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THE SMITHFIELO HERALD Published Every Tuesday and Friday. WATCH YOUR LABEL. No reccipt 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 mad'\ the subscriber should notify us. Watch your label. NOTE. ? All correspondents should remember that we p:\y 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, Smithficld, N. C. PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Remember the Red Cross. * ? ? Mrs. F. K. Broadhurst spent Friday in Goldsboro. * ? * Mr. W. C. Toon, of New York City, is visiting his cousin, Mr. Ed. F. Ward. ? ? ? Mr. Will D. Hood, of Xinston, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Hood. ? ? ? Mrs. Gillam Hicks left Saturday for Granville County to visit relatives and friends for several days. ? * ? Miss Roberta Coxe, of the Graded School faculty, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Raleigh - ? ? . Judge W. S. Stevens attended the North Carolina Conference at Green ville last week for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Sanders and Master Macon Sanders, of the Glen wood section, were in the city Mon day. ? ? ? Mr. Percy Youngblood, a member of Ambulance Company 43, of Camp Lee, Petersburg, Va., spent Sunday here with friends. ? ? * / Miss May Moore returned Sunday from Baltimore and Philadelphia where she has been in the interest of The Exclusive Milinery Shop. ? ?? _ Mrs. J. A. Morgan went to Golds boro Monday. There she joined Dr. Lila Wickerman and her mother, Mrs. D. J. Broadhurst, for a trip to New York. * ? ? Mr. Handy T. Jernigan, a member of Machine Gun Company, 120th In fantry, Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., was here Monday, having come homo to visit his father who lives near here. m ? ? Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Long, Mr. Z. L. LoMay, Mrs. T. W. LeMay, Mrs. C. B. Williamson, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Patterson, attended the burial of Mr. Simon Turner Sunday afternoon, at his home near Garner. ? * * X Mr. J. R.? Talton, of Antioc'i sec tion in O'Neals Township, is here this week attending court as a juror. Mr. Talton says that the people of his sec tion have greatly increased their wheat acreage this fall and winter. ? ? ? On acountr of the inclemency of the weather the farmers failed to have their meeting here Saturday to or ganize the Johnston County Board of Agriculture. The meeting is called again to meet on Saturday, December 22nd, in the Court House at eleven o'clock. ? ? * All who will have sweaters and wristlets ready by Wednesday after noon are asked to carry or send them to Mrs. E. W. Pou's or the Red Cross meeting at the Woman's Club build ing. They are badly needed at Camp Jackson and it is the purpose of the ladies of the Red Cross to make an immediate shipment. ? ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Ragsdale and son, George Ragsdale, and Mr. and Mrs. Will Ragsdale went to Leosville Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. L. P. Sorrell who died Saturday, aped forty years. Mrs. Sorrell was Miss Mary Ragsdale, daughter of Mr. E. J. Ragsdale, of Fuquay Springs. As a young lady she lived in Smithfield a year or two. She leaves six chil dren, one an infant cf ten days. She was sister of Mr. Will Ragsdale. ? ? ? Dr. Lila Wickernian returned to Ooldsboro Sunday after spending a day or two in the ci/ty with her brother, Mr. F. K. Broadhurst, having come home with Mrs. Broadhurst Fri day evening on account of the accident which befell Master Morgan Broad hurst that afternoon. While riding a bicycle out from his heme he was struck by an automobile and right badly hurt about the face. The little fellow is getting along very nicely and we hope to see him out ligain^ soon. The accidcnt was entirely un avoidable. THE COMMITTEE MELTING. In spite of the rainy day that Satur day was, thirty school committeemen of Johnston County were interested enough in their schools and in the schools of the County to come to Smithfield to a meeting of the school committeemen which Superintendent Royall had called. Their very pres ence on such a bad day bespoke their interest in their schools, and for this Supt. Royall commended them. He also spoke to them about the proper care of school buildings and equipment which are absolutely in the hands of the committee. Because the school houses are unused for school pur poses during the long interim is no excuse for their being used for a pack house for tobacco or hay, or for allow ing the windows to be broken out and the equipment abused. Again he pointed out that it is the duty of the committee to provide the necessary wood for use at the schools without delay which often hinders the regular work. Every community in the Coun ty should have heard what he had to say, and then should put it into prac Hw. ?. Mr. T. S. Ragsdalc, who has just been appointed Chairman of Johnston County War Savings Committee, ap peared before the meeting and ex plained the part Johnston County is to take in the campaign which is just be ing begun by the Government to raise $2,000,000,000 by the sale of "War Savings Stamps" which are exchanged for "War-Savings Certificates." John ston County is to raise $910,822 in this manner before Jan. 1, 1919, and since this is largely an educational under taking in the direction of patriotism and thrift, the campaign must be car ried on through the schools. It simply means that the Government wants to borrow $2,000,000,000 from all the free citizens of small savings and af fairs and pay them 4 per cent com pound interest until it is repaid in 1923. The $2,000,000,000 will aid the Government to defeat German autoc racy and at the same time help every body to have a savings account. See a full explanation of the plan else where in this paper and help the cam paign on by explaining it to those who do not understand it. A round table discussion of the fol lowing topics concluded the meeting: 1. What definite things have you a right to expect of the teacher in your district this session? 2. What benefits have been gained for the children by voting local tax? 3. What can you do to improve the educational opportunities and advan tages of the children and the County ? 4. What can the Attendance Officer do to carry forward the schoil work? , As all the roads in the ancient Rom an Empire led directly to Rome, so the j answers to these four questions all I pointed straight in one direction, namely, how to get jnore money for the schools. The fact that there are a number of schools in the county still without teachers is easy to understand j when the small salaries and short j terms of these schools is compared with larger salaries offered by the many knitting mills, department stores and stenographic positions, now o; en to any woman who is capable of teaching school. With the money now devoted to the schools by Johnston County, Mr. Royall or any other man can no more provide the schools with first class teachers than he can buy cotton for ten ccnts per pound. How can more money be secured for school progress? Only in one way, by tajces. And this tax m?y be levied by the County Commisisoners, or it j may be voted a county-wide special tJx as such progressive counties as j Wilson and Edgecombe are preparing I to do. Which is Johnston going to do? It must do one or the other to maintain | such schools as it has now, to say nothing of forging ahead and bettering | our educational system. ? H. B. M. ! I I We learn that Mr. J. C. B.Hocutt of : O'Nneals, is doing All he can to de feat the Germans by raising some fine porkers. He has recently killed three pips, the heaviest of which , weighed 470 ponn.is. The other two, which were nfteen months old, , weighed 340 and 2 42 pounds, respect fully. Three pips weighing 1,152 I pounds are some pigs If all the 'farmers of the State would turn their < attention more and more to raising better hogs and more of them, pork j would not be so abnormally high, and -yet it would be high enough for. I the farmer to realize a nice profit. Run Over by Automobile. j On Monday morning, December 10, i Mr. Preston Hamilton was run over .Jby an automobile on the road between - Smithfield and Selma near the Ivan- 1 ,hoe Cotton Mills, is said that Mr. j ! Hamilton wa3 walking by a wagon goaded with wood and stepped in front of the automobile which is owned by j Mr. Char!ey Atkinson who lives near j Kenly. It was driven by Mr. M irion j Godwin. Mr. Hamilton was bruised about the face an arms, but not seri ously hurt. / ?*? ^ ^ mm m m m mm m m .? m m ^ m m m m m m m !* * * TURLINGTON GRADED * * SCHOOL NOTES. * * S ***K*SSKSS?*SS?**S?;***?SS* The honor roll of the citfhth grade during the third month is as folliws: Jean A bell, Margaret Lee Austin, Lucile Cotter, Maud Cotton, Frances Crews, Mary Hill, Mamie Ennis, Jeanne Gordon, Lucile Johnson, An nette Lawrence, Margaret LeMuy, Margaret Weilons, Dwight Johnson, Roy Gordon, William Moore, Edward Peterson, Erwin Pittman, Edgar Watson, Benton Wharton and Marvin Woodall. There are 16 girls in the 8th grade and 75 per cent are on the Honor Roll. There are 14 boys and there are 57 per cent on the Honor Roll. We are very proud of this record. Some of these students have been on the Honor Roll for the last three months. To be on the Honor Roll the students have to be perfect in atten dance, being neither absent nor tardy during the month. We, the 8th grade, challenge the en tire High School on perfect attendance during the following month. ? M. L. A. o Monday morning we had a visit from Mr. T. J. Lassiter who made a short talk. He talked about the war stamps and wished all the students would buy sixteen so they could get a war cer tificate. We enjoyed Mr. Lassiter's talk very much and hope he will come again soon. ? J. A. o The number of Typewriting students for the third month was eleven. The number of perfect papers for each pupil in the Typewriting department for the third month was as follows: Percy Barnes 16, Pearl Underhill 17, Ola Brady 7, Edgar Watson 7, Jesse Capps 6, Cherry Gurley 9, Paul Johnson 6, Florence Muns 12, Edward Peterson 8, Pauline Thompson 15 and Everett Thornton 20. We think this is good work, but we are going to do better. " We can be cause we think we can." " Prepara tion is the keynote to success." ? E. W. o The second basket ball game of the season was played on the T. G. S. trrounds Friday afternoon with the boys from Sanders' Chapel. Charac teristic of the game was the fairness with which the most of the boys on both sides played. The game was re fereed by Robert Hill and Dixon Wal lace. We certainly did miss having Dixon on the team. The first game of the season was played with Sclma and our team lost, but they won the second by the score of twenty to ten. The High School boys of T. G. S. have alseady bought one br II and arc going to get another one soon, and we expect to win many games this winter. ? D. B. W. Mr. Cotton Sent Back. The people of Smithfinld and com munity, irrespective of denomination, are glad to learn that the North Caro lina Conference returned Rev. S. A. Cotton to the Smithfield Methodist church for another year. Other precahers who will serve Methodist churches _jn Johnston Coun ty for the next year rfre as follows: Bonbon circuit ? Rev. T. E. Sanf >rd. C7ayton? Rev. O. I. Hinson. Four Oaks circuit ? Rev. T. E. Davis. Johnston circuit ? Rev. J. G. John son. Kenly circuit ? Rev. C. P. Jerome. Selma circuit ? Rev. C. K. Proctor. Newton Grove circuit ? Rev. T. W. Siler. Princeton ? Rev. E. C. Durham. Mr. Robert A. Sanders returned from Greenville, N. C., Monday morn ing where he has been attending the annual Conference. 1W^ w w W' ^ ^ ^ ^ < I IK ? * RED CROSS NOTES. * * * i ff. v. ^ * T ^ ^ ?* * * -K .VT ^ ^ . / .t * ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ? ' The Smithfield Chapter of the Red Cross will hold its regular meeting tomorrow afternoon in the Woman's Club Rooms on Second street. ? * ? Urgent calls are coming to the Smithfield Red Cross for bandages and every member is urged to attend j the meeting tomorrow and rush the work on these so that an early ship ment can be made. About 500 were made at the last meeting, and it is , hoped that as many my be made at the meeting this week. ****** i* * j| * BOX PARTIES. * j * * ************************** From now until further notice all notices of box parties will be regarded as advertising and a small charge will be made. All teachcrs and others de siring to publish a notice of box party will please enclose 25 cents with notice. This rule will be applied to all. Fitzgerald School. There will be a Musical Intertain ment rnd Box Party at Fitzgerald school house Thursday night, Decem ber 13. ? Teacher. Progress School. ? e There will be a Box Party at Progress school house Friday night, December 14th. The public is invited. Proceeds for benefit of school. ? Teach crs. Massey's School House. There will be a Box Party at Mas sey's School House on Saturday night, December 15, 1917. There will be a play and other ammusements given after the boxes are sold. Everybody ! is cordially invited to attend. Pro-' ceeds will go for the benefit of the school. ? Teachers. Micro Graded School. There will be a box party in the auditorium of the Micro Graded School building Friday night, December the 14th, at Seven o'clf?ck. The proceeds will go towards purchasing a piano for the school. ? Principal. Pomona School. ? There will be a box party at Po mona School Friday night, December 14th. An interesting program is being prepared and ample entertain ment will be furnished. Proceeds for payment cn school piano. Everybody invited. ? Principal. THE SMITHFIELD MARKET. Cofton 27 to 28% Cotton Seed 1.10 Wool 20 to an Eggs 40 Fat Cattle 5 to 6% Corn per bushel 1.75 to 1.85 C. R. Sides - 30 to 32% Feed Oats 90 to 1.00 Fresh Pork 20 , ? Hams, per pound 38 to 40 Lard 25 to 32% Timothy Hay 1.90 to 2.00 fbopse rtp'* niw<H 3P Butter, per pound 40 Meal 4.75 to 5.00 Flour per sWk 6.00 to 0.25 ftffdr n?r rio-")'' tr Cotton Seed Meal 2.50 Cntton Hull* 1 .00 ShipstuflF f 2.80 to 3.00 Molasses Feed 3.00 Hides, Green 12% to 14 All Pattern Hats will be sold regardless of cost. 0 35, 40 and 45 cent ribbon during Holidays at 25 cents per yard. Miss May Moore has just returned from the Northern Markets where she has bought the newest creations in small hats and flowing veils. ONLY 11 MORE SHOPPING DAYS BEFORE XMAS. OON'T PUT OFF BUYING TILL THE LAST MINUTE. BUY NOW AND AVOID THE RUSH. NEUER BEFORE HAS OUR STOCK OF XMAS GOODS BEEN MORE COMPLETE. WE HAUE JUST COMPLETED OUR XMAS BOOTH. IN WHICH YOU WILL FIND. HANDKERCHIEFS. HANDKERCHIEF BOXES. FANCY NECK WEAR. NOUELTY PINS. BROOCHES. HAT PINS. CARD CASES. HAND BAGS. SEWING BAGS. WATER SETS. BATH SETS. RIBBONS. BED ROOM SHOES. FANCY AND PLAIN LINEN TOWELS. AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER THINGS NOT MENTIONEQ. Fogleman Bros, l ave Eight head of mules and one pair of four &rear old mares for sale. ALL WELL BROKE. Will offer cheap this week ^et your Chiistmas Cards and Christmas Post Cards at the H raid Book St re. On sale on and after- De ember 1st. THIS PICTURE SHOWS ONE OF NATURE'S LESSONS TO US. THE SQUIRREL GATHERS AND HOARDS THE NUTS THAT HE REALIZES HE WILL NEED SOME DAY. HE DOESN T DEPEND ON HIS FRIENDSIN TIME OF NEED. HE DEPENDS ON WHAT HE HAS SAVED. HE KNOWS HE WON'T HAVE ANY FRIENDS WHEN HE IS BROKE AND BE SIDES THEY COULDN'T SPARE THE FRUITS OF THEIR FRUGALITY.
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