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AT THE CAPITAL OF BANNER. The Spirit of ProffretM Envelopes the Little Southern City. Two Hand, some Churches, Six New Brick Stores and .Many Residences Now I nder Consideration. Deputy Flow ers (iets on Hot Trail of Blockaders. Two .Musical Recitals Given. Bap tist Church Calls New Pastor. Many Local Items. Benson, Jan. 25. ? Mr. Edgar John son left Monday for Oxford where he has the management of the Oxford Jewelry Company. Mr. Ransom Creech, who has been living at (ioldsboro for the past few months, was here Sunday with rela tives. Miss Lillian Reece, of Western North Carolina, has accepted a posi tion with C. T. Johnson as stenog rapher. Mr. Herbert Barbour, of Elevation, was a visitor to Benson Sunday and Monday. Mesrs. J. T. Stanford and J. R. Bar bour spent Saturday in Tarboro and Wilson on business. Mr. Chas. Johnson was in Smith field Monday on business. Mr. Fred Cavenaugh, of Wallace, N. C., has accepted a position with Mr. J. W. Whittenton, the jeweler. State Senator Ezra Parker spent Saturday, Sunday and Monday in town with his family. Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Smith and chil dren spent Sunday in Coats with rel atives. Mr. J. F. Cause, Jr., of Wilming ton, N. C., was in town Monday on business for his company, Cause & Lynch, architects. Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Barbour and son, O. A., Jr., are spending the week with relatives in Elevation. Attorney W. J. Hooks, of Kenly, was in town Monday spending the day on business. Mr. Ralph Canaday, who is with the Hood Drug Company in Smithfield, was in town Sunday with relatives. Mr. B. I. Tart, Cashier of the Bank of Four Oaks, was a visitor to our city Monday. Mr. Fred Royal, of Washington, 1). C., is in town for the past few days with relatives. Mr. James Benton, of the firm of Benton & Benton, Architects, of Wil son, N. C., spent Monday in town on business. His firm was awarded the drafting of the plans for the building of the Methodist church which will be erected here this Spring. Mr. William Morgan, of Fuquay Springs, has been visiting for a few days in Benson. Mr. Seth Allen, who has been in the Highsmith Hospital at Fayette ville for an operation for the past two weeks, returned home Monday much improved. Mr. C. C. Murphy, of Greensboro, was in the city yesterday on business matters. Mrs. Willie Weeks, of Nashville, N. C., arrived Tuesday and will spend several days here visiting friends. Mr. Russell Bryant went to Wil son Saturday, returning home Monday after spending Sunday in Wilson. Mr. Rosmal Smith has been spend ing a few days in and around Benson on business this week. Mr. J. E. Wilson returned Monday from a week's visit to St. Louis, and other stock-markets, buying several car-loads of mules for sale. One of the new buildings just near ing completion on Main Street, be longing to Mr. S. E. Williams, will be occupied by the Surles Mercan tile Company, when finished. The company will move into the new building within the next few days. Messrs. S. F. Ivey, Jas. Raynor, N. T. Ryals, and Jasper Smith went to the city of Smithfield Tuesday. Quite a larjre crowd attended the Music Recital given at the Method ist church last Friday night by Miss rlorence Johnson, ino recital snowed that the pupils had been given ex cellent training: and had received much benefit from the training. The Music Recital given by Miss Myrtle Ashcraft at the school audito rium Tuesday night was well attend ed and enjoyed by the crowd present. It was evident from the rendition of many of the i upils that they nod been under the care of an efficient teacher. The town of Benson seems at this time to be taking on new life along many lines. We note that in the near future six two-story brick buildings will be erected on Main Street. Mr. S. D. Stone will begin work within the next few Gays on twj of the.e buildings to be used as stores. Mr. J. E. Wilson will build one adjoin ing that of Mr. Stone. Mr. Darry Al len will also erect one in the same 1 lock with Messrs. Stone and Wilson. The firm of J. H. Boon & Son will build two on the West side of the railroad at the location of their pres ent stores. Among the residences that will be commenced shortly we note that of Mr. M. T. Britt which will be erected on Church and Rail road streets at a cost of about fifteen thousand dollars. Architects are now planning this residence and it will add much to the appearance of Church street near the railroad when com ple'ed. Mr. M. A. Peacock will also erect a residence on Church street near the Baptist church, his building to be of the bungalo type. Mr. W. D. Boon will build on Main street at the location of his old residence but the writer does not know what style of residence he will build. Work is rapidly being pushed on thet Presbyterian church which is be ing erected on Hill street near the school building. This church when fin ished will cost about six thousand dollars and will add much to the ap pearance of Hill street in East Ben son. Architects Benton & Benton, of Wilson, are now at work on the plans of the Methodist church which will be erected on the old church site. This building when completed will cost from eighteen thousand to twenty-five thousand dollars, not including the heat, light and plumbing. Work is to begin on it about April 1st, and it is to be completed by September or October. Including the two churches more than one hundred thousand dol lars will be placed in buildings in Benson before the first of next Octo ber. A call has been extended by the Baptist church of Benson to Kev. G. W. Rollins, of Western North Caro lina, to serve the church here for the coming year. Mr. Rollins is one cf the ablest ministers in the State and our people hope that he will be secured by the Baptists of the town to serve their church here. Services will be held by the Presby terians on the fourth Sunday morn ing at eleven o'clock in the Method ist church here, also on the first Sun day night at seven o'clock, from now until work is completed on the new Presbyterian church which is in course 01 erection. Posseman R. L. Mowers located a still near Benson last Friday and staged a raid on the same farm Fri day night, but some how ir other those who were in authority smelt a mouse and the still, together with the four barrels of beer, were all spirited away. However, Mr. Flowers was not so easily to be gotten rid of, and he tracked the beer for about four miles till he finally located it. Secreting himself he waited for sev eral hours till three men appeared upon the scene with the still, a fif teen-gallon copper outfit, and began building the furnace, which they fin ished in about an hour. The process of making booze then began and this operation was looked upon for about , ' -ee hours by Mr. Flowers, one t : rge having been run off, jugged up, and taken away by a notorious blockader who doesn't live far from Benson. When he returned a second h rged was being run, when one of I ii men walked out in the thicket near the still and found himself face with Flowers. Like many another mi "-shiner who has declared he Wwuid kill Flowers the first time he interf erred with his career, this blocker and violater of the law, when Tound himself face to face with thu real thing, ran, fled and flew all it i ? 3 same time, in fact, he ran so fast that his poor dog, faithful to inn., even in crime, could not keep pac o with him, but yelped upon his t-acks with his master far in the 1 a J, closely followed by the other tv. - blockaders. These men were all well known to Mr. Flowers and will le arrested later. Two of them are well known in the Federal Courts and the other bears the reputation of matting liquor. One of the men has -,tly returned from Atlanta where he served a term for violation of the 1 ral laws and one of them is well '-nown in the State and County courts. I Some boys hunting in the woods near ' t h " first location of the still were no jtifiod last week by a man who lives I in Benson that if they were caught in h > woods near there again they I would be shot. \ Why the Salesman (Juit (he Store. In a certain Johnston County store a few years ago, a young man had been clerking for nearly two years when suddenly and unexpectedly to everybody, he grave up the job and went to his home in another town. When first asked why he quit he was 1 -v to answer, but finally said: "I looked on the people in and around that town until I decided I wanted t > >ok at another crowd for awhile." T'.iis is the only reason he gave and the only reason he seemed to have. Thousands move for no better reason. Tenants move into a neighborhood r. .J live for a year and then deeido they want to get with another crowd. It does not seem to make any differ ence how well the tenant is treated by thf land owner or his neighbors he is going to move. He must get to n new neighborhood and must set ?me new people. President Wilson has designated Secretaries Baker, Lane, and Hous ton to report on a site for the pro posed Government nitrate plant, foi which $20,000,000 was authorized by Congress. NAVAL BATTLE IN NORTH SEA. German Destroyer Sunk and Other Torpedo Craft Scattered by British. The Knglish Lose Another Battle. Besti oyer With Three Officers and 44 of Her Crew Go Down. London, Jan. 2'i. ? In an engage ment between British light naval forces and German torpedo boat de stroyers in the North Sea last night a German destroyer was sunk and the other torpedo craft scattered, it was officially announced today. The sink ing of a British torpedo boat destroy er in another engagement with Ger man topedo boat destroyers in the vicinity of Schouwen Bank last night, with the loss of three officers and 44 of the crew, also was announced. The official announcement says: "Last night, while our light forces were patrolling the North Sea not far from the Dutch coast, they met a di vision of enemy torpedo boat destroy ers. A short engagement took place, during which one of the enemy tor pedo boat destroyers was sunk and the rest scattered, having suffered considerable punishment. Darkness j prevented the full results of the ac tion from being observed. I "During last night there was also a short, sharp engagement between ' enemy torpedo destroyers and our own destroyers in the vicinity of Schouwen Bank. During this engage ment one of our torpc do boat destroy ers was struck by a torpedo, the ex plosion killing three officers and 44 of [the crew. She subsequently was sunk by our own ships. Relatives of the victims have been informed. Our ships suffered no other casualties." . . ... Attempted to Leave Aeer?ruj;e. London, Jan. 23. ? Reports from Ymuiden received by Reuters Tele graph Company via Amsterdam say [that German torpedo boats last night attempted to leave Zeebruge to avoid the ice, which was very thick. They ? were immediately attacked by a large British squadron. The action opened at short range, and early in the fight the bridge of the German destroyer, V-69, was swept away by a direct hit, the commander and two other officers be ing killed. The V-G9 fired one torpedo and was then hit by another British shell, which knocked the funnel flat on the deck. Still another shell put a hole in the forepart of the vessel. Her guns | appear not to have been damaged. I The crcw of the V-69 numbered about sixty. It would appear from the statements of the men that seven oth 1 er German vessels were sunk. The V-69 belonging to the home fleet. | According to a Reuter despatch from Ymuiden it was officially stated I that four men were killed aboard the I V-69, including the commander. Lieu tenant Boehm, and the commander of the flotilla, Captain Schultz. German officers refuse information about the engagement, the scene of ac tion or the strength of the flotilla. Two Reported Sunk. London, Jan. 23. ? According to a Hague report to the Exchange Tele graph Company two German ships were sunk and three others badly dam aged in the North Sea fight. BETHLEHEM STEEL BRINGS DIVISION OF BIG MELON. New York, Jan. 23. ? One of the largest "melons" ever divided by an industrial corporation was announced today when the directors of the Beth lehem Steel corporation increased the common stock dividend from 7% per cent to 10 per cent quarterly; rec ommended a 200 per cent common stock dividend or bonus, and also of fered the common stock holders the right to subscribe to $15,000,000 new stock at par on the Oasis of share for share of present holdings. This action was made possible by a proposed increase of the common stock from $15,000,00 to $60,000,000. The plan regarding the new stock is to be submitted to share-holders at a special meeting February 14. Inas much as Chas. M. Schwab, chairman of the corporation, and his friends ; are believed to control the present , stock issue, it is virtually assured that i the proposition will be approved. The usual annual dividend of 7 per cent on the preferred stock payable in four quarterly installments, also was declared. Earnings of the Bethlehem corpora tion for the year 1916 amounted to $61,717,329. Deducting interest charges of $3,772,575 and charging off $14,350,785 to depreciation and depletion, the aggregate net addition to the surplus is $43,593,968, making a total surplus of December 31, 1916, of $69,370,198. A Mighty Mean Man. i i The meanest man in the State is ? the Spartanburg farmer who sharpen ed all the stumps on his place so that his hands could not sit down to I rest. ? Greenville News. There is no beautifier of complox ? ion or form or behavior like the wish ? to scatter joy, and not pain, around us. ? Emerson. ************************** * BUSINESS LOCALS * ft ? JJt ? tf l****MWW*MEWWJ?5K3llW^WmW SEE OUR LINE OF STOVES AND Ranges ? we have them from $10.00 up, with all the ware. Cotter Hard ware Company. TWO CARS OF TOBACCO BED Guano just received. Austin-Ste phenson, Smithfield, N. C. IF IT IS GARDEN OF FIELD SEED or Flour, or anything in Groceries you want, you can get them from Floyd C. Price at Pine Level. FOR GRAFONOLAS AND COLUM bia double disc Records, call at Cotter Underwood Company's. TWO CARS OF TOBACCO BED Guano just received. Austin-Ste phenson, Smithfield, N. C. SEE STEDMAN STORES COMPA ny for Groceries and Feed Stuff, Smithfield, N. C. 200 TONS OF 7Vx PER CENT Cotton Seed Meal at $4. '{.50 per ton ? Cash. Austin-Ste phenson Co., Smithfield, N. C. NOW IS AN IDEAL TIME TO paint and we have it ? either Lead Oil or ready prepared. Cotter Hard ware Company. TOBACCO CANVAS FOR SALE AT Cotter-Underwood Co., Smithfield, N. C. FARM MULES FOR SALE? WE have about a dozen farm mules which we are offering at bargains, ranging from $150.00 to $250.00 each and cheap at the price. See us before buying. Farmers Mer cantile Co., Selma, N. C. FOR SALE? I HAVE FOR SALE A nice young mule, weighing about 1000 or 1100 pounds, terms to suit. Floyd C. Price, Pine Level, N. C. FRESH JERSEY COWS FOR SALE. Write, phone or see, E. F. Boyett, Smithfield, N. C. IF YOU NEED A GOOD MULE, see Cotter-Underwood Company, Smithfield, N. C. WE HAVE TOBACCO BED CAN vass. Austin-Stephenson Company, Smithfield, N. C. IF YOU WANT A NICE BUGGY IT will pay you to see Cotter-Under wood Co. NOW IS AN IDEAL TIME TO paint and we have it ? either Lead Oil or ready prepared. Cotter Hard ware Company. SEE OUR WINDOW FILLED WITH 25-cent books. There are many choice titles in the lot. Herald Book Store. IF YOU HAVE A FARM YOU wish to sell, write Box 123, Smith field, N. C. TWO CARS FINE FURNITURE just arrived at Cotter Underwood Comapny's Store. It will pay you to look lefore you buy. IF YOU HAVE A FARM YOU wish to sell, write Box 123, Smith field, N. C. IF YOU HAVE A FARM YOU wish to sell, write Box 123, Smith field, N. C. SEE OUR LINE OF STOVES AND Ranges ? we have them from $10.00 up, with all the ware. Cotter Hard ware Company. 100 BUSHELS OF CLEVELAND Big Boll Cotton seed for sale. The same kind of seed as have been sold by Mr. Dock Johnson. Price $1.00 per bushel. Israel Stephenson, Smithfield, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1. COTTON SEED HULLS JUST RE eeived. Stedman Stores, Smithfield, N. C. YOU SHOULD HAVE A TURNER'S North Carolina Almanac early in the year. Call for one or send by some one passing to town or send us ten cents in stamps for one. Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield. N. C. FOR SALE? I HAVE A SOW AND pigs and 18 nice shoats. Call on or write, J. H. Whitley, Smithfield N. C., Route No. 1. YOU MAY HAVE AN ALMANAC, but you need a North Carolina Al manac which is better. Y'ou should buy a Turner's ? worth 10 cents. Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield, N. C. IF YOU BUY A TURNER'S ALMA nac now you will buy one each year hereafter . Thousands buy them every year and you too will find one useful in your home. Send i ten cents in stamps for one and it I will be mailed to you. For sale by Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield, N. C. Notice to Tax Payers! | The tax books will be sent out to i Township Deputies on February 1, 1917. All persons wishing to pay with out cost, can do so by calling at Sheriff's Office before February 1st, 1917. After than you will be expected to pay cost. Taxes are long past due, so come and pay and save cost and having a deputy to call on you for your Tax. W. F. GRIMES, Sheriff Johnston County. January 15, 1917. FOR SALE OR RENT. Small farm, 23 acres cleared; six room house, tobacco barn and out buildings; suitable for tobacco, cot ton and corn; especially adapted for dairy or truck farming; on improved road, R. F. P. route; in Selma Grad ed School district; barely two miles from one of the best schools in East ern, N. C., and a modern, $50,000.00 steam-heated school building. Easy terms. Apply to Farmers Mercantile Co., Selma, N. C. PRINTED STATIONERY ADDS dignity to one's letters. Every farmer should have his farm nam ed and then have his printed letter heads, note heads and envelopes. The Herald Print-shop is ready to do this class of printing on short notice. Bethlehem's Bid on Shells for the United States Navy To the American People: The Secretary of the Navy has awarded contracts amounting to over $3,000,000 to a British bidder for 14 and 16-inch projectiles for the Navy because of very much lower prices offered by the Engliah bidders. We know nothing of the basis upon which the British bids were made, but the pub lic is entitled to know the facts upon which we ourselves bid for this work. Two years ago we took contracts to make 1,200 11-inch shells at a price of M ,515,000. Up to now not a single shell has been ac cepted by the Government, al though we have expended, in wages, materials, etc.* on these orders $522,)U!1, and we Lave not received a SINGLE DOLLAK on these contracts. lu addition, a literal interpretation ol tile contract might make us liable for penitllie* amounting to $678,016. in the light of our experience, and hav ing no other basis, we bid ?*!>r 16-inch shells approximately the same rate per pound as that which the Navy Depart ment actually awarded a 14-inch shell contract one year ago. Bethlehem Steel Company CHAS. M. SCHW AB, Chuirmao KlHiKMiG CiHACE. Pr<*idev' Valuable Property For Sale! I will offer for sale to the highest bidder, on Thursday, February 15th, 1917, at 12 o'clock M., one 30 H. P. Erie City Boiler, one 40 H. P. Eclipse Engine, one No. 2 Dewey Bros. Saw mill, three 00-Saw Gins, one Double Box Press, Munger System, Belts, Pulleys, Line Shafts, etc., all in good running order. Engine, Boiler and Sawmill practically good as new. I will also sell 18 or 20 acres of land. Sale on the premises. Lee's Cross Roads, Ingrams township. Terms made known on day of sale. PHILIP LEE. Four Oaks, N. C., R. F. D. No. 3. F. Hunter Creech Geo. Rosa Pot CREECH & POU ATTORNEYS AT LAW Smithfield, N. C. Offices formerly occupied by Edward W. Pou. One partner will alwaya be found in the Office. ED. A. HOLT Dealer in High Grade Coflins, Caskets and Burial Robes, Princeton, - North Carolina L. G. STEVENS Attorney At Law Office Over The Herald Office, Settlement of Estates. Smithfield, N. C. NOTICE OF SALE. On Saturday, February 3rd, 1917, at 11 o'clock A. M., I will offer for sale at public auction, at the home of the late J. T. Peedin, in Bentons ville township, the following person al property, to-wit: One buggy and harness, one cart, farming utensils, etc. This January yt'n, 1917. JOSEPH H. STRICKLAND, Administrator. Bentonville, N. C., Route No. 2. NOTICE. In order to wind up the estate of Mrs. Mary A. Noble, deceased, I will offer for sale at public auction, FOR CASH, in front of the Post Office in Selma, N. C., on Saturday, January 27th, 1917, at 12 o'clock M., FIFTY SHARES of the Capital Stock of the FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF SEL MA, par value $25.00 a share. Will sell either as a whole, or in small lots to suit purchasers. This is a splendid opportunity to invest in fine dividend paying institution. A. M. NOBLE, Administrator. January 6th, 1917. Another Lot Bibles We have just received a new lot of Bibles and Testa ments. Bibles from 35 cents up to $3.00. Testaments from 10 cents up to $1.00. Large Type Edition Testament and Psalms for 50 and 75 cents. The Herald Office Smithfield, N. C. INAUGURATION President Woodrow Wilson Washington, D. C. Monday, March 5th, 1917 $10 Round Trip VIA SOUTHERN RAILWAY From Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Burlington, and all intermediate points to Greensboro. $10.65 from Goldsboro; $10.70 from Selma Round trip tickets for this occasion will be on sale March 1, 2, 3, 4, and for trains scheduled to arrive Wash ington by noon March 5th. Tickets will be limited return ing to reach original starting point by midnight of March 10th, 1917, or by depositing ticket in Washington and paying a fee of $1.00 final limit will be extended to April 10th, 1917. Special Pullman Sleeping Cars will be operated from Raleigh and Durham, and from all points for special parties of twenty-five or more. For sleeping car reservations, and complete informa tion, ask Southern Railway Agents, or address, J. O. JONES, Traveling Passenger Agent, Raleigh, N. C.
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