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FIELD TEACHERS Xn my childhood, I knew an old and gray-headed man. Age had brought him wisdom, and I loved him because he was both kind and wise. Once he said to me: “I know a way t0 be happy. I learned it in the fields.” Then I entreated him, and said: “Please teach it to me.” He answered, “Go forth into the fields, among the things that move, and study it there.” So I went forth, and looked atten tively upon all that moved around, j gut there was no voice to speak to ( me. I returned to the gray-haired man. And he said, “What hast thou learned in the fields?” -I saw the brook flowing on among sweet flowers. I thought it was sing ing a cheerful song. But, when 11 listened, there were no words. The sparrow flew by me with down in its beak, and the redbreast with a crumb it had gathered at the door. The hen sought food for her brood of young chicker/, and the ducklings swam beside their mother in the clear stream. “The spider threw out its tnreau, like a line of silver, from spray to spray. The ant carried a grain of corn in its pincers and the loaded bee flew homeward to its hive. The dog came forth to guard the young lambs as they frisked around their quiet mothers, cropping the tender grass. All seemed full of happness. “I asked them the way to be happy but they made no reply. I asked it again and again, yet nothing answer ed save the echo, repeating over and over again my last words, ‘happy, happy’; but not telling me how to be come so.” “And hast thou looked upon all these?” said the old man, “yet re ceived no instruction ? Did not the brook say to thee that it might not stay to be idle, but must hasten to swell the larger stream, and that it had pleasure in refreshing the plants stretching their roots to meet it, and the flowers bending down to its face with a kiss of gratitude? “Thou didst see the bird building its nest, and flying to feed its young, and the hen toiling to gather food for others, and didst not perceive that to make others happy is happi ness? “Thou didst observe tne young duck delighting to learn of its mo ther the true use ef its oary feet, and to balance its body aright in the swift waters, and did it not instruct thee to seek with equal joy the les sons of thy mother, who every day teacheth thee, and every night lift eth up her prayer that thy soul may live ? “When the spider finished its silk en house, and the hand destroyed it, did it not, without complaint or stop ping to be discouraged, begin to build another? and was there no voice in this example for thee? "And couldst thou see the ant pro viding against a time of want, and the bee busy amid the honey cups, and consider the wisdom nor the sweetness that dwelleth with indus try? Didst thou admire the shep htd’s dog doing faithfully the bid ding of his master, and not sonsider that patient continuance in duty is happiness? “Whither had thine understanding fled, my child, that from all these teachers of the field there came no lesson to thee? With different voices they spake, and didst thou not re gard them? Each in his own lanr gunge, told thee that active industry was happiness, and that idleness was an offense, both to Nature, and to her God.” aim Then I bowed down my neau, my cheek was crimson with shame, because I had not understood the les sons of the field, and was ignorant of what even the birds and insects knew. But the man with hoary hairs comforted me. So I thanked him for the good teaching of his wisdom, and I took the precept into my heart, and ! Dr. J. W. Winstead dentist Office in Hood Building PHONE 297 Successor to Dr. J. T. Underwood thought to prove if it were true. And though I was then young, and am now old, I have never had reason to Joubt that useful'employment is hap piness.—Selected. Editor Thinks Well of Phone An Arkansas editor has just writ ten what he thinks of the telephone— that is, he '..rote what he does no think, but it was such a noble effort he printed it anyhow. He asked the question “What is a Telephone?" and says the North and South Carolina Public Utility Information Bureau answered it in this wise: “A telephone is the means by which the wife checks up to learn whether you are really working at the office late at night. “A telephone is something that rings when you are in the bathtub with your eyes full of soap and no one else at home, and that says “num ber, please,” when you finally get to it. “A telephone is the evil genious that threatens my soul’s salvation by chirping “Wrong number, so sorry,” when I have been called from under my car. A teiepnone is Lilt: saivauuu Vi J the pest that I would murder in cold blood if he called at my office in per son to present his plea. “A telephone is an invention that makes an office an open forum, and , your would-be peaceful fireside a gathering of the Aid Society. “A telephone is a parrot that says ; “Line busy” when I am in a hurry, and then rings all the rest of the morning to prove it. “A telephone is an instrument that allows the lodge secretary to catch you just as you start for the show' and say ‘Everybody here but you.’ Establish a reputation and good will for your community this year by i planting a good variety of cotton. Dr. R. Y. Winters, plant breeding agron omist at State College, states that community production of one variety will do this. Something to Think About One might wonder if the boys and girls from rural parts of the United States will not be the sole dependen cy of the nation in another fifty years. Such information as has been collect ed and systematized does not reflect well on the future of cityborn chil dren as a class and the unsystema tized information as gleaned from daily newspaper reports is even less encouraging. Is it possible that the country will be the only source of sturdy morality in the future? For many years students have been preparing statistics showing that col lege graduates have few children. Ma ny college graduates never marry. Many others in the cities are child less, but the lower class—the immi grants from southern Europe—are the parents of large families. On the surface of things, it might seem that the citizens of the city who are city born, will be, in a few years, the chil dren of immigrants. Recently the Russell Sage Founda tion has prepared figures based on careful investigations. It is shown that nearly 700,000 persons in the Unied States are child brides or the husbands of child brides. A child bride is one less than 16 years old. In the great majority of cases, these child brides and their husbands are native born of white parentage. Another phase ot the general sub ject is the divorce evil. It seems to us that the institution of marriage is unter test in the cities. Magazine stories, articles and “confessions” teach us that marriage is a thing to be put lightly aside. There is no such thing as forbearance. In ultra-mod ern city society, each party to a mar riage contract is assumed to have the right to “live his own life”—to cen ter all his interests in himself, in stead of in his home. We believe that the social weak nesses we have mentioned are more urban than rural, and that in the country the old-fashioned, substan tial and wholesome idea of marriage exists today as it did when our pa rents were married. If this is true, and if the country continues to pro duce families from such marriage*;, while the cities' best stock goes child less, only the country people can save this nation from catastrophe.— ! Indiana Farmers’ Guide. yfas qv V •Same Quality^SameSize^ WU/HC Uswis Cigar Mfg. Ca. MAKERS-Afe^rM-J AGED NEGRO BURNED TO DEATH AT DUNN Dunn, April 14.—Joe Monk, 75- | year-old negro, was burned to death in a fire which destroyed three large wooden buildings, together with sev eral small ' business enterprises, in cluding two sales stables, two bar ber shops, a meat market and a news stand at 10:30 last night. The aged negro slept on the sec ond floor of the building in which the tire started and efforts to effect his , rescue proved futile. He was heard to appeal for assistance, but the door to his room appeared to have been se curely fastened on the inside. The charred remains were found after the flames had died down. The buildings were owned by Geo. T. Hodges, Mrs. E. R. Coats, and Jas. Stewart. Neither of the owners car ried any insurance. Six brick build ings on the same block were threat ened for a time. The walls of these were damaged considerably by the flames. Young’s hotel, nearby, caught on fire several times, but was extin guished before any damage resulted. The total loss is estimated today at from $15,000 to $20,000. Firemen from Fayetteville ami Benson rusnea to Dunn in response to a call for aid, though the flames were under con trol when they arrived. The origin of the fire is unknown. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE BANK OF FOUR OAKS at Four Oaks, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business, April 6, 1925. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts . .. .$ 122,980.85 Overdrafts unsecured . . 1A6 Banking Houses, $1090.00 Furniture & Fixtures $885.00 .‘. 2,0(0.00 All ojher real estate owned ll,92o.00 Cash in vault and net amount's due from Banks Bankers and Trust Coni- __ panics . 56,827.4o Total .$ 194,310.06: LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in... . 25,000.00 Surplus Fund . ,12,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid . 2,749.06 Dividends unpaid . 16.00 Deposits subject to check Individual . 104,339.92 Time Certificates of De posit, due in less than 30 days . 211.40 Cashiers Checks out standing . 403.(9 Certified checks . 845.82 Time Certificates of De posit!, due on or ofter 30 days . 48,744.07 Total .$ 194,310.00 State of North Carolina—County of Johnston. April 15, 1925. I, D. W. Lambe, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. D. W. LAMBE, Cashier. CORRECT—ATTEST: J H. AUSTIN, R. C. CANiADAY, W. J. LEWIS, Directors Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 15 day of April 1925.—O. J. Tart, Notary Public. My commission evpires September 26, 1926. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FARMERS BANK & TRUST COMPANY at Smithfield, in the state of North Carolina, at the close of business, April 6, 1925. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts ....$ 205,676.16 Demand Loans . 2,877.09 Overdrafts, unsecured.... 168,30 U. S. Bonds and Liberty Bonds . 6,000.00 Furniture & Fixtures .... 3,152.14 Cash in vault and net amount due from Banks, Bankers and Trust Com panies . 31,340.30 Checks for Clearing .... 1.356.93 Total .$ 250,570.92 LIABILITIES Capital Stock Paid in ..$ 17.600.00 Surplus Fund . 4,000.00 Undivided Profits, less Current expenses and taxes paid . 2,874.34 Dividends Unpaid . 9.00; Deposits subject to check Individual . 160,044.88 Cashier's Checks out standing . 624.03 Certified Checks . 223.49 Time Certificates of De posit, due on or after 30 days, . 42,553.12 Savings Deposits . 22,642.06 Total . 250.570.92 State of North Carolina—County of Johnston, April 14, 1925, I. C. F. Gordon, Cashier of the above named Bank, do solemnly swear that ihe above statement is true to the best of m,y knowledge and be lief.—C. F. GORDON. Cashier. CORRECT— A TTE ST: D. W. PETERSON, R. L. FITZGERALD, W. T. HOLLAND, Directors. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 14 day of April 1925.—W. M. Gaskin, Notary Public. My commis sion expires August 30, 1925. NOTICE Whereas the Citizens National Bank on September 10, 1919, executed and issued to W. B. Johnson ( now de ceased V certificate No. 28, for five shares of the capita] stock of said Bank at a par value of $500; and. Whereas since the death of the said W. B. Johnson, his administrar tor has been unable to locate or find ; said certificate or find any record, or that the same has been hypothecat ect or sola, or nna any information as to the loss of the same by fire or theft, and because of the failure to locate said certificate or to satisfy themselves that the same has been lost or destroyed, have made demand noon the First and Citizens National Bank, with Which institution the Citi zens Na'-'onal Bank was consolidated, and which is now liable for the cap ital stock of the Citizens National • Bank, for dupi'rate certificate of slid stock: * Therefore notice is hereby given to the public at large that should any one claim said stock, by purchase, gift or otherwise; by hypothecation or pledge, they are hereby notified to make their said claim known to The First and Citizens National Ban.c of Smithfield, N. C'.. on or before May 21, 1925. ( Doing 30 days after the first notice is given) or a duplicate certificate of stock will be issued to the estate ef \V. B. Johnson, deceas ed, in lieu of the certificate No. 28 for $500 par value of the stock afoie said. This April 20, 1925. FIRST & CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, of Smithfield, N. C. By R. P. HOLDING, Cashier. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF i THE FARMERS BANK, at Clayton, in the State of North Carolina, at the close of business . Anril 61 1925. RESOURCES Loans and Discounts . ...$ 170.065.27 Overdrafts, unsecured,... 236.35 j Furniture and Fixtures.. 7,053.91 Cash in vault and net amount due from Banks, Bankers and Trust Com panies . 32,,810.00 Cash Items held over 24 hours . 5.00 Checks for clearing . 532.69 Total .$ 210,703.28 LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in .... 25,000,00 Surplus Fund . 5,000.00 Undivided profits, less current expenses and taxes paid . 2,189.21 Dividends unpaid . 24.00 Notes and Bills redis counted . 9,000.03 Bills Payable . 25,000.00 Deposits, subject to check, Individual . 111,024.32 Cashier’s Checks out standing .. 2,554.00 Time Certificates of De posit, due on or after 30 days . 9,540.96 Savings Deposits. 21.370 79 Total .$ 210,703.28 State of North Carolina—County of Johnston. I, J. M. TURLEY, Cashier of the above named Bank, da solemnly swear Tiat the above statement is i r .e to ihe best oi my knowedge and ,u r. i e J. M. TT ill I . ' Cashier. Correct Attest: ■V I. WH! V\ C HU' M FEK 1ELL, A. R. DU N J N, Direct , •• ‘ u! >Ci :.»d ar i sworn to before me, the 16 day of A. r • 11 13.15- ‘ICO ! A. I.VGr. Notary P«: •ummis jio i.*a:• [ ves Ay,r'. 7, 1L27. SALE OF VALUABLE PROPERTY By virtue of a certain Deed of Trust executed by W H Dunston and his wife, Ruth Dunston, dated Janu ary 4, 1923 and recorded in Book 121 at page 559, in the office of the Reg ister of Deeds for Johnston county, default having been made in the pay ment of the note secured thereby, I will offer for sale to the highest bid der for cash, on Monday May 18th, 1925, at the Court House door in Smithfield, N. C., at or about 12 o’ clock Noon, the fodowing real prop erty, located in the town of Clayton, N C., and Clayton township and is more particularly described as fol lows : FIRST TRACT: Beginning at a stake on O’Neil Street, J. M. Tur ley’s corner, runs thence North 45 West 210 feet in A. Creecn’s line, thence along his line, 70 feet to a stake, thence South 45 blast 210 feet to a stake on O’Neil Street, thence North 45 East 70 feet to the be ginning, 245;726ths of an acre, more or less. SECOND TRACT: This tract con sists of a pa^t o" parcel of land em bracing lots Nos. 1 and 2, sold by C. Creech, exectuor of the Will of Stan ford Creech, decease!, under power contained in sail Will of said Sta~. ford Creech, at which sale made Oc tober 1, 1901, William Dunston be came the purchaser, the part of said parcel of land hereinafter conveyed being Lot No. 1 and described as follows: Beginning at a stake in Har ■ ,p Horn’s line, rung thence North 3-28 East 65 chains to Sam’s Creek, thence down Sam's Creek to Clay ion Road, thence with said road to the beginning: containing 54 acres more or less. There is excepied from the sec ond tract, the foil >wing lands: eight; acres conveyed to J >e Moore, by deed from W H Dunston and wife, reg istored in Book V No. 10, at page 220 Trustee, by deed dated from W H Dunston and wife registered in Book K311, at page 269, one acre convey ed to Colored C metery Association, by deed from W. H. Dunston and wife, registered in Book t, at nag' 224, all in the said registery, leaving the said second tract containing ;52 3-4 acreifc more or loss, one :irrW convex ed to J M Sanders, TERMS OF SALE: All cash on the day of sale and the purchaser to pay ali expense of sale and conveyance. (Signed) CHAS. R. FRAZIER, Trustee. CHAS. G. WILLIAMS, Attorney, Raleigh, N. C. Actual Statistical Facts: WHAT HAPPENS TO 100 MEN FROM 2.i TO fi.i (11—Onp will bp wpalthv (2)—Four will he indenendent (3V-—Five will have some earning nower (4 iFiftv-foiir will he denendent i51—Thirtv-six will die. Systematic monthly savings in B&L is absolutely the surest way to land in class ONE or TWO at the age of 65. JANUARY SERIES NOW OPEN Smithfield Building & Loan Association J. J. BROADHURST, Secty. & Treas. SAY “BAYER” when you buy-^e/rume. Proved safe by millions and prescribed by physicians for Colds Headache Neuralgia Lumbago Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism ■ Accept only “Bayer” package which contains proven directions. Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists. «t Meoosoettcsd<tgstsr of SsUcyUcscl* When Better Automobile# Are Built, Buick Will Build Them P-1S-S#-* No.3 uestion: why 1 are motor car dealers glad to see you when you have a Buick to trade in? A ^^nswer : They know that if they get it, they can sell it quickly— at a good price. Buick reliability has made Buick a first choice in the used car market. DEBNAM BUICK COMPANY S ales-Service When better automobiles'are built, Buick will build-them A Big Catch ONE BITE—ONE FISH There will be no exaggeration in your fish stories if you buy your fishing tackles from us. Our tackles will tempt both fish and fisherman. The quality and price accounts for this. We can’t quote prices here because there ax-e so many qualities and styles, and it’s the quality which shows the correctness ot price. You will have to visit us to be sure of getting the best. BOBS, HOOKS, RODS, LINES, SHAD NETS, SET NETS, ETC. Hood Brothers • s ON THE CORNER . Druggists SM1THFIELD, N. C. ©
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