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DO YOUR PART TO WIN i Uncle Sam must have Corn, Hay and Cotton to win the War and he expects you to do your part. Buy a Little Dutch Sulky Plow THEY ARE and prepare your land in the best way, LIGHT DRAFT They will prepare your seed bed just right. We have 20 of these plows to sell in next ten days for $45 cash This is less than Factory jCost Today. They must be sold in ten days. The -Austin Stephenson Company SMSTHF1ELD, NORTH CAROLINA v SELMA SCHOOL NOTES. The pupils of the eighth grade, unck-r the direction of Miss Boseman, have dramatized the "Legend of Sleepy Hollow". They will present this, in two scenes, in the school au ditorium, Thursday, December 20th. The first scene will be a school room scene and the second, a scene at the home of Baltus Van Tassel. Elmore Earp will take the part of IcVabod Crane, the rejected school-master; Claiborne Massey will be Bromc Bones, and Julia Winston Ashworth, Katrina Van Tassel. At the same time, the students of the 10th grade will present a scene from George Eliot's Silas Marner, "The Parly at the Red House on New Year's Eve." Elmore Earp will take the part of - Godfrey Cass, Ruth Worley will be Miss Nancy Lammeter, Aurelius Moser, Dr. Kimble and Charlie Kirby, Squire Cass. The entire eighlli and tenth grades will be presented in these plays. ? J. W. A. o l The little snow that came Tuesday night l as kept many pupih and espe cially the small children out of school the remaining days of the week. There were several excuses for some of these absences, but in many cases there were no excuses. Mr. Moser has said a few things in chapel concerning this. He said that children were just as well off at school as they are at ? home if they are well, that the school building is just as comfortable as our homes, and that if our feet are kept dry we are not very liable to take colds. Some of us are afraid of cold weather and like to get plenty of ex cuses to stay at home, but our deter mination to learn should exceed our love of excuses. He said that getting cold is partly imagination and that exercise will overcome the cold. If we rever had anything harder to "ice than a small snow we would get to heaven on flowery beds ot ease. ? R. K. In studying the lives of our fore fathers and seeing the great services they rendered to their country is some times enough to make us feel that we are living in the wrong age to do service for our country. The time has come when every man, woman and child can do his or her bit. We can see the sprigs of holly, as it is being placed in the windows, and can feel the spirit of Christmas ap proaching. This Christmas will only be the 25th of December to thousands of American people. Those of yester day that lived fcr Christmas today arc living for something greater. As the holidays approach, and we think more of what we shall spend for Christmas, may we think of the small tents that thousands cf boys will have to sepnd Christmas in. Is there any thing I can send to one of them that will help him and make him feel that it is Christmas? Is there anything I could spare that he really needs? Is (here anything I am going to waste that ho would be glad to get? Am I due him anything? If we can sfnd a small gift, or even a Chistmas card to some soldier boy and make him glad, haven't we done a great work? The one that can spread sunshine and May we all wish our soldier boys a ing great service to his or her country. May we all wish or soldier boys a merry Christmas by a large or small gift.? R. E. E. o When the days begin to shorten, and the nights begin to lengthen, It's old Santy about whom we begin a-thinking. When we ask our ma's what he'll like ly bring, She'll tell us that we can get most any old thing. So we get our ma's stockings and hang them very near, To get a peep of Santy and maybe his reindeed. We watch and wait, it seems all night; But we can not stay awake ? try hard as we might. ? R. W. Selma, N. C., December 14, 1917. Loaded Coal Cars Stand for two Months. Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 13. ? That loaded coal cars have been standing in the yards at Logan, W. Va., since the middk of October was the state ment made by the Guyan Valley coal operators association in a telegram today to Governor Cox, of Ohio. Potato Barons Revel in Wealth. Boston, Dec. 14. ? Indications of the prosperity which the big 1916 potato crop brought the farmers of Arostook county, Maine, was brought out today in the testimony of Percy R. Todd, president of the Bangor and Arostook railroad, at an interstate commerce! commission hearing on the petition of New England railroads for increa sed passenger and frieght rates. Be tause of this prosperity, Mr. Tood said the inward freight business of his road increased by leaps and bounds. PLEASANT GROVE NEWS. Mr. Tommie Stephenson returned this weew from Camp Sevier, near Greenville, S. C., where he went to visit his brother, Mr. Johnnie Stephen son. Dr. Young came down a few days ago and left a fine boy at the home of Mr. Ross Ogburn. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Ogburn, of Smith field, spent several days at the homes ?of Messrs Ross and R. I. Ogburn. Mr. Jesse Smith, of oFur Oaks, passed through here this week on his Ford car. He was returning from a visit to his mother, Mrs. Blaylock. Mr. N. V. Stephenson, one of our best young farmers, has sold his valu able farm here to The Tyson Realty Company, of Raleigh, and purchased another farm near Kennebec, to which he will move about January the first. We wish for him much success in his new home. Mr. G. Willie Lee returned last Sun day from Atlanta, Ga., where he went to take his ten months old baby to a specialist for treatment. Mr. Lee was much pleased with the courtesies shown him and his baby while he was gone. The public school in Dictrict No. 1, Pleasant Grove township, is being taught by Misses Zula Mae Austin and Maggie Creech. They are giving good service as teachers. Our patrons are pleased with the school work. We are very sorry to learn of the feeble condition of Mr. Robert I. Og burn, who has been confined to his room for some weeks. We hope for a speedy recovery. Mr. Ogburn is one of our very best farmers. The following announcement has been received by friends here: Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hardee announce the marriage of their daughter, Lucile Elizabeth, to Mr. William Emory Har cum, on Saturday, November the twenty-fourth, Nineteen Hundred and Seventeen, Fentress, Virginia. Miss Hardee is well known here in John ston County, having resided in the neighborhood of Shiloh church until a few years ago. We wish for Mr. and Mrs. Harcum a long, prosperous and happy life. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Johnson spent last week-end with their daughter, Mrs. Sylvester Parrish, near Benson. Mr. R. H. Stephenson had the mis fortune of getting his leg broken last Friday morning by a falling tree. Dr. Young called and dressed his leg. At last account he was resting badly. Mr. Pope, of Goldsboro, has recently purchased the Vasper Stephenson farm here and is moving: to it. We welcome Mr. Pope and family to our community. Everybody has su.- pended work this week on account of snow and extreme cold weather. "Sol." CLAYTON NEWS. Clayton, Dec. 13. ? Mr. A. B. Austin, of Cary, visited friends here a few days this week. Mr. War ran I'colc, who is training at Fort Caswell, sp> nt a few days here last week with relatives. Mrs. G. II. Johnson, of Enfield, vis ited relatives here this week. Mr. A. Sam White and little daught er, Louise, returned Monday night from Concord where they visited rel atives. Mr. Letheo Wrenn, who had enlisted in the U. S. Army, left today for Greensboro to be assigned to his post of duty. Mrs. Jesmond Duncan returned Monday from Camp Jackson where she had been for the past two weeks visiting her husband who is in training there. Mr. Edgar Lynch is visiting his sis ter, Mrs. A. A. Hamby. Mr. Edgar Beddingfield, of Raleigh, spent Sunday here with his family. Among the men of our town who went up to Raleigh Monday are: Messrs. Colonel Beddingfield, Otho Gulley, Brosia Adams, Edgar Lynch, E. B. McCullers and others. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Robinson, of Siler City, are here for a few days visiting friends. Rev. T. A. Sikes returned Monday from the conference at Greenville. His friends here regret to see him leave us but wish him much success and happiness as he goes to Franklinton as pastor there. Mr. O. R. Hines will i come to Clayton as pastor of Home Memorial church. Mr. R. C. Weatherspoon, of near Cary visited relatives here this week. Cars of Coal Held on Tracks. % Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 13. ? Inves tigations by District Attorney Bell has disclosed that there is a consider able quantity of coal on railroad tracks, the ownership or destination of which has not been made public in the Birmingham district. As much as 80 cars are said to have been found at one place. It wrs also ascertained that mines and mine operators are only vorking three or four days a week. NOTICE Auction Sole* On Friday, December 28th, 1917, at 12 o'clock I will sell to the highest bidder for cash or good notes three good farm mules, one extra good driving and farm mare, one full Jersey cow with young calf. (This is extra fine cow. Will give six gallons milk dhd make two pounds butter per day.) Also two extra fine three-year-old Berkshire sows, a number of nice open gilts, same breed, and several shoats weighing from 60 to 100 pounds each. One lot of about 25 Bilkmore strain Barred Plymouth Rock chick ens, two farm wagons and harness, two buggies and har-* ness, one stalk chopper, one weeder and all plows and farming implements and household and kitchen furniture. Sale on the premises, two miles west of Princeton, on Southern Railway. Remember I shall sell Rain or Shine. Big Barbecue Dinner Free to All. Princeton, N. C., Route No. 1. Auction Sale On Friday , Dec . 28, 1917 At 10 o'clock sharp At my residence near Four Oaks on D. W. Adams farm in Ingrams Township. I will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash 1 one horse wagon, 1 buggy, about 35 barrels corn, 2000 pounds fodder, 4 tons hay, 1 cow and Calf and Farming implements. W. P. Johnson Four Oaks, - North Carolina
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