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VOLUME 46—NO. 28
SMITHFIELD, N. C„ FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 6, 1928
$2.00 YEAR—5c SINGLE COPY
Smithfield To
Have Part At
Exposition
Two Beauty Queens And A
Cotton Episode; Three
Other Towns Participating
iSmithfield has two drawing |
cards to the East Carolina
Exposition to be held in Golds
boro next week, two of the
prettiest beauty queens that
will be presented, and one of
the most attractive episodes in
the big pageant to be staged on
the opening day.
Miss Ruth Brooks was chosen
some time ago to represent Smith
field in the senior beauty contest,
and Leah Myatt in the junior con
test, and Smithfield citizens are ex
pected to be on hand in large num
bers Monday to cast their votes
for Mis3 Brooks and little Miss
Myatt. The contest ,is somewhat
different this year. The queens
will be presented on only one day
and' that is the opening day—Mon
day. In the afternoon and again
the evening, the young ladies
wul make their bow to the public,
and at ten o’clock Monday night
the votes will be counted and the
public will know who are the win
ners. The votes are determined by
the regular admission tickets, each
penny spent counting as one vote.
The attendance, therefore, on
Monday afternoon and evening
will determine largely the winners.
In addition to regular admissions
on Monday, the amount taken in
before nine o’clock Monday night
from the sale of tickets to hear
Mary Lewis, one of the big at
tractions of the week, will count
toward the selectiori of the queens.
Miss Ruth Brooks has been sent a
number of these tickets and those
who expect to hear Mary Lewis on
Friday night will help swell the
vote for Smithfield’s queen if they
will purchase their tickets in ad
vance.
Wednesday evening, Mrs. Fran
cis D. Winston of Windsor, in
charge of the pageant to ne staged
on Monday afternoon and evening,
pjras here and saw a dress rehearsal
of the episode to be put on by
Smithfield. “Cotton” has been as
signed to this city, and the mem
bers of the Business and Profes
sional Woman’s club will use a
variation of the cotton wedding
which they gave at the cotton fes
tival here last spring. The cos
tumes are very attractive. There
are about twenty in the episode,
which will be given as the last
number in the afternoon.
The^ pageant will be given in
two parts, in order not to become
tiresome, the second part to be
given in the evening. A moving
picture will be made of the pageant
which will be show in numerous
towns of Eastern Carolina after
the exposition.
Three other towns in Johnston
county besides Smithfield] will
have similar representation at the
exposition—Kenly, Clayton and
Benson. Kenly’s beauty queen is
Miss Frances Godwin; Clayton’s,
Miss Virginia Gillespie, of the
Pythian Home; Benson’s, Miss
Mabel Johnson. Likenesses of
, these young ladies appear else
where in this issue. Miss Ruth
i Brooks’ picture appeared last
week.
Presbyterian Services.
Smithfield Sunday 11 h. m. Ser
mon by pastor. Community at -3
p. m. Oakland, 7:30 p. m. Chris
tian Endeavor and sermon. Public
cordially invited. _
Tantalizer
There are exactly enough let
ters in the line below to spell
the name of a person in Smith
field or Johnston county, and
if the right one deciphers his
name ana will present it to the
Herald office, we will present
him with a free ticket to the
Victory Theatre. Tickets must
be called for before the follow
ing issue
(Miss) Elsie Boyette recog
nised her name last issue.
f Today’s Tantalizer:
menriolae
Group of Beauty Queens To Be At Eastern Carolina Exposition
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MISS FRANCES GODWIN,
Kenly’s Beauty Queen at the Ex
position next week.
MISS VIRGINIA GILLESPIE,
Clayton’s representative in the
Beauty Queens’ Contest at Expo
sition.
MISS MABEL JOHNSON will
represent Benson tin the Beauty
Contest at the Exposition next
week.
W.W. Hare Of Selma
Would Be Sheriff
MR. BARNES HAS FINISHED
PLANTING HIS COTTON
Mr. Hunter Barnes, of Ar
cher Ix>dge section, was in the
city recently. He reports that
he finished planting: cotton
last week.
lohnstonians Visit
East Carolina Towns
W. D. Avera and R. W. San
ders Make Trip to South
port and Wilmington; En
joy Fine Roads
“We are certainly living in a
fast age,” stated Mr. W. D. Avera,
who has just returned from South
port, a distance of 140 miles, the
trip being made there and back, a
total of 280 miles, in something
like sixteen hours. “It would have
taken “old Dobbin” and the cart
a hundred years ago ten to fifteen
days to do it,” declares Mr. Avera.
The things that Mr. Avera saw
on his trip bear out his statement
that we are living in a modern age.
He thinks that farming has kept
pace, certainly in the use of up-to
date farm machinery, with the au
tomobile and the airplane.
Mr. Avera made the trip with
Mr. R. W. Sanders of Clayton, and
they left Smithfield at 6:30 on
Wednesday morning. Upon
reaching Goldsboro they turned on
highway number 40 and passed
through the truck section. He
says that they saw beans, peas, po
tatoes, cucumbers, beets, etc., be
ing worked. They saw farmers
putting out fertilizer, getting ready
to plant cotton. They saw others
planting cotton, and still others
had finished planting. Near War
saw tney saw great neitis oi straw
berries in full bloom. Some of
these were covered with pinestraw
to protect them from frost and
cold. They also saw a lot of paper
bags over tomatoes and cucum
bers. Mr. Avera states that it
looked like a lot of work but no
doubt the price paid for the pro
duce will be worth the extra work
in having it early. “The early
bird gets the worm,” and the far
mers in the truck section seem
willing to hustle and make the sev
eral hundred dollars per acre more
for their trouble.
In regard to his trip Mr. Avera
further writes:
“The land toward Wilmington is
altogether different fro-m our land
—flat and swampy. Creeks and
rivers are more numerous, and the
banks are very close to the water
The leaves from the trees or some
thing dyes the water black, or ver>
dark, which makes it very attrac
tive to the followers of Isaak Wal
ton. We saw a few people out with
poles and fishing tackle.
“We arrived at Wilmington, the
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Present Mayor of Sel
ma Throws His Hat
Into Ring as a Demo
cratic Candidate
SELMA, April 5.—W. W. Hare,
of Selma, has announced himself
as a candidate for sheriff of John
ston county in the Democratic pri- j
mary. ^
Mr. Hare has long; been one of
i the leading business men of Selma, j
having conducted a wholesale gro- j
i eery here for the past twenty
years, and is well and favorably
known throughout the county. He
has always taken a very active part
in both the civic and religious af
fairs of his town and community,1
and at the present time is the 1
mayor of Selma, which office he;
is conducting very efficiently.
When a lad of 18, Mr. Hare en
listed in the United States Army,!
very quickly won promotion, and
at the beginning of the Spanish
American War was commissioned
an officer in which rank he served
his country patriotically and effic
iently.
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DEATH OF MR. F. F. SILER
SELMA, April 5.—After about
ten days’ serious illness which de
veloped into pneumonia, Mr. F. F.
Siler passed away last Thursday,
March 20, at his home in Selma.
Mr. Siler was nearing his 70th
birthday and was an upright and
honest citizen. He was bom in j
Chatham county (but moved to
Johnston county a number of years
ago. He is survived by his widow, '
one son, G. N. Siler, and four j
daughters: Mrs. J. M. Driver of
Selma, Mrs. H. L. Sellers of Smith- !
field, Mrs. Wallace Strickland of
I Pine Level, and Mrs. A. L. Wood- i
I ard of near Princeton. The deceas- *
' ed had been a member of the
! Princeton church for thirty years.
| The funeral was conducted on
will Baptist church in Pine Level
by Rev. S. H. Styron and Rev. H.
R. Faircloth. Interment took place
in the Cogdell Woodard burying
ground near Princeton. Sympathy
is extended to the bereaved family.
MR. N. B. GRANTHAM
UNDERGOES OPERATION
Friends of Mr. N. B. Grantham
will be glad to learn that he is
getting along as nicely as could be
expected after an operation for
mastoiditis Tuesday morning. The
operation was performed at the
Johnston County Hospital, but Dr.
Mackenzie, an ear specialist from
Philadelphia, came here to perform
the operation. While in Smithfield,
| Dr. Mackenzie performed a simi
' lar operation on Miss Cora Chad
wick, one of the student nurses of
the local hospital. She too, is get
ting along nicely.
We spend half our lives in mak
ing mistakes, and waste the poor
remainder in thinking how we
might have avoided them.
Vesper Service Be
Held Next Sunday
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Aeolian Music Club Will Give
Splendid Program at Pres
byterian Church at Five
O’clock
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For a number of years it has
been the custom to hold an Easter
Vesper service in this city, it hav
ing in most instances been spon
sored by the music department of
the Woman’s club. This year the
Aeolian Music club, a new musical
organization, which is taking the
place of the music department of
the Woman's club, is presenting
this Easter vesper service.
The program will be given in the
Presbyterian church next Sunday
afternoon at five o’clock, and the
public is given a cordial invitation
to be present. The program is as
follows:
Hymn No. 180—“All Hail the
Power of Jesus Name”—
Shrubsole—Choir and congre
gation.
Scripture Reading—Rev. D. E.
Ffirnhardt.
Invocation—Rev. S. L. Morgan.
Anthem—“Open the Gates of
the Temple”—Mrs. Jos. F.
Knapp—Ghoir.
Solo—Selected—Mr. A. M. Ca
lais.
Anthem—“Hosanna”—Granier—
Choir.
Hymn No. 156—“Christ The
Lord Is Risen Today”—David
ica—Choir and congregation.
Duet—“Forever With the Lord”
—Gounod—Messrs. Dwight
and Theron Johnson.
Hymn No. 169—“Look Ye
Saints”—.Smart—Choir and
congregation.
Anthem—“Day Is Dying in the
West”—Oley Speaks—Choir.
Benediction—Rev. Chester Alex
ander.
POUND PREACHER AT
YELVINGTON’S GROVE
Last Sunday morning, April 1,
the children of Yelvington's Grove
school pounded Rev. W. A. Hales,
who conducted service at the
school house. An appropriate pro
gram was given by the children,
after which they presented their
gifts to the preacher. Rev. Mr.
Hales states that this is the first
time he has received a pounding,
and he was very much pleased
with the thoughtfulness of these
young people as well as their gen
erous packages.
Those who participated in the
pounding were as follows: Robert
Hill, Eva Lane, John Louis Staf
ford, Aaron Hamilton, Winnie
Stallings, Lola May Hughes, Mar
garet Lane, Ersaleen Creech, W.
R. Hill, Jr., Malcolm Hill, Agnes
Stallings, Myrtle Hamilton, Ada
Hughes, Goldie Daughtry, Mildred
Lane, Rosemond Mitchell, Effie
Hughes, Vick Branch, Mozelle
Branch, Marguerite Hamilton, Etta
Peedin, Henry Edwards, Nona Hill,
Virginia Stafford', Robert Mitchell,
Herman Creech and Elizabeth Pen
dergraph.
Ten Rosenwald
Schools In County
Johnston County Presents
Rugs Made In Rosenwald
School to Julius Rosenwald
At School Dedication in
Wake County
Johnston county had a part, even i
though small, in welcoming Julius |
Rosenwald, of Chicago, the great j
Jew philanthropist, to North Caro
lina this week when a knitted wool
rug made in a Johnston county
Rosenwald school was presented
this benefactor of the negro race.
The occasion for Mr. Rosenwald’s
visit to this state was the dedica
tion of the Berry O’Kelly Training
school for negroes at Method in
Wake county, this being the four
thousandth Rosenwald school to be
built in fourteen states of the
south, and it was at this dedicaion
that the rug was presented. Mr. N.
C. Newbold, State Director of Ne- j
gro Education, tendered the gift |
to which the following words were
attached:
4‘In appreciation of your grand,
noble and Christ-like spirit which
you have demonstrated in the in
terest of negi*o education through
out the world and especially what
your generosity has meant to the
negro schools of Johnston county,
North Carolina, we, the school
principals, teachers and the super
j visor of rural schools, wish to
present to you this little specimen
which represents the type of in
dustrial work which we are en
deavoring to put over in our
schools. This article was made in
a Rosenwald school. Our purpose
is to do effectively the work as
signed us.”
| Thp gift was the suggestion of
1 the rural supervisor of negro
I schools of Johnston county, Mrs.
1 Laura J. A. King, and she receiv
ed the personal thanks of Mr. Ros
enwald who declared he was go
ing to take the rug to Mrs. Ros
enwald.
The dedication of the school at
Method took place Wednesday in
the auditorium of the new school
and white educators over the state
as well as negro boys and girls,
and men and women, wore present
to do honor to the man who has
done so much for the education of
an under-privileged race. W. F.
Credle, North Carolina supervisor
of the Rosenwald Fund, told the
history of the Rosenwald schools
of this state. There are now' 656 of
these school buildings in North
Carolina, Mr. Rosenwald’s contri
butions amounting to $549,000. The
negroes themselves have invested
$590,000, and the state has done the
rest.
In Johnston county, there are
ten Rosenwald schools, and the
eleventh is to built at Four Oaks
in the near future. The other ten
schools in this countv are Prince
ton, Wilson’s Mills, Short Journey,
Ransom’s Academy, Pineville,
Johnston County Training School
at Smithfield, Reedy Branch, Clay
ton, Kenly, and Stony Hill.
In addition to the exexvises on
Wednesday morning at which Mr.
Rosenwald made a speech, a ses
sion of the state-wide conference
on negro education, health and
welfare, was held at Shaw Uni
vei’sity in the afternoon at 2:30
o’clock. County Superintendent H.
B. Marrow and Mr. W. G. Wilson,
chairman of the County Board of
Education were present at this
conference.
VISITS SANDHILLS IN
PEACH BLOSSOM TIME
SELMA, April 5.—Mr. M. J.
Cameron visited his mother at his
old home in the Sandhill section
I last week. He says the peach trees
were never more beautiful and
! give promise of a beautiful crop.
| The growers are not afraid of
over-production as many new mar
! kets have been found for the
luscious North Carolina peaches.
Woman’® Club To Meet
Selma, April B.—A very impor
tant business meeting of the Selma
Woman’s club will be held on Wed
nesday afternoon, April 11 at three
o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. D.
Massey on Massey street. Mrs. F.
M. Waters, Mrs. J. S. Flowe and
Mrs. Massey will be hostesses on
this occasion. Members are urged
to be present.
Much Interest In
Location Of Road
State Highway Com
missioners Conduct
Hearing In Regard
to Road To Pass
Through Northern
Johnston
State Highway Commissioner C.
R. Wheatley, of Beaufort, of the
Third District, and Commissioner
James Sprunt Hill, of Durham, of
the Fourth District, were in
Smithfield Tuesday to investigate
the three proposed routes of the
Henderson-Clinton highway
through Johnston county. The
hearing was set for two o'clock in
the afternoon and by that time
quite a number of interested citi
***-•*« “w" ui uuiiusiun county
but from Wake and other counties
affected by the Henderson-Clinton
highway had filled the courtroom
to hear the presentation of the
three routes under consideration.
A huge map was used to show
the exact location of these routes,
the upper route being designated
as the Red Road, the lower route
as the Green Road, and the middle
route as the Yellow Road. The
Red Road goes from Selana to Wen
dell by Thanksgiving and is 17.47
miles in length. Of this distance,
16.06 miles are in Johnston, and
I. 41 miles, in Wake. The Yellow or
central road follows the upper
route to Thanksgiving and then
straight to Zebulon by Corinth
Holders school, being a distance of
10.84 miles, 17.42 miles of which
are in Johnston and 2.42 miles in
Wake. The Green line or lower
road, starts froril a point between
Micro and Kenly and goes to Zeb
ulon, a distance of 19.319 miles,
17.042 being in Johnston and 2.277
in Wake.
Mr. Wheatley called the mass
meeting, and he presided over the
hearing. The locating engineer of
the State Highway Commission,
Mr. Browning, was also here. There
were a number of speeches made
in favor, of each road, J. D. Par
ker of this city and J. H. Pou of
Raleigh representing the Upper
Road; J. A. Wellons and J. A.
Narron for the Central route, and
J. W. Bunn of Raleigh and Dr. Mi
Hinnant of Micro, for the Lower i
route. The Highway Commission !
reserved its decision until a later i
time.
The southern end of the road j
which begins near the overhead j
bridge near Holt Lake and goes
to the Sampson county line by j
Newton Grove, will be in the next
letting of projects by the State:
Highway Commission. This road
will not be hard surfaced but will
be perhaps tar treated.
VIR. MANN VISITS JOHNSTON
COUNTY SCHOOLS
Mr. M. G. Mann, general field
manager of the North Carolina
Cotton Growers Association, spent
Tuesday in Johnston county pre
senting the cooperative marketing
essay contest in some of the
schools. Mr. John A. Smith, county
field representative, accompanied
him to four schools as follows:
Wilson’s Mills, Princeton, Four
Oaks, and Meadow. Three schools
in the county have announced that
every member of their high school
will enter this contest. These are:
Wilson’s Mills, Princeton and
Smithfield.
MR. C. W. LINDSAY SECONDS
NOMINATION WOMAN TICKET
Mr. C. W. Lindsay, one of
Smithfield’s oldest citizens,
read with interest the Woman
Voter’s county ticket in our
last issue and states that he
seconds her nomination.
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J. C. STANCH, RECEIVES
HIS COMMISSION
Mr. J. C. Stancil, who has been
acting postmaster at Smithfield
since June 6 of last year, received
his commission as postmaster on
April 3rd. The appointment was
confirmed on March 22, but the
details of the appointment were
not completed until this week. The
appointment is for a term of four
years.
A Miracle Merchant
Fred VV. Andersen, who pul the
*ad” in "Cozad.” This merchant ol
Cozad, Nebraska, built uo a busi
ness doing a volume of $300 OOC
annually. Advertising is one of hit
rtiloi for success.
Kiwanians Still
Talk Co. Fair
Hope To Complete Plans In
Time To Have Fair Next
Fall; Visitors Tell of Ros
enwald Fund
The county fair seems now the
chief consideration of the Kiwanis
club, the directors meeting on
Wednesday night and the regular
luncheon meeting yesterday being
featured by a discussion of ways
and means to provide an agricul
tural fair for Johnston county. The
committee appointed to look into
some of the details of such an un
dertaking is composed of Mr. R.
C. Gillett, chairman, A. J. Whitley,
Jr., W. N. Holt, and W. M. Gaskin,
and this committee gave a favor
able report at the meeting yester
day. It is hoped by this organiza
tion to perfect plans in time to
have a county fair again next fall.
Present at the luncheon yester
day were three guests of Mr. H.
B. Marrow, these being Mr. S. L.
Smith, of Nashville, Tenn., gen
eral field agent of the Rosenwald
Fund; Mr. W. F. Credle, head of
the Rosenwald Fund in North Car
olina, and Mr. G. H. Ferguson, of
the State Department of Educa
tion. Mr. Credle made a short
talk telling something of what Jul
ius Rosenwald, chairman of the
board of directors of the Sears
& Roebuck company, and nationally
known philanthropist, is doing for
negro education in North Carolina.
Mr. Marrow and his guests had
visited the Wilson’s Mills negro
school before luncheon, and they
expected to visit Short Journey in
the afternoon, these schools being
two of the ten Rosenwald schools
in Johnston county.
The Kiwanis meeting yesterday
was not without a bit of fun, the
members enjoying, before adjourn
ment, listening to the autobiogra
phies graphically sketched by
Messrs. N. C. Shepard, R. C. Gil
lett and L. G. Stevens. These life
historians were told to confine
themselves strictly to the truth,
and when the vote was taken it
was found that Mr. R. C. Gillett
had used his oratorical powers to
the best advantage. Mr. George Y.
Ragsdale presented the prize tc
Mr. OillPtt
SELMA BOY WINS AN
ENVIABLE APPOINTMENT
SELMA, April 5.—Friends in
the city will be interested to learn
that Harry Candler, who is a cadet
at West Point, was a successful
candidate for the position of Coun
sellor for a boy’s camp on the Hud
; son River during the summer
| months. He will supervise and
I assist in training the boys in row
i ing, golfing, boxing, running,
jumping and all kinds of outdoor
sports. The camp opens July 1. Mr.
Candler wiil have a three weeks'
vacation in Selma before going to
this camp.
Several Cases Tried
In Recorders Court
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Many Criminal Cases Came
Up For Trial Tuesday and
Wednesday
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The following criminal cases
were tried in Recorder’s court on
Tuesday and Wednesday of this
week:
John Lane, a white farmer, was
sentenced to the roads for thirty
days for operating a car without
proper license tags. The sentence is
to be suspended on condition that
he does net operate a motor vehi
cle again during the next twelve
months without proper license
numbers and nrnnpr disnlnv r>f
same.
Lizzie McKay, colored, was in
court on capias. It was found that
she had violated a suspended sen
tence of six months ago. She was
committed to jail to serve the six
months sentence in full.
J. D. Hinnant, a white farmer,
charged with larceny, was found
not guilty.
It appearing to the court that
the Taylor Brick company of Ral
eigh has a lien on the Dodge road
ster belonging to Daniel Sherman,
which w’as ordered sold because its
owner was using it to transport
whiskey, it was ordered that the
sheriff of Johnston county adver
tise and sell the car, applying the
money received from the sale first
to the lien on the car and if any
remains then to the school fund o£,
Johnston county.
For larceny, Thomas Hall was
sentenced to the roads for four
months and cost.
Johnnie Mitchell, age 19, a white
laborer, was convicted of possess
ion and transportation. Prayer for
judgment was continued upon the
payment of cost. He was also
charged with operating a car while
intoxicated. A 12-month road sen
tence is to be suspended upon con
dition that he does not violate the
prohibition law in any form or
manner whatsoever during the next
two years, that he shall keep the
clerk of the court informed at all
times (for two years) his post
office address, and further that he
does not operate a motor vehicle
again in North Carolina during
the next six months.
Johnnie Perry, convicted of tres
pass, wras sentenced to the roads
for thirty days. The sentence was
suspended on the payment of $25
fine and cost. For violating the
prohibition law, prayer for judg
ment was continued upon condi
tion that the defendant is of good
behavior during the next twelve
months.
Lester Hollifield was fined $50
and taxed with the cost for carry
ing a concealed weapon. He was
also charged with disturbing peace
and assault, but was not convicted
on these counts.
In the case against Clifton F.
Hines, charged w’ith larceny, prob
able cause was found and the de
fendant was bound over to Super
ior court.
Jesse Jones, age 20, white labor
er, was found not guilty of assault
with deadly weapon. He was con
victed of operating a car while
intoxicated andi was sentenced to
the roads for sixty days. The sen
tence is to be suspended upon con
dition that he finds some honor
able employment, that he does
not violate the prohibition law
again in the next two years, that
he pay a fine of $50 and the cost,
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Aunt Roxie Opines
By Me—
“Mos’ inginerally candy Hates iz
>n de side uv all questions befo’
lections dat pleases de voters.”