North Carolina Newspapers

GENERAL NEWS MATTERS. Items of Interest at Home and Abroad Told in Brief for Busy Readers. A ship from Cuban pojrts brought 6,000,000 pounds of sugar to Boston last week. Refiners to whom it was consigned, said other Cuban cargoes were on the way and that there would be no shortage in New England after February 1st. ? ? ? The Aviation Division of the Signal Corps on April 1, 1917, consisted of sixty-five officers and 1,120 men, while on Jan. 1, last, it comprised 3,900 of ficers and 82,120 men. For this di vision an appropriation was provided aggregating $744,000,000 for this year, or five times the 1915 appropri ation for the entire department. * * * The manufacture of baby carriages was trundled into the ranks of "essen tial war industries " at New York last week when a man who makes go-carts and who was called for service on the national army asked the district board for deferred classification on the ground that his calling was indispen sible to the needs of the country. * * * A government power plant to cost $60,000,000 and to employ about 15, 000 men is to be established by the war department near Nashville, Tenn. Major General Crozier, chief of the ordinance bureau, announced Thurs-, day the selection of a site at Hadley's bend on the Cumberland river, about 12 miles from Nashville. Construc tion will be started immediately. * * * More than 25 per ccnt of the pupils in New York City high schools ? 17, 500 out of 66,000 ? are studying the Gorman language this year, records of the board of education show. Last year 23,000 were studying German. German is still the most widely taught foreign language in the cur riculum, the records show. Latin and French divide honors for second place, with approximately 15,000 students each. * * * Appropriations aggregating ap proximately $75,000,000 had been au thorized by the Red Cross war coun cil since its creation May 10, last, up to December 28, the council reported Thursday in a statement giving the condition of its finances as of the latter date. Of this sum $30,000,000 actually has been expended, while collections from the hundred million dollar war fund subscriptions have amounted to about $97,000,000. ? * * The Roman correspondent of the Paris Matin says that by order of Field Marshal vOn Hindenburg, ac cording to reliable information which has reached him, 130 villages behind the western front, mostly in the re gion of St. Quentin, have been leveled to the ground so as to afford better opportunity for defense of the Ger man lines to the rear. Notwithstand ing denials, the correspondent adds, only one-third of th& 300,000 Belgians deported to Germany have been per mitted to return to their homes. ? ? * Ship losses and crop failures abroad have brought such a serious ^eed situation in the allied countries that the United States is planning to re lease for export an additional 90,000, ? 000 bushels of wheat, although the country's export surplus had been shipped by mid-December. The Amer ican people will be asked by the food administration to cut their consump tion to make up the amount to be ex ported. Unless they do the nation is threatened with a flour shortage in May before the new wheat crop is harvested in June. ? * * If we are going to win this war we must fight Germany man for man, shell for shell, potato for potato, says the United States Food Administra tor. The food administration declr.res we raise too few potatoes on too great an acreage. If our yield per acre was as great as Germany's the state of New York alone, or Michigan, or Wisconsin, or Minnesota, might raise all the potatoes we eat. We eat too fe?' potatoes because the quality is not good. We have speculatd in pota toes from year o year ? farmer, job ber, retailer, everybody. That makes fluctuation in prices, for which we dearly pay. This condition however is being chanjfed. ? * *, British island colnies in the Atlan tic which depend almost wholly on the United States for foodstuffs and other supplies, will have their needs taken care of. This assurance has been given to Sir William L. Allardyce, governor of the Bahama islands who has been conferring in Washington with British and American authori ties. The Bahamas, Jamaica and the Bermudas as well as other small Eng lish West Indian colonies ,have felt the effects of the recent stringent ex port reflations of the United States, and as Ihoy are furnishing troops for service at the front, they feel the United States should recognize them as co-belligerents. FOUR OAKS ROUTE NUMBER 3. Miss Plare Parker and Mr. Percy Massengill suprised their many friends Sunday afternoon when they drove over to Mr. J. B. Parker's and were happily married. The bride is the accomplished daughter of 'Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Parker. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marah Mas sengill. The writer wishes the hap py couple a long and prosperous journey over the sea of matrimony. We are sorry to note that Mrs. J. B. Parker is on the sick list. We wish for her a speedy recovery. Mr. Q. C. Parker left Friday for Greenville, S. C. to visit his son, Mr. Tommie V. Parker, who is in the camp. He was acomp:.nied by Mr. Charley Stanley. Misses Vara and Maud Dunn left Friday for Coats, N. C., to spend a few days with friends. On last Thursday night about 9 o'clock the death angel entered the home cf Mr. Bill Johnson and bore his spirit away. The burial took place Friday after noon in the family burying ground in the presence of sorrowing relatives and friends. ? 0. U. KID. In Memoriam. It is with a sad heart that I try to write the death of my father which came as a shock to us on Monday afternoon, December 31, 1917. He had only been gone from home about 20 minutes and had just entered the store of J. D. Smith and taken his seat when he fell over and breathed his last. While he had bek?n in declining health for a long time and we knew he could not live with us long it came as a shock. It is hard to part with loved ones. Our home is broken up and can never be the same again. While all of us are extremely grieved and realize our heavy loss we know it is his gain. God has some place for him to fill in the heavenly home and we feel he is safe at rest in the arms of Jesus. No more troubles and trials of this world. He has been father of this home for thirty-six years and all of the trials and tribulations of a husband and father he bore bravely and was al ways pleasant and cheerful at home and elsewhere until the end. He was laid to rest in the family burial ground about three miles from town on Wednesday afternoon, Jan uary 2nd, after funeral services were held at the home. To mourn is left a wife and five children ? three sons and two daugh ters ? A. V. Gulley, of Smithfield, R. G. Gulley, of U. S. Army stationed at Camp Jackson, S. C., and P. N. Gulley, of Clayton; Mrs. W. R. Smith, of Selma, and Jessie Gulley, of Clayton. No more can we hear his loving voice or see the dear form, but we know God knoweth best and doeth all things well and we must put our trust in Him who is all powerful. If we as ones who are left will only follow in his footsteps it will not be long be fore we too can rejoice with him in glory. ? J. G. BROWN SCHOOL NOTES. The Brown school is getting: along nicely. The teachers, Mrs. Alice Easom and Mks Holland missed only three days through all the bad weath er. They have had an average of about 26 out of an enrollment of 40 during all the bad spell. Pneumonia and snow are hindering the atten dance. Mrs. Charlie Crumpler and Mr. Richard Garner, of Camp Jackson re cently spent a few days in this section with their parents. Selma, N. C. "Tag-Your-Shovel Day." January 30th has been set aside as National "Tag-Your-Shovel Day" by the United .States Fuel Administra tion. On that day, school children will tie tags bearing instructions for coal saving to every coal shovel in the country, the purpose of this being to remind each man, woman and child who uses a coal shovel that every shovel full of coal saved moans just so much additional power and health support for the American soldier and sailor on the firing line. "Any worthy cause which enlists the sympathy of the children is al ready half won," declared Fuel Ad ministrator McAlister. "Their en thusiasm and eagerness is spontan eous and catching. When the twenty one million school children of the United States start to spread the word of fuel economy throughout the country, we may be sure that it will be spread. It is enly sane optimism to believe that practically every ccal 3hovel in the -country will be tagg'-d, and the message of conservatism thus carried will hardly be lightly regarded or forgotten." Plans for recruiting a volunteer re serve ^f 250,000 shipyard workers were announced this week by the shipping board. It is estimated that fully 100, 000 will be placed within the next five months. OLD NORTH STATE NEWS. Live Items of Interest Clipped And Culled From North Carolina Newspapers. According to reports, snowflakes as large as an egg fell around Boone Monday. In little more than an hour it fell to a depth of four inches, o o Appropriate memorial exercises were held in the Raleigh High School Wednesday morning in honor of two of their boys, the first in their school to die in the figiit against Germany, o o The hearing against LeRoy Smith, the negro chargcd with criminal as sault upon Mrs. W. A. Prince at Gar ner, has been postponed for a week or ten days. The delay is necessary on account of the condition of both Mr. and Mrs. Prince. o r? Julius Whaley, a Lenoir county far mer, has been exhibiting the talon of an eagle shot at his place near Kin ston. The bird had killed and vvr.s de vouring a two-months-old pig when Whaley knocked it over with a well directed shot. The eagle measured seven feet across the wings. o o The village of Atlantic, located on the far end of Core Sound in Cartaret County, was visited by a terrific hurri cane Tuesday morning at live o'clock. Three hours were completed demolish ed and ten or twelve, including school and church buildings, were blown from their foundations. One or two people were injured, but no one was killed. Twelve boats of the sharpfe type were turned over, one man being drowned when his boat capsized, o o A company composed of leading business men of Lexington has been newly charted for the purpose of es tablishing a factory for the manufac ture of potash in Mitchell County. A New York chemical engineer has suc cessfully demonstrated that potash can be separated in available form from feldspar. The experiment con ducted was from a 500 acre tract of land in Mitchell County. Tht feldspar deposits there are said to be practi caly inexhaustible. o o A cyclone which passed over the lower part of Roanoke Island Tuesday caused considerable damage. At Wanchcse sixteen dwellings were wrecked, one being capsized so that the inhabitants escaped through the roof. No one sustained serious in juries. Conditions on the Island .ire still serious, eighteen days having gone by without mail or freight. Several attempts have been made to ' get a boat to Elizabeth City, "but failed on account of the ice. o o Thousands of bushels of soy beans are already moving or have moved out of North Carolina to other states in the Union. It is of the highest im portance, therefore that those who wish to-secure seed hsall do so without further delay, states Mr. C. B. Wil liams, Chief, Division of Agronomy of the North Carolina Experiment Sta tion. The soy bean is a crop that is well adapted to the soils and climatic conditions of the State and fits admir ably into rotations well suited for the class of farming that is or should be practised. r\ n \* V Plans for the new scientific build ing at the University of North Caro lina have been adopted by the state building commissioner and the state insurance commissioner. The build ing, which is to be one of the largest on the university campus, will be the university's part of the $3,000,000 ap propriation made by the last legisla ture for public buildings. It will be built of re-inforced concrete interior, with an exterior of tapestry brick and stone. The building will contain labo ratories, lecture and class rooms and rooms for special scientific purposes, o o In his speech on conditions abroad in the Senate Thursday Senator Ken yon, Republican, of Iowa, praised Secretary Daniels. He said "In this array of criticism I pause h?re to re mark that no criticism has been made of our navy. Lloyd George a few days ago congratulated our nation on the splendid work of oilr navy. Let no one say v/e have done nothinp in this war. We are helping to destroy the submarine. Our navy is doing same of the most essential work of the war. All honor to the boys of the Amer ican navy, to the work of Admiral Sims, and to the splendidly efficient secretary of the navy, Josephus Dan iels." ? VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. I have in hand for sale a tract of land of 27 acres about twenty of which are cleared, this land being one of the shares of the division of the T. D. Snead, Jr. land. It is suitable for cot ton, corn or tobacco. This land will be sold to the highest bidder on Saturday, January 19th at 12 o'clock. Terms of Sale Cash and the sale will be made on the piece of land, which is a part of thf John Sanders land on the Smith field and Bentonville Road. J. MARVIN SANDERS. Four Oaks, N. C., R. 1. i w A COMPOSITION ROOF is the Roof to buy for all out buildings, if you buy the right kind Our composition roof is composed of Asphalt, Felt and Pro Slate. The Slate is crushed and then mashed into the Asphalt with heavy rollers while the Asphalt is warm. This process of putting the Slate into the Asphalt makes the roof lire proof, and as the Asphalt will expand and contract you have a roof that will last for many years and one which will make the home much cooler than a metal roof in the summer and warmer in the winter. We also have pure Asphalt Felt Roofing from $1.50 square up. See us about our Pro-State Asphalt shingles. Remember that we not only make Roofing a specialty, but all kind of build ers' Hardware, such as Lime, Cement, Plaster, Laths, Sash, Doors and blinds. All of this material we buy in heavy quantities, and our price is right. Our desire is to please you in every deal you make with us and in this way show our appriciation of your business. If you have not been trading with us in the past, we hope now that the new year has begun you will give us an op portunity to show you that we have the right goods at the right price and that our square deal merits your confidence. Cotter Hardware Co. SMITHFIELD, - - North Carolina Money To Lend On Terms To Suit Borrower There is something distinctively individual in most every man. Every business man wants his business transactions privately executed. A dependable Lawyer to search the title, advice from legal viewpoints, the technicalities involved in the trade and to lend the money has been the beginning of many a man's way to wealth. Substantial, broad-minded men throughout the County leave money with us to lend our clients. We now have several thousand dollars in money on hand belonging to such men in Johnston County. We Will Lend You Their Money. We also represent two large Insurance Companies and will lend Insurance money to you on long time. Tell your needs to us. We have helped thousands. WELLONS & WELLONS Attorneys- At-Law SMITHFIELD, - NORTH CAROLINA