' • V>.. V
FOUR OAKS SOCIETY
N. C. — THURSDAY. OCT. 29, 1942.
THREE
CLUB MEETINGS
PERSONALS
ENTERTAINMENTS
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Sherrill are
Visiting relatives in Richmond, Va.
Miss Josephine Lassiter of Louis-
burg College spent the week end at
home.
Wilson Lewis and Pete Moore of
the U. S. Coast Guard, Norfolk, Va.,
spent the week end at home.
Bill Cannady of Chapel Hill spent
the week end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. R. C .Cannady.
Miss Pat Gordon of W. C. U. N. C.
Greensboro, spent the week end with
Mrs. A .W. Parks.
Mrs. C. G. Grady and children
spent the week end in Angier with
relatives.
Mrs. Jim Benson and children of
Princeton, Mrs. Herman Braswell of
Goldsboro, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Bill Eudy.
Mrs. W. J. Lewis, Mrs. R. C. Can-
uady, Mrs. Tryon George and Mrs. S.
E. Sherrill spent Wednesday in
Raleigh.
Mrs. E. L. Pierce visited in Golds
boro Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Daughtry and
daughter of Wilmington visited Mr.
and Mrs. Wilton Adams Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Wood had as
their week end guests. Miss Elizabeth
Wood of Smithfield, Miss Zelda Mae
Wood of W. C. U.’N. C. Greensboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Reid Harris and son,
Vicky, spent the week end at Sea
board. 'i *1*
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Barefoot had as
their week end guests, Mr. and Mrs.
Madison De Young and baby, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Barefoot of Washington,
D. C., Mr. and Mrs. Lexie Barefoot
and baby, Mrs. Wilson Barefoot of
Canton, Mrs. Bruce Denning and
children of Benson.
Miss Louise Lide spent the week
end in Marion, S. C.
Mrs. Norwood Massengill and son,
Billy, spent a few days this week in
Rocky Mount.
Mrs. C. W. Bandy spent Tuesday in
Dunn with her daughter Mrs. Ed
Turnage.
Mrs. I. P. Ray, Mrs. Belle McMillan
and Miss Myrtle McMillan, of Red
Springs and Mrs. O. O. Dukes of
Lumberton spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. P. S. Steed, Jr.
Mrs. Horace Bryant and son,
Sidney of Fayetteville are spending a
few days with Mr. and Mrs. S. M.
Boyette.
Mrs. W. P. Sanders and son, Billy,
and Mrs. J. H .Strickland spent
several days last week in Richmond,
Va.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gibson of
Rocky Mount visited Mr. and Mrs. J.
B. Creech on Wednesday.
Miss Catherine Barbour, of A. C. C.
Wilson spent the week end with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Barbour,
she had as her guest Miss Margaret
Owens of Wilson.
Miss Lollie Cobb and Mrs. T. J.
Cobb spent the weeV; end with rela
tives in Lumberton.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Talton of Hen
derson visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Sanders Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. C. W .Bandy had as
their gues.ts Sunday, Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Greene, FayeH^vdle, Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Turnage, Dunn and Mr. and
Mrs. Bo >ker Lawhorn of Benson.
Mrs. Paul Rasberry of Wilmington
visited Mrs. Hubert Massmgill during
the week end.
M”. and Mrs. Hubert Massengill
and son AHred, and Mrs. W .A Mas
sengill visited in Raleigh Thursday.
— F O —
dismissed with prayer.
The hostess served a salad course
with cookies and coffee.
Mrs. Huber Honored
At Bridge Party
Mrs. Lester Huber, a recent bride,
was honored at a bridge party given
by Miss Mamie Watson on Saturday
afternoon, at the Four Oaks teacher-
age. The teacherage was decora.ted
with lovely fall flowers.
Table prizes were awarded to Mrs.
Wade Stanley, Mrs. Ella Quinn, Mrs.
Tom Sanders, Mrs. G. P. Lynch and
Miss Carrie Myrick. The hostess pre
sented Mrs. Huber crystal in her
chosen pattern.
Refreshmenits consisted of assorted
sandwiches, cheese straws, cookies
and iced coca-colas.
The guests'were: Mrs. Lester Hu
ber, Mrs. Joe Austin, Mrs. R. C. Can
nady, Mrs. J. T. Hatcher, Mrs. Ella
Quinn, Misses Lollie Cobb, Mae Ellen
Johnson, Carrie Myrick. Pearl Lilley,
Lenora Patterson, Chirlie King, Mil
dred Bryant, Louise Lide, and Mrs. G.
P. Lynch of Camp Carabelle, Fla.,
Misses Louise Wood and Dorothy
Davenport assisted with the refresh
ments.
— F 0 —
BEHIND THE
SCENES
American Business
By JOHN CRADDOCK
New York, Oct. 26. — With wider
rationing of scarce commodities, par
ticularly foodstuffs, near at hand, a
loit of belt-tightening is in prospect.
Signs of what is to come already are
evident .Coffee has become a will-
o’-the-wisp. Meat is harder to obtain
and milk shortages are reported in
some areas. Curently, of the food
stuffs, only sugar is being rationed.
But others will follow, say Washing
ton reports—as soon as the necessary
machinery can be established. Meat
rationing has been promised — two
and a half pounds a week to a person.
In fact, some cities are experiencing
it with meatless days in restaurants.
Thus a swing from abundance to
scarcity is taking place .Although
there’s little likelihood of the nation
going hungry on the war-time diet
that’s taking form, one thing is cer
tain: the dinner plate isn’t going to
look the same.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES — In
Williamstown, Mass., the .town office
of “Measurer of Wood and Bark,”
dating back to Colonial days, has
been revived. Its function: .to decide
questions arising from persons seek
ing firewood on nearby mountain
slopes to warm oil-rationed homes...
Bond Stores, Inc., one of the largest
men’s clothing chains in the country,
has entered the women’s apparel
field.
PRE-FABRICATED CITY — Gov
ernment housing authorities have
come up with one answer to the
serious problem of finding homes for
the thousands of workers pouring
into war plants in every part of .the
country. It is the pre-fabricated, de
mountable homes which is proving an
efficient solution .to providing work
ers and their families with every liv
ing comfort. A city of these pre-fa
bricated homes is nearing completion
at the Kingsbury ordnance plant near
La Porte, Indiana. Over two thousand
homes, from one to three-bedroom
capacity, already have been erected.
Others, in addition to stores and a
hospital, are to follow. But there’s
more here than just a story of how
these modern type homes are filling
the bill. That’s the story of how one
industry, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass
Company, converted part of the peace
timefacilities of its Ottawa, Illinois,
plant to aid the government 'in the
war effort by building pre-fablicated
homes. The big Toledo glass firm is
now producing these homes in volume
—proof tha.t American industry can
do just about any job asked of it.
WOMEN — The old saying that
woman’s place is in the home may
well have been true in grandmother’s
day, bu.t times have changed. Today,
with the manpower problem daily be
coming more acute, women are leav
ing the kitchen and office for the as
sembly line to aid in turning out .the
huge quantities of war material
needed to fight a global vcar effec
tively. A Bureau of Census survey
discloses .that the feminine army in
the factory and on the farm is grow
ing by leaps and bounds. Some 14.-
300,000 women were at work, in
August, a gain of 2 100.000 over
August, 1941, comprising 15 per cent
of agricultural employment, nearly 30
per cent of nonagricultural employ
ment.
Nowadays women can get a job in
shipyard or in the lumbering in
dustry. They are replacing men in
railroad yards and as drivers of
trucks, busses and trolley cars. The
Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock
company recently let down the bars to
eight of their number for work in the
yards. At the Pennsylvania Railroad’s
Sunnyside yards on Long Island there
are several feminine crews. A drive-
REV. N. W. HARRISON
Republican Candidate for
House of Representatives
away concern employs some to drive
big trucks, which haul Army trucks,
jeeps and ambulances from Detroit to
eastern cities. At the huge Ravenna
ordnance plant, operated by Atlas
Powder Company, more than a third
of the workers are women. The air
craft field and the now converted
auto industry are large employers of
women. The gap they are filling in
industry as the armed forces reach
deeper into labor’s ranks is recogni
tion of the grand job they are doing.
COMMANDOS — America’s scien
tists and engineers are apt
be
modest workers who prefer the quiet
of their laboratories to public acclaim
and who, therefore, are often over
looked when citations for distinguish
ed service are made. But .the other
day they were paid fitting tribute as
“commandos of the home - front
battle.” In an address dedicating Olin
Hall, Cornell University’s new chemi
cal engineering building, John L.
Collyef, president of the B. F. Good
rich Company which established the
first rubber research laboratory 49
years ago, said: “Neither millions of
men nor billions of dollars could be
thrown into the war effort effectively
until these first ‘commando’ attacks
of scientists had been successful. Our
accuracy in bombing, our protection
against surprise raids, our detection
of enemy submarines — these are a
few of the contributions of commando
raids by American scientists against
stubbornly resisting ‘frontiers.’ ”
BITS O’ BUSINESS — The cos.t of
living in the United States jumped
one-half of one per cent in September
over August levels, according to .the
National Industrial Conference Board
... War is gradually cutting into one
of the country's biggest hobbies,
photography, with Eastman Kodak
Company rationing some photograph
ic film supplies for civilians. .. Net
sales of General Electric Company for
.the first nine months increased 38
per cent over the same period in 1941,
but net'profit dropped from $37,471,-
608 to $30,710,499, while federal taxes
rose from $82,000,000 to $139,000,000.
NOTICE!
North Carolina, Johnston County
In the Superior Court
James Robert Hughes
Versus
Alma Hales Hughes.
The above named defendant, Alma
Hales Hughes, will take notice that
an action entitled as above has been
commenced in the Superior Court of
Johnston County, North Carolina, by
James Robert Hughes, plaintiff, in
which plaintiff seeks an absolute di
vorce from the defendant; and the de
fendant will further take notice that
she is required to appear at».the office
of the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Johnston County, at the Court House
in Smithfield, North Carolina, on the
21st day of December, 1942, and an
swer or demur to .the complaint filed
in said action, or the plaintiff will ap
ply to the court for the relief demand
ed in said complaint.
Dated this 22nd day of October.
1942.
H. V. ROSE, Clerk of the Superior
Court of Johnston County.
Birth Announcement
Mr. and Mrs. Wade Massengill an
nounce the birth of a daughter, Annie
Rhodes, on Sunday, October 18, 1942.
at their home in Four Oaks.
— F O —
Missionary Society
Meets With Mrs. Keene
The Woman’s Missionary Society
of the Four Oaks Baptist Church met
Tuesday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. Louis Keene.
The meeting was opened by sing
ing “The Light of the World Is
Jesus,” after which “The Lord’s
Prayer” was repeated in unison. Mrs.
R. C .Cannady gave .the devotional. In
the absence of the program leader,
Mrs. J. W. Sanders took charge.
Those taking part on the program
were, Mrs. Wade Stanley, Mrs. Alton
Massengill, Mrs. J. R. Jones, Mrs. B.
B. Creech, Mrs. C. tl. Grady Mrs D.
H Sanders, after singing “Am I A
Soldier of .Ihe Cross,” Mrs. T. J. Cobb
Spurgeon Creech
County Auditor
For
To the Voters of Johnston County:
I am a candidate for the office of County Auditor at the
coming election on November 3, 1942. As ft is impossible to visit
the various sections of the county and personally contact the
people, I am writing this letter to solicit your support, and assure
the voters that I will appreciate their support, and to assure them
that, in the event of my election, that I will give my best efforts
to an efficient and impartial performance of the duties of the
office.
As to my qualifications, I am a graduate of King’s Business
College, Raleigh, N. C., and since graduation, I have had at least
fifteen years experience. I am a grandson of the late Worley
Creech, a Missionary Baptist Minister, a son of the late Kirkman
Creech, and am, myself, a Minister of said church, and at present
engaged in the Ministry and in farming.
This October 14, 1942.
C. S. (Spurgeon) CREECH
Kenly, N. C., R. F. D.
FARM
Questions - Answers
QUESTIONS: What is a good ma
terial to use as litter in the poultry
laying house ?
ANSWER: A good litter must keep
the floors both warm and dry during
the winter months. Materials found
'best for this purpose have been shav
ings, dry sawdust, chopped hay or
straw, and shredded cane. In a limit
ed number of cases, ground corn cobs
have also been found a good material.
Each mentioned will absorb moisture
and warm the floor.
tified in any larger quantity only on
crops giving a relatively high return,
such as .tobacco and truck crops.
HELPLESS
Where there is no family labor,
small dairymen of Forsyth County
are practically helpless in securing
help to keep their dairies going, re
ports Farm Agent R. W. Pou.
MORE PIGS
Stanly County farmers are increas
ing their herds of swine, despite the
farm labor shortage and are handling
the situation by building self-feeders
and growing more barley to replace
REWARD I
TRAPPERS
QUESTION: What are some of the
best woods for smoking beef ?
ANSWER: Hickory and oak, al-|
though practically all of the non-'
resinous woods are satisfactory, par
ticularly .the hardwoods. Dried beef
should be smoked 70 to 100 hours at
a temperature of 125 to 160 degrees.
Fahrenheit. After smoking, .the dried
beef may be wrapped in heavy paper
and then slipped into a heavily starch
ed flour sack and hung up in a well-
ventilated room.
QUESTION: How should-weather
cotton be handled
ANSWER: In the first place, grow
ers should not attempt to harvest cot
ton that has been beaten out on the
ground, sprouted, and begun to root.
The important, thing however, is .tq
take cotton to the gin as dry as pos
sible. Also, if possible, the co.tton
should have the cleaning effect of
four beater rolls to remove sand and
soil stain. Seed from storm-damaged
cotton should be kept separate from
the better grades.
QUESTION: Is it possible to re
move fish odors from wooden kegs?
ANSWER: Fish odors are exceed
ingly difficult to remove from wood,
especially if the fish brine has stood
in the keg for any great length of
time. There is no absolutely positive
Way of removal, but one of the most
successful methods is to steam the
keg, then wash it with a fairly s.trong
B-K solution. After the keg has dried
thoroughly, recoat the inner surface
with melted paraffin. Even with this
treatment, it is not always possible
to remove the odor.
QUESTION: How much salt should
be used in curing pork ?
ANSWER: E. V. Vestal, animal
husbandry Extension specialist, says
it was. once a common belief that 50
pounds of salt were necessary for
curing a 250-pound hog. Now it is
realized there is no need to waste
that much salt, and, in addition, the
meat will cure out too salty for good
eating. Last year. Vestal said, he
used 7 pounds of salt, 2 pounds of
brown sugar, and 2 ounces of salt
peter per 100 pounds of pork and got
excellent cured meat.
®7,590.00 in Cash Awards!
Trappers! This season is your big oppoi
tunity! Fewer men on the trapline means
a bigger catch for you. Big prices and ,
awards through Sears, too! 600 added
awards! 942 in all—^raising the total in
cash awards to $7,590.00 for carefulpi It
handling in Sears 14th National Fur
Show. ■
Think! 918 daily awards! $1,000.00^
First Major Award! Other big major
awards besides. And'a//of them in addi
tion to the TOP market prices Sears-
Roebuck gets you for your pelts. Only
handling of fur counts, hot kind or value
of skin. So you may easily be a winner!
Win your share of these extra: fur
dollars! Every pelt you ship to' Sears-
Roebuck during the Fur Show period
is automatically entered, so don’t delay.
Skip your furs as soon as they’re
ready to SEARS-ROEBUCK, Raw Fur
Marketing "Service, Philadelphia.
Men’s
I
Suits
\ > S
*,
4/' 4\ An
f i; '^,1
1 'ti
For every occasion,
just received this
week. New shipment
hardfinish materials,
all new colors and
styles.
Let us help you.
$15.95 TO *
$27.50
QUESTION: Is the use of cotton
seed meal, soybean meal, and peanut
meal to be encouraged in mixed fer
tilizers now that nitrogen is short ?
ANSWER: Supplies of these vege
table meals are much greater this
year .than ever before, and their use
in fertilizers should be encouraged
where economic conditions justify.
The cost of nitrogen from these
sources is now approximately $4 per
unit greater .than that from inorganic
sources, and at this price can be jus-
Overcoats
, Excellent values in
green, tan, tweeds,
navy.
$14.50 $19.50
Efird’s Department Store
311 - 313 W. MARKET ST.
SMITHFIELD, N. C.
Facts Speak For Themselves I
Below is shown prices some producers have received on their cotton
in the Government Loan at our Warehouse:
Matthews & Coats
1 BALE . $26.31
1 BALE $23.16
1 BALE $24.91
1 BALE $20.26
1 BALE .. $19.71
W. H. FLOWERS
1 BALE $23.16
1 BALE $20.26
1 BALE $19.26
Buy U. S. War Bonds
Beddingfield &
Horton
1 BALE $23.16
2 BALES $24.91
3 BALES . $20.26
1 BALE $19.71
R. L RAY, Jr.
1 BALE
$23.16
G. W. Barham
1 BALE
$23.21
Get a Government Loan on your cotton at our Warehouse where you
get the full value of the grade and staple of your cotton and where you
get the advantages of good grades, good weights, 3 per cent interest
and lower storage rates.
FARMERS COTTON WAREHOUSE, INC.
On the Railroad
On Truck Lane
SMITHFIELD, N. G.
4.