WEAVER WOULD HELP SOLDIERS
Introduces Bill Which Would Give
Service Men Extra Pay—Would
Pay All I’a; ticipanf s in World W'a'
Stipend of $30 Additional Per
Month.
Washington, July 26,—Representa
live Weaver today introduced a bill ti
show the governments recognition of
the splendid s -rvice of the American
soldier ;n the war with Germany. It
provided for ell officers ■ nd enlisted
ii en, an additional payment of $30
per month for each niorih of service
rendered, not exceeding a total of one
years pay at the rate >f $30 pe*
month. It applies to all men anil offi
cers in the United States army in the
naval and marine services.
The bill further provides that, if
it shall be necessary in order to pro
cure the required funds, that the sec
retary is authorized to issue bonds of
the government to mature in not more
than 20 years, the proceeds of these
bonds to go entirely to the payment
of the American soldiers
It is contemplated that, if funds can
not be otherwise had, that a sale of
bonds by popular subscription shall be
made, similar to the Liberty loans and
such subscriptions shall be designa
ted by such name that it shall be
known that all bonds subscribed for
by the people shall be paid to soldiers
for their services and for the purpose
of tiding them over the days of un
employment, following their dis
charge.
It has been urged by some that the
soldiers would probably spend this
money unwi-ely, but Mr. Weaver
states that it hould be oaid t > them
to do with as they like; that they gave
ungrudgingly to their country and en
dured hardships and hazards that only
strong men and brave men could or
would undergo. He further stated
that in his opinion men who had thp
courage and brains to break the Hin
denburg line and to drive back the
Huns at Chateau Thierry and other
great battles of the war, have brains
enough to take care of the small pay
ment of and to use it for the
eomfort and help of themselves and
their families. Mr. Weaver also in
troduced today a hill providing for the
appropriation of $20,000 for the pur
chase of a sit" and erecting of a post
office building at Murphy and another
bill appropriating a similar sum for
the site and erecting of a building for
the postoffice at Bryson City. II. E.
U. Bryant, in Charlotte Observer.
DIME NOVELS” COMING BACK.
In l/iist 18 Months “Nick Carter" Has
Had Record-Breaking Sales.
"Nick Carter” has come into his
own again. The king of the "paper
backs” has made a record-breaking
return to popularity. About 18 months
ago his sales began to mount steadily
unt'l the entire supply of “Nick Car
ter’s” books was exhausted.
His return to fame was unexpected.
It was not the result of an advertis
ing campaign, for the publishers of
the paper bound books do not adver
tise. They depend, instead for the
sale of their books on the lists printed
in the back pages on each volume.
And “Nick Carter” was not the only
member of the "paper back" tribe to
return. All of the old favorites
Laura Jean Libby, Bertha M. Clay,
Mrs. E. I>. E. N. South worth and Au
gusta J. Evans-—-have “come back”
surprisingly.
Five years ago every one was will
ing to predict that the movies had
killed the production of cheap books.
Thrills could be absorbed more
quickly from the screen than from
the printed page and the price was
vlie same.
Publishers of the paper backs arc
uncertain whether their old reading
public has tired of the motion picture
or whether a new class of readers has
arisen. Of one thing they are cer
tain, though, the demand for the 10
cent and 15-cent book has increased
fourfold. If it were not for the in
creased cost of production these pub
lishers would be reaping the harvest
of their liv'es.
Stories of American life as seen by
Bertha M. Clay and other writers of
her class—and detective stories are
most in demand. Fortune telling
books and letter writers also have a
large and steady sale. “Dream” book
are never so popular as they are to
day, the;r publishers say.—N. 't Sun.
STOKES COUNTY LADY
SHOT BY HER HUSBAND.
Danbury, July 29.—About seven
miles east of Danbury, Saturday
morning Abe Hawkins shot and seri
ously if not fatally, wounded his
wife. She was shot just below the
right shoulder and the doctors believe
that her right lung is shot in two.
Only one shot was fired from the au
tomatic shot gun. Hawkins was ar
rested at once and brought here to
jail. Physicians pronounce him in
sane. He has acted very strangely
for some time.
NEW COMPANY WILL
BUILD GIN AT ONC.T
Recently Organized Farmers Gin
Company at Selma Letting I'eadj
For Business—Erect I wo l nit
Plant Near Coast Line Road—Mill
Be Run By Electricity.
The new Farmers’ Gin Company,
which was recently organized by lo
cal, capital, including a number or
farmers in the territory adjacent to
Selma, has completed arrangements
for erecting c building on the corner
of Anderson and Sharp Greets, near
th* Coast Line railroad and will ba
ready for bur mess as soon as the
building is constructed and the
equipment, which is already here, can
be installed.
The p«'ant will consist of a two unit
system "in and will be* driven entirely
by electricity. Each unit will have its
separate motor, in order that de
struction or damage to one will not
affect t! <- operation of the other unit.
The plant will he thoroughly modern
in every respect and it is expected
that the company will be ready for op
eration in ample time for handling
the present crop.
In building and equipment, future
growth is provided for in the ease
and convenience in which additional
unite im y he installed and the com
pany proposes to provide the very
best of servici to its patrons at all
times.
Mr. W. G. Ward is president of th _>
new corporation and Mr. Theo Easom
is secretary and treasurer, which as
sures not only successful operation of
the gin. but the best of attention to
the business and service to its cus
tomers. An expert manager will be
secured to conduct the business.—
Selma Johnstonian.
Th«‘\ Died for Others.
The Goldsboro Argus pays this
beautiful tribute to Lieutenant D.
M. Prince, who lost his life Saturday
at Goldsboro in an effort tp save a
litte child from drowning:
“Lieut. Prince war the son of our
good friend and townsman, Mr. David
M. Prince, his mother having died
several years ago. He was an idea!
son, an heroic soldier, a worthy young
citizen of bright promise and in the
supreme test that confronted him to
day, an unhesitating exemplar of Him
who said, ‘Greater love than this no
man hath—that he lay down his life
for another.’ And shall he “find it
again”? Aye, already—while wc who
loved him stand with sorrow-crushed
hearts and tear-dimmed eyes, and
would y-t seek to comfort the bvoken
lather of this splendid young man—
he has already heard the voice of the
King, saying: ‘Inasmuch as you did it
for one of these the least of my breth
ren. you did it unto me; enter thou
into the joys of thy Lord.' ’’
Tl u rad ay at Wrightsvillc Beach
Lieut. Don Kirkman, of High Point,
also a returned soldier, lost his life
under circumstances exactly like thos,
surrounding the Goldsboro tragedy,
the young man trying, at the expens'’
of his own life, to save thi life of
another
These gallant young fellows made
the supreme sacrifice in as praisewor
thy an enterprise as though they had
died in battle. Their fellows who died
in France.fell with the conviction tha‘
what they had done had been justified
by the purpose which animated them,
namely, the saving of the women and
children of America from the horrors
which befell those of France and Bel
gium. Lieutenants Prince and Kirk
i an gave their lives for individuals,
but the gift was no less great.
Incidents of this sort s.hou’d have
the effect of ennobling th« lives of all
who hear of them. Better a thousand
times to die early as these young mer.
and to die nobly than to live the full
span of years and to live ignobly. A
life is successful only as it is meas
ured in terms of sacrifice. News and
Observer.
SEWANEE ENDOWMENT FUND.
Over <300,000 Subscribed for Univer
sity—$500,000 in Sight.
Over $300,000 has been subscribed
to the Sewanee endowment fund for
the University of the South through
out the dioceses of the Southern
States, with $500,000 in sight. Re
ports from the chairmen for the va
rious duceses are most encouragin'*
and it is expected that the goal, $1,
000,000, will be easily reaehed by the
close of the campaign in the autumn
The University of the South is the
property of the Episcopal church in
the 22 diocese- in the States of Alaba
ma, Arkansas. Florida, Georgia, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis
souri. North Carolina, Oklahoma
South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas
i* is p oposed to use the gmeral en
dowment fund in protecting and mak
ing good the investment represented
in the 10,000 acres of mountain land
on the Cumberland plateau, the 3 1
buildings of buff sandstone, the spa
cious campus and the international
reputation for molding leade ship.—
Chattanooga Dispatch.
four million people
IN POLAND DESTITUTE.
And the Nation if* Still Engaged
in Frontier Warfare—Women on
Firing Line.
Warsaw, Poland, June 28.—It is es
timated that there as 4,000,000 desti
tute peisons in Poland, including 2.
000,000 mothers anti children. For
f.ve years the struggling armies of
Russia and the central powers swept
back and forth over the country,
j Thousands of house and buildings
j were destroyed.
Now that peace ha> settled upon
the rest of the world, Poland is still
engaged in frontier warfare. From
the Baltic to the Carpathians on i
front three times the length of the
former western one, the Poles are
mobilized. Even women and girls are
performing military service, not as
their French and American sisters
were, in hospitals and abulances, but
on the firing line %vith rifles in their
hands.
Despite these conditions, the new
Polish government is making a de
termined effort to care for its civilian •.
with the assistance of allied relief
agencies. The American Red Crosc
has already sent to Poland a dozen
train loads of supplies, clothing, med
icines, and children’s food. What this
has meant to the new republic is sum
med up in the statement of the Polish
government official who told the Re 1
Cross workers:
“You are saving a race which has
strugg’ed foe independence for hun
dreds of years, and are winning their
everlasting gratitude, and friend
ship.”
Japs to Build Submarines.
Tokio, June 11. Japan will make
serious efforts to improve her navy by
building seven submarines of 1,004
t .r,.- o;i h Several Germ n suborn*
ne- have fallen to Japan as :: reuiP
i.f the peace arrangements and are
. lei'ted soon to arrive in Japanese
i OR SALE: (INK JERSEY COW.
fresh with young calf. Apply 104
West Bridge St., Smithfield, X. C.
\\ HY NOT BUY AND STOP RENTS
We can furnish new homes, com
plete August 1. Water, sewerage
end ,:ghts. Smithfield Building
and Loan Association.
COMMISSIONER'S NOTICE OF
RESALE OF REAL ESTATE.
Under and by virtue of :. n order for
resale by W. S. Stevens, Clerk of the
Superior Court- of Johnston county, in
a special proceeding entitled “Jane
G. Holt and others vs. Roscoe G.
Finch and otht rs,” 1 will, on
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, AT 12
O’CLOCK M„
offer for sale at public auction at the
courthouse door <f Johnston county,
to the highesi bidder for cash a cer
tain lot of land in Johnston county,
which is described and defined as fol
lows, to-wit:
“Beginning at the int - section of
Third and Hancock street:., and runs
in a northerly direction with Third
street 210 feet to the land of Mrs.
Mr.ye Youngblood; thence in an east
erly direction with Mrs. Maye Young
blood; thence in an easterly direction
with Mrs. Maye Youngblood’s line
210 feet; thence in r southerly direc
tion. with Third street, 210 feet to
Hancock street; thence in a westerly
direction 210 feet with Hancock street
to the beginning, containing one (11
acre, more or less.”
Th;s res: le is ordered by the court
on account of an increased bid over
and upon the purchase price, for the
sum of twenty-five hundred dollars
($2,500) for which the property was
sold on July 5, 1919.
This the 25th day of July, 1919.
.1. H. ABELL, Commissioner.
NOTICE OF SALE OF VALUABLE
TOWN LOT IN SMITHFIELD.
Under and by virtue of an order of
the Superior Court of Johnston coun
ty, made in the special proceeding en
ded John E. Powell vs. Lovett
Powell, Jessie Powell Henry, Sam
Powell and Charlie Powell dated July
8. 1919, appointing the undersigned
as commisisoner and especially em
powering and directing him to do so,
the said undersigned commissioner
will, on Monday, August 11, 1919, at
noon, at the courthouse door in
Smithfield, N. C., offer for sale to the
highest bidder for cash that certain
lot or parcel of land lying and being
in the town of Smithfield, and de
scribed as follows, viz:
Adjoining the lands of Z. L. LeMay,
H .P. Stevens, F. H. Brooks, and oth
ers. beginning at a stake. Z. L. Le
May’s corner, formerly Wesley Whit
field’s corner, on Third street, and
runs about west 70 yards to H. P.
Stevens’, formerly S. R. Morgan’s
line; thence about north 17 1-2 yards
to a stake, F. H. Brooks’, formerly
Ransom Drew’s and H. P. Stevens’
corner; thence with F. H. Brooks’ line
about east 70 yards to Third street;
thence with Third street 17 1-2 yards
to the beginning and containing one
fourth of an acre and being a part of
lot No. 04 in the plant of the town of
Smithfield, and the same lot conveyed
to Rebecca Powell by N. R. Green and
wife, L. H. Green by deed recorded in
Book X No. ”, page 285 of the office
of theRegister of Deeds of Johnston
county, N. C.
This 9th dav of July, 1919.
JAMES D. PARKER.
Commissioaer.
Parker & Parker, Attorneys.
DR. R. S. STEVENS
announces that he has kcrted in
| Smit fiu d for the practice of his pro
fession. Offices in Stevens Building,
above Herald office.
G. A. MARTIN
Lawyer
SMITHFIELD, N. C.
Office formerly Occupied by
Pou & Brooks.
AGENCY FOE
Cleveland Tractor
Atkinson or Hodson
Selma, N. C., R. F. D. 1.
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j COTTER - UNDERWOOD CO.,
» Smithfield, N. C.
Undertakers and Embalmers.
Auto Hearse Service. Prompt at
I tention to all calls night or day. Call
| Phone 17 and at night call phone 89 i.
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EI). A. HOLl
PRINCETON, N. C.
UNDERTAKER
Coffins, Caskets, Metallic Caskets.
All Styles Burial Robes.
Hearse Service. Big Stock
E. P. LORE
CIVIL ENGINEER
Smithfield, N. C.
Ha.' re-opened office in Stevens Build
ing over Postoffice. Now ready for all
kinds of civil engineering work.
FLOYD C. PRICE
Pine Level, N. C.
LICENSED UNDERTAKER.
Dealer in Coffins, Fine Casketi.
Burial Robes, Grave Vaults. Good
stock always on hand. Embalming
connection and one of the pretties*
hearses in Eastern Carolina.
Dr. Rosser Lane
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Office - 138-L
Residence 99
SMITHFIELD, N. C
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dr. J. C. Mann, Eyesight Special
,st, wishes to announce that he has
•spened an office with Dr. L. D. Whar
ton, Smithfield, N. C. Dr. Mann will
be in his office every second and
(. urth Friday in each month from 10
a. m. to 4 p. m. If your eyes are de
fective call to see him, glasses fitted
tnat are easy and restful to the eyes,
headache relieved when caused by
11ye- strain. His next visit will be Fri
t day, August 8.
Money To Loan
Money to loan on five years’ time at
5 1-2 per cent interest, or 20 years’
time at 6 per cent interest. Those
needing loans during the fall will do
well to make their arrangements
now, so as to have them ready when
they need the money Summer
months are leisure months with law
yers, and you can get your abstract in
readiness now, while you are making
! your crops, and then be in shape to
I meet your demands that will be due in
j the fall. Loans made in any amount
from $1,000 to $50,000 on farm lands
only.
I have another connection by which
I can lend money on town property
frcm three to five years at 6 per cent
interest.
FREDERICK H. BROOKS,,
Attorney-at-Law,
Smithfield, N. C.
FOR SUMMER COLDS
Catarrh, Asthma, Hay-Fever, etc. insc
in the noitrili a small quantity of
VAPoMENTHflty
'•"salve‘w
Will not stain the Clothes. At all drug
stores 30c, 60c and $1.20 or mailed direct.
BRAHE DRUG COMPANY, N. Wftesboro, N. C.
CITY DOG TAX NOW DUE.
All persons keeping dogs in the
town of Smithfield are requested to
come forward and pay their tax and
get ;• tag and put it on the dogs.
C. R. TURNER,
Chief cf Police.
AS 1 WILL QUIT FARMING MY
seff, 1 have for sale two large fine I
mules nine years old. They will
weigh about twelve bun lred pounds
each. J. H. Woodard, R. 3, Prince
ton, N. C.
200 SUITS
Palm Beach, Mohair,
Cool Cloth and
Silk Suits
At
$10:00 to $25.00
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No. 1. 165 acres, 100 cleared; red clay, gray soil; 3
good buildings, 2 tobacco barns; 4 miles town ; bale cotton
per acre. Price and terms very reasonable.
No. 2. 260 acres, 200 cleared, just outside city limits;
red clay, gray soil; beautiful home and grove; tenant
houses. One of the best farms in Wayne county.
No. 3. 850 acres, 500 cleared; clay, light soil; beautiful
grove and home; 6 tenant houses, 5 tobacco barns; 6 miles
depot/ Good cotton, corn, tobacco, truck and grain land;
ideal stock or tobacco farm, fenced with wire. This is
the best farm bargain in Wayne County.
No. 4, 235 acres, 125 cleared; fine tobacco farm, 500
pecan trees on each side of the road; beautiful grove and
home; level, light soil.
No. 5. 185 acres, clay land ; 3 buildings; 2 miles Calyp
so, 5 to Mount Olive. One of the best bargains we have.
No. 6. 61 acres, 40 cleared; light gray soil; 2 miles town,
one building and tobacco barn, out buildings.
No. 7. 50 acres, 40 cleared ; stiff, dark soil; 2 miles town
on railroad siding.
SPECIALS.
254 acres, clay, $50 per acre. 90 acres, good buildings.
$50 rtr acre.
350 acres, light; lots of timber, $40 per acre.
200 acres, light; $30 per acre.
400 acres, light; $20 per acre.
These farms were listed before the advance in real
estate and we are offering them at old prices, with rea
sonable cash payment and easy terms, subject to posses
sion January 1, 1920.
Select Your Farm Now, Before the Best Places
are Sold.
WATSON & GRANTHAM
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WEEK-END EXCURSION FARES.
Week-end and Sunday excursion tickets are now on sale
from Smithfield to Wilmington as follows;
Via Fayetteville.
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pal mountain and seashore resorts.
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H dress T. C. WHITE,
gj G. P. A., Wilmington. N. C.
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