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VOL. 2(>. SMITHFIELD. N.C., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 13, 11)07. NO. 28.
SUPERIOR COURT PROCEEDINGS, I
Several Cases Taken Up and Disposed
of?Some Pay Fines and Some
Must Work Roads.
The September term of John
ston Couuty Superior Court con
vened here Monday morning with
Judge B. F. Long, presiding and
Solicitor Armisteaci donee prose
cuting on the part of tne State.
The following grand jury was
drawn and sworu in: Will H.
McCullere, Foreman, Iredell Bat
ten, D. W. Glover, W. H, Martin,
G. R. Standi, Kirkman Creech,
J. W. Wellons, A. J. Whitley,
Nathan McLam, Ed. A. Holt, J.
H. Easom, W. R. Radford, J. H.
Alford, Hardy Ballance, d. S.
Benson, Walter Wood all, W. P.
Benson and W. 1>. Andersou.
John T. Avera was appointed
officer of the grand-jury.
After the Judge s charge to the
grand-jury the criminal docket
was taken up and disposed of as
follows:
Claude and Sam Dublin plead
guilty to an affray and were fined
$25 each and costs.
Chas. Smith, M. D. Smith and
A. W. Hodges plead guilty to an
assault with a deadly weapon.
Al. D. Smith was fined $20 and
each of the other $10, and the
costs divided equally among the
three.
Less Creech plead guitly to the
charge of carrying concealed
weapon and was lined $25 and
costs.
The case againBt Kichard Cook,
charged with manslaughter was!
continued on account of sickness i
of counsel and defendant requiied \
to give bond of $1,000.00.
Anthony lioylan was found
guilty of selling liquor without
license. iNot yet sentenced.
George Powell was charged
with an assault with deadly
weapon. He waived bill and
plead guilty. The judgment of
court was that Powell pay the
costs and pay J. E. itkinson,
mortgagee, $20 now, $50 at the
December term aud $30 at the
March term 1908.
Ottie Tyson plead guilty to re
tailing without license. No sent
ence yet passed.
in the case of N. G. Rains
charged with an aseault with
deadly weapon, defendant plead
guilty. Judgment was suspend
ed upon the payment of cost and
good behavior.
George Richardson, Dug Smith
and Thomas Shuford were tried
on a charge of robbery. They
were found guilty and each was
sentenced to 14 months in county
jail and to be assigued by the
County Commissioners to work
on the roads.
FranlT Johnson, Alias Joe
Branch, was fined $5 and cost for
carrying concealed weapon.
\V. A. Messer was fined $20 aud
costs for resisting an officer.
Jim I'artin and Walter demons
were charged with larceny. I'ar
tin plead guilty aud jury returned i
verdict of not guilty as to Walter j
demons. There were two cases i
against I'artin. In one he was
sentenced to work on the roads J
12 months, aud in the other case
10 months to begin at expiration
of first sentence.
Jery Yearns ahd William Stew
art were charged with an affray.
Stewart did not appear but
learns was present and plead
guilty, lie was fined $10 and
cost.
Duffy Goodall plead guilty to
carrying boncealed weapon and
was given two months on roads.
Lonnie Barnes and Ed Gulley
plead guilty to an assault with
deadly weapon. Barnes fined
$20 and cost and Gulley $10 and
cost.
For carrying concealed weapon
Harrv Campbell was given a
sentence of two months.
A fifty dollar fine and costs was
entered against Geo. W. Dorman
who plead guilty of an assault
with deadly weapon.
J. W. Stafford aud lsham Wil
liams were tried for an affray,
verdict not guilty as to Stafford
but guilty as to Williams and
judgment was suspended in pay
ment of costs aud promise of
good behavior.
Jethro Miller was sent to the
roads two months for carrying a
pistol.
Kenly Items.
Mr. C. C. Teague went to Selena
Wednesday night.
Mr. Woodard Morris went to
Wilson Wednesday on business.
Mr. R. E. Hagans, of Wilson,
was here Wednesday on business.
Mr. J. B. Coghill spent last
Friday night with his sister Mrs.
C. E. Teague.
Miss Annie Strickland, of Louis
burg, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. J.
R. Sauls at the Merchants Hotel.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Kirby and
Miss Gladys Kirbv are attending
the Jamestown Exposition this
week.
_ _
Mr. Z. \ . Snipes, who has been
confined to hie room for several
days, was able to get out Wed
nesday.
Miss Ora Hooks left Monday
morning for the northern mar
kets to^purchase her fall stock of
millinery.
Miss Hena Edgerton, primary
teacher of Kenly Academy, ar
rived last Friday to take up her
school duties.
Mies Myrtle Grady, who has
been visiting her brother, Dr. J.
CrGrady, left Wednesday morn
ing for Seven Springs.
We are very sorry to report;
that Mrs. It. T. Renfrow is quite
sick, and her many friends nope
for her a 6peedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. K. W. Coghill, of
Henderson, arrived Tuesday
night and are visiting their
daughter, Mrs C. C. Teague.
Rev. It. W. Horrell, pastor of
the llaptist church here, went to
Wilson and tilled the pulpit of the
First Raptist church Sunday
night.
Capt. T. W. Tilghnian, of Wil
son, General Manager of the Den
nis-Simmons Lumber Co., was
here Wednesday to the delight of
his many friends.
Post Master J. M. Stancil, and
Mr. A. J. Southard, and several
others left Wednesday for Lu- j
cama, to attend the Annual Con
ference of the Free Will Raptist
Church. ?
Messrs. C. W. Edgerton, our
Mayor and A. G. Hooks, our|
Chief of Police, are attending
court this week at Smithtteld, and
we are trying to behave ourselves,
during their abseuce.
Owing to the fact that the
Academy had not been entirely
completed the school did not
open last Tuesday, as expected,
but everything will be ready, ami
school will open next Monday.
Mr. Thomas Huftin Ward, who
lived about one mile North of
this place, died suddenly Tuesday
evening, aud was buried at the
family graveyard Wednesday af
ternoon. lie leaves a devoted
wife and several children to
mourn hie loss.
Mr. Leland Grady, who has
beeu the popular drug clerk for,
the Hood Drug Co.. for the past
two years left last Friday, for J
Seven Springs to spend a few
days with his parents, after which
he will enter a Medical College in
Richmond, Va.
Rev. John T. Jenkins, pastor
of the First baptist church of
Wilson, who has been conducting
a series of meetings here for the
past ten days left Wednesday
morning. Our people have all
been delighted with the able ser- (
mons he has preached during his
stay here.
Mrs. Sallie Hoy kin, mother of
Mr. Lovett Roykin, of this place,
died at her home in Wilson coun
tv. about ten miles north of here,
Monday morning, and was buried
at the Needham Bailey grave
vard Tuesday afternoon. The
funeral services were conducted
by Rev. R. W. Horrell, of Selma.
Mrs Nancy Watson, who lived
near Hawley & Revel's store, in
Wilson county, died Tuesday j
evening, and was buried at the
family buring ground Wednes
day evening. She has been in
poor health for several years.
She was a sister of Messrs. Jesse
and Gaston Watson of this place.
Kenly, September 11.
Stale News.
Iiev. 1'. 0. Elsorn, of Brevard,
has moved to llaleigh to become
pastor of the Fa.yetteville Street
Baptist church.
Kev. YV. F. Fry has resigned as
pastor of the First Baptist
church in Gohlsboro and will ac
cept a pastorate iu Texas.
I'rof. .f. Allen Holt, wtio has
auuounced his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination in the
Fifth Congressional District.sajs
he is in the race to win
Early Monday morning light
ning destroyed the hotel at Clev?
land Springs, uear Shelby and a
white woman aud two colored
women were burned to death.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan
will speak at the North Carolina
State Fair on Thursday, October
17th. Great crowds will be in
Raleigh that day to hear one of
the country's greatest orators.
The Charlotte Observer had a
?$25,000 fire Monday morning.
The third and fourth floors were
completely destroyed. A deaf
and dumb boy sleeping on third
floor was burned to death. It is
not known how the flames were
started.
Improvements at the Soldiers'
Home at Raleigh in the way Q!"
electric lights, within and withoijt
ttie buildings, the dining room
and kitchen for the hospital, will
prove very great conveniences to
ttie inmates, the uumberof whom
is steadily increasing.
James I) Richardson, f irmerly
a Congressman from Tennessee,
but now of Washington, 1). 0.,
will deliver the address at the
laying of the corner stone of the
Masonic Temple at llaleign on
October 16 th. He is head of the
32ud degree Masons iu the
United States.
The first step toward the erec
tion of the handsome new Y. M.
C. A. building at Durham was
enacted Saturday wheu the
ground was broken and the con
tractor has promised that the
progress in building thestructure
will be very rapid. The Y. M. C.
A. in Durham willbeerected from
the efforts of the public-spirited
citizens, who contributed $ 10,000
for this purpose.
Natnan uonathan, a tenant
living on the laud of John Made,
Surry County, killed hie landlord
Saturday morning. Made told
IJonathan that he could not keep |
chickene unleee he kept them
cooped. Hie tenant paid no heed
to thie, eo when hie chickene be
gan to destroy Made'truck patch
he went over to reuionetrate with
Douathan, who tiew into a rage,
went to hie houee, got a ehotguu
and killed Made. Douathan ie in
jail.
There ie very coneiderable vari
ance eayH a Raleigh correepon
dent, in the reporte ae to the
damage done cotton by the
Auguet drought. While mill men
put five per cent, ae their limit, a
number of far mere go much be
yond thie and eay 10 to 15 per
cent. One mill man eaid he
thought that 10 per cent, would
fully cover it. It ie unqueetiona
ble that the drought did damage,
and the poorer the cultivation,
the greater amount of damage
done.
The Raleigh correepondent of
the Wilmington Star save that a
negro named Guilford Todd wae
placed in jail at Raleigh Monday
for ehooting up a train on the
Norfolk & Southern near Wendell
Saturday. He went in the white
car and when the conductor tried
to put him out pulled hie pietol
and fired right and left. The
conductor fled, but at Wendell
the police and citizene captured
Todd after he had tried to kill
the chief who had a very narrow
eecape. A negro named Debnam
wae arreeted because he wae sup
porting Todd and was putting
up a fight.
Every bottle warranted, but'
not one returned, is the report
regarding Dr. Seth Arnold's j
Halsam (the be?.* Summer Rem i
dy) from a large number of Drug
gists in the South. This Bal
sam is warranted to you by
Hood Bros.
Clayton News.
Mrs. .Ins L. Kllis and children
h ive returned from a visit to rela
tives in the country.
Miss Swannanoa llorneleft last
! Tuesday to resume her studies at
the Baptist I 'niversity.
Mrs W. I. Whitley and chil
dren are visiting relatives and
lyiends in Seluia this week.
Miss Debnatn, of near Zsbulon,
has secured a position as sales
I lady with the Clayton Millinery!
Co.
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urs. i.uru i urrouanu ,\ir. .tesse
La v ton were married at the
borne of the bride at the cotton
mill, Sunday afternoon.
Misses Ella and Catharine Gul
ley have been visiting relatives
here returning to their home in
Goldsboro Wednesday.
Mrs. 1). H. licCullera and chil
dren have returned from a visit
to relatives in Virginia and a
short stay at J arnestown.
Mr. Parkinson, formerly with
the Clayton Mfg. Co. here, but
now with a lumber concern at
j Pmladelphia is visiting here.
Misses Winona Massey and
Mary Carter left Tuesday for
Abingdon, Va., where they will
enter Stonewall Jackson College
Messrs. llwight Barbour, Oscar
Cason and George U. Baucum
left Tuesday for the University
where they will begin their second
year.
Mr. Hunter Hales, general
mauager of the Telephone Co., of
L juisburg, spent a few days re
cently with his uncle, Mr. A. T.
Beddiugfield.
Mr. Finch, of Nash county, has
been visiting his brother Mr. S.
M. Finch. Mr. Finch says Clay
ton has the reputation of being
the beet cotton market in several
counties.
Clayton High school opened
Monday, September 2, with fine
prospects. There are registered
now 150 pupils, the music class
having the biggest enrollment in
the history of the school.
Mrs. Sallie Cole, altera months
visit to her sister, Mrs. M.G.Gul
ley, has returned to her home in
Cary. She was accompanied home
by Miss lone Gulley who spent
Saturday and Sunday there.
There was an o!d farmer who j
lives 7 miles in the country in
attendance at the Methodist
church last Sunday, to hear the
great preacher from Raleigh, who j
thinks he was honored above all
the rest of the congregation, be
cause he was seated along with
the next Governor of North Caro- j
lina.
Sept. 11. Yelib.
Smitbtown Blockaders Go to the Pen
In the Federal Court at Greens
boro last week J udge Boyd sen- j
teuced seven of the Smitbtown
blockaders to the Federal prison
at Atlanta and one, a boy, was
sent to the reformatory in Wash
ington. The boy is Uscar Wil
liams and he gets 15 months in
the reformatory. John I). Wil
liams got 15 months, John Grif
fin a year, Long Chambers lb
months, Jas. Sheltonll months,
John Young 18 months, Oscar
Smith a year and Davis Nelson
13 months, all in the Federal
prison at Atlanta, and in addition
to the imprisonment a fine of
$100 was imposed in each case.
John Williams, retailing, was:
recognized under a bond of $200
for his appearance at the next
term of Federal Court. Judge 1
Boyd exacted of him a promise
to tell all the other parties near
Smithtown of what had befallen
those who were tried here and 1
warn them to obey the law.? j
Statesville Landmark.
The Touch That Heals
Is tbe touch of Bucklen's Ar- ,
nica Salve. It's the happiest
combination of Arnica flowers
and healing balsams ever com
pounded. No matter how old
the sore or ulcer is, this Salve
will cure it. For burns, scalds,
cuts, wounds or piles, it has no
equal. Guaranteed by Hood |
Bros., druggists. 25c. \
Dispensary News.
It is said a farmer from Beu
lah township weut to Selma last
Friday aud sold a load of tobac
co after which he decided to visit
the dispensary at l'ine Level. He
had abou t forty dollars in money '
He was soon druuk aud by Suu-j
day was so over powered by
drink that he was going through
the couutry and tramping the
roads near Micro like a crazy!
mau with his hat lost aud his1
horse and cart left behind some
where. On Monday evening he
arrived in Micro with his horse |
ana a piece of one of the cart j
shafts hanging to the harness.
He was kept in the guard house |
that night and Tuesday morning
the cart which had been found!
was repaired and he started
without au.v mouey for his home
where his wife and children had
been by themselves for several
days. It is thought the horse he
drove had been without feed and
water a good part of the time.
Two white men and one negro
went from the Micro neighbor-1
hood last week to Pine Level and !
on their return stopped at what
is getting to be a well known cider!
stand a little over a mile from
Micro. The negro was notified (
not to interfere with anything
which happened and one 6f the
white men made a great war on
the other. He cut his coat in a!
number of places and cut one
gash on the head after which he
changed ends with his knife and
beat him over the head with the
big end of the knife at* much as
he desired. Loud cursing and
obscene language was heard dur
ing the time
Late Saturday another man
who was thought to be returning
from the dispensary stopped at
this cider stand and cut about a
three inch gash on a negro's head
with a cart round.
Two Beulah township farmers
made a visit to the dispensary
each having with him a mule and
buggv and a boy to look after
things. The boys were about ?
twelve years old, one a sou and |
the other a step eon of the drunk
ards. It is said they rau their j
mules iu the road and did not!
turn out for anybody. When
they met anybody they would
yell out "git out of the road." ?
A jug could easily be seen in each
buggy. They stopped in Micro
and gave the citizens some enter
tainment. One of them wallowed |
on the ground and rolled around
for a while. He rolled up his
sleaves to try to fight but was 1
too drunk. His partner was not
quite so drunk but was reeling 1
and staggering around. He was
trying to get the drunkest man i
off home but it was hard to do.
When they got together they ,
were so drunk they butted each
other in the face.
Words of Daniel Webster.
If we work upon marble, it will
perish; if we work upon brass,
time will efface it; if we rear tern
pies, they will crumble into dust; (
but if we work upon our immortal
minds, if we imbue them with
principles?with the just fear of
Hod and our fellow man?we en
grave on those tablets something
which will brighten to all eternity. '
?Daniel Webster.
Warehouse at Selma.
Selma, N.C., September 11th.?
Tuesday morniug a meeting in
the interest of the bonded cotton
warehouse was attended by
prominent farmers. The ware
house plau was explained by Mr.
C. C. Moore. Farmers present ]
spoke favorably of the scheme
and selected a building commit
tee?T. R. Fulghum, chairman;
Chas. Kirby, Chas. Brown, O. P. ,
Rose, W. S. Earp.
The committe will select a site ,
for the building.
At 2:00 p. m., Mr. Moore spoke
to a large crowd of farmers and
encouraged them in their move
to build a cotton warehouse at
Princeton. The leading farmers 1
and all merchants of the place 1
are interested in the move. A i
$I0,00t) company will be organ- \
ized. The finance committee are
(ieorge If. Woodard, W. J. Mas
eey. A. P. Holt, J.W. Perry, W. |
A. Edwafds.?News and Observer. :
General News.
Frosts in the northwest, affect
ed the wheat market Monday.
Fourteeu Automobilists were
arrested in New York Saturday
for too fast speeding.
Twenty-seven people were killed
in a fire damp exposition in the
Esperauzas mines in Mexico Sat
urday.
The Berkley (Va.) Ice Works
were destroyed bv tire Monday
with a loss of $50,000 and insur
$ 17.0(H).
Miss Melinda Brett died at
Goochland, Ya., Saturday, aged
102 She had never seen a rail
road train.
Several features made things
dull on the New York Stock Ex
chaige Monday, among them the
Jewish holiday.
Hleven persons were killed and
many injured in a peculiar wreck
on the Chicago, ltock Island and
Pacific Railroad Friday, near
Norris, Iowa.
Miss Agnes llapperset, aged
80, was killed by a train in Penn
sylvania Saturday. She was
deaf and did not hear the ap
proaching engine.
Race trouble is feared at Burs
ville, Ya., where Allen Yaughan,
a negro, is under arrest for shoot
lug and wounding three white
men while they were on their way
to church on Sunday.
Because oue of their number
was ejected from a train, a band
of Tennessee mountaineers stop
ped a passenger train Monday
and Dad a pitched battle with
the conductor and crew.
The census Bureau reports that
there have been ginned of the
1907 crop' of cotton 191,410
bales against 407,551 bales for
the same period in 1900; the
Bureau of Statistics reports that
the growing crop, deteriorated
over two per cent, up to August
25 th.
Last Sunday morning Mr. 11.
Q. Hayes and Mrs. Mary Thain
drove up to the home of Squire
J. B. Mozingo, in Bentonsville
township and stated that they
wanted to get married. Squire
Mozingo hastily tied the knot
and they went on their way re
joicing
The Canadian Government an
ticipates that it will have to
apologize to Japan and pay in
demnities to Japanese for at
tacks on the Asiatic stores on
Saturday night; the London
government was not surprised
at the outbreak and regards the
situation as a delicate one.
News has arrived at far north
Canadian points that the Anglo
American Arctic expedition has
come to grief after being in the
frozen north for two vears; their
ship, the Schooner Duchess, of
Bedford, was wrecked in the ice,
and some members of the expedi
tion will probably never be heard
of again.
At Van Couver, British Colum
bia, serious anti-Japanese and
Chinese rioting has occurred aDd
further trouble is expected; Brit
ish subjects attacked and demol
ished fifty stores belonging to
Asiatics and many men were in
jured; the Asiatics are buying
arms and amunition and troops
will probably be called out.
Marriage in Ingrains.
On Wednesday night, Septem
ber 11, Mr. James H. Moore and
Miss Millie E. Adams were mar
ried, Elder L P. Adams, officia
ting. The attendants were Jesse
West with Miss Susan Lee, Char
ley Stanley with Miss Alice Webb,
E. I). Adams with Miss Florence
Lee, Ferney King with Miss Es
ther A. Strickland, J. F. Black
man with Miss Mancie Creech,
David V. Adams with Miss Mea
die Dunn. Music was furnished
by Mrs. Emma D. Creech. X.
Lost and Found.
Lost, between 9.30 p.m , yts
terday and noon to-day, a bilious
attack, with nausea and sick
headache. This loss was oe
jasioned by finding at Hood
Bros.' a box of Dr. King's New
Life Pills Guaranteed for bil
iousness, malaria and jaundice.
25c.