The Smithfield Herald
PublisheJ Every Tuesday and Friday.
BEATY & LASSITER
Smithfield. N. C.
Editors and Proprietors,
RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION:
Six Months, ?
Three Months,
Entered at the Post Office at Smith
field, Johnston County, N. C., as
Second-class Matter.
Cash in Advance.
One Year.
Eight Months,
$1.50
1.00
.75
out LIMIT CLUB GROWING.
First Johnston County Persons
to Take a Thousand Dollars
Worth of War Savings Were
Mrs. Candler and .Mr. Yelving
ton Who Itought on January
26. Since that Date Several
Others Nave Joined the Club.
Johnston County never does j
things with a rush but somehow
she generally comes across and
meets the expectations of her
friends when any big issue is at
stake. She is a little slow in tak
ing War Savings Stamps, but
she is making progress and when
the final reckoning takes place
she will be found there with the
goods.
The county has been asked for
a big number of Thousand Dollar
Limit Club Members. No man in
the county or the country can
buv more than one thousand dol- j
lars worth of War Savings !
Stamps. John D. Rockefeller is
not allowed to take more than
one thousand dollars maturity.
This is the time when a great |
many folks can get in the "John
D. Class. '
The first people in Johnston i
County to buy a thousand dol- j
lars worth of War Savings
bought on January 26th. On
that day Mrs. Mamie T. Candler
of Selma, a teacher in the Graded
School of that town, and Mr. J.
Eustace Yelvington, a progres
sive young farmer of Cleveland
township, became members of
the Thousand Dollar Club. Since
then several others have joined <
the club.
The members of the Club re
ported to Chairman Ragsdale up
to last night are as follows:
Mrs. Mamie T. Candler, of Sel- i
ma. i
Mr. J. Eustace Yelvington, of 1
Cleveland.
Mr. W. I). Avera, Smithfield.
Dr. L. D. Wharton, of Smith- 1
field.
Mr- M. C. Winston, of Selma.
Mr. George T. Pool, of Smith
field.
Mr. J. D. Boyett, of Smith
field. 1
Mr. C. P. Harper, of Selma.
Mr. W. H. Austin, of Smith- (
field.
Mr. F. K Broadhurst, of ;
Smithfield.
Mr. G. M. Hinton, of Smith
field.
Mr. J. Walter Myatt, of Cleve- (
land.
Mr. W. M. Sanders, of Smith
field. 1
Mr. N. B. Grantham, of Smith
field
Mr. Polie Gardner, of Smith
field.
Mr. Preston Woodall, of Ben
son.
Mr. W. W. Cole, of Smithfield.
Mr. T. S. Ragsdale, of Smith
field.
Abell and Gray, of Smithfield.
First National Bank of Smith
field.
Of these twenty-one members
of the Limit Club, ?wo are from
Cleveland township, three from
Selma, and one from Banner and
the other fifteen are from Smith
field.
In all probability there are
others in the county who have
joined the Limit Club, but the
names given here are all that
have been reported to Mr. Rags
dale. There are two hundred
good farmers in the county who
ought to join this club- We hope
to add other names to this list
next Friday. If there is a mem
ber of the Limit Club whose
name is not given here let him
notify Chairman Ragsdale at
once.
One thought emphasized at the
Sclma educational mating last Fri
day was, let everybody pull together
to carry the school election for John
ston County. The local needs of p.ny
particular school or town are to be
forgotten in the larger needs of the
county. The county is to be the unit.
We are all to forget self and our own
selfish plans in the great work be
fore us ? that of making the schools
of Johnston County better and more
efficient in every way than ever be
fore. That is the one great question
before us. Let's go before the peo
ple of the county with the one idea
of building up the county. And if we
all do our part to build up the coun
ty as a whole no part will suffer, but
each will grow and become strong as
the whole county grows and becomes
strong.
Next week has been set apart as
Clean-up week in the town of Smith
field. Every home in the town is
asked to co-operate in the move for
a cleaner and better Smithfield.
Plant food crops, raise hogs and
buy War Savings Stamps in 1918 and
help the Government win the war.
Standing by the President and the
Government in the great crisis now
on means standing by yourself and
your neighbor.
Great preparations are being made
throughout the county for planting
food croops on a larger scale than ever
before. Some farmers are increasing
their food crops, at the same time
planning for all the cotton and to
bacco they can well handle with the
farm labor at their command. Many
farmers are right ready to plant and
some few have already planted corn.
Others are planning to plant cotton
next week.
So far this has been the best and
most favorable spring for gardening
in several years past. The people of
this town and community have been
taking advantage of this fin'* Spring
weather and many have the tinest
gardens seen in a long time. Several I
people have Irish potatoes up, while
others are planting more potatoes i
than ever before .There are some peo
ple in this town who are going to I
have pretty soon Spring greens'. The 1
garden spirit is alive here and it is :
relieved now that Smithfield people i
i 1 1 have more garden truck growing |
this year than last. And last year 1
was a record year. j
\T THE CAPITAL OF BANNER. ?
lienson Votes Fifty Thousand Pond t
Issue for Water and Sewerage.
Death of Mr. Lynn Barbour. Dr. i
Moore (Juite Sick, heath of Mrs. i
Carver Wood of Meadow. <
Benson, March 21. ? Mr. J. Troy
Holmes, of Rocky Mount, spent a few
lays here recently.
Mr. Rufus Chadwick, of Wilming
ton, returned home this week after <
spending some time here with Mr. and (
Mrs. Claud Young. (
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Eldridgc, of }
I aison, were here Sunday visiting at
ihe home of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Hill,
Mr. J. F. Lee returned the first of
the week from a short visit to his sop ?
Paul Lee at Camp Jackson, S. C.
Mr. Mathew Dorman, of Elevation
township, returned today to Camp
Jackson after a visit of several days
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. E .
Dorman.
Miss Cobb, of Benson School Facul
ty, spent Saturday and Sunday at her
home in Fremont.
Miss Lettie Lee and brother, Frank
Lee, of Rocky Mount, visited at the
home of their aunt, Mrs. R. D. Lang
don. a few days recently.
Miss Lerma Godwin has accepted
?\ position with Holland & Company in
their dry Roods and millinery- depart
ment.
Mr. Nadic Ennis returned yester
day from Fayetteville. where she
went on a visit to her husband who
is in the hospital there.
Mr. Jefferson Barefoot, son of our
townsman, Mr. A. L. Barefoot, won
second prize in the State wide de
rlaimers contest at Wake Forest last
Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Br??.t, and son,
Deleon Britt, and M< i?rs. John and
Henry Slocumb spfcnt Sunday witb
relatives at Clinton.
Mr. and Mi?s. John Whittenton and
children went to Releigh Sunday and
spent the day with Mr. Whittenton's
son, Ralph, who ia in school there.
Mr. A. O. Barbour is in Richmond i
this week on business matters.
Messrs. S. I). Stone and C. C. Hill
went to Sandford Sunday spending
the day with relatives there.
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. I.angdon and
children were visitors to Raleigh last 1
Sunday.
Messrs. George Holland and G. W.
Rollins spent Tuesday in Releigh or
rusiness matters.
The many friends of Dr. E. T.
Moore will regret to learn that he
has been very sick at his home her*
for the past few days.
Mrs. Reubin Pope, of Dunn, visited
at the home of Mr. and Mi's. J. W
Wiiittenton for a few days recently.
Mrs. A. W. Hodges is visiting rela
tives in Loris, S. C., this week.
Misses Florence McLamb and Belle
Herring, of Sampson County, recent
ly spent a few days here with rela
tives.
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Mrs. R. C. Pool went to the Moore
Herring hospital at Wilson yesterday
where she was operated on this morn
ing for appendicitis.
Mr. John Sloeumb, of Wilmington,
was here the first of the week on a
short visit to Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Britt.
Mr. Willie Wood* 11 li ft the first of
the week on business to High Point, j
Mr. Pat Moore arrived yesterday to
be at the bedside of his uncle, Dr. F,
T. Moore, who is sick at his hom? j
here.
The Oxford Orphanage Singing j
Class will be at the school house here
next Tuesday night, March 25th, at
7:.">0 and give an entertainment.
Mrs. Carver Wood died at her homo
in Meadow township last Thursday
and wra buried Friday. Mrs. Wood,
was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
A. Massengill and had been married
only about one year, and left sur
viving her a husband and a large num
l>er of relatives and friends to mourn
her untimely death.
A. V. Norris, Jr., the IS months
old son of Mr. A. V. Norris of our
town died Tuesday and was buried
yesterday afternoon at the Dixon
nurying ground near nere.
Mr. Lynn Barbour, a prominent
farmer of Elevation township, died
at his home last Sunday night and
was buried Tuesday afternoon at the
family grave yard. He was about
sixty-three years of age and had
reared a family of eight children,
most of them grown to man-hood and
woman-hood. He was also survived
by his wife. He was a man highly re
spected in his community and a mem
ber of the Primitive Baptist church.
Two of his sons, Messrs. Robert Bar
bour and Hessie Barbour hold posi
tions in Washington City with the
Federal Government.
Messrs. Claud C. Canaday, Ezra
Parker, James Raynor, J. R. Bar
bour, J. E. Wilson, Add Ryals, A. L.
Barefoot and others attended court
at Smithfield Tuesday.
The bond election which was hold
here Tuesday for the pur?**?:? c .
termining whether or r.ct iho . v
should issue Fifty Thousar. 1 P' i'r.r ?
in bond for water-works an.l severe?
passed off quietly. The number of j
kotes cast indicated that a large ma
jority of the e.itzens favored the prop- j
>sition. There were l.r>8 registered vot- '
?rs and 89 votes were cast in favor of
he bond while 44 were cast against
hem."
Mrs. Scdberry, of Mount Olive, a
'egistered nurse, arrived yesterday to
wait on Pr. F. T. Moore, whose con
iition is reported as not improved
:.>day.
Card of Thanks.
We wish to thank the many friends
>f ours that were so faithful to us
iuring the illness and death of our
lear Father and may God's blessings
?est upon each of you.
W. M. IVES, JR.
Smithfield, N. C.
'THE SALT OF THE EARTH" A
novel of life in Germany. For sale
at The Herald Office.
MEADOWS FLOUR MILLS. BU>
one of these. Produce and make
your own flour at home. You will
then be independent and can help
your neighbor to become likewise.
Roberts-Atkinson Co., Inc., Sclma,
N. C. '
ANOTHER SUPPLY "TEN NIGHTS
in a Barroom" just received. Five
cents each. By mail, eight cents.
Herald Book Store.
SAVE THE QUARTERS
and
SEE THE DOLLARS (iROW.
BUY WAR-SAVINGS STAMPS!
IF YOU WISH TO SELL YOUR
farm it will pay you to see us.
Abell & Gray, Smithfield, N. C.
SEED IRISH POTATOES FOR
sale at Cotter-Underwood Co.
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR
farm to the best advantage see us.
Abell & Gray, Smithfield, N. C.
SEE OUR BIG TYPE TESTAMENT,
big enough for very old people to
read. Herald Book Store.
TWO CAR LOADS BUGGIES JUST
unloaded.' Cotter-Underwood Com
pany, Smithfield, N. C.
WANTED.
Wlite men hot wen the apes of six
teen and twenty-one to operate ma
chin s in Tobacco Factory. Good
ages. Come at cnce.
BLACKWELL'S DURHAM
BRANCH,
IF YOUR HOUSE LEAKS LETS
cover it. We have the Shingles and
the roofing, also the man. Selma
Suppy Company.
FOR SALE? ONE REGISTERED
Jersy Bull, 20 months old. T. S.
Ragsdale, Smithlield, N. C.
SAVE TIIF QUARTERS
and
SEE THE DOLLARS GROW.
BUY WAR-SAYINGS STAMPS!
FOR SALE ? LADIES DOUBLE
-?luster diamond ring platinum
mounting. A bargain. Address K,
c;.re ol' Herald office, Smithfield,
N. C.
A MCE LOT OF BIBLES JUST RE
ceived. Prices from 35 cents each
to $-1.00. Herald Book Store.
MAKE FARMING A PLEASURE
r nd success with our No. 4 Interna
tional Harvester Co's Pivot Axle
Riding Cultivator. Can use disc,
shovels or sweeps. Satisfaction
guaranteed or money refunded. ?
Roberts-Atkinson Co., Selma, N. C.
We'll use it on your car. al
so fix it, if it needs it,
We start when others stop. '
Smithfield Garage
and
Machine Works
ELECTRICIANS AND MACHINISTS
ESTABLISHED 1910
fountain Drinks
We have the best to be had in soft drinks.
We sell the purity ice cream only made in Richmond.
We consider this the best ice cream on the market.
All our drinks are prepared with the greatest care.
Our Fountain is the largest and one of the most sanitary
in the county.
Come to see us, we are always glad to see you.
CREECH DRUG CO.
D. H. CRFECH. Mgr.
Smithfield, North Carolina
W. L. Woodall's Sons
I
SMITH FIELD'S SHOPPING CENTER
Easter Dresses !
Choice Suits, Coats and Dresses are to
be found at "Smithfield's Shopping Center."
Slippers that are beautiful and ones that
fit the feet
Our dry goods stock is the largest ever.
Voiles in all shades
20y 29 & 39c yd.
Ginghams
12 1-2 to 35c yd.
Percales
19 to 30c yd.
Silks in all shades and colors. Foulards,
Crepe de Chines, Taffitas, Satins, Messalinsi
Poplins and Georgettes. Priced,
98 cents to $2.00 yd.
W. L. Woodall's Sons
Smithfield, N. C.
Drawbacks
There is a drawback to
to nearly everything. The
fragrant rose has its thorn,
the busy bee has ito stinger,
the useful mule has a kick,
and so on down the line.
There is Seldom Success
Without Economy at the Start
It isn't always pleasant
to pinch and scrimp and
save, but most of us who
start out with nothing have
to travel that road. The sav
ings thus attained if placed
in a good bank like ours
where they are safe will in
time mean comfort, ease and
satisfaction for you.
The Clayton Banking Co.
CLAYTON, N. C.
BANK AND THE WORLD BANKS ON YOU
COMING
The Oxford Singing Class
Will bring to Smithfield fourteen girls and boys from the
Oxford Orphanage in an entertaining and patriotic Con
cert.
? ? ?
Opera House
Thursday Night
March 28, 1918
Concert begins at 8:00 P. M. Seats on sale at both
drug stores beginning Monday.
Prices 25. 35 and 50 cents. Be sure to hear this in
spring concert.