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^ BUSINESS NOTICES H .s H n WW'V FRESH MILCH COW FOR SALE from the farm of C. W. Stanford, pu Teer, N. C. A LOT OF NEW FICTION JUST received at THE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. Price 12 each. NEW LOT OF BIBLES AND TES taments just received. The best line we have ever carried. 'fffE HERALD Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. FOR RENT FIVE ACRES TOBACCO land with barn and plants, two mies from Smithfield. R. C. Gil lett, Smithfield, N. C. MONEY TO LOAN ON FARM OR city property—5 to 30 years G p cent. One thousand to twenty' five thousand dollars. J. R. Bat hour or R. T. Surles, Farmers Commercial Bank Building, Bensor N. C. GET YOUR NITRATE SODA FROM Floyd C. Price, Pine I^evel, N. C. He undersells competition. FOR KKNT UjN r, KUKNIHHMI room. Two boys preferred. Mrs. Pearl Pope, 'phone 104-J, Smith field, N. C. A CAR NAILS AND FENCE WIRE received to-day. Also a car floor ing and ceiling. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. FLOUR! FLOUR! FLOYD C. PRICK Pine I/evel, N. C., is selling good self-rising flour for $7.39 cash pc barrel. FLOWERS FOR SALE: ROSES, Carnations and potted plants. Funeral designs given prompt at tention. Mrs. C. V. Johnson, Smithfield, N. C. A LIMITED NUMBER OF RECITA tion and declamation books just re ceived. The Herald Book Store, Smithfield, N. C. EXPECTING DAILY ARRIVAL, Ni trate Soda—Get yours and use early. Floyd C. Price, Pine Level, N. C. Mrs. T. W. LeMay and Miss Ruth Jones attended the group commence ment at Corinth school Wednesday with Misses Mary E. Wells and Min nie Lee GarriBon. QUICK AND COMPLETE CONTROL with International Cultivators. Watson & Alford, “Everything in Hardware,” Kenly, N. C. NO SKIPS AND JUMPS WITH IN ternutional Cultivators. Watson & Alford, “Everything in Hard ware,” Kenly, N. C. QUICK DODGE ON CROOKED rows with International Cultiva tors. Watson & Alford, “Every thing in Hardware," Kenly. N. C. FOR SALE- TI1E BRICK ON CEN ter Brick Warehouse lot. Mi«s Ora V. Poole, Smithfield, N. C. I RECEIVED TODAY A CAR, 160 barrels, nice Virginia flour. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. I HAVE FOR SALE ABOUT 20 PIGS weighing from 40 to 75 lbs. Cross between Poland China and Duroe Jersey. Anyone interested may see them at the Austin stables :n Smithfield Saturday, April 28. P. B. Stevens. WE HAVE. A FEW THOUSAN dollars of Liberty bonds for sale. Farmers Bank and Trust Co., Smithfield, N. C. FOR SALE: ONE POLAND CHINA sow and six pigs. Pigs one week old. Bargain to quick buyer. R. E. Daughtry, Smihtfield, N. C., Route 2. SEVERAL NICE YOUNG MULES for sale. Might rent thtem to re liable parties. W. M. Sanders, Smithfield, N. C. FOR SALE SEVERAL BUSHELS “batus“ planting potatoes. T, G. Strickland, Smithfield, Route 2. NOTICE. Whereas? by virtue of the author ity contained in a certain mortgage deed executed to John R. Holt by J. C. Tart and wife Fannie J. Tart and dated December 26th, 1921, and duly registered in the Register’s of fice of Johnston county, in Book No. 105, page 190, and also, under and by virtue of mortgage deed dated May 17, 1920, and recorded in book No. 80, nage 129, the undersigned did sell for cash at the court house door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., on Friday the 23rd day of Feb ruary 1923, at 12 o’clock M„ the following property towit: Begin ning at a stake in the D. E.McKili ne old line (formerly A. G. Woodard corner) on First South Street thence with said street North 55.0o West 150 feet to a stake on Thomas street, thence with said Thomas St., North 34.55 East 300 feet to a stake on South Railroad Street, thence j with said R. R. street South 55.05 E. | 150 feet to a stake I). E. McKinne I corner, old line, thence with his li: j to the beginning, containing one (i ) i acre when and where .J. P. Rains became the last and highest bidd. at the price of $2,525.00; and a 5 pe • cent raise lias been made by B. E. Elk and $120.25 deposited with ; • Clerk of the Sunerior Court aiul i resale of said property ordered by said clerk. Therefore, the undersigned mo. i gngeo, will again offer for sale, at public auction, at the court hou • door in the town of Srnithfield, N. C., for cash to the highest bidder, t' above descrilied property on Monday, April 30th, 1923, at 12 o’clock. The hid will start at $2,651.25, being the amount of the up-shot bid. This 12th dav of April 1923. JOHN R' HOLT, Mortgagee. F. II. BROOKS, Atty. 1. Laws of North Carolina: AN ACT TO BE ENTITLED “AN ACT TO PLACE THE WATERS OF HOLT’S LAKE UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE UNITED STATES BUREAU OF FISHER IES.” The General Assembly of North Car olina do enact: Section I. That it shall he unlaw - ful for any person or persons to fish in the waters of Holt’s Lake, situate on Black Creek, in the county of Johnston, between the Lassite’ Bridge and the Atlantic (’oast Line Railroad Company bridge, with net , seines, or traps; or to fish the sair • by (fire-light, or other artificial light or to use or explode dynamite o? other combustible substance in or on said I>nke for the purpose of taking fish; cr to catch or take fish from said Lake in nnv i miner, except by rod and reel, and lino Provided that the United States Bu reau of Fisheries, or its Agents, un der the direction of the Commissi >n of Fisheries, may take and cause to Ik- tnken for scientific purposes, o: for fish culture, or for distribution, any fish or marine organism, at. any time and in any manner, under the supervision of its proper officers and agent*', from the waters of said Lake. NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN Notice is hereby given that Henry Brown, colored, convicted at the Aug. 1921 term of the Superior Court of Johnston, for bigamy and sentenced to tin* penitentiary for a term of three years, will make application to His Excellency, Governor Cameron Mor rison, for a parole or pardon from said sentence. Any one desiring to oppose the par don will please communicate with the Governor at once. This April 10th, 1923. MRS. HENRY BROWN. NOTICE Under and by virtue of authority contained in a certain mortgage deed executed by Jim Skinner and wife, Zula Skinner to J. \V. Short on the till day of December, 1919, securing four bonds due on the 1st day of Jan uary of the years, 1920, 1921, 1922 and 192.1, and whereas the last named bonds have not been paid, and all of said bonds ure past due, and the con ditions of said mortgage having been broken: Therefore the undersigned will of fer for sale at public auction in front of the Court House door in the town of Smithfield, N. C., on Monday, May 14th, 1923, that tract of land lying and being in Wilders township, John ston county, and more particularly de scribed in said mortgage which is re corded in Book No. 07 page 319, as follows: “Beginning at a stake, James Hob son’s corner in Simon Morgan’s line and runs with said line N 44 W 39 poles to a stake in Chapel’s line; thence with said line S 474 E 191 poles to a stake in the bank of Neuse river; thence down the river to a stake James Hobson’s corner; thence with his line N B4 E 1934 poles to the be ginning, containing 53 acres, more or less.” Terms of sale cash. This April 12th, 1923. J. W. SHORT, Mortgagee. DELIA P. BROOKS, Assignee of Mortgagee. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND. Under and by virtue of a judgment rendered at the February term 192! of the Superior Court of Johnston County, N. C., in the action therein pending where in Mary E. Richard son and Chas. E. Richardson, Trustee, are plaintiffs and R. H. Sutton and others are defendants, no payment having been made on the said judg ment the undersigned Commissioner will, at twelve o’clock M , on Monday, the seventh day of May, 1923, at the Court House door in Smithfield, N. (',' sell by public auction, for cash, the lands situated in said Johnston coun ty and described in sai,) judgment and in the deed of trust, for the foreclos ure of which said action was brought, as follows: “A certain tract or parcel of land situated on the South side of Great l Branch in Boon Hill township, John ; ston County, North Carolina, adjoin | ing the lands of D. W. Phillips, Mon* i roe Woodard. Rufus Woodard, Jack | Eason and others and bounded and ' described as follows: “Beginning at a maple in l). W i Phillips’ line near the Goldsboro and Princeton nublic road and runs thence North 77 West 33 feet to a stake in field; thence North 39 degrees 10' W. 1270.5 ft. to a stake with pointers on the run of Great Branch; thence up the run of said branch as it meanders to a stake, Monroe Woodard’s corner; thence with his line South 33 degrees 30’ West 1404 feet to a stake; thence with his line South 14 deg. 5’ West 605.5 ft. to a pine stump; thence N. 40 deg. 50’ West 495 feet to a stake on the road; thence with the road N. 44 deg. 7’ West 1186 feet to a stake at the bend in said road; thence with said road North 80 deg. 25’ West 627 ft. to a stake; thence South 4 deg. 28’ West 1157 feet to a lightwood stake; thence North 86 deg. 55’ West 72 ft. to a stake; thence South 5 deg. 14’ W. 1326 ft. to a lightwood stake; thence North 85 deg. 39’ West 338 feet to a lightwood stake on the road; thence with the road South 6 deg. 10’ West 654 feet to a lightwood stake; thence South 84 dee- 37' East 2?23 feet to a lightwood stake; thence South 15 deg. 30’ West 636 ft. to a lightwood stake; thence South 74 deg. 30’ East 613 ft. to a lightwood stake; thence South 10 deg. 39’ West 769 ft. to a light wood stake with maple pointers: thence South 75 deg. 18’ East 1633 5 ft. to a lightwood stake; thence S " deg. 10' YVest 132 ft. to a lightwood stake; thence South 87 deg. 42’ Ea t 891 ft. to a stump in field; thence S. 81 deg. 15’ E. 709.5 ft. to a stake ir. the canal of Watery Branch; thence with the canal of said branch in a Southeastwardly direction to a stake with guin pointers on the canal o! said branch; thence with the canal of said branch as it meanders Eastward - ly to a stake on said canal in Atlas rapps’ line; thence North 6 deg. 48’ West 2135 ft to a stake; thence N. 76 deg. 49’ West 2178 ft. to an iron stake on the Goldsboro and Princeton Public Road; thence North 3 deg. 50’ East 1122 ft. to the beginning, con taining 626 3-4 acres, more or less, be ing lots Nos. 1 to 15, inclusive, of the Richardson lands as surveyed and platted by Lambe and Davis, Civil Engineers, of Raleigh, N. C., the map thereof being dated May 2, 1919.” This 2nd day of April, 1923. GEO. K. FREEMAN, Commissioner. NOTICE OF SALE OF LAND Noith Carolina, Johnston County. In the Superior Court. WALTER K EASON Vs. RAYMOND HOLDER. Under and by virtue of the author ity contained in a decree of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Johnston County rendered in the above entitled action the undersigned Commission" will offer for sale to the highest bid der, for cash, at the Court House door in the town of Sniithfield, N. C., on Monday, May 7th, 1923, at the hour of twelve o’clock M the follow ing described tract of land lving and being in O’Neals township, Johnston County, to-v/it: Beginning at a pine, W. R. Par rish’s corner in Todd heir's line and runs with s tid line South 87 East 50 nine poles to a stake in the North prong of the I/mg Branch; thence down the run of said branch to a stake in the center of the New Road, thence with the center of said road North 75 3-4 West 68.3 poles to a stake in W. R. Parrish’s line; thence with said line North 7 East 75 poles to the beginning, containing thirty five and three fourths acres, more re less. This April third. 1923. E. J. WET,I ONS, Commissioner. M'WSP AIM H \1FN VISIT STATE PRISON Nothin)? Seen To Indicate That Con ditions \re Vs Had As Prison Camps In Germany (Hy Itrock Barkley In Charlotte Ob server.) Raleigh, April 21.—Surface appear ances at the North Carolina state prison would acquit the authorities .T Mr. Budding’s charges. Six news paper men who spent two hours within the central prison walls during the week were unanimous in the verdict that what they saw and what they heard was altogether to the credit o£ those who run the place. They did not attempt an investiga tion. This was plainly understood before they accepted Superintendent George Pou’s invitation to go through the prison, talk with inmates and see and hear for themselves. None of the sextet professed authority ship in his knowledge of what a model prison should be. On one or tw» points oi recogiuzeu mt-nt m ■ management all were agreed. Other wise, there was a sharp conflict of views, particularly on the question of treatment of prisoners anil methods of discipline. That a prison should be cleanly, that the food should be wholesome and plentiful and that the inmates should have an opportunity to prove their own worth were points of cer tain agreement. And beyond these, the scribes could not go through ob servation: and their confidential chats with prisoners did not furnish information with the thoroughness and acceptableness that might be ex pected from an investigating commit tee. Not Like Prison Camp Certainly, the North Carolina state prison did not have the appearance of a German prison camp, as Mr. Dudding charged. It did not fit the place one would picture in his imagi nation as the scene of brutal prac tics and the subjugation of wills. The prisoners had no brutalities to report, and the information furnished by the inmates varied from the most pro fuse praise of the officials to sugges tions that some things went on of which Mr. Pou was ignorant. That is as far as the newspaper men could go in their inquiring trip through the various departments. There are a dozen camps scattered over the state in which the majority of prisoners are located. Superintend ent Pou said he welcomed visit to those camps as thoroughly as he does to the central prison, and what the central prison can show are condi tions of which the extremist among reformers could not complain. The corridors and the cells are exceptionally clean. The floors have been worn by frequent contact with the mop and paint has been spread generously about the interior an 1 kept white and spotless after its ap plication. The single beds, evidently affording greater comfort than the regular a-my cot, were equipped with clothing of cleanly appearance. The fl war gardens within the walls are as beautiful, well arranged and as well attended as those on the outside front lawn. The whole in to; :-r of the prison grounds proper are as pleasing to behold as the ele gantly arranged plots and lawns on thji root., A baseball diamond, rath ' smaller than the regulation league diamond, is provided in the grounds used by the criminally in sane and will be available to all pris oners after the removal of the in mates in this department to the asy lums. Kitchen Gets High Score. The highest score given a Raleigh I cafe by the city health department I was 95. The state health authorities ! last month gave the prisoners’ din | ing rooms and kitchen a score of 100. Supper was being prepared dur ing the trip of the scribes and bis cuits and bacon were passed around ' as “samplers.” One of the crowd ! ate three bacon sandwiches and pocketed a fourth biscuit to be ta | ken t > his wife as an example of j fine cooking. One of the prisoners complained of the food by saying it ‘ was not so plentiful as that supplied | at his home. Whether the prison and its equip ment is as modern as the present day idea of a penitentiary demands I must be left to authorities on such j subjects. T,he cells, to which all prisoners must retire at 9 o’clock af • night, are about four feet wide by ! eight feet long. They open on.a long j ,->••••»! for which they must depend f c light and air. The corridors them | selves are well lighted and wide v.-'n - ! dows furnish a generous supply o.' fresh air. The building is heated by j steam. Whether the cell or room of a prisoner should be of the same measurements as a hotel room or the j room of a college student in the opin ion of the reformer or the mode n day prison reform expert is not knov n Albeit, what there is of the prison er.;’ rooms are cleanly and sanita y in appearance. One prisoner in a letter to a news paper complained that Superintendent Poll seldom visits the inmates an i that about all they know of him is “hearsay.” The prisoners passed or. the newspapermen’s tour manifested something more than a speaking ac quaintance with both the superintend end and the assistant, Major Hugh A. Love. On a number of occasions one would ask if some request, evidently made in person, had been attended to, Mr. Poll seemed to know them by their first names. Treatment Satisfactory How the prisoners are treated could not be determined through observ i tion nor could a satisfactory idea be gained from conversation. As far as inquiry would carry one in arriv ing at an opinion on this point, the treatment would seem to be satisfac tory to the reasonable man. One prisoner said he did not believe those in charge were strict enough, that he had seen men get away with viola tions for which they should be punish - ed. “I have been here six months and I have found that prison life is just what a man makes it.” He cade from Asheville and before his sentence wa • highly respected as a traveling sales man for a demurrage company. Two prisoners reported they had been whipped; one, a white man re ceived a number of lashes last summer for complicity in a mutiny at a moun tain camp. Four others were whipped with him. He denied his own con nection with the affair but gave it as his opinion that the other four deserved the whipping. A negro was given five lashes back in 1914. He came from Charlotte and had served 20 years of a 30 year sentence for murdering his wife. A white man of about GO years, from New Hanover county, was an in mate of the hospital. He was profuse in his praise of the officials, on this particular day especially. His wife is also in prison, having been sent up for alleged complicity in the charge against him. Superintendent Pou had permitted the wife and hus band to be together for an afternoon; and the old man was wreathed in smiles at the reunion. “She made me cut off my whis kers and clean up just like she did. back home.” he confessed proudly. He was sentenced to five years for a crime which it hardly seems nature will enable him to permit. He still insists he is innocent and he is now seeking a pardon for himself and wife from the governor. All Want Their Freedom Two prisoners were together when one of the newspaper men engaged them in conversation. None of them officials or guards were about. One prisoner said he had been treated all right but that he believed a lot went on without the knowledge of Super intendent Pou. His buddy was as in sistent that the prisoners at the cen tral prison were well treated. He knew nothing of conditions at the camps. The attitude of the prisoners seems to correspond with the story frequ j ently told ^p'und Falc’gh of the j Iredoll county youth who was ‘sent 1 up." His mother told h'm before leav | ing him to write and let her know ! how he was getting on. After a v eek at the prison he wrote home : “Dear Ma: 1 are her? rrd I don’t like it.” Every prisoner wanted end. and each felt positive that the time no i’d con e oh! in a few weeks or a few months, when something would d< role•> that would f:.?e him. i'hi' hope reci',3 within the prisoner reg": dies of the length of his teim. Ed. Alex a-idei, of Iredell county, -cntenco.l to the chair for murder and commut ed by Governor Bickett at tire last nm mont was one of the prisoners at the central plant. “Oh, they treat us all right here,” said Ed. “The only trouble is w can’t get out. Yes. I was in a pret ty tight place back there. But 1 guess I might as well have gone as someone else. If I thought I had t? j spend the rest of niv days here, or i even 10 years more, I would elimt I to that, third story yonder and drop j out head-foremost. It’s pretty bad : when you can’t see anything but. the I blue sky and you have to look straight ! up almost to see that.” Ed. although j sentenced for life, is hopeful alone j with the rest. Few have come near | er the death chair than Ed who hav; ; escaped it. Various Degrees Of Reform | There are various degrees of prison ( reform and multitudes of ideas as | to how prisoners should be treated and as to methods of discipline. It is recognized that some form of discip line must prevail. Discussion amon , the inquiring newspapermen furnish ed the most interesting insight on this phase of prison life. The prison authorities announced , that whipping is one of the method 1 of discipline, the last resort. The prisoners are divided into three grade? A. B. and .C The grade A prisoners have privileges denied those of lower grades, and they climb the ladder . by their own department. A severe-' | form of punishment is the dark cell . with broad and water and then a spec ified number of lashes administered in the presence of the prison phys> cian. Two of the sextette of newspaper men professed their uncompromising opposition to whipping: as a method of punishment. Frankly, this writer believes in it and thinks the only re form justifiable here is in a proper regulation so that permanent injury will not result. It seems absurd that a person would consider it. a crime ! to whip the 15-year-old negro girl for insulting the white lady matron in the woman’s department but justifia ; ble to thrash a 15-year-old school boy for playing truant. One of the newspaper men argue ' that the negro girl should not have j been whipped under any circumstan ces, regardless of the vile language j she used. He argued that self-con trol should have been exerted b” those in charge, as if self-control would be a greater virture than self respect when the negro svench cast upon the white matron language so obscene that it could not be printed. . Perhaps 10 lashes would be more effective in breaking up reckless driv j ing of automobiles than 10 days in j jail. Delaware came prominently i before the public a couple of years ago by reviving the whipping post, tatters From Prisoner. I The same newspaper man who ar • gued so vigorously against the thrash • ing of the negro girl opposed Super ! intendent Pou’s suggestion to leave ' off the signature of a former prison er to a letter he was giving out as ! evidence of the feeling of some prison ers towards the officials. Ihe man now holds a very responsible posi j tion as traveling representative in I North Carolina of a Richmond con : cern. It seems reasonable to argue r that the less injustice would have i been done the negro girl to give her ■ 15 lashes for swinish language than ; to have advertised the reformed man’s name over the state and forc ' ed him to suffer unnecessary humili ation after he had set his course ( straight. But the newspaperman’s view on the infliction of the lash represents i perhaps a mild type of prison reform ist. There are various degrees to which persons interested in prison welfare would go. It stands to rea son that in many instances, unless the authorities conform with the opinions of this school of Thought of that criticism as to management will be the result. Some observers i of prison conditions would take out the punitive side of it altogether and make it exclusively eorre~-,iv? or redemptive. Some would put it on the same footing as the reformatory. Others would tolerate most any de gree of cruelty and would see the prison solely an agency of punish ment. The verdict of the newspapermen as to the prison management may be represented by this paragraph from The Raleigh Times, inserted af ter the editor had made the tour: “We came away better satisfied (Continued on page 8) £££ quickly relieves Colds and LaGrippe, Constipation, Bil iousness and Headaches. ED. A, HOLT Princeton, N. C. UNDERTAKER Coffins, Caskets, Metallics. Vaults, Itobes, Dresses. Stock complete. Hearse Service. The Pine Level Oil Mill Co. PINE LEVEL, N. C. Will be buying: cotton seed locally until May 10th. We are now paying: Per Bushel. After above date we will be closed for summer repairs and will not be in market for seed. The Pine Level Oil Mill Co. PIN ELEVEL ,N. C. COTTER-UNDER WOOD COMPANY Smithfield, N. C. UNDERTAKERS AND EMBALMERS Auto Hearse Service. Prompt attention to all calls night ot day. Call Phone 17 and at night call phone 8&-L. V V V' J < V' V V T, C. Jordan & Son EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Office in Jewelry Store. Can be ■een aay day. I DR. J. C. MANN Eye-Sight Specialist Will be at Ur. L. D. Wharton’s office, Smithfield, N. C., every second and fourth Friday in each month. His next visit will Be FRIDAY, APRIL 27. 1923. • * * ^ ♦VTTT JUST UNLOADED ONE CAR Nitrate Soda Get yours before ad vance in price. Also have plenty of acid kan it, muriate of potash and as good fertilizers as anybody. Prices are right. WILBUR M. LEE Four Oaks, N. C.
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