North Carolina Newspapers

PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY LIFE. Conducted by Miss Elizabeth Kelly, Assistant Superintendent. Miss Nell Pickens, County Demonstration Agent. More About Group Commencement*. As before stated, our country school groups will have commence ments at the following places and times: Glendale Group, March 29. Royall (Elevation) Group, March 30. Piney Grove Group, March 81. Meadow Group, April 3. Archer Lodge Group, April 4. Thanksgiving Group, April 1. New Hope Group, April 5. Baptist Center Group, April 16. Royall Group, April J 1 . Following is the general order we suggest for group commencement program : 9:15 Initiatory Services. ?:30 Contests (Declamations, Read ings, Music). 12:00 Address. 12:30 Dinner. 2:00 Spelling. 2:30 Story-telling. 2:30 Athletics. We wish to remind all teachers in a group to send, as soon as possible, the names of their contestants togeth er with titles of selections to the teacher in charge of their group cen ter school. This is that the program may be arranged carefully and to the the best possible advantage. For the spelling contests at these froup commencements the fifth and sixth sections of "A Spelling Book" will be used. No declamation or recitation may be longer than fifteen minutes. It will be much better if they are not so long as fifteen minutes. Please plan to begin programs on time and let each representative in any contest be ready for his part as called for on the program. Last year's group commencements were in almost every instance car ried out without any lagging pro grams. This was entirely due to care ful planning and execution of plans by wide-a-wake teachers and pupils. * We expect nothing less this year. (?roup Winners' Contest*. Final contests for winners at group contests will be at Smithfield on April fourteenth. This will take the place of former County Commencements bo far as the part taken by our country schools is concerned. We have found that regardless of every precaution and plans however well executed, County Commencement and Field Day is too crowded for comfort or enjoyment. Then, too, our country schools have not had an op portunity for any final athletic con tests. This year we are going to try the plan of giving all of one Saturday to winners and athletics from our coun try schools und the following Satur day will be given to the town group of schools. We hope to see every one of our teachers in the country groups at their respective group commence ments at which time we will discuss with the many questions they may ask concerning the general contests on April fourteenth. ? ? ? Plans for the Town Group Con tests on April twenty-first are being worked out and will be in the hands of teachers in these schools at an ear ly date. In the main these plans will in clude former contests of this group and in addition will have the Story tellers' contest. Supt. Archer, of the Selma Schools, will have under his direction the spelling contest of the town group of schools. Rules and regulations will be mailed out to each school in the group. Supt. M. B. Andrews, of Keniy School, and Supt. R. G. Fitzgerald, of Benson school, will arrange for Ath fetics for this occasion. Each school is this group may fur nish a speaker, a reader, two spell ers, a story-teller, one piano solo, and one chorus. | Definite plans and programs for this meeting will be printed in an early issue of The Herald. ELIZABETH KELLY. Superior Court Sentences. The Superior Court adjoumey Fri day. The following were given sen tences in prison or on the roads: Simeon Barbour two and a half years in the penitentiary for the killing: of Hubert Gowcr. His boy, Walter Barbour, who did the shoot ing, was Sent to the Stonewall Jack son Training School. Everett Eason, who killed Harry Cook, was first given a sentence of 5 years and one day in the peniten tiary. This was reduced to three years and a day in the penitentiary. Charley Hicks, <Jolored, submitted to a manslaughter verdict for killinn George Stewart, and was given 5 years in the penitentiary. John Jernigan, Charlie Pilkerton were found guilty of stealing some copper wire and were each given a sentence of twelve months on the Smithfield roads. J. R. F'erry, who was implicated in the matter, was found guilty of buying the wire and was given six months on Clayton roads. i One of lleflin's Stories. Representative Thomas Heflin, of Alabama, is noted ys the best story teller of negro dialect in the House. The Alabama man is going home for a few days before the opening of the special session of Congress. He told this story to '.iends in the Willard: "When I was a young practicing lawyer in Alabama I had a lot to do with colored men, many of whom were my clients. One time a colored man in my district committed a crime, and the community took it upon itself to punish the offender. There was only one punishment fitting the crime ? that was hanging. The guilty man was i taken out in the early morning and hanged to a tree. Their job completed, I the executioners started home. They j had proceeded only a short distance from the place where the body dan gled when they met an old colored fellow astride a mule, with a sack of oats swung over his shoulders. The black man saw the crowd approach ing and he turned ashen, for instinct : vely he knew what they had been about. The leader of the gang rode up and in a gruff voice declared: " 'You know us and we know you. If you say fnything about this af fair, the same fate awaits you.' " 4 'Deed, boss, I ain't gwin t' say nothin*. I thinks be got off mighty light, m'se'f.' " ? Washington Post. FOK WIRE FENCING, ANY height, see the Cotter Hardware Company, Smithfield, N. C Some Cyclones In the Old Days. (Everything.) That was a tornado on wheels out in Indiana that wrecked a town, kill ed many people and injured perhaps two hundred. The cyclone or tornado isn't as frequent as it was thirty years agro. No one ha* ever yet ex plained the cause of the cyclone, and if a man has ever seen a full-sized one in motion he doesn't want to ex plain. So numerous were cyclones in Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska and Kansas thirty years ago that many people had what they called the "cy clone cellars." We have seen at least twenty towns t9rn up by these ring tailed twisters? seen some of the most marvelous feats performed by them, feats that pass belief. In a Kansas town we saw a little one-story printing office building bod ily picked up off the ground ? it had nothing but a wooden foundation ? carried two miles with a man and his wife in it, and set down as easily as though it had rubber cushions under it. And Mitchell, the editor and own er, a man of veracity, told us without winking that no type was knocked down. We have seen the hub of a wagon wheel cut off from the spokes as smoothly as if done with a saw, and smoother, and not a spoke dis turbed. Once in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, we saw a cyclone take the tin roofs from five churches and not another building was disturbed. The greatest cyclone in the history of Iowa was in 1880, at Grinnell, where some eighty odd people, as we iccall the figures, were killed and scores injured. In those days a cyclone could be heard roaring, the sky would carry a green cast, and pretty soon you would observe an immense funnel shaped cloud, larger than the biggest balloon you ever saw, and the natives sat up and took notice. Often they would pass over the town possibly a hundred feet high and strike the prairie and literally tear up the sod a strip maybe' three miles wide and five or six miles long. At Washing ton Court House, Ohio, in 1886, we saw a strip of forest which had been cut down cleaner than any axmen could have done, a strip about a half mile wide and three miles long. Giant trees cut off at the base, ground torn up. suggesting a mightier force than the ingenuity of man has ever gotten from steam or electricity. Happily they are not as frequent as in those days. It is said that this section cf North Carolina has never been visited by a "Teal cyclone. Tor nadoes which have done some damage njw and then visit us. Frank Wood son, once of the Danville Register, TO BUILD 60 CHASERS AT ONCE. President Authorizes Expenditure of $1 15,000,000 Emergency Fund for Speeding Naval I'rogram. Chasers to be Completed Within From 60 to M0 Days. Washington, March 19. ? Prepara tion for aggressive action by the Na vy against the German submarine menace begun today at the direction of President Wilson. The President authorized the ex penditure of the $115,000,000 emer gency fund provided by Congress to speed up naval construction and pay for special additional war craft, and the suspension of the eight-hour la bor law in plants engaged on navy work. Immediately afterwards Secretary Daniels ordered the New York Navy Yard to begin building sixty submsv rine chasers of the 110 foot type, to be completed in from sixty to eighty days. With the President's approval, the Secretary also ordered the gradua tion of the first and second classes at the Naval Academy. The first class will go out on March 29, releasing 172 junior officers to fill existing va cancies and the second in September furnishing 202 more a full year be fore they otherwise would be avail able. Minstrel at Koyall. There will be a negro minstrel at Royall School next Saturday night, March 24, 1917, by the boys from Pomona. After the show boxes will be sold, and other amusements- The public is cordially invited to come out and help in a worthy cause. R. II. HIGGINS, MISS BERTHA WOODARD, MISS ELLA BOWLING, Teachers. The New Senators. On March 4, 16 changes in the personnel of the United States Senate took place, as follows: California ? Hiram Johnson, Repub lican, succeeding John 1). Works, Re publican. Delaware ? J. O. Wolcott, Demo crat, succeeding Henry A. de Pont, Republican. Florida ? Park Trammell, Demo crat, succeeding Nathan P. Bryan, Democrat. Indiana ? Harry S. New, Republi can* succeeding John W. Kern, Dem ocrat. Maine ? Frank Hale, Republican, succeeding Charles F. Johnson, Dem ocrat. Maryland ? J. I. France, Republican, succeeding Blair Lee, Democrat. Minnesota ? Frank B. Kellogg, Re publican, succeeding Moses E. Clapp, Republican. New Jersey ? Joseph S. Frelinghuy sen, Republican, succeeding J. E. Mar tine, Democrat. New Mexico ? A. A. Jones, Demo crat, succeeding T. B. Catran, Repub lican. New York ? W. M. Calder, Repub lican, succeeding J. A. O'Gorman, Democrat. Pennsylvania ? Philander C. Knox, Republican, succeeding George T. Oliver, Republican. Rhode Island ? Peter G. Gerry, Democrat, succeeding Henry F. Lip pitt, Republican. Tennessee ? Kenneth D. McKeller, Democrat, succeeding Luke Lea, Dem ocrat. Utah ? William H. King, Democrat, succeeding George Sutherland, Re publican. West Virginia ? Howard Suther land, Republican, succeeding W. E. Chilton, Democrat. Wyoming ? John B. Kendrick, Dem ocrat, succeeding Clarence D. Clark, Republican. The net gain of the Republicans is one and the new Senate will stand: Democrats, 54; Republicans, 42. ? The New York Sun. A London dispatch published in this morning's News and Observer says that fifteen members of the Vigi lancia crew lost their lives when their vessel was sunk by the Germans. Sev eral of these were American citizens. now of the Richmond Times-Dispatch, had a map showing why it was impos sible for a cyclone to do business in the Piedmont section. But one day about 1889 several tin roofs and all the awnings in Danville were going through the air ? and Frank destroyed the map and concluded that a cyclone was wind, and that wind bloweth where it listeth. So in trying to make ourselves believe that we are immune we had better at least touch wood when we make the assertion. 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 ifc ready to do this class of printing on short notice. NOTICE. North Carolina, Johnston County. Under and by virtue of authority contained in a certain mortgage deed, executed to the undersigned, by J. K. Parrish, December 16, 1912, and ? recorded in Book "D" No. 12, page 238, Registry of Johnston County, the condition of said mortgage having been broken, the undersigned will, on Monday, April 16, 1917, at 12 o'clock, M., offer for sale at public auction at the Court House door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., the following described lot or pirrcel of land, to-wit: Beginning at a stake in the inter section of the Louisburg and Smith field, and Wilson Roads, and runs Northeasterly with the Wilson Road 210 feet to a stake; thence at right angles to said Wilson Road South wardly 210 feet to a stake; thence Southwesterly, and parallel with the Wilson Road to the Louisburg Road; thence up the Louisbui.fr Road to the Louisburg Road, the beginning point, containing one (1) acre, more or less, and being the land deeded by Need ham Kdw? rds and wife to Joseph R. Parrish and wife, Meta Parrish, by deed dated July 9th, 1908, and record ed in Book "N" No. 10, page 97, Reg istry of Johnston County, and being the land mortgaged by Joseph R. Parrish and wife to W. M. Sanders in Book "1" No. 10, page 240, Regis try of Johnston County, and under said mortgage sold to P. H. Brooks, December 2nd, 1912, at public auc tion. Terms of sale, cash. This the 16th day of March, 1917. F. H. BROOKS, Mortgagee. NOTICE. North Carolina, 'Johnston County. Under and by virtue of authority contained in a certain Mortgage Deed, executed by Ellis Waddell and wife, Lola Waddell, J. B. Waddell and wife, Ida Waddell, M. C. Waddell, and C. 13. Waddell to W. M. Sanders, the Gth day of April, 1912, and Recorded in Book "Z" No. 11, at page 125, de fault having been made in the pay ment of said Mortgage Deed: there fore the undersigned will offer for sale at public auction, at the Court House door, in the town of Smith field, N. C. on April 16, 1917, at 12 o'clock M., the following described real estate, situate, lying, and being in the town of of Selma, and in Sel ma township, and bounded and de scribed as follows, to-wit: LOT HOME TRACT: Beginning at a stake, dower corner, runs N. 35 degrees. East 14.20 chains to a stake; thence S. 3 degrees, West 40 50 chains to a stake; thence N. 87 degrees, W. 16.75 chains to a stake; thence S. 4 degrees, W. 1.60 chains to a stake; thence N. 55 degrees, W. 3.14 chains to a stake; thence N. 34, E. 2.27 chains to center of Webb Street (Selma, N. C.); thence N. 34, E. to the beginning, containing 39 acres and comprising the land devised to her heirs at law by Annie Lee Waddell, deceased, in her last Will and Testa ment, appearing on record in the Clerk's Office of Johnston County, Superior Court, in Book 4, page 77. Excepting and saving from the op eration of this conveyance all of the above tract lying South of the ditch leading from Webb Street toward the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, con taining by estimation 4 acres, which has hitherto been sold by C. B. Wad dell, Trustee, pursuant to the terms of said Will. This description is found in Book "E" No. 11. at pages 229-233 in the Register of Deeds office, John ston County. Also excepting from the operation of this Mortgage Deed the following lots, sold at public auction, April 3, 1912, viz: Block "A," Lots Nos. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9 and 10. Block "B." IiOts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Block "C," Lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Block "D," Lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Block "E," Lots Nos. 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 12. Block "F," Lots Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10, 11 and 12. Terms of sale, Cash. This the 15th dav of March, 1917. W. M. SANDERS, Mortgagee. SAM M. HALL. Assignee of Mortgagee. i ? SAVE VOI R SACKS AND SELL them back to us, We pay five cents each for second hand cotton seed meal sacks delivered here. Pine Level Oil Mill Company, Pine Level, N. C. BON TON SMITIIFIELD, North Carolina arr Phalli, itwiteb t" atteuti our ~ spring anfi ?>untm?r j ittiUinmt (Dprntug v ?] inrftursiiatj auii (Ilutrabay 5 fflarrh 21st anii 22ni) Ij .< 4 4 4 j alir fC^ryrst iCiuc turr i5>lunun iirfurr 1 A J 4) 1 Also we will have a great line of jj i ?j Suits and Dresses on Display < 4 BON TON The Ladies Store New Business I have just opened a new business in the new brick store near the D. E. McKinne old stand and will keep Fancy Groceries, Ice and Soft Drinks. I ask your patronage. J. S. Edwards Princeton, N. C. PLENTY OF OLD PAPERS NOW on hand at The Herald Office at 5 cents per bundle. COTTON SEED CLEANER AND GRADER. We will have one of these Grad ing machines on exhibit in Kenly at Watson's and Alford's Hardware Store, Saturday, March 24th. Do not fail to see this machine. Grade your seed and your increase in lint will be nothing less than 10 per cent. COTTER HARDWARE CO., Smithfield, N. C. I THE SMITHFIELD BUILDING A Loan Association has helped a. number of people to build homes. It will help others, and maybe you. New series of shares now ope*. See Mr. J. J. Broadhurst. YOU MAY HAVE AN ALMANAC, but you need a North Carolina Al manac which is better. You should buy a Turner's ? worth 10 cents. Beaty & Lassiter, Smithfield, N. C. WANTED TO EMPLOY THREE OR four good sawmill hands. R. Y. Penny, McCullers, N. C., R. F. D. No. 1. Shakespeare's Plays SCHOOL EDITION We hr.ve a rew copies of the school edition of Shakespeare's Plays at 25 Cents each. Ivisg Richard III. Four . Copies "Arden" Edition and three copies "Temple" Edition. The Taming of the Shrew. Tw? copies "Temple" Edition. Othello. Two copies "Temple" Edi tion, and one copy "Tudor" Edition. Macbeth. One copy "Altemus" Edition. These are Bargains. HERALD BOOK STORE Smithfield. N. C. Money To Loan On Ten Years Time! We are now in position to make long time loans on First Class Farm Property for periods of \ Five Years Seven Years / ^ 5%; And Ten Years ^ To Suit Your Convenience. The cheapest money on the easiest terms in State. If you wish to make a loan see us. CREECH & POU, Attorneys-at-Law SMITHFIELD, N. C. ??????? ?> ?> * -h.+<.+4.aj