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al)r jsmitljfirlii Herald. 1 '* price one dollar per tear. "TRUE TO OURSELVES, OUR COUNTRY AND OUR GOD." single copies five cents. VOL. 24. SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 14. 1905. NO. (i PROHIBITION WILL NOTHURT. It Has Not Injured the City of Goldsboro. .Mr. E. L. Edmundson, a Prominent Citizen of Place Says That Pro hibition Did Not Hurt the Goldsboro Tobacco Market. It has been claimed by the advocates of the Dispensary that its abolition will ruin our tobacco market, declaring that prohibi tion killed the Goldsboro tobacco market. Desirous of learning the facts in the case The Herai.d wrote to Mr. E. L. Edmundson, a real estate dealer of Goldsboro, and asked him to state them His letter follows: I received your letter of March 31st and would have answered sooner but for the press of busi ness. I am very glad to know that you are working to put the dispensary out of Smithtieid. I am opposed to a dispensary De cause it puts the Christian people to a certain extent, in the whis key business, but will take the dispensary in preference to t wo bar rooms owing to the actions of the ex-bar keepers, some of whom do all they can to violate the whiskey law. As to the liquor men's statements that prohibi tion damaged our tobacco mar ket last year, this is absolutely false. Every thoroughly posted business man knows that as to the Goldsboro market there were over 500 tobacco barns that were not used in Wayne County during 1004. There was no to bacco raised in Wayne County during the year of 1904 of any consequence. However, we sold nearly 1,000,000 pounds of to bacco which was brought here from other counties, and a great many of the people who brought this tobacco to market passed right by liquor towns. We are growing a good deal of tobacco this year in Wayne County, and we expect to sell 2,000,000 pounds of tobacco on our mar kets this year. There is a false idea prevalent in the cities that the country people are in favor of whiskey. I will say that in try ing blind tiger cases the country juries have always convicted, and i can truthfully say that we have got the soberest, most hustling, wide awake town in the United States which is growing every day. We have sixteen merchants who took the place of the bar rooms. Every large store inelud ing ail tneuesirame oar rooms are tilled with goods instead of whis key, and a drunken person on the streets of (Joldsboro is indeed a rare occurrence. The ladies can trade now on Saturdays as well as on any other day. By re ferring to Bradstreet and Bun's reports, you will find that Golds boro merchants are doing more business according to size than any other town in Eastern Caro lina. The merchants are practi cally living off of the money that was spent for whiskey when the bar rooms were here. The old drunkards have reformed, are feeding and clothing their fami lies, paying their house rent, and are apparently very happy. My own business as a merchant, I sold during last year $6,000 more thun in any previous year. This is the experience of almost every prohibitiouist. that is a merchant in (Joldsboro. The only merchants that are not do ing a great deal lipre are the ones who are in favor of whiskey. As to real estate you will see from the heading of my letter my rec ord as to real estate sales. Most of the property has increased one-third during 1004. We have not only filled up the bar rooms with merchants but wehavebuilt five nice, new stores that are fillet! also with merchants since the bar rooms were closed. A failure is a rare thing in (Jolds boro. I have charge of ninety three houses and rooms in my real estate agency, i have only six small tenant houses vacant. There is not five large desirable houses vacant iu the city that I know of. M.v collections of rent have increased 22 per cent, dur ing 1004 over 1003, as you will] see by reference to my books. Wheu the bar rooms were here we had fifty-four dwellings and stores vacant at one time which are numbered for reference by me. During 1904 we built and re paired thirty dwellings and stores in Goldsboro, aggregating over If 135,000 spent for i inprovemen ts instead of for whiskey. Our Graded School has by far the largest enrollment that it has ever had. I have sold a good deal of property to people who told me they wanted to live in Goldsboro because we had no whiskey here. As to the blind tiger business we have almost control of that, there being little violation of law in Goldsboro on that account. There is no more violation of the whiskey law here than of any other law on our statute books. Husiuess is ex ceedingly dull with the police court, the doctors and the under takers of Goldsboro. Hoping that you will win in this light, I am your well-wisher and iriend?a life-long prohibi tionist. E. L. Eumcndson. KENLY NOTES. Mr. Jno. G. High made a busi ness trip to Wilson Friday. Mr. W. T. Bailey spent Friday with friends in Spring Hope. Mr. J. M. Stancill's neat little dwelling on Fast Main St. is nearing completion. Messrs. J. T. Fdgerton & Bro. j have completed their handsome dwelling on West Main St. Rev. R. H. Whitaker, of Ral-i eigh, filled his regular appoint ment here at the Methodist church Sunday night. The Free Will Baptist Sunday School was organized Sunday evening with Mr. W. T. Kirby, as superintendent and Mr. Fph riam Watson secretary. We are glad to note that Mrs. j R. T. Renfrow who went to the Wilson Sanatorium for an opera tion, is getting along nicely, j We hope for'her a speedy re-j co very. Mrs. W. T. Bailey and Mrs. J. G. Iligh went to Spring Hope Friday where they will spend a j few days visiting friends and re- [ latives. They will also visit friends in Louisburg before re turning. April 4-05 Rex. A Daredevil Ride often ends in a sad accident. To heal accidental injuries, use Bucklen's Arnica Salve. "A deep t wound in my foot, from an acci- j dent," writes Theodore Schuele, of Columbus, O., "caused me great pain. Physicians were| helpless, but Rucklen's Arnica Salve quickly healed it." Soothes i and heals burns like magic. 25c at Hood Bros., druggists. Like a Bad Baby. Did vou ever notice that a bad baby always raises a distur bance at the very time you want him to do his best Let company come in or take him away from home or to a picnic or to church and he is sure to let you hear from him. It is just so with Smithfield dispensary. Since an election has been called to vote it out there have been several cases of drunkenness and in eight days there were four lights in town that we know of between blacks and white. These fights were not on account on effort to i move liquor out but because it is here and is putting in its usual work. This drunkenness and j these fights are happening at a; time when the friends of the dis-! pensary are most anxious for it to be lamb like. It is showing its budness at the wrong time. They regret very much that it should do this way aud especial ly at this time. B. A strength tonic that brings rich, red blood. Makes you strong, healthy and active. That's what Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea will do. 35 cents, j Tea or Tablets.?A. If. Boyett, Selma Drug Co. CROP MOST BE DECREASED. Or Ruin Stares the Southern Farmer in the Eace. Daniel J. Sully, the Friend of the Cotton Farmers, Issues a Warn ing?Will the South Listen to Him? Cotton farmers, read what Daniel J. Sully has to say to you: If you wish to t\in your battle and obtain a fair price for your cotton you must reduce your acreage very considerably. You have surprised the world by the manner in which you have held your cotton Surprise it again by cutting down your cotton acreage. I)o not be led astray by the present steadiness of prices. Three causes have contributed to bring about this rise of more than a cent a pound. First: The urgent demand arising from an unprecedented ennsnmntinn. Second. Your courage and wis dom in making the buyer meet your terms. Third: The belief that you would cut your acreage to such an extent that the supplies from this crop and the growth of 1005 (> would make a commercial crop no larger than the world needs. The first two causes lose their force the moment it is known that there is a prospect for a moderately large crop next year. Even if the mills take 12,000, 000 bales during the current sea son, this would leave a carryover of 1,500,000 bales. Hence the necessity of a smaller crop this year. Do not let any rise in prices be tween now and the end of the planting seasou deter you from reducing your acreage. Such and advance would be merely anticipating that you were making the decrease which your friends have advised you to make. If the Tune report of the Gov ernment shows that you have failed to make sufficient reduc tion the only persons who would be gainers by the advance would be the speculators who sell out their futures at a profit. The price of the cotton you produce will be regulated by the actual not the expected reduc tion. In this matter of acreage reduc tion bear in mind three sugges tions: Don't depend on your neighbor to do the reducing. Don't rely on bad weather to cut down the size of the crop. Don't put a large acreage into cotton simply because it is too late to plant corn or other diver sified crops. It would be far better to let part of your land lie idle than to run the risk of raising a crop so large as to make possible anoth er i'eriodof low- priced cotton. I am making this appeal to you because 1 regard the next few weeks as critical to theSouth and because 1 believe that every man who is interested in the wel fare of the South should urge the importance of a reduced acreage. Wreck Here Monday. There was a bad wreck near the depot here Monday morning. A through freight ran into the rear end of another through freight. The engine was derailed and badly injured. The caboose and two cars were wrecked and burned. One car contained fertilizers, the other general mer chandise. The engineer jumped and thus saved himself. The freight train was taking water at the tank. We understand the incoming train had no orders to stop, hence the wreck. Frightful Suffering: Relieved. Suffering frightfully from the virulent poisons of undigested food, C. G. Grayson, of Lula, Miss., took Dr. King's New Life I'ills, "with the result," he writes, "that I was cured." All stomach and bowel disorders give wnv t,> their tonic, laxative properties. 25c at Hood Dros. drug store, guaranteed. BANQUET AT SELMA. President of Rank of Selma Enter tains Stockholders at Mer chants' Hotel. % Last Friday night Mr. M. C. Winston, president of the Hank of Selma, entertained the stock holders of the bank at the Mer chants' Hotel in Selma The bank was three years old I on April 1st and had undivided profits amounting to $5081).49 and it was to celebrate this that Mr. Winston entertained the stockholders?for he had prom I ised that when the undivided profits equalled fifty per cent, of the capital stock he would give them a supper The bank ha? I paid to its stockholders six per cent, on the capital stock?and has paid it semi-annually. The table was in the shape of a "T" and was beautifully deco rated with fruit and flowers. When the guests had gathered I around the table Mr. Loomis D. Debnam said that the Hon. Clarence YV Richardson had a few words to say before supper. Mr. Richardson then stepped around to the head of the table where Mr. Winston stood and in a few I choice and eloquent words pre sented Mr. Winston in the name ! of the stockholders a beautiful gold watch, on one side of which were the letters " B S." and on the other "M. C. W.", as a token ; of love and appreciation for the work done by him in behalf of the bank. Mr. Winston accepted the watch in a short speech in which he said that he was more than surprised at the beautiful gift?that he had always labored for the upbuilding of the bank and Selma, aud that he should continue to. He was deeply touched at the spirit which prompted the bestowal of the gift and said he should wear the watch and alwavs hold thegivers in grateful remembrance. Those seated around the table were: Mr. M. C. Winston aud Mrs. Debnaiu, Mr. and Mrs. W. B Driver, l)r. Noble and Mrs. R. B. Carrington, Mr. and Mr. YV". H. | Call, Mr. Debnam and Mrs. VI. C. Winston, Mr. aud Mrs. N. K. 10 1 gerton, Mr. aud Mrs. W. H. 10th eredge. Mr. Muse.of Rocky Mount, and Mrs. Tuck; Messrs. R. M. Nowell, J. YV. Futrell, R. B. Whit ley, and C. YV. Richardson. Senex. Singapore. April lib?The British cruiser Sutlej arrived here today from Hongkong. She passed the Russian Baltic fleet, includingseven battle-ships, 107 miles northeast of Singapore, at daybreak yesterday morning The Russians were then steam ing north. The Straits Times to-day pub lishes a dispatch from Batavia, Java, comtirming, on good au thority, the statement that there are no Russian warships at Muntok, Island of Banka Like Finding; Money. Hood Bros , the popular drug gists, are making an offer that is just like finding money, for they are sellinz a regular 50 cent bot tle of Dr. Howard's celebrated specific for the cure of constipa tion and dyspepsia at half-price. I n addition to this large discount they agree to return the money to any purchaser whom the specific does not cure. It is quite unusual to be able to buy fifty-cent pieces for a (juarter, but that is what this of fer really means, for it is only recently, through thesolicitation of Druggists Hood Bros, that this medicine could be bought for less than fifty cents, they urged the proprietors to allow them to sell it at this reduced price for a little while, agreeing to sell a cer tain amount. The result has jus tified their good judgment, for the sale has been something re markable. Any one who suffers with head ache, dyspepsia, dizziness, sour stomach, spec km before the eyes, or any liver trouble, should take 1 advantage of this opportunity, for Dr. Howard's specific will cure all these troubles. But if by any { chutice it should not, Hood Bros. ! will return your money. ON APPOMATTOX FIELD. Memorial to North Carolina Troops Unveiled. Speeches Made by Governors Glenn and Montague and Col. E. J. Holt, ot Smlthfleld. Forty years ago last Sunday the remnant of Lee's brave army surrendered at Appomattox. Last Monday a monument to mark the spot where the North Carolina troops fired the last volley in thegreat warthatended on Appomattox field was unveil ed by North Carolina. The monument was erected in pursuance of an act passed by the recent General Assembly which appropriated #1.000 for the pur pose. The Appomattox Commis sion?!! A. London, E. J. Holt, VV. T. Jenkins, C. B. Watson and A. I). McUill?had the matter in charge. Maj. H. A. London pre sided and made a short speech Speeches were made by Governor R. B. Glenn, of North Carolina, Governor A. J. Montague,of Vir ginia, Maj. Armes, of Washing ton City, and E.J. Holt,ofSmith fleld. Prof. Henry Jerome Stock ard, of Raleigh, read an ode "East at Appomattox." Mrs. Mary Grimes Smith, daughter of General Bryan Grimes, who planned the last charge in that fateful battlefield, unveiled the ; monument. The Roberts Memorial was erected near the Appomattox Court House to mark the spot where the last Federal battery was captured by Gen. Roberts' cavalry Brigade. (Col. E.J. Holt was a member of this cavalry and was in the very last charge of the war.) col. holt's speech. This memorial was unveiled by Col. E. J. Holt, of Smithfield, who said: "We have here a modest little memorial erected without State aid, to the memory of the rem nant of the brigade of North Caro lina cavalry commanded by the gallant General W. P. Roberts. On the morning of April 9th, 1865, forty years ago, there was in these fields and in these woods a victorious army of 80,000 vet eran American soldiers, well fed, well clothed, well armed and fur nished witu every apuliance then used in warfare, and backed by a government rich in men and money and all the resources need ed to make its armies almost in vincible. On yonder hillside, fronting this spot, was a thin gray line of wornout and hungry and ragged men, who for nearly four years had never failed or fal tered. Often they had met their foe three to one and yet had been victorious. Over there, just be yond that farm house which you see, was what was left of the cav alry of the army of Northern Virginia, General VV. P. Iioberts's brigade, composed of the Fourtn and Seventh North Carolina regi ments, in all not over one hun dred officers aud men, holding the line just in front of the two story dwelling you see on that hill. At sunrise on that eventful day a battery of four pieces of artillery took position on this spot where we now stand and be gan shelling us. General Roberts at once gave the command, 'Draw sabres! Forward, trot, march, charge!' and down the hill we swept in a swift gallop, across that valley, over some ditches and up this hill and then once more we had demonstrated the valor of Southern manhood. The battery and its support of dis mounted infantry were captured. Shell and grape, canister and tninie bullets filled the air, but there wns no faltering by any one of that gallant little band. Led by the- youngest brigadier general in the Confederate army we had again proved to our com rades in arms, that the cavalry could fight and did fight, too, to the last. May our modest little monument endure for all tine- fo mark the spot where thu Trr Heel cavalry were true to ;l e cause for which they fought to the last." CLAYTON NOTES. Mr. Fdgar Harris wan a guest j of I)r. J. A. Griffin Monday. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Snow went to Raleigh Wednesday morning. Mr. C. VV. Carter spent Sunday and Monday with bis mother in Apex. Mrs. L. I). Debuam and chil dren spent a day or two here this week with Mrs. J. A Griffin. Miss Allene McCullers who has been at the Wilson Sanatorium for a few weeks returned home I Wednesday. Mrs. Nick Allen and Miss Foy Baucum spent Tuesday here, at tending the millinery opening of Messrs. Barbour & Sons. Mr. R. B. Whitley, Secretary and Treasurer, and general manager of the Selma Cotton Mills, spent Wednesday here. Mrs. J. A. Grittiu, Mrs. Hop kins and Paul Gulley recently spent a day or two in Franklin county visitiug Mrs. Griffin's brother. 1 rnL ? i ? ? i ue registration Dooks lor the town election will be held open i at the store of J. S. Barnes &Co., from Friday Auril 14th until Friday April 21st, for the regis tration of all voters who have not registered heretofore. The National Biscuit Co. have had several big days here this week. On Tuesday they were at Messrs. Barbour & Sons'. On Wednesday they were at Messrs. Home & Son's. Their demon j strator showed in very "tasty" language the wholesomeness, cleaullness and purity of these famous goods. The first game of the season at j Clayton was played last Friday afternoon between Clayton and ! Selma. It was a most interest ing game from begining. The | score being 8 to 7 in favor of Clayton. The attendance was estimated at about 500. The prettiest thing was the immense crowd of young ladies who cheer ed incessantly. We regret to note the death of Mr. Ancel Gulley, elder son of our former townsman, Mr. Robt. IC. Gulley, of Richmond, Va, which occurred Tuesday after [ noon at his home. His remains i were brought here Wednesday j for interment in the cemetery. The burial services were con j ducted by Rev. G. W. Fisher, ! pastor of the M. E. church. Messrs. Barbour & Sons' mil j linery opening occurred on Tues day April 11th. All day their immense store was crowded to its fullest capacity with hand some ladies, scanning the fair creations of the millinery art. We are happy to welcome this new department to our town This stock together with that of the Misses Barnes, gives you the advantage in selection and price. The preliminary contest held for participation in the final contest for the elocution medal was held Monday night April 3, belore the faculty as judges. The following students were declared entitled to compete for the medal, having averaged 90 per cent, and over on the four counts, used as a basis of judging: Misses Pearl Wrav, Nellie Pool, Ruby Ellis, Eela Cole, Leta Cable, Ida Wood j ard, Annie Fitzgerald, Maud Guliey, Nannie Pool and Alma Fisher, Messrs. Bernice .loues . and Millard Hinnant. The closing exercises of the Clayton High School will take place June the 4th to 8th inclu sive. The following is the order of exercises; Sunday .Tune 4? sermon by Rev. T. X. lvev, 1) D., j Raleigh. Monday June 5?Medal contest, Tuesday June <>?Inter mediate Exercises, Wednesday June 7?High School Exercises, Thursday June 8?Literary ad dress by His Excellency, Gov. Robert B. Glenn, and delivery of j Diplomas. Friends of the school expect the closing exercises will be the best ever held in the coun ty, and that th? greatest of peo [)le interested in educational af airs, will be present. April 12-05 Yki.ik. "Most praised where best known." The best advertisement of Rheumacide is the hundreds of wonderful cures it has made. For sale by Hood Bros.
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