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N. C.
PERSONAL AND LOCAL.
Mrs. W. M. Sanders went to Dunn
Sunday afternoon.
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Mr. W. Ransom Sanders went to
Fayetteville Sunday.
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Mr. Claud A. Wallace went to Ben
son Sunday to visit friends.
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Miss Florence Boyett spent Easter
with her parents in ths city.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Grimes and
family spent Sunday in Bentonsville.
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Mr. Bailey Williamson was in the
city Sunday afternoon from Knight
dale.
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Ensign Edwin S. Pou has gone
across to serve Uncle Sam "over
there."
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Misses Sarah Sanders, of Peace in
stitute, was at home for the Easter
season.
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Miss Bessie Currie, of Halifax, is
spending some time here with Mrs. J.
D. Dickens.
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Dr. and Mrs. T. L. Ginn, of Golds
boro, were here with Mrs. Ginn's
parents Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Marrow spent
the week-end with Mr.< Marrow's par
ents at Henderson.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sanders and chil
dren spent Sunday afternoon in
Princeton with relatives.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Austin, of Four
Oaks, were guests at the home of
Mr. W. H. Austin Sunday.
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Miss Corinna LeMay Sanders visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Sanders in
Clayton for the Easter season.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Hedrick, of Dur
ham, spent the Easter holidays here
with Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Abell.
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Judge F. H. Brooks returned last
night from a business trip to Rich
mond and Newport News, Virginia.
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Miss Helen Sheppard, of Turlington
Graded School faculty, spent last
week end with relatives at Chadbuorn,
N. C.
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Misses Eloise and Retta Martin and
Mr. Claud Martin spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Edgerton at
Kenly.
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Mr. and Mrs. Will H. Lassiter and
mother, Mrs. R. I. Lassiter, attended
the Baptist Union meeting at Four
Oaks Sunday.
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A letter from Paul Johnson would
indicate that he is on his way across
to do service for Uncle Sam "Some
where in France."
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Mrs. R. S. Stevens received a cable
from her husband, Lieut. Ralph S.
Stevens, Sunday announcing his safe
arrival on the other side.
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Miss Hilda Parrish, who is in school i
at Peace Institute, Ralegh, spent the
Easter holdays here with her parents, i
Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Parrish. i
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Miss Margaret Moore, who is in |
school at Peace Institute, Raleigh, ,
spent Easter here with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Moore.
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Miss Mabel Wellons, a student of
Peace Institute, Raleigh, spent the
Easter holidays here with her parents
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Wellons.
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Mr. W. H. Stegal, wro has been
with the Imperial Tobacco Company
at Richmond for the past few months,
has returned to Smithfield.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Skinner, Mrs.
C. Skinner, Mr. N. M. Lawrence and
Miss Francis Burton Crews attended
church services in Raleigh Sunday.
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The merchant* of Smithfield have
signed an agreement to close their
stores each evening except Saturday
at seven o'clock, Government time,
until further notice. This early closing 1
will give the men who stay in the I
stores all day some time for work in <
their gardens ar.d for recreation. 1
Kenneth Parrish, John White Ives,
and Fritz Dickerson and Misses Hazel
Gillette and Hilda Parrish spent Sun
day in Fremont.
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Mr. Cleon Boyett, a member of the
Senior Class of the State University,
is spending the week here with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Boyett.
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We have just learned that Turner
Vinson, another Smithfield boy has ar
rived on the other side and is ready to
do his best to put the Germans to
flight.
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This is the last week of the Big
W. S. S. Drive in Johnston County.
However, any ona can keep rijht
on buying War Savings Stamps until
December 31, 1918.
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Mrs. Laura Sanders and daughter.
Miss Mary Sanders, from Wendell,
spent the week end with Mrs. R. I.
Wallace and other relatives and
friends in the city.
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Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Guy and daugh
ter, Miss Anna Christian, of Rich
mond, Va., spent the Easter holidays
here with Prof, and Mrs. L. T. Royall
and Mrs. Rebecca Abell.
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Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Ragsdale and
sons, George, Thomas and Hugh, and
little Juanita Strrell, spent Sunday
with relatives in Fuquay Springs. Mr.
Edgar Wi tson also went with them.
Mrs. Thel Hooks left Saturday for
Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., to
spend several days with her husband,
Lieut. Hocks. She was accompanied
by her daughters, Arah and Doi-othy.
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Miss Lucile Johnson, after .a short
visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
V. Johnson, returned to Greensboro
Monday afternoon to resume her stud
ies in Greensboro College for Women.
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Mrs. Ir;- T. Turlington who has been
spending sometime here with her sis
ter, Mrs. N. B. Grantham, and her
brother, Dr. A. II. Rose, return^ to
Chapel Hill Saturday to spend the
Spring and Summer.
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Mr. Robert A. Wellons, who has
just completed the first course in the
Aviation School at Princeton, New
Jersey, came home yesterday to spend
a few days here with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Wellons.
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The Oxford Orphanage singing class
gave a good concert here last Thurs
day night to a large audience at the
Opera House. About one hundred dol
lars was taken in which will go to the
support of the Orphanage.
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Mr. W. M. Sanders informs us that
he has made arrangements to get reg
ular shipments of nice granulated
sugar from a refinery. He gets several i
barrels each shipment and hopes to be
able to supply those needing sugar.
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.Twenty-four negro selectmen were
sent from Smithfield district to Camp
Grant, Illinois, Saturday. The negroes
held a very interesting meeting in
their honor, a complete account of 1
which will apper in Friday's paper. '
The Smithfield Sunday school oh- 1
servedMission Day last Sunday morn
ing with appropriate exercises by the
children. The exercises were in charge
of Mrs. Howard Gray and were intor- J
esting and instructive. A nice offering
was made for missions.
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Supt. F. M. Harper, of the Raleigh
Schools, Mr. A. S. Browcr, of the
State Department of Education, and 1 1
Dr. Young, of the Agricultural De
partment, of Raleigh, were here Fri
day night to act as judges of the de
bate between representatives of the
Kenly and Selma High Schools. Mrs
Brower accompanied them. c
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Mr. Hunter Woodall, who is a mem- j
ber of the 105th Supply Train at Camp I
Sevier, was here Saturday and Sun- I
day visiting friends and relatives. Mr. r
Woodall came here ten days ago, be- c
ing on a furlough to his home in Har- 1
r.ett. While at home he was taken with c
the mumps and had his furlough ex- \
tended. He expects to return to Camp
sometime this week.
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Mr. R. D. W. Connor, of the State
Historical Commission at Raleigh, i
will speak to the people at Glendale 1
school house in Beulah township at a \
War Savings Rally Thursday night, 1
April 4th. Mr. Connor is an interest- j.
ing speaker and should have a big S
:rowd to hear him. He is to talk on 1
:>ne of the very livest of live subjects t
md one which the people should be
preatly interested in.
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Mr. E. F. Crump made a trip to the
3tato Farm in Halifax county last
week to weigh a lot of 537 bales of t
rotton which the farm sold recently, i
Vfr. W. M. Sanders who is one of the i
iirectors cf the State Farm arranged I
with Mr. Crump to do this work. This 1
s Mr. Crump's second visit there. In r
1916 Mr. N. E. Edgerton who was i
;hen one of the directors got Mr. t
Srump to go and weigh a lot of 800 I
>ales of cotton.
Mr. B. I. Stephenson, of the Piney
Grove school section in Pleasant
Grove, was in town yesterdday. Mr.
Stephenson says that the people of
his section are beginning to take more
interest in the War Savngs proposi
tion, as they understand it better.
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Messrs. J. C., Robin and Dixon Hood
and little Elizabeth, from Kinston,
were here Saturday, enroute for Ben
son to see their grand father, Mr.
Haywood Dixon, who is ill. They were
accompanied to Smithfield by Mrs. J.
C. Hood who spent Sunday with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Sanders.
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The Smithfield Cotton Mills will
continue their work on the old sched
ule. They work day and night and
will continue their work as usual. No
change at this time would be of any
benefit since they work all the time.
However, they have run up their
clocks one hour in accordance with
the plans of the Government.
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Mr. Allen S. Smith, who has been
spending the past three months at the
State Tuberculosis Sanitorium, spent
a few days here last week with his
home folks. He appears to be much
improved and is much heavier thar.
when he entered the Sanitorium three
months ago. His friends here and else
where hope that his stay there will
soon completely restore him to health
again.
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A Smithfield man who is well ac
quainted at several of the leading
centers in the Northern States and
gets information as to what is going
on there says that drink conditions
there are awful. The sal .ons are |
open, the people are making big mbney
and more drinking than ever before
is being done. This effects business
and makes labor conditions almost in
tolerable.
Miss Essie Sasser and her aunt,
Mrs. Hulda Crawford, of Kenly, went
to Mount Olive on Thursday of last
week to attend the burial of Mr. M.
J. Sasser, an uncle and brother of
thair who died in Richmond, Va.,
from the effects of pas which he left
turned on in his room at the hotel
where he was stopping. Mr. Sasser
was related to many people in this
county. He was a mechanic sixty
years old and a good citizen.
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Mr. Y. E. Young, of McCullcrs, R.
F. P. No. 1, Wake county, was here
last Saturday to visit his niece, Mrs.
Dora Kirkmp.n, and other relatives.
He reads The Herald regularly and
keeps up with Johnston County. Mr.
Young has a son-in-law who lives in
the north. On his last visit to this
section he took a trip with Mr. Young
and was surprised to see that so many
of our farmers leave their form impli
?r>?nts out in the weather. He remark
ed to Mr. Young that the northern
farmer takes almost as great care of
his implements as he takes care of
bis piano.
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Mr. LaFayette Langston, of Ben
tonsville, was in town Satrday. Mr.
Langston says that the people are
taking more interest in the War Sav
ings plan as they understand it better.
This same conclusion is reached by the 1
people generally. There has been some
surprise expressed by some at the
apparent lack of interest of the farm
ing class in this plyan for helping to
finance the war. But it is getting to be
more generally believed that the farm
?rs, as a class, are just rs patriotic 1
is any other class of people and that
ivhen the end of the year shall roll I
iround the farmers will be right there i
laving done their part in the great '
itruggle. ?
Easter Vesper Service. <
Sunday evening at the Methodist I
?hurch a vesper service driven by the
Sunday school was much enjoyed. The
)rogram was in the hands of Mr. A. |(
H. Noble, and Miss Augusta Evans. '
Miss Bettie Watson had charge of the
nusic. The chancel was appropriately j '
lecorated with wisteria and Easter (
ilies. The program was well carried
>ut and a collection for war relief
vork was ta,ken.
W. S. S. In Cleveland.
There will be a general war meet
ng at Polenta school Saturday night,
\pril f?. This will be in connection ?
vith the moving pictures. There will
>e a ten minute war speech by a
rood speaker. We will finish the War
Savings Stamp campaign for Clcve
and Township; we will "go over the
op" that night, if not before. Come.
J. O. ELLINGTON, Chairman.
MEETING. BUY STAMPS.
Everybody invited to hear me talk
>n the war and buy stamps, at reg
ilar meeting County Farmers' Un
on, in Hall of Union Grocery and
?'eed Co., Selma, Thursday, April 4th,
0 a. m. You know what 10 o'clock
low meahs, one hour earlier than
isual. Be on time, attend to business
hen turn our attention to o'?.her dut
es and homeward.
W. C. HARPER, Sec. I
(;01NG AHEAD ON WAR STAMPS.]
T. (J. S. I'upils Leading All Other
Schools in Johnston County.
Under the leadership of Supt. H. B.
Marrow the pupils of Turlington
Graded School are making; a fine rec
ord in selling War Savings Stamps.
l"p to this time no teacher in the
school has purchased more than $100
worth. Two of the grades have gone
over $750 each while some of the
others are pulling right along after
I them. Value of Stamps sold up to
Monday morning is as follows:
First Grr.dc A, $229.50
First Grade B 774.75
Second Grade 184.00
Third Grade 303.00
Fourth Grade A, .... 367.00
Fourth Grade B 112.50
Fifth Grade 415.75
Sixth Grade 106.00
Seventh. Grade 89.00
Eighth Grade 762.25
Ninth Grade 42.00
Tenth Grade 263.25
Eleventh Grade, 30.75
Total $3739.75
JOHNSTON COUNTY.
( By Flossie Lassiter.)
Here's to thee, O Johnston County!
Fondly loved and f-<ir;
Where the days are ever brighter,
Where there's sweet, pure air.
Chorus:
Hail to thee, O Johnston County,
Land of hope and song.
Hail to thee, O land of beauty,
Hater cf all wrong.
There the lon.T leaf pine is whisp'ring
There, the tough, white ash;
There the rolling fields invite us
Where the dewdrops flash.
Worthy men have come from John
ston,
Men who care for truth;
More are coming in the future,
From t'.ie toiling youth.
Health to thee, O prosperous John
ston,
Blest 'bove every land;
Peaceful be thy days and many ?
Joy on every hand!
Red Springs, N. C.
COUNTY LIMIT CLUB.
Wo have some other names to add
to the County Limit War Savings
Club. They will be published, with
the complete list in Friday's Herald.
W. S. S. MEETINGS.
The public invited and adult citizens,
especially are urged to be present to
hear Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald and Dr. M.
Hinnant who will address the people
of Micro township in the interest of
the War Savings at the following
places:
Brown School House, Wednesday
night, April 3, at 8 o'clock.
Pearce School House, Thursday
night at 8 o'clock.
Carter's Chapel, Friday night at 8
o'clock.
Micro, Saturday night at 8 o'clock.
Oxford Orphans Please.
Selma, N. C., ? On Friday night at
the City Hall the Singing Class of the
Oxford Orphanage gave a highly
pleasing entertainment to a packed
house, each one of whom was enthus
iastic in his praise of the manner in
which the entertainment was pres< nt
;d. There were fourteen in the sing
ing class, ten of whom were girls, and
>ne outstanding feature of them all is
;he fact that good training and discip
line is evident throughout.
C. R. Woodhead, aged seventy-two,
)f San Francisco, for forty-five years
las eaten only one mer.l daily.
As early as the sixteenth century
Brazil was producing sugar commer
nally.
THE SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Cotton 25 to 35
Gotten Seed 1.00 to 1.05
Wool 20 to 30
Spgs 25 to 30
Fat Cattle 6 to 7
Fat Cattle dressed 13 to 13 1-2
^orn per bushel 1.75 to 2.00
3. R. Sides 30 to 32 %
Feed Oats 1.20 to 1.25
Fresh Pork 20 to 22%
Sams, per pound 33 % to36
-ard 27% to 32%
rimothy Hay 2.25 to 2.35
Cheese per pound 36
Butter, per pound 40
Weal 4.75 to 5.00
Flour per sack 6.00 to 6.25
Coffee per pound II to M
Cotton Seed Meal 2.75 to 2.85
Cotton seed holla 1.00
?hipstuff 2.80 to 8.00
kfolasaes Feed 3.00 to 3.25
lilies, Green 10 to 12%
lides. Dry 17% to 20
)ow Peas per bushel . . . 3.50 to 4.00
Joy Beans per bushel . . 3.75 to 4.00
Canute 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.
First National Bank
Smithfield, N. C.
T. H. HOOI), President. K. N. AYCOCK.Vice-Pres. and Cash.
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