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VOL. 24. SMITHFIELD. N. C.. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1906. NO. 50.
AN ELEGANT RECEPTION.
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Hood Celebrate
the Twenty-Fifth Annversary
of Their Marriage.
One of the most elegant and
most enjoyable receptions ever
held in our little town was that
given at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. T. It. Hood on Friday even
ing, the 9th inst., in celebration
of the twenty-fifth anniversary
of their marriage.
Twenty-five years ago Lucy A.
Wood all and Thomas It. Hood
were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony, and surely it was a
firm and true union. The loving
pride in thb eyes of the bride
groom of twenty-live years ago
answered by the abiding trust in
his bride's eyeu, a lovely bride still
with justa little silver in her hair,
told the story of a quarter of a
century of mutual love and trust.
between the hours of 8 and 12
o'clock P. M. more than three
hundred friends called to present
to Mr. and Mrs. Hood their con
gratulations and good wishes.
The guests were met at the
hall door by Mr. and Mrs. Willis
Austin and after removing their
wraps were ushered into the par
lor by Mr. and Mrs. J. 1). SpierB.
Loving bands had made the
room a bower. The bridal couple
stood under a canopy of white
and silver adorned with white
roses and the dark green of cedar.
From around the white and sil
ver lamp in the center of the
room were festooned garlands to
each corner, held in place with
bouquets of white roses and
dark green leaves. On the man
tel, and doubled by the reflection
of the mirror, were cut glass
vases of fragant bride roses and
drooping bells of freesia with
delicate fronds of asparagus fern.
Growing plants were grouped
about the room and the windows
were hung with garlands, liv
ery where there were silver horse
shoes hanging, for good luck,
you know. The soft radiance of
many candles gave the scene an
added beauty.
Under an immense silver horse
shoe twined with white roses
stood the still youthful-looking
bride and groom to receive their
friends, presented by Mr. J. LI.
Woodall and Mrs. Dora Kirk
man. At Mrs. Hood's right were
the eldest son, Will, l)r. and Mrs.
The! Hooks and a very young
gentleman whose name is also
Thel Hooks, Miss Eula Hood, the
second daughter, Mr. Hal Hood,
who came home from Trinity
l'ark High School for the occa
sion, and Miss Lucy Hood, the
youngest daughter of the house
And in a comfortable chair there
sat a little old lady who has seen
the snow of many winters with
out ever losing interest in the
joys and sorrows those winters
bring, Mrs, M. A. Hood, mother,
grand-mother, great-grand
mother of a family numbering
over thirty.
There were also in the receiv
ing party two of the original
brides-maids of that marriage a
quarter of a century ago with
their respective grooms-men,
Mrs. J. M. Turner, who was Miss
Uoella Davis, and Mrs. Effie (J.
Harper, who was Miss Effie
Woodall, and Mr. W. L. Woodall
and Mr. It. H. Gower, who,
though they too have changed
their estate, haye suffered no
chuuge of name. Mrs. Myatt
and Mrs. Hudson, sisters of Mrs.
Hood, were also of the party
Erom the receiving party the
guests were taken in charge by
Mr. W. W. Cole and Miss Abell
and Mr. and Mrs. B. II. Adams
and directed to a room rosy
with light from a crimson-shaded
lamp and glowing with American
beauty roses in vases and in ev
ergreen wreaths. They were wel
comed here by Mr. and Mrs. T. C.
Jordan. This room was further
beautified by the many gifts in
silver here displayed?tokens of
iove and good will to Mr. and
- i.i honor of the ha pp**
occasion. After a pl -asanc half
hour of lingering here, an invita
tion to the dining room was ex
tended by Mr. and Mrs. Ira T.
I urlington.
Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Johnson
Usuereu Hie guests into the din
ing room and handed them over
to the tender mercies oi a half
dozen buds that promise in a few
years to be charming blossoms,
Misses Lucretia Morgan, lone
Abel), Mattie Hudson, Lucy San
ders, Bessie Coats, and Ava My
att. These little ladies served
the delightful supper.
The dining loom was a study
in white and violet. Purple vio
lets in white cornucopias were
suspended over the white draped
dining table and fell upon the
cloth in sweet profusion. There
were bowls of violets and white
hyacinths and violet and white
draped jardinieres of great waxen
white hyacinths wherever you
looked, your cheese straws were
tied with violet ribbon, your ice
cream cup was treated to a dain
ty bow of it, and at a table near
the outer door stood a 3roung
couple, Mr. and Mrs Tom Harri
son, who gave "the parting
guest" a lovely souvenir of the
evening, a small white and violet
tinted basket crowned with vio
lets and filled with delicious bon
bons.
Out of town guests were: Mr.
and Mrs. John E. Hood, of Kin
ston; Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Hood,
Mrs. Effie Harper, and Mrs. (J. K.
Grantham, of Dunn; Mrs. J. Ryal
Woodall. of Montgomery, Ala.;
Mrs. J. M. Turner, of Burlington;
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Gower, of
Clayton; Dr. and Mrs. Noble,
Dr. and Mrs, Person and Mr.
Millard Nowell, of Selma; Mr
and Mrs. B. B. Adams, of Four
Oaks, Mr Zeke Young, of Ral
eigh; Mr. S. F. Austin, of Nash
ville; Mr. Williams, of Clayton;
Hugh and Jesse Adams, from
Durham and Miss Kate Woodall
from Peace Institute at Raleigh.
The Herald offers its most
cordial congratulations to Mr.
and Mrs. Hood, and wishes for
them twenty-five years more of
happiness and prosperity and for
itself the pleasure of reporting
twenty-five years from now the
Golden Wedding of these two
who have passed together these
years of varied sun and shadow,
have reared their family of boys
and girls to noble young man
hood and womanhood and have
beenthrough all these years a
beautiful example of conjugal
affection. May all their clouds
henceforth have silver linings.
Baby Smothered to Death.
Last Sunday night Mrs. J. R.
Jordan, of Raleigh, who was
visiting at the home of her sister,
Mrs. J. C. Stewart, who lives near
| Powhatan, had the misfortune
j to smother to death her seven
weeks' old child. Nothing was
known about it until Monday
morning when the child was
found with its feet toward the
side of the bed and its head un
der Mrs. Jordan's shoulder. No
body knows what time of the
night it died.
Collier s Vestibule Almost Wrecked.
Some unknown person broke
the switch lock on the"Midland"
road Sunday night and Capt.
Collier's vestibule came near of
being wreck Monday morhing
about 5:45 o'clock, by running
into an open switch this side of
Little River. The engine and all
the cars jumped the track and
were grounded. Fortunately no
one was injured, but considerable
trouble was experienced in again I
placing the train on the rails.
The matter is being investigated.
?Goldsboro Headlight.
A Modern Miracle.
"Truly miraculous seemed the
recovery of Mrs. Mollie Holt, of
this place," writes J.O. R. Hoop- j
er, Woodford, Tenn., "she was!
so wasted by coughing up puss |
from her lungs. Doclors rV
clared her end so near that her
family had watched by her bed
side forty-eight hours; when, at
my urgont request Dr. King's
New Discovery was given her,
wit*.'the astonishing result that
improvement began, and con
tinued until she finally complete
ly recovered, and is a healthy
woman to-day." Guaranteed cure
for coughs and colds. 50c. and
$1.00 ill Hood Bros., druggists.
Trial bottle free
GENERAL NEWS.
At Washington Wednesday,
the Ways and Means Committee
| favorably reported a bill to re
! move the revenue tax on leal to
bacco and allow growers to sell
leaf without restriction.
A monument to the Americans
who lost their lives in the war j
in Cuba was unveiled atElCaney
Wednesday?theCubans heartily j
joining lien. Chaffee and other
Americans iu doing honor to the j
heroes.
Mile, de Kerjegu, the richest |
heiress in France, will, early this I
spring become the bride of Count
I de la Ferronave. Mile, de Ker
jegu is worth about $10,000,000.
Her grandfather began life as a
| stevedore.
Tha special committee of stock- i
holders investigating the affairs [
i of the New York. Life Insurance
Company, recommends that
legal proceedings be instituted
to recover $148,702 contributed
to the Republican campaign fund.
In Atlanta Wednesday John
Temple Graves, whose resigna
tion as editor of the News, was
made known Tuesday,announced
that he will soon re-enter the
newspaper field by starting the
Daily Evening Georgian, in which
he will be associated with Fred
erick L. Seely.
The Senate Wednesday passed
[ the ship subsidy bill by a vote of
: 38 to 27, every Democrat and
five Republican Senators voting
] against it The bill subsidizes j
thirteen steamship lines from At
lantic, Gulf and Pacific ports to
the Orient, Central America, and j
South America. j.
Vice Admiral Choukwin, com
mander of the Russian fleet, at
j Sebastopol, was shot by a worn-1
an his office Saturday, and in !
turn shot and killed by his order- 1
I ly. The woman secured admis
sion to the admiral's room by
saying she was the daughter of
an old friend. The admiral will
recover.
In the House Wednesday Mr.
Lamb, of Virginia, secured the
! adoption of a joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary of War
to deliver to. the Southern His
torical Society at Richmond, Va.,
all of the Confederate battle
Hags in his custody, which have
not been identified as belonging
to any organization.
A statement issued by the Post
| Office Department Monday shows
the gross receipts of the fifty
largest post offices in the United
States for January, 1906, to
have been $7,118,689, as against
$6,260,360 for 1905, or an in
crease of nearly fourteen percent.
Atlanta showed the largestgain,
with an increase of nearly twen
ty-seven per cent.
A bold robbery of the United
I States mail was committed at
Stanley, six miles south of Luray,
Va , Friday night. A mail pouch
which had been locked and laid
out on the depot platform await
ing train number 14. on the
Norfolk & Western Railway, was
cut open and checks and other
valuable papers amounting to
$700 or $800 were taken there
from. Suspicion points to sev
eral men who were hanging
around the town and drinking
that day.
The formal opening of the
Jamestown Exposition has been
Bet for April 26th. 1907, instead
of May 13th, 1907, as originally
planned. It was on April 26th,
1607, that the English settlersof
The London Company first de
barked at Cape Henry, and in the
desire to fittingly celebrate the
300th anniversay of that event,
as well as the ter-centennial of
the settlement at Jamestown,
May 13th,isfound the reason for
changing the date of the formal
opening.
Beats the Music Cure.
"To keep the body in tune,"
writes Mrs. Mary Brown, 20
Lafayette Place, Poughkoep ,
N. Y., "I take Dr. King's New
Life Pills. They are the most,
reliable and pleasant laxative I
have found." Best for the Stom
ach, Liver and Bowels. Guar
anteed by Hood Bros., drugg'srs.
WIFE-BEATERS NUMEROUS.
Congressman Pou Favors Whipping
Post for Them In District
of Columbia.
The News and Observer of the
14th contained the following
from its Washington correspon
dent:
Representative Pou who is a
member of the District Com
mittee in the House, voted in
favor of the Adams bill to estab
lish a whipping post in,Washing
ton for the benefit of wife-beat
ers. The rest of the North Caro
lina delegation voted with the
majority to table the measure,
but Mr. Pou did not tliuch, and
was heart and soul in favor of
the Hogging institution for the
district. "A man who beats his
wife," said Mr. Pou, in speaking'
of the subject, "deserves to be
lashed. Call the whipping post
brutal if you wish, but it is the
remedy for any man who thrashes
his wife. The testimony before
our committee was that there
were 508 wife-beaters before the
local courts last year. A report
from one of the police justices of
Washington stated that some of
these men would rather lay in
jail than work. The law here
governing this crime is a failure
and has brought disgrace on the
Capitol of the Nation. I am glad
to admit that conditions here and
iu North Carolina are different. I
would not favor a whipping post
in the State, for the peculiar con
ditions here do not prevail there.
The people of every shade in
North Carolina have great re-1
spect for women, and even the t
worst element has a horror of
jail. It is not so with the 500
and odd thugs who were in the
local courts last year for whip
ping their wives."
Representative G. B. Patter
son, Page and others had quite
a friendly and animated discus
sion with Mr. Pou over the
merits of the whipping post as|
an institution. It has been one j
of the most lively subjects before i
Congress. One of the unique ar-1
guments against the measure is
that there are more suffering
women who complain because
they are not married than there
are women married who com
plain because they are beaten.
POLENTA NEWS.
Wheat is looking well in this
section.
Preaching at Elizabeth next
i Sunday morning at 11 o'clock.
Mies Alice Bailey, of Harnett,
is on a visit to her sister, Mrs
A. M. Barbour.
The weather for the past few
J days has been such as to put a
! stop to farm operations.
Miss Pauline Gulley, who is
sick with pneumonia at Clayton,
we are pleased to report is im
proving.
Several of our farmers have
gone into the mulberry culture.
[ We are told that mulberry trees
are in great demand.
Misses Nellie Johnson and
I Ava Ye'vington spent several
days visiting Miss Lillie Turling
ton, of Banner, last week.
Mrs. F. T. Booker and Miss
Ella H. Booker spent Sunday
night and Monday in Smithfield
visiting daughters of Mrs. Book
er.
The closing of the public
schools will soon be at hand
four months will be all this town
ship will get?it ought to be six,
at least.
Mumps is having its day out
here. A number of our younger
folks have been considerably
worried with this plague, but
there are no serious results and
all are doing well.
Last week Mrs. Sarah Barbour
was called to Benson, to be with
I Mrs L"r V" demrhter, who i~
- -it Wh
nope her sickness t* iioi o.
ous nature ami that she will soon
be co.. ?? iV'it.
Mr. lorn Wood had his ley
broken one day last week. II
whs driving a two horse lo
wagon wueu the team ruu away,
throwing him out and thewagon
passing over one of his legs,
crushing it badly. I>r. Booker
was called in and rendered thej
necessary medical aid and at this
writing we are glad to say he is i
resting quietly.
Messrs. Beaty and Allen, o j
Suiithfield, came out Sunday
morning and delivered two ex- i
eel lent temperance addresses!
at Shiloh. Such talks the peo pie;
need and such talks are calculat
ed to do good and hear fruit.
Our people enjoyed the visit of
these gentlemen and nope it will
not be loug before thev will visit
us again.
Mr. J. F. Canaday, county or
ganizer of the Cotton Growers As
social ion, will be in this Town-|
ship, on Tuesday, February ?
20th, and will deliver an address
at Polenta Academy at 7:30 p.
m. Let every farmer in the
Township, interested in the wel
fare of the farmer, and who,
wants the very best results from
his labors, come out to hear Mr.
Canaday. He;is a good talker,
a good farmer and withal a self
made man. Don't forget the
date, February 20th, 7:30 p. m.
at Polenta Academy, and don't
forget to hear him, and join in
with the great mass of agricul- j
turistB and work for the good of
the farm people. Typo.
Feb. 13.
CLAYTON NOTES.
Mr. Burlan L. Hall, of Wendell,
spent Wednesday here on busi
ness.
Mr. Carey J. Hunter, of Ral
eigh, was here Friday on busi
ness.
Miss Foy Baucum and Miss
Ava Pool attended services here
Sunday.
Miss Lessie Barnes spent Sun
day here, the guest of Mrs. John
Robertson.
Miss Ethel Bowden, of Louis
burg, is visiting Miss Jessamine
Yelvington.
Mr. Harry Pool, of Raleigh,!
spent Sunday with his sister,
Mrs. C. T. Young.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, of Apex,
were the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
C. W. Carter Sunday.
Rev. C. W. Blanchard filled his1
regular appointments at Selma
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. Will Massey, of Trinity,
spent a few days here recently
with his brothers, Messrs. Jonn
and Pat Massey.
Pastor C. W. Blanchard, of the
Baptist church, was substantial- j
ly pounded by his congregation j
on Friday evening.
Mr. Paul Duncan, of Princeton
and Mr. Duke Duncan, of Smith-!
field, were the guests of Mrs. VV.
1. Whitley Sunday.
Saint Valentine's day has come
and gone. Some of our people
had quite a lot of fun, sending
and receiving valentines.
Dr. W. H. Wakefield, a very
prominent eye, ear, and nosej1
specialist of Charlotte, spent |
Wednesday, the 7th., here at the5
Robertson ilotel. 11
The young people gave a storm ]
party at Mrs' B. H, Yelvington's;'
ruesday evening in honor of xMiss
Cthel Bowden who is visiting !
Miss Jessamine. (
Where in the world do so many '
mules and horses go to? Our ;
itock dealers have sold several '
lar loads this Spring and con- 1
Jnue to buy and sell.
Messrs A. J., C. P. and Geo. W. (
Cllis left Monday to attend the ]
uneral of their brother, Mr. Boss
Ellis, who died at his home in
Vorfolk, Va., Sunday morning.
Dr. T. N. Ivey filled his regular 1 (
appointment at the Methodist
ihurch Sunday morning and '
?veuing Quite a iatve congre
ration *ai< out to hear him each
Lltue
I'lte Met' .v.'l .' 'U move
[he old parsonage and build r>
ticw and much larger and better
cue ou the old site. They sold
the old parsonage and a plot of
ground in the rear of the lot to
Mr. I E. Page.
Yelir.
STATE NEWS.
Henry Cooper, 60 years old,
who had been an innate of the
State Hospital at Morganton
for 38 years, died there last week.
The jail at Lillington. Harnett
County, was damaged bv fire
last week to theextentof .$1,000.
Defective tlue. The one prisoner
in jail was rescued uninjured.
Out of a class of thirty-seven
applicants before the Supreme
Court for license to practice law
in North Carolina thirty-one
stood the examination. In the
class were four negroes, all of
whom failed to pass.
Isaac Bledsoe, of McDowell
County, is 104 years old and is
able to ride four miles to town.
The fact that he is a pensioner ex
plains his advanced age and the
ride of four miles to town was to
get his pension check cashed.
Four trainmen were killed out
right, one was fatally injured
and several passengers more or
less injured by flying glass when
train No. 34, a northbound ex
press train, ran into an open
switch and struck a switching
engine in the Southern Railway
yards just north of Pomona at
an early hour last Sunday morn
ing.
These romantic matrimonial
ventures are dangerous. Recent
ly Abe Goldstein, an aged citizen
of Durham, advertised for a wife
in a Brooklyn paper and got
one. Last week Mr. and Mrs.
Goldstein fell out and fought
and so disabled each other that
Goldstein was bleediDg when he
applied for a warrant for his wife
and the woman was not able to
go to the trial.
The Mayor of Durham has set
a precedent that is worthy of ex
ample. When a man is taken be
fore him for being drunk, one of
the questions he asks?and which
must be satisfactorily answered
?is "where did you get your
whiskey?" If they fail to give
an answer to the satisfaction of
the court they are sentenced to
jail for contempt of court. Two
parties have recently been sent
to jail for thirty days for refus
ing to answer the question.
ARCHER LODGE NEWS.
J. I. Barnes was homeSunday.
Miss Ava Wall visited the
Misses Boyett last week.
Miss Genorra Wall spent Sun
day with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Wall.
The new church at Salem has
recently been painted which adds
much to the attractiveness of
the place.
Rev. A. A. Pippin preached a
very able sermon to a large
audience at White Oak Sunday
afternoon.
Mrs. Maggie Norton and little
daughter Ruth, of Mullens S. C.
spent last week with her niece,
Mrs. Geo. 11. Stancil.
The next Vocal Union of this
section will meet at Corinth
church the first Sunday in March.
Several choirs are expected.
Thursday, February loth, the
Star mail route from Archer to
Clayton will be discontinued and
the Archer mail will come out on
the Wilson's Mills R. F. D. Route
No. 2. The Archer R. F. D. car
rier will leave Archer at 11:30 a.
n. instead of 6-30 a. m. This
will give most of our people a
?hunce for dailv papers.
Feb. 13. S L. W.
May Live 100 Years.
The chances for living a full
century an excellent in the case
>f Mrs. Jennie Duncan, of
Hayuesvil <i, Me., now 70 years
old. St writes: '"Electric Hit
lers cu en n o of Chronic Dys
pepsia >! years standing, and
made i io fop' ?? ... ,?.id strong
a- a )<>ung girl." Electric Hit
ler. .? ? Stomach and Lever d is
bp* -s i'-lood Disorders, General
De'riity and bodily weukness.
-old on a guarantee at Hood
Urns, drug store. Price only
ido.