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NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE American Acepciotion New York Citv FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 13, 1028 NOT TOO SOON TO HE THINKING— Judge Francis D. Winston of Windsor, announces his candidacy for the legislature upon the following platform: A reduction of the expenses of government by the con solidation of departmints, boards and com missions; support of public schools by state raised taxes or a state-wide uniform system of taxation; reducing the taxes on agricul tural lands; making corporations pay ac cording to the privilege they enjoy; radical overhauling of court system to cut down ex penses and relieve congestion of the dockets. Who wants to go to the legislature from Johnston County upon such a platform? We would predict that lie would get there by a big majority. If every county will send men ttf the legislature with views of this kind, relief from our tax burdens will be forth coming. It is not any too soon to be think ing of our next representatives. The pri mary is only about five months off. — -- ; A recent visitor to our office made the re mark that time passes rapidly. Then, he modified the statement to the effect that time passes rapidly as one grows older. He said he thought the years dragged very slowly until he was twnty-one years of age. He could hardly wait until he would be free. And now, after several decades of “freedom,” he finds that he was only free before he be came twenty-one. Since then has been in bondage. We may not all agree that our mature years are exactly bondage, but we will have to admit that the three hundred forty-six days from now until next Christ mas will pass more quickly for us older peo ple than for the kiddies. CUPID HIT TRUE AT 491 COUPLES IN JOHNSTON LAST YEAR— Despite the fact that 1927 was not a Leap Year, and poor man was unaided in his bashful wooings, wedding bells in the wan ing year rang in married couples, to the tune of four hundred ninety-one in Johns ton County. Cupid aimed at and hit three hundred fifty-nine white couples and one hundred thirty-two colored couples. These figures compiler] from the records in the office of Neil Barnes, register of deeds of Johnston County, are dated from January first 1927 to December 31, 1927. December had it all over the other months despite the fact that June is called the bride s month. A total of eighty-four li censes were secured during this month, six ty-three of which were white couples and twenty-one colored. In June there were on ly a total of thirty-seven licenses issued, twenty-eight for white couples, and nine for negro couples. Just what the extra day in 1928 and the extra michinations of the fair sex will do for such a record is problematical. Only time will tell. If any one doubts that the day ol the country store has passed, let him look up the advertisement of C. H. Brown in this issue and read it. Department stores may take care of various departments. Drug stores may sell nearly everything one can think of. Grocery stores may also have a line of dry goods. But none of them can equal the country store when it comes to carrying a complete line. Automobiles take folks far and wide, but this country store in the city of Pine Level is bidding for them to make them a visit. If they have as unique line of goods as they do line of talk, it will probably be worth while. My Trip To The Quaker City -. By J. N. ROYAL_ Some of the things I saw while visiting my son in and around Phil adelphia were very interesting to me. Perhaps it would be fitting to mention the things which this city lays first claim upon. The first medical school was established there in 1751; the first pleasure grounds in the country were laid out there in 1681; the first hos pital, the Pennsylvania, was} start ed in 1751; the first piano in the country was made in Philadelphia in 1775. To the history of this city also belongs the first bank of North America and the oldest bank now in existence is also there, the Bank of North America, charter er! in December, 1781. The first waterworks, the first weekly news paper, published there in 1728, anJ the first high school were all there. The first Bible printed in Ameri ca was issued in Philadelphia in 17,43 and was in German, and the first complete Bible issued in English was printed there in 1781. The first public library was start ed there in 1731 and is still in fxistonee. promised the readers of the Herald to write of the things I saw and will try now to get to the Subject. I visited the John Wana maker store which claims to be fipt to install floor telephones as part i f the store service; to in augurate the Saturday half-holi flay; t<* inaugurate the whole Sat urday holiday with no loss of va cation to the employees; to use pneumatic cash carrying tubes- to install electric lights; to install the Marconi free delivery by ex press or freight, and to broadcast an organ concert across the At ^iintie ocean. 11 This store, next to the City Hall ^occupies an entire city block ir dhe. heart of the city, covering ar area which is 480 feet long anc 0)0 feet wide. It rises to a height of. 247 feet above the sidewalks -being 12 stories above the ground and two stories below the street The foundations extend 12 feet be low this or 40 feet below the street, ! making: a total height from sub basement floor to roof 281 feet. The total floor area is 45 acres or nearly 2,000,000 square feet, which would nvake a path 250 feet wide and 1 1-3 miles long. The interior is constructed of concrete and marble on a frame of steel. The walls are constructed so that any story could be removed" with out disturbing the other stories. The building is divided into three sections by two fire walls. These three sections are known as Mark er-Central and Chestnut. Openings at three points are provided with double fire doors, which close au tomatically in case of fire. In these walls are spacious fire towers, two on 13 feet and two on juniper, which are as high as the build ing. Each contains two stairways. These are always lighted and open ed and are reached easily from any part of the store. There are fifty passenger elevators locatd in dou ble banks in the fire walls and nineteen freight elevators, all of which are of the plunger type, di rect hydraulic, which means that the plunger-piston travels up and down through a hole drilled through the solid rocks directly under the elevator, to a depth cor responding with the height which the elevator travels. The plunger in each instance rests upon water which it displaces in its descent, and hence cannot fall. Besides these, there are ten electric dumb waiteis from the stock rooms di rect to the selling floors, and four double spiral chutes from the top of the store to the sub-basement. All of these are for the quicker handling of merchandise. Light for the- store is furnished from the outside by means of the gigantic "Wanamaker power plant. Nearby, installed in this plant, are 8,000 horse-power high pressure water tube boilers, 3,500 horse-power 'vertical compound steam engines, two 1,500 horse-power vertical compound steam engines; three high-duty pumps, two steam turbin pumps of a combined capacity of 1(5,000 gallons per minute, a plant consisting of two 75-ton ice ma chines and other machines neces sary to a high class refrigerating Diant. It furnishes cold air for the kitchen and the fur storage vault. The aiir in the lower floors at this store is changed every six min utes, being removed by suction. As fresh air is admitted, all of it comes in through an air wash which removes dust and suspended matter and is also, in winter, pass ed through heating boilers. The floors are heated by direct radia tion and the ventilation is secured by the high and wide windows, high ceilings, and the great air shaft in the center of the stoi*2. The principles for which the store stood over half a century ago still exist today. They are: 1. To have one absolute fixed price plainly marked and not to be changed by argument. 2. To sell only trust worthy goods, labeled truthfully; to sell as wool only which is gen uine wool; to label seconds hon estly even if the people could not tell the difference. 3. To welcome people to th store without urg ing them to buy. 4. To take back purchases that do not prove satis factory and refund the money. 5. To establish fair and agreeable re-1 lations between merchant and cus tomer with confidence and satis- j faction on both sides. While writing of this magnifi- j cent structure I am conscious of. the fact that I am not capable cf | putting this great business in its; proper light and realize that many ! will read this letter, if it escapes j the wastebasket. I will be glad to! wr ite of many other places I vis-1 ited while there, if the editor will give space. J. N. ROYALL, SR. Pine Level, N. C. Renew to the Herald during January and receive a Turner’s almanac absolutely free. The Broadcaster * * * NORTH CAROLINA— The population in 1920 was 2,858,000. Has largest hosiery mills, towel mill, overalls factory, and second largest aluminum plant in the world. Ha.s largest Denim mill, Damask mills, underwear factory and pulp paper mil! in the United States. Has more cotton mills than any state in the Union; is second in the value of cotton manufactures; first, in number of spindle hours; nus more mills that dye and finish their own products than any other Southern state. The University of North Car-1 slina, founded in 1789, is the old-' est State University in America. 1'he State maintains ten other col leges for white and five for col ored. North Carolina lead's the South; in Education. Spent 35 million on public schools in 1926, 34 per cent for new schools—leading the Unit-1 ed States, with New York second.! Duke University at Durham has I the largest endowment of any American college. HarO-sui. faced roads connect 1 practically every county seat and1 principal city in North Carolina;] 7,384.3 miles of state highways. I Spent more on highways in 1926 than any southern state; $125,000,-j 100 in five years. State highways ] are financed, built and maintained out of revenue from auto license | and gas taxes. In 1926, North Carolina ranked i sixth in total value of farm crops (32',,(W0,000). North Carolina leads the Union] in the number of debt-f tee homes., More than four-fifths of its home owners have no debt thereon. Nouth Carolina has a FORD j DEALER in Smithfield, with one! of the most up-to-date garages— ^ equipped in every way to give you , ‘SERVICE THAT SATISFIES.” YOUNG MOTOR CO. Authorized Ford Products “Service is a Pleasure” '28 Phone 168 SMITHFIELD, N. C. -♦— SPECIAL MEETING OF M. E. MISSIONARY SOCIETY The first meeting of the Mis sionary society of the Methodist church is always a special meeting, i At this time the investments of the organization are considered ami {nans ior me year are mace. This year the meeting has an ad ded interest because of the fact that this will be the first meeting of the Jubilee Year. Fifty years ago, the women began to do organ ised mission work, and this whole year will be a celebration of this beginning in the Woman’s Mis sionary Work. The program next Monday af ternoon will be in the hands of Mrs. J. A. Wellons, chairman of the program committee, and she had arranged a very attractive program to which all of the ladies of the church as well as members of the missionary society are in vited. At the beginning of the meeting, Mrs. J. D. Spiers will conduct the prayer league, which has been a feature of the meetings for several months. Rev. D. If. Tut tie will then conduct the devotion al exercise, after which the topic, ‘‘Gifts of the Seven Sabbaths of ^ ears,” will be discussed by Mrs. I.. T. Royal], Mrs. Thel, Hooks Mrs. N. T. Holland, Mrs. Kirby Rose, Mrs. W. J. Massey, Miss Bettie Lee Sanders, Mrs. A. M. Noble, and Mrs. D. E. Earnhardt. Mrs. J. D. Spiers will explain the investments preliminary to taking pledges for the various causes. After the literary program, those present will he invited to the church basement where a so cial hour will he enjoyed. PRINCETON BASKETEERS MAKE GOOD SHOWING The Princeton high school bas ketball team, under Coach Boy ette, is making a good showing this year. Last year his team won the county championship and it hopes to duplicate the feat again. Coach Boyette’s boys have won several hard fought games and are anticipating winning several more. The boys are getting daily work outs now and are working hard for the coming games. The first game points to Friday night, January 13,! when Princeton meets the fast Er-, win team in the Smithfield armory at 7:30 p. m. Tuesday of next week, January 17, Princeton mo tors over to Smithfield for a game! with the fast stepping Dunn team. | This is expected to be a hard j fought contest. Friday night, Jan- i uary 20, the Mount Olive highs! Dr frank Crane Says «Uv»« •*».! The Right Kind of Patriotism A patriotic deed is one which re flects honor and glory upon one’? country. We recognize General Grant, the Duke of Wellington and Napo leon as patriots because they led armed forces of their respective countries. The exploits of Colonel Lind bergh, together with that of Cham berlin and Levine, have glorified the United States. But this glory was not offset by any rancor in curred by other countries. France and Germany were just as enthu siastic in acclaiming the exploits of our fliers as we were. This is the right kind of patriotism nad patriotic action, for it is one which exalts one’s native country ;ar.d at the same time does not awaken animosity in other peoples. Undoubtedly Thomas Edison has glorified his own country quite as much as General Grant. 'On a vote taken in France recently the most popular Frenchman was found to be not Napoleon but Louis Pas te u r. So Darwin and Jenner have done more to exalt the prestige of Eng land than Drake and Wellington. Koch and Goethe have spread the fame of. Germany far more than Von Moltke and Ludenburg, and Marconi and Bellanca have made Italy famous and are entitl ed to the* platitude of their coun try as much as Garibaldi. Tolstoy has done more to spread the renown of Russia than all her warriors. This throws, a welcome light upon true patriotism which is found ir. that harmless rivalry of achieve* ment by the members of the va rious national groups. There is no bad blood in this competition. There is nothing gain ed for one country which is not equally valuable for the whole worlds We are learning that to be a good national is to be a good world citizen, and the applause of man kind is quite as valuable as the applause of one’s fellow citizens. In order to elevate our country and to magnify it, it as no longer necessary to go out and kill some body to annex seme other terri tory; it is better to do something that shall excite both the emula tion and the applause of the whole world. True patriotism consists in mak ing our country stronger and bet ter and not necessarily belittling another country. • come to Smith-field to meet the Princeton boys. January 23, Mon day night, Benson high will journey to Smithfield for a game with Coach Boyett’s boys. These are ex pected to be lively affairs and everybody is invited. Come out and boost your team. Smithfield will probably -be bat tled January 31 and February 9. At this tiime these dates have not been definitely decided upon. Musical Program By Negroes. A mass meeting in the interest of disabled negro veterans of the World war will be held at the First Baptist church, Raleigh, next Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock under the auspices of the Charles T. Norwood Post No. 157. The program will consist of negro spirituals and by addresses by well known men of the state. Through the courtesy of the Dur ham Life Insurance company the program will be broadcast over Station WPTF. The program is given below: Negro National Anthem. Advancing Colors* America. Invocation, Comrade F. Richford Meyers. Selection, (a) “I’ve Done What You Told Me to Do.’’ (b) “Ezekiel Saw the Wheel.”— Trinity Male Quartet. Purpose of Meeting, Lieutenant Lawrence A. Oxley, Vice-Com mander, Department of North Spirituals, (a) “Ain’t Gonna Carolina, American Legion. Study War No More”; (b) “Swing Low Sweet Chariot”— Church Choirs and Audience. Paper, “The Negro Woman’s Contribution to the Winning of the World War”—Miss Louise Latham, Teacher of History, Washington High School, Raleigh, N. C. Music, (a) “You Gonna Reap Just Wlhat You Sow”; (b) “Ev ery Time I Feel the Spirits”— Shaw University Chorus. Address, General Albert L. Cox, Commander, Department of North Carolina, The American Legion. Solo, (a) “Go Down Moses”; (b) “Somebody’s Knocking at Your Door”—Charles Flax. Address, Governor Angus W. McLean. Music, (a) “I’ve Been a Listen ing All the Night Long”; (b) “Band of Gideon”—St. Augus tine’s Music Club. Installation of Officers. Closing, “Battle Hymn of the Republic”—Church Choir and Audience. NATIONAL PROHIBITION ANNIVERSARY JANUARY 16 January 1G will be widely observ ed over the United States in cel ebration of the eighth anniversary of National Prohibition. Historians of future centuries perhaps will plac eJanuary 1G alongside July 4 as an independence anniversary hardly less important in the life of America than the day which we now devote to jubilant celebration of the winning of our national freedom. It is frankly admitted that the Eighteenth Amendment and the State laws to make it ef fective have been in a measure disappointing. A generation of drinkers produced by legalized liq uor of two decades ago will have to die before the fight to defeat the new’ law is weakened greatly. Their appetites cry out loudly and bitterly against the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law. They declare prohibition is a fail ure, that conditions are worse„ihan when liquor selling- and drinking was sanctioned and protected by law. And some believe it, for what absurdities have not been believed in every age! But the facts are overwhelmingly against them, as most honest people admit grate fully. There can be no doubt that most of our loyal Americans are convinced fully that National Pro hibition is a Magna Charta under which slowly we are working out our national salvation from the gi gantic curse of liquor. Shall not Johnston county and all North Carolina $oin the na- ; tion in a great celebration of the , 8th anniversary of national prohi bition? It is fitting in view of the ! bitter fight that will be waged this ] year by the enemies of prohibition with a view to discredit it and ul timately to bring about the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. The friends of temperance and prohibi tion, of order and decency, owe it to a great cause to assert them selves and to declare to all the land their faith in prohibition and their determination to fight till the enemy is silenced and the opposi tion collapses. The pastors of the Johnston Baptist Association in their January meeting went on record as in favor of a due cele bration of this eighth anniversary as a boost to the cause of tem perance and law enforcement in the light of the opposition. Some of the features proposed in the nation-wide celebration of the coming anniversary include: sunrise prayer meetings; Sunday school programs, addresses, and sermons suited to the occasion on the Sunday pceceding, perhaps with a union service on Sunday evening; a general display of flags in homes, on the streets and on public buildings; the ringing of church bells and school bells at a certain hour, and appropriate pro grams in schools and by clubs and social groups, with speeches in theatres and picture houses. Will our community plan something worthy of the occasion? S. L. MORGAN. fREMONT HIGH INVADES SMITHFIELD IN TWO GAMES Tonight the strong Frenjont high quint, champions of the Peanut Exposition, meet in conflict with Coach H. T. Blankenship’s Smith field cagers. Smarting under the recent and close defeat administer ed them in Fremont, the home ,boys are out for revenge and from the way the team has been showing up in practice they are more than likely to get it. Fremont has for its threat and scoring factor the speedy captain, J. Peacock,, and the help of Hooks, center. The men starting the affair for the locals will probably be B. Norton, center; E. Parrish, T. Young E. Uzzle*, R. Parrish or B. Ragsdale and B. Avera. So it seems that we will be able to fight fire with fire. Fremont says, “Wie did it once and we can do it again.” While Smithfield high boys say, “They beat us once, can they do it again? No!! The Smithfield girls and the Fayetteville girls will also clash on this eventful night. The local girls have be-en constantly im proving and are more than likely to turn in a victory to go along with the boys—as the boys are out to win. The girls’ game is called at 7:30 sharp. The second at 8:00 o’clock. The girls line up will probably be as follows: D. Young, L. Biggs, D. Holland, G. Holland, M. Ragsdale, H. Pierce or E. Coates, D. Hooks, M. Pierce, D. Young, D. Holland and G. Holland. Both games will be well worth while as Fremont and Fayetteville both have the strongest teams in their county. -> SEVENTH GRADE MUST HAVE CERTIFICATES The Board of Education at its meeting held here Monday discuss ed the matter of pupils being ad mitted to the high school who have not satisfactorily passed the coun ty seventh grade examinations and been awarded the county seventh grade certificate. The board order ed that in all cases only those who have satisfactorily passed the ex amination and been awarded these seventh grade certificates be ad mitted to the high schools of the county, and that the superinend ents of the several schools be no ified accordingly and advised to check uip students in their hign school and in every case where a student has not passed the exam ination to require him to attend school in the seventh grade until such certificate is received. -* A New Species of Executive. “Wlhat do you do for a living, Mose ?” “Ah manage a laundry.” “What’s the name of your laun dry?” “Liza.” NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the powers contained in a mortgage deed executed March 8, 1927, by Jerry Capps and wife, Mattie Capps, to the undersigned and re corded in the Registry of Johnston 'ounty in Book 217 at page 278, the undersigned will offer for sale at public auction for cash at the courthouse door of Johnston coun ty on Friday, February 3, 1928, at 12 o’clock noon the following de-< scribed real estate, to-wit: \ Situate in Boon Hill township, adjoining the lands of Mrs. W. F. Williams, D. A. Williams and oth ers and described as follows: Be ginning at a stake in the road, T. T. Oliver’s corner, J. H. Wlorley’s corner, and runs with said road S 87 E 45 fjoles to a stake, J. H. Worley's corner; thence N 3 E 95 poles to a stake in T. T. Oliver’s line, J. H. Worley’s corner; thence N 87 W 44Vi poles to a stake in T. T. Oliver’s line; thence with said line S 3W 95 poles to the be ginning, except a 12-acre tract and a 2-acre tract heretofore sold and conveyed off from the above de scribed tract and being the tract of land conveyed to Jerry Capps by J. II. Worley. A deposit of 10 per cent will be required of the highest bidder on day of sale. And the bid will re main open for ten days for raise of bid as required by law. This 2 day of January, 1928. 1). B. OLIVER, trading as W. B. Oliver & Son. PARKER & MARTIN, Attorneys. PUBLICATION OF NOTICE OF SUMMONS NORTH CAROLINA. JOHNSTON COUNTY. In the Superior Court. » Glennie Dale vs. Hubert E. Dale. The defendant above named will take notice that an action entitled as above has been instituted in the Superior court of Johnston couhty by his* wife, Glennie- Dale for an absolute divorce on statutory grounds. The complaint, with a copy of ,the same, has been filed in the office of the Clerk of the Su perior court, and said defendant will take notice* that he is required eo appear and answer said summon within 30 days after the comple tion of the service, to-wit, 30 days from and after Feb. 5, 1928, or to-wit, March 5, 1928, or the plain tiff will ask for a trial of the said action on Wednesday of the March Term 1928 of the Superiro Court of Johnston county. This Jan. 5, 1928. H. V. ROSE, Clerk, Superior Court. F. IT. BROOKS, Attorney. DR. AMQRETTE BLEDSOE of Raleigh announces the opening of an office in the Smithfield Hotel, Smithfield, N. C. Saturday, Jan. 14, 1928 (or the practice of Osteopathy Will be here Tuesdays and Saturdays Announcement— We ha\e purchased J. W. Daughtry’s grocery and meat market and will continue to do business at the same stand near A. C. L. Station, We handle nothing but the best groceries and fresh meats. We deliver to your home. We solicit your business. i PHONE 132 FOR YOUR WANTS Fleming & Talton Smithfield, N. C. Near stalion Hudson-BelkCo. “The Home of Better Bargains” Ladies’ Coat Suits In all the wanted colors and styles $14.95 and $19.75 Ladies’ Spring Coats $14.95 to $24.50 Ladies’ Dresses $9.95 and $14.95
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