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®]je ji>mttljftelb dderalb ««th Tear of Publication Established 1882 Published luesday an* Friday morning at 111% Court House Alley. Entered at Post Office in Smithfield as second class matterr. MRS. T. J. LASSITER, Editor — W. M. ClASKIN, Business Mgr. T. J. Lassiter Estate, Mrs. T. J. Lassiter, W. M. Gaskin, Owners. Telephone 10—All Departments SUBSCRIPTION PRICES (By mail, all subscriptions strictly payable in advance; 1 Year.$2.00 3 Months .60 3 Months . 1.50 1 Month .25 3 Months . 1.00 Single copy .06 (Advertising Rates Furnished Upon Request) NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Look at the printed label on your paper. The date thereon shows when the subscription expires. Forward oyur money in ample Lime for lenewal. Notice date on label carefully, and if rot cor rect, please notify us at once. Subscribers desiring the address on their paper changed, please state in their communication both the ULD and NEW address. THINKS AL SMITH IS PRESIDENT— Apropos the hard times which are prevailing not only in the South, but in other sections of the country, the following story has been copied in numerous newspapers: Senator Wheeler told a story in the course of a Senate debate of a young man in Montana under examination for citizenship papers, who answered most of the questions correctly until the judge ask ed, “Who is President of the United States?” “A1 Smith,” was the prompt reply.” “What makes you think Mr. Smith is President ?” “Well,” replied the applicant, “all I know about it is that the Republican orators told us that if A1 Smith was elected we would have a general panic in the country; that prices in Wall Street would drop; that men would be out of employment; that the farmers would go broke and banks would fail. All of these things have happened, so I think A1 Smith must be President of the United States.” HOME AND FARM DEMONSTRATION WORK IN JOHNSTON— The Herald does not expect everybody to agree with it on its views affecting the public interests of Johnston county, and in discussing matters of a public nature in these columns we do so with no intention of trying to create an issue, but we do so prompted by our own con scientious convictions. Three fourths of the people of this county get their living by tilling the soil, and if the farmers have a good year, the county is prosperous and if they have a bad year, the county is not prosperous. Whatever affects the farm problems of the county necessarily affects every body in the county, and it is a matter of prime impor tance that the farming interests should receive every possible encouragement from the governing powers of the county. We have been impressed with this idea in several ways since the county commissioners have discontinued the farm demonstration work in the county some four or five years ago and the home demonstration work a year ago. But this matter has never been so clearly outlined in the farm and civic life of our county as it has been within the past year. The county commissioners have put thumbs down on both farm and home demonstra tion work, claiming that they have been actuated in the discontinuance of these offices by economic demands. Whether this has met popular approval or not we do not know, but we do know that it has not met universal ap proval. In spite of the fact that the demonstration work urns discontinued as a public expense by the county commissioners a year ago, the work lias gone steadily on, and despite the fact that the demands of the far mers for a farm, agent have meet with repeated refusals, somebody has seen to it that a farm agent has been at work in the county for the past year. ■ We did not attend a meeting of the farmers that was held here last Tuesday, but we saw enough of that meet ing to know that the farmers of Johnston county are interested in their own improvement and in the general welfare of the county. It was an inspiration to see the fine body of good and sturdy fanners who met in the commissioners room here on that day and seated them selves as school children under a trained farm agent. These men met here for no other purpose or motive than to learn something of interest and value as to how they can improve farm conditions and meet an impending crisis that threatens the welfare of every person in this county through boll weevil devastation of the cotton crop or some of the other conditions that add to crop failures from year to yeear. There were perhaps three dozen of our leading farmers in this meeting, and they wore from practically every section of the county. If they received no more than one good, practical idea from the farm agent that day, those three dozen ideas when put into practice on our Johnston county farms in 1930 will have incalculable benefit. The farm demonstration work in this county cannot rests its right to live upon this ode meeting. The benefit of the work for the past year could not be told in a few’ paragraphs such as these. Through the wisdom and energy of Mr. J, T5. Slack, farmers are beginning to get 'hold of a fair conception of what club marketing, improvement of , breeds and flocks, and general di* I versification mean to them. The i farmers of Johnston county ha/e been hard hit for the past two i years, and while we have not I as yet seen any soup lines es tablished in our more populous centers, we hear of hard times on j every hand. There is no surer way lout than through a wise and prac tical system of farm improvement , anc] of farm management that will | adjust ourselves to the less lucra tive yields from the farms which j'has been brought about by the boll weevil. The farm agent more j than any other individual will he ! the official who will shied the farmers from the impending crisis | just ahead. The service of Mr. ! Sack in the county for the past | j year Is most commendable and the j (action of the public-spirited men I I who made his work possible in] jthis county is a public benefit j jthat deserves public commenda ; jtion. The county commissioner." (could do no safer or saner thing I for the county than to investigate j the work that Mr. Slack is doing j and to give him all the encourage - j ineut that he needs both by way j of official cooperation and by backing him financially. The same thing can be said of Miss j Garrison, whom the home demon | nitration club women have kept on the job since last July by their individual efforts. To finance these worthwhile i agencies, in our opinion, would not I Iw contrary to their rigid system of public economy, but would cer tainly bo the means of creating J 'better times and more prosperity (for our hard-run people. I NOTICE OF SALK OF REAL ESTATE Under and by virtue of autliori jty contained in a certain deed of trust executed by Martha A. Weaver (widow) to the under signed trustee, which deed of trust i-s recorded in Rook 20*1, at page 117, office of the register of deeds of Johnston county, North Caro lina, default having been made in the payment cf the note secured by said deed of trust, and the owner of said note having made demand upon the undersigned trus tee to foreclose the same. Now, therefore, the undersigned trustee will offer for sale alt the courthouse door in the town of Smithfield, Johnston county, N. C., at 12 o’clock M. on Wednesday, February 2(5, 1920 at public auc tion to the highest bidder for cash i the following described real es Itate, to-wit: All that certain lot, parcel or tract of land containing 99 3-4 acres lying and being in Renton wi'llo township, Johnston County, North Carolina, being bounded on the North by the lands of Perry Adams, on the East by the lands of E. F. W«av<y; on the South by the lands of William Weaver and John A. Parker; and on the West by Mill Creek and being such shape, metes, courses and distances as will more fully ap pear by reference to a plat there of made by N. T. Reals, surveyor, December 9, 1921 and more par ticularly described as follows, to wjt: Begimiing at a holly, Perry | Adams’ corner on the north bank of Mill Greek, ami runs as his I | lino E 78 chains 50 links to a i black jack in E. F. Weaver’s lino; | ■thcnco as his line S 22 W 14 I chains to a pine, his corner; ! thcnco as his line E G chains and 50 links to a stake, his corner; thcnco as his line S 2 degrees MO minutes W 5 elm ins and 50 litdcs to a stake, William Weaver's corner; thence as his line S 71 degrees W G chains and 75 links to a stake, John Parker’s corner; thence as his line N 82 degrees W 77 chains and 50 links to a black gam on the bank of Mill Creek; thence down the run of said creek to the beginning, containing 90 3-4 i acres. Being the same land con veyed to Martha A. Weaver, by I deed dated December 21, 1901, re ! corded in Book R No. 9, page 433, office of the Register of Deeds of Johnston county, North Carolina, j This 27 day of January, 1930. W. R. STRICKLAND, Trustee. Jan 31 Feb 7 14 21 JOHNSON-LEWIS WEDDNG. I “Air. and Mrs. Lonnie Lewis an j nounce the marriage of their daughter Dorothy Louise to Mr. | Carl Johnson on Wednesday, the ' twenty-ninth of January nineteen hundred and thirty, at Kightdale, I North Carolina. ! “At home 802 South West | Street, Raleigh, N. C.” j S. «L. Kline of VaJdese in 'Burke 1 county reports 5115 eggs from I a flock of 338 white leghorn' pal lets during December.' The eggs Isold for 50 cents; a dozen making ja gross return of $213 fosr the raioiabh. __ And It Came to Pass— j In the year when Gardner be-' gan to reign in Carolina, the rains fell and the floods arose and hi some portions of Carolina the boll weevil devoured all but a third punt of the cotton of the land. And the hearts of the inhabitants grew : faint within them and they were almost persuaded that man could no longer hope to gain a liveli hood from tilling th^ soil. And many were they who were dis tressed. Now it came to pass that the chief men in Carolina took note! of the condition of affairs, and they set about to help the dis- j consulate ones. And in the mo-nth of January, the first month of the second year of Gardner’s reign, it was noised abroad in the pro vince of Johnston that certain of the learned men from Raleigh would come down and sup with j some of the elders and tell them ! hew they could make more talents 1 from their crops in spite of the I ravenous insects, and the inhabi tants heard the saying joyously ' ami awaited the arrival of the' learned men. iNcw when the captain of the hosts of the Co-ops knew that the noted men would come down, •he cast about in his mind to see who would prepare the feast and set food before the distinguished guests and the company of men who were invited. And it was made known unto him that the housewives would do the thing, that they might receive shekels with which to pay the young wo man who tcacheth them the science of cookery, the. gift of stretching a dime into a dollar, and the art of home-.making. And the women got their forces together and pre pared a feast fit for kings, for they said, we will show the visi tors from afar that there is yet bounty in this fair country and that this province is a land which floweth with milk and honey. And all the food they set before the guests had been grown in the pro vince, and of the food not grown in the province was there not any thing served. And the learned men marveled when they saw the bounteous feast and the tables which were a thing of beauty, and no man who rose to speak that evening could refrain from prais-, ing the banquet and paying trib- | utc unto the women who had pro- j pared it. And tiic savory food went pleasantly to the tune of the j fiddle ami other stringed instru ments which furnished musick for the feast. And the learned men spake unto the chief men from the several* oe- ‘ eupations of the province, and , their speeches were messages of hope and cheer and courage. And ' every sower and every man of business there caught a new vision and hope rose within him. And they perceived that by sowing only the purest of seeds and by diligent care of the crops from seedtime to the harvest they could yet have more shekels in the banks and more food for their ta-' bles. And the messages delighted the company of guests and the evening was one of pleasure and1 profit for all. Now there was present at the ’east a "certain ginner by thff mine of (riven, of the tribe ;xf Holland, who is an heavy man and 'at: and ho wcareth a largo hat. \fter the feast was at an end, Holland tarried behind and con versed with his friends and ac quaintances who also were pres ent, and when he was (ready to iepart all the quests had left hut liimself and the friend who stood with him and behold when lie went to get his hut it was gone. Now the only remaining hat was a =,mall one which sat high upon the head of Holland but he needs must wear it, for he feign would not de part from the banquet room hat less, for lie was also a chief speaker in some of the synagogues in hi® country, and any unseemly behavior after a merry feast might arouse the suspicions of his congregations. So he shut, liis eyes to the smiles of his friend, and departed With the hat adorn ing the top of his head. Now the exchange of hats could not have been due to the redness of the wine, for there was nothing to drink served at the feast save milk and fresh juices of fruits, howbeit the banquet was in a pro vince wherein it is said moonshine may be found, notwithstanding the law of the land. •Now some accused one Burgess, a ginner and merchant of the city of Benson, of taking the hat of Holland, and the suspicions oi others rested upon Geddie, eaptair of the Co-ops in the province ol Cumberland, for they are both oi the size of Holland. But the $vi dence is strong against Lib.^o! the tribe of Lee, who was inlro duccd unto the assemblage as tin chaiugioB eorjj grower oj thj whole province, for Lee is small ef statue and doth not require a large hat. But after his achieve ment was made known unto the company of guests and divers of the men who were present had praised him for his success, it probably took the biggest hat in the house for him to wear home. And who can reproach him? Any man who can grow an bun dled and seven bushels of corn upon an acre of ground deserveth all the praise his friends can be stow upon him. And he is a cit izen whom other sowers in the province may take note of, for lie, also, can tell how to make a good living by tilling the soil. SPILONA NEWS FOUR OAKS, Route 4, Jan. 30. —Rev. W. Y. Moore of Benson filled his regular appointment at Hickory Grove .Saturday and Sun lay. Mr. Shepard Lassiter and [fam ily, of Hopewell, spent Sunday afternoon in our section. Mr. Jifni Mcvssengill and mother, rf Hopewell, passed through our section Sunday afternoon. Quite a number of our people attended church at Hopewell Sal-1 ,inlay and Sunday. Mrs. Dallos Byrd, of Piney >ove, spent Saturday night and Sunday with her father and moth- 1 >r, Mr. and Mrs. R. VA. Langdon. Mrs. Walter Langdon spent a while Friday night with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Coats n the Re hobo th section. Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Reardon tnd son, of Hopewell, spent Sun-1 lay afternoon in our community.1 Mr. Willie Byrd and family, of Piney Grove section, spent a virile Sunday night in this sec don. NOTICE OF MORTGAGE SALE! Under and by virtue of the powers and authorities contained in mortgage deed from E. B. Mc Cabe and wife in book 233,i page 115, Registry of Johnston county default having been made in the payment of the debt therein se-j cured we will offer at public sale,! to the highest bidder for cash, j at the courthou.se door in Smith- j field on Saturday, March 1, 1930 at 12 o'clock M. the following lands in Elevation township: “Beginning at an iron stake J. ' C. Beasley and J. G. Dixon cor- ] ner, and runs N 7* E 5.25 chains! to a stake, Mrs. Auriba Johnson's i corner, thence E 3 chains to a stake; thence N 7 chains to an iron stake, formerly a post oak, thence N 81 W 2.45 chains to a dead pine in the Jlorse Pen! Branch, thence up the old run of j said branch about 9.25 chains to! an iron stake, maple called for, thence about N with J. L). Bar-' belts line 12.00 chains to an iron stake, J. D. Barber’s corner, and j thence E 18.77 chains to a stake on the west side of the Reed \ branch, W. L. Lassiter’s corner, thence with the high water S 1 W 2.50 chains, thence S 39 E with the high water mark 5 chains thence S 15 E with the high water mark, 2.88 chains to a stake, thence S 19 chains to a stake, J. <i. Dixon’s line, thence \V 0.77 chains to a stake in the center of lane, thence S 2.77 chains to a stake, J. G. Dixon’s corner, thence W 11.51 chains to the beginning,! containing 57 acres, more- or less, j Oji - tlws property there is--«it-j uate a saw mill and saw mill . projK. i’ty, boiler and engine and j this will be sold separately, ami ' then the machinery will be sold , with the land, in order to receive the highest bid possible for the entire property. This sale will be made subject to a prior conveyance to the At lantic Joint Stock Land Bank. This January 28. 1930. J. J. COATS and BETSY COATS, (Mortgagees, and E. D. JOHN- 1 (SON, Assignee. Jan 31 Feb 7 11 21 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the au thority contained in a judgment >f the Superior court of Johnston county in an action entitled “J. L Cockenham and A. M. Noble, trustee, vs. R. L. Ray," the un ier signed commissioner will offer For sale to the highest bidder for :ash in front o.f the courthouse ioor of Johnston county, North Carolina, on Tuesday, February 25, 1930 at twelve o’clock noon, the following described lot or par cel of land: .Beginning at the intersection of Green and Waddell street's and running S 37* West along the building line of Green street 115 feet to a stake; thence S 53* E 100 feet to a stake, corner of George F. Brietz; thence N 37* West along the lino of the said George F. Brietz, 1-15 feet to Wad dell street, thence N 53 W along the building lino of Wjaddeli street, 100 feet to the point of beginning, and being lets num bers six and seven, as will be seen by reference to the plat of the Selma Graded School property which iis recorded in Plat Book Nio. 1, page 37, in the office of the Register of Pecdg of .fc’jmgto.n FULL Vol. II, No. 2 Copy rijihl 1929 Yirginia-Carolina Chemical C«>r|H«:|itjoii High Analyses Would Save 4 ‘The annual freight bill for mov ing finished fertilizers from factory to consumer is $20,000,000, and bags ! and bagging cost another $15,Q00.- , 000. If we were able arbitrarily to ( double analyses and put into the | hands of the consumer the same Quantity of plant food he is now : buying, the saving on the two items | would be $17,500,000. The consumer ! himself would gain, for he would I haul and handle only half as much | material;E. L. Larison, Ana conda Copper Co. -V-C "Tobacco requires more labor per acre than any other major crop."— j Yearbook of Agriculture. -V-C Cotton in French Africa Cotton-growing in French West Africa Is not without itsdifficuli.ies, but the French government is help- 1 ing to overcome these by doing away with obsolete customs and prac tices. Experiments are being con ducted with grades, irrigation, and new methods. Franco uses HtiR.OOO tons of cotton annually, and some authorities believe French West Africa eventually will supply all of this. But where will they get their V-C? -v-c The seed of Cuba tobacco was intro duced into Florida about lSt-'B by William P. Duval, one of the early civil governors of the territory. -V-C City Visitor—"Why do you go over the potato field with such a heavy roller?" Farmer—‘‘I want to grow mashed potatoes this year."— Flieyende Blaetter, Germany. -V-C "Used Bloom Aid on one of my tobacco plant beds. The plants were earlier, healthier, and had a much better stand. Never had been suc cessful in growing tobacco plants till I used BloomAid."—V. R. Lligh, Drewryville, Pa. Must Make a Profit Every man to his trade. Some men make good farmers, some are cut out for the law. others are no,t ural-born doctors, and so on. Anybody can open a store and buy and sell things—for a while. There is no law against anybody’s trying to be a merchant. But there tire some mighty hard and fust laws against keeping oil being a mer- j chant, and they're not all on the , statute books either. ! These laws are Just as strict as any others. One of them says that. If o merchant, gives away his profits," the sheriff will get him. If bn gives away just port of his profits at. n time, all ho does Is put the sheriff off. V-c dealers, with honest goods at honest prices, have their profits in ! their hands when V-O delivers the fertilizer to them. If they keen these profits, the.v keep on being V-C dealers. If they give these prof its away, even to tlieir best friends, the time will come when the.v can't, survive—and that’s our loss, and you^s, and theirs. -V-C There's an art about grading tobacco. The leaves that BELOKG together must be put together. That kind of grad ing brings the price. Quality Product Needed “We have dealt largely with Quantitative production of cotton, but we need Qualitative production. We must know the right plant food and its proper application, the right seed, the proper cultivation. We have a problem in the Quality of the product.”—I)r. E. C. Brooks. President. North Carolina College of Agriculture. “Georgia tobacco has come to be recognized by manufacturers of ciga rettes and smoking tobacco as a highly desirable type. Highquality tobacco fer i tilizers have played an • nport ant part ; in its production.”—J. Iv. Pc room. Must Meet Quick Changes *‘The time has come for farmers to take stock of their agricultural assets and liabilities, in order to meet the rapidly changing condi tions brought about by the new methods and invent ions of science.” — Du. H. G. Knight, U. .S. Dept, of Agriculture. -V-C Laws Cait’t Re-make Men ‘ Federal legislation can meet but .a few of the difficult farm problems. Farm tuxation is mostly a state and local matter. Standards of living are not subject to legislation. Organi zation of farmers is short of other groups—legislation may encourage but cannot on mewl It, ud.v and re search may suggest better rotation, bei ter livestock, bettor seed, bettor methods, but there is no compul sion. The personal element has al ways been the largest factor of suc cess in agriculture as In everything else. Legislation will not bring suc cess to u farmer who has not the elements of success within him self.”— Congressman Ketcham. --—v-o “Out ok thin air scientists hi 19c’8 captured nearly 1,000,000 tons of plant food nitrogen—directly from the air. which contains an in exhaustible supply. The process re quires* electric power, but cheap electric power is no longer the de termining factor it once was. Recent, developments have solved the power problem.”— The Fertilizer Review “Any industry that believes it has no scientific problem is headed for ob livion."—Exchange. "Used 100 lbs. of V-O Owl Brand under my tobacco with gratifying results. V-C gives color, size, qual ity. The tobacco stays green oil the Way to the bottom until cutting time, and there is no firing of the bottom leaves. Been using V-C 1!> years and have no desire to change.'* — C/A. Hilton, Greenville, Tcnn. ' l no I Nl A •«: M« Oil IS 4 (IIIMICU- Colt I’nil 4't IO> county, and being in the town of Sclnna, Johnston county* North Carol ina. Bidder will be required tu de posit ten i>er cent of his. bid on Jay of sale. jThi'S January 25, 1030. A. M. NOBLE, Commissioner. Jan 111 Feb 7 11 21 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of the powers of sale in a mortgage deed executed on the 7 day of August l‘J'28 by Maude Smith and hus band. \V. II. Smith, recorded in Bock 233 at page 230 in the of fice of Register of Deeds of John ston county, the conditions of said mortgage not having been com plied with and raid mortgage deed and debt, secured -thereby, having been duly transferred and assign ed tu the undersigned, 1 \n ill of fer for sale at. public auction for cash -at the Courthouse door, ' of Johnston county on Friday, Feb ruary 28, 11)30 at 12 o'clock noon the following described real es tate, to-wit: Fir-t Tract: Beginning at Del man Massengi.ll’s corner on the East side of Main Street, runs, on said Street S 150 feet; thence F 1 50 tfeet to A. *B. Adams’ and Dalton Lee’s corner; thence X 150 feet to Dolman MassciigiU's and \Y. II. Lee’s corner; thence West to the beginning, containing one-half (Va) acres, more " or less. Second Tract: Beginning at a stake corner of A. B. Adams’* lot, and runs with Baker Street about N 1-10 feet to a stake, corner of B. K. Barbour’s lot; thence about \Y 150 feet to a stake; thence about S 110 feet to t he corner .of A. B. Adams’ and J. E. Barbour’s corner; thence about 150 feet with A. B.' A clams ’ line. A deposit of 10 per cent, ant.II be required of the hig^hes-t bidder* in day of .sale. This 27 day of January, lfJ30. 1 >. F. PUEDIN, Transferee of (Mortgagee. HIGHWAY COMMISSION OB I Ft I S TO DUMP HEAP This is notice to any and all persons that the Johnston County Highway Commission objects to the dumping of refuse, etc., on!** and in the immediate vicinity of the public road across Buffalo just north of the town of Smithfield. Please observe this notice and make it. unnecessary for the High way Commission to take further action. JOHNSTON COUNTY HIGHWAY ( OMMIS,SION, 10. A. Johnson, . Chairman. JOIN OUR. CHRISTMAS CLUB ^ TO "DAY/ \ | i The First Deposit Heads the Slaltvarl Old Craft in Your Direction Each subsequent Deposit keeps it on the way IT IS 1)1 K l\ P()HT HIT ORF, CHRISTMAS Everybody, Adults and Children, If elcotne to Join RESOURCES: Loans ami Dis counts __i__$128,081.68 U. S. Bonds .. - 70,238.00 Cash on hand and duue from banks 148,550.10 Other resources 14,010.81 Total _$368,083.71 Farmers Bank & Trust Co. SMITHI'IELD, N. C., LIABILITIES Capital stock.., $ 20,000.00 Surplus __ 12,000.00 Undivided pro fits - 952.85 Reserved and un earned interest ...1,079.49 Deposits - 333,451.37'’ : s per cent mviuenu paia uunng me year l'JZ'J Total __$368,083.71
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