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 to spell correct
ly. Get one of these dictionaries
, to help you out.
ICE CREAM FREEZERS — ALL
sizes at Pierce Hardware Company,
Smithfield, N, C.
YOU WANT TO READ THE WORD
of God. A large lot of Bibles ar<
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 or
hand. New Testaments for Bale also
TO CHURCH CLERKS OR SECRE
taries of lodges and others we want
to say that the Smithfield Herald
has a lot of record books for sale.
Call and see what we have. We
can suit you.
THE MAN IN GREY,” Thud AS
Dixon’s new novel on sale at THE
HERALD Book Store. Price $2.
A QUICK START AND RAPID
growth of baby chicks mean early
layers'next winter. Feed Purina
Baby Chick Chow and Chicken
Chowder for bigger poultry profits.
Peedin and Peterson, Smithfield.
DAY BOOKS, LEDGERS AND REC
ord books for sale at The Smith
field Herald office. You want to
<ieep your accounts straight anff in
order to do this you need some of
our books. Call and see them.
“IN HIS STEPS TO-DAY” BY
Charles M. Sheldon, at THE HER
ALD Book Store. Price $1.26.
IF YOU WANT TO BORROW FROM
$1000 to $2000 on improved farm
or city property, see us at once.
Parker & Martin, Attorneys, Smith
field, N. C.I
woof), WOOD. WOOD! IF YOU
want stove wood call J. P. Parker,
Phone 2003,
FOR NATIVE BEEF CALL J. W.
Alford & Son. ’Phone 229-J.
“I have used Dr. SETH ARNOLD’S
BALSAM for bowel complaint for
thirty-five years. Nothing: we have
ever used does the work that the
Balsam does. Sold by Creech Drug
Co., and Hood Bros. Smithfield, N. C.
FIFTY FARMS IN THE SHENAN
doah Valley of Virginia, $1,000 to
$25000 five to 3000 acres. Fine
roads, fine people, good schools,
good terms to quick buyers. Write
for further information and list.
J. B. Cornweii, Middletown, Va.,
Box 14.
I RECEIVED MY LAST CARLOAD
of soda yesterday. I invite those
who wish to secure soda to call up
on me. I will sell it either for cash
or ;>n time. W.M.SANDERS, Smith
fleld, N. C.
FOR NATIVE BEEF CALL J. W.
Alford & Son. ’Phone 229-J.
Education is a kind of glass that
brings unseen and unknown truths
into sight—Newell Dwight Hillis.
FRUIT JARS ALL SIZES AT THE
Pierce Hardware Co., Smithfield,
N C.
FOR SALE: TWO LOTS IN
the hustling little town of Micro,
N. C., adjoining the home of Mr.
Batson. Address Box 323, Golds
boro, N. C.
FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS.
A few more snapdragon and, aster
plants fpr sale. Mrs. C. V. John
son, Smithfield, N. C.
FOR SALE: 180 ACRES TIM
ber land on Mill Creek near Cox
Mill in Johnston County, N. C.
Address Box 323, Goldsboro, N. C.
WHY DO SOME HENS GO ON A
Strike in the winter time? It is
the kind of feed, and not the sea
son, that is responsible. Feed your
hens Purina Poultry Chows and
they will keep the egg yield up.
Let’s send you a trial order. Peed
in and Peterson, Smithfield, N. C.
TOBACCO FLUES—WE CAN DE
LIVER TOBACCO FLUES FOR
ANY SIZE BARN PROMPTLY.
BE SURE TO GET OUR PRICE.
BUY NOW! WATSON & AL
FORD, “EVERYTHING I N
HARDWARE,” KENLY, N, C.
LOST BETWEEN SANDERS’ CHAP
el church and Mr. A. G. Powell’s,
ladies Elgin wrist watch bearing
initials, “M. O. F.” Finder please
return to Miss Mary Burke Foster,
or HERALD office and receive re
ward.
FOR NATIVE BEEF CALL J. W.
Alford & Son. ’Phone 229-J.
FOR REGISTER OF DEEDS
To the Democratic Voters of Johnston
County:
I hereby announce myself a candi
date for the office of Register of
Deeds of Johnston County, subject to
the action of the Democratic Conven
tion to be held in Smithfield on August
31, 1922. Any support given me by
my friends in the County will be
greatly appreciated.
Yours for Democracy,
D. M. HALL,
Clayton, N. C.
“DR. SETH ARNOLD’S BALSAM
has been in our family for the last
2.' years, and I believe that it is
without equal for the complaints for
which it is claimed to be a remedy.’'
Recommended by Creech Drug Co.,
and Hood Bros., Smithfield, N. C.
NOTICE.
NORTH CAROLINA,
JOHNSTON COUNTY,
Public notice is hereby given that
the undersigned, acting by virtue of
the power and authority conferred up
on him by a certain deed of trust
from Cleon M. Austin and wife, Ethel
Austin, recorded in Book 9, page 27,
Johnston Registry, the note secured
by said deed of trust being in default
and the holder thereof having re
quested exercise of the power of sale,
will on Monday, July 17th, 1922, at
12 o’clock M. before the Courthouse
door in Smithfield, Johnston County,
N. C., offer for sale ,c the highest
•jidder for cash the f Towing describ
ed teal property, tu-we.
Lying in the above County and
State, Clayton Township, beginning
at u chinqupin on the bank of Swift
Creek, Elbert Austin’s corner, and
runs his line N 21 degrees W 90 poles
to a persimmon tree (gone); thence
north 12 degrees oust 155 poles to a
dead pine (down) B. H. Tomlinson’s
old corner; thence his line north 200
poles to a pine, formerly Alexander
Duncan’s corner; thence his line east
94 poles to a stake; thence with the
old William B. Sanders line south
310 poles to a maple on the bank of
the creek; thence up the creek to the
beginning, containing 245 acres, more
or less.
This June 15th, 1922.
FREDERICK FRELINGHUYSAN,
Trustee.
F. H. BROOKS, Atty.
NOTICE
For rent in Smithfield, N. C., one
good five room house equipped with
electric lights together with two
acre lot and some out buildings; good
water, all under good fence on public
highway near the school building
known as the H. A. Sanders place.
Any one wishing to rent apply to
Mrs. G. W. Jernigan, Route C, Box
151, Dunn, N. C.
NOTICE!
North Carolina—Johnston County.
In the Superior Court.
William Whitaker
Vs.
Jane Hinton Whitaker
The defendant above named will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in the
Superior Court of Johnston County,
North Carolina, to grant divorce from
the bonds of matrimony, and that the
said defendant will further take
notice that she is required to appear
before the clerk of the superior court
of said county on the 10th day of July
1922 "to answer or demur to the com
plaint in the said action or the
plaintiff will apply to the court for
relief demanded in said complaint.
W. S. STEVENS,
Clerk Superior Court.
E. W. McCULLERS,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
‘NOTICE!
The undersigned having qualified
as Executrix on the estate of J. W.
Yelvington, deceased, hereby notifies
all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to
me duly verified on or before the 2d
| day of May, 1923, or this notice will
be pleaded in bar of their recovery;
and all persons indebted to said es
tate will make immediate payment.
This 23rd day of May, 1922.
MRS. REBECCA YELVINGTON,
Clayton, N. C., R. 1. Executrix.
NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified as
administrator on the estate of D. P.
Pool deceased, hereby notifies all per
sons having claims against said estate
to present the same to me duly veri
fied on or before the 19 day of May,
1923, or this notice will be pleaded in
bar of their recovery; and all persons
indebted to said estate will make im
mediate payment.
This 15 day of May, 1922.
D. H. POOL, Admr.
Wilson’s Mills, RFD. 2,
NOTICE OF SALE.
Default having been made in the
payment of the indebtedness secured
by that certain deed of trust to me
as Trustee for the Jefferson Stand
ard Life Insurance Company by E. D.
i Langdon and wife Mary V. Langdon,
on the 22nd day of June, 1920, and
recorded in the effice of the Register
I
of Deeds of Johston County, North
Carolina, in Book 73, Page 479, etc.,
I will under and by virtue of the pow
er of sale vested in me by said deed
of trust, and at the request of the
cestui que trust, and for the purpose
of discharging the debt secured by
said deed of trust, proceed to sell to
the highest bidder for cash, at the
court house door in Smithfield, North
Carolina, at 12 o'clock M., ON SAT
URDAY, the 24th DAY OF JUNE,
1922, the following described lands,
situate in Johnston County, North
Carolina, and more particularly
bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a stake at Hill Street,
in middle of line of Lot No. 3 in Block
108, runs as the line of H. B. Stew
art (which I have this day deeded to
him) N. 37 degrees 45’ east 200 feet
to a stake in Morgan street; thence
south 52 deg. 15’ east as Morgan St.,
63.5 feet, more or less, to Lee St.,
thence south 37 degrees 45’ west 200
feet as Lee street to intersection of
Lee and Hill Streets; thence as Hill
Street north 52 deg. 15’ west 63.5
feet, more or less, to the beginning,
and is one-half of Lot No. 3 in Block
No. 108. which is adjoining Lee St.
Being the identical lot of land con
veyed to E. D. Langdon by Mrs. M.
C. Benson, by deed registered in Book
60, page 309, of registry of Johnston
County.
This 19th dav of May, 1922.
JULIAN PRICE, Trustee.
BROOKS, HINES & SMITH, Attys.
Greensboro, N. C.
NOTICE
The undersigned having qualified as
admr. with wid. admrx. on the estate
of J.T.M. Oliver deceased, hereby noti
fies all persons having claims against
said estate to present the same to me
duly verified on or before the 19 day
of May 1923 or this notice will be
pleaded in bar of their recovery; and
all persons indebted to said estate
will make immediate payment.
This 16 dfv of Mav 1922.
J. R. OLIVER,
Pine Level. N. C. Admr. C. T. A.
NOTICE OF SALE
Default having been made in pay
ment of the indebtedness secured by
that certain deed of trust to me as
Trustee for Jefferson Standard Life
Insurance Company by Howard H.
Radford and Addle F,. Radford, his
wife, on the 6th day of January, 1921,
and recorded in the office of tjie Reg
ister of Deeds of Johnston County in
Book 84, on page .$19, etc., I will un
der and by virtue of the powei of sale
vested in me by said deed of trust,
and at the request of the cestui que
trust, and for the purpose of discharg
ing the debt secured by said deed of
trust, proceed to sell to the highest
bidder, for cash, at the court house
door in Smithfield, North Carolina, at
12 o’clock M. on Monday, the 3rd day
of July. 1922, the following described
lands, to-wit: In Johnston county, be
ginning at an oak stump, corner _of
Gordon Land, and runs S 841 E 1917
feet to a stake, thence N 591 E 1475
feet to a stake; thence W 85if N 573
feet to a stake; fhenee N 701 W 558
feet to a black-gum; thence N 31 E
722 feet to a stake; thence N 801 "W
1948 feet; thence N 5 E 939 feet to a
stake; thence N 851 W 760 feet to a
stake; thence S 26il E 247 feet to a
pine; thence S 6 E 1235 feet to a'pine
tree; thence S 20 W 1260 feet to an
oak stump, the beginning, containing
135 acres, more or less.
This 31st day of May, 1922.
JULIAN PRICE, Trustee.
BROOKS, HINES & SMITH, Attys.
Greensboro, N. C.
Every Morning.
Every day is a fresh beginning,
Every morn is the world made new;
You who are weary of sorrow and
sinning,
Here is a beautiful hope for you—
A hope for me and a hope for you.
All the past things are past and over,
Tasks are done and tears are shed,
Yesterday’s errors let yesterday
cover
Yesterday’s wounds which smarted
and bled, \
Are healed with the healing which
night has shed.
Yesterday now is a part of forever,
Bound up in a sheaf, which God holds
tight,
With glad days, and sad days,* and
bad days, which never
Shall visit us more with their
bloom and blight,
Their fulness of sunshine or sor
rowful night.
Let them go, since we can not relieve
them, *
• Can not undo, and can n<(t atone;
God in His mercy, receive and for
give them;
Only the new days are our own;
Today is ours and today alone.
Every day is a fres|i beginning,
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain.
And in spite of old sorrow and older
sinning,
And puzzles forecast and possible
pain,
Take heart with the day and begin
again. —Susan Coolidge.
The Wandering Sheep.
The Pastor —(driving to church,
to passerby)—“Where are you going,
John?”
j John—“To church in the next par
■ ish.’'
I Pastor—“I don’t like that. What
would you say if your sheep strayed
! to some one else’s property?”
j John—“Well, s’far as that goes, I
wouldn’t say nothin’ if the pasturage
was better.”—Kasper (Stockholm).
What It Would Mean Is Beyon
Computation.
It is an ancient truism known of
all men, that the best institution in
the world cannot replace a child’s
home. Yet in a properly managed in
stitution there are some things done
better for the child than they are
done in the average Worth Carolina
home. In so far as his physical
health and development are concern
ed, the child in this state actually
fares better under institutional, than
•under parental care; assuming that
he is fortunate enough to gain ad
mittance to one of the better institu
tions. >
These rather sombre reflections
arise after perusal of the declara
tion of Dr. M. L. Kesler, general
manager of the Thomasville Baptist
orphanage, that he pride of the or
phanage is its herd of Holstein dairy
cattle, which furnishes half a gallon
of milk every day for every child in
the orphanage. In that item of their
diet, these orphans are favored above
the average North Carolina child
whose parents are living and able
to support it. There are far too
many children in the stat£ who hard
ly taste milk from one year’s end to
the next. There are tens of thous
ands of others wh/ have it only as a
comparatively rare and luxurious ad
dition to their diet, instead of daily
as h staple article.
What it would mean to the state
if there were enough milk produc
ed in it to furnish each child two
quarts daily is beyond computation;
but some of t,he things Hhat would
be involved are plain enough. Tt
would mean that North Carolina
had become a dairying state, poss
essed of hundreds of thousands of
pure-bred cattle/ It would mean
that, 'incidentally to the * dairying
business, she was producing thou
sands of pounds of beef more than
-he is producing: now. It would
mean that millions of dollars that
are at present being drained from
the state were being retained for
its permanent enrichment,
would mean that the whole stand
ard of agriculture was rising. Best
of all, and most important of all,
it would mean that the next gene
ration of North Carolinians was \be
ing supplied with the physical basis
of vigorous, long and stalwart life.—
Greensboro News.
Keep Up Culture of Cotton.
There seems to be a tendency over
the State, as reported by our corre
spondents, to get away from growing
cotton by substituting food crops,
which just at this time commands a
better price, and is not so subjected
to the ravages of the boll weevil, the
boll worm and other pestiferous in
sects which the cotton plant is heir
to. No doubt the farmrs of the State
have been sorely tried by occasional
pestilences prevailing in certain sec
tions, and they are to be commended
in their plans looking to crop diversi
fication, for this, as we see it, is the
only salvation of the South. We have
been cotton farmers for too long al
ready, but this idea of cotton annihila
tion should be discouraged. Our State
agricultural colleges are finding
ways to combat the evils which con
front our farmers and this through
crop rotation and other means.
This all-cotton idea found favor
when cotton and tobacco were about
the only money crops in this section,
and the farmer was then at the mercy
of the power# over which he had no
control, but a better day is drawing
and a better understanding has come
to pass between the farmer and his
friend, the banker.
We do not believe the farmer
should altogether discard cotton rais
ing, but that he and his neighbors
should continue to plant the staple,
for it is sure to come back, take its
old place in the sun and the markets
of the v/orld.
While it is true that just at this
time the country is surfeited with an
over-supply of the staple, yet the
world will always need cotton, and
we of the South will be looked upon
to supply that demand. Then the
price is sure to go up as soon as the
present supply becomes exhausted and
the country recovers from its pres
ent unsettled business depression.
Our mills will need cotton and plenty
of it later on, and it is wise for the
farmer and his friends to raise
some cotton, which will help the sit
uation wonderfully.
Reports continue to come in that
mills hereabout are making plans to
expand. This is indeed an encourag
ing sign, and our friends, each one,
in every county of every State,
; should all raise some cotton, and by
this plan the whole South will be
! benefited.—Charlotte Observer.
A Good Way.
Douchester: “Gosh, my love has
left town for a month. How can I
make the time pass quickly?”
Marley: “Buy something on the
installment plan.”—Texas Scalper.
THE ARRIVAL OF THE HORSE
LESS FARMER
If all the farm boys are leaving
the farms to work in the city fac
tories, it may be they are doing it,
because the factories have to make
so many machines and appliances for
the farmers. Of course every one re
alizes that the American farmer is in
creasingly making use of the prod
ucts of inventive genius, but for the
first time, the National City Banl
cf New York notes in its “Trade Rec
ord,” the 1920 Federal census pre
sents figures on the number of auto
mobiles, motor trucks, telephones and
farm tractors in use on the faTms of
the country, and the number having
“water piped into the house.” These
figures, it is remarked, indicate that
the automobile and telephooc are now
a big factor in farm life not merely
as a ‘comfort and convenience, but
as an actual aid in business. “The
Trade Record” sums up the census
figures as follows:
“The number of telephones, by
which the farmer n\ay communicate
with his local trade center or with
the great cities in which the prices
and markets for his products are de
termined, is officially stated at 2,
498,493 in 1920, while another author
ity puts the total number of phones
in all the United States, “without re
gard to ownership” at the end of 1920
at 3,411,379, which suggests that
nearly one-fifth of the phones in the
United States are now in the farm
home and farm 1 ita sc service:while
38 per cent, of the ‘cpo-’.pg farms
w equipped with telephone service
in 1* .
. '.t automo j' 5 stat'st;?s arc ;iImi
evt unoly sugg •i’ivv Tlmy sh >w
"..e t limber of iu • ■>! >.< • on farms
in 1920 at 2,146,362, while figures
compiled by “Automotive Industrie s”
put the total of automobiles in use
in all the United States in 1920 at
7.904.000, suggestingthat the farmers
owned in that year considerably more
than one-fourth of the automobiles
of the country, to say nothing of the
139,000 motor trucks and 246,000 farm
tractors reported in operation on the
farms in 1920. Over 30 per cent, of
the reporting farms in 1920 utiliz
ed automobiles.'
Still another evidence of the dispo
sition of the farmer to utilize ma
chinery in increasing his business ac
tivities is found in the fact that the
value of his “farm implements and
machinery” reported in 1920 was
nearly three times as much as in
1910, five times as much as in 1900
and seven times as much as in 1890.
The official valuation of farm imple
ments and machinery in 1920 is $3,
195.000. 000 against $1,265,000,000 in
1910, $750,000,000 in 1900 and $494,
000,000 in 1890.
“It is not surprizing then, in view
of the increasing use bv ‘.he farmer
of these time and lab'*- =av:ng de
vices, the telephone, the automobile,
rhe motor h uek and the farm tractor,
coupled with the enormous increase
i,i his farm implements and machin
ery to find that he census reports the
value of :.o’ses on farms in 1920 only
$1,782,000,000 against $2,084,000,000
in 1910, a decrease of 14 per cent,
in value of horses, while all other
classes of farm animals increased in
value in the same period.—Literary
Digest.
In Mocking Bird Valley.
In Mocking Bird valley
There is a green alley
That leads to a brook that trips sing
ing along;
The trees arching over
The carpet of clover
All stippled with buttercups set to a
song.
In Mocking Bird valley
Sweet peace seems to dally,
As why should it not where all’s
fashioned for peace;
The bird calls are sleepy,
The clouds laze, the creepy
Soft winds drift on slowly, at twi
light to cease.
In Mocking Bird valley
The sun magically
Paints treetops with fire till it’s far
down the hill,
And golden are glowing
The waters that flowing
Deep into the dusk are forevermore
still.
In Mocking Bird valley
The moon lifts to rally
The ghosts of old nights in its silver
to play,
And there you recapture,
The hopes and the rapture
That come with bright youth and
with youth dropped away.
—Maurice Morris.
Wasn’t Used to Lying!
A Sunday school teacher asked a
small girl why Ananias was so se
verely punished.
The little one thought a minute
then answered: ‘‘Please .teacher, they
weren’t so used to lying in those
days.”—Pathfinder.
' NINE KILLED IN FIGHT AS
RESULT OF ATTEMPT TO
ROB TRAIN OF GOLD
CALEXICO, Calif., June 16.—
Francisco Garcia and four of his fol
lowers are' dead, seven were wounded
and four soldiers of the Mexican ar
my were’ killed and nine wounded in
a fight resulting from an attempt to
hold up a Southern Pacific train la
den with $450,000 in gold bullion, ac
cording to a report received here to
night.
The money was en route from
a point in the state of Navarit, Mexi
co, to Mazatlan, Sinaloa, for ship
ment to the First National bank of
Los Angeles. The attempt at robbery
was made at dawn to day, advices
said.
Sound Philosophy.
Sometimes the rarest gems of phi
losophy originate from the old-time
Southern darkey, of which everyTown
may contain one or more. The North
Carolina Christian Advocate this
week tells of ^>ne bred in Dixie,
brought up in the corn and cotton
fields of the South, .rich n homely
wit of his race. This old darkey has
given out a rare bit of advice in the
following:
Jes be what you is.
If you is not what you am,
Then you am not what you is.
If you’re just a little tadpole,
Don't try to be a frog;
If you’re just the tail,
Don’t try to wag the dog.
You can always pass the p!§te,
If you can’t exhort and preach.
If you’re just a little pebble,
Don’t try to be the beach.
Don’t be what you ain’t,
Jes’ fee what you is.
—Charlotte Observer.
The Country for a Start.
Statisticians reel off percentages
which show that country boys in town
and city lead the procession when they
follow the trail that takes them from
rural scenes to urban activities. In
the colleges and unlivers ities they
make their mark. In the shops and
factories, in banks and stores, in the
professions and in every business
there is a goodly percentage of men
who have had personal and early
knowledge of fields and farm.
The other day Judge Elbert H.
Gary, chairman of the Board of Di
rectors of the United States Steel
Corporation, went to his birthplace,
Wheaton, 111., to spend the day. He
said that he wanted to go into the
bank “to see Cousin Will” (the
cashier). Then he started down the
street to exchange greetings with old
friends and neighbors of his youth and
young manhood. A Gary family re
union was held that day on the place
which his father bought from the
Government in pioneer days at $1.25
an acre. Amid such surroundings it
was natural for the Judge to say:
“I have no rule for success, but I
would advise every young man to get
his start in the country. It will
make him healthy, intellectually and
morally. That doesn’t mean that all
his work is done for him just be
cause he lives in the country instead
of the city. But it gives him a bet
ter chance.
“When I gave advice to young
people 20 years ago it meant that
young men would be listening. Now
it means that young women will be
listening just as hard, for in this coun
try today there is no opportunity
which is not open to women as well
as men.”
Judge Gary has a right to speak
as a countryman. He was the first
Mayor of Wheaton, then Judge of
Dupage county, long before he enter
ed upon a career of financial and in
dustrial world that has brought him
acknowledged leadership. He knows
both country and city. His start in
the country gave him some thing he
would have missed if he had been
born in the city. But he found his
way there. He arrived.—Philadelphia
Record.
The “Majestic,” The World’s Largest
Ocean Liner.
Allocated by the treaty of Ver
sailles to the British government,
and $old by il to the White Star
Line, the former German steamship
“Bismarck” has been converted into
the liner, “Majestic,” very suitably
named, for it is the world’s largest
ship, and is many ways the most lux
: uriously fitted vessel afloat, says
| Henry S. White, in an illustrated ar
1 tide in the July Popular Mechanics
, Magazine. This ocean-borne palace is
j 956 feet long, 100 ft. broad, its hull
i is 102 ft. deep, and its tonnage is
I 56,000. It has nine decks, with a tot
al area of 7 1-2 acres, and its main
i deck is 75 ft. above water. It has
accommodations for 4,100 passengers
and a crew of 1,000.
i Besides the luxuriously furnished
first-class accommodations, the ship
has second and third-class quarters
which correspond in character with
the other parts of the shin.