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BONE DRV HILL A TIME SAVER. For Local Employes of Southern Ex press Company, Estimating the Av erage Time Required to Deliver Package of Firewater at Two .Min utes Over Eight Hours Will He Saved (Wilmington Star.) ? With the exception of the thirsty individuals, who will long in vain for their daily portion of bottled joy, no one will feel the effects of the "bone dry bill" w hen it goes into effect next October more than the officials and employes of the express companies. During the past few months there have been on an average of 250 pack ages of whiskey delivered each day at the Wilmington office of the South ern Express Company. This means 1,500 quarts a week, and 6,000 during a month. Assuming that it requires on an average of two minutes to look up ' the customer's past orders, find his j packag*, and have him sign for it, it will readily be seen that 8 hours and 20 minutes by a single person are daily devoted to delivery of whiskey at the local office of the ex press company, exclusive of the time devoted to writing money orders to , be sent to various liquor dealers throughout the country. The express toll on one quart of the snake bite remedy from Baltimore to Wilmington is. 33 cents. Now as suming that the average rate of all booze imported into Wilmington is 30 J cents, (the greater part of it <.\;mes from Baltimore, Chattanooga ?"<! Jacksonville), this means that '.he "bone dry bill" wiii cut about $75 daily off the receipts of the local of- 1 fice. Again this is exclusive of th^ money order fees, which would amout to about $5, as the express company probably gets on an average 00 per cent of the total orders used for liquor. Now each of those 250 orders re quired a two-cent postage stamp to carry them to their destination, and that means that Uncle Sam will lose a five spot each day as a result of this last prohibition venture of Con- 1 gress- ? from the Wilmington business MfaWBWk- vv Other local effects of the passage of the bill will be noted by the late staying club man, who will no longer find his wife lying awake to bestow on him the midnight osculation, for wifey, with the bone dry bill to ease her mind and allay her suspicions, will be wandering through the en chanted valleys of dreamland, with never a thought of sampling the aro ma of hubby's breath. Then, too, the revenue officer may find that holding a Federal job is not always a picnic, for he will hear strange rumors that will cause him to slink forth in the small dark hours of the night and seek various nooks and crannies in the ravines and gullies that border the swamp lands. Perhaps some low rakish looking schooner will drop anchor just out side the three mile limit, and send a message to the city with joyous news to the thirsty citizens. And then there will be much coming and going from city to boat and when the strange craft turns her nose once more into the seas and heads for an other port., there will be many wishes for a safe voyage and an early re turn. All this musing, mind you, is based on a vague perhaps. Eat Salt and Walk Twenty Miles. The Germans have discovered a pleasant new medicine, cheap but powerful ? a teaspoonful of table salt. Each soldier is given his morning dose in a small glass of water, and, strange to say, it carries him almost buoyantly on a twenty-mile march. Company Surgeon Link of the Ger man Army gives a report of his dis covery in the Munich Medical Weekly. Sweat contains a great deal of salt, and as the bloOd contains only about twenty grams of salt altogether, ? about as much as a person eats ev ery day in his food, ? Dr. Link -de cided that sweat carries from the body a strength-giving chemical. He experimented on soldiers, who often lose as much as twenty grams of salt from perspiration on a hot march. At 5:45 one morning he gave one hundred soldiers the dose. March ing twenty miles in damp, sultry weather, they proved the power of salt. The hundred salted soldiers wero less fagged than the rest of the regi ment, and they had perspired only a fraction as much. ? Every Week. It was understood that the consti tutional amendments recently adopt ed in North Carolina would cut out the introduction and cumbering of the legislative calendars and the taking up of the time of the General Asembly with hundreds of local bills, but it ap years that some of the members of the Legislature did not so understand. Are they mistaken or are all the rest of us mistaken about the amend ments? Or were the amendments re ally adopted? ? Wilmington Star. Some Fat is on Dunn's lionded Indebtedness. Dunn Guide, 21st. I .ast week The Guide reproduced an article from The Smithfield Her ald in which The Herald published an interview with Judge J. F. Wilson who happened to be passing through that town, regarding the street pav ing in Dunn. The Herald stated that Mr. Wilson said three hundred thous and dollars in bonds had been issued for street paving in Dunn. The Guide made some comment after publishing the article from The Herald, and said according to this, the town was bond ed for something like four hundred thousand dollars. W? have made u personal investigation and find that there is an error in this report, and i wih to place the facts before our1 people as they appear on the minutes of the Clerk of the town. The Guide has always stood for every forward movement of the town since it was established twenty-three years ago and we want to be abso lutely fair, giving the town credit for every improvement it has. However, we do believe, and have contended all the while, that to pave every street in the town of Dunn at this time, is too great an lyidertuking, and we are still of that opinion. In the following statement we have charged the bonded indebtedness up against the town, and have given the town credit for every improvement that it owns to this date, and we fin:l it stands like this: BONDED INDEBTEDNESS. ana waier Bonds .... $4.'}, 000.00 Funding Bonds 10,000.00 Light and water I Improvement Bonds .... IT), 000.00 Sewerage Bonds 50,000.00 Street paving Bonds ... 140,000.00 Bills Payable. . , 7,200.00 | $205,200.00 CREDIT FOR THE TOWN. Light and water Plant . . . $ 80,000.00 Sewerage System . . 50,000.00 Fixtures.. 20,000.00 Municipal Build ) ing and Fire Department 2,000.00 Sanitary De partment 1,250.00 Stables 3,500.00 Office Furniture 450.00 Street paving 140,000.00 $296,500.00 Credit town Improvement $31,300.00 j The amount of bonds issued for street paving appears to be $140, 000.00. The city fathers pay inter est on these bonds at 5 per cent. The property owners pay $93,333.34 of this amount and pay 0 per cent, thus the town makes one per cent interest on the amount paid by the citizens, if they sec tit to fix the interest at this rate, which would be reasonable. In 191(5 the taxes in Dunn amount ed to about fifteen thousand dollars, and there will be a slight increase in this for 1917. Part of the above amounts of the indebtedness of the town is figured at 6 per cent and part of it at 5 per cent. The interest on the entire amount figures close around thirteen thousand dollars an nually. We are glad to say that all the items shown in this indebtedness is for permanent improvements and in i vestments in permanent improve ments is not lost. If our town has no backset it will have paid out on its street paving in ten years and the im provements will be here. Senator Parker. Only two Democratic and two Re publican Senators are members of the present Senate who were members two years ago. One of these Repub lican members is Senator Ezra Par ker, of Benson, who jointly with Sena tor John A. McLeod, represents the fourteenth senatorial district, com posed of the counties of Harnett, Johnston, Lee and Sampson. Senator ' Parker is a graduate of the Univer sity of North Carolina and practices law in his home town. Senator Parker enjoys the distinction of beiag the minority leader of the upper body of i the Legislature. The fact that he has been returned to the Senate indicates I the confidence which is repostd in him by his native county. ? News and ! Observer. Ninety-nine and In College. | Four years ago, when Dr. David Jordan Higgins was youngster of ninety-five, his family missed him one morning; and when they found him again, the rascal had slipped over to the University of Southern Cali fornia and registered in the Depart ment of Philosophy. Some people learn slowly: Dr. Higgins is now ninety-nine, and still feels that he .has something to learn; whereas our shipping clerk is only seventeen and knows everything. ? Every Week. FIRING COSf OF ONE TORPEDO. Expense of Dread naught Broadside Equals Average Income of Twenty-five Years. Every time Uncle Sam fires a torpe do, zip! zip! ? two houses and lots! Eleven men must work a year at the average American wage to pay the price thereof. A single broadside from the dread naught Arizona means the income of the average workman for twenty-five years! That's the way our money will be shot away in case of war with Ger many. A 14-inch shell weighs 1,400 pounds and costs $700. A 12-inch shell, already considered one of our "smaller" shots, costs ?C00. The Arizona has 12 14-inch guns, all of which, together with some of her smaller- cannon, can be fired at once ? at a cost of $15,000. Ten 14-inch shells or one torpedo are counted on to sink a battleship. The cost is the same for ammuni tion? 7,000. But the torpedo is the cheaper way because of the lessened expenses of firing; also the lesser risk. A torpedo is really an electric launch; it leaves the torpedo-tube with the propellers working, and it will keep on going till the motor runs down ? unless it hits its mark. When it hits ? bang! It is fitted with a gyroscope, to keep it steady in its course, and two propellers moving in opposite direc tions. The motive power is electric ity or compressed air. rii 1 . i J 2. ? l orpcao pans are guu^eu 10 as mrui exact size as possible ? two ten thousandths of an inch. It is as deli cate a mechanism as the machines that record earth tremors. Compared to a torpedo, a wrist watch is as delicate as a coal wagon. Copper and nitrogylcerin are what make torpedoes costly. There are cannon shells that cost more than torpedoes. The German 42-centimeter shell costs $9,000. A rifle cartridge costs a nickel. That shows the relative importance of the rifle in modern war. Fourteen-inch guns throw projec tiles 14 or 16 times. They will pierce an 11-inch Krupp steel plate at seven miles. Twenty-inch guns will shoot just as far, but will pierce the 11-inch plate only at five miles. When big guns are fired every man on the battleship has to stuff his ears with cotton, and touch the deck with his toes and fingertips, keeping his mouth open. This is to prevent bro ken bones and lost teeth. ? Washing ton Dispatch. The Only Absolute Monarches. The Empress Zeoditu of Abyssinia, or Ethiopia, as the Bible calls it, sits on the throne once occupied by the Queen of Sheba, and claims to be a lineal descendant of that famous la dy who paid King Solomon a visit. She is opposed to railroads and other twentieth century signs of progress. The ruler of Afghanistan, Habid Ullah Khan, is absolute monarch of six million people. He plays golf and dresses like an European. One of the proudest of the abso lute monarchs is Youssef, the Sultan of Morocco. He wears red rubies on his fingers and bracelets on his toes. Along the northeast coast oV Ara bia is a country called Oman. It has a population of 500,000 and is ruled by Sultan Seyyid Fesil Bin Turki, who has an income of $250,000 a year. His country has one open port, Mus cat. The fc>ultan of Siam, V'f M'a Vajer avudh, rules over six million sub jects and has an incomc of three mil lions. It is said that he would be willing to exchange places with any American young man, rather than be connected with 1203 brothers and sis ters, and 604 step-mothers. Accord ing to the ancient customs of his country he must marry one of his sisters, before he can marry other wives. Rather than do this he remains single. The sixth of these absolute mon archs i? Prince Monaco who rules the little kingdom of Monte Carlo. He has 22,000 subjects. They should be happy, because they have to pay no taxes. However, they are not allowed to go near the gambling tables which have made Monte Carlo famous. The F'rince has an income of one million n year, all made through the rou lette wheels. The gamblers of the entire world visit Monte Carlo, and the daily average of suicides is five, making about two thousand a year. The rotation bill has met with de feat in the Legislature. The Observer believes the inclusion of county offi cers in the measure is to be ?rcdited with its unpopularity. If it had ap plied to State officers alone, it would have gone through with a whoop. It seems that something is always bob bing up to save the State House scalp. ? Charlotte Observer. the legislature at work. The Senate last Friday passed the Brummitt-McLendon educational bill which had already passed the House. Th?* bill provides that in every county each party shall at the regular nomin ation of county officers nominate a member of the County Board of Ed ucation, and that the General Assem bly at its next session shall appoint one of the men nominated to be a member of the Board. This shall be done every two years, the mail ap pointed serving a term of six years. This act does not apply to the six coun ies that now elect their Boards by a popular vote. The measure is in our opinion only a makeshift, and is n(, improvement over the system now in vogue. However, it will give those who are clamoring to have the Boards elected by a popular vote a say-so to a certain extent as to who shall serve them. ? * ? Senator McLeod's bill to allow the people of Sampson County to elect their Board of Education by popular vote we s defeated by the Senate, the vote Icing 31 to 17. Eight Democrats voted for the bill. * * * The Stubbs bill to submit the ques tion of a Constitutional Convention to a vote of the people passed the Senate by a vote of 43 to 4. This bill provides for an election on the ques tion at the next regular election in 1918. At the same time each county will elect a member of the Constitu tional Convention, their election to be void in case the convention is de feated. One of the most important meas ures considered in the House Friday was the Warren Judicial District bill which provided for the creation of four additional districts and dividing the State into an Eastern and a Western circuit. The hill was defeat ed by a vote of 61 to 44. * * * Mr. Doughton introduced a new measure providing for the appoint ment of two emergency superior court judges, one from the East and one from the West, the appointment to be made by the Governor. These are to be available in case of illness of regular judges or in case of con gested docket. * * * It's a dull day when the Legisla ture does not propose some measure that will provide for an election of some kind.. A measure was gotten through a few days ago providing that any county that so desires may hold an election to decide whether a tax shall be levied on dogs. Just im agine a big county like Johnston vot ing on the question as to whether the dogs of the county shall be taxed! But then, we should remember that men who are sent to the Legislature must do something even though it be nothing more than getting through a dog law. We do not recall the name of the author of the dog law, but think it was a Westerner. * * * Once in awhile a man holding a seat in the General Asembly grows big enough to vote on a question without considering its political ef fect. When the bill providing that Sampson County elect its Board of Education by the vote of the people came up eight Democrats voted for the measure, knowing that the peo ple of Sampson would surely have a Republican Board of Education if the bill should pass. They were Bine, Holderness, Jones, Linn, Person, Scales, Thompson and Tucker. But the bill was defeated. PLAIN FIELI) SCHOOL NEWS. Mr. Roy Creech and sibter, Miss Clia, of the Brogden section, spent Saturday night with their sister, Mrs. J. E. Tyner. Mr. Will J. Wright, of Princeton, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wright. Mr. Braxton Atkinson, of Wayne, spent Sunday evening with his moth er, Mrs. John Atkinson. Messrs. W. H. Woodard, Ranee Tyner, Jake Creech and Willie Creech, of Brogden section, spent Thursday night in our section fishing. They reported good luck. Miss Ethel Faircloth, of Brogden section, spent part of last week with ner uncle, Mr. Lonnie Moore. Master Jinnie Alford spent Sunday night in#Princeton. Leacy May, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Moore, died Saturday evening, after an illness of about three weeks with measles, pneumonia and sore throat. She leaves a father and mother, two sisters, one brother and a host of friends to mourn their loss. The com munity extends their sympathy to the bereaved ones. On Monday, February 12, 1917, the teacher and scholars of Plain school organized a society, with Thomas Wright President; Lela Rhodes, Secretary; Annie Corbett tc write locals; Kizzie Williford to write jokes, and Lena Tyner to write pdver ti*ements. X. Y. Z, lOO R A I IN COATS At Cost ! Original Prices $3.00 to $10.00 Now Going At $2.25 to $7.75 N. B. Grantham Head-To-Foot Outfitter for Men and Boys Smithfield, N. C. Farmers Commercial Bank Benson, North Carolina FINANCIAL STATEMENT FEBRUARY 6, 1917 ASSETS Loans $129,146.36 Stocks and Bonds 4,097.00 Due by Banks and Bankers 37,560.57 Real Estate 4,000.00 Furniture and Fixtures 3,125.90 CASH: Currency and Gold $4,373.50 Silver and Coins 902.77 Cash Items NONE 5,276.27 Overdrafts NONE $183,206.10 LIABILITIES Capital Stock $ 50.000.00 Undivided Profits 10.487.27 Due Depositors 122,718.83 $183,206.10 WE HEREBY CERTIFY that we have made an examination of the books and records of the FARMERS COMMERCIAL BANK at Benson, N. C., and have proved the correctness of the above statement, and have made a thorough test of the accounting of the funds of the Bank, and find that the officials in charge have properly accounted for all funds under their care, and that the general conduct of the business compares most favorably with that of many of the largest banks examined by us. The officers and directors are proficient, and are in close touch with all of the details of the business, and they have thrown ample protection around the depositors, as is evidenced by the large proportion of the loans made being fully covered by mortgages or collateral. We find that in the eight years of the Bank's existence, it has paid in dividends the sum of $30,110.00. Respectfully submitted, H. B. BOUDAR & SON, Certified Public Accountants, (State of Virginia). Richmond, Virginia, February 7th, 1917. (We will consider any sort of bankable proposition. Write or come to see us). bend your orders for Job Printing to Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield. INAUGURATION President Woodrow Wilson Washington, D. C. Monday, March 5th, 1917 $10.05 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 t 10th, 1917. I Special Pullman Sleeping Cars will be operated from * Raleigh and Durham, and from all points for special ? parties of twenty-five or more. I For sleeping car reservations, and complete informa J tion, ask Southern Railway Agents, or address, l? 4 ? J. O. JONES, Traveling Passenger Agent, J Raleigh, N. C.
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