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TOWN AND COUNTY TOPICS.
Miss Annie Sue Winborne spent the
week-end in Raleigh.
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Mr. F. T. Booker, of Polenta sec
tion, was in the city yesterday.
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Messr3. J. R. Talton and J. R. Ho
cutt, of Oneals, were here yesterday.
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Mr. Ed II. Woodall, of near An
gier, was in town yesterday on busi
ness.
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Miss Beulah Keel, of Selma, was
the guest of Mrs. W. W. Cole for the
week-end.
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Messrs. W. H. and Louis Sanders
visited Mr. Turnr.ge, of Wilson's Mills,
Sunday evening.
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Mr. Gilbert Woodall and little
brother Burt, of Harnett County, were
in town last Friday.
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Miss Julia Stephenson, of Raleigh,
is the guest of Mrs. J. W. Stephen
son for a few days.
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Mrs. Sarah Woodall, of Kenly, has
been spending a few days here with
her son, Mr. W. T. Adams.
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Mr. and Mrs. Luke Stevens, of
Lakeville, are here on a visit to their
sister, Miss Nova Stevens.
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Mrs. Ed. A. Holt arrived Monday
afternoon from Princeton, to visit her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Sanders.
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Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Jones and fam
ily and Mrs. Dora Kirkman spent
Sunday in the city at the home of
Mrs. Kirkman.
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Mr. Edward Woodall is at home
again, after being in Rex Hospital
for ten days following an operation
for appendicitis.
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Miss Bettie Woodall, a student of
T. G. S., spent the week-end at her
home in Harnett with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. II. Woodall.
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Missss Margaret Muns, Blanche
Bailey, Lalla Rookh Stephenson, Hel
en Wallace and Mr. Fitz Dickerson
spent Sunday in Goldsboro.
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Mr. George Sanders, one of the
members of the Selma Company,
spent the week-end with his father,
Mi'. E. S. Sanders.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. W. liailey and Mr.
James Pou, Jr., of Raleigh, were in
the city Sunday afternoon, the guests
of relatives and friends.
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Mr. W. T. Butler, of Durham, ac
companied by Misses Irene Myatt,
Retta Martin, Cora Belle Ives, and
Eloise Martin, motored to Wake For
est Sunday.
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A farmer living near Smithfield
took down a stack of oats a few days
ago and killed thirty-two rats and
nine mice. He had been feeding more
animals than he thought.
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Mr. N. A. Randall, who has had
charge of the Royall school in Eleva
tion, was in town Saturday, his school
having closed. He was to return to
his home in Buncombe County yes
terday.
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We are requested to state that
Rev. J. M. Duncan will preach at 11:15
o'clock on Sunday morning, April
8th, at Sardis Baptist church and the
same day at Live Oak church at 3:30
o'clock in the afternoon.
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During this week and next week and
every o^hcr week it should be the
duty of every good resident to dress
up and spruce up Smithfield. Clean
ing up pnd dressing up one week
should apply to towns as well as to
persons.
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Mr. Walter Rand, of White Oak
Farm, is in town today. He is strong
ly of the opinion that the government
should prosecute the war to a fast
finish, on both sea and land. He fears
that there will not be enough vo! **
teers to carry on the war as it sho'.ld
be and believes that Congress >no;<!d
pass a low calling out all able-bodied
men between the ages of 18 and 30
and train them for service.
Mr. S. C. Turnanre, on the fourth
Sunday in March, went out to his old
home church and helped in the organ
ization of a Sunday school which
started off with sixty-eight persons
present. This church, which is known
is Johnson Union Free Will Baptist
church, is on the Smithtuld and
Clayton road. Mr. Turnage expects to
attend there every Sunday afternoon
and help carry .on this Sunday school.
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Mr. C. C. Finch and Mr. L. II. Boy
kin, of Oneals township, were here
ycstefflay. Mr. Boy kin is afflicted with
rheumatism and cannot get around
much. He is eighty-seven years old
and says that so far as he knows all
his playmates and childhood friends
are dead. Mr. Elias G. Barnes, who
died at Wilson a few weeks ago, was
one of them. Mr. Boykin is a magis
trate and has been since the death of
Mr. William Oneal whom he succeed
ed many years ago. He is an old
bachelor having never married.
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Mr. G G. Coulbourn, of Suffolk,
Va., and Mr. T. W. Corbin, of Fre
mont, proprietors of the Swift Creek
Lumber Company, were in the city
yesterday They had been down to the
Boylan Place which they have pur
chased from Mr. Wm. Boylan, of Ral
eigh. This farm contains 1192 acres
and has been in the Boylan family for
four generations. Messrs. Coulbourn
and Corbin inform us that it is their
ntention to develop and cultivate this
valuable farm. There is much valuable
timber on the place and it is their in
tention at a later date to put a mill
down there and cut the timber.
POPULATION OF SMITHFIELD.
Police Census Gives 2745 People.
There Are 1816 Whites and
929 Colored.
Chief Turner has just completed
taking a census of the people of
Smithfield, including part of the two
mill vallages. He finds the total pop
ulation of the district taken to be
2,745. Of these there are 1,81G white
and 929 colored. There are 901 white
males and 915 white females. The
colored females outnumber the mr.les
by more than 100. There are 409 col
ored males and 520 colored females.
Within the corporate limits of the
town the population is about 2,300.
This is an increase of about three
hundred in the last three years.
Death of Mrs. Westbrook.
Mrs. Nannie Westbrook, wife of
Mr. Erastus Westbrook, died at their
home at the Smithfield Cotton Mills,
Saturday morning at 1:30 o'clock. She
was buried in the City Cemetery Sun
day afternoon at three o'clock, the
funeral service - being conducted by
Rev. H. F. Brinson, pastor of the Bap
tist church.
Mrs. Westbrook was a daughter of
Mr. A. L. Lynch and was about twen
ty-six years of age. She was the moth
er of three children, the youngest a
babe of two months. Mrs. Westbrook
was a strong and robust woman until
her last sickness which lasted for sev
eral weeks. The sympathy of the
commurtity goes out to the bereaved
family.
A Little Talk on Advertising.
When the dull season comes,
And customers are few,
Wide-av/ake merchants advertise ?
Does this apply to you?
If you v.'ant your clerks kept busy
Handling goods and the chink,
Let the people know what you have
By using printers' ink.
And when trade seems to grow dull,
Just take a look around the store,
And tell about your bargains,
By advertising a little more.
And this is the advice we give
To merchants who are wise;
Keep good goods always in stock
And den't forget to advise.
Woman's Club Meeting.
The regular monthly meeting of the (
Woman's Club will be held Wednesday (
afternoon, at four o'clock, at the
club room. It is very important that
every member be present.
The Civic Department will hold
a meeting at 3:30 o'clock at the club (
room. A full attendance is desired.
Moth and buterfly eggs look like
small but fancy pieces of candy.
Berlin's population is now 1,784,784, ;
some 6,637 less than on July 1.
Unveiling.
Newton Grove Camp, W. O. W., will
unveil the monument of the late Sov- 1
ereign B. F. Thornton at the Thorn- <
'on burial ground, on Sunday, April '
lf>th, at 2:00 P. M. All W. O. W. 1
and the public in general are cordial- !
ly invited. !
J NO. B. WILLIAMS, C. C. 1
J P. ROSE, Clerk. !
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BREEZY NEWS AROUND *
THE COURT HOUSE. *
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Edited by S
Z. L. LeMay and F. 11. Creech. *
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It is thw purpose of the editors of
this column to give to the readers of
The Herald the breezy news around
the Court House. We will try to keep
in touch with matters of interest and
let the people of the County know
what is going on in their County
Seat. We wish to warn the members
of the official famdy that we will deem
it a great pleasure to catch any of
them in a ludicrous position and will
enjoy giving: to our readers any hu
morous incident that may occur un
der the dome of the Court House; yet,
at the same time, we will be careful
to refrr.in from saying anything that
will be embarrassing.
We will try to give the leading
news, what our County Commission
ers are doing, our Board of Education,
our different officials, cases of inter
est in Court, and other County news
which we think will prove interesting
to our readers. With these remarks,
gentle reader, we commend our column
to you, trusting that, it will meet with
your hearty approval.
We are glad to note that Judge W.
S. Stevens, who has been on the sick
lisa for quite awhile, seems to be im
proving. We miss his presence around
the Clerk's Office and hope to soon
see him back in line "dishing out"
his genial "howdy" to his friends.
On yesterday, Miss Mildred Young,
Deputy Register Clerk, went fishing
for chub down around Fayetteville
Base Ball Park.
J\lr. I.acy .John seems to be quite
busy these days attending prelimin
ary contests and commencement ex
ercises. Mr. John always comes in
for his share of judging on the con
tests and the short speech-making,
especially in the schools where they
have lady principals.
The jail has only one inmate at the
present, he being charged with the
carrying of concealed weapons. It
speaks well for our County to be able
to keep our jail so nearly empty. It
shows that our citizenship has a high
regard for law and order.
The Board of Education met in reg
ular session yesterday for the trans
action of routine business.
The Board of County Commission
ers met in regular session yesterday.
There were quite a number of items
of interest brought before the Board.
Petitions were filed from Smithfield,
Selma, and Pine Level Townships ask
ing that elections be granted under
the provisions of the Clark bill for
good roads. The Board granted elec
tions and it will be left to these town
ships to decide whether or not they
will take advantage of the offer ex
tended by the State in the Clark bill.
The Board of County Commission
ers also appointed the list takers for
the several townships. They are as
follows:
Wilson's Mills ? Jno. A. Wilson.
Clayton ? L. II. Champion.
Cleveland ? F. T. Booker.
Pleasant Grove ? R. I. Ogburn.
Elevation ? Julian Godwin.
Banner ? J. G. Smith.
Meadow ? L. P. Johnson.
Bentonsville ? W. II. Britt.
Ingrams ? Louis Keen.
Boon Hill ? Geo. T. Whitley.
Beulah ? A. G. Hooks.
Oncals ? W. II. Godwin.
Wilders ? E. Liles.
Selma ? W. L. Stancil.
Pine Level? W. F. Gerald.
Micro ? Joe D. Creech.
Smithfield? W. L. Fuller.
Philadelphia in October spent $4,
055,045 on new buildings.
St. Paul public library is said to
need 500,000 new books.
NOTICE.
Everybody must come to S. B.
lones' Hall tonight at 7:30 and enjoy
the Zone Supper, given by the I). G.
S. girls.
THE SMITHFIELD MARKET.
Cotton 15 to 19%
Cotton Seed 90 to 95 1
Wool 16 to 22%
Fat Cattle 5 to 6
Errs 18 to 20
Fat cattle, dressed 10 to 11
Granulated Sugar 9 to 10
Corn per bushel 1.15 to 1.25
C. R. Sides 20 to 21
Feed Oats 85 to 90
Fresh Pork 12%
Hams, per pound 20 to 22 1
Lard per pound 17% to 22%
Timothy Hay 1.25 to 1.30
Cheese per pound 30
Rutter per pound SO to 35
Meal per sack 2.90 to 3.00
FloUr per sack 4.75 to 5.25
Coffee per pound 15 to 20
Cotton seed meal 2.25 to 2.30
Cotton seed hulls 1.00
flides, green 12% to 15
Sweet potatoes 75 to 80
Stock peas per bushel 2.00
Black-eye peas 2.25
Soup peas 3.00
W. L. WOOD ALL & SONS
SmithfielcTs Shopping Center
Only Four More Shopping
Days Until Easter
This Store Offers Special Values all This
week in Ladies Ready-to-Wear
14 Off Un All Coat Suits and Dresses
Just Received One Big Lot Silk Dresses in Crepe de
Chine, Taffeta; all colors- --values up to $20---Espec
ially priced for this week at
$12.45
Special in Shirt Waist
Georgette and ( repe, $7.00 values at - $5.48
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Unusual values in Organdie and Voiles at 98c
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I HAVE FOR SALE A FINE PURE
bred Duroc Jersey boar, one year
old. He can be seen at the Robex't
Lunceford place two miles from
Smithfield. J. G. Gower, Wilson's
Mills, N. C., Route No. 1.
CREAM AND FRESH BUTTER
milk for sale. Mrs. A. Vermont,
Smithfield, N. C.
FOR SALE ? COOK'S STRAIN OF
Buff Orpington Eggs from Madi
son Square Garden prize winners,
$2.00 for a setting of 15; $0.00
fifty; $10.00 for 100. I also have
Byrd strain giant bone Mammoth
Bronze Turkey Eggs at $2.00 for
10; $4.50 for 25; $8.00 for 50. Pt ole
Farm, J. W. Poole, Manager, Smith
field, N. C.
NOTICE.
The undersigned having qualified
as Administrator on the estate of
C. C. Ingram, deceased, hereby noti
fies all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to me
duly verified on or before the 2nd day
of April, 1918, or this noticc will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery; and
all persons indebted to said will make
immediate payment.
This 2nd day of April, 1917.
J. MANG WOOD,
Administrator.
WELLONS & WELLONS,
Attorneys.
Two million children between the
ages of ten*and fifteen are employed
for wages in the United States.
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