According to an announcement in the Digital North Carolina Blog :
“Thanks to funding from the State Library of North Carolina’s LSTA Grant and our partner, Johnston County Heritage Center, over five hundred issues from 1911 to 1925 of The Smithfield Herald are now available on our website. These issues expand DigitalNC’s previously digitized issues from 1901 all the way to 1925.”
You can check it out at: https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/additional-smithfield-herald-issues-now-available/