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If You Want Results The difference between the Or dinary and the Extraordinary is only a few cents. Your Adver tising deserves to bring Results. Try the Herald columns. For Smithfield “One thing at a time and that done well Is a very good rule as man can tell.” In ’29 let’s concentrate On a hotel, new and up-to-date. SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORN IN G. MARCH 26, 1929 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER EIGHT PAGES TODAY NUMBER 26 Other Parts of County Also Visited By Ter rible Wind Storm; Meadow School Suf fers Perhaps the Biggest Loss The severe wind and rain storm which visited Johnstoi; county Saturday afternoon about two o’clock, assumed the proportions of a tornado in certain sections of the county, peihaps the severest damage having- occurred at Pea cock's Cross Roads in Meadow township. Not in many years has this section experienced suc'h ter rific wind. rsews reached .Smithneld .short ly after the storm of the wreck age at Peacock’s Cross Roads, when one of the young ladv* teachers of the Meadow school telephoned the office of the county superintendent from Benson. All telephone lines at the cross roads were out of commission but the young lady caught a ride to Ben son. in an effort to communicate with Mr. A. G. Glenn, principal of the Meadow consolidated school, who had loft for Smith field shortly before the storm. The Meadow school had been partly unroofed, and the water tank had blown over and was a total wreck. The garage at the teadherage was demolished though an automobile which was in the garage escaped any damage what ever. The porch to the little two room dwelling occupied by the negro janitor of the school was torn away by the wind. This constituted the damage to school property in that vicinity, though the loss will probably be around two thousand dollars. The \v a te tanic was the greatest loss to the school. Volunteers in the community, by night, had a tem porary roof on the uncovered area which measured about 45 feet in length and from 12 to 30 feet in width. Added to the school damage was the wreckage of two stores and a garage, damage to several dwellings and Trinity Baptist dhurch at the cross roads which will require several hundred dol lars to repair. Mr. E. A. Tart, who owned one of the stores, moved his stock of goods as soon as possible to a store building across the road which was not damaged at all. An uprooted tree fell against the residence of Mr. Tart, a short, distance from his store, and crushed the roof on one side. Mrs. Tart and her young baby were in the room. Mrs. Tart later in tthe afternoon was moved to the home of relatives several miles away. A. E. Lee was torn in splinters. About 35 tons of guano were left uncovered. The wind carried the weather-boarding: and tin roofing: with such force that the church prove across tin* road was literal ly covered with debris. The flying timbers were swept over the store in front of the demolished build ings, this store being apparently unharmed. Great pieces of tin roofing were left dangling in the oak trees that were not uprooted by the terrific wind. A piece of two-by-six scant iing hit the side of Trinity Bap tist church, several hundred yards away, witlh such force that it pierced a hole about three-quar ters of a yard in diameter in the center of the side of the structure. A piece of the scant ling was left in the hole. Every window on the south side of the church was torn out, and the floor of tihe church auditorium TURN TO PAGE 4 Tantalizer There are exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell {he name of a person in Smith field or Johnston County, *and to the one deciphering their flame and presenting a copy of this paper to the Herald office, we will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre, Tickets must be called for before the following issue. ,Mrs. A. (». Johnson recog nized her name last issue. TODAY’S TANTALIZER murpfiallyhywe Union Meeting At Carter’s Chapel I.idle iliver Baptist I’nion To lie Held March ;i0 and .'51 ; (Jood Pro,"ram Arranged The Little River Baptist Union will be held with Carter's Chapel Baptist church on March 30 and 3d. Mr. J. M. Richardson is mod erator of this organization, while Mr. J. R. Atkinson is the clerk. The following program has been Saturday Morning. 10: c;o 1 devotional Services by Jesse B. Creech. 10:1.*) Welcome Address by Mil lard Johnson. 10:25 Roll Call. 10:30 Reading of previous Min 10:10 Business of Union. 11:00 Sermon by Rev. L. 1*1. Godwin. 12:00 Announcements by Rev. A. It. Creech. Saturday Afternoon. 1:00 Devotional Service by R. G. Xarron. 1:15 Cooperative Program by F. H. Brooks. 2:00 Report of W. M. U. Meet ing, at High Point by Mrs. Gar field Biown. 2:20 Miscellaneous. 2:10 Adjournment. Sunday Morning. 10:00 Sunday School. 11:00 The Message of Easter by Rev. R. I.. Shirley. 12:00 Announcements by Rev. A. R. Creech. 1:00 Devotional Service by D. C. Smith. 1:15 The Challenge of the Church by Rev. E. G. Holland. 2:00 Closing Address by M;l lard Johnson. 2:30 Report of commitec for next Union. 2:40 Miscellaneous. 3:00 Adjournment. freight car of A. C. L. BROKEN OPEN FK1D.U A freight car on the A. C. I.. aiding here was broken into 1* ri day night and certain merchandise 1 was found missing. Two or three dozen straw hats, some shoes, and toilet goods were among the arti do.s found missing. Railway de tectives were notified and enough | evidence was found against L. Smith and Bernice Narron to jus tify their arrest. Empty boxes ^ and one pair of shoes were found in ’he woods across the railroad. Sunday morning Chief C. R. I able and Deputy K. A. Johnson were | called to the Sunday school build ing at the lvanlhoe cotton mill where they took charge of a num ber of straw hats which had been c*i ncoaled near the building. <;j-;T STILL .11 ST ACROSS RAILROAD. NEAR MILL Thursday about two p. m., Dep- j uties J. O. Hinton and F. A. John son discovered a copper distilling outfit in the home of Hen’y. Kason, colored, just across the railroad near the old cotton mid site. Five quarts of liquor, some i jars, and barrels that had con tained beer were also found, houi^ men were arrested following this j ! find, namely: Henry Eason, M ul ler Smith, and B( h Parker, all colored, and Ralph Johns >n, white J man. Johnson and Smith are out under bond, but Eason and Parker are in jail awaiting trial in Rc I corcier’s court today. S(. Paul's Episcopal Church. Good Friday service will be held I in St. Paul’s church Friday nioni jing at 10:.‘»0. Rev. Duncan Thomas j will conduct the service. The pub < lie is cordially invited. j Mr. and .Mrs. Frederick Brooks, I of Greensboro, were in the city for the week end. deral >le ’s X Hoads k — - - i Makes 22-Hour Flight ... lxmise Me f*hct ridge, holder of {he airplane altitude record for wo men, Iras now set^a new woman’s endurance flight record of 22 hours, 3 minutes and 12 seconds at Oakland, Cal., bettering the pre dons record bv nearly five hours. Another Cotton Essay Contest Pupils In Johnston Count' Schools IrgecI To Enter Contest Which Will He Be tween April to and May 1 The North Carolina Cotton ! Growers’ Association will conduct another essay contest this year, according: to John A. Smith, the field representative for Johnston county. This is the second year j ef the contest and thousands of j high school boys and girls of the j slate are expected to compete for j i-i.zls. "Cooperative Organ-, — Isiauuardizing and Mer- j char.disiiig" is the subject of :hc essays, and the following prizes j will be offered: first, $3b in cash; ! second. $25; third, $15; fourth. $10. Cash prizes arid medals will also be offered by the American ' Cotton Crowes' Exchange in the I national contest. Each of the four winners in the state contest will receive a free trip to Raleigh, where the essays will he spoken and one of the four state winners will be declared the champion and be awarded the free trip to the national contest. Mr. Smith states that quite a number of prizes will he given those taking part in the contes; in Johnston county, these prizes being donated by business j men of the county. ill Johnston county are urged to enter this contest which will he held between April 15 and May 1. It will he re me in.be rod that last year .Mis.- Hamilton of the Prime ton school won the highest prize offered in Johnston county while I Miss Kuth Brown of Anson coun-: ty warn the state championship. | Anyone interested in this con-! test- can secure any information: in regard to it from John A. Smith, Smithfield, or M. (I. Mann,; diiector of field service, Raleigh, j MOTHER MRS. V. V. HINTKR i PASSES AWAY IN HOSPITAL] RALEIGH. March 2:;. -Funeral services for Mrs. C. E. Perry, l who died Wednesday night at | Mary Elizabeth Hospital. were held Thursday afternoon at three o’clock at the family burying ground near Archer Lodge in Johnston county. Mrs. Perry, whose maiden name was Selia Hawkins, was born October, 1ST*), in Johnston county. She was married to W. R. Car roll in 1 HIM. She survived by four children by the marriage. They are: Mrs. V. Y. Hunter, of Smithfield, Mrs. \V. S. Johnson, Silas Carroll and Glenn Carroll, of Raleigh. After the death of her first husband Mrs. Carroll in PJ12 was married to Mr. Perry, who sur vives her also one sister ana two brothers. The pail bearers were the Brothers <f the Primitive Baptist church of which she was a mem ber. Minister Makes I Strong Statement i _ Rev. S. L. Morgan Condemns Those Who Took Unfair Advantage of Stockholders in Recent Sale Carolina Telephone Company Last Sunday morning at the l\.pii.:t church here Rev. S. L. M.rgan, the pastor, made a strong indictment of those who recently went through Eastern North Car olina lilching from unsuspecting owners the stock of the Carolina Tdtpher.e and Telegraph com pany. He was preaching on the Golden Rule in business, which he showed forbids injuring an other. and also positively com mands us to do good to others. Pie printed out that even 'he best business men find it difficult to follow the golden rule in an eco nomic order founded on special privilege, and in a competitive system which makes business a scramble, dooming many to go d< wn in defeat and failure. It re sults in a philosophy of business that treats injustice and inhu manity as little more than inevi table. and almost sets aside the golden rule as a utopian dream. I 1V IMUMidU-'U 11 If* ’iv ;i reference to tin* recent sale of the Carolina Telephone com pany. when a good many stock holders found they had been great ly injured and wronged by men who had gone through the coun try secretly buying up the stock )f the company. Stockholders, he said, had not dreamed that the stock was worth more than §150 or Sion a share, and when these ouyers appeared with offers of §250 or more per share the stock holders were almost swept off their feet by so flattering an of fer. The most plausible conclu sion was that a fight was on inside the company for control, and it was feared that this high price, which seemed to the stock holders purely artificial, might be withdrawn as soon as one party to the fight had bought up enough of the stock to insure control. It was true, he said, that the presi dent <-f the company. Mr. George A. Ho Idem ess of Richmond, had sent out a letter advising stock h< Iders not to dispose of their stock before the meeting of the stockholders March <5 in Tarboro. But it gave no information as to what was pending, and a goodly number were swept into selling at what seemed an amazingly high offer. Among these buyers, he declared, was a son or two of the president of the company, though he took pains to say that the president of the company is very widely known as a man of the most unimpeachable honor, and free from blame. Information had somehow leaked out that led the buyers to conclude that the stock was going to bring: a fancy fig ure. while the owners of the stock were wholly in the dark as to what was pending:, and what was the real value of their stock. Then came the revelation at the stockholders’ meeting on March b. The Utilities Service Corporation of Chicago had made an offer to buy the Carolina Tel ephone company at $.175 share. This offer had been confirmed by a guarantee of $500,000, which would be forfeited should the of fer he withdrawn. The deal had already been consummated, all ex cept the ratification by the stock holders. It had leaked out that some such proposition was. pend ing. and this had been used to the undoing of many an unsus pecting stockholder. The minister told of an in stance or two that had come to hi.s attention. One was that an old man, his life work about done, who had through years saved u.p something for his last days, and a good block of his savings was in Carolina Tide phone .stock. He was carried away by the offer of $250 a share, only to learn a few days later that these secret buyers had tak< n advantage of his ignorance of the facts to rob him of $1,500. The noble old man is left saying: “It is not right.” “Such an act,’ declared the preacher, “is not the golden rule, it i.« plain robbery. What is it but the act of the •nan who discovers gold on the Four Year Old Baby SI i Coco Cola'King Dies :T7( Asa (j. Landier, capitalist of At- 1 lanta Ca , who founded the Coco Ota Company, died after a long Illness at the age gf 7& 8 i Native This Co. : Dies In Georgia Rev. Whitley Langston Dies At Sparks, Ga„ at Advanr etl Age of 70; Methods Minister Since 1802 Mr. II. Y. Rose of this city, re ceived a telegram yesterday an- ! nouncihg the death of Rev. Whit ley Langston, of Sparks, (Ja. j The deceased was a native of i Bentonville township, this coun ty. and a brother of the late Mrs. Sallie Rose and the late Mrs. Lucetta Cole. Mr. Langston spent his youthful days, in his native county but in early life he went to southern Georgia where he engaged in the teach ing profession for a few years. About 18'.'2 he joined the South Georgia Methodist Conference and the rest of his life was devoted to the ministry. In this work he attained a successful place, both as pastor and presiding elder. lie was presiding elder of the Val dosla district some three years ago when he suffered a general breakdown in his health. Since that time he has taken lighter *■ >rk and for the last year of his life he has been altogether inca pacitated. Mr. Langston was about sev enty years of age at the time of his death. He is survived by many relatives here in Johnston countv who will recall him as a boy and a young man. All during his life as a minister in Georgia he has always kept in close touch with his home-folks and has frequently visited them. He is an uncle of Mrs. Alice Hood and Mr. II. V. Rose and Mrs. J. K. Lassiter, of Smithfield; and he is survived by a wi<lovv, Mrs. Charlie Langston, of Sparks, Ga.; two sons, M’\ Whitley Langston, of Sparks. Ga.,. and Mr. Warren Langston, of Valdosta, Ga. His remains will be laid to rest in the Methodist church cemetery at Sparks, Ga., Selma fiirl Winner in Contest. Selma, March Miss Marga ret V. Hood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Hood, and a senior, in the local high school, has re ceived a cheek for ten dollars ns a winner in the Columbia Pic tures $5,000 title story contest. Thirty-six titles were given and prizes were awarded to those wiiting the best story by incor porating the titles. The contest was sponsored by the Columbia Moving Picture Corporation. New V.nk City. farm of a peasant, and takes ad vantage of his ignorance and buys a gold mine at $5.00 an acre, 'and sends the poor man ami his family out to battle for a living. I while the buyer enjoys a fortune? | What is it but the act of the | man who takes advantage of the ■ ignorance of a child, and pays I him a dime for a toy which he | knows is worth $1.00? Such an .act is an outrage, and the most • lamentable fact is that the public has become so blinded by the j rough-and-tumble of every-day businos as not to be shocked by stub an outrage when it occurs, and people do not lose their re — sped for those who take such | base advantage over another.” 1 Boy Shoots looping In Crib Aeciclental Discharge of Shot Gun Results In Death of E i g h t Months Old Baby of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Med 1 in front foci; yfar old The eight months old baby of Mr. and Mr«. Henry Medlin. who live near Micro, was fatally shot last Wednesday morning by its <dother, four years old. According to information received here. Mr. Medlin had sat up the night, be fore with a sick neighbor, and during his absence, Mrs. Medlin put a shell in the shot-gun. The next day about ten o’clock. Mrs. Medlin put her sleeping baby TURN TO PAGE 1, PLEASE* Baptists To Begin Revival April 14 Tlu' Pastor Has Secured Dr. W. L. Hall To Do The Preaching; Asks Coopera tion of Town Rev. S. I.. Morgan, pastor ol the Baptist church of this cit;. has scctircil Dr. W. L. Ball of Spartanburg, S. to conduct a scries of revival meetings at the Baptist church beginning Sunday, April 14. The meetings will con tinue for ten days. Mr. Morgan makes the follow ing statement to the public in regard to the proposed services. -April 14 Dr. W. L. Ball, pas tor of the First Bapitst church ')f Spartanburg, S. C., will begin :i series of revival meetings : \ the Smithfield Baptist church. Be fore arranging for this date I consulted with the pastors of the other local churches and with the superintendent of •chools to get the assurance that to public meetings have been plan ned that would conflict with the proposed date for our meetings. 1 had the assurance that the field would be clear for our date. April 14--G, so far as the churches and the schools are concerned. All ■ur churches have become familiar with unhappy conflicts found after 'Uch special meetings have been arranged, and in a small town ike ours by a little planning in advance on the part of churches, -chools. clubs, lodges, etc., such •onflicts ought to be easily avoid -hi. I am calling attention m this way to the date named several weeks in advance, confident that ill organizations will take pleas, .ire in so planning their meet-; mgs as to leave the field clear as nearly as possible for this series :>f religious services during the en days mentioned. There is no worthy organization in the community that does not recog nize that the highest service ren dered to the community is that rendered by the churches, and that a series of revival meetings i'f a high type is a distinct con tribution to the welfare of the entire community in all phases of its life. This being .so. I can bid confidently for the cooperation of all organizations and groups in the community in promoting the success of the meetings we are announcing. “I confidently commend Dr. Ball in advance as one who will render the highest service to our entire community. He is one of the most highly honored of south ern Baptist pastors, sane, conser vative, refined in thought anti ex pression, a gentleman who will not offend against the finer sen sibilities of others, a man who loves the sinner and winsomelv preaches a great gospel to save him from sin, a man whose deoo consecration makes one feel it is great to be good. Those who do not plan to hear him with some regularity will miss much. He is pastor of a great church, and is highly honored over the south as one of its noblest ministers. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Bap TLRN TO PACE FIVE FIRST HOG SHIPMENT FROM SMITH FI ELD The first shipment, of hops from Smithfield and the sec ond from Johnston county in carjoad lots will take place here today. Mr. .1. B. Slack, tri-county agent, has arrang ed for two cars to he loaded cd here and he will accompany them to Richmond to consum ale the sale. Among those who will have hops in the shipment are: .1. A. Smith, G. B. Smith, H. T. Smith, and J. P. Parker. All of these men are members of the North Carolina Cotton Growers’ as sociation. Others besides these may have hops in this ship Meet To Discuss Co. Farm Census Group Johnston County Farmers Hold Round Table Discussion Advantages and Disadvantages Croup Re ports In General Several farmers and represen tatives of Johnston county held a round-table discussion in the. courthouse on Monday morning pertaining to the advantages and disadvantages of official crop re ports in general, and the county farm census in particular. They were unanimous in the opinion that these reports are decidedly advantageous to the farming in terests. ami that the cost is in significant in proportion to the benefits available to the farmers. The chief reasons advanced against the farm census reports are the following: (1) Unreliable; (2) expensive; (3) for taxation purposes; (-1) for speculators; (5) guess work; ((>) interferes with tax-listing. These were clarified satisfactorily. It was definitely shown that the results are entirely reliable so far as trends are concerned in those counties where the law is com plied with. The expense is just what the commissioners make it, but thus far no extra compensa tion has been provided. Being limited to acreages without val-1 ucs that cannot be taxable. Spec- ( ulators can make no use of acre age data alone, and besides this, informtion is not published until after the harvest season. It i> not guess work inasmuch j as the growers themselves are1 She ones who furnish the infor-! mation. No one can provide more dependable acreage facts. The J provisions of the farm census law are such that these farm reports] need not materially interfere with the tax listing excepting on Sat urdays and the extra cost at that time nwii not no more man me extra services, of a high school! girl or boy during rush hours. it is not absolutely necessary for each township to bo reported! completely inasmuch as this in- j formation is secured on a “sam ple” basis. The cost is the low- ' est possible method, the tax list ing machinery already being pro vide*!. This information has the • inventory basis and serves largely in ' that capacity as a county information source. li was brought, out in the round table discussions the chief short coming of our farmers today is* that they are not doing enough inilni.lunl thinking. The govern-1 ment provides, many types of valuable information available: which might safeguard future plantings and marketings. In other words, with more study the farmer’s idea of supplying de mand could be clarified anil re mit in more profit from his op erations. 'Phe big purpose of this confer ence to which the county com-! missionesr and officers as well as leading farmers were invited was to clarify the purposes and uses of crop reporting work. Those in the conference yester day included W. V. Blackman, of Benson, route 2; M. (\ Hooks, Clayton, route d; Representative H. F. Hutchins, of Selma; K. G. Holland, of Kenly; J. B. Slack, tri-county agent, Benson; J. W. Stephenson and ,J. A. Smith, of this city; and Frank Parker, State Statistician, of Raleigh District Meeting Baptist W. M. U. Fourth District Meeting \V. M. U. of Johnston Asso'ria.* tion Will Be Held With Mt, Mitchell Church Sun:1, y March 31 CLAYTON, March 21, -Ths fourth district meeting: of th6 Woman’s Missionary Union of the Johnston Association will he held with Mount Moriah church on Sunday, March 31 at three o'clock. The churches comprising; this dis trict are New Bethel, Mount Mo riah, Clydes Chapel, White Oak. Bethesda, Baptist Center, Shiloh and Clayton. It is earnestly hoped that ail the women in so far as possible from each of these churches will attend this meeting1. Our study for the afternoon is “The Stewardship of Life." Hymn, I Am Thine, 0 L rd. Devotional, God’s Ownership: Our Stewardship, Mrs. C. M. Thomas. Influence and the rower ol Per sonality, Mr?. J. W. Smith. Talents, The Value of Time, Mrs. Hugh Hardee. Have You a Plan For Your Life?”. Mrs. R. F. Hall. Prayer, that our lives may he great through devotion to a great cause, Mrs. B. A. Hocutt. In addition to the prepan i pro gram, Mrs. Ira E. D. Andrew*, chairman of the district. »v;u- . that every woman in the fourth district will make some study of this vital subject before attending this meeting so that the little while together may mean the most possible for bringing in the kingdom in Johnston Association. BEAR TURNS OUT TO BE STILL It recently became noised abroad in Ingrams township that a bear was loose in the woods near Stone’s Creek in Ingrams township. Sunday. Messrs. Bud Massengill. Clthr lie Barefoot and others de cided to hunt for the hear and took their dogs along t•> help round up the wild nn - mal. About eleven o’clock they rounded up a forty-gal lon copper whiskey still Deputy Walter E. King of Ingrams, was notified and the outfit was confiscated. Thr still was not in operation, and no beer nor whiskey was in evidence. ANOTHER POULTRY CAR SATURDAY, SflTH. The eighth poultry car for this season will be loaded at the Southern Railway freight -station next Saturday, March 30 at Selma. The prices are the sane is were paid last Saturday with the exception of Leghorn hem and chicks which have advanced from 23 cents per pound to 21 cents per pound. The poultry car will open for business at 8:30 a. m., and close at 3:30 p. m. The following cash prices will be paid next Saturday. March 30: Colored hens and chicks, 20 e; nts per pound; Leghorn hens rrrl .•hicks. 24 cents per pound; broil ers, 32 cents per pound; capons and young turkeys. 28 cent? per pound; roosters, 14 cents per pound; ducks, 18 cents per pound; geese. 13 cents per pound; old toms, 20 cents per pound; guin eas, 35 cents each. MR. BIRC.ESS ACCEPTS POSITION WITH SAM WOOD Mr. Ralph Burgess of Benson, has accepted a position with Mr. Sam Wood of Selma, as manager of his ice and coal interests in Smithfield, and of hi.s ginning in terests at Benson. His duties will also include the engineering work of twenty-six cotton gins scatter ed throughout this territory. Mr. Burgess has held a p'’* sition with the Murray Gin com pany of Atlanta, Ga., for twenty three years, an evidence that ax an engineer and salesman his services were satisfactory. Mr Burgess wifi continue for the present to make hi- home in Benson, though he is consider ing moving to Smithfield later.
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