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OUR SLOGAN: “Sell Johnston County Tobacco In Johnston’ Johnston County’s Oldest and Best Newspaper - - Established 1882 Smithfield wants a hotel —But it also wants to es tablish a Livestock Sta tion Yard. 47TH YEAR THE HOME NEWSPAPER SMITHFIELD, N. C„ TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 6, 1.929 SIX PAGES TODAY NUMBER 64 BACK TO STOCKINGS— AMERICAN PROSPER IT Y— HOW MUCH FOR FARMERS’— WITHOUT HOPE— ✓ ' 'Manufacturers of silk and other stockings hope that advertising will enable them to drive out thj “bare leg craze now afflicting lovely women. f Moralizing appeals to modest refinement won’t do. Bare legs must be banished as the almost universal habit of chewing tobacco was banished by public opinion Make women realize that an imitation of a butcher shop is not artistic and they will go back to stockings. Calvin Coolidgc, tanned, smil ing, beaming with health, is er thusiastic about American pros perity. He well may be. Money is made rapidly here. Three years ago an investin' company was formed with $6,500* 000. Now it issues $21,000,000 ;n six per cent preferred stock, and shows profits of over $10,000,000. Nevertheless DON’T GAMBLE. That advice is probably useless. The public agrees with the dis tinguished Mr. B. Baer, who says: “If we cannot get our faces on Government money, the next best things is to get your hands on it.” Too many believe that gambling1 is the best way to get your hands on it. Farmers are told that the value • of this year's wheat crop has in creased $304,000,000 since June 1. How much of that the farmers' will get, how much midle men, and especially wheat gamblers. I will get nobody knows. 'Farmers might hire an inte.l:- , gent wheat speculator to si. .1 their crops for future delivery when prices arc high. As it is they ( wait until the wheat is thresh* J. Then the price is lower. Present estimates sho-w that1 the four big crops, wheat, corn, oats and rye, are worth $3,!34>, 000,000, an increase of more thu r a thousand million dollars in two months. A savage outbreak of convictj in New York’s Clinton Prison is easily explained. “Too many “life” and “long term” prisoners were herded to gether. Such men are willing to risk death because they are hope less. Lacking hope and its courage, you have a bad situation. Cioetho said: “Money lost, SOMETH INC lost.* * * “Honor lost, MUCH lost. w ” “Con rage lost, E-VEiRYTH 1N O lost, better you were never born.” Foster Family Reunion. The Foster family reunion t\\ < be held on the second Sunday in August at Hjj.nds'On Lake, between Pine Level and Princeton. All t >c relatives and old friends of the ltaite Needham Foster and Mary Foster are invited to attend with a well filled basket. Go and se*’ your old friends and relatives and have an enjoyable day together, WILLIE MAE FOSTER. Tantalizer There nre exactly enough let ters in the line below to spell the name of a person in Smith Held or Johnston County, and to the one deciphering their same and presenting a copy of this paper to the Herald erlice, WO will present a free ticket to the Victory Theatre. Tickets must he called for befoie the following issue. Howard Beasley deciphered his name last issue. TODAY’S TANTAT.TZF.R mamhysrit 103 Years Old ... ■"■'■-»•■'■ I'ardy, of ^Somerville, , .’v. ^ , receiving messages of con- j gratulations on his 103rd birthday, I -- I Revival Going On At Wilson’s Mills Sunday Was Home Coming Day For Church Members; Touching Service In After noon; Five Additions To Membership Probably the climax of the ( series cf revival services being j. conducted at the Christian church , at Wilson’s Mills was reached ini the all-day meeting held Sunday. T Sunday had been designated as * home coming day for members L and former members of the Wil- ! son’s Mills church. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Honrine. cf New Bern; Mrs.! Wiley Barnes, of Ralciirh: Mr. an,] Mrs. C. W. Harper, of Wil son; Jim Vinson, of Goldsiboro, | were only a few of those present ^ Sunday who had grown up in the Wilson’s Mills church and moved 1 to other towns. Several hundred had gathered for the all day * meeting, and the dinner hour which was a time for pleasant ‘ social intercourse was an enjoy- • able feature of the occasion. Rev. C. B .Mashburn, of Rob- ' crsonvillc, who is preaching dur ing the revival, delivered a force ful sermon at the eleven o’clock * hour. His message led up to the service held in the afternoon, a: which time the churcn rod was ' called. Mr. I>. (). lizzie gave a sketch memorializing a number j of the church members who had v answered to the roll call above. )v Ho paid a fine tribute to the la'nij Rev. J. J. Harper, Mrs. W. G.jj Wilson, and others who had been L active in the work of the church. L It was a touching and tender serv-lt ice which closed impressively I , when Rev. Mr. Mashiburn asked the congregation to join hands h as they sang “Blest Be the Tie j j That Binds.” There has been a fine interest manifested in the services during j the past week and there have been five additions to the church membership. The services w.b come to an end about the middle h of the week. A CORRECTION A mistake was made in h last Tuesday’s Herald con cerning the last request of jj the late Mrs. Mabel Horne of H Princeton, as to the disposition | of her son. Mrs. Horne’s nephew | to whom she was a mother | for ten years knew more in timately her wishes and is helping to settle her affairs. He wishes it to be understood that Mrs. Horne’s wishes, as I she often made them known to him, are being carried out and that he has taken her son into his mother’s home where he will receive due care. MORE CONTRIRl’TIONS FOR HOME DEMONSTRATION Miss Ruth Jones, secretary of the County Council, reports a fe ' ! more contributions to the Horn* Demonstration fund which total $40.65. The amounts received and not previously reported in clude the following: : I Kenly club girls, $5.00. i Pomona-Creech club, $20.40. j Clayton Woman's club, $5.00 Miss Ellen Eld ridge, $1.00. Poplar Grove club, $5.75. Dr. J. J. Voiling, $1.00. Charlie Horne, 50 cents. J. Walter Williams, $1.00. ♦Sam White, $1.00. James Johnson Victim Typhoid Funeral of 16 Year Old Boy Held Friday Afternoon — Interment In Oakland Cemetery A sad death occurred near here Thursday evening; when Jamns. the 16-year-old son of Mr. a 1 l Mrs. Lonnie Johnson died. The young; man had been ill for some time with typhoid fever. The funeral was held Friday afternoon at the home across Buffalo and interment was nri !e in Oakland cemetery of this city. Rev. Chester Alexander, pastor of :he Presbyterian church here, oo iucted the funeral service. The mil bearers were: J. R. John son, Willard Johnson, Nathan Flowers, Thomas Johnson, Har ds Lancaster and Joe Smith. The bereaved family has jhc i ym pa thy of the community. .EMBERTON PRICES DISPLEASE FARMERS LULM BURTON, Aug. 3.—Much lissatis-faction prevails through ut this section over the continu <1 low price being paid on horde nd South Carolina markets for cbaeeo. The situation reached .cute stage here Friday when the j verage dropped to the lowest of j he season. $13.04 per hundred., '< bacco men held a poor qua’i.y 1 f tobacco responsible. South Carolina farmers in the bbeson metropolis Saturday slat-, d that prices dropped even inor»: t important South Carolina ma1 ets Friday, reaching the low ! ?vel of 11 cents per pound. Fa - lor.s down that way are great y issatisfied, they say. Farmer'! hreughout this area say they ere told that they had produced i ne of the best tobacco crops in j ears and were led to expect high • j r prices than Georgia market! ere maintaining. Such has not \ ecn the case on any of the mar- I ets of this section. Prices have ot reached t he standard of the! eorgia markets. lasonir Lodge Barbecue Support All members of Fellowship j ,odgc No. 84 A. F. cV A. M. and isiting Masons arc cordially in.- j iled to attend a barbecue and j ounswick stew supper at Hell ,ake on Thursday, August 8 at1 ix o’clock. All members are re-1 nested to meet at lodge hail at j ight p. m. for a regular com- i utnication. We will have with us Brother . W. Hollowell, 1). lb G. M. o' j icnly. 0. K. MATTHEWS, See. IENRY WATKINS DIES AT STATE HOSPITAL j iHcnry Watkins who had 1 iv*.* i ear Kenly, died at the St‘.'*e lopit&l, Raleigh, on July 17. 11 * ras seventy-four years of age. lie iad been at State Hospital only .bout two months, interment wai trade in the family burying ground near Kenly. He is survived >y one sister, Mrs. Beadie Jone *, tnd by a brother, Gaston Wat i IK1.I) DAY AND HOME COMING DAY AT OXFORD The eighth annual Field Day vnd II ime Coming will be held at :he Tobacco Experiment Station, Oxford, Thursday, August 1. TV: pro gram which begins at 10 a. m., will be featured by several addresses chief of which will be delivered by l>r. Clarence Poe, of the Progressive Farmer. A sing ing contest will be engaged in by Various choirs in the afternoon. Tours to experimental fields will also be conducted during the aft ernoon. Spend Several Days Here. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Pittmu. of Washington, D. C., spent - few days in the city last we 1 with relatives. “Would you kiss me if I we»< under the mistletoe?” I “I’d kiss you if you we" under quarantine.”—-From Th (Optimist. Feminine Pilots to Take Part in Air Races j ra!., to Cleveland, the < nf the 1929 air races at hitler, Marvel Crossoi to compete. L_:_ Miown in pi v '. '*y iront :>anta Monica. !-..ursc of the race. The contest will lie a feature etui of August m which Amelia Karhart' Ruth i anti many otluy feminine pilots are expected Edison’s Protege Wilbur B. Huston Will Attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Then Study In Edison I.laboratories Wilibur B. Hustin of Seattle, Wash., is the youth chosen to follow in the footsteps of Thomas A. Edison, the world’s greater inventor. He was selected from among forty-nine of the best youthful minds in the Nation wh< stood a competitive examination for a scholarship to any school «.t his choice to be given by Edison i who wishes some one to train j in order that inventive work may be continued along the lines which the wizard has done so much. Young Huston will enter j the Massachusetts Institute o*' Technology to become a Chemical | Engineer. After his course here' he will make his hid for fame in the famous Edison laboratories. The young man made a score of i'2 on his examination. Not a bay of the forty-nine who represented each state in the Union and the District of Columbia failed on the difficult test, no one scoring lowei than 88. The boy is the 16-ycar-old son of an Episcopal bishop. He receiv ed his high school education at San Antonio, Texas, and at Seattle. He had hoped to elite*; Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology but until he rceevied the Edison scholarship had not seen his way clear. Those competing for the schol arship did so well that Mr. Edi son decided to give four addition til tuition scholarships, though these will not include living ex penses nor a post-graduate coin -. in the Edison laboratory. The rf cipients of the surprise scholar ships are Charles H. Broumissen, of Connecticut, Ivan A. Jetting of Pennsylvania, James Seth of New Mexico, and Bernard Stur gis of Indiana. SIM MASSKY, VETERAN. PASSES IN RALEIGH Another Confederate voters' i has answered the roll call in the Great Beyond. Mr. Sim Massey did at the Old Soldiers Home in Raleigh last Tuesday at the age of 87 years. He was brougm to his old home in the Pisga 1 section an,j the funeral was held on Wednesday afternoon at the Afford cemetery. Rev. S. S. Mc !Gregor, pastor of Pisgah Baptis church, conducted the service. The deceased had been in the Old Soldiers’ Home for the past five 'years. He is survived by one s<-r . who lives in Benson. C. W. HALL PASSES AT HOME IN SELMA \VEI> Mr. C. W. Hall, brother of Me. A. J. Hall of this city, died at his home in Selma early Wednes day morning about 1:30 o’clock. He was buried at. Spilona churc) Thurday afternoon. Rev. Yancey I Moore conducted the service. The deceased was 55 years of age, and he leaves a wife and several chd Misses Lucy Rhodes, Ida Ba' ten, Joyce Monlieth and El. i-. Boyett left Sunday for a trip to : New York, Niagara Falls and ot.h * er points in the north. They wT be away about ten days. Home Coming At Princeton School l our Methodist Churches of Princeton Circuit .loin In All Day Program Sponsor ed by Layman’s Movement Sunday was home coming d'.y for the Methodist churches of the Princeton circuit which includes H ellowshij), Stevens Chape!, Smith's Chapel and Princeton. A Jnion meeting: was held at th • Princeton church which was at ended by several hundred peop!e. rhe home coming; day was sp< n ’Oied by the laymen’s movcme'K. \n all day meeting' was held with lir.ncr served on the grounds. Mr. M. P. Young of Princeton vas in charge of the program, he morning session being featured >y a number of short talks. Mrs. lb I). Braswell of Princeton ex ended a cordial welcome to the epresentatives from the various •hurches, after which an histor ■al statement of the laymen’s •vork was made by Mr. II. M. •'itzgerald. The pastor of the Princet »n ■ircuit, Rev. J. Doan Stott, made i talk on the layman as a pas or’s assistant. He was followed »y i. M. Noble of Smithfield, assistant lay leader of the Ral egh district, who spoke on the ay-man’s work with special ref ;r nce to finances. Air. Conrad Parker represented The Laymen,” which is the organ f the laymen’s movement, and if ter an interesting talk secure! i club of subscribers. After dinner which was enjoy ’d by the large crowd assembled, lev. D. H. Tuttle of Smithfidd >: cached a sermon. The subjeu >1’ his discourse might be ternie 1 ‘The Christian's Future home.’’ le based his remarks upon two uissages of Scripture—Luke K>:20, And they shall come from tr-e ■ast from the west and from no lorth and from the south ami -hall sit down in the kingdom of i »d;” John 14:2, “In my Fathers louse are many mansions.” After the sermon a splendid talk i.«> the Sunday school and Kpworth League was made by Dr. Moulton Massey, of Greenville. Dr. Musset is a native of Princeton and his talk was well received. The program closed with exer cises presented by the young peo ple and Woman’s Missionary So city. CONSOLIDATION I. K A V KS ONLY !) SCHOOLS CHATHAM SlLKit CITY, Aug. 5.-Chatham county schools are to be consol, dated. When County Superinten * ent Reid Thompson completes hi; pro-gram there will be only nij* schools in the county. Mr. Thomp son is aware of the fact tha there has been very serious oppo sition to doing away with smul schools, but he states that thi is fast getting to be a thing o the past and that, converts to th consolidation are being made daily The total number of childrc enrolled in Chatham eoun schools last year was (>,863. C this numiber 4,368 were wh:t< Thirty-nine trucks were used i transporting these children t school last year and 0 addition? ones are being added this yea jCo. Commissioners I In Special Session Cancel Several Insurance Policies Which Expire Soon; Tax Collector Makes Statement At a meeting: of the county commissioners on July 18 the Pil lowing items of business west transacted : Ordered that the following; pa’d uj> insurance policies be caneele. at expiration: (1. Thurman Smith, cl Clayton, policy expiring; IP ■ comber 6, 11)20 in the sum of 85,00(1; John T. Talton, Clayton, j policies expiring December tl, 102'.! and April 4, 1030 in the sums of $5,000 and $25,000 re spectively; R. W. Etheridge, of ! -Selma, policy expiring January 3, 1030, in the sum of $5,000. It appearing to the board in a ■statement of A. M. Pullen & company certified public accou i ■ ants, that W. K. (irimes, tax c lector, has made proper settlement f"1' all taxes collected on the 1027 levy and that he had on hand June 30, 1020 tax receipts in tin total amount of $135,500.07, rep resented by land sales $105.012.SO ami personal property, poll and dog taxes, $30.537.SI, it is order ed that these unpaid taxes he credited to \\ . F. (R imes, tax cu! It is lurther ordered that thc-v unpaid tax receipts in the total I amount of $155,500.07 be deliver-1 cd to It. L. Fitzgerald, delimpient tax collector, and that the same be . charged to him on the county au : '•■tor's budget, any possible dis- j cropancies or errors excepted. ESCAPED CONVICT IS CAPTURED IN STORE Friday night, August 2, Deputy I Sheriff Charles E. Edwards ■ Boon Hill and son, Archie, accoin-I panied by Van Worley, captured Press Atkinson, a negro, who hai escaped from the Johnston county roads about three weeks ago. He was arrested in W. .M. Rose's store in Princeton after about a ten minutes’ tight. IF tried to gain his freedom by tho use of a shot gun barrel and a pocket knife. No one was hurt ex cept for a few minor bruises and scratches. One of the crew re ceived a bite from the mad negro. CLARENCE BRADY TO BE MARRIED Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Reele < f j Greemboro, announce the engage-! ment and approaching marriage of their daughter, Esther Pauline, | to Clarence L. Brady of Smith- j field. The marriage will take plat-, j August 17 in Danville, Va. Miss Reele has for the pas' two years been connected with i ithe Jefferson Standard Life In.' su ranee company of Greensboro, and is very popular fvith the so cial set. She will be given many courtesies during the next few weeks. Mr. Brady, who is the son of Mrs. J. H. Sanderson of Smith* field, is now connected with the Sanitary Bakery in Mount Airy, as foreman. JURY I*OR TERM OF COURT AUGUST 121II. J. L. Langston, Jr., Beulah township; L. H. Hill, Selma; j. S. Rogerson, Beulah; J. L. Ben ton, Boon Hill; Johnnie Flow ers, Beulah* D. G. Stephenson, Pleasant Grove; J. W. Neighbor's, Banner; Y. L. Blackman, Meadow; L. F. Sasser, Cleveland; J. T. Davis, Wilders; J. H. Morgan, Banner; London Thompson, Boc.i Hill; Archie Wood, Banner; D. T. Creech, Pine Level; J. T. Langston Bentonville. W. (I. Pike, Smith ■ field; C. A. Smith, Clayton; O. D Stewart, Banner; J. W. Smith Smithfield; VV. C. Jordan, Smith • field; Ransom Johnson, Elevation J. P. Raines, Boon Hill; W. S ^ Harp, O’Neals; C. B. Jones, Ban i r.er. F. L. Wall, Pleasant Grove • I). C. Johnson, Elevation; I 1 D. Stewart, Ingrams; Paul Cock veil, Beulah; J. F. McGee, Pleas ^ ant Grove; D. A. Jones, Smith • field; W. H. Woodard, Pine Level ’ j R. R* Woodall, Pleasant Grove 3,R. L. Clifton, Elevation; H. 'I 1 Pope, Beulah* J. R. Woodar<; ’•'Micro; C. If. Johnson, Clcvclanc 1929-30 Tax Rate May Be Higher Wingless Hens .4 A new breed of chicken minus wing; nd toe-nails is tlw* evolution of l)r. R. T. Kenwald of Omaha. „J)r. Ken vald says this change will revolution 7e the ]>onltry industry. He be lie vet thickens originally were fish. Opportunity For Success On Farm Scientifically Trained Youngjl Men Can Kind Agriculture J An Ideal Career , Ii.v MICHAEL H. CAHILL } Prominent New York Ranker, Ex- , elusive to Publishers Autocastcr ! ^ Service. jc One of the serious obstacles!' that must be overcome for the ' tfood of our economic system a v1 ^ the country at large, is the well- * planted theory in the mind of the * farmefVson that he must leave 5 the farm to reach the elusive goa’ 1 of success. : * The farm is not only a basic in- ^ dustry but the most important in- j dustry of our entire economic sys- 1 ‘ tern. The successful farmer, there- 1 fore, is just as important to the ^ welfare of this country as our big gest industrialist, merchant or * financier. The people of this conn- u try or any other country could ex- s ist in crude comfort without our ® great industrialists and financiers, 1 hut industry and commerce coulJ 1 not exist without the farmer. ^ There is no profession or voca- 1 lion more respectable, more inde- ** pendent, or more wholesome than that of the successful fanner. € There never was a time when fanning held forth a greater or * more successful future for t.ie L right type of scientifically trained,*1 young men than it does today. * In order to keep the farmer’s ^ son on the farm, we must irn press upon his mind that farming * today is a highly respectable and { specialized business, an<j that the $ successful farmer is a man of a"- $ tual and not merely theoretical T importance in the community. We must impress upon him, 1 also, that to be a successful fav- f mer requires something more than the mere knowledge of how t) 1 plow a straight furrow, or the , proper time to plant potatoes and ^ sow buckwheat. nm 1 vy.p his • soil in order that he may know ' > what crops will give the greatest i possible yield. He must learn to 1 analyze market conditions in 01- ^ ■dei* that he may determine in ad-' Ivance what commodities he can ,produce which will bring him the 'most profitable returns. He nvusi learn to develop through organ ization a stable market for hi* products. He must appreciate the importance of raising thorough ! bred stock and eliminating waste [He must know what improved ma chinery to purchase in order to cut down his overhead expense for man power. In other words we must im press upon the farm boy the fact that education along agricultural lines is as necessary to the sue cessful farmer as an engineering course is to the man who aspires to be an engineer. We must teach this boy to visualize the success ful farmer as he is. The successful farmer today has a freedom and the means to ge*> more wholesome happiness out ot |life than d°es his wealthy city . cousin. I (Turn to page four) Commissioners Prepare Bud V gets Which Call For An In crease of 5 cents; School * Rate Not Yet Fixed £ It now looks as if Johnston uttinty’s tax rate will be high* • jy five cents in 1029-30 than i: vas in 1928-29. Certainly this vill be the case unless the school ;ax rate which is still in ques tion can be lowered as much a; ive cents to offset the increase n the rate for general count • expenses and debt service. Last year the county tax rats vas $1.86—general county fur.d. .5 cents, debt service, 33 cents, •oads, 30 cents; and schools, $1.0?. The board of county commis ioners has prepared its budget, ind at the expiration of twent; lays from July 25, will maks inal appropriations and will levy he rates of taxes needed to pr.» ide for same. The general county fund cabs or $107,107.50 with a levy of fi_' een cents. In addition to tHL 2vy, a three-cent tax rate will bs eeded for health activities and or the poor. The road and bridge fund, which icludos administration, maintena nce and construction, total-. 108,000. A tax rate of thirty ents, the same levied last year., dll be required. Johnston count.?* ’ill receive from the state roa i und, provided by the one-cent ax on gasoline authorized by the ist legislature, about $55,000. In tend of using this amount for oad maintenance and construction lie money received will be ap lied on the debt service fund, 'his will necessitate levying th? ame road tax as last year if th? lads are to be kept in good co ition. In spite of the fact that the 5*5,000 just mentioned will be sed to take care of the deb. 3-rvice fund, which totals $183 50, the county commissioners find necessary to levy a rate of lirty-five cents this year, ths eing two cents higher than the ate levied for the debt service jnd in 1928-29. The items included in the ger ral fund are as follows: General Government, $6,000.00. uditor’s office, $5,425.00; Tree** rer’s office, $.‘1,990.00; Sheriffs ffice, $11,315.00; Register <.t >eeds’ office, $7,335.00; Clerk r: ourt office. $9,400.00; Courts and uries, $17,150.00; Welfare office, 1,600.00; Health Department, $3, 50.00. Charities and Correction*. 7,795.00; Courthouse and grounis, 5,260.00; County Home and Hos ital, 9,812.50; County Jail, $.5 00.00; Tax Collector’s office, $8 50.00; Tax Listing Expense (se ries and records) $4,025.00. The items in the debt servL’d und include: Interest on Temporary Loans 24.000. 00; Bond Interest, $99 - 82.50; Maturing Serial Bond*, 3.000. 00; Sinking Fund InstnL nente, $19,238.45; Tax Listing nd Collections, $2,500.00; Sinking ''und Deficit June 30, 1929, $7/5. 29.05. Aunt Roxie Opines By Me— “A little office kin grow a Mg hai<f. , ' “P. S. My man got so ingust>,1 at de pajama perade he bought anrouder galius,”