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THURSDAY IN LEGISLATURE. Woman Suffrage Question is Indefi nitely Postponed by Action of the House. Ixmg and Short Haul Clause Repealed. (Raleigh Times) By a vote of 67 to 38 the House Thursday indefinitely postponed the actual vote upon the woman suffrage amendment and laid the measure away for two years. The merits of the question were not fairly incarnated in speeches or yeas and nays. Quite a few were op posed to closing the place of amuse ment until everybody had had his word. Therefore, Mr. Houghton’s motion to postpone indefinitely was voted for less representatively than a positive suffrage test would have shown. But suffrage has grown as much in the House as it has in the State, it would seem from expres sions today. Representative Mayo of Beaufort presented a petition for woman suf frage and blushingly covered his face with his hands. The state-wide dog tax bill, the sale and giving away of dime novels in North Carolina, and the sale and giving away of cigarettes in Hyde County, all met committee deaths. The new bills introduced were as follows: Mayo and Swain: Amend the 1913 act relating to court stenographers. McBryde: To amend Revisal of 1905 relative to Confederate pen sions. Brummitt: To amend Revisal of 1905 relative to school qualifications. Blue: Amend 1913 law relative to Stewartsville Cemetery Association. Allred: Enlarge Smithfield graded school district and increase taxes. Allred: Authorize disinterment and re-interment of certain bodies. Stacy: Amend the Revisal of 190f relating to weights and measures. Second roll call bills as follows, passed: Relative to the charters of South Mills, Cameron County; Benson. Johnston County; and to incorporate the town of Oakboro, Stanly County. Authorize elections in Pitt County townships. Change waterworks bonds for Hertford. Authorize Wilson to issue funding bonds. The following bills pased final reading: Change the charter of High Point Create Cane Creek township ir Mitchell County. Authorize Alexander commission ers to levy taxes for a county home Amend the charter of Shaw Uni versity to holdings amounting to $600,000. Amend the charter of Mount Holly Amend charter Cherryville, Gaston County and Smithfield, Johnston County. Amend the charter of the Greens boro College for Women. The House passed the Pendei County stock law election bill with Stacy's amendment to build a fence between Pender and New Hanove* Counties, also the following: The Thomas bill providing that the purchase price of mortgage sales be paid to the clerk of the court pending a re-sale, took up one of the golden hours, but it was interesting. Messrs. Bowie, Clarke and Cara wan opposed the bill measure. Vann. Williams and Roberts speaking for it. The vote was overwhelmingly for the bill. In the Senate. By a vote of 35 to 7, the Senate on Thursday passed the Ward bill repealing the long and short haul clause of the Justice act and sub stituting the section in the Revisal. Senator Hobgood’s amendment elimi nating from application of the pro visions of the Justice act railroads of 100 miles and less was voted down, 32 to 10. The only new lull of importance was one by Senator McRae to au thorize land and loan leagues in ru ral communities on the same prin ciple as the building and loan asso ciation in towns. Hl'SSI \ rSES MUCH COTTON. American Consul Reports That Rus sia Will Take American Product. Washingtn, Feb. 5.—Russia will absorb large quantities of American cotton as soon as there are shipping facilities. American Consul General Snodgrass, at Moscow, says the Rus sian crops of 1914-15 amount to one million, three hundred and twen ty thousand bales. Practically no American cotton is going forward to Russia. No more cotton should be shipped to Goten berg, Sweden, at present, according to Commercial Attache Thompson, at Rotterdam, because of congestion there. He states there is no difficulty in shipping through Rotterdam to Germany. Last year Oregon shipped 750 cars of apples, Washington 1740 cars and California 3,000. GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. A contract for 25,000 tons of steel rails has been let by the Baltimore & Ohio railroad. * * * Ill-health has forced the Rev. Leon ard G. Broughton, formerly of Ral eigh, N. C., to resign his pastorate of Christ Church in London, England. * * * Lazarus Allen, an 80-year-old vet eran of the Civil War, was sentenc ed to prison at Georgetown, Ken tucky, last week, for the killing of a 17-year-old boy. His plea was self defense. * * * The North Carolina delegation in Congress voted to over-ride the veto of the President on the immigration bill. Representatives Small, Kitch in, Pou, Stedman, Page, Godwin, Houghton, Webb and Gudger voted that way. Representative Faison was absent. * * * The fifteenth German naval cas ualty list issued last week gives the names of 1,572 casualties among the Germans. Five more Prussian lists have been issued containing the names of 22,158 men killed, wound ed, or missing, bringing ^he total of 137 lists to 926,547. * * ♦ The county commissioners of Dur ham County have given an order for 20 mules and about $15,000 worth of machinery which will be used on the roads of that county. It is the in tention of the board to establish an other camp in the county. At the present time there are two convict camps. * * * Among the wounded who have ar rived in Moscow from the front is Olga Krasilnikoff, a girl of nineteen years. After taking part in nineteen battles in Poland she was wounded in the foot. The girl enlisted under a man’s name and this deception has just been discovered. The cross of St. George, fourth degree, has been awarded her. * * * Ocean freight rates for cotton are declining, according to information received at Galveston. The rate to Bremen has eased off from $3.50 a hundred pounds to $2.50, and Barce lona from $1.35 to 85 cents, in some cases. Rotterdam is $2 to $2.10, as against $2.50. The rate to Liverpool remains at $1.15 to $1.25, but is re ported as likely to change. * * * State-wide prohibition has been placed before the Indiana legislat ure by a bill introduced in the House. The bill would prohibit the manufact ure, sale or giving away of spirit uous malt, vinous or intoxicating liquors, but provides for their use for sacramental, scientific, mechan ical and medical purposes. The man ufacture of home-made wines and ci der is legalized by the bill. * * * Three of the conspirators in the plot to assassinate the Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, the Duchess of Hohenberg, were execut ed in the prison of the fortress at Serajevo, Bosnia, Thursday, accord ing to a Berlin despatch. Gavrio Prinzip, who fired the shots which killed the Archduke and Duchess, al ready has been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment, his youth pre venting the imposition of the death penalty. * * * The Senate Commerce Committee has reported the rivers and harbors bill carrying $38,627,880 an increase of more than $4,000,000 over the to tal appropriated by the bill as it pass ed the House. Senator Fletcher, in charge of the bill, said he hoped to call it up for discussion “as soon as possible.” Among items added were the Beaufort and Morehead City har bors, North Carolina, $25,800. Sena tor Burton proposes to fight the bill as he did ;.t the last session. * * • Dr. Len G. Broughton, formerly of Atlanta, Ca., who resigned the pas torate of Christ Church, London, England last week, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Knoxville, Tenn. His acceptance came by cable. The He'" Dr. Broughton was the founder of the Baptist Tabernacle in Atlanta, and was its pastor for seventeen years. He left Atlanta for London in the spring of 1912. The Atlanta church invited him to return to that charge last July. * * A despatch from Bucharest says j Germany and Austria are moving’ thousands of carloads of grain, which have been stored in.Rumania railway stations owing to the indisposition of the Rumanian Government to permit the movement of the grain and also because of the shortage of cars. The total amount stored was 46,000 car loads. Germany agreed to take half and is now moving it out. As cars become available Austria is also moving its share. There are 200, 000 tons of beans rotting in Rumania ’ owing to the restrictions upon their shipment to Germany and Austria. 1 FRIDAY IN THE LEGISLATURE. Senate Defeats Bill to Stop Hiring Convicts for Railroad Construction. Long Debate in House on Mortgage Bill. Several Bills Introduced. (Wilmington Star.) Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 5.—The Weav er child labor bill is to be fought out on the floor of the Senate, notwith standing the ten to two adverse re ports given the bill in committee. It will come up under favorable minor-! ity report, Senator Weaver having j procured an order today for 300 cop- j ies to be printed and settle the bill as a special order for Wednesday of next week. The Muse bill designed to break up the State policy of aiding the con struction of railroads in undeveloped territory by working convicts in ex change for stock was defeated 34 to 7 in the Senate. This and the defeat , of the Page bills to repeal the acts that authorized the convict work on such roads now in progress, demon strate that this Legislature intends that the compacts the State has with ( railroad companies for this co-opera- | live construction work shall be carried out. Senator McAuley in the Senate j and Representative Douglass in the ! House, introduced duplicate bills re ! quiring examinations of railroad em | ployes and prohibiting any who can not read and write. The House or dered 500 copies printed. The House was featured today by two lengthy debates, one terminating in the defeat of the Nash bill to sim plify the forms of deeds and mortga-1 ges and the other in the passage of a bill to amend the practice so that suits for collection of debt must be brought in the county in which the debtor resides instead of forcing the defendant to come to the county of the plaintiff |to answer the summons. New bills were introduced in the Senate as follows: Fisher—To Repeal the Sampson County stock law. Giles—Permit counties, townships and certain school districts to issue bonds for school purposes. Gardner—Change the name of A. & M. College, Greensboro. Bumgarner—Provide for the pub lic inspection of all public institutions by the grand juries. Snow—Provide for the election of Wake County Board of Education by vote of the people. Gardner—Amend the Revised so as to provide full compensation to solic itors when defendants are sent to the roads. Dixon—Amend the law as to the sale of property for taxes. There were numerous petitions in the House for the State Anti-Saloon League bill to prevent the delivery of liquors for beverage purposes, these coming from many sections of the State, including Mecklenburg, Gas- 1 ton, Halifax, Macon, Guilford and other counties. There were petitions | for the pending Farmers’ Union, legislation and for the rural credits1 and land and loan associations. New bills were introduced as fol lows: Currie—Validate elections in Cum berland and Sampson Counties as tc schools. Brummitt—Amend the Revisal of 1905 so as to provide for the creation and operation of land and loan asso ciations. This is a duplicate of the l McRae bill in the Senate. Both are referred to the committee on agricul ture and there is to be a joint hear ing arranged early next week. Brummitt—Require reports as to all State salaries. Dough ton—Provide for the parole of convicts sentenced for minor offen ses either as State or County con victs. Hanes and Mickle—Allow officers and witnesses full fees in certain con victions. McBryde—Amend the Revisal so as to exempt Confederate soldiers from jury duty. Smith, of Watauga—Authorize G. H. Hayes to practice veterinary sur gery. Denton—For the relief of Confed erate veterans and their widows. Bills passed final reading as fol lows: Authorize bonds by Wake Forest for extending the light system. Enable Smithfield to fund its in-! debtedness and complete water plant. Extend the coroprate limits of Wilson. Authorize the purchase of its wa ter-shed by Hendersonville. Provide for commission form of government in Asheville. , Bills passed final reading in the Senate as follows: Authorize the commissioners of Monroe to issue school bonds. Regulate the fees of the clerk of the Superior Court in Johnston Coun ty Amend the charter of High Point, law's. Amend the law as to the issue of funding bonds in Buncombe County, i Authorize the Lee County highway j commission to employ a superinten dent w'ho is not an engineer. Abolish the office of county treasur- • er in Mitchell and Cleveland Counties Amend the law relative to the For syth County highway commission. Provide for the assurance and reg-; istration of deed titles and provide i for the publication of notices eight weeks in newspapers and increase fees for the notices in newspapers. ; STOPS HIS FUNERAL BY PHONE. Said He Ought to Know If He Is Dead or Alive. Mere chance prevented John Wil liam Mason’s funeral. Had it not been for his sister declining at the last minute to telegraph the Newell Hotel as Syracuse, N. Y., Mason ; would have been buried and his friends in Pittsburg would have been telling each other what a good fellow' he was and how shocking was the accident that cost his life. The body was brought from Grove- j ton, where it had been run over by a train. A former neighbor of Mason’s,1 who has not lived in this city for sev eral years, happened to see the uni dentified body at the morgue, assured himself it was that of his old ac quaintance and notified Mrs. G. W. Stewart of 400 Tabor avenue, Esplen, Mason’s sister. She and her husband hurried to the morgue and identified the body, not only by general appearance but by a scar left by a burn upon one leg. An undertaker was engaged and a grave prepared. While Mr. Stewart was at the grave Mrs. Stewart wasj seized with doubt. She telegraphed the Syracuse Hotel and when a tele gram came back that John William Mason was still employed there she was as much surprised as when she heard of his “death.” Her husband could scarcely believe the telegram when he returned to the house and, hurried to the long distance tele- j phone. “I guess 1 ought to know whether , I am dead or alive,” replied John | William Mason from Syracuse in re- | ply to the persistent inquiries of his brother-in-law as to whether he was sure it was himself speaking. “Am alive and well, so do not hold the funeral.”—Pittsburg Dispatch to j New York Sun. What Little Things. What little things are these That hold our happiness! A smile, a glance, a rose Dropped from her hair or dress; A word, a look, a touch; These are so much, so much. An air we can’t forget; A sunset’s gold that gleams; A spray of mignonette Will fill the soul with dreams More than all history says, Or romance of old days. For of the human heart, Not brain, is memory; These things it makes a part Of itc own entity; The joys, the pains whereof Are the very food of love. —Madison Cawein. Johnston Bridge Commissioners. Wilson’s Mills—C. M. Wilson. Clayton—L. H. Champion. Cleveland—F. T. Booker. Pleasant Grove—E. S. Coats. Banner—J. H. Rose, Sr. Meadow—J. Mang Wood. Bentonsville—W. N. Rose. Boon Hill—J. C. Holt. Beulah—W. T. Bailey. Micro—D. H. Bagley. Oneals—W. T. Parker. Wilders—V. R. Turley. Pine Level—Alex W’iggs. Smithfield—John A. Johnson. S. G. PHILLIPS and ASHLEY JOHNSON Contractors and Builders. Work on Houses and Bridges Solicited Garner, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1, Near Shiloh Baptist Church. KWSfi aWW Siffi W * £ W W LET US KNOW. This is the season of the year when there is more or less moving about and changing of post office address. When any subscriber of The Herald changes his address it would be to his advantage and ours also if he will promptly notify this office. Write us a card giving the post office ad dress you have been re ceiving the paper and also the one you want paper sent to in future. Do this and save both of us trouble. THE HERALD Smithfield, N. C. INFANT MORTALITY IS HIGH. Federal Children’s Bureau Gives Re sults of Its Investigation In Pennslyvania. The first report of its study of in fant mortality has been made public by the Federal Children’s Bureau. It is based on conditions found by the bureau’s investigators in Johnstown, Pa. While it carefully avoids conclu sions, the report points out that in the poorest sections of Johnstown the death rate was 271 per thousand babies, or more than five times that in the best residential sections of the city. Babies whose fathers earn ed $10 a week or less, the report says, died at the rate of 256 per thousand, while those whose fathers earned $25 or more a week died at the rate of eighty-four per thousand. Ar tificially-fed babies died at a much more rapid rate than breast-fed ba bies. Only 46.6 babies per thousand died under one year of age when breast-fed for at least three months, as against 165.8 per thousand who died when fed^with artificial foods. When mothers were employed a large part of the time in heavy work, babies died at a rapid rate. In one group of nineteen mothers, whose ba bies all died, fifteen had been keep ing lodgers. In houses where water had to be obtained from outside, the death rate was found to be 198 per thousand, as against 118 per thous and in housese where water was sup plied by pipes.—Washington Dis patch. Stock Law Commissioners. Pleasant Grove—Jno. C. Hardee, Black Creek to Harnett County line. H. S. Honeycutt, Black Creek to G. H. Roberts. Elevation and Smithfield—W. S. Smith. Lower Smithfield—C. W. Smith. Selma— I. A. Ingram. Oneals—Jno. W. Godwin. f HAROLD BELL WRIGHT’S %OST popular books, “The Shepherd of the Hills,” and “The Winning of Barbara Worth” now on sale at Herald Office, price 50 cents. By mail 56 cents. OF LOCAL INTEREST. V - Some people We Know, and We Will Profit by Hearing About Them. This is a purely local event. It took place in Smithfield. Not in some faraway place. You are asked to investigate it. Asked to believe a citizen’s word; To confirm a citizen’s statement. Any article that is endorsed at home Is more worthy of confidence Than one you know nothing about, Endorsed by unknown people. Mrs. W. L. Brady, Smithfield, says: ‘A dull pain in my back worried me considerably. In the morning I was sore and stiff and tired so easily chat I could hardly do my housework. [ had headache and dizzy spells, my sight blurred and the kidney secre cions were irregular in passage. I saw Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised ind got some at Hood Bros.’ Drug Store. They strengthened my back ind relieved all the symptoms of kid ley trouble.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get [loan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Mrs. Brady had. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.—Adv. Now Well “Thedford’s Black-Draught is the best all-round medicine lever used,” writes J. A. Steelman, of Pattonville, Texas. ”1 suffered terribly with liver troubles, and could get no relief. The doctors said I had con sumption. 1 could not work at all. Finally 1 tried THEDFORD’S BLACK DRAUGHT and to my surprise, I got better, and am to-day as well as any man.” Thedford’s Black Draught is a general, cathartic, vegetable liver medicine, that has been regulating irregulari ties of the liver, stomach and bowels, for over 70 years. Get a package today. Insist on the genuine—Thedfoid’s. E-70 ALBERT LEE BARBOUR Successor to in u aG' F- BARBOUR All lands of bnck and concrete work Patronage Solicited Sirfilh field, North Carolina. monuments DUNN MARBLE WORK* Dunn, .... UK*f’ Head Stones, and Iron . Write for Designs and Pn "^1 CABBAGE PLANTS^ FOR sale fi Fort,1mce S,Ze Early Jersey Wake held Plants see or write. JNO. W. MITCHENER jr Smithfield, N. C. ’ Prices-by mail, postpaid, 25 cents per hundred; by Express, $1.50 npr 1,000; 2,000 or more, $1.25. DR. WHITAKElT of Raleigh Will be in Smithfield, Friday January 22, and the First Monday in February Practice limited to y’ Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Junior Order Hall. U —Same Building— L. H. ALLRED, President. F. H. BROOKS, Attorney. J. J. BROADHURST, Sec’y. & Treas. SMITHFIELD BUILDING & LOAN ASSOCIATION DIRECTORS L. H. Allred, W. L. Woodall M TnRryallVu' R‘ Bail,ey’ F- H- Brooks N. B. Grantham, J. J. Broadhurst. Smithfield, North Carolina. A FIXED PURPOSE To save is to prepare for the future, take a few shares, 25 cents per week will return to you in 333 weeks, $100.00. New Series January 1, 1915. J. J. BROADHURST, Sec’y. & Treas. We are fifteen months old, and have loaned $9,000.00 in Johnston County. Call to see us. SALE OF LAND. By virtue of the powers contained in a certain mortgage deed executed by Jno. I. Barnes and Luther Barnes to Mrs. Fannie Langston on the 12th day of Feburary, 1914 and duly re corded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Johnston County in Book “A” No. 13, page 67, and the terms of said mortgage not having been com plied with, I will on the 12th day of February, 1915, at the court house door in Smithfield, N. C., sell to the highest bidder for cash the land here in described: Beginning at a point in the center of the N. C. R. R. track 40 feet above the cemetery lot in line of Mulberry Street, runs as said Street N. 47 E. 4.75 chains to a stake in E. B. Mc Cullers’ line; thence as his line N. 55 W. 23.20 chains to the center of the said N. C. R. R. track; thence along the center of said railway track to the beginning, containing four acres, more or less, subject to the right-of-way of the said N. C. R. R. This the 12th day of January, 1915. MRS. FANNIE LANGSTON. W. W. COLE, Atty. NOTICE. WHEREAS, J. H. Evans and wife, Martha Ann Evans, of Johnston County and State of North Carolina, on the 28th day of January, 1913, made and executed a mortgage to W. N. Barden, of John ston County and State of North Car olina, which mortgage was recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds for Johnston County, on the 28th day of January, 1913, at 12 o’clock M., in Book “N” No. 11, at page 255; and WHEREAS, default has been made in the payment of the money secured by said mortgage, and no suit or pro ceeding having been instituted at law to recover the debt now claimed to be due upon said mortgage, or any part thereof; the said mortgage will be foreclosed by a sale of said prem ises by virtue of the power contain ed in the mortgage, which sale win be made by the subscriber, at pub lic auction, FOR CASH, at the Court House door in the town of Smitnnelo, N. C., on the 5th day of March, 1915, at 12 o’clock, M. The following is a description of the mortgage' premises: , . t,. Situated in Beulah township, ginning at a stake, formerly John Hatcher’s corner, in, formerly Hen derson Garner’s line, and runs North 192 poles to (formerly) Jamn® Hatcher’s corner; thence with ms line East 164 poles to a stake; thence South 158 poles to a stake; thence East 6 poles 10 links to a stake, thence South 34 poles to a stake; thence West to the beginning, containing One Hundred, ninet more or less; SAVh, AiNr^. to Thirty acres of said tract in which Gilly Hatcher has a We _ tate; and Fifty acres of the afore_ said tract heretofore sold an veyed by the parties of the Jrst £ to T. C. Cockerell; and these sai^ tracts containing 30 and 50 acre . spectively are hereby eX.cfp rte.age the operation of the said mortgage |deTerms, CASH. Time of Sale^Feb ruary 5th, 1915, at Noon. , g Sale, Court House Door, Smithhei NtL the 5th J. H. MANNING, Mortgagee. Attorney. GET A COPY OF “THE Shepherd of Kingdom Come, John Fox, Jr., price 50 cents a. He Aid Office. By mail 56 cen^
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