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* 1 BUSINESS NOTICES IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD MAGA zines that you have finished with they will be appreciated at the Hospital. SEND TWENTY CENTS IN stamps to the Smithfield Herald for a Turn er’s North Carolina Almanac. It will be mailed to you at once. ANOTHER LOT OF TURNER’S North Carolina Almanacs received at The Smithfield Herald office. Price 20 cente each here or by mail, of these almanacs. TAG HOOKS AT HERALD OFFICE. Call Phone No. 10. NEW GARDEN SEED ON DISPLAY at Hood Brothers. YOU WANT A TURNER’S NORTH Carolina Almanac for the year 1921. You can get it at the Smithfield HERALD office. Price twenty cents here or by mail. Send us twenty cents in postage stamps for one A LARGE LOT OF TYPEWRITER ribbons just received at The Smith field HERALD office. CALL THE HERALD OFFICE FOR your Typewriter Ribbon. FOR MAGISTRATES BLANKS OF all kinds call at the Herald oflke. We have the largest stock of such blanks to be found in Johnston county. Mail orders given prompt attention. Beaty & Lassiter Print ing Company, Smithfield, N. C. IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD MAGA zines that you have finished with they will be appreciated at the Hospital. IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD MAGA zines that you have finished with they will be appreciated at the Hospital. YOU CAN DEPEND ON GETTING a good stand if you plant our garden seed.—Hood Brothers. SEVERAL KINDS of LAND DEEDS and all kinds of magistrates blanks for sale at The HERALD office. Prices reasonable. Write us about them if you need any. Mail orders promptly filled. Do not wait to come to Smithfield but send us an order. LAND LEASE FOR SALE AT THE Herald office. Ten cents a pair or fifty cents per dozen. They are suitable to lease land for one year or more. MERCHANTS AND BUSINESS men should get their legal blanks from The Smithfield Herald office. We carry a large stock of them. Deeds, mortgage deeds, liens for advances, liens for ild debts and advances, chattel mortgages and all kinds of notes. Send us your order by mail. WILL PAY 25 CENTS FOR EGGS in trade at J. D. Spiers, Smithfield, N. C. WILL PAY 25 CENTS FOR EGGS in trade at J. D. Spiers, Smithfield, N. C. We HAVE POOLE’S COTTON SEED for sale here $1 a bushel. The cot ton that graded the highest on the market. Tomlinson and Co., Inc., “The Farmers Friend” Smithfield, N. C., A. M. JohVison, Mgr. PHONE YOUR ORDER FOR Mark ingTags at HERALD office. ABOUT TWENTY TONS OF Sheet Iron from the cells of the old county jail for gale. Will sell as junk. Al so for sale about two tons of rod iron. R. D. Johnson, Smithfield, N. C. IT IS SAID TO BE HARD TO GET a laborer’s lien blank to fit the dif ferent causes which come up and for that reason we have not been keeping them. We continued hav ing calls until we decided to print more of them. Send 25 cents in stamps for one dozen of these blanks. The Smithfield HERALD. FOR RENT A FURNISHED COT tage. Apply 314 South Third $t., Smithfield, N. C. If YOU Are NOT SATISFIED WITH your pressing why not try the Ban ner Pressing Club? The one that will do your work right. If we please you tell others if not tell us. We carry also a full line of clothing samples. See us before you get your next suit. We guarantee a perfect fit or your money back. Next door to Mr. S. A. Worley’s market. J. L. Lewis, G. B. Lane, J. N. Best, Princeton, N. C. I HAVE FOR SALE COKER LONG Staple Cotton Seed at one dollar per bushel. Brings twice as much as ordinary cotton. Charlie Tilton, ■Prinpeton, N. C. WANTED LOW GRADE COTTON for cash or trade, Edgerton Bros. I Co., Princeton, N. C. FOR SALE CHRYSANTHEMUM plants, fine variety, white, pink and yellow. Also Gladioli bujbs. Fun eral designs given special attention. Mrs. C. V. Johnson, Smithfield, N. ' HIGHEST PRICES PAID FOR EGGS and chickens and country produce. ! Edgerton Bros. Co., Princeton, N. EVERY SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACH, er should have one of Arnold’s Com mentaries of the lesson for 1921. This book can be bought at The Smithfield HERALD office for $1.25 or it will be sent by mail on receipt of the above price. Or der at once. Send check or money order and get the book now. A FEW MORE COPIES OF AR nold’s Practical Commentary on the Sunday School lessons for 1921 for sale. Price $1.25 at The Smithfield HERALD office or the hook will he sent by mail on receipt of price. Every Sunday school teacher should have one of these books. OFFICE FOR RENT. SEE H. C. Hood. Smithfield, N. C. WANTED LOW GRADE COTTON for cash or trade. Edgerton Bros. Co., Princeton, N. C. WANTED TO RENT ABOUT A Five room house in good section of town. J. A. Keen, Smithfield, N. C. THE S\1 i HFIFLD !IE t . D C\i ries one of the largest lots of mag istrates blanks to be found any where in eastern North Carolina. A good assortment of them and al most any blanks you can call for. Special attention is called to labor ers liens and two forms of deeds of trust recently printed by us. Call and see our blanks. ONE JERSEY MILK COW AND her calf for sale at the farm where Mr. Will A. Price lives. One fine milk cow at my farm on the Smith-( field and Clayton road for sale. J. M. Beaty, Smithfield, N. C. LEFT MY PLACE FRIDAY, APRIL 1st one red specked milk cow bum ble headed. She left me carrying a new halter and a short piece of chain. She sucks herself. Finder will please notify Mrs. D. Hooper Sanders, or me. Mrs. R. L. San ders, Smithfield, N. C. Unemployment Shows Increase Washington, April 6—In spite of re newed activity in automobile plants, and a resumption of operations in three or four other industries unem ployment in the United States continu ed to increase during March, acording to labor department statistics. From all sections, however, increased em ployment on farms was indicated in the verbal returns made by federal agents, though the actual number of men so engaged was not susceptible of statistical presentation. The department found that 1,424 in dustrial establishments in the United States ordinarily employing more than 500 men each, hud 1,577,786 workers on payrolls March 31, against 1,612, 611 employed February 28, a net de crease of 24,825, or 1.5 per cent. The March number wus 40,308 or 2.5 per cent less than the total January. North Carolina reported cotton planters were the greatest sufferers among growers of agricultural pro ducts. Labor, the report said, promis ed to be plentiful at reduced wages. In South Carolina, the report said, cotton planters were pessimistic as to the outlook, with farm labor apparent ly plentiful. Kept Hogs in Parlor of Home Belle White, negro, was taken into the police court at Dallas, Texas, on the charge of violating the local sani tary law by raising hogs in the front room of her flat in the heart of the business district. The discovery that she had converted her flat into a hog farm was made by her landlord. The woman admitted that she had raised five fat porkers in the room and that four of them were slaughter ed there and the meat sold. The re maining hog was about ready for mar ket. No fine was assessed, but she was warned to change her location if she wanted to continue the hog-rais ing business.—Mount Olive Tribune. PIE PARTY There will be a pie party at the Holly Grove school house six miles from Benson Saturday night, April 9th. Everybody invited. HATTIE C. MASON, BELLE HAMMONS, Teachers. If you want to know what your neighbors think of you, go to a show and sit behind them without their knowing of your presence. Negro Tells Story, Etc. (Continued from page 1) of the alleged murder of the 11 ne groes, giving his description in sim plest words. He was not asked to de scribe the alleged binding of the‘ne groes who were drowned but told how they were thrown off the bridges by himself and Charlie Chisholm, another farm hand, whom he said he later helped Williams drown. “They was stubborn and a-beg ging/’ Manning said of the death of PeUjrson and Willie Preston, “and me and Charlie rolled ’em over the bannister of the bridge.” These and the others killed he said had been lured away from the farm by Williams on the pretext that they were being taken to trains and would be allowed to return to their homes in Atlanta or Macon, where they had been taken from jail by .Williams pay ing their fines. Peterson and Preston Williams said, were bound together by a trace chain around their necks to which was fastened a sack con taining about 100 pounds of rocks. Their hands were bound together by wire, he said. Williams was present and drove the automobile in which the negroes were carried, Manning testified. Harry Price, another negro taken to be drowned, jumped off the bridge him self, Manning said when he found there was no hope for him. “Don’t throw me over; I’ll get ov er,” Manning quoted Price as saying, and added that the negro with a cry of “Lord have mercy,” flung himself into the river. Manning then went into details of the alleged murder of other negroes, declaring one known on the farm only as “Little Bit” was induced to help lift “Red” Brown, another negro, ov er the river bridge railing on the pre text that Williams merely wanted to “scare” Brown. The latter, already weighted down, was dropped into the river, Manning said and then he help ed send “Little Bit” to the same fate. Another farm hand known only as “Big John,” was induced to help dig his own grave on the pretense that he was digging a well, and when the hole was about shoulder deep, Manning testified, Charlie Chisholm knocked the negro in the head and Chisholm filled the hole. Manning continued his testimony until he had described each alleged murder in detail. Efforts on cross-examination to make Manning say he had been told by federal agents he was as “guilty as Williams was” were met with de nials by the negro, but he admitted he “lied” to federal agents when he told them he was not farm boss. He also declared Williams was present at the various drownings and had or dered the killings when defense coun sel sought to make him admit he was instigator in the killings. He told defense counsel, too, that on one oc casion he tried to “break away” from the Williams place, where he has worked for the past 14 years but said “Mr. Johnny jumped on me and I ain’t tried it no more.” Manning also told of an alleged stockade where he said negroes were kept behind bars at night, which G. W. Brown and A. J. Whisenant, fed eral agents, testified they found. Man ning admitted he helped keep negroes in the place. The defense however, did not go into this feature on cross examination, nor was an attempt made to question Manning regarding any death except that of Peterson. The defense held the peonage charges and the other deaths were irrelevent. —Associatd Press. NOTES OF DRY GOODS MARKETS Of the 200,000 pieces of print cloths sold at Fall River last week, nearly all were of odd width or count and for delivery within the next 30 to 40 days. Curtailment of production is increas ing in this center. The large printers of staple goods are running nearly every machine on old orders, the new business being con fined to small lots for immediate ship ment. The Japanese Government is report ed to have approved a loan of $1,000, 000 to the syndicate organized to sta bilize the raw silk markets in accord ance with plans that have been work ing since last October. Offerings of burlaps for spot de livery on a basis of 4c. a yard, or low er, are being made without attracting much new business. This price basis is quite as low as the pre-war level. Garment manufacturers for ladies’ wear are beginning to slacekn up on Spring business, and to buy goods for Pall. The Easter trade was of moderate proportions only. The irregularity of conditions in bleached goods lines is very marked for the reason that consuming demand is centering around the best-known branded lines, while the call for un branded goods is very spotty and must be stimulated by lower prices. —Dun’s Review. -- -- Cooperative Marketing Campaign The campaign to secure signatures to the cotton and tobacco grower’s C ooperative Marketing agreement, started here some days since has been very successful. In the educational campaign in which some 19 meetings were held in the county a large num ber of signatures to the Marketing agreement were secured among which are at least 100 of the leading farm ers in the county. The work is now being carried on in a number of sec tions in the county by local workers who in the end will put the proposi tion across with a large percentage of our growers signed up. The progress of this work in other states and of other counties in this State as indicated by reports in the daily papers is very encouraging to our farmers here because they realize that this is not a singlehanded battle but a case in which our farmers are merely standing by the side of their fellow farmejrs in an effort to secure fair returns for the labor and invest ment entering into the production of our cotton and tobacco crops. Our tobacco farmers say that 8 cents out of the consumers dollar for tobacco is not a fair proportion and they pro pose to change it. It has been shown that the average price received by the farmer for his tobacco equals to approximately 8 cents out of the con sumers dollar. The situation with the cotton farmer is worse. At the pre sent the cost of production does not enter at all into the fixing of the price of our cotton crop. Our cot ton farmers can market cooperatively their cotton crop direct to the manu facturers with a great saving to them selves and this is what they propose to do. Mr. Farmer, if you have not al ready signed the Marketing Agree ment with the Cotton and Tobacco Cooperative Marketing Associations do so at once and in so doing you will be helping yourself and your fellow men. The business of turning our most important crops over into the hands of speculators who nave no use for these crops except for specula tive purpose >s all wrong and it is up to you to help change the system. Talk to your neighbor about the pro position and nine cases out of ten you will find him in favor of going in to this association. If you do not have occasion to see one of the local workers call at the office of the County Agent and sign a Cooperative Marketing Agreement the next time you are in town. - S. J. KIRBY, County Agent. PLEASANT GROVE ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mercer of Elm City were visitors at the home of Mr. Wm A. Lee recently. Miss Julia Grimes of Coats has been spending several days here at the home of her grandfather, Mr. Charlie Wood. Mrs. Minnie Morris of Wilson coun ty spent the week-end at Mr. W. B. Honeycutt. Miss Mary E. Wells, of Smithfield met with the Pleasant Grove group of school teachers last Friday after noon to perfect arrangements for a group meeting of all the groups of schools on April 28, 1921. Quite a number of our people at tended the funeral of Mr. Akriel Byrd at the home of Mr. J. E. Gilbert and the funeral of Mr. William C. Bar bour at Rehobeth last Sunday after noon. These young men were sol diers who were buried in France and then brought back to their native land. Among those that attended the mass meeting of the farmers at Smithfield Monday we note the following: Messrs C. C. Young, Bennette Stephenson, Archie Johnson, Leonard Johnson, Ed S. Coats, W. J. Barbour, Lester Stan cil, Thos. E. Dupree and Claude Stephenson. v Mr. J. Claude Coats spent Tuesday in Benson on business. M. D.'s Sea Radio Cures Man 111 On Another Ship The master of the United States Shipping: Board's freighter West Hem brie had a sick engineer on his hands. He did not know whether the chief was down with acute indigestion or acute appendicitis. He did know, how ever, that he was out in mid-Atlantic with no medicine man on board, and he appealed for aid by radio. Every vessel within call sent in ad vice and prescriptions. The skipper got so many of the latter that he hard ly knew, where to begin in his minis trations for the sufferer. Dr. Michael Lanza, of the United States M^il steamship Pocahontas, which arived here yesterday, sent a remedy by radio, but he did not know until the next day whether or not it had been employed. It was used, how ever, and the freighter’s skipper re plied 24 hours later saying: “Engineer all right now. Thanks Will remember you in our prayers.” Work for April The real beginnings come in April: “As ye sow, ye are like to reap.” Best seeds and best breeds best serve the world’s needs. Plan successive plantings for gar den. Use best seer with well prepar ed seed bed. Be equipped in advance with neces sary remedies for insects that de stroy gardens in your vicinity. Put up nest boxes and clean out old ones if you want air-policy against insects. Call on Home Demonstration agent for information on Control of Dis eases and insect enemies of the Home Vegetable Garden. Don’t stint the cow’s feed ,even though the pastures are fresh and green. In early spring the grass is usually watery and cows can not get enough of it to supply milk and keep up body weight. Call on Home Demonstration agent for recipes for Milk Dishes. Confine hens to brood coops until chicks are two weeks old. Locate coops where drainage is good and where there is a good sod and move them to fresh ground every few days. Cull and kill any chicks that are not thrifty and are not growing well. They may carry disease, and in any case are unprofitable. Be sure to have a nest for every four or five laying hens. Use more eggs in the diet. Call on Home Demonstration agent for recipes for egg dishes, informa tion concerning preserving eggs, the management of growing chicks and poultry diseases. Good Fishing in The Neuse Messrs George Warren ar.d Soloman Daughtry of Boon Hill township went fishing last Monday night in Neuse river. They caught twenty-nine shad. They went into Princeton with two sacks of these fine fish. The same night Messrs C. C. Fail and Charley Toler went fishing at the same place and caught seventeen shad. Notice There will be a farmer’s meeting held in the mayor’s office in Benson, Saturday afternoon at 2:30, April 9, for the purpose of discussing better methods of marketing our cotton and tobacco crops. The County Agent will be at this meeting. S. J. KIRBY, County Agt. BENSON ORGANIZES SINGING (Continued from page 1) derson, and P. B. Johnson who may call on as many others as they need in perfecting the necessary arrange ments of this great entertainment. There will be expected from every home in Benson the entire family to be present with a smile and a hearty welcome to the visiting classes who will in turn fill your very being with bright, new, catchy and snappy songs and, too, they will bring full baskets of dinner and Benson will be gl^d to do this same thing and all enjoy din ner together on the ground. There will be more notices published relative to this from time to time and we hope to be able to say that May 29, 1921 was a glorious day for Benson and that greater things may yet be accomplished. J. H. ROSE, President, WILLIE DIXON, Vice Pres. S P. HONEYCUTT, Sec.-T. PARLIA HUDSON, Director. Sanford Hotel Burns Sanford, April 6.—The Maywood Inn, the leading hostelry of this city, was totally destroyed by fire early this morning. Practically every room was filled with guests. All escaped with out injury, though some had a nar row escape. One of the firemen was seriously cut about the face. The cook, who was sleeping in a back room near the kitchen, where the fire originated, was the first to dis cover the fire about 3 o’clock this morning. She narowly escaped thru a window, losing everything she had. But she did not fail to wake up the town. Very little furniture or wearing apparel were saved.—News and Ob server. Strawberries Moving Northward Chadboum, April 6.—Three car loads of strawberries left for Northern points last night, being the earliest shipments of any considerable quant ity from the berry section in several years. The season usually opens around the middle of April, though it has been known to open as early as April 1st. Ihdications are that the present fruit and vegetable crop in the Wilmington and Chadboum dis tricts will be a record breaker. The recent cool weather did no damage of any consequence to these crops.— News and Observer. NOTICE By virtue of the authority contain ed in a mortgage deed executed to A. V. Driver by C. Creech and wife and dated the 8th day of March, 1916, and duly Registered in the Register’s of fice of Johnston County in Book __ No. 11, page 283, the undersigned will sell at public auction, for cash, at the Court House door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., on the 11th day of May, 1921, at 12 o’clock M., the following property to-wit: Ascertain tract or parcel of lapd lying in Selma Township, beginning at a stake in Underhill’s line and runs with said line S 89£ E 48 4-10 poles to a stake, Wingate Underhill (deceased) corner; thence with said line S 3 W 60 3-10 poles to a stake, his corner; thence S. 89J E. 25 4-10 poles to a stake; thence S 3 W 55 6-10 poles to a stake; Mrs. Dora Vick Martin’s corner; thence S 3 W with her line 68 6-10 to center of A. C. L. R. R.; thence S 67 W with said R. R. 131 6-10 poles to a stake formerly Allen Young’s corner (near Lizzie Cotton Mills); . thence N 3 East 184 poles to the be ginning, containing 98 51-100 acres, more or less. This 7th day of April, 1921. A. V. DRIVER, Mortgagee. PLANTERS BANK, Wilson, N. C. Transferee. WE OFFER Subject to Prior Sale TOWN OF SMITHFIELD TWO YEAR NOTES IN BLOCKS OF $50.00, $100.00, $250.00 1 AND $500.00 AT PAR ' These notes bear six per cent, are exempt from all municipal tax and have the full faith of the Town. Payable at the Clerk’s Office on March 1, I 1923. We strongly recommend the investment because of the fact they will not only net 6*4% but the money is to be used in Smithfield by Smithfield people for Smithfield’s benefit. Citizens National Bank I SMITHFIELD, N. C. 1
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