and help Uncle Sam by lending him your sav ings and get a War Savings Certifi cate which will bear interest. The original amount with interest will be paid January 1, 1923. j The Smithfield Baptist Sunday school last Sunday morning elected the pastor of the church, Rev. H. F.' Brinson, as a delegate to the National Anti-Saloon League Convention which | meets in Washington City, December 10 to 13. Governor Bickett has ap- ( pointed Judge F. H. Brooks as one of a hundred delegates from this State. Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. N. B. Gran tham delightfully entertained, "The Round Dozen Book Club" at her home in Brooklyn. The time was pleasantly ^ spent, some playing "Rook" and some , knitting. Toward the close of the afternoon delicious fruit salad and sandwiches were served.* Miss Alice Grantham will be the hostess next time. m m * RED CKOSS NOTES. * * K 3K3IE3IE3KXf 3KX3K3K Send Your Old White Cloth to the Ked Cross. Any housekeeper who has old, worn sheets, pillow-cases or table cloths ? in fact, any clean white cloth, from which pieces 16 inches square can be cut, can help the Red Cross materially by giving them to the Smithfield Chapter. They can be used in several different ways, by the surgical dressing class. Last Wednesday many yards of new materir.l were used for this class, in articles which would have been just as good, made of old cloth. Every dollar secured through the sale of Red Cross Christmas Seals is used for the Tuberculosis Fund. Fight ing the great White Plague is a great task and every penny spent for a Red Cross Christmas Seal goes to swell the fund. By the. sale of these little seals many thousands of dollars is raised each year and spent for the purpose of trying to stop the ravages of consumption among the people. Red Cross Seals are sold in Smithfield at the store of Spiers Bros., Hood Bros., Creech's and W. L. Woodall & Sons. SPILONA NOTES. Owing to the favorable weather throughout the entire fall the farmers of this section have had good success in housing their crops notwithstand ing the scarcity of labor. The annual Thanksgiving service was held at Hickory Grove Advent ohurch last Thursday. Rev J. T. Williams from Asheville, N. C., preached a good sermon at Clement last Sunday afternoon. There was a large crowd out to hear him. Mr. Seth Lassiter, from near Wil son's Mills, was in this section Sunday afternoon. The outstanding conversation among the men is "the war." You can hardly meet a person but what the question is put, " What do you think about the war today?" That is a question that should be given much thought, but none of us is able to tell just what about it. ^ Wo are sorry to note that Mrs. D. L. Massengill, who is spending some time wiih lie* parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. King, is in bed with malarial fever. We hope she will soon be up again. The public school has boon in session at Spilona for three weeks. The at tendance for the first week was small owing to the fact that the mumps was prevailing in the comunity^ I think the epidemic is about mastered now. . The enrollment of school has considerably increased over that of the first two weeks, the enrollment being more than fifty at present. The teachers, Mr. John W. King, of this section, end Miss Pearl Edwards, of Vass, N. C., are striving very enthusi astically to make this the best school year in its history. Let the prints and the children cooperate with the teache -s and observe the results of their inexperienced hands. The Rock Hill Literary Socicty has arranged to entertain the people a little while next Saturday night, Dec. the 8th, with a short program after which there will be some boxes sold, and perhaps some "girls." You arc cordially invited. Mr. D. L. Massengill who has been ) at Norfolk, Va., for some time has come to spend a while in our midst. /k. Spilona, Dec. 3. ?* BOX PARTIES. * i* * From now until further notice all ( notices of box parties will be regarded as advertising and a small charge will I be made. All teachers and others de ! siring to publish a notice of box party I will please enclose 25 cents with notice. This rule will be applied to all. Brown School House. There will be a box party at Brown school house Friday night, December ,14th. The public is invited. Money will go for benefit of the library. ? Teachers. Boyette School House. There will be a box party at Boyette school house two and a half miles west of Kenly, Saturday night, December 15. Everybody invited. Proceeds for benefit of school. ? Teacher. Thornton School House. There will be a Christmas Tree and other amusements at Thornton school i house on Thursday night, Dec. 20. Everybody invited. ? Teacher. Benson, R. 4. Godwin School House. There will be a box party at Godwin I school house, four miles from Kenly, on Friday night, December 14. Pro ceeds for benefit of school. Every body invited. ? Teacher. NICE LINE OF CHRISTMAS POST cards and seals at Herald Office. THE NEWS IN CLAYTON. Clayton, N. C., Dec. 5. ? Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Cower, of Criftin, spent last Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Cower. Mrs. Y. M. Holland and little sister Sarah returned Sunday afternoon from Kenly where they had been visit ing relatives for a few days. Miss Cleve Barnes is spending some time with relatives in Georgia. Miss I^Kue Williams spent Thanks giving in Norfolk with her sister, Mrs. E. L. Gulley. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Austin, of Four Oaks, spent several days last week with Mrs. M. E. Cattis. Mr. S. R .Gulley, of Norfolk, came