?J)c JleMfc. price one dollar per tear. . "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1903. NO. 9. CROP OUTLOOK GOOD. A Season of Good Weather I Brightens Things. The Rainy Weather Set Things Be hind?Crops Have Been Coming | Up Slowly and Stands are Rather Poor. The weekly crop bulletin of the North Carolina section of the Climate and Crop Service for the week ending Monday, May Brd, 190B, says: "The most favorable weather since the opening of the crop sea son prevailed during the week ending May 4th, and the reports of crop correspondents are more encouraging. The cold, rainy conditions characteristic of the season so far ceased with the rain Sunday, April 2(ith, and since then the weather has been dry and warmer. By Wednesday the soil was in lit condition for plowing except lowlands which are still too wet. The mean tem perature averaged 1 degree daily oelow the normal, aud was too low for the best growth at the beginning and end of the week, but the middle of the week was quite warm, and growth of vege tation was stimulated. The nights continue too cool, and j some light frosts occurred with out injuring crops. 1 ne sou is getting into line condition for E lowing in the east, but is rather ard and cloggy in the western portion of the State where light showers on May flrd will prove decidedly beneficial; the ground is still too cool for the best ger mination of seeds, and crops are generally coming up slowly and too poor stands. Plowing and planting made rapid progress during the week, but about two weeks more of favorable weather are needed to enable farmers to catch up with their work. "A large portion of the corn crop was planted, especially on uplands; corn planted early and stands are especially reported! poor; cut worms are doing some damage. Planting cot ton is also proceeding rapidly, but owing to low temperatures the seeds are sprouting slowly, and stands are poor; early planted cotton rotted in the ground, so that much re planting will be necessary; seeds are scarce in some sections. Transplanting tobacco is still uuder way and plants that have already been set are doing fairly well; in the counties growing the most tobacco, along the north ern border of the State prepara tions for a large crop are under way, but plants in beds are not so well advanced. iVhile winter wheat and oats have improved considerably in many counties, the damage by rust and bessiau fly is very apparent and wide spread; some fields of wheat have been cut for feed or plowed over for other crops. Spring oats are doing well, and seeding is nearly completed in Tile west, rros pects for food are good in the eastern portion of the State, fair in the central and poor in the | west, where however, there will be some peaches and plenty of apples. ()f the truck crops in the east peas, cabbages and irish po tatoes are doing well, but beans, cucumbers and melons are poor. Shipments of peas, callages and strawberries continue quite free ly Gardens are improving though much later than usual; j tomato plants are doing fairly well. Some crimson clover and ! rye have been cut for feed, and meadows are generally fine." A Startling Test. To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merritt, of No. Mehoopany, Pa., made a startling test resulting in a won-1 derful cure. He writes, "a pa tient was attacked with violent hemorrhages, caused by ulcera tion of the stomach. I had often found Electric Hitters excellent for acute stomach and liver troubles so I prescribed them. The patient gained from the first, and has not had an attack in 14 months." Electric Hitters are positively guaranteed for Dyspep sia, Indigestion, Constipation and Kidney troubles. Try them. Only|50c. at Hood Bros. POLENTA. On next Sunday morning tbe| 'uneral of Mrs. Amos Coats will be preached at Shiloh by the pas- ? tor of the church. d Miss Mildred Young, oneof our most charming young ladies, af- ^ ter spending a month visiting j t her sister, Mrs. J no. O. Filing-1 ton, of Smithtield, returned home;c the latter part of last week. The cotton crop is nearly all j planted; tobacco is being trans-', planted rapidly, the corn crop,:' however, will be late this year, c the wet spring preventing early '1 planting. Considering the con- j \ tinuous rainy weather are farm- f i rs are fairly up with their crop. 1 Misses Alice and Delphia Bailey, j two of Harnett's most fascinating 1 young ladies, spent last week in i this section visiting their sister, 1 Mrs. A. M. Barber. Theyreturn- \ ed home Sunday by way of Fel- i lowship church, two of Polenta's f young gallants being their es corts. The Sunday School Convent ion ( at Mt. Zion last Saturday was a | success in every particular. The ] attendance was good, the music , tine, the speeches very good. Es- > pecially did Kev. Mr. Adams, of Raleigh, and Prof. Williams, of Clayton, deliver addresses on the Sunday School cause ofgreat 1 Eower. The next convention will 1 e held with Shiloh in October. ' Mr. C. H. JohDson received for}, his f)J? acre tobacco crop last , year the rise of fourteen hundred ( dollars clear of all warehouse charges. He used six hundred pounds of fertilizer per acre. His best tobacco sold for 43 cents, |1 his lowest grade (scrap) for 5% cents. Mr. Johnson has raised : tobacco for several years and 1 has always made a success of it. He does not plant anv cotton at [1 all. The wheat crop will not turn | out much this year. Too wet for it. Typo. FOUR OAKS NOTES. The brick store of J. W. San ders will soon be completed. Mr. Percy Barbour, of Polenta, spent Sunday in this section. Mrs. J. E. Lassiter, of Golds boro, spent a short while here Sunday. i Four more rural mail routes will start out from here in the 1 near future. 1 Miss Mollie Lassiter, of Spilona, spent several days with friends here last week. Several of our young people will attend commencement at Benson this week. The Four Oaks band gave a musical here Friday night which was enjoyed by all who were present. Several of the young people of this place went to Holt's pond fishing Friday, tney report a pleasant time. Mr. J. H. Harbour, of Turling ton Institute, spent Friday and Saturday in this section, return ing to Smithfield Sunday. Reporter. PINE LEVEL DOTS. Robert Ray ar,d family were in town Sunday. Mr. H. I). Hood, of Selma, was in town Monday. Mr. Orie Jones, of Goldsboro, was in town Monday. W. N. Gulley has been very sick. Glad to see him out again. Several of our young people at tended services at l'a? rish Chapel last Sunday. Our town voted on dispensary last Monday and got dispensary by a large majority. We are having fine weather now and farmers are very busy trying to catch up with their work. J. L. Gurley and family, of Sel ma, spent Sunday with their pa rents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Gurley. Little Minnie Cotton, of Golds boro, is spending a few days with her grand parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Gerald. Y. Y. STATE NEWS. A stock company has been ?rgauized at Asheville to exhibit be petrified man found in Heu lerson county. Rev. Dr. Theodore Hratto i, of it. Mary's School, Raleigh, was ast week elected bishop of the liocese of Mississippi. He has lot decided whether he will ac cept. John R. Smith, who won fame n the fusion days as superinten lent of the State prison, was narried in Wayne county last veek to Mrs. Z. Ophelia Craw ord. Smith is (Jo years old and lis bride 61. The Ossipee cotton mills, at bllon College, voluntarily changed ts schedule of hours from <5(5 tours to <50 hours per week, the vages paid employes to remain tnchanged under the schedule or shorter hours work. The second annual debate be fcweed the University of North Carolina and Johns Hopkins University was held in Gerrard Hall, at Chanel Hill, Saturday jvening and resulted in aglorious victory for the boys of the Old North State. iwo prisoners escaped from the convict force at Reidsville in a very mysterious manner Tues day It seems that an umbrella repairer visited the camp, and while there the convicts stole two of his files, which they used and succeeded in liberating them selves. The jailer of Cumberland county, who was indicted last week for keeping the prison filthy and serving a poor quality of food to the prisoners, was tried immediately after the in dictment was found and acquit ted. The sheriff was also indicted but the case against him was nol prossed. Messrs. Womack, (iulley and Rodman, the Code commissio ners, met in Raleigh Friday and organized by electing J udge Womack chairman. Their sala ries, at the rate of $1,500 a year, began on that day. They are allowed $1,500 for clerical assis tance but will i\ot select a clerk for some time. It is found from the collector of internal revenue's books at Raleigh that there is a big in crease in distilling now, The in crease this month over April last year is nearly 30 per cent, and and the alleged cause is that the distillers are making all the liquor they can before the Watts j bill goes into effect two months hence. The supreme court of the State has set May the 27th as the date for the hearing of the appeal in the case of Jim Wilcox, convicted of the killing of NellieCropsey, at Elizabeth City, ftj. C. This i's the second time there has been an appeal in this celebrated case; in the first verdict the sentence having been hanging and the second imprisonment for 30 years. There will be a convention of the North Carolina Farmers' Protective Association at Ral eigh in the buildings of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts on Wednes day, Thursday and and Friday, July 29, 30 and 31. Booms and board will supplied at the college at a cost not exceeding fifty cents a day. Special rates will be granted on all the railroads. Mrs. Rebekah Morrison died at St. Luke's Homeforaged women, at Raleigh Tuesday morning, aged 98 years. For many years she had charge of the kitchen at theOxford Orphan Asylum. Since she became an invalid the Masons have supported her and paid her board at St. Luke's Home. She was always known at Oxford as "Aunt Beckie" and was loved by all the children there. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. R. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 2bc. CLAYTON. Capt. Young was here Satur-j day. Mr. L. F. Austin was here Saturday. Mr. I. W. I)odd is expected to return Sunday. Mr. Ashley Home went to Ral-1 eigh Monday. The Clayton team will play Wendell Friday. Mr. HurbertGriffin, of Raleigh, spent Sunday here. Mr. I). W. Barbour went to Raleigh Monday. Mr. M. G. Gulley went to Smithfield Monday. Rev. C. W. Blanchord preached two able sermons Sunday. Mr. T. A Griffin spent several days with parents recently. Mr. 1). T. Barnes, of near Ral eigh, spent Saturday and Sunday here. Mr. Nick Allen, of Auborn, was a visitor here . Saturday and Sunday. A good many of our people attended the Carnival at Raleigh this week. Mr. R. H. Fussel has moved to the he use recently occupied by Mr. Jesse Hilliard. The Clayton Banking Co's directors held their regular meeting Saturday p. m. l)r. Holland and Misses Alary Myatt and Nellie Morgan of Smitlifield spent Sunday here. The directors of The Clayton Cotton Mill held their regular monthly meeting Saturday a. m. Our town alderman have had the pumns taken out of the town wells and buckets put in instead. VI r. Moncure a prominent traveling salesman, spent Sunday with Mrs. C. W. Carter, his sister in law. Mr. Mallie Cower is opening a first class barber shop in Mr. D. (). McCullers little store house on main street. , The town election has passed with following result. For Mayor, Mr. E. L. Hinton 52 votes. Cor Commissioners, Mr. C. W. worne 53 votes, llr. J. A. Griffin 50 votes, Mr. C. M. Thomas 52 votes. "Yelik." ARCHER DOTS. Mr. V. R, Turley began to weed corn last week. The crews are feasting on the corn which is just coming up. Our Sunday School continues to improve. It now numbers 105. Wish it would rain a little now so we could finish setting tobac co plants. Misses Lillie Barnes and Kittie Gulley, of Clayton, visited Miss Lessie Barnes last week. The Masons who attended the fish fry at the traps Saturday say they found fish in abundance. Misses Elbe Whitley, Hattie Wall and \lmeta Boyett came home from Wendell to spend Sat urday and Sunday. Misses Pat,tie Richardson. Ma mie Baker and Alma Boykin, all of Wake county, spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in this neighborhood. We were glad to see Dr. Blake Baker and Miss Maude Robert son, of Wendell, at White Oak Sunday. The young folks say they expect to pay the visit of the Wendell folks back by at tending their commencement Friday night. B. X. EVERY CHURCH or insti tution supported by voluntary contribution will be given a liberal quality of the Longman & Martinez Pure Paints whenever they paint. Note: Have done so for twenty seven years. Sales: Tens of millions of gallons; painted nearly two million houses under guaran tee to repaint if not satisfactory: The paint wears for periods up to eighteen years. Liuseed Oil must be added to the paint, (done in two minutes). Actual cost then about $1.25 a gallon. Samples free. Sold by our Agents. W. M. Samiers. Smithtield, N. C. General News Items. Snowstorms and excessive cold | in the northwest have caused ] heavy loss in fruit and early vege tables. 1 Paul du Chaillu, the noted; ( traveler and African explorer, died at St. Petersburg last week i, aged sixty-seven years. Stuart Robson the veteran corne lian, died in New York at i age of sixty-seven years after a stage career of tiftv-one years. Nine men were killed and twenty-one hurt by blowing up of Crescent Powder Company's plant near Hollidaysburg, Pa., a few days ago. The Rev. PaulL. Johnston has been dismissed by Columbus, ()., Lutheran church because of dec laration that he had received new Bible revelations. Joseph J. Landger, American; consul atSolingen, Germany, was| given three days' prison sentence i and $7.50 tine for refusal to tes | tify in local suit. Prof. Stephen M. Babcock of University of Wisconsin has i evolved an atomic theory which, if accepted, will prove an explana tion of the law of gravitation. Ten Polish excursionists from , Toledo, O., were killed by fasti : Grand Trunk train at Detroit, Mich., while crossing tracks; thirtv others serinnslv itiinred I - u J ?J Alexander Smith Cochrance, of New York, who has just inherited 114,000,000 and an industry em | ploying 4,800 men, is young, re tiring and a student of sociology One million dollars damage was caused by Pennsylvania j ; forest fires near Bradford; Wat-j sonville reported destroyed and several lives lost; oil wells in danger. Two thousand men and women rioted in Slavonic Roman Catho lic church at .loliet, 111., over factional troubles; police were called and disturbers beaten with clubs. Delphise Camille Bosseau, a Montreal millionaire, was forced | to give up $13,000 to badger game workers after being gagged for twenty-five hours and threat ened with death. Forest fires in Adirondacks north of Utica, N. Y., damaged uncut timber, camps and villages $1,000,000; Hurd saw-mill larg est in United States, destroyed; loss of life unknown. Mrs. William Thaw, mother of the countess of Yarmouth, re cently married in Pittsburg, says daughter's fortune has been! greatly overestimated and does not exceed half a million. G rover Cleveland in a Prince ton, N. J., interview practically intimated that his candidacy for president is in his friends' hands; lie declared himself gratified over! his reception at St. Louis. Japanese foreign office at Yok ohama makes public a report that Russia has evacuated Muk den province in Manchuria; St. Petersburg officials deny submit ting reported treaty to China for signature. Explorer Du Chaillu, who died a bachelor, had twenty-two thousand wives offered to hiin during his fifty years of hunting and adventure in Africa. His life seems to have been a reasona bly definite reply to "the lady or the tiger" query.?Indianapolis Sentenial. Between Friends. Myer?Yes, I had a pretty close call during my reoent illness. At one time I thought of ordering a pair of wings. Gyer?Why didn't you? Wasn't the asbestos factory running?? Chicago News. The most troublesome factors in raising children are Coughs, Colds, Croup and Whoopintr Cough. Anways Croup syrup is the onlv safe and certain cure for these ills. Thousands testify to this and they will so tell you. Try it and help baby to pull through the spring months. I 2octs. BENSON. A nice coat of paint greatly helps a scorched building. J. II. Wheeler will erect another Iwelling at once near the acad suiy. J. II. Woodall and I. B. Hud son returned from Rocky Mount Tuesday. The election here was the quiet est ever known. There was but one ticket. The bell at the Baptist church has parted in twain and goes on the retired list. Miss Sallie Whittenton, of Har nett, is visiting her brother. J. W. Whittenton. A. L. Barefoot has bought I). J. Hill's burnt lot and will be among the first to build. Holmes,Cavenaugli & Co. have bought out J. E. Gregory and will occupy the same store. A runaway horse played havoc with two buggies Saturday and endangered the lives of several citizens who thought they had the right of way. We don't know just how Ral eigh's Carnival compares this week with Benson's school enter tainment, but we are not more than BO miles behind her. Already seven brick buildings are assured and will be built as soon as material can be had. There seems to be great demand and great scarcity of brick. Simon Honeycutt was sum moned to the funeral of his father, Haywood Honeycutt, Tuesday, who is supposed to have drowned, or dropped dead into the pond. Rev. N. H. (iibbs will preach no less than five funerals at Beulah Baptist church next Sunday. The deceased were all members of the same familv, that of J. YV. Hayes, of McKoy, Sampson county. Job's comfortei s have already been to Benson in force and num bers, aud their gratuitous sug gestions, if taken seriously, would arouse the righteous indignation of our people. Suffice it to say that when the town gets ready to break up housekeeping her mem bers will know where to go. EARPSBORO. Mr. Elias Barnes, of Kenly, passed through our section last week. Mr. John Hales and wife, of Clayton, visited relatives near here Sunday. Mr. Carl Hales and sister, Miss Donia, made a trip to Spring Hope last week. Messrs. J. P. Brown and Her bert Hales, of Spring Hope, were in our midst Sunday. Miss Henry Tisdale, of Wake field, visited Mrs. F. G. Fuller Saturday and Sunday. We are sorry to report that Mr. Stephen Driver, who lives near here, is quite sick with pneu monia. Mrs. I. B. Richardson and little son, Luther, returned to their home near here Tuesday after a short visit to relatives in Corinth section. \1 rti Si V Wilrtar rliaH nt. hor home near here Saturday, May 2nd. She was buried at Wat kin's Chapel Sunday. The funer al was preached by Rev. Worlev Creech. A very large crowd was present to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. She was indeed a good woman, and will be missed throughout the community. "Jumbo." Made Young: Again. "One of Dr. King's New Life Pills each night for two weeks has put me in my 'teens' again" writes D. II. Turner of Pempsey town, Pa. They're the best in the world for Liver, Stomach and Rowels. Purely vegetable. Never gripe. Only 85c. at Hood Bros. Drug Store. A package con'aining $10,000 was stoleu by two masked rob bers from United States express agent at Rritt, la., while wuiting 'transfer.

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