KITCHIN SPEAKER PRO- T EM.
? ? ? ? _
Establish Precedent in House by
Granting the Speaker a Leave of
Absence to Attend Funeral of Sen
ator Stone.
(Parker R. Anderson, in Greensboro
News.)
Washington, April 15? A precedent
in the house was broken this after
noon when the rules of that body were
suspended in order that Speaker
Champ Clak might leave Washington
to attend the funeral of his life-long
friend, Senator William Joel Stone, of
Missouri. Under the established rules
of the house the speaker cannot be
granted a leave of absence for more
than one day unless it is a case of
sickness.
The elimination of political lines
was demonstrated when Acting Min
ority Leader Gillett moved that the
rules of the house be suspended and
the speaker granted authority to ab
sent himself from Washington long
enough to attend Senator Stone's fun
eral. Without a dissenting vote the
vote was carried and Majority Leader
Claude Kitchin was apointed speak
er during the absence of Mr. Clark.
It is probably the first time since
National Macon was speaker of the
house that a North Carolinian has
been honored in this way.
Senator Overman pointed out to the
Daily News correspondent today that
he and Senator Smoot are the only
remaining members of the senate who
were sworn in at the session which
Senator Stone began his service in
that august body in 1903. There were
36 senators sworn in at that time and
all of them with the exception of
Senator Overman and Senator Smoot
are either dead or have retired from
the senate for one reason or another.
It is pointed out also that Senator
Simmons is the third oldest Demo
cratic senator from point of service
now in that body. Senator Martin and
Senator Tillman came in at the same
time and rank first; Senator Culber
son, of Texas, is second, and the sen
ior North Carolina senator third,
while Senator Overman is fourth. On
the Republican side, Senator Gallin
ger has served longer than any other
member of his party while Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts is second.
Don't Plant Corn on Dead Poor Land.
With corn yields in the South av
eraging from fifteen to twenty bush
els per acre, it of course follows that
we have many thousand of acres run
ning well below these figures. As a
matter of fact, there are every year
thousands and thousands of acres that
make even less than five bushels per
acre.
Here is one of the South's economic
tragedies ? for it is little less than
tragic that any man si. uld apply $20
worth of human labor, horse power
ai}d fertilizer to aji acre of land and
get in return less than $10. This is
worse than swapping dollars; it is
swapping dollars and giving a man's
labor to boot.
There is a better use for land than
putting it in corn that will not make
at least ten or twelve bushels per
acre, even corn at from $1.50 to $2 a
bushel. In the first place, we believe
that much of our land that now does
not make a profitable yield of corn
may be made to do so by better prepa
ration and cultivation, better drainage,
better seed, and more rational fer
tilization. But on those hopelessly,
poor areas where even the best of
methods are of little avail, a crop of
soy beans or cowpea hay or peanuts
for hogs should pay well, particularly
with good hay at $30 to $40 a ton and
hogs at $15 or better. Moreover, the
labor required in making these crops
is relatively little.
This is a time for the conservation
of labor, along with other essential
things, and a good way to do this is
to see that every effort we make counts.
Putting our poorer lands in crops like
soy or velvet beans, cowpeas or pea
nuts, rather than corn that will hardly
pay rent on the land, is one way to do
this ? The Progressive Farmer.
Playing With Fire.
It is good sometimes to let well
enough alone. In his demand upon
Treasurer Lacy for a re-imbursement
of the $7,600 he paid into the State
Treasury, Major George L. Peterson
may be playing with fire. Though he
was acquitted in a Superior Court by
a jury of any criminal intent the very
fact of his paying into the State
Treasury the amount of his alleged
shortage is in itself an admission that
he was responsible for the money he
was charged with having spent with
out any record on his books as pay
master. Treasurer Lacy very rightly
refused the demand for payment of
the $7,600. Before he pays back Major
Peterson let the Legislature order
the payment made.
What Germany Accomplished.
Germany ha3 made food expensive
and human life cheap. ? Washington
Star.
Why the South Should Grow Mere
Corn This Year; Six Keaaoiut.
I.
The prudent farmer ought to raise
more corn this year, in the first place,
because no matter what happens to
cotton or cotton products, food and
feed are sure to be high. Our armies
and our allies may get along with old
clothes, but they are compelled to
have food. Coasequeatly, if shipping
becomes further restricted, cotton and
cotton goods and all similar articles
will have to give way to foodstuffs
and feedstuffs. Then, too, so many
men formerly food-producers have be
come merely food-consumers that it is
absolutely impossible to have an over
production of food, and with untoward
conditions we might have almost a
famine. In other words, condtions are
such that while cotton may continue
high; all foods are sure to continue
high.
II.
We ought to raise more corn, in the
second place, because there is no in
dication that the cotton acreage will
be decreased, and it may be consider
ably increased, whereas we might ev
en cut the acreage 10 per cent and yet
have over-production. As has been
frequently pointed out, the reason for
last year's small crop was not a small
acreage but a low yield per acre ?
due to late spring and early fall, and
other unfavorable conditions ? so that
our average yield was only 155 pounds
of lint cotton per acre against a pre
vious ten-year average of 181 pounds
and a 1914 average of 209 pounds. If
we should cut last year's acreage 10
per cent, a normal yield will give us
an over-production. "All the cotton we
can make on 10 per cent fewer acres"
seems a wise motto therefore; and of
course the acreage saved from cotton
should be put to growing food and
feeds.
III.
Never befoi'e since Appomottax
has the labor siuation in the South
been so seriousl as now. And cotton
is a crop which calls heavily for labor
and must have plenty of it at the
right time. It "wants what it wants
when it wants it." When the grass
gets bad, it must be cleaned out
promptly: it cannot wait; and when
the bolls open, the picking must be
done promptly or there is serious
loss. With the labor shortage as se
rious as it is, nobody can afford to
take chances on hiring much extra
labor. And even where a man has
ample labor that he can count on, he
can cultivate so many more acres in
corn than he can in cotton, that the
corn may easily prove the better mon
ey crop for him. Certainly by planting
liberally of crops the hogs can har
vest, along with the staple crops, the
farmer who is sort of labor can make
better profits than he can with any
one-crop system.
IV.
Another reason for making corn is
that no matter if cotton is high, oth
er things are also high ? and so high
that even with 30 cents a pound for
lint the farmer who grows "all cot
ton" and depends on it to buy his
bread and meat is not only no better
off than he was with 12-cent cotton,
but is actually worse off. Let us re
peat the figures prepared by Mr.
Bradford Knapp on this point:
At 12-Cent Pre-War Prices. One
500-pound bale of cotton at $60 would
have bought ?
Corn ? 80 bushels @ 75c.
Flour ? 12 barrels @ $5.00.
Corn Meal ? 3,000 pounds @ 02.
Lard ? 600 pounds @ 10.
Salt Pork ? 500 pounds @ 12.
Bacon ? 400 pounds @15.
At 30-Cent War Prices. One 500
pound bale of cotton at $150 will
buy ?
Corn ? 75 bushels @ $2.00.
Flour ? 12 barrels @ $12.50.
Corn Meal ? 2,143 pounds @ 07.
Lard ? 484 pounds @ 31.
Salt Pork ? 455 ponds @ 33.
Bacon ? 366 pounds @41.
V.
Another reason for growing corn is
that not have prices gone skyward
but the South has learned to make
co,rn. A few years ago we didn't know
how to make it, and with the methods
we then used, it would hardly have
paid us to produce much corn at any
price. But just take a look at our yield
per acre now as compared with twenty
years ago ? 1917 as compared with
1897:
1897 1917
Virginia 18.0 29.5
North Carolina 13.0 20.0
South Carolina 9.0 19.0
Georgia 11.0 16.0
Florida 8.0 15.0
Alabama 12.0 16.0
Mississippi 14.5 20.5
Tennessee 21.0 28.5
Arkansas 16.0 24.0
Louisiana 17.0 18.0
Texas 18.5 11.0
United States: 23.8 26.4
Of course, Texas was hit by an ex
ceptional drouth last year, its acre
yield being less than half what it was
two years previously, but it will be
seen that last year South Carolina
made twice as much corn per acre as
it made twenty years before, Florida
nearly twice as much per acre, Vir
ginia and North Carolina over 50 per
cent more, Arkansas exactly 50 per
cent, and Georgia and Missippi nearly
50 per cent more. We are learning to
make corn growing pay.
V*.
And last but not least, we had bet
ter grow plenty of corn and plenty of
food and feeds of all kinds this year,
because if we don't grow it, we may
not be able to get it at all. And since
the South can feed itself, who can
say it would not serve us right if, with
the world's warning in our ears, we
should prove ourselves both so fool
ish and so unpatriotic as to go "cot
ton crazy" and then next winter call
on the North and West to take needed
break and meat from the mouths of
our soldiers and take needed trains
and cars from the service of the gov
ernment and from the freezing cit
ies of the North and send foodstuffs
and feedstuffs to our section! If we
don't grow the stuff, we may not get
it ? and ought not to.
For all these reasons, let's have a
bumper corn crop in 1918! ? The Pro
gressive Farmer.
The Food Problem.
The great problem before us today
is to manage some way to make more
foodstuffs. It is a problem in more
ways than one. First, it is a problem
because of the great need of more
food. Few people yet realize how se
rious the food shortage is. Sec
ond, the scarcity of labor emphasizes
the problem. The farmer may not on
account of lack of labor be able to
plant any more acres, he can use his
utmost endeavor to produce more per
acre. The food problem can be help
ed toward a solution by the raising of
moi*e hogs and cows. No calf should
be killed until it grows large enough
to aid the food supply. There are
many ways in which the situation
may be improved.
GREENSBORO MAN
GAINS 1 1 POUNDS
IN TWO WEEKS
Proximity Carpenter Goes Out of His
Way to Tell the Story of His De
liverance from Fain.
WANTS THE WORLD
TO KNOW OF IT.
"I want to see the Dreco Man," an
nounced a middle aged man as he
crowded his way into the Farriss
Klutz Store in Greensboro a few days
ago. "I want to see this man and tell
him what Dreco did for me and my
wife so that he can publish my exper
ience to the world."
The Farriss-Klutz Store was crow
ded with customers but everybody in
cluding clerks and customers stopped
and turned to hear what this enthus
iastic man had to say. And it was well
worth their while for he told an in
teresting story.
The man, it developed later, was
John Basinger, a carpenter of Prox
imity Station and he has given per
mission for the publication of his
strange story just as he told it then.
This is what he said:
"I have bought three bottles of
Dreco. My medicine isn't all out but
I came here tonight to tell you how
much good Dreco has done for myself
and wife.
"I bought the three bottles about
two weeks ago. At that time I was so
bad off I hadn't been able to work a
whole week.
"As bad as I need money I wouldn't
take a thousand dollars tonight for
what this medicine has done for me.
My back ached so bad that it felt like
some one was jabbing a knife into
me. I couldn't sleep for the awful
pains I had. If anyone had slapped
me on the back I would have fainted.
"I took 16 boxes of a certain kind
of kidney pills, have been treated by
good professional men, and now a few
bottles of Dreco has done what all
others have failed in, for tonight I
am a welf strong man again, with not
a pain in my body.
"See how I can stoop and bend ov
er! It's wonderful what Dreco has
done! I sleep so sound now that I
don't hear the whistle blow of morn
ings.
"My wife has* suffered from rheum
atism and Dreco has relieved every
pain in her body. Both of us have told
many of our friends about this good
medicine and I want every suffering
man and woman to know about what
it has done for me and mine."
Note: Dreco, referred to in the
above statement of Mr. Basinger, is
dispensed by most good drug stores.
It is particularly recommended and
sold in Smithfield by Creech Drug Co.
Adv.
The Difference.
"Can any littie boy," asked the new
teacher, "tell me the difference be
tween a lake and an ocean?" *
"I can" replied Edward, whose
wisdom has been learned from experi
ence. "Lakes are mnch pleasanter to
swallow when you fall in." ? Christian
Register.
SUMMONS
IN THE RECORDER'S COURT,
APRIL 13, 1918.
North Carolina, Johnston County.
J. R. Hales vs. J. F. Corbin.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commencd in the Re
corder's Court of Johnston County to
obtain a judgment upon a note signed
by the defendant, J. F. Corbin, and
the defendant will further take notice
that he is required to appear at the
term of the Recorder's Court of the
County of Johnston to be held on the
14TH DAY OF MAY 1918 at the
Court House in Johnston County and
answer or demur to the complaint in
said action or the plaintiff will apply
to the court for the relief demanded
in said complaint.
This April 13, 1918. ,
Z. L. LEMAY,
Clerk Recorder's Court.
Wellons & Wellons,
Attorney.
NOTICE
IN THE RECORDER'S COURT.
North Carolina, Johnston County.
Pine Level Hardware Company, Inc.
vs. Dr. G. C. Godwin.
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled as
above has been commenced in the Re
corder's Court of Johnston to collect
a sum of money owing to the plain
tiff by the defendant, and summons
issued in this matter has been return
ed marked by the sheriff not to be
found in the county; the said defen
dant will take notice that he is requir
ed to appear at the term of Recorder's
Court of Johnston County, to be held
on Tuesday, the 14th day of May, 1918,
at the Court House of Johnston Coun
ty in Smithfield, North Carolina and
answer or demur to the complaint, or
the plaintiff will apply to the Court
for the relief demanded in said com
plaint.
Z. L. LEMAY,
Clerk of Recorder's Court.
This 9th day of April, 1918.
NOTICE OF SUMMONS BY PUBLI
CATION.
North Carolina, Johnston County,
Beulah Township.
H. F. Edgerton, trading: as G. G. Ed
gerton and Son vs. Albert Gowling
and the Farmers Bank.
Notice of summons and warrant of
attachment.
The defendant above named will
take notice that a summons in the
above entitled action was issued
against said defendant on the 8th day
of April, 1918, by N. R. Pike, a Jus
tice of the Peace of Johnston County,
North Carolina, for the sum of ($199)
one hundred ninety-nine dollars due
said plaintiff account (loss sustained
in a shipment hay) from said defen
dant. Which summons is returnable
before said justice at his office in said
county and in Beulah Township on
the 13 day of May 1918, at 10 o'clock
A. M. The defendant will also take
notice that a warrant of attachment
was issued against the property of
said defendant which warrant is re
turnable before the said justice at the
same time and place above named
for the return of the summons when
and where the defendant is required
to appear and answer or demur to
the complaint or the relief demanded
will be granted.
N. R. PIKE, J. P.
This 8th day of April, 1918.
APPLICATION FOR PARDON.
This is to give notice that an ap-^
plication for the pardon of Albert A.
Pearce convicted of murder in John
ston County Superior Court, March
term, 1910, is being made to Governor
Bickett.
This April 3rd, 1918.
JOHN E. PEARCE.
NOTICE.
My son, Willie Thomas Rhodes, six
teen years of age, has left my heme
without cause. This is to notify the
public that I will net be responsible
for any debts or contracts he may
make and all persons arc warned
against harboring or aiding him in
any way.
This March 26, 1918.
T. II. RHODES,
Four Oaks, N. C., R. No. 1.
NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified
as Administrator on the estate of D.
H. Hayes, deceased, hereby notifies
all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to
me duly veriled on or before the 15
day of March 1919, or this notice will
be be pleaded in bar of their recovery;
and all persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment.
This 13 day cf March 1918.
J. MARVIN SANDERS, Adm'r.
Four Oaks, N. C. R. No. 1.
TWO CAR LOADS BUGGIES JUST
unloaded. Cotter-Underwood Com
pany, Smithfield, N. C.
NOTICE
IN THE RECORDER'S COURT. '
North Carolina, Jonhston County.
B. Godwin vs. Dr. J. R. Ballance. t
The defendant above named will (
:ake notice that an action entitled as |
ibove has ben commenced in the Re- :
"order's Court of Johnston County to i
ollect a sum of money owing to the \
plaintiff by the defendant, and sum- ]
nons issued in this matter has been (
returned marked by the sheriff not to j
t>e found in the county; the snid de
fendant will take notice that he is re
quired to appear at the term of Rtf
rorder's Court of Johnston County, to
be held on Tuesday, the 14th day of |
May, 1918, at the Court House of
Johnston County, Smithfield, North
North Carolina, and answer or demur
to the complaint or the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief de
manded in said complaint
Z. L. LEMAY,
Clerk of Recorder's Court.
This 9th day of April, 1918.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, DE
PARTMENT OF STATE.
Certificate of Dissolution
To all to whom these presents may
conccrn ? Greeting:
Whereas, it appears to my satisfac
tion, l>y duly authenticated rcccrd of
the proceedings for the volunti ry dis
solution tliereof by the unanimous con
sent of all the stockholders, deposited
in my office, that the A. V. Driver
Company, a corporation of this Str.te,
whose principal office is situated in
the town of Selma, County of John
ston, State cf orth Carolina (A. V.
Driver being the agont therein r.nd
in charge thereof, upon whom pro
cess may be served), has complied
with the requirements of Chapter 21,
Revisal cf 1905, entitled "Corpora
tions," preliminary to ti.e issuing of
this Certificate of Dissolution:
Now, Therefore, I, J. Bryan Grimes,
Secretary of State of the State of
North Carolina, do hereby certify that
the said corporation did, on the 21 day
of March, 1918, file in my office a duly
executed and attested conscnt in writ
ing to the dissolution of said corpora
tion, executed by all the stockholders
thereof, which said consent and the
record of the proceedings aforesaid
are now on file in my said office as
provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I have here
to set my hand and affixed lny official
seal at Raleigh, this 21 day of March,
A. D. 1918.
J. BRYAN GRIMES,
Secretary of State.
NOTICE OF SALE.
North Carolina,
Johnston County,
In the Superior Court
Before the Clerk.
Josephine Basson and husband )
Henry B:.sson, Jno. Drew, Robert, )
Drew, Augustus Drew and F. 11. )
Brooks, Ex-parfc?. )
Under and by virtue of autlu rity
contained in a decree of the Superior
Court jf Johnston County, in the a
bove entitled cause entered on the
26th dry of March 11)18, Ihe under
signed Commissioners will offer for
sale, at public auction, at tho Crnrt
House door, in the Town of Smithfield,
N. C., on Saturday the 20th day of
April, 1918, at 12 o'clock M. the fol
lowing described lot in the Town of
Smithfield, N. C. and known in the
plan of said town as part of lot No.
63 and bounded as follows, to-wit: Be
ginning at a stake on Third Street,
Becky Powell's corner, and runs r bout
West with her line 210 feet to L. II.
Green's and S. R. Morgan's corner;
thence about Ncrth with L. H. Green's
line 52 1-2 ft. to a stake. Jno. M. Beck
with's corner; thence about East 210
ft. to a stake on Third Street, Jno.
Beckwith's corner; thence about Suth
with Third Street 52 1-2 ft. to the be
ginning, containing one-fourth acre.
This 26th day of March 1918.
E. J. WKLLONS,
F. II. BROOKS,
Commissioners
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
To the Public:
This is to certify the public gener
ally that the Co-partnership of Rand
& Lawercnce composed of Walter
Rand and N. M.| Lawrence has been
difolved by mutual consent the said
W liter Rand having taken over the
property locatod in Clayton Towsnhip,
known as their country mills and as
s lmed responsibility for all claims ow
nig by that branch of the business;
an*' the said N. M. Lawrence having
taken over the planing mill and veneer
plant at Smithfield, and assumed re
sponsibility for the claims owing by
that brunch of the business.
Any person, firm or corporation
holding claims against the said Rand
& Lawrence will present the same
within six (6) months from dr.to of
this notice or joint liability for the
same will be denied. After the date
of this notice, no bill made by Rand
& Lawrence will be recognized by
either co-partner.
This April 9, 1918.
WALTER RAND,
N. M. LAWRENCE.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified
as Executors on the estate of Robert
I. Ogburn, deceased, hereby notify all
persons havings claims against said
estate to present the same to us duly
verified on or before the 8th day of
March, 1919, or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery; nnd
all persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment.
This f)th day of March, 1918.
MRS. ROXIE OGBURN,
A. CARL OGBURN,
V Yorntnr<i
Willow Spring, N. C.t R. F. D. L
Frank Dupree, Atty.
? T U41
Notice of Registration.
["o the Voters of Smilhfield Township:
Having been appointed Registrar
he Registration books for the purpose
>f registering for Special Tax Elec
tion to be held Tuesday, April 30th,
1918, will be open at the Court House
in Smithfield on each Saturday be
tween March 29th and April 20th 1918.
Days between these dates books will bo
open at the Mayor's office. New reg
istration is required.
J. N. COBB,
Registrar Smithfield Township.
This March 27th, 1918.
STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA DE
I XUTMENT OF STATE.
CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLUTION.
To All to Whom These Presents May
Come ? Greeting:
Whereas, It appears to my satisfac
tion, by duly authenticated record of
the proceedings for the voluntary dis
solution thereof by the unanimous con
sent of all the stockholders, deposit
ed in my office, that the Watson Com
pany, a corporation of this State,
whose principal office is situated in
the town of Kenly, County of John
ston, State of North Carolina, (How
ard Watson being the agent therein
and in charge thereof, upon whom
process may be served,) has complied
with the requirements of Chapter 21,
Revisnl of 190f>, entitled "Corpora
tions," preliminary to the issuing of
this Certificate of Dissolution:
Now, Therefore, I J. BRYAN
GRIMES, Secretary of State of the
State of North Carolina, do hereby
certify that the said corporation did,
on the 5th day of March, 1918, file in
my office a duly executed and attested
consent in writing to the dissolution
of said corporation, executed by all
the stockholders thereof, which said
conscnt and the record of the proceed
ings aforesaid are now on file in my
said office as provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof, I have here
to set my hand and affixed my official
seal at Raleigh, this 5 day of March,
A. D. 1918.
J. BRYAN GRIMES,
Secretary of State.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Under authority contained in an or
der of the Superior Court in the mat
ter entitled Melissa Strickland, Admin
istratrix of G .W. Strickland, deceas
ed, vs. J. H. Strickland, Winnie John
son and other heirs-at-law of G. W.
Strickland, the undersigned Commis
sioners will offer for sale to the high
est bidder for cash at the Court House
door in the town of Smithheld on
Monday, April 29th, 1918, at 12 o'clock
M., the following described land, to
wit:
Being all that land owned by G. W.
Strickland at the time of his death,
located in Ingrams Township, adjoin
ing lands of Arthur Guin, B. K. Lee,
heirs of Julius Allen and others, con
taining ten acres, more or less, and
being one half of that tract conveyed
to the said G. W. Strickland on Feb
ruary 1st, 1911 by W. R. Lee and wife
by deed recorded in Book No. 25, page
367, Johnston County Registry.
This sale is made subject to the
dower interests of Melissa Strickland,
widow of G. W. Strickland.
This March 25th, 1918.
S. S. HOLT,
L. G. STEVENS,
Commissioners.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified as
Administrator on the estate of W. M.
Ives, Sr., deceased, hereby notifies all
persons having claims against said
estate to present same to me duly
verified on or before the 5th day of
April, 1919 or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery; and
all persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment.
This 4th day of April 1918.
ELMER 0. EDGERTON, Admr.
Raleigh, N. C.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having oualified as
Administrator on the estate of Sir
Wm. Beasley, deceased, hereby noti
fies all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to me
duly verified on or before the 22nd
day of March, 1919 or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery;
and all persons indebted to said es
tate will make immediate payment.
This 19 day of March, 1918.
MATTHEW RAYNER, Admr.,
Benson, N. C. Route 2.
Notice of Sale Under Mortgage.
Under and by power of sale con
tained in a certain mortgage deed ex
ecuted by R. F. Smith, and wife, Myr
tle I. Smith, to Johnson Bros., deed
dated May, 27th, 1916, with two notes
due six and twelve months after date,
and recorded in book 78 at page 160 in
the Registers office of Johnston Coun
ty. Default having been made in pay
ment cf the notes secured by same
the undersigned mortgagees will on
Monday, April 22nd, 1918, at 12
o'clock, offer for sale to the highest
bidder for c^.sh, at the Cv.urt house
door in Smithfield, N. C., the follow
ing described property towit:
Beginning at a dogwood in Y. A.
Tarl's lino near the old ford across
Mill Creek and runs S. 2 W 140 poles
to a stake in Henry Smith's line;
thence N. 86 E. 164 poles to a stake*
thence N. 2 E. 160 poles to a black
rrum in Y. A. Tart's line; thence S
8$ W 47 poles to a pine; thence S.
2 W. 20 poles to a s^ake; thence W.
16 poles to the beginning, containing
sixtv-two acres (62) more or less.
Place of sale court house door,
Smithfield, N. C.
Time of sale 12 o'clock, April 22nd,
1918.
Terms cf sale. cash.
JOHNSON BROTHERS
Mortgagees.