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The Smithfield Herald PublisheJ Every Tuesday and Friday. BEATY & LASSITER Smithfield. N. C. Editors and Proprietors, Cash in Advance. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Yeai, $l..r)0 Eight Months, 1.00 Six Months, .75 Three Months, .40 Entered at the Post Office at Smith field, Johnston County, N. C., as Second-class Matter. BIG DRIVE NOW ON. Drive is one of the big words of the day. It is the word that has been brought into use in the foreign bat tle fields. It's a word that means business. It's the word that is to be used in the War Savings Cam puign in this county in the next ten days. The Big Drive is now on and for the next ten days the big work of the War Savings Campaign is to be done. In these next ten days the people of the county are to be given an opportunity to see if they are real ly in earnest in this matter of pledg ing to buy War Savings Stamps. John ston County is asked to lend to the Government during this year $910, 822 by buying these Baby Bends, or War Savings Stamps. Between now and the sixth of April the Big Drive is to be made and it is hoped to get half of Johnston county's quota bought and pledged in that time. At a conference held here yester day afternoon at which nbout thirty members of the several committees were present, Mr. Gilbert Stephen son, Director of Service for the State War Savings Campaign, ex plained the duties of tne committees and laid before them the plan which is now being pursued to carry the towns and counties over the top. It was a most interesting meeting and the presence of so many busy people on Monday afternoon is the strong est evidence that the people are get ting in earnest in this great work of helping to finance the government in the tremendous struggle we are now engaged in. THE BLUE SKY THE SHELTER Will Automobiles Be I^eft in the Weather. At present automobiles are new to most of our people and they keep them f.iirly well sheltered but will this continue! We predict that when they have been used awhile some of them and perhaps many of them will be left out in the weather to rust and ruin. Our people leave out hoes, plows, guano distributers, corn and cotton planters, rakes, mowers, grain drills, manure spreaders, hay balers, carts, wagons, buggies and tractors and we see no reason why it is not about time to begin to leave automobiles out in the open and ex posure to the weather. It is true a fine automobile might be damaged a thousand dollars in three months by exposure to the weather but what is that when it comes to the Ameri can idea of making the blue sky the great American implement shed! Un oiled, unpainted and unsheltered im plements mean one of America's greatest wastes. Mr. Gilbert Stephenson made an ad dress at Selma last night on the War Savings plan and about nine thous and dollars were pledged. Selmr will soon go over the top with Smithfield. The British and French are opti mistic over the situation on the Western Front. Germany has for the past five days been making her su preme effort to bring defeat to the Al lies. While the Britsh forces have been pushed back they have in no case been demoralized and are slowly mov ing back to new positions. Great Brit ian has fresh troops ready to put into the fray and France is yet strong. The great German drive will meet with the fate of all its predecessors ? first at the Marne when they were stopped by the bravery of the French troops and again at Verdun when the great offensive there was checked at heavy cost. Days for Entrainment Changed. The Local Exemption Boards Nos. 1 and 2, Smithfield an<] Selma, re ceived instructions from the War Department Monday changing the date of entrainment for the colored men from Sunday, March 31, to Saturday, March 30th. On that day Local Board No. 1, will send 24 men while Board No. 2, will send 60 men. They will be sent to Camp Grant at Rockfish, 111. BIG DRIVE FOR WAR SAVINGS NOW ON COMMITTEES HEARD GIL BERT STEPHENSON SPEAK Tfams Were Selected to Make the Drive in Johnston County for the Next Two Week*. Big Effort Made to Get Pledge* for Big Part of Johnson's (Juota. What the Several Township* of the County Are Ex pected to Raise During the Year. The amount of money which is ex pected to be raised for the Govern ment this year through the War Sav ings plan is as follows: United States $2,000,000,000 North Carolina ...48,538.314 Johnston County 910.822 Banner Township 64,966 Bcntonsville Township 30,296 Beulah Township 78,474 Boon Hill Township 7o,960 Clayton Township 100,364 Cleveland Township 30,008 Elevation Township 51,062 Ingrams Township 62,964 Meadow Township 39,710 Oneals Township 69,080 Pine I^evd Township 25,564 ?Pleasant Grove Township 34,234 Sclma Township 74,690 Smithfield Township 103,576 Wilders Township 44,902 Wilson's Mills Township 25,936 Clayton (town included in township 31,700 Selma (town included in township) 29,282 Smilhfield (town included in ^township) , 29, <>34 Micro Township was creatod after th*? 1910 Census. Its part may be as certained by multiplying its present population by $20. The apportion ment to the townships out of which Micro wt.s made must, of cours?, be diminished accordingly. This week and th'^ next have been set apart in North Carolina for the pledge-taking drive. That is, every man, woman, and child in the County will be expected to state to the Coun ty Chairmnn, Mr. T. S. Kagsdale, the amount in Stamps, maturity value, he can l>e counted upon to tnke dur ing the year. This pledge is not meant to be a legally binding obligation but only a statement to the County Chair man and his Committee so that they will know the progress that is being made in the county. In order that every part of the County may be reached within the next two weeks and everybody given an opportunity to make a War-Sav ings pledge, the following teams were named at the conference of the War Savings Committee of Johnston County with Mr. Gilbert T. Stephen son, Director of Service for North Carolina of the War-Savings Commit tee, at the courthouse yesterday af ternoon at three o'clock: Banner Township- Preston Wood all and P. B. Johnson, Benson. Bentonsville Township ? W. W. Cole and W. F. Grimes, Smithfield. Beulah Township ? J. G. Johnston, Smithfield, and M. B. Andrews, Kenly. Boon Hill Township ? Dr. Oscar Kason, Princeton, and N. L. Perkins, Smithfield. Clayton Township ? A. V. Gulley, Smithfield, and C. L. Cates, Clayton. Cleveland Township ? A. M. John son, Smithfield, and J, O. Ellington, Clayton, R. 1. Elevation Township ? F. II. Brooks, Smithfield, and J. Shep Johnson, Four Oaks, R. 4. Ingrams Township ? Chas. A. Creech, Smithfield, and G. K. Mas senjfill, Four Oaks. Meadow Township ? J. B. Benton, Benson, and J. J. Rose, Bentonsville, No. 2. Micro Township ? Dr. Ilinnant and R. L. Fitzgerald, Micro. Oneals Township ? E. C. Daniels, Selma, M. C. Winston, Selma. Pine Level Township ? L. T. Royall, Smithfield, and Lnwrence Brown, Pine Level. Pleasant Grove Township ? B. I. Stephenson. Angier and Claude Steph enson, MeCullers No. 1. Selma Township ? G. F. Brietz and E ,H. Moser, Selma. Smithfield Township ? E. F. Boy ette, W. L. Ellis, and W. C. Harper, Smi'hfield. Wilders Township ? N. A. Randell and J. W. Barnes, Wilson's Mills, R. 2. Wilsons Mills Township ? R. A. Pope and W. G. Wilson, Wilsons Mills. The special effort between now and the 6th of April will be to get as large a part as possible of Johnston County's $910,822 War Savings Fund pledged. About thirty members of the War Savings Committee of the County were in conference with Mr. Steph enson yesterday afternoon. The dut ies of each member of the Committee were detailed and discussed and plans were made for the drive of this week and next. The teams that are to have charge of the drive in the respective town ships arc not meant, in the least, tc supplant the Committee but only to cooperate with it and add impetus to its activities. The eyes of the County and, in fact, of the State will be upon the response made by the various townships of the County during tht next two weeks. WAR SAVINGS RALLY AT KENLY Hon. O. B. Eaton Made Eloquent Ad dress Saturday. One Thousand Dol lar Man Joins Limit Club. Other News from Kenly. Kenly, March 23. ? Friday afternoon the Rollins literary Society debated the following question: "Resolved, That immigration to the United States should be restricted by a liter acy test." The debaters manifested a great deal of interest; the judges de cided unanimously in favor of the af firmative. The people, of the community are much gratified that Dean M. H. Stacy, of the University of North Carolina, has already consented to deliver the literary address at the coming com mencement. t'. i. 1 I 4 1. r>uiuruay iiumiiiiik at cicvcn uciuca the business men of Kenly closed their stores and went up to the high school auditorium to take part in a groat War Savings rally. The address for the oc casion was delivered by the Honor able 0. B. Eaton, of Winston-Salem. The address was one displaying elo quence and power; the response was gratifying. The immediate subscrip tions amounted to approximately two thousand dollars, one thousand of which was subscribed by Mr. L. Z. Woodi?rd. The people here are just beginning to become aroused concern ing the purchase of War Savings Stamps. The school children are now being organized into War Savings So cieties. Early Friday morning, Mrs. Robert Nichols, of near Kenly, died. She was buried Friday r.fternoon in the church graveyard near her home. She was a sister of Mrs. W. J. Hooks, of Kenly. She left no children; Mr. Nichols is living, and he has the sympathy of his many friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Robert K. Hooks, of Macclesfield, are spending the week end with Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Andrews. Miss Gladys Andrews is spending the week-end with them too. County Limit Club. The members of the Club reported to Chairman Ragsdale up to last night are as follows: Mrs. Mamie T. Candler, cf Selma. Mr. J. Eustace Yelvington, of Cleve land. Mr. W. P. Avera, Smithfield. Dr. L. D. Wharton, of Smithfield. Mr. M. C. Winston, of Selma. Mr. George T. Pool, of Smithfield. Mr. J. 1). Boyett, of Smithfield. Mr. C. P. Harper, of Selma. Mr. W. H. Austin, of Smithfield. Mr. F. K. Broadhurst, of Smithfield. Mr. G. M. Hinton, of Smithfield. Mr. E. F. Boyett, of Smithfield. Mr. J. Walter Myatt, of Cleveland. Mr. W. M. Sanders, of Smithfield. Mr. N. B. Grantham, of Smithfield. Mr. Polie Gardner, of Smithfield. Mr. Preston Woodall, of Benson. Mr. W. W. Cole, of Smithfield. Mr. T. S. Ragsdale, of Smithfield. Abell and Gray, of Smithfield. First National Bank, of Smithfield. Mr. A. S. Crr>ech, of Smithfield. Mr. L. Z. Woodard, of Kenly. Mr. W. H. Call, of Selma. Mr. S. P. Wood, of Selma. Mr. C. P. Ellis, of Clayton. Delay in Goods Shipped. Nobody knows now when a train will arrive or when goods shipped will be received. This is giving the puglic and especially the merchants no little trouble. A Smithfield mer chant received his season's supply of seed Irish potatoes last week which should have reached him five or six weeks ago. Messrs. Cotter-Under wood Company received a few days ago 440 bags of salt which was ship ped to them October 9th, 1917. Using a Fork in Picking up Stones. In picking up stone with a pitch fork, I use a five or six-tined fork. It saves a lot of walking as one can reach stone six or eight feet away, and often pick two or more at once. Where they are small and numer ous by "shuffling" I can get four to six at each time I raise the fork, and can throw twice as far with less ef fort. Where stones are partly buried a fork is rapid and handy and saves a world of wear on fingers and gloves. It is also easier on the backs and legs. In rapid hands and in rocks under 10 pounds, it will double the speed in their removal. In careless hands, however, the fork is apt to be used for a crow bar or grub hoe with disastrous results, and a motion for reconstruction will be in ordv^r soon. ? Alton M. Worden, in Progressive Farmer. Plant Crops the Livestock Can Harvest. Press dispatches from various parts of the South tell of cotton-picking be ing the order of the day, the shortage of labor making it impossible last fall to get the cotton out before the bad weather set in. The question naturally arises, if labor was so short last fall as to make it impossible to get the cotton picked, what will be the situation next fall! Dr. Alonzo E. Taylor, a national au thority on agricultural economics, es timates that already farm labor in the United States is 14 per cent, short in numbers and 25 per cent, in efficiency, and believes that the enor mous demands of our Navy, shipbuilding, munitions i.rM 4thcr non agricultural enterprises will still fur ther deplete our labor supply. In a word, the outlook is that next fall we will have considerably less available labor than we had last frll Facing such a situation, it would seem the part of wisdom to plant such crops as will require a minimum of human labor in their production and harvest. Food and feed crops fall in this class, particularly the latter. An acre of cowpeas, soy beans or peanuts can probably be produced for not much more than half the cost of growing an acre of cotton, and hogs can do the whole job of harvesting. With both hogs and cattle at high prices and likely to remain high, the short-handed farmer will be wise if ho grows crops the stock can har vest, rather than those that require labor that is high-priced and that may not be available at any price. ? Progressive Farmer. Committees to Report Saturday. All the township committees and teams are requested to report to Chairman Ragsdale next Saturday the progress made this week in the Big I Drive now on for War Savings. "Extravagance rots character; train youth away from it. On the oth er hand, the habit of saving money, while it stiffens the will, also brigh tens the energies. If you would be suer that your are beginning right, gins to save." ? Theodore Roosevelt." Bon Ton News By M li. DAVIS All this week we present the new est Easter apparel in every section of our store. The showing is broad in its scope, covering the selections as to styles in Millinery, Suits, Coats, Dresses, Gloves Hosiery and all ac cessories. Most important to you is the fact that the styles are authentic being nothing less than the best styles of these particular classifications from known designers in the big met ropolis. o o Briliant showing of Easter's most charming Hats ? Hats that form a great collection, and priced in the Bon Ton's moderate way. o c Ladies Suits ? Smart styles, latest models and creations. Some strictly tailored, others beautifully trimmed. Every garment a sample, every sam ple a good value. Hardly two suits alike and for that reason we buy them and sell them to you at from $5 to $10 less. We have on sale this week quite a number of model suits, actually worth from $27.50 to $35.00, at the special price of $22.50. i o o The Bon Ton showing of beautiful sample dresses of serge, silk and foul ards at very low prices. We'll use it on your car. al so fix it, if it needs it, We start where others stop Smithfield Garage and Machine Works ! ELECTRICIANS AND MACHINISTS ESTABLISHED 1910 The Wife should be thrifty and help save her husband's money. If He hasn't done it, She should start the savings account and see that a portion of the income gets there each week. We offer This opportunity to establish the real bulwark of the home. Such co-operation makes the partnership complete. S?*Y/C? -A|. /?/M SAFSrV !sS& TRUST CO. ** Stock &25,ooo.oo Sm/thf/Eld , M .C. Drawbacks There is a drawback to to nearly everything. The fragrant rose has its thorn, the busy bee has ito stinger, the useful mule has a kick, and so on down the line. There is Seldom Success Without Economy at the Start It isn't always pleasant to pinch and scrimp and save, but most of us who start out with nothing have to travel that road. The sav ings thus attained if placed in a good bank like ours where they are safe will in time mean comfort, ease and satisfaction for you. The Clayton Banking Co. CLAYTON, N. C. BANK f AND THE WORLD BANKS ON YOU Special County Election Upon petition of the Board of Education of Johnston County and under Chapter 71 of the Public Laws of 1911 notice is hereby given that at the meeting of the Board of County Commissioners on Monday, the 4th day of March, 1918, a Special Election was i ailed and ordered to be held in the several voting precincts of the county on Tuesday the 30th day of April, 1918, to determine whether there shall be levied in the County a Special Annual Tax of not more than 15 cents on the One Hundred Dollars valuation of property and 45 cents on the Poll to supplement the Public School Fund of the county. At such election those favoring the levy and collection of Tax shall vote a ticket on which shall be printed or written the words "For Special Tax," and those who are opposed shall vote a ticket on which shall be printed or written the words "Against Special Tax." Notice is further given that a new Registration is required. Registration Books will be open for 20 days preceding the day for closing the Registration Books. Registration Books will open on 29th day of March, 1918, and close on Saturday, 20th day of April, 1918. That polling places shall be at Precincts in County. That the following named persons have been appointed Reg istrars and Judges of election: Township Banner Boon Hill Beulah Bentonsville Clayton Cleveland Elevation lngrams Meadow Micro Oneals Pine Level P. Grove Selma Smithfield Wilders Wilson's Mills Registrar J. L. Hall Harvev Watson N. R. Pike E. T. Westbrook L. H. Champion F. M. Weeks D. D. Medlin A. D. Ford W. V. Blackman R. L. Fitzgerald W. H. Godwin N. M. Gurley A. Judges WT. H. Massingill and Troy Lee W. G. Row and J. H. Rose J. W. Woodard and A. J. Hill A. M. Rose and W. A. Powell J. E. Smith and A. R. Duncan Cadmus Young & W. T. Johnson Delma Hardy & J. W. Neighbors Junius Temple and J. Q. Baker T. J. Mashburn and J. M. Parker R. B. Barnes and I. V. Pittman Moses Creech and J. W. Godwin Fitzgerald & Lawrence Brown J? 0 w ? ?? m M i *-? . v " * ? Claude Stephenson A. C. Ogburn and Victor Penny Harvev Standi. J. J. Dean and Ransom Creech J. N. Cobb P. A. Holland and E. L. Woodall V. R. Turley E. Liles and J. A. Wall Wr. T. Wilson B. A. Turnage and Clifford Uzzle By order of Board of County Commissioners in session Mon day, 4th day of March, 1918. SAM T. HONEYCUTT, Register of Deeds and Clerk to Board.
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