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VOL. 22. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1903. NO. 12
STATE NEWS.
The town commissioners of
Nashville, Nash county, have re
fused to grant license to sell
liquor.
The State Anti-Saloon League
has called a State temperance
convention to meet in Raleigh
July 7.
An ejection has been called for
June 20th on the question of ex
tending the corporate limits of
Raleigh.
Rebecca Grimes, colored, said
to have been 100 years old on
the 10th of February, died in
Asheville last week.
The Bank of Jonesboro has
been incorporated with If 12,500
capital, R. M. Nelson and oth
ers incorporators.
The Breeze is the name of a
new weekly paper just started at
Hendersonville, with Mrs J. M.
Ransier editor.
The Carolina Steel Bridge and
Construction Co., with a capital
paid in of .$100,000, has begun
business at Burlington.
John Hardy Rano, an old man
living near Canton, in the western
part of the State, was struck by
lightning and killed Saturday.
Annie Grass, 10 years old, was
burned to death at, her home in
Charlotte IVednesday. She used
kerosene to start a fire and the
can exploded.
Chief Justice Walter Clark has
accepted an invitation to ad
dress the Virginia State Bar As
sociation August 22nd at Hot
Springs, Ya.
Ry a majority of two Clinton
voted Tuesday of last week, for a
graded school. Sixty-nine votes
were cast for the school and six
ty-seven against.
The Southern Music Teachers'
association and the Northern
Music Teachers' association will
meet at Asheville during the lat
ter part of June.
A small boat containing sever
al negroes en route to Edenton,
Chowan county, was Wednesday
capsized near Edenton and two
of them were drowned.
Dr. W. C. Weaver, ot Ruther
ford College, has been elected
?resident of Davenport College,
,enoir, vice Rev. R. C. Craven,
who will re-enter the work of the
ministry.
Fire at Louisburg Thursday
destroyed eight business houses,
including the hotel, bank and
postotfice. The origin of the fire
is unknown. The loss is esti
mated at $50,000.
Bishop Haid, of the Catholic
church, stated recently that
North Carolina had the smallest
Catholic population of any State,
only one-fourth of one per cent.,
but the faith is spreading.
Ex-Associate J ustice Charles A.
Cook, or Warrentou, savs that
he and his family have arranged
to move to Muskogee, Indian
Territory, to live. They leave
North Carolina next month.
The condition of representative
H. B. Parker, Jr., of Goldsboro,
who was injured in the Southern
railway wreck, is now steadily
improving] and the physicians
think that he will be out this
week.
The Marlboro Fruit Company,
of Gibson, with D. D. McCall as
secretary and treasurer, and Z,
T. Pearson, president, will plant
94,000 peach trees, mostly ol
the Elberta and Cremen varieties
A Startling Test.
To save a life, Dr. T. G. Merritt
of No. Mehoopany, Pa., made e
startling test resulting in a won
derful cure. He writes, "a pa
tient was attacked with violent
hemorrhages, caused by ulcera
tion of the stomach. I had ofter
found Electric Bitters excellem
for acute stomach and livei
troubles so I prescribed them
The patient gained from the first
and nas not had an attack in 1-1
months." Electric Bitters %r<
positively guaranteed for Dyspep
sia. Indigestion, Constipatioi
and Kidney troubles. Try them
Only 50c. at Hood Bros.
General News Items.
The Pacific cable has been suc
cessfully landed at Guam.
May cotton closed Monday at
11.52; August at 10.75, and De
cember at 0.36.
The "bulls," Drown & Sully
and others say that cotton has
not yet reached its top notch.
Topeka, Kan., May 22.?A tor
nado at Clay Centre tonight kill
ed two girls and injured others.
Half the town is reported blown
away.
The acting secretary of the
navy has directed the final ac
ceptance of the torpedo boat de
stroyer Dale, built by the Trigg
company of Richmond.
The permanent treaty between I
the United States and Cuba, in
which is incorporated all the
provisions of the Piatt amend
ment, was signed t rid ay after
noon.
The celebration of the 250th
anniversary of New York's estab
lishment under special charter
was beguu on Sunday in the
churches and will continue
throughout the week.
Paul Dlouet, (Max O'Rell,) the
author and lecturer, died in Paris
Sunday. He had been ailing for
several months, and, in fact, had
never been really well since he
was operated on in New York
l ?_ e i! _!i.'
last year ior papeuuicius.
Superintendent Baker, of the
anti-saloon league, of Ohio, re
ports that there are now as manv
churches as saloons in the Buck
eye State. In the cities the sa
loons run far ahead, but the
country districts quite make up
the deficiency in churches.
John D. Rockefeller will give
$50,000 to the Washington
Young Men's Christian Associa->
tion. The gift is conditioned on
the completion of a canvass for
$300,000 ior the association be
fore January 1, 1904. The
amount contributed thus far is
j raised by the Rockefeller sub
scription to $210,000.
One section of Montana is
eaten by locusts while another is
under three feet of snow. A dis
I trict forty miles square east of
Forsythe is pestered by the
Bocky Mountain grasshopper,
which has eaten up everything.
Cattle have to be removed from
j the infested sections as there is
nothing for them to feed on.
The Houston Chronicle Sunday
severely criticised W. J. Bryan
and came out squarely for United
States Senator J. W. Bailey for
Democratic nominee for Presi
dent. Among other things the
editorial says: "Bailey is conser
vative and sound, advocates no
vagaries and is not influenced by
the clamor of the demagogue or
the screech of the theorist. He
will some day be the party's lea
der and will win where Bryan
lost."
PINE LEVEL DOTS.
Mrs. Phebe Brown coutinues
very ill.
Lafayette, little son of Mr. and
Mrs. N- A. Jones, died Sunday.
Mr. Alex. Rae, of South Caroli
na, is visiting his brother, Mr.
James T. Rae.
Mr. T. T. Oliver died Thurs
day and his son, John, died Sat
( urday following.
Mr. James and Miss Bessie
j Woodard spent Sunday with
[ Mrs. Ida Woodard.
Miss Mamie Creech spent Sat
1 urday night ar.d Sunday with
Mrs. Fred B. Oliver.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Baugbtry
? spent Sunday with their brother,
k Mr. Ira Pilkington.
Mr. and Mrs. John Denning
" spent Sundav with their sister,
: Mrs. W. H. Gurlev.
, Mr. J. B. Edgerton, of Golds
. boro, spent Monday with his sis
r ter, Mrs. C. D. Oliver.
Mrs. Ray Phillips spent Sunday
in the country with her daughter,
i Mrs. J. W. Strickland,
e Rev. John W. Gardner, of
- Goldsboro, preached the funerals
11 of Mr. Pool and Mr. Silas Little
. [ Sunday at Bethany church.
Y. Y.
UNLUCKY TO MARRY IN MAY.
Some of the Superstitions That Are
Advanced by Knowinq Ones.
Nothing makes a woman so su
perstitious as being in love.
When she gets engaged, that
only makes matters worse, and
when the time rolls round for the
marriage day, she bumps up
against a whole battalion of su
perstitions that attach them
selves to weddings, and some of
which cling to those who profess
skepticism. You don't nd many
girls getting married on the thir
teenth day of the month. They
may not believe the day of the
week can effect their future hap
piness, but thev will choose so
called lucky days in preference to
others. Saturday is a day of lll
omen and Wednesday is the day
of all others to select. !
As to the months, May is pro
verbially regarded as an unlucky
month in which to marry. April
would not be April without its
Easter brides, and June even out
rivals it in popularity as a month
for weddings. But most brides
shun May.
The old rhyme runs:
Marry when the yeur is new,
Always loving, kind and true;
When February birds do mate
You may wed, nor dread your fate.
If you wed when March winds blow,
Joy and sorrow both you'll know.
o......
iii^X|7tn niicu juutun,
Joy for niaideu and for wan;
Marry in the month of May,
You will surely rue the day; j ,
Marry when June roses blow, ! <
Over land and sea you'll go.
They who in July do wed
Must labor always for their bread; ,
Whoever wed in August be,
Many a change are sure to see.
Marry in September's shine,
Your living will be rich and fine.
If'in October you do marry,
Love will come, but riches tarry;
If you wed in bleak November,
Only joy will come, remember;
When December's snows fall fast
Marry, and true love will last.
You may scoff at all this as ut
ter nonsense, but it may surprise
you to hear that the superstition
that May is an unlucky month in
which to set married is nineteen
hundred years old. Ovid, the;
poet of Home, of the time of
Christ, alludes to it.
The superstition has been
handed through ages, and in
many countries.
In the north of England there
is an old proverb:
Marry in Mav
And rue the day.
In Scotland they have very
much the same saying:
Marry in May,
Rue for ave.
a minister's warning.
An old Scotch minister warned
his hearers that "the girls are all
stark mad that marry in May."
Truly heroic was the Scotch
couple who would defy the declar
ation that
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Baith bride and groom won't
long be seen.
Even Sir Walter Scott was not
free from superstition regarding
the unlucky character of May as
a hymeneal month, for we read
how he hurried away from Lon
don that his daughter's wedding
might take place before the ap
proach of the inauspicious month.
On the morning of the fateful
marriage of Mary Queen of
Scots to Bothwell, on May 15,
1565, a quotation from Ovid re
garding the ancient superstition
was found fixed upon the gate of
Holyrood palace.
May was likewise in bad rebute
among the lovers of France.
There are a uumber of French
sayings alluding to this belief.
LUCKY AND UNLUCKY DAYS.
Another queer old superstition
once cherished was "the day of
the week on which the 14th of
, May happens to fall is esteemed
unlucky all the remainder of the
year; none marrv or begin any
business on it." This suggests
that there was a time when belief
was firm in lucky and unlucky
days. One of the Saxon chroni
cles mentions no fewer than twen
ty-four unlucky days in the year.
I Another specifies six certain dayB
i? being bad, not only for killing
nan or beast, eating goose, but j
ilso for a child to be born; while
mother names particular days'
n the mouth of April and May in
vhich we ought to be bled, if we
vish to avert fever, gout and
jliuduess. An old astrologer as
lerts, with the placent positive
iess which is so characteristic of
liese prophetic authorities, that I
die angel Gabriel revealed to Jo
leph that there are twenty-eight i
lays in the year decidedly good
or bleeding, purging, curing
vounds, trading, sowing, build- 1
ng, traveling and fighting bat- (
des; children born on either one 1
>f these days will never be poor;
ind children put to school on '
hese days will become apt schol
irs. 1
Coming more particularly to
he lucky and unlucky days on 1
vhich to be married, the blackest
lay in the year is Innocents'
lay, December 28?the day on
vhich 1 he children of Bethlehem
vere massecred by order of King
Herod. It was also considered
jnlucky to put on a new suit, cut
rne's nails or begin anythingon
Innocents' or Christmas day.
Indeed so black was the anniver
sary accounted that it was once
thought that whatever day of
the week soever it lighted upon,
that day of the week was by as
tronomers taken to be a cross
day all the following year.
don't mabby on fbiday.
An ancient legend telle that one
reason why it ie not good to get
married on Friday ie that Adam
and Eve ate the forbidden fruit
on Friday and they both died on
Friday.
iNo couple chooeee to marry ex
cept with a growing moon and
tome even wish for a flowing
tide?runs an old, old supersti
tion.
Maybe as you have read this
article you have discovered that
you have violated some of these
unwritten rules of superstition.
If so, don't worry, because one of
the comforting things you will
discover if you delve among the
musty lore on the subject is that
what one prophet predicts, an
other frequently flatly contra
dicts. You can even find an old
calendar of 1055, that recom-!
mends among days "good to
marry, or contract a wife (for
then women will be fond and lov
ing,) the 2nd, 4th, 12th, 20th
and 23rd of May." So that if;
you are thinking of getting mar
ried in May go ahead. Trust to
Cupid's arrow, which is far more
to the point than a mere flimsy
thread of superstition.?Wash
ington Post.
(HcKOY NOTES.
Wedding bells are ringing in!
this section.
We are sorry to learn that Mrs.
C. B. Johnson is quite sick.
Mr. Julius Barefoot continues
quite sick with rheumatism.
Mr. J. T. l>ee, of Benson, spent
Sunday night in this section.
We are glad to note Mr. D. D.
I-.ee is improving after a spell of
fever.
A severe hail storm passed
through parts of this section last
Sunday.
Mr. Rosmal Smith, ^of Rome,
spent last Saturday night in this
section.
Miss Ora Chester Lee, who has
been attending Turlington Insti
tute. returned home last week.
Mr. James W. Lee, of Fayette
ville, spent last week with his
farents, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis
iee.
Mr. Flay Wagstaff and Miss
Hawkins .Johnson spent Sunday
afternoon visiting relatives and
j friends in Sampson.
Misses Azubah Lee and Isabella
'Johnson, of this section, Bpent
last Saturday night with Miss
Nora Eldridge, of Glenwood.
Patrick.
Why suffer pain and severe
sickness from Bowel Complaints,
when Arnold's Balsam stops one
and cures the other. It has been
successfully used for fiftv years.
Warrantee! to give satisfaction
or money refunded by Hood
Bros., SmithBeld, N. C. 2
CROP OUTLOOK GRAVE.
THERE IS A PRACTICAL SUSPEN
SION OF ALL FARM WORK.
Raleigh Had the Longest Period of
Drough on Record This Being
Twenty-three Days.
The Weekly Crop Bulletin, of
the North Carolina Section of
the Climate and Crop Service of
the Weather Bureau for week
sliding Monday, May 25, 1903,
3ays:
Over a large portion of the
State severe drought continued
to prevail during the past week,
and the prospects for crops has
become extremely grave. In many
counties, especially in the cen
tral-west portion, no appreciable
rain has fallen for nearly four
weeks, and on account of the
small size of the plants and their
inability to withstand drought,
present conditions may prove to
be very disastrous. At Raleigh
the number of consecutive days
without rain was 23, the longest
period of drought on record.
Where no rain occurred the great
increase in temperature which
otherwise would have been very
favorable, served only to inten
sify the drought. Conditions
began to be favorable for local
thunder showers about the 21st,
and since then in some dozen
cmeny eastern counties irregul
arly distributed showers have
fallen, generally in amounts quite
inadequate, only two places,
Lumberton and Ualeigh, receiv
ing over an inch. The small
amount of rain that did occur
was very beneficial. The tem
perature averaged over 10 de
grees above the daily normal, the
maximum exceeded 00 degrees
during the last half of the week,
reaching an extreme of 00 degrees
at Marion. Every day was warm
and sunny. The drought has
caused the practical suspension
of all farm work, as the soil is in
bad condition. For the time of
the year crops are generally quite
small and inferior.
Early planted cotton is being
chopped out, and this work is
nearly completed in the south
portion; much cotton is not yet
up, and it is feared that seeds
have started to germinate and
have subsequently perished in
in the hot, dry soil; planting is
not finished, and necessarily
stands are poor; the growth of
cotton that is up has been slow,
and in some sections plants are
drying. Com is iu somewhat
better condition, early planted
and weli cultivated fields are
doing very well, though suffering
for moisture; late planted is ir
regular, much is not up, and
considerable replanting must
still be done: worms are doing
some injury; growth of corn is
also slow. Tobacco could not
be transplanted this
week except by watering,
and very little of that work vfras
Hnnn P.arlv t m nanism fori tn.
bacco has a fair stand, but many
plants are buttoning low, and
the drought has caused some
plants to run up to seed. Wheat
and winter oats will give a fair
yield in many counties, in others
i both crops are nearly a failure;
spring oats are deteriorating
' rapidly; cereals are now in bloom
but heads cannot fill well without
more moisture. Digging and
shipping Irish potatoes are under
way in the east, with short yield
? of fair quality; in the west po
tatoes are up and being injured
by the Colorado beetle; sweet
potato slips are not growing
well. Pastuies are becoming
parched; gardens are suffering
and the outlook for fruit is less
1 promising.
Quick Arrest.
J. A. Gulledgeof Verbena, Ala.
was twice in the hospital from t
severe case of piles causing al
tumors. After doctors and 24
remedies failed, Ducklen's Arinci
Salve quiekly arrested further iu
flammation am'curedit. Itcon
quers aches and kills pain. J.Tc
at Hood Bros., Druggists.
; ?'
You will find nice Dress Shirt
! and Ties at Yelvi igton's Store
CLAYTON.
Sheriff Ellington was here Tues
day.
I)r. J. A. Griffin wentto Raleigh
Monday on business.
Mr. Ashley Home returned
Monday irom New Orleans.
Mr. M. G. Gulley is a grand
juror in the Federal Court this
week.
There's a visitor at Mr. .John
S. Barnes'. She's one week old
Thursday.
Mr. I. W. Dodd traded horses
five or six times Monday. Seems
like old times.
The old soldiers will have a re
union and picnic Friday, May
20th, a^Liberty i'ark.
Mr. A. J. Barbour went to
Portsmouth, Va., Monday. He
is now at Wilson, N. C.
Every lady should see the
fashion sheet that Jno. S.Barnes
& Co. are giving away.
Mr. I. S. Bagwell went to
Greensboro Sunday. He bought
a big line of dry goods Monday.
The Baptist Sunday School is
planning an excursion for the
near future. Watch for announce
ment.
Miss Berta Walker, a hand
some young lady of Mt. Olive, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. R. H.
Fussed.
Mr. John v\ . Hales left Wednes
day for Hot Springs, Arkansas,
where he will be treated for rheu
matism.
The readers of The Herald in
Clayton wish to thak the pub
lishers for the interesting story
"The Mystery of (iraslov which
is being given us.
Don't forget the commencement
of Clayton School, beginning
Sunday, May illst, sermon by
Rev. C. W. Blanchard, pastor of
Baptist church, at the High
School auditorium. The regular
nights are Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday. Baseball
Thursday and Friday.
Lightning struck the cotton
ware house at the cotton mill
and burned considerable cotton
before it was extinguished. The
loss is estimated at about 50
bales out of 800. Mr. Joe T.
Barnes' barn was struck and all
his feed and two fine mules were
burned, loss about $1,000. Mr.
M. M. Gulley's barn was struck,
no damage.
"Yelir."
SANDERS CHAPEL.
Mr. C. S. Powell is at Raleigh
this week on business.
Mr. George Whitley, of the
Avery's Mill section, visited in
the neighborhood Saturday and
Sunday.
The happiest man at present is
Mr. Condary Godwin?it is a boy.
The next happiest is Mr. Will
Smith?it is a girl, and a week
old.
Messrs. Aurelius and Egbert
Jones, accompanied by their
beautiful and accomplished sis
ters, Misses Althea and Effie,
were guests in the community
Saturday and Sunday.
The first picnic of the season
was held at High Banks last Sat
urday. The program of boat
riding. fishing, mosquito-fight
ing, flirting, courting, and eating
dinner was well carried out.
Quite a number of our young
people attended T. I. commence
ment. Many went away weeping
I and disconsolate for the Turling
; ton Institute that is gone, but
; feel that they can see something
; "almost as good" in the future
; Turlington Graded School.
' After cracking his heels on the
streets of New Orleans while the
reunion was in session, Mr. C. S.
Powell returned home Monday,
bringing with him a pair of very
? tired and worn-out feet, but
| happy ia the thought that he
. was with the boys during the
four years of strife, and could
' again grasp some of his old com
rades by the ham! and exchange
a hearty "God bless anil keep
' you."
W. G. Yelviugton's Store is the
s place to buy nice Kress Goods
?. J and Shirt Waist goods.
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