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The Smithfield Herald Published Every Tuesday and Friday. WATGH YOUR LABEL. No receipt will be sent for subscrip tion. Each :ubscriber is asked to watch the little yellow label on his paper. If the label is not changed within three weeks after remittance is made, the subscriber should notify us. Watch your label. NOTE. ? All correspondents should remember that we pay 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, Smithfield, M. C. . PERSONAL AND LOCAL. Mrs. A. Bain, of Coats, is spending several days at the home of Mrs. O. E. Bain. ? ? ? Miss Elizabeth Kelly, of the State Department of Education, was in town yesterday. ? ? 9 Mrs. J. H. Rose, of Benson, spent yesterday in the city with her sister, Mrs. J. C. Standi. ? ? ? Rev. S. A. Cotton has returned from Edgecombe County where he spent a few days this week. ? ? ? Mrs. W. M. Sanders, Mrs. A. H. Rose and Mr. Geo. R. Pou spent Tues- 1 day afternoon in Raleigh. ... | Invest your money in War Savings Stamps is one way to help our sol dier boys to go "over the top." * ? # Miss Mabel Wellons came home Thursday afternoon from Peace Insti tute to spend the Easter holidays. , ? * * Miss Elizabeth Jordan, of Fayette ville, spent several days in the city with friends leaving Monday for her home. Messrs. R. L. Ray, C. A. Corbett, G .C. Hinton and Dr. R. J. Noble, of Selma, were in town Wednesday on \ business. ? ? ? Miss Jessie McNeil left Monday for Fayetteville where she will spend sev eral weeks the guest of Miss Eliza beth Jordan. * * * Mrs. Wade H. Royall, of Benson, spent yesterday here visiting relatives and attending the regular meeting of the Red Cross. ? ? ? Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Parrish, Miss Miss L. llah Rookb Stephenson and Walter Parrish went to Raleigh Thursday afternoon. Sutp. L. T. Royall went to Raleigh . yesterday to consult the State De partment of Education on matters re lated to the schools. m m m Supt. H. B. Marrow made a trip to Raleigh Wednesday to secure judges for the debate to be held in Turling ton Graded School Auditorium to night. ? ? ? Messrs. J. Walter Myatt, James Myatt, Henry Smith, C. L., J. F., and Robert A. Sanders were among the farmers seen on our streets Wednes day afternoon. * ? ? Mr. B. F. Johnson has just had a card from his son, Mr. Paul B. John- I son, stating that he is now at Camp Merritt, New Jersey. Mr. Johnson who is only nineteen, enlisted in the avia tion service about the first of th : year. ? m m ? The people of the town and com munity are invited to attend the de hate between the Kenly and Selma representatives. Let the people of the town encourage our visitors by at tending this debate at Turlington Graded School Auditorium tonight. The Woman's Club has arranged for a three number Lyceum Course to be piven in Smithfield during the spring. Tickets enough to pay for the attrac tions have already been sold. The date of the first entertainment will be an nounced soon. Those who remember Mrs. Clilton in the Community Chau tauqua last summer will be glad to know that she is to come to our town again ,to give one of the programs. m m m Miss Irene Baker entertained at her home on South Second Street Wednesday evening complimentary to Miss Lavenia Marion, of Raleigh. The guests were Misses Stella Ruther ford, Roberta Coxe, Mamie Sue Jones, Alma Marion, Lavenia Marion Grace Owen, Pattie Spurgeon, Annie Peacock, Mary Taylor, Swanna Pas chal. Irene Baker, Mrs. Braxton John son, Miss Augusta Anderson and Messrs. Robert Holding, Edward Woodall, Paul Eason, A. M. Johnson, Paul Whithead, Dick Holt, S. Jones and Kerr Cunningham. A very de lightful evening was spont in music and various games, after which re fresments were served. Last Wesnmdiy Mr. Jacob L?n<?don and hia son, Mr. J. W. Lnngdon, and his grandson, Private Willie A. Lang don, of Elevation township, were in town. Private Willie A. Langdon is a memVer of the 120th Infantry at Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C. He came home Monday on account of the death of his grand-father, Mr. Wil liam Henry Lasgiter, who died last Sunday. He will return io camp today. ? ? ? Mr. Gilbert Stephenson, Director of Service for the War Savings cam paign, spent two hours here last ev ening in conference with Chairman Ragsdale. Mr. Stephenson said that State Headquarters are well pleased with the progress Johnston County is now making in the War Savings Work. If the present work is kept ;up Johnston will go "over the top" before the Christmas holidays, with jout a doubt. * ? ? The Chautauqua which a number of Smithfield people signed up with for this summer will be nere for five days, June 3rd to 7th. There will be a "Liberty Day," a "National Service Day" am! a "Community Day." It will be pleasing to Smithfield to know that Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Winters will be on one of the prosfranis t"> be given. They were here three or four (Winters ago in a lyceum attraction and greatly pleased a large audience. More about the coming program later. * * ? According to the laws of the land all the people of the town and com munity should set their clocks for ward one hour next Sunday morning. This will make twelve o'clock come one hour earlier every day. The Tur lington Graded School opens now at nine o'clock. The School Board and the Superintendent have decided that the school will continue to open at nine o'clock after the clocks have been moved up, in accordance with the Fed eral Laws. This will make school open an hour sooner by sun time than at present. It is hoped that the patrons of the school will lend their most hearty co-operation to the new move and avoid all confusion possible. The new plan will put their children back home one hour earlier each day. Strong Words. The call for subscriptions to the War Saving fund is coming now from the battlefields of France. If, in view of what is taking place there, one isn't willing to do his best to help win the war, then he is hopeless. He is unconcerned whether America wins or loses. In fact, he is helping Ger many. ? Statesville Landmark. Pomona School Take Stamps. On last Tuesday night Mr. T. S. Ragsdale and Supt. Marrow, of the Turlington Graded School, went to Pomona to witness the motion pictures and present War Savings. They had much success getting pledges for nearly two thousand dollars worth of Stamps, one farmer present taking $1,000. Berkeley Sextette Coming. The Berkeley Sextette, six attrac tive and accomplished young ladies, will give a concert at Turlington Graded School Auditorium on Friday night, April 19th. Stolen Automobile Causes Trouble. Will Futrell, who keeps an .\uto mobile to carry people where they want to pro, on Wednesday night as usual, carried his car to the Centre Brick Warehouse to leave it for the night. The doors of the warehouse were shut but not locked. About ten o'clock Bud Barnes, a bad negro who has been on the county roads several times for crime, stole the automobile and with another negro went to Selma Somebody Went to Will Futrell's house and awoke him to tell him that his car was gone. He got policeman J. D. Stephenson and securing another car went toward Selma in pursuit of the thief. They met him leturning to Smithfield. Coming down market street they overtook him near Mr. J. D. Spiers' store and demanded that he stop the car and surrender. Instead Barnes sprang from the car and be grn to run. Policeman J. D. Stephen son got out of the car on which he was riding, intending to pursue Barnes and overtake him. The car was mov ing faster than Mr. Stephenson thought and when he got out he fell to the pavement and was badly hurt, one side of his face is badly bruised and th~ lower jaw bone is obrken. The car which Barnes left when he made his escape ran on, crossing third street and stopped on the sidewalk by the side of Hood Brothers' drug store after having struck and bent a large pipe on the edge of the sidewalk. One of the rear tires suffered r blow out and ran off the wheel, one of the fend ers was crushed and the front spring was , demolished before the engine stopped. Barnes made his escape. He had been drafted to go to the army next Saturday. SI IT. MARROW RE-ELECTED.! i - Received Unanimous Vote of Mem- i bers of School Hoard for Another Term fcs Head of Sraithfield Graded School System. At a meeting of the Board of Trus- j tee* of Smithfield Graded Schools held Wednesday night Mr. H. B. Marrow was unanimously re-elected as Super intendent for another year. The mat ter of making: Turlington Graded School a nine months school for an other year was considered. It is the intention of the Board to increase I the term to nine months if the finan cial means are found. The Board also re-elected Prof. Wil liam M. Cooper for third term as Principal of Smithfield Training School, known as the colored graded school. He was elected for his full time. The State Department of Agri culture and Extension Work will sup plement his salary with an appropria tion from the State. THE TRIANGULAR DEBATE. Selma Affirmative Will Meet Kenly Negative Tonight in the Turling ton Graded School Auditorium. jr ? I i Kenly, Selma and Smithfield form a triangle, as they did last year, in the j State-wide? Triangle Debate. There will be a debate in each of these places on Friday night, March 29th, as follows: At Kenly, Smithfield Affirmative will debate Selma negative. At Selma, Kenly affirmative will debate Smithfield negative. At Smithfield, Selma affirmative will debate Kenly negative. Each team will thus be debating on neutral grounds and each debate will be judged by judges from out of the county. The judges for the debate at Smithfield are Supt. F. M. Harper, of the Raleigh schools; A. S. Brower, of the State Department of Education, and Mr. Willis Smith, lawyer, of Ral eihg. The debate at Smithfield will be held at 8:30 in the auditorium of the Turlington Graded School and the public is cordially invited. T. G. S. Pupils Patriotic. The pupils of the Turlington Grad ed School at Smithfield are leading the schools of the county in the pur chase of Thrift and W]ar Savings Stamps. Up to yesterday afternoon they had purchased and paid for $3, 382.75 worth of Stamps. No teacher in the bunch has purchased more than $200 worth of Stamps. Two rooms have purchased more than $750 worth of Stamps each. Before the close of school May 23rd, it is expected that the pupils of this school will pass far beyond the five thousand dollar mark. W. S. S. Rally at Elizabeth. We are requested to announce that there will be a War Savings Rally at Elizabeth church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. Mr. A. M. Johnson, County Farm Demonstrator, and others will be present to explain the War Sav ings Plan. This is a great work and the people are urged to attend the meeting. Carrying them to Camp. ? ? ? % Within the past few weeks the of ficers from this section have rounded up and carried 14 men to Camp Lee at Petersburg. Some of these failed to register, others failed to fill out ques tionnaire and for these reasons they were placed in the deserter class and taken to the camps without any chance for exemption. Of thp fourteen thirteen were negroes and one white man. SAVING DAYLIGHT. The daylight saving hill has been passed and is now a law. All clocks throughout the country will be set forward one hour next Sunday, the 31st, and on the last Sunday in Octo ber, seven months later, they will be set back. By this means, it is hoped to save an hour of daylight, by our peo- ' pie arising an hour earlier and retir ing an hour earlier. An hour of day light will thus be conserved in the af ternoon. Advocates of the plan assert that its practicability and efficiency have been demonstrated in twelve Euro pean countries. The following bene pean results will be achieved by the system: A great saving of illuminants, such as oil, gas and electricity. Marked conservation of coal. Increased manufacturing produc tion as the result of improvement in working conditions. General benefits to the national health because of an additional hour 1 of daylight which may be devoted to recreation. Reduction of the cost of living to some who can raise garden truck for domestic consumption. Improvment of the training condi- < tions for the fighting forces. ? Pitts- I boro Record. TU OBSERVE DAY LIGHT LAW.1 r Turlington Graded School to Begin at Nine O'clock After the Clocks Have lleen Set Ahead. At a regular meeting of the School Trustees of Turlington Graded School held Wednesday night it was decided ; to continue opening school at nine o'clock. This will mean an hour earlier than heretofore, beginning next Mon day morning, April 1st. The new Daylight Saving Law re cently passed by the United States Congress calls on all citizens to nuve their clocks and watches up one hour on Sunday, March 31, 1918. This is done to help the Government and the people generally to get to work earlier in the morning and be able to do all their work in daylight. This will save artificial light. It will enable pccple who work in factories to get out ear lier and work in the gardens and do other little jobs which they are not able to do if the job has to be split by the day's labor. Again the plan, if carried out, will give tho peo ple who send to school an op portunity to have their children back at home time enough to do quite a bit of work at home. Again the new system of setting up the clocks an hour will enable those who work on a tixed hour-a-day-plan to have some time for recreation. And further to carry out the plans of the government in this will show our patriotism and intention to obey the laws of the land and aid in every way possible to car ry on the big fight across the water. Jasper Wiggs in France. We have just learned of the safe arrival in France of Mr. Jasper Wiggs of Boon Hill township. He went to Camp Jackson last fall with first con tingent from Local Board No. 2. He was assigned to Co. A, 317 Machine Gun Battalion. A few weeks ago he was transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey. Mr. Wijgs is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D Wiggs, of Boon Hill, and a broth er of Mr. J. H. Wiggs, formerly of Smithfield. He attended Turlington Graded School two years ago and later taught the Rock Hill school in Ingrams township. Motion Picture Schedule. The schedule for the motion pic tures for next week is as follows: Pine Level, Monday, April 1st, 7:30 P. M. Meadow, Tuesday, April 2nd, 7:30 P. M. New Hope, Wednesday, April 3rd, 7:30 P. M. Royall (Elevation) Thursday, April 4th, 7:30 P. M. Benson or Brogden, (Tuesday's Her ald will state which) on Friday, April 5th, 7:30 P. M. Polenta, Saturday, April 6th, 7:30 P. M. These who attend the motion pic ture show once do not have to be in vited back again. Yours for community service, R. P. MERRITT. THE SMITHFIELD MARKET. Cotton 25 to 35 Cottcn Seed 1.00 to 1.05 Wool 20 to 30 Eggs 25 to 30 Fat Cattle 6 to 7 Fat Cattle dressed 13 to 13 1-2 Corn per bushel 1.75 to 2.00 C. R. Sides 30 to 32% Feed Oats 1.20 to 1.25 Fresh Pork 20 to 22% Hams, per pound 33% to3S Lard 27% to 32% Timothy Hay 2.25 to 2.35 Cheese per pound 86 Butter, per pound 40 Meal 4.75 to 5.00 Flour per sack 6.00 to 6.25 CoffM par pound II to M Cotton Seed Meal 2.75 to 2.85 Cotton teed halls 1.00 Shipstuff 2.80 to 8.00 Molawer. Feed 3.00 to 3.25 Hide?, Green 10 to 12% Hides, Dry 17% to 20 Cow Peas per bushel . . . 3.50 to 4.00 Soy Beans per bushel . . 3.75 to 4.00 Pranute Meal 8.25 Liberal and Modern Methods Consistent With Sound Banking is the basis on which we retain our present patrons and / invite new business. ? Every account appreciated. Under direct supervision of the United States Government. ' ?" i x 1 *?< ?'-< 4- . First National Bank Smithfleld, N. C. T. 11. HOOD, President. It. N. A YCOCK,Vice-Pres. and Cash. A BIG CATCH There will be no exaggeration in your "fish stories" if you buy our Fishing Tackle. Our tackle will tempt both fish and fishermen. The quality and prices account for this. We can't quote prices here because there are so many qualities and styles, and it's the quality which shows the correctness of the price. HOOD BROS. ON THE SQUARE - SMITHFIELD. N C. Big Lot Early Red Bliss Seed i Irish Potatoes J ust Received j Irish Cobblers on the way. See us for flour and feed stuffs. I TO THE I FARMERS We have a big stock of lime and sulphur solution, Arsenate of lead, Paris Green, Sulphur, Blue Stone, Borax. When you needs these come to see us and we will give you the best price we possibly can on these and everything else we sell. We have a big stock of the best tonics for all your stock. CREECH DRUG CO. D. H. CRFECH, Mgr. Smithfield, North Carolina