VOL 32
SMITHFIELD, N. C., FRIDAY, MAY 16, 1913
Number 7
WANT RELIEF FROM
VIOLATORS OF LAW
To the General public in Johnston
County:
I have been getting several letters
■within the last 60 days, not signed
by any one, stating that liquors and
beer are being sold in the County
to the distress and suffering of wives
and other women [and children. The
last letter comes from some where in
O’Neals township, stating that the
beer shops are near Godwin’s old
mill, and around Stilley’s cross roads
That Saturdays and Sundays [are the
principal days of sale.
These letters ought to be signed
by the persons who; send them.
My duty as Solicitor of the Re
corders Court [Is to prosecute all per
sons who violate the law, but 11 can
not prosecute when I have no wit
nesses from whom to get sufficient
evidence. I am ready, willing and
waiting to prosecute any violator of
the law, without fear or favor, if
the evidence is furnished me.
The purpose of this letter in the
paper is to answer these unsigned
letters. |
I have shown one of these letters
to Sheriff Grimes as the letter indi
cated, but Sheriff Grimes cannot act
unless he ilasr Anformat.tnr. cMruwe
who write these letters come to see
me at my office and also come to
see Sheriff Grimes, and give the in
formation direct, so that the law can
be enforced. The last letter was
written May 12, 1913. ]
Very Respectfully,
JOHN A. NARRON.)
Solicitor of the Recorders Court.
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SUPERIOR COURT.
Johnston County Superior Court
for civil actions only convened here
Monday with Judge Frank Carter, of
Asheville, presiding. Judge Carter
was here at the March! Term and
made a very favorable Impression on
the people as a business-like jud^i
who knows how to dispatch business
and save the county money. This is
the impression wherever he goes and
the term here this week is no excep
tion.
Quite a number of cases have been
tried. The time of the court was
mostly taken up Monday with the suit
to set aside the will of the late Jesse
S.(Starling, who committed suicide a
few weeks ago. They failed to set
the will aside and his property will
go [ as bequeathed in the will made
just before his death.
Tuesday the time was (taken up
with the suit against Charles Creech
who was sued for damages for the
death of L. S. Parrish, who was kill
ed at (Creech’s gin a few years ago,
when the boiler exploded. The jury
answered that (the negligence of the
defendant caused the death of Par
rish! and allowed the administrator of
the estate the sum of $725. The la
mount sued for was $7,500.
ERMA ALICE BURNS. ''
On Tuesday morning, May 13, at
3:40 o’clock, the Death Angel visit
ed the home ofjMr. and Mrs. W. J.
Gordon, at Ivanhoe Cotton Mill, and
bore from it the sweet, pure soul of
their little grand-daughter, Erma Alice
Burns. She made her stay on earth
exactly eight months. She had al
ways been delicate, but for the past
four weeks grew much weaker. All
that a devoted mother, grand-parents,
other loved ones and kind friends
could do to prolong the little one’s
life was done, but God, in His all
wise power and goodness, saw fit to
take the little soul to its Haven of
Rest. She leaves a fondmother, Mrs.
Lilias Gordon Burns, and a little sis
ter to mourn their loss. Especially
has the mother our sympathy, having
been left a widow only three months
ago.
A short service was held at the
home by the pastor of the family,
Rev. T. H. Spence, after which [the
little body w'as taken to Salisbury for
interment beside the child’s father,
Mr.|J. J. Burns, and little brother an
} A FRIEND.
COL. OSBORN TO
STOP BLOCKADING
Washington, Mayj 10.—Commission'
er of Internal Revenue W. H. Osborn
told the Daily News correspondent
tonight that he is working on plans
which he will put in operation short
ly that will drive1 every ‘‘moonshiner’1
out of North Carolina. The commis
sioner said he 13 positive this can be
done and that he will do so if it
takes every revenue officer in the
service to accomplish his purpose.
“The state of North Carolina by
some thirty to forty thousand majori
ty has decreed | that the state shall
be dry,” said the colonel. [ “The Webb
law and the search and seizure mea
sure are doing excellent work .The
federal government [will do its part
and will see to it that no whiskey is
distilled within the borders of the
state.” |
Col. Osborn is not ready to go in
to detail as to, his proposed plans. He
expects, however, in addition to send
ing additional-'men | into the state to
help drive the moonshiner out, to
have the cooperation of the sheriffs
of the counties in which illicit dis
tilleries now thrive. Col. Osborn
says he had been told that more il
licit distilleries were destroyed in
North Carolina last year than there
were licensed distilleries in the entire
United States. “Twice that number
will be destroyed this year.’’ said
the colonel. “I believe before if.be.«nf
cpi*’ itAve- jear. cffere* will not be a block
ader in North Carolina.’ ’
Commissioner Osborn will try his
plan in his native state first, but he
will not stop there. His plan is to
stamp out the moonshiner from one
end of the country to the other.—
Greensboro News.
LAKE JUNALUSKA
ASSEMBLY GROUNDS
Waynesville, N. C., May 14.—'Lake
Tuiut.^.va in the name by which the
Southern Railway station, three miles
east of Waynesville, formerly called
Tuscola, the station for the Southern
Assembly grounds, will hereafter be
known and at this point a commod
iuos passenger station is being erect
ed by the Southern Railway. It will
oe completed by June 1st.
The Southern Assembly, a church
wide movement of the Methodist Ep
iscopal Church, South, and affiliated
organizations, has purchased a tract
of 1,200 acres and has constructed a
lake which will have an area of 252
acres, an auditorium with a seating
capacity of 4,500, a hotel with 125
rooms, and nine miles of graded
driveways. It;is expected that many
private residences will also be built
on the property. The purpose of the
development is to provide a meeting
place for Methodist conventions and
kindred bodies and a large number
of people will doubtless visit this
point each season.
The new passenger station which
the Southern Railway is erecting will
provide ample facilities and will have
all modern conveniences, an arrang
ment having been made to secure
water from the Assembly’s plant. A
Supiois joj non-il e ‘.W.weApip peAud
equipments used in excursions, and
a small freight depot are also in
cluded in the improvement.
briggs-barnes.
Miss Hattie W. Briggs, of this city
and Mr. H. M. Barnes, Jr., of Smith
field, N. C., were married this morn
ing [at 10 o’clock at the home of the
bride’s parents on j South Harvin
Street.
Miss Briggs has made her home in
this city for the past year and Mr.
Barnes was formerly a resident here,
when [Tie managed the business of the
Royall Woolen Mills.
Only [a few' friends and relatives of
the happy young couple witnessed the
ceremony, which was performed by
Rev. J. p. Marion. Immediately after
its conclusion Mr. and Mrs. Barnes
left for Spartanburg, S.C. their future
home, where Mr. Barnes is manager
of a clothing establishment.
Mr. and Mrs. R. f. Hyman accom
panied them, Mrs. Hyman being a
sister of the bride.—Sumter , S. C.)
Item,[May 6th.
AT THE CAPITAL
OF BANNER
j Benson, May 15.—Mr. and Mrs. M.
| T. Britt and son DeLeon and Henry
Slocumb spent Sunday at Clinton.
I There, were services at the Baptist
j church Sunday morning and evening
by the pastor, Rev. J. M. Duncan.
Mr. Paul Davis a senior at .the
A. and M. College spent Sunday in
town with relatives.
I There were services at the Primi
tive church Sunday by Elder J. R.
Jones and J. T. Coats.
Mrs. Lucy Canaday left Saturday
for Sanford to .visit her son, Mr. J.
C. Canaday.
Mr. Sam Stone returned Wednesday
j from Emporia where he has been
for the past several days.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Rose and
j Misses Mary Cook and Emily Cana*
( day spent Sunday in the Bentons
ville section with relatives. |
There will be an entertainment at
the Graded school building on Friday
night May 23, by the singing class
from J the Oxford Orphanage. Every
one should hear this class.
| There is a revival at the Methodist
church this week conducted by the
! pastor. Rev. G.W . Starling, assisted
by Rev. Geo. B. Starling, of Fayette
Messrs. R. T. Surles, J. R. Barbour,
L. B. Pope, Wade H. Royall and Jas.
E. Wilson attended the Methodist
conference at Four Oaks Monday.
Mr. Henry Holmes, a former
son boy, was married last wreek at
Aulander, N. C. to Miss Mary Hales,
of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Holmes
are now located in Rocky Mount. We
wish for them much happiness in life.
A bill was passed by the last Leg
islature allowing the voters of our
town to vote on a bond issue for
electric light and street improvement. [
Our town is badly in need of both. We
cannot get the proper hustle on us j
till we have good streets and lights.
Our commissioners are all wide j
awake, forseeing business men. We
are sure they will take the matter up
at once and give the. people a vote.
We do not believe, there would be a
dozen votes cast against the bond is
sue for these purposes.
Prof. S. C. Garrison, of Lincolnton,
Lincoln County, has been elected
superintendent of the Benson schools
for the ensuing year. Miss Ellen El
dridge, of Smithfield, has been elected
as teacr r for the second grade; Miss
Emily Lanaday of Benson, for the
third and fourth grades; Miss Ruth
Jones, of Smithfield for the fifth and (
sixth grades; Miss Florence Johnson
for music teacher. There are yet to
be secured teachers for the first and
seventh, eighth and ninth grades.
Also teachers for the Expression and
Business departments.
What came near being a ser- (
ious shooting affair occurred at the
home of Dode McLamb last Saturday
night. From the best information
your correspondent could get it seems ,
that “Sonny” McLamb, a son of ,
Dode McLamb, after being forbidden ,
took one of his father’s mules and ,
drove him off. When he returned his ,
father had taken his trunk out of the ■
house and left orders that he should •
not enter his home again. When ,
■ “Sonny” returned he found his
father asleep, but woke him and when ,
1 the father started to get out of j the ;
bed, knocked him down, wwhereupon j
the father got his pistol and in the j
fight shot his son, the ball going
through one leg and ranging down- j
ward in the other leg, lodging in :
the heel. Young McLamb come to .
towrn for medical assistance. j <
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CLAYTON VOTES SCHOOL BONDS. -
Clayton, May 14.—A bond issue of <
$25,000 was carried today in Clayton i
for the erection of a new school j
building.
On the same plot where the school <
building will be erected now stands a ]
new $35,000 Methodist church j
just J about to be dedicated. On on® <
solid block will be these two monu
ments to the coming little city.
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Atlanta Pastor Killed. I
Attica, Kan. May 13.—Rev. R>bt. i
Carlisle, pastor of j the First M<tho* 1
dist church, Atlanta, Ga., was klled ;
and his brother and sister serioisly
injured today when their auto cer
turued, - 98 1
SHERIFF GRIMES
GETS ANOTHER STILL
Sheriff W. F. Grimes, accompanied
byjMessrs. D. T. Lunceford, Bernice
Jones, and Joe Marler, paid a visit
to Bentonsville township yesterday
and brought back another blockade
still. It was near where Mr. W. | T.
Surles formerly lived. It was made
out of tubs soldered together. They
got the worm also—w'hich was hang
i
ing in a tree near by. Twelve bar
rels of beer were poured out. No
whiskey was found. From all ap
pearances the operators were getting
ready to make some of the fiery
juice. No person was found at the
still. This is the second still that
Sheriff Grimes has taken in a month.
THE WEEK’S NEWS
AT FOUR OAKS
Mr. L. C. Barbour spent some time
in Clayton this week.
Mr. Archie Barbour of Baptist Cen
ter Section, is spending a few days
with Mr. Ceph Barbour. |
Messrs. J. W. Sanders, W. J. Lewis
and F. H. Creech and Mesdames J. .
W. Sanders and W. J. Lewis went to j
Smithfield last Sunday.
Mrs. C. C. Creech has returned' tit- v
ter spending sometime with lier moth
er, near Benson.
Mrs. B. B. Benfield has returned
home after spending sometime with
her father near Fayetteville.
Mrs. S. M. Boyetts spent Monday in
Fayetteville.
Messrs. I). H. Sanders and S. W.
Brown, of Four Oaks, tookk a trip,
to Smithfield, Tuesday evening.
Mr. Ernest E. Johnson has purchas
ed the new Drug store. ;
Miss Pearl Baker, of Smithfield, is i
visiting Mr's. J. T. Cole this week. j
Dr. A. J. Smith made a business !
trip to Richmond Saturday, returning
Monday.
Mr. E. F. Boyett, of Smithfield,
was in town on business Wednesday. ,
Atty. J. R. Barbour, of Benson, was ]
,n town Tuesday. | i
Every member of the Baptist Bara-1 j
la Class is requested to be present (
it class | next Sunday morning at1,
LO o’clock sharp. [ 1 <
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Moore and '^
:heir two sons, Fuller and William, 1 j
>f Benson, were in town Tuesday. ,
Oh joy! picnic time has again ,
•eached us. Someone must begin, so ^
lere’s a starter. The Four Oaks Bap- i
dst Sunday school on one day next ,
week will have a real, genuine pic- j
lie, somewhere, somehow. The com.,
nittee appointed to make arrange- ,
nents has been requested to make ,
heir announcement on next Sunday ,
it Sunday school. It will be a Sun- ’ ■
lay school picnic and every member
>f the Sunday school has a most cor
lial invitation to attend. It is rumor
id that the committee, is going to ;
;ive the girls the privilege of invit- (
ng their best fellows and the boys
heir best girls. Anyway, be at Sun
lay school on Sunday morning, strict- ,
y at 10 o'clock and hear the report
)f the committee. Every member of .
iunday school is expected to be .
iresent.
Pour Oaks, N. C.
COMMENCEMENT ORATORS.
Admiral Robert E. Peary the dis
:overer of the North Pole, will de
iver the commencement address at
trinity College on June 4.J I
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant (
Jecretary of the Navy, will deliver (
he commencement address at A. and j
d. College on May 26 at 8:30 P. M. \
William T. Ellis, traveler and
ournallst, will deliver the address at
lavidson College May 27. Mr. Ellis
s one of the great Missionary leaders
if the world.
Dr. Hugh Black, the great New
fork preacher and author will deliver
he address at Wake Forest College
day 22.
P. P. Claxton, United States Com
nissionef of Education, will deliver
he [address at Peace Institute, May
list.
Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall
ivlll deliver the address f at Chapel
rliil June 3rd.
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GET FUNDS TO
FIGHT PAUAGRA
A special from Washington to the
Raleigh News and Observer says:
A resolution by the North Carolina
Medical Society, followed by a letter
from Dr. W. S. Rankin to Congress
man Faison, backed by that Repre
sentative’s efforts, was responsible
for an appropriation of $45,000 by
Congress for the study of pellagra
in the United States by medical
experts. The appropriation was in
eluded in the sundry civil bill
which passed the Senate Wednesday.
The entire measure had been I ve
toed by President Taft, for a rea
son it connected with the pellagra
appropriation, | but came through
the Senate a second time unscathed.
The President is expected to sign
the bill next week.
The resoluiton of the North
Carolina Medical [ Society and the
letter of Dr. Rankin interested Dr.
Faison, who, | in turn, interested
Surgeon General Rupert Blue, of
the United States Public Health Ser
vice and General Blue added his
endorsement to the ( appropriation.
General Blue,1 by the way, is a former
North'Carolinian. The resolution of
The society, as well as Dr. Rankin’s
letter,! was made a part of the record
in the discussion of he item.
Pellagra as a fatal disease lias ap
peared in all but eight states' in the
Union, and there have been 30,000
caselr Of "it in this country in the
last ten yers. Oastff has resulted
in 33 1-3 per cent of the cases.'Dr.
Faison hopes that the study of the
lisease which will be made possible
by the $45,000 donation will result
in the discovery of a certain method
for both its prevention and its cure.
BIG CHURCH
SUIT ENDED
Gape Fear Free Will Baptist Con
'erence has 78 churches in Johnston,
Barnett, Wake, Sampson, iWayne,
Cumberland* and Robeson counties.
Several years ago, Rev. A. B. Crump
er, went to Dunn and other points
n the Conference and preached the
loctrine of sanctification, and it took
l great hold on the Free Will IBap
ists. This resulted in a change In
he Discipline and In having the Con
erence incorporated by the Legisla
te [of North Carolina. As time pass
)d, more and more of the doctrines oi
he sanctification movement were
>rought in until quite a'rebellion was
itarted in the churches against! the
nnovaation. This caused a division
md the question of who should have
he church property came up. Finally
i suit'was entered by the Sanctifica
;ionists for the property. This was
ed by Elders H. W. Jemigan, J. A.
Blaylock, H. H. Goff and others. [On
he other side were the following
preachers and laymen: W. R. Coats,
3. R. Wilson, J. F. Hill, B. C. John
son, J. M. Wilson, D. R. Ennis, !J.
W. Moore, J. S. j Ellis, W. R. Glover,
iV. L. Godwin, | J. F. Casey and
)thers.
The suit which has been on hand
or sometime was decided on April
SO, at Clinton Superior Court, with
fudge M. H. Justice presiding. Mr.
3. S. Abell, of Smithfield, appeared
'or the regular Free Will Baptists
vho won the suit.
BABY STRANGLED TO DEATH.
Richmond, Va., May 13.—Charlie,
he 4-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs
Rarence George, of this city, strangl
id to death this morning during the
nomentary absence of its mother fro;
he room.
The child was asleep in the bed
vhen Mrs. George stepped into the
irard. When she returned she found
the baby had crawled to the foot of
the iron bed and had fallen out of
an opening, its chin catching over a
crossbar, the infant hanging thus sus
pended until it choked to death.
PICNIC NEXT FRIDAY.
We | are requested to announce that
there will be a picnic at Yelvin^ton’s
drove | Friday, May 23rd. Everybody
Invited to attend and bring well fill'
A. B. WILLINGHAM
KILLED BY CAR
I Richmond, Va., May 13.—Andrew
j B. Willingham, buyer for the Amer
ican Tobacco company, with head
quarters here, was fatally injured
j late this afternoon when an auto
mobile In which he and several
! other officials of this company were
! passengers, suddenly turned turtle
while rounding a curve in the road
near the Country club. He died to
night.
Mr. Willingham sustained a frac
ture at the base of the skull and
also concussion of the brain, being
caught funder the car as it wheeled
over. He was taken to St. I Luke’s
hospital, where he died just before
midnight.
He j was well known throughout
the North Carolina tobacco belt.
He married Miss Helen Battle, of
Rocky Mount, three years ago.
Thomas J. Walker, manager for
the American Tobacco company in
j Richmond, was also severely hurt,
though | it is believed he will recover.
He, too, is injured about the head.
Others in the car were Frank P.
Smith, manager of the Federal
Cigar f company, bruised and scratch
ed about body and head; Oscar C.
Gregory, [ formerly of Greenville,
North Carolina; assistant to j Mr.
; Walker, unhurt; J. E. Lipscomb,
American tobacco buyer, of South
Boston, Va., unhurt. All were
thrown from the automobile and it
is regarded as miraculous that more
were uVP.t seriously hurt. Lee Bell,
the white chauffeur, o^Ained | severe
though not fatal injuries. „
Mrs. Willingham, who is in deli
cate health, is prostrated as a result
of the tragedy.
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SELMA NEWS.
Selma, May 15.—Mrs. L. D. Deb*
nam returned home Wednesday from
a visit to relatives in Clayton.
Misses Annie L. Stancil and Alma
C. Stancil, who have been teaching in
Wilson County, came home last week.
| Mr. J. H. Stancil who has a position
with the Princeton Pharmacy Co.,
spent Sunday with his mother here.
! Mrs. W. | A. Creen and little Misfl
Frances have returned from [New
Bern where they visited friends.
1 Messrs. Harry and Herbert Stancil
have begun the erection of a store
on Raiford street which will be built
of cement building blocks.
Rev. J. H. Worley is building a
very nice residence on Pollock street.
! Messrs. R. E. Richardson, F. B.
Whitley, W. T. Kirby and W. H.
Poole, Jr , and wife went to Wendell
last Sunday to attend the funeral 'of
| little Ruffin Biggs, Jr., who was kill
el by a Norfolk and Southern train.|
Dr. R. J. Noble, spent Monday in
Washington, D. C.
The new Trustees of the Selma
graded school met last Friday night
and organized by electing Mr. I. T.
Wood, |Chairman, and Mr. Ira T.
Rains, Secretary. f -
The closing exercises of the Selma
, Graded School will be in the Rough
and Ready Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday nights of next week. The
music class will have a recital Fri
day night of this week, all are in
vited to attend theexercises.
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DEATH IN CLAYTON TOWNSHIP.
Mrs. Mary F. Johnson died last
Saturday night at her home near Lit
le Creek church and was buried Mon
day at the | Barnes burying ground
near her home. She was a daughter
of Mr. \Y. ]L. Johnson and a sister of
Mr. Will H. Johnson, who lives near
here. She was the widow of Mr. Bil
lie Barnes until last winter when
she was married to Mr. Johnson who
survives her.
MAN fell into well ON AN
OTHER MAN.
On Tuesday,!May 13, 3ohn Morgan,
a colored man, was digging a well
at Mr. |W. M. Sanders’ Frost Place.
He had the wlel about eight ;feet
deep when Mr. Fonzo Smith, who was
drawing dirt tor him. stepped ^on a
plank across the well. The plank
broke throws him Into the well on
colored man. No harm was done
the laU.