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TO SLEEP W A KM IN FRESH A I It.
State Hoard of Health Tells Inquirer
How to Sleep Warm and Vet
Have Fresh Aair.
"Please tell me how on earth one
can sleep warm and have fresh air
at the same time these cold nights?"
is a recent inquiry made of the State
Hoard of Health. It seems that there
are people who are willing to obey the
doctors' injunction to sleep in fresh
air, night or day, hot or cold, freeze or
fry, hut who are binding it rather a
chilly proposition while the thermom
eter plays around the zero mark these
nights. Nevertheless, the State Hoard
of Health has a word of advice for
the cold sleeper which tells him to
tirst get ready so as not to get cold
feet on the proposition and drop it
altogether. The advice of the Hoard
is as follows:
"People cannot expect to sleep
warm in cold weather whether their
windows are open or not without first
making preparation for it. This re
quires, first, soft, warm night cloth
ing that covers the arms and feet;
second, plenty of light warm covering,
preferably woolen blankets which are
lighter and warmer than quilts; third,
a soft, thick bed that lets no air in
from underneath; fourth, warm bath
robe and slippers that will enable one
to get in bed warm.
"One of the essentials for sleeping
comfortably in cold flesh air is go
ing to bed warm in warm night
clothes. If necessary, a night cap and
eiderdown foot warmers should be
worn. The bed should be more than a
thin mattress. One can get cold for
lack of covering underneath as well
as on top. A cold sponge bath in the
morning will not only make fresh air
sleeping easier and more delightful,
but it will create such a resistance to
cold that thinner clothes may be Worn
and less covering needed at night."
The Aeroplane.
It h:'.s been only tt*n or fifteen years
since most of ur* looked upon the au
tomobile as impractical thing,
which wouMr never amount to much.
Now it ly,Ys become a necessity in our
moi&rn way of living. 'Two years ago,
we looked upon the aeroplane as a
dangerous contrivance which a few
foolhardy young men used to enter
tain crowds at State and County
Fairs. It did not occur to us that it
would ever become a very useful ma
chine.
13ut the accounts we tret now from
the other side of the water are to the
etTect that the aeroplane has become
t?ne of the most useful contrivances
for armies at War. It has taken the
place of cavalry for scouting pur
poses, and does the work much better.
Artillery fire is directed by men in
aeroplanes, who fly over the enemy's
lines end note where the sheila drop.
Cities one hundred to two hundred
miles inside the enemy's lines are
bombarded with bombs dropped from
flocks of aeroplanes. Vessels sailing
from (ircat Britain are escorted one
hundred and fifty to two hundred
miles at sea by aeroplanes, from
which observers can see submarines
in the water below.
Recently, an American aviator
traveled from Chicago to New York
in eight hours and twenty-eight min
utes, an average of 114 miles per
hour. This was not a continuous
flight, as he made two stops, both of
which were due to slight defects in
his machinery. This man says, how
ever, that at some not distant day he
expects to eat his breakfast in Chi
cago and his lunch in New York.
Two weeks afterward, Ruth Law,
who made exhibition flights at the
Iowa State Fair this year, made a
ron-stop flight of 666 miles, at a
speed of 1H>.2 miles per hour, break
ing Till previous records.
We do not know just how the devel
opment of the aeroplane will affect
the farmer in the future, but stronger
things have happened than that it
should enter into his life in a very di
rect way within the next ten years.
? Wallace's Farmer.
"An Old-Fashioned Woman."
Mrs. Josephus I)ani Is. wife of the
Secretary of the Navy, was calle 1 up
on recently to address a woman's
meeting in Washington and her
speech was us follows:
"I am an old-fashioned woman, and
the only thing I have don^ is to raise
four boys in whose so'ils f\h?ve tried
mean to disparage the work your
< rganization has been doing, for il
has b~ought forth wo.ide?*ful results,
but a'ong with this we should see that
our men and boys do not lose the old
ideals. Life is whut we put in it and
| not what we get out of it. This I con- J
aider the true measure of life and one
that all of us should sdopt."
"The only thing" that she has done
is to raise four boys with Southern
ideals! "The only thing!" God bless
you, dear lady, no woman has done,
or eould do, a nobler work or render
a more useful and patriotic service
i than that. Let oher women bring
their political brilliants and display
them in the Hall of Fame; but you,
like Cornelia of old, may point with a
mother's pride and love and joy to
j your splendid boys and say, "These
J are MY jewels."
Thank God for this "old-fashioned
| Southern woman," and for the inspir.
I ing message she has delivered to the
[ vomen of the nation. ? Newport News
| Times- Herald.
The York's Pout Offices.
Postmaster Morgan's report that
the receipts of his office during the,,
I year have been $35,000,000 tells but
{ part of the story. Owing to the re
grettable division of the city's terri
tory into many I'ost Offices, some $(>,
000, 000 must be added for Brooklyn,
(Queens anil Richmond receipts. The
city's postal receipts are more than
one. ninth of those for the entire Na
tion. The receipts of the New York
Post Office, illogically so called that
is, of Manhattan-Bronx alone ?
are on -tenth those- of the Nation.
If the increase of 15 per cent in i
the ypftrvs business of the New York I
' I'osf Office fairly represents that of |
i th,"- country, it gives a measure of
i the extent and swift growth in 11>1C>
'of American prosperity. But the vast |
j share which New York assumes of I
I the expenditure of the department
I entitles local sentiment to draw an- 1
Other moral from the figures.
The metropolis is the milch-cow of
I the Post Office Department. From its
receipts a profit which for 1910 may ,
reach $25,000,000 or more, Manhat
tan furnishing the greater share, is
drawn to maintain unprofitable ser
vices elsewhere. Yet the city is threat- 1
ened with the loss of its pneumatic
tube service. And a community which
! pours into the coffers of the depart
| ment a sum equalling the peace bud
| get of Norway or the total assess
| ment value of Galveston cannot even
i find mail-boxes in which to deposit
! its $40,000,000 worth of stamps! ? -
Nek York World.
I i
Stop, Look, Listen!
Observations made by- railroads in
California at thirty-four crossings
have di. closed the fact that of 17,000 j
drivers of motor vehicles, per j
cent looked neither way before cross
ing the tracks, 2.7 per cent looked in
one direction only, and but 27.8 per
cent looked both ways. Three thou
sand three hundred drivers ran over
the crossings at a reckless rate of
speed.
There is any amount of lip-support
for the "Safety First" movement, but
actual and active application of the
principle is astonishingly meaner. Not
only ;tfv thousands of persons daily
jeopardizing their safety and their
lives, but also their pocket books;
and it seems that, if the element of
personal risk and the imperiling of
one's most precious possession fail to
provide an effective warning, the
probability of disaster to the pocket
book should exert a strong influence
in these days when material wealth
is on so high a pedestal. Stop, look
and listen, even though it be merely
your automobile which you desire to
preserve from destruction. ? Daily
Financial America.
At Hazelwood Heights.
?
On last Friday, Mr. and Mrs. F.
L. Perkinj, Mr. and M^s. Holmes
\rendell, of Raleigh, N. C., and Mrs.
Robert Frnnely, of Panada, motored
<ut to "Hafcelwood Heights" and
spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. W.
I,). Tomlinson. Mr. Perkins is the
?Id est brother of Mrs. Tomlinson.
An English inventor's cigarette
holder is etiuipped with a porous disk
to filter the smoke.
1 ?
Day Brightens Just Ahead.
Day brightens just ahead,
In spite of all we bear
There's something else in life instead
Of weariness and care.
Day brightens as we go,
Take heart and swing along;
The path of every trial will glow
At last with bloom and song.
Discouraged? Oh, be brave!
Day brightens, and we wheel
Into the light, tho banners wave,
And the sunshine hits our steel.
A little while the dark,
A little while the strain,
And then the winged shaft at the
mark,
The victory won again.
? Baltimore Sun.
Famine Prices for Taper.
The Federal Trade Commission has 1
Completed its investigation into the
present abnormal prices for paper
and its cost of manufacture. No in
dustry is more seriously threatened
by the extravagant rise in the prices
of raw materials than the printing j
and publishing business. Periodicals 1
other than newspapers, for instance, j
must suddenly pay, in 1017, from 75 I
lo 100 per cent more for their raw ma
terial ? paper ? than in any year for I
the last decade. The Trade Commit- j
sion report in its remarks op the
mill costs of paper manufacture made |
the striking statement that during the !
first half of 1016, when the prices of
puywr to the consumer were soaring, j
the cost of producing the paper was
actually less than it had been at any j
time during tho preceding three years, j
i his remarkable finding i.i the face i
of claims by the manufacturers that 1
the prices of their raw materials had'
risen extravngnntly, is explained
simply and finally by the following
facts: The ingredients for which the
mill had to pay higher prices made
up only a small percentage of the
aggregate cost factors; and that dis
advantage was more than swept away
by the great cost reductions result
ing from operating the mills twenty
four hours a day six days in the week,
with every pound of pp. per sold with
out effort or expense to clamoring
buyers. In spite of this fortunate sit -
ut ion of the paper makers, buyers of
news-print not protected by contract
arrangements have had to pay as
high as six and even seven cents a
pound for paper that would have cost
them under like conditions in 1014
less than three cents. Tho Trade Com
mission finds that tho 1 0 1 ?? mill cost
of pewducing this news-print paper is
about i.fio cents. ? From "The Prog
ress of tho World," in the American
Review of Reviews for December,
lOlfi.
An Old lint Effective Sentence.
Now and then from odd corner:-, ot
the country some sensible judge in a
merciful way passes an unusual sen
tence on the convicted offender.
You read of the court's judgment
and smile and say to yourself, "how
foolish." This is where you make a
mistake. Sometimes those unusual
sentences convey with them a won
drous amount of meaning.
For instance, in Providence last
week a judge, old in years and vast
experience, had before him a lad not
ten years of ape charged with at
tempting murder.
The hoy had no idea of committing
murder. He had no thought or desire
to injure the prosecuting: witness. It
all happened like this: The boy, filled
with all of the energy and spirit of
youth, had a erase for throwing
rocks. He delighted in smashing the
windows of vacant houses and in see
ing how many arc light* he could de
stroy with his unerring aim. It pos
sibly never occurred to this young
American that every glass destroyed
meant money to the owner.
But one afternoon in smashing at a
billboard, this boy fractured the skull
of a little girl who was passing. He
was a mere child", he was not ten
years of age, there was no criminal
intent in his heart, only the wicked
spirit of mischief.
The judge had been a boy himself
once. Possibly he threw rocks. But the
"entrite face of the boy before him
moved the venerable jurist to a uuique
sentence that will be generally ap
proved.
"You like to throw rocks?" he ask
ed in a paternal v/ay."
"Yes, sir," replied the youth.
"All right," declared the judge- "I
will sentence you to throw 1000
rocks before you can go home, and I
instruct the officers of this court to
see that you throw them."
The boy was taken to a gravel pit
and was required to carry out the
mandate of the court. When his little
arm grew weary he was allowed to
rest. When he merely tossed a rock
he had to use another and throw it
to the best of his ability. At first it
seemed all fun, but after the sentence
was served this lad had no desire to
look at a rock, and he will think in
the days to come before he throws
.another one or smashes another win
dow. -Memphis Commercial Appeal.
The Corn Growers.
On"' hears at every hand the re
peated statement that "we must do
something" to reduce the high cost
of living. It is a theme with which
congress wrestles and ordinary citi
zens contend. They haven't Bettled it
yet, nor is it certain just how they
are to go about its definite and sat
isfactory adjustment, "ut they arc
all fully assii" 1 that "we must do ;
something.'
While this argument is in progress
there are in our midst about 1,000
bright-eyed boys and girls from Ohio !
'taking in the* sights, looking up at
th( Monument, peeking into the Cap
itol. going through the Library of
Congress, making a trip to the tomb
of Washington ? hi fact, having a
?vood time and becoming properly j
impressed with the greatness of their
country.
These are the boy and girl "corn
growers." They have answered to the
teachings in agriculture given by
lh;ir State and by the Federal Gov
?rnment. That noblest of occupations,
the tilling of the soil, is theirs. To it
they have given their labor, mingled
with great enthusiasm and a con
stantly increasing knowledge of how
to make two good oars of corn grow
where only a nubbin grew before.
This is their day off. and they arc
enjoying it to the utmost.
Perhaps no more opportune time
could be found for telling them and
ourselves that they have been "doing
something" to reduce the high cost
that far outweighs all the talk that
could be made in a year on the sub
ject. As their numbers increase they
will do still more. They find the
cities attractive, no doubt, and at
times may be afflicted with the de
sire to exchange their present lot for
one in which they experience much
that is novel and exciting. But there
is really nothing here which they
haven't better at home, for what is
here they and their kind more than
my others have created. It is just I
possible that they have a sense of this i
truth, and that they will cary back
with them the placid conviction that
they can liv2 without us far better
tru*h, and that they will carry back
Pest, Dec. tlth.
lielgium Not To Ik* Forgotten.
Belgium was the first victim of the i
war and her wrongs have impressed i
themselves so strongly upon the im
agination of every one who speaks or
writes about the atrocities committed
in this struggle that she has become
the prototype of all the rest of the
small nations and little peoples who
have been fcround beneath the heels i
of advancing armies. In answer to a !
correspondent who protests that oth
ers have suffered as much as the bel
gians this is offered as the explana- !
tion of the way in which these mat
ters are treated in this and other
newspapers.
Poles, East Prussians, Armenians,
Serbians and others have suffered
wrongs which the pen cannot describe.
Every rule of civilized warfare and
international law has been violated
since its outbreak in August, 1914.
To right these wrongs as far as pos
sible and to take measures to pre
vent repetition at any time in the fut
ure, President Wilson is now address
ing himself. Whether he will succeed
or not none can foretell, but the in
fluence of the United States as the
lending neutral of the world will be
exercised in a cause the righteous
ness of which none can doubt or deny.
New York Commercial.
An illuminated fountain pen which
?arries it own miniature battery and
in.v M izda lamp is used for writing
at night.
STATEMENT
Showing receipts and disburse
ments of the special road tax of
Wilders township, Johnston County,
for the year 1916:
1916.
Jan. 10 ? To A. S. Upchureh,
repairs $ .80
H. S. Wall, 2 months' board
mules 30.00
Pay roll on Boyeit Road.. 13.12
Clayton Hdw. Co., account.. 5.55
J. P. Richardson, difference
in mule trade 25.00
Jan. 29. ? To Pay roll on Selma
road 37.00
R. B. Whitley, account .... 25.18
Feb. 11 ? To Adv., Smithficld
Herald 4.55
Feb. 12 ? G. H. Eason, work on
Eason Road 25.70
Work on bridge and nails.. .92
Feb. 26 ? Pay roll, Earpsboro
road 7.60
March 4 ? 1). B. Batten for lum
ber ...'. 1.52
March 6 ? H. G. Scarborough on
mules 100.00
Mar. 11 ? Pay roll, Selma road 39.78
M:;r. 15 ? J. A. Wall for wagon
tongue 3.50
Millard Lilcs, 4 barrels corn 20.00
H. G. Scarborough, account 11.05
W. A. Myatt, paints 1.20
Mar. 25? Pay roll Wilson road 13.25
Wendell Hdw. Co., account 3.75
R. B. Whitley, account.... 37.48
Mar. 31? C. L. Liles, 8 barrels
corn 40.00
W. A. Richardson, repair
work 3.00
April 1 ? H. Scarborough, 3
days for mules 9.00
A. H. Richardson, 3 days for
mulo 4.50
It. 11. Ricltardson, mule and
hand for 3 days 6.50
April 3 ? W. H. Now"ell, stock
powder ' 100
April 8 ? Pay roll, Corinth road '24.03
S. R. Turner, repairs .... 4.15
April 10 ? W. A. Richardson,
for 2 bushels corn 2.00
April 12 ? C. R. Stott, for lum
ber 17.75
April 15?? Pay roll, Atkinson
road 35.50
May 2 -Kd. Murphy, repairs
Pine Level Road 5.00
May 6- Joe T. Barnes, bridge .51
Clayton lldw. Co., account 1.40
W. E. Oneal, work on bridge 2.00
Pay roll, Whitley and Eason
road 15.65
May 13 ? Pay roll Barham road 66.45
May '20 ? Pay roll, Dock Smith
rod : 22.85
May 27 ? R. B. Whitley, acct. 18.03
J. G. Br.rbour & Sons, acct. 14.23
June 2? Pay roll. Castleberry
road 20.00
June 9 ? W. T. Hinton, road
service 3.50
Pay roll, Eason road 26.00
June 17 ? Pay roll, Wendell
road , 51.60
W. T. Hinton, service 6 mos. 18.00
June 23 ? Wendell Feed Co.,
account 10.50
July 1 ? 11. S. Wall, service 6
months 18.00
R. 11. Richardson, service 6
months ' 18.00
Tom Jordan. Eason road.... 12.00
July 8 ? Clayton Hardware Co.,
account 8.27
Pay roll, Clayton road.... 22.55
July 14 ? Pay roll, Joe Medlin
road 48.40
July 25 ? S. R. Turner, repairs 1.50
M. Murphy, repairs on road 1.50
G. W. Bailey, for harrow.. 5.00
J. G. Barbour & Sons, acct. 38.20
Aug. 5 ? Hardy Murphy, repairs
on road 12.25
Aug. 8 ? Pay roll, Castleberry
road 30.62 !
\ug. 12 ? Pay roll, Hinton road 64.00
Aug '25 ? H. H. Batten, on Bat
ten road 13.75 1
Pay roll, Clayton road.... 20.11
Sept 2 ? Zeb Br.rham, Barham
road 10.00 1
Sept. 13 ? J. G. Barbour & Sons
account 51.09 .
Joe Murphy, on Murphy road 15.00
Sept. 16 ? Pay roll, Clayton
road 108.82 1
E. T. Whitley, road repairs 5.00
Oct. 4 ? J. G. Barbour & Sons,
account 34.23
Clayton Hdw Co., account . . 5.00
1). P. C.riffis, Smith work.. 3.95
Oct. 7? Pay roll, Smithfield
road 51.44
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Oct. 21 ? Pay roll, Joe Medlin
road 63.13
Oct. 28 ? J. A. Wall, on Clayton
road 7.10
Nov. 4 ? Wendell Hdw. Co.,
account 5d(
Nov. 18 ? Pay roll, Crawford
road 58.0H
Nov. 21 ? 1). B. Batten, on C.
H. Richardson road ...-. 16.35
Nov. 24 ? Pay roll, Clayton
road 27.25
J. G. Barbour & Sons, Clay
ton road 67.76
Dec. 5 ? Pay roll, Clayton road 27.47
Bank of Wendell, interest.. .50
Dec. 8 ? D. P. Griffis, smith
work 3.2?
Dec. 9 ? Pay roll, Clayton road 26.67
W. T. Hinton, 6 mos. service 18.00
H. S. Wall, 6 mos. service 18.00
R. H. Richardson, 6 months
service 18.00
Dec. 14 ? H. G. Scarborough,
account 4.25
Dec. 22 ? C. R. Stott, Clydes
Chapel road and lumber 103.37
Total Disbursements.... $1,892.83
Jan. 1, 1917? Bal. in Bank $ 58.40
TOT A I $1,951.23
RECEIPTS.
1916
Jan. 1 ? Bal. in Bank $ 87.64
Feb. 22 ? Rec'd from W. F.
Crimen 1,000.00
June 1 ? Rec'd from W. T.
Adams, Auto Tax 24.00
July 15 ? Rec'd from W. F.
Grimes 350.00
Sept. 21 ? Rec'd from W. F.
Grimes 98.69
Dec. 1 ? Rec'd from W. T.
Adams, Auto Tax 27.90
Dec. 8 ? Rec'd from sale of
mules 325.00
Dec. 9 ? Rec'd from sale of
Harness 8.00
Dec. 22 ? Rec'd from sale of
tools 30.00
TOTAL $1,951.23
# ?
R. H. RICHARDSON,
Treasurer.
Subscribed and sworn to before me,
this 5th day of Jahuary, 1917.
M. C. TODD,
Notary Public.
(My commission expires Jan. 9, 1918.)
SALE VALUABLE LAND.
By virtue of a decree of the Supe
rior Court of Johnston County, North
Carolina, entered at the December
Term, 1916, in an action entitled 1'ar
rish-Godwin Company, Inc., vs. W. B.
Benson and wife, Stella Benson, the
undersigned commissioner named in
said decree, will offer for sale for
cash to the highest bidder before the
Court House door in Smithfield. N. C.,
at 1*2 :00 M., on Monday, the 12th day
of February, 1917, the following de
scribed property, to-wit:
Beginning at a stake in the center
of the Raleigh and Benson road, 0.
P. Benson's corner, and runs N. 70, E.
14.30 ehainfc' -to a stake in A. Stephen
son's line; thence N. 28, W. 11.60
chains to a stake. A.. Stephenson's
corner; thence S. 70, W. with the said
Stephenson's line 14.40 chains to the
center of the said Raleigh and Ben
son road; thence with the center of
the said road to the beginning, con
taining 16 acres, more or less.
Terms, cash.
Time, Monday 12:00 M., February
12th, 1,017, at the Court House door
n Smithfield, N. C.
This 5th day of January, 1917.
J. R. BARBOUR.
Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SALE.
By virtue of the power and au
thority contained in a certain Deed
of Trust executed by Otto Barnes, S.
A. Barnes and S. H. Hooks, to W. T.
Burton, Trustee, and registered in
Book "L" No 12, on page 552 of the
Registry for Johnston County, default
having been made in the payment of
the Bond therein secured, the under
signed will, on Wednesday, the sev
enth day of February, 1917, between
the hours of twelve noon and one
P. M., offer for sale to the highest
bidder, for Cash, at the Court House
door in Smithfield, Johnston County,
North Carolina, the following de
scribed town lots situate in the to?*n
of Kenly, N. C:
All of lots numbers two and three
in block M, as shown by the plaj
made for J. D! Farrior, and recorded
in the Register o^ Deeds Office for
Johnston County, in Book "L" No. 1
on nages 450 and 451.
This the 6th day of January. 191 <.
W. T. BURTON.
Trustee.
W. J. HOOKS,
Attorney.
Mr. Subscriber, watch your label.