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The Smithfield Herald PublishcJ Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASSITEK Smithfield, N. C. Editors and Proprietors, Cash in Advance. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Yeai, $l..r?0 Eight Months, 1.00 Six Months, .75 Three Months, .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. THIRD LIBKRTY I.OAN. The Third Liberty Loan drive is now on in full speed. It began last Saturday and will close May 4th, If the drive keeps up the furious paco It has started off with long before the closing date the three billion mile post will be passed. This is a place where every man who has money for investment can help his government. Clayton has already subscribed her full quota. Clayton is a rich town and this act of hers in being the first to go "over the top" in the Third Liberty Loan will continually b? a source of pride to the citizens of that town and all Johnston County. No town in Johnston County will prove a slacker in this drive. It is pa triosm to stand by our government with all your means and resources. SAVING WOOD. As some land is cleared every year and as the users of wood are fast mul tiplying and as it takes much wood to cure the tobacco the saving of wood is getting to be a matter of impor tance more than ever before. If any person could spend as much as one winter in a town and see the poor fires some families have and the ex pense of having good fires it would give a different idea of wood and the importance of saving it. To save wood every tree cut down should be used up. Some wood cutters have a way of using only the best splitting part of each tree and sometimes trees are cut down and left to rot just be cause the wood cutter does not hap pen to get bnck to that place to work anymore. Even the small limbs of trees could be chopped up and used in the cook stoves or heater. Every tree which dies should be cut and used for wood. As much as possible wood 1 should l>e cut on land intended to be ( cleared. Trees around the edgos of , fields should be cut. These will fur- i niah firewood and cutting them will f help the crops nearest to these trees. If a wood cutter has to go out into the woods to cut he should cut some of the larger trees and leave the smal- t ler trees that they may grow more. 8 It is a waste to cut all trees as you J find them unless the land is to be cleared right away. On some farms ? wood is being wasted now which will be needed in ten years or less time. v Let us remember that some of our land will pay as well growing wood or timber as it would pay by being ( cultivated. Every land owner should t tell his sons and his hired men and v r his tenants just where to cut wood. { Everybody should try to save wood. Lightwood should be used for kindling t purposes only. \ THE NEW REGISTRATION. When they know that their names are on the regular registration books some people do not like a new regis tration. They feel like it is unneces sary trouble. But to follow the law there must be a new registration when any matter of finance is to receive our votes. An important election on tax for our schools is to be held in Johnston County, April 30th, and no one can vote on that day unless he is registered anew. If you did not reg ister last week, and have not regis tered this week, you should go at once to your precinct registrar and reg ister at once. U?less you get your name on the books today or tomor row, or next week, you cannot vote in the election for school tax April 30th. Be sure to get ready by regis tering and then you can do your duty as a citizen by voting. According to the Census of 1910 there were 5,516,136 people in the United States who could not read and and write. GIVE US INFORMATION CON CERNING SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. For several weeks The Herald has l>een making an effort to get the rec ord of the s< Idier and sailor boys now in the service of their country, who were l>orn in Johnston County or who lived here at some time, or who were living in the county when they were called into the service. While we have a record of something like 150 of these men who have gone forth to bat tle for their country, there are still a great many more whose names and records we have not yet been able to secure. We desire that the friends and relatives of these brave young men will furnish us with the information that will enable us to have a complete record of them. First ? We want the full name of the soldier or sailor together tfith his father's and mother's name, post office address and township, and whether parents living or dead. Second ? When and where did the young man enter the service and whether he enlisted or was taken in through the selective service law. Third ? We want his company and regiment and the branch of the ser vice he is in. Fourth ? What camp did he receive his training rnd also if he was trifhs ferrcd to some other camp and when. Fifth ? If he is already gone to France, when did he go. These things are important in help ing us to keep history straight. In the yer.rs to come the files of The Smithfield Herald for 1918 will bib re garded as very valuable to the histor ian who may want to write a history of Johnston County's part in the great World War. The Great Need Before Us. (By II. B. Marrow.) The unprecedented situation which confronts everywhere school boards and school officials who are employing teachers for the next school year is one th:>t should separate itself at once from all political entanglements and come to the fireside of every man and woman who has a child. The employ ing of a teacher is a matter of busi ness just as much so as going on the market and selling a bale of cotton. Now we all know that two or three years ago ten cents was a good price for cotton; but today it is selling for nearly four times this nmount. To bacco, pork, and everything has ad vanced in price in proportion to cotton. Therefore, it is as clear as the day that it costs everybody (and especially teachers because their work is sui li that they cannot make their own sup plies) more to live. While the selling and buying price of cotton and everything else has ad vanced several hundred per cent the teacher's salary has advanced scarcely at all. As an econo mic result of the low salaries paid teachers, and of the greatly advanced salaries paid for all clerical and com nercial work, there is an unheard of icarcity of teachers. Literally thous inds of teachers in North Carolina iave gone into these commercial posi ions because of the larger salaries tnd of the steady employment as con rasted with the small salaries and ihort school terms. The natural re iult of this condition is that the ef orts that have been made by school ommitteemen to employ their teach ?rs now rather than wait until just be ore the opening of school have met vith utter failure, since teachers are lot to be had for the small salaries leretofore paid them. There are about 12,000 white school ?hildren in Johnston County and here is not one of these children vhose parents or grand parents are lot, to some degree, a living blight on he dark schoolless days that fol owed the Civil War. Our forefath ?rs lost their slaves and all their vealth and thus were able to give our >a rents only the most meager advan tages. But this is not the case of the (ohnston County parents today. They ire wealthier than they have ever ?een, and still this will not help their hildren through the hard times that ire almost sure to follow the war. *sever in the history of the world will here be as great a demand for edu ?ated men and women as there will >e just after the war. Will you let four child be forced to take a back i teat then! France and England, bur- * lened with war tax as they are, have loubled their school taxes since the var began in order to meet this 1 ?mergency. Will the parents of John- < iton County do as much for their cliil- ' Iren as the war-stricken parents of Europe are doing for theirs! On April 30th the voters of John- i iton County will be given a chance to i ?ay how much they think of their >wn children and the children of their neighbors, and there is but one i ssue that faces every voter and that i s this: "Shall I rob 12,000 children I >f their birthright or shall I prove a trustworthy guardian of Iheir just nheritances!" 1 PORTRAIT GALLERY OF OUR SOLDIER BOYS ZEB V. JOHNSON. Among the first young men of John ston County to serve with the Amer ican Forces in France is Lieut. Zeb V. Johnson, of Smithfleld. Mr. John son, who is 23 years of age, is the son of Will G. Johnson and Mrs. Dora Johnson, both dead. Before entering the military service of his country he lived in Smithfield where he was an automobile mechanic. He first en listed in the Selma Company, State Guard. When Uncle Sam called for troops to go to Mexico in 1910 the Sol ma Company was called to go. Mr. Johnson went with his company and served for several months on the Mex ican Border. He came back to North Carolina in 1917 and was then sent to Camp Sevier, Greenville, S. C., where he served as a member of Com pany C, 119th Infantry. Last Fall when the War Department needed a company of engineers to go to France young Johnson was sent to Hemp stead, N. Y, After he had been in training for about six weeks at Hemp stead he sailed for France on October 17. He has been made a Second Lieut enant and is now serving with Gener al Pershing's Army in France. LEARY MOORE. I^eary Moore, of Benson, is the son of Mrs. Esther Moore. His father was the late Britt Moore, of Banner town ship. Young Moore, who is only 22, volunteered for service in the summer of 1917 and went to the Norfolk Navy Yard for training. JOHN R. MASSKY. Corporal John R. Massey, sen of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Massey, of Boon Hill township, is 2tt years old, i*nd has had two yrars at the State University where he was preparing for the study of law. He enlisted at Wilmington, N. C., July 2, 1917, with 117th Engineers' unit in the 42nd Division. He went with his unit at once to Camp Mills, Long Island, where he spent hree months in training. He went to France in October last, being among tho first from North Carolina to go over. Young Massey writes home of the splendid work the Engineers are doing in France and especially emphasizes the high spirit of bravety which ex ists among the boys of unit. Ho is a brother of Mr. G. C. Massoy who is now a student at the State University. BIBLE AND FLAG PRESENTA TION. AT PINEY GROVE. The Smithfield Council of the Jun ior Order will pres* nt a Bible and Flap: to Piney Grove School, in Pleas ant Grove township, next Wednesday, April 17. Thess exercises are sched uled to begin at 10:30 a. m. "new time," and continue until the dinner hour, after which the school will pro ceed with commencement exercises. We have a splendid program arranged Part of which is as follows: Address upon the Principles of the Order by Mr. J. D. Parker. Pr' sentation of Bible by Rev. H. F. Brinson. Presentation of Flag, by Mr. J. W, Stephenson. Wo wish tt> extend to the public, and to every member of the different councils of this order, wherever they may be, an invitation to at tend ti ese exercises. The memb'-rs will please meet at the Junior Order Hall in Smithfield Wednesday morn ing, strictly at 9 o'clock and all who have no conveyance will be provided for. Be present at our meeting Tues day evening when we will finishing prefecting our arrangements. This Order has forty one thousand mem bers in North Carolina and we learn with pride that these men, also, mem bers of other patriotic ordeis, are now realizing more than ever the meaning of those solemn obligations which t'.cy took, with hands upon the Holy Bible when then rendered tl.eir allegiance to the "Red, White and Blue" and are now among the first to answer the call of their country. We cannot see very far into the fu ture but we believe that God has already, through the unlifted curtain of time, Feen the long arms of Amer ica reach out and embrace every land and every clime, and gently and loving ly lead all under the stars and stripes and bid them be content to claim al legiance to no other flag save the "Flag of the free and the biave." When it is accomplished, we will all sing for joy! "O my America" Then all for peace, all for America, stretch out your white wings of peace, pro tect and save the world for Jesus. W. C. HARPER, Chairman, Arrangements. JONES SCHOOL NOTES. Rev. Mr. Anderson filled his regular appointment at the school house Sun day night. A large crowd attended. Mr. Ed. Hogan, from South Caro lina, visited his wife and little daugh ter, Frances, last week . Rev. J. Ruffin Johnson and family, spent Sunday with his brother, Mr. A. L. Johnson. Mr. Raymond Edwards and v/ife spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jones. Mr. Edgar Chapin has returned to Petersburg after spending a while with his mother, Mrs. F. Chapin. Last Sunday morning Mr. Willie Jones drove down to the home of Mr. D. G. Allen and took Miss Alice for his bride. They then drove to the home to Mr. Shep Johnson where they were happily married. Mr. Jones is a pros perous farmer and the son of Mr. J. W. Jones. Mrs Jones is the charming young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Allen. Mr. Elisha Grant and wife and Mrs. J. F. Barefoot and Miss Viola, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Jones. Mr. Henry H. Vinson, from Camp Jackson, was in our midst Easter Sunday. Mrs. John Pruitt, from Elon Col lege, returned to her home Sunday after spending a week with her par ents and Mrs. Ed Hogan. Miss Margie Benoy, of Selma, spent last Sunday night with Miss Eliza beth Chapin. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Johnson and family and little Miss Frances Hogrn, spent last Friday with Mr. and Mrs. Amos Johnson. Mr. J. W. Jones left today for Greensboro where he is going to at tend the State Republican Covention. Mr. Bud Munns and family from South Carolina, have been visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Troy Munn's. L. N. J. April 8. 1918. SHIPS! SHIPS! SHIPS! Ships are needed to save France. Ships are needed to defeat ' the Kaiser. The Allies are calling for ships. Our Government is calling: for ships. Our Government is trying to build ships and is asking that we lend our money for this purpose. Are we going to lend it willingly or are we going to cause the Govern ment to force it from us through taxes! It's either to buy War-Savings Stamps and build ships or pay War taxes and build ships. In the first you get your mot?ey back with interest. In the second you get only a slip of paper to show you have done what the Government forced you to do. ? W. S. News. W. L. Woodall's Sons Smithfield's Shopping Center The Store Where Your Dollars Count Most Lawns and Voiles 20c value. ..12 l-2c 27 inch Ginghams 25c value.. 17 l-2c Yard wide Percale 19c 40 in Voiles and Batiste 35c value, 30c. 39 in AAA White Homespun 25c value 20c. Silks in all the newest shades priced 98c to $2.50 Slippers for Ladies and Children in all styles, 98c to $10 A Beautiful line of Cretonne and Curtain Goods PICTORIAL REVIEW patterns always in stock For $10.00 cash trade we give a twenty-five cent Government Thrift Stamp Free. Ask for the Coupons. W. L. Woodall's Sons Smithfield, N. C. Things You Want It isn't any trouble at all to think of the things you want. It's how to get them that causes most of the worry. There's the comfortable home, money for old age, means to educate your children that vacation trip, and a thousand and one other things that comes crowding up the minute you think of the things you want. A little savings account at this bank is the best start you can make toward having these things. It will grow. The funds are safe. Some day the things you want will be yours if you work, save and bank with us. The Clayton Banking Co. CLAYTON, N. C. BANK AND THE WORLD BANKS ON YOU OPERA HOUSE SMITHFIELD April IS, 16, 17 SELMA April 18, 19, 20 Anderson-Gunn Comedy Company Presenting a Repertoire of Better Class Productions 12 PEOPLE 12 PROGRAM CHANGED EVERY PERFORM ANCE. VAUDEVILLE" BETWEEN] ACTS Singers, Dancers, Comedians, Musicians and PLAYERS OF THE BEST Don t Miss These Pleasing Entertainers
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