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AT TIIK CAPITAL OK BANNER. Mr. Preston Woodall kills 5,000 l'ounds of I'ork. Marriage of .Mr. Haskell Page and Miss Beatrice Goodrich. Other Items of Interest. Benson, N. C., Jan. 31. ? Mr. W. V. Cavenaugh spent a few days recently at his home near Wallace with his parents. Mr. J. C. Standi, of New Jersy, spent a few days here recently with relatives in town. Mr. Julius Barbour, of Elevation township, was a visitor to Benson Monday on business. Mr. Judson Cavenaugh, of Wallace, was here the first of the week on a short visit to relatives. Mr. and Mrs. W. G. I'arrish, of Ele vation, were visitors to Benson Mon day. Messrs. Talbot Stevens and Jim Price and Miss Nora Dorman went down to Camp Jackson the last of last week and returned the first of this week on a short visit to Mather Dorman who is in camp there. Mr. R. T. Surles was a visitor to I Greensboro yesterday on business matters. Mr. Walter Johnson returned this week from a visit to Virginia cities and other Northern places. Mr. Sidney Barbour returned to, Camp Sevier the first of the week after visiting his family near Benson for a few days Mr. J. M. Morgan, of the Benson Bar, was a visitor to Smithfield Mon day on legal matters. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Pool went up to Selma Monday for short visit to rela tives in and near Selma. Mr. Joe Norris was a visitor to Raleigh the first of the week, return ing Tuesday afternoon. Capt. J. W. Goodrich, of Weldon, was home Sunday with his family on a short visit. Mr. Jesse T. Morgan, son of our townsman, J. P. Morgan, was home Monday from Chapel Hill on a visit. Mr. William Canaday, of Richmond, spent a few hours here Monday with j relatives and friends. Messrs. Alonzo I'arrish, Almon Parker, J. D. Morgan, Willie Boon, | R. 1j. L&ngdon, David Olive, and other Bensonians were in Smithfield this week on business. Mr. B. A. Norris, of Petersburg, Va., was here for a few days recently with relatives. Mrs. Massengill, who was formerly Miss Hattie Allen, of near Four Oaks, was here on a visit this week. Mr. Preston Woodall, a Benson merchant and farmer, killed yester day nearly 5,000 pounds of pork. Mr. Woodall raises a large amount of pork each year and also a big supply of feed-stuff. Miss Harwood, who is teaching at Pine Level, was here a few days re cently visiting her sister and attend ing the Lipe-Mashburn marriage. Master Howard Benton, the eight year old son of Editor J. B. Benton, is quite sick this week, at the home of his parents here. Mr. Rufus Langdon, of Elevation township, was a visitor to Benson Monday. Misses Lucy Lipe, of Wilson, and Avery Lipe, of Davidson, were here4 recently to attend the marriage of their sister which took place Satur day at the Presbyterian church here. Mr. Haskel Page, formerly of our town, but who is now in the army at Camp Sevier, S. C., was here on a visit to his parents last week. While here he was married to Miss Beatrice Goodrich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Goodrich. Mr. Page returned to Camp Wednesday morning, and Mrs. Page will continue to reside here for the present. The ceremony was performed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Mootfe, by Rev. Chas. Johnson on Sunday evening, only a few friends of the contracting parties being present. Their many friends here wish them much happiness in life. PROGRESS SCHOOL NOTES. Mr. T. B. Lattimore spent the week end at his home at Hickory Grove, S. C. Misses Jeanctte, Zellie and Bessie Woodard spent Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Martha Peedin, of near Pine Level. Miss Mae Ellis, of Baptist Center, is visiting at the home of Mr. S. A. Pittman this week. Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Lynch are on the sick list this week. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eason, of Buf faloe, are visiting their brother, Mr. Walter Eason. Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Lynch spent Saturday night with their parents in Pine Level. MissAllie Oliver has been called home on account of the severe illness of her brother Miss Carrie Pittman is visiting at the home of Mr. E. B. Sasser near Goldsboro this week. "Prof." Princeton, N. C. SOME HAPPENINGS IN CLAYTON A Brief Chronicle of Those Who Come and Go Some of Whom You * .May Know. Clayton, Jan. HO. ? Miss Duba Ellis spent the past weed-end with friends at Kcnly. Mr. John I. Barnes spent last Sun day at Camp Jackson, S. C., visiting his brothers, L. M. and L. W. Harnes, who are in training there. Mr. Barnes says the boys are getting along fine. J)r. V. M. Barnes spent last Sunday visiting relatives in Kenly. Mies Rosalie Page went up to Ral eigh Sunday and spent a few days visiting relatives there. Mr. P. T. Duncan returned Monday fropi Camp Jackson, S. C., where he has been to visit his son, Private i Jessmond Duncan. I Mr. and Mrs. Garland Smith, of! Baptist Center section, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Smith, i Mr. Porter Wallace, of Camp Se- ( vier, S. C., is here to spend a few : days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Wallace, in Betheeda section. Mr. Wallace has been sick for some time, | so is home to rest up some. Mrs. C. B. Turley received a letter one day this week from her brother, Loomis Hales, who for some time has been stationed at Long Island, N. Y., saying he left January 21st for some port in France. We hope for him a 1 safe arrival and a pleasant stay and | most of all that ih a few more months ?, he will be able to sail back to the(i good old U. S. A. and tell how easy they won the victory. Mr. J. L. Duncan, who is teaching in Ayden High School, was here Sun day visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Duncan. He was on Tiis way from Camp Jackson, S. C., where he hadj1 been to visit his brother, Sergeant > II. II. Duncan. Mr. Council Poole who recently has j held a position with Hood's Drug , Store at Smithfield, returned to his j home here Tuesday to spend a few days with his people. He is to report at Selma for examination Thursday. . We are sorry to note the serious illness of Mrs. Bob Stancil. Hope she] will soon be better and able to pet up ogain. Mondays seem almost as dull as ^ Sundays now with all the stores clos- , ed. Two or three of the grocery stores j were opened Monday until noon others were closed all day. I Regular services were held at both | Methodist and Baptist churches Sun- j day m/orning and night. A largo ( audience at each place heard g9od sermons. Mr. Edgar Lynch, of University Station, was here Sunday visiting his sister, Mrs. A. C. Hamby. '? Mr. W. R. Smith, of Selma, came 1 up Saturday and spent the night re turning to Selma Sunday accompani ed by his wife and three children, who '? for the past ten days visited Mrs. ^J. I). Gulley. MOORE'S SCHOOL NOTES. i 1 Mr. N. Narron made a business trip to Smithfield Monday. ^ Mr. Lonnie Hare has returned home after a few weeks stay in Hope well, Va. Miss Minnie Ward, a member of 1 the faculty of Glendale school, spent Saturday night at the home of Mr. Joe Hare. Rev. Charlie Clark, of Kenly, spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. 1 N. Narron's family, and filled his * regular appointment at the Presby terian church here Sunday. Mr. Wade Pittman and Miss Julia 1 Davis were married Sunday, Jan. 27, ' at the home of Mr. Vinson Pittman. ' Honor Roll for month o?^ing Jan uary 25: First Grade ? Johnnie Grice, Mittie Davis, and Flossie Davis. Second Grade ? Erma Narron, Ida J Renfrow, Jim Renfrow, Tonnie Hill, and Otho Edwards. Third Grade ? Ncppie Godwin, Tola Narron, Addie Grice, Pearl Grice, ' Albert Johnson, Ira Renfrow, and j Neomia Davis. Fourth Grade ? Ashley Davis, Zel ma Godwin, and Martha Renfrow. Fifth Grade ? Lois Hicks. Sixth Grade ? Ernest Johnson. "L. F." ! Taft Not Exposing Blunders. Former President William Howard Taft is doing something to aid his1, country in war. He isn't doing it by exposing blunders but by making ( speeches encoraging patriotism, and is doing work helpful toward Ameri can preparedness. He has sent his son to France to fight as an enlisted, man and young Taft arrived on the ( battle front last Saturday. ? Wilming-|( ton Star. The Kind it Was. "Did you sec anything of the pretty plaintiff?" "Yes; I caught a view of her just as she dissolved into tears." < "Oh, then, it was a dissolving view." ? Ex. < THE WEEW8 NEWS IN SELMA. Flue! Administrator'* Order Complied With Monday. Lively Batch of Personal and Local Items. Sclma, Jan. 30. ? Mr. J. A. Jones spent Sunday and Monday in Wilson's Mills and Raleigh with relatives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Morgan re. turned Tuesday from a visit to rela tives in Smithfield. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jones spent Monday with Mr. Jones' parents near Clayton. Mr. Luther T. Hose, of Clayton, was here for a few hours Friday on business. Miss Fannie Blackman, of Durham, has accepted a position with the Southern Hell Telephone Co., and be Kan her duties last Monday. Mr. A. R. Wilson formerly with the Richardson Drug Co., was here to spend the weed-end with friends. Mr. Wilson is now a traveling salesman for a drug house. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. McLean, of Goldsboro, stopped off here for a few hourse Tuesday. They were enroute to Fayetteville to attend the funeral of Mr. McLean's father, whose death occurred in a hospital there Monday. Mr. McLean was formerly editor of the Selma Chronicle and has numer ous friends here who sympathize with him the loss of his father. Messrs. W. E. Smith and W. A. Edgerton came in Saturday from Wil son to spend the week-end with their respective families. Mr. T. C. Jlenry, of Wilson, was here Monday on business in connec tion with the closing up of the busi ness of the Lee-Henry Company here. Mr. N. E. Edgerton, Jr., of Trinity College, was here to spend the week end with his parents, Mr. atid Mrs. N. E. Edgerton. The Fuel Administration's order closing business houses was more closely obeyed here last Monday than m the former Monday. All the stores n town were closed in the afternoon, the grocery stores and drug stores remaining open during the morning. We think that a trip to the Post Office here will be all that will be necessary to convince anyone that something should be done to remedy :he condition of our streets and side ivalks. It is impossible to get down ,own without petting in the mud and nuck over your shoes, and in addition o the unpleasantness, it is a menace ;o the health of those who have to ,ramp through this mud several times jach day to get from our homes to lur places of business. We know the remedy and we think that every one ?lse does. Pave the sidewalks and streets. We do not pretend to say how the money could be rai?H, but we are sure there coujd be some method worked out that would be satisfactory. Mr. Stephen Murphy, of Wilder* township, was up before U. S. Com missioner today charged with retail ing liquor. The Government witness es did not appear and Mr. Murphy was discharged. Until such time as the passenger trains begin making more regular schedules, the news letter from Selma will be mailed Wednesday evening instead of Thursday as heretofore in arder that it may reach the editor in time for publication. Any one having items that they wish to appear in this letter, pWase get them to^ the correspondent not later than Wednes day noon each week. A meeting of the members of the Merchants Association will be held in the Association's offices Thursday night. Supper will be served to the members at the offices at 7:00 o'clock, after which the meeting will be held after Mr. Moser's address. The last number of the Lyceum attractions that have been given here luring this winter was given at the Graded School building last night. We are informed that there will be ^ Chautauqua held here during the month of March. This is the regular Radcliffe's Chautauqua and will be lield for three days. Mr. W. L. Standi, Director of the Smileage Book Campaign for Selma, announces the receipt of a telegram from the Washington headquarters saying that on account of the nation wide demand for Smileage Books, the supply on hand is exhausted and that the books for Selma are not available at this time. Director Stencil or Prof. E. H. Moser will accept sub scriptions for the books however and they will be secured as soon as they can be turned out by the printers. If you have a relative or friend in camp see one of these gentlemen and sub scribe for a Smileage Book for them. The examination of registrants un der Class No. 1 began in Selr.ia Tues day r.nd will continue until that class is finished. The examinations are be ing made by Dr. Geo, D. \ ick assirted by Dr. J. B. Person. Same Exemptions. "The government is shutting up everything now." "I wish they would try it on my wife." ? Baltimore American. SANDY JUDGE NOTES. Mr. W. P. Wallace, of Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., is spending several days in this section with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Wallace. He has a case of mumps and is confined to his room. Miss Nannie Green, of Spring Hope, has been visiting relatives in this section, leaving on January 28th for King's Business College. She will take a course in shorthand and type writing. ?There was a box party at Sandy Ridge school Saturday night, January 26th. There was a good attendance, and the boxes sold well, the neat sum of $.'37.00 being realized. The teacher of the school is Mrs. Emma Austin. There was a large attendance at church and Sunday school last Sun day. Rev. J. E. Lanier delivered a very interesting sermon which was enjoyed by all. Mr. Charlie Wallace and family spent the week-end with relatives in Spring Hope. W. X. J. Marshburn-Lipe. Benson, Jan. 28. ? A simple but im pressive marriage was solemnized on Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, January 2(>th, in the Presbyterian church, when Miss Mattie Lipe, of Mooresville became the bride of Mr. Harvey Marshburn, of Meadow. Rev. A. T. Lassiter officiated. The decorations consisted of ever greens and potted plants. While Miss Ruth Hudson played the wedding march from "Lohengrin" the bridal party entered, preceded by little Miss Margaret Lee, dressed in white organdie :*id bearing the wedding ring in a white satin basket. The couple took their place before the minister, and while Miss Hudson softly played "Traumerai," took the vows which made them man and wife. The bride's costume was a brown traveling suit with accessories to match. The groom is a prominent young farmer of Meadow. The bride is from Mooresville, 'but has made her home in Benson this winter, where she has taught in the Graded School. She is a young woman with fine qualities and lovable disposition, and has made many friends while here. A dispatch from Paris reports that the condition of wheat on January 1, compared with a year ago, shows a gain of eight per cent. If maintained to maturity this means a remarkable increase in the yield per acre. Notice of the Annual Meeting of the Johnston County Agricultural Society. The annual meeting of the Stock Holders of the Johnston County Agri cultural Society, Inc., will be held on the 5th day of February, 1918, at 1 o'clock in the offices of Wellons and Wellons, Attorneys, in Smithfield, N. C., for the purpose of electing a Board of Directors and receiving and acting upon the reports of the officers, and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come be fore the meeting. This January 29th, 1918. C. M. WILSON, President. E. J. WELLONS, Sec'y & Treas. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ *0* ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ M ? * HOWr TO GET NITRATE OF * * SODA. * m s* ' * Nitrate of soda can only be \ $ gotten by going to one of the 3* j i* four persons in Johnston County $ '*? and signing an application blank * * for it. Those who have given '#? j $ me their order for it before this $ $ will also have to sign an applica- 3* S*t tion in the presence of any of '*? \ $ these men, any time before Feb. $ '*? 4th. Here are the men: A. M. S* $ Johnson, at Smithfield; T. S. $ i* Ragsdale, anywhere he comes; $| 3* Preston Woodall, at Benson; C. 5* $ W. Home, at Clayton; Turner '*? J $ Bailey, at Kenly. You will be $ notified later on when and where $ S* to deposit the money for it. $ j *? A. M. JOHNSON, * * Farm Demonstrator. $ * S I WANT TO HIRE A BOY OR MAN to work on farm with me. Also have one cow for sale. N. T. John son, one mile north of Selma. CAR LOAD OF BE?T MULES EVER brought to Smithfield. W. R. Long. FOUND ON MY CAR IN SMITH field Saturday, Jan. 26, one pair Rubbers. Owner can get same by calling at Herald Office and paying for this ad. J. E. Lanier. SHINGLES. , SHINGLES. We have two car loads shingles. See us before buying. Four Oaks Hardware and Grocery Company. RUPTURE EXPERT TO BE IN GOLDSBORO Seeley, World Famous in This Speci alty, Called to Goldsboro. ? 4 F. H. Seeley, of Chicago and Phila delphia, the noted truss expert, will be at the Kennon Hotel, and will re main in Goldsboro Thursday only, February 7. Mr. Seeley says: "The Spermatic Shield will not only retain any case of rupture perfectly, but contracts the opening in 10 days on the average case. This instrument received the only award in England and in Spain, producing results with out surgery, injections, medical treat ments or prescriptions. Mr. Seeley has documents from the United States Government, Washington, D. C., for inspection. All charity cases without charge, or if any interested call, he will be glad to show same without charge or fit them if desired. Busi ness prevents stopping at any other place in this section. P. S. ? Every statement in this notice has been verified before the Federal and State Courts. ? F. H. Seeley. ? Advertisement. CALL AT THE HERALD OFFICE and get your 1918 Turner's North each. By mail 12 Cent3. ALL KINDS OF FERTILIZERS Now on hand. Austin-Stephenson Co. STOCKHOLDERS MEETING. The Annual meeting of the stock holders of The Johnston County Bank & Trust Company, Simthfield, N. C., will be held in the offices of the bank at 2: 30 p. m., Tuesday, February 12th, 1918, for the annual election of officers and directors, and any other business brought before the stock holders. T. C. EVANS, Cashier. Smithfield, N. C., January 30, 1918. NOTICE. The undersigned having qualified as Executor on the estate of Geo. W. McCabe, deceased, hereby notifies all persons having claims against said estate to present the same to me duly verified on or before the 1st day of February, 1919, or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery; and all persons indebted to said estate will make immediate payment. This 31 day of January, 1918. E. B. McCABE, Executor. Four Oaks, N. C., R. 4. Big Lot Fertilizers Now on Hand At Smithfield and Four Oaks ! 200 Tons 8-3-3 200 Tons 8-2-2 50 Tons Nitrate Soda 25 Tons Muriate Potash Cotton Seed Meal And Acid Mr. J. W. Sanders has charge of our Fertilizer business at Four Oaks. We can deliver in Car Load Lots or in smaller lots anywhere in county. We have on hand Two Car Loads nice Buggies. Well selected stock of Furniture. Biggest Stock of Dry Goods we have ever carried. Give us a call and let us show you our goods. Cotter-Underwood Company Smithfield, N. C.
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