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H BUSINESS NOTICES S H H READ HAROLD BELL WRIGHTS new novel, “Helen of the Old House" and get your copy at THE HER ALD Book Store. Price $2.00. ARNOLD’S NOTES ON THE SUN day School Lessons for 1922 for sale now' at THE HERALD Book Sto’-e, Smithfield, N. C. Price $2. FOR SALE—I STILL HAVE A FEW dozen very fine Chrysanthemums medium size plentiful. Am prepar ed to ship to any point. Funeral designs given especial attention. Mrs. C. V. Johnson, Smithfield, N. C. BIBLES AND TESTAMENTS JUST received at The HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. JUST RECEIVED A LOT OF TES taments and Bibles. THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. WEBSTER’S DICTIONARIES FOR sale at the SMITHFIELD HERALD office. Small pocket dictionaries. Price fifty cents each. Webster’s New Ideal dictionary $2. Websters collegiate dictionary $5.00. When writing you want ta spell correct ly. Get one of these dictionaries to help you out. SEE OUR LINE OF BIBLES AND Testaments. THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. JUST RECEIVED A LOT OF TES taments and Bibles. THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. ARNOLD’S NOTES ON THE SUN* day School Lessons for 1922 for sale now at THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. Price $2. YOU WANT TO READ THE WORD of God. A large lot of Bibles arc being received at THE SMITH FIEL HERALD office. Prices reas onable. Call and see them. Sunday School teachers Bibles, family Bi bles and Bibles for general use on hand. New Testaments for sale also. NEW BOOKS AT THE HERALD Book Store. Come in and make a selection. A few Copies “Helen of The Old House” and hand. NEW BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS just received at THE IIERALl) Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. DAY BOOKS, LEDGERS AND REC ord books for sale at The Smith field Herald office. You want to keep your accounts straight and in ordeT to do this you need some of our books. Call and see them. PELOUBET’S NOTES ON THE Sunday School Lesson for 1922 for sale now at THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. Price $2. AUCTION SALE—1 WILL OFFER for sale to the highest bidder at my farm one mile north of Micro, Thursday, December 8th, at 10 o’clock the following articles: 2 mules, on terms or cash; 1 two horse wagon and 1 one-horse wa gon, 1 stock cutter, 1 cultivator, 1 disc, 1 section harrow, corn, hay, and everything that it takes to farm with. Terms of sale: Cash W. M. Boykin, Micro, N. C. PELOUBET’S NOTES ON THE Sunday School Lesson for 1922 for sale now at THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. Price $2. FOR RENT A FURNISHED ROOM for gentleman. Within half block of business section. Call ’Phone 496. SEE OUR LINE OF BIBLES AND Testaments. THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. FRESH MEATS, BEEF, FISH A^D oysters at Parrish’s market, Phone 208. STRAYED OR STOLEN ONE YEL low and white hound on lean order. Finder return to H. L. Lee, Four Oaks, N. C., and receive reward. SEE OUR LINE OF BOOKS BE fore buying your Christmas pres ents. THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. FOR RENT: GOOD FARM TO RE liable man, fine river lowgrounds for corn and good upland for cot ton, wheat and tobacco. Located in Chatham county. See A. M. Gunter, Smithfield, N. C. USED CARS FOR SALE: 1 FORD, and one Chevrolet, both in good condition. Bargains for cash or part cash and good! notes for balance. B. I. Tart, Four Oaks, . C.‘ WE HAVE SEVERAL GOOD farms to rent. Come to see us. Wellons & Wellons, Smithfield, N. C CALL F. H. PARRISH 208 FOR Beef and fresh meats of all kinds. A FEW MORE COPIES Of HAROLD J Bell Wright’s new book, “Helen of i The Old House” on hand at THE j HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, i N. C. Price $2.00. j NEW BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS i i just received at THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. GIN DAYS—COMMENCING Thurs day and Friday, December 1st and ' 2nd, we will only gin cotton two days in each week—Thursday and Friday. W. B. Oliver & Son, Floyd C. Price, Pine Level, N. C. FARM FOR RENT—ONE OR TWO horse farm to rent on halves for cotton and tobacco. Will give corn land free. Will furnish plenty fer tilizer, good house and out buildings. Can see me any Sunday at the Smithfield Road Camp. Geo. H Strickland, Princeton, N. C., R. 1. FOR RENT FORTY ACRES OF good level land; five room house; good out-buildings; two tobacco barns. Just east of depot on the Goldsboro road. D. B. Hamilton, Smithfield, N. C. 'WE HAVE SEVERAL GOOD • farms to rent. Come to see us. Wellons & Wellons, Smithfleld, N. C STORY TELLING BOOKS FOB sale at THE HERALD Book Store. ! I Here? are some of the titles: “What i j the Wild Flowers Tell Us"; “Worth . While Stories for Every Day “Firelight Stories"; “Mother Stor I ies"; “Once Upon a Time Animal i Stories.” 1 TEACHERS WILL BE ATTRACTED I by our story tolling books. Come in and look them over. HERALD BOOK STORE, Smithfleld, N. C. STRAYED OR STOLEN FROM MY place one young hound. Black | back, speckle breast and legs; i speckle ring around neck and blazed , face. Answers to name “Ball.” Finder return or notify D- E. Bar bour, Wilson’s Mills, N. C., Route No. 2, and receive reward. FOR SALE 1 SECOND HAND FORD truck. Going at a bargain in or der to sell quick. J. L. Jones, Smithfleld, N. C. , TWO DESIRABLE BUILDING LOTS for sale near business section. Pric es reasonable. Mrs. J. H. Sander son, Smithfloh),N.C. ONE CAR LOAD SODA AT $55 PER ton. You better hurry. Austin’s | Cash Dept. Store, Smithfleld, N. C. . I WILL SELL AT AUCTION FOR cash on Saturday, Dec. 10th, at 10 i o’clock, com, fodder, buggy, wag- | ons, sorry and all farming tools; some household and kitchen furni- ' ture at my home near Yelventon Grove Baptist church. It. S. Moore, | Smithfield, N. C., Route No. 2. WE HAVE SEVERAL G O O 1) | farms to rent. Come to see us. Wellons & Wellons, Smithfield, N. C j i --——-—■—— -— I | WANTED SEVERAL ROOMERS AT j I once. Nicely equipped rooms and I located in town. Mrs. I,ee San- I ' ders, Smithfield, N. C. | ! FOR SEWING SEE MRS. D. H. | Jones, 111 West Bridge St. Smith field, N. C. Phone 92-L. Box Party. A box party will be given at the I Spilona school Friday evening, l)e- j cgmber 9. The money will be used for now shades, and other equipments j for the school. Everybody is cordially invited to come. RUTH CLARKE NAOMI BRACEY, ZULA AUSTIN, Teachers. Notice! I Notice is herewith given that appli cation will be made to Honorable Cameron Morrison, Governor of North i Carolina, on December 12th, 1921, for the pardon of Walter Fields, convict ed of manslaughter at December term 1920 of Johnston county Superior Court, and sentenced to five years in the State prison. This November 12, 1921. BRIGHT FIELDS. NOTICE! For sale at auction at the Bill Rich ardson farm in Boon Hill township, Friday, December 13th, at 10:30 o’ clock two horses, two mules, corn, fod der, hay in bales, tobacco planter, cultivator, little Dutch turn plow, corn sheller, wagon cart, bean harvester and all farming utensils, hogs and household and kitchen furniture. J. S. JAMES, Princeton, N. C. Box Party. There will be a box party at the Rock Hill school house Saturday night December 17th. All are invited. C. F. HALL, MRS. MYRTLE BAREFOOT, • MISS LOLLY WILLIAMS, Teachers. African sponge divers make four 1 trips a day to the ocean bottom. How to Spend Winter Evenings. The following after dinner speech was made by Miss Elizabeth Wells Thursday night at the Baraca-Phila thea banquet in the banquet room of the Methodist church. A synopsis is necessary in order that the reader may more appreciate the article. The “High Priest Hdm don” represents the pastor of the church who was in the first year of his pastorate. The “tribe of Baraca” is the Baraca class. “King Hubert" is president of the class. Ttie “Tribe of Philathea” is the Philathea class. “Queen Rotta” is president of this class. Tre Baracas challenged the Philathea to an attendance contest in which the Baracas were defeated. “Now it cam# to pass that in the first year that the great High Priest Herndon did execute his office in the land of our fathers in the third month of the year, that the tribe of Baraca did wax mighty in the land, and that they did call unto themselves a king, Hubert. Then all Baraca did gather itself together unto the King and did say, “Oh! King, live forever. We will be thy people and thou shalt be our king, and there shall be none like unto us, no not in all the land, for are not we kings, and the sons of kings and have not our fathers ruled in the land be fore us?” J hen King Hubert spoke thus unto his people, “Give ear O my people un to my words. Gather together all the young men from the East and from the West unto the tribe of Baraca and behold we will enlarge our pos sessions, for lo Are we not very many and is not our number very great, even so that our borders are too nar row to encompass us. And lo is there not a tribe called Philathea that luath much territory in the land of our fathers, so that hey have more room than they need. Let us therefore go down in their country and possess ourselves of their holdings that we may grow even greater than we al ready are.” And all men cried aloud, “Live forever Oh! King Hubert, for great is thy wisdom in all the land.” And they got unto themselves a mighty army so that there was nO counting the number thereof and they possessed themselves of all the land of Philathea. And there w’as sore grief among the fair daughters of Philathea, who lifted up their voices and wopt. For they were sent out as wanderers upon the face of the earth, going up and down and had not even so much as a place wrhere they might rest the soles of their feet, while they discussed, the mighty problems of theire nation. And then King Hubert of the tribe of Baraca spoke again unto his people. “As we have driven away the daugh ters of Philathea, now, therefore, let us send out a challenge unto them and let us totally bring them into sub jection. For are not we lords of the land.” And they sounded a loud trum pet and made a great noise. In so mneh that, all the land of Philathea trembled, and the daughters lifted up their voices in loud lamentation and made for themselves garments of sackcloth. fi3t the beautiful queen Retta of the tribe of Philathea lifted up her voice and spoke unto the children of Philathea. “Harken unto the words, which I shall speak unto you and weep not, for I will show' you a more excel lent wray. We will not bow down un to this mighty tribe, nor be utterly east dowm. Altho’ they have driven us from our possessions, they shall not eat at our tables nor command us to serve them.” And all the maidens harkened unto their queen, and lift ing up their voices said, “O Queen, thou are as wise as thou art beautiful. We 'will serve thee for ever.” Then for fifty and six days did the Philatheas struggle with the Baracas until it came to pass that many of the Baracas were scattered abroad and their pride and their pow er was no more in the land as H had been. And King Hubert said unto Queen Retta, “What shall I do for thee and how shall I make atone ment?” And he made a great ban quet, the like of which had never been known in all the land and he summon ed all the sons of Baracas and all the daughters of Philathea. But even here the King did set certain very arduous tasks and many hard questions for some of the maidens. Of the Princess Elizabeth he de manded that she reveal unto him how greater enjoyment might come unto his people during the coming days of winter. “Therefore,-Jisten O King, and thou shalt hear the wofds of wis dom which shall bring happiness un to your tribe." “During six months thou shalt labor and do all thy work, but the winter months shalt be unto thee for recrea tion. In them thou mayest walk up on thy streets, and ride upon thy chariots and sit around thy firesides and drink drafts of pure water and read words of wisdom from thy books. And in the twelfth month of each year thou shalt spread before the daughters of Philathea a mighty ban quet, which shall be unto all the land ; a time of rejoicing. Thou shalt not | covet any more the Philathea’s place j of Assembly, nor their strength nor | their numbers, nor their wisdom, nor | their beauty. And at all times and 1 in all places thou shalt give heed to | the mighty words of wisdom which j the Great High Priest Herndon shall j speak unto you, and thus shalt thou | live long and be happy ir, the land of thy fathers.” The Weak Link in our Class. (The following was written by Miss Laura Holt and read at the Ba racca-Philathea banquet at the Meth odist church last Thursday night. The subject assigned Miss Holt was “The weak link in our class.” The weak link in our class they say Must be discussed by me Since ’iris the members make the class We must the weak links be | Irreverence one besitting sin Oft in our class I see. Irregular attendance Doth our progress oft impede And lessons unprepared by us Do interfere with speed Could we on these three points im prove ’Twould be a joy indeed. |-We scarcely all are seated In qur public meeting place | When Cora Belle with much ado And with an anxious face j Collects a fee from every one Where she a dime can trace. Our president next takes the floor And for business doth call 'Tis Mrs. Parker who remarks “We owe a bill to Woodall.” The teacher asks “Who built the Ark” Miss Wells replies, “ ’twas Paul.” I Anri after this discussion j He asks a thing or two The class in perfect silence sits And don’t know what to do And so our teacher’s forced to talk I Until the lesson’s through. But just before he closes Hilda comes tripping down And when we ask for others I She says they’re out of town. We pass her up an envelope And she pays without a frown . “If all our maids, with all our brains Should work for half a year Do you suppose” Miss Puckett said, | “On time we’d all appear?” "I doubt it” said Miss Martin And she shed a bitter tear. Now with the weak links in our class I’m sure you'll sympathize For we admit they’re many And of enormous size We ask, Baracas, your advice, I't r you are wondrous wise. SPAIN APPROACHES ITS CRSIS Breach With France and Perhaps It aly Appears Imminent. Madrid, Dec. 1.—The economic re lations of Spain with other nations have reached a critical stage, which seemingly foreshadows a breach with France and perhaps also with Italy . Eight or nine days remain for t he arrangement of a new commercial agreement with France. The negotia tions which are going on daily seem to be making little progress in con sequence of the obstinacy of both the Spanish and French negotiators. The French representatives daily are argu ing against the stAnd taken by the Spanish Foreign and Finance Minis ters on the questions at issue. Mean while trade between Spain and France is virtually at a standstill. Italy also is taking steps to pro cure favorable trading terms with Spain. The Italian Ambassador con ferred tonight with the Ministers of Foreign Affaii-s and Finance con cerning an agreement.—Associated Press. CHRISTMAS MESSAGE. Office of THE POSTMASTER GENERAL Washington, Nov. 22, 1921. To the Boys and Girls of the United States. Christmas is almost here. Your great post office department has a big job ahead and needs your help. Think what it means to be Santa Claus to our 100,000,000 people and to deliver Christmas parcels to every family in this great country within the short space of a few days and without disappointment. It can be done, and we’re going to do it if we may have your help. I want to enlist the active assistance of every boy and girl in the schools of our country in getting parcels mailed THIS WEEK to relieve the rush that comes to your parents di rectly before Christmas. * Will you go home to-day and take this message to your parents and friends: “Our postmaster has asked us to mail our Christmas parcels THIS WEEK, for, unless we do, Uncle Sam’s load may be so heavy the last few dnys before Christmas that he won’t be able to deliver all the presents by Christmas eve.” The parcels must be well wrapped and tied and addressed plainly in or- : der that they may arrive in good con- j dition with their Christmasy appear- j ance Unspoiled. You can put on your package, “Do not open until Christ mas.” And, there must be a number on your house, and a mail receptacle, too, for, if there isn’t, Santa Claus’s mes senger, your letter carrier, may not be able to find the house where the present belongs. mere are some other things, too, in which you can all assist in improv ing the mail service and in saving our .great Government millions of dollars a year that’s now wasted because of our carelessness—yours and mine. Every day that you drop a letter in the mail box 40,000,000 other letters are already pushing and jamming through the postal machinery. One letter a day for each family of five persons in the United States is given to Uncle Sam #o deliver. When you send a parcel to the post office for mailing any day there are about 8,000,000 other parcels ahead of yours in passing through the postal hopper. This is in ordinary i days; at Christmas time it is multi- j plied many times. One family in about every ten puts a badly addressed letter in the mail every day. This mixes up over 2, 000,000 half addressed letters with the 20,000,000 fully addressed letters. That means that the fully addressed letters must wait on the slow moving poorly addressed letters just like the larger boys and girls are delayed by a bunch' of “bad kids" tagging along. You boys and girls can help the j Postal Service and save your father j some money, because he has to help ; pay the cost of searching addresses on letters and parcels sent out by this one careless and thoughtless family in every ten. First find out if your family is the j careless onp, then bear in mind that j your letters must be handled by skill- ! ed mail distributors, standing in post | offices and on swaying postal cars of a mile-a-minute mail trains, often un der poor light. The address on every letter, card, or package must be correct, complete, and legible, including the house num ber and name of street, and the “From” address should be in the up- j per left-hand corner so that the mail will be returned to you in case it is i not delivered. Do not abbreviate | names of State*, because so many look alike when abbreviated. Put the proper amount of postage . on your letters and wrap the parcels ! carefully. Avoid fancy writing, I which causes post office clerks and letter carriers to stoo and study, and thus lose time. Make the address j plain and easily read, and always use j pen and ink or typewriter and light- . colored envelopes, so as to save the eyes of the post office clerks. Do not use envelopes of unusual size. The ! little ones that are so frequently used , for cards and notes at Christmas < and other holiday times cause an un told amount of trouble and labor, as , they will not fit our canceling ma- j chines and must therefore be cancel- , ed by hand. Because of their size and , tendency to slip out of a package, I these small envelopes are more likely to be overlooked or lost. Mail your letters and packages j earlv in the day, because this avoids overloading and delaying mail at the end of the day. Your local postmaster and your teachers will tell you more about the Postal Service. Do these things, and you will win the grateful appreciation of the peo ple in your post office and especially of . Your Postmaster General. WILL H. HAYS. p. s.—Don’t, forget to mail Christmas packages THIS WEEK. School Means Leisure. Not many pupils think of a school ^ as a place of leisure, yet this is the ^ meaning of the word from which we get our name “school.” We learn this j from an interesting story in the life J of a great educator who lived four and a half centuries ago in Germany. His name was Argicola. He was re- | puted for learning and eloquence. He knew many languages and was much j sought for as a lecturer. When he j was asked to take charge of a school j at Antwerp, he wrote the following paragraph which suggests that in stead of being a place of leisure, a school must be a place of care: “A school is to be committed to me. That ' is a difficult and vexatious thing. A . school is like a prison in which there are blows, tears and groans without end. If there is anything with a con tradictory name, it is the school. The Greeks named it scholr.—that is, leisure; the Latins, ludus, literarius literary play; but there’s nothing fur ther from leisure than the . school, nothing harder and more opposed to play. More correctly did it receive ; frqpi Aristophanes the name phron- I tizerion—that is, a place of care.”— J The Uplift. KEEP HEALTHY l Do you drink a pint of milk daily? Do you eat greens as a standard veg- j etable at least twice a week? Do you eat at least one vegetable a day be- j sides potatoes ? Do you eat fruit at j least once a day ? If you can answer all these questions in the affirmative ; you can score a passable mark on ' your health card according to the 1 rules of the specialists in home eco nomics. Colds, headaches, and indi- 1 gestion often occur indirectly from errors in the family diet, 'the spe cialists say. Milk, fruit and veg- j etables are essential elements of the * diet.—News and Observer. December Term 1921 Criminal Court. The following are the jurors for the first week: H. V. Andrews, R. D. Dunn, W. M. Coats, I). J. Ivey, R. W. Smith, W. A. Edwards, Alonza Parrish, J. Rufus Creech, H. M. Hodges, John E. Creech, F. L. Woodall, J. D. Lassiter, Wr. H. Godwin, P. W. Barbour, G. A. Smith, W. H. Batten, A. D. Atkinson, J. L. Brannan, E. R. Youngblood, V. R. Gur ley, F. M. Weeks, J. D. Ogburn, C. D. Thompson, Milton Austin, J. A. Ken neday, J. E. Woodall, G. E. Thornton, C. L. Barnes, (Wilders), Joe S. Strick land, I). E. Easom, Jas. I. Massey, C. I. Pearce, Chas. L. Gurley, J. H. Wiggs, J. Monroe Woodard, Charlie Wood (Bentonsville.) The following are jurors for the second week: E. J. Sasser, (Smfd.,) H. H. Un derwood, Dan U. Oliver, R. L. Edger ton, L. F. Uzzzle, W. Henry Stephen son, Andrew Johnson, (Smfd.,) J. C. Ennis, C. W. Carter, Ransom Holland, A. B. Lassiter, C. W. Wellons, J. W. Ennis, Berry Godwin, E. T. Westbrook D. H. McCullers, B. F. Johnson, W. T. Wilson. • Court begins 14tn Monday after 1st Monday in September which is De cember 12th. HOPEWELL NEWS Our school is progressing nicely for the last few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Dali Thompson and children, and Pauline Alford spent Thanksgiving near Wilson. Miss Eula Lassiter is spending the week end with her sister, Mrs. Pau1 Johnson. Mix Fred Elbert and Leonard Par ker spent Thanksgiving near Selma with relatives. Rev. H. R. Faircloth filled his regu lar appointment at Hopewell Satur day and Sunday. Mrs. Alonza Lassiter of Lynchburg, Va., is spending a few days with her mother, Mrs. srael Stephenson. We are sorry that Mrs. J. L. Du pree is very ill. Miss Ruth Alford spent last Thurs day and Friday night with Miss Lena Sutton. Miss Fannie Walters spent Thanks giving at her home near LaGrange. We are sorry to say Mr. William Sutton got his arm broke while crank ing his car last Saturday. His fath er got his arm hurt a short while ago but is better now. CARTER’S SCHOOL HOUSE NEWS Kenly, Nov. 30.—The school at Car ters is progressing rapidly. Miss Meryle and Mrs. J. H. Wiggs have charge of the school. Mr. W. H. Etheredge spent several days at Rock Ridge last week and at tended the burial of his father, Mr. G. B. Etheredge on Thanksgiving day. Mr. Glenn Edgerton spent last week end with friends in Selma. Mr. and Mrs. Garland G. Edgerton and baby, of Princeton, were guests of Mrs; Edgerton’s mother, Mrs. W. H. Etheredge last week. Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Wiggs and children spent last Sunday with Mr. Wiggs’ parents near Pine Level. Mrs. Clifton Stuckey from Smith field, is spending sometime at the home of her father, Mr. Addison Wiggs. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Boyette are all* smiles—its’ a boy. Rev. W. G. Farrar filled his regular appointment at Fellowship church last Sunday. Miss Adell Wiggs is attending school at Lucama. Miss Meryle, principal of the school attended the Teachers’ Assembly at Raleigh Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day was the day set apart by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ether edge for the 2nd celebration of their annual “Home Coming Day” for their children and grandchildren. But on account of the death of Mr. Ether edge’s father, they all attended the funeral and burial. However as din ner had already been prepared on the day previous they all came after the burial and enjoyed a six o’clock din ner which consisted of barbecue, chick en, ’possum, cake and all kinds of goodies. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Etheredge and children, Paul Hayes and James Earl, Mr. and Mrs. Ennis D. Etherfedge, and baby, Lenoir Lee, all of Kenly; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Oneal and baby, Joseph, of Selma, and Mr. and Mrs. Garland G. Edgerton and baby, Garland Lee, of Princeton. Benson Starts Library. Tl)e Woman’s club is active in es tablishing a long-felt need in Ben son—a library. The club has secured quarters for the library in the Citi zens bank, and it is planned to open next week, librarians having been ap pointed. tAthe start it is planned to have primarily a young people’s lib rary, but it is hoped to develop it in the course of time to a full-fledged town library. At the start, it will be open two days a week.—Benson Re view.