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TIME TO LIST YOUR TAXES This is to call the attention of the citizenship of Johnston county, that the season for listing 1925 taxes is at hand. To comply with the law, it will be necessary that every citizen list his or her taxes during the month of May. Failure of listing means, ac cording to provisions of the law, that the taxpayer be double-taxed. Now, the citizenship of Johnston county knows that the officers of the coun ty did not make that law and cannot change it, so it is my desire to ap peal to the citizenship to please ar range to list your taxes at the earliest possible date. Dctn’t put it off, be cause if the mass of the taxpayers wait until near tfie close of the month, the list takers cannot give you prompt service, as the National and State Laws demand agricultural lists of all the farms, and they cannot rush over the work and do it efficiently. It will be necessary that the farm owiners be prepared to advise the list takers the combined acreage of all their farm lands, listing each farm separately on agricultural schedule; the amount of acreage they are hav ing cultivated; the number of ten ants on each farm and the number of acres cultivated by all their tenants, •which includes alny other acreage rented out, amount of cleared land not in cultivation—this with the woods and pasturage (uncleared) land should constitute their total acreage. Then please be prepared to advise the acreage in tobacco, cotton, corn, wheat, oats, peas, soybeans peanuts. For threshing—small grain and acre> age for hay, acreage of truck and vegetables, number of pecan trees, to tal number of tons of fertilizer used on the farms, productive live stock and poultry, advising the number of hogs of breeding age, number of hens of laying age, number of milk cows of milking age, on each farm. The members of the Cotton Co-oper ative Association would suggest that you look up the advances on your pooled cotton of 1924 crop and be in position to advise the list taker so he can credit you for same on your list of cotton pooled. The list takers of the various townships of Johlnston county have been delivered their equipment and are ready to serve you at their list ing places and have their posters up over their townships, advertising the same. Please be advised by their pos ters and let’s? all list our taxes as efcrly as possible at a fair, liberal rate on our personal property, and there by equalizing the tax duties, which is but proper and right, for if all the personal property in the county is not brought out in the open and listed properly, it will of necessity cause the tax burden to fall more heavily on the land and town real es tate owners, railroad companies and all other corporations of the coutnty as the values on all these are fixed by the Tax Commissioners, which are au thorites over which taxpayers have no control. As to the corporations, they are assessed by the Tax Commissioners according to. their capital, surplus and equipment, without any percent discount whatever—no 2-3 or % val ue consideration rendered them, but they pay on the 100 per cent value, and I think it the duty of all indi viduals to comply with the old adage “tote fair" with them, as they require the Well-rounded unity and co-opera tion of all these to develop and main tain worthy earning capacity of all, which is a very pleasant incentive and gratifying coindition in any munici pality. Respectfully submitted by ROBT. L. FITZGERALD, Tax Supervisor of Johnston County WHITTE HOUSE WEDDINGS 1. March 11, 1811 in Madison’s ad ministration. Lucy Payne Wash ington, sister of Mrs. Madison and widow of a nephew of General W ash ington’s, to Judge Tood, of Kentucky. 2. 1812, in Madison’s administra tion. Miss Anna Tood, of Phila delphia, cousin of Mrs. Madison, to Representative Edward B. Jackson, of Virginia. 3. 1820. In Monroe administration. Miss Maria Hester Monroe, daughter of President and Mrs. Monroe, to Samuel Lawrence Governeur, of New York. 4. February 28, 1828, in John Quincy Adams’ administration. Miss Mary Hellen, niece of Mrs. Adams’, to John Adams, son-of President and Mrs. Adams. 5. 1829, in Jackson’s administra tion. Miss Delia Lewis, of Nash ville, daughter of President Jackson’s war-time friend and political mana ger, Major W’illiam B. Lewis, to Al phonse Joseph Yver Pageot, secre tary of the French Legation. G, 1831, in Jackson’s administra tion, Miss Emily Martin, niece of President Jackson, to Lewis Donald son, grandson of Thomas Jefferson. 7. 1837, in Jackson’s administra tion. Miss Mary Fasten, of Tennessee, niece of President Jackson, to Lucien B. Polk, of Tennesee, cousin of James K. Polk, later President. 8. January 31, 1842, in Tyler’s administration. Miss Elizabeth Ty ler, to William Wraller, of W’iliams burg, Va. 9. May 21, 1874, in Grant’s admin istration, Miss Nellie Grant, to Al gernon C. F. Sartoris. 10. June 19, 1878, in Haynes’ ad ministration. Miss Emily Platt, niece Wholesale Groceries Smithfield, N. C. V’h«n Hotter Id Them No. 11 HV41-A uestlon: Can 'wheel brakes be applied while turning corners? ^l^LnSWer: Certainly. The brake on the outside front wheel is automatically released, making steering easy and car control sure. Only one such device has so far been perfected, and Buick has it * DEBNAM BUICK COMPANY Sales-Service When better automobiles*are built, Buick will build "them Navy Airmen in 28 Hour NomStop Flight WamS9S9S695&S6m5&S: f—* |fA>,UTOCACTC.t^] I | r i .. - .. ■ i .. i n Flving a 40 mile course over the Delaware river last week these Navy fliers flew the PN-9 for 28 hours at an average speed of 80 miles an hour, breaking by 10 hours the former world record. It was a trial for the craft’s proposed flight from San Francisco to Honolulu soon. The fliers are Woolson, Sutter and Schildauer. of President Hayes to General Russell Hastings, of Ohio. 11. June 2, 1886, in Cleveland’s ad ministration. Miss Francis Folsom, of Buffalo, N. Y. to Grover Cleve land, President of the United States 12. February 17, 1906, in Roose velt's’ administration. Miss Alice Roosevelt, daughter of President Roosevelt, to Representative Nich olas Longworth, of Ohio. 13. November 25, 1913, in Wil son’s administration. Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson, daughter of Pres dent and Mrs. Wilson, to Francis B. Sayre. 14. May 7, 1914, in Wilson’s ad ministration. Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of President and Mrs. Wjl-; son, to William Gibbs McAdoo, Secre- ' Uary of the Treasury.—News & Ob server. ' . , Higher Postage Rates It now costs 2 cents to mail a souvenir postal card. It costs 15 cents to register a letter instead of 10 cents as formerly and you must pay 3 cents for the return receipts on any registered mail matter. Pack ages weighing more than 2 pounds sent special delivery will cost 16 cents instead of 10, and if they weigh from 10 to 20 pounds the charge will be 20 cents. A parcel post package not collected on a rural delivery route requires a service charge of 2 cents, and for special handling in order to obtain speedier service, a parcel may carry a 25-cent charge and a 2-cent service stamp. These higher postage rates are to take care of the increases in pay to postal employees granted by the last Congress. In the main, they will not affect farmers to any extent, and the postal clerks will have thear | well-earned increase in salaries. Few people really know what a big business the United States mail service is. Every year the service handles 23,000,000,000 articles, • of 12,000,000,000 pieces are letters. On the average the post-office depart ment delivers every year 112 letters to every man, woman and child in the United States. Every second of every twenty-four hours of every day there are 389 letters dropped into letter boxes, every minute 23,334 and every hour, 1,400,000. This great mass of mail weighs a total of 133, 350 tons. Nearly 44,000 postmen deliver mail to millions of homes and business houses in American cities. Rural routes to the number of 44,552 daily deliver mail to 6,504,592 farm fami lies. Rural carriers travel daily 1, 173,473 miles, or annually, 360,256, JohnRuskin Lower First Cost andUpkeep There is a double economy in the Ford Car that materially lowers the cost of motoring for the millions of Ford owners today. Fir**—a Ford Car is the lowest priced on the market —the least expensive car the automotive industry has ever produced. Second—it costs less to operate and main tain. Fuel consumption is low—you get high mileage from tires. Repairs and replacements are infrequent; and charges, even for the labor involved, are small. The Ford Weekly Purchase Plan makes it possible for anyone to buy a Ford on the easiest of terms. You may pay foT your Ford out of your regular earnings. Ask any authorized Ford dealer about the details of this plan or write us direct, using this coupon. Ford Motor Company, Dept. N-S, Detroit, Michigan Please mail me full particulars regarding your easy plan for own ing an automobile. Name_Street - - - - SEE THE NEAREST AUTHORIZED FORD DEALER FORDOR SEDAN ), *660 . —* Ritnnhnnt . ■ . . Runabout Tearing TuJor Sedan - *2*0 290 520 v i door jeaon ... 580 x On open care demountable rims and starter are $85 extra All prices f. o. b. Detroit —Time to Buy Your New '= Sanders Motor Co. Phone 168, SMITHFIELD, N. C. Authorized Ford Dealers Phone 97, BENSON N C ® © 364 miles to bring the postal service to the folks living in the country dis tricts. Fifteen and a half billion stamps and one and a quarter bil lion postal cards are sold yearly to the American public. The 351,000 full and part-time postal employees are paid approximately $441,622,517 an nually for their serviecs. These few figures will indicate the importance of our postal system. It is the biggest single business in the world.—Indiana Farmer’s Guide. Auctioneer: “Now here’s a *ine little machine. A little the worse for wear, perhaps, but still good for ser vice. Who’ll say seventy-five to start with?” A Voice: “Five bucks!” Auctioneer: “Gfentleanen! Gentle men! The damn thing has gas in it!”—Selected. The BULL'S EYE 'Editor and Qeneral JAanaq WILL ROGERS 7 er An ^ Unknown Historical Fact DID you know that George Washington, The adopted Father of our Country, just before he got on the Ferry to cross the Delaware for the Photo graphing of that now fa mous Picture, Did you know that he smoked two sacks of ‘Bull’ Durham while he was waiting for the Ferry? (things were just as late in his War, as they were in our last one). Now I have never heard of this ‘Bull’ Durham episode before, neither have I ever heard it denied. So if it’s never either been affirm ed or denied, there is no rea son to disbelieve that it’s not true. ‘Bull’ Durham originated in Virginia, and Washington lived in Vir ginia, and he was a great man to patronize home in dustries. And as Washing ton was the best man of his day, and Durham the best tobacco of its day, there is no plausible reason to doubt that these two most excel lent Institutionsdidn’tread ily recognize the good in each other and get together. SIXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO! In 1860 a blend of to bacco was born-‘Bull’ Durham. On quality alone it has won recog nition wherever tobac co is known. It still offers the public this— more flavor, more en joyment and a lot more money left at the end of .a week’s smoking. TWO BAGS for 15 cents 100 cigarettes for 15 cents Buu! Durham ® Guaranteed by jb»jL*iecL*^ cfir&xet<r^&' I N CORPORATE O 111 Fifth Avenue, New York City 9
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